High Availability

2015-04-19 Thread Lalot Dominique
Hi, We used cyrus for many years and switch to a proprietary system. We are juste looking back to cyrus. I would like to know the status of cyrus and HA: This documentation seems to consider that replication is edge.. http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.9/install-replication.php and it has b

Re: ext3 / XFS [Was: Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?]

2010-11-16 Thread LALOT Dominique
We use ext4 for more than one year now. Efficient and stable. A good choise 12 spool of 250GB over 10 FC disks using metalun. Dom 2010/11/16 Robert Mueller > > > > This is depends on what filesystem you are useing, I have mailboxes > with hundreds > > > of thousands of messages in them on XFS a

Re: Recomendations for a Migration of a Cyrus mailStore with 70K users.

2010-06-16 Thread LALOT Dominique
We just finished migrating using 12 spools ext4 RAID5 for much less users (6000) with quotas up to 3Gb. It tooks a few days on line just rename mailboxes to another spool. my script looks like this. Just take care no to abort it in the middle of a rename. It would be better to add a handler for SIG

Re: Cyrus via NFS

2010-05-12 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, I asked somebody from another french university. They use a NetApp, put evrything on it and it works perfectly. I stayed on SAN anyway, but I would have liked the snapshot and the facilities to restore mails... Dom 2010/5/12 Agustín Eijo > Hello, > > I have a Mail server with 6000 mailb

Re: moving mailboxes to another spool without stopping service

2010-04-08 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hi, > > > --On 6. April 2010 15:54:20 +0200 LALOT Dominique > wrote: > > We have reached rapidly the size of one spool and we want to migrate some >> mailboxes to another spool. What is the best way to do that? >> It would be nice that ltmp reports a temporary failur

moving mailboxes to another spool without stopping service

2010-04-06 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, We have reached rapidly the size of one spool and we want to migrate some mailboxes to another spool. What is the best way to do that? It would be nice that ltmp reports a temporary failure when moving in order to keep the incoming mail in the smtp spool. And also a way to prevent the user

Re: Autocreate patch for 2.3.15?

2009-11-26 Thread LALOT Dominique
same for us. I vote for inclusion 2009/11/26 Michal Hlavinka > On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:28:45 Michael Menge wrote: > > Quoting Simon Matter : > > >> Has anyone used the 2.3.14 autocreate patch on 2.3.15? There does not > > >> seem to be a patch for 2.3.15 on the site and I have tried usi

Re: quota -f doubling users' quota usage

2009-11-06 Thread LALOT Dominique
I can just say, that I have strange behaviour in 2.3 about quota. Does it come from our migration, I can't say. Sometimes people have very smal quota, sometimes 4000% overquota. Each time, reconstruct + quota -f and once delete indexes as neither reconstruct nor quota -f solved the problem. I got

Re: strange quota behaviour

2009-09-01 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/9/1 Michael Menge > Quoting LALOT Dominique : > > Hello, >> >> Sometimes, I have some bad quotas. Here is a trace: >> >> [cy...@imap-perso ~]$ cyradm -user cyrus localhost >> Password: >> localhost.localdomain> lq user/xx >> STORAGE 1

strange quota behaviour

2009-09-01 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, Sometimes, I have some bad quotas. Here is a trace: [cy...@imap-perso ~]$ cyradm -user cyrus localhost Password: localhost.localdomain> lq user/xx STORAGE 197/100 (0.0197%) [r...@imap-perso ~]# du -hs /var/spool/imap2/m/user/xx 890M/var/spool/imap2/m/user/xx reconstruct -rf user

Re: Api for seen state, perl preferred

2009-05-25 Thread LALOT Dominique
Sorry to be late to answer, and thanks for the thread. I tried that command and gets lots of info: getting id in a folder, I got that [cy...@smtp ~]$ ./test.pl lastread:Tue May 19 14:14:04 2009 52 lastchange:Tue May 19 14:05:51 2009 1:52 I put an unread mail in that folder, it appears to be at u

Api for seen state, perl preferred

2009-05-19 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, I'm following a previous thread. I would like to be able to open a seen skiplist database in order to verify if a particular user has red its mail. If possible, a way to do that in PERL would be perfect. Thanks in advance Dom -- Dominique LALOT Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux http://annua

Re: reading seen state as cyrus priviledged user

2009-05-12 Thread LALOT Dominique
Well, I'm thinking about another way to do that. Running as localhost of cyrus-imap and as cyrus user, I'm able to open seen skiplist database. Is there a Perl module to interact with? Thanks Dom 2009/5/11 Bron Gondwana > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:44:27PM +0200, LALOT Do

Re: reading seen state as cyrus priviledged user

2009-05-11 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/5/11 Dan White > LALOT Dominique wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to run scripts for deleting unread old mails. But using the > imap API, I can only read the good seen status if I logged as the user. > Checking as cyrus tells me, that nothing has been read. > >

Re: Sieve international charachters

2009-05-11 Thread LALOT Dominique
That would be great. It's a long awaited feature for us. Thanks Dom 2009/5/9 Bron Gondwana > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:32:47PM +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > Hello, > > does sieve filtering accepts international characters (e.g. ?,? and so > on)? > > Until now I could never input an automa

Re: delete specific mail in all folders

2009-05-11 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/5/11 Paul van der Vlis > Gerald Nowitzky schreef: > > Hello! > > > > I have been confronted with a request today: We are running cyrus as imap > > server. We have currently about 3 million files and 150GB in our mail > dir. > > One user has accidently sent something confidential to all users

Re: delete specific mail in all folders

2009-05-11 Thread LALOT Dominique
That could be something like that script (test and adapt). I'm just a beginer with Mail::IMAPTalk and I don't use correctly search method The trick will be to find the from and subject and/or the date.. Dom #!/usr/bin/perl use Mail::IMAPTalk; $IMAP = Mail::IMAPTalk->new( Server =>

reading seen state as cyrus priviledged user

2009-05-10 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, I would like to run scripts for deleting unread old mails. But using the imap API, I can only read the good seen status if I logged as the user. Checking as cyrus tells me, that nothing has been read. Is there an su option for imap? How can I do that? Thanks Dom -- Dominique LALOT Ing

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-15 Thread LALOT Dominique
Outlook 2007 has won the price.. It's a pity there is no options like, for a given address, no more than 5 simultaneous connexions Dom 2009/4/14 Joseph Brennan > > LALOT Dominique wrote: > > > . I've seen once entourage on macosx ignoring 5xx code from our smtp

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/4/14 Joseph Brennan > > Strange to see so many logins spread over a short time. They seem to > be in pairs, which is the way some clients start up. I wonder if the > client thinks the connection has dropped, and so it starts new sessions. > I realize the server's netstat shows them as stil

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/4/14 Joseph Brennan > > LALOT Dominique wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've looked at google before asking, but I didn't find something. > > Some imap clients are using many tcp connexions. I would like to know if > > there is a way to limit th

limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, I've looked at google before asking, but I didn't find something. Some imap clients are using many tcp connexions. I would like to know if there is a way to limit them? Thanks Dom -- Dominique LALOT Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux http://annuaire.univmed.fr/showuser.php?uid=lalot Cyr

Re: Doing Cyrus *right* for a large installation

2009-02-05 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/1/15 Rudy Gevaert > Andrew Morgan wrote: > > > For those of you running large installations, how do you back them up? > > We have 7 backends: > 400G 320G 81G 80% /mail/mail1 > 400G 273G 128G 69% /mail/mail2 > 450G 390G

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-19 Thread LALOT Dominique
Please, we are following a long thread I introduced a while ago which was speaking about file system. If you want to ask question about something you red in that thread, but not properly speaking about file system, please, be kind enough to start another thread and stop replying in that thread.

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-05 Thread LALOT Dominique
2009/1/5 Patrick Boutilier > David Lang wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Rob Mueller wrote: >> >> But the new Solid-State-Disks seem very promising. They are claimed to give 30x the throughput of a 15k rpm disk. If IO improves by 30 times that should make all these optimizations unneces

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread LALOT Dominique
Thanks for everybody. That was an interesting thread. Nobody seems to use a NetApp appliance, may be due to NFS architecture problems. I believe I'll look to ext4 that seemed to be available in last kernel, and also to Solaris, but we are not enough to support another OS. Dom And Happy New Year

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread LALOT Dominique
John, No, that was due to framentation. A fresh copy (one night to copy, then 2 hours to backup, 6 times faster then) solved that problem. There's a filefrag utility, and for some mailboxes, it was over 60%. I have 3 500Mo spools at the moment. And one is left for the copy.. You copy first your d

choosing a file system

2008-12-30 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, We are using cyrus-imap for a long time. Our architecture is a SAN from EMC and thanks to our "DELL support" we are obliged to install redhat. The only option we have is to use ext3fs on rather old kernels. We have 4000 accounts for staff and 2 for students The system is rather fast and

Re: cyrus imap badlogin response delay

2005-05-25 Thread LALOT Dominique
Thanks to a friend, it just a patch on imap.d where there is a hardcoded sleep(3). Il left a usleep (10) It works better now. Php/imap client is trying three times before leaving.. LALOT Dominique a écrit : Hello, When there is a bad login, the answer is very long. I want to get if

cyrus imap badlogin response delay

2005-05-24 Thread LALOT Dominique
Hello, When there is a bad login, the answer is very long. I want to get if faster even if it's worst for security purpose. I've tried to find an answer about that question, buit nothing evident. I'm using cyrus imap 2.2.12. sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN allowplaintext: