Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-16 Thread Michael D. Sofka
that. Any other resources or limits in either Cyrus or Linux (Debian) that I should look at? Thank you in advance for any help. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,

Re: how to deal with mail retention/archival.

2016-08-26 Thread Michael D. Sofka via Info-cyrus
are somehow otherwise routed. But most clients place a copy in a Sent folder. -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page:

Re: how to deal with mail retention/archival.

2016-08-26 Thread Michael D. Sofka via Info-cyrus
tree, so it can be removed from individual mailboxes. This is a little clunky, and it would be nice if 'Administrative Hold' were a mailbox setting in Cyrus. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Renssela

plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections

2015-09-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
The plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections, even those that are encrypted via pop3s or STARTTLS. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing But is it expected behaviour? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemo

imapd versus proxyd on front-end servers.

2015-09-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
What is the difference between running imapd, versus proxyd (and popd3d, lmptd, etc) on the front-end servers in a Murder cluster, versus running proxyd? Running imapd appears to work This is Cyrus 2.4.17 Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Progra

Re: too much logging

2015-04-30 Thread Michael D. Sofka
> again now. > > You need to shut down Cyrus and restart it for the existing processes to be > closed. Once they have opened the file once, they'll keep expecting it to be > there forever. > > Bron. > > -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Syst

Re: Cyrus aggregate compatibility.

2015-04-20 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Under the scenario, would 2.5 work better? Mike On 04/20/2015 04:45 PM, k...@rice.edu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 04:23:07PM -0400, Michael D. Sofka wrote: >> We currently have: >> >> Cyrus Front-End servers running 2.2.12 >> Cyrus Back-End runnin

Cyrus aggregate compatibility.

2015-04-20 Thread Michael D. Sofka
ready to add the new back-end to the aggregate, and run some tests. Thought it might be good to ask here first. Thank You. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://ww

Re: Restrict access to a single client device

2013-01-31 Thread Michael D. Sofka
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Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?

2011-07-01 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: > Le 21/06/2011 18:28, Michael D. Sofka a écrit : >> I run squatter in a perl program that forks three parallel squatter >> processes on individual user's mailboxes. If a mailbox is locked the >> particular squatter processing the mailbox q

Re: squatter stops when it encounters a locked mailbox?

2011-06-21 Thread Michael D. Sofka
mailbox quits, but the main program continues to fork new processes for the remaining mailboxes. The program checkpoints each user, shuts down at 6 A.M., and continues where it left off the following day. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, E

Re: Backing up mailboxes

2011-06-14 Thread Michael D. Sofka
ackup mailboxes.db to a text file once a day. This is exactly what we do. Deleted and expunged messages are kept for up to 2 days, but I'll likely extend this to avoid trips to `the wayback machine.'' A surprising number of people don't notice they deleted messages, or don

Re: Vacation Not Working...

2011-05-12 Thread Michael D. Sofka
nt instead of a "Shared Folder." But, I don't recall why, and it may have had to do with unique names in our account management system, instead of anything Cyrus related. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: DECISION: what reconstruct -f should do

2011-04-26 Thread Michael D. Sofka
ths. How easy or difficult this is may depend on the email client. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: How to reset quotaroot for a sub-mailbox.

2010-11-30 Thread Michael D. Sofka
On 11/26/2010 11:54 PM, Dan White wrote: > On 24/11/10 11:26 -0500, Michael D. Sofka wrote: >> Somebody set the quota on a sub-mailbox. I've been trying to unset it >> ever since, but it appears to come back---usually incorrectly. >> cyradmin shows it has it's own qu

/var/spool/imap/sycn. files

2010-11-30 Thread Michael D. Sofka
clear out the old directories? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info:

How to reset quotaroot for a sub-mailbox.

2010-11-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Somebody set the quota on a sub-mailbox. I've been trying to unset it ever since, but it appears to come back---usually incorrectly. cyradmin shows it has it's own quotaroot. How can I re-establish that the sub-mailboxe's quotaroot should be the parent? Mike -- M

Updating front-end and master server

2010-11-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/

Re: cyr_expire does not delete files on disk with expunge_mode:delayed?

2010-11-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
bug apply only if expire annotations are used? I have not set any expire annotations, and I'm not specifying -a in the cyr_expire runs. Expired messages are being removed according to the logs. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC

Re: Running multiple sync_clients

2010-11-19 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Michael D. Sofka wrote: > Another question I have is what are /var/lib/imap/db/*? File says they > are Berkeley dbs, but I thought all databases were skiplist in this > release. I can't find the configuration options associated with this > db. I noticed them when looking

Re: Running multiple sync_clients

2010-11-19 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:58:10PM -0500, Michael D. Sofka wrote: >> Is it safe to run multiple sync_clients? Is there an advantage to doing so? >> >> I had to restart sync_client once. After later restarting cyrus two >> sync_clients were runni

Running multiple sync_clients

2010-11-18 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Is it safe to run multiple sync_clients? Is there an advantage to doing so? I had to restart sync_client once. After later restarting cyrus two sync_clients were running, and appeared to do well together. Still, I stopped the old process out of caution. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka

sync_client IOERROR

2010-11-16 Thread Michael D. Sofka
. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/

Upgrading Front-end and Master machines.

2010-11-15 Thread Michael D. Sofka
AN disks. One of the old back-end servers is being rebuilt with new OS, Cyrus, iSCSI disks, etc. When the time comes, how do I go about replacing the replication server? Rsync the data, switch in the new server, and run sync_client -u? Or, is there a better way? Thank You. Mike -- Mich

kick_mupdate?

2010-10-29 Thread Michael D. Sofka
any other errors. What causes this, and is it anything to worry about? Thank You, Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/ Cyrus Home P

Re: cyrus squat + change runtime

2010-10-20 Thread Michael D. Sofka
uld like for squatter is to start it at=0200, but have it suspend=0800. That is, start the run at 2 A.M., but if it is still running at 8 A.M. suspend itself until the next start time. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, E

Replication question

2010-10-19 Thread Michael D. Sofka
y new hardware, but that's not going to happen.) A simple question, how does guid_mode: sha1 work? Does it need to be set on both master and replication server, and will it, for example, affect the unique ids returned by pop3? We have too many pop3 users. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Michael D. Sofka
tls imap -connect localhost:143 >x login user pass >x etc. > > and muddling through running IMAP commands by hand? If so, what is the > IMAP command for unsetting \Noselect? > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.an

Re: service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-11 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 08:23:15AM -0400, Michael D. Sofka wrote: >> Great. One final question on this topic. >> >> I currently have a warm-backup server (2.2.12) that I rsync to each >> night. As mailboxes are moved to the new 2.3.16 server

Re: service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-09 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Imapsync with the proxy user is a third option during migration. I tested imapsync previously and it worked. But rsync was much faster. As to index consistency, I run the backups from an lvm snapshot. Mike "Simon Matter" wrote: >> On 10/9/2010 7:23 AM, Michael D. Sofka wrot

Re: service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-09 Thread Michael D. Sofka
iles. Is that right? I'm not sure which approach I'll take. The goal is to eventually have a replication server. But that can't be the current backup server since it has insufficient disk space going forward. Mike "Bron Gondwana" wrote: >On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 12:

Re: service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-08 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Bron, Thanks for the answer. A one way xfer in fine. I'm just testing the new server, and the migration process. Is the old format updated on xfer? The account I moved is working fine. Mike "Bron Gondwana" wrote: >On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Michael D. S

service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-08 Thread Michael D. Sofka
error: http://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/commit/ec1bfcf6a1db9c86cbf55b9c25d7eb044dbbe51b#diff-0 Is this the same problem, and if so has this been patched in 2.3.16? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Po

Fixed: was Re: Authentication problem between 2.3.16 back-end and 2.2.12 mupdate and front-ends

2010-10-08 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Michael D. Sofka wrote: > > Trying this on the 2.3.16 server, built from Simon Matter's source RPM > on a RE5 server I get: > > Hacker[901]:mupdatetest -v -p 3905 -a g_murder imap-fe1.server.rpi.edu > S: * AUTH "LOGIN" "PLAIN" > S: * STARTTLS >

Re: Authentication problem between 2.3.16 back-end and 2.2.12 mupdate and front-ends

2010-10-07 Thread Michael D. Sofka
I thought the procedue is to upgrade the back-end servers first. Mike "Andrew Morgan" wrote: >Maybe you need to upgrade the mupdate master to 2.3.16 first? > > Andy > -- Michael D. Sofka Sr. Systems Programmer Communications & Middleware Technologies

Re: Authentication problem between 2.3.16 back-end and 2.2.12 mupdate and front-ends

2010-10-07 Thread Michael D. Sofka
with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication I've configured saslauthd to use PAM, and PAM to use pam_unix.so. And, as noted, authentication does work. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, T

Authentication problem between 2.3.16 back-end and 2.2.12 mupdate and front-ends

2010-10-06 Thread Michael D. Sofka
rkers_start: 25 mupdate_workers_minspare: 2 mupdate_workers_maxspare: 25 mupdate_username: g_murder mupdate_authname: g_murder mupdate_password: mupdate_server: imap-fe1.server.rpi.edu proxyservers: g_proxy proxy_authname: g_proxy proxy_password: proxyd_disable_mailbox_referrals: 0 -- Michael D. Sofka

Re: Can i convert qpopper to cyrus?

2008-11-06 Thread Michael D. Sofka
answer---yes, it's easy, there are some simple scripts out there to help, but you might find yourself better off writing something using Perl or your favorite interpreted language with a good IMAP client, depending on the specifics of your site. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL

Rate limiting IMAP connections

2008-09-19 Thread Michael D. Sofka
require minimal server reconfiguration. But, now I cannot find the source and in this case my good friend google has not come through. Suggestions? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED] C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti

Re: folder unreadable

2007-12-13 Thread Michael D. Sofka
On Thursday 13 December 2007 09:51:47 am Michael D. Sofka wrote: > reconstruct won't reconstruct folders that do not have cyrus.* files.  So, > either make new folders.  Or, copy cyrus.* files from another folder. Correcting my own post, copying is a bad idea since it can lead to uidl

Re: folder unreadable

2007-12-13 Thread Michael D. Sofka
struct folders that do not have cyrus.* files. So, either make new folders. Or, copy cyrus.* files from another folder. You will also need to run quota -f user. to correct the quota. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED] C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX,

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Michael D. Sofka
> http://rscds.sourceforge.net/ > > > > As well as, > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/ And, Bedework: http://www.bedework.org/ Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED] C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemology Rensselaer

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-08 Thread Michael D. Sofka
On Thursday 08 November 2007 10:56:54 am Dan White wrote: > Michael D. Sofka wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007 07:32:52 pm Rob Mueller wrote: > >> 4. Lots of other little things > >> > >> a) putting the proc dir on tmpfs is a good idea > >> b) make

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-05 Thread Michael D. Sofka
Would it make more sense (and, more importantly, would it work and not foobar us) to order a machine with more memory, and put configdirectory: on tmpfs? (With the possible exception of the db snapshots and mboxlist backups.) Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED] C&

Re: Multiple partition question.

2007-09-28 Thread Michael D. Sofka
out an outage? Found the answer to my own question. I just need to add a partition- definition to imapd.conf and restart the daemons. (I HUP is insufficient, unless you are willing to wait for all the imapd's to restart on their own.) The mailboxed.db contains the partition name, whi

Re: squatter problem

2007-09-05 Thread Michael D. Sofka
) from the command line, it happily chugs > along, indexing and indexing. I've been seeing the same behavior on both our back-end servers. We're running Cyrus 2.2.12. Mike -- Michael D. Sofka [EMAIL PROTECTED] C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemolo

IMAP/LMTP delays (was Re: IMAPD Mail Delays)

2007-09-05 Thread Michael D. Sofka
d. The delays are still there, but they do not last as long. There are still a few 'could not start worker thread' errors. The process involved restarting services on the master, which killed about 800 mupdate connections. Currently there are about 26 mupdate connections. Any help