Re: Cyrus failover steps

2007-05-13 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On FreeBSD, CARP would be the natural choice, seeing as it's standard > with > the system. All you need is to build a kernel with 'device carp' > added to > the config file and to have read the carp(4) manual page. Then just > add > something l

Re: Hardware opinion sought - Sun X4500

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Qin Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are thinking of two Sun's Thumper X4500 servers for a fork lifting > upgrade to our IMAP servers. The x4500 is relatively new but a few > reports on the Internet gave it a thumb up, particularly on the use > of > ZFS and IOPS of RAIDZ. > > Mail is o

Re: status=deferred (connect to 172.16.11.20[172.16.11.20]: Connection refused)

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
It does not seem that lmtpd is not listening to a TCP/IP socket. You should check the cyrus.cf config file, and check the listen parameter on the lmtp service. You might have to define a new lmtp service for TCP/IP access. Tom Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/

Re: How do I increase default DBD cache size

2007-01-31 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Ramprasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No need to patch the code for that - it's an option! Just put: > > > > berkeley_cachesize: 4096 > > > > in your /etc/imapd.conf > > > > We use skiplist for our mailboxes.db and we haven't seen any issues that > > were caused by leaving that at it

Re: Running a shell command on update/creation of an item

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Jochem Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, I'm trying to build an application involving synchronizing > some > data stored in a cyrus imap store (as messages with attachments) to an > sql > database. To accomplish this, I would like to have cyrus run a shell > script

Re: Large dirs [Was: Re: Clustering and replication]

2007-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Janne Peltonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: > > > This might be a problem, since we have some users that really have > 1 > > > messages in their INBOX. Although it seems that Cyrus itself > cannot cope > > > with this either

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Believe it or not, it works and has been confirmed by several peoples on > the list using different shared filesystems (VeritasFS and Tru64 comes to > mind). In one thing you are right, it doesn't work with BerkeleyDB. > Just switch all your BDB'

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Bron Gondwana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:20:15PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > - Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Close. imapd, pop3d, lmtpd, and other processes write to the log. > > &g

Re: Use of NFS via TCP

2007-01-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
- "Forrest Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know it's recommended not to use Cyrus over NFS. But what about > NFSv3 > or 4 via TCP, instead of UDP? > > On a small network, I would imagine this would work alright. I wonder > > if the documentation (caution) is referring to UDP. T

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > - Janne Peltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As a part of our clustering Cyrus system, we are considering using > >> replication to prevent a cat

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Janne Peltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > As a part of our clustering Cyrus system, we are considering using > replication to prevent a catastrophe in case the volume used by the > cluster gets corrupted. (We'll have n nodes each accessing the same GFS, > and yes, it can be done,

Re: High availability email server...

2006-07-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
Pascal Gienger wrote: David Korpiewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I spent about 6 months fighting with Apple XSAN and Apple OSX mail to try to create a redundant cyrus mail cluster. First of all, don't try it, it is a waste of time. Apple states that mail on an XSAN is not supported. The re

Re: Cyrus Imap refuses to work with vpopmail maildir

2003-06-07 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, System wrote: ... > Here i want to mark a point that these mail accounts are created with > vpopmail and are in MailDir format. How how do i enable the working of my > mail accounts with Cyrus ? You don't. Cyrus only works with Cyrus mailboxes. That is the whole point

Re: Cyrus process model...

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Samplonius
It is always a big pain to update code that was never written to be threaded, to be thread-safe. Apache2 has a problems with just about every third party module supported under Apache 1.3. I imagine that Cyrus would have all sorts of thread issues. There is no magic solution for that. Besi

Re: {Resend} Failed opening 'D.B.php' (fwd)

2003-01-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Yann Debonne wrote: > Hi, > > Upon logging into web-cyradm I get the following error: > > -- > > Warning: Failed opening 'DB.php' for inclusion > (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php/PEAR') in > /home/www/web-cyradm/auth.inc.php on line 12 > > Fatal erro

Re: Digest and Subject marker

2002-05-02 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mathias Koerber wrote: ... > This will allow easy identification *and* filtering on the subject. > When I asked the list-owner on this, it was suggested that I´d run this ... There are lot of headers that identify the source already, without adding junk to the Subject line

Re: cyrus imapd 2.1.3

2002-03-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Andreas Meyer wrote: > * OK delta Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.3 server ready > logout > * BAD Invalid tag ... > The IMAP-book I have talks about version 1.6 and before and > I read I could use 'logout' to end the telnet-session, but > that doesn´t exit the session. It is ".

Re: single instance store

2001-03-31 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Cillian Sharkey wrote: > Should single instance store work in the following scenario: > > A message is addressed to two accounts. It is delivered to one successfully > but the other a/c is over quota so delivery fails and the message remains in > the mail queue. The quota l

Re: Period in mailbox names (again)

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Joel M. Baldwin wrote: > > How does this work of you want to create a folder > with a '/' in the name? > > Sounds like we've still got a reserved character that can't > be in folder names. Something needs to be the hierarchy separator. Tom

Re: Disabling quota for user

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I create a mailbox, quota is disabled. > Then I set quota for that mailbox to an integer value. > How I can disable quota anymore? Setting quota to 0 is not right. > Thx > Gianluigi Tiesi Set quota to "none" works. Setting it to "-1" might

Re: Cyrus and Coda ??

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Chris Blown wrote: > Does anyone know if the coda distributed file system would help in this > case ? I am new to the coda system and my initial research on it shows Probably not. Can you mmap() I file on a Coda filesystem and will the VM be unified across all Coda node?

Re: Backup Software for Cyrus IMAP Server

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Erin B. Peszko wrote: > Does anyone care to offer their recommendations of a backup server > (software for Solaris) for the Cyrus IMAP server data? > > We currently backup a mailstore of about 7 million messages, (average > message size about 20K), divided among 30 partiti

Re: how do you debug deliver?

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Marc G. Fournier wrote: ... > now, the "problem email" is in the mqueue, which, of course, isn't in a > format that I can 'cat' into deliver ... any suggestions? Easy enough. deliver just wants an message in RFC-822 format. You can easily chop up a sendmail queue file i

Re: Cluster solution for mailserver

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rainer Enders wrote: > Since nfs is not recommended to use what is the > best solution to setup a cluster solution for a cyrus > mailserver. I'm thinking of setting up two servers > that talk to the same ufs mounted filesystem. You can setup two servers each with their ow

Re: how do you debug deliver?

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > %cat 70559 | /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -m scrappy -lD > cat: 70559: No such file or directory > connect failed: No such file or directory > 421 4.3.0 deliver: connect failed Well, 70559 doesn't exist. Operator error. > %cat 70559. | /usr/cyrus/bi

Re: Proper way to repair and remove quota in Cyrus 1.6.24

2000-12-09 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Paul Wiechman wrote: > I have used the /usr/cyrus/bin/quota -f to very little success, I get > 'System I/O Error: too many open files' usually. You need to configure your OS to let you use more file descriptors. This is probably causing your quotas to get trashed to begin

Re: Connecting to cyrus...\n Deferred

2000-12-07 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Why would this happen? > > hub# sendmail -qRhub.org -v > > Running /var/spool/mqueue/q18/eB6N0FY76931 (sequence 1 of 1) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Connecting to cyrus... > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred Mailbox full, mailbox corrupted. Deliver

Re: Cyrus and NFS

2000-11-15 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody got Cyrus IMAP working with an NFS mounted Network Appliance Filer >successfully. We are using Cyrus under Linux. > The mailboxes file is stored on the NetApp and appears to go offline. The only >solution is to remount the NF

Re: Better hashing for cyrus-imapd-2.0.7

2000-10-21 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Gary Mills wrote: > I'm testing cyrus-imapd-2.0.7, and I notice that the userid hashing > scheme in conf/deliverdb, conf/quota, and conf/user use the first > letter of the userid for subdirectory names. Unfortunately, we have > about 20,000 userids that begin with the strin

Re: Using slash and dot in a cyrus login

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Fabrice Akhen wrote: > Hi we are using cyrus imapd 2.0.6 (with openldap and pam_ldap for auth). > > We would to have "." and "/" and maybe "@" in our login like > toto.titi/toto.com. > > It seems that cyrus reject this kind of logins, a quick look in the > source ,we can