Re: moving mailboxes between partitions

2002-09-18 Thread Andreas Piesk
Rob Siemborski schrieb: > I *would* be wary about running bulk renames on IMAP servers before 2.1.4. > These locked the mailbox list for the entire duration of the rename, > basically preventing any other operation from occuring on the server. > 2.1.4 and higher (especially 2.1.6 and up) correct t

sieveshell install without cyrus?

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
Greets. For end users on Linux, does anyone have a package or instructions that will allow the user to download and install sieveshell without actually installing the entire Cyrus IMAPd? -- Scott Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center, System Admin, RHCE. Dial 877-735-8200 th

Re: 2.2 and FreeBSD

2002-09-18 Thread Ken Murchison
Quoting Neal Rigney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is anybody running imapd-2.2 on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE or higher? I'm > having a confusing problem running master. It closes FDs 0-2, opens > them to /dev/null, and then tries to reserver FDs 3 and 4. No problem > there normally, but FreeBSD is returni

Re: How to determine format of .db files

2002-09-18 Thread Mika Iisakkila
Amos Gouaux wrote: > Speaking of which, perhaps some have noticed that Berkeley DB 4.1 > was just released. From the announcement: That sounds like a real performance win, but even though the databases ought to be compatible, apparently the API has changed from 4.0 enough that SASL 2 won't even

2.2 and FreeBSD

2002-09-18 Thread Neal Rigney
Is anybody running imapd-2.2 on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE or higher? I'm having a confusing problem running master. It closes FDs 0-2, opens them to /dev/null, and then tries to reserver FDs 3 and 4. No problem there normally, but FreeBSD is returning FDs higher then 3 and 4. 7 and 8 usually. Any c

Re: cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-18 Thread Ken Murchison
sandra wrote: > > Hi people, > > We have a question about athentication with cyrus+sasl. > Here we had configured our cyrus installation to use SASL + PAM to > authenticate users in a mysql database. We have read that there is > a way to use IMAP LOGIN instead to authenticate users via

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread adam
>>My m4 - >>FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail') >>... >>MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl >>... >>define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2') >>And it works. But I still can't get bulletin boarding to work. The docs >>make it look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] should post the message >>into my INBOX.Presentations folder,

cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-18 Thread sandra
Hi people, We have a question about athentication with cyrus+sasl. Here we had configured our cyrus installation to use SASL + PAM to authenticate users in a mysql database. We have read that there is a way to use IMAP LOGIN instead to authenticate users via SASL PLAIN . If it is possible

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread William K. Hardeman
Su, According to the documentation (and my limited experience), for Sendmail, you'll want to use one of the following in your sendmail.mc file to generate the proper sendmail.cf lines, depending on your version of Cyrus Imapd and Sendmail. For Cyrus Imapd 2.x.x with Sendmail 8.11.x (doc/cyrus

Re: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:42:04PM -0400, Su Li wrote: > For "enable lmtpunix", I tried add the following line to imapd.conf: > lmtpsocket: /var/imap/socket/lmtp Correct. This means that Cyrus is now listening for inbound emails at that socket. > But I still get: " cyrus 9425 9418 0 14:28 ? 0

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
Thanks Scott, I am thinking of switching to postfix. I hear a few things about it too. Maybe I have to bug you some later time. But the bottle neck right now seems like the imap server. For "enable lmtpunix", I tried add the following line to imapd.conf: lmtpsocket: /var/imap/socket/lmtp But I

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
Thanks, I am thinking of switching to postfix. I hear a few things about it too. Maybe I have to bug you some later time. But the bottle neck right now seems like the imap server. For "enable lmtpunix", I think that is a very good point. I tried add the following line to imapd.conf: lmtpsocket

Re: how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec slow?

2002-09-18 Thread Simon Loader
> Right now, I don't know is 5.5 msg/sec slow or not. > > 5.5 * 3600 * 24 = 475200 msg/day 1/2 a million emails a day is good generally for most mail servers. > > If each user send 4 mails per hour, 4 * 24 =96 msg/day statics by mirapoint suggest 3 emails a day at 16Kb size with people

Re: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:23:08PM -0400, Su Li wrote: > I tried set sendmail configuration to deliverymode=queue. and use "sendmail > -db" and "sendmail -q1s". I got the same through put. I using sendmail > 8.11.6, will that effect the through put the email delivery of cyrus imap? > > I did we

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:32:08AM -0700, Michael Fair wrote: > > Having Cyrus setup it's lmtp socket under /var/spool/postfix (but not > > /public or /private) is the right thing to do. I say this because > > often postfix runs in a chroot env and won't access the lmtp socket if > > it's outside

how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec slow?

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
Hi, I have been trying my best to get better delivery speed of Cyrus server. Now I am stop at 5.5 mesg/sec. I wonder, can any body tell me how many users can your cyrus mail server support? --no matter what system or configuration you are using. Also if you can tell me how many emails through put

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Fair
> Having Cyrus setup it's lmtp socket under /var/spool/postfix (but not > /public or /private) is the right thing to do. I say this because > often postfix runs in a chroot env and won't access the lmtp socket if > it's outside of /var/spool/postfix This isn't true in the slightest and making it

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
I tried set sendmail configuration to deliverymode=queue. and use "sendmail -db" and "sendmail -q1s". I got the same through put. I using sendmail 8.11.6, will that effect the through put the email delivery of cyrus imap? I did went through the configuration of sendmail about cyrus. But I still

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Ken Murchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to > the local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus > masters > would take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. > ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/p

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:23:11 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] OK, I did that and now sendmail is happily delivering via LMTP! Thanks. Added a slide about setting up to use LMTP. My m4 - FEATURE(`preserve_local_plus_detail') ... MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl ... define(`c

Re: moving mailboxes between partitions

2002-09-18 Thread Aidan Evans
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 16:10 Andreas Piesk wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >hiho, > >i want to move mailboxes from 4 different partitions into one. >AFAIR i have to use the cyradm-command 'rename': > >rename user.name1 user.name1 newpartition > >it works so far, on a testserver. >before i run the prep

Re: moving mailboxes between partitions

2002-09-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Andreas Piesk wrote: > i want to move mailboxes from 4 different partitions into one. > AFAIR i have to use the cyradm-command 'rename': > > rename user.name1 user.name1 newpartition > > it works so far, on a testserver. > before i run the prepared scripts on the productionse

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread adam
I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to the local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters would take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf >>>A few points: >>>- S

RE: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Russell Packer
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote: > > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress > > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at > > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is >

Re: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote: > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is > no standar

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:53:07AM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Amos Gouaux wrote: > > >To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > The "lmtp" delivery agent should be listening on "private/lmtp", so it > > will work, but... > > But since this directory is writable only by user 'postfix' cyrus > (

moving mailboxes between partitions

2002-09-18 Thread Andreas Piesk
hiho, i want to move mailboxes from 4 different partitions into one. AFAIR i have to use the cyradm-command 'rename': rename user.name1 user.name1 newpartition it works so far, on a testserver. before i run the prepared scripts on the productionserver with approx. 8800 mailboxes i think asking

RE: Binding Cyrus to Listen on one IP

2002-09-18 Thread John Straiton
Thanks to all who replied. In the end, here's what wound up working. I went and recopied the .dist version of cyrus.conf back over, then putting listen="my.ip.address.here:imap" for example. Worked fine after doing that. John Straiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 704-365-9970 =

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
The testing tool is simply do SMTP to send emails. I can specify how many connections by number of threads. It's runing on another machine. The tool has been used to test other mail servers, didn't find any problem. The other mail server can deliver 20 msg/sec. So it doesn't seems like the test to

RE: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Su Li
Hi, I am runing two scripts, one sends emails to cyrus, the other does selection and fetch the email. I run into a lot of problems. You can search for su li -- my name too find the problems that I have :). Su -Original Message- From: Hein Roehrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Septem

RE: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Russell Packer wrote: > Is this no good? > > http://www.etestinglabs.com/benchmarks/svrtools/email/t1intro.asp I haven't hadn any personal experience with it, though on first glance it appears to not support anything other than one's inbox, which makes it pretty useless for

RE: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Russell Packer
> On 18 Sep 2002, Hein Roehrig wrote: > > > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress > > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at > > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is > > no standard open-source

Re: stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On 18 Sep 2002, Hein Roehrig wrote: > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is > no standard open-source test/stress

stress testing

2002-09-18 Thread Hein Roehrig
Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is no standard open-source test/stress suite and nobody so far posted their scripts

Cyrus+postfix [was Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation]

2002-09-18 Thread Luca Olivetti
Luca Olivetti wrote: > Amos Gouaux wrote: > >> To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> The "lmtp" delivery agent should be listening on "private/lmtp", so it >> will work, but... > > > But since this directory is writable only by user 'postfix' cyrus > (running as user cyrus) wouldn't be able