Re: Reconstruct dying with bus error

2011-10-24 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 10/20/2011 04:44 PM, Zachariah Mully wrote: > Howdy all- > I'm running into many mailboxes moved from 2.2.13 to 2.4.12 which > reconstruct barfs on with a 'Bus error'. I'm running reconstruct as such : > # find /var/spool/cyrus/mail2 -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -t

Reconstruct dying with bus error

2011-10-20 Thread Zachariah Mully
Howdy all- I'm running into many mailboxes moved from 2.2.13 to 2.4.12 which reconstruct barfs on with a 'Bus error'. I'm running reconstruct as such : # find /var/spool/cyrus/mail2 -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -type d | sed s:/var/spool/cyrus/mail2/[a-z]/::g | xargs -n 1 reconstruct It conti

Re: db upgrades in 2.4.x?

2011-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 10/19/2011 10:42 AM, Zachariah Mully wrote: > > In the case of my Drafts folder, it's mostly read deleted mail, with a > couple of read undeleted drafts (2.2.13). But looking at after moving > and reconstructing it, it shows an odd number of unread, undeleted > messages. &

Re: db upgrades in 2.4.x?

2011-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 10/19/2011 09:22 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On 10/19/2011 03:21 PM, Zachariah Mully wrote: >> On 10/19/2011 06:24 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:> >>> Just the upgrade should copy the seen data in - but note it needs to >>> be done >>> with the NEW c

Re: db upgrades in 2.4.x?

2011-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 10/19/2011 06:24 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:> > Just the upgrade should copy the seen data in - but note it needs to be done > with the NEW code, you won't get a reindexing just by reconstructing with the > old reconstruct. You mean using 2.4.12's reconstruct? I am doing that, but it's not migrat

db upgrades in 2.4.x?

2011-10-18 Thread Zachariah Mully
Howdy all- We're prepping for updating from 2.2.13->2.4.12 and I'm attempting to figure out some of the database differences between the two to make sure things go smoothly. We've already uncovered several issues in our testing that I've not been able solve searching through the

Re: Index upgrade problems after cyrus upgrade

2011-10-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 10/13/2011 01:46 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:00:42AM +0530, Ramprasad wrote: >> On 10/13/2011 6:39 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 05:33 +0530, Ramprasad wrote: I just upgraded cyrus on a busy Imap server from 2.3.x to 2.4.6 , problem

Re: Live backup

2010-06-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 06/16/2010 05:45 AM, Roland Baum wrote: > For non-HA situations, you can do a 2-stage rsync-backup once a day: > > 1 ) copy all cyrus-folders (/var/spool/cyrus, /var/lib/cyrus etc) via rsync to > a backup-folder > 2 a) shutdown cyrus > 2 b) rsync the same folders to complete the snapshot > 2 c)

Re: Cyrus on Amazon EC2 and EBS?

2010-02-11 Thread Zachariah Mully
On 02/11/2010 12:02 PM, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > On 2/11/10 11:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> I run Cyrus on a Linode VM. I've been *very* happy with them. And it >> is just a 'normal' virtual server and not any odd-ball cloud thing. >> > > > I wonder how people deal with the disk I/O d

Cyrus on Amazon EC2 and EBS?

2010-02-11 Thread Zachariah Mully
Howdy all- Is anyone out there running Cyrus on an Amazon EC2 instance with EBS? During these brutal storms we've had in the DC area, we've been discussing how to improve the resiliency of our operations and getting our mail systems out of our CO and into a datacenter is high on the li

Re: OT: Enhanced IMAP protocol

2010-01-06 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:08 -0500, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:05 AM, ram wrote: > > > Everyone need not implement it. > > If the protocol is available , I definitely know thunderbird will > have at least one extension within 2 days :-) > As Rob put it, user credential management

Re: thoughts on running an IMAP-over-SSL server exposed to the Internet?

2009-03-27 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:06 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > The thing worrying me at this time is some stupid buffer overflow in the > IMAP server code. I have no idea what's the security history of this > server, even though I've been using it for quite a while, because it was > always in tightl

Re: thoughts on running an IMAP-over-SSL server exposed to the Internet?

2009-03-27 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:59 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > I want to read my email on the iPhone. To do that, I have 2 options: > 1. VPN > 2. IMAP-over-SSL > > #1 is a bit convoluted, I already run a VPN server, with OpenVPN, but > the iPhone doesn't have an OpenVPN client. Running *two* VPN netwo

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be lockingissues

2008-03-06 Thread Zachariah Mully
Patrick Boutilier wrote: > We have used 3ware cards as well but are now switching to Highpoint RAID > cards. > Hopefully you're testing them extensively. I found them, at least the last time I used them (RocketRAID?), to be woefully lacking in the linux driver area as well as performance. In

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-28 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:36 -0500, Zachariah Mully wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:56 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > It may be that the software RAID 5 is your problem. Without the > > use of NVRAM for a cache, all of the writes need all 3 disks. > > That will caus

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-02-28 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:56 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > It may be that the software RAID 5 is your problem. Without the > use of NVRAM for a cache, all of the writes need all 3 disks. > That will cause quite a bottle-neck. > > Ken And if you can, try to get the mailstore over onto a RAID1. R

Re: Migrating from old PPC server to new AMD cyrus

2008-02-25 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 18:13 -0800, Adam D wrote: > I have been looking at what tools to use to migrate all email and boxes > over to our new server. Old server is running cyrus 2.2.13.11 PPC and > the new server is running cyrus 2.2.13.11 AMD64. > > So far I have been trying to use imapsync but

Login as user x?

2007-11-20 Thread Zachariah Mully
All- When I migrated off UW-IMAP, I discovered that I could login into a users account as the user, using my admin login/pass and passing the username as something like "$adminuser#$username". Does Cyrus have any similar functionality? The reason being that managing our blackberries with BI

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-14 Thread Zachariah Mully
05/c2-for-cyrus.html > > ian Be forewarned, last I had checked on this the licensing costs were a bit onerous IMO. The software was basically a repackaged BES with their custom client software. Z -- Zachariah Mully Director, Systems and Networks SmartBrief, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 202-737-5

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:22 -0800, Scott M. Likens wrote: > Ian, > > The only problem with using clamav-filter (or something appropriate) > as a milter, etc. Was it did not fall into what Zimbra designed. > Quite frankly I think it would have been a lot smoother with Sendmail > +Milter+Clamav+wha

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
n 7 years we've only had one unplanned email outage during business hours which I think lasted an hour... And that was when I bolloxed something ;) > Yep, the Kolab architecture goes in the "what are you, nuts?" column. Good to hear someone else thought so as well... Z -- Zac

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
ally inoperable, as the webclient had to download the entire calendar mailbox, parse the binaries, sort them, then display them. Useless for anything more than a hundred entries or so... -- Zachariah Mully Director, Systems and Networks SmartBrief, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 202-737-5500 x226 c: 202-4

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
ture decisions that completely killed performance and then they went on to trivialize my concerns. Storing calendar objects as binary attachments in an IMAP store, effectively making them unsearchable, meant that every calendar access had to pull the entire store down, process it and display it. N

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Zachariah Mully
cate than rely on tape or snapshots as the first tier of recovery. That is, if I had the money for it ;) Z -- Zachariah Mully Director, Systems and Networks SmartBrief, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 202-737-5500 f: 202-737-7577 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: Problem with "."

2007-03-07 Thread Zachariah Mully
= . > > And i can receive mails, but cyrus deliver this mail to user "user" > not to user "user.name" > How can i solve it? Don't set the recipient_delimiter to '.' Z -- Zachariah Mully Director, Systems and Networks SmartBrie

Re: cyradm: cyrus can see mailboxes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cannot

2007-01-27 Thread Zachariah Mully
David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. Awhile back I set up cyrus and postfix using this excellent howto: http://www.wistful.net/wiki/Ed%27s_FreeBSD_Virtual_Mail_How-To Using cyradm for mailbox maintenance, the 'lm' command only displays all mailboxes if I

Re: A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-11 Thread Zachariah Mully
Andreas Winkelmann wrote: What do you mean with "bare newlines" in mailboxes.db? What does an Export as Textfile show? (as cyrus) $ ctl_mboxlist -d Sorry, I meant the raw mailboxes used by Tbird on their own machines. Because they were originally using Outlook, many people inadvertently sa

A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-11 Thread Zachariah Mully
Howdy all- We've been bitten by migrating some of our people from Outlook to Thunderbird, and then using Tbird to move their mail off their local machines onto the IMAP server where it belongs. Unfortunately we've not patched Cyrus to accept bare newlines, nor intend to... Since I have acce

Re: Anyone used consilient2 BB Push for Cyrus?

2006-12-22 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:08 -0600, Sam Egelhof wrote: > Has anyone heard anything about or used Consilient 2 software for > pushing e-mail to BlackBerry thru IMAP? > > I haven't heard anything about the company or the product but we are > wanting to move all our corporate users from Exchange 200

Re: Folders containing messages and subfolders

2006-11-28 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:48 +, Kevin Clark wrote: > Hi, > > Does Cyrus IMAP support the ability to have folders that may contain both > messages and subfolders? > > The tdlp.org 'MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion' MINI-HOWTO suggests > that no Linux IMAP server using the Mailbox format su

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:59 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > > What is I/O load on the new server? on the old server? Was your test set > > representative of your production system? > > the test system has much older hardware than the pretty new production > server (Xeon 3.4 with RAID5 an

Re: very slow syncing, any ideas?

2006-10-19 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:10 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to migrate several thousand mailboxes from Maildir to Cyrus > using the tool imapsync. It does its job very well and when I tested the > migration on a small development server it was very fast. > But now on the pro

Re: Webmail

2006-10-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 23:24 +0200, Martin G.H. Minkler wrote: > Zachariah Mully wrote: > > > > I would stay far far away from kolab for anything more than one or two > > person use. Especially if you plan on using it with Outlook as the > > Outlook connector stores

Re: Webmail

2006-10-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:13 +0200, Martin G.H. Minkler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > I would use Horde because it seems there is a gorupware Horde-based that > > should be so cool. > > It could be fantastic if Horde could interface with MS Outlook to share > > contacts and other inform

Re: global sieve folder ... ?

2006-08-16 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 00:04 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > >> This is the first time I've ever seen this ... when I put a filter in for > >> an account that happens to be listed in the 'admins' section of > >> imap

Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing

2006-08-15 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:05 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: > For myself I run linux on my workstation for many reasons, but I didn't > have any stalls with outlook myself before switching to linux and all > our users who use Outlook (about 250 approx) don't report problems like > this one. We have

Re: Too many open files

2006-06-12 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 14:51 -0600, Kai Wang wrote: > > Greetings. > > I'm running Cyrus on Redhat AS4. cyrus complains about too many open > files when I try to delete a user with large number of > mailboxes/messages. I increased /proc/sys/fs/file-max and max number > of > open files a few tim

Adding X-Delivered-To headers

2006-04-20 Thread Zachariah Mully
All- I'm running Cyrus 2.2.12-1/Postfix 2.1.5 on Debian Stable, and I'm trying to get the X-Delivered-To: header added to messages. From what I understand, this is the responsibility of the final delivery agent, which I assume means the Cyrus lmtpd process. And I also understand that this will bre

Re: Cyrus WebMail

2005-12-01 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting. > > Ya know, what I find most interesting about a service like gmail is the > fast searching. Cyrus has got squatter, but as I indicated before, > really need something to control what mailboxes I squat at night because

Re: Can I use hashed password for ldap_bind_pw in saslauthd.conf?

2005-10-06 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:39 -0400, Raymond T. Sundland wrote: > chmod 400 saslauthd.conf > > If someone has enough access to read the file at this point, they have > enough access to modify your LDAP database files using the 'slapcat' > and 'slapadd' commands, so any additional security of a hashe

Re: Usig cyrus with qmail?

2005-10-04 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:26 -0400, Matt Singerman wrote: > Hello, > > I administer a mail server which currently uses Sendmail as the MTA, > and Cyrus for IMAP mail services. I am very satisfied with Cyrus, but > would like to replace Sendmail for a variety of reasons. Ideally, I > would like to

Re: plus addressing

2005-09-22 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:54 -0700, Huaqing Zheng wrote: > On 9/21/05, Zachariah Mully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all- > > I'm in the process of moving from a qmail/uw-imap installation to a > > postfix/Cyrus-2.2 and I've one last problem t

plus addressing

2005-09-21 Thread Zachariah Mully
Hello all- I'm in the process of moving from a qmail/uw-imap installation to a postfix/Cyrus-2.2 and I've one last problem to solve before I can start moving people onto the new system. We make heavy use of qmail's extension addressing, which uses a dash as the default delimiter. In

Searching multipart emails and using squatter

2005-05-13 Thread Zachariah Mully
Hello all- I'm working on optimizing the Kolab Groupware (kolab.org) webclient (horde.org) and I've run into a couple of problems with the format they've chosen for their data. Kolab uses Cyrus-IMAP as its main storage, all calendar, note, and addressbook XML objects are stored as multipart