Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Rajesh M
stan you are right ... i am running qmail toaster for years now and this is production mail server with over 5000 email boxes .. i dont want to migrate at all. i recently upgraded to dovecot only for the imap part because courier was trashing my server .. i was getting load levels of over 30-40

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/19/2010 7:33 PM, Rajesh M wrote: setup dovecot with squirrelmail and logged in I'd recommend also installing and configuring imapproxy - it can be beneficial with squirrelmail. -- Daniel

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/23/2010 15:41, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Seth Mattinen put forth on 6/23/2010 4:30 PM: > >> When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true': >> >> Allow server thread sort : true >> Allow server-side sorting: true >> >> Otherwise performance will suffer because it will do th

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/23/2010 15:41, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Seth Mattinen put forth on 6/23/2010 4:30 PM: > >> When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true': >> >> Allow server thread sort : true >> Allow server-side sorting: true >> >> Otherwise performance will suffer because it will do th

Re: [Dovecot] Regenerate Index and Control Files

2010-06-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 23.6.2010, at 23.49, John S wrote: > In a bad attempt of correcting a non-related error, I deleted, and recreated, > the control and index directories; now, the only e-mail showing up, in all > user mailboxes, is mail that has been delivered afterward. Are you sure the problem is with Doveco

[Dovecot] Regenerate Index and Control Files

2010-06-23 Thread John S
In a bad attempt of correcting a non-related error, I deleted, and recreated, the control and index directories; now, the only e-mail showing up, in all user mailboxes, is mail that has been delivered afterward. How do I make dovecot regenerate the control and index files so that the old e-ma

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Seth Mattinen put forth on 6/23/2010 4:30 PM: > When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true': > > Allow server thread sort : true > Allow server-side sorting: true > > Otherwise performance will suffer because it will do these things itself > rather than letting the serve

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ed W put forth on 6/23/2010 4:18 PM: > Secondly 7,500 mails over 5 mins means an indexing rate of 25 > mails/sec. This would not be out of order for a heavily fragmented > drive which is IO bound? Each file needs to be opened to scan the > headers so likely you need one disk seek and I guess it'

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread mail...@securitylabs.it
Il 23/06/2010 07:12, Rajesh M ha scritto: stan my machine is dual core dual processor xeon 1.6 gig proc 4 gb ram 1 tb sata for centos linux 1 tb sata for vpopmail domains data, mysql db and log data my hdd usage is at 60 percent now. Hello, dunno what filesystem you are using. If it's ext3

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/23/2010 12:27, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > A.L.E.C put forth on 6/23/2010 6:51 AM: >> On 23.06.2010 13:22, Rajesh M wrote: >> >>> did the tests once again on this large email box >> >> First of all, are you using one client app or many? Make sure it's not >> the client issue. You should also enable

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Ed W
On 23/06/2010 12:22, Rajesh M wrote: did the tests once again on this large email box i set maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes this was done in the morning and dovecot was restarted i logged after about 4 hours after the previous login again it took around 5 mins to login i was monitoring my server

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP SIZE Option

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Freeman
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:03:50 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:44 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:20 +0100, Paul Freeman wrote: >> > Hi Timo, >> > Are there any plans to support the SIZE option in the lmtp server? >> >> So that RCPT commands would fai

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP SIZE Option

2010-06-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:44 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:20 +0100, Paul Freeman wrote: > > Hi Timo, > > Are there any plans to support the SIZE option in the lmtp server? > > So that RCPT commands would fail if the size would bring user over > quota? I guess I could impl

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP SIZE Option

2010-06-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:20 +0100, Paul Freeman wrote: > Hi Timo, > Are there any plans to support the SIZE option in the lmtp server? So that RCPT commands would fail if the size would bring user over quota? I guess I could implement it someday soon.

[Dovecot] LMTP SIZE Option

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Freeman
Hi Timo, Are there any plans to support the SIZE option in the lmtp server? Paul

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
A.L.E.C put forth on 6/23/2010 6:51 AM: > On 23.06.2010 13:22, Rajesh M wrote: > >> did the tests once again on this large email box > > First of all, are you using one client app or many? Make sure it's not > the client issue. You should also enable some debug to see what commands > are sent to

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot-2.0 conf misc questions

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas Hummel
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: Hello Timo, > > doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file > > /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.12/etc/dovecot.conf line 176: Unknown setting: > > process_limit > > This was caused by the old settings translator. What was in line 176?

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-06-23 11:03 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Are you running other services on your server, or will it be dedicated to email? If the later, you might want to look into http://qmailtoaster.com/. Bad advice imo. QMail is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. :) Seriously thoug

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot-2.0 conf misc questions

2010-06-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:54 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up a dovecot-2.0.beta6 install and I'm experiencing the > following issues/questions : > > 1. Converting the config file > > # /usr/local/dovecot-2/bin/doveconf -n -c > /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.12/etc/dovecot.conf

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-06-23 11:03 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > Are you running other services on your server, or will it be dedicated > to email? If the later, you might want to look into > http://qmailtoaster.com/. Bad advice imo. QMail is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. :) Seriously thought, the only person

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Marcus Linnenkohl wrote: Hello, I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;) I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call the

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Pascal Volk wrote: On 06/23/2010 01:22 PM Rajesh M wrote: i set maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes this was done in the morning and dovecot was restarted i logged after about 4 hours after the previous login again it took around 5 mins to login i was monitoring my server load which around 1.5

[Dovecot] Dovecot-2.0 conf misc questions

2010-06-23 Thread Thomas Hummel
Hello, I'm setting up a dovecot-2.0.beta6 install and I'm experiencing the following issues/questions : 1. Converting the config file # /usr/local/dovecot-2/bin/doveconf -n -c /usr/local/dovecot-1.2.12/etc/dovecot.conf : [...] doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/dove

Re: [Dovecot] quota_set leak

2010-06-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:07 -0500, Mike Abbott wrote: > The quota plugin in 2.0.beta6 leaks 2KB "quota settings" pools. Here > is a patch to plug this leak, assuming you intended the caller of > quota_init to retain ownership of the quota_set. If on the other hand > you intended for quota_init to

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Pascal Volk
On 06/23/2010 01:22 PM Rajesh M wrote: > i set > maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes > this was done in the morning and dovecot was restarted > i logged after about 4 hours after the previous login > again it took around 5 mins to login > i was monitoring my server load which around 1.5 - 2 on my dual

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote: a) Do you keep index files on Dovecot side? b) Do you deliver / manipulate the mailbox via Dovecot only? E.g. do you use Dovecot deliver? c) If you rawlog or sniff the connection and issue the same commands as

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread A.L.E.C
On 23.06.2010 13:22, Rajesh M wrote: did the tests once again on this large email box First of all, are you using one client app or many? Make sure it's not the client issue. You should also enable some debug to see what commands are sent to IMAP server and what is the response and what is r

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Rajesh M
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote: > >>> Roundcube 0.3.1 seems to have a hard coded limit of 200 mails per page. > >> it again took around 4-5 mins > > I do not know nothing about Roundcube, therefore I wonder where the 5min > delay come from:

Re: [Dovecot] Proxy Access (Manager/Secretary) Best Practices?

2010-06-23 Thread Ed W
On 17/06/2010 17:31, Chris Hobbs wrote: I've mostly got our dovecot+postfix+SOGo+openldap open source groupware replacement working the way I want it to; we're replacing GroupWise in our organization and I'm thrilled to be doing it. I'm supporting about 1,000 active staff users (and another 6,

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:53 +0200, Gerhard Waldemair wrote: > Am 23.06.2010 um 09:47 schrieb Marcus Linnenkohl: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my > > English is not so good ;) > > > > I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to firs

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Gerhard Waldemair
Am 23.06.2010 um 09:47 schrieb Marcus Linnenkohl: > Hello, > > I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my > English is not so good ;) > > I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. > > I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to m

[Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Marcus Linnenkohl
Hello, I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;) I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call theire mails. I think IMAP is

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote: Roundcube 0.3.1 seems to have a hard coded limit of 200 mails per page. it again took around 4-5 mins I do not know nothing about Roundcube, therefore I wonder where the 5min delay come from: a) Do you ke