Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
Andrew McNamara wrote: I realise this is an old known problem, but I've spent some time searching list archives, and other sources looking for an answer. Any help anyone can provide will be gratefully received. Try using skiplist for the seen.db It doesn't really solve the problem but it

Migrating from Exchange to Cyrus!?

2002-11-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello folks! Is it possible to migrate from Exchange 5.5 to Cyrus? We have a mailserver running with multiple domains about 500 mailboxes and want to use Cyrus on FreeBSD now. How i can do that, any howto or something? Thanks in Advance -- webnetix softMedia - Oliver Kaufmann Development /

Cyrus IMAPd v2.1.10

2002-11-14 Thread Marc-Christian Petersen
Hi there, ./configure --prefix=/opt/cyrus \ --with-cyrus-prefix=/opt/cyrus \ --with-openssl \ --enable-murder \ --enable-cmulocal \ --enable-netscapehack \ --with-libwrap \ --with-notify=unix \ --enable-fulldirhash \

Re: Cyrus IMAPd v2.1.10

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
Don't compile with --enable-cmulocal, that enables CMU-specific options, such as the depot config file. -Rob On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: Hi there, ./configure --prefix=/opt/cyrus \ --with-cyrus-prefix=/opt/cyrus \ --with-openssl \

Cyradm - all gone wrong

2002-11-14 Thread Daryl
FYI - this is the first time I've used Cyrus_imapd, though I've used courier extensively. After all sorts of problems - I'm seemingly fine - except the admin utility cyradm - it doesn't seem to function. I see it's calling 'perl -MCyrus::IMAP::Shell -e shell' - running this against a prompt

Re: Migrating from Exchange to Cyrus!?

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Brodbelt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! Is it possible to migrate from Exchange 5.5 to Cyrus? Yes. That said, it's not necessarily entirely painless We have a mailserver running with multiple domains about 500 mailboxes and want to use Cyrus on FreeBSD now. How i can do that, any howto

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Scott Russell wrote: One of the documentation changes appears to remove a bunch of key instructions from the /doc/text/install-configure file. Everything after step 8. appears to be gone in the 2.1.10 release. I don't think this was intentional since it looks like there

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Russell
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:57:57PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10. This is mostly a bug-fix and cleanup release, with the notable new feature of Berkeley DB 4.1 support. One of the documentation changes appears to remove a bunch of key

lmtpd gets stuck when started under load

2002-11-14 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, while testing our server setup we've found a (to me) strange behavior of lmtpd. Here's the setup: name : Cyrus IMAPD version: v2.1.9-Invoca-RPM-2.1.9-10 2002/08/30 18:40:23 vendor : Project Cyrus support-url: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus os : Linux os-version :

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Rob Siemborski wrote: I'll look into what's going on, but the HTML version is correct. htmlstrip (our html-to-plaintext converter) apparently didn't support quot, which a recent update to install-configure added, we missed it because failure to build the text directory

Re: lmtpd gets stuck when started under load

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: First off, I'm a bit surprised that 'version' only shows the version of SASL that IMAPD was compiled against, not the current version ... that's just cosmetic, I guess. Cyrus 2.2 does this (since it requires atleast SASL 2.1.7, and the

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Russell
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:37:50AM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Rob Siemborski wrote: I'll look into what's going on, but the HTML version is correct. I've fixed both of these issues. You can pull an updated source for htmlstrip.c from cvs now, but since the

8bit encoding

2002-11-14 Thread Alessandro Oliveira
Hi, I'm a cyrus-imapd newbie, and I had a hard time installing into my rh-7.3, but now I'm having 5 users using it without problems, and I'm waiting for 2 new 36gb cheetah's to make it available to the rest of the company. After upgrading to 2.1.10 I have no more issues regarding delivery to

Re: what is better ?

2002-11-14 Thread Voutsinas Nikos
Simon Matter wrote: Andrei Loukinykh schrieb: Since Websieve wasn't updated since 2001, cat it still work with the last Cyrus ( 2.1.9 ), or it is better to get something newer (smartsieve...) ? Has anyone had an experience? Squirrelmail with the avelsieve plugin is really cool. This is

Re: lmtpd gets stuck when started under load

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Try duplicate.db = skiplist Solved all of my lmtpd hanging problems. I see you are using RPMs so I guess you would have to compile from source to make the change. Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, while testing our server setup we've found a (to me) strange behavior of lmtpd. Here's the

Re: what is better ?

2002-11-14 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On Thursday, November 14, 2002 18:09:40 +0200 Voutsinas Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure about Alexandros availability :), but he could probably build an independed avelsieve web-application. Although the deployment of avelsieve as separate web-application is easier, integration

how and why to use SQUAT?

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Douglass
Hi Folks, I've seen a few messages about SQUAT on the list, and I'm wondering if I should use it. I've read through the source code (which is the only documentation I could find...) and it seems like it's intended to speed up searches in the messages. Does this work? How do I set up the indexes?

Re: autocreatequota - does it really work?

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On 14 Nov 2002, Scott Douglass wrote: I've been wondering for a while if the /etc/imapd.conf option: autocreatequota is actually implemented (I'm running 2.1.9 right now). It isn't working on any of my servers. No quota is set for new user.names. Anyone have any experience with this? It

Re: how and why to use SQUAT?

2002-11-14 Thread Ken Murchison
Scott Douglass wrote: Hi Folks, I've seen a few messages about SQUAT on the list, and I'm wondering if I should use it. I've read through the source code (which is the only documentation I could find...) and it seems like it's intended to speed up searches in the messages. Does this

Re: autocreatequota - does it really work?

2002-11-14 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 14 Nov 2002, Rob Siemborski writes: On 14 Nov 2002, Scott Douglass wrote: I've been wondering for a while if the /etc/imapd.conf option: autocreatequota is actually implemented (I'm running 2.1.9 right now). It isn't working on any of my servers. No quota is set for new user.names.

cyrus with procmail.. not again :)

2002-11-14 Thread Bill Wester
Hi Everyone, I am trying to set up a new mail server with spam filtering using procmail. My MTA is Postfix 1.1.11, configured with mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail USER=$USER EXTENSION=$EXTENSION which seems to get the mail over to procmail, which then uses procmail filters to

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:38:27 +0100 From: Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew McNamara wrote: I realise this is an old known problem, but I've spent some time searching list archives, and other sources looking for an answer. Any help anyone can provide will be

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:07 -0500 From: Scott Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Sooo... any reason why the docs aren't sgml and then built for text, html, ps, etc? Think of this as less of a request and more of 'would CMU be interested' type question. :) No objections, but it's

Re: autocreatequota - does it really work?

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:16:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Marsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The name of the option is potentially confusing, in that the desired mailbox is not 100% *automatically* created. Rather, it is only created when the new user logs in and issues a CREATE

Re: Sieve isn't sieving for me - things to check

2002-11-14 Thread David C. Tuttle
The link from /usr/lib/sasl2 to /usr/local/lib/sasl2 did indeed work. Now sieveshell works and I can upload a sieve script. But it still isn't sieving. PROMPT# sieveshell --user=sstest --authname=sstest localhost connecting to localhost Please enter your password: put

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Russell
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:35:02PM -0500, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:07 -0500 From: Scott Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Sooo... any reason why the docs aren't sgml and then built for text, html, ps, etc? Think of this as less of a request and more of

Re: Sieve isn't sieving for me - things to check

2002-11-14 Thread Nick Fisher
I'm still learning at this myself but I found that you had to supply a full path to the mail box rather than a relative one. Rather than 'INBOX/Woof' I have to specify 'user/myusername/Woof' Note that I'm using the '/' as a delimiter rather than the '.'. That's an option somewhere in the setup.

Re: cyrus with procmail.. not again :)

2002-11-14 Thread Brian
Bill Wester said: Is this the best way to get the mail into procmail so it can filter? Or is there some other way to do this better? Ditch procmail and use sieve (that comes with cyrus). It was built to integrate with Cyrus, so setting it up is a snap. It operates on a port, so is easier

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Erik Enge
Lawrence Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If someone has a good idea of how to make the documentation easier to deal with, we're all for it. What's wrong with plain text? Erik.

Re: Sieve isn't sieving for me - things to check

2002-11-14 Thread David C. Tuttle
This is just a follow-up for the archives. When I create the IMAP folders by hand from an IMAP client, sieve works. I had expected that Cyrus would create the folder if it didn't already exist - apparently, it doesn't. I'll try Nick's suggestion about the filepaths, too. Thanks to Nick and Paul

ln -s ../plugin_common file does exists

2002-11-14 Thread Achim Altmann
hello, i compile on my redhat 8.0 cyrus-sasl-2.1.9 ./configure and make looks like good but make install end withe the folloeing message See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.

Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread skuran
Hi all, i was running qmail+Courier-IMAP+mysql+checkpassword+SMTP-auth on RedHat 7.3 before i decided to switch to Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL on RedHat 8.0,so i setup a test system to see if i could make it. The test system is running RedHat 8.0, Postfix 1.1.11-5, MySQL-3.23.52-3, Cyrus-2.1.9 * I

Re: Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Russell
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:24:19AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i was running qmail+Courier-IMAP+mysql+checkpassword+SMTP-auth on RedHat 7.3 before i decided to switch to Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL on RedHat 8.0,so i setup a test system to see if i could make it. The test system is

Re: Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread skuran
Yes that's an option, i just followed Luc's HOWTO and used pam. But now how do i make changes to omit pam_mysql configuration #saslauthd -v saslauthd 2.1.7 authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow and i think web-cyradm has nothing to do with pam_mysql On Fri, Nov 15,

Re: ln -s ../plugin_common file does exists

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Achim Altmann wrote: File plugin_common.lo exists Please could you say what does this message meen? Its a known bug, I've only seen it on systems where you build more than once (and its fixed in cvs). You can fix it by changing the makefile to rm -f plugin_common.o (or

Re: Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread Kendrick Vargas
You know, you might just want to have sasl authenticate directly against mysql. It'll take a layer or two off of your authentication path, ie.. imapd - sasl - saslauthd - pam - mysql, instead of simply imapd - sasl - mysql. Also, for a while I was following pam_mysql and it seemed a number of

Re: Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Russell
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:02:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that's an option, i just followed Luc's HOWTO and used pam. But now how do i make changes to omit pam_mysql configuration #saslauthd -v saslauthd 2.1.7 authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow and

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew McNamara
Try using skiplist for the seen.db It doesn't really solve the problem but it masks it well enough. From my understanding, changing to skiplist really shouldn't change the visible behavior at all. But I've been wrong before. I'll try to test it here and let you know. My reading of the code

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On 14 Nov 2002, Erik Enge wrote: What's wrong with plain text? It's really hard to keep formatted in any way that looks reasoanble. For example, say you have a bulleted list (or an ordered list, both of which we have throughout our documentation) You probably want it to look something like:

Shared folders and virtual domains ?

2002-11-14 Thread Christian Schulte
Hi, I am running 2_2 cvs branch with virtual domain support turned on and everything seemd to work fine. I now wanted to move my old installation to the new one and cannot get delivery to shared folders working. If I create a shared folder with cyradm like: $cm sharedfolder I cannot do $sam

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 12:52 PM +1100 Andrew McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the general feeling on the skiplist implementation used in conjunction with Sun and NetApp's NFS (we're locked in to using this combination for various reasons)? Would you be more or less likely to

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew McNamara
I feel that moving back to only plaintext is a step backwards. I don't know much about SGML myself, so I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck maintaining that, but it sounds interesting enough (and it would be nice to have general tools for keeping the documentation formatted, instead of worrying when

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew McNamara
In general none of Cyrus will necessarily work over NFS. If you're only accessing the NFS store from a single client, things have a much better chance of working--- By single client, do you mean a single NFS client hitting the NFS server? If so, this is guaranteed in our configuration. but I

question about ctl_cyrusdb

2002-11-14 Thread Liu Jinhui
When I restart cyrus server. I found that a process called ctl_cyrusdb was running for a long time . From the log, it seemed that it was recovering the datebase. But it is used nearly ten minutes to recover. Was it normal? Liu Jinhui [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 2:40 PM +1100 Andrew McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general none of Cyrus will necessarily work over NFS. If you're only accessing the NFS store from a single client, things have a much better chance of working--- By single client, do you mean a single NFS

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew McNamara
A lot of problems also result when people try to run the application on more than one computer hitting the same NFS server. But things that drive us application writers mad is the idea that rename() can return failure but have actually happened; and if you're trying to write a reliable

Re: Updating /seen from concurrent sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Andrew McNamara
BTW, have you looked at Andrew Tridgell's Trivial Database? It uses mmaped files and spin-locks to achieve good write performance, although I don't think resilience in the face of crashes was a high priority. However the architecture-dependent spin lock code may be handy if you ever decide to

Re: question about ctl_cyrusdb

2002-11-14 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Liu Jinhui wrote: When I restart cyrus server. I found that a process called ctl_cyrusdb was running for a long time . From the log, it seemed that it was recovering the datebase. But it is used nearly ten minutes to recover. Was it normal? Depending on the size of

Re: Re: question about ctl_cyrusdb

2002-11-14 Thread Liu Jinhui
Yes, I just finished a test to send fifty thousand mails to user's mailbox. Most of the mails is duplicate delivery. And I also got lots of DB lockers warning during the delivering. And I found there were some backup of DB in the datebase directory. Need I delete them by hand or the system

Re: Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread Sleyman Kuran
Hello, maybe if is possible you have to create the /etc/sasldb file and put in /etc/sasldb saslpasswd secret passwd secret and then you have to take saslpasswd2 cyrus and give him the secret I have

Re: [Web-cyradm] Postfix+Cyrus+MySQL please help its been 3 days

2002-11-14 Thread Süleyman Kuran
Hi Suley [..] Here is /etc/pam.d/imap --- authsufficient pam_mysql.so user=mail passwd=secret host=localhost db=mail table=accountuser usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=0 authrequired pam_mysql.so user=mail passwd=secret