Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-06-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-30-2009 2:25 PM Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk spake the following: On 30. mai. 2009, at 00.03, Scott Silva wrote: # e2fsck -D -f /dev/hdXY Note: This should work with both ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Depending on the size of your filesystem, this could take a long time. Perhaps you should go

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-30 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
On 30. mai. 2009, at 00.03, Scott Silva wrote: # e2fsck -D -f /dev/hdXY Note: This should work with both ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Depending on the size of your filesystem, this could take a long time. Perhaps you should go get some coffee... AFAIK an updatedb (as in locate/slocate),

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:58PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: On 30. mai. 2009, at 00.03, Scott Silva wrote: [...] AFAIK an updatedb (as in locate/slocate) [...] This won't help with the original poster's problem (which is in helping the

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-29 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:28 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, May 29 at 09:46 AM, quoth Curtis Maloney: This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited to the FS file size limit per folder. That's not *entirely* accurate. Certainly no single message can

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-29 Thread Stefan Klatt
Hi Scott, Are you saying that you can gzip a mailbox, and Dovecot will then somehow uncompress that and send the data back out to the Desktop Client as a normal looking IMAP box? I have never heard of this tactic, and I am not finding any references to it on google, though I am

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 28 Mai 2009, Curtis Maloney wrote: But what sort of user puts 4GB of mail into a _single_ folder?? Those that never delete the emails nor move them into folders. Everything they ever received is in the INBOX. And yes, this happens a lot. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 4:46 PM Curtis Maloney spake the following: robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try and access a given email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-29-2009 1:42 AM Bernd Petrovitsch spake the following: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:28 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, May 29 at 09:46 AM, quoth Curtis Maloney: This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited to the FS file size limit per folder. That's not

[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread robforrest
Hi all, I'm new here and would very much appreciate any help you can give me. We are running a rather outdated mail server that until recently has been running beautifully. Under the pretense of it is ain't broke, don't fix it it hasn't been updated so is running Fedora Core 4 and dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Frank Elsner
On Thu, 28 May 2009 02:07:01 -0700 (PDT) robforrest wrote: Hi all, I'm new here and would very much appreciate any help you can give me. We are running a rather outdated mail server that until recently has been running beautifully. Under the pretense of it is ain't broke, don't fix it

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 2:07 AM robforrest spake the following: Hi all, I'm new here and would very much appreciate any help you can give me. We are running a rather outdated mail server that until recently has been running beautifully. Under the pretense of it is ain't broke, don't fix it it

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try and access a given email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes. I believe that the

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 9:36 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try and access a given email, they get no response even

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 28, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5-28-2009 9:36 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-28-2009 12:24 PM Scott Haneda spake the following: On May 28, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5-28-2009 9:36 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 28, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Scott Silva wrote: Can you state what the size of your several large mboxes is? I have been curious about this. My current email server forces me to manage my IMAP boxes not based on size, though I believe there is a less than 2GB limit, but on message count.

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: My largest is about 5+ GB gzipped (I thought it was 6gb until I just checked), but I am on a 64 bit server and don't have a 2 gb filesize limit. I have several users with 2 to 3 GB inboxes on IMAP, and don't get any

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Matt
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: My largest is about 5+ GB gzipped (I thought it was 6gb until I just checked), but I am on a 64 bit server and don't have a 2 gb filesize limit. I have several

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 16:00 -0500, Matt wrote: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib What advantage is compression rather then disk space on server? For mbox, there's no other advantage than less disk space usage. Instead there are disadvantages, because the mbox is then read-only. For

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Silva
snip I used to keep an eye on these clients, and set a never leave mail on server setting on my old server. Not sure how to do this in Dovecot, though if I have my way, everyone is going to be on IMAP, though they are free to use it like POP if they want. Thanks again for your reply,

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Curtis Maloney
robforrest wrote: What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try and access a given email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes. I believe that the problem has arisen from their huge

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread dovecot
At 07:46 PM 5/28/2009, Curtis Maloney wrote: FC4 is quite old... can the kernel and filesystem you're using properly handle files over 4GB? This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited to the FS file size limit per folder. But what sort of user puts 4GB of mail

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Friday, May 29 at 09:46 AM, quoth Curtis Maloney: This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited to the FS file size limit per folder. That's not *entirely* accurate. Certainly no single message can exceed the 2GB limit even with maildir, and the other issue

Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 28, 2009, at 10:28 PM, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, May 29 at 09:46 AM, quoth Curtis Maloney: This is certainly one advantage dbox and maildir have -- not being limited to the FS file size limit per folder. That's not *entirely* accurate. Certainly no single message can exceed