Empty Trash on Thunderbird not getting propagated to replica

2020-03-28 Thread Eric Knudstrup
I have a 2.4.20 IMAP server I'm in the process of migrating to a 3.0.13 server on a different machine, using replication to move the database. This server was a 2.4.7 server until recently, when I upgraded it to 2.4.20 to make sure it was on the latest in its series. In order to get all of th

Re: disk space used by a mailbox without expunged

2019-02-13 Thread Eric Luyten
On 13/02/2019 13:08, Patrick Boutilier wrote: On 2/13/19 7:01 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: On 13/02/2019 09:17, Michael Menge wrote: Hi Marcus, Quoting Marcus Schopen : Hi, is there a way to count the disk space used by a mailbox without expunged messages? mbexamine user/LoginID | grep

Re: disk space used by a mailbox without expunged

2019-02-13 Thread Eric Luyten
in 3.0 only the info for the given folder is shown O dear. We (2.3 server, upgrading this year) use the subfolder size information extensively in our management procedures. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Re: folder left after dm user.mailboxname, remove by rm ?

2019-02-05 Thread Eric Luyten
rus doesn't know about the directory through mailboxes.db it is never going to remove it by itself. Cheers, Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Help on reconstruct - Cyrus2.3.11

2018-12-06 Thread Eric Luyten
ven't decided yet whether we'll move from 2.3 to 2.5 or 3.0, certainly not 2.4 Eric Luyten. We're looking, first, to a way to automate safely the reconstruct of mailbox, ideally keeping the Seen State of mails. In parrellel, we're studying the migration to Cyrus 2.4.1

Re: suddenly 'User unknown'?

2018-11-30 Thread Eric Luyten
fix and an lmtp channel to the Cyrus service on a different server. This lmtp connection requires authentication using a specific "system" account, not the end user credentials. Mr Bradshaw, did someone at your site nuke that account or its password, not knowing what

Re: sos on cyrusimapd

2018-06-28 Thread Eric W. Bates
We have an SSD dedicated for cache and another dedicated for the log. They seem to help. On 6/28/2018 4:45 PM, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 27/06/2018 à 12:58:22-0400, Eric W. Bates a écrit > > Hi, > > Thanks you *very* much for your answer. > > I will try that. But I'm

Re: sos on cyrusimapd

2018-06-27 Thread Eric W. Bates
On 06/27/2018 11:44 AM, Albert Shih wrote: Le 27/06/2018 à 11:27:48-0400, Eric W. Bates a écrit Yah. You need to crank up some buffer sizes. This is an excellent document (written for FreeBSD 10): https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html Yes I already find that page I think the one

Re: sos on cyrusimapd

2018-06-27 Thread Eric W. Bates
Yah. You need to crank up some buffer sizes. This is an excellent document (written for FreeBSD 10): https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html I think the one you're bumping your head on is: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf but you shouldn't crank it up by itself. On 06/27/2018 10:09 AM, Albert Shih

Re: Prefork or not prefork

2018-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
On 25/06/2018 14:39, Albert Shih wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know when that's become usefull to use prefork (for imap) and how much you set the prefork (vs nb of users). We have  prefork=0  set on all Cyrus services for many years now. Eric. Cyrus Home Page:

Re: How many Ram for cyrus

2018-06-14 Thread Eric Luyten
half a million mailboxes. Cordialement, Eric. Regards. -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex France ☏ +33 1 45 07 76 26/+33 6 86 69 95 71 xmpp: j...@obspm.fr Heure local/Local time: Wed Jun 13 21:30:50 CEST 2018 Cyrus Home Page: http://ww

Re: Size of partition.

2018-04-27 Thread Eric Luyten
have activated delayed expunge and squatter, I think). I just checked ... we have 90 GB of cyrus.{cache, header, index} SSDs can now be had in capacities of 3.2 TB Regards, Eric Luyten, VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipe

Missing .seen db files

2018-02-02 Thread Eric Cunningham
have /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/user/u/username.sub but not .seen. Would they be located anywhere else or perhaps the seen functionality is contained in another database file? Without per-user .seen files, how can 'seen' issues be dealt with for individual users? Thanks!

Possible problems created by "GOODCHARS" extension when moving from compiled source to package.

2018-01-26 Thread Eric Luyten
create new mailboxes with the now   "illegal" chars but are we likely to run into trouble with existing mailbox names ? Corollary question : is there a Cyrus 3.0.x package our for any Linux distro ? I find a packaged 2.5.10-3 for Debian 9  "Stretch" Thx, Eric L

Upgrading Cyrus from 2.3.16, going to 2.5.11 or 3.0.2 ?

2017-06-28 Thread Eric Luyten
for your feedback, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Multi-thread cyrus delayed forking of imapd processes after connecting to master listener

2017-05-24 Thread Eric Luyten
I do not know about Cyrus versions more recent than 2.3 but we ran into trouble when composing service names with hyphens or underscore characters in them. Stick to [a-z0-9] just to be safe. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. On 24/05/2017 16:42, Michael Ulitskiy wrote: well, it

Re: Asterisk problem in Sieve Script

2017-05-17 Thread Eric W. Bates
Try: elsif header :matches "subject" "[proxy] File-URL (.*) detected" On 5/16/2017 9:53 AM, Walter H. via Info-cyrus wrote: > Hello, > > I've got the following in the sieve script > > elsif header :matches "subject" "[proxy] File-URL (*) detected" > { > fileinto "INBOX._Info.ftpFileURLs"; >

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-12 Thread Eric Cunningham
Yes, file 148 is completely corrupted. On 5/12/17 9:16 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: Just read the 148 file and see if there is corruption. I suspect that's the cause. Bron On Fri, 12 May 2017, at 23:09, Eric Cunningham wrote: I have snapshot backups of that account, that particular me

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-12 Thread Eric Cunningham
so we can't see how! Oh well :( Bron. On Fri, 12 May 2017, at 04:55, Eric Cunningham wrote: Just to close the loop on this, once the corrupted cdm-lit account on my copy server successfully reconstructed, the backlog of replication has completed successfully and is now caught up. -Eric On

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-11 Thread Eric Cunningham
Just to close the loop on this, once the corrupted cdm-lit account on my copy server successfully reconstructed, the backlog of replication has completed successfully and is now caught up. -Eric On 05/11/2017 02:20 PM, Eric Cunningham wrote: -G didn't seem to help, but I tried a "r

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-11 Thread Eric Cunningham
the underlying message (checks GUID correctness). Reconstruct with -G should fix all possible individual message issues, including corrupted data files. On 05/11/2017 02:37 PM, Eric Cunningham wrote: I have to walk this back. In looking slightly further back in my logfiles, before every instance

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-11 Thread Eric Cunningham
'm still unable to get a successful reconstruct with "failed to read index header" for every subfolder and "fatal error: Internal error: assertion failed: imap/mailbox.c: 2847: record->size" Any ideas on how to correct this so I can see if I can then get past the r

Re: sync_client problems

2017-05-11 Thread Eric Cunningham
sync(): bailing out! Bad protocol May 11 11:40:51 imap1 sync_client[60696]: Processing sync log file /var/spool/CyrusDB-Sieve/cyrusdb/sync/log-run failed: Bad protocol -Eric On 05/11/2017 02:14 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: Looks like you have a corrupted mailboxes database - if you run a reconstru

sync_client problems

2017-05-10 Thread Eric Cunningham
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/c/user/cdm-lit/Sent/148. May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: IOERROR: zero length response to MAILBOX (end of file reached) May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_client[87438]: do_folders(): update failed: user.cdm-lit.Sent 'Bad protocol' May 10 10:45:37 imap1 sync_cl

Re: Cyrus IMAP on NFS

2017-02-09 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
eased with that. Of course you would not put your mailboxes.db and other I/O critical structures on NFS but why not the Cyrus metadata ? Regards, Eric (mail and storage admin, roughly 10 TB Cyrus spool on ZFS / iSCSI) Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists

Re: mbox operations performance issue

2017-01-20 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
27;compact' it by dumping to text and 'undumping' back into skiplist. Oh, and it's stored on Solid State. Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: cyrus master fails with status 71

2016-11-07 Thread Eric Cunningham via Info-cyrus
to setsocketopt(TCP_KEEPINTVL): Invalid argument So, a couple of questions for the list: Are such numbers of imapd processes to be expected? Why is lmptunix complaining about options passed to imapd? Thank you. -Eric On 10/25/16 8:23 PM, ellie timoney via Info-cyrus wrote: Hi Eric, Patch

Re: cyrus master fails with status 71

2016-10-25 Thread Eric Cunningham via Info-cyrus
t’s the case could you be hitting the the maximum number of accepts?? Check the 11.11.1.2. kern.ipc.soacceptqueue section of the FreeBSD handbook https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html Given the load you described perhaps 128 is just not enough? On Oct 24, 2016, at

Re: cyrus master fails with status 71

2016-10-24 Thread Eric Cunningham via Info-cyrus
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cyrus master fails with status 71

2016-10-24 Thread Eric Cunningham via Info-cyrus
this "status 71" issue? Could an upgrade to 2.5.10 possibly address this? Thanks! -Eric Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Invalid mailbox name

2016-09-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
on heavily when we migrated to Cyrus 2.2, ten years ago, and never had an issue with square brackets and such. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Performance problem

2016-08-05 Thread Eric W. Bates via Info-cyrus
We are migrating our cyrus from a venerable computer to a new one. We've been gradually moving individuals over to the new machine and are quite surprised at the poor performance characteristics we're seeing on the new machine. The new machine: 2 @ 6 core Xeon E5-2640 256 Gb memory zfs built o

Re: Migrating mailbox data from Cyrus to MicroSoft Office 365 using their import tool.

2016-06-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
On Wed, June 22, 2016 6:02 pm, Dan White wrote: > On 06/22/16 17:28 +0200, Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus wrote: > >> All, >> >> >> >> After trying for a couple of days I have come to the conclusion >> that the Office 365 IMAP import tool uses the LOGIN a

Migrating mailbox data from Cyrus to MicroSoft Office 365 using their import tool.

2016-06-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
... ... (violation of RFC3501 section 6.1.1 ? dunno whether I am reading that correctly) Is my conclusion correct ? Any hacks or workarounds ? Thx, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail

Re: lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-18 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
ears old! Bron, I have an upgrade to 2.5. on my plate. The approximately-once-a-day deliveries freeze is not critical. Regards, Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-17 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
cyrusdb -c If you do this very often, the amount of log that needs to be recovered will be significantly shorter. We recommend doing this at least once every half hour, and more often on busy sites. " (http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FAQ) Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

lmtpd triggering a delivery.db checkpointing (Cyrus 2.3.16)

2016-05-17 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
:14 lmtp[24980]: skiplist: checkpointed /ssd/cyrs/imap/deliver.db (223062 records, 25295200 bytes) in 119 seconds I took a quick dive into the code but could not find where and when lmtpd is supposed to trigger a delivery.db checkpointing action. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB

LImit to number of rules in Sieve script, Cyrus 2.3 ?

2016-04-22 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
Hello, One of our users is getting 'Server error' feedback from the Roundcube plugin when trying to add a 213th rule. I fail to spot a hard coded limit in the Sieve source code. Is there something to that extent or with similar effects ? Thx, Eric Luyten, Computing Cent

Re: IPv6

2016-03-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
Please disregard my previous comment, misread your original post. Need coffee. Eric Luyten. On Wed, March 23, 2016 3:27 pm, Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus wrote: <> Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyr

Re: IPv6

2016-03-23 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
have to restart the service? Sebastian, 'listen' entries go into /etc/cyrus.conf, not imapd.conf, and IMO require a Cyrus service restart, yes. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, Brussels. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lis

Setting up a 'deny ALL but ...' in user-deny.db for POP3 service.

2015-11-26 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
st and end with a 'deny all' or something to that extent ? Thx, Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Quota root not removed if folder is on a different partition

2015-10-27 Thread Eric Luyten
ion. Is it related to > delayed delete, perhaps? Or a bug? Maybe fixed in a later release? FWIW, in 2.3.16 when removing a top level mailbox the quota root file does not get removed because of some variable expansion in the code going wrong. This bug may have propagated into the 2.4 code. Eric.

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-23 Thread Eric Luyten
patches. Could be tested on our system shortly after this weekend. Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-23 Thread Eric Luyten
he number of affected users, now numbering beyond one hundred. Cool. Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server. [WARNING: DKIM validation failed]

2015-10-22 Thread Eric Luyten
te correct response to the EXPUNGE command but I'm having a hard time buying this for an explanation. Oh, and someone in there asks for help to get the Apple bug report (22996765) escalated. I think at our site we have reached the count of 100 (one hundred) El Capitan Mail.app users. Eric.

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:34 am, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Absolutely no idea. I think we have an upgraded test mac here in the > office. I'll set it up and see what it does. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7267399 Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ Li

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, October 14, 2015 11:55 am, Eric Luyten wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 10:43 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 00:26, k...@rice.edu wrote: >> >> >>> The El Capitan Mac Mail was recently released. It definitely has a >>> pr

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
rom the client; such response satisfies the server's continuation request. " Again ... if this has been solved in 2.4 or 2.5 branches, we'll upgrade (management decisions on moving to Google Apps or Office365 taken into account) Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-14 Thread Eric Luyten
rver load a few dozen percent (measured as load average, plenty of CPU cycles remaining) it appears to have dampened the I/O impact somewhat and it will allow me to more easily capture the start of the client-server conversations leading to the loop. If Rice is experiencing a similar phenomen

Recent (probably MacOS) mail app provoking endless cyrus.index writes on 2.3 server.

2015-10-13 Thread Eric Luyten
6822<808.3507 IDLE >1444726822>+ idling <14447268221444726822>1808.3507 OK Completed <1444726822<1<1444726822<809.3507 EXPUNGE >1444726918>* 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT 1809.3507 OK Completed Clues ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyr

Re: Sieve, a problem with if/elsif/else

2015-08-31 Thread Eric Luyten
in the inbox instead of move to > BounceError. Messages from srv4 are moved to INBOX/BounceError/srv4 > if uncomment lines about srv4. > > Why "else fileinto" doesn't work ? Discovered in 2.4.17, reproduced > in 2.4.18. Sergey, Did you define "INBOX/Bounc

Re: restrict who can send emails to an email address

2015-08-13 Thread Eric Luyten
my earlier post : you could write Sieve rules for that Cyrus mailbox that bounce/drop/file messages not carrying a From/Sender in the local domain. Please note that a From/Sender line is easily forged. Regards, Eric Luyten, Compuitng Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.or

Re: restrict who can send emails to an email address

2015-08-13 Thread Eric Luyten
at you want to accomplish needs to be done in your Mail Transfer Agent (Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, ...) not by Cyrus, which is a mail storage and serving (POP3/IMAP) engine. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: ht

Re: Enabling altnamespace and IMAP doesn't look different. Should it?

2014-11-01 Thread Eric K Germann
gt; > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Eric K Germann wrote: > >> I recently upgraded my server from 2.2 to the >> cyrus-imapd-2.4.17-caldav-beta10 release built from source. >> >> One of the goals is to share "Notes" between various iDevices a

Enabling altnamespace and IMAP doesn't look different. Should it?

2014-11-01 Thread Eric K Germann
hy Roundcube generates the sieve rules with INBOX in the folder names. What am I missing? Did I forget to do something after I turned it on? Really confused. Thanks for any assistance! EKG -- === Eric K Germann ekgermann (at) cctec dot) com ==

Re: List currently logged on users

2014-09-12 Thread Eric Luyten
; sub-directory, but I'll quickly add that, at least in Cyrus 2.3, there appear to be many leftovers after the IMAP process itself has terminated. Since the 2.4 process housekeeping is supposedly a lot better, you may have more luck there. Regards, Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyr

Re: Using memcached for authentication

2014-07-09 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, July 9, 2014 11:36 am, Ram wrote: > Most of these these webmail products they really jam the imap servers > with too many authentication requests imapproxyd Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info

Re: problems with deleted messages and reconstruct

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Luyten
ones before > 2008, but a mail client only shows mails after 2008. That is, there are mail > files in the mailbox that neither are recovered by reconstruct, nor are > deleted by the -O option. Did the mail client performing the message deletes disconnect from the IMAP servic

Re: Help on quota usage.

2014-02-14 Thread Eric Luyten
calculation The underlying filesystem MAY have compression capabilities, which will most certainly lead to 'du' returning a lower value than Cyrus 'list quota'. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, mail spool compression factor 1.68 Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyru

Postfix + Cyrus Sasl problem

2013-12-18 Thread Eric Abreu Alamo
 Hello all:   Recently I have been trying to install and configure Postfix + Cyrus + Sasl auth (with smtp auth) and i found the following problem. I have installed and configured Cyrus, Postfix and Sasl, and everything is right until smtp auth. When I edit the /etc/default/saslauthd file and I

Re: very large mailboxes backup, long retention period deleted also

2013-03-19 Thread Eric Luyten
-LUN tiering in block access methods (iSCSI, FC) will also do the job) you will be pushing the tiering issue down to your storage level, which may be (part of) a solution to your problem. Kind regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ Lis

Re: Another 2.4 upgrade horror story

2012-09-30 Thread Eric Luyten
sers and perform the > reindex in chunks. Bryan, We found out that a Cyrus quota fix ("quota -f ...") only regenerates metadata for "old format" mailboxes, whereas "reconstruct -r" does 'em all, also the already-converted. Cheers, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre

Re: Another 2.4 upgrade horror story

2012-09-25 Thread Eric Luyten
upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.X this fall, we are interested in learning about your storage backend characteristics. What read/write IOPS rates were you registering before/during/after your upgrade process ? I'd understand your reluctance to share this information in a public forum. No

Re: Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, August 14, 2012 6:50 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 01:22 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: > >> On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: >>> >>> >>>&

Re: Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, August 14, 2012 1:06 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Eric Luyten wrote: > >> All, >> >> >> Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server >> I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes c

Cyrus 2.3.16 : pop3d processes performing reads on files in 'stage.' subdirs.

2012-08-14 Thread Eric Luyten
All, Using dtrace on Solaris 10 I was having a look at our Cyrus server I/O activity and I cannot explain myself why pop3d processes carry out read operations on files in the 'stage.' subdirectories. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap

Re: CC destinations dropped

2012-07-20 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, July 20, 2012 1:37 pm, Eric Luyten wrote: > The less components stacked one upon another, the less > issues you're likely to witness. fewer Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.and

Re: CC destinations dropped

2012-07-20 Thread Eric Luyten
> relay=procmail, delay=0.2, delays=0.16/0/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent >> (delivered via procmail service) >> > > "delivered via procmail" ??? On the day I cut procmail out from between our Postfix and Cyrus, all (well, one major, causing newly arriving messages to

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Luyten
> > // But still It doesn't work :( > pcocol01:~ # cyradm -u cyrus -pass XX localhost > localhost> renm user.col1901 user.col1901 part3 renamemailbox: System I/O > error > [...] > > > Any other test or idea to try? Javier, I am in the middle of prepa

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, June 26, 2012 9:11 am, Javier Sánchez-Arévalo Díaz wrote: > > Eric, > > > Here are the results: > [...] > > > pcocol01:~ # grep partition /etc/imapd.conf > partition-default: /buzonesdir > partition-part2: /mnt/aux > partition-part3: /mnt/celerra >

MIgrating 2.3.16 spool to 2.4.16 : reconstruct (sometimes) changes ACL to old 2.2 value.

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
metadata indexes) this was not the case. The code responsible for this can be found in imap/mailbox.c, lines 3553-3574 Clues ? Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To U

Re: I/O error moving mailbox

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
; Does anybody have any idea about how to help me? Javier, What is the output of : 'grep partition /etc/imapd.conf' 'mbpath user.col1901' and what happens if you 'cd' into the result of the second command and execute 'pwd' and 'ls' there ?

Re: Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-25 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, June 19, 2012 3:55 pm, Dan White wrote: > On 06/19/12 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> >> >> (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading) >> >> >> >> Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state

Re: Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Luyten
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:05 pm, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote: > >> (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading) >> Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state/saslauthd all >> right, but Cyrus 2.4 appears

Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Luyten
. I pretty much copied our Cyrus 2.3 configuration files over to the test environment. Eric Luyten, VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Luyten
n some DNS clients , especially on windows , do not honor > TTL. > For a 10 minute TTL , even after 4 hours the windows server keeps > resolving to the old server Ram, Correct. Some OSes/applications/resolver libraries will keep on using the 'old' values until *they* see fit.

Re: Info-cyrus Digest, Vol 81, Issue 2

2012-04-04 Thread Eric Luyten
derbird's "Move" option -- never "Copy"... Yours, Mikhail, Thunderbird may have a 'Move' option but the IMAP protocol does not. 'Moving' a message translates to a COPY followed by an EXPUNGE. Regards, Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.

Re: After being moved, messages remain in both folders on the server

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Luyten
On Sat, March 31, 2012 1:12 am, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 03/30/2012 04:53 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: >> Adam, >> Mikhail, >> >> >> We do not have delayed expunge enabled on our 2.3.16 server and >> occasionally come across multiple-linked message files. I

Re: After being moved, messages remain in both folders on the server

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Luyten
isn't enabled - then this > seems odd. Adam, Mikhail, We do not have delayed expunge enabled on our 2.3.16 server and occasionally come across multiple-linked message files. I haven't been able to trace this back to one or another IMAP client, though. Regards, Eric Luyten, COmputing Centre VUB/ULB. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Underscore in SERVICES-names can cause deadlocks.

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Luyten
on the 2 interfaces to trigger the race- > condition. > > Maybe other characters cause this problem as well, so if one is unsure about > this it would be best to just stick to alphanumeric characters. Robert, The hyphen ("-") is also known to create issues. I reported th

Re: Questions around moving from 2.2.12 to 2.4.12

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Luyten
sr/lib/cyrus/bin/cvt_cyrusdb [-C altconfig] db>Usable Backends: berkeley, > berkeley-nosync, flat, skiplist, quotalegacy > > I don't get it ... what is wrong with my commands? Stefan, Use the absolute pathnames of the DB files. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB.

Re: ZFS doing insane I/O reads

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Luyten
We have 72 GB of RAM in our server. Or are you using ZFS on e.g. BSD ? Q2 : What is your 'fsstat zfs 1' output ? Regards, Eric. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

RE: Problem recover replica

2012-02-16 Thread Eric Luyten
s.index information? I was trying to find some tool o > script but I couldn't find it. Manel, You could use 'mbexamine' which dumps mailbox information in human readable (and machine processable) format. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, nurturing

Re: fetching user_deny.db entry for ...

2012-02-02 Thread Eric Luyten
, You could reduce the syslog logging level from .debug to .info but this will make you lose some other stuff too. Check whether you really need the latter. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, Belgium. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, January 6, 2012 5:50 pm, Bron Gondwana wrote: > I'm not convinced it was the best idea (after the > troubles people have had with it)... Hey, don't worry too much. We'll survive :-) Eric (taking the opportunity to thank you for your continuing effo

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, January 6, 2012 3:05 pm, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Hi Eric, > > > --On 6. Januar 2012 15:00:44 +0100 Eric Luyten > wrote: > > >> To give you an idea : 73k users, 508k mailboxes, 4.5 TB of messages, 48M >> messages. In an additional effort to grasp

Re: Questions before upgrading vom 2.3 to 2.4

2012-01-06 Thread Eric Luyten
fact that POP3 users number less than 10% of the total. (We are a mixed IMAP/POP shop, for historical reasons.) If more messages were to be found in sub-mailboxes, metadata conversion load would have been more distributed in time, as mailboxes are accessed. Regards, Eric Luyten, Computing Cent

Re: anysievefolder and autosievefolders gone in 2.4?

2012-01-05 Thread Eric Luyten
before)? > In my 2.3.16 install there is none of these option in man imapd.conf. > Are you sure, they were not from a patch? > Indeed. http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autosievefolder/ Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: rooling replication and many pop3d

2011-11-24 Thread Eric Luyten
dium, be it disk or tape) *If* your system has a fifth drive bay, RAID 1+0 and one hot spare would have given you a much, much faster mail spool of equal size, at little extra cost. Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Huge load after update from 2.3.16 to 2.4.12

2011-11-24 Thread Eric Luyten
ty and functionality, and all appeared fine. What you probably did not generate was the equivalent of a realistic production load (POP + IMAP + LMTP). We found ourselves in a similar situation two years ago (with eternal thanks to Simon Matter who helped us *enormously* with a suggestion written on this

Re: deleted user, but quota remains

2011-11-08 Thread Eric Luyten
r 2.3.16 Cyrus server exhibits identical behaviour. Eric Luyten, Computing Centre Brussels Free University. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: cyrus.index file

2011-11-07 Thread Eric Luyten
ditlog: 1" in their imapd.conf ? Regards, Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Cyrus imap server and filesystem type.

2011-10-04 Thread Eric Luyten
ils for Pascal and Vincent : at times (moderate to heavy I/O load) our filesystem perfomance drops down to a very low level. Immediate relief can be had by deleting a few ZFS snapshots and/or breaking one of more of the mirrors. Sounds, smells and feels like an allocation map issue, which is hinted at i

Re: Problems with the quota command (2.3.16-5)

2011-07-26 Thread Eric Luyten
imon, Bron, Does the quota bug expose itself independently of the underlying quota database structure ? I'm running a Cyrus 2.2 and 2.3 server since 2006 for tens of thousands of users and we "regularly" rename top level mailboxes, run reconstruct and quota -f also on other occasions. N

Re: upgrade from cyrus imapd 2.3.11 to 2.4.9

2011-06-28 Thread Eric Luyten
7;reconstruct' on the folder being opened, as written on this list, same thread ? Eric Luyten. Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Eric Luyten
rage to around 600G per server > ( > Their cloud FS is much lower on I/O and wont fit the bill for a mail > server ) Ram, FYI, our mail server is not the most I/O intensive service of our environment. Both its LAN access and dual iSCSI accesses (all three physically at 1 Gbps) are rarely lo

Re: Scaling of imap servers

2011-06-17 Thread Eric Luyten
ail quota to 2.5 GB on simple request (and even proactively). We currently have only two users at 2.5 GB quota, five at 1.5 TB and about fifty at 1.0 GB, making for a very small minority indeed. We keep 120 days of snapshots in the spool and this consumes 60% extra space. Eric Luyten,

Re: Starting 'delayed message expunge' on a large Cyrus 2.3.16 server.

2011-05-16 Thread Eric Luyten
On Fri, May 13, 2011 3:25 pm, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 13. Mai 2011 14:57:36 +0200 Eric Luyten wrote: > > >> I currently have the following entry in my cyrus.conf : >> >> >> delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 1" at=0055 >> >> which take

Starting "delayed message expunge" on a large Cyrus 2.3.16 server.

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Luyten
055 cmd="cyr_expire -E 1 -a -p user/a" at=0115 cmd="cyr_expire -E 1 -a -p user/b" at=0145 cmd="cyr_expire -E 1 -a -p user/c" at=0215 <...> but, since the '-E' appears to be mandatory, how can I avoid re-working the delivery.db ? Are there

Re: Can't see messages, reconstruct doesn't work

2011-04-19 Thread Eric Knudstrup
On 04/19/2011 02:43 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 04/19/2011 06:34 AM, Eric Knudstrup wrote: >> I have a problem in which there are messages in my main INBOX directory, >> but they aren't seen in my IMAP client. >> Unfortunately, when I tell it to reconstruct through

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