Hello Matt, Dum question do we have any upgrade suggestions from people moving from version: 5.4.26 to the latest version of vpopmail? This is a production server.
Thanks Remo > From: Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> > Reply-To: <vchkpw@inter7.com> > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:58:58 -0500 > To: <vchkpw@inter7.com> > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail now has vusage daemon support > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: >> Quota code would be great, but I feel it would be better to move index >> of messages and quota on mysql (or other db) instead of continuing with >> old methods. A new library could be used for all layers (qmail, >> vpopmail, dovecot, etc.). > > I can't imaging that indexing of every user's messages inside a networked > database could be very efficient. Also, moving quota information to a > database would also be quite inefficient. The daemon's only purpose at > this time is to keep disk usage information up to date so that other processes > do not need to worry about updating it, or hitting a database for every > small query that might even be unrelated to delivery, an expensive > operation itself. > > It solves several problems at once. 1) Provides fast, and accurate disk > usage 2) Removes hundreds of lines of broken code from vpopmail involved > in keeping disk usage estimates current > > It also adds direction to the quota support development which was sorely > needed. > >> Such vusage daemon would be very good for chkuser also, and also for >> other qmail added features (like auth and so on). >> But library should be universal, and daemon should be high performaces >> daemon (like courier auth daemon). >> >> What do you think about? > > The daemon could easily be reworked to cache authentication information, > but currently, that is not the purpose of the daemon. Right now, having > working quota enforcement is a critical need. > > At this time, what I'd most like to see, is support in chkuser for the > quota daemon. You already include quota enforcement. If you look at > the trunk revision of vpopmail, in maildirquota.c, you will see how > easy it is to add support for the usage daemon. > - -- > /* > Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> GnuPG Key D9414F70 > Software developer Systems technician > Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 > */ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm2nFIACgkQ6QgvSNlBT3CLsACfcML9jiCYjFK6qVntp/VICan2 > 5boAnR2+5oXcku3sI/9XsIcY3mANs1Z7 > =QVWx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > !DSPAM:49b69e2632681281315972!
