Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

2022-08-28 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Here are some logs, maybe related to my problem. Aug 23 20:43:57 Panic: doveadm(m...@example.com)<1355655>: file dsync-brain-mailbox.c: line 883 (dsync_brain_slave_recv_mailbox): assertion failed: (memcmp(dsync_box->mailbox_guid, local_dsync_box.mailbox_guid, sizeof(dsync_box->mailbox_guid)) =

Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

2022-08-01 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Very interesting new insights: When I use imapsync and let it synchronize mails from INBOX to INBOX/testfolder, the automatic replication works fine. All mails are synchronized between my two backends. When I move the mails to the INBOX (doveadm move -u m...@example.com INBOX mailbox INBOX/testf

Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

2022-07-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 7/31/2022 8:16 AM, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Hi everyone, I have a weird problem with replication that I'm unable to solve. A new account is sychronized from an external provider via imapsync. The mails

Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

2022-07-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, I have a weird problem with replication that I'm unable to solve. A new account is sychronized from an external provider via imapsync. The mails end up on my backend1. I see that the folder structure is immediately replicated to backend2. However, a lot of mails are missing and "dov

Re: High availability of Dovecot

2019-04-11 Thread Patrick Westenberg via dovecot
gt; In this scenario MUA just connects to mail.yourdomain.com > <http://mail.yourdomain.com> and randomly uses one of the two ips. You > can't control which one, but this gives you active/active loadbalancing. > In case one server is down the MUA just uses the other ip. Are you sure tha

Re: socketpair failed: Too many open files on Debian 9

2017-08-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hajo > > Am 23.08.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Patrick Westenberg: >> I haven't done this on the old, working machine. >> >> So there must be a difference between Debian 7 and 9 how open files are >> handled? >> >> Regards >> Patrick >>

Re: socketpair failed: Too many open files on Debian 9

2017-08-23 Thread Patrick Westenberg
I haven't done this on the old, working machine. So there must be a difference between Debian 7 and 9 how open files are handled? Regards Patrick Aki Tuomi schrieb: > You probably need to increase ulimit -n > > Aki > > > On 23.08.2017 14:10, Patrick Weste

socketpair failed: Too many open files on Debian 9

2017-08-23 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi @all, after re-installing one of my two frontends/proxy-servers I get the following error messages after some time (sometimes after 1h, sometimes after 24h): 11:23:55 imap-login: Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files 11:23:55 imap-login: Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open fil

LMTPs between proxy and backend

2015-06-05 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi @all, I have a 3 server setup (MX ==LMTP==> Proxy ==LMTP==> Backend). After upgrading to 2.2.18 I was able to use LMTPs from MX to the proxy but not from the proxy to the backend: Received: from mf01.example.net ([172.17.1.5]) by mb01.example.net (Dovecot) with LMTP id T+LnDWrvcVW

fast sync vs. full sync

2015-03-05 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, can anybody explain the difference between Dovecots fast sync and full sync in replication mode? Regards Patrick

Re: Multiple servers and NFS

2014-07-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Nathan Schultheiss schrieb: My config: Dell Equallogic |-> VMWare ESXI (iscsi mount in VMware with VMWare VMFS 5 format 4To) |--> Mounted as slave disk on a VM Ubuntu and exported with this options "(rw,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000,async)" and formated as ReiserFS (I'

connection to director (lmtp) time out

2014-06-16 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi all, I'm running two directors with lmtp proxy as relay transport for my mail exchangers. relay_transport = lmtp:inet:dovecot-directors.example.net dovecot-directors.example.net resolves to 172.17.1.3 and 172.17.1.4 Now, .3 is down and Postfix tries to deliver it to .4 but this connection ge

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot produces messages dupes after nfs problems

2014-01-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi, this seems to be a problem with Outlook 2013 and not NFS. Regards Patrick

[Dovecot] dovecot produces messages dupes after nfs problems

2014-01-22 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, some days ago I had trouble with my NFS-Server (high delays) which caused dovecot lmtp to deliver the same message several times (up to 10x). I recognized some old/unused .nfs files in the maildirs which seemed to be index files. I deleted them and everything was fine again. Ho

Re: [Dovecot] disconnecting (disconnected by server)

2013-12-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 3.12.2013, at 22.15, Patrick Westenberg wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: See the session ID “qk02v6DsJwBTlUQX”. Find the disconnection message from the backend server’s logs by grepping it. There is only the login entry: Dec 03 13:50:53 imap-login: Info: Login

Re: [Dovecot] disconnecting (disconnected by server)

2013-12-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: See the session ID “qk02v6DsJwBTlUQX”. Find the disconnection message from the backend server’s logs by grepping it. There is only the login entry: Dec 03 13:50:53 imap-login: Info: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=2.3.4.5, mpid=3707, TLS, session=

[Dovecot] disconnecting (disconnected by server)

2013-12-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi all, I just recognized a lot of log entries like this on my proxy: Dec 03 13:50:54 imap-login: Info: proxy(m...@example.com): disconnecting 1.2.3.4 (Disconnected by server): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=2.4.6.8, TLS, session= There are no similar entries on the backends. What do

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot replication not redirecting if server is down

2013-11-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: The blog was telling the idea how things would work, not exactly whose responsibility it is to do every part of them. The Dovecot proxies will know which backend servers are down (but not without extra scripting). So another ineffectual feature from Dovecot. You shoul

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot replication not redirecting if server is down

2013-11-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Daniel Parthey schrieb: You need to keep the password database up-to-date and ensure to not return an unhealthy backend IP in the "host" extra field, since the knowledge of the proxy (as mentioned in the blog) is simply read from the passdb database. Database content needs to be maintained by

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot replication not redirecting if server is down

2013-11-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Daniel Parthey schrieb: Hi Patrick the director does not check backends for availability. If one backend goes up or down, you need to instruct the director to add/remove this backend from its pool. http://blog.dovecot.org/2012/02/dovecot-clustering-with-dsync-based.html says: One possibilit

[Dovecot] Dovecot replication not redirecting if server is down

2013-11-09 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, I'm running a test environment with a proxy in front of working replication between two backends but redirecting in case of a backend failure is not working. Nov 09 21:03:59 imap-login: Error: proxy(m...@example.net): connect(10.5.29.211, 143) failed: Connection refused (after 0 se

[Dovecot] Questio about replication

2013-10-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, this article (http://blog.dovecot.org/2012/02/dovecot-clustering-with-dsync-based.html) describes the situation for director/NFS-based clusters and SSH-based clusters. Right now I'm running the first setup with one proxy/director and two backends (all 2.2.x) mounting an NFS-sha

[Dovecot] Ring SYNC appears to have got lost, resending after upgrade

2013-09-09 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi @all, on Saturday I upgraded two dovecot servers from squeeze to wheezy and dovecot from 2.1.x to 2.2.5 (compiled from sources). After the upgrade everything worked fine at first. On Sunday Morning I recognized these errors (they occured after a reload for logging purpose on midnight) on one

Re: [Dovecot] Load Balancing and HA

2013-05-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Romer Ventura schrieb: Scenario1: This should allow any to lose any of the servers and clients still have access to their emails (although I am not sure how the indexes would react to this and sudden disconnection) - 2 Dovecot Proxy servers, using a virtual IP to where the clients will

Re: [Dovecot] NFS mount permissions

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Benny Pedersen schrieb: there is 2 kinds of people, one that understand unix auth, and the others that dont :) There are friendly people ... and you :)

[Dovecot] NFS mount permissions

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, I would like to move my mails from ocfs2 to an NFS share. As the mountpoint and all folders and files belong to nobody/nogroup, dovecot is only able to access the mails if I give full access to "others". I don't like that. How do you NFS-using guys solve this problem? Regards Pa

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP Setup/Design Help Request

2013-04-13 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Matthias Hofer schrieb: So, is there a way for dovecot-{lda/lmtpd} to accept "us...@mydomain.org" but checks for "user1" in the user DB? Try username_format=%n so dovecot uses the username only: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=PLAIN usernam

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP Setup/Design Help Request

2013-04-13 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Matthias Hofer schrieb: postfix/lmtp[10994]: C2DF4C000DF: to=, relay=mail.mydomain.org[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.1, delays=0.05/0/0/0.04, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host mail.mydomain.org[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 User doesn't exist: us...@mydomain.org (in reply to RCPT TO c

Re: [Dovecot] ulimit -n in start-script

2013-03-20 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Peer Heinlein schrieb: Even on midrange-systems it's necessary to set "ulimit -n" to a higher value then the system default of 1024. Could this lead to this problem? Error: file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/example.com/john.doe/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No space left on device P

Re: [Dovecot] Connection to PGSQL fails?

2013-03-16 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Bjørn T Johansen schrieb: I have configured a new server and copied the dovecot-sql.conf file that works a different server to the new server... But when Dovecot tries to connect to the database, the following error appears..: Mar 16 22:28:25 smtp dovecot: auth: Error: pgsql: Connect failed to

Re: [Dovecot] v2.1.11 soon

2012-11-27 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: Just to let you know: I'm planning on releasing v2.1.11 today/tomorrow. If you wish to get something fixed for it, ask quickly. :) Backend-Failover would be nice ;-)

Re: [Dovecot] No failover from director to backend?

2012-10-29 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi, no one here who is able to reply to my questions? Regards Patrick Patrick Westenberg schrieb: Hi everyone, short version: Is there no built in failover mechanism for the director service to handle a backend failure? Long version: I have a frontend server running the director service

[Dovecot] No failover from director to backend?

2012-10-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, short version: Is there no built in failover mechanism for the director service to handle a backend failure? Long version: I have a frontend server running the director service and two backends. Due to maintenance I had to shut down one of the backends which caused connection error

Re: [Dovecot] IPv6 & SSL

2012-10-06 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi Luigi, with regard to SSL my configuration is much more simple and it works fine with IPv4 and IPv6. But you have of course to use a hostname matching the certificates common name. # 2.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.5 auth_mechanisms

Re: [Dovecot] IPv6 & SSL

2012-10-06 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Can you provide the output of doveconf -n? Regards Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Director for smtp-auth

2012-07-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
isn't it possible to use the director functionality for smtp-auth too? I have a frontend system for imap and outgoing mails using sasl and I recognized that all sasl username/password combinations are accepted as these credentials aren't checked by the backend servers. I found a workaround whic

[Dovecot] Director for smtp-auth

2012-07-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi all, isn't it possible to use the director functionality for smtp-auth too? I have a frontend system for imap and outgoing mails using sasl and I recognized that all sasl username/password combinations are accepted as these credentials aren't checked by the backend servers. Regards Patrick

[Dovecot] error: director left/right disconnected

2012-07-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hello, yesterday I set up a second director and even it works fine, some errors occur in the logfile on the new director: director: Error: Director 172.17.1.3:9090/left disconnected director: Error: Director 172.17.1.3:9090/right disconnected 172.17.1.3 belongs to the first director which has

[Dovecot] dsync backup doubles quota

2012-06-05 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, I recognized a very strange behavior when doing backups of my mdbox mailboxes. After the backup the quota for each mailbox is twice as much as before the backup and I have to recalculate the quota to get the former/correct information. root@mb01:~# doveadm quota get -u t...@exampl

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: No. Director is simply about making sure that more than one server won't access the same user's mailbox simultaneously. I'm not recommending per-backend index files to any kind of setups. Perhaps the NFS wiki page should be changed also. So using a director it should b

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: But you really don't want any of this with mdbox, not deleting index files or having per-backend index files. What is the director/backend-stuff useful for if per-backend index files is not recommended? As far as I understood, that's what it's all about. Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: You must not lose indexes with mdbox or you'll lose message flags and mails may also end up going to wrong mailboxes. Yes, have been there but this behaviour is confusing me as I find conflicting information in the wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles "If index f

[Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

2012-05-18 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi, right now my index directory is part of the users home directory: mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox I want the indexes to be stored in a different location: mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n If I just switch this setti

Re: [Dovecot] Missing 20-managesieve.conf in 2.1.4?

2012-04-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi Stephan, after re-installing the whole system the files have been installed properly. Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Missing 20-managesieve.conf in 2.1.4?

2012-04-18 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Stephan Bosch schrieb: I wouldn't know why it is missing in your installation. It is still contained in the tarball. How did you install it exactly? I installed it the same way as usual: ./configure make make install No errors reported. I checked the configure options and also tried --with-ma

[Dovecot] Missing 20-managesieve.conf in 2.1.4?

2012-04-18 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hello, I installed Dovecot 2.1.4 and Pigeonhole 0.3.0 and wondered that there is no 20-managesieve.conf file anymore. It is no problem to use one of my old files. I just want to know whether this is a bug or not. Regards Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota warning

2012-04-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: The :noenforcing isn't in the right location. dict:User quota::noenforcing:file:%h/... Aww.. thank you!

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota warning

2012-04-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 10.4.2012, at 13.44, Patrick Westenberg wrote: I switched from dovecot-lda to lmtp for my quota warnings but there is something wrong with the parameters: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/lmtp -d $USER -o "plugin/quota=dict:User quota::file:%h/mdbox/do

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota warning

2012-04-10 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi, I switched from dovecot-lda to lmtp for my quota warnings but there is something wrong with the parameters: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/lmtp -d $USER -o "plugin/quota=dict:User quota::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota:noenforcing" /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/lmtp: invalid option -- 'd' /usr/

[Dovecot] Problem with quota warning

2012-04-09 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi again, my test environment is working now and finally I tried to implement my quota warning but it is not working. LDA says the mailbox is full even it is not (only 81% and that is why the quota warning is executed). Further I used :noenforcing in my script. Apr 9 15:08:21 backend01 dovec

Re: [Dovecot] Director

2012-04-09 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: b) Host name that expands to all directors' IP addresses. If the first one is down, the LMTP client (hopefully! verify!) connects to the second one. Yes, Postfix' LMTP works fine with a hostname expanding to two IPs.

[Dovecot] Director (was: Hints for a NFS-Setup)

2012-04-06 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi again, I tried to setup a test invironemnt like this: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\ -- director -- -- NFS MTA --(lmtp)--/ \--(lmtp)--> backend2 --/ IMAP-User --> frontend1 --\ /--(imap)--> backend1

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the first one doesn't work. Dovecot has similar behavior in several places. As far as I under

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: Another director. They're meant to connect to each others and do LB/HA. But what about my MTAs? How can I tell my two postfix servers that there are two directors and it should/can use the other one if the first is down? Now I use relay_transport = lmtp:unix:private/d

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:37 +0200, Patrick Westenberg wrote: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\ -- director -- -- NFS MTA --(lmtp)--/ \--(lmtp)--> backend2 --/ IMAP-User -->

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Patrick Westenberg schrieb: Nick Warr schrieb: I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but I don't know if it's quite ready for production. Yes, with director it should be something like that: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\ -- director

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot stones

2012-03-31 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: A small Dovecot stone can be bought for 10 euros, a medium sized stone for 100 euros and a large stone for 500 euros. Each large stone can usually handle around 1000-2000 users before you need to buy more. If you have millions of users we'll need to find you a larger

Re: [Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Nick Warr schrieb: I think some of the new Dovecot (director?) software is user aware, but I don't know if it's quite ready for production. Yes, with director it should be something like that: MTA --(lmtp)--\ /--(lmtp)--> backend1 --\ -- director --

[Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

2012-03-30 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi everyone, as I have often trouble with OCFS2 I want to switch to NFS but I'm not sure how to rebuild my cluster with regard to locking and indexing problems. By now my I have a four server configuration (there are another 2 servers for outgoing mail but they can be ignored): MTA(MX10) --(lmt

[Dovecot] Merge mails from two mail_locations

2012-03-27 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi guys, recently I had some trouble with my ocfs2 cluster and it unmounted itself from /var/mail. Unfortunately I received mails while my mailstore was unmounted and some mails are stored in /var/mail on the hosts local harddisk. Now I need to merge/move these locally stored mails to my ocfs

Re: [Dovecot] Something is strange - perhaps my AMD processors ?

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Westenberg
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:04:52 +0100, Finn B wrote: Now I come to think of it I realize that my production system is intel based and the 2 new ones are AMD based and wonder if this may be the case ? Dovecot 2.0.3 to 2.0.16 works fine on my DualCore Opterons (VMs). Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Quota warnings not being sent

2011-12-14 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Nikolaos Milas schrieb: No, this did not solve the problem. I changed to vmail service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { } } This is what works for me: service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warnin

[Dovecot] Plugin for munin

2011-12-02 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi there, is anyone using munin to monitor connections to dovecot? If someone does, which plugin is used? Regards Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director

2011-11-29 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi again, I have a working test environment not but I don't feel very comfortable with a non encrypted connection between the proxy/director and the backend servers. If I set ssl = required on my backend server I get this error: imap-login: Disconnected (tried to use disabled plaintext auth)

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director

2011-11-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:17:15 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:58:01PM +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote: What is your frontend configuration? The frontend is two servers running dovecot director, and ucarp for managing failover ip-addresses. Two additional

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: We use a clusterfs (so it's not very important which backend server the user is directed to), and have configured the dovecot director with: director_mail_servers = 192.168.42.7 192.168.42.8 192.168.42.9 192.168.42.10 192.168.42.11 192.168.42.28 192.168.42.

[Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director (was: Re: Indexes to MLC-SSD)

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1 \---(lmtp)---> backend-server2 IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1 \--(imap) --> backend-serve

[Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director (was: Re: Indexes to MLC-SSD)

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: Yes, and in ascii-art this becomes :-) MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1 \---(lmtp)---> backend-server2 IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Westenberg
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:45:47 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: Ah, then Timo's reply was right. He suggested you do the lmtp-deliveries to the same server that you would send you imap-user to. You can do this trough dovecot director and lmtp-proxying. So instead of: lmtp:unix:priv

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-22 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: I wondered that too. It looked to me like you tried to ask where the lmtp-service picks up the path to indexes, right? AFAIU it picks that up from the /var/run/dovecot/auth-master socket. No. I want to know if dovecot writes to the indexes if it receives a mail vi

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 19:40 +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote: I already use lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp as transport but where is the link to the indexes? You can switch to lmtp:tcp:1.2.3.4:24 where 1.2.3.4 would be Dovecot LMTP proxy, which would forward the

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-16 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 01:08 +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote: My mail exchangers use dovecot-lda and I think indexes will be written from these servers too or am I wrong with this? You can use LMTP and LMTP proxying. I already use lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp as

Re: [Dovecot] Performance-Tuning

2011-11-13 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Peer Heinlein schrieb: I have> 11 TB hard used Mailstorage, saved als maildir in ext3 on HP EVA. You have 11 TB of mails on a non cluster filesystem? Is it only accessed from one server or how does it work?

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-06 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Ed W schrieb: See the "sticky" in my reply. You use one of several techniques to ensure that users always end up on the server with the indexes on. That way much of the IO is served from that local machine and you only access the SAN for the (in theory much less frequent) access to the mail fi

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Ed W schrieb: I'm using NexentaStor (Solaris, ZFS) to export iSCSI-LUNs and I was thinking about a SSD based LUN for the indexes. As I'm using multiple servers this LUN will use OCFS2. Given that the SAN always has the network latency behind it, might you be better to look at putting the SSDs

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-11-01 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Dovecot-GDH schrieb: If I/O performance is a concern, you may be interested in ZFS and Flashcache. Specifically, ZFS' ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) and its L2ARC (Layer 2 Adaptive Read Cache) ZFS does run on Linux http://zfs-fuse.net I'm using NexentaStor (Solaris, ZFS) to export iSCSI-LUNs and I was

[Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

2011-10-26 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi all, is anyone on this list who dares/dared to store his index files on a MLC-SSD? Regards, Patrick

[Dovecot] Default and per-User sieve script

2011-08-22 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi guys, is there any way to configure Dovecot to process the default sieve script and, after that, a user specific script? I have a default script to sort spam into a spam folder but if a user specific script is present, the default script is ignored. sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/s

Re: [Dovecot] Update indexes with dovecot 1.1

2011-08-19 Thread Patrick Westenberg
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:13:21 +0200, "Angel L. Mateo" wrote: Is there any way to manually update indexes? As far as I understood, you just have to delete the index files and Dovecot will regenerate them when a user logs in the next time. Regards Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Unknown setting: service

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick Westenberg
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:38 -0400, Patrick Domack wrote: Ya, would have to be one of the namespace }'s is missing, as they are right before mail_uid/gid I really missed to uncomment the namespace ending curly bracket even though I triple checked this file. Thank you guys.

[Dovecot] Unknown setting: service

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi guys, I setup a new box with Debian Squeeze 64bit and installed dovecot from the sources. However, I can't start dovecot or even use doveconf: root@imap01:~# doveconf -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/1

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.x configuration

2011-08-07 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Vincent Richomme schrieb: I have tested and there is still an issue with mysql because I get the following error : Aug 07 12:51:20 auth: Fatal: Unknown passdb driver 'mysql' Aug 07 12:51:20 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling It looks like you haven't compiled dov

Re: [Dovecot] Help a newbie...

2011-04-29 Thread Patrick Westenberg
The config files are well commented. Take a look... Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sieve and namespace

2011-03-03 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Patrick Westenberg schrieb: Feb 26 00:39:25 endeavour dovecot: lmtp(6967, m...@jasbafliesen.de): Error: 1WYlBCE1aE03GwAA0CSSVw: sieve: msgid=<4d683da5.7030...@gmx.de>: failed to store into mailbox m...@jasbafliesen.de': Unknown namespace Feb 26 00:39:25 endeavour dovecot: l

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sieve and namespace

2011-02-28 Thread Patrick Westenberg
I didn't change anything for months. I'll upgrade to the latest versions and see what happens Timo Sirainen schrieb: On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 01:15 +0100, Patrick Westenberg wrote: > Feb 26 00:39:25 endeavour dovecot: lmtp(6967, m...@jasbafliesen.de): > Error: 1WYlBCE1aE03G

[Dovecot] Problem with sieve and namespace

2011-02-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi guys, my default sieve script fails due to an unknown mailspace even I told him to use one. What's wrong? Patrick Feb 26 00:39:25 endeavour dovecot: lmtp(6967, m...@jasbafliesen.de): Error: 1WYlBCE1aE03GwAA0CSSVw: sieve: msgid=<4d683da5.7030...@gmx.de>: failed to store into mailbox m..

Re: [Dovecot] Duplicate mail for forwards (dovecot+postfix+postfixadmin)

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Darek M schrieb: Anyone have an idea of what I should be looking at in a situation like this? Does the 'goto' field look fine? You have to set -o receive_override_options=no_address_mappings in your master.cf Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Index files size calculation

2011-01-16 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20% of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the size of messages. Okay, so what w

[Dovecot] Index files size calculation

2011-01-15 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hi guys, 2 or 3 weeks ago, one of you explained how to calculate the size of the index files for an user. Can somebody explain this again please? Thx Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Eric Rostetter schrieb: Quoting Patrick Westenberg : just to get it right: DRBD for shared storage replication is OK? Yes, but only if done correctly. ;) There is some concern on Stan's part (and mime) that you might do it wrong (e.g., in a vm guest rather than at the vm host, etc).

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hello, just to get it right: DRBD for shared storage replication is OK? Patrick

Re: [Dovecot] CatchAll virtual user removes spamheaders

2011-01-09 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Peter Reinhold schrieb: I have a virtual user called @reinhold.dk setup to redirect to my main account, pe...@reinhold.dk. If I send a spam mail (GTUBE) to pe...@reinhold.dk, the mail is marked with Amavis x-headers as it should be. You have to create an AmavisUsers for this Alias/Forwarding

Re: [Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-15 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Stan Hoeppner schrieb: Although, I should point out that parallel SCSI (U320) is pretty much a dead technology at this point. AFAIK, no vendor has shipped a new parallel SCSI disk line (only warranty replacements) for a number of years now. It has been superseded by Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).

Re: [Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-15 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Won't be 15k U320 SCSI disks also faster than average SATA disks for the indexes?

Re: [Dovecot] Confused about Maildir

2010-11-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Glen Lee Edwards schrieb: I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference t

Re: [Dovecot] Soft Quota for moving messages

2010-11-21 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Miha Vrhovnik schrieb: "Patrick Westenberg" wrote on 20.11.2010 23:46:14: You can give additional space to e.g. Trash mailbox: quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M Patrick you sure, that doesn't mean that the trash quota is 100M? Haven't tested your version, but for sure

Re: [Dovecot] Soft Quota for moving messages

2010-11-20 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Tim Traver schrieb: Is there a quota setting that will let them move things to the trash without error? this of course would be so they could decrease their disk usage and become under quota again... You can give additional space to e.g. Trash mailbox: quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M

[Dovecot] What causes the quota information to get updated?

2010-10-28 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Hello, if new mails arrive, the quota information is updated and reported via imap immediately. However, after deleting a message, nothing happens. Even if I delete all messages and the mailbox e.g. was over quota, new mails won´t be accepted because the mailbox is over quota. Is this the way

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota and mdbox and quota warning

2010-10-28 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Timo Sirainen schrieb: Error: quota: connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied You need to give enough permissions for that. mail_uid = vmail .. service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh user = vmail This be

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with quota and mdbox and quota warning

2010-10-28 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Patrick Westenberg schrieb: Timo Sirainen schrieb: mdbox doesn't work with Maildir++ quota, you need to use dict quota with e.g. file backend. Oh, very sad :( In this case we have to switch back to maildir. Hm, I should read everything. File backend should be ok.

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