Jesse Keating wrote:
I've personally worked on a project to build a courier email system for a
ISP like company. We run 2~3 front end email servers, tied in to a NFS
backend for mail store. This system handles for approximately 10K users.
What OS/filesystem did you use on your NFS server?
Hi @ll,
i tried to activate the MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE in the authmysqlrc, but it didnt
work. With the standard-parameters everthing works fine, but with the
cutom-select not. In the mysql.log i see, that courier get a connect, but no
query is sent afterwards.
At least for me, the sql-query looks
So I have my 0.42.2 box up-and-running. But, I'm having some issues with
system performance.
In my initial testing, I was able to pump through a 100KB email on SMTP in a
second. That was much better than the 15-20 seconds that my previous
mailserver was putting through. Excellent. So, I complete
On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:19 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
This system handles for approximately 10K users.
But how WELL?
Does it Breath Hard?
Can it be used for anything else (like hosting a few hundred websites,
etc.) ?
Any ideas as to the load average and %age processor usage of the three
mail
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:28:01PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Download: http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php
This is an update to the webmail server.
Changes:
* New, professionally designed icons. Additional navigation buttons.
* sqwebmaild is now a daemon process, that
First, thanks, Sam, for pointing out the error in my configuration file.
While it didn't solve my entire problem, it gave me enough of a leg up that,
as of this moment, I am watching the queue from my old mail server to my
brand-spanking new courier 0.42.2 server slowly dwindle. Let's just say
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:48, Mark Constable wrote:
But Sam, it would be good if we had the option or not of wanting
lists to be foolproofed from autoresponders or simpler for the end
user to deal with. This particular feature is the main reason
I don not use courier-mlm because I do not
On Nov 4, 2003, at 12:58 AM, Richard Houston wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking at putting a courier imap server in to production with a
large amount of users, over 1000, in the near future. I have be asked a
fer time as to how many users can the courier system handle. I will be
using postfix and
Sam wrote:
Since the purpose of the confirmation request is to make sure that the
human being that owns this address actually sent the subscription
request, it obviously won't be very useful to have a confirmation
process that can be easily fooled by an autoresponder.
?? It would take 5 minutes
I hope someone on this list has experience with LDAP.
I'm using Iplanet LDAP 5.1, that comes bundled with Solaris 9.
I'm not sure whether I need openldap libraries for building ldap
support into courier. I did it without installing openldap and
I seem to have authldap module which is linked to
John Belmonte wrote:
Sam wrote:
Since the purpose of the confirmation request is to make sure that
the human being that owns this address actually sent the
subscription request, it obviously won't be very useful to have a
confirmation process that can be easily fooled by an autoresponder.
Richard Houston wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking at putting a courier imap server in to production with a
large amount of users, over 1000, in the near future. I have be asked a
fer time as to how many users can the courier system handle. I will be
using postfix and courier-imap. Could I ask a few of
I have a Courier-IMAP setup and a Postfix MTA
with 3404 accounts on a dual IBM Netfinity type 8665-R6Y.
The server is only a dual 700Mhz machine with 7GB of RAM and a 100GB
RAID volume for IMAP mail.
Yet, 1700 people use it daily. Between 195-240 users are simultaneously connected
between
Tim Hunter wrote:
Its not up to me to accept the patch, but I can see why you want it. In my
opinion its not necessary, but if you insist your users are this ignorant I
cannot argue.
It's not about user ignorance. Computers are supposed to make our lives
easier, not make us jump through hoops.
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:04 am, Tim Hunter wrote:
...
Its not up to me to accept the patch, but I can see why you want it. In my
opinion its not necessary, but if you insist your users are this ignorant I
cannot argue.
The tolerance of half our few thousand typical dialup clients
is a wee blip
I am running version 0.42 created by compiling from source to rpm.
When I try to install a new version of courier using rpm install,
courier gets unhappy.
How do you save your configuration?
I have been deleting the old, installing the new, and doing a total
configuration again.
in the
For some reason I seem unable to get the sender of mailbox full messages
set to a reasonable value.
They keep coming from:
From: Courier mail server at host.domain.com
I have a file etc/dsnfrom that is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 courier courier 55 Oct 13 11:59 dsnfrom
cat dsnfrom:
Mailserver Admin
Hello, Michael J Wise,
100 k/day is like a bit more than 1/s
your almost 1000 k/day would be 10/s
that ain't a lot on average. i think even my crappy 166 MHz box could handle that.
what are your peaks?
=== At 2003-11-03, 21:52:00 you wrote: ===
On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:19 PM, Jesse Keating
I had this problem when I had installed it too. It was working really
well from installation until one weekend, the weekend before it went
into production (wouldn't you know it).
As any good systems engineer would do, before the server went onto the
Internet, I installed a firewall. Hmmm, could
John Belmonte wrote:
Sam wrote:
Since the purpose of the confirmation request is to make sure that the
human being that owns this address actually sent the subscription
request, it obviously won't be very useful to have a confirmation
process that can be easily fooled by an autoresponder.
??
Bürkle wrote:
Hi @ll,
i tried to activate the MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE in the authmysqlrc, but it didnt
work. With the standard-parameters everthing works fine, but with the
cutom-select not. In the mysql.log i see, that courier get a connect, but no
query is sent afterwards.
At least for me, the
John Belmonte wrote:
Tim Hunter wrote:
Computers are supposed to make our lives
easier, not make us jump through hoops. I won't waste user time with a
protection that can be trivially circumvented. If courier's mailing
list manager were popular, do you really think that all malicious
Hi all,
I'm wondering that if is possible (using a type of sharing command) to
sharing the entire mailbox of all users to an admin user (for example,
to remove some determined messages). I know that it's not legal, but one
of my customers are questioned it for me. Case possible, how this user
can
John Belmonte wrote:
It's not about user ignorance. Computers are supposed to make our lives
easier, not make us jump through hoops. I won't waste user time with a
protection that can be trivially circumvented.
It can only be circumvented by the user who's subscribing. If they do
that, then
I'm not sure what you mean by it not being legal but...
Two ways of doing this come to my mind.
1. Either know all of your user's passwords or create duplicate
accounts for your administrator with the same Maildir. (very bad)
Depending on the number of accounts, this could require significant
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On Monday 03 November 2003 23:52, Michael J Wise wrote:
But how WELL?
Does it Breath Hard?
Can it be used for anything else (like hosting a few hundred websites,
etc.) ?
I'd have to ask the other party involved with the project, he's closer to
Mirko Zeibig wrote:
I do not need the fax-package for courier, so I build the rpms on RedHat 9 with
the following command:
rpmbuild -tb --define '_without_fax 1' courier*tar.bz2
Easier to do:
rpmbuild -tb --without fax courier*tar.bz2
Now as the spec-file holds
%define
OK, now I'm replying to my own post, because I got a minute and went
ahead and tried it.
I was able to create a symlink called .alias in my Maildir of my
account. The command I typed is
ln -s /usr/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Maildir/
/usr/mail/my_account/Maildir/.alias
This was all on one line,
David Gomillion wrote:
OK, now I'm replying to my own post, because I got a minute and went
ahead and tried it.
I was able to create a symlink called .alias in my Maildir of my
account. The command I typed is
ln -s /usr/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Maildir/
/usr/mail/my_account/Maildir/.alias
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have the option of using more convenient, less secure software.
There's plenty out there to choose from.
The same argument applies to the use of stupid autoresponders. I don't see why
Courier MLM should require a manual marking of confirmation mails
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have the option of using more convenient, less secure software.
There's plenty out there to choose from.
The same argument applies to the use of stupid autoresponders. I
don't see why Courier MLM should require a manual marking
Shaun Savage writes:
I am running version 0.42 created by compiling from source to rpm.
When I try to install a new version of courier using rpm install,
courier gets unhappy.
Use rpm upgrade instead.
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Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the MLM is going to go through the trouble to verify that a user
really wants to be subscribed, it should do *something* to make sure
that it's not going to interpret a very common problem as confirmation
that a user wants to be subscribed.
Hi,
I made a post about this a week ago and have yet to receive an answer.
It appears my mailserver has managed to get itself listed on dsbl.org's
boycott list (still trying to figure out the breach as according to the
offending mail message, it came via HTTP!!!)
Their standard procedure is
I don't know if anyone else has tripped over this already,
in 0.37.2 (I know, I know, it's old):
In the courier(8) man page, in the section describing the me configuration
file, there is the following text:
Warning: If you change the contents of this configura-
tion file,
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Fabiano Felix wrote:
Hi all,
I'm wondering that if is possible (using a type of sharing command) to
sharing the entire mailbox of all users to an admin user (for example,
to remove some determined messages). I know that it's not legal, but one
If you're a BOFH,
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:16 am, Julian Mehnle wrote:
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the MLM is going to go through the trouble to verify that a user
really wants to be subscribed, it should do *something* to make sure
that it's not going to interpret a very common problem as
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