Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Matter
This is interesting because I have a linux box (RedHat AS3) using RAID 10. I have some 5000 user accounts and anywhere from 2500 to 3000 concurrent IMAP sessions -- I think the Mulberry client opens multiple sessions since it's only some 300 to 500 individual concurrent users. Anyway, what

Re: Cyrus IMAP server + multiple kerberos realms/virtual domains

2004-12-02 Thread Nikola Milutinovic
Derrick J Brashear wrote: Exchange keys between realms and install only the correct service key on the imap server? I'm not sure why you'd want to use more than one service key for the server. If you did, well, perhaps the right answer is 2 IP addresses, one master running on each, with

Re: quota -f output

2004-12-02 Thread Jure Pe_ar
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:22:09 -0400 Ken Murchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, this means that the quota root file for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is missing, so all references to this quota root have been removed from the mailboxes. all references to this quota root ... how do they look like? In

Sieve problem- vacation does not work

2004-12-02 Thread Fatemeh Taj
Hi All, I've instaleed avelsieve and it works with timesieved. Just vacation notify scripts do not work. cyrus 2.0.16+sendmail 8.12.9 are installed. part of cyrusv2.mc is: define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrus') MAILER(`local') MAILER(`smtp') MAILER_DEFINITIONS Mcyrus, P=[IPC],

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread John Madden
Is this strictly referencing UFS on Solaris? Or is this also true with UFS on *BSD where UFS_DIRHASH is present? I was, yes, but I have no experience with it on BSD. DIRHASH sure sounds nice. :) John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: cyrus accepts mails for unknown users

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Marcus Schopen wrote: Is there another way? There are no sendmail-8.13.x and Cyrus-2.2.x packages for Debian and I don't want to build all that stuff from source. I'm in the same situation as you. The options are basically:- a) Upgrade to Cyrus 2.2 and sendmail 8.13 and use the socket map.

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Bennett Crowell
On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:15, Hamish wrote: Hello everyone I dont want to start a religious battle, but could I have some opinions on filesystems for a 100ish user imap server? I have 2x 250G western digital disks to use. We are using JFS on a Redhat Linux machine. The mailstore consists of two

Re: quota -f output

2004-12-02 Thread Ken Murchison
Jure Pe_ar wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:22:09 -0400 Ken Murchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, this means that the quota root file for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is missing, so all references to this quota root have been removed from the mailboxes. all references to this quota root ... how do they

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004, Jim Miller wrote: notice is that when the mail delivery queue on the MTA gets very large, which happens occassionally, the CPU load average goes way up and iowait time as displayed using top can exceed 300% on a four processor box and performance Are you keeping tabs

RE: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Jim Miller wrote: I feel that XFS is a bad choice since it is not a 'truly' journaled file system. If you have a power failure/system crash/lockup, etc., etc. You could very easily end up with a corrupt file system -- XFS doesn't write out to the disks immediately (caching

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Jules Agee
David Lang wrote: also note that if you are useing IDE drives you have no way of really knowing when the data has hit the platter (as opposed to just being in the buffer of the drive) as many of the drives will lie to you and tell you the write is complete once it hits the buffers. I think they

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread John Madden
I think they use capacitors that will hold enough charge to allow flushing the buffers to disk when there's a power loss. And another set of caps to keep the spindles spinning so that data can be written? I'm not yet willing to buy the bridge you're selling. :) John -- John Madden UNIX

ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Rob Mueller
I didn't know reiser 3 would fully journal data (or that it has good enough write barriers and write optimization to make sure the filesystem never returns before a fsync really means everything including data is on disk). Is that correct? If it is, then reiser might be a better choice than

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jules Agee wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:11:21 -0800 From: Jules Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best filesystem for imap server David Lang wrote: also note that if you are useing IDE drives you have no way of really knowing when the data has hit

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, John Madden wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:53:07 -0500 (EST) From: John Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best filesystem for imap server I think they use capacitors that will hold enough charge to allow flushing the buffers to

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Jules Agee
Jules Agee wrote: David Lang wrote: also note that if you are useing IDE drives you have no way of really knowing when the data has hit the platter (as opposed to just being in the buffer of the drive) as many of the drives will lie to you and tell you the write is complete once it hits the

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, John Madden wrote: I think they use capacitors that will hold enough charge to allow flushing the buffers to disk when there's a power loss. And another set of caps to keep the spindles spinning so that data can be written? I'm not yet willing to buy the bridge you're

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Rob Mueller wrote: We use reiserfs for our large cyrus installation. We changed from ext3 [...] That was very interesting and useful data, thanks for posting it! Ordered = Data is written before meta-data journal is committed. This avoids filesystem and data corruption.

Re: Postfix+Cyrus Virtualdomain+lmtp transport - how?

2004-12-02 Thread Stefan Nitz
Dear listeners, Am Montag, 29. November 2004 17:21 schrieb Wolfgang Braun: Hello, I just tried to modify a mailserver for Cyrus Virtual-Domain Support. But somehow it keeps failing and after browsing the whole mailinglist archive and douzends of websites I am pretty clueless now... I am

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Andreas Hasenack
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:02PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: wouldn't be appropriate. We could have used bdb, but generally have had lots of problems with bdb so don't entirely trust it... I don't know of anyone sane that trusts any BDB on the 4.x series. With cyrus-imapd,

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Rob Mueller
Ordered would be best for a Cyrus spoll, and I guess Data would be best on MTAs (when they have a small enough queue lifetime for most messages, and the journal is large enough). I think probably just test and find which one gives you the better performance. We tended to find that data=journal

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Rob Mueller
FYI anyone looking for NVRAM solutions for journals/meta-data storage, I just found this page: http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-buyers-guide.html Which looks to have lots of juicy info. If anyone knows anything about any of these products or has feedback, I'd love to hear about it, and I'm sure

virtual domains, sendmail and catch all addresses

2004-12-02 Thread Ben Suffolk
Hi, I have looked through the FAQ, and the archive and was unable to find a reference / answer to my issue. I think it may be more of a sendmail question, so my apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. I have configured sendmail and imapd as recommend in the configuring virtual domains

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Andreas Hasenack wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:02PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: wouldn't be appropriate. We could have used bdb, but generally have had lots of problems with bdb so don't entirely trust it... I don't know of anyone sane that

Re: virtual domains, sendmail and catch all addresses

2004-12-02 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Ben Suffolk wrote: I have looked through the FAQ, and the archive and was unable to find a reference / answer to my issue. I think it may be more of a sendmail question, so my apologies if this is the wrong place to ask. I have configured sendmail and imapd as recommend in the configuring

DB_CONFIG

2004-12-02 Thread ocl
Hi, I would like to alter cache size and other stuff for BDB, but, when I try this # db_stat -m I get an error message such as this: db_stat: DB_ENV-open: No such file or directory This is an otherwise working system (on Redhat 9), but every now and then it slows down to crawl. Hardwarewise,

setting up a pop and imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Hilkiah Lavinier
Hi, I work for an ISP and we are currently running RH7.2 with imap-2000c and sendmail 8.11.xx. We are thinking of upgrading to a fedora release (2 or 3). By default, fedora 3 does not ship with the washington imap server, instead it comes with cyrus-imapd. The following pretty much sums up

Re: setting up a pop and imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am Fr, den 03.12.2004 schrieb Hilkiah Lavinier um 4:03: I work for an ISP and we are currently running RH7.2 with imap-2000c and sendmail 8.11.xx. We are thinking of upgrading to a fedora release (2 or 3). By default, fedora 3 does not ship with the washington imap server, instead it

Re: DB_CONFIG

2004-12-02 Thread Igor Brezac
You need to run the command from cyrus configdirectory/db or db_stat -m -h configdirectory/db. -igor On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, ocl wrote: Hi, I would like to alter cache size and other stuff for BDB, but, when I try this # db_stat -m I get an error message such as this: db_stat: DB_ENV-open: No such

Re: ReiserFS and general cyrus filesystem usage information - was Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread Igor Brezac
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Andreas Hasenack wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:02PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: wouldn't be appropriate. We could have used bdb, but generally have had lots of problems with bdb so don't entirely trust