Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-05-26 1:21 PM, Mark Moseley wrote: > I've attached a slightly cropped rrd graph of NFS read bytes/sec on 6 > mail netapps from one of our datacenters. See if you can spot where we > started moving IMAP to dovecot over the course of about a month :) Wow, that's impressive... we had similar

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 23:27 -0700, Tim Traver wrote: > >> Since Exim wouldn't be touching the index files, is it safe to leave > >> exim as-is and let it handle the deliveries to the maildirs natively? > >> Exim's already got access to everything it needs including the quota. > >> I just want to ma

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-25 Thread Tim Traver
On 3/17/2010 1:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:19 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: > > >> Since Exim wouldn't be touching the index files, is it safe to leave >> exim as-is and let it handle the deliveries to the maildirs natively? >> Exim's already got access to everything it n

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-25 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mark Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> I don't know if anyone has run local indexes in larger setups, so I >> can't really give any good answers. The worst case of rebuilding the >> whole index isn't anyway any worse than w

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:15 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: >> From the wiki and from the >> thread, it sounds like this just affects index files. One thing I >> didn't see in the thread (though it'd be easy to miss in a thread that >> long) is w

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:27 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: > I'll definitely keep that in mind. I should be able to keep things > pretty segregated in terms of POP3 alone or IMAP alone but my big > worry is that Courier POP3+Dovecot IMAP scenario. I know a large installation that was (is?) using Dov

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tony Rutherford wrote: > On 3/16/2010 7:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >> On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: >> >> >>> >>> * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all >>> I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. >>>

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:19 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: > Since Exim wouldn't be touching the index files, is it safe to leave > exim as-is and let it handle the deliveries to the maildirs natively? > Exim's already got access to everything it needs including the quota. > I just want to make sure I

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
Oops, forgot to ask one other thing On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: >> * Exim: We currently deliver all of our mail via Exim on separate >> servers. Our POP3/IMAP servers only do POP3/IMAP and the Exim mail >> servers deliver

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:15 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: > >> * Our #1 main motivation for looking Dovecot is relief for our > >> currently overtaxed NFS servers, mostly in the form of the index > >> files. Benchmarking dovecot looks great, even with the index files in > >> the maildir. > > > > Have

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Tony Rutherford
On 3/16/2010 7:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. Yes, hopefully it's coming soon :) * Our #1 main motivation for lo

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
First off, thanks for the reply. I appreciate it greatly! On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: > >> * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all >> I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. > > Ye

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: > * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all > I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. Yes, hopefully it's coming soon :) > * Our #1 main motivation for looking Dovecot is relief for our > currently overtaxed N

[Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Moseley
Hello to the list! I've been asked to spec out the feasibility and, if feasible, plan a migration from Courier to Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP for about 4 million mailboxes. I've been trying to absorb all the dovecot-related info I could over the past couple of weeks from the docs and from the li