Re: errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...
--On 28. März 2006 02:27:47 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: master[62957]: process started ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: process 62959 exited, status 75 ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: ready for work ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: dbenv-open '/var/spool/imap/db' failed: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: writing /var/spool/imap/db/skipstamp: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: recovering cyrus databases ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap: Permission denied ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: opening /var/spool/imap: cyrusdb error Looks like your permissions are wrong. Everything appears to be working fine, and after doing a 'restart' of the master daemon, I'm not seeing any errors in the log file, so I'm just wondering if its save to assume that the above 'errors' are actually, in fact, benign? If I were you I'd use skiplist for all the databases that are db4 by default ... -- .:.Sebastian Hagedorn - RZKR-R1 (Gebäude 52), Zimmer 18.:. Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK .:.Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587.:. .:.:.:.Skype: shagedorn.:.:.:. pgpe63xbtuTJM.pgp Description: PGP signature Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Problems upgrading from 2.1.18 to 2.2.x
Hello, I am trying to upgrade my version of Cyrus on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine. I was able to use the ports system to successfully upgrade, then followed the instructions on Cyrus' webpage to update the database structure and mailboxes. I believe that that worked; however, when I try to log into the mail server, I am prompted for my password, which it cannot take. Upon closer inspection of the logfile, it is saying that the user is not found. Is this because it is taking the full [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the username and I have not declared a default domain? How may I change this? Below is the relevant log file: Mar 28 07:29:49 list master[19738]: process started Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes .db (225 records, 17660 bytes) in 0 seconds Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: done recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list master[19738]: ready for work Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:30:01 list last message repeated 3 times Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Thanks for all help. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
sync_client stop working suddenly
Hi, my sync_client stopped working since yesterday evening. I have searched around , but no way to make it work again. I tried to stop/start cyrus-imap but it does not help my cyrus-imap version is: 2.3.1 when I do a 'ps' I don't see the 2 'sync_client' I used to have. even when I launch it by hand it does not work: 'sync_client -C /etc/imapd-master.conf -r' and even with verbose I don't see anything. ssl certificates are still there and accessible. on my replica I see this: Mar 28 18:06:16 replica cyrus/master[6804]: process 6862 exited, signaled to death by 7 what could have happened ? Does someone have an idea ? Thank you for you help Patrice Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
cleaning up mailbox.
Hello. I've got next question. My boss want to add next feature to clients. He wants to take possibility to push some kind of button which in action remove all mails from mailbox which are older f.e 7 days. I've read about popexpiretime, but my boss want to do this via configuration panel. So maybe someone could write example IMAP session for this ? Or any other solutions ? Thanks in advance AK Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: pop3 connection timeout lock problem
You may also be running out of randomness... thymine # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 4096 If this number is zero or very low...that could be your problem. /dev/random blocks if there's not enough randomness.../dev/urandom does not. a shot in the dark... Chad P. -- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: sync_client stop working suddenly
Patrice wrote: Hi, my sync_client stopped working since yesterday evening. I have searched around , but no way to make it work again. I tried to stop/start cyrus-imap but it does not help my cyrus-imap version is: 2.3.1 when I do a 'ps' I don't see the 2 'sync_client' I used to have. even when I launch it by hand it does not work: 'sync_client -C /etc/imapd-master.conf -r' and even with verbose I don't see anything. ssl certificates are still there and accessible. on my replica I see this: Mar 28 18:06:16 replica cyrus/master[6804]: process 6862 exited, signaled to death by 7 what could have happened ? Does someone have an idea ? Is sync_server running on the replica? sync_client won't start if it can't connect to sync_server (something that I need to fix). -- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: cleaning up mailbox.
Andrzej Kwiatkowski wrote: Hello. I've got next question. My boss want to add next feature to clients. He wants to take possibility to push some kind of button which in action remove all mails from mailbox which are older f.e 7 days. I've read about popexpiretime, but my boss want to do this via configuration panel. So maybe someone could write example IMAP session for this ? Or any other solutions ? You'll probably want to do something like this in your client: SEARCH BEFORE date STORE sequence from SEARCH response +flags \deleted EXPUNGE You'll have to look at RFC 3501 for details. -- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
big problem: signaled to death by 7
Hello, I have big troubles with my lmtp and imapd process which ends with this error : signaled to death by 7 pop3 is ok can someone help me on this big problem ? best regards Patrice Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: sync_client stop working suddenly
yes, it is working on replica I have this thing into my imapd.log: Mar 28 18:06:16 replica cyrus/master[6804]: process 6862 exited, signaled to death by 7 (just after the TLS connexion) and a telnet on the csync port works well. and I just had one other big problem because this happened on my principal cyrus-imap server , for imapd and lmtpd I had thousand of process exiting with this kind of error: exited, signaled to death by 7 just pop was working. then I have taken the backup from saturday and the mailboxes from today. and now it is working again. what is exactly the 7 signal ? and would be the thing to do to not have this trouble happening again ? ps: the configuration of cyrus-imap haven't been changed for a month. thank you for you help Ken Best Regards Patrice Ken Murchison wrote: Patrice wrote: Hi, my sync_client stopped working since yesterday evening. I have searched around , but no way to make it work again. I tried to stop/start cyrus-imap but it does not help my cyrus-imap version is: 2.3.1 when I do a 'ps' I don't see the 2 'sync_client' I used to have. even when I launch it by hand it does not work: 'sync_client -C /etc/imapd-master.conf -r' and even with verbose I don't see anything. ssl certificates are still there and accessible. on my replica I see this: Mar 28 18:06:16 replica cyrus/master[6804]: process 6862 exited, signaled to death by 7 what could have happened ? Does someone have an idea ? Is sync_server running on the replica? sync_client won't start if it can't connect to sync_server (something that I need to fix). Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Problems upgrading from 2.1.18 to 2.2.x
Okay, after playing around with it for a while, I found that it was in fact a domain mismatch. However, after correcting this, I still come up with an error - it appears to log me in correctly, but the mail client (Thunderbird) then gives an error that the message format is invalid. I ran the database conversion listed in the instructions on the Cyrus webpage. /var/log/messages contains the following: Mar 28 21:45:39 list master[36492]: process started Mar 28 21:45:39 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes .db (225 records, 17588 bytes) in 0 seconds Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: done recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list master[36492]: ready for work Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36494]: checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36494]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:43 list imap[36495]: no user in db Mar 28 21:45:43 list imap[36495]: login: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon.ne t [72.75.20.22] msingerman plaintext User logged in Any ideas what it could be? On 3/28/06, Matt Singerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my version of Cyrus on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine. I was able to use the ports system to successfully upgrade, then followed the instructions on Cyrus' webpage to update the database structure and mailboxes. I believe that that worked; however, when I try to log into the mail server, I am prompted for my password, which it cannot take. Upon closer inspection of the logfile, it is saying that the user is not found. Is this because it is taking the full [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the username and I have not declared a default domain? How may I change this? Below is the relevant log file: Mar 28 07:29:49 list master[19738]: process started Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes .db (225 records, 17660 bytes) in 0 seconds Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: done recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list master[19738]: ready for work Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:30:01 list last message repeated 3 times Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Thanks for all help. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Problems upgrading from 2.1.18 to 2.2.x
Okay, after playing around with it for a while, I found that it was in fact a domain mismatch. However, after correcting this, I still come up with an error - it appears to log me in correctly, but the mail client (Thunderbird) then gives an error that the message format is invalid. I ran the database conversion listed in the instructions on the Cyrus webpage. /var/log/messages contains the following: Mar 28 21:45:39 list master[36492]: process started Mar 28 21:45:39 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes .db (225 records, 17588 bytes) in 0 seconds Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36493]: done recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list master[36492]: ready for work Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36494]: checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:40 list ctl_cyrusdb[36494]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 21:45:43 list imap[36495]: no user in db Mar 28 21:45:43 list imap[36495]: login: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon.ne t [72.75.20.22] msingerman plaintext User logged in Any ideas what it could be? I don't know but I think you should increase verbosity of debug messages so you can find out easier. It's just a guess that somehow your message store is not handled right now, maybe because of wrong dir hashing or something else. Simon On 3/28/06, Matt Singerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade my version of Cyrus on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine. I was able to use the ports system to successfully upgrade, then followed the instructions on Cyrus' webpage to update the database structure and mailboxes. I believe that that worked; however, when I try to log into the mail server, I am prompted for my password, which it cannot take. Upon closer inspection of the logfile, it is saying that the user is not found. Is this because it is taking the full [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the username and I have not declared a default domain? How may I change this? Below is the relevant log file: Mar 28 07:29:49 list master[19738]: process started Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes .db (225 records, 17660 bytes) in 0 seconds Mar 28 07:29:49 list ctl_cyrusdb[19739]: done recovering cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list master[19738]: ready for work Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:50 list ctl_cyrusdb[19740]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:29:53 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: no user in db Mar 28 07:30:01 list last message repeated 3 times Mar 28 07:30:01 list imap[19741]: badlogin: pool-72-75-20-22.washdc.east.verizon .net [72.75.20.22] plaintext [EMAIL PROTECTED] SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed Thanks for all help. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 28. März 2006 02:27:47 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: master[62957]: process started ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: process 62959 exited, status 75 ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: ready for work ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: dbenv-open '/var/spool/imap/db' failed: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: writing /var/spool/imap/db/skipstamp: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: recovering cyrus databases ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap: Permission denied ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: opening /var/spool/imap: cyrusdb error Looks like your permissions are wrong. I think there are no wrong permissions but you simply do verbose logging and when starting with not existing dbs, those logs appear and the dbs are created. However, are you sure you really are using /var/spool/imap for the databases? And, are you sure your cyrus group is cyrus, not mail, which is usually the case. Permissions look okay: # ls -ld /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap/* drwxr-xr-x 10 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 144 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/annotations.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db.backup1 drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 00:30 /var/spool/imap/db.backup2 -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 8192 Mar 28 06:26 /var/spool/imap/deliver.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/log -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 328 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/mailboxes.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/msg drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 11:52 /var/spool/imap/proc drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/ptclient drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:13 /var/spool/imap/socket If I were you I'd use skiplist for all the databases that are db4 by default ... What is skiplist, and what does it give over db4? And, of course, what drawbacks are there to it? It's a database backend usable in cyrus instead of BDB. What it gives you is that it usually works, the drawbacks are that it may be slower than BDB in certain situations. In my case stability is most important and I couldn't find anything to be slower or some kind of increased load when I was swithing to skiplist only. But, the most important thing it gives you is compatibility, you never depend on the BDB version of libs installed on your system and you don't have to care about ondisk format of BDB files. It has been a blessing for me and many others, YMMV. Simon Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Simon Matter wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 28. März 2006 02:27:47 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: master[62957]: process started ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: process 62959 exited, status 75 ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: ready for work ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: dbenv-open '/var/spool/imap/db' failed: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: writing /var/spool/imap/db/skipstamp: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: recovering cyrus databases ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap: Permission denied ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: opening /var/spool/imap: cyrusdb error Looks like your permissions are wrong. I think there are no wrong permissions but you simply do verbose logging and when starting with not existing dbs, those logs appear and the dbs are created. However, are you sure you really are using /var/spool/imap for the databases? Definitely sure, its how I have it defined in my imapd.conf file ... And, are you sure your cyrus group is cyrus, not mail, which is usually the case. Now, this one is how mkimap is setting it up, so I'm pretty sure this is right ... not something I've ever set ... has never caused a problem, and been using cyrus-imapd for, god, 8+ years now ... # ls -ld /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap/* drwxr-xr-x 10 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 144 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/annotations.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db.backup1 drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 00:30 /var/spool/imap/db.backup2 -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 8192 Mar 28 06:26 /var/spool/imap/deliver.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/log -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 328 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/mailboxes.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/msg drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 11:52 /var/spool/imap/proc drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/ptclient drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:13 /var/spool/imap/socket If I were you I'd use skiplist for all the databases that are db4 by default ... What is skiplist, and what does it give over db4? And, of course, what drawbacks are there to it? It's a database backend usable in cyrus instead of BDB. What it gives you is that it usually works, the drawbacks are that it may be slower than BDB in certain situations. In my case stability is most important and I couldn't find anything to be slower or some kind of increased load when I was swithing to skiplist only. But, the most important thing it gives you is compatibility, you never depend on the BDB version of libs installed on your system and you don't have to care about ondisk format of BDB files. It has been a blessing for me and many others, YMMV. 'k, first question .. under what situation would I find it slower? And is it noticeable, or would I have to really be looking for it? And ... were I to go this route ... what's involved in converting an existing installation? Is it relatively easy to do? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Simon Matter wrote: And ... were I to go this route ... what's involved in converting an existing installation? Is it relatively easy to do? Depends on which version of cyrus-imapd you are running. With current versions, the database backends are runtime configurable. DB conversion is done once by hand using cvt_cyrusdb, and you have to configure cyrus accordingly. 'k, I'm currently running 2.2.x ... Now, looking at the man page, I'm not sure how I'd do /var/spool/imap/db itself ... do I run it on each individual file in that directory, or ... ? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: errors with irst attempt at usig db4 for imap backend ...
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Simon Matter wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 28. März 2006 02:27:47 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: master[62957]: process started ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: process 62959 exited, status 75 ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory master[62957]: ready for work ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR db4: /var/spool/imap/db/__db.001: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: dbenv-open '/var/spool/imap/db' failed: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: writing /var/spool/imap/db/skipstamp: No such file or directory ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: init() on skiplist ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: recovering cyrus databases ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap: Permission denied ctl_cyrusdb[62959]: DBERROR: opening /var/spool/imap: cyrusdb error Looks like your permissions are wrong. I think there are no wrong permissions but you simply do verbose logging and when starting with not existing dbs, those logs appear and the dbs are created. However, are you sure you really are using /var/spool/imap for the databases? Definitely sure, its how I have it defined in my imapd.conf file ... And, are you sure your cyrus group is cyrus, not mail, which is usually the case. Now, this one is how mkimap is setting it up, so I'm pretty sure this is right ... not something I've ever set ... has never caused a problem, and been using cyrus-imapd for, god, 8+ years now ... # ls -ld /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap/* drwxr-xr-x 10 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 144 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/annotations.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/db.backup1 drwx-- 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 29 00:30 /var/spool/imap/db.backup2 -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 8192 Mar 28 06:26 /var/spool/imap/deliver.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/log -rw--- 1 cyrus cyrus 328 Mar 29 01:16 /var/spool/imap/mailboxes.db drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/msg drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 11:52 /var/spool/imap/proc drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:12 /var/spool/imap/ptclient drwxr-xr-x 2 cyrus cyrus 512 Mar 28 06:13 /var/spool/imap/socket If I were you I'd use skiplist for all the databases that are db4 by default ... What is skiplist, and what does it give over db4? And, of course, what drawbacks are there to it? It's a database backend usable in cyrus instead of BDB. What it gives you is that it usually works, the drawbacks are that it may be slower than BDB in certain situations. In my case stability is most important and I couldn't find anything to be slower or some kind of increased load when I was swithing to skiplist only. But, the most important thing it gives you is compatibility, you never depend on the BDB version of libs installed on your system and you don't have to care about ondisk format of BDB files. It has been a blessing for me and many others, YMMV. 'k, first question .. under what situation would I find it slower? And is it noticeable, or would I have to really be looking for it? In theory, I've been told, it should be slower for tls_sessions.db and deliver.db. However, I have NEVER seen anything to be slower, even on quite large servers. And ... were I to go this route ... what's involved in converting an existing installation? Is it relatively easy to do? Depends on which version of cyrus-imapd you are running. With current versions, the database backends are runtime configurable. DB conversion is done once by hand using cvt_cyrusdb, and you have to configure cyrus accordingly. Simon Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
