ctl_mboxlist -u not working properly

I just did a hard test by just dumping the mailboxlist to a file via ctl_mboxlist -d > mailboxlistdump The file "mailboxlistdump" does carry the right information then, one mailbox per line with namepartitionuseracluser2acl2 and so on As test, i deleted the db/ directory and the "mailboxes.db"

Re: peculiar lmtpd behavior

users/assign?) and then we can look if we can help you (sorry for the "we" as I am very new to this mailing list but very "old" when it goes to Cyrus IMAPD things, I am using this beast from Ver- sions 1.5 on and now we have 2.0.16 working like a charm). Pascal Gienger Finesse Networks, Germany --

Re:

>imap:/var/imap # /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u < mailboxes >fatal error: can't initialize mboxlist environment >imap:/var/imap # /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -c >fatal error: can't initialize mboxlist environment >imap:/var/imap # > >this errors i got ... mboxlist environment, this looks like t

Re: peculiar lmtpd behavior

>In our configuration the set of users that can receive mail locally is >the contents of the assign file. >Messages are passed to deliver via the users' .qmail files. > >The transformation of the Return-Path happens after qmail has >handed off the message to cyrus for final delivery. > >We believe

Re: your DB3/Cyrus problems

>I got the following messages if i want start the /usr/cyrus/bin/master & >process [...] >Sep 22 18:33:49 imap imapd[3665]: DBERROR db3: region error detected; run >recovery. >Sep 22 18:33:49 imap imapd[3665]: DBERROR: dbenv->open '/var/imap/db' >failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database

Re: AW: your DB3/Cyrus problems

ages for these db_-utilities, available here: http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/utility/ Pascal Gienger --

Re: AW: your DB3/Cyrus problems

>In my opinion the "tools/mkimap" will create the directorys under /var/imap/ >... or ??? > >But if i start this tool, i get the following message: That is _NOT_ your mailboxes file. It will "only" create your mailstore folders. Pascal --

Re: AW: your DB3/Cyrus problems

>Pascal Reinheimer wrote" >> After i've used "db_recover -c -h /var/imap/db" the master process starts, >> but then a client connect to the imap server the following messages >arrives: >> ><...> >> Sep 22 20:47:46 imap master[4029]: process 4035 exited, signaled to death >by >> 11 >> >Have you

Re: Can't deliver to INBOX.folder

> > sam anyone p >I tried looking through the imapd.conf manpage, but I didn't find a >option that >all subfolders of a user got this flag set. AFAIK the flag is set >when the user >creaes a new subfolder. AFAIK, the correct syntax would be: deliver -m user.username.folder -u user If using

Re: sasldb2 and other issues...

$$ mkdir -p /tmp/$pp chmod 700 /tmp/$pp cd /tmp/$pp splitmail /var/spool/mail/$user for i in /tmp/$pp/* do /opt/cyrus/bin/deliver $user < $i # insert your cyrus deliver here done rm /tmp/$pp/* rmdir /tmp/$pp --- cut here --- Pascal Gienger --

Re: CyrusIMAP for AMD64 Opteron ??

BipinDas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > Is there any specific source of CyrusIMAP for AMD 64 Opteron series ?. I > am getting strange error while compiling CyrusIMAP2.3.1 on the above > said server. The error is as follows. > ---

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our working hypothesis is that CYRUS is what is choking up at a certain > activity level due to bottlenecks with simultaneous access to some shared > resource for each instance. Did you do a lockstat -Pk sleep 30 (with "-x destructive" when it complains

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

Our latency problems went away like a miracle when we detached one half of the mirror (so it is no more a mirror). Read-Rates are doubled (not per device, the total read rate!), latency is cut off. No more latency problems. When attaching the volume again, resilvering puts the system to a halt

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

Michael Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have heard tell of funny behavior that ZFS does if you've got > battery-backed write caches on your arrays. /etc/system: set zfs:zfs_nocacheflush=1 is your friend. Without that, ZFS' performance on hardware arrays with large RAM caches is abysmal.

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> About 30% of all I/O is to mailboxes.db, most of which is read. I >> haven't personally deployed a split-meta configuration, but I >> understand the meta files are similarly heavy I/O concentrators. > > That sounds odd. > > Given the size and "hotness"

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

Rob Banz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We went through a similar discussion last year in OpenAFS land, and > came the same conclusion -- basically, if your filesystem is > reasonably reliable (such as ZFS is), and you can trust your > underlying storage not to lose transactions that are in-cache

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thought has occurred to me: > > ZFS prefers reads over writes in it's scheduling. > > I think you can see where I'm going with this. My WAG is something > related to Pascal's, namely latency. What if my write requests to > mailboxes.db > or deliver.d

Re: Cyrus on Solaris at universities?

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

Re: Solaris ZFS & Cyrus : BugID 6535160

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

Re: fosdem

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

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

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

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

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

Re: Endgame: Cyrus big install at UC Davis

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

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

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

Re: Cyrus infrastructure performance less than expected

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

Re: Cyrus infrastructure performance less than expected

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

Any command to get rapidly ALL annotations?

Is there a way to get all annotations with one imap or cyrus command? We are using annotations here to be able to set an expiration time for spam mailboxes (messages older then x days are deleted automatically at night with cyr_expire). To get a tiny statistic we are going through all mailboxes

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

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

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

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

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

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

Re: [Dovecot] Cyrus vs Dovecot

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

Re: Conversion Debian Cyrus 2.1 to 2.2, experiences

Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then convert the databases (on one line): > find /var/lib/cyrus/ -name \*.db -print -exec /usr/bin/db4.2_upgrade {} \; > db_upgrade: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db: unrecognized file type > So "mailboxes.db" did not work, but the other databases did.

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

Mathieu Kretchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian G Batten a écrit : >> We have mailboxes.db and the metapartitions on ZFS, along with the zone >> iteself. The pool is drawn from space on four 1rpm SAS drives >> internal to the machine: To give (hopefully) comparable comparison: We have ou

Re: IMAPS terminating abnormally

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

Re: IMAPS terminating abnormally

David Korpiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for asking questions, I'm very interested in getting this > problem solved ASAP. > > I have turned on debugging level up by editing my /etc/syslog.conf file > and adding this line: "local6.debug > /var/log/mailaccess.log" > However, I don't s

Re: Mapping a username to a Mailbox via LDAP?

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

Re: choosing a file system

LALOT Dominique wrote: > zfs (but we should switch to solaris or freebsd and throw away our costly > SAN) Why that? SAN volumes are running very fine with Solaris 10 hosts (SPARC and x86). You have extended multipathing (symmetric and asymmetric) onboard. Solaris accepts nearly all Q-Logic FC c

Re: choosing a file system

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

Re: choosing a file system

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

Re: Doing Cyrus *right* for a large installation

Andrew Morgan wrote: > But then I started thinking about how I was going to backup all this new > data... Our backup administrator isn't too excited about trying to backup > 12TB of email data. Just a side note: For most backup systems it is not the size which matters much (because only a sma

Re: Solaris10/ZFS

James M McNutt schrieb: > We are currently running Solaris 9 with VxVM/VxFS > and looking to move to Solaris 10 with ZFS. > > I was looking for some feedback from those using ZFS. > > what type of system? 2x X4200 with 32 GB RAM each > what type of storage? 2x FiberChannel Storage Systems in

Re: unexpunge segfaults with -l on some mailboxes

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

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

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

Re: Security impact of lmtpd with pre-auth

, the same container, ... Just my $0.02, Pascal -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Department ("Rechenzentrum") Electronic Communications and Web Services Building V, Room V404, Phone +49 7531 88 5048, Fax +49 7531 88 3739 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.e

Re: Security impact of lmtpd with pre-auth

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

Re: DBERROR with Cyrus 2.2.12

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

Re: tls_sessions.db will not created

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Migrating 32bit to 64bit Debian Lenny

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

Re: Logging region out of memory

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

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

Ludovic Gasc schrieb: > Hi everybody, > > We're using Cyrus-imap during some time, it's a good tool for us. > > We've a strange behaviour (bug)? with sieve, Thunderbird and Cyrus-imap. > I want to listen your opinions, because I'm not sure to understand > correctly the problem. > > We use some s

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

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

Re: ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464

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

Re: Condstore & Squat through IMAP

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

Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

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

Re: Anyone using SunFire X4140's (AMD) or X4170's (Intel Xeon) as Cyrus servers ?

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

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

mb wrote: PS I know some people say XFS, JFS etc are brilliant but my local experience is that although they may be faster in Linux 2.4, they are more prone to corruption.. (haven't tried either in the last 6 months tho') As for XFS, I never had any problems with it (Version 1.2.0). We are runni

Re: Mailbox list in txt file

Zitat von Bartosz Jozwiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is what i get: > > bartek:/# su - cyrus > bartek:/# /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d > fatal error: must run as the Cyrus user Your "cyrus" user account does not have a valid shell or home directory. Check this

Re: complett relocation from old to new server and cyrus version

"Hans M. Schleidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I hat to rebuild a new server with fully new cyrus. Now i must bring the old messages to the new cyrus. Only copy get wrong. What are the goals to do that? Wich files (mailboxes.db, cyrus.cache, cyrus.header, and so on) shout i bring it to the ne

Re: reading quotas

Colin Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, This may be a stupid question but is there any reason why someone should not be able to obtain their own e-mail quota. If I do something like telnet imaphost 143 . login ccx004 password . getquota user.ccx004 I get "NO Permission denied" GETQUOTA i

Client authentication via client certificate on ssl/tls

Hi, does anybody on the list already had the idea to use an information of a client certificate for authentication in IMAPD? There could be 3 solutions for it: 1. the TLS part can pass information of the presented client certificate to imapd, so a normal anonymous login would be sufficient - the

Re: help on failed upgrade

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Last week we upgraded our server from cyrus 2.1.15 (SuSE 9.0) to 2.2.21 (SuSE 10.1). we had some /var/lib/imap problems that prevented us from even starting cyrus. We managed to boot it up after deleting some databases in db/ and backup/, after following some

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

Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now postfix complains: Jul 21 15:25:42 oliebol postfix/qmgr[7484]: 2A9BA7458: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=348, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 21 15:25:42 oliebol postfix/lmtp[7490]: 2A9BA7458: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=4236, status=deferred

Re: missing plain authentication?

Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No; that was a transcription error. Sorry about that. So the original file has allowplaintext: yes This is the traditional imap plaintext login without sasl. IMAP4 has plaintext authentication as a builtin. The syntax is A001 LOGIN username password

Replication woes with a specific mailbox...

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

Re: Replication woes with a specific mailbox...

David Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do the mailboxes have the same UniqueID (see cyrus.header files)? The replication engine expects UniqueID to be unique. Cyrus makes a bit of a hash of renaming user inboxes (user.XXX -> user.XXX.Uni). Removing the cyrus.header file and running reconstruct

Re: High availability email server...

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

RE: High availability email server...

"David S. Madole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's just not true as a general statement. SAN is a broad term that applies to much more than just farming out block devices. Some of the more sophisticated SANs are filesystem-based, not block-based. This allows them to implement more advanced func

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

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

Re: Mailbox is locked by POP server

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

Re: Weird cyrus user

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

Penalty timeout bug in pop3d

Hi, was there a special reason to "forget" the sleep(3) penalty timeout after an "invalid user" auth nak message? I did that because we had a POP3 client running wild while trying out unknown sasl users... # diff pop3d.c.orig pop3d.c 1220d1219 < prot_printf(popd_out, "-ERR [AUTH] Invalid

Re: Penalty timeout bug in pop3d

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

Cyrus IMAP 2.3.9 on Solaris 10 with ZFS and SAN

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

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

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

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

Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I might suggest running a connection caching daemon, up-imapproxy > springs to mind. LOGIN & SELECT are not exactly lightweight. Actually, login is lightweight and never was source of performance misses. As the webmail applications are "talking" via a p

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

Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But yeah, connection caching is nice. Even just the fork overhead > on the backend servers is something we can do without if it's > avoidable. My own Perl IMAP mod_perl routines use this:

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

You wrote: > By the way I tried this on a fully patched > Solaris 10u3 system > and get this notice during boot: > sorry, variable 'zfs_nocacheflush' is not > defined in the 'zfs' module We have Solaris 10 08/07. Also fully patched. Kernel is SunOS 5.10 Generic_120012-14 i86pc This is 10u4

Re: LIST is slow for 35K mailboxes

Ian G Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09 Oct 07, at 1522, Blake Hudson wrote: >>> >> Could database type differences (or contention) be an issue here? What >> database format are each of you using? > > Yes. With skiplist (took me several stabs at it to get the > conversion to work) it ta

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The root problem seems to be an interaction between Solaris' concept of > global memory consistency and the fact that Cyrus spawns many processes > that all memory map (mmap) the same file. Whenever any process updates > any part of a memory mapped file, S

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

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

Re: lmtpd delivery problem: User unknown

ns? If you want to access concurrently with multiple clients, your only chance is to use ONLY pop3 and imap4 and do not access the cyrus mail store directly (file-based). This won't work in a useable manner and may break up your whole store. If you already did this, reconstruct(8) should be

Re: Cyrus 2.1.13 and cygwin?

gindir=/usr/local/lib/sasl2" to get rid of that soft link. Pascal -- Pascal Gienger, Kanzleistrasse 14, D-78462 Konstanz Postfix+SASL-AUTH+LDAP Solaris 8: http://pgienger.de/postfix/

4.3.0 lmtpd: Virtual memory exhausted - problem :(

et/lmtp], delay=142730, status=deferred (host /mail/cyrus/socket/lmtp[/mail/cyrus/socket/lmtp] said: 421 4.3.0 lmtpd: Virtual memory exhausted (in reply to end of DATA command)) Has anybody seen this already? Which memory lmtpd claims to be exhausted? With no process limits at all? Pa

Re: 4.3.0 lmtpd: Virtual memory exhausted - problem :(

I investigated and found a curiosity: That user has installed a sieve script to sort mail. In his script he used the keyword keep; to keep the mail in his INBOX. This "keep" is going havoc ("virtual memory exhausted"). After replacing "keep" with 'fileinto "INBOX"' all things went well. Is this

Re: 4.3.0 lmtpd: Virtual memory exhausted - problem :(

John Alton Tamplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pascal Gienger wrote: What version of DB are you running? Does this happen immediately or only after it has been running a while? On Solaris 9 with DB 4.1.24-25, we had a problem where DB functions would eventually return ENOSPC, which No it

pop3d vs. Microsoft Outlook [Express]

The Microsoft Mail Products seem to have a problem with the generated UIDLs of the Cyrus pop3d. Cyrus pop3d uses UIDLs with a pattern of "UnixTimestamp.InternalNumber", so the "UIDL" command results in something like this: [...] 966 1049815830.12154 967 1049815830.12155 968 1049815830.12156 Appar

Order of SASL2 methods announced? (Cyrus IMAPD2)

We have some kind of - problem. We try to understand HOW the different SASL plugins are ordered when doing an announcement (. CAPABILITY). The problem arises (again) with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Outlook breaks when "AUTH=NTLM" is not the FIRST method announced! It gives me an er

Re: Order of SASL2 methods announced? (Cyrus IMAPD2)

Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mostly Randomly. Somewhat based on the order the plugin is loaded. Security requirements of SASL basicly dictate that the client ignore the order they are advertised. The problem arises (again) with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Outlook breaks w

Re: cyrus-imap and fetchmail's "keep"

of your Cyrus lmtpd. The duplicate delivery database is purged every 3 days (see the appropriate process in your cyrus.conf). You can turn this suppression off if you want: Put in your /etc/imapd.conf (or whereever you have your config fule): duplicatesuppression: no HTH, Pascal Gienger

Re: Order of SASL2 methods announced? (Cyrus IMAPD2)

Nikola Milutinovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 250-AUTH=NTLM PLAIN LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 I don't have this second line on Sendmail 8.12.9 - am I missing something? No, it is for (again) broken clients which are using "AUTH=". Some kind of legacy auth. Is it for sure that O and OE cannot use D

Re: How to hand over mails from postfix to cyrus

"Oliver Demetz - Hardware-XPress.de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The commandline, which is executed by Postfix (defined in master.cf) is: pipe user=cyrus argv=/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} so, deliver is told to store the mail into a Don't use that. Use a virtual al

Re: How to hand over mails from postfix to cyrus

Like I already told you in the postfix-users-list, the best way to do local mailbox delivery with postfix and cyrus is using lmtp over a local socket (if both services are on the same machine). Cyrus lmtpd expects a valid user/mailbox name as local part. So create valid address to sasl username

Re: Postfix can't connect to lmtp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (connect to /var/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/imap/socket/lmtp]: Permission denied) The file system permissions of your socket file /var/imap/socket/lmtp(*) are set in a way so that the postfix process (running under user "postfix") just can't write to it. Pascal (*) The name a

Re: Hight Aviability and Cyrus

Earl R Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bonjour, While there have been a couple of mentions that high availability is being considered by CMU, it has not been done natively to the IMAP server. In other words, the IMAP server does not do high availability. While it does have the cluster implemen

Re: Mailbox

Norman Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I created a mailbox nzhang by 1. cyradm localhost 2. cm user.nzhang 3. quit 4. saslpasswd nzhang Err it should be "saslpasswd2" - otherwise you are using a SASLv1 linked imap server, e.g. Cyrus 1.6.x... But I don't see nzhang created under /var/spool

Re: Changelog, LDAP features

Thomas Luzat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a) Fetching Sieve-scripts from LDAP (would guess not) b) Fetching Quota settings from LDAP (same) It's probably best to write some LDAP->Cyrus gateway for that, right? For the university of Constance I wrote a little Daemon program which synchronizes Open

Re: Changelog, LDAP features

Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The University of Athens is doing some cool work here http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrusmaster/ I'll take a look at it! What is the license of your package, can it be downloaded somewhere? Yes it will be next week. Had enough time to test it, it works in

Re: Marking Messages going to Cyrus as read procmail.

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

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