Re: what is the best way to migrate

2006-06-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Rudy Gevaert wrote: Timo Schoeler wrote: http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ helped me several times. it's an awesome tool imho ;) I'm still looking for a way to do the sync without knowing the password of the user. Any idea's? I've used a dummy ldap backend with a copy of all our a

Re: New kid on the block: Zimbra?

2005-09-14 Thread Jared Watkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, anybody here notice http://www.zimbra.com yet? I have been talking to this company since last november.. and I'm in the process of doing an eval. I have an enterprise cyrus/sqm install with about 2500 accounts. I can't yet speak for speed... as the performance

Re: Imap timeout with 27k messages...

2005-08-08 Thread Jared Watkins
Ken Murchison wrote: Jared Watkins wrote: Hello all.. I have a situation here where an 'exempt' user has accumulated nearly 27k messages and 1.5G of mail in their sent items folder and now any attempt to access this folder has imap timeout problems and stuck processes. The cyra

Imap timeout with 27k messages...

2005-08-08 Thread Jared Watkins
Hello all.. I have a situation here where an 'exempt' user has accumulated nearly 27k messages and 1.5G of mail in their sent items folder and now any attempt to access this folder has imap timeout problems and stuck processes. The cyradm utility is also not able to work with the folder... a

Re: backup without stopping the imap server?

2005-06-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Andreas Hasenack wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:35:25PM -0400, Jared Watkins wrote: AFAIK the only really important data that can't be easily replaced is the mailbox list database. So I do regular dumps of that file and keep What exactly is this? Really just the names of al

Re: backup without stopping the imap server?

2005-06-13 Thread Jared Watkins
John Madden wrote: I'm using LVM snapshot on linux box and it work perfectly But a filesystem-level snapshot isn't a clear copy of what's uncommitted to the DB's. I still haven't heard how bad a situation it is if the db's in the 'db' directory are corrupted -- what do you do then?

Re: Cyrus/OpenLDAP Administration & SQL

2005-03-22 Thread Jared Watkins
jon johnston wrote: I'm very new to Cyrus. I am looking for a method by which someone with no linux skills can manage user accounts in Cyrus, and preferably, OpenLDAP simultaneously. Any input here is greatly appreciated. Thanks I have an admin tool in progress that does exactly that...

Re: Hardware RAID Level & Performance

2005-02-17 Thread Jared Watkins
Andrew Morgan wrote: You may want to look into Dell's AX100 SAN (a rebranded version of the EMC Clariion AX100). These use SATA drives with a FC front end. They are relatively inexpensive for the amount of storage you can get, if your I/O needs match. You can also go a little more upscale wit

Cyrus Web GUI

2004-05-22 Thread Jared Watkins
I know there have been several questions lately about a better way to manage cyrus... I've been working on something for a while for my own use... Right now it is strongly tied to ldap... though it may be possible to abstract the user database to use ldap or sql... I've not written it that way

Re: Invalid flag in Append command

2004-03-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Cyrus Daboo wrote: Bottom line is: its a client bug - fix the client. In this case.. the client is the imapmigrate tool from the Cyrus IMAPd Utilities project on sourceforge. Just to have this in the archive... around line 514 I've added a line that should ignore any Recent flags... for $ms

Invalid flag in Append command

2004-03-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Hello all... I'm trying to migrate about 2400 users from iplanet 4x to cyrus 2.2.3... my first batch of test accounts went without a problem... but now I've hit a snag with the following in the telemetry output... APPEND "INBOX" (\Recent) {somenumber} BAD Invalid flag in Append command I looked in

Re: IMAP load testing tool?

2003-06-19 Thread Jared Watkins
> Has anyone found or written a tool to load test an IMAP server (Cyrus in > particular) which simulates client (reader) traffic? I have used this one by eTesting labs with some success... it's a pita to setup... but it does work well. http://www.veritest.com/benchmarks/svrtools/email/t1intro.asp

Re: Management tool?

2003-06-02 Thread Jared Watkins
Did you ever get an answer to your question? I'm working on just such a tool.. but with an ldap backend. So far.. it supports working with static/dynamic groups.. public folders.. and even alternate cyrus partitions.. I have scripts that pull info out of ldap each hour and write out postfix form

Pausing Cyrus for Snapshots?

2003-03-13 Thread Jared Watkins
I've not been able to find the answer to this in the docs or mailing list... I'd like to use the snapshot feature of the linux volume manager to take block level snaps of the cyrus databases and mailstore at regular intervals. To ensure consistency of the databases I assume you need to shut

Re: MUPDATE master server

2003-03-07 Thread Jared Watkins
No kidding. I'm looking forward to the donation that makes developing that possible. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper Any

Re: Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?

2003-02-06 Thread Jared Watkins
Hans Wilmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:36:03PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote: We are using LVM to give the ability to add disk space and expand our reiserfs when necessary. Is it possible to add disc space with ext3fs and LVM, too? We are using LVM on top of hardware RAID 5

cyrdump and cyrrestore?

2003-01-29 Thread Jared Watkins
I was just curious about the status of thse two tools... they look very useful... I tried compiling the cyrrestore in 2.1.11 but had no luck... and I see nothing in the archives about these... Much thanks, jared -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT/S/B d- s-:+ a- C$ UL$

Re: SNMP cyrus monitoring.

2003-01-25 Thread Jared Watkins
Christian Schulte wrote: Jared Watkins schrieb: Hmmm... Well I ran the snmpconf perl script and allowed public read access in snmpd.conf.. but when I try to walk the enterprises tree I don't see any cyrus stuff there... in fact.. I don't get any results if I use enterprises.anyth

Re: SNMP cyrus monitoring.

2003-01-23 Thread Jared Watkins
ver, that way, cyrus will initialize properly with the snmp server and start sending it stats. Scott --On Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:36 PM -0500 Jared Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know a lot about the innards of snmp... but here is my problem. I configured cyrus with

Re: SNMP cyrus monitoring.

2003-01-23 Thread Jared Watkins
I don't know a lot about the innards of snmp... but here is my problem. I configured cyrus with the --with-ucdsnmp flag.. but when I query with snmpwalk it gives no result.. as if that part of the tree is not known to snmp. I ran the query using the base OID from your scripts. I'm doing thi

Latest on Cyrus and GFS?

2003-01-17 Thread Jared Watkins
I've not been able to find the answer to the GFS question in the archives.. so here goes. If one were using a dual attach scsi cabinet.. or fibre channel.. would it possible to use cyrus on GFS from two or more servers all with r/w access? I'm thinking of a setup that would have all user ma

Migration Pointers?

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Hello all... I'm working on a migration from a single linux Iplanet (aka Netscape aka Sun One) messaging server with Iplanet ldap backend for the user database TO cyrus on linux with an active directory backend. I have about 2500 accounts on this sytem.. and from the mta logs I go through abo

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread Jared Watkins
How long have you been using this setup... and have you ever had any problem... or needed to do a failover.. or a failback? Do you dedicate nics for the replication.. are they GB? Do you have any stats on the typical data rates for the replication under normal load? I've thought about using

Re: OT LVM Snapshot for backups (was: Best way to backup cyrus syste)

2002-11-21 Thread Jared Watkins
Christian Schulte wrote: Jared Watkins wrote: I would think you could use LVM the linux volume manager along with it's snapshot feature.. and then any sort of backup program you want. I'm not using this method yet... but I will be soon... is anyone else out there running LVM or

Re: OT LVM Snapshot for backups (was: Best way to backup cyrus syste)

2002-11-20 Thread Jared Watkins
I would think you could use LVM the linux volume manager along with it's snapshot feature.. and then any sort of backup program you want. I'm not using this method yet... but I will be soon... is anyone else out there running LVM or some other volume manager under linux in production? Jared

Re: Murder / LDAP / SASL Problem... END

2002-11-05 Thread Jared Watkins
that should be enough to cover for single machine hardware failures.. and there is always per user transport ldap lookups in postfix for multiple cyrus stores... that should cover my bases for the next year or two. Thanks for the input... jared Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jared Wa

Re: Murder / LDAP / SASL Problem...

2002-10-31 Thread Jared Watkins
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jared Watkins wrote: When I login to port 143 using telnet to the _frontend_ that system will do an ldap lookup and verify the password of the test user. I am able to list the mailboxes (since they are being provided by mupdate) but when I attempt

Re: Murder / LDAP / SASL Problem...

2002-10-31 Thread Jared Watkins
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jared Watkins wrote: Using imtest I was able to login as you suggested... and sniffing the traffic I saw that it did an ldap lookup to verify the 'murder' proxy user... but why is not doing the ldap search when the auth attempt is mad

Re: Murder / LDAP / SASL Problem...

2002-10-31 Thread Jared Watkins
tead of slaveuser? It was my understanding that the 'slaveuser' was only used in communicating with the mupdate master... and the proxy_authname user was used in the connection to the backend. jared Rob Siemborski wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jared Watkins wrote: What's no

Murder / LDAP / SASL Problem...

2002-10-30 Thread Jared Watkins
I'm trying to setup a murder for testing... I have two physical machines... one running a backend.. the other running the mupdate master and as a frontend. I'm using SASL 2.1.9 and cyrus 2.1.9 on both systems. My latest compile time options are as follows: SASL --with-openssl=/usr/lib --wit