Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote: > You mean those "answers" like: > "you need to read 'those' articles again" > > Referring to some unknown and hard to find previous emails is not the > same as answering? No, referring to this: On 4/12/2012 5:58 AM, Ed W wrote: > The claim by ZFS/BTRFS

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote: > On 13/04/2012 13:33, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> In closing, I'll simply say this: If hardware, whether a mobo-down SATA >> chip, or a $100K SGI SAN RAID controller, allowed silent data corruption >> or transmission to occur, there would be no storage industry, an

Re: [Dovecot] How do I test if the anti spam plugin is working?

2012-04-13 Thread Dr Josef Karthauser
On 30 Mar 2012, at 12:29, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > I've configured the dspam anti spam plugin, but it doesn't appear to be doing > anything when I move mail between mailboxes. Can anyone help me determine > what's going on? > > The plugin appears to be loading; at least if I don't define al

[Dovecot] imapc / namespace question

2012-04-13 Thread René Neumann
Hi, I've got two questions regarding imapc and namespaces: 1) Is there a way of stating, that I only want part of the hierarchy on the end of an imapc connection to be available here? My "problem": On the other end the layout is: INBOX.Shared.{some,nice,folders} If I mirror this into my doveco

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Ed W wrote: On 13/04/2012 13:33, Stan Hoeppner wrote: What I meant wasn't the drive throwing uncorrectable read errors but the drives are returning different data that each think is correct or both may have sent the correct data but one of the set got corrupted on the fly.

Re: [Dovecot] sieve pipe gpg archive mails

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 13.4.2012, at 20.51, Robert Schetterer wrote: > would it be possible to use > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Pipe > > to gpg sign archived mail, incoming via lmtp > > the intention is to store all archived mail gpg signed > to notice some changes the mails at possible re

[Dovecot] sieve pipe gpg archive mails

2012-04-13 Thread Robert Schetterer
hi @ll would it be possible to use http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/Pipe to gpg sign archived mail, incoming via lmtp the intention is to store all archived mail gpg signed to notice some changes the mails at possible restore case has anyone done it bevor , or something equal

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Outlook identities

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/13/12 02:35, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > you can do it with exchange, > no wonder outlook isnt a internet mail client in first line > its the client of exchange, so people should use real internet mail > clients ( TB etc ), if m$ would more be compatible, the need of exchange > may more les

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Outlook identities

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/13/12 02:22, Birta Levente wrote: >> >> Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, >> but we shouldn't have to do that. > > Control Panel / E-mail (Mail in win7) / Profiles ... > > I hope this help you This is more work than setting up multiple accounts =

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Ed W
On 13/04/2012 13:33, Stan Hoeppner wrote: What I meant wasn't the drive throwing uncorrectable read errors but the drives are returning different data that each think is correct or both may have sent the correct data but one of the set got corrupted on the fly. After reading the articles posted,

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Ed W
On 13/04/2012 06:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/12/2012 5:58 AM, Ed W wrote: The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently "bit rots" on it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair where neither drive reports a hardware failure, but each gives you different

[Dovecot] French characters from 2.0.x to 2.1.3

2012-04-13 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Maybe it's a coincidence but it "seems" since I upgrade from 2.0.18 to 2.1.3 that some French characters ( a with accents by example ) are not well displayed anymore using thunderbird and are replaced by a "?" character Thanks for any info

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Dovecot Auth CPU usage 75%+

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 13.4.2012, at 17.32, Root Kev wrote: > 643 dovecot 20 0 3096 1616 1208 S 50.7 0.2 0:01.76 > auth Well, I can't think of any good reason for this. Try strace -p 643 (or whatever pid of the process eating CPU) for a few seconds and send its output? Also maybe get a couple of gdb backt

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Dovecot Auth CPU usage 75%+

2012-04-13 Thread Root Kev
I tried making the changes that you suggested but it didn't seem to make a noticeable difference. It should be using the shadow file directly. The shadow file has the default Ubuntu system accounts and 16 user accounts, so overall fairly small. The nsswitch.conf file is set as default: # /etc/nss

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/13/2012 8:12 AM, Jim Lawson wrote: > On 04/13/2012 08:33 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> What I meant wasn't the drive throwing uncorrectable read errors but >>> the drives are returning different data that each think is correct or >>> both may have sent the correct data but one of the set got co

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Ed W
On 13/04/2012 13:21, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 13.4.2012, at 15.17, Ed W wrote: On 13/04/2012 12:51, Timo Sirainen wrote: - Use the checksums to assist with replication speed/efficiency (dsync or custom imap commands) It would be of some use with dbox index rebuilding. I don't think it would h

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Jim Lawson
On 04/13/2012 08:33 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> What I meant wasn't the drive throwing uncorrectable read errors but >> the drives are returning different data that each think is correct or >> both may have sent the correct data but one of the set got corrupted >> on the fly. After reading the arti

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/13/2012 1:12 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 4/12/12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 4/11/2012 9:23 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> I suppose the controller could throw an error if >>> the two drives returned data that didn't agree with each other but it >>> wouldn't know which is the accurat

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 13.4.2012, at 15.17, Ed W wrote: > On 13/04/2012 12:51, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> - Use the checksums to assist with replication speed/efficiency (dsync or >>> custom imap commands) >> It would be of some use with dbox index rebuilding. I don't think it would >> help with dsync. > .. >>> - Fil

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Ed W
On 13/04/2012 12:51, Timo Sirainen wrote: - Use the checksums to assist with replication speed/efficiency (dsync or custom imap commands) It would be of some use with dbox index rebuilding. I don't think it would help with dsync. .. - File RFCs for new imap features along the "lemonde" lines

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Dovecot Auth CPU usage 75%+

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 12.4.2012, at 23.46, Root Kev wrote: > I hope someone can help me, I have been testing out Dovecot to switch from > popa3d which I use at the moment. When I get several users connecting and > disconnection multiple times, the Dovecot process with command Auth uses > 50-90% of the CPU for the p

Re: [Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

2012-04-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 12.4.2012, at 15.10, Ed W wrote: > On 12/04/2012 12:09, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 12.4.2012, at 13.58, Ed W wrote: >> >>> The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently "bit rots" >>> on it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair where >>> neither drive

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Outlook identities

2012-04-13 Thread Andrea Mistrali
Il giorno 13/apr/2012, alle ore 01.33, Michael Orlitzky ha scritto: > Nothing to do with Dovecot, but I figured this is the best place to ask. > > Do any of the newer versions of Outlook have proper identities support > like Thunderbird, mutt, Roundcube, i.e. every other mail client on Earth? >