Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers, or different authentication setups.

2013-05-25 Thread Andreas Kasenides
Look at Running Multiple Invocations of Dovecot at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot Andreas On 23-05-2013 03:30, Joshua Gardner wrote: I want to know if there is any virtual server functionality in Dovecot? I would like to have two separate configurations, that access the same email,

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-29 Thread Daniel L. Miller
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Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-28 Thread Noel Butler
I think we all know who the troll is here On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 07:14 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-06-27 9:06 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 2011-06-27 9:21 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > >> I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level > >> of mail traffic else you'

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-06-27 9:06 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > On 2011-06-27 9:21 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: >> I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level >> of mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) > Don't mean to start a flame war, but your statement above is just >

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 02:54 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > I should also mention that I'm refering to VMs using direct block > storage such as LVM, not VMs running off image files. Running anything > off an image file is indeed going to slow your system down compared to a > physical serv

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/27/2011 6:21 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: BTW, I'm assuming a proper virtualisation solution such as Xen Paravirtualisation. "Proper"? You don't consider VirtualBox as such? In this instance, I'm using VirtualBox to run a few Windows guests - so Xen isn't an option for me. And as far

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/27/2011 1:03 PM, Ed W wrote: On 27/06/2011 19:40, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. In particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. Although not an option yo

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/27/2011 12:48 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: In the storage configuration of your VM, where you select the type of interface to emulate, there's a checkbox for using the Host's I/O cache. Does VirtualBox uses that to "trick" the guest kernel into not consuming memory for caching? If you can s

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/27/2011 6:06 PM, Noel Butler wrote: I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level of mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) Just all the mailing lists I subscribe to :) means NFS. My initial testing shows NFS results in a dramatically reduced per

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 28/06/2011 02:21, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level of mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) Don't mean to start a flame war, but your statement above is just simply inaccurate. The main difference between a

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 02:21 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > > > I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level of > > mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) > > > > > Don't mean to start a flame war, but your statement above is just simply > inaccurate.

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level of mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) Don't mean to start a flame war, but your statement above is just simply inaccurate. The main difference between a virtual server and a physical server is that re

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:40 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. > > Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. > In particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. > I hope this is a lightly used ser

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 6/27/2011 2:51 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: I wouldn't worry about *duplicate cache* as far as disk goes at all. This duplicate cache is only going to benifit your vm, if the host machine has enough left over ram. If the host machine doesn't have enough ram, there won't be any cache to worry a

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Patrick Domack
I wouldn't worry about *duplicate cache* as far as disk goes at all. This duplicate cache is only going to benifit your vm, if the host machine has enough left over ram. If the host machine doesn't have enough ram, there won't be any cache to worry about. I think this also only applies when

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Ed W
On 27/06/2011 19:40, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. > > Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. > In particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. Although not an option you are currently using, I'm a

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Phil Turmel
Hi Daniel, On 06/27/2011 02:40 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. > > Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. In > particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. > > Initial questions on configuratio

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual servers

2007-07-05 Thread Troy Engel
John Hedges wrote: but I can't get ithis to work. Dovecot starts but authorisation fails. Is this kind of setup possible - is it possible to configure different passwd-files for connections on different IPs, or am I going to have to run separate instances of Dovecot for each virtual host? Ther