cyrusimap.org maintenance

2015-01-10 Thread Chaskiel Grundman
I will be taking most of the cyrusimap.org services down for maintenance in about 30 minutes to apply patches to vmware, and to fix vmware's boot media. www.cyrusimap.org, ftp.cyrusimap.org, git and bugzilla will be down for about an hour Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Arch

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Alvin Starr
Duplicate suppression does not just gloss over user errors. It glosses over mail administrator errors also. Also if I am on a number of lists and someone posts to several of the lists then I can end up with several copies of the same message. It works so well that you forget about it until it bre

statuscache -- why isn't this enabled by default?

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
Again, reading through the documentation (now supplemented by the *secret* documentation -- thanks, Nic), I noticed: statuscache: 0 Enable/disable the imap status cache. With this description under database-formats: STATUS cache (statuscache.db) This data

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Nic Bernstein
Duplicate suppression database is also used in the management of single instance store, which can be a big win. Please check the documentation for that to see why and how it may benefit your installation. http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.17/overview.php#singleinstance I believe it is a

Re: delayed delete_mode question

2015-01-10 Thread Nic Bernstein
Please take a look at the online documentation, here: http://www.cyrusimap.org/~vanmeeuwen/index.html There's a page dedicated to undeleting messages and mailboxes, here: http://www.cyrusimap.org/~vanmeeuwen/imap/admin/sop-deleting.html Glad to hear someone's reading the man pages. :-)

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 1/10/2015 5:51 AM, Robert Norris wrote: > The major problem with it in my experience is that you might actually > prefer the copy of the message that came through the list. For me that's > usually because I wanted DKIM headers or similar. The other problem is it involves adding computational in

Re: duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Robert Norris
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, at 09:33 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > How often does it happen that the same message is being > delivered twice? Quite often when mailing lists are involved. You might get a reply addressed to you directly and another one via the list. Or if you're sending to a list, you might

Re: delayed delete_mode question

2015-01-10 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
I didn't know about the delayed delete_mode option until finally taking the time to comb through the man pages in detail. This seems like a very useful feature, but I'm not sure I understand how it's implemented. Say some user deletes a message or folder. Does s/he have immediate access to the

delayed delete_mode question

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
I didn't know about the delayed delete_mode option until finally taking the time to comb through the man pages in detail. This seems like a very useful feature, but I'm not sure I understand how it's implemented. Say some user deletes a message or folder. Does s/he have immediate access to th

duplicatesuppression -- why?

2015-01-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
I've been wondering about this for a while, given that there is an entire db file devoted to this task, indicating a considerable investment of resources. From the imapd.conf man page: --- duplicatesuppression: 1 If enabled, lmtpd will suppress delivery of a message to a mai