Re: Database usage/backup/restores

2006-10-19 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Davis See http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup for some hints. Regards, Martin 2006/10/19, David Korpiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have some questions for those of you gurus who truly know the cyrus system. I have a XSAN Mac cluster and we are running mail on it. C

Re: CREATE INBOX/attention: NO Invalid mailbox name

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
Marten Lehmann wrote: Hello, I think it's one way or the other, not both. With "altnamespace: 0", all folders are under INBOX. With "altnamespace: 1", no folders are under INBOX. ok, then I have to rename them manually. Rename what manually? Seriously, are you considering the problem

Re: CREATE INBOX/attention: NO Invalid mailbox name

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, I think it's one way or the other, not both. With "altnamespace: 0", all folders are under INBOX. With "altnamespace: 1", no folders are under INBOX. ok, then I have to rename them manually. Regards Marten Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cy

Re: CREATE INBOX/attention: NO Invalid mailbox name

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote: Hello, I have the combination of the following in my imapd.conf: altnamespace: true unixhierarchysep: true That way folders can be created on the same level as INBOX. But I didn't understood this the way, that one cannot have folders below INBOX the

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Michael Loftis wrote: --On October 19, 2006 11:25:07 PM +0200 Marten Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Uhm... LA of 30 is very high. What OS? I assume Linux, vmstat 5 will tell you where you're hitting the wall, but unless you've got an 8 CPU machine LA 30 is

RE: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Sarah Walters
Marten, > What would you do if you would need to migrate from Maildir > to cyrus? It > is not important for me to keep the flags. I would be happy > if I could > move all message files to the appropriate cyrus folder. But > will cyrus > detect them automatically? Or is there any rebuild-comm

Stupid question

2006-10-19 Thread Wil Harper
I am attempting to learn all I can about Cyrus for a work project but I am unable to find documentation about what exactly the /var/imap/db directory and the enclosed files are for. Any assistance or direction on where to find this information is greatly appreciated. _

CREATE INBOX/attention: NO Invalid mailbox name

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, I have the combination of the following in my imapd.conf: altnamespace: true unixhierarchysep: true That way folders can be created on the same level as INBOX. But I didn't understood this the way, that one cannot have folders below INBOX then. 173 CREATE INBOX/attention 173 NO Invali

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, Looking at taht i'd say you're VERY badly CPU bound. a simple dd/cp doesn't do anything to the mail but IMAP ops will require some CPU workCyrus also will probably be forcing syncs but your I/O load doesn't look that high (my mfe's run more I/O and they're not storing any mail, ju

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On October 19, 2006 11:25:07 PM +0200 Marten Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Uhm... LA of 30 is very high. What OS? I assume Linux, vmstat 5 will tell you where you're hitting the wall, but unless you've got an 8 CPU machine LA 30 is rather quite high. Linux LA is a measurem

outlook as a client

2006-10-19 Thread Tom McLoughlin
I have several accounts whose mailboxes on a cyrus-imap server are connected by Outlook. However, they are able to download mail from the server, but they cannot create emails from the outlook client on a remote machine and be read and connected to the cyrus-imap server for processing. A friend

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:59 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > > What is I/O load on the new server? on the old server? Was your test set > > representative of your production system? > > the test system has much older hardware than the pretty new production > server (Xeon 3.4 with RAID5 an

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, Uhm... LA of 30 is very high. What OS? I assume Linux, vmstat 5 will tell you where you're hitting the wall, but unless you've got an 8 CPU machine LA 30 is rather quite high. Linux LA is a measurement of processes blocked on I/O, processes running and processes waiting to run on a

migrating mailboxes by copying files?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, since imapsync sessions take to long for our several thousand mailbox setup (although it's still running in the background while I'm writing this) I'm asking myself, if there isn't another way to migrate the messages. Maildir does store each message in a separate file and same does cyr

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hi, What is I/O load on the new server? on the old server? Was your test set representative of your production system? the test system has much older hardware than the pretty new production server (Xeon 3.4 with RAID5 and SCSI HDs). Old and new server are the same from the hardware side, we

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On October 19, 2006 8:10:13 PM +0200 Marten Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm about to migrate several thousand mailboxes from Maildir to Cyrus using the tool imapsync. It does its job very well and when I tested the migration on a small development server it was very fast. B

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:10 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to migrate several thousand mailboxes from Maildir to Cyrus > using the tool imapsync. It does its job very well and when I tested the > migration on a small development server it was very fast. > But now on the pro

Database usage/backup/restores

2006-10-19 Thread David Korpiewski
I have some questions for those of you gurus who truly know the cyrus system. I have a XSAN Mac cluster and we are running mail on it. Cyrus 2.2.12 if I remember correctly. Anyways, the questions are these: (1) To back up the cyrus database, we shut down the mail server and back up the da

very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, I'm about to migrate several thousand mailboxes from Maildir to Cyrus using the tool imapsync. It does its job very well and when I tested the migration on a small development server it was very fast. But now on the production system the synchronisation is very slow with a maximum of

Re: renaming a mailbox fails

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, Set 'allowusermoves' to '1' in imapd.conf? However, I still get "renamemailbox: Operation is not supported on mailbox" as soon as I try to rename out of the "user/" prefix. Is there Did you restart cyrus after changing the config? yes. Renaming users works, but only within "user/",

Re: delayed expunge and subfolders

2006-10-19 Thread Leena Heino
I've understood that this is supposed to mean that if delayed expuge is used and folder annotations does not specify anything else then messages are supposed to be deleted from all folders after two days. More information. I tried to run the cyr_expire from shell and it segfaulted: $ cyr_expire

troubleshooting an unified config

2006-10-19 Thread Jesus Roncero
Hi all, I have an almost running unified-configuration murder installation with 3 machines: * backbox: backend * unibox: fronend/backend in unified mode * mupbox: mupdate master It all looks like it's fine. when accessing unibox with an imap client, it serves the mailbox if it is at unibox or

Re: renaming a mailbox fails

2006-10-19 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:34, Marten Lehmann wrote: > > Set 'allowusermoves' to '1' in imapd.conf? > However, I still get "renamemailbox: Operation is not supported on > mailbox" as soon as I try to rename out of the "user/" prefix. Is there Did you restart cyrus after changing the config? wt

Re: Mail forwarding to a dynamic IP address.

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Rajeev R Veedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a Cyrus installation with postfix and open xchange. I get the mails from catchall account with procmail and distribute with the mail server. Now I have a new site office where couples of staff members are going to be relocated. Since we ha

Re: Mail forwarding to a dynamic IP address.

2006-10-19 Thread Martin G.H. Minkler
Rajeev R Veedu schrieb: Since we have only an ADSL line on site office if there any way I could forward the mails for these staff members to another Mail Server with dynamic IP address? Use a dyndns service [1] to make the remote ADSL IP resolvable by name and forward directly to that, then

Mail forwarding to a dynamic IP address.

2006-10-19 Thread Rajeev R Veedu
I have a Cyrus installation with postfix and open xchange. I get the mails from catchall account with procmail and distribute with the mail server. Now I have a new site office where couples of staff members are going to be relocated. Since we have only an ADSL line on site office if ther

defer (110): Connection timed out

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, in my exim logs I can see a lot of lines like R=mailbox_cyrus T=mailbox_lmtp defer (110): Connection timed out I have set a maximum of 30 concurrent deliveries using lmtp over tcp. What is the limit for lmtpd? How can I increase it? What else could have caused this message? Regards M

moving mail from one folder to another automatically

2006-10-19 Thread urgrue
Hello, I need some way to move mail older than X days from one folder to another. IOW something like "ipurge -fd 30 somefolder" except move it elsewhere instead of delete. Is there any way to do this? Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/t