Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-19 Thread Marc Haber

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:18:17 +1000, Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 

Stefan Hornburg ist working on new packages for courier, with a
dedicated package for courier-pop. We are currently evaluating
courier-imap and courier-pop3d on our internal mail server and will
sonn migrate our customer mail server to courier-imap and courier-pop
while exim will still be used as MTA.

There is also solid-pop3d (woody packages easily backportable to
potato) which supports Maildirs as well.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:18:17 +1000, Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 

Stefan Hornburg ist working on new packages for courier, with a
dedicated package for courier-pop. We are currently evaluating
courier-imap and courier-pop3d on our internal mail server and will
sonn migrate our customer mail server to courier-imap and courier-pop
while exim will still be used as MTA.

There is also solid-pop3d (woody packages easily backportable to
potato) which supports Maildirs as well.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:17:12 +0100, Eric Ravelomamantsoa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest because I'm also looking 
for a pop3 server for a Debian system . Anyway. There are some basic 
points I'm missing though. What are the pros and cons of Maildir versus 
other formats.

Maildir does not require locking, and it easily enables you to enforce
mail quota. Additionally, you can expire mail messages after reaching
a certain age with standard UNIX file system tools, and, deleting
messages out of the spool doesn't mean that you have to copy the
entire mailbox.

You need, howver, a file system that handles large directories better
than ext2fs does for any system of non-trivial size.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-15 Thread Magni Onsøien

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:28:07PM +0100, Roger Abrahamsson said:
 Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
 package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
 courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
 upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
 not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
 of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.

We are probably going to use Courier 1.3.1 on a new system. However, our
problem is that we want to use LDAP for authetication and we have to
use OpenLDAP 2 (LDAP v3) because of the rest of the system.
Unfortunately Courier can't authenticate with OpenLDAP 2 (only 1). So,
now I'm wondering if someone has used Courier IMAP with authentication
through OpenLDAP 2 and if so, if the patch or extra module is or can be
made available?

TIA.


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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-15 Thread Roger Abrahamsson

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Eric Ravelomamantsoa wrote:

 I've been following this thread with interest because I'm also looking 
 for a pop3 server for a Debian system . Anyway. There are some basic 
 points I'm missing though. What are the pros and cons of Maildir versus 
 other formats. What is the point with Mysql and pam authentication and 
 how does it affect a mail server.  Can somebody, please give me some 
 pointers where those are explained, and what are the best current 
 practices for setting up a pop/imap mail server?
 
 Thanks to all,
 
 Eric.
 

Okay, we run pop3, imap and smtp currently on a debian box. The real
advantage I see it with Maildir, is that it allows you to run your
mailspool over NFS, as it require no locking. That enables you to have
several different machines delivering to the same mailspool. NFS is of
course slower but having several machines acting as your mail system gives
you totally different possibilities of taking down one server and refit it
while the customers dont notice a thing. The mailbox format is the
'defacto' standard and some claim it to be faster. But it requires locking
if you use several different programs working with it at the same time.

pam makes authentication 'transparent' in that it allows you to choose the
authentication method separate from the program using it. If the mail 
program supports MySQL authentication directly, they usually also allow
extra information to be pulled from the tables. Courier-IMAP is of that
kind, and allows you to specify for each 'user' the uid,gid,mailbox
placing, password etc. In the end that can give you a system where you
dont need to give mailusers "real" unix accounts.

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-15 Thread Magni Onsøien
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:28:07PM +0100, Roger Abrahamsson said:
 Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
 package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
 courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
 upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
 not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
 of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.

We are probably going to use Courier 1.3.1 on a new system. However, our
problem is that we want to use LDAP for authetication and we have to
use OpenLDAP 2 (LDAP v3) because of the rest of the system.
Unfortunately Courier can't authenticate with OpenLDAP 2 (only 1). So,
now I'm wondering if someone has used Courier IMAP with authentication
through OpenLDAP 2 and if so, if the patch or extra module is or can be
made available?

TIA.


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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-15 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Eric Ravelomamantsoa wrote:

 I've been following this thread with interest because I'm also looking 
 for a pop3 server for a Debian system . Anyway. There are some basic 
 points I'm missing though. What are the pros and cons of Maildir versus 
 other formats. What is the point with Mysql and pam authentication and 
 how does it affect a mail server.  Can somebody, please give me some 
 pointers where those are explained, and what are the best current 
 practices for setting up a pop/imap mail server?
 
 Thanks to all,
 
 Eric.
 

Okay, we run pop3, imap and smtp currently on a debian box. The real
advantage I see it with Maildir, is that it allows you to run your
mailspool over NFS, as it require no locking. That enables you to have
several different machines delivering to the same mailspool. NFS is of
course slower but having several machines acting as your mail system gives
you totally different possibilities of taking down one server and refit it
while the customers dont notice a thing. The mailbox format is the
'defacto' standard and some claim it to be faster. But it requires locking
if you use several different programs working with it at the same time.

pam makes authentication 'transparent' in that it allows you to choose the
authentication method separate from the program using it. If the mail 
program supports MySQL authentication directly, they usually also allow
extra information to be pulled from the tables. Courier-IMAP is of that
kind, and allows you to specify for each 'user' the uid,gid,mailbox
placing, password etc. In the end that can give you a system where you
dont need to give mailusers real unix accounts.

/Roger Abrahamsson




Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Roger Abrahamsson

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:

Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.

I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale very
poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.


Regards
Roger Abrahamsson

 
 qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
 
 
 On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
  
  Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
  support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
  courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
  find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
  only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
  imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 
  
  vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
  have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 
  
  exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
  /etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
  authentication here. 
  
  pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not yet
  find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir. 
  
  
  Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated. 
  
  I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if there
  isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job. 
 
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker


What about cyrus* ? I'm using it and very happy.

It has pam support so mysql auth would be no prob.

Cheers.

F.

Roger Abrahamsson writes:
  On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:
  
  Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
  package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
  courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
  upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
  not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
  of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.
  
  I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale very
  poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.
  
  
  Regards
  Roger Abrahamsson
  
   
   qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
   
   
   On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:

Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 

vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 

exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
/etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
authentication here. 

pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not yet
find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir. 


Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated. 

I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if there
isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job. 
   
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Roger Abrahamsson


-Original Message-
From: Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roger Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: den 14 februari 2001 15:51
Subject: Re: pop3 and Maildir


Well, the pam authentication only allows for cleartext
or mysqls password() format, and also it dont allow for
telling the server where to find the mailbox and what uid/gid to use.
I've tried it, and basically it dont fill the needs I have, it would need to
fill the 'account' role also.

Regards
Roger A

What about cyrus* ? I'm using it and very happy.

It has pam support so mysql auth would be no prob.

Cheers.

F.

Roger Abrahamsson writes:
  On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:
 
  Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
  package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
  courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication.
Latest
  upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
  not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has
knowledge
  of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.
 
  I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale
very
  poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.
 
 
  Regards
  Roger Abrahamsson
 
  
   qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
  
  
   On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
   
Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian
that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA
with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable
to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this
is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which
provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such.
   
vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and
passwords.
   
exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
/etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
authentication here.
   
pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not
yet
find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir.
   
   
Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated.
   
I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if
there
isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job.
  
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Roger Abrahamsson
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:

Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.

I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale very
poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.


Regards
Roger Abrahamsson

 
 qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
 
 
 On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
  
  Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
  support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
  courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
  find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
  only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
  imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 
  
  vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
  have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 
  
  exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
  /etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
  authentication here. 
  
  pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not yet
  find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir. 
  
  
  Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated. 
  
  I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if there
  isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job. 
 
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker

What about cyrus* ? I'm using it and very happy.

It has pam support so mysql auth would be no prob.

Cheers.

F.

Roger Abrahamsson writes:
  On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:
  
  Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
  package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
  courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication. Latest
  upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
  not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has knowledge
  of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.
  
  I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale very
  poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.
  
  
  Regards
  Roger Abrahamsson
  
   
   qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
   
   
   On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:

Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 

vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 

exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
/etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
authentication here. 

pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not yet
find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir. 


Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated. 

I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if there
isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job. 
   
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-14 Thread Roger Abrahamsson

-Original Message-
From: Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roger Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Date: den 14 februari 2001 15:51
Subject: Re: pop3 and Maildir


Well, the pam authentication only allows for cleartext
or mysqls password() format, and also it dont allow for
telling the server where to find the mailbox and what uid/gid to use.
I've tried it, and basically it dont fill the needs I have, it would need to
fill the 'account' role also.

Regards
Roger A

What about cyrus* ? I'm using it and very happy.

It has pam support so mysql auth would be no prob.

Cheers.

F.

Roger Abrahamsson writes:
  On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Christofer Algotsson wrote:
 
  Well, all I've seen is that the qmail system seems to be an integrated
  package. We here are also looking into switching to maildirs, and
  courier-imap seems very nice, especially with mysql authentication.
Latest
  upstream courier-imap also have a pop3 server with it, but sofar I have
  not succeded in getting mysql support compiled in. If anyone has
knowledge
  of how to get this working on a debian system I would be very happy.
 
  I've tried solid-pop3d in the unstable branch, but it seems to scale
very
  poorly, with about 10.000 user accounts it gets horribly slow.
 
 
  Regards
  Roger Abrahamsson
 
  
   qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.
  
  
   On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
   
Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian
that
support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA
with
courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable
to
find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this
is
only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which
provides
imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such.
   
vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and
passwords.
   
exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
/etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
authentication here.
   
pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not
yet
find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir.
   
   
Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated.
   
I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if
there
isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job.
  
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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-13 Thread Christofer Algotsson

qmail's pop-3 daemon for example.


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
 
 Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
 support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
 courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
 find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
 only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
 imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 
 
 vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
 have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 
 
 exim currently is just authenticating users from the /etc/passwd
 /etc/shadow files, and we are looking in to switching to mysql
 authentication here. 
 
 pop3-lite shows promis as it's nice and modularised, but I can not yet
 find a plugin to allow it to read for Maildir. 
 
 
 Any  hints here would be muchly appreciated. 
 
 I am not against the idea of building deb packages from sorce if there
 isn't currently anything pre-packaged that will do the job. 

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-12 Thread Darren Wyn Rees

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:18:17AM +1000, Mitchell wrote:
 
 Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
 support the Maildir format.  

Have you considered qmail-pop3d ?

It comes as part of the qmail-1.03 package.  

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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-12 Thread B.C.J.O

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mitchell wrote:

 Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
 support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
 courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
 find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
 only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
 imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 
 
 vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
 have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 

The pop3 daemon that ships with the qmail package (obviously =) supports
Maildirs. I have used it with great success on high load qmail
installations. The license qmail is published under probably prevents
packaging this daemon separately, but it could be easily broken out and
installed by itself. I've found the tcpserver/qmail-pop3d to be incredibly
effective.

Brian O'Reilly



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Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-12 Thread B.C.J.O
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mitchell wrote:

 Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
 support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
 courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
 find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
 only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
 imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 
 
 vpopmail is also not an option as it depends on qmail and appears to
 have it's own proprietry CDB format for storing usernames and passwords. 

The pop3 daemon that ships with the qmail package (obviously =) supports
Maildirs. I have used it with great success on high load qmail
installations. The license qmail is published under probably prevents
packaging this daemon separately, but it could be easily broken out and
installed by itself. I've found the tcpserver/qmail-pop3d to be incredibly
effective.

Brian O'Reilly





Re: pop3 and Maildir

2001-02-12 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Hello,

We are using for custmer Maildir mail spool in user's home directory 
by solid-pop3d and postfix.
If you can use Debian/woody box for mailserver, you use solid-pop3d deb.
We made and used solid-pop3d debian package from woody source.

 Hi, I was wundering if anyone knows of any pop3 daemons for Debian that
 support the Maildir format.  We are currently using exim as our MTA with
 courier-imap for access to the mailboxes.  I have as yet been unable to
 find a courier-pop3d package for Debian, and it would seam that this is
 only available as part of the entire courier MTA package which provides
 imap, MTA, mailing lists, and such. 

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ARAKI Yasuhiro