> On Dec 18, 2015, at 04:30, Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 December 2015 at 01:40, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> On Dec 17, 2015, at 15:22, David Brodbeck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip/> > > >> My sendmail is recompiled to support authentication, etc; and forwards to >> an ISP's submission port with authentication (bypassing the cable ISP's >> block on port 25 outgoing (and sadly incoming, too)). Note: I'm >> disappointed that even in Solaris 11, it doesn't seem that authentication >> support was configured into the stock sendmail. And yeah, postfix is >> cooler and allegedly more secure, but IMO sendmail remains the king of >> flexible function, and with the O'Reilly books already in hand, it's not >> that bad to configure. >> >> A cron job runs fetchmail periodically to download mail. >> > > I remember the days when I used to do that ... not nice. > > >> So one can have something approaching normal self-hosted email >> functionality, despite ISP games. There's the 5 minute delay for the cron >> job to run, but no more than that. My Mac email client also watches the >> staging inbox on the other end, so I can read something before it's >> downloaded if I can't wait 5 minutes. >> >> It all works fairly well, save that my IMAP server is the old UW one, >> which is very inefficient - doesn't scale to large mailboxes; I'd chosen it >> ages ago for compatibility with existing Solaris local mailboxes. I'm on >> my way to setting up dovecot and squirrelmail in an LDOM on my T5240, but I >> really don't look forward to migrating a few gigs of mail scattered across >> hundreds of mailboxes (including saved Usenet posts by group, etc). The >> space is not major (even though the LDOMs don't have that much space using >> the existing internal drives), but shutting it all down while I copy and >> convert mailbox formats...yuck. So for now, I have to keep the inbox and a >> couple of other very active ones down to small sizes, while this still runs >> with inefficient software on a Sun Blade 100. :-) >> >> I have a script (unfortunately it's perl) that does a reasonable job of > converting old Solaris Mail folders to Maildir format, and a "procmail" > script that I use as the "local mail delivery agent" for sendmail that > stores new email as Maildir ... > > As a company we kept 2 mail servers going at each site (that had more than > 10 people) whilst we converted the people one at a time, and it's time > consuming. On a positive note, now that the server doesn't need to open > the entire mail folder into memory, and the indexes are stored on disk, the > memory footprint of dovecot is almost as small as the old Solaris POP3 > server, and the speed of access for a new client is almost instant (no need > for the client to rebuild it's own index, which used to kill the server and > all other connected IMAP clients!) > > do you know how much data you have in total, how much down time you can > afford? > > Jon
Oh, it's just my stuff, and I'm retired. Assuming no trips planned, it could stay down as long as need be. It's just going to be a PITA to make something that sort of works (if reaching the limits of scale) into something that works better. :-) _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
