Re: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Sujit Choudhury
I have now managed to download imapsync. As I will be transferring mail from one account to another account within the SAME server, do I need to use the passwords of the accounts (which are not available to us)? I can do it as cyrus user hopefully? I am asking this question because I am

Re: Cyrus virtual domains

2005-09-01 Thread brad
Try adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the admins line of imapd.conf and then log into cyradm as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brad On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:00 -0400, Jesus Ruiz wrote: my admins look like: admins: cyrus and i'm logging into cyradm like this: cyradm -u cyrus localhost Jesus On

Problem converting database

2005-09-01 Thread Saltmarsh, Evan M
We are in the process of trying to convert our database from version 2.0.16 to 2.2.12. To convert the our data we have tried the following: Ctl_mboxlist C /opt/csw/etc/cyrus/imapd.conf d f /tmp/ourdatabase.dmp Ctl_mboxlist C /opt/csw/etc/cyrus/imapd.conf d f /var/imap/mailboxes.db

cyrus and postfix and mailman

2005-09-01 Thread Howard Shere
I have searched the web and checked in the mailman forums and no one seems to have an answer. I have postfix and cyrus setup and working. I want to add mailman to this setup. I was trying to do it without making a new virtual domain. My main domain is mutantegg.com, I just want the mail man

flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Patrice
Hi, Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ? or it will impact performances ? Thank you Patrice Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info:

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Patrice wrote: Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ? We use flat in our setup. We have about 65000 users with 264265 mailboxes. or it will impact performances ? It works fine for us. Whether other formats would

How to export data from mailboxes.db

2005-09-01 Thread Saltmarsh, Evan M
Does anyone know how to export the data in the mailboxes.db to a flat text file that can be used for importing? Evan Saltmarsh UNIX Systems Administrator Information Technology Services Vanderbilt University Office: (615) 322-2156 Cell: (615) 491-4115 Cyrus Home Page:

Re: How to export data from mailboxes.db

2005-09-01 Thread brad
As the cyrus user run: ctl_mboxlist -d filename 'filename' will now be a text file listing the mailboxes. You can directly edit this file. When you are done making changes to it you can re-import it with: ctl_mboxlist -u filename You will want to move the mailboxes.db out of the way before

Slow LMTP

2005-09-01 Thread LaurentG
On a Debian Sarge with CyrusIMAP MURDER 2.2.8  and MTA Postfix, the following strange phenomenon appears : LMTP dialog between frontend and backend slow down, with an increasing mailq. What happends : few frontend lmtpproxy processes fall in a CLOSE_WAIT state on the backend(s) lmtp port.

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Patrice
Thank you Dave ! I will use 'flat' files then. a last question : do you use flat for all cyrus files or just for mailboxes.db ? Patrice Dave McMurtrie wrote: Patrice wrote: Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ?

Re: How to export data from mailboxes.db

2005-09-01 Thread Wil Cooley
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:42 -0500, Saltmarsh, Evan M wrote: Does anyone know how to export the data in the mailboxes.db to a flat text file that can be used for importing? Use the 'cvt_cyrusdb' utility; there's a man page for it. Wil -- Wil Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd.

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Stephen L. Ulmer
On 1 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Patrice wrote: Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ? We use flat in our setup. We have about 65000 users with 264265 mailboxes. We were using flat for about that size

Re: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Sujit Choudhury
After getting advice from various people I tried imapsync, as I was moving one mailbox to another within cyrus environment on the same machine. So far everything went ok; however only one problem I encountered - I required the passwords of both set of accounts. As I will be dealing with 400+

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Patrice
no murder here I will try flat files and if no troubles , I will keep it. thanks Stephen Stephen L. Ulmer wrote: On 1 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Patrice wrote: Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ?

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Patrice wrote: Thank you Dave ! I will use 'flat' files then. a last question : do you use flat for all cyrus files or just for mailboxes.db ? For us, flat is where it's at. We're using flat for everything. I should probably give you more information to base your decision on, though.

Re: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Baker
A solution to this is a script setup like this: - external file with username_src,known_password_src,username_dest,known_password_dest - cycle through file - login to ldap on src account - save current encrypted password - change password to SHA or MD5 enc version of password_src above

RE: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Raymond Sundland
Pick a day of the transfer. Generate new passwords for all users on the system. Notify all users of their new passwords as of the date of the transfer you decide on. On the day of the transfer, update the LDAP (or both LDAPs if there are two) with the password assigned and previously distributed

RE: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Raymond Sundland
Ah yeah this is good, too. I didnt think of that in my response. This way you dont need to distribute new passwords. But a small modification to this flow, because I dont think you need to go so far with storing passwords. This is assuming, of course, you have full access to LDAP in

RE: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread John Madden
Ah yeah this is good, too. I didn't think of that in my response. This way you don't need to distribute new passwords. Yeah, sorry about that. In our situation, we're changing the password hash, so we've got to change them. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community

Re: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Baker
Exactly... I guess your version is a bit more clear.. when I say store, I meant in memory ;) I am pretty temped to put this together. As you say it would be ge great for reducing downtime to users... only currently migrated users would have any interuption. Another addition might be to have

Re: flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

2005-09-01 Thread John Madden
Our new setup is cyrus 2.1.17 running on a 4-node active-active Veritas cluster. /var/imap is now a Veritas cluster filesystem that resides on a SAN. We're not seeing any performance issues with our new setup. Jeebus, I certainly hope not. 'About to migrate to a single-instance housing 750k

Re: imap transfer

2005-09-01 Thread John Madden
After getting advice from various people I tried imapsync, as I was moving one mailbox to another within cyrus environment on the same machine. So far everything went ok; however only one problem I encountered - I required the passwords of both set of accounts. As I will be dealing with 400+