map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi folks I've noticed a fair few questions on the list since I've been subscribed that ask about authentication. I'd go so far as to say that it's the #1 or #2 topic (behind migration or mailbox recovery). Perhaps I can do something to help, as a non-coder. I know that when setting up Cyrus I

cyrus imap 2.1.15 compile fails

2003-10-30 Thread Adam Soltan
Hi! I'm trying to compile the new version of cyrus on my computer, but I fail miserably. If I just do standard 'configure...', 'make depend...' and 'make all...' I get following error message: mawk: cannot open /usr/local/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.15/acap/et_h.awk (No such file or directory)

Re: Weird mailbox corruption...

2003-10-30 Thread Einar Indridason
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:13:30AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Could the filesystem /var/spool/imap is on have filled up? Just a guess... (Sorry, I pressed the reply-to button, before I was awake... I should have pressed the group-reply button.) No, the filesystem did not fill up. However,

To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

2003-10-30 Thread Nikola Milutinovic
Sorry, I deleted the mail, so I don't have your e-mail now and this might be educational to the list. This is what I've learned about SASL so far. SASL provides an interface for applications - servers and clients - to perform authentication, using more or less secure mechanisms. Among some

Re: map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Craig Ringer wrote: I'd really appreciate feedback on this - what have I missed, do I have anything just plain wrong, etc. I've left out some things - like the 'shadow' mechanism of saslauthd - that seem best solved using other methods (getpwent in that case). Also left

Re: Slightly OT - export formats

2003-10-30 Thread mb/cyrus
Can anyone suggest a good format to export this mail into, that will retain the messages, folders, and folder structure. They're going to try an import it into Outlook at the other end, so something that Outlook can read would be good. We are assuming that they won't be able to point at your

Re: To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Nikola Milutinovic wrote: SASL provides an interface for applications - servers and clients - to perform authentication, using more or less secure mechanisms. Among some popular servers that you neglected to mention is Sendmail (a veteran in that field). You may want to

Re: To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

2003-10-30 Thread Etienne Goyer
It might be interesting to add that only certain mechanism provide so-called proxy authentication (authcid/authzid separation; how would this feature be called ?). PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5 are the one I know for sure provide it, while CRAM-MD5 don't. I am not sure about GSSAPI, EXTERNAL and other.

Re: Slightly OT - export formats

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Brodbelt
mb/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a good format to export this mail into, that will retain the messages, folders, and folder structure. They're going to try an import it into Outlook at the other end, so something that Outlook can read would be good. We are assuming that they

Re: map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Murchison
Craig Ringer wrote: I'd really appreciate feedback on this - what have I missed, do I have anything just plain wrong, etc. I've left out some things - like the 'shadow' mechanism of saslauthd - that seem best solved using other methods (getpwent in that case). Also left out are the

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Earle
I have a couple of questions for the build of cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA. I get a couple of errors on building and was wondering if it was something I'm missing or maybe minor problem. - I am building on Solaris 8 / SPARC, gcc (GCC) 3.3 - configure options used: ./configure \

Outlook 2002 and closed connection errors

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Koobs
Occasionally on Outlook 2000 and 2002 clients, I'm getting messages that the IMAP server has closed the connection. I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-1 (installed from Simon's RPM) I've done lots of searching, and it looks like many people have had this problem. However, there doesn't seem to be any

Re: Outlook 2002 and closed connection errors

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Murchison
Doug Koobs wrote: Occasionally on Outlook 2000 and 2002 clients, I'm getting messages that the IMAP server has closed the connection. I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-1 (installed from Simon's RPM) I've done lots of searching, and it looks like many people have had this problem. However, there

RE: Outlook 2002 and closed connection errors

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: than not using MS products). My understanding is that Outlook tries to open multiple connections to the IMAP server, which goes against the RFC standard. I was able to find a patch against UW that somehow suppresses the error message, but nothing for Cyrus. I do

Mail cannot be downloaded

2003-10-30 Thread Axel Walsleben
Hello List, We have a Cyrus 2.1.12 on a Suse 8.2 running, everythings runs fine except that some customers get mails, that cannot be download via pop3 or Imap. The Download Starts and after a while The Client makes an tomeout. We testet several Clients and it is not client depended. The Mail is

Re: Weird mailbox corruption...

2003-10-30 Thread Einar Indridason
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:13:30AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Until we get something like: user.JohnSmith.Folder.Sub folder user.JohnSmith.Folder.Sub folder.Comet: Mailbox has an invalid format user.JohnSmith.Folder.Sub folder.Comet.AI False: System I/O error No such file or directory

Re: To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

2003-10-30 Thread Cyrus Daboo
Hi Etienne, --On Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:07 -0500 Etienne Goyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It might be interesting to add that only certain mechanism provide | so-called proxy authentication (authcid/authzid separation; how would | this feature be called ?). PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5 are the

Re: Outlook 2002 and closed connection errors

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Doug Koobs wrote: Occasionally on Outlook 2000 and 2002 clients, I'm getting messages that the IMAP server has closed the connection. I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-1 (installed from Simon's RPM) I know there is a bug in either Outlook or OE where it will enter an IDLE

Re: map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: Craig Ringer wrote: I'd really appreciate feedback on this - what have I missed, do I have anything just plain wrong, etc. I've left out some things - like the 'shadow' mechanism of saslauthd - that seem best solved using other methods (getpwent

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bill Earle wrote: 1. It appears that the --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1 does not get propogated in an include dir. - the make fails in /ssa/Build/cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA/imap Try --with-bdb-incdir and --with-bdb-libdir. Eventually we discovered that people

Re: To the one who posted Cyrus SASL diagram...

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Murchison
Cyrus Daboo wrote: Hi Etienne, --On Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:07 -0500 Etienne Goyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It might be interesting to add that only certain mechanism provide | so-called proxy authentication (authcid/authzid separation; how would | this feature be called ?). PLAIN and

Re: map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Craig Ringer wrote: Rob Siemborski wrote: I'd also be much more inclined to accept this into the distribution if it was in an easily modifiable format (at this point, I suspect that means xfig, but if you have another suggestion I'm willing to listen). The current

Re: map of authentication methods for cyrus

2003-10-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Ken Murchison wrote: Craig, this is a good start, but as Rob said, you've left out the mechanism layer. Hmm... thanks. It appears that there's something lacking in my understanding of the authentication scheme, but the posts on this thread have given me some idea where to look and learn. I'll

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Earle
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bill Earle wrote: 1. It appears that the --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1 does not get propogated in an include dir. - the make fails in /ssa/Build/cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA/imap Try --with-bdb-incdir and

Re: imapd mem exhausted

2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Welche
I just tried the same test of opening an imap connection and APPENDing lots of mail to various new mailboxes in there (Courier - cyrus move), with new cvs code, so the 2.2 line of code, and still: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 3518 cyrus 20

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Earle
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bill Earle wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bill Earle wrote: 1. It appears that the --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1 does not get propogated in an include dir. - the make fails in

testing

2003-10-30 Thread Jason Williams
please ignore my dust..