Hi,
On 30/08/2017 12:56, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am testing Cyrus Imapd 2.5.10 from Debian stable. What I see is that
> the imapd processes become more and more overtime untill they reach the
> maxchild value, and then there is a problem. I see this with "ps aux |
> grep imapd".
Hi,
I never tried to use the tcp_keepalive option as suggested in recent followup,
but faced the same issue: I solved it by running nginx as imap-proxy in front
of Cyrus. First just for the imaps connections, but I guess most people used
that anyway so I’m not sure it was TLS related - or indee
Hi,
I'm looking at upgrading one of my installations (both OS and Cyrus),
and adding CalDav support at the same time seems like a brilliant idea.
I noticed that 2.4.17's beta uses a slightly different SQLite table
layout compared to 2.5's (eg. no comp_flags: that's what breaks it,
recurring and t
Hi,
Reading doc/install-http.html,
"Calendar provisioning
The CalDAV module will automatically create the required calendars for a
user the first time that the user authenticates to the CalDAV server.
Note that the user MUST have an existing IMAP Inbox in order for the
calendars to be created."
Hi,
Maybe I've some more 2.4.3 badness:
I just decided to restore one message, and copied it from the archive.
Unfortunately, I didn't copy properly, so the ownership was root instead
of cyrus.
I then ran a
# sudo -u cyrus /usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct user.bla
user.bla: System I/O error Syst
Hi Bron,
On 11-11-10 03:45, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:38:34PM +0100, Paul Dekkers wrote:
>> On 10-11-2010 21:27, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>
>>>> (Can I downgrade? I just need to reconstruct everything, right, because
>>>> the index for
Hi Bron,
Thanks for your reply:
On 10-11-2010 21:27, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>> (Can I downgrade? I just need to reconstruct everything, right, because
>> the index format changed? :-S)
>
> Yes, you will need to reconstruct anything which successfully upgraded.
Ok, there's no way of telling what f
idea?
(Can I downgrade? I just need to reconstruct everything, right, because
the index format changed? :-S)
Regards,
Paul
On 10-11-10 20:49, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I intentionally waited a few 2.4-releases to have the first dirty bugs
> smashed ;-)
>
> In a small test-s
Hi,
I intentionally waited a few 2.4-releases to have the first dirty bugs
smashed ;-)
In a small test-setup everything was fine. But on a box with actual
users on it, I seem to have some more problems :-(
The machine runs FreeBSD 8.1 (64-bits) with Cyrus from the port. I'm
using ZFS for the ima
, I indeed did it
batch-wise rather than "1:*", but this is clearly not something TB does
- it rather does all messages at the same time resulting in these timeouts.
Thanks for your dupseek suggestion; I will definitely take a look at that,
Regards,
Paul
> On Friday 01 January 2010 @ 1
Hi,
>From time to time (but mostly at the start of the year ;-)), I notice a
lot of load caused by people archiving their mail-folders. Maybe this is
mostly caused by Thunderbird going mad, but I was wondering if I could
do anything on the server-side to prevent things from going bad. Because
now
Hi,
Paul Dekkers wrote:
> Simon Matter wrote:
>>> Paul Dekkers wrote:
>>>
>>>> I finally found a moment for upgrading my 2.3.9 install (using Simon's
>>>> RPMs on Red Hat 4.6, 64-bit) to 2.3.11-3 (leaving the config files
>>>> u
Hi,
Simon Matter wrote:
>> Paul Dekkers wrote:
>>
>>> I finally found a moment for upgrading my 2.3.9 install (using Simon's
>>> RPMs on Red Hat 4.6, 64-bit) to 2.3.11-3 (leaving the config files
>>> untouched), after which it seems that replication isn
Hi,
Paul Dekkers wrote:
> I finally found a moment for upgrading my 2.3.9 install (using Simon's
> RPMs on Red Hat 4.6, 64-bit) to 2.3.11-3 (leaving the config files
> untouched), after which it seems that replication isn't working properly
> anymore.
While it seems to b
Hi,
I finally found a moment for upgrading my 2.3.9 install (using Simon's
RPMs on Red Hat 4.6, 64-bit) to 2.3.11-3 (leaving the config files
untouched), after which it seems that replication isn't working properly
anymore.
If I run the sync_client, just a simple -u paul, I see in my logs:
sync_
Hi,
Ian G Batten wrote:
> The Cyrus server I run for my employer is sat on our internal
> network, and remote users access either the IMAP port or the
> associated Squirrelmail instance via our VPN. They come in via a
> Cisco IPSec VPN server, secured with SecureID.
>
> My private Cyrus s
Hi,
Стоян Цалев wrote:
> I'm currently playing around with cyrus 2.3.9 and replication. It seems quite
> stable and in fact, perfectly usable. However, I ran into a problem with
> the delayed expunge feature. It looks like this - when I delete a mail (via
> IMAP) on the master, the same happens
Hi,
Vladi Lemurov wrote:
> Hello!
> Is there any way to delete old messages e.g. older than 30 days from
> INBOX.Trash and INBOX.Junk mailboxes of all users in a proper "cyrus-way"?
>
You can use ipurge, and run it periodically from cyrus.conf. We have for
instance:
purgetrashcmd
Hi,
Simon Matter wrote:
>> I have a config.sub and a config.guess that works with 64 architectures.
>>
>> There is some way to put these files in the rpm that I downloaded from
>> invoca.ch ???
>>
>> Maybe with these files I can use the rpm.
>>
>
> Did you try the 2.3.x rpms? They should work
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
> Michael Menge wrote:
>
>> i havent used the replication my selfe, so the information is only
>> based on
>> what i have read on this list.
>>
>> The sync_client discovers all changes on the mailboxes queues them and
>> send
>> them to the server. In case of a system
Hi,
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
> Michael Menge wrote:
>
>> after the problem with the wiki was solved, i added a summery about
>> CyrusCluster
>> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CyrusCluster .
>>
> Could you, please, describe more detailed problems with replication:
> Cyru
Hi,
Michael Menge wrote:
> after the problem with the wiki was solved, i added a summery about
> CyrusCluster
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CyrusCluster .
> Please feel free to add infos about your experience with NFS
Good suggestion. I will do some more testing, for now: I
Hi,
Took me a while before I found the time to try the meta-partitions and
NFS backed (data-)partitions, but:
Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:08:52PM +0200, Paul Dekkers wrote:
>
>> I recently tried to use NFS (on a RedHat client, both to a NetApp filer
>
Hi,
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On FreeBSD, CARP would be the natural choice, seeing as it's standard with
> the system.
... CARP works nice for a floating IP-address between two servers, and
if you go that route you might want to look at ifstated (in the ports)
to control daemons based on the CARP
Hi,
I recently tried to use NFS (on a RedHat client, both to a NetApp filer
as well as a RedHat NFS server) and I'll share my experiences:
Michael Menge wrote:
> Cyrus has 2 problems with NFS.
>
> 1. Cyrus depends on filesystem locking. NFS-4 should have solved this
> problem
> but i have not tes
Hi,
Yesterday morning I did an upgrade from 2.3.7(-11) to 2.3.8(-3) using
the RPM packages made by Simon. Everything seemed fine, but at the end
of the day the replication stalled; it was actually in a way I did not
see before with 2.3.7 (and earlier), so I thought it might be worth
reporting. (Ju
Hi,
Aristotelis wrote:
> Paul Dekkers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > (I never used it though. I was considering it, but for us I think it
> > would only make sense if you could use variables in the folder-names or
> > so (like the month/year))
>
> Could yo
Hi,
Marten Lehmann wrote:
> does sieve include any form of autocreating a "fileinto"-folder?
>
> I know that there's an option in Cyrus, but that doesn't help me in
> this case. Each user shall be able to define a name for a Junk-folder.
> Usually this is "Junk" (in Thunderbird), but in other Appl
Hi,
Simon Matter wrote:
I just tried the in-memory NFSv4 server from citi (in newpynfs); it is
very very slow, and I had to lower the number of concurrent users in
imaptest (to prevent 'stalling errors') - but it seems to work better! I
don't get any locking problems in the logs.
So it could b
Hi,
Simon Matter wrote:
Since the use of NFSv4 was mentioned again in the HA thread, I thought
I'd give this a shot by using the imaptest-utility from dovecot (the
only imap stress-testing tool I can think of, I've stressed replication
with it too) and NFSv4 mounts on RedHat.
Maybe it does not
Hi,
Andrew Laurence wrote:
Has anyone evaluated the new "fixed" locking in NFSv4 for use with
Cyrus? I attended a talk by Sun's Spencer Shepler at USENIX '05 in
which he spent a good deal of time on NFSv4 (supposedly) fixes the
locking shortcomings and can be used as a native file system.
h
Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> -- Marten Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on 8.
> November 2006 17:02:52 +0100 regarding performance on large inboxes:
>
>> from time to time we have users with a very large inbox, which means it
>> contains 20.000 messages or even more. My quite g
Hi,
Just wanted to share what was missing here...
A while back, I wrote:
> Hmm! Is anyone running Cyrus on 64-bit Red Hat?
>
> # ./configure
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/sh ./co
Hi,
Janne Peltonen wrote:
> People /are/ running Cyrus setups on different *nixen with different
> clustered filesystems. But those cases don't seem to be documented on
> the Web, either. That's why I'm asking here. ;)
>
If I read Ken's (historic) post correctly then the memory-mapping on the
Hi,
Hmm! Is anyone running Cyrus on 64-bit Red Hat?
# ./configure
checking build system type... Invalid configuration
`x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu failed
and from srpm:
configure: error: /bin/sh
Hi,
Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:23:22PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote:
>
>> On 26 Aug 2006, at 16:09, Paul Dekkers wrote:
>>
>>> Right now, it looks tricky to me to enable replication after failover,
>>> or the replicated machin
Hi,
I don't know if this is a known issue: as soon as I enable replication
and the sync_client gets a "No route to host" from the replica, the rest
of the cyrus startup seems to stall: no imap, no lmtp... just because a
replica is unreachable. (In this case because iptables was to
restrictive on t
Hi,
I was wondering what people consider best practice as failover scenario
in a replication enviroment.
Right now, it looks tricky to me to enable replication after failover,
or the replicated machine itself if you're not sure that the replica is
identical and the sync-processes finished complet
Hi,
Murray Trainer wrote:
>>> Any comment on Mozilla Thuderbird?
>>>
>> My big beef against GUI/Unix clients is that there doesn't appear to be
>> any way of 'auto-subscribing' to all folders ...
>>
>
> Evolution isn't perfect but it can do that. There is a "show only subscribed
> f
Hi,
We are about to move our mail to a different machine, running a
different OS and a different filesystem (ext3, since that is "the one"
for RH). While thinking about this filesystem for use with cyrus, I was
wondering if it would do any good to split up the current mailspool in
different imap p
Hi,
Andrew Morgan wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Michael Loftis wrote:
I'd also be VERY interested since our experience was quite the
opposite. ReiserFS was faster than all three, XFS trailing a dismal
third (also had corruption issues) and ext3 second or even more dismal
third, depending on if
Hi,
Justin wrote:
Having a small issue with a user not receiving some mail from a couple
of internal users (that we know of). Mail may be getting "lost" when
sent from other users to this person but I don't know about them.
I can see (at least I think I can!) the delivery to cyrus from postf
Hi,
David Carter wrote:
We have one of the following boxes on our tape streaming system:
http://www.infortrend.com/a16f_g.asp
We use this one for mail (and two others for backup) with an Adaptec
SCSI-controller. Works fine, the only SPOF in our setup is the RAID
controller in the unit; we hav
Hi,
Pascal BOYER wrote:
I just would like to know if there is a wav to convert courier-imap mailbox to Cyrus-imap maildir ?
One fool-proof mechanism is using imapsync
(http://freshmeat.net/redir/imapsync/38197/url_homepage/imapsync, or
similar tools) to transfer mails from one server to anothe
Hi,
David Lang wrote:
Paul, I recently took a look at useing thunderbird 1.0 with IMAP and
found that it was storing a lot of info locally, is it really that
good an IMAP client?
I really think it is; i'm using it all the time. (Almost; sometimes I
use pine or mutt, but that certainly makes me l
Thomas Kessler wrote:
Can I use Cyrus IMAP w/Outlook? Is this even possible? I setup Cyrus
assuming that I could, but I haven’t been able to find any saying that
is works, just that Insight Server application that works with Cyrus
IMAP. If I can’t use Cyrus with Outlook, can someone recommend an
Hi,
Mike Allen wrote:
I have had Cyrus-imapd v2.1.16 running successfully for several years
but am having
difficulty interfacing the Linux version of NOD32 antivirus with
cyrus-imapd?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
You should have your mail scanned by the MTA (postfix, exim, sendmail,
Hi,
We're using postfix to feed cyrus (over LMTP) but we're missing the
real-time integration like people described for sendmail and exim. To
circumvene this I wrote a small perl script that creates a list of users
and puts these in a file used by the local_recipients_map. It isn't
always in sy
Hi,
Simon Matter wrote:
I have a working Cyrus IMAP 2.1.13. I would like to migrate to a new
server (new machine), running Cyrus IMAP 2.2.10. Additional trouble is I
would like to move existing users to new mailboxes/usernames. For
instance, I would like to do this:
Old.ev.co.yu( IMAP 2.1.13 ): "us
Frank Reta wrote:
Hey all:
After scouring the archives I couldn't find an answer to this particular
question:
I've cyrus imap running beautifully on a RH 8.0 box right now but I'm in a
situation where I need to move the operation onto another RH8.0 box. I've
built out the cyrus/postfix structu
Hi,
Jason Komar wrote:
I've just setup Cyrus IMAP with Open-Xchange. Currently, all our
incoming mail get's collected in a mailbox with our web hosting
provider. I was hoping to pull mail in using a utility like getmail
where when it got pulled in, it would be filtered and "dropped" into
local mail
Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
outlook is the M$ killer app, unfortunatly ...
http://www.opengroupware.org
You can use your Cyrus mail server, ditch Exchange, and he can keep his
Outlook, and still have *SHARED* calendering.
There's also http://www.open-xchange.org/
Never used it, but interface
Rob Tanner wrote:
I am going to be moving some 5,000 users from an old ESYS imap server to CMU.
It is my understanding from a previous query, that the cyradm "xfermailbox"
command only works between CMU servers and, therefore, it won't help me here.
I already discovered that simply copying the file
Hi,
What is the easiest way to install only sieveshell and the perl
libraries on a user system?
I don't need the complete cyrus package of course (and ./configure won't
even finish because sasl2 is not installed either so there is no
makefile...) but I want my users to have sieveshell (and not j
David Carter wrote:
5. Active/Active
designate one of the boxes as primary and identify all items in the
datastore that absolutly must not be subject to race conditions
between the two boxes (message UUID for example). In addition to
implementing the replication needed for #1 modify all function
Hi,
Ken Murchison wrote:
Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and
performance, or just redundance?
for performance we already have murder, what we currently lack is
redundancy. once we have redundancy then the next enhancement is
going to be to teach murder about it so that
David Lang wrote:
Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and
performance, or just redundance?
Cyrus performs pretty well already. Background redundancy would be
awesome. Especially if we had control over when the syncing process
occurred either via time interval or date/time.
I
Hi,
Ken Murchison wrote:
I think this would cause performance to suffer greatly. I think what
we want is "lazy" replication, where the client gets instant results
from the machine its connected to, and the replication is done in the
background. I believe this is what David's implementation doe
Hi,
Eric S. Pulley wrote:
Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and
performance, or just redundance?
Cyrus performs pretty well already. Background redundancy would be
awesome. Especially if we had control over when the syncing process
occurred either via time interval or date
Hi,
Ken Murchison wrote:
I wouldn't hold out hope of anything being available in "some months".
I wrote my replication code two years ago, and submitted it to Rob
and Ken about this time last year. Neither I or they have put any
significant work into the code since then. As I indicated in my
pre
David Carter wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Paul Dekkers wrote:
On the other hand, if there is a application level redundancy on its
way, it doesn't really matter on what platform the machine runs, so
it would still make me happier and even with FreeBSD. And I would
rather put my money there.
Hi,
Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
You are not using a clustered filesystem,
right?
No.
I can imagine that would be one of the advantages of RH's clustering,
since you don't have to mount a filesystem in that case for a machine
that just crashed - it would safe time...
But I suppose RH's cluster manag
Hi,
David G Mcmurtrie wrote:
So many users cried for this feature (to provide not just horizontal
scalability with murder, but to have redundant backends which can hold
each others replicas too) that I wonder: if it's so important to us, the
cyrus users, why don't we collect some money and pass it
Hi,
Michael Loftis wrote:
The theory only translates if you're using a JOURNALED file system.
Linux ext3, reiserfs AIX JFS, Sun/others veritas are all examples
of this. AFAIK FreeBSD hasn't any journalling file systems,
Hmm, some say the use of softupdates preclude a journaling filesystem
(
Jure PeÃÂar wrote:
Although many on the list claim that this (having 2 boxes with 1
disk-array) is a nice way for redundancy I'm in doubt now if this is
true. It still takes 30 mins before everything is back again! It seems
to me that if there was a "live" version of cyrus available with a
sync
Hi,
Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
There are two machines for redundancy. If one fails, the other one
should
take over: mount the disks from the array, and move on.
Right, works fine for us for the most part. Hasn't always been like
that, but the most recent kernel updates by Red Hat have improved
ma
Hi,
We're implementing a new mailplatform running on two dell 2650-servers
(2 xeon cpu's with each 3 Ghz, HTT and 3Gb of memory) and with a disk
array of 4 Tb connected with a adaptec 39160 scsi controller for
storage. We installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it, and - of course - cyrus 2.2.8
(from the po
Hi,
Since we want "per user userprefs" (stored in sql) we need to filter our
mail with the "User" option passed through to spamd. Since amavis cannot
do it's job here (it cannot provide all userpref options in sql), I
think that we have two options left while using postfix:
- we can define a con
Hi,
Chad A. Prey wrote:
We are currently running a mail server called Gordano which is no longer
sufficient for our needs and we're trying to migrate the mail from
Gordano to Cyrus-IMAP.
We've written some perl scripts to handle putting the mail into Cyrus
IMAP compliant directories...it works gr
Hi,
Ken Murchison wrote:
For our (about 200) archive-folders we currently have a
procmail-script (on our old server) that I want to migrate to sieve
(for the new servers ;-)). Basicly, the functionality of the
procmail-script comes down to:
if envelope :detail "to" "blabla" {
fileinto "ar
Hi,
For our (about 200) archive-folders we currently have a procmail-script
(on our old server) that I want to migrate to sieve (for the new servers
;-)). Basicly, the functionality of the procmail-script comes down to:
if envelope :detail "to" "blabla" {
fileinto "archive.blabla";
}
Hi,
Etienne Goyer wrote:
Regarding IMAP replication, I have not found much but the work of
David Carter at
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/replication.html seem
interesting. As far as I can tell, source to this implementation and
current status are not available. Does somebody on
Hi,
Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
drbd in combination with "heartbeat" and a journalling filesystem can
do exactly this. You can have Cyrus IMAP running on both servers
(different users), with the Cyrus storage areas mirrored to the other
server via drbd. When heartbeat notices that one of the servers
Rob,
Rob Siemborski wrote:
I hope this kind of functionality comes into cyrus once; I assume it
is not there yet, I once asked this on the list before ;-) And maybe
it shouldn't be too difficult, since there is already a
synchronisation mechanism for NNTP in place, if I'm correct.
This is very h
Gerard,
Gerard Ceraso wrote:
I have a server setup using Cyrus 2.1 and postfix, with mysql. What I
would like to have is 2 servers basically the second would be a
replication of the first server. So I would like to be able to connect
to either at any given time and get my mail and the mail being th
Hi,
I have a .pem signed by my self-signed CA, but it is password protected.
I saw no option in imapd.conf to specify the password for a certificate:
is this indeed not possible, and do I have to create an .pem without
password?
(In that case; can anyone tell me what openssl-command I have to us
om a FreeBSD
package? (I built from scratch, so I can't edit the Makefile for
configure parameters)
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht-
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gdl@;merit.edu]
> Verzonden: woensdag 23 oktober 2002 23:35
> Aan: paul dekkers
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it.edu]
> Verzonden: woensdag 23 oktober 2002 22:51
> Aan: paul dekkers
> Onderwerp: Re: SASL doesn't build with ldap with FreeBSD
>
> We just went through this at out site.
>
> The only thing we did was just have OpenLDAP built
> first. I did add "--with-ldap=/usr/local&
Hi,
I tried this for about some
hours now, and I don’t know where to look next…
I try to build sasl2 with
ldap support, so I did
./configure --with-ldap --enable-login
--with-bdb-incdir=/usr/local/include/db3 --disable-gssapi
but I get:
checking for ldap_initialize in -lldap... no
Hi,
I havent looked at these filesystems so closely, but I want at around
the same thing as you I guess: if the main imap-server fails, let
another one take over the job (e.g. with IP takeover).
In my opinion maybe the NNTP support provides something in the future:
it has the possibility to sy
Hi,
I'm running Cyrus IMAPd for a about 3 years now, and I'm really happy
with it. I'm still running v1.6.24 without any problems. (I'm not aware
of any security issues, if there are any, or other disadvantages of
running this version I'd really like to know. I haven't looked cyrus for
some time
Hi
I'm looking for a redundant mail storage. Not just a seconday MX where mail
is temporarily stored on a second server, but just that when one server
crashes another server goes on with its normal tasks.
For mail I think it would be nice if all new messages go to both servers,
and when a message
Thank you,
Paul
P.S> What's the best choice for a new mailserver (which I don't want to
upgrade that often with new mail-software), the 1.6.24 version or the
newer 2.0.x series?
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