Re: SASL re-entrancy crisis (was: OpenLDAP 2.0.x + pam_ldap +cyrus-imapd-2.0.x)

2001-08-09 Thread David Lang
note there are (or were) limits on the size of usernames and passwords that pwcheck can deal with. David Lang On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jeremy Howard wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 05:59:54 +1000 > From: Jeremy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco Colombo &l

Re: turning off AUTH=CRAM-MD5

2001-08-20 Thread David Lang
SL enabled stuff) will insist on trying to use it. David Lang On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Amos Gouaux wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:33:16 -0500 > From: Amos Gouaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: turning off AUTH=CRAM-MD5 > > >>>>>

Re: limit of file descriptors

2001-09-07 Thread David Lang
ment) in a boot script David Lang On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jeremy Howard wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:08:50 +1000 > From: Jeremy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Horst Lederhaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EM

Re: Cyrus and very large folders

2001-10-22 Thread David Lang
. it's a problem, but it's far less of a problem then attempting to parse a unix mail file to get the message you need, that starts to slow down significantly at <1000 messages (on a much faster linux box) David Lang On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Amos Gouaux wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 200

Re: Unknown user problem.

2002-02-24 Thread David Lang
is no way to do the user mapping at this layer. David Lang On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Chris Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > I've just setup a system running cyrus for my own use (it's installed and > seems to be running fine 8). > > However I've got a problem with unknown user

Re: Too many users with Cyrus IMAP

2002-02-24 Thread David Lang
different structures that are designed to handle the large numbers of directories problem better. David Lang On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Andres Maduro wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:16:06 -0800 > From: Andres Maduro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Too many use

Re: Too many users with Cyrus IMAP

2002-02-25 Thread David Lang
ling file systems I think you will be able to get away without needing to do the sync trick for the mailboxes themselves. if you need to do anything you may want to make the journal syncronous to avoid the possibility that you accept the mail and crash before the journal gets written to disk. David Lang

Re: Cyrus and IMP

2002-03-24 Thread David Lang
what hardware do you use to support this load? David Lang On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Nick Ustinov wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:52:32 +0200 > From: Nick Ustinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jonas Jacobsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cyrus

RE: Connecting to imap using Outlook

2002-03-26 Thread David Lang
D. you tell outlook that you have an IMAP server that you want it to connect to and it works (at least it works as well as outlook ever works ;-) you will have to look in your outlook documentation for where the option is to tell it where your mail servers are. David Lang On 26 Mar 2002

Re: Connecting to imap using Outlook

2002-03-26 Thread David Lang
have you attempted to configure SASL to just do plain passwords, it's likly that outlook can't do anythign more sophisticated. David Lang On 26 Mar 2002, Chris Picton wrote: > Date: 26 Mar 2002 15:32:44 +0200 > From: Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Chris Picton

Re: Connecting to imap using Outlook

2002-03-26 Thread David Lang
the IMAP support in outlook is rather primitive (or was the last time I had to make it work) so I wouldn't be surprised if you are just stuck with LOGIN. sorry I can't help more David Lang On 26 Mar 2002, Chris Picton wrote: > I have sasl set up to do LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 and C

RE: Connecting to imap using Outlook

2002-03-26 Thread David Lang
1. get a cert that is valid (otherwise you are vunerable to man-in-the-middle attacks anyway, and it's a bad idea to get users used to ignoring security warnings) 2. if they can disable SSL can't they disable 'secure passwords' and cause it to revert to plain logins anyway?

Re: removing banners from cyrus

2002-04-02 Thread David Lang
ad version then if you could check. David Lang On 2 Apr 2002, Jim Levie wrote: > Date: 02 Apr 2002 13:59:18 -0600 > From: Jim Levie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: removing banners from cyrus > >

can I use sieve for this?

2002-04-23 Thread David Lang
an't do the one message until they check it I need to at least be able to throttle the messages to one per (whatever time period). David Lang

Re: imapd timeout

2002-05-22 Thread David Lang
the cost of forking can vary greatly depending on the OS. David Lang On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:38:43 -0400 > From: Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Cyrus-Info <[

Re: multiple ssl certificates (for one service)

2002-09-27 Thread David Lang
t the server can hand back the proper cert, but this has almost no support currently and is the part of the TLS spec that isn't compatable with SSL. David Lang On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, twk wrote: > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:45:50 -0400 > From: twk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL

Re: squatter running longer than 24 hours

2007-10-25 Thread David Lang
.. postgres has full-text search capabilities at acceptable performance on very large databases, their code is BSD so anything relavent coudl be merged into cyrus. it may be worth someone looking into their logic. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: h

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-20 Thread David Lang
ystems will require a read of the entire stripe before writing a single block (and it's parity block) back out, and since the stripe is frequently larger then the OS readahead, the OS throws much of the data away immediatly. if we can identify the files that are the bottlenecks it would

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-21 Thread David Lang
't on ZFS, although work is in progress. I was responding to the comments about ext3 and other journal ed filesystems as alternatives to zfs and the claim that doing a fsync on one of them required flushing the entire journal. sorry if I wasn't clear enough about this.

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-23 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:37AM -0800, David Lang wrote: > >> for cyrus you should have the same sort of requirements that you would have >> for >> a database server, including the fact that without a battery-backed disk >

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be lockingissues

2008-03-04 Thread David Lang
nces of a second drive failing during the rebuild become noticable. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be lockingissues

2008-03-05 Thread David Lang
database type workloads, which is a fair approximation for cyrus) you say it's not worth reducing 4 disks to 3, but what about 6 disks to 4? (useing your example of a machine with 4 SATA drives it's the difference between useing the machine you have or buying a new one) if that's not enough, what about 8 disks to 5? (6 if you do raid 6 or want a hot-spare) what is the point that you would consider the difference valid? David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Cyrus infrastructure performance less than expected

2008-04-29 Thread David Lang
nt is we have doubled total RAM compared to the actual platfrom and I don't understand why it behaves so badly. were you virtualized before? adding virtualization causes a fairly significant overhead. David Lang We abandoned all Linux for our Cyrus Servers and switched to Solaris 10 with Zon

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-14 Thread David Lang
ten that help. Community is a > lot of what open source software is about. As for your experience > with the cyrus imapd community, perhaps your sample size is too small. > > Or perhaps you're thinking of paid support? Because I know very well > that you can ge

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
ir it also appears that maildir is not as standard as people think it is, it's defined almost entirely by the implementation (DJB started it, but never worked to turn it into a standard for others to use) David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http:

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
trading a set of known problems for a set of unknown problems (plus it severly limits what OS you can run, which can bring it's own set of problems along) David Lang > Vincent Fox wrote: >> Wesley Craig wrote: >> >>>> Maildir and cyrus both suffer from the same &

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread David Lang
to get development on filesystems moving again or to say that they didn't introduce any good ideas, but I do disagree with people who seem to think that ZFS is perfect, and is so much better then any other filesystem that the availablity of ZFS should be the only consideration on what OS

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-18 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:12 -0700, David Lang wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: >>> On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: >>>> Why does cyrus need it's own >>>> structu

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread David Lang
hing. it's definantly worth testing different filesystems. I last did a test about two years ago and confirmed XFS as my choice. I have one instance of cyrus still running on ext3 and I definantly see it as a user in the performance. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-05 Thread David Lang
a onto RAID1 10k/15k RPM drives, and the email > data onto RAID5/6 7.2k RPM drives, you can get a good balance of > space/speed. how do you move the cyrus* files onto other drives? David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.ed

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread David Lang
backups) on a central server than on everybody's individual desktops/laptops. as for the concerns about laxer data security in other juristictions, that's something that needs to be addressed when you outsource your mail (via contract with whoever you are having host your mail for you) David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-02-27 Thread David Lang
sses? > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/archive/mailbox.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus if you send mail to a public mailing list it can be harvested by spammers. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Arch

Re: Does Cyrus benefit greatly from increased FS buffer cache?

2009-04-16 Thread David Lang
ce (unless I am running something that doesn't work with 64 bit userspace), but there the benifit is more hit-and-miss David Lang ATT1922831.dat Description: ATT1922831.dat Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: ht

server-side signature verification through IMAP?

2009-10-13 Thread David Lang
the attached messages were posted to the mulberry mailing list short version, in order to do s/mime verification the client must retreive the entire message to do the verification client-side. is there any way to do this server-side? David Lang--- Begin Message --- Hi. I've fi

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-20 Thread David Lang
if anyone is connected to Cyrus or not, so that if not he can skip the fetchmail run. David Lang > Maybe you should just eliminate fetchmail from the picture and then see > if things make more sense. Just point your MUA at the originating IMAP > server and eliminate everything in between.

Re: cyrus replication : master to replica and replica to master

2009-10-22 Thread David Lang
failed) I've been doing this (without going to the extent of turning the failed box off) on my firewalls for years. it sounds more complicated than it is. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-22 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: At Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:54:12 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 13:00 -0700, David Lang a écrit : On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: At Tue, 20 Oct

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-23 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:43:41 -0700 (PDT), David Lang > wrote: > Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client >> >> there can be cases where you are providing mail services for several people, >>

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-23 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:34 -0700 (PDT), David Lang > wrote: > Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client >> >> as long as you are willing to limit yourself to a single MUA on a single >> desktop

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-26 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang > wrote: > Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client >> >> I possibly missed it, but I didn't see anything that said that fetchmail was >&

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-10-26 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:07 -0700, David Lang wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> >>> At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang >>> wrote: >>> Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

2009-11-10 Thread David Lang
e system accordingly. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu

Re: VMware for Cyrus?

2009-11-10 Thread David Lang
ith them! and every time you introduce virtualization you introduce an additional system that you need to run. remember that you need to admin all the virtual machines, just like you would if they were on their own physical boxes, plus you now need to admin the host OS. David Lang Cyrus

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-11-12 Thread David Lang
a good >> one, which is why I use offlineimap to local Maildirs and mutt to talk >> to them. > > I didn't say "perfect" -- I said "proper". :-) > > Mutt is not a proper IMAP client so far as I can tell, for example. > > Pine, Emacs Wanderlus

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-11-12 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:55:25AM -0800, David Lang wrote: > >>> Use SMTP to breech the unreliable link! It's safe, proven, and designed >>> for that very task! >> >> no, SMTP only works if you have network co

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-11-12 Thread David Lang
nswer to. you have focused on the fact that he wants to use fetchmail as the transport between the full-time internet and his intermittently connected network and are telling everyone that he absolutly, under no conditions should try to do what he's attempting. that's where we have

Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

2009-11-12 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:55:25 -0800 (PST), David Lang > wrote: > Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client >> >> no, SMTP only works if you have network connectivity that is up most of the >> ti

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-08 Thread David Lang
ation of the search response to be able to indicate the quality of each match returned. David Lang On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:01:52 -0800 > From: Bron Gondwana > To: cyrus-de...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu, cyrus-proj...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu &g

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-08 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:56 -0800, "David Lang" > wrote: >> one thing that I saw mentioned elsewhere as a limitation of IMAP (and >> therefor I >> don't know if there is a way to address it reasonably) is the

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-13 Thread David Lang
above as I believe that '-' is used to indicate a range of messages) If it is, then this would 'just' be a new addressing option like UID currently is, and like UID, clients would opt-in to this new mode. (it would still need a RFC for the new mode, but does this sound

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-13 Thread David Lang
ve tried it. On the other hand this is a very fast operation on XFS. David Lang signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ma

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-13 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:26 -0800, "David Lang" > wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:10 +0100, "Alexey Melnikov" >>> wrote: >>>> Bron

Re: Future Ideas wiki page

2010-01-13 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:40 -0800, "David Lang" > wrote: >>> Absolutely - two issues. >>> >>> 1: how to you give folders UIDs? >> >> I thought that there was mention in your list of addressing fold

Re: visibility of Mailbox-folders

2010-01-19 Thread David Lang
ways the same. > Other folders which show the same results in cyradm show their subfolders and > files without any problems. > > So what can I do to solve this problem? Silly question (since I haven't been following this thread), have you checked the subscribed status of

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-11 Thread David Lang
ely from corruption. even the filesystems you list can loose data when there is a crash and if one system goes haywire and starts scribbling on the shared disk it will trash any filesystem. David Lang --On Friday, September 10, 2004 13:24 +0200 Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-15 Thread David Lang
also take a look at the heartbeat package at linux-ha.org This works on linux, *BSD, and solaris (there were people working on a AIX port, but they apparently dropped it shortly before finishing) David Lang On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Jure [UTF-8] PeÄ~Mar wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:07:20

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-15 Thread David Lang
how much are you asking for? David Lang On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:44:45 -0400 From: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: David Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cyrus cr

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-16 Thread David Lang
about it so that it can failover to the backup box(s) as needed, but for now simply having the full data at the backup location would be so far ahead of where we are now that the need to reconfigure murder for a failover is realitivly trivial by comparison. David Lang -- There are two ways of

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-17 Thread David Lang
se small, but critical pieces done and then we can grow and experiment from there. David Lang Paul --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- There are two ways of construc

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: David Lang wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: Question: Are people looking at this as both redundancy and performance, or just redundance? for performance we already have murder, what we currently lack is redundancy. once we have

RE: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-17 Thread David Lang
nly the people who have that particular problem will use it and it's likly to have issues with new changes. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so comp

RE: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-19 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike, one of the problems with this is that different databases have different interfaces and capabilities. if you design it to work on Oracle then if you try to make it work on MySQL there are going to be

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-19 Thread David Lang
e towards #5/6 anyway (the pieces need to be identified in the code and hooks put in place in the code at those locations. the details of the hooks will differ slightly David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-19 Thread David Lang
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, David Carter wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, David Lang wrote: 5. Active/Active designate one of the boxes as primary and identify all items in the datastore that absolutly must not be subject to race conditions between the two boxes (message UUID for example). In addition to

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-19 Thread David Lang
and I would not expent them to just happen (they are also much more intrusinve to the code so there is some possibility of them not getting merged into the core code quickly) David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obvi

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-20 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David Carter wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, David Lang wrote: assiming that the simplest method would cost ~$3000 to code I would make a wild guess that the ballpark figures would be 1. active/passive without automatic failover $3k 2. active/passive with automatic failover

Re: Funding Cyrus High Availability

2004-09-20 Thread David Lang
external to cyrus so it's not a problem to skip them. #3 involves changes to the update code to have cyrus take special actions with soem types of updates. there would need to be changes in the same area for #5, but they would be different. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a

Re: setrlimit: Unable to set file descriptors limit to -1: Operationnot permitted

2004-10-18 Thread David Lang
ng one version of berkeley db while openldap is using another. what is the maximum value for file decripters? David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complic

Re: Anyone with experience using imapsync

2006-08-22 Thread David Lang
ome tonight I'll check the command line I've been useing at home. David Lang -- Rob On 08/21/2006 05:21 PM, David Lang wrote: I'm working with it to copy some things currently, I'm doing it a user at a time, and found that I needed to set --prefix2 "INBOX." (note t

Re: IMAP sync tool (rsync for IMAP)

2006-12-21 Thread David Lang
I just used it to move from 2.1 to 2.3, there were a handful of messages it didn't like (~30 out of a few hundred thousand messages) but it appears to have worked well enough to fix the last few messages manually. most of the errors were cases of invalid headers that 2.3 wouldn't acce

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-09 Thread David Lang
really more appropriate then having to configure things on a per-folder basis, possibly with a 'no, don't allow + addressing to this folder' override. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archiv

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-09 Thread David Lang
to other people's folders via the IMAP interface. at least if it's arriving via the lmtp interface you have reason to believe that it's been (somewhat) validated by your MTA. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.w

Re: Patches used at FastMail.FM

2007-01-09 Thread David Lang
he folder. i.e. a program like imapsync would need the 'p' permission to write the messages, (but would need other permissions to check for messages, set flags, etc) I'll play around with things a bit while waiting for clarification. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyr

Re: Clustering and replication

2007-01-30 Thread David Lang
d I'm only vunerable to something that would take down both the primary and it's replica at the same time (don't have them both on the same UPS!) David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

2007-02-12 Thread David Lang
shots. you cannot getany more granular then that. David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Cyrus with a NFS storage. random DBERROR

2007-06-08 Thread David Lang
ailable for generated UUIDs is > much smaller than this, since they have no collision risk - but if you had > that many delivering you would hit the limits and start getting blank UUIDs > anyway. does the IMAP spec specify how large a UUID can be? David Lang Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Global mailbox

2007-07-30 Thread David Lang
s read') and in debian.user.de and had to consider that this is > almost impossible. I also thought about server-side filtering with sieve > and this might be an option for you but it'll be a lot of work what you could do as a work-around is make a subfolder 'read' and

Re: Virtual Domains

2007-08-03 Thread David Lang
authentication pass through the domain the user typed in. David Lang my cyrus.conf is asgard dlang # cat /etc/cyrus.conf # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/cyrus-imapd/files/cyrus.conf,v 1.4 2004/07/18 04:02:23 dragonheart Exp $ # Standard standalone server configuration. START

Re: need help recovering from disk crash

2007-09-25 Thread David Lang
are about duplicates and don't have sieve in use. what else would I loose? > Rather vague email I just wrote... but you seemed to have the basics... > if not reply all. thanks. David Lang > Scott > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I lost my OS drive on my home server, the ma

Re: need help recovering from disk crash

2007-09-25 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Scott M. Likens wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If you have a dump of the mailbox's (ctl_mboxlist) then you can restore >> those, personally I back those up weekly as well as /var/spool/imap > > I don&#

Re: need help recovering from disk crash

2007-09-26 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > David Lang wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, David Lang wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Scott M. Likens wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> If you have a dump of the mailbox's (ctl_mb

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-09 Thread David Lang
with some older versions of the iptables binaries you can run into trouble with a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userspace. unless you take the time to make sure that you aren't running versions that have this problem don't execute any iptables commands when running in mixed mode. Da

Re: UC Davis Cyrus Incident September 2007

2007-10-17 Thread David Lang
t for this it may be worth making the program allocate a chink of ram and write to it after the fork), while on other OSs the overhead of multiple mappings of a page will dominate. David Lang --On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:39 PM -0700 Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: looking for Cyrus mail format documentation

2003-02-04 Thread David Lang
ope of the limitation more then the generic database two-way-sync problem David Lang On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote: > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:19:12 -0600 > From: Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: Cyrus process model...

2003-02-25 Thread David Lang
rt on it, but don't stop maintaining the current version, the apache core code may not be the right thing in the long run. David Lang On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Rob Mueller wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:45:00 +1100 > From: Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Lawrence Gre

Re: Cyrus process model...

2003-02-26 Thread David Lang
I will also add that on current *nix systems the advantages of threads over processes is a lot less then it used to be. In my case we are running apache2 on AIX and found no noticable difference between the two (so we are useing processes for the stability reasons you note below) David Lang On

Re: 1. 2., etc., files in user. directory

2000-12-28 Thread David Lang
in netscape I think the option is called something like 'compact folder' David Lang On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, William K. Hardeman wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:31:21 -0500 > From: William K. Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Brian Capouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: Session-usage of Outlook Express

2001-03-22 Thread David Lang
I think this is just outlook showing it's POP3 roots. there is a bunch of mail software out there that was written for POP3 that has been 'upgraded' to IMAP but still acts as if it was talking to a POP3 server (including in many cases keeping a local copy of the mail messages) Da

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-01 Thread David Lang
y large mailbox (thousands of messages in the inbox) David Lang On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, John Madden wrote: Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:12:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best filesystem for imap server I dont want to sta

RE: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
anged, but it leaves a bad taste behind. also note that if you are useing IDE drives you have no way of really knowing when the data has hit the platter (as opposed to just being in the buffer of the drive) as many of the drives will lie to you and tell you the write is complete once it hits the

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jules Agee wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:11:21 -0800 From: Jules Agee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: best filesystem for imap server David Lang wrote: also note that if you are useing IDE drives you have no way of really knowing when the data h

Re: best filesystem for imap server

2004-12-02 Thread David Lang
sity there were (high-end SCSI) drives that could use their rotational energy to power their electronics to write the data and adjust the dataclock as the spindle slowed, but I don't think any drive does this anymore. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design

Re: Can I use Cyrus IMAP w/Outlook?

2005-01-12 Thread David Lang
Paul, I recently took a look at useing thunderbird 1.0 with IMAP and found that it was storing a lot of info locally, is it really that good an IMAP client? David Lang On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Paul Dekkers wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:17:10 +0100 From: Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Once again: action hooks

2005-01-25 Thread David Lang
Take a look at Popfile (on sourceforge) it will train when you move a message into a folder and retrain when you move a message to another folder. the current version is single user (you would need to run one copy per user), but the development version is adding multi-user capability) David

Re: Large email account

2005-02-26 Thread David Lang
, as outlook is one of the slower clients to start with) David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R.

RE: Database backend?

2005-05-11 Thread David Lang
I would be interested in this, thanks. David Lang On Wed, 11 May 2005, ¿øÅÂȯ wrote: Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:29:55 +0900 From: ¿øÅÂȯ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Markus Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: RE: Database backend? Hi, I had an experience

Re: Imap timeout with 27k messages...

2005-08-08 Thread David Lang
on both the old and new folders. beyond that do some testing with huge message folders on different filesystems. you may find that other filesystems handle huge folders better then what you're useing. David Lang On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Jared Watkins wrote: Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:26:

Re: [POLL] pop3d/nntpd and IMAP flags

2005-10-25 Thread David Lang
th, with the specific overriding the general. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare

Re: improving concurrency/performance

2005-11-06 Thread David Lang
dirs of 10 dirs of 1000 1K files) the time to read them went from ~5 min with the old allocator useed in ext2 to 40 min for the one that's the default for ext3. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no d

Re: improving concurrency/performance

2005-11-06 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote: David Lang wrote: (..) I was recently doing some testing of lots of small files on the various filesystems, and I ran into a huge difference (8x) depending on what allocator was used for ext*. the default allocator changed between ext2 and

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