Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua Megerman
> Joshua Megerman wrote: >> One last note - the idea of maintaining a list of backfill "slots" in a >> text >> file is a pretty good one, but it still doesn't address the issue of not >> properly calculating the number of users in a directory... > > What are you referring to when you say it doesn'

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread DAve
Matt Brookings wrote: Remember that this feature does not yet exist, and that there are probably many systems with backfilling needs that go back years. Potentially this patch could hit a system with four levels of hashing simply because there's been a lot of additions and deletions. If the bac

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Matt Brookings
Joshua Megerman wrote: > One last note - the idea of maintaining a list of backfill "slots" in a text > file is a pretty good one, but it still doesn't address the issue of not > properly calculating the number of users in a directory... What are you referring to when you say it doesn't properly

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Matt Brookings
ISP Lists wrote: > Can someone please provide a brief discussion as to when a vpopmail hashed > folder tree becomes "big enough" to warrant backfilling? Or, is "big" > just one concern amongst others such as: "rate of deletes and adds", > "filesystem choice"... > I'm not quite picking up why the b

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Matt Brookings
Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > Now let say I delete a user who has a directory > in /var/vpopmail/domains/1 > The backfill code will put the entry '1' in the first line in the file > dir_control_free. > > So after deleting 3 users, the file dir_control_free will have 3 lines > 1 > 2 > 2 > Each time th

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Joshua Megerman
On Monday 12 January 2009 07:48:17 am ISP Lists wrote: > Can someone please provide a brief discussion as to when a vpopmail hashed > folder tree becomes "big enough" to warrant backfilling? Or, is "big" > just one concern amongst others such as: "rate of deletes and adds", > "filesystem choice"..

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread ISP Lists
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:57 -0600, Matt Brookings wrote: >> This would not work because users can be deleted out of the hash tree >> anywhere. It appears your patch assumes a FILO ordering of user >> additions >> and deletions. > I have not been able to explain properly. It would be FIFO. > >> I

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-12 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:57 -0600, Matt Brookings wrote: > This would not work because users can be deleted out of the hash tree > anywhere. It appears your patch assumes a FILO ordering of user additions > and deletions. I have not been able to explain properly. It would be FIFO. > If the hashes

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > 1. vdeluser appends the directory being deleted in a MySQL table (for >file for cdb backend). The latest directory deleted will be at the >end. Let's say this filename is dir_control_free This would not work because

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:10 -0500, DAve wrote: > My reward for fixing the dir_control to backfill still stands. > > http://pixelhammer.com/Dan/aargh.jpg > > Follow the thread... > http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg25272.html > > I could improve on the prize some as well, how about

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread DAve
Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remo Mattei wrote: I agree with you.. So I hope this stays. vpopmail and qmailadmin development are high on our list of items this year. We're finishing up leftover items from the final quarter of 2008, and then we're to sc

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remo Mattei wrote: > I agree with you.. So I hope this stays. vpopmail and qmailadmin development are high on our list of items this year. We're finishing up leftover items from the final quarter of 2008, and then we're to schedule vpopmail and qma

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread Remo Mattei
I agree with you.. So I hope this stays. Remo DAve On 1/8/09 1:56 PM, "DAve" wrote: > Remo Mattei wrote: >> Are people moving to a different options? Just wonder.. And if they are what >> are those options? > > I hope not, I've not seen anything that comes close to the abilities of > vpopmail

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread DAve
Remo Mattei wrote: Are people moving to a different options? Just wonder.. And if they are what are those options? I hope not, I've not seen anything that comes close to the abilities of vpopmail. We are preparing to completely overhaul our backend server and integrate vpopmaild into our intr

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread Remo Mattei
Are people moving to a different options? Just wonder.. And if they are what are those options? Thanks, Remo Tom Collins On 1/8/09 12:55 PM, "Tom Collins" wrote: > On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:54 AM, aledr wrote: >> There's a lot of patches on SourceForge tracker to be accepted and I >> have my own pa

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2009-01-08 Thread Tom Collins
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:54 AM, aledr wrote: There's a lot of patches on SourceForge tracker to be accepted and I have my own patches and improvements for vpopmail that I would like to see in the package. There's no activity on the SF CVS for months, is It in active development yet? It's not in

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2002-10-23 Thread Bill Shupp
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 12:51 PM, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: Granted, vpopmail does a great job as is... I'd just hate to see this project die for lack of renovation someday. What's the licensing like? Could I modify the source and create another project? (Not that I want to... trus

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2002-10-23 Thread Matthias Trevarthan
Granted, vpopmail does a great job as is... I'd just hate to see this project die for lack of renovation someday. What's the licensing like? Could I modify the source and create another project? (Not that I want to... trust me. I've got plenty of better things to do.) Matthias On Wednesday 2

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail development

2002-10-23 Thread Bill Shupp
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:03 AM, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: Howdy, Just curious: Is vpopmail still being actively developed? Yes. Is it a single developer, or is there a CVS and an open development community? I ask because I see people talking about patches a lot. If we had a