"Justin M. Streiner" wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
> > I just thought I would throw this out to the crowd to see if anyone is
> > interested:
>
> I'm very interested in hearing more about this. We currently run Cyrus on
> our primary production mail server and the three biggest points of
> slowdown are 1) having to deal with pwcheck (we don't run Kerberos, plus
> Solaris' password caching is pretty worthless), 2) dealing with the
> delivery database and doing frequent updates to the mailboxes file. It
> looks like your patches will take care of 1) pretty nicely. Right now to
> support our customers we're seeing an average of 1.5 passwd/shadow lookups
> per second, with peaks as high as 10 per second. That's what makes
> Solaris' caching pretty useless to me :-)
>
> I wouldn't mind testing them out on one of our development boxes, however
> we've recently made the decision to abandon Cyrus in favor of a Maildir
> system with some directory-hashing tricks and eventually replacing the
> authentication system so /etc/passwd is no longer the primary method.
> That said, we won't be running Cyrus in production for much longer. Also,
> have you posted this to the Cyrus list? I know of a few people there who
> would be very interested in hearing about this.
>
> jms
The RPMS/SRPMS for the qmail/cyrus package can now be found at:
http://www.periapt.com/qmail-cyrus/
There's also a cursory set of INSTALL instructions.
What is the list address for the Cyrus group? I didn't see one on the
homepage, and I've
tried mailing the general address for inquiries and help and no one answered.
I haven't posted anything to the Cyrus group. I only made the patch a couple
of days ago. The Exchange server crashed at work and somebody asked me to fix
it, I replied: not a chance. I told them if they wanted me to take care of
the mail they would have to let me use qmail (and drop the NT server from a
very high precipice onto a seething mass of Microsoft Certified
Professionals). I had to do a little song and dance, so I think we'll be
using
qmail next week ... but doesn't anyone know how to mass convert Exchange
format mail to any unix type mail box? That will be a problem I'm sure.
jason
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