Oden Eriksson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: latest bincimap > > >>>users? Downtime is unaceptable? >> >>About 80 users, downtime unacceptable in the day, and must be minimised >>after hours (some people use webmail from home or overseas). > > > I upgraded a system this morning with 500+ users > (qmail+vpopmail+courier-imap+sqwebmail+maildrop), no migration though. No > sweat.
It's not always the number of users total that counts, but the number of concurrents ... we have 80, and about 50 concurrent most of the day. > > I guess you find a lot of usefull migrating stuf if you go to www.qmail.org > (for maildirs) > I try and stay away from qmail.org ;-). >>Well, primary server (including ldap master, windows domain controller >>amanda etc) is running fine, and the old server is up and running as a >>hot spare with rysnc syncing nightly (we will have to see if rsync can >>keep 130GB of data in sync over 128k ISDN ;-)). So that means we can >>start play^H^H^H^Hworking on the mail server .... > > > Very cool! We still have to see if win** roaming profiles still work on the other side ... but we have disconnected auth (would work nicer if 3c589_cs had working ifplugd ...) on the pilot Mandrake 9.0 laptop running with a local slave ldap on it. All we need now is disconnected file access (intersync? coda? AFS?) to have it work as well as win2k on the laptops :-(. > I guess you ntp first to prevent synthetic time, or maybe it's > not nessesary with rsync? NTP will come, but we're only sync'ing one way at present, so it doesn't really matter. Users don't worry if the file has a timestamp that is out by 1 minute if it means they are guaranteed to have the file available if one office gets destroyed ... >> >>>Well..., back on topic. I would like people to test this new server and > > report > >>>to me their experience. It's very promising. I will test it in > > production > >>>myself this week. >>> >> >>OK, we have a spare box that happens to run cooker, and I have bincimap >>installed but Mozilla don't like it. >> >>1)Do I need to maildirmake ~/Maildir as with courier, and if so how >>(urpmf maildirmake gives courier-imap which conflicts with bincimap :-() > > > I think you can define mailbox in /etc/*.conf if needed. I think I will try courier and binc together in the meantime, courier on my cooker box, bincimap on another, both NFS'ing /home/users off the same server .. at least then I have a maildirmake somewhere. > > >>2)Anything else I need for non-ssl but to bounce xinetd and configure >>/etc/pam.d/checkpassword-pam ? > > > I must admit I know very little how this should be configured (pam), I tried > to look at other packages to give me hints. If all else fails try to use > DJB's "checkpassword" package without pam support and change the xinetd > files, I think vdanen has binaries. > > A pam guru should help out here... I know the odd thing about pam, and our /etc/pam.d/system-auth is setup nicely (so your pam_stack entries should be fine), but you probably only need one auth line, and maybe an account line. I see courier-imap has a session entry, but AFAIK it doesn't actually do session support (I tried to have it use pam_mkhomedir, with a maildir in /etc/skel/Maildir, but that didn't work, so the windows login script connects users to their home on the mail server, and samba, which can be made to require session support, does it for me...). But I don't think it's an auth issue, mozilla hasn't given me a login prompt yet, and this is all I get in /var/log/auth.log: Jan 30 16:59:14 caeisd1 xinetd[11056]: START: imap pid=11238 from=xxx.xxx.xxx.36 >>But mozilla still don't want to play. I guess I should try with something else also (pine etc), but mozilla says: "Mail server caeisd1 is not an IMAP4 mail server" >> >>Are there more docs than 'rpm -qd bincimap' ? > > > This is unknown ground. Maybe I should rename the package to > *0.BETA_QUALITY.1mdk so that people acknowledges it as a software in eary > development. No problem ... someone needs to test it ;-). > > I plan to test run bincimap in my tcpserver+daemontools+qmail+vpopmail env, > not with /etc/passwd or mailbox users. > We're a SME, and most of my clients are also, so account on most of my machines are pam/nss-accessible (local, ldap or winbind). OK, I have courier on my own box and it works fine, on the same ~/Maildir as the machine that has binc, so I'm a bit stuck here .... Time to look for more docs (and I suspect it's going to be the *.cpp kind :-(). Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
