Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-24 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:16:41PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > Maildir makes it easy to distribute it across multiple machines as > well. Cyrus Murder looks even better --- take a look at http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/configuration.html There is, of course, a catch --- you can only access the mail

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:26:36 +0300 Evren Yurtesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > > > On May 23, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > >> Vulpes Velox wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 > >>> Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 23 May 2006 10:35:51 +0300 Evren Yurtesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 > > Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >>> > Hello, > > I was wondering how d

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread DAve
Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Not really, we have a large system which required little coding except for script tools. We have two FreeBSD servers as public gateways running Sendmail + Milter-Ahead + MailScanner. These 'gateways' scan mail for viruses and then forward the delivery on to three toasters

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
Not really, we have a large system which required little coding except for script tools. We have two FreeBSD servers as public gateways running Sendmail + Milter-Ahead + MailScanner. These 'gateways' scan mail for viruses and then forward the delivery on to three toasters which are FreeBSD server

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread DAve
Evren Yurtesen wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does servi

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 23, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing e-mails. Somehow the smtp serv

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-23 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver the mail inside the

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing > >> e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver > >> the mail inside the

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver the mail inside the system and webmail should know from which server to read it from. Does anybody have any practical id

Re: e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Derek Ragona
If you are using sendmail, as most FreeBSD users are, you can check the sendmail.org site for information on mail handling. There are a number of methods that depend on your setup. -Derek At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, I was wondering how does services like yaho

e-mail server farm question

2006-05-22 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver the mail inside the system and webmail should know from which server to read it from. Does anybody have any practical ideas about how it is done? Thanks, Evren _

Re: E-mail server, minimalist approach

2006-03-26 Thread Vaaf
At 00:08 26.03.2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:38:42PM +0100, Vaaf wrote: > My minimalist approach to using MySQL for instance, is to stay away > from phpMyAdmin and just create my databases like this: > > CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS database; > GRANT USAGE ON database.*

Re: E-mail server, minimalist approach

2006-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:38:42PM +0100, Vaaf wrote: > My minimalist approach to using MySQL for instance, is to stay away > from phpMyAdmin and just create my databases like this: > > CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS database; > GRANT USAGE ON database.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY 'passwor

E-mail server, minimalist approach

2006-03-25 Thread Vaaf
Hello! I am curious about the best practices of hosting other people's e-mails in FreeBSD, using Postfix and MySQL if necessary. I used to use Postfixadmin but lately I feel sick when using badly laid out web user interfaces like that. Maintaining stuff graphically not only makes me want to cha

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > Well, somewhat unbelievably, copying a getpwent.c from 4.7 > and remaking libc on 5.3 with it worked. Load average > has gone from 70 to 2. > One of my co-workers has found a less kludgey workaround for the high load problem we were seeing on 5

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > > > #include > > > > #include > > > > > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] )

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > #include > > > #include > > > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > > { > > > getpwuid( 13076 ); > > > } > > > > > > an

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > #include > > #include > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > { > > getpwuid( 13076 ); > > } > > > > and ran it under truss on 5.

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > I wrote a small program: > > #include > #include > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > { > getpwuid( 13076 ); > } > > and ran it under truss on 5.x and it generated 178,711 lines of output. > (the bulk of which is th

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

2005-01-04 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Well, no, not quite. > > > > old: imap-uw-2002_1,1 > > new: imap-uw-2004a,1 > > OK, that's where you should start, then. Go back to the software > configuration that you know is working and see if it still misbehaves. > > Kris Thanks. I shutdown

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 4 at 16:58, Timothy Luoma launched this into the bitstream: On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Bruce Campbell wrote: The only processes for which we have hundreds running would be sendmail, procmail, ipop3d and imapd. I love procmail and would hate to live w/o it, but that would be my first suspe

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:45:16PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > > We upgraded from a dual 1.66GHz AMD running FreeBSD 4.7 > > > and a dual 3GHz Xeon running FreeBSD 5.3 and

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Bruce Campbell wrote: The only processes for which we have hundreds running would be sendmail, procmail, ipop3d and imapd. I love procmail and would hate to live w/o it, but that would be my first suspect out of that list. TjL who once got a phone call from his ISP be

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Bruce Campbell
Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > We upgraded from a dual 1.66GHz AMD running FreeBSD 4.7 > > and a dual 3GHz Xeon running FreeBSD 5.3 and the new server > > is painfully slow, even after turning spamassassin > >

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > We upgraded from a dual 1.66GHz AMD running FreeBSD 4.7 > and a dual 3GHz Xeon running FreeBSD 5.3 and the new server > is painfully slow, even after turning spamassassin > and yavr (yet another virus recipe) off. Load > appears

New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

2005-01-04 Thread Bruce Campbell
We upgraded from a dual 1.66GHz AMD running FreeBSD 4.7 and a dual 3GHz Xeon running FreeBSD 5.3 and the new server is painfully slow, even after turning spamassassin and yavr (yet another virus recipe) off. Load appears to be imapd/ipop3d (uw-imapd) related. New server is Adaptec SCSI RAID, old

Re: E-mail server

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:30 pm, Damien Hull wrote: > I've decided to use squirrelmail as my web based mail client. Because I > get a lot of mail I need a way of sorting my mail through squirrelmail. > For this the squirrelmail people have provided a procmail interface. > > The problem with t

E-mail server

2002-11-23 Thread Damien Hull
I've decided to use squirrelmail as my web based mail client. Because I get a lot of mail I need a way of sorting my mail through squirrelmail. For this the squirrelmail people have provided a procmail interface. The problem with the procmail interface is that it uses ftp to change the users proc

Re: E-mail server

2002-11-16 Thread Damien Hull
ITE A GOOD COMBINATION. > > - Original Message - > From: "Damien Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 01:26 AM > Subject: E-mail server > > > > I need some help setting up an E-mail server. I

E-mail server

2002-11-16 Thread Damien Hull
I need some help setting up an E-mail server. I've done this before but not something this big. Heres what will need. 1. The server will have about 4000 users and will need room to grow. 2. Each user should have a limet on the amount of E-mail they can store on the server. I don't kno