-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 v. 2.3.8 . Unified Murder. It is clear from the information below that a receiving server initiated xfer command will fail (LOCALCREATE FAILED on a child of the inbox [LOCALCREATE of the inbox apparently succeeds]) and the location of the mailbox will become out of sync. Subsequent commands against the mailbox from the sending server will be proxied to the receiver (even though the transfer is logged as a failure). The receiver then tries (correctly) to proxy the connection to the server (sender) that should still have the mailbox. This endless loop of proxying causes rapid process spawning which leads to eventual failure to allocate system resources. I am looking for a site to confirm this behavior. I am looking through the relevant code sections now, but I am personally unfamiliar with cyrus-imapd source. Any advice or help would be appreciated. Shawn - --Additional info--- *When using cyradm console on the sender machine issuing the command: xfer user/zweng blaster p0 :* Sender transcript: >1172689348>3 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID MUPDATE=mupdate://aunty.ccit.arizona.edu/ LOGINDISABLED ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE IDLE URLAUTH] User logged in <1172689348<4 RLIST "" "" >1172689348>* LIST (\Noselect) "/" "" 4 OK Completed (0.000 secs 0 calls) <1172689353<5 XFER user/zweng blaster p0 >1172689354>5 NO The remote Server(s) denied the operation Sender log: Feb 28 12:02:34 master imap[2276]: Could not move mailbox: user.zweng, failed setting initial quota root Receiver transcript: <1172699821<Q01 SETQUOTA {11+} +user/zweng (STORAGE 10000) >1172699821>Q01 NO [REFERRAL imap://;AUTH=*@master.ccit.arizona.edu/user/zweng] Remote mailbox. <1172699821<Q01 LOGOUT >1172699821>* BYE LOGOUT received Q01 OK Completed Receiver log: No log entry posted *When using the cyradm console on the receiver machine issuing the command: xfer user/zweng blaster p0 :* Receiver transcript: - ---------- cyradm Wed Feb 28 15:02:07 2007 >1172700127>3 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID MUPDATE=mupdate://aunty.ccit.arizona.edu/ LOGINDISABLED ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE IDLE URLAUTH] User logged in <1172700127<4 RLIST "" "" >1172700127>* LIST (\Noselect) "/" "" 4 OK Completed (0.000 secs 0 calls) <1172700167<5 XFER user/zweng blaster p0 >1172700167>5 NO The remote Server(s) denied the operation blaster:/cyrus_config/log/cyradm # cat 8889 - ---------- cyradm Wed Feb 28 15:02:47 2007 <1172700167<LC1 LOCALCREATE {20+} user/zweng/old mails p0 >1172700167>LC1 NO Mailbox already exists <1172700167<Q01 LOGOUT >1172700167>* BYE LOGOUT received Q01 OK Completed Receiver log: Feb 28 15:02:47 blaster imap[8863]: Could not move mailbox: user.zweng.old mails, LOCALCREATE failed Sender transcript: No transcript posted to logging folder Sender log: No log messages After a receiving server initiated xfer attempt, info command on the mailbox fails. info command initiates rapid imapd process spawning by master and rapid spawning of imapd processes on the receiver to handle remote info command. The sender (who also issues the info command) has thousands of logged transcripts that say only one line (no response from other server): <1172690203<PROXY0 GETANNOTATION "user/zweng" ("*") ("value.shared") The receiver has thousands of logged transcripts that say only: <1172700559<PROXY0 GETANNOTATION "user/zweng" ("*") ("value.shared") >1172700663>* ANNOTATION "user/zweng" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/server" ("value.shared" "master.ccit.arizona.edu") PROXY0 OK Completed - -- Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1) Unix Systems Group; CCIT University of Arizona nock at email.arizona.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5aphbbRzLz6id34RAnI5AJ4r9dcRbxRK66pWPLoZX+DAGqSbQACfYXDK Yo+PIuT0oDi+HX3c3UqULCc= =IsBL -----END PGP 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/mailing-list.html