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2007-11-08 Thread Jon Bendtsen
Hi i am trying to get the cyris nntp server to work, but i find the documentation rather lacking. I have read this one http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-netnews.html and thats about all i could find about the cyrus nntp server. I have set it up and have it running, and i can

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Ken Murchison
Simon Matter wrote: Hi, On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:42:02 +0100 Tomas Janousek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: tjanouse Looks correct. (will not terminate if it reaches NGROUPS, don't know if that tjanouse can happen though) Oops, it never happen. It is intended to be safe-keeping for avoiding

R: R: sieve_admins imapd.conf option

2007-11-08 Thread Toschi Pietro
Time to do things the better way neither (for me at least)! Thanks a lot Pietro Pietro Toschi Actalis S.p.A. Gruppo AlmavivA Via Luigi Rizzo, 20 00136 Roma www.actalis.it Office: 06-39933169 Mobile: 335-7244764 Fax: 06-39935348 -Messaggio originale- Da: Alain Spineux [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:42:02 +0100 Tomas Janousek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: tjanouse Looks correct. (will not terminate if it reaches NGROUPS, don't know if that tjanouse can happen though) Oops, it never happen. It is intended to be safe-keeping for avoiding endless-loop. tjanouse

setacl broken: user with admin right can remove a right of mailbox owner

2007-11-08 Thread Alain Spineux
Hi A user having administrative right on another mailbox can remove all rights (including implicite ones) to the owner's mailbox. I don't things is an expected feature! Right ? A buggy(*) test try to prevent to owner to remove its own right but don't apply for other non admin user ! *buggy

more about loginrealms option

2007-11-08 Thread Alain Spineux
I thing I found the use for loginrealms option. I works like a filter. Imagine you have an authentication infrastructure for multiple domains: example.com, example.net . I could be running on ldap, kerberos, Then you have an imap server that manage users only for domain example.com. If

Re: admins and virtualdomains, where is authorisation enforced?

2007-11-08 Thread Alain Spineux
Hi I wrote a patch for this https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2998 On Oct 1, 2007 11:29 AM, Toschi Pietro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have a cyrus 2.3.9 test server with two virtual domains: aa.it and bb.it. Having virtualdomains: yes, I've experimented with admins

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:39:45AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote: That's friggin' great! We can't exactly force people to have a particular version of glibc just to run Cyrus 2.3.10. Either we need to come up with something that will run on all systems, or I'll be inclined to remove the

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Alain Spineux
On Nov 8, 2007 4:56 PM, Dan White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael D. Sofka wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:32:52 pm Rob Mueller wrote: 4. Lots of other little things a) putting the proc dir on tmpfs is a good idea b) make sure you have the right filesystem (on linux, reiserfs is

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Fox
To close the loop since I started this thread: We still haven't finished up the contract to get Sun out here to get to the REAL bottom of the problem. However observationally we find that under high email usage that above 10K users on a Cyrus instance things get really bad. Like last week we

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Dan White
Michael D. Sofka wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:32:52 pm Rob Mueller wrote: 4. Lots of other little things a) putting the proc dir on tmpfs is a good idea b) make sure you have the right filesystem (on linux, reiserfs is much better than ext3 even with ext3s dir hashing) and

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Matter
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:39:45AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote: That's friggin' great! We can't exactly force people to have a particular version of glibc just to run Cyrus 2.3.10. Either we need to come up with something that will run on all systems, or I'll be inclined to remove the

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:18:04AM -0800, Vincent Fox wrote: Our latest line of investigation goes back to the Fastmail suggestion, simply have multiple Cyrus binary instances on a system. Each running it's own config and with it's own ZFS filesystems out of the pool to use. Since we can

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Gary Mills wrote: We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 employees. ... I know that CMU and other universities want to maintain their own e-mail systems. What's the justification in these cases? From a security perspective, you maintain control and privacy of

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Matter
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: It may not be worth for you to worry about it but it is worth for me and maybe also for Ken. People using my RPMs expect things to work. And people do use it on affected systems and they fill my mailbox or the list with

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Simon Matter
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: It may not be worth for you to worry about it but it is worth for me and maybe also for Ken. People using my RPMs expect things to work. And people do use it on affected systems and they fill my mailbox or the list with

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Michael D. Sofka
On Thursday 08 November 2007 10:56:54 am Dan White wrote: Michael D. Sofka wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:32:52 pm Rob Mueller wrote: 4. Lots of other little things a) putting the proc dir on tmpfs is a good idea b) make sure you have the right filesystem (on linux, reiserfs is

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Bron Gondwana wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:18:04AM -0800, Vincent Fox wrote: Our latest line of investigation goes back to the Fastmail suggestion, simply have multiple Cyrus binary instances on a system. Each running it's own config and with it's own ZFS filesystems out of the

Re: RTCyrus3 - sendmail and cyrus-imap integration

2007-11-08 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Akshay Kumar wrote: --On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:40:50 +0200 Andrzej Adam Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to announce new version of RTCyrus recipes for Sendmail and Cyrus IMAP integration. RTCyrus3 has been designed for easy integration of sendmail with virtual domains

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-08 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: It may not be worth for you to worry about it but it is worth for me and maybe also for Ken. People using my RPMs expect things to work. And people do use it on affected systems and they fill my mailbox or the list with complaints

Quota Problem with Cyrus 1.5

2007-11-08 Thread Andreas Krummrich
Hi all, I'm having a problem with an old cyrus 1.5 installation on a debian sarge box. Cyrus does not reject mail for users with an over_quota mailbox. So my postfix queue runs full. I know, that there is lmtp_overquota_perm_failure for cyrus 2. Is there any equivalent for cyrus 1.5, or

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Rob Mueller
However observationally we find that under high email usage that above 10K users on a Cyrus instance things get really bad. Like last week we had a T2000 at about 10,500 users and loads of 5+ and it was bogging down. We moved 1K users off bringing it down to 9,500 and loads dropped to

How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-08 Thread Gary Mills
We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 employees. It's a critical service in the sense that thousands of people depend on it. It has excellent performance, lots of capacity, and plans for expansion. I'm the only one familiar enough with Cyrus and sendmail to maintain

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Fox
Gary Mills wrote: How many and what sort of people does it take to maintain a system such as this? I need a good argument for hiring a replacement for me. At a minimum you want 1 qualified person and someone cross-trained as a backup, so that person can reasonably enough have vacations.

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Gary Mills wrote: We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000 employees. It's a critical service in the sense that thousands of people depend on it. It has excellent performance, lots of capacity, and plans for expansion. I'm the only one familiar

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Fox
Bron Gondwana wrote: Also virtual interfaces means you can move an instance without having to tell anyone else about it (but it sounds like you're going with an all eggs in one basket approach anyway) No, not all eggs in one basket, but better usage of resources. It seems silly to spend

Could admin PLEASE unsubscribe the goldengatelanguage.com user?

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Fox
Everytime I send email to the list now I get a bounce from Gateway. Could some kindly admin please remove the account causing this bounce? Header snippet: Received: from mail.goldengatelanguage.com ([4.79.216.102]) by mx12.ucdavis.edu (8.13.7/8.13.1/it-defang-5.4.0) with ESMTP id

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Pascal Gienger
Vincent Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our working hypothesis is that CYRUS is what is choking up at a certain activity level due to bottlenecks with simultaneous access to some shared resource for each instance. Did you do a lockstat -Pk sleep 30 (with -x destructive when it complains about