Re: How to index maildir

2009-03-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:19:07AM +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * Jeff Huang : > > OK,Thanks. > > > > I'll try cyrus imap. > > > > Now I use Courier-imap as my imap/pop3 server. > > Try dovecot IMAP. It indexes maildir and fixes the index automatically. Cyrus > IMAP doesn't ... Cyrus do

Re: How to replace underscores in hostnames to a valid character?

2010-11-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:55:14AM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: > On 11/18/2010 3:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I've been having issues where emails are being rejected by Cyrus because the > >"From" address contains an underscore in the domain name. > > > ... > > > >PS. I have contacted

Re: Recommended way to (quickly) get total mail queue size?

2009-07-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:00:49PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Michael Durket: > > Thanks to all who replied. I'll be trying out the various ideas. But > > they all > > seem awkward. In my MVS days, when we wrote large scale systems > > like this, we'd keep important statistics in the link pack

Re: How to deliver to Cyrus imapd mailboxes

2009-10-20 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:58:22PM +0200, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > I think you should never write to Cyrus mailspool without using the > Cyrus Tools?? Absolutely. You don't want to deliver it directly, you want to deliver it to cyrus' lmtpd process, or piping it to the cyrus "deliver" tool.

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-08 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 06:17:19AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Stan Hoeppner: > > nicely. On the other hand, you won't see an EXTx filesystem capable of > > anywhere close to 10GB/s or greater file IO. Here XFS doesn't break a > > sweat. > > I recall that XFS was optimized for fast read/write

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:56:39AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/8/2011 3:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > That's a lot of text. How about some hard numbers? > > Maybe not the perfect example, but here's one such high concurrency > synthetic mail server workload comparison showing XFS with a

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:31:19PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/9/2011 8:36 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > How many people are running their mail servers on 24-32 SAS spindles > > verses those running them on two spindles in RAID1? > > These results are for a maildir ty

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > That said, there are plenty of mailbox > servers in the wild that would benefit from the XFS + linear concat > setup. It doesn't require an insane drive count, such as the 136 in the > test system above, to demonstrate the gains, esp

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:42:25PM -0400, vg_ us wrote: > From: "Bron Gondwana" > >I'm honestly more interested in maildir type workload too, spool doesn't > >get enough traffic usually to care about IO. > > will postmark transaction test do? here -

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:42:25PM -0400, vg_ us wrote: > will postmark transaction test do? here - > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2639_fs&num=1 Oh: http://blog.goolamabbas.org/2007/06/17/postmark-is-not-a-mail-server-benchmark/ "Thus it pains me a lot that they ar

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:33:31AM +0300, karave...@mail.bg wrote: > Nice setup. And thanks for your work on Cyrus. We are > looking also to move the metadata on SSDs but we have not > found yet cost effective devices - we need at least a pair of > 250G disk for 20-30T spool on a server. You ca

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:49:44AM +0300, karave...@mail.bg wrote: > I do not trust Postmark - it models mbox appending and skips > fsync-s. So it is too different from our setup. The best benchmark > tool I have found is imaptest (from dovecot fame) - it is actually > end to end benchmarking, in

Re: Premature "No Space left on device" on XFS

2011-10-09 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 06:03:36PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/9/2011 3:29 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > I'm honestly more interested in maildir type workload too, spool doesn't > > get enough traffic usually to care about IO. > > > > (sorry, gett

Re: postfix and imap cluster structure

2012-01-26 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:05:16PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 1/26/2012 2:54 PM, Matteo Cazzador wrote: > > Hello, i'va a particular question about mail server. > > Suppose a customer have more than one locations > > in different geographic sites, each one with a mail server with the same > >

Re: Can I improve the efficiency of my dnsbl reject configuration?

2012-04-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
of this work is worth the effort unless email is a major part of your organisation's purpose, otherwise you should probably concentrate on things that actually make you money ) -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm

Re: Gmail servers not accepting mails

2012-06-01 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:02:45PM +0530, Ram wrote: > I was wondering if others on this list are also facing this , gmail > breaking off some connections > > All my postfix mailq is increasing because gmail , sporadically , > times out some connections. > > Jun 1 07:40:37 mmail14 postfix/smtp[1

Re: Blocking LinkedIn 'Intro' mail hijacking?

2013-10-25 Thread Bron Gondwana
ges are slightly harder to change, but still not impossible if they want to play that game. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm

Re: OT: Large corporate email systems - Exchange vs open source *nix based

2013-12-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
the next month or so. Regards, Bron. (anyway, aren't more companies just outsourcing entirely these days?) -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm

Re: mail rejected from amazon ec2 host

2015-05-13 Thread Bron Gondwana
s problem? Don't send directly from your amazon host, use a smarthost: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-email-smtp.html Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm