similar to: Storage Design (Regligious War, Whatever)

Timo - I upgraded to 2.1.10 on our director servers two nights ago and apart from errors associated with the directors processes restarting everything looked great for ~24 hours until I failed our the real servers last night to update the nfs mount options for the spools. I followed the suggested procedure for each backend server, just run on one of the directors, which seemed to work as

I'm trying to use an external program to set the location of user's maildirs to match an existing hashing schema but the docs for how to do this in 1.x do not seem to apply to 2.0 or I'm misinterpreting them. protocol imap { mail_executable = /opt/dovecot-test/sonic-imap ... This correctly executes the and attempts to sets the MAIL variable but it appears that mail_executable is

Timo - it would be very convenient if we could get a variable that held the real client ip for use in logging with director/proxy setups. It's clearly already passed around in client->user->remote_ip but at this point, I don't see anyway to get it into the logs and it would take me ages to figure out the Right place to add it since client->user doesn't seem to be available in

I'm not able to get the FS quota module to behave as I expect. Depsite having function fs quotas and dovecot apparently configured to use then, the quotas appear to be empty and/or not configured. Any clues? # quota kgc Disk quotas for user kgc (uid 500): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sda3 1229460 7000000 8000000

I noticed our imap servers were generating a lot of A record lookups for their own IP's the other day and just got around to tracking down the source. Seems like they are all being caused by guid_128_generate() - perhaps the lookup could be cached at start up or it could just use make use of the hostname rather than spending the effort to get the IP via gethostbyname() calls. The function is

I'm curious if anyone has any plugins for AV integration directly into dovecot. Our old pop servers have been scanning messges as they're moved from new->cur in the inbox and, at least where user's aren't poping every few seconds, there is occasionally enough time between scanning through the MXs to message retreval to snag a few more virues with updated definitions before

To simplify recovery of accidentally deleted messages we'd like to send all messages that are deleted by pop clients to their Trash folder. (Which is auto expired already.) This allows a POP client who deletes an important email to restore it themselves by logging into our webmail client and move the lost message from Trash to the Inbox where it would be fetched by their client again. Has

One of our dovecot backend servers ran into a problem with it's auth process a few days ago. This doesn't appear to be the error logged when dovecot hits its internal limit so I'm not sure what is going on here. auth: Error: malloc: 58012: Cannot allocate memory auth: Error: Unable to allocate memory for mutexes from the region auth: Error: PANIC: Cannot allocate memory auth:

I've had 2x director ring up and running with production load on 2.1.8 with around 10,000 active connections for two weeks and everything has been working great - until this morning. There isn't anything obvious in the logs beyond the fact that the director connections started bouncing. It was not resolved by reloads or restarts or an upgrade to 2.1.9 (only the directors.) I've

I've been playing around with the fts plugins and currently have solr up and running. While the initial indexing time is pretty rough, the search performance is impressive. I've run into a problem though- so far as I can tell, thunderbird (and most other popular clients?) won't actually take advantage of it. Even using thunderbird's advanced search and checking the 'run

I'm working the kinks of a new director based setup for the eventual migration away from courier. At this point, with everything basically working I'm trying to ensure that things are properly monitored and I've run into an issue. There doesn't appear to be a way to get dovecot to tell if it is (or is not) connected and properly synced with the other director servers in the ring

Hi list, Due to possible budget cuts, I am looking at finding alternatives to the Netapp filers we currently have. Obviously, one of the key drivers is the performance required for our specific application. On https://www.fotoloog.org/fs.png you can see the load on our main filer. The key question I have is: looking at that graph, do you think it is worthwhile looking into Samba further as a

Hi all, we've started receiving complaints from users that seemingly use more quota than they actually have. We noticed that these users have (in some cases many) .nfs files in their mailspool. Some of our admins checked their own dirs, and noticed them there as well. This could of course be unrelated to dovecot (kernel issue, netapp issue) but maybe somehow has an idea about if dovecot could

Hi, All, I am new here and I need your advises. Here is my story: I have a mail server like this: - CentOS 5 32 bit (LAMP) - Postfix 2.3 - Courier - MailScanner Courier use maildir to save emails in /home/vmail/<virtual domain>/<user> / Now I want to build a new system on CentOS 6.4 64bit with postfix, dovecot and migrate all user accounts and their emails. I already installed

hi all I have a server running svn_131 and the scrub is very slow. I have a cron job for starting it every week and now it''s been running for a while, and it''s very, very slow scrub: scrub in progress for 40h41m, 12.56% done, 283h14m to go The configuration is listed below, consisting of three raidz2 groups with seven 2TB drives each. The root fs is on a pair of X25M (gen 1)

Hi everyone I am currently testing Solaris 11 Express. I currently have a root pool on a mirrored pair of small disks, and a data pool consisting of 2 mirrored pairs of 1.5TB drives. I have enabled auto snapshots on my root pool, and plan to archive the daily snapshots onto my data pool. I was wondering how easy it would be, in the case of a root pool failure (i.e. both disks giving up the

Hello all, A few months ago I saw a statement that L2ARC writes are simplistic in nature, and I got the (mis?)understanding that some sort of ring buffer may be in use, like for ZIL. Is this true, and the only metric of write-performance important for L2ARC SSD device is the sequential write bandwidth (and IOPS)? In particular, there are some SD/MMC/CF cards for professional photography and

I posted a thread on this once long ago[1] -- but we''re still fighting with this problem and I wanted to throw it out here again. All of our hardware is from Silicon Mechanics (SuperMicro chassis and motherboards). Up until now, all of the hardware has had a single 24-disk expander / backplane -- but we recently got one of the new SC847-based models with 24 disks up front and 12 in the

Hi, I don''t know if it''s already been discussed here, but while thinking about using the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD (which according to spec page has supercaps built in) as a shared slog and L2ARC device it stroke me that this might not be a such a good idea. Because this SSD is MLC based, write cycles are an issue here, though I can''t find any number in their spec. Why do I

But it''s early (for me), and I can''t remember the answer here. I''m sizing an Oracle database appliance. I''d like to get one of the F20 96GB flash accellerators to play with, but I can''t imagine I''d be using the whole thing for ZIL. The DB is likely to be a couple TB in size. Couple of questions: (a) since everything is going to be