Re: cyr_expire error

2006-12-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
n't solve the underlying problem, it does stop a single corrupted mailbox from killing the entire cyr_expire run! Regards, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ur --new-file cyrus-imapd-2.3.3.orig/imap/cyr_expire.c cyrus-imapd-2.3.3/imap/cyr_expire.c --- cyrus-imapd-2.3.3.orig/imap/

Re: IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)

2006-12-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:47:26PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Essentially, I need a tool that I can point at servers A and B and tell > it "get all the email from my account on server A to a specific folder > on my account on server B, preserving the subfolders hierarchy". > The tool needs to

Re: IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)

2006-12-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
(we have /tmpfs/ for precisely this sort of purpose) (that and: unless your IMAP servers are really closely network connected the network IO is going to be your critical path anyway) Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Patches used at FastMail.FM - URL

2007-01-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
I guess it would be polite to send the URL again! Oops. http://cyrus.brong.fastmail.fm/ Regards, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
e in. It would be nice if there was another 2.3 release that checkpointed some of those in time (*hint*, *hint*) but we're doing OK tracking CVS. Regards, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.we

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:23:50 -0500, "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > It's been a while since I posted our list of patches, and there have been > > a couple of changes since then. > > > > I'm generating th

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:49:25 -0500, "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > It's been a while since I posted our list of patches, and there have been > > a couple of changes since then. > > > > I'm generating th

Re: Comments on remaining FastMail.FM patches

2007-01-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
nservative in what you send just in case your client isn't liberal in what they accept". I said pretty much exactly the same to our users and they said "so what, it used to work, fix it" - basically. > Statuscache - We've discussed this before, and I'm pretty sure its

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
n't understand SASL much when I wrote that, and it works. Actually, I still don't understand SASL much. It appears to take an already difficult problem and abstract it away so much that its becomes even more complex (and yet you still can't pass an error message back from the authd exp

Re: Re[2]: Migrating Cyrus 2 Cyrus new hardware

2007-01-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:07:28PM +0200, Kristaps Armanis wrote: > Hello info-cyrus, > > Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:38:17 PM, Jus rakstijat: > >> New setup is 2 boxes each with 2 partitions each ~2T. > RG> What filesystem? > ReiserFS, till know it worked good and fast with hell a lot > of smal

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:20:15PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > - Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Close. imapd, pop3d, lmtpd, and other processes write to the log. > > The log is read by sync_client. This merely tells sync_client what > > (probably) has changed. sync_clien

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:36PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > sync_client prints errors from time to time, but most seem harmless. It > certainly does not print anything like "Exiting...", when it decides to quit. > I don't really know which log lines are bad, or not. What do you conside

Re: Running a shell command on update/creation of an item

2007-01-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:31:58PM +0100, Jochem Meyers wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, I'm trying to build an application involving synchronizing some > data stored in a cyrus imap store (as messages with attachments) to an sql > database. To accomplish this, I would like to have cyrus run a shel

Re: How do I increase default DBD cache size

2007-01-31 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:26:09PM +0530, Ramprasad wrote: > I was reading performance tuning information at > > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-perf.html > I too have a large cyrus setup with minimum 600+ connections at a time > We are upgrading to a 8GB Ram Dual Xeon box , I want to

Potential replica message file corruption/replacement

2007-02-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
; unlink() the file in the stage dir before trying to create a new one (Bron > Gondwana) > > > --- links to diffs follow --- > http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/imap/sync_support.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 ... here's what our cyrus patches page has to

Re: Moving mail into IMAP server and the Received date

2007-02-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:51:10AM -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: > Ideally you might be able to find a client that sends internaldate > when it moves mail from local to server. The catch is that since so > many clients, like Thunderbird, do not use internaldate to sort, they > probably don't preser

FastMail.FM patchset updated

2007-02-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
d to point into a /patches/ directory. Of interest: the sync_server unlink patch (accepted upstream) and support for a few new windows codepages so search for those users works. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki

Re: FastMail.FM patchset updated

2007-02-23 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:07:51PM +, Matt Bernstein wrote: > At 16:00 -0500 Ken Murchison wrote: > > >I still don't understand why the allow-plaintext-for-sync_client > >patch is needed. Doesn't 'sync_server -p2' accomplish the same > >thing? > > I was bitten by this today, and saw you me

FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

2007-03-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
s that affect the seen file also delete the associated statuscache record. Faster reads, slightly slower writes for the seen DB. Guess what our users do more of. Regards, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

2007-03-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
at once then reconstructing your mailboxes to get new UUIDs, you'll find UUID mismatches across your replication system really fast! I'm going cleaning that up now :( Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: Message retention policies

2007-03-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:16:21PM +1300, Malcolm Locke wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate > Webmaster wrote: > > Is it possible to set up a message retention policy that deletes email > > that is, say, over a year old from the mailboxes on the server? >

Re: sync_client doesn't sync sieve scripts

2007-03-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:48:00PM +0400, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:44:56AM +0100, David Carter wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > > > > >I have properly configured sync between two cyrus-imapd 2.3.8 servers. > > >Mailboxes rolling synchronizatio

Re: Plain text dump of cyrus.index?

2007-04-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 07:30:11PM -0400, Miller, Greg wrote: > Hello, > > > > I found myself in a the situation where I need to do the opposite of a > reconstruct on my mailboxes. That is, instead of rebuilding the cyrus.* > files to reflect the messages on the file system, I want to query the

Re: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

2007-04-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:12:11PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > All the patches mentioned here are available for download at: > > http://cyrus.brong.fastmail.fm/ > > > We've been busy working on a bunch of cyrus issues since I last > posted. In particular things we

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:58:23PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:56:43 -0500 > >1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 10 ( 4 x 300 GB) > >2. Which filesystem seems to be the better ? ext3 ? xfs ? > > reiserfs ? > > Do NEVER use XFS on GNU/Linux. (C)XFS is a brilliant FS on

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:41:11PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >>Please specify those weaknesses. 250,000 mailboxes on reiserfs right > >>now, always open to options. > >The main problem I'm aware of is that in the event of a "problem", > >reiserfsck 1) can take a long time (like weeks) to

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:51:57 -0700, "David R Bosso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --On April 11, 2007 8:26:37 PM +1000 Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > We also apply one patch to reiserfs. It's a one liner, using > >

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:58:15AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:56:43 -0500, Nestor A. Diaz wrote: > Subject: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes > > > > These are the plans: (comments on every number will be apreciated) > > > >1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 1

Re: remove entry from deliver.db

2007-04-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:25:08AM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Derek T. Yarnell wrote: > > >On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:40 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > >>At Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:32:49 -0400, Derek T. Yarnell wrote: > >>Subject: remove entry from deliver.db > >>> > >>>Is there a

Re: last cyrus login date

2007-04-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:13:54AM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote: > John M. Crawford wrote: > > Blake, > > I'm wondering about the same thing... Did you come up with > > a nice method to determine last login event? > > thanks, > > John > I have not yet put in the effort into making a system to do this

Re: syncserver[4715]: Fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted

2007-04-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:28:04PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > You probably encountered a single very large mailbox. This patch: > > --- cyrus-imapd-2.3.8/imap/sync_support.c 2006-11-30 > 12:11:20.0 -0500 > +++ cyrus-imapd-2.3.8p3/imap/sync_support.c 2007-04-12 > 13:27:49.0

Building Cyrus with GCC 4.0+ (Debian Etch), autoconf issues

2007-04-24 Thread Bron Gondwana
I'm in the process of rebuilding all our packages to target Debian Etch rather than Debian Sarge so we can switch our infrastructure forwards once I'm happy it's all stable. Our Cyrus build is one of the most tricky ones, so I thought I should compare config.h and the output of running configure u

Re: mail coming without MX; how ?

2007-04-28 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:10:35AM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Andrew McNamara --> info-cyrus (2007-04-26 16:16:49 +1000): > > >if you check the domain "infoservices.in" with dnsstuff.com you can > > >see no MX for that domain. > > >But still mail is coming at [EMAIL PROTECTED]we are using i

Re: copying and renaming mailboxes to clean up directories

2007-05-02 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:11:03PM +0200, Thorsten B?ker wrote: > Dear all, > But wondering about the heavily increased amount of partition in use, I > noticed that my call of rsync lacked of the "--delete" attribute. In > consequence the restored mailbox directories include not only the > messag

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-05-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:30:11AM -0400, Nik Conwell wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > >As for complexity? It's on the cusp. We've certainly had many more > >users on a single instance before, but we prefer to keep under 10k

Re: Replication and failover

2007-05-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:14:44PM -0400, Nik Conwell wrote: > Do you have separate IP addresses for each instance of cyrus on the > machine as well, or just the machine itself? If just the machine, > what 'names' does the front-end know the back-end instances by? Every store has an IP addres

Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

2007-05-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:49:01AM -0400, Nik Conwell wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Rob Mueller wrote: > > >Yep, this means we need quite a bit more software to manage the > >setup, but now that it's done, it's quite nice and works well. For > >maintenance, we can safely fail all m

Re: System I/O errors?

2007-06-17 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:49:17PM +0200, Anders Norrbring wrote: > Inside the dir I see this; > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 30049 May 28 22:24 34. > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 3206 Jun 2 11:09 35. > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 19310 Jun 6 01:20 36. > -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 2696 Jun 7 15:15 37. > -rw---

Re: cyrus 2.3.8, internal dates not stored in message file time ?

2007-06-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:07:07PM +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > Hello, > > I am testing a new cyrus 2.3.8 installation. > > I have noticed that copying messages from one folder to another one > does keep messages internal dates but does not set message files write > time in the destination fo

Re: Backup $CONFIDIRECTORY/proc?

2007-07-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:20:46AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup doesn't mention > it, but should I backup $CONFIGDIRECTORY/proc? No - the only things in there are files showing which process IDs are connected by which user and what folder is

Re: Old replication logs

2007-08-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:08:11PM +0300, Janne Peltonen wrote: > Hi! > > It appears that is a cyrus system is forcibly shut down, there is a > replication log left (if the replica system wasn't up at the time). Now, > is it safe to delete the log? What about the transactions that are in > the log

Re: Replication to more than one replica?

2007-08-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:24:29PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > With such a small number of users, you might be all set. Keep in > mind that -u only gets users, not shared mailboxes not associated > with any user. In UMich's system, we just run tape backups on the > replica, no need for a s

[PATCH] Changing folder paths on disk to support fast-rename

2007-08-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
ns that patches are now in a series that apply one after the other rather than all against the raw upstream source. I hope to post my entire quilt series once I fix the one thing that has a FastMail specific key encoded in it to use a config option

Updated FastMail patches

2007-08-24 Thread Bron Gondwana
Hi, I've pushed out latest patches (the quilt series against 2.3.9) out to the website. I've fixed the DELETED issue per David's email. I haven't yet finished the rehash stuff, sorry. It's more complex than I thought, and the perl code that's there is pretty brittle. It doesn't extend nicely to

Re: [PATCH] Changing folder paths on disk to support fast-rename

2007-08-28 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:30:45PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > This is a very small patch for a very big change (and incomplete, > it doesn't alter rehash, dohash, etc) Now updated with a working rehash. dohash and undohash I just removed - they are subsets of the functionalit

Re: problem with cyr_expire

2007-09-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
is actually 0, since the UID is the first field in an index record. It looks like you have a pretty corrupted index file, since: 1183861181 looks more like a timestamp than an "exists" count! I think you need to reconstruct the folder. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyru

Re: storing mail across several cyrus partitions

2007-09-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:54:25PM +0700, Artem Bokhan wrote: > > > Cyrus puts one folder on one partition. you can put subfolders on > > other partitions, but you cant have two partitions connected with one > > folder. > > Cyrus has no way to decide where it would store the email on disk and >

Re: Replication and single instance store

2007-09-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:36:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > With the latest 2.3.9 release, the rolling replication duplicates > correctly single instance store messages on the replica ( as many hard > links as recipients for the same message ). > > We have tried to re-initia

Re: Replication and single instance store

2007-09-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:15:32 +0100 (BST), "David Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > for all the users across which the single instance store needs to > > apply, then run 'sync_client -r -f $file'. >

Re: Replication and single instance store

2007-09-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:09:40 +0100 (BST), "David Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > Ah - yeah, that's right. Except that the restart only got negotiated > > after each folder was processed, and if you&#x

Re: masters signals cyr_expire to death by 11

2007-09-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:28:35PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > Just to be clear, that's cyr_expire dying, not being killed by > master. Signal 11 is SIGSEGV, which is to say a segmentation > violation, i.e., a bug in cyr_expire. Personally, I've seen this > error on a lot of systems. The

Re: masters signals cyr_expire to death by 11

2007-09-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:19:21AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Thank you for the responds. I'll try to run reconstruct on the mailbox. > And I hope to upgrade to 2.3.9 soon, I'm already running a small > instance with a couple of your patches Bron. But I still got 6 to > upgrade and those a

Re: Merging multiple servers into one with partitions

2007-09-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:09:30PM -0500, Paul Engle wrote: > Three independent cyrus servers, each with just a default partition, > connected to a SAN. Each server has its own lun mounted as the imap spool > partition and things work great. Have you considered putting the mailboxes.db on the SA

Re: squatter problem

2007-09-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:15:33PM -0400, Robert Banz wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2007, at 14:49, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 09:44:16 am Robert Banz wrote: > > > >> Sep 5 02:00:00 ms1.mail.umbc.edu squatter[29759]: [ID 454541 > >> local6.debug] skipping mailbox user/a2

Re: Cyrus 2.3.8 thanks for help

2007-09-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
te as good as reiser for the usage pattern we produce (though we're currently in an email exchange with various reiserfs experts about some strange memory use/caching behaviour - a quote "the FastMail guys find all the interesting bugs" :) Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EM

Re: Cyrus replication problems

2007-09-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
g in place and tools to help you clean up. As you can see, it's something that was built to fill a particular need in one place and hasn't really been generalised out to a fault-tolerant tool that can be used without significant effort into maintaining it. That said, once you have

Re: Cyrus replication and file system problem

2007-09-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
rus in the script that mounts the filesystem. (you don't _have_ to have start cyrus on boot) Also, see my post the other day and various in the archives about the need to monitor synchronisation and restart sync_client after replica restarts. There's no polite shutdown mode. Bron. --

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

2007-09-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:51:22AM +0200, Pascal Gienger wrote: > (*) 100k mailboxes and a webmail application which often LOGINs and > SELECTs, multiple times per webpage reload. http://cyrus.brong.fastmail.fm/patches/cyrus-statuscache-2.3.8.diff This cuts back on meta IO traffic considerably f

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

2007-09-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:53:48PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:36, Pascal Gienger wrote: > > A proxy would mean another possibility of failure. How stable is > > that proxy daemon? Another two boxes for redundancy? > > UMich runs the caching proxy on the host running httpd

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

2007-09-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:19:45 +0930, "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:53:48PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > > > On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:36, Pascal Gienger wrote: > >

Re: Cyrus 2.3.9: Errors compiling outside source directory

2007-09-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:36:03PM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > So our protocol is we have a central repository in AFS for > source code. Then we write a script called BUILD.ksh that > does all the right stuff to compile into a /tmp/(package)-obj > directory on each build platform. This is not work

Re: Cyrus 2.3.9: Errors compiling outside source directory

2007-09-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:02:34PM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Do you have the 'makedepend' utility on your system? I found > > that if it wasn't there, "make depend" would not get all the > > dependencies in place. >

Re: upgrading to a different achitecture

2007-09-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:46:08AM -0500, Chris Harms wrote: > Hello, > > We will be migrating our cyrus server from x86 to x86_64 for an interim > period and then likely returning to x86 after some time. We will be > upgrading from 2.2.x to 2.3.x as well, and I am wondering if there is a > wa

Re: unexpunge+replication behaviour

2007-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:50:15PM +0300, Стоян Цалев wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm currently playing around with cyrus 2.3.9 and replication. It seems quite > stable and in fact, perfectly usable. However, I ran into a problem with > the delayed expunge feature. It looks like this - when I delete a ma

Re: IOERROR: writing cache file

2007-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:08:19 +0200, "Rudy Gevaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:51:09PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > >> Hello again, > >> > >> Does somebody know what could be the source of the

Re: IOERROR: writing cache file

2007-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:51:09PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello again, > > Does somebody know what could be the source of the following error messages? > > Thu Sep 27 13:24:09 2007 manaslu mail6/imaps/mail6/imaps[27763]: > IOERROR: writing cache file for ugent.be!user.heleen^nailis.Labo.Ro

Re: unexpunge+replication behaviour

2007-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:17:05PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > This is a very simple bug: ipurge is not logging a sync event. The > fix is to add sync_log_mailbox (or something similar) if ipurge makes > a change. I suspect that unexpunge is suffering from a similar > problem, but I haven'

Re: upgrading to a different achitecture

2007-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:08:22AM -0500, Chris Harms wrote: > Thanks for the info. The man page for cyr_dbtool doesn't indicate this > is possible (which is not to say it isn't possible, just undocumented). > cvt_cyrusdb appears to be more of a candidate. Is this what I should be > using, o

Re: IOERROR: writing cache file

2007-09-28 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Can you log in as the same user and test (or maybe copy the exact > > contents of the mailboxes somewhere else and try to recreate - that > > is if you care that much to figure out

Re: Visible shared folders?

2007-10-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:46:19PM -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > I have three different cyrus servers, but I have a strange problem on one of > them. It appears that a Shared folder is appearing to all the users on this > Cyrus server. The structure goes like this (userid replaced for real >

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:33:58PM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > > > Xue, Jack C wrote: > > At Marshall University, We have 30K users (200M quota) on Cyrus. We use > > a Murder Aggregation Setup which consists of 2 frontend node, 2 backend > > nodes > Interesting, but this is approximately 15K use

Re: consistent backups without stopping cyrus?

2007-10-07 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:26:36PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hi. Is there any plan to implement some finish-writes-and-hold-connections > feature into cyrus to allow making of consistent online lvm snapshot possible? I doubt it. We get consistent enough[tm] backups from Cyrus (per mailbox) as

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-16 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:11:06AM +1000, Rob Mueller wrote: > One option you have is that rather than creating separate "Zones" in the OS, > you just create separate cyrus instances yourself. We do this at FastMail. > Basically we've partitions all our storage into 300G units, and each > partit

backend_connect source address and config_servername

2006-03-05 Thread Bron Gondwana
ing to a specific interface/IP address on all outbound connections? 2) If so, would it make sense to have a separate configuration item (config_backend_ip ?) that could override the default behaviour? Regards, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: h

Re: backend_connect source address and config_servername

2006-03-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:54:12PM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote: > Bron Gondwana wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm working on setting up replication for our (FastMail.FM) new servers. > > > >One issue I've run in to is that our machines are set up as follows:

Re: problems with the DELETED hierarchy

2010-07-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:16:02PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 15 Jul 2010, at 11:41, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > > i m using cyrus 2.3.16 > > i have the following line in the cyrus.conf > > > > delprunecmd="cyr_expire -E 1 -D 30 -X 30" at=0400 > > > > but on my deleted hierarchy there are som

Re: c and d rights in GETACL responses

2010-08-03 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:12:25PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this isn't rather a question for the IMAPEXT mailing > list, but I'm starting here because I only noticed it on Cyrus so far. > > I wondering what the correct behavior of servers and clients should be > r

Re: Cyrus replication and failover best pracistes

2010-08-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:15:36PM +0400, Dmitry Ivanov wrote: > Hello! > Folks, looking through maillist history i saw that many of you are > running cyrus in rolling replication mode. I am interested in > configuring cyrus replica to use as a standby imap server, where we can > switch DN

Re: Put only cyrus.index and cyrus.cache in metadata partitions ?

2010-08-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > Hello, > > > I understand the cyrus.header file is the only irreplacable one, i.e. > cyrus.index and cyrus.cache can be regenerated using 'reconstruct' > while cyrus.header, a very small (150 bytes or thereabout) and stable > file, co

Re: Put only cyrus.index and cyrus.cache in metadata partitions ?

2010-08-30 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:00:39PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > I just ran some tests on an empty test configuration and obtained surprising > results with different data/metadata split situations. > > > Server : SunFire X4170 with 72 GB of RAM, 2 x 300 GB internal disks in ZFS > mirror configurat

Re: TLS failed, service in BUSY state, terminated abnormally

2010-09-06 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:42:38AM +0200, "Clément Hermann (nodens)" wrote: > Le 06/09/2010 11:26, Ethariel a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > auto-answering. > > During the upgrade process the /dev/* permission were broken. It > > includes /dev/urandom which I think (can someone confirm) is used by SSL.

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-09-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > If a folder has sharedseen=true set in the metadata from its creation and > forever, I would expect shared seen flags. If a folder always has > sharedseen=false for its entire life, I expect per-user \Seen flags. > > What happens

Re: A beginner question about Murder

2010-09-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:41:26PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > Unfortunately, I've never setup a "unified" Murder, so I don't fully > understand what the advantages and disadvantages of it compared to a > "traditional" Murder. Maybe someone else can jump in here with their > experiences. And

Re: A beginner question about Murder

2010-09-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:17:00PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > - For autocreate/autosieve (patches for which Cyrus is not upstream but they > are shipped with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages), the frontend > servers must be disabled for local direct delivery t

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:03:49AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 10:55 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > > What happens

Re: Full Murder stack on one host

2010-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:54:20PM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > > > Why is this a problem with current Cyrus Murder setups? What internal > > > details prevent a front-end server, mupdate server, and back-end server > > > from coexisting on the same physical system? Is it that there's no > > > faci

Re: A beginner question about Murder

2010-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:15:52PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 08 Sep 2010, at 16:41, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > Unfortunately, I've never setup a "unified" Murder, so I don't fully > > understand what the advantages and disadvantages of it compared to a > > "traditional" Murder. Maybe someone

Re: A beginner question about Murder

2010-09-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:37:29AM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > > Yes, this. Absolutely. The replication code is pretty safe for > > multi-master > > in my branch already. At least for mailboxes. Sieve, Seen and Subs are > > somewhat trickier. I think the only really safe way is to keep "dele

Re: Database fragility

2010-09-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:52:17PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I recently had some crashes on my home cyrus server and found I had to delete > the log files for the DB's by hand :( > > [ ... ] > > Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can avoid having to do it? :) Yes, use skiplist.

Re: Database fragility

2010-09-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
I'm hoping to autodetect dammit. Hmm. Maybe I'll do that! What about autodetect and autoconvert... shouldn't be too tricky... just have to see what bdb does. Woohoo bdb. Or bedbugs as my phone's autocomplete calls it... "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > >On

Re: Database fragility

2010-09-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > >On 10/09/2010, at 17:35, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> I'm hoping to autodetect dammit. Hmm. Maybe I'll do that! What about >> autodetect and autoconvert... shouldn't be too tricky... just have to see >> what bdb does. Woohoo

Re: Another basic question about Cyrus replication

2010-09-12 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:59:01AM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Dear all, > > One more question about sync-server and sync-client. Suppose I have two > active servers, A and B, which contain completely disjoint sets of > mailboxes. Can both replicate simultaneously to a replica server C? I > will

Re: New Cyrus project site and bugzilla

2010-09-13 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:09:53AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Dave McMurtrie wrote: > > > We're very interested in growing the Cyrus project and attracting new > > volunteers to contribute to the project, and that desire is at the core > > of why this migration is taking place. The bigges

Re: Draft: Bugzilla Work Flow

2010-09-13 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:19:58PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > Nudging ;-) CC:'ing the info list as well. Sorry - didn't get a change to respond to this before! > > I'm working on a documented Bugzilla w

Re: sync-server without deletes?

2010-09-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:03:47AM -0500, Derek Chen-Becker wrote: > We've been running sync replication between two servers for a few months > now and everything has been working well. Recently, management has come > down and asked if it's possible to have the sync only perform additions > and to

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:13:03PM +1000, Rob Mueller wrote: > > > How difficult or easy would it be to modify Cyrus to strip all > > attachments from emails and store them separately in files? In the > > message file, replace the attachment with a special tag which will point > > to the attachmen

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:40:59AM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Dear Rob, > > I had reservations about some of these things too. :( In particular, > I was wondering about having to remember and recreate the exact > transfer-encoding. If both of us forward the same attachment in two > emails, and o

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:15:13AM +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote: > Dear Bron, > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413 > > > > 2TB - US $109. > > Don't want to nit-pick here, but the effective price we pay is about > ten times this. Yeah, so? It's going down. That's

Re: Replication sync-server and Delayed Delete

2010-09-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:29:18PM +0100, Gavin Gray wrote: > Hi there, > > We have a cyrus murder using replication and we have a few questions > about the behaviour we are seeing on our system. > > 1. cyr_expire on the master doesn't cause any replication to happen. > Is that 'correct'? In othe

Re: Using cvt_cyrusdb to convert quota database from skiplist back to quotalegacy.

2010-09-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > Hello, > > > I am having trouble converting a quota skiplist db back to quotalegacy > format (I know... this is probably not the most common Cyrus operation :-) Yeah, odd! I wonder what's going on there. I'll take a look. > Other

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