Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Modifying SquirrelMail v1.4.2 to use Oracle -What needs to be done?

2004-03-30 Thread Lee Brink
Rafael Martinez Guerrero said: > We were using oracle with Squirrelmail until january but we are using > postgreSQL now for saving addressbook/userprefs and sessions (better > speed and less resources). > > I remember we had some problems with apache/php and with SM when using > oracle. Supposing

[SM-USERS] Modifying SquirrelMail v1.4.2 to use Oracle - What needs to be done?

2004-03-24 Thread Lee Brink
Hello. Now that I have a Oracle back-end database to handle the address book and user preferences, I'm at a bit of a loss on what to modify in SquirrelMail to take advantage of it. I've tried taking advantage of the built-in support for MySQL, but not surprisingly it didn't work. :) If anyone has

[SM-USERS] TYPO: Odd LIST command sequence issued by SquirrelMail to IMAP servers - Wondering why

2003-10-24 Thread Lee Brink
Sorry about that. There's a typo in my log copy. It should read: 10/24 12:56:44 I sent: Resource id #2 A016 LIST "" "INBOX.WebMail.Patrol Warnings" 10/24 12:56:44 I received: Resource id #2 * BAD Invalid tag 10/24 12:56:44 I received (Not sent): Resource id #2 * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.W

[SM-USERS] Odd LIST command sequence issued by SquirrelMail to IMAP servers - Wondering why

2003-10-24 Thread Lee Brink
Good afternoon everyone. It's time for another potential U.S.E. (User Stupidity Error) from me, but I trying to figure out some interesting problems with SquirrelMail (The IMAP server is dropping connection after a SELECT command is sent from SquirrelMail, but only on some users, as well as a proje

Re: [SM-USERS] Central addressbooks - Anyone pursuing thismodification?

2003-10-13 Thread Lee Brink
> But, you should be aware that LDAP writes are EXPENSIVE (as opposed to > LDAP reads/searches, which are usually lightning-fast). In fact, it > might be a lot better, performance-wise, to just set up a minimal MySQL, > if users are to do writes to that all the time. Alternatively, you could > set

Re: [SM-USERS] Central addressbooks - Anyone pursuing this modification?

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Brink
t; Hello Lee, > On Saturday, October 11, 2003, Lee Brink wrote... > >> I've been tapped as the lead developer for a central addressbook >> project here at Cornell. Our goal is to store a person's addressbook >> in LDAP and have it accessible to SquirrelMail, our portal e

[SM-USERS] Central addressbooks - Anyone pursuing this modification?

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Brink
I've been tapped as the lead developer for a central addressbook project here at Cornell. Our goal is to store a person's addressbook in LDAP and have it accessible to SquirrelMail, our portal email channel, and any client that can either talk to LDAP or import/export entries. I'd like to be able

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-03 Thread Lee Brink
>> We have 4 (Soon to be 5) Sun V880s with 32G RAM and (IIRC) 8 >> processors @ 750MHz for our IMAP servers > > - do you have the avg/peak load on this machine? This I can't answer. It's one of the gripes I have with the IMAP server administrator: a lack of hard numbers. > - is this machine ded

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-02 Thread Lee Brink
rlk wrote: > I know that prefs can be stored on disk or mysql. Lets say hypothetically, > there are 100,000 users on sm. Anyone thinks that there would be issues > with having it on disk file system instead of mysql or vice versa? We're using the file system here @ Cornell and with approximately 8

Re: [SM-USERS] Squirrelspell

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Brink
> I have been looking around but I've not found anyplace where this is being > discussed. I can't get the plugin to run aspell at all, the plugin runs > but aspell does not. The only thing stated in INSTALL was that > apsell must be the the PHP path and I've installed it in c:\php4\aspell. If yo

Re: [SM-USERS] SquirrelMail v1.4.1 extremely chatty

2003-09-03 Thread Lee Brink
Hi Marc. I'll see what I can do about testing this version & getting some accurate results. I don't run the IMAP servers here @ Cornell and it will take a bit to co-ordinate the effort. Thanks for the info & bug fix! Lee > I did a little research and found out that we did not cache the > m

Re: [SM-USERS] SquirrelMail v1.4.1 extremely chatty

2003-09-03 Thread Lee Brink
>> Also, (and this may not be an issue for you) are you using the filters >> plugin in SquirrelMail? > Not only is SIEVE a better alternative overall, it has been theorized > that the message_filters plugin is the main reason for the current > "chattiness". I haven't had time to look at the plug

Re: [SM-USERS] SquirrelMail v1.4.1 extremely chatty

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Brink
> Hmm, 10K users shouldn't be a problem for a V880 of this magnitude.. we > have 4 cpu 420Rs with 4GB of RAM doing this for 8,500 users and the load > average hovers around 0.30, so I'm betting unless you have a wildly > abusive user base (not uncommon in the University setting!) some tuning > ma

Re: [SM-USERS] SquirrelMail v1.4.1 extremely chatty

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Brink
> Lee, > > The reason I'm replying is because we had a meltdown when upgrading to > Cyrus 2.1.x from the older Cyrus 1.5.x series and while SquirrelMail > helped it melt down quicker, what we found was by shutting down > SquirrelMail, the problem didn't go away.. with an average of 1,100 > *activ

[SM-USERS] SquirrelMail v1.4.1 extremely chatty - Can cripple an IMAP server

2003-08-14 Thread Lee Brink
t;INBOX.Drafts" LSUB "INBOX." "*" LIST "" "INBOX.Drafts" LIST "" "INBOX.Sent" LIST "" "INBOX.Trash" LIST "" "INBOX" EXAMINE "INBOX" SELECT "INBOX" EXPUNGE SEARCH CHARSET US-ASCII AL

[SM-USERS] Question about two features in SquirrelMail 1.4.1 and how they mayaffect performance

2003-08-01 Thread Lee Brink
Hello. Can someone explain these two settings for SquirrelMail and how they may affect performance: 1) Allow server charset search 2) Enable UID support What exactly do these two options control, and will they be performace neutral, speed up interactions between SquirrelMail & the back end IMAP

[SM-USERS] Problem creating filter in v1.4.1 using the Header match

2003-07-29 Thread Lee Brink
Working with v1.4.1 of SquirrelMail I noticed that one of the filters I created in v1.2.11 was no longer working. The filter is "Match: Header", "Contains: securityfocus", "Move to: Trash". When I try to edit the filter the following message appears once I commit the changes: WARNING! Header fil

Re: [SM-USERS] Timeout issues...still

2003-07-24 Thread Lee Brink
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:58:32 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:39:29AM -0400, Lee Brink wrote: >> This has been driving the people who compose novels and call them email >> messages here at Cornell. They take so long to compose their message, >> the

Re: [SM-USERS] Timeout issues...still

2003-07-23 Thread Lee Brink
One thing that bit me in the butt for timeout issues was this directive in the php.ini file: session.gc_maxlifetime The default is 24 minutes. As I understand this directive, once you hit this timeout PHP treats the session as garbage and throws it all out, effectively logging you out. This has

Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Massive memory usage by SquirrelMail - Is this normal?

2003-07-16 Thread Lee Brink
My apologies for taking so long to respond to this posting (From 06/16/2003) on this list. I'm the one who wrote the original posting. Here's an update of the situation. Our SquirrelMail installation still is having massive performance problems. There's a memory leak that requires a web server res

Re: [SM-USERS] Massive memory usage by SquirrelMail - Is this normal?

2003-04-02 Thread Lee Brink
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll talk with our mail server administrator and post to the list what I find out. Lee Jonathan Angliss said: > Hello Lee, > On Wednesday, April 02, 2003, Lee Brink wrote... > >> [If this is the wrong forum for this, please let me kn

[SM-USERS] Massive memory usage by SquirrelMail - Is this normal?

2003-04-02 Thread Lee Brink
[If this is the wrong forum for this, please let me know] I'm running SquirrelMail in production for a mid-sized University (30,000+ students, staff, & faculty, of simultaneous connections) and I'm trying to get a sense of the hardware requirements. What we're currently seeing is that SquirrelMai

[SM-USERS] Text attachments downloaded as application/octet-stream - Any wayto change

2003-03-19 Thread Lee Brink
entioning anything resembling this issue. Does anyone have any idea why SquirrelMail is stripping out CRs from text attachments? Lee Here's my pilot setup: SquirrelMail 1.2.11 Apache 1.3.27 PHP 4.2.3 Solaris8 -- Lee

[SM-USERS] Squirrelspell failure - problem in php - any ideas?

2003-01-31 Thread Lee Brink
Has anyone seen this issue when building PHP for SquirrelMail, and if so how you got around the problem? Thanks for your help Lee -- Lee Brink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cornell University --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge

Re: [SM-USERS] Problem using aspell in SquirrelSpell plugin

2003-01-29 Thread Lee Brink
e from aspell, but it's a start. Is anyone using the latest aspell with Squirrelmail? Or am I just flogging myself for giggles? :) Lee On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:07, Rick Updegrove (nuts) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Lee Brink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>