Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Arno Wald
Timo Sirainen wrote: Hmm. I suppose I could change Dovecot master so that if no imap/pop3 processes have been created yet, it would silently ignore the clock move. Also it might be an idea to just restart dovecot instead of completely stopping it. If this happens to often in a certain time int

[Dovecot] Managesieve

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas E. Deutsch
Hi I've a problem. I've built a new mailserver for our company based on dovecot (1.1.15). At the same time, our company's name has changed. The old mail addresses are forwarded to the new addresses. But I've a problem with sieve. It looks like the sieve filters are only working for the new a

[Dovecot] dovecot auth(default): Master request xxxx.xxxx not found

2009-06-08 Thread Eric Sammons
Hi, Wondering if anyone could give some indication as to where to look for the cause of the following error messages. These error messages seem to occur at about the time when users are having problems logging in. Jun 8 10:33:19 host dovecot: auth(default): Master request . not found U

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Scott Silva wrote: Many startup scripts for ntp make a call to ntpdate or an equivalent to get the time close on startup, then call ntp to keep the clock synced. Hmm. I suppose I could change Dovecot master so that if no imap/pop3 processes have been created ye

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: You could of course also apply Apple's multiple-connections-per- process patch posted to this list some months ago or wait for Snow Leopard which distributes Dovecot with that patch. From what I heard today, Snow is only going to support non P

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: Thanks, I have been looking at those adjustments. My concern, is that if Dovecot uses a process per imap or pop connection, 2048 is not nearly enough for any significant email system. Yes, it

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread David S. Madole
Bruce Bodger wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: > >> Thanks, I have been looking at those adjustments. My concern, is >> that if Dovecot uses a process per imap or pop connection, 2048 is >> not nearly enough for any significant email system. > > There are several parameter

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: Thanks, I have been looking at those adjustments. My concern, is that if Dovecot uses a process per imap or pop connection, 2048 is not nearly enough for any significant email system. Yes, it uses a process per each logged in user. POP3 proce

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Jun 8, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: Thanks, I have been looking at those adjustments. My concern, is that if Dovecot uses a process per imap or pop connection, 2048 is not nearly enough for any significant email system. There are several parameters in dovecot.conf that can be

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Bruce Bodger wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl [kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but can be rais

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl [kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but can be raised to 2500. I believe the OS uses around 100 or

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Bruce Bodger wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl [kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but can be rais

Re: [Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Scott Haneda wrote: I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl [kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but can be raised to 2500. I believe the OS uses around 100 or

[Dovecot] SELinux

2009-06-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
I've temporarily got SELinux set to permissive mode on a fresh install on CentOS 5. It was blocking Dovecot's access to ~/mail because the files were labeled file_t. What's the correct way to label these?

[Dovecot] Login processes in Dovecot

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Haneda
I will be deploying Dovecot on OS X shortly. I am looking for clarification on the limits imposed by OS X and sysctl [kern.maxproc]. I understand that it is defaulting to 532, but can be raised to 2500. I believe the OS uses around 100 or so, plus I will have other processes and shells a

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-6-2009 2:45 PM Harlan Stenn spake the following: > Juergen wrote: >> Harlan wrote: >>> There is no corrected version of the real-time clock before the PC goes >>> online. >> I'd suggest to read chrony's manual. Chrony stores the reference values >> collected while running online for further us

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-6-2009 11:50 AM Scott Haneda spake the following: > Sorry for the top post and lack of snipping this email down, I'm using a > mobile phone. > > Can you explain why the system clock gets so far out of time? I > certainly struggle with crime (time?) drifting even on an always network > connect

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-6-2009 12:52 PM Arno Wald spake the following: > Pascal Volk wrote: >> On Debian systems I'm very happy with the OpenBSD NTP daemon. >> Package: openntpd >> This ntpd adjusts the local time in little steps. > > Also on startup? ntpd uses little steps while running, too. But only at > startup

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

2009-06-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, June 08, 2009 11:05 AM -0400 Charles Marcus wrote: rc5 is the latest... you might wanna try with that first... Thanks. I'll do that as soon as Rawhide catches up. (If it takes too long, I'll patch their source RPM to use RC5.) I'm actually running with a couple patches from M

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

2009-06-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, June 08, 2009 10:09 AM -0700 Timo Sirainen wrote: It's always only the From line that it doesn't like. Do you really have "tss at iki.fi" instead of "t...@iki.fi"? That's why it's not working. It's expecting: From single-word timestamp. That's what's in the file. It's possible I

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Dave McGuire
For what it's worth, I've been running Dovecot (and a whole slew of other stuff) on ZFS for about a year now, but under Solaris, not FreeBSD. Very fast, no stability problems. It's being hit pretty hard and handles it well. Just FYI. -Dave On Jun 8, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Frank B

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

2009-06-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: Getting "Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file" on 1.2rc2 after transferring mail from an ancient 0.99.13 system. The first line of the file looks ok. Curiously, it's one of my archival folders of this list. Here's the first header from the top o

Re: [Dovecot] General performance of RC5

2009-06-08 Thread Joan
It seems to be when reading all the subfolders, hich was very quick in RC4. I will do your proposal of running strace for further details Timo Sirainen wrote: On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Joan wrote: Switiching to RC5, there is a visible decrease in performance to access via IMAP large accou

[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file issues (Corrupted physical size)

2009-06-08 Thread Brent Bloxam
Hello, I'm running Dovecot 1.1.13 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and I'm receiving a large number of errors much like the following: dovecot: Jun 08 09:27:04 Error: IMAP(x...@x.x): Corrupted index cache file /nfs/x.x/x/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Corrupted physical size for uid=2284: 5312 != 5217 d

Re: [Dovecot] Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file

2009-06-08 Thread Charles Marcus
On 6/8/2009, Kenneth Porter (sh...@sewingwitch.com) wrote: > Getting "Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file" on 1.2rc2 rc5 is the latest... you might wanna try with that first... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Dillon Kass
Since 7.2 the only "tuning" I have been doing is raising my kmem size so I can have a larg arc_max. I've been using 2gb arc_max with 2.8G kmem size. I haven't done any detailed tests but ZFS loves it's arc. You should read this http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=979 Check this

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2 + AIX setups

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Is anyone running Dovecot on AIX? I'm trying to debug the "Corrupted index cache file... record points outside file" problem. I can give gory details about what I've tried, but for now I would just like to see setups on AIX. Thanks, Jonathan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic sig

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-08 Thread Stewart Dean
I have been running AIX, IBM's Unix on IBM hardware for years but am being forced into Lintel, mostly because of IBM hollowing out support, moving to a Fortune 500 only customer base and leaving the small shop increasingly SOL. One of the realities of Lintel is that the hardware is, compared

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Johan Hendriks
Proskurin Kirill schreef: Johan Hendriks wrote: Proskurin Kirill schreef: Hello all. We run it in an test case also, with no problems till now. We have about 200 mailboxes, not much i know. We have mailboxes with more than 5 messages, and it all works well. No problems after the normal

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Johan Hendriks wrote: Proskurin Kirill schreef: Hello all. We run it in an test case also, with no problems till now. We have about 200 mailboxes, not much i know. We have mailboxes with more than 5 messages, and it all works well. No problems after the normal kernel Tuning. Could you sa

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Johan Hendriks
Proskurin Kirill schreef: Hello all. We run it in an test case also, with no problems till now. We have about 200 mailboxes, not much i know. We have mailboxes with more than 5 messages, and it all works well. No problems after the normal kernel Tuning. Could you say what tuning do you us

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. We run it in an test case also, with no problems till now. We have about 200 mailboxes, not much i know. We have mailboxes with more than 5 messages, and it all works well. No problems after the normal kernel Tuning. Could you say what tuning do you use and why? -- Best regards

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Johan Hendriks
Frank Bonnet schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thanks for the feedback ! I'll plan to run it at 7.2 and of course certainly not on a production server without numerous tests ! Dino Ming wrote: Just to let you guys know, I have nightmare with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thanks for the feedback ! I'll plan to run it at 7.2 and of course certainly not on a production server without numerous tests ! Dino Ming wrote: > Just to let you guys know, I have nightmare with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE + ZFS. > It brought to me

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + FreeBSD-7.2 + ZFS ?

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geoffroy Desvernay wrote: > Frank Bonnet a écrit : >> Hello >> >> Anyons has tested this configuration with success ? >> >> I'll test it in few days and I am wondering if I am alone :-) >> > Not ZFS, but various combinations of dovecot 1.1.15+FreeBSD(7

Re: [Dovecot] General performance of RC5

2009-06-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jun 7, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Joan wrote: Switiching to RC5, there is a visible decrease in performance to access via IMAP large accounts (>1G) with mutiple mailboxes per accounts. In RC4, there was no delay visible by a human when accessing locally. Now it takes up to 4 or 5 secs. When