Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning

2012-11-01 Thread Gregory Finch
I believe that Javier is talking IOPS, not throughput. You need a storage system that is able to provide a high random read + write IOPS. That single drive is going to cause you issues when things get busy. -Greg On 2012-11-01 12:32 PM, mancyb...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Javier, yes i see. > Storage

[Dovecot] "starting" dovecot

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Abrahams
My system never issues the "dovecot start" command. I do, however, run /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap on port 9xxx. I talk to the server through port 9xxx and through the preauth tunnel. Is this arrangement OK? Are there some things that will only work if "dovecot" is invoked? Thanks, -- D

Re: [Dovecot] When are search indexes updated?

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Sat Oct 27 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/27/2012 3:00 PM, David Abrahams wrote: >> >> I noticed that occasionally searching in my huge archive mailbox can be >> really slow, so I tried doveadm index on it and it seemed to do a lot of >> work, which seemed strange given, for example, tha

[Dovecot] No manpage for "doveadm fts" command

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Abrahams
Just wanted to make sure this issue was registered separately from the overall confusion I'm exploring in another thread, even though I mention this there too. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software DevelopmentTraining http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning

2012-11-01 Thread mancyb...@gmail.com
Hi Javier, yes i see. Storage for now is just a 3tb sata2 hdd, so i guess that write performance is around 100 MB/s What do you think about that ? Thanks and regards, Mike On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 Javier de Miguel Rodriguez wrote: > > IMHO, fast storage is the main requirement for

[Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning

2012-11-01 Thread mancyb...@gmail.com
Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users. Now i must build a server for 1500 users, they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or round

[Dovecot] Indexing problems

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Abrahams
It looks like something is going very wrong here. Any advice? --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ doveadm -vvvD index '*' doveadm(dave): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20

[Dovecot] 2.2.alpha1 (626a9df21e62): LMTP Core Dump

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Leuxner
Please find Backtrace for LMTP Core Dump below: [...] ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Connect from local Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 17245 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) ==> /var/log/mai