Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 7/5/2012 2:44 AM, Adrian M wrote: Hi Stan, I know how to add drives to the storage and how to grow the existing filesystem, but such big filesystems are somehow new to mainstream linux. Yes, I know some

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:45, Kaya Saman wrote: But then one must think, do I really want to switch OS? I heard a rumour that switching OS is sometimes harder than adding a mountpoint :) J. It can be! That's

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote: That's why I'm not even thinking of migrating the mission critical stuff running on CentOS 5 to even CentOS 6 yet. I'm in an identical position there -- and in fact

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware Hi Kaya, Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) of current version of FreeBSD? I've

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 2.7.2012, at 19.12, Kaya Saman wrote: what's really weird is that if I keep increasing the Cache TTL and Cache size, the speed of transfer starts dropping. I think it may just be a coincidence that changing cache values

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 3.7.2012, at 9.38, Kaya Saman wrote: So if I look at a different authentication mechanism say LDAP would it improve performance? I doubt authentication has anything to do with why Outlook downloads mails slowly. But you

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Arne K. Haaje a...@drlinux.no wrote: Den 03.07.2012 08:58, skrev Kaya Saman: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 3.7.2012, at 9.38, Kaya Saman wrote: So if I look at a different authentication mechanism say LDAP would

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:59 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2012, at 07:46, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 3.7.2012, at 9.38, Kaya Saman wrote: So if I look at a different authentication mechanism say LDAP would it improve performance? I doubt authentication has

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are thereany tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Jahnke-Zumbusch, Dirk dirk.jahnke-zumbu...@desy.de wrote: Hi there, as I recall you are using OL2010 in an enterprise environment? In many cases home directories etc. are residing then on network shares. And that’s where .pst files and .ost files most probably

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-07-03 3:12 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: However this is a clean server with plenty of space left on the pool allocated for mail and it's additionally using ZFS too. What OS? ZFS

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2012, at 11:51, Kaya Saman wrote: Yeah, it seems to be M$ implementation of IMAP. I don't think that there's anything anyone can do Outlook seems to wait after each transmission (found using

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-07-03 3:12 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: However this is a clean server with plenty of space left on the pool allocated

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: Am 03.07.2012 13:00, schrieb Kaya Saman: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2012, at 11:51, Kaya Saman wrote: Yeah, it seems to be M$ implementation

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: Am 03.07.2012 13:32, schrieb Kaya Saman: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-07-03 3:12

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: Am 03.07.2012 13:32, schrieb Kaya Saman: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:37

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2012, at 12:32, Kaya Saman wrote: Ok now probably related to this is that some folders are not able to copy?? While dragging one folder from Outlook PST to the Dovecot IMAP server in Outlook 2010

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] That's not something as simple as permissions on the server end, is it? I have my Maildir and parent folder permissions setup as: rwx-- mail_user:mail_user This should be ok shouldn't it or would I need to use rwxrwx- ?? By default it is created as stated at top of posting.

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-03 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:21 PM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: On 3 Jul 2012, at 13:11, Kaya Saman wrote: It is Maildir I am using, checked permissions - they're all ok. Yeah would be cur When connecting to this, do I need to put something like Inbox or INBOX

[Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, though this is a bit of a side question, has anybody had an issue while running Outlook 2010 with Dovecot? The reason why I am asking is that I have setup a Dovecot 2.1.7 server on FreeBSD which works fantastically with Thunderbird but Outlook seems to be twice as slow in transferring

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 02/07/2012 15:34, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, though this is a bit of a side question, has anybody had an issue while running Outlook 2010 with Dovecot? Yes, as far as being an IMAP client Outlook 2010 has not been any

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Mailing List SVR li...@svrinformatica.it wrote: Il 02/07/2012 16:34, Kaya Saman ha scritto: Hi, though this is a bit of a side question, has anybody had an issue while running Outlook 2010 with Dovecot? The reason why I am asking is that I have setup

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 02/07/2012 16:02, Giles Coochey wrote: On 02/07/2012 15:51, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi Nicola, there is no specific difference apart from seeing many of these errors: Jun 26 15:10:11 imap(user): Error: Index /mail

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 02/07/2012 16:22, Giles Coochey wrote: The size is in KB. I'm afraid cache-timeout and the inner workings would be something only Timo or the Source Code know :-) http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching the

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 very slow when using IMAP - are there any tweaks?

2012-07-02 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 02/07/2012 16:22, Giles Coochey wrote: The size is in KB. I'm afraid cache-timeout and the inner workings would be something only Timo or the Source Code know :-) http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching the

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-26 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/25/2012 08:37 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via either individual folders and then put each

[Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm trying to configure a server to use SAMBA and Winbind to authenticate to Active Directory I managed to get this portion up and running even the Dovecot portion. For reference something similar to this guide: http://www.whitneytechnologies.com/?p=119 However PAM is slightly

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams tre...@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-06-25 3:20 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: # cat dovecot.conf # v1.2+: auth_use_winbind = yes Please always only provide output of doveconf -n, not copy/pastes from the config files

[Dovecot] Dovecot not liking AD config from wiki??

2012-06-21 Thread Kaya Saman
I think the issue seems to be the mechanism between Dovecot and AD, so basically PAM. I adapted my pam.d file to this: # auth authsufficient pam_krb5.so no_warn try_first_pass debug #auth sufficient pam_ssh.so no_warn try_first_pass

[Dovecot] Dovecot not liking AD config from wiki??

2012-06-20 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MS AD and am using this as my guide: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ActiveDirectoryNtlm I can definitely access information on the AD server using wbinfo -g and wbinfo -u. Currently my dovecot.conf file looks like this: # v1.1:

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication with AD and quick mbox question

2012-05-16 Thread Kaya Saman
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to implement Dovecot 2.1.3 built on a FreeBSD 8.2 64 bit system from ports. I had the servicve up and running on a local vbox demo which did a very simple Maildir format sytem which was situated

[Dovecot] Authentication with AD and quick mbox question

2012-05-15 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm attempting to implement Dovecot 2.1.3 built on a FreeBSD 8.2 64 bit system from ports. I had the servicve up and running on a local vbox demo which did a very simple Maildir format sytem which was situated in ~/Maildir. I would now like to expand the system and tie it to a Windows

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-18 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/18/2012 09:16 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/17/2012 4:24 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: Long story but we don't have any control over our mail server which is handled by the parent company abroad and is on MS Exchange. To use an IMAP storage solution is the only way to get rid of pesky MS .pst

[Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain Controller. The host OS for Dovecot will either be FreeBSD or CentOS. Would Dovecot be able to authenticate to either

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/17/2012 07:36 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain Controller. The host OS for Dovecot will either

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks so much Sven for your indepth and complete responses! snip Question: do you need public or shared folders? I don't need anything apart from an IMAP storage solution. I don't intend to tie in Dovecot with an MTA either as I will simply be using this for storage. Long story but we

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/17/2012 09:51 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: Hi, I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain Controller. The host OS for Dovecot will either be FreeBSD or CentOS.

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/17/2012 10:28 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: snip Question: do you need public or shared folders? I don't need anything apart from an IMAP storage solution. I don't intend to tie in Dovecot with an MTA either as I will simply be using this for storage. Long

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/18/2012 12:04 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Flat files are not evil or bad or slow per se, but you have to use them the right way. Thanks a lot for that info. I will research more into this but I maybe overridden at some point :-( Need to make a strong

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/18/2012 12:32 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Once we get setup this may come in quite handy! Not sure what's going on currently as everyone above me is still quite set in using an SQL DB as a mail storage system??? RDBMS where not designed for such a task.