Re: [Dbmail] Question on the max mailboxsize setting

2004-10-23 Thread Jacques Dimanche
Ilja Booij wrote: in LMTP and dbmail-smtp. both will return a temporary error when a user is over quotum. I guess we should change it to a permanent failure. Might want to make it a permanent failure as well when the email address doesn't exist. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptograph

Re: [Dbmail] Strange problem with mailbox2dbmail

2004-10-23 Thread Dan Weber
Don't use this version, its utterly broken. Clearly use upstream edition :) Dan On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 06:29:37PM -0400, Barak Bejerano wrote: > Here is a non recursive version I posted here a while ago: > #!/usr/bin/python > > # Copyright (C) 2004 Dan Weber > # > # This program is f

Re: [Dbmail] running as non-root?

2004-10-23 Thread Paul J Stevens
Dbmail should be started as root, where the effective user is set to a non-privileged user. Doing so will result in a single process running as root, with the forked children running as for instance user dbmail. The root process does *not* process any requests from clients and is therefor not s

Re: [Dbmail] sylpheed[-claws] and IMAP?

2004-10-23 Thread Paul J Stevens
Sylpheed uses 'TAG UID SEARCH UID 1:*' to get all the messageids from a folder. This fails silently in dbmail. It's a known bug. I tracked down the location of the bug, but haven't been able to fix it yet, working diligently on the 2.0 debian packages which has a higher priority atm. Mikhai

Re: [Dbmail] dbmail-smtp slow

2004-10-23 Thread Paul J Stevens
Mikhail Ramendik wrote: Hello, It's somewhat strange, but mbox2dbmail is definitely slow on a large mail folder. Less than 2 mesages per second. There is no significant cpu usage, and large iowait time, so apparently it's all disk waiting. But the disk is not that slow (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7

Re: [Dbmail] running as non-root?

2004-10-23 Thread Mikhail Ramendik
Paul J Stevens wrote: > Dbmail should be started as root, where the effective user is set to a > non-privileged user. Doing so will > result in a single process running as root, with the forked children > running as for instance user dbmail. In this case, why does the comment to dbmail.conf say

Re: [Dbmail] dbmail-smtp slow

2004-10-23 Thread Mikhail Ramendik
Hello, Paul J Stevens wrote: > Of course, this whole setup is why Aaron wrote the lmtp daemon which > fixes this for mta fed messages. For > importing existing mailboxes, no such speedups are currently > available. We need a tool (resurrect it > actually), that will bypass many of the checks db

Re: [Dbmail] sylpheed-claws 0.9.12b and dbmail 2.0 : IMAP misunderstanding

2004-10-23 Thread Allen Ziegenfus
On the fine day of Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:16:15 +0400 Mikhail Ramendik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said very eloquently: > > Can anyone decipher what goes wrong? A cool mail program and a cool > IMAP server should work together, after all :) I can't comment on your logs there but I was able to get sylpheed

Re: [Dbmail] dbmail-smtp slow

2004-10-23 Thread Ilja Booij
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:52:56 +0400, Mikhail Ramendik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Paul J Stevens wrote: > > > Of course, this whole setup is why Aaron wrote the lmtp daemon which > > fixes this for mta fed messages. For > > importing existing mailboxes, no such speedups are currently >

Re: [Dbmail] running as non-root?

2004-10-23 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:47:21PM +0400, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > > However, having dbmail.conf world-readable is *very* unwise. This will > > expose your whole maildatabase to all > > kinds of ugliness. > > Actually I use dbmail for local storage, so security is provided by only > binding dbma

[Dbmail] 2.0 dbmail-imap slownesss vs 1.X

2004-10-23 Thread xing
I just upgraded to the latest 2.0 CVS and dbmail-imap is really slow compared to my old 1.X install using imapd. Background: Db is MyISAM (was Innodb and I switched the tables to MyISAM and it did not improve the situation) My imap inbox has 21000 items. On this account, I'm using thunderbird an