Re: Imap mailbox aliases (two names for the same box)
First you were talking about the "sent" folder and the settings I showed you will allow you to select *any* folder with *any* name for sent, drafts and templates. I usually disable junk mail filtering in mozilla (I have amavis-new+spamassassin taking care of spam on the server), but I enabled it just to test what you are saying and in "Junk mail control" you can select *any* folder for junk mail (I selected "spam" and it showed the junk mail icon, you have to collapse and expand the folders tree to see the new icons). The key is to select *other* and not sent/drafts/templates/junk in those preferences. Bye sent,junk trash etc are the same in this regards this is just my redirection is spamc that sent to user+Junk folder so i used it in my exemple. I retried it and i got the icon now, i got to restart to have them back on the top of the list but the icons are ok with a simple collapse (!!). seems that i was not enough patient to have them (or any other mistake possible..). Thanks for the tip this was the only thing i ever had against this mail client (it should be installed on Windows by default ;) ) This is a good thing to know for future users. For all others i would love also to be able to alias the mailbox at the server level (without using sieve) but it does not seems possible :( best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Imap mailbox aliases (two names for the same box)
Don't know which version of thunderbird/mozilla you are using, but in the current one (and in any previous one starting from Netscape communicator 4.x) I have a lowercase sent folder and I do have the special icon (btw, mozilla shows it with an uppercase name) and everything works fine. In fact I use 'sent' for historical reasons: you can use *any* name (e.g. I use localized names for templates and drafts). Only you have to remember to configure mozilla/thunderbird to use your folders (with thunderbird: tools->account settings->copies & folders, select "other" and select the imap folder you want to use for sent, drafts and templates, with mozilla is the same but "account settings" is under the "edit" menu) i use thunderbird 0.7.2 and other people here use mozilla 1.7.1 . For my part my folder "junk" has not the special icon , if i put Junk then i have it. Also a user cannot change the name of the folder you must do it on the server and resubscribe to use it again (the rename menu icon do not show on those folders). On a large userbase you see why i wish to change this on the server side and not on the client :) So i don't know why we have different behaviors but this is my experience here :) best regards, GHislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Re: Imap mailbox aliases (two names for the same box)
Scott Adkins wrote: The solution we opted for was to patch Sendmail to make it work :) I have an "lmtp" patch that doesn't drop the stuff after the + in the address, and it also does not mess with the case with anything after the +. I implemented as a mailer flag, so including a 'W' in the cyrus mailer flags triggers the code to work. I can post it if you are interested... I am glad i am not the only one to have the issue ! Sure i am interested by the patch ! :) best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Imap mailbox aliases (two names for the same box)
Hello, I know some of you had the problem of the mailbox with an upper case that are not recognized when goign through sendmail. For exemple writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is translated [EMAIL PROTECTED] My problem is Thunderbird use Junk, Trash Sent name boxes etc... and have special icons to show those folders that permit easy identification of the folder by mundane users. But i cannot forward to uppercase adress folders so i have to choose between : 1/ use sent instead of Sent and forget about the special icon in thunderbird and mozilla 2/ find a way to create an alias at the server level between Sent and sent (so basicaly only one folder for two names) Do any of you have a solution for the second solution ? best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
ipurge hanging on empty directory
Hi, I have a little spamassassin learning script, i noticed that when i try to purge the spam from my junk folder it fail if there is no mail in it : ipurge -d 4 -f -C $PREFIX/etc/imap/imapd.conf user.$user.junk just hang up for empty mailboxes...Does any of you have the same behavior ? It took me some time to figure out why my cron was not finishing his job :) best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Mailbox aliases on cyrus
Hi, I have setup mailoxes for my server like this : Sent Trash Draft Junk This way Mozilla automaticaly use the right folder so it helps a lot. My main concern with this setup is when i want to sent direct mail to one of those. For exemple if i put for Sent the "p" right and then send to username+Sent it goes to username because it search for username+sent (With lower case S). But if you name the directory in lowercase then mozilla do not automaticaly recognize them. I wanted to know if there is a way to have a mailbox alias, for exemple making "Sent" a symbolic link to "sent". As Cyrus is a blackbox i fear to create strange behavior doing that. Any of you had some experiences with this ? best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Client hanging up : problem found
Hi, I have solved the problem i had with the client hanging trouble on our new cyrus imapd server. The problem is not cyrus related but i share here so other can benefit from my story. Symptom: Client hang after some time, the connexion time out and the server close the connection because of "too much idle time". All fiddling with timeout and idle settings on the server do not change a thing. Solution: Our server as in front of it a firewall that was in "allow All" to the imap and from the imap server. BUT some firewalls even if you tell them to not touch anything concerning the traffic still shutdown any connections after some amount of time. In our case you have to click in the advance tab where we found a "timeout" and change the timeout from 5 to 31 minutes. This solved every problem we had. So what we learned in that is : Don't assume anything, telling all is open do not mean on all firewalls that he must not touch the traffic for this case and you have to review ALL the settings it offer :-) I hope this can help some people :) Best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
cyrus and Spamassassin bayes rules
Hi, The spam is still something that plagues us and so i installed a spamassassin milter in my sendmail that stand before the cyrus imap server. My problem is the end user bayes training. I need the user to put spam in a special folder so it will train their bayes databases. To train the bayes filter of spamassassin you need to feed it the spam and "ham" so it learn how to deal with it. It can learn email from an mbox unix file. Now you can see the problem with cyrus as it does not use mbox format at all :) So my question is, how can we do that ? do any of you experienced some tools to convert a cyrus mailbox to mbox format so it can be feeded to spamassassin ? Or perhaps can i feed it directly from the actual individual files in the mailbox ? Best regards, Ghislain. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
