Re: upgrade and keep data

2001-10-24 Thread Michael Bacon
You should be able to get the version by telneting to the server port 143 and reading the welcome banner. From there, instructions for upgrading from various versions are included in the distribution. Michael Bacon --On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 14:41:36 +0200 Peter Pilsl <[EM

Re: Virus Scanning for Cyrus Email Stores

2001-10-30 Thread Michael Bacon
It would likely need a little modification, but amavis (http://www.amavis.org) should have most of the functionality you need. Amavis works by splitting open RFC822 mail files with MIME aor other attachments and running an external virus scanner (such as uvscan from McAfee) on them, then repor

Re: imspd v1.6.a3 -vs- DIGEST-MD5 or PLAIN

2001-11-09 Thread Michael Bacon
ever, we're not quite ready to give up on ACAP, and I don't think it's fair to say that client support is the only problem. If there were a good open source server, I imagine it might spur at least some client development. Michael Bacon Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Posting control

2001-11-09 Thread Michael Bacon
Yes, but it's not easy. The short answer is authenticated SMTP/LMTP. Any user wanting to post then has to connect to one of your SMTP servers and authenticate through some mechanism (PLAIN+TLS tends to work well for many applications). Then, you have to set up authenticated trust between eve

Re: RFC: Sieving mail delivered directly to shared/public folders

2001-11-09 Thread Michael Bacon
I think trying to patch in little solutions to how sieve currently works are going to meet with problems that the current model wasn't designed with this kind of broad functionality in mind. Going to a slightly different model would not only solve this problem, but others as well. Here's what

DB auxillary files

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Bacon
unity as long as all cyrus processes are stopped? Will that shrink the effective size of these? If they must be that big, so be it, but if there's some way we could avoid carrying around hundreds of processes with a 20 MB footprint, that would be much better. Thanks, Michael Bacon Duke University

Re: whats this in db directory?

2001-11-17 Thread Michael Bacon
Having just asked this question about a week ago, I can relay the answer. ;) As long as all services are stopped, these files can be blown away with impunity. --On Friday, November 16, 2001 05:52:52 PM +0100 Robert Hanzlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the 2.1.0cvs version o

Re: Cyrus and Address book

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Bacon
The Cyrus imapd can't save address books, but if you have a client intelligent enough to speak IMSP (like Mulberry), you can use the Cyrus IMSP server and store address books there. Michael --On Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:41:46 AM +0700 "Abu @ Trabas Dot Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: sieve and vacation

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Bacon
How are you delivering mail from the MTA? With LMTP? With the "deliver" program? If you're using the "deliver" program, be sure to use the "-r" flag and arrange for your MTA to fill in the envelope sender address on the command line. Otherwise, vacation just won't work. (It sends messages t

Re: LISA

2001-11-30 Thread Michael Bacon
k of...) I'll be there the whole week taking tutorials, so please drop me an e-mail if you decide anything. I should be in San Diego tommorow night. Michael Bacon Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Thursday, November 29, 2001 04:21:54 PM -0800 Jerome M Berkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to test?

2001-11-30 Thread Michael Bacon
Cyrus writes logs to the local6 syslog facility. Capturing local6.debug to a file in your syslog.conf (as the documentation suggests) will give you loads of logging information. --On Thursday, November 29, 2001 08:07:20 PM -0800 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have cyrus 1.6.24

Re: pop3d.c compile fails on parse errors during "make all"

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Bacon
My guess is that you're trying to compile in MIT krb5 with krb4 compatability and OpenSSL into the same patch. They both have a "des.h" in the include path, but the kerberos one is inexeplicably required for krb.h to work right (otherwise you get some macros that don't get substituted properl

Re: pop3d.c compile fails on parse errors during "make all"

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Bacon
--On Thursday, January 10, 2002 15:28:48 -0700 Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> CPPFLAGS=-I/ usr/include/db3 -I/usr/local/include > > Cyrus using C not C++, so you need to change it to CFLAGS > CPPFLAGS stands for "C PreProcessor Flags," Not "C++". CPPFLAGS is correct.

reconstruct -m -- gone for good?

2002-01-14 Thread Michael Bacon
feature was turned off due to the change in the mboxlist, but is it gone for good? Was it taken out because it was thought to be more trouble than it was worth, or is there a real coding barrier to getting it to work with the new code? Thanks, Michael Bacon Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pop3d.c compile fails on parse errors during "make all"

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Bacon
o Good luck, and feel free to write either the list or me personally with any questions, although I make no guarantees that I'll be able to solve them. Michael Bacon Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Larry, blame Princeton. They started the whole CIO stealing thing... des.h Description: Binary data

Re: lmtp refuses connections

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Bacon
that was recompiled using all cyrusdb_flat instead of cyrusdb_db3 to see if it helps. In the meantime, you can probably cut down on the frequency of the errors by setting prefork=0. I don't know why, but the preforks seem to make the problem happen more frequently. Michael Bacon Duke Un

Re: lmtp refuses connections

2002-01-16 Thread Michael Bacon
reliable non-Sleepycat format for the mailboxes > file since it's become apparent that no large volume site can use > Sleepycat. I don't see any reasonable alternatives for deliverdb or > TLS information right now. > > Larry > >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:32:01 -05

Re: Using Cyrus imapd with AFS + KRB5 + krb524d ?

2002-02-04 Thread Michael Bacon
I wrote something about this to the list earlier. See my message in the archive: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=1 2045 Michael --On Sunday, January 27, 2002 19:56:08 -0600 Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my situation: > > I want t

Re: directory lookups (finger )

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Bacon
ACAP, the protocol, can do that very well, but the current ACAP server is not stable. --On Tuesday, February 05, 2002 16:28:14 -0500 Theodore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have skimmed over the ACAP doc. > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/white-papers/acap-vs-others.html > > Can ACAP be use

Re: Vacation not working, seeing 2 return paths in headers

2002-02-26 Thread Michael Bacon
Here's a guess: You're using the old sendmail cyrus configure which delivers mail by calling the "deliver" binary as the mailer. In the mailer definition in the cf file, you've specified to sendmail the option to add a return-path header to the message before delivery. And the name of your

Re: why ldap auth

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Bacon
Don't. LDAP isn't designed for authentication, and isn't particularly good at it. It's a nice standby if you don't have the time to set up a real authentication service like kerberos or something else that was designed for it, but if you're not already there, don't go there. Michael --On Tu

Re: Cyrus continues to stop working.. no fix available?

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Bacon
der which we hit these conditions by re-compiling with the mailboxes.db file as a flat file rather than a berkeley database, but we still run into them after resource crunches. Hope some of this helps, Michael Bacon OIT Systems Administration Duke University --On Monday, May 13, 2002 3:08 PM -05

Re: Cyrus continues to stop working.. no fix available?

2002-05-14 Thread Michael Bacon
--On Tuesday, May 14, 2002 00:23:07 -0500 Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:13 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, Michael Bacon wrote: >> Sounds like what we're running into at the moment, which appears to be >> the master processes ending up with an incorrect cou

Re: PAM Authentication

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Bacon
Or, if you're in 2.0, sasl_pwcheck_method: pam should work fine. Michael --On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:50 PM -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of Cyrus? Assuming that you are using v2.1.x, set > > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > > and start saslauthd with the '

Re: [PATCH] Updated master.c process counting patch

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Bacon
ndicator of the problem is a service unavailability. If key step in the process that we're covering is the report of the dead child to the master, and you'd be just as happy with a log message as a blatantly obvious failure, well heck, let's do it! I'm happy to send you any bi

Re: [PATCH] Updated master.c process counting patch

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Bacon
e nice if the master process paid attention to the SIGCHLD and the information from the wait() call and take note of the fact that the ex-process has shook off this mortal coil, so that 15 minutes later, the process miscount didn't cause the master to start blithely ignoring incoming requests. I hope this is helpful, Michael Bacon OIT Systems Administration Duke University

Re: [POLL] NNTP support for Cyrus?

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Bacon
of control messages passed via NNTP? Or would you track those some other way? I suppose you could modify MUPDATE to do some of it, but it still seems like message relocation becomes a problem. Anyway, just some thoughts. It's definitely an interesting idea. Michael Bacon Duke Universit

Re: Sieve Vacation not working

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Bacon
The problem is that vacation absolutely has to have the envelope sender, or it won't know who to send it to. If you're using LMTP, this isn't a problem, but if you're going through procmail, it is. You have to tell sendmail to add a command line option in that instance. For us, it goes somet

Re: Moving mailboxes to new server

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Bacon
You'll also want to somehow re-create the mailboxes, whether this is using a cyradm script or dumping your mailboxes database and reloading it intelligently. Plus, you'll want to look into carrying the data in the user, quota, and sieve directories over to the new one. --On Wednesday, October

Re: cyradm binary

2002-10-22 Thread Michael Bacon
No binary's going to help you out of this error -- it's a problem in your include path for perl. That is, if the error you're getting is still: Can't locate Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Bacon
s power, but the latency levels on this thing are non-existent. Writes to the mailboxes database return almost instantaneously when compared to regular spinning disks. Based on my experience, that's bound to be a much bigger chunk of time than traversing a linked list in kernel memory.

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Bacon
k that slots into our SAN like any other target. I'd love to find out what your dtrace output says, though. -Michael --On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:21 AM -0800 Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Bacon wrote: >> >> Solid state disk for the partition

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Bacon
The whole "meta" partition as of 1.6 (so no fancy splitting of mailbox metadata), minus the proc directory, which is on tmpfs. -Michael --On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:32 PM -0500 Rob Banz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2007, at 15:20, Michael Bacon wrote:

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-15 Thread Michael Bacon
Interesting thought. We haven't gone to ZFS yet, although I like the idea a lot. My hunch is it's an enormous win for the mailbox partitions, but perhaps it's not a good thing for the meta partition. I'll have to let someone else who knows more about ZFS and write speeds vs. read speeds chim

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Bacon
--On Friday, November 16, 2007 7:39 AM +0100 Pascal Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solaris 10 does this in my case. Via dtrace you'll 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 rar

Re: One more attempt: stuck processes

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Bacon
--On Friday, November 16, 2007 3:54 PM -0500 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've reproduced the former by telneting to port 995 and doing nothing. > I have been unable to reproduce the latter because as soon as I QUIT the > telnet session or kill() the telnet process, pop3d exits grac

Re: Cyrus on Solaris at universities?

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Bacon
UNC is. 75k+ users (a lot inactive and needing to be deleted), 10.8 TB mail. Sun 6800 (though with two eight processor Sparc IV processor boards on it, so it's halfway to a 6900), 48 GB RAM tied a Cisco Unity SAN. We're due for new hardware sometime in the next six months or so, and we haven'

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

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Bacon
What database format are you using for the mailboxes database? What kind of storage is the "metapartition" (usually /var/imap) on? What kind of storage are your mail partitions on? --On Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:38 PM -0700 Jeff Fookson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks- > > I am hopin

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

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Bacon
ere unpleasant, but I'll have to let the Linux-heads jump in on that one. Beyond that, I don't see anything obviously wrong, but maybe someone who's run it more on Linux can chime in. -Michael --On Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:36 PM -0700 Jeff Fookson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Want cyrus to deliver directly into a mailbox's folder.

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Bacon
Mail is likely not getting delivered as user cyrus, but as user anonymous. To make it work, the trick is usually to give user "anyone" the "p" ACL (and obviously nothing else). See if that works... -Michael --On Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:45 AM -0400 Eddy Beliveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: GSSAPI authentication ceased working

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Bacon
Shot in the dark here, but are you using AFS? If so, you can run into some nasty things if it tries to grab libraries out of AFS that you have access to when you have AFS tokens, but which become unavailable when they expire. You start up the process with the tokens, but when you log back in, y

32 to 64 bit -- murder and replication

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Bacon
Hi all, To throw another 32/64 question on the fire here, I'm hoping to upgrade the ancient 1.6 (yes, I know!) install here to 2.3, and then we're going to use the murder to help us break out of the single giant 6800 we have and move to the distributed model. However, for a time, the 32 bit co

Possible bug in ctl_mboxlist -u (or perhaps I'm just crazy)

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Bacon
to be doing, please let me know, and if I'm doing something horribly broken, I REALLY want to know. Thanks, y'all, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill 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

possible self-deadlock in idle signal handler

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Bacon
at mutex is held by the first call, and hence the mutex lock will never return and the process is permanently hung, holding the lock for the mailbox. Would anyone happen to have any tips on getting out from under this? Thanks, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill Cyrus Home Page: http:

Re: possible self-deadlock in idle signal handler

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Bacon
Just as a follow-up on this, I think I've found a way to at least decrease the incidence of the problem with a stupid conf file trick. The problem appears to emerge when the client decides to do something simultaneously with the idle alarm going off. Since most clients (in the case of this use

Painful performance on mupdate push (how long does yours take?)

2009-05-26 Thread Michael Bacon
else running a murder on Sun CoolThreads (Tx000, T5x20) server hardware? Thanks much, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill 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: Painful performance on mupdate push (how long does yours take?)

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Bacon
The first attempt was with skiplist, but I switched over to BDB to see if it would do any better. If you don't mind, how many mailboxes do you have, and how long does an initial push generally take, if you've had to do one recently? Thanks, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel

MUPDATE database problems -- help greatly appreciated

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Bacon
from numerous different clients to numerous different servers. (See the combinations tried below). I'm open to any and all suggestions at this point. Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill Current system information: Hardware: Sun T5220s (Sparc CoolThreads architecture) running

Repeat recovers on databases

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Bacon
ing else. Has anyone else seen this? I've seen it on brand-new, newly "undumped" databases in the past week. Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info

Cyrus in Solaris zones

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Bacon
Okay, failing that, since I'm wondering if this is an issue with Solaris zones... Is anyone else running Cyrus inside of a non-global zone on Solaris? If so, have you run into any odd problems with it? Thanks, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill --On June 15, 2009 10:07:34 AM

Re: MUPDATE database problems -- the importance of thread safety

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Bacon
pt to figure out what thread safety switch is appropriate and add it to CFLAGS. Regards, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill --- prot.c 23 Apr 2009 17:10:07 - 1.97 +++ prot.c 17 Jun 2009 13:34:26 - @@ -1038,6 +1038,8 @@ /* If we are exiting with an error, we should clea

Re: Repeat recovers on databases

2009-06-18 Thread Michael Bacon
ASS-UM-E the bit size of types, you make lots of ASSemblers go "UM" exponentially. Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill === RCS file: /cvs/src/cyrus/lib/cyrusdb_skiplist.c,v retrieving revision 1.64 diff -u -r1.64 cy

Re: Repeat recovers on databases

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Bacon
Right, right, I suppose changing database formats is somehow "bad..." :) This fix also works -- thanks. -Michael --On June 19, 2009 10:09:16 AM +1000 Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:44:19PM -0400, Michael Bacon wrote: >> The fix for it is below.

Re: Repeat recovers on databases

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Bacon
--On June 19, 2009 9:57:03 AM +1000 Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:44:19PM -0400, Michael Bacon wrote: >> Another one stomped here. This time, it's a 32/64 bit issue. myinit in >> cyrusdb_skiplist.c assumes that type_t is 4 bytes long, and writes out &

Strange LMTP crash

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Bacon
Hi, all, I'm working through a bizarre segfault from lmtpd that occurs following a rcpt to: command. The best I can describe what's going on is that somehow the NULL value stored in the authstate pointer is getting changed to 0x1010101 when passed to the verify_user function. Here's a relevan

Re: Strange LMTP crash

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Bacon
--On July 14, 2009 1:51:17 PM -0400 Ben Carter wrote: > Michael Bacon wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> I'm working through a bizarre segfault from lmtpd that occurs following >> a rcpt to: command. The best I can describe what's going on is that >> some

Solaris, SEAM krb5, and com_err

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Bacon
o the Cyrus com_err spec, functions like error_message were getting overridden by the ghost versions in libkrb5. Is anyone successfully using Solaris 10+SEAM for krb5? Thanks, Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://c

Re: Problems running ctl_mboxlist -m on 2.2 back-end

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Bacon
ailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=48912 The switch on GCC is different (I think it's -mthread), but just make sure you're specifying the thread-safe switch. Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill --On July 23, 2009 1:35:00 PM +0100 David Mayo wrote: > > We are looking at

painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Bacon
suggestions on how to make the master-to-frontend propagation faster or less painful. Sorry for the long message, but it's not a simple problem we're fighting. Michael Bacon UNC Chapel Hill 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: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Bacon
issue we had early on, but apparently hasn't solved the problem entirely. > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Michael Bacon wrote: >> During these sync periods, we see two negative impacts. The first is >> lockup on the mailboxes.db on the front-end servers, which slows down >> both acc

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

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Bacon
connect and try to re-sync. (At least that's what it looks like in the logs.) Incoming IMAP connections won't do it, but lmtpproxy connections seem to have a knack for it, since for whatever reason they appear to generate "kicks" at a pretty high rate. Still looking, but op

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

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Bacon
I don't think that's what's killing us. At this point, I'm not 100% sure on how to quantify exactly what's making connections to the mupdate master and what's not, so I could be very off on what's going on. Michael Bacon UNC Chapel Hill Cyrus Home Pa

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

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Bacon
s the backends, but I didn't know someone had gone away from the murder mode but was still using Cyrus front-ends (and not perdition or nginx), which we still need for the GSSAPI client support. Michael Bacon UNC Chapel Hill Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
answer, feels the need to go directly to the mupdate master, rather than querying the handy dandy local slave. Is this intentional? Why can't it use the local cache? Thanks much, Michael Bacon UNC Chapel Hill 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: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
--On November 10, 2009 11:11:41 AM -0600 Gary Mills wrote: > I finally fixed that one, but it took a long time to find the reason. > I always had two copies of the mupdate master running, but one of them > did almost nothing... > > # ps -fp "$(pgrep mupdate)" > UID PID PPID C

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
s a long standing issue with > murder in a large scale environment with cyrus 2.2. > > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 @ 11:51, Michael Bacon wrote: >> The second one is that the code for lmtpproxyd very explicitly >> connects to the mupdate master rather than the local slave. I &g

Re: Murder confusion -- two mupdate slaves, lmtpproxyd's always connecting to master

2009-11-10 Thread Michael Bacon
--On November 10, 2009 1:23:33 PM -0500 Brian Awood wrote: > Unfortunately it's not well documented, but the unified murder config > currently only works on a proxy host. Don't try to configure it on > a "backend" machine that has local mailboxes!!! Unless you want to > manually fix up the mai

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Bacon
For those of you doing ZFS, what do you use to back up the data after a zfs snapshot? We're currently on UFS, and would love to go to ZFS, but haven't figured out how to replace ufsdump in our backup strategy. Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill --On February 16, 2010 9:49:0

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Bacon
Received wisdom I've had on zfs send and receive is that they're not production-ready backup solutions, but were basically afterthoughts the zfs team tacked on. Michael --On February 16, 2010 5:46:52 PM +0100 Dietmar Rieder wrote: > On 02/16/2010 05:32 PM, Michael Bacon wrote:

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Bacon
--On February 16, 2010 9:35:56 AM -0800 Vincent Fox wrote: > Michael Bacon wrote: >> For those of you doing ZFS, what do you use to back up the data after a >> zfs snapshot? We're currently on UFS, and would love to go to ZFS, but >> haven't figured out how t

lmtpengine.c -- sasl_server_new call doesn't specify config_servername

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Bacon
ooked? We're reasonably certain this will fix our problem, but wanted to know if it would break something else we hadn't thought of... Michael Bacon OIT Systems and Core Services Duke University --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu

Re: overquota messages and lmtp 'injecting'

2004-04-05 Thread Michael Bacon
I've used the Perl Net::LMTP module for this. Somewhere around here, I've got a patch to Net::LMTP to let you specify the IGNOREQUOTA flag. I tried to submit it back to the author, but it bounced... :-/ Michael --On Monday, April 05, 2004 15:13:19 -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Why does master listen on port 2000?

2003-01-07 Thread Michael Bacon
2000 is the arbitrary port used for the MANAGESIEVE protocol. timsieved listens on that port. Michael --On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 6:17 PM +1300 Oliver Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was doing a port scan of my mail server (for security purposes) and discovered something listening on

Re: problem with folder creation

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Bacon
Can you create folders with another client? Michael --On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:33 AM + srikarreddy kasarla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, i have Cyrus 2.1.12 and postfix 1.1.11 and horde 2.2 and imp 3.1 . Problem is when i am trying to create folders from IMP it is fail

Re: Restricted posting to bulletin board

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Bacon
I'm closed to blind from upgrading sendmail all day, but I'll see if I can answer your question: You'll need to establish some "AuthInfo" in sendmail to pass along to LMTP. The easiest and best way to do this is with special tags in the access database. Here's some tips for doing that: http:/

Cyrus::IMAP, referrals, murder, mailbox moves, etc.

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Bacon
We're working towards getting a Murder deployed at the moment, starting with using it to move mailboxes between servers. I've got a few questions here about locking, and about how cyradm deals with the murder when administrating mailboxes. First off, how does the mailbox appear to the user on

Re: Cyrus::IMAP, referrals, murder, mailbox moves, etc.

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Bacon
--On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 15:57:14 -0500 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should wait for a reply from Rob for definitive answers, but I'll get you started. ... > Should all of the ACLs be cleared on the old server before the > move starts, then restored when the move is finishe

Re: message in /var/log/messages

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Bacon
What operating system? --On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:26 PM -0800 Nicolas Gauvrit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, i post this message yesterday, but i got no answer... (is my question to stupid for you ?) i'd like to know what does mean those message, is i do something wrong ? is my Cyrus Ima

Re: message in /var/log/messages

2003-04-03 Thread Michael Bacon
be that big a deal. I can see the DBERROR one being more annoying I guess, but it would require a change to the code. -Rob So i don't think this is really a problem .. ?? isn't it ? Best regards --- Michael Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What operating system? --On Wed

Re: wishlist for 2.2 final

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Bacon
Sometime this summer, I really hope to put some of your NNTP code into at least testing around here. I promise I'll give you some feedback at that point... ;) Michael --On Thursday, May 29, 2003 14:54:54 -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 29 May 20

Re: need organizational hint

2003-04-12 Thread Michael Bacon
Sorry to come in to this late -- I've been tied up all week. First, with regards to what you're generally trying to do, I think the general consensus around here is that you're asking for trouble. For most of your goals, if you try to impliment them in the way that you're considering, you're g

Re: Tuning Suggestions

2003-06-10 Thread Michael Bacon
I can't tell precicely from your report, but it may have something to do with a problem we've seen several times. In case of memory exhaustion, Cyrus can begin to behave badly. What happens is the master ends up with an incorrect number of available processes, such that it believes there are s

Re: Trying to deliver to sub folder

2003-06-13 Thread Michael Bacon
If you're using deliver, the user that needs "post" access to the mailbox is not cyrus, but anonymous. So "sam user.boutilpj anonymous p" (or "anyone p") is what you need. Should work after you do that. Michael --On Friday, June 13, 2003 9:35 AM -0300 Patrick Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Cyrus with Sun Cluster/HA stuff

2003-06-14 Thread Michael Bacon
oing things. I wanted to know if there's anyone out there who is running Cyrus on hardware which is wired together using Sun's Cluster and/or high availability software. If you have, I'd be very interested to know what kind of hardware it's running on, and what cluster topo

Problematic error checking in lmtpd.c

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Bacon
e same in the current CVS. This seems to fix it, but there may be better ways to go about it that I haven't considered. Thanks, Michael Bacon OIT Systems and Core Services Duke University diff -u -r1.63.2.2 lmtpd.c --- lmtpd.c 21 Aug 2001 17:50:12 - 1.63.2.2 +++ lmtpd.c 1 Oct

Stuck mailboxes.db entries with mbtype=2

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Bacon
dumping the mailboxes database, modifying it by hand, and then undumping it, but I'm looking for a less invasive procedure to clear this condition. Is there any relatively straightforward way to get the mailboxes.db to notice that there's an actual, good copy on disk, and re-set the m

Re: Stuck mailboxes.db entries with mbtype=2

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Bacon
--On August 24, 2010 1:12:22 PM -0400 Dave McMurtrie wrote: > On 08/24/2010 11:21 AM, Michael Bacon wrote: >> Hi, all, >> >> Do to an error I made in migrating a file system during some system work, >> we ended up with our configdirectory with permissions that the c

Re: Stuck mailboxes.db entries with mbtype=2

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Bacon
--On August 24, 2010 1:22:53 PM -0400 Dave McMurtrie wrote: > On 08/24/2010 01:17 PM, Michael Bacon wrote: > >> >> Definitely something I hadn't thought of, but in this case, the faulty >> mbtype appears to be in the mailboxes.db on the backend server, not the >

Re: Stuck mailboxes.db entries with mbtype=2

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Bacon
Thanks, I'd forgotten about cyr_dbtool. That's considerably less intrusive than other things I'd considered. A little sketchy, but not too bad... Michael Bacon ITS Messaging UNC Chapel Hill --On August 24, 2010 2:39:28 PM -0400 Dave McMurtrie wrote: > On 08/24/2010 01:39