Re: APPEND and \Seen flag handling with admin account
Hmm, sad, no takers - 2nd attempt follows.. On Friday 12 November 2004 19:24, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: When APPENDing mails as the cyrus admin, the \Seen flags magically disappears, unlike appending to the mailbox as its owner: they're preserved as expected. Well, I've looked into the source now, and understand, what happens: the seen db is user dependant. Further thinking and searching on how to solve this problem cleanly brought me to the proxyauth command, which would fit my needs, but unfortunately is non standard nor implemented in cyrus. Thus let me rephrase my question: is there a way to migrate mbox mailboxes in a way, that they appear exactly the same in cyrus from within an admin account (without compromising user logins), including the \Seen flag? The perl scripts from the wiki suffer from the same problem, btw. Pete --- 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: APPEND and \Seen flag handling with admin account
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: Hmm, sad, no takers - 2nd attempt follows.. On Friday 12 November 2004 19:24, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: When APPENDing mails as the cyrus admin, the \Seen flags magically disappears, unlike appending to the mailbox as its owner: they're preserved as expected. Well, I've looked into the source now, and understand, what happens: the seen db is user dependant. Further thinking and searching on how to solve this problem cleanly brought me to the proxyauth command, which would fit my needs, but unfortunately is non standard nor implemented in cyrus. It is nonstandard, but also isn't needed. Cyrus supports SASL mechanisms which support proxying, specifically PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5. Thus let me rephrase my question: is there a way to migrate mbox mailboxes in a way, that they appear exactly the same in cyrus from within an admin account (without compromising user logins), including the \Seen flag? Use one of the SASL mechanisms above to authenticate as an admin, but authorize as the user that you are migrating. -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key--http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp --- 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
APPEND and \Seen flag handling with admin account
Hello,
I'm on the way to migrate some mbox based imapd setups to Cyrus-IMAP,
running on SuSE 9.2 in version 2.2.8, but stumbled across a strange
phemomenon regarding the \Seen flag handling, which boils down to:
When APPENDing mails as the cyrus admin, the \Seen flags magically
disappears, unlike appending to the mailbox as its owner: they're
preserved as expected.
I.e., if the following gets in (python imaplib debug log):
31:40.87 HGHM1 OK User logged in
31:40.87 HGHM2 APPEND user.xxx (\Seen \Flagged) 17-Dec-2002 21:24:09
+ {2864}
31:40.88 + go ahead
31:40.88 write literal size 2864
31:40.92 HGHM2 OK [APPENDUID 1100205964 6221] Completed
31:40.92 HGHM3 APPEND user.xxx (\Seen) 18-Dec-2002 23:36:16 + {4421}
31:40.93 + go ahead
31:40.93 write literal size 4421
31:40.93 HGHM3 OK [APPENDUID 1100205964 6222] Completed
31:40.94 HGHM4 APPEND user.xxx (\Seen \Answered) 18-Dec-2002 23:36:23
+ {1747}
31:40.94 + go ahead
31:40.94 write literal size 1747
31:40.95 HGHM4 OK [APPENDUID 1100205964 6223] Completed
31:40.96 HGHM5 APPEND user.xxx (\Seen) 19-Dec-2002 06:00:47 + {18624}
31:40.96 + go ahead
31:40.96 write literal size 18624
31:40.97 HGHM5 OK [APPENDUID 1100205964 6224] Completed
31:40.97 HGHM6 APPEND user.xxx (\Seen) 19-Dec-2002 11:48:11 + {4377}
31:40.97 + go ahead
31:40.97 write literal size 4377
31:40.98 HGHM6 OK [APPENDUID 1100205964 6225] Completed
this comes out:
['1 (FLAGS (\\Recent \\Flagged) INTERNALDATE 17-Dec-2002 22:24:09 +0100)']
['2 (FLAGS (\\Recent) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 00:36:16 +0100)']
['3 (FLAGS (\\Recent \\Answered) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 00:36:23 +0100)']
['4 (FLAGS (\\Recent) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 07:00:47 +0100)']
['5 (FLAGS (\\Recent) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 12:48:11 +0100)']
while this is expected:
['1 (FLAGS (\\Recent \\Flagged \\Seen) INTERNALDATE 17-Dec-2002 22:24:09
+0100)']
['2 (FLAGS (\\Recent) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 00:36:16 +0100)']
['3 (FLAGS (\\Recent \\Answered \\Seen) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 00:36:23
+0100)']
['4 (FLAGS (\\Recent \\Seen) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 07:00:47 +0100)']
['5 (FLAGS (\\Recent) INTERNALDATE 19-Dec-2002 12:48:11 +0100)']
Obviously, it would be a lot more convenient not bothering with
user logins on that task; this result is barely satisfying :-(.
Any ideas, what's the rational behind this behavior and much more
important, is there any chance to circumvent it (probably without
patching, though one would be nice, too)?
bugzilla knows about some \Seen related problems, which seem to be
fixed a long time ago. An attempt to create an account on bugzilla
failed by not providing the usual login mail (even on a second try..).
Pete
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