RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-23 Thread Sarah Walters
t; HA, for instance - begins at > http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/ms g30675.html > (couldn't open the official info-cyrus archive)). So you > /can/ run Cyrus > on multiple servers accessing the same mailboxes database. Just don't > use BDB. Don

RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-23 Thread Sarah Walters
and. But as it is known hardware, you can have a much leaner operating system with all components properly tested in a professional laboratory to ensure that they work well together. Every patch is tested for impact on the entire system. The appliance I had in mind is still Cyrus at its guts I believe. It

RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-22 Thread Sarah Walters
Wesley et al, > -Original Message- > From: Wesley Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 November 2006 1:17 PM > To: Sarah Walters > Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building > load-balancing cluster

RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-22 Thread Sarah Walters
abase is not held open. If it is, then you need to look at a different email product. Cyrus is a great server, but if you need five 9s reliability then you have to pay for it. You could always look at an appliance - dedicated hardware is often more reliable and at least if it goes down you ca

RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-16 Thread Sarah Walters
cluster) > > 2006/11/17, Sarah Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > The main problem is to build a shared storage that can > > > survive server > > > > > crashes, where mail will be stored. > > > > > > > > Use a SAN. >

RE: Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

2006-11-16 Thread Sarah Walters
cking issues. Have a look at Red Hat's clustering product for an example. If our cyrus installation was going to be clustered, RH cluster with a SAN backend is what we would do. Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.c

RE: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Sarah Walters
the messages will be flagged as new. Instead of using an IMAP sync, you feed the email message in as a brand new message to the deliver program. It's fast and effective. Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twik

RE: Two questions

2006-09-27 Thread Sarah Walters
base from the dump. This will only rebuild the mailbox database. You also need to back up all the files in the cyrus directories. Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

RE: only cleartext in sasldb?

2006-09-27 Thread Sarah Walters
ile so don't use it for anything other than admin accounts (or write a GOOD wrapper that is setuid to user cyrus around the sasldb access programs if you have to give more people access). Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap

RE: reconstruct

2006-09-20 Thread Sarah Walters
le those checks and just accept all mail addressed to your domain whether the account exists or not. Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

RE: Howto migrate from postfix-cyrus to Exchang e [auf Viren überprüft]

2006-09-20 Thread Sarah Walters
other users a batch at a time until you are done. If it's a large site I would do a department a day. For a small site, perhaps 10 people per hour so you can deal with all the "how do I do THIS" issues. I hope that helps. Regards, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusi

Virtual domains + aliases + cyrus

2006-06-01 Thread Sarah Walters
LDAP, as there is a project to store all account information in LDAP for these users and it would be preferable to use it directly rather than having to do a dump of the data. Thanks, Sarah Walters Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu