R: admins and virtualdomains, where is authorisation enforced?

2007-11-09 Thread Toschi Pietro
Great! A very useful feature in a real multidomain environment I think! I am currently busy working on logging some IMAP events patching imapd.c. I'll enforce your patch immediately after that and let you know my results. Thank you a lot. P -Messaggio originale- Da: Alain Spineux [mail

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-09 Thread Ian G Batten
> For confirmation, the problem I had a couple of weeks ago with Cyrus 2.3.10 on a Redhat 8 derived system is fixed by forcing HAVE_GETGROUPLIST to be undefined (I did it by deleting getgrouplist from the list of functions checked for in configure --- there's presumably a cleaner way). B

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Luyten
> It seems silly to spend all the money for a T2000 with redundancies > and SAN and etc. And then have it choke up when it hits (for us) about > 10K users. It seems everyone we talk to scratches their head why this > system with all it's cores would choke. We have found even older Sun > V210 are

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 November 2007 16:50:59 -0600 Gary Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 > employees. It's a critical service in the sense that thousands of > people depend on it. It has excellent performance, lots of capacity, > and plans

Vacation

2007-11-09 Thread Fernando Hartmann
Hello , I have a problem with Cyrus vacation, it just don't do nothing, they don't generate any error on the logs, a tested other Sieve features, like reject and they work. I tried Cyrus 2.2 and now 2.3.8 and nothing :-( I already searched a lot in forums and nothing, all the suggest

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread urgrue
>> My director seems interested in outsourcing our e-mail system, judging >> by the number of articles on outsourcing that he sends to me. Google >> and Zimbra with a commercial contractor are the latest two. Replacing >> a perfectly functioning e-mail system seems ludicrous to me, as does >> sub

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 05:05:39PM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: > > We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 > > employees. ... I know that CMU and other universities want > > to maintain their own e-mail systems. What's the justification in > > these ca

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > How many > > and what sort of people does it take to maintain a system such as > > this? I need a good argument for hiring a replacement for me. > At a minimum you want 1 qualified person and someone cross-trained > as a backup, so that person can reasonably enough have vacations. > Any decent

Re: CyrusIMAP for AMD64 Opteron ??

2007-11-09 Thread Milen Dimov
Hi, I had experienced the similar problem. I have got the same error when I was trying to build cyrus-imapd on my openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) based system. Check the messages when you start building cyrus-imapd for these (or similar) lines: checking for RSAPublicEncrypt in -lrsaref... yes checking fo

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread Vincent Fox
Eric Luyten wrote: > Another thought : if your original problem is related to a locking issue > of shared resources, visible upon imapd process termination, the rate of > writing new messages to the spool does not need to be a directly contri- > buting factor. > Were you experiencing the load probl

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread John Madden
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 19:10 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: > I'm still on linux and was thinking a lot about trying out solaris 10, > but > stories like yours will make me think again about that ... Agreed -- with the things I see from the Solaris (and zfs) and Sparc hardware in general, my money's stil

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread Vincent Fox
Jure Pečar wrote: > > I'm still on linux and was thinking a lot about trying out solaris 10, but > stories like yours will make me think again about that ... > > We are I think an edge case, plenty of people running Solaris Cyrus no problems. To me ZFS alone is enough reason to go with Solaris

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread Vincent Fox
Jure Pečar wrote: > In my expirience the "brick wall" you describe is what happens when disks > reach a certain point of random IO that they cannot keep up with. > The problem with a technical audience, is that everyone thinks they have a workaround or probable fix you haven't already thought

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-09 Thread Jure Pečar
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:40:25 -0800 Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there's something that 3 admins could do to alleviate load we did it. > > The bigger problem I am seeing is that Cyrus doesn't in our > usage seem to ramp load smoothly or even predictably. It goes > fine up to a cert