Ken Murchison wrote:
To be more specific, this means we have a mailbox where our customer
sends mail to and about 9 people should be able to be connected to
this mailbox seeing the incoming messages and those, that have been
answererd or seen). Of course, they should be able to answer, delete
Edward Reid wrote:
What RFC3501 says is
The APPEND command appends the literal argument as a new message
to the end of the specified destination mailbox. This argument
SHOULD be in the format of an [RFC-2822] message.
Since it's the client that constructs the literal, it appears t
Edward Reid wrote:
Obviously there's a problem with the RFC in this case, in that it makes
a recommendation to the client but no recommendation or requirement for
the server.
But the RFC clearly says that the client is allowed to store a
non-RFC2822 message, if it has a valid reason. Nowhere do I
Joe Rhett wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:29:41PM -0500, Paul M Fleming wrote:
Rounding error would present a problem for us and our users. My 2 cents
.. quotas > 4GB are fairly rare. I know with a large student user base
with 50-75Mb quotas rounding to the nearest K wouldn't be desirable.
Edward Reid wrote:
The mail provider (MX) for my domain, fastmail.fm, runs cyrus. I use
Eudora (for Mac, v5.2), mostly in POP mode, but I use some IMAP
features too. In particular, some of my filters copy incoming (POP)
messages to an IMAP mailbox at fastmail.fm. That's where the problems
start.
S
Rob Siemborski wrote:
Though, it may be safe to check this with a configure test (since the
quotas are all stored as strings, not binary data).
Actually, I lied here.
We do store the used quota as binary data in the index header.
So the quota used for a particular mailbox (independent of
Rob Siemborski wrote:
Right. Thats the fix (or some other integer size > 32 bits).
Is it safe to assume that the platforms where Cyrus runs has long long
available?
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Rob Siemborski wrote:
We're using 32-bit numbers to track the quota. We'd need to be more
clever than that to get around it.
Other than a conversion issue on existing mailstores, couldn't this be
solved by just using the same units IMAP does, ie 1k rather than bytes?
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Ezsra McDonald wrote:
Let me go to another account with the same problem.
All af the folders exist. Some are empty and
reconstruct reports an IOERROR when it can't find
cyrus.* in the folders. He has several folders whose
names are made up of multiple words like for example
one is named 'user.ran
Pascal Gienger wrote:
I am using Cyrus IMAP 2.1.12 (Suse Linux package, no source install
allowed here), and we see some errors from lmtpd saying "Virtual
memory exhausted".
ulimits are unlimited for every resource (no limit), and there are 4
Gigabytes of swap used by 5% and 2 Gigabytes of RAM
Ezsra McDonald wrote:
OK, I probably did something rash when I rsynced a few
of my mailboxes to a new cyrus mail server. It was an
unplanned migration and It had to be fast.
One of the users can't delete messages in subfolders.
she also can't move messages into these sub folders.
I tried to run
Rob Siemborski wrote:
But its not even an issue since duplicate_init is called in service_init.
(Before the lmtpd is handling a connection).
So the MTA will just see "connection reset by peer" and defer it,
right? If so, that behavior seems fine.
I didn't have any problem noticing it before
Daniel Qian wrote:
It confused me by putting all databases using BDB under a imap directory.
Read the documentation at sleepycat -- the logs are per BDB
environment. In this case, it protects only the various BDB files used
by Cyrus.
Anyway I am more concerned about a proper way to backup al
Craig Ringer wrote:
[OT: Yes, I'm aware that there other other Linuces beyond RH, but we're
committed to HP hardware which is only certified for RH and SuSE (one of
my colleagues has been told by an HP engineer that they support
Debian but
I've yet to see anything official). We have zero SuSE exp
Lee wrote:
Will this cause any problems with seen / unseen flags (or anything for
that matter)?
Seen flags are kept in a different database, under
/var/imap/user/X/user.seen. I presume Cyrus gracefully deals with
nonexistent folders in the seen/sub files, but I haven't looked at that
part of
Lee wrote:
You should be able to delete these from within cyradm as an admin,
unless
somebody deleted stuff by hand from the filesystem.
I think that might be the problem.
When i try to SAM the folders pre-deletion in cyradm, i get a:
setaclmailbox: admin: lcp: System I/O error
Is there a way
pnelson wrote:
Yes dumping to removable medium.
Why not write directly to tape rather than going through an extra step
and requiring extra disk space?
So a cyrus backup needs to contain:
/var/spool/imap
/var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
to be useful as a backup, right? With these to things I can
pnelson wrote:
My last thing to do prior to converting to production is a backup
strategy. I have been doing this with tar something like:
tar -C /var/lib-czf lib-.tar.gzimap
tar -C /var/spool -czf spool-.tar.gz imap
tar -cf cyrus-.tar
This is producing a pretty big file(s):
lib-.tar.g
blast wrote:
As far as I've been able to find, the only way to migrate use info
from an old box running sendmail authenticating against shadow to a
new system running postfix authenticating against sasldb2 is to use
the auto_transition feature. Is this true, or is there perhaps a
manual_trans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Compiling with the -fPIC fixes the problem. I had to do this for the
following: imclient.c imparse.c xmalloc.c imapurl.c iptostring.c assert.c
util.c libisieve.c prot.c
Why does -fPIC fix this problem?
Code to be used in a shared library must be position-independent, s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/src/cyrus-imapd-2.1.13/perl/imap'
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib64" cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 IMAP.o -o
blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so ../../lib/libcyrus.a -lssl -lcrypto
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-
Brasseur Valéry wrote:
did someone know if there exist a IMAp server who would be able to use a
POP3 server for the INBOX folder and his normal folders for all others !
note : i need something like this for a migration purpose !
The basic problem is that you cannot implement the IMAP protocol u
foobar wrote:
See word *theoretically* , didn't urandom gather some data from
network-interfaces too so it may be affected. Nobody knows when it takes
data from device nr X.
My point was simply before you decide to link random to urandom for the
sake of Cyrus, you should consider the impact th
Wil Cooley wrote:
Got it. But John's probably right about the kernel keeping the sockets
open. But we never had this problem with cucipop (that's what I always
have to listen to: "We didn't have this problem before blah blah
blah"). Somehow, even though cucipop locked the mailboxes, it was abl
Wil Cooley wrote:
Yeah, you're probably right; I just saw a directory full of capital
letters and assumed it was all of them. I do recall prime-based hash
functions being better. However, after I did the hash, imapd seemed to
still be using the traditional first-letter-hash. I had this in my lo
Wil Cooley wrote:
The upgrade wasn't entirely smooth; I wrote up some notes about what I
did: http://nakedape.cc/wiki/index.cgi/CyrusImapNotes in case someone
else wanders along this path... The biggest issue was that ctl_cyrusdb
wasn't able to read my old mailboxes.db file; I reverted to my old
Lars Peterson wrote:
Here's some output from config.log:
configure:5808: checking for db_create in -ldb-4.1
configure:5839: gcc -o conftest -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/local/itech/iwaymail/include
-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -
L/usr/local/itech/iwaymail/lib conftest.c -ldb-4
Igor Brezac wrote:
This problem is fixed in cvs for both 2.1.x and 2.2.
Ok, so it was a problem in Cyrus not db? Thanks.
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Lars Peterson wrote:
Yes libdb-4.1.so is in the same directory I passed to configure for bdb-libdir.
Permissions are same user I'm building as, and mode is 775.
I was able to link against these libraries successfully for an openldap-2.1.19
build.
Then I suggest looking at the log generated by conf
Lars Peterson wrote:
Snippet from configure's output:
<===
checking for db.h... yes
checking for db_create in -ldb-4.1... no
checking for db_create in -ldb4.1... no
checking for db_create in -ldb41... no
checking for db_create in -ldb-4.0... yes
===>
When I do an ldd on the resultant imapd binary
Rob Siemborski wrote:
You can symlink /dev/random to point at /dev/urandom, but keep in mind
that will affect all applications, not just cyrus.
And in particular you may not want to do this if you are generating RSA
private keys or equivalent on a machine that anyone else may have shell
acces
NOwlar wrote:
I use Postfix 2.0.10 with TLS patch, cyrus-imapd 2.1.13, sasl 2.1.13
The problem is as follow:
When a message with russian charset characters (KOI8-R, WIN1251) in Subject
field arrives or is moved into the Sent Items folders by Outlook Express,
each russian character is replaced by a
Phil Chambers wrote:
I have never used the Cyrus IMAP server before and have just intalled it on a test
system to evaluate it, with a view to moving our service over to it. We have over
20,000 users and need to upgrade our current system.
One of our fundamental requirements is to be able to ta
Ken Murchison wrote:
FYI, Websieve does this automatically when no script is present, unless
the user overrides it.
The administrator can change that configuration in websieve.conf,
variable $defaultscript.
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Emory Universi
Nicolas Gauvrit wrote:
i post this message yesterday, but i got no answer...
(is my question to stupid for you ?)
i'd like to know what does mean those message,
is i do something wrong ?
is my Cyrus Imap will work fine, even if i got thoses
Error messages ?
i was searching several hours, but i d
Dave O wrote:
2 level hashing would work, but I don't know if Cyrus supports that. It
would most likely be trivial to implement.
eg spool/s/sm/user/smith
Or in the case of full dir hashing, have a second hash function and hash
the names that get assigned to one bin into an additional set of b
Marco Colombo wrote:
2) the old cyradm binary, from a 2.0.16 installation, never crashes.
(that made me turn to the client side instead of the server side)
The old binaries were compiled vs. SASL v.1.5.26 (shared), which has
been recently upgraded to 1.5.28.
Cyrus 2.x requires SASL 2.x -- if yo
Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski wrote:
I was attempting to move an email message from a local account onto an
IMAP directory located on Cyrus. The client I am using is Netscape
Mail and usually it gives me no problems. This time, I am not able to
move the message because the client gives the fol
Andrew McNamara wrote:
You probably don't want to be running cyrus on an NFS partition.
The only other option would be a SAN, and people here trust them even
less. BTW, they've successfully been running a large, heavily used,
Oracle instance for several years now over NFS to a Netapp with se
Oliver Pitzeier wrote:
Sorry, but I believe there are enough interessting parts in imapd and also in
some lib/* file that could be logged for debugging reasons...
Complaints about the code quality of Cyrus coming from someone who tries
to pass an int where a char* is expected, whose patch resu
Temp wrote:
I tried chinese in postfix+cyrus-imap
and in Outlook Express 5, the "Inbox" is still
the one in chinese, but the "Sent Items" and
"Drafts" folders which I saw in english IMAP
client become normal folders,
and there are another folder instead of them
in chinese in chinese name.
so, d
Andreas Meyer wrote:
eta saslauthd[982]: pam_mysql: where clause =
eta saslauthd[982]: SELECT password FROM accountuser WHERE username='karl'
eta saslauthd[982]: pam_mysql: select returned more than one result
eta saslauthd[982]: returning 7 after db_checkpasswd.
eta saslauthd[982]: AUTHFAIL: user
Steve Hanson wrote:
There was some discussion on the list in the past about problems with
Outlook Express not interoperating well with Cyrus due to it
corrupting the seen database by using multiple concurrent connections,
confusing the caching model in Cyrus.
Our desktop support people are try
Patrick Welche wrote:
Overall I see that you send commands to the imap server using imclient_send,
the last argument of which is essentially the text of the imap command.
You register callbacks based on keyword, so that when the server sends you
a reply, the function registered gets called. I susp
Kristian Rink wrote:
(a) in this network, IMAP is used because the vast majority of
mail traffic needs to be seen not only by a single user but by a
group of persons. For what I have experienced and also read in
the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have
a general "s
Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski wrote:
I am experiencing the following trouble: from both cyradm and IMAP I
cannot delete a mailbox. Phisically I tested the permissions and it is
everything ok. Anybody can help me? Here is a screenshot of the error:
-- BEGIN ATTACHMENT --
[EMAIL PROTECTED] imap
Tarjei Huse wrote:
I got a few users whom I've removed, and now I'd like to set a
auto-responder for the addresses.
I'd like to do this so people emailing them get their new address.
Any suggestions on how to set this using sieve?
If they don't have an inbox, I don't believe you can use siev
Thomas Hannan wrote:
So to backup Cyrus, I should do the following?:
ctl_mboxlist -d /var/backup/mydbbackupfile
cp -dPr /var/imap /var/backup/imap
cp -dPr /var/spool/imap /var/backup/spool/imap
Would it be better to tar them first, or just copy and then tar later?
And to do a full restore? How w
Michael Frank wrote:
I have heard that if I backup the database and/or user files as they are being accessed I might corrupt the files. Is this true? If so how can I implement an automated backup without taking the service down? I need to have the service up 24/7 and am unable to take it down at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is your custom delivery program?
I'm interested in that kind of solution but i didn't found yet a deliver
program for postfix that use lmtp and can add the ignorequota option.
It is a small perl program that uses Net::LMTP (hacked to support
authentication and the
Brandon High wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:11, test s wrote:
Does anyone know how to Move Emails From a unix format which is on server A
to cyrus which is on server B
We migrated from WU-imapd to Cyrus last year...
The easiest way is to pipe the mail into deliver. It takes a little
cu
Peter Burggraef wrote:
I want cyrus to delete mails, older then sometime.
How can I do this?
man ipurge
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Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
Phil Howard wrote:
That would result in doubling the bandwidth on the inside server connection
since it would be dealing with the mail first coming in to the MX, then
being replicated back out to the other server. By delivering outside mail
to the outside server first, the only bandwidth usage i
RJ45 wrote:
hello I noticed that getpwent method of saslauthd fails on solaris, it
works with pam or shadow but not with getpwent. IS it normal for Solaris 9
? or is there some trick to make it work?
During the transition here, I was running saslauthd -a getpwent because
it was easier to hack
Hans Wilmer wrote:
Sure, read RFC 2060. You'd do "tag CREATE user/username"
How is this dealt with in respect to security and reliability?
Just write a script that logs in and automatically creates mailboxes
from randomly generated (user-) names until the storage is
full. That's sort of ma
Patrick Welche wrote:
All this sounds remarkably similar to the postgres-r database replication
problem cf nice paper by Bettina Kemme
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kemme/papers/vldb00.html
Here it would be client connects to imap server A and says "APPEND". Server A
then sends "APPEND" to server A
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote:
I wonder how well that method of replication works when both nodes
cannot reach each other, and both are doing updates. And I wonder
They don't. If they cannot reach each other, at most one of them must allow
upd
Earl R Shannon wrote:
But that does now beg the question. There must be some form of
coordination between the various processes as they access the
mail store. Can this not be abstracted out and put in an API to
make it easier for people to write their own applications? I would
venture a guess to
I am running Cyrus 2.1.11 (Solaris 9, mboxlist/seen=skiplist, sub=flat,
duplicate/tls=db3_nosync), and periodically sieve stops working after
the server has been up a couple of weeks. Upon further investigation, I
find it is some problem with the deliver.db file, as running ctl_deliver
-d resu
Peter Lawler wrote:
OK, thanks to those who replied. I've gone this far:
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
It's a pretty neato script, although I haven't tested the version
released yesterday. It converts just as we want.
Now, the trick after the conversion that the new files are
Mikael Brandström wrote:
It should be possible to rewrite rulset Parse0 (and maybe Parse1) to make
them leave the local adress qualified while delivering locally. There
might even be something among the files in cf/cf which kan fix it, I have
a vague memory of something such. Just my 2c.
I ma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what is you suggestion? How do I fix this problem? Why the mail server
doesn't accept the message if the envelope from set right?
It is hard to tell from the logs since you are using 4 different email
addresses, but it looks like sieve tried to send mail from <> (wh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering why cyrus setting sender to <>, not to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or
even as I made configuration in my imapd.conf?
May be I missed something?
You don't want an auto-generated message generating a bounce message,
since that could lead to an infinite loop. Thu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Irrelevant question. The fact that it could happen is enough. I can't stop
my users going to someone's computer (which has no virus protection) and
connecting to my IMAP server. I have students who will no doubt use the
IMAP server as a filestore when they run out of quot
Ted Cabeen wrote:
Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to
this solution? (We were thinking of using this to delete old messages from
users spam folders)
If your users all have spam folders named the same or similar
(presumably put there by spam filtering
Mark London wrote:
I'm not messing with it, uvscan is doing it. Is there a better software
alternative that will delete viruses on the server? Are we the only people
using cyrus that are running virus scanning software on the server?
I think most people scanning their mail do so before it is
Mr Bullier Erick wrote:
I use quotas on mailbox with cyradmin.
I use scripts which check (in the night) if user go out the warning
limit (80%) of is mailbox quota.
Today, i see that a user maibox is 85% full.
So i use cyradm to check it, and cyradm write:
localhost> lq user.toto
STORAGE 5996/1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok right I just saw that my Admin.pm perl module is in
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm so in the
file funclib.pl from Websieve I've changed the following line:
use IMAP::Admin;
to
use Cyrus::IMAP:Admin;
and I got further but now it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently trying to make Websieve run with my Cyrus 2.1.11
installation. Unfortunately this doesn't work as well as planned, I copied
the files to my cgi-bin directory but now when I run
http://mailserver/cgi-bin/websieve.pl I get the following error:
Received a pr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the last week of december, I ported 1 ( c.a. ) users from UW to
Cyrus.
As I had a REALLY hard time finding ANY help whatsoever ( scripts etc ), I
wrote some of my own.
I must say, they DO take time. I was running them on a Sun Fire 880 with
4x900MHz CPUs and 8GB
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
Well, "message delivery" and "mailbox names" are tightly
intertwined. How should I know that "leg+detail" should be delivered
to "user.leg.Detail"?
There is no historical usage that says imap folder names within a
mailbox aren't case sensitive, so I would say leg+De
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:31:15 -0500
From: John Alton Tamplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>I'm kinda unhappy about the limited scope of the patch. It makes
>usernames case-insensitive during delivery, but they&
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
I'm kinda unhappy about the limited scope of the patch. It makes
usernames case-insensitive during delivery, but they're case-sensitive
everywhere else. I'm not sure this is a great idea.
Maybe a global switch of case-sensitive mailbox names would make more
sense (thus
Earl Shannon wrote:
An alternative is to authenticate as one user, probably the admin user,
and
be authorized to act on behalf of the account. That said, I don't know
how to
do this. If someone has an example of some perl code using the Perl
IMAP Admin module that does this and is able to post i
Rob Siemborski wrote:
We do currently call rmdir() on the directory.
The applicable code is in mailbox_delete() in mailbox.c if you'd like to
suggest a patch.
Since rmdir() doesn't delete it, I assume that means there is some entry
in the directory which wasn't deleted. Since you have appar
Rob Siemborski wrote:
Yeah, we know about this. There's no good way around it, since a totally
separate imapd could be selected on the folder as well, and the directory
would still be left around.
So is it ok to sweep the filesystem and delete any empty directories?
Would that leave a race c
Paul M Fleming wrote:
Timing out the passwords is simple ( I think ) I would store the time
when the entry is added and force a reauth if the password has been
cached longer than a timeout (for example one hour ). That forces a
reauth at least every timeout period of time. If an entry isn't in th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently upgraded imapd from 1.5.19 to 2.1.11, and instead of having
sendmail invoke deliver it now talks to lmtpd over a Unix socket. All is
well, except that lmtpd is much more scrupulous about checking its input
than deliver was - in the space of a week, it's dete
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Here's the improved patch. It skips over the +Mailbox part of the recipient,
in the most straightforward way possible ;-)
Would it make sense to make the control more generic, such as
downcase_account_name, and have it also apply to logins and other places
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rob Siemborski wrote:
Having watched the activity, the thing which seems to consume most of the
resources are the LIST "" * and LIST "" % commands. These return with a
response like "OK Completed (1.480 secs 28 calls)" but can take a very
long real time. Is there anything
Rob Siemborski wrote:
But unless the contents of the folders are backed up in this way too, you
haven't really gained a significant amount, since the transactions that
cyrus needs to make rely on the contents of the filesystem as well.
True, although with the metadata secure you can politely t
Rob Siemborski wrote:
The only *possible* advantage I see is it gets cyrus's databases backed up
with an SQL database, but since you still have to back up the cyrus
datastore anyway, you haven't won anything.
Well, most real databases offer online backup capability so you can get
a robust bac
Ted Cabeen wrote:
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es:
Quoting Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Do you really have so much data that it would take 2-3 days to move it?
Would it be possible to use Murder to migrate from UW IMAP? I have
Cyrus setup and running on a new machine, but the problem is that taking
everything down and converting all the mailboxes would be too much
downtime (2-3 days). What I was thinking of is setting up a frontend
server with UW IM
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