Re: Long term offline mail retention

2011-01-22 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: i manage email (and practically everything else) for a medium sized university department. recently i've been informed that we're adopting a three-year retention policy for email. we're allowed to keep things for longer than that, so i'm not

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-18 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: I think the issue you will encounter first is clients will start to fall down when folders exceed a 'reasonable' number of messages. Common IMAP clients I've seen start to exhibit severe performance issues beyond a few hundred thousand

Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

2010-11-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Dave McMurtrie wrote: This may be slightly off-topic, so apologies in advance. Is there anyone out there who allows unlimited quota for their users or provides extremely large quotas when asked for? What do you regard as extremely large? 10GB, 100GB, 1TB, ...?

Re: Tcpwrapper does not work?

2010-10-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Fri, 08 Oct 2010, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Strange, in the manual of tcp-wrappers they say you need to use the processname... If you use bacula you'll find the same thing. If you run a bacula file daemon, the process name will be bacula-fd but you might call it doodles in the

Re: Using mbox2cyrus.pl

2010-10-07 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Patrick Goetz wrote: I have a few mbox files that I need to transfer to cyrus (one relatively large ~3MB). I downloaded the perl script mbox2cyrus.pl, and looked over the code, and I'm not confident that this will work for a system with unixhierarchysep: yes

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Nik Conwell wrote: Isn't the easy hack for dedup just looking at the above md5 files and then doing appropriate hard links? This could be done by a nightly trawl of the spool space. A bigger win would be to separate the headers from the messages but that's a lot

Re: Importing/moving an older cyrus message tree into a new system, without IMAP

2010-09-14 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I have an older system that crashed - cyrus version is a couple years or so old. I have 1000's of messages in the spool that I need to preserve. My question is about whether there's a way to import that huge tree of messages into a new cyrus

Re: Store documents in IMAP folders

2010-09-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
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Re: Store documents in IMAP folders

2010-09-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Julien Vehent wrote: The goal is to have a PDF library available at any time, with basic file search on document/message name, so a file share doesn't solve my problem (and I don't want any document management system, I just want access to files). I don't imagine

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-09-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: What happens if the sharedseen attribute is changed during the lifetime of a folder, when users may already have their own (or shared) \Seen flags? In Cyrus 2.3 and before (i.e

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-09-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: sharedseen Enables the use of a shared \Seen flag on messages rather than a per-user \Seen flag. The ā€™sā€™ right in the mailbox ACL still controls whether a user can set the shared \Seen

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-09-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, sorry for the very late reply. On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Wesley Craig wrote: On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:17, Gavin McCullagh wrote: I gather courier shares the \seen flag between users sharing a folder. Is it possible to do this on cyrus? I believe sharedseen does what you're looking for. See

shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-08-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
can see advantages in either behaviour but it would be handy to have the option of sharing that flag on cyrus. Gavin -- Gavin McCullagh Senior System Administrator IT Services Griffith College South Circular Road Dublin 8 Ireland Tel: +353 1 4163365 http://www.gcd.ie http://www.gcd.ie

Re: shared \seen flags on shared folders

2010-08-12 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, thanks guys, that's exactly what I was looking for. Gavin On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Wesley Craig wrote: I believe sharedseen does what you're looking for. See man cyradm: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Dan White wrote: The /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/sharedseen annotation will share the seen state for

Re: Get cyrus-imap folder size without du tool

2010-04-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, David Touzeau wrote: This problem occurs when you have more than 50Go mailboxes If you launch a du -h -s /var/spool/cyrus/mail the server load is on top and I/O is at 100% for a long time. Is somebody have a tips to get the size status of all maiboxes without

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-15 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I'm a relative newbie with cyrus, but I'm interested in this discussion... On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, ram wrote: We have cyrus servers deployed at many places where clients have varying mail storage. We have been taking backups to help in situations of human errors ( where you get complaints

Re: understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi On Feb 10, 2010, at 0:29, Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hope that all made sense! It certainly did. Many thanks for such a thorough explanation. Gavin Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info:

Re: understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: Ok - here's a quick primer on user flags :) (from memory - any mistakes are my own!) As this information was very useful and I'd had some trouble finding it before, I've added it to the wiki. I hope that's okay:

Re: understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dan White wrote: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CyrusHeaderFormat There's also some documentation of the cyrus.header (and other files) at: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/internal/mailbox-format.html More very useful info, thanks. I've

understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I'm looking at some cyrus.header files while migrating from an old to a new cyrus-based mail server. I think I understand it in general, except for the second last line. A couple of examples follow: -- Cyrus mailbox header

Re: understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: user-flags Junk NonJunk $Forwarded Old Check out mailbox_read_header and mailbox_read_header_acl from imap/mailbox.c in the source code if you want a more detailed answer (in C!) I guess I'd better do that as while I could guess the rest, I

Re: understanding fields in cyrus.header file

2010-02-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: Check out mailbox_read_header and mailbox_read_header_acl from imap/mailbox.c in the source code if you want a more detailed answer (in C!) Many thanks for your help by the way :-) Gavin Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

what happens when cyrus.squat is old?

2010-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, it seems that running squatter nightly on all mailboxes takes too long for us. I'm thinking of splitting the mailboxes over different nights or doing the job over the weekend. One question though, what happens when a cyrus.squat file is out of date (ie the mailbox has been changed due to

Re: what happens when cyrus.squat is old?

2010-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Rob Mueller wrote: Are you using the new incremental mode david carter added? -i Incremental updates where squat indexes already exist. I'm not. This is a very old install. However, we're planning a migration to a new server and I'll possibly try it then. Can