Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fre, 2009-12-18 at 18:32 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 12/18/2009, JW (j...@mailsw.com) wrote: > > I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux: > > You also forgot the bare neceesities, like dovecot version, dovecot -n > output and log entries exhibiting the problem. And fo

Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8

2009-12-18 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:31:02 +0100 > Von: Stephan Bosch > An: Dovecot Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve > v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8 > Steve wrote: > > >> Well, I got sued, so that took some o

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/18/2009, JW (j...@mailsw.com) wrote: > I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux: You also forgot the bare neceesities, like dovecot version, dovecot -n output and log entries exhibiting the problem. I'm actually amazed at how many people post on support lists and say 'He

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Mario Antonio wrote: > JW wrote:You could try: > /etc/security/limits.conf > > > > your_dovecot_user soft nofile 524288 > your_dovecot_user hard nofile 524288 I think these are read by PAM when user logs in. Dovecot never uses them. I'm not sure if even setting ro

Re: [Dovecot] expire db(s)?

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:57 PM, b...@electricembers.net wrote: > with two separate dovecot/backend servers accessing one central mysql server, > will it be ok to have them both use the same expires table? Or will that > confuse the actual > dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Mario Antonio
JW wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009 16:00:48 Timo Sirainen wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote: I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions to increase ulimit. I've done this a number of times, all the way up to: ulimit -n 8192 I've put that in

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:46 PM, JW wrote: > I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux: > > >echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME" >ulimit -n 8192 >start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON Well, this seemed to work in Debian unstable.. So maybe

[Dovecot] expire db(s)?

2009-12-18 Thread ben
with two separate dovecot/backend servers accessing one central mysql server, will it be ok to have them both use the same expires table? Or will that confuse the actual dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh cronjob since some of the entries mailboxes won't exist loc

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread JW
On Friday 18 December 2009 16:00:48 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote: > > I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions > > to increase ulimit. > > > > I've done this a number of times, all the way up to: > > > > ulimit -n 8192 > > > > I've pu

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote: > I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions to > increase ulimit. > > I've done this a number of times, all the way up to: > > ulimit -n 8192 > > I've put that in the init script right above the daemon start line. What exac

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir on NFS - attribute caching question

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Brandon Davidson wrote: > The Wiki article on NFS states that 1.1 and newer will flush attribute > caches if necessary with mail_nfs_storage=yes. We're running 1.2.8 with > that set, as well as mail_nfs_index=yes, mmap_disable=yes and > fsync_disable=no. We have a poo

[Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-12-18 Thread JW
In the past few months we've been having increasing problems with dovecot timing out pop3 logins. As best I can tell it gets to the point where it won't accept any new pop3 logins. The error in the mail log is: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files I've researched this problem a number

[Dovecot] Maildir on NFS - attribute caching question

2009-12-18 Thread Brandon Davidson
Hi Timo, We've been running Dovecot with Maildir on NFS for quite a while - since back in the 1.0 days I believe. I'm somewhat new here. Anyway... The Wiki article on NFS states that 1.1 and newer will flush attribute caches if necessary with mail_nfs_storage=yes. We're running 1.2.8 with that s

Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8

2009-12-18 Thread Stephan Bosch
Steve wrote: Well, I got sued, so that took some of my attention. How did it end for you? I hope, I wish it ended good for you? Yes, for some reason the lawsuit was withdrawn the day before, probably due to our written defense. I don't know. At least it's gone for now. Regards, Stephan.

Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8

2009-12-18 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:21:21 +0100 > Von: Stephan Bosch > An: Bruce Bodger > CC: Dovecot Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve > v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8 > Bruce Bodger wrote: > > > > On Nov 25

Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8

2009-12-18 Thread Stephan Bosch
Bruce Bodger wrote: On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote: Hello Dovecot users, I am getting closer to new releases for Sieve and ManageSieve for Dovecot v1.2.8. However, the release for Sieve includes a large restructuring of the sources to improve extension handling and to rem

Re: [Dovecot] Release candidates for Sieve v0.1.14 and ManageSieve v0.11.10 for Dovecot v1.2.8

2009-12-18 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote: Hello Dovecot users, I am getting closer to new releases for Sieve and ManageSieve for Dovecot v1.2.8. However, the release for Sieve includes a large restructuring of the sources to improve extension handling and to remove global state.

Re: [Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

2009-12-18 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4 GB ... (historicaly grown ...) >>> Have you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes? >> grep mbox_very_dirty_syncs /etc/dovecot.con

Re: [Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: >>> We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4 >>> GB ... (historicaly grown ...) >> >> Have you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes? > > grep mbox_very_dirty_syncs /etc/dovecot.conf > #mbox_very_dirty_syn

Re: [Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

2009-12-18 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi Timo, Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > >> But the mailclients (mostly thunderbird and apple mail) still reporte >> the timeouts by accessing the mailboxes. >> >> The server is doing smtp, imap/pop3, webmailsystem and >> spam/antivir

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql

2009-12-18 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Dec 18, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On tor 17 dec 2009 21:30:37 CET, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote Most everything seems to work but my webmail (roundcube) clients are not seeing their subscribed folders. roundcube 0.3.1 > settings > server settings > Use IMAP Subscriptions (to

Re: [Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > But the mailclients (mostly thunderbird and apple mail) still reporte > the timeouts by accessing the mailboxes. > > The server is doing smtp, imap/pop3, webmailsystem and > spam/antivirus-checking all together. (RH EL 5, sendm

[Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

2009-12-18 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, since some time ago we do have a lot of "timeouts" connecting to our imap/po3 server. This week I switched the whole system to a new dual quadcore xeon, 24GB RAM, SAS2 RAID-10. (SUN Fire 4170) But the mailclients (mostly thunderbird and apple mail) still reporte the timeouts by accessing the

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tor 17 dec 2009 21:30:37 CET, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote Most everything seems to work but my webmail (roundcube) clients are not seeing their subscribed folders. roundcube 0.3.1 > settings > server settings > Use IMAP Subscriptions (togle) -- xpoint pgpR5bCrVR5rM.pgp Description: PGP dig

Re: [Dovecot] imap-login crashes after upgrade to Dovecot 1.2.8 Linux 64-bit

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Wakelin
On 18/12/2009 15:08, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> We have something in the >> region of 1000 concurrent connections and login_max_processes_count * >> login_max_connections = 128 * 256 should be enough for 32000+ of them! >> >> Would it be better to have login_max_connections = 1024 (or even higher)? >

Re: [Dovecot] imap-login crashes after upgrade to Dovecot 1.2.8 Linux 64-bit

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:56 +, Chris Wakelin wrote: > > I guess the crash is caused by the "connection queue full". I'll see about > > fixing the crash, but you shouldn't let it get full in any case. So > > increase your login_max_connections value. > > > > That's puzzling, I thought it was

Re: [Dovecot] imap-login crashes after upgrade to Dovecot 1.2.8 Linux 64-bit

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Wakelin
On 18/12/2009 01:11, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Chris Wakelin wrote: > >>> Dec 18 00:27:58 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Connection queue full (auth >>> failed, 1 attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=, >>> lip=134.225.32.156, TLS >>> Dec 18 00:27:58 imap-login: Panic: f

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Daniel Campos wrote: > We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS > system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using > Dovecot+EXIM. > > As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement > locki

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking

2009-12-18 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 18 Dez 2009, Daniel Campos wrote: We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using Dovecot+EXIM. As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement locking allowing multipl

[Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel Campos
Hi all: We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using Dovecot+EXIM. As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement locking allowing multiple servers to access the same maildi