Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-26 Thread Tim Traver
On 3/17/2010 1:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:19 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: Since Exim wouldn't be touching the index files, is it safe to leave exim as-is and let it handle the deliveries to the maildirs natively? Exim's already got access to everything it needs

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-05-26 1:21 PM, Mark Moseley wrote: I've attached a slightly cropped rrd graph of NFS read bytes/sec on 6 mail netapps from one of our datacenters. See if you can spot where we started moving IMAP to dovecot over the course of about a month :) Wow, that's impressive... we had similar

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-05-25 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mark Moseley moseleym...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: snip I don't know if anyone has run local indexes in larger setups, so I can't really give any good answers. The worst case of rebuilding the whole index

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
First off, thanks for the reply. I appreciate it greatly! On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at.

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Tony Rutherford
On 3/16/2010 7:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. Yes, hopefully it's coming soon :) * Our #1 main motivation for

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:15 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: * Our #1 main motivation for looking Dovecot is relief for our currently overtaxed NFS servers, mostly in the form of the index files. Benchmarking dovecot looks great, even with the index files in the maildir. Have you read the

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
Oops, forgot to ask one other thing On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: snip * Exim: We currently deliver all of our mail via Exim on separate servers. Our POP3/IMAP servers only do POP3/IMAP and the Exim mail

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:19 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: Since Exim wouldn't be touching the index files, is it safe to leave exim as-is and let it handle the deliveries to the maildirs natively? Exim's already got access to everything it needs including the quota. I just want to make sure I

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tony Rutherford t...@bluetie.com wrote: On 3/16/2010 7:36 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at.

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:27 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: I'll definitely keep that in mind. I should be able to keep things pretty segregated in terms of POP3 alone or IMAP alone but my big worry is that Courier POP3+Dovecot IMAP scenario. I know a large installation that was (is?) using

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Moseley
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:15 -0700, Mark Moseley wrote: From the wiki and from the thread, it sounds like this just affects index files. One thing I didn't see in the thread (though it'd be easy to miss in a thread that long)

[Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Moseley
Hello to the list! I've been asked to spec out the feasibility and, if feasible, plan a migration from Courier to Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP for about 4 million mailboxes. I've been trying to absorb all the dovecot-related info I could over the past couple of weeks from the docs and from the

Re: [Dovecot] Overly long email of miscellaneous Dovecot migration questions

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2010, at 1.01, Mark Moseley wrote: * Since Dovecot 2.0 seems like it's just around the corner, that's all I've been testing, and indeed all I've even looked at. Yes, hopefully it's coming soon :) * Our #1 main motivation for looking Dovecot is relief for our currently overtaxed NFS