Re: [Dovecot] index IO patterns

2012-05-11 Thread Cor Bosman
Hi javier, > > > 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 Even without LDA/LMTP dovecot-imap needs to write right? It would need to update the index ev

Re: [Dovecot] index IO patterns

2012-05-11 Thread Javier de Miguel Rodríguez
Even without LDA/LMTP dovecot-imap needs to write right? It would need to update the index every time an imap connect happens and new mails are found in the mail store. Well of course. Indexes are also updated when flags are modified, moved a messages, delete a message, etc.. But in my setup th

Re: [Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot folder gets deleted on server reboot? ubuntu 10.10

2012-05-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-10 10:37 AM, jacques wrote: Hi After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got started. When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console /var/run/dov

[Dovecot] ..::MBOX ISSUE::..

2012-05-11 Thread Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez
Hi everyone. I have a postfix working with sasl auth and dovecot, everything works fine. I just have 2 issues, the first is that if you add the IMAP mail accounts you can import all the mboxes on the /var/spool/mail/ which we don't want. The second issue is that there's no sent, trash and dr

[Dovecot] multi-instance doveadm user -m woes

2012-05-11 Thread David Warden
I'm having difficulty with the doveadm who command on a multi-instance setup of dovecot. When I run the who command on the non-standard instance with the -m flag (to see their mail location), this happens: [root@wardentest3 dovecot]# doveadm -i mailtest user -m warden doveadm(root): Error: user

Re: [Dovecot] multi-instance doveadm user -m woes +WORKAROUND

2012-05-11 Thread David Warden
Some more investigation yielded this solution: [root@wardentest3 conf.d]# doveadm -c /etc/dovecot/mailtest/dovecot.conf user -m warden field value uid 73464 gid 1000 home/home/warden mail maildir:/Mail/mailhome/warden/mailtest/Maildir:CONTROL=/Mail/mailhome/warden/mailtest/.dove

[Dovecot] namespace from snapshots

2012-05-11 Thread Karl Oulmi
hi all, I'm trying to give access to snapshots taken from by dell iscsi MD3200i to my maildirs users. snapshot are mounted in read only mode from my FreeBSD box. In my /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf, I have : namespace inbox { inbox = yes } namespace da1 { prefix = INBOX.back

Re: [Dovecot] index IO patterns

2012-05-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 11.5.2012, at 13.56, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote: >> Even without LDA/LMTP dovecot-imap needs to write right? It would >> need to update the index every time an imap connect happens and >> new mails are found in the mail store. > > Well of course. Indexes are also updated when flags are m

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix Query

2012-05-11 Thread Tim
user_query = SELECT maildir, mailuser as uid, mailgroup as gid,concat('*:bytes=',quota) as quota_rule FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE username = '%u' and maildir should return example.com/subdomain/tim for this particular user >What does your user_query look like in dovecot-sql.conf.ext? > >On 2012-0

Re: [Dovecot] index IO patterns

2012-05-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2012 1:41 AM, Cor Bosman wrote: > Hey all, we're in the process of checking out alternatives to our index > storage. We're currently storing indexes on a NetApp Metrocluster which > works fine, but is very expensive. We're planning a few different setups and > doing some actual performa