Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

unge files have changed then > it will lock them all then stream them all to the backup server. Cyrus is pretty ideal for fast incremental updates to a backup system: hence replication. You shouldn't need to lock anything with delayed expunge, delayed delete and fast rename in place.

Re: Replication: sync_client -r dies

s handled? > > I believe David Carter has been working on some stuff for this which is > lined up to go in soon. The autorestart stuff is already in 2.3.10. It was Ken's work, based on a suggestion on my part. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universi

Re: Replication: does it work in both directions?

e objection may just have just been (1). 3) Sanity checks are good: USER dpc22 NO IMAP_INVALID_USER Attempt to update master for dpc22 -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, P

Re: Multiple skiplist bugs found, patches attached

hes in my private rpm packages to try how they work. Do you > recommend both for general consumption? It is certainly very easy to break mailboxes.db using cyr_dbtool. Kudos to Bron for tracking down the problems. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universi

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

; > When attaching the volume again, resilvering puts the system to a halt - > reads and writes do block for seconds (!). Definitely of interest to those of us keeping one eye on ZFS. Thanks. Can someone else running ZFS confirm this behaviour? -- David Carter

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

ter if the mailbox is replaced under your feet. That's the way replication worked on my 2.1 systems, prior to split-meta. (Locking isn't a big deal, but safe concurrent access is always nice). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Se

Re: Deleting top-level mailbox with 'delete_mode: delayed'

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > I have "delete_mode: immediate" on the replica and "delete_mode: > delayed" on the master. sync_server doesn't pay any attention to delete_mode, so the option shouldn't have any effe

Re: Replication error

given name, leaving INBOX empty. If the server implementation supports inferior hierarchical names of INBOX, these are unaffected by a rename of INBOX. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502

Re: Replication error

ame IDs? Given that a user inbox is involved, my guess would be: Changes to the Cyrus IMAP Server since 2.3.9 [...] * Fixed the special case of RENAMEing an Inbox, so that it doesn't keep the same mailbox uniqueid, thus allowing it to replicate properly (seen state

Re: skiplist_unsafe

d before they hit disk, then there is a good chance that the database will become corrupt. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3

Re: cyr_expire and messages where Date: is in the future?

cyr_expire is normally used to expire expunged messages if you are running with delayed expunge. ipurge appears to bypass this. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,

Re: cyr_expire and messages where Date: is in the future?

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, David Carter wrote: > "ipurge -f -d 1 -X user/*/spam" works for me. "user/%/spam" if I didn't want to match user/dpc22/foo/bar/spam -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,

Re: cyr_expire and messages where Date: is in the future?

cyr_expire. ipurge uses the Date: header unless you use the -X flag. Consequently a message with: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:16:17 -0800 wouldn't be expunged until March. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (

Re: cyr_expire and messages where Date: is in the future?

commentary about the mailboxes it is processing. You could always take the source code and comment out the mailbox_expunge() if you want to test on a live system. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 33450

Re: mbexamine blocks mailbox

dumping mailbox state, but locking is normally the safest course of action. They aren't supposed to be long running processes. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,

Re: cyr_expire -E ?

ault is 0 (zero) days, which will expunge all previously deleted messages. Try -X . cyr_expire is a bit overloaded. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,

Re: Hyphens in folder names break LIST

is listed twice - the second time with a > \Noselect flag: The problem is that '-' sorts before '.' in ASCII. Try: improved_mboxlist_sort: 1 (You will need to dump and then restore the mboxlist). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni

Re: Replication verification

ersions of each account. This is the opposite approach, and makes sense if you have a convenient IMAP client library. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01

Re: Very annoying IMAP problem (cyrus + Outlook)

lem mailbox into smaller mailboxes using something other than Outlook. Alternatively you could increase the word limit in Cyrus. MAXWORD is 32k in recent Cyrus 2.3 versions. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223)

Re: Very annoying IMAP problem (cyrus + Outlook)

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Denis BUCHER wrote: > But I think I understand, I have to create the "log" directory into : > /var/spool/imap/user/dbucher > which means : > /var/spool/imap/user/dbucher/log No, /var/imap/log/dbucher. You shouldn't need to resta

Re: Very annoying IMAP problem (cyrus + Outlook)

dity, so Outlook wanted to resychronise the whole thing. But /var/imap/log will give a definitive answer. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223

Re: cyr_expire signaled to death by 11

lboxes > master[833]: process 96599 exited, signaled to death by 11 Probably a corrupt cyrus.cache file (at least that's the cause when I see these). Try reconstruct on the mailbox. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,

Re: cyrus replication : master to replica and replica to master

of warts that I really don't like. It is much easier to just drop my own replication code onto new versions of Cyrus (typically < 5 minutes work each time). That was one of my original design objectives. -- David Carter Email: david.car...@ucs.cam.ac.uk Unive

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

warning (at least for test purposes) on murder frontends, given that it is just a readonly replica of the mupdate master. I hope that this isn't a complete red herring. It just struck me that it would be a really easy test to make. -- David Carter Email: dav

Re: weirdness after reconstructing

can see any measurable difference on our systems. The only problem with this patch is that it causes unsolicited EXPUNGE events to (non UID) FETCH and STORE operations, which isn't allowed. This breaks legitimate concurrent access to mail folders. I have an updated patch which f

Re: weirdness after reconstructing

inst 2.1.16. If someone would like to generate the equivalent 2.2.X patch I'm happy to put it up on the same page. > If you could add a link here: > http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ExternalLinks > it'd be much appreciated. Done. -- David Carter

Re: sieve parse error

mtpd process: Its a small bug in the Sieve parser. A patch is available at: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/ cyrus/patches/2.1.16/sieve-parse-bug.patch -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New

Re: cyrus hanging (possible saslauthd problem)

syslog on a Redhat Linux box existing processes which have already opened syslog break down. Messages which would have gone to the syslog go to stderr (if I remember correctly), which happens to be the socket attached to IMAP client. Much hilarity ensues. -- David Carter

Re: High availability ... again

o run PINE against both master and replica version of a given mailbox and watch the replica play follow my leader :). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax

Re: High availability ... again

, precisely that. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ

Re: Paying for developers?

ut in about around 3 to 4 months work on the current code and that we would be talking about (at least!) several more man months work between myself and Cyrus developers to get something properly merged. Thats a fairly substantial undertaking for all involved, particularly given that we all have ot

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

hen. As I indicated in my previous message, we all have other priorities right now. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2

Re: IOERROR Cannot create anymore mailboxes

ikely solution will be a different filesystem or operating system. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

. Unfortunately, UniqueID isn't very Unique: its just a simple hash of the mailbox name. I ended up allocating UUIDs in large chunks from the master process on each machine. If a process runs out of UUIDS (which would take some going as they are allocated in chunks of 2**24), it falls back to cal

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

servers in our case :) -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

solve the inconsistencies that would occur if a pair of machines ever lost touch. I would be happy to be proved wrong: active-active is clearly better from a system administrator perspective :). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Se

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

s on each system are active, the remainder are passive. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://a

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

servers has to make that choice, and the potential for race conditions here and elsewhere in an active-active solution is amusing. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

nce implementation, even if he wanted to recode everything from scratch. 5 and 6 would require a much more substantial redesign and I suspect quite a lot of trial and error as this is unexplored territory for IMAP servers. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Comput

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

think that its a tall order. Sorry. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu

Re: Restored mailboxes causes replication to bail

ds you have ended up with two mailboxes with the same UniqueID. This will confuse the replication code which tracks mailboxes by UniqueID rather than by name in order to implement rename. If you delete the cyrus.header file and run reconstruct it should generate a new UniqueI

Re: sync_client stop working suddenly

problem with a library shared between the two or (just conceivably) a subtle hardware problem. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679

Re: 2.3 Replication and lost Hardlinks

_machineid: 1 2. For each IMAP, NNTP and LMTP service in cyrus.conf, enable the provide_uuid argument. Example: imapcmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=5 provide_uuid=1 -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Servic

Re: Replication and Virtual Domains

n I ported the code. Its on my TODO list, but I can'tgive you a timetable. altnamespace shouldn't be a problem (we use it). The replication code works entirely in the internal namespace. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,

Re: Errors while doing Replication

ation failing. The replication engine retries before giving up completely. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --

Re: Cyrus 2.3.7 Replication Question

t logins to specific backend servers). This makes it possible to push inactive accounts back and forth without any downtime. It doesn't work with shared mailboxes, which is why Cyrus 2.3 only supports simple master-replica pairs. -- David Carter Email: [EM

Re: Migration form UW with replication

ic to our environment. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wik

Re: purge sync. replication folder

support for partitions was added. Old sync./ directories which don't correspond to any running sync_server can be cleared out safely by hand on a running system. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 3

Re: machine mismatch UUID

r had to use it. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus

Re: Replication woes with a specific mailbox...

a hash of renaming user inboxes (user.XXX -> user.XXX.Uni). Removing the cyrus.header file and running reconstruct should fix the problem. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pe

Re: Another sync-client issue

the value that's there now duplicates a test just above and is an unreachable path. Agreed. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambri

Re: sync_client bails out after 3 MAILBOXES need upgrading to USER in one run

ad new messages rather than reusing the single instance store on the replica. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.

Re: sync_client stalls the rest of cyrus while 'no route to host'

each replication stream is independent and can progress at its own best speed. Particularly important if a replica dies (or is shut down for routine maintenance) and needs to catch up from a big backlog of transactions. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Comp

Re: sync client bailing out

. The client process on the master bails out frequently with these errors in the log: It looks like you have some corruption in cyrus.index files on the replica following the crash. Try running reconstruct on the mailboxes in question. -- David Carter Email: [

Re: sync_server "memory leak" with giant new mailbox first sync

;5 * (MAX_MAILBOX_PATH+1)" was put in to support partitions. A lookup table for partitions and two integers (one for the partition number, one of the message number on that partition) should be all that is needed to reconstruct the paths at a later date. -- David Carter

Re: sync_client bails out after 3 MAILBOXES need upgrading to USER in one run

really nothing more exciting than a RENAME operation to some part of the mailbox hierarchy without a quota root that only the system administrator can access. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Mu

Re: replication, how to see if it 'up to date'

[cyrus:cyrus]$ replicate -s cyrus-24 -v -v -u dpc22 USER dpc22 USER_ALL dpc22 ENDUSER where "replicate" is just a little wrapper around sync_client. We also maintain databases of MD5 checksums for messages and cache entries, generated by make_md5. -- Da

Re: performance on large inboxes

since 2.2.1 * Significantly improved message header caching (based in large part on code supplied by David Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from the University of Cambridge) -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Ph

Re: performance on large inboxes

makes it easy to add headers to the list which is cached. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page

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

her flag on messages. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

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

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, David Carter wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Farzad FARID wrote: I'm running Cyrus Imapd 2.3.7 with the delayed expunge mode. Do the messages deleted by the user, but not yet expunged by the system, count in the user's quota? I'd say yes but I'd like a

Re: namespace question

tween altnamespace and the internal Cyrus namespace. Consider: INBOX <--> user.dpc22 INBOX.foo <--> user.dpc22.foo foo<--> user.dpc22.foo -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223)

Re: How to tell POP3 daemon to mark messages as read?

ntial performance hit if it did. I believe (its been some time now) that the UW server works the way that you want. The POP protocol doesn't have any concept of \Seen messages, so there isn't really a right or wrong way to do this. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

disks. It also means rather less stress if the fsck fails to complete. I've heard horror stories about all the common Linux filesystems and I've personally watched fsck.ext3 (supposedly the safest option) unravel a filesystem, with thousands of entries left in lost+found. ZFS looks n

Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

itical data. ZFS looks nice. Well, but you are on your own because this project for linux is pretty young. I don't have any problem with OpenSolaris, though it would be a little amusing given that we moved from Solaris to Linux about 4 years back. -- David Carter

Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

y, I agree. Exterprise storage and replication are both just strategies to reduce the frequency that you need to resort to backup. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax

Re: Potential replica message file corruption/replacement

ecksums for message bodies and cache entries. On four occasions this has picked up oddities which in hindsight were obviously this bug. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Stree

Re: single instance store and replication

only tracks the last few thousand messages that have been uploaded. It becomes much more effective when a replica has been seeded and you switch to "rolling" replication. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,

Re: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

mparing two messages. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

Re: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

ather unfortunate name. The hash algorithmn used to generate mailbox uniqueIDs is a bit basic, which is why I switched to generating them on the fly from master. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Mu

Re: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

message_uuid_master_init() call should stay where it is. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. --- master/master.c-DIST

Re: FastMail.FM patchset - new patches

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Carter wrote: Ah, have_uuid is new in 2.3. That line definitely needs to move, but I think that the message_uuid_master_init() call should stay where it is. Or even (as per the fastmail patch). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sync_client doesn't sync sieve scripts

-s is new in 2.3, but it looks like it was only there for testing. The manual page says: Principally used for debugging purposes: not exposed to sync_client -u should replicate an entire user including the Sieve files. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cyrus with a NFS storage. random DBERROR

an awful long time (about a year?) since I last had a sync_client bail out. We are moving to 2.3 over the summer (initially using my own original replication code), so this is something that I would like to sort out. Any suggestions? -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Cyrus with a NFS storage. random DBERROR

bimap has thrown an error. sync_client logs the only information that it has (the return code r). It probably wouldn't hurt to try and log the current mailbox/user in some consistent fashion. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,

Re: Replication question - cross replication?

P is not well suited to active-active replication. Replication in Cyrus is strictly active-passive. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 C

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

een 2.2.12 and 2.3.8. If source and target mailbox are on the same partition then the message should be copied using link(): both hard links share a single timestamp. Otherwise Cyrus has to create a new file and copy the data by hand. -- David Carter Email: [E

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

d, the parent routine index_copy() appears to have gained an extra argument, and the top level cmd_copy handler in imapd.c has: r = index_copy(imapd_mailbox, sequence, usinguid, mailboxname, ©uid, !config_getswitch(IMAPOPT_SINGLEINSTANCESTORE)); -- David Carter

Re: 8G RAM in 32bit platform

ess space. 64 bit integer arithmetic would be a slight benefit for quota arithmetic (unsigned long long). However my systems spend about 2% of their time in user CPU state according to vmstat. You really aren't going to notice on any modern Intel/AMD CPU. -- David Carter

Re: LTMPD rejecting large messages, maxmessagesize is _not_ set

ages. Try "strings" on the lmtpd binary. Errors from Cyrus should be all variants on: ec IMAP_MESSAGE_TOO_LARGE, "Message size exceeds fixed limit" Is sendmail/postfix using a staging partition which has run out space? -- David Carter Email: [EMA

Re: Replication to more than one replica?

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > It would be a way to keep a second offline replica for backing up to a > tape archive, which is what I plan to do. This is certainly what we do, and it seems to work nicely. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PRO

Re: storing mail across several cyrus partitions

/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar test3 * OK rename user/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar . OK Completed The only gotcha is that each rename moves all subsidiary mailboxes: . RENAME user/dpc22 user/dpc22 default * OK rename user/dpc22 user/dpc22 * OK rename user/dpc22/bar user/dpc22/bar *

Re: storing mail across several cyrus partitions

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Bokhan Artem wrote: > Sorry, I didn't understand you clearly... Did you mean, that subfolders > of single user may be moved across partitions? Yes. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Ph

Re: Replication and single instance store

es > sync_client to consider them in the same run, so it "finds" the matching > message on the replica. sync_server maintains a fairly modest UUID cache on the server side: 1000 messages in 2.3. A restart is negotiated after each UPLOAD command. -- David Carter

Re: Replication and single instance store

e is no way to get single-instance-store on a replica > if you're rebuilding it from scratch? No. You would need a database which maintained a persistent mapping between UUID and a list of files on each partitition which are that UUID. I'm open to suggestions. -- David Carter

Re: storing mail across several cyrus partitions

amount of memory to run on large file systems: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2005-08/msg00045.html -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (0122

Re: Unexpected response MessageID 000000000000000000000000

lt; count) in cmd_reserve). I attach the message that I sent to cyrus-devel. sync_client will be ignoring the spurious responses. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke S

Re: IOERROR: writing cache file

Soon Now, which was kind of the whole point when I started back in 2002. Hurrah. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

looks like Fastmail also hit recently. An dedicated journal device would probably make a big difference with data=journal. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

SATA disks for the data and four 15k SAS disks for the metadata would be a good mix. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

d a 20 line test program could exhaust memory in seconds. This bug was in SLES four years back, and it was still there the last time that I looked (some months back now). -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

ent). Kernel memory explodes, and nothing is released when the program exits. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH

Re: squatter running longer than 24 hours

rather impenetrable. I infer that it is collecting information about adjacent characters in the message body. Presumably a 5 character search term provides 4 required pairing as a prefilter from the squat engine before message by message search kicks in. -- David Carter

Re: IOERROR: reading message: unexpected end of file (message_copy_strict)

ough a large IMAP APPEND operation. Entirely safe. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyr

POP3 "LAST" command

h are configured to use LAST rather than UIDL will download all of the messages at each poll interval which is rather undesirable. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street,

Re: POP3 "LAST" command

OP when available. I guess I'll have to add some monitoring on our existing servers to find out just who is using LAST. I'm still tempted to disable LAST altogether in our Cyrus installation given the potential for unpleasant surprises. -- David Carter

Re: Problem with IMAP server suddenly hanging

t you are seeing. Its been fixed in CVS. The other common explanation for hangs is /dev/random running out of entropy, but I don't think that would affect ctl_cyrusdb. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502

Naive Sieve question

em to work. So far the best that I have come up with is: if not envelope :contains "from" "@" { fileinto "bounces"; stop; } which works (at least in our environment), but isn't very pretty. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-existent msgids & duplicate delivery suppression

before it passes it on to Cyrus. Exim does this automatically. I don't know about other MTAs. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.

Re: non-existent msgids & duplicate delivery suppression

d do something about this case. I'll have a chat with Philip the next time that I see him. -- David Carter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Computing Service,Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.

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