PATCH for lmtp was [frontend lmtp connections to mupdate master]

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

is there anything missing from my side, or something that I can do to help
that my patch can be included?

Regards

     Michael


Quoting Nic Bernstein via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:

> Bron,
> We're starting to run into this same issue -- lmtp proxies fail to  
> deliver mail when mupdate master craps -- and so started to  
> investigate this thread.  However, it doesn't look like Michael  
> Menge's patch made it in.  Your thoughts?
>     -nic
>
> On 10/07/2014 08:17 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>> I'm convinced :)  I'll probably add it with Ken while we're at CMU  
>> in a couple of weeks when we can test it together.  This is  
>> precisely the kind of thing we love to see!  Thanks.
>>
>> Bron.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Michael Menge wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as we have had an other crash of mupdate master last week, we used the
>>> patch on our production system.
>>>
>>> After the patch was added the load on mupdate master was dropping form
>>> about 10 to about 1.
>>>
>>> After one week of using it we have not found any problems.
>>> As I have not received any other feedback, I added it to the
>>> bugtracker.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3866
>>>
>>> Pleas consider adding it to 2.5 and 2.4.next
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>     Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Quoting Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> By thew way, the reason I was so surprised in the first place was, that
>>>>>> I have been fooled by the documentation:
>>>>>> Quoting https://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.17/install-murder.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Configuring the frontends
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> However, because the frontends only talk to the mupdate master
>>>>>>> via   a  slave running on the local machine, you will also need
>>>>>>> to set  up  a  slave on the same machine, in the SERVICES section
>>>>>>> of   cyrus.conf,  like so
>>>>> And an other misleading DOC !
>>>>> Quoting
>>>>> http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_Murder_Mail_Delivery
>>>>>> UMich patch
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Patch Patches are against 2.2 but are being moved to 2.3
>>>>>> Lmtpproxyd   will now use the local mailboxes.db
>>>> Quoting Wesley Craig <wescraig at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Sep 2014, at 10:08, Michael Menge
>>>>> <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>>>>> thanks for your mail. By any chance do you still have the patch?
>>>>> In fact, I don't.  Dusting off my notes, I recall now that instead
>>>>> of patching this (bogus) code, we instead decided to configure the
>>>>> frontends as "unified", while leaving the backends "standard".  The
>>>>>  only downside of this approach was that a naive admin could
>>>>> potentially create a user's mailbox on a frontend.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry I said that we ported that code forward: in fact we simply
>>>>> got  the effect of consulting mailboxes.db without porting forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> :wes
>>>> I have patched my lmtpd to use the local mailbox.db in all cases,
>>>> unified Murder, and standalone cyrus already did this.
>>>> I tested it with a few testmails on my test system,
>>>> but as i don't have a unified setup or a standalone test system
>>>> at the moment i didn't test these setups.
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate a review.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>    Michael Menge
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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