Re: [Dovecot] auth processes

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/18/2010 9:17 AM: On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 08:16 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: With 1.0.15 my configuration I a single dovecot-auth process, which is what I want now. Since upgrading to 1.2.10 I have two such processes: root 16992 16990 0 Feb15 ?00:00:00

Re: [Dovecot] auth processes

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/18/2010 12:54 PM: Hmm. You could try setting auth_worker_max_request_count=1 to see if that gets rid of the processes after they've handled the request. Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotError: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1:

Re: [Dovecot] auth processes

2010-02-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Eric Rostetter put forth on 2/18/2010 3:21 PM: Quoting Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/18/2010 12:54 PM: Hmm. You could try setting auth_worker_max_request_count=1 to see if that gets rid of the processes after they've handled the request. Restarting

Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ashley M. Kirchner put forth on 2/17/2010 9:46 AM: Hi Ashley, sorry no one had tried to help you yet. I'm not a dovecot expert, just a user, but I'll try to help. But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can

Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability

2010-02-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ed W put forth on 2/17/2010 12:25 PM: I think Stan pretty much covered how to do this stuff *properly*, At least for a VMware ESX + SAN environment, yes. however, for those following along in the bedroom, there are a couple of interesting projects what might get you some of the ESX features

Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability

2010-02-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne Thursby put forth on 2/15/2010 11:42 PM: Hello everyone, Note domain in my email addy Wayne. ;) I have been looking at the Dell EqualLogic stuff and it seems to provide what we need. I can get most of the information I need from the rep, but I wonder if anyone has any experience with

Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability

2010-02-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dominik Schulz put forth on 2/16/2010 3:33 AM: Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 06:42:57 schrieb Wayne Thursby: We are transitioning other services to high availability, and I'm wondering exactly how to provide some kind of near-realtime failover for my Postfix/Dovecot machine. The MD-1000 provides

[Dovecot] auth processes

2010-02-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
With 1.0.15 my configuration I a single dovecot-auth process, which is what I want now. Since upgrading to 1.2.10 I have two such processes: root 16992 16990 0 Feb15 ?00:00:00 dovecot-auth root 16997 16990 0 Feb15 ?00:00:00 dovecot-auth -w I can't seem to tweak

Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability

2010-02-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne Thursby put forth on 2/16/2010 9:42 AM: I was planning on using EqualLogic because the devices seem competent, and we already have an account with Dell. Also, being on VMware's HCL is important as we have a support contract with them. Using the standard Gbe ports on the servers won't

Re: [Dovecot] [RCU] Dovecot managesieve

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank Bonnet put forth on 2/15/2010 3:21 AM: Well I've looked forward into the wiki and did not found my server have only system users ( no virtual domain ) and the wiki says : System users If you wish you use deliver for all system users on a single domain mail host you can do it by

[Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Upgraded from Debian Dovecot 1.0.15 to Debian Dovecot 1.2.10-1~bpo50+1. I use Postfix local delivery to and Dovecot mbox. As per upgrade directions, I stopped dovecot processes and deleted all dovecot.index.cache files in /home/%user/mail/.imap. Performed upgrade to 1.2.10-1~bpo50+1. Modified

Re: [Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/15/2010 8:18 AM: On 15.2.2010, at 16.14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Upgraded from Debian Dovecot 1.0.15 to Debian Dovecot 1.2.10-1~bpo50+1. Problem: Instantly noticed in TB 3.0.1 Win32 that all emails in all folders were marked as unread. This is a Thunderbird bug

Re: [Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/15/2010 8:58 AM: On 15.2.2010, at 16.51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This is a Thunderbird bug and there have been several threads about this here. Basically the fix is to disable CONDSTORE support in Thunderbird until 3.0.2 is released. I guess I should have paid

Re: [Dovecot] [RCU] Dovecot managesieve

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank Bonnet put forth on 2/15/2010 4:30 AM: mail_privileged_group=mail in dovecot.conf and I think you''ll be good to go. it's already set ... Hmm BTW what kind of locking are you using ? I do not use NFS and all files are located on local disks I use pretty much the dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/15/2010 9:26 AM: On 15.2.2010, at 17.23, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.2.2010, at 17.15, Stan Hoeppner wrote: One last question on this TB condstore bug: Does this affect both mbox and maildir, i.e. it's a pure IMAP protocol handling bug, or is it specific

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot+Postfix+Maildir with ActiveDirectory userbase

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne Thursby put forth on 2/15/2010 10:24 AM: My Setup: Postfix and Dovecot running on the same virtual machine on a Dell 2950 with 1x Xeon E5440 on ESXi 4. Maildirs served up by 10x146GB SCSI drives on RAID-10 via direct attached Dell MD-1000. Interesting setup Wayne. Serving 600+ users,

Re: [Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

2010-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/15/2010 11:19 AM: Well, the issue is, with mbox, you can decide if the name you create: a) can hold child mailboxes, or messages or b) messages, and no mailboxes it makes more sense when you think about them as directories and files. WIth mbox a mailbox

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

2010-02-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/14/2010 1:31 PM: On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 01:16 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: If you use maildir format mailboxen, you physically can't run into a write lock contention between the MTA and the imap process because the MTA writes every new email to a new file name

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/13/2010 11:40 AM: On 13.2.2010, at 17.48, Stefan Foerster wrote: 1) Use a HA shared storage, export either a cluster filesystem or NFS, and have your dovecot servers mount that file system. Load balance these servers (Cisco ACE, ldirectord, ...) and there you go.

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Eric Rostetter put forth on 2/13/2010 8:39 PM: This ignores the delivery of mail to the user (again, not so bad for maildir but a killer for mbox). If the delivery is on a separate box than dovecot your can have lock contention... You attach the inbound MTA to the FC switch, export the LUN

Re: [Dovecot] fts squat - webmail, fastcgi timeout: SOLR the answer?

2010-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
mailingli...@belfin.ch put forth on 2/10/2010 3:01 AM: And the other question is, is there any mail user agent that would support server-side full text indexing and not create own indexes? Thunderbird. Maybe all MUAs? Usually with smartly designed MUAs body searches are left to the IMAP

[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 to 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1

2010-02-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
System: Debian 5.0.4 Lenny Kernel: custom 2.6.31.1 built from kernel.org source Dovecot:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 Available: 1.2.9-1~bpo50+1 Mailbox format: mbox Storage location: /home/$user/mail/ on ext2 fs Delivery:

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with thunderbird 3 ( messages mark unread after being read )

2010-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Christian Rohmann put forth on 2/8/2010 7:35 AM: No, the Problem is on TB's aka Mozilla's side. Downgrading to 3.0.0 should not help at all. The CONSTORE command is not handled correctly by TB, see Mozilla-bug 540554: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554 I had this problem

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP in 2.0: concurrency, inet sockets

2010-02-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stefan Foerster put forth on 2/7/2010 6:39 AM: * Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On 3.2.2010, at 9.41, Stefan Foerster wrote: What about concurrent deliviers? As of now, when using the deliver LDA together with Postfix, you have to make sure that only one recipient is passed to deliver at a time,

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox compression

2010-02-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 2/5/2010 6:36 PM: So, compressed mdboxes take 8.5% less space. This was with regular gzip compression with default level. With bzip2 -9 compression the difference was 10%. Any thoughts on if 8-10% is significant enough improvement to make seeking performance

Re: [Dovecot] Forcibly emptying a POP3 mailbox

2010-02-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Răzvan Sandu put forth on 2/4/2010 5:39 AM: I need a way of automatically performing the DELE command at server level, just after a POP3 user *succesfully* downloaded his messages via POP3... And this is going to really upset customers who access a single POP account from a work PC, a home

Re: [Dovecot] leave mail on server workaround

2010-01-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kirill Miazine put forth on 1/10/2010 11:28 AM: Actually this is a wish of one customer, so I'm trying to figure out how much pain it will be do support such scenario. One customer? Why is s/he requesting this? AFAIK, all POP clients default to delete after download. And even if there is

Re: [Dovecot] leave mail on server workaround

2010-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kirill Miazine put forth on 1/9/2010 6:34 PM: Hello, POP users often keep fetched mail on server, by checking for leave mail on server or similar option in their client. What would be the best way to disallow them using such approach. Implement storage quotas. I'd make the policy known

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed s o far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:23:50 -0500, Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com wrote: On 1/6/2010 11:38 AM, Steve wrote: An advice on another nice Web enabled mail client? Have you looked at SOGo? Have a look at their online demo - http://www.scalableogo.org/tour/online_demo.html It has more to

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot (IMAP) Hangs sometimes

2010-01-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:08:54 -0200, Mario Gomide mariogom...@gmail.com wrote: Webmail is in localhost and connects locally also with SSL. The problem starts when webmail takes long to authenticate and show folders and stuff. After a while it times out and doesn't connect. Any ideas? It may

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Abrahams put forth on 1/5/2010 1:44 PM: At Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:08:22 +0100, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote: Welcome! Have a look at RoundCube webmail. I used to use squirrelmail but had the same issues as you. RoundCube is very nice. I second that emotion After a bit of

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 1/5/2010 1:32 AM: On 5.1.2010, at 7.44, Stan Hoeppner wrote: As we can see from the 1% I/O wait on CPU0 and 0% on CPU1, it's seems pretty clear that the CPUs are being occupied by the dovecot search code, not by disk I/O. v1.1+ has somewhat faster search code

[Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Greetings everyone, I'm new to the list as of today. I just installed Dovecot a couple of days ago for the first time, Debian Lenny Dovecot v1.0.15-2.3. So far I'm pretty impressed. I'm using mbox format with Dovecot auto-deciding to place mail in user home directories, which is great. It

Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

2010-01-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rick Romero put forth on 1/4/2010 3:14 PM: Are you sure the CPU is pegged from CPU and not disk I/O? I used to import 160GB of InnoDB data on a quad core (U320/RAID 10) and after the cache would fill up, only 1 core would show as pegged because the disk I/O wasn't fast enough. Seems like

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