Re: Moving cyrus from one machine to another

2002-09-17 Thread Eugene Chow
Okay, I'm confused. Are you using SASLv2 or v1? You seem to be able to execute both saslpasswd and saslpasswd2. Anyway, if you wish to use the auxprop plugin, the parameter 'sasl_pwcheck_method' should be set to 'auxprop' FYI, there's no option 'shadow' for 'sasl_pwcheck_method'.     sasl_pwc

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Simon Matter
I've just checked your new version of Cyrus.pdf: Page 7: saslpasswd2 is not always needed. My cyrus user is in the LDAP tree and I've never used any saslpasswd* command on any of my boxes. Page 23: Postfix consists of one master process and many child processes. The line in master.cf ensures t

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation - Postfix/Procmail/Cyrus

2002-09-17 Thread cassandre
Le Mardi 17 Septembre 2002 08:55, vous avez écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I beleive there are Debian Packages, put together by Henrique de Moraes > >>Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > Now mentioned. > > I also have rpm packages for mandrake (8.2 at the moment) at > http://perso.wanado

Problems with cyrus-imap

2002-09-17 Thread Víctor Guerra
Hello everybody, i am a new subscriber of that list and i have a question. I have installed a Cyrus-IMAP server in a Red Hat 7.2 and i have a problem: i have 19970 mailboxes in my server, those mailboxes are in /var/spool/imap/user, some time ago i have had a problem when the number of mailboxes r

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation - Postfix/Procmail/Cyrus

2002-09-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
cassandre wrote: > I quoteWerner Reisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > There is more than one way to run cyrus with procmail. I am using it since > years with postfix. That's my entry in master.cf Sure, and there's more than one way use cyrus+postfix, with or without procmail, I just r

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Ken Murchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to > >>the > >>local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters > >>would> take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. > >Some of these may be a bit picky, bu

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread adam
>>>(Slide 8) >>>The mailbox hierarchy does not have to work the way you describe (see >>>also altnamespace and unixhierarchysep) >>Noted, but I don't know if I want to go into that. >>Do "typical" installations use altnamespace or the hierarchical name >>space? >>If I change it after the server i

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >(Slide 11) > >Technically, you can have administrative accounts other than > >"cyrus". And you can change the access right required to delete folders > >with the deleteright flag. > > True, but again a little deeper than I want to go. It has to fi

Re: Problems with cyrus-imap

2002-09-17 Thread lst_hoe
At 13:14 17.09.2002 +0200, Víctor Guerra wrote: >Hello everybody, i am a new subscriber of that list and i have a question. I >have installed a Cyrus-IMAP server in a Red Hat 7.2 and i have a problem: i >have 19970 mailboxes in my server, those mailboxes are in >/var/spool/imap/user, some time ago

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On another performance note; is it safe to do noatime on the mail filesystem > and/or configuration filesystem? Or does cyrus make use of these attributes? noatime is safe (and even encouraged!) ;) -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread adam
>>>(Slide 16) >>>- "-n 5" is probably low for a reasonably high traffic site. >>I've got about 200 users, if there should be more threads will >>authentication fail or just be really slow? >Authentication will start to fail (atleast when using unix domain >sockets), because the saslauthd listen q

RE: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Schmehl, Paul L
What is noatime? "# man -k noatime" shows nothing on RH 7.2. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department Coordinator The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ > -Original Message- > From: Rob Siemborski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: T

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:55:53 +0200, > Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lo) writes: lo> edit /etc/cyrus.conf and replace the existing lmtpunix line with lo> lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/spool/postfix/public/lmtp" prefork=1 While this will work, as has been discussed on postfix-u

RE: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Schmehl, Paul L wrote: > What is noatime? "# man -k noatime" shows nothing on RH 7.2. It's a filesystem mount directive that tells the filesystem to not record access times, which reduces the number of writes to disk that need to happen (if you don't care about access times

database init error

2002-09-17 Thread Jason Larson
I have a box with redhat 7.3 and cyrus 2.0.16 compiled.  When I started master -D i get   deliver:unable to init duplicate delivery database   imapd.log shows   Sep 17 09:19:40 *** master[27534]: process startedSep 17 09:19:40 *** master[27535]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlistSep

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Arley Carter
This is an impressive set of slides you put together. I believe should should rework the section about "get the packaged version because configuring from source is very confusing and has subtle semantics that aren't immediately apparent. (paraphrasing this portion of your slide presentation) Th

RE: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread lst_hoe
At 09:20 17.09.2002 -0500, Schmehl, Paul L wrote: >What is noatime? "# man -k noatime" shows nothing on RH 7.2. > "man mount" is the right place to look :-) Regards -- Andreas Hödle Kühn & Weyh Software GmbH WWW.KWSOFT.DE

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
Amos Gouaux wrote: > lo> edit /etc/cyrus.conf and replace the existing lmtpunix line with > > lo> lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/spool/postfix/public/lmtp" prefork=1 > > While this will work, as has been discussed on postfix-users, those > sockets really are not for third party software such

Cyrus and mysql

2002-09-17 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Hello all,   I am having issues with Cyrus-imap (2.1.5) and cyrus-sasl (2.1.5) using the pam_mysql (0.4.5).  It is working well ‘Most’ of the time.  Three to four times per day, we start having auth failures.  I stop and start cyrus-imap – problem fixed.  I’m not sure where to look, but he

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:41, Arley Carter wrote: > This is precisely the reason that a sysadmin considering Cyrus as part of a > mail distribution system should build from source. The economics of > implementing a Cyrus based mail server system are very powerful when > considered against commerc

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread adam
>>This is precisely the reason that a sysadmin considering Cyrus as part of a >>mail distribution system should build from source. The economics of >>implementing a Cyrus based mail server system are very powerful when >>considered against commercial systems such as Microsoft, Notes, and >>others

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Russell
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:31:02AM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote: > > >(Slide 8) > > >The mailbox hierarchy does not have to work the way you describe (see also > > >altnamespace and unixhierarchysep) > > > > Noted, but I don't know if I want to go into that. > > > > Do "typical" installations use

Re: Cyrus and mysql

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Russell
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:59:17AM -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: > Hello all, > I am having issues with Cyrus-imap (2.1.5) and cyrus-sasl (2.1.5) > using the pam_mysql (0.4.5). It is working well 'Most' of the time. > Three to four times per day, we start having auth failures. I stop and > star

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Ken Murchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to the > local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters would > take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. > > ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf A

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Christian Schulte
> Three things: > 1) I mispelled the option :} > 2) In my imapd.conf (Cyrus 2.1.9) it is "unixhierarchysep" > 3) The option may only be available as a patch to the 2.0 series > > This feature converts the normal separator character "." > to "/". By making the separator "/" you can then put "."

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And, with no derision intended for the Cyrus team, the documentation > is pretty sketchy about numerous points and has very few examples. > A great deal of knowledge is assumed on behalf of the reader, knowledge it is > nearly impossible

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:52:28 +0200, > Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lo) writes: lo> I don't understand: this is a socket opened *by* cyrus, and postfix lo> is instructed to talk lmtp to that unix socket. lo> A local user could use the socket to inject mail to cyrus, but (s)he lo> c

Re: Cyrus and mysql

2002-09-17 Thread Simon Loader
At 11:50 Tuesday 17/09/2002, Scott Russell wrote: >On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:59:17AM -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am having issues with Cyrus-imap (2.1.5) and cyrus-sasl (2.1.5) > > using the pam_mysql (0.4.5). It is working well 'Most' of the time. > > Three to four times

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On 17 Sep 2002 12:05:34 -0400, > Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (b) writes: b> I've often wondered why O'Reilly has never commissioned a book about b> Cyrus. With co-lo's getting cheaper and cheaper, I always recommend b> Cyrus whenever one of my sysadmin friends says they're going to do b

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:40, Amos Gouaux wrote: > b> I've often wondered why O'Reilly has never commissioned a book about > b> Cyrus. With co-lo's getting cheaper and cheaper, I always recommend > b> Cyrus whenever one of my sysadmin friends says they're going to do > b> POP/IMAP, but it's alway

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread adam
>>I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to >>the local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters >>would take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. >>ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.pdf >A few points: >- Slide 4: Just for

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On 17 Sep 2002 13:17:06 -0400, > Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (b) writes: b> I knew someone would mention that book ;-) ... but it really doesn't b> count. It was pretty much out of date by the time it came out and, b> while it did cover Cyrus, it was pretty broad in scope. Well, trut

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Ken Murchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I've created a presentation about Cyrus IMAPd that I will be showing to > >>the local LUG in a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate it if some Cyrus masters > >>would take a look at it and see if I've gotten anything wrong. > >>ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Cyrus.p

RE: Cyrus and mysql

2002-09-17 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Thanks for the replies I can walk around cyrus/postfix and linux fairly well, but I'm new to mysql - a little quick direction on modifying the logging would help a great deal!! The server has ~8,500 email accounts of which ~3500 are active so at any one time there could be from 30 to 800

only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Su Li
Hi, I am trying to speed up the speed of mail delivery. I have used separate disk for /spool/queue for sendmail, separate disk for /var/imap/ (fs: ext2). I moved syslog to another machine. I changed /var/imap to be no-sync by doing chattr -S. Now I did improved the speed of delivery to 5.5 mess

Re: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Su Li wrote: > I wonder, why cyrus behave so differently, when sendmail resend the mails > and when sendmail normally deliver mails. > > I think my job in improving the deliver speed is only half done. Sure I > limit the number of of lmtpd processes, so that they wouldn't fig

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Fair
> I have testtesttest in the loginrealms and it does not work ! Even > without unixhierarchysep. I cannot login to > user.testtesttest@testtesttest with login testtesttest@testtesttest ! How are you testing authentication? This is where I start questioning the fact that no messages (from your

Re: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
What version of Sendmail are you using? You want Sendmail 8.12.4 or later. You should consider running Sendmail in deliverymode=queue with frequent queue runs if you want the best possible performance. (Take a look sendmail/TUNING in the Sendmail distribution.) You should also configure Sendmail

TLS problem

2002-09-17 Thread felix
Hello, Well... I'm working with Cyrus IMap 2.1.8 with SASL 2.1.7, and I have the following problem: TLS are configured by default (using this simple lines in slapd.conf) TLSCertificateFile /usr/share/ssl/certs/slapd.pem TLSCertificateKeyFile /usr/share/ssl/certs/slapd.pem (slapd.pem

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Fair
> Do "typical" installations use altnamespace or the hierarchical name space? One point I didn't see on the list about this so far in regards to "typical" installations and unix hierarchy separator feature is that without it there is now way to have a "." in the mailbox name which is important in

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Su Li
Thanks Larry, I followed http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP-7.html to setup my sendmail. MAILER(local) MAILER(cyrus) define(`confLOCAL_MAILER',`cyrus') LOCAL_RULE_0 R$=N $: $#local $: $1 R$=N < @ $=w . > $: $#local $: $1 Rbb + $+ < @ $=w . > $#cyrusbb $

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Christian Schulte
> > >>>The unix hierarchy separator is key here because you >>>want to have a "." in the username. >>> >>> >>> >>I think this would do it. But how to enable that in 2.0.16 ? >> >> > >It's probably only available as a patch in the 2.0.x >series (I'm not to keen on exactly which versions h

RE: only half of the problem solved -- cyrus deliver slow

2002-09-17 Thread Ken Murchison
Quoting Su Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks Larry, > > I followed http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP-7.html to setup my > sendmail. We need to get the authors of these HOWTOs to get them up to date with v2.1 or people need to stop using them without reading the included documentation. > M

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Ken Murchison
Quoting Christian Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>>The unix hierarchy separator is key here because you > >>>want to have a "." in the username. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I think this would do it. But how to enable that in 2.0.16 ? > >> > >> > > > >It's probably only available as a

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Fair
Please read the mailing list over the past couple months. Ken Murchison has said a lot about what needs to happen. The primary thing is that the mail spool needs to have domain directories created and the best support is currently for the normal "first character" hashing algorithm. There should

Re: Cannot get loginrealms to work with 2.0.16

2002-09-17 Thread Christian Schulte
> > >You _should_ not have to reconstruct any mailboxes, since the mailbox format >hasn't changed (well, a small one was made for POP UIDL, but it'll be upgraded >on the fly). You'll want to read doc/install-upgrade.html and do everything >that applies from 2.0.16 forward. > >You'll also want

RE: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Schmehl, Paul L
This simply isn't true. At UTD we are using altnamespace *and* we allow our users to have a PEA (Personalized Email Address) which can include firstname.lastname@. If Amos Gouaux is "listening" maybe he can explain *how* he does it, but I certainly can confirm that it can be done, using altnam

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Amos Gouaux
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:56:07 -0500, > Schmehl, Paul L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (spl) writes: spl> This simply isn't true. At UTD we are using altnamespace *and* spl> we allow our users to have a PEA (Personalized Email Address) spl> which can include firstname.lastname@. This is done by t

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Fair
Hey Amos, Thanks for clearing that up. If you have any specific questions about getting your server configured let me know as I'd like to help. Your posts have been invaluable to me in the past so I'd like to return like kind so to speak. Assuming your interested, all the threads on this top

Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

2002-09-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
Amos Gouaux wrote: > To quote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The "lmtp" delivery agent should be listening on "private/lmtp", so it > will work, but... But since this directory is writable only by user 'postfix' cyrus (running as user cyrus) wouldn't be able to create the socket there > > Thi