Lawrence Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary Mills writes:
> >
> >So that means that what I'm trying to do is impossible! I have several
> >thousand users with Unix mailboxes, and I'm trying to load them into
> >Cyrus. I don't know their passwords. Last time I did this, on a
> >smaller scale, I just redelivered all the mail. This had the side
> >effect that all the mail appeared as new and unread. This time, I'd
> >like to preserve the status of each message. So, it can't be done?
Recently, I converted ~500 users email from Netscape's 'local mail' format to
a Cyrus server and also got bitten when trying to preserve the \Seen flag.
> 2) Provide a mechanism in Cyrus for the administrator to `su' to another
> user. It could be controlled by a configuration option. The loading
> script could log in once as the administrator and then impersonate
> each user as it appended to that user's mailbox.
>
> SASL already has this mechanism, and I use it frequently. Cyrus
> allows administrators to authorize as any user.
This is what I did, but as I was operating over a non-SSL localhost
connection, PLAIN wasn't available. The following temporary patch fixed that:
===================
--- imapd.c.orig Sun Jul 8 16:59:59 2001
+++ imapd.c Tue Jul 31 19:12:13 2001
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@
fatal("SASL failed initializing: sasl_server_new()", EC_TEMPFAIL);
}
- secprops = mysasl_secprops(SASL_SEC_NOPLAINTEXT);
+ secprops = mysasl_secprops(0);
sasl_setprop(imapd_saslconn, SASL_SEC_PROPS, secprops);
if (extprops.ssf) {
sasl_setprop(imapd_saslconn, SASL_SSF_EXTERNAL, &extprops);
====================
Although from Ken's email it seems the -p option to imapd would have sufficed
instead, oh well!
Regards,
--
Cillian
