[vchkpw] Domain limits
Hi, Yes I know they are Broken, however... I saw a recent post (I think on this list) claiming it works to 2G, is this the case? In other words, If I wanted to introduce a low cost Email only plan, that allows them to have unlimited email accounts and aliases but cant occupy more than 2G of disk space, will this in fact actually work? Is this the only thing that it is broken with, not being able to exceed 2G ? Thanks Q
RE: [vchkpw] Domain limits
Hey; -Original Message- From: Quey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:57 PM To: vpopmail-list Subject: [vchkpw] Domain limits Hi, Yes I know they are Broken, however... I saw a recent post (I think on this list) claiming it works to 2G, is this the case? In other words, If I wanted to introduce a low cost Email only plan, that allows them to have unlimited email accounts and aliases but cant occupy more than 2G of disk space, will this in fact actually work? Is this the only thing that it is broken with, not being able to exceed 2G ? I actually used domain limits for about a year. This was on a fairly busy set of servers, and I couldn't figure out why the load was always so high on the servers and there was so much network traffic. Domain limits are horrible. On every message that goes through the system, vpopmail adds up the size of all the messages in all the mailboxes. I'm still not sure why it's even a configuration option still... If you want to provide a domain wide limit, use the kernels quota tools and create the domain with a unique user ID. It's pretty well documented in the archives of the list. HTH, Tren
Re: [vchkpw] Domain limits
Hi Tren, Tren Blackburn wrote: Hey; -Original Message- From: Quey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:57 PM To: vpopmail-list Subject: [vchkpw] Domain limits Hi, Yes I know they are Broken, however... I saw a recent post (I think on this list) claiming it works to 2G, is this the case? In other words, If I wanted to introduce a low cost Email only plan, that allows them to have unlimited email accounts and aliases but cant occupy more than 2G of disk space, will this in fact actually work? Is this the only thing that it is broken with, not being able to exceed 2G ? I actually used domain limits for about a year. This was on a fairly busy set of servers, and I couldn't figure out why the load was always so high on the servers and there was so much network traffic. Domain limits are horrible. On every message that goes through the system, vpopmail adds up the size of all the messages in all the mailboxes. I'm still not sure why it's even a configuration option still... Ahhh bugger, thanks, it makes sense Cheers Q If you want to provide a domain wide limit, use the kernels quota tools and create the domain with a unique user ID. It's pretty well documented in the archives of the list. HTH, Tren
Re: [vchkpw] Domain limits
Tren Blackburn wrote: Hey; -Original Message- From: Quey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:57 PM To: vpopmail-list Subject: [vchkpw] Domain limits Hi, Yes I know they are Broken, however... I saw a recent post (I think on this list) claiming it works to 2G, is this the case? In other words, If I wanted to introduce a low cost Email only plan, that allows them to have unlimited email accounts and aliases but cant occupy more than 2G of disk space, will this in fact actually work? Is this the only thing that it is broken with, not being able to exceed 2G ? I actually used domain limits for about a year. This was on a fairly busy set of servers, and I couldn't figure out why the load was always so high on the servers and there was so much network traffic. Domain limits are horrible. On every message that goes through the system, vpopmail adds up the size of all the messages in all the mailboxes. I'm still not sure why it's even a configuration option still... Changelog 5.4.12 - released 4-Jul-04 Tom Collins - configure: remove enable-domainquotas option until the domain quota code is fixed. If you can show me it is back, I'll delete it again. I don't see it in ./configure --help for 5.4.20 though... Don't hold your breath on a fix. Someone has to figure out how to stop the system hogging effect of enabling domain quotas on an existing machine that does not already use it. This problem shows up as a self-inflicted DOS attack on your server when every message received results in the file usage of its domain. I would have expected it to level out once it finally had totals in place for all maildirs, but Tren's experience seems to show that is false. I think we can safely say that domain quotas within vpopmail are dead, and if you need them follow Tren's advice below... If you want to provide a domain wide limit, use the kernels quota tools and create the domain with a unique user ID. It's pretty well documented in the archives of the list.
RE: [vchkpw] Domain limits
Hey Rick; -Original Message- From: Rick Widmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 6:02 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Domain limits Tren Blackburn wrote: Hey; -Original Message- From: Quey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:57 PM To: vpopmail-list Subject: [vchkpw] Domain limits Hi, Yes I know they are Broken, however... I saw a recent post (I think on this list) claiming it works to 2G, is this the case? In other words, If I wanted to introduce a low cost Email only plan, that allows them to have unlimited email accounts and aliases but cant occupy more than 2G of disk space, will this in fact actually work? Is this the only thing that it is broken with, not being able to exceed 2G ? I actually used domain limits for about a year. This was on a fairly busy set of servers, and I couldn't figure out why the load was always so high on the servers and there was so much network traffic. Domain limits are horrible. On every message that goes through the system, vpopmail adds up the size of all the messages in all the mailboxes. I'm still not sure why it's even a configuration option still... Changelog 5.4.12 - released 4-Jul-04 Tom Collins - configure: remove enable-domainquotas option until the domain quota code is fixed. If you can show me it is back, I'll delete it again. I don't see it in ./configure --help for 5.4.20 though... Good to see...I assumed that since someone was asking about them, it was still an option. My bad. Don't hold your breath on a fix. Someone has to figure out how to stop the system hogging effect of enabling domain quotas on an existing machine that does not already use it. This problem shows up as a self-inflicted DOS attack on your server when every message received results in the file usage of its domain. I would have expected it to level out once it finally had totals in place for all maildirs, but Tren's experience seems to show that is false. There isn't any way, unless you decided to only do the counts at certain intervals or times of day...one of the domains had about 500 users, and a bunch of them had 1GB+ mailboxes. We had delivery times of up to 15 minutes. I tell ya I kicked myself when I finally tracked it down. Disk space is cheap now so quota isn't quite as big an issue as it used to be. It can be more hassle to enforce quota then to just buy another disk array. I think we can safely say that domain quotas within vpopmail are dead, and if you need them follow Tren's advice below... If you want to provide a domain wide limit, use the kernels quota tools and create the domain with a unique user ID. It's pretty well documented in the archives of the list. Thanks for the correction Rick, I'll sleep better knowing domain quotas won't haunt anyone else. Regards, Tren
[vchkpw] Vpopmail-5.4.20 and Courier-imap/authlib
Good day list, I am new to vpopmail, although no newcomer to qmail and courier-imap. I am bringing up a new mail server under NetBSD-3.1-i386 and thus far I have vpopmail-5.4.20 playing nicely with maildrop/SpamAssassin, and now am on to seting up courier-imap. I took a look at the faq wish pointed me to a version of courier-imap on inter7 that I do not seem to be locating. So I turned my attentions to compiling courier-authlib with authvchkpw. With a little fiddling about I got it to compile with the following warning: *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lvpopmail. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libvpopmail and none of the candidates passed a file format test *** using a regex pattern. Last file checked: /usr/lib//libvpopmail.a *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library *** dependencies of module libauthvchkpw. Therefore, libtool will create *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening *** application is linked with the -dlopen flag. The build did complete and install, and it did build a static module but it is not able to load it: Sep 3 19:33:37 ScrewLoose authdaemond: Shared object libauthvchkpw.a not found So, after some poking about on the web I decided to post here and benefit from some wisdom as to the best path to making peace with all this. TIA for any direction you can give. -Len [EMAIL PROTECTED]
