Re: maximum recommended mailbox quota?

2004-01-24 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Joe Hrbek wrote: > Hi, quick question. Assuming I have the space (I have 4, 146gb > scsi ultra320 drives in a raid setup with dual xeon processors > and 2 gb of ram), what

Re: flock vs fnctl

2003-07-23 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:11:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] No, fcntl is not the default. I'll have to look at the documentation. --with-lock=flock should fix this for you though if it makes a difference. Except that it has been since 2.1.7: > Change d

Re: IDLE and murder?

2003-07-16 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:40:23 -0400 From: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...PROXY_IDLE...] > I'm guessing its since we never really tested it. I've added this as Bug > 2111. Actually, I have tested it (since I wrote it) and it appears to work in all modes. I'm pretty sur

Re: Compiling Cyrus IMAPD on AMD Opteron

2003-06-13 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:11:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yep. Arch dislikes mixing PIC and non-PIC code inside a > > relocatable object. > > Correct. On Solaris, I build lib/ and perl/sieve/lib with -fPIC > just to build cyrus-imap perl stuff.

Re: delivering to bb folders

2003-03-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Nikos, Sorry, I don't understand your post. Was it a request for some change? Additional documentation? confused, Larry

Re: Cyrus debugging

2003-03-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:17:02 -0500 From: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] The majority of imapd's work is not done in imap* files. There are 80 LOG_DEBUG entries in the imap/ directory, and 141 in 2.1.12. This is in addition to all of the LOG_INFO, LOG_NOTICE, ... -- 990

Re: delivering to bb folders

2003-03-25 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:24:52 -0800 From: Ben Poliakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] I know it's vaguely off topic, but it's certainly related to cyrus-imap; can anyone point to some sendmail config tips that make it pass this info to LMTP? Is this passing of "authid" supposed to

Re: Pausing Cyrus for Snapshots?

2003-03-16 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:01 PM -0500 Jared Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've not been able to find the answer to this in the docs or mailing list... I'd like to use the snapshot feature of the linux volume manager to take block level snaps of the cyrus databases and mailstore at re

Re: Interesting space issue

2003-03-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:13:30 -0500 From: Jim Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] This is all with Cyrus 2.1.11 on a V880 with 32GB of memory with Solaris 8 and, Sendmail 8.12.8. Anyone seen this before? Thanks. What sort of database backend are you using? (cyradm version should help

Re: net-snmp instead of ucd-snmp

2003-03-05 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:33:01 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The right thing to do is to port all SNMP support to native net-snmp syntax, but that requires rewriting the SNMP code in Cyrus. And this is something that we'll probably do when we upgrade to u

Re: Deleting records from db

2003-02-27 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
>I encountered this exact situation (directories manually deleted, >leading to an unreconstructable mailbox) about a month ago. The solution >we chose was to export the mailboxes db (ctl_mboxlist -d), delete the >bogus entries from the textfile, then import it back in. > >Howev

Re: Cyrus process model...

2003-02-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:22:09 +1100 [...] In the case of cyrus, I think you can quite happily stick with the multi-process model, I wasn't advocating moving to a threaded model. The discussion started due to an issue with killing child proces

Re: slow mailbox creation

2003-02-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:30:21 -0500 (EST) From: David A Powicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] This computer seems happy and fast in all respects, except for mailbox creations (4 seconds) and deletions (about 2 seconds) and ACL updates (2 seconds). A truss of an imapd that creates a

Re: Cyrus file locking issues

2003-02-20 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
* a generic lock debugging strategy... The first question is what OS are you running on? If this is Linux, applying the poll-style locking will probably mask whatever the problem is. If it's something else: . processes get stuck waiting for a lock (truss shows stuck process in fcntl) . the pro

Re: Outlook 2002 vs. Cyrus 2.1.12

2003-02-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: Fritz Test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09 Feb 2003 11:25:37 +0100 [...] With help of the analysis of Jeremy (Thanks) I patched the function mkgmtime, such that it works for me now. The problem is, that gmtime(&t) returns a null pointer for my 64-bit system if t is out of some ran

Re: Outlook 2002 vs. Cyrus 2.1.12

2003-02-08 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:44:17 +0100 (CET) From: Per Steinar Iversen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just tried to copy a large number of messages from an Outlook PST file to an IMAP server running Cyrus 2.1.12, but Outlook 2002 SP2 would not cooperate. As test I then tried copying to an old

Re: imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

2003-02-05 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Stephen L. Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:57:15 -0500 [...] Hmmm... what does Sendmail do? It's got lots of children, but still manages to refuse connections when it gets busy (RefuseLA)... I kinda like that behavior. I definitely like it better than k

Re: imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

2003-02-05 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:51:35 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Wouldn't it be possible (and better) to refuse further connections instead of having to wait for them to time out? Maybe I haven't thought this through properly, but it seems to me as if that w

Re: imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

2003-02-05 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:04:38 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] 0x402e3bee in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x402e3bee in __select () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #1 0x0811a994 in __DTOR_END__ () #2 0x0808410c in getword () #3 0x08

Re: how to get thread list in mailing list archive

2003-02-04 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:55:04 -0600 From: Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm looking for the description of multiple domains in the archive as someone mentioned. Is there a way to get a list of the threads alone, and not all the messages, like in a fully collapsed form? Since

Re: imapd's hang when maxchild count is reached

2003-02-01 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:25:29 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] When the number of impad processes reaches 200, no more processes are spawned, just as it should be. However, sometimes, not immediately, but definitely after a while *all* imapd processes will

Re: lmtpd NUL rejection

2003-01-13 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:24:17 +1300 (NZDT) [...] Along the way, I've discovered a related bug in lmtpd (2.1.11). If a misconfigured client sends a message with lines longer than 8190 chars, the following code in imap/lmtpengine.c (lines 672-675) will incorre

Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (2)

2003-01-13 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:48:49 -0500 From: John Alton Tamplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] There seem to be 3 places that have to be dealt with: 1) login 2) message delivery 3) mailbox names It seems like 1 is very localized and a trivial change in auth_canonifyid (if it

Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (2)

2003-01-13 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500 From: John Alton Tamplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lawrence Greenfield wrote: >I'm kinda unhappy about the limited scope of the patch. It makes >usernames case-insensitive during delivery, but they're case-sensitive >ever

Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (2)

2003-01-13 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:32:10 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Ted Cabeen wrote: > So is this patch going to make it into 2.1? I have the same > problem here with LMTP downcasing, and would like to have a > solution that doesn't

Re: squat core dump

2003-01-08 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:22:06 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote: > What bug number is this? My bad, I did not add it to bugzilla, I just sent it to cyrus-bugs, a long time ago. Hein Roehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Including UCD-SNMP support in Cyrus IMAPD

2003-01-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Sunday, January 05, 2003 7:22 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try, LIBS="-lkstat -lkvm" ./configure ... I now had a try and it finally compiled perfectly ! Now, is that somehow normal that I need to do that, shouldn't this be automatically done with the configure script ? UCD SNMP ca

Re: Question about reconstruct and main mailbox

2003-01-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Saturday, January 04, 2003 11:56 AM -0800 Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I'm looking at upgrading from a Cyrus 1.5 to a more current Cyrus Imap, and have noticed that the 'reconstruct -m' function is not implemented. I think we know that things happen. Is there any way in version

Re: Sendmail/Plussed Folders --WAS-- Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1]lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (2)

2003-01-04 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, December 26, 2002 11:55 AM -0500 Scott Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... sendmail +detail delivery ...] Has anyone else had this problem (plussed folder emails sent to sendmail that is configured to talk to LMTP directly, either my UNIX domain socket or my TCP socket)? If so,

Re: saslauthd performance anxiety

2003-01-04 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:21 PM -0500 Igor Brezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] If you are on Solaris, I highly recommend the doors IPC method over the UNIX socket method, since we began to see very bizarre problems under load. You might run into problems if you use ldap api and door

Re: Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

2003-01-03 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, January 03, 2003 12:48 PM -0700 "Kevin P. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is all working fine, except that I had to add my dummy authentication user (which I create solely for Exim to authenticate itself to lmtpd with) to the "admins" entry in /etc/imapd.conf. I had to do th

Re: [RFC][PATCH][CVS] chroot jailing support

2002-12-29 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 30, 2002 12:52 AM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The codepaths in master are MUCH easier to audit, so I think it overall enhances the security of Cyrus to run services inside chroot jails. IF it is done right. Any comments? Should I submit thi

Re: Fwd: pre-login buffer overflow in Cyrus IMAP server

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, December 06, 2002 1:27 AM +0100 Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any comment on why it took over a month to react to this reported vulnerability? Hi Simon, You'll note that it has taken me almost a month to respond to your message. This is mostly because I get very dist

Re: Aborting locker errors...

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:32 PM +1100 Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Given that it's for the deliver.db, which is used for duplicate delivery suppression and sieve, will an aborted locker result in sieve not correctly processing an email? I don't think so. Since Sieve always u

Re: Skipstamp?

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 23, 2002 10:37 AM -0600 Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just checked out the 2.2 branch and set it up on a machine here...It built just fine and I got the virtdomain stuff working fine. My only problem is that I am getting the DBERROR messages about /var/imap/db/sk

Re: quick and dirty patch for flushing seen state

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
John's patch for flushing seen state looks reasonable to me. Clients should be prepared for unsolicited \Seen responses at any time, so that shouldn't be a problem. Larry

Re: Automatic content-type insertion

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 02, 2002 10:43 AM +1100 Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm just wondering why cyrus automatically adds a content type charset to every message, even if none is specified in the message itself. For example: [...] So there's no "Content-Type" line in the message, but

Re: files in stage. directory ...

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:18 PM -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are they, and how do you clean them out? I have stuff dating back to march 19th in there: Mar 19 2002 27181-1016554210 just delete, or is there somethign I should be fixing? Most likely cause

Re: Backing up db directory

2002-12-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:35 PM -0500 Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the "db" directory doesn't need to be backed up - in fact should not be backed up - and I should instead be backing up the db.backup1 and db.backup2 dirs and using reconstruct to recr

Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (Re:Case Sensitivity)

2002-12-24 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:57 PM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: --On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:01 AM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the clean

Re: [PATCH][CVS IMAPd 2.1] lmtp_downcase_rcpt implementation (Re:Case Sensitivity)

2002-12-24 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:01 AM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's the cleaned up patch, against 2.1 CVS. It could be enhanced not to touch the +fooobar part of the recipient, I suppose. I guess I'm mostly of the opinion that this is an MTA job, as mos

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-23 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:43:17 -0500 From: "John A. Tamplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a user mailbox that is genering thousands of these same "DBERROR: skiplist recovery: should be ADD or DELETE" messages. This machine hasn't been rebooted, and Cyrus hasn't even been rest

Re: issues with conversion from UW Imap

2002-12-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:01 PM -0500 "John A. Tamplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a reason for not using a shared-memory interface for Cyrus to allow all imapds serving a mailbox to share flag state? Maybe a long-livi

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-12-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, December 13, 2002 12:52 AM -0500 Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe I've fixed this bug in CVS (did it a few days ago, actually) and it'll be in the next release. If I understand correctly, this fixes the flat-file seen implementation, but not the underlying problem, w

Re: ctl_cyrusdb -r takes too long

2002-12-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:50 PM +0530 Jatin Nansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Will ctl_cyrusdb -r take 10 hours ? I dread the day when the system will need downtime again. This is on a decent 2 x P3 1 GHz with 100 GB scsi raid and 1 GB RAM, about 2000 users, 50 MB per user. I reall

Re: Aborting locker errors...

2002-12-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:39 PM +1100 Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm just wondering if anyone know what this might be about. Seems to be a BDB issue and it only happens a few times a day, but I don't know if it's harmless or not. Interestingly it occurs on our less loaded s

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:32:50 -0500 From: "John A. Tamplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Correct, but if the power gets cut to the drive during the block write, all bets are off for the content of that block. True, most of the time you won't get weird failures but then most of the time

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:00:52 -0500 From: "John A. Tamplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Disks don't write one byte at a time, so a system crash during a write can result in indeterminate state for the entire block (and it gets worse when you go through the filesystem rather than raw

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:48:20 +1100 >It's scarier when you see this on the mailboxes DB. > > You've had this problem on your mailboxes db? Yuck. Yes, after system crashes. I think it was a SCSI card/driver problem. Hmm. Well, this i

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:01:48 +1100 Looks like you've got corrupted skiplist files. Delete the seen state databases with the problem and it will automatically rebuild them. That's what we do. It's scarier when you see this on the mailboxes

Re: how to rebuiild mailboxes.db ?

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: Mike Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11 Dec 2002 13:05:08 -0500 [...] I ran into a 'problem' during testing that may be related to the one you've encountered. I started out using the bdb backend. During testing, I moved (as in /bin/mv) a physical mailbox (in /var/spool/i

Re: how to rebuiild mailboxes.db ?

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:02:28 -0700 (MST) From: RJ45 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I got my mailboxes.db mangled because of a file system problem. I cannot even delete or modify quota of some accounts anymore, it tells me mailbox format is invalid. How can I rebuild the whole mailboxes.

Re: DBERROR: skiplist recovery errors

2002-12-12 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:46:45 -0200 From: Alessandro Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Dec 9 09:12:35 intra03 imapd[30212]: DBERROR: skiplist recovery: 0958 should be ADD or DELETE Dec 9 09:12:35 intra03 imapd[30212]: DBERROR: opening /var/lib/imap/user/n/natacha.se

Re: Unexpected lmtpproxy response

2002-12-11 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "JP Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:18:40 +0800 On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:06:51 +1100, "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Every now and then, we see the following error in our logs: > > Dec 6 22:29:20 www postfix/lmtp[15516]: 7319A58B2: to=,

Re: How to use non-ascii charsets with sieve?

2002-12-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:07:55 +0900 (JST) From: Mark Keasling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] I'm in the process of trying to figure out how this stuff works... Is it possible to separate the charset to utf-8 conversion from the text to search data transformation? It would be technicall

Re: How to use non-ascii charsets with sieve?

2002-12-09 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:52 AM +0900 Mark Keasling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Larry, [ ... decode in fill_cache() ... ] This hasn't been tested this yet since I stuck it in yesterday before going home and have just returned to the office. It should decode subjects into utf8. But

Re: How to use non-ascii charsets with sieve?

2002-12-09 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 09, 2002 6:01 PM -0800 Tim Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: different comparators would require different tables, I think. The table Cyrus usually uses isn't suitable for i;ascii-casemap since space isn't significant, but transcoding to UTF-8 and doing a dumb comparison

Re: How to use non-ascii charsets with sieve?

2002-12-09 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
You bring up good questions. First, our Sieve implementation currently doesn't deal with RFC 2047 encoded headers---or rather, it just compares the undecoded headers against the UTF-8 string. This is obviously a bug which sadly isn't in bugzilla. Ken and I talked (a long time

Re: Problems with cyrus-imapd 2.1.11 under Solaris 8

2002-12-09 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 09, 2002 4:39 PM + Stephen Grier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: There is a more complete solution to the SIGCHILD problems in master, that fixes all the race conditions that cause the process count to be lost. I call it the "pid morgue" :-

Re: DBERROR: Cannot allocate memory

2002-12-05 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, December 06, 2002 1:09 PM +1100 Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is probably more a berkeley DB question, but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this. Every now and then we see this in our imap log. Dec 5 20:39:47 server2 lmtpd[24962]: DBERROR db3: Unable to allocate

Re: reconstruct in cyrus-imap-2

2002-12-03 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:50:40 +0100 (CET) From: Wolfgang Hottgenroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on one of our production complexes with roughly 200,000 mailboxes running on cyrus-imap-1, once we used 'reconstruct -m' after an operator failure. Within the manpage of reconstruct in cyru

Re: problem with checkpoint of databases

2002-12-03 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, December 02, 2002 10:11 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] it takes around one hour per day of failure of checkpointing to restart. -Is there a way to speedup that process? Recovery speed is relative to how often checkpoints are done. Since your checkpoints aren't finishing,

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
between sessions. I believe I've fixed this bug in CVS (did it a few days ago, actually) and it'll be in the next release. My apologies for my disbelief, Larry Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:08:52 -0500 From: Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --On Friday, November 15, 20

Re: How to make cyrus not change non US-ASCII characters to "X"

2002-11-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:03 PM -0200 Alessandro Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe the best solution would be a filter to change the message body encoding using quoted-printable instead of putting X everywhere, and change headers to also use the appropriate encoding. What do you

Re: How to make cyrus not change non US-ASCII characters to "X"

2002-11-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:26 PM -0200 Alessandro Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any possibility to put this as an autoconf option? maybe something like: "./configure --enable-strict-headers | --disable-strict-headers" would do the trick, or even better, a runtime configura

Re: lock_unlock() problem?

2002-11-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:37 PM -0500 DAVID G MCMURTRIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Rob Siemborski wrote: "Upgrade your version of cyrus" Many many many locking and performance improvements have been made since then, and spending the time to diagnose the problems w

Re: Problems with some MIME messages (cyrus-imapd-2.1.9)

2002-11-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:29 PM +0100 Ralf Haferkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, we encountered problems with some multipart MIME mails. It seems, that cyrus-imapd fails to correctly seperate the different parts of mail under certain circumstances. This e.g. the case if one MIME part

Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature

2002-11-20 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:09 PM + Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Over the weekend, it struck me that a patch to make 'seen' global could be as simple as commenting out the calls to the code that treats '\Seen' as a special-case global variable, and adding 'Seen' to the list o

Re: Best way to backup cyrus system

2002-11-20 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
It would be nice to add a backup section to the documentation. Live backup is supported with Cyrus, though running "dump" on a live filesystem is only to be done with care. We use vxfs on Solaris and snapshots and have been happy with it. The databases are backed up by Cyrus 2.1 every checkpoin

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Monday, November 18, 2002 8:57 PM -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linux-specific that they have would negative consequences if applied to a source tree used for a Solaris or *BSD build?? With Linux being No negative consequences that I know of. But increased

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:10 PM +0900 Hajimu UMEMOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:57:57 -0500 (EST) Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: rjs3> I'm pleased to announce the release of Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10. This is mostly rjs3> a bug-fix and cleanup release,

Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature

2002-11-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 7:47 PM + Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How difficult would it be to hack Cyrus to either make Seen global, or make Seen globally visible? Well, it's not clear in IMAP how to show the status of other user's seen flags. While it wouldn't be impossib

Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature

2002-11-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:09:14 - Is there any way for an admin user to read, or write, another users Seen flags? No. Do any other flags behave like this? No. \Delete probably should be a per-user flag but it isn't. Larry

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:44:45 +1100 From: Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] BTW, have you looked at Andrew Tridgell's Trivial Database? It uses mmaped files and spin-locks to achieve good write performance, although I don't think resilience in the face of crashes was a high

Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature

2002-11-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Ian McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:07:59 - When I move (copy and delete) messages between shared folders, the (\Answered) and (\Flagged) flags are preserved, but the (\Seen) flag seems to be removed. The user doing the moving is some housekeep

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-15 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 8:49 PM +1100 Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect there is a bug in the flat-file seen implementation. Each process opens the seen file and holds this file descriptor open. Then one process wants to update the file. It does this by writing a new fil

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 2:40 PM +1100 Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In general none of Cyrus will necessarily work over NFS. If you're only accessing the NFS store from a single client, things have a much better chance of working--- By single client, do you mean a single NFS

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 12:52 PM +1100 Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the general feeling on the skiplist implementation used in conjunction with Sun and NetApp's NFS (we're locked in to using this combination for various reasons)? Would you be more or less likely to tru

Re: autocreatequota - does it really work?

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:16:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] The name of the option is potentially confusing, in that the desired mailbox is not 100% *automatically* created. Rather, it is only created when the new user logs in and issues a CREATE INB

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:07 -0500 From: Scott Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Sooo... any reason why the docs aren't sgml and then built for text, html, ps, etc? Think of this as less of a request and more of 'would CMU be interested' type question. :) No objections, but it's

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:38:27 +0100 From: Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew McNamara wrote: > I realise this is an old known problem, but I've spent some time searching > list archives, and other sources looking for an answer. Any help anyone > can provide will be grate

Re: locking problems with 2.1.9

2002-11-08 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:04:32 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Krotkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] 22335: imapd -s ff09b3bc read (0, 1c4bc8, 6f5) 0008e8c8 sock_read (0, 1c4bc8, 6f5, 8e8a0, 18edf8, 1) + 28 0008d670 BIO_read (1bd090, 1c4bc8, 6f5, 1c32a8, 1bccf0, 0) + d0 0007dec8 s

Re: gpl sasl

2002-11-07 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
I've been talking to Simon somewhat about his API. He doesn't think it would be hard to implement a compatibility layer; I suspect he's a little optimistic but I'm hopeful we'll all come to the same API eventually. Larry Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:48:47 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Siemborski <[EMAI

Re: locking problems with 2.1.9

2002-11-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:07:11 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Krotkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do the lmtpd acquire or are they _attempting_ to acquire the lock on > the cyrus.seen file? > > Are you using the seen_local backend instead of seen_db? This hasn't > been tested by us in a lo

Re: Odd problem with cyrus.seen.NEW

2002-11-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:31:41 -0800 From: Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Yes, I am running 1.6.24. To head off any "just upgrade" comments, I would like to note that all the rename() and cyrus.seen code in the 2.1.x tree seems to be identical to the code in the 1.6.24 tree

Re: locking problems with 2.1.9

2002-11-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:04:56 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are experiencing locking problems with cyrus 2.1.9 on a Solaris 8 system using fcntl and skiplist (except flat for subscriptions). We've seen the following issues: * Lmtpd's acquire a lock on a cyrus.seen fi

Re: locking problems with 2.1.9

2002-11-06 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:02:52 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, John Wade wrote: > I assume you are using flat seen files. If so, I ran into this > problem on 2.0.16 and came up with a workaround which others > ported to 2.1.3. Th

Re: blocking logins at server

2002-11-01 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:55:03 -0500 From: twk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are running both 1.5.x and 2.1.x versions of Cyrus. I have a $#%$^#$%^ user that has his email client set to check every folder ever few seconds. I can't remove him from the password file, as we use Kerberos f

Re: CYRUS_SKIPLIST_UNSAFE

2002-10-27 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:30:09 +1000 [...] So this lets you turn off the use of fsync() calls altogher, but is clearly regarded as "unsafe". I was wondering however, how "unsafe" it would be to remove the calls from the commit() code, which I'

Re: CYRUS_SKIPLIST_UNSAFE

2002-10-23 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:30:09 +1000 [...] So this lets you turn off the use of fsync() calls altogher, but is clearly regarded as "unsafe". I was wondering however, how "unsafe" it would be to remove the calls from the commit() code, which I'

Re: Name of email file format

2002-10-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:04:08 +0100 From: Simon Loader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > It is not mbox, neither is it maildir. What is the official name of the > file format used by Cyrus to store email? Id call it Cyrus mailbox format ... (CMF) But

Re: database types

2002-10-16 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:44:01 -0300 (ADT) From: Aidan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] This says >--with-duplicate-db=DB use DB (db3, skiplist) as a backend > for the duplicate delivery db (Default: db3_nosync ) db3_nosync, since the w

Re: how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec sl ow?

2002-09-26 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: Su Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:20:11 -0400 First of all I can get 9-10 messages per second now by move the mail store to a striped hard disk(3 disk strip to one). I think there are more than one sendmail deliver processes try to deliver to lmtpd. Bec

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:23:11 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] OK, I did that and now sendmail is happily delivering via LMTP! Thanks. Added a slide about setting up to use LMTP. My m4 - FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail') ... MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl ... define(`c

Re: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
What version of Sendmail are you using? You want Sendmail 8.12.4 or later. You should consider running Sendmail in deliverymode=queue with frequent queue runs if you want the best possible performance. (Take a look sendmail/TUNING in the Sendmail distribution.) You should also configure Sendmail

Re: SNMP statistics in 2.1.4

2002-05-23 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:30:16 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > It was an idea to collect information on subprocesses that we never > really followed through on. I've actually been

Re: SNMP statistics in 2.1.4

2002-05-23 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:55:46 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the deal with tugowar, and the snmp statistics for the various daemons in imap/ ? It was an idea to collect information on subprocesses that we never really followed through on. I'

Re: imapd timeout

2002-05-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:32:44 -0700 From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Cyrus-Info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cyrus does recycle processes. Unix forking is amazingly slow compared > to not forking and on servers that receive many connections a second > this performance twea

Re: imapd timeout

2002-05-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
From: "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:41:46 -0600 I wonder how many IMAP processes are short lived enough to make a difference? I know at least on my servers they are fairly long running. If you have 6500 simulataneous connections and 7 new connections per

Re: imapd timeout

2002-05-21 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:08:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] Does cyrus perhaps "recycle" imapd processes rather than killing them and starting new ones? If so, what is the logic behind this? (Unix forking is remarkably fast, and starting fresh each time

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