Re: Question about doveadm altmove

2021-04-05 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Any update on this? Should I fill a bug-report for doveadm altmove -r not working? Regards Javier El 28/03/2021 a las 18:00, JAVIER MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ escribió: Any update on this? Dovecot 2.3.14 makes doveadm altmove -r functional?

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-04-17 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Hello Aki Can you elaborate about memory management issues in liblzma & dovecot? Regards El 19/03/2020 a las 20:07, Aki Tuomi escribió: After discussing it internally, we decided to postpone the xz removal for the time being. We understand the complexity of migrating away from it, so we want

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
    xz compression support for mdbox is used extensively here. Why are you planning to remove it? El 17/03/2020 a las 7:50, Aki Tuomi escribió: Hi! Dovecot is now a nearly 20 year old product, and during that time it has accumulated many different features and plugins in its core repository.

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.13 released

2014-05-13 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
I think the new settings */mdbox_purge_preserve_alt /*setting should be enforced by default in 2.3.0+/. /Regards Javier/ // / + mdbox: Added mdbox_purge_preserve_alt setting to keep the file within alt storage during purge. (Should become enforced in v2.3.0

Re: [Dovecot] xz compression

2014-04-03 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
El 03/04/2014 16:28, T.B. escribió: Hello Timo, I've successfully setup xz compression for my Dovecot installation using the version 2.2.12 from Debian unstable. Read the man page of xz(1) . With -9 compression level 674 MiB of ram are needed. If you use dovecot+xz, you really need to i

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Dovecot 2.0.20 auth chokes and cores

2012-05-30 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
There is a known Problem with epoll, at least on Red Hat / CentOS, this bugzilla may give you additional info (comments of Timo inside) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Regards Javier El 30/05/2012 17:45, Konrad . escribió: > When we upgrade our kernels from 2.6.32.2

Re: [Dovecot] Very High Load on Dovecot 2 and Errors in mail.err.

2012-05-20 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
I know that you are NOT running RHEL / CentOS, but this problem with > 1000 child processes bit us hard, read this red hat kernel bugzilla (Timo has comments inside): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Maybe you are hitting the same limit? Regards Javier El 20/05/2012 1

Re: [Dovecot] index IO patterns

2012-05-10 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Indexes are very random, mostly read, some writes if using dovecot-lda (ej: dbox). The average size is rather small, maybe 5 KB in our setup. Bandwith is rather low, 20-30 MB/sec We are using HP LeftHand for our replicated storage needs. Regards Javier El 11/05/2012 08:41, Cor Bosman esc

Re: [Dovecot] Problem about dovecot Panic

2012-03-29 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
We had the same problem. Reboot with an older kernel (2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 works for us). It is known bug of RHEL, see this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Regards Javier On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:15:32 +0200 (CEST), FABIO FERRARI wrote: > Good morning, > we h

Re: [Dovecot] Recalculate quota when quota=dict ?

2012-02-20 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
I have seen this behaviour with a local ext4 iSCSI filesystem. When the system is hammered by I/O (example, perfoming a full backup), I also see those messages in the log. Regards Javier On 17.2.2012, at 11.51, jos...@hybrid.pl wrote: By the way: what might have caused such a warning? r.

[Dovecot] Question about mdbox alt storage in Dovecot 2.0

2012-02-12 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Hello Reading 2.1rc6 changelog I see this: mdbox: When saving to alt storage, Dovecot didn't append as much data to m.* files as it could have. Could you elaborate more on this? Has been ported to Dovecot 2.0? Regards Javier On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:01:10 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >

Re: [Dovecot] Performance of Maildir vs sdbox/mdbox

2012-01-18 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Spanish edu site here, 80k users, 4,5 TB of email, 6.000 iops (indexes) + 9.000 iops (mdboxes) in working hours here. We evaluated mdbox against Maildir and we found that with these setting dovecot 2 perfoms better than Maildir: mdbox_rotate_interval = 1d mdbox_rotate_size=60m zlib_

Re: [Dovecot] resolve mail_home ?

2012-01-17 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
That comand/paramater should be great for our backup scripts in our hashed mdboxes tree, we are using now slocate... Regards Javier Nope.. Maybe a new command, or maybe a parameter to doveadm user that would show mail_uid/gid/home. Or maybe something that dumps config output w

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook Calendar Connector Question

2011-04-28 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
With funambol (open source) you can connect your PDAs/iPhone/Outlook to have centralized calendars and contacts. You cal also read about davical. Regards Javier Quoting Jake Johnson : Is there a freeware or opensource calendar connector that will work with Dovecot? An

[Dovecot] Error purging mdbox (damaged) mailbox

2011-02-28 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
We are stress testing our preproduction system. One of the "evil" tests we made was putting our mailboxes filesystem in read-only in the middle of smtp(+lda) delivery. When we try to purge one of the affected mailboxes we get error like the followings: / doveadm(lbandera@mysite): Panic:

Re: [Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir

2011-02-08 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
The stats in the SAN after the change maildir->mdbox do not help, we have zlib enabled in lda& imap with mdbox, so our # of real IOPs is lower than Maildir (we did not have zlib enabled) I wonder how large a write can be before it is split to two iops.. With NFS probably smaller I'd guess.

Re: [Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir

2011-02-08 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
So with mdbox disk I/O usage increased compared to maildir+ramdisk indexes? That is a "tricky" question to ask. It depends on usage, I think the following: - LDA delivery: load is a bit lower (on disk) in Maildir vs mdbox: in both cases the message has to be written, indexes are

Re: [Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir

2011-02-08 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Oh.. I envy you. Will probably need to do the same at some point, but I'm having problems understanding how we will ever be able to make the transition. Too many files -- too many users.. We did the transiction via imapsync: we had /"the old server"/ and a /"new server"/, and we migrated

[Dovecot] Great time savings backing a mdbox versus Maildir

2011-02-07 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez
Hello I am writing to this mailing list to thanks Timo for dovecot 2 & mdbox. We have almost 30.000 active users and our life was sad with Maildir & backup: 24 hours for a full backup with bacula (zlib enabled maildirs, 1.4 TB). After switching to mdbox, the backup time is under 12