Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Lee
mysql does not have multi-master functionality, and it's replication, is quite honestly, a joke. You may have mis-spoken and are talking about the up-and-coming mysql cluster or the mysql max product (both of which i'm much less familiar with). Indeed i was talking about mysql cluster (which i

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Eric S. Pulley wrote: Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? Cyrus performs pretty well already. Background redundancy would be awesome. Especially if we had control over when the syncing process occurred either via time interval or date

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:56 -0400, Ken Murchison wrote: > I think this would cause performance to suffer greatly. I think what we > want is "lazy" replication, where the client gets instant results from > the machine its connected to, and the replication is done in the > background. I believe

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 22:14 -0400 Earl Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? My $0.02 worth. Performance gains can be found the traditional way, ie, faster hardware, etc.Our biggest n

Is there a limit for the long size of mailbox name in cyrus-IMAPd?

2004-09-16 Thread Wang Penghui
Hi all: Does cyrus-imapd server have the limit of long size of mailbox name? For example: A virtual domain named: my.example.com And the login name is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any limit with the login name? If yes, what's it? Thanx Wang --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Earl Shannon
Hello, Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? My $0.02 worth. Performance gains can be found the traditional way, ie, faster hardware, etc.Our biggest need is for redundance. If something goes wrong on one machine we still need to be able

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Eric S. Pulley
--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:56 PM -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? Cyrus performs pretty well already. Background redundancy would be awesome. Especially if we had control o

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? for performance we already have murder, what we currently lack is redundancy. once we have redundancy then the next enhancement is going to be to teach murder

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Ken Murchison
Lee wrote: I imagine for a big project like this, refunds could be given. I think its more a matter of finding someone to deal with this. Id be happy to do it, but i think it would be best if Ken or another core developer that everyone knows and already trusts is in charge of holding the cash.

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 18:13 -0400 Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P.S. Ken, not sure if this would be easier or more complex, but another alternative here might be to write a mysql backend to cyrus, which would eliminate the need to worry about redundancy given mysql's multimaster fu

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Lee
I imagine for a big project like this, refunds could be given. I think its more a matter of finding someone to deal with this. Id be happy to do it, but i think it would be best if Ken or another core developer that everyone knows and already trusts is in charge of holding the cash. Any Ideas K

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All, I would be willing to pay for this function. Though I am just a startup, and have very little capital. Most I could prolly do is $100 to $200. Not much. My fear, which maybe the fear of others is the risk of putting money in, but there not being enough support by others to reach the

Re: header folding bug in lmtpd?

2004-09-16 Thread Jason Alderfer
That does take care of it. Thanks! Jason Alderfer Information Systems Eastern Mennonite University Christian Stuellenberg wrote: Jason Alderfer sagte: I've discovered what appears to be a bug in the header folding code of lmtpd. Cyrus-2.2.8 on Slackware Linux 9.1, 2.4 kernel. It occurs only unde

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Ken Murchison
Lee wrote: What do people think about a bounty program like horde's: http://www.horde.org/bounties/ Basically people can make paypal donations to fund certain features. For something like the high availability support, Im guessing that ALOT of people would donate small to large amounts of cash to

Re: Measuring usage

2004-09-16 Thread Bennett Crowell
Earl R Shannon wrote: Hello, I'd like to get some feedback on how people measure usage on thier IMAP servers by their users/clients. Have you built any tools to do this? I have found and am looking over the logwatch stuff in the wiki, but am curious about the possible existance of other tools, and

Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread Lee
What do people think about a bounty program like horde's: http://www.horde.org/bounties/ Basically people can make paypal donations to fund certain features. For something like the high availability support, Im guessing that ALOT of people would donate small to large amounts of cash to see this

Re: Cyrus, NFS and mail spools

2004-09-16 Thread Marco Colombo
Terry.Poperszky wrote: With Courier, I have the ability to spread access to the mail spool directory across several incoming smtp servers, is Cyrus able to do something similar? What I am referring too, is having multiple incoming email servers, with their mail spools being NFS mounts to a singl

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Ken Murchison wrote: I wouldn't hold out hope of anything being available in "some months". I wrote my replication code two years ago, and submitted it to Rob and Ken about this time last year. Neither I or they have put any significant work into the code since then. As I indicated in my pre