Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Scott M. Likens wrote: > Hi David, > > If you want ZFS you have several choices, OS X (Leopard), as there is a > development version that supports RAID-Z and works quite well. You > can't boot off of it, but that will change in Snow Leopard. > > Additionally you can use Opens

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Scott M. Likens
Hi David, If you want ZFS you have several choices, OS X (Leopard), as there is a development version that supports RAID-Z and works quite well. You can't boot off of it, but that will change in Snow Leopard. Additionally you can use Opensolaris such as Nexenta, or you can use fuse to get ZFS

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Scott M. Likens wrote: > With ZFS your leaving a "ton" of stone-age worries behind. You can go > much beyond inodes in the perks of ZFS. and gaining some new worries along the way. while some are convinced that ZFS is the best thing ever others see it as trading a set of k

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Scott M. Likens
... I debated writing a gui for Cyrus for administration, but I realized that people implement Cyrus in so many different ways. Kerberos, LDAP, *SQL, various forms of PAM. Then you add in virtual domains, and how you might want alias's and might not, and different MTA support... and I just c

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Scott M. Likens
With ZFS your leaving a "ton" of stone-age worries behind. You can go much beyond inodes in the perks of ZFS. Vincent Fox wrote: > Wesley Craig wrote: > >>> Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same >>> disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), >>> > With ZFS, inodes are

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread J. Bakshi
Do Duc Huy wrote: > Hi, > I am in a same situation with you about system components. I have used > postfix+cyrus+ldap for email system since 2001 and system performance is > still good now. But I have to face with two problems with this system. The > first one is GUI for user and administrator. Th

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: >> Why does cyrus need it's own >> structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly >> compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same >> disadvantages (huge needs in terms

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Vincent Fox
Wesley Craig wrote: >> Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same >> disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), With ZFS, inodes are among the many stone-age worries you leave behind. ;-) Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Wesley Craig
On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: > Why does cyrus need it's own > structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly > compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same > disadvantages (huge needs in terms of inodes etc.), yet I see no > distinctive adv

Re: Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam D
Jens wrote: > Adam D schrieb: > >> Adam D wrote: >> >>> I have noticed this error in the log: >>> Sep 12 18:57:44 vts-post cyrus/imap[19629]: IOERROR: locking >>> /var/lib/cyrus/domain/W/domain1/user/A/userbox.sub: Interrupted system call >>> >>> Soon afterwards I notice imapd runs at 99.8

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Hello, 2008/9/17 Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Another thing which really intrigued me was the inherent >> cluster-ability of dovecot, which is a huge PITA to get to run on >> cyrus (as I have just implemented it a couple of months ago). Yet I >> only have read about it in the documentation

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Simon Matter
> Another thing which really intrigued me was the inherent > cluster-ability of dovecot, which is a huge PITA to get to run on > cyrus (as I have just implemented it a couple of months ago). Yet I > only have read about it in the documentation, and not actually seen it > in action. But at least the

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Heya :) 2008/9/17 Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I noticed that dovecot and cyrus don't differ that much in speed to >> each other. Both seem to excel at certain points, while being weaker >> at another. But overall the performance on a huge mailbox seemed to be >> comparable. Doveco

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I noticed that dovecot and cyrus don't differ that much in speed to > each other. Both seem to excel at certain points, while being weaker > at another. But overall the performance on a huge mailbox seemed to be > comparable. Dovecot seemed to be slightly better at searching in the > mailbox, esp

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Do Duc Huy wrote: > My question is about my second problem. It 's about antispam and antivirus. > I have used amavis for spam and virus filter. This can block virus very well > but it have no effect in blocking spam mail, I think. Get the newest version of amavisd-new, and rea

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Hoffrichter
Hi all, I know I will take some heat for this (as I know this is a cyrus mailinglist), but I'm going to offer some points for dovecot. I'm all for informed decisions, where one can weigh points against each other and decide on that basis. First of all, I have administrated both courier and cyrus

RE: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Do Duc Huy
Hi, I am in a same situation with you about system components. I have used postfix+cyrus+ldap for email system since 2001 and system performance is still good now. But I have to face with two problems with this system. The first one is GUI for user and administrator. Squirrelmail was helpful enough

STAGE. DIR

2008-09-17 Thread Casper
Hi. I wonder what the stage dir is... My stagedir is 21GB, those 21GB could i use somewhere else. mail2# du -sh /imap/stage./ 21G/imap/stage./ mail2# Can i delete everything in this directory? /Casper Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusima

Re: Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

2008-09-17 Thread Jens
Adam D schrieb: > Adam D wrote: >> I have noticed this error in the log: >> Sep 12 18:57:44 vts-post cyrus/imap[19629]: IOERROR: locking >> /var/lib/cyrus/domain/W/domain1/user/A/userbox.sub: Interrupted system call >> >> Soon afterwards I notice imapd runs at 99.8 % and I can not kill the >> proce

can web-cyradm work with ldap ?

2008-09-17 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello List, The best tool to manage the cyrus is web-cyradm I think. Is there any way to configure web-cyradm with openldap ? Has any one done it by any chance ? Kindly suggest. -- ~~ Joydeep Bakshi, Linux System Admin Kolkatainfoservices Pvt Ltd, 23A Royd

Re: Issues with user.sub files - subscription files hangs system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam D
Adam D wrote: > I have noticed this error in the log: > Sep 12 18:57:44 vts-post cyrus/imap[19629]: IOERROR: locking > /var/lib/cyrus/domain/W/domain1/user/A/userbox.sub: Interrupted system call > > Soon afterwards I notice imapd runs at 99.8 % and I can not kill the > process. It looks like the f