Re: disk space used by a mailbox without expunged

2019-02-13 Thread Eric Luyten
On 13/02/2019 13:08, Patrick Boutilier wrote: On 2/13/19 7:01 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: On 13/02/2019 09:17, Michael Menge wrote: Hi Marcus, Quoting Marcus Schopen : Hi, is there a way to count the disk space used by a mailbox without expunged messages? mbexamine user/LoginID | grep

Re: disk space used by a mailbox without expunged

2019-02-13 Thread Eric Luyten
in 3.0 only the info for the given folder is shown O dear. We (2.3 server, upgrading this year) use the subfolder size information extensively in our management procedures. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Re: folder left after dm user.mailboxname, remove by rm ?

2019-02-05 Thread Eric Luyten
e directory through mailboxes.db it is never going to remove it by itself. Cheers, Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Help on reconstruct - Cyrus2.3.11

2018-12-06 Thread Eric Luyten
decided yet whether we'll move from 2.3 to 2.5 or 3.0, certainly not 2.4 Eric Luyten. We're looking, first, to a way to automate safely the reconstruct of mailbox, ideally keeping the Seen State of mails. In parrellel, we're studying the migration to Cyrus 2.4.17 without the use of NFS

Re: suddenly 'User unknown'?

2018-11-30 Thread Eric Luyten
e Cyrus service on a different server. This lmtp connection requires authentication using a specific "system" account, not the end user credentials. Mr Bradshaw, did someone at your site nuke that account or its password, not knowing what it was used for ? Eric Lu

Re: Prefork or not prefork

2018-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
On 25/06/2018 14:39, Albert Shih wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know when that's become usefull to use prefork (for imap) and how much you set the prefork (vs nb of users). We have  prefork=0  set on all Cyrus services for many years now. Eric. Cyrus Home Page:

Re: How many Ram for cyrus

2018-06-14 Thread Eric Luyten
On 13/06/2018 21:48, Albert Shih wrote: Hi eveyone I got a server (FreeBSD + Cyrusimap, 192Go) I need to reserve some RAM for the ZFS arc. I would like to know how many Ram I need to run cyrus-imap. I got on between 300-1600 connexion imap simultaneous (on my old server) Through ps aux I

Re: Size of partition.

2018-04-27 Thread Eric Luyten
activated delayed expunge and squatter, I think). I just checked ... we have 90 GB of cyrus.{cache, header, index} SSDs can now be had in capacities of 3.2 TB Regards, Eric Luyten, VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Possible problems created by "GOODCHARS" extension when moving from compiled source to package.

2018-01-26 Thread Eric Luyten
te new mailboxes with the now   "illegal" chars but are we likely to run into trouble with existing mailbox names ? Corollary question : is there a Cyrus 3.0.x package our for any Linux distro ? I find a packaged 2.5.10-3 for Debian 9  "Stretch" Thx, Eric Luyten

Upgrading Cyrus from 2.3.16, going to 2.5.11 or 3.0.2 ?

2017-06-28 Thread Eric Luyten
for your feedback, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Cyrus IMAP on NFS

2017-02-09 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On 09/02/17 09:53, Paolo Cravero via Info-cyrus wrote: From our storage admins: "One advantage of having most of the obsolete-but-keep-it-i-might-need-it-one-day data not on a local filesystem is that in the rare event of system crash you will not have to wait for fsck to complete, as it must

Re: mbox operations performance issue

2017-01-20 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On 20/01/17 15:03, Miguel Mucio Santos Moreira via Info-cyrus wrote: Dears, I've had a problem for some days with mailboxes operations like sam, dam etc. Those operations are too slow, I have some mailboxes with many subfolders when I applied a sam command to allow other user access it,

Re: Invalid mailbox name

2016-09-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
ed our GOODCHARS definition heavily when we migrated to Cyrus 2.2, ten years ago, and never had an issue with square brackets and such. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Migrating mailbox data from Cyrus to MicroSoft Office 365 using their import tool.

2016-06-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On Wed, June 22, 2016 6:02 pm, Dan White wrote: > On 06/22/16 17:28 +0200, Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus wrote: > >> All, >> >> >> >> After trying for a couple of days I have come to the conclusion >> that the Office 365 IMAP import tool uses the LOGIN a

Migrating mailbox data from Cyrus to MicroSoft Office 365 using their import tool.

2016-06-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
... ... (violation of RFC3501 section 6.1.1 ? dunno whether I am reading that correctly) Is my conclusion correct ? Any hacks or workarounds ? Thx, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Re: lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-18 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On Wed, May 18, 2016 1:54 am, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote: > >> What we do at FastMail to make deliver.db not suck is store it on tmpfs. >> The repack is tons faster. Sure you lose it over a full server restart, >> but all you lose is the duplicate suppression. If you wanted to be really

Re: lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-17 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On Tue, May 17, 2016 11:45 am, Simon Matter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Several times a month our server freezes up on deliveries and the system >> load average shoots up into the hundreds. Things quickly return to normal >> between one and two minutes later but this has always puzzled me. >> >>

lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-17 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
:14 lmtp[24980]: skiplist: checkpointed /ssd/cyrs/imap/deliver.db (223062 records, 25295200 bytes) in 119 seconds I took a quick dive into the code but could not find where and when lmtpd is supposed to trigger a delivery.db checkpointing action. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB

LImit to number of rules in Sieve script, Cyrus 2.3 ?

2016-04-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
Hello, One of our users is getting 'Server error' feedback from the Roundcube plugin when trying to add a 213th rule. I fail to spot a hard coded limit in the Sieve source code. Is there something to that extent or with similar effects ? Thx, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB

Re: IPv6

2016-03-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
Please disregard my previous comment, misread your original post. Need coffee. Eric Luyten. On Wed, March 23, 2016 3:27 pm, Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus wrote: <> Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info

Re: IPv6

2016-03-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
service? Sebastian, 'listen' entries go into /etc/cyrus.conf, not imapd.conf, and IMO require a Cyrus service restart, yes. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, Brussels. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/in

Re: Quota root not removed if folder is on a different partition

2015-10-27 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, October 27, 2015 2:26 pm, Paolo Cravero wrote: > Hello, I think I found an unexpected feature. Or a bug. > > > Here's the setup: Cyrus IMAP v2.4.17-Invoca-RPM-2.4.17-6 single instance on > RHEL5. > > > Amongst other partitions I have an "archive" partition where I attach all > users'

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-23 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, October 13, 2015 3:26 pm, k...@rice.edu wrote: > The El Capitan Mac Mail was recently released. It definitely has a problem. > We saw our typical sync log size go from 10k when busy to 100k+. We are going > to recommend that people wait to upgrade to that release until the problem is >

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-23 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, October 23, 2015 11:03 pm, k...@rice.edu wrote: > I am looking into generating an rpm > with a patch. Ken, Feel free to throw a 'diff' file in my general direction, even when generated against another 2.3 version. I compile from source because of two small site specific patches. Could

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server. [WARNING: DKIM validation failed]

2015-10-22 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, October 22, 2015 10:39 pm, k...@rice.edu wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:32:40AM -0400, bacon wrote: > >> Apple released OS 10.11.1 update yesterday. It shows that it includes, >> >> >> - Fixes an issue where outgoing server information may be missing from >> Mail >> - Resolves an

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:34 am, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Absolutely no idea. I think we have an upgraded test mac here in the > office. I'll set it up and see what it does. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7267399 Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
n percent (measured as load average, plenty of CPU cycles remaining) it appears to have dampened the I/O impact somewhat and it will allow me to more easily capture the start of the client-server conversations leading to the loop. If Rice is experiencing a similar phenomenon, more Cyrus versi

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
receipt of a "DONE" continuation from the client; such response satisfies the server's continuation request. " Again ... if this has been solved in 2.4 or 2.5 branches, we'll upgrade (management decisions on moving to Google Apps or Office365 taken into account) Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, October 14, 2015 11:55 am, Eric Luyten wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 10:43 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 00:26, k...@rice.edu wrote: >> >> >>> The El Capitan Mac Mail was recently released. It definitely has a >>> pr

Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-13 Thread Eric Luyten
1807.3507 OK Completed <1444726822<1<1444726822<808.3507 IDLE >1444726822>+ idling <1444726822<D<14447268221444726822>1808.3507 OK Completed <1444726822<1<1444726822<809.3507 EXPUNGE >1444726918>* 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT 1809.3507 OK Completed Clues ? Eric Luyten,

Re: Sieve, a problem with if/elsif/else

2015-08-31 Thread Eric Luyten
in the inbox instead of move to > BounceError. Messages from srv4 are moved to INBOX/BounceError/srv4 > if uncomment lines about srv4. > > Why "else fileinto" doesn't work ? Discovered in 2.4.17, reproduced > in 2.4.18. Sergey, Did you define "INBOX/BounceErro

Re: restrict who can send emails to an email address

2015-08-13 Thread Eric Luyten
Agent (Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, ...) not by Cyrus, which is a mail storage and serving (POP3/IMAP) engine. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https

Re: restrict who can send emails to an email address

2015-08-13 Thread Eric Luyten
that bounce/drop/file messages not carrying a From/Sender in the local domain. Please note that a From/Sender line is easily forged. Regards, Eric Luyten, Compuitng Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info

Re: List currently logged on users

2014-09-12 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, September 12, 2014 4:04 pm, Michael Neumann wrote: Hello, i am looking for a command that outputs the currently logged on users of cyrus imapd, is there something available? Michael, Consider processing the contents of the small files in the 'proc' sub-directory, but I'll quickly

Re: Using memcached for authentication

2014-07-09 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, July 9, 2014 11:36 am, Ram wrote: Most of these these webmail products they really jam the imap servers with too many authentication requests imapproxyd Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http

Re: problems with deleted messages and reconstruct

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Luyten
shows mails after 2008. That is, there are mail files in the mailbox that neither are recovered by reconstruct, nor are deleted by the -O option. Did the mail client performing the message deletes disconnect from the IMAP service ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Simon I didn’t

Re: Help on quota usage.

2014-02-14 Thread Eric Luyten
than Cyrus 'list quota'. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, mail spool compression factor 1.68 Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: very large mailboxes backup, long retention period deleted also

2013-03-19 Thread Eric Luyten
the tiering issue down to your storage level, which may be (part of) a solution to your problem. Kind regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https

Re: Another 2.4 upgrade horror story

2012-09-30 Thread Eric Luyten
in chunks. Bryan, We found out that a Cyrus quota fix (quota -f ...) only regenerates metadata for old format mailboxes, whereas reconstruct -r does 'em all, also the already-converted. Cheers, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: Another 2.4 upgrade horror story

2012-09-25 Thread Eric Luyten
. What read/write IOPS rates were you registering before/during/after your upgrade process ? I'd understand your reluctance to share this information in a public forum. No offence taken whatsoever ! Kind regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, eric.luy...@vub.ac.be Cyrus Home

Re: Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, August 14, 2012 6:50 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 01:22 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: All, Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus

Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Luyten
All, Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes carry out read operations on files in the 'stage.' subdirectories. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: All, Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes carry out read operations on files in the 'stage

Re: CC destinations dropped

2012-07-20 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, July 20, 2012 1:37 pm, Eric Luyten wrote: The less components stacked one upon another, the less issues you're likely to witness. fewer Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Luyten
you get rid of those cyrus.*.NEW files in the source directory. (rm cyrus.*.NEW) Please also check the directory where you want the mailbox to be moved to (is that /mnt/celerra/user/col1901 ?) Is there already something in that location ? Your 'rename_mailbox' may have partially succeeded. Eric

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Luyten
, if not non-existing. I have little time to test this on my Cyrus 2.3 environment, however. I noticed your destination partition bearing a 'celerra' name component. Is this an NFS mount or an iSCSI block device 'attach' on your Cyrus server ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page

Re: Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, June 19, 2012 3:55 pm, Dan White wrote: On 06/19/12 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: Folks, (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading) Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state/saslauthd all right, but Cyrus 2.4 appears to be writing elsewhere, and we cannot

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
? Javier, What is the output of : 'grep partition /etc/imapd.conf' 'mbpath user.col1901' and what happens if you 'cd' into the result of the second command and execute 'pwd' and 'ls' there ? Does 'chk_cyrus -M user.col1901' return something weird ? Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB

MIgrating 2.3.16 spool to 2.4.16 : reconstruct (sometimes) changes ACL to old 2.2 value.

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
. The code responsible for this can be found in imap/mailbox.c, lines 3553-3574 Clues ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Luyten
much copied our Cyrus 2.3 configuration files over to the test environment. Eric Luyten, VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:05 pm, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading) Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state/saslauthd all right, but Cyrus 2.4 appears to be writing elsewhere, and we

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, May 30, 2012 9:24 am, Ram wrote: On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote: On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the main server goes down the users will get

Re: Info-cyrus Digest, Vol 81, Issue 2

2012-04-04 Thread Eric Luyten
... Yours, Mikhail, Thunderbird may have a 'Move' option but the IMAP protocol does not. 'Moving' a message translates to a COPY followed by an EXPUNGE. Regards, Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: After being moved, messages remain in both folders on the server

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Luyten
On Sat, March 31, 2012 1:12 am, Patrick Boutilier wrote: On 03/30/2012 04:53 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: Adam, Mikhail, We do not have delayed expunge enabled on our 2.3.16 server and occasionally come across multiple-linked message files. I haven't been able to trace this back to one

Re: After being moved, messages remain in both folders on the server

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Luyten
message files. I haven't been able to trace this back to one or another IMAP client, though. Regards, Eric Luyten, COmputing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Underscore in SERVICES-names can cause deadlocks.

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Luyten
to just stick to alphanumeric characters. Robert, The hyphen (-) is also known to create issues. I reported this to info-cyrus on Wed, October 27, 2010 Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Re: Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Luyten
new db new db backend Usable Backends: berkeley, berkeley-nosync, flat, skiplist, quotalegacy I don't get it ... what is wrong with my commands? Stefan, Use the absolute pathnames of the DB files. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: ZFS doing insane I/O reads

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Luyten
On Mon, February 27, 2012 11:10 am, Ram wrote: I just deployed zfs on my newer cyrus servers. These servers get less than 2000 mails per hour and around 400 concurrent pop/imap connections I have seen that even if there is no incoming pop or imap connection still there is large amount of

RE: Problem recover replica

2012-02-16 Thread Eric Luyten
script but I couldn't find it. Manel, You could use 'mbexamine' which dumps mailbox information in human readable (and machine processable) format. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, nurturing 7 TB of Cyrus mailspool, 48 million messages. Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: fetching user_deny.db entry for ...

2012-02-02 Thread Eric Luyten
but this will make you lose some other stuff too. Check whether you really need the latter. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, Belgium. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
IMAP/POP shop, for historical reasons.) If more messages were to be found in sub-mailboxes, metadata conversion load would have been more distributed in time, as mailboxes are accessed. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, January 6, 2012 3:05 pm, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi Eric, --On 6. Januar 2012 15:00:44 +0100 Eric Luyten eric.luy...@vub.ac.be wrote: To give you an idea : 73k users, 508k mailboxes, 4.5 TB of messages, 48M messages. In an additional effort to grasp the dynamics of our central

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, January 6, 2012 5:50 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: I'm not convinced it was the best idea (after the troubles people have had with it)... Hey, don't worry too much. We'll survive :-) Eric (taking the opportunity to thank you for your continuing efforts in developing and

Re: anysievefolder and autosievefolders gone in 2.4?

2012-01-05 Thread Eric Luyten
://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autosievefolder/ Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Huge load after update from 2.3.16 to 2.4.12

2011-11-24 Thread Eric Luyten
was the equivalent of a realistic production load (POP + IMAP + LMTP). We found ourselves in a similar situation two years ago (with eternal thanks to Simon Matter who helped us *enormously* with a suggestion written on this mailing list). Regards, Eric Luyten (now running 2.3 for +70k users with 50M messages

Re: rooling replication and many pop3d

2011-11-24 Thread Eric Luyten
) *If* your system has a fifth drive bay, RAID 1+0 and one hot spare would have given you a much, much faster mail spool of equal size, at little extra cost. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: deleted user, but quota remains

2011-11-08 Thread Eric Luyten
behaviour. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre Brussels Free University. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Cyrus imap server and filesystem type.

2011-10-04 Thread Eric Luyten
ZFS snapshots and/or breaking one of more of the mirrors. Sounds, smells and feels like an allocation map issue, which is hinted at in posts on a couple of OpenSolaris discussion forums. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info

Re: Problems with the quota command (2.3.16-5)

2011-07-26 Thread Eric Luyten
2.2 and 2.3 server since 2006 for tens of thousands of users and we regularly rename top level mailboxes, run reconstruct and quota -f also on other occasions. Never ran into the bug. Quotalegacy format (= one file per user). Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: upgrade from cyrus imapd 2.3.11 to 2.4.9

2011-06-28 Thread Eric Luyten
on this list, same thread ? Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Eric Luyten
and about fifty at 1.0 GB, making for a very small minority indeed. We keep 120 days of snapshots in the spool and this consumes 60% extra space. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, Brussels. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Re: Starting 'delayed message expunge' on a large Cyrus 2.3.16 server.

2011-05-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, May 13, 2011 3:25 pm, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 13. Mai 2011 14:57:36 +0200 Eric Luyten eric.luy...@vub.ac.be wrote: I currently have the following entry in my cyrus.conf : delprune cmd=cyr_expire -E 1 at=0055 which takes about six minutes, every night, to May 13 00:55

Starting delayed message expunge on a large Cyrus 2.3.16 server.

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Luyten
=cyr_expire -E 1 -a -p user/b at=0145 cmd=cyr_expire -E 1 -a -p user/c at=0215 ... but, since the '-E' appears to be mandatory, how can I avoid re-working the delivery.db ? Are there any other pitfalls I appear to be unaware of ? Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus

Re: How to Log the Sharing of Mail Boxes?

2011-04-08 Thread Eric Luyten
of the people who have accessed the box but this is a bit different of the info I want. Have any of you ever had such demand? No, but you could periodically create a text dump of mailboxes.db and work from there. /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d mailboxes.`date '+%m%d%H%M'` Cheers, Eric Luyten

Re: Local delivery seems to limit IMAP performance

2011-04-06 Thread Eric Luyten
. mailboxes.db is Skiplist with 514,000 entries, on SSD Q: How many deliveries per hour are achieved by other large Cyrus installations ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Looking for advice on migration to new Cyrus-IMAPd server

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Luyten
in parallel and secondly, to allow for a quick rollback, the 'move' operation was changed to a 'copy'. The metadata files were only removed from the data partitions at a later stage, using a simple 'find'. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

Re: Expiry limit for the duplicate delivery database

2011-03-08 Thread Eric Luyten
replies per time unit per mail address, so you'll be sending out quite a bit more of those, I assume. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: lmtpd: deliver.db checkpointing

2010-11-15 Thread Eric Luyten
system is very lightly stressed throughout the day, in that respect). Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Cyrus stops responding to imap:143 requests

2010-10-27 Thread Eric Luyten
... problemless situation : popserv cmd=pop3d -C ... popservseccmd=pop3d -s -C ... Finding the solution was helped by us noticing that syslogging was also only done using the first part of the service name (popserv). Hope this helps, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, September 15, 2010 10:01 am, Simon Matter wrote: I guess much more efficient than a compressing filesystem would be a compressing and de-duping filesystem or disk storage in this case. Has anyone tried this with a Cyrus message store with lots of corporate message data stored on it?

Re: Using cvt_cyrusdb to convert quota database from skiplist back to quotalegacy.

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Luyten
the rest, if ever needed. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Luyten
has been written earlier in this thread : a message header that is different in size by even one byte will cause block boundaries to shift and, I suspect, block level dedup to fail. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Using cvt_cyrusdb to convert quota database from skiplist back to quotalegacy.

2010-09-14 Thread Eric Luyten
and the creation of the quotalegacy structure failed in an identical way. Other question : would I be better off with 65,000 small files (quotalegacy) in a one-level hash or with a single skiplist db for my quota information, when the files reside on solid state storage anyway ? Thx, Eric Luyten

Re: Put only cyrus.index and cyrus.cache in metadata partitions ?

2010-08-30 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, August 26, 2010 9:36 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: Hello, I understand the cyrus.header file is the only irreplacable one, i.e. cyrus.index and cyrus.cache can be regenerated using 'reconstruct' while cyrus.header, a very

Re: Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-26 Thread Eric Luyten
discussions ! Thank you. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Reducing ZFS blocksize to improve Cyrus write performance ?

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Luyten
Folks, A question for those of you running ZFS as the filesystem architecture for your Cyrus message store : did you consider, measure and/or carry out a change of the default 128 KB blocksize ? If so, what value are you using ? Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home

Re: Quota file not in sync with actual Hardisk usage

2010-06-30 Thread Eric Luyten
reconstruct -r -k -s user/USERID quota -f user/USERID Another possible reason for quota/du mismatch is a compressing filesystem such as ZFS. We have on average (filesystem level, of which we have nine) 30% savings but the figure varies wildly from user to user. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB

Re: Log all actions

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Luyten
...' information leading him to the precise POP or IMAP session (host and user authenticating) that modified the Inbox. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http

Re: Unjustified 'Mailbox is at XX% of quota' messages in Thunderbird

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, May 6, 2010 10:46 am, Kõvári János wrote: Andrew Morgan írta: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Kõvári János wrote: Hello all, I have a problem again. Just today, all my users, who are using the same shared folder, are getting Mailbox is at 93% of quota (and increasing as they put mail into

Re: [cyrus-imapd] unexpunge folder problem

2010-04-15 Thread Eric Luyten
at it : what happens on a Cyrus server with two or more partitions ? Does a mail folder delete imply a move to the 'default' partition or can every partition have its own 'DELETED/user/...' hierarchy ? Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Anyone using SunFire X4140's (AMD) or X4170's (Intel Xeon) as Cyrus servers ?

2010-03-15 Thread Eric Luyten
-- Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Anyone using SunFire X4140's (AMD) or X4170's (Intel Xeon) as Cyrus servers ?

2010-03-15 Thread Eric Luyten
On Mon, March 15, 2010 5:11 pm, Pascal Gienger wrote: Le 15/03/10 17:08, Eric Luyten a écrit : X4200 here (also AMD, 2x dualcore). Pascal, I know those. We run two of them as DNS caching and LDAP servers. Two dual core AMDs at 2.4 GHz, with 8 GB of RAM and four internal 73 GB SAS drives

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-19 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, February 16, 2010 9:49 am, Eric Luyten wrote: ... ZFS is awesome. We have a ZFS pool composed of nine LUNs on an iSCSI-connected (2 x 1 Gbps) EMC Celerra. All disks are 7200 rpm S-ATA. On our previous storage system (FC-AL connected StorageTek with 15k and 10k rpm FC disks) I

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Mon, February 15, 2010 6:27 pm, Vincent Fox wrote: I suppose replication and snapshots are out of the question for you? We run ZFS so snapshots are atomic and nearly instant. Thus we keep 14 days of daily snaps in our production pool for recovery purposes. In our setup the total of all

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, February 16, 2010 12:34 am, John Madden wrote: Out of curiousity, how good is zfs with full fs scans when running in the 100-million file count range? What do you see in terms of aggregate MB/s throughput? ZFS is awesome. We have a ZFS pool composed of nine LUNs on an

Re: cyrus and 500k to 1M mails per inbox

2010-02-11 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, February 11, 2010 4:23 pm, Carsten Hoeger wrote: we have a customer running cyrus imap on RHEL5 cluster with a few thousand mailboxes. Every single mail is sent to a second host acting as a read-only archive (all imap acls set to no write access). The plan is, that all mail on that

Re: Multiple SSL Certs with virtual domains?

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Luyten
troubles accepting multi-domain certificates. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, postmaster. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Multiple SSL Certs with virtual domains?

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, January 21, 2010 11:27 am, Michael Menge wrote: Hi, Quoting Scott Lambert lamb...@lambertfam.org: I am about to bring up the second of several virtual domains on my Cyrus-IMAPd 2.3.15 installation. I've been Googling but can't seem to come up with a useful search string for

Re: Quotas and disk usage

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Luyten
to 28 % Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, postmaster. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Quotas and disk usage

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, January 15, 2010 9:50 am, Michael Menge wrote: Quoting Eric Luyten eric.luy...@vub.ac.be: On our previous Cyrus server (2.2 on Solaris 9 with UFS) I detected several multiply-linked message files (sitting in different folders/directories). Those will be counted twice/thrice

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