Re: Disable reverse DNS lookups

2012-03-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
tralised function. This would be a wonderful solution. I liked very much how the cyrusdb-Functions are realised to acces skiplist and other db backends, something like that for dns or network in general would ne very nice. Pascal -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@uni-konstanz

Re: ZFS doing insane I/O reads

2012-02-27 Thread Pascal Gienger
the price of an FC-enabled SSD you can buy MUCH RAM. Does your CentOS system have some kind of trace to look for the block numbers which are read constantly? In Solaris I use dtrace to look for that and also for file based i/o to look WHICH files get read and written when there is starvation.

Sorry, that bug is already known...[#3628]

2012-01-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
Found it in Bugzilla [#3628] Confirmed here. Direct access with "SELECT" or "GETACL" works without a problem, but a LIST just omits these mailboxes. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Missing folders after upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.13

2012-01-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
Le 30/01/2012 12:57, Pascal Gienger a écrit : > We had a strange issue, and it has to do with spaces in mailbox names. > > > Mailboxes are on disk, they are encoded, but they don't get counted on > ctl_mboxlist -d or doing a LIST or LSUB. Correction; the ctl_mboxlist -d sho

Re: Missing folders after upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.13

2012-01-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
Le 30/01/2012 12:57, Pascal Gienger a écrit : > We had a strange issue, and it has to do with spaces in mailbox names. > > > Mailboxes are on disk, they are encoded, but they don't get counted on > ctl_mboxlist -d or doing a LIST or LSUB. I found this on the web: http://blog

Missing folders after upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.13

2012-01-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
uct (so that it finds the "new" mailboxes) all is well. Doing the same without replacing the Spaces with "_" the effect is the same: reconstruct finds all new mailboxes but even if they are in mailboxes.db they don't get listed. Is this a bug? -- Pascal Gienger

Why mbpath (2.4.13) only honors metapath?

2012-01-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
.name, 0, 0); +else + path = mboxname_datapath(mbentry.partition, mbentry.name, 0); printf("%s\n", path); } } else { -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@uni-konstanz.de University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum"

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
ade I would have migrated all the mail spool on the SSD area and yes, it will have enough space for it. If not, I would have moved it to SAS and decent cache size. And I would not have had any downtime because due to the storage virtualization WWPNs would not have changed - it would have been t

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-05 Thread Pascal Gienger
Le 05/01/2012 21:06, Bron Gondwana a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:50:28PM +0100, Pascal Gienger wrote: >> flushseenstate: 1 > > Doesn't do anything any more, I'm pretty sure. > > In fact - just checked. It's still in the imapd.conf docs, > but it do

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-05 Thread Pascal Gienger
t LUN/Volume, and/or have much RAM for your file system cache (ARC in my case). -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@uni-konstanz.de University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phone

Re: Cyrus imap server and filesystem type.

2011-10-03 Thread Pascal Gienger
al and cheap I second this. Roughly 51,000,000 files on one (mirrored) multipathed FiberChannel SAN volume with no performance bottlenecks. 64 GB RAM per node, approx 40 GB ARC (ZFS Cache). Solaris 10u9 Kernel 147441-03 64bit x64 -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@un

Re: Stability of idled

2011-08-15 Thread Pascal Gienger
er vacancies", student lecture times will rebegin in October, so load is lesser. And it is 5:46pm. -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@uni-konstanz.de University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Build

Stability of idled

2011-08-15 Thread Pascal Gienger
to Thunderbird including Lightning (connecting to our SOGo servers) in many of the faculty and professors' secretaries. -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gien...@uni-konstanz.de University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communication

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
Am 16.06.11 15:26, schrieb Ramprasad A.P: > Using outsourced mail is not possible Amazon cloud *IS* outsourced mail, Amazon has access to your virtual servers and it passes without VPN into their network. > The biggest problem is harddisk space > Every user is looking for huge amounts of disksp

Re: Ever growing mailboxes and archiving

2011-04-20 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox wrote: > On 4/20/2011 12:50 AM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: >> >> Hi Vincent, >> >> How do you make the snapshot consistent (netbackup+vmware snapshot)? >> >> Do you stop cyrus? > I'll have to ask our backup admin if you want technical specifics > and guarantees, but my understanding was that

Re: Shared mailboxes doc

2010-12-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
t end so we're happy. IMAP ACLs remain abstract until a decent user interface appears. Users _LOVE_ this feature but nearly nobody knows it because most IMAP clients cannot set them. [1] http://southbrain.com/south/2010/10/session-management-for-sogo.html -- Pascal Gienger Jabb

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-22 Thread Pascal Gienger
#x27;d files can be much bigger in size on 64 bit platforms. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
s empty mailboxes - no difference in speed or access time when retrieving messages from there. The smell of Oracle still gets bitter and bitter compared to Sun, but especially this cookie (zfs) still tastes too well. SOGo is slower (as it has another paradigma as Horde/IMP or Squirrel) but o

Re: packages for solaris 10 x86

2010-10-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
reeware or doing it on your own) and set thhis perl's path in front of your search path. It will build the Cyrus PERL Modules in your own perl's module path then. Or just comment out the perl targets in your Makefile to skip perl module builds. You will lose "cyradm" though.

Re: packages for solaris 10 x86

2010-10-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
libaio.so.1 => /lib/64/libaio.so.1 libdoor.so.1 => /lib/64/libdoor.so.1 libuutil.so.1 => /lib/64/libuutil.so.1 libgen.so.1 => /lib/64/libgen.so.1 libm.so.2 => /lib/64/libm.so.2 Due to some problems with Sun's OpenSSL packa

Re: high-availability Cyrus (i.e. glusterfs)?

2010-09-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
little side note - you can dump bdb in favor to skiplist... I bet you'll have much less problems in your cluster environment setup. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: competition

2010-09-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
st. As for a new installation, that can be another case. We are very satisfied with the performance and flexibility Cyrus IMAP gives to us. There's no need to change apart from being "in head with the open source advocacy croud". -- Pascal Gienger Jabber/XMPP/Mail: pascal.gie

Re: imapd dumping core due to SEGV

2010-09-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
For Solaris SMF and Cyrus please use in your manifest for Cyrus IMAP: The imap service will not be restarted when an imap process is killed anymore. Only when master ends the startd will believe Cyrus is down. Dito for an imap process dumping core. Pascal "Gavin Gra

Re: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
r compression ratio on the mail > filesystem is showing 1.68x. Yes. GZIP for Mail, LZJB for Meta. Identical configuration here. Pascal 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: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
Am 09.08.10 17:33, schrieb Pascal Gienger: > A smaller record size is a good option if you notice an i/o bottleneck > on your fiberchannel/iSCSI/SAS link. It won't bring you a performance > gain in random i/o. There is a small exception: Database systems writing > always the sam

Re: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
stem written on it. Just my $0.02, Pascal 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: Anyone using SunFire X4140's (AMD) or X4170's (Intel Xeon) as Cyrus servers ?

2010-03-15 Thread Pascal Gienger
Le 15/03/10 17:08, Eric Luyten a écrit : > X4200 here (also AMD, 2x dualcore). Operating system? Solaris x86 or Linux? Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phon

Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

2010-02-18 Thread Pascal Gienger
RFC 4978 [1] defines an IMAP COMPRESS command to compress IMAP data communication. Is there any interest to implement this extension in the cyrus imap server? For low bandwith connections this could be useful but I don't know if that's a typical case nowadays. Together with the IMAP IDLE comman

Re: Condstore & Squat through IMAP

2009-11-29 Thread Pascal Gienger
sed that so I don't know the syntax. It should be pretty the same but I don't know the appropriate keyword after "cyrus/imapd/". Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and We

Re: ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464

2009-11-17 Thread Pascal Gienger
4 annotations are always set. -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phone +49 7531 88 5048, Fax +49 7531 88 3739 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyru

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

2009-11-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
m access remains _SLOW_) nor in Xen/Sun xVM. In the latter OpenSolaris (and Solaris 11) is the way to go (architecture i86xpv). Just to give a reason why sometimes it _IS_ necessary or better to have a real iron. Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Departm

Re: No e-mail notification with sieve, Thunderbird and Cyrus-imap

2009-10-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
roperties"). Thunderbird opens a new IMAP connection for each folder. For each folder marked with "Check for new message" ("Auf neue Nachrichten überprüfen" in my case, I have a german localized Thunderbird) it will issue an "IDLE" command (eas

Re: Logging region out of memory

2009-09-02 Thread Pascal Gienger
Berkeley DB for important data of your cyrus system. Berkeley has a very rapid random read performance which is important (in our case) with the duplicate delivery database (now 1,3 GB in size). But even that should be feasible with skiplist. Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, I

Re: Migrating 32bit to 64bit Debian Lenny

2009-09-02 Thread Pascal Gienger
users can get some mails two times (doubling), in the latter case (tls db crash) a returning client has to re-initiate a TLS handshake including key exchange). Pascal Gienger -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
break; So I think it is a Virtual Memory/Swap problem in your OS. -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phone +49 7531 88 5048, Fax +49 7531 88 3739 Cyrus Hom

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: > Processing index character 101, 681642 total words, temp file size is > 2107147 > fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted 4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries? How much RAM does squatter allocate before it dies? -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT

Re: tls_sessions.db will not created

2009-07-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
h-tls-db-Switch should just define the default database backend for that database. It can be overriden at any time via imapd.conf. Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V,

Re: DBERROR with Cyrus 2.2.12

2009-07-08 Thread Pascal Gienger
time you are running in this bug. -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phone +49 7531 88 5048, Fax +49 7531 88 3739 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

Re: Security impact of lmtpd with pre-auth

2009-07-08 Thread Pascal Gienger
ly accepting LMTP connections, no sendmail, no Postfix, no other SMTP MTA running on it. Then imagine a frontend smtp relay delivering directly via LMTP over TCP to your Cyrus box. You can use lmtp auth then to prevent other machines from directly delivering mails via lmtp. Pascal -- Pascal Gien

Re: Security impact of lmtpd with pre-auth

2009-07-07 Thread Pascal Gienger
box... Delivering mails from localhost to localhost via lmtp with authentication has the problem that the sending side does need to now the credential. If the sending side knows that credential, a "malicious user" does have access to it because the sending side is on the same box

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Pascal Gienger
Ian Eiloart wrote: > I was speaking to a friend who provides Exchange servers for small > businesses locally. He says that the most important thing is to have a > really good (fast, available and accurate) disaster recovery procedure, > because you need it a lot. > Here in Germany we have a

Re: unexpunge segfaults with -l on some mailboxes

2009-03-25 Thread Pascal Gienger
Patrick Boutilier schrieb: > Plus you lose all the messages that are in "delayed expunge" state after > running a reconstruct. :-( Just delete cyrus.expunge in the appropriate mailboxes meta directory before running reconstruct. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

2009-03-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
annel Storage Systems in two different locations, mirrored via zfs. > how large? 2x8 TB mirror > compression? gzip > replication? zfs mirror > problems? at the beginning (2006) many, nowadays X patches and kernels after, none left. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://cyru

Re: Doing Cyrus *right* for a large installation

2009-01-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
: 03:34:49 01/03/09 23:38:48 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 01/03/09 23:38:48 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END SA_SO_MAIL 01/03/09 20:00:00 01/03/09 23:38:48 Executing Operating System command or script: /mail/bin/pr_backupsnapshot_off Just to give you a "real life" number... Pas

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-03 Thread Pascal Gienger
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Ext4, I never tried. Nor reiser3. I may have to, we will build a brand > new Cyrus spool (small, just 5K users) next month, and the XFS unlink > [lack of] performance worries me. Nobody likes deletes. Even databases used to mark deleted space only as "dele

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
roximately. Within this 3 hours it does scan all files. We do a zfs snapshot every day and we are holding 14 days snapshots to restore mailboxes. We are not conservatice enough to run scrub regularly, the last time I did was last week, without any error. A happy and successful 2009 for all o

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
gic FC cards (according to my experience). Pascal 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: IMAPS terminating abnormally

2008-10-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
request Apple with this issue? If it is OS X 10.5.5 server you'll have support. If you can live without rendezvous, you can compile an actual release of Cyrus IMAP, using Apple's SASL2 library. So you won't give up netinfo capabilities. You will lose Apple support though. Cyru

Re: IMAPS terminating abnormally

2008-10-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
David Korpiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two cyrus machines running and on both systems I'm getting a TLS > error and then the error "in BUSY state: terminated abnormally". Which cyrus imapd version? Can you set the loglevel to debug in your syslog.conf? Cyrus Home Page: http://c

Re: Mapping a username to a Mailbox via LDAP?

2008-10-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
uid as name. A canonical plugin does the translation. In your case, a canonical plugin should convert the username into the sid, cyrus imap will use that as mail box name. Pascal Gienger Universität Konstanz Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cm

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
ize9308832256 9 GB zfs file cache. Hope this helps you a little bit. Pascal 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: Conversion Debian Cyrus 2.1 to 2.2, experiences

2008-08-14 Thread Pascal Gienger
but the other databases did. Just a side note: I am pretty sure your mailboxes.db is a skiplist database which is AFAIK the default for mailboxes.db in Cyrus IMAP 2.1 and 2.2. No conversion is necessary. Do you have any database type declarations in your imapd.conf? Pascal Cyrus Home Page:

Re: [Dovecot] Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Mathieu Kretchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kbajwa a écrit : >> Cyrus = 0 >> Dovecot= 100 > I guess you've right but I can't post this answer at Cyrus mailing list. > I'm just trying to have my own opinion of imap server and I already have > sarcastic answer on the cyrus mailing li

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Mathieu Kretchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thanks you for your participation but not for the way you do it because > if you had read my second mail on this topic you wouldn't have to ask > your crystal sphere to wonder what is my configuration !! I did miss your 2nd post, I am sorry. J'ai m

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have allot of users and allot of mail you are going to have allot > of I/O. No way around that, regardless of the server. Cyrus' indexes > headers better now, so that might help. But you still need adequate > through-put. I've found that

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
Mathieu Kretchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok thanks ! A good point on the cyrus side ! > > What about the performance ? Depends on which size your scenario will be. > Does my next configuration will run correctly ? Which hardware should I > buy for this activity ? That's like asking a crys

Any command to get rapidly ALL annotations?

2008-05-01 Thread Pascal Gienger
work any more when we move to skiplist for the annotation database. Pascal -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://southbrain.com/ 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: Cyrus infrastructure performance less than expected

2008-04-29 Thread Pascal Gienger
Eric Déchaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have loved to put Solaris, Zones and Massaging Server here but it > was not a possibility. Custorme chose was VMware + Linux + Cyrus. Just as a sidenote: As closed source is not an option here, we use cyrus imap 2.3.12 on Solaris and not messagin

Re: Cyrus infrastructure performance less than expected

2008-04-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
Eric Déchaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The older infrastructure can stand the 42 000 concurrent sessions, the > new one can't : I was expecting each frontend to be able to handle 5 500 > concurrent sessions but they are not. Around 3 000 / 3 500 concurrent > sessions the frontends begin to SWAP

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone else comes up with quicker confirmation please post. We applied that patch (for x86) yesterday on our machines during maintenance. Delivery times are much better and even on a busy system the filebench varmail pattern gives 10ms for fsync().

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

2008-02-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
Jeff Fookson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Databases are all skiplist. As a rule of thumb, do not use skiplist for the duplicate delivery suppression database (deliver.db). Even if everybody hates it, use BerkeleyDB, Version 4.4.52 or higher. Give it a quite fair amount of shared memory. And ru

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Gienger
Pascal Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just opened a case at our Sun Representative so we hope to get this zfs > patch as well. > filebench varmail leaves us with > 1,5 seconds (!) for an fsync(), which > is really a big performance hit. FYI: I just got a repl

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

2008-02-26 Thread Pascal Gienger
pressed. You may find the animated GIF (be warned, it is 5 MB in size) in my little blog: http://southbrain.com/south/ Pascal Gienger -- Rechenzentrum Universität Konstanz Computing Center University of Constance Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusi

Re: fosdem

2008-01-30 Thread Pascal Gienger
Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Any anybody who is using cyrus heading to Fosdem (that's in Brussels, > Belgium)? http://www.fosdem.org > I would like very much to come but I did not find a registration link on the webpage. And love Brussels *g* P

Re: Solaris ZFS & Cyrus : BugID 6535160

2007-12-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With ZFS there are a number of hits with fdsync bugids. This connects > back to I believe Pascal Giengers' thread, which I think resulted in him > turning off ZIL to bump up performance. This is speculation at this > point,

Re: Cyrus on Solaris at universities?

2007-12-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering what other universities are runing Cyrus on Solaris? > > We know of: > CMU > UCSB University of Konstanz, Germany Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
pression on that partition cut down i/o rate and things are going normal here again. Thanks to all who helped! Pascal PS: The mirror resilvering problem was a misconfiguration of a brocade switch... Sometimes you don't see the forest due to so many trees (german prover

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-20 Thread Pascal Gienger
ons that are in-cache during a > 'bad event', the added benefit of fsync() may be less than its > performance cost. Would'nt it be nice to have a configuration option to completely turn off fsync() in Cyrus? If you want, with a BIG WARNING in the doc stating NOT TO USE IT un

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-16 Thread Pascal Gienger
see that open() on the mailboxes.db and read-calls do not exceed microsecond ranges. mailboxes.db is not the problem here. It is entirely cached and rarely written (creating, deleting and moving a mailbox). Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.w

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-15 Thread Pascal Gienger
RAM caches is abysmal. Some arrays do have the possibility to ignore these flush requests although, but still following them when internal battery storage is faulted or in phase of regeneration (alltogether with setting write-through-mode on). Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.w

Just in case it is of general interest: ZFS mirroring was the culprit in our case

2007-11-12 Thread Pascal Gienger
volumes in different buildings which are NOT the bottleneck, tests show it. Pascal 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: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Pascal Gienger
ery "angry" about having a deep directory structure it seems. But still, these "long opens" do occur. Pascal 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: CyrusIMAP for AMD64 Opteron ??

2007-10-31 Thread Pascal Gienger
the same as the one used to compile Cyrus IMAP? If you can't find the solution, just skip the "perl" target in the Makefile, the perl modules are not needed to run cyrus imap. Which operating system are you using? Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/F

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-18 Thread Pascal Gienger
Scott Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile, we hacked around this in a very cool way. We copied the imapd > process 60 times (assuming average of 12,000 processes, shooting for 200 > processes per executable, that is 60 individual executables). These were > named /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd_00

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-17 Thread Pascal Gienger
arise with 2000 processes using the same db4 library to access the same berkeley database? Pascal 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: LIST is slow for 35K mailboxes

2007-10-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
y suppression and - as Bron Gondwana does - to cache status data. Pascal 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: Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

2007-09-25 Thread Pascal Gienger
eric_120012-14 i86pc This is 10u4 for x86. The SPARC version U4 has the same ZFS vars. They changed some zfs variables and are doing the same again in their Nevada release. As I am on vacation at the moment I don't have the u3 info here. I'll return Sep 29th. Pascal Cyrus Home P

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

2007-09-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
l their anti spam settings, quotas, automatic vacation responses, automatic expiration of messages in user-selectable folders (via annotations.db). We also use annotaton heaviliy to preempt spam folders to be indexed by squatter. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

2007-09-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
st so that no forged packet (with an inside sender ip coming from outside...) will trigger it. Pascal 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: Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

2007-09-20 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pascal, > > How many accounts did you have per mail-store? We have 14k(*) users and a failover mailstore. In our SAN we have 3,5T storage reserved, which can be expanded to our needs. We use 2 SAN storages, location-separated, so when on

Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

2007-09-20 Thread Pascal Gienger
Just a little note, for those who have perhaps the same problem. We saw performance problems after we switched from a Linux installation to a Solaris 10 cluster connected to our SAN (using scsi_vhci and 2 Qlogic Controllers). Problems arose when real load came to the machine, despite having t

Re: Penalty timeout bug in pop3d

2007-09-17 Thread Pascal Gienger
Pascal Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > was there a special reason to "forget" the sleep(3) penalty timeout after > an "invalid user" auth nak message? > > I did that because we had a POP3 client running wild while trying out > unknown sa

Penalty timeout bug in pop3d

2007-09-17 Thread Pascal Gienger
f(popd_out, "-ERR [AUTH] Invalid user\r\n"); 1223a1223,1224 > sleep(3); > prot_printf(popd_out, "-ERR [AUTH] Invalid user\r\n"); Pascal 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: Weird cyrus user

2007-05-17 Thread Pascal Gienger
Bob Marcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May 17 10:41:06 populus2 lmtpunix[15310]: DBERROR: error fetching user.avucajnk: cyrusdb error Does a reconstruct -f -r user.avucajnk help? If so, the cyrus.*-Database-Files were corrupted in the users' maildirectory. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrus

problem with how errors are handled by cyrus

2007-01-10 Thread VALOIS, Pascal
or reading, hope for answers -- Pascal Valois Service Informatique 01 41 16 70 33 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: Mailbox is locked by POP server

2006-12-19 Thread Pascal Gienger
former03 | Baltasar Cevc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Martin, Personally I do not use POP3 any more - however I remember that there was a limitaition of 1 connection per mailbox in other servers. Yes. The POP3 RFC states that operations such as DELEte a message will become "final" after iss

Re: Does the quota include deleted but not yet expunged mails in v2.3 with delayed expunge?

2006-11-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
eleted and expunged by the user do not count in the user's quota even if the delayed expunge mode is turned on. But keep in mind that the delayed messages still gobble up space in your filesystem. Pascal Gienger Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: htt

Re: something strange with sieve

2006-08-30 Thread VALOIS, Pascal
okay, i found it myself, and write it there for any people who can be interrested about it. the vacation module doesn't send to vacation messages to the same recipient the same day. that's why each time i set it, i worked once only during my tests. thx anybody. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.

something strange with sieve

2006-08-29 Thread VALOIS, Pascal
that ingo can't read it properly does anyone know about it ? Pascal Valois Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

verbose logs in sieve ?

2006-08-28 Thread VALOIS, Pascal
hello, does anyone know how to make sieve print verbose logs in a separate files about what it's doing ? Pascal Valois Service Informatique Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives

Problem with horde/ingo and sieve

2006-08-25 Thread VALOIS, Pascal
putting a script through tcp/2000 connection works. but when the mail is recieved, postfix send it to cyrus-deliver, and then when and how does sieve act ? how can i check it works perfectly ? hope someone can help me Pas

RE: High availability email server...

2006-07-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
CP (Fiberchannel) protocol forming a filesystem including multipathing elements and concurrent access strategies. Still you have to distinguish the block-level access to SAN devices and the filesystems build above them. It is true that "SAN" is marketing speech for all kind of things. Pasca

Re: High availability email server...

2006-07-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
The only dangerous thing is to ensure that NEVER, really NEVER a second node mounts your SAN partition while another has mounted it already. Immediately kernel halts and data losses are the result. Pascal Gienger Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswi

Re: Replication woes with a specific mailbox...

2006-07-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
construct should fix the problem. That fixed the problem. Thank you! I wonder why these IDs were unique... Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Replication woes with a specific mailbox...

2006-07-28 Thread Pascal Gienger
We had a strange exception here, a user's inbox could be replicated without problems, but doing it for a second time does not do it. sync_client was invoked like this: sync_client -v -u X Jul 28 10:52:17 priscilla sync_client[21326]: RENAME received NO response: Rename failed user.XXX

Re: missing plain authentication?

2006-07-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
ssword You may replace the prefix A001 with a dot but this will only work for cyrus not for many other imap servers out there. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: lmtp over tcp sockets, access denied and lmtp error: Message contains invalid header

2006-07-21 Thread Pascal Gienger
head daf [...] . 554 5.6.0 Message contains invalid header That is normal. "daf" is not an allowed mail header. You seem to have configured 2003 as your lmtpd port in your /etc/services of your cyrus host. Does lmtp use the same port? Pascal Pascal Cyrus Home

Re: help on failed upgrade

2006-07-02 Thread Pascal Gienger
your imapd.conf and do a "rcimap restart", and things should just continue as they did. Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Marking Messages going to Cyrus as read procmail.

2006-01-29 Thread Pascal Gienger
Hexren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now what I think I need is the following: Based on I want to deliver the mail and have cyrus mark it as "read" immediatly. Why don't you consider using sieve for that task? Pascal Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus

Re: Creating INBOXes noninteractively

2006-01-06 Thread Pascal Mouret
ny interesting results. Hope this helps Pascal Probably your only alternative is to write something that directly modifies the mailboxes database, creates the requisite directories, etc, but that is bound to break something eventually. Andy Cyrus Home Page: http://as

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