Re: [Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-10 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting javierdemig...@us.es: in our vmware esx cluster. We want to minimize disk I/O, what config options should we use. We can "exchange" CPU & RAM to minimize disk i/o. Depends on what you are doing -- pop3, imap, both, deliver or some other LDA? Do you care if the indexes are lost on rebo

Re: [Dovecot] extra fields with "passwd" userdb

2010-12-10 Thread Kui Zhang
Hello These should help. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase?highlight=mail_location http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields KuiZ On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/12/10 01:30 PM, Kui Zhang wrote: >> Hello >> >> It is is possible. You just need

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Daniel L. Miller
This is probably a really dumb question, but here goes... Is it possible to run the imap-login process from 1.2 against a 2.0 system? -- Daniel

[Dovecot] FTS and compound searches

2010-12-10 Thread Tony Pyro
Hello, New subscriber here. I noticed that the FTS index is not used in compound searches. Is this expected? Tested in 2.0.0 and 2.0.8: . search BODY "waldo" * SEARCH . OK Search completed (0.000 secs). . SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 OR SUBJECT "waldo" FROM "waldo" * SEARCH . OK Search completed (1.768

Re: [Dovecot] extra fields with "passwd" userdb

2010-12-10 Thread Willie Gillespie
Patrick McLean wrote: Hi, On 10/12/10 01:30 PM, Kui Zhang wrote: Hello It is is possible. You just need to replace the. maildir: prefix with mdbox:, for mail_location, for each one of the test mail boxes. Thanks for the reply, although I am not sure you understand the question. I know wha

Re: [Dovecot] extra fields with "passwd" userdb

2010-12-10 Thread Patrick McLean
Hi, On 10/12/10 01:30 PM, Kui Zhang wrote: > Hello > > It is is possible. You just need to replace the. > > maildir: prefix with mdbox:, for mail_location, for each one of the > test mail boxes. > Thanks for the reply, although I am not sure you understand the question. I know what I need to

[Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

2010-12-10 Thread javierdemiguel
Hello We are using dovecot 1.2.x. In our setup we will have 1200 concurrent imap users (maildirs) and we have 2xraid5 sas 15k diks mounted by iSCSI. The dovecot server (RHEL 5 x64) is a virtual machine in our vmware esx cluster. We want to minimize disk I/O, what config options should we use

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Moseley
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mark Moseley put forth on 12/9/2010 12:18 PM: > >> If you at some point upgrade to >2.6.35, I'd be interested to hear if >> the load skyrockets on you. I also get the impression that the load >> average calculation in these recent kernels is '

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 revision 12532:e030df616faf: problem with Snarf plugin

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Oops! Config problem. Typing should be second nature by now huh. 4 status inbox (UIDNEXT MESSAGES) * STATUS "inbox" (MESSAGES 4716 UIDNEXT 101501) 4 OK Status completed. 5 status inbox (UIDNEXT MESSAGES) * STATUS "inbox" (MESSAGES 4717 UIDNEXT 101502) 5 OK Status completed. On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:

[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 revision 12532:e030df616faf: problem with Snarf plugin

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Siegle
this command fails when the snarf plugin is enabled. 5 status inbox (UIDNEXT MESSAGES) with the error: Dec 10 13:57:57 tr27n12.aset.psu.edu dovecot: imap(tstem38): Panic: file index-transaction.c: line 71: assertion failed: (box->opened) If it isn't easy to reproduce, I'll spit out the conf

Re: [Dovecot] extra fields with "passwd" userdb

2010-12-10 Thread Kui Zhang
Hello It is is possible. You just need to replace the. maildir: prefix with mdbox:, for mail_location, for each one of the test mail boxes. also if you are using maildir++ quota. change it dovecot quota. maildir++ does not work correctly with mdbox. KuiZ On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Patr

[Dovecot] extra fields with "passwd" userdb

2010-12-10 Thread Patrick McLean
Hi, I am planning a migration of ~600 accounts to mdbox (from maildir) and was hoping to do some initial testing of certain account. I am hoping to use extra fields to migrate certain accounts in advance for testing, and I can't find info on setting up extra fields with the "passwd" backend. Is th

[Dovecot] Quota warning generated when crossing on both sides

2010-12-10 Thread Harm van Tilborg
Hello everyone, I'm experimenting with the quota warning plugin. I have the following setting in Dovecot's general config: plugin { quota_warning = storage=75%% /var/www/contrib/doquotawarning.py 75 quota_warning2 = storage=90%% /var/www/contrib/doquotawarning.py 90 } The doquotawarning.py s

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Cor Bosman
> > Using gcc: > gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) We run gcc version 4.3.2 Im not using any configure options, except for a few that Timo had me try during debugging. Cor

[Dovecot] deliver -m causes crash: Panic: stream doesn't support seeking backwards

2010-12-10 Thread James Lee
When exim runs deliver -m and tries to write to a directory that does not exist is causes a crash which stops the exim MTA. Dec 9 23:20:38 mailhost exim: [ID 197553 mail.info] 2010-12-09 23:20:38 1PQpmu-0007O9-OD <= dovecot-bounces+user=domain.co...@dovecot.org H=dovecot.org [62.236.108.70] P=

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt : > I'm using: > ./configure --prefix=/usr/dovecot-2 --enable-maintainer-mode && make and export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" export CPPFLAGS='-Wl,--as-needed' but omitting that makes no difference -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Uni

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stan Hoeppner : > Has anyone considered a compiler issue? A gcc optimization flags issue? > A gcc version issue? Something along these lines? Using gcc: gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) > Cor and Ralf, are you two using the same gcc version? Same flags? Are > they different than the sw

Re: [Dovecot] limit login concurencly from different ip

2010-12-10 Thread Giovanni Mancuso
On 08/12/2010 00:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 13:22 +0100, Giovanni Mancuso wrote: > >> I read in documentation that there is "mail_max_userip_connections", but >> in this way i limit the login that come from same ip. If the same user >> tries to connect from different ip, he s

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ralf Hildebrandt put forth on 12/10/2010 1:39 AM: > * Timo Sirainen : > >> Cor's debugging has so far shown that a single epoll_wait() call can >> sometimes generate a few thousand voluntary context switches. I can't >> really understand how that's possible. Those epoll_wait() calls about >> half

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 12/9/2010 7:10 PM: > On 10.12.2010, at 0.54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> However, this still doesn't seem to explain Ralf's issue, where the >> kernel stays the same, but the Dovecot version changes, with 2.0.x >> causing the high load and 1.2.x being normal. Maybe 2.0.x