Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread J. Bakshi
lartc wrote: hi, well, you can edit the gosa config file to only show you the users and their e-mail, etc. you're not obligated to use the entire system ... when install it for clients, i only leave a few pieces of functionality (so they don't blow their foot off). cheers charles

Re: Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam D
Adam D wrote: I have noticed this error in the log: Sep 12 18:57:44 vts-post cyrus/imap[19629]: IOERROR: locking /var/lib/cyrus/domain/W/domain1/user/A/userbox.sub: Interrupted system call Soon afterwards I notice imapd runs at 99.8 % and I can not kill the process. It looks like the file

can web-cyradm work with ldap ?

2008-09-17 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello List, The best tool to manage the cyrus is web-cyradm I think. Is there any way to configure web-cyradm with openldap ? Has any one done it by any chance ? Kindly suggest. -- ~~ Joydeep Bakshi, Linux System Admin Kolkatainfoservices Pvt Ltd, 23A

RE: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Do Duc Huy
Hi, I am in a same situation with you about system components. I have used postfix+cyrus+ldap for email system since 2001 and system performance is still good now. But I have to face with two problems with this system. The first one is GUI for user and administrator. Squirrelmail was helpful

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Do Duc Huy wrote: My question is about my second problem. It 's about antispam and antivirus. I have used amavis for spam and virus filter. This can block virus very well but it have no effect in blocking spam mail, I think. Get the newest version of amavisd-new, and read

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I noticed that dovecot and cyrus don't differ that much in speed to each other. Both seem to excel at certain points, while being weaker at another. But overall the performance on a huge mailbox seemed to be comparable. Dovecot seemed to be slightly better at searching in the mailbox, esp.

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Heya :) 2008/9/17 Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed that dovecot and cyrus don't differ that much in speed to each other. Both seem to excel at certain points, while being weaker at another. But overall the performance on a huge mailbox seemed to be comparable. Dovecot seemed

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Simon Matter
Another thing which really intrigued me was the inherent cluster-ability of dovecot, which is a huge PITA to get to run on cyrus (as I have just implemented it a couple of months ago). Yet I only have read about it in the documentation, and not actually seen it in action. But at least they

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Hello, 2008/9/17 Simon Matter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Another thing which really intrigued me was the inherent cluster-ability of dovecot, which is a huge PITA to get to run on cyrus (as I have just implemented it a couple of months ago). Yet I only have read about it in the documentation, and not

Re: Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam D
Jens wrote: Adam D schrieb: Adam D wrote: I have noticed this error in the log: Sep 12 18:57:44 vts-post cyrus/imap[19629]: IOERROR: locking /var/lib/cyrus/domain/W/domain1/user/A/userbox.sub: Interrupted system call Soon afterwards I notice imapd runs at 99.8 % and I can not kill

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Wesley Craig
On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: Why does cyrus need it's own structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), yet I see no distinctive

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Vincent Fox
Wesley Craig wrote: Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), With ZFS, inodes are among the many stone-age worries you leave behind. ;-) Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread J. Bakshi
Do Duc Huy wrote: Hi, I am in a same situation with you about system components. I have used postfix+cyrus+ldap for email system since 2001 and system performance is still good now. But I have to face with two problems with this system. The first one is GUI for user and administrator. The

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Scott M. Likens
With ZFS your leaving a ton of stone-age worries behind. You can go much beyond inodes in the perks of ZFS. Vincent Fox wrote: Wesley Craig wrote: Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), With ZFS, inodes are among the

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Scott M. Likens
... I debated writing a gui for Cyrus for administration, but I realized that people implement Cyrus in so many different ways. Kerberos, LDAP, *SQL, various forms of PAM. Then you add in virtual domains, and how you might want alias's and might not, and different MTA support... and I just