On Friday 12 January 2007 01:49 am, you wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 12:59 pm, Jay Chandler wrote: > >> Trying to get Squirrelmail to play nicely with uw-imap, run by way > >> of inetd. > >> > >> It worked fantastically well-- for about ten seconds. Then my phone > >> lit up, and the log file shows: > >> > >> Jan 11 12:40:26 webmail inetd[47419]: imap4 from 127.0.0.1 exceeded > >> counts/min (limit 60/min) > >> > >> What are the appropriate settings after nowait for a webmail box > >> that provides access to ~2000 people? > > > > For 2000 accounts, you definitely do *NOT* want to use UW-IMAP. > > Performance will be horrid. Especially if run via inetd. > > > > If you have access to the passwords, or don't mind resetting > > everyone's password, you can use imapsync to move messages between > > two IMAP servers. Install Courier/Dovecot/Cyrus, configure it to run > > on one port, UW-IMAP to run on a second port, then script the > > transfer of everyone's mail. It'll automatically be converted from > > mbox to Maildir. :) > > > > As for getting UW-IMAP to work better/faster/smoother ... all I can > > say is "good luck". :) > > Oh, to be able to do such a migration. > > Here's the setup I've inherited: > > All of the user home directories live on a NetApp filer. Okay, no big > deal. The mboxes (inboxes, anyway) live on their own NetApp volume, > and the user subdirectories live in their home directories. > > Our friends at NetApp informed me last week that the NetApp Filer has > "problems" with MailDirs, particularly when the size of each directory > exceeded 1% of the total system memory (six gig for this filer). So if > I want to use MailDir format, I have to apparently restrict each user's > quota to 60 megs. Somehow, in 2007, I think my users could still turn > up an awful lot of torches and pitchforks were I to attempt such a > thing. That sounds a little suspicious to me, as the main selling point of Maildir is that it is network-fs friendly: you only open/read the one little file for the message you are reading, and not the entire mbox file. You can also have 1 process writing new messages while another is reading messages as they are separate files, something you can't do with mbox. The main driving force behind Maildir was NFS-mounted mail spools. Either the NetApp guy doesn't know what he is talking about, or they have done something really bad with their network FS configuration. IMO, of course. :) > We have several webmail servers running now, but all told we have > anywhere from between 20,000 and 60,000 accounts, though how many are > active is a matter of some debate. > > If anyone has encountered this or similar issues I'd dearly love to > hear about it, or failing that, a pointer to where I can air this > particular Hobson's Choice in the hopes of gaining decent resolution. As someone else mentioned, a good starting point would be to move to Dovecot as it reads mbox, but also has the option to use Maildir if you ever decide to go that way. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
