Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 13, 2008, at 2:44 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Thank you for the suggestion, but no, that doesn't work for me. I'm not running a Linux box, I'm running Solaris... It runs on Solaris. and I'm not interested in running a firewall on my mail server. You don't have to, you could simp

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Dave McGuire : > Thank you for the suggestion, but no, that doesn't work for me. I'm not > running a Linux box, I'm running Solaris... It runs on Solaris. > and I'm not interested in running a firewall on my mail server. You don't have to, you could simply nullroute the source IPs :) --

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%

2008-12-12 Thread nuitari-dovecot
I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. What OS/distribution and kernel version are you using? Gentoo with 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 amd64, 2 dual core opterons I think the user uses Outlook though, but I can check

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote: Timo, if I may make a request...Unless 1.2 will be released soon, would you please also look into the possibility of integrating the "back off after failed auth attempts" feature into the 1.1 code base? I need that badly here, to the point t

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave McGuire said the following on 13/12/08 06:41: > Timo, if I may make a request...Unless 1.2 will be released soon, > would you please also look into the possibility of integrating the "back > off after failed auth attempts" feature into the 1.1

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Dave McGuire
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Hello Dovecot developers, Apple has made and tested significant changes to Dovecot v1.1 and now is ready to contribute them back to your open source project. The changes include: Sounds great! Yes it does. Thanks, Apple! I could contri

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sieve: Keep: Generic Error

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
Doesn't it log anything else? I think that "Generic error" is usually logged only after the real error message. On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 16:39 +0100, Thomas Siebert wrote: > OK, now i compiled the latest debian version (1.1.7 from > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dovecot/) myself and I still

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:24 -0600, Mike Abbott wrote: > Hello Dovecot developers, > > Apple has made and tested significant changes to Dovecot v1.1 and now > is ready to contribute them back to your open source project. The > changes include: Sounds great! > I could contribute these as one

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:07 AM, nuitari-dove...@nuitari.net wrote: I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. What OS/distribution and kernel version are you using? PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:40 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck. Each time I check my server (running dovecot 1.1.7) there's a bunch of "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6) that are using all of the box's CPU.

[Dovecot] Dovecot imap processes pinning CPU

2008-12-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
In recent days, dovecot's "imap" processes keep getting stuck. Each time I check my server (running dovecot 1.1.7) there's a bunch of "imap" processes (sometimes 2 of them, sometimes 4, sometimes 6) that are using all of the box's CPU. And worse, there's no way to kill the processes either (n

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Jurvis LaSalle
amazing. we just finished hacking apple-user-mailattribute into our dovecot ldap conf last month. do you have any sample confs posted? our OD usage atm is very crude... JL On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Mike Abbott wrote: Hello Dovecot developers, Apple has made and tested significant ch

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread rashantha de silva
three cheers to see apple working on this. hopefully we will see it on 10.6 os x server looking forward to it. if there is any tutorial on installing it in conjunction 10.5 server it would be greatly appreciated. rashantha de silva On Dec 12, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Mike Abbott wrote: Hello Do

Re: [Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Cor Bosman
Very cool to see Apple contribute to dovecot! Cor

[Dovecot] Source patches from Apple

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Abbott
Hello Dovecot developers, Apple has made and tested significant changes to Dovecot v1.1 and now is ready to contribute them back to your open source project. The changes include: Scalability and performance: allow pop/imap mail processes to handle multiple clients larger listen queues Sta

Re: [Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 12, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Arno Wald wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: You could see if compiling Dovecot without inotify/dnotify support would help. I can't really think of anything else. I would like to try this and report the result. But there are so many configure-options that I do not know

Re: [Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

2008-12-12 Thread Arno Wald
Timo Sirainen wrote: > You could see if compiling Dovecot without inotify/dnotify support would > help. I can't really think of anything else. I would like to try this and report the result. But there are so many configure-options that I do not know which options (and how) I should dis/enable. Cou

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sieve: Keep: Generic Error

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Siebert
OK, now i compiled the latest debian version (1.1.7 from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dovecot/) myself and I still get the same error. Any ideas, Timo? ;-) > > -Original Message- > > From: dovecot-bounces+siebert+lists=et.rub...@dovecot.org > > [mailto:dovecot-bounces+sieber

Re: [Dovecot] imap quota makes the Alarm clock expire

2008-12-12 Thread Magnus Appelquist
Well, I don't think it matter. Although I'm not sure that I've configured backend properly and I don't know if one backend excludes the others (i.e. they may be loaded anyway). I've tried with three different backend (not at the same time): plugin { quota = fs:user } plugin { quota = di

Re: [Dovecot] imap quota makes the Alarm clock expire

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 12, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Magnus Appelquist wrote: After a couple of seconds when I try to start dovceot, I get this: r...@taleira:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot start Alarm clock If I uncomment the "imap_quota and quota" in dovecot.conf everything seem to work fine What quota backend are you usi

[Dovecot] imap quota makes the Alarm clock expire

2008-12-12 Thread Magnus Appelquist
Hello list, I have a strange problem with dovecot and quota. The error message is not obvious... After a couple of seconds when I try to start dovceot, I get this: r...@taleira:~# /etc/init.d/dovecot start Alarm clock If I uncomment the "imap_quota and quota" in dovecot.conf everything see

Re: [Dovecot] freebsd 7, panics - kqueue?

2008-12-12 Thread mike-maillist
i am tempted to simply disable kqueue in dovecot but am not sure on the performance penalties. kqueue is used for two things: 1) As regular ioloop, replacing select/poll. Not using kqueue here shouldn't make pretty much any performance difference. 2) As file notifier. When IMAP client starts

Re: [Dovecot] freebsd 7, panics - kqueue?

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:01 PM, > wrote: i am tempted to simply disable kqueue in dovecot but am not sure on the performance penalties. kqueue is used for two things: 1) As regular ioloop, replacing select/poll. Not using kqueue here shouldn't make pretty much any performance difference. 2)

[Dovecot] Autocreate plugin for 1.1 - not compile in FreeBSD (gcc problem?)

2008-12-12 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. I try to compile Autocreate plugin for 1.1 in FreeBSD 7.0-p6. gcc version: # gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i386-undermydesk-freebsd Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] But it gives me a: mx# sh -x patch.sh +

[Dovecot] freebsd 7, panics - kqueue?

2008-12-12 Thread mike-maillist
Hi, We have a issue with a server pretty much just running dovecot, there's about 250gb of maildirs which has about 200 simultaneous connections to it running on freebsd 7. The machine has stayed up for about 8 days before it panics but sometimes panics after about 24 hours. We are running a PAE

Re: [Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:10 +0100, Arno Wald wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Anyway, Arno's ps output showed the process to be in R state, not in D > > It is definitely the R state. > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 6717 arno 20 0 2964 1608 1192

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%

2008-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 03:07 -0500, nuitari-dove...@nuitari.net wrote: > I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at > 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. See the subject "unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage" thread that's going on, with the exact same iss

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%

2008-12-12 Thread Edgar Fuß
> an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. I'm no a Linux expert, but from a BSD perspective, that seems to contradict each other. Either the process is doing an uninterruptable sleep or consumes CPU time. As said, I'm not a Linux expert, but can you find out what state the

Re: [Dovecot] unkillable imap process(es) with high CPU-usage

2008-12-12 Thread Arno Wald
Timo Sirainen wrote: > Anyway, Arno's ps output showed the process to be in R state, not in D It is definitely the R state. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 6717 arno 20 0 2964 1608 1192 R 100 0.2 1158:05 imap btw: I have switched from imaps to im

[Dovecot] Problem with imap running at 100%

2008-12-12 Thread nuitari-dovecot
I was doing some checks on a server and found an imap process running at 100%, kill -9 was unable to kill it. hammer ~ # lsof -p 1918 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME imap1918 vpopmail cwdDIR8,2 96 539699 /var/vpopmail/domains/maxpersuasion.com/