Re: strange message in the cyrus log

2006-12-08 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! deliver.db is just used to suppress duplicate delivery and for suppressing sieve vacation mails coming more often that configured (days setting). So I'd suggest to stop cyrus and just delete deliver.db (and deliver.db.NEW if existing) and start cyrus again. Best, Daniel On 06.12.2006

Re: Message contains invalid header

2006-10-27 Thread Daniel Eckl
On 26.10.2006 23:57, Marten Lehmann wrote: exim. It can handle even emails with NUL characters and 8bit headers, but I guess all up2date MTAs (like postfix or sendmail) are capable of this. Well, that's a bad comparison between MTA and your mail storage! A MTA normally doesn't care about the

Re: Webmail

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! I have tried squirrelmail and horde IMP. While squirrelmail is very easy to implement, I prefer IMP for it's superior feature list But it's a hell to configure it the first time with all it's thousand options because I found most of them having the wrong default in my opinion. Best, Daniel

Re: lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hmmm, well, a non existent mailbox is no temprary failure, it's very permanent. okay, in this case it's a false error, but to make another error to circumvent that is not a smooth solution. Perhaps you might want to set soft_bounce = yes in postfix' main.cf until you have found the error. See:

Re: lmtp should give temporary failure for mailbox unknown

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Eckl
than hacking a dangerous quick and dirty patch and recompile cyrus instead to give 4xx responses. I just fear that I cannot be of any help with debugging/fixing this bug. Sorry. Best, Daniel On 12.10.2006 13:46, Farzad FARID wrote: Hi, Daniel Eckl wrote: Hmmm, well, a non existent mailbox

Re: export / import

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! Export / import sounds to me like backup/restore, just on different machines. http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup This should get you somewhere. Best, Daniel On 10.10.2006 06:48, Joe Harvell wrote: I am about to get a new desktop PC at work, and I need to get my

Re: lmtp rejecting mails for valid mailboxes

2006-10-10 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! I don't seem to see lmtp here at all. Your MTA seems to reject these mails on SMTP layer. Most probably your MTA can not know which mailboxes cyrus has and that's why it rejects all mails, because local users are no system user, but by using cyrus, they are pure virtual. So the mails don't

Re: reconstruct

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:51 -0400, Jorey Bump wrote: Sarah Walters wrote: Benjamin, I need to reconstruct everyone mailbox. But should I need to take the mail server down? or just have people close email and still allow incoming messages? Just queue the mail on your

Re: reconstruct

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Steve Huston wrote: On 9/21/06 5:04 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote: Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that... [...] And since I can't

Re: 5.1.1 User unknown bounces

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel Eckl
Andrew Morgan wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Dave McCracken wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 9:19 am, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:45 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: Otherwise, just let Sendmail queue the message and attempt to deliver the message to Cyrus. If the

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Eckl
in that regard. I still don't use it, but that's not the issue here. -- Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Juli 2006 21:31:40 +0200 regarding Re: performance issue (imap spool on san): In a graphical client you want to be able to scroll through your whole message list

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Eckl
able to start writing the next one until it's done... So thanks again and have a lot of fun! Best, Daniel Scott Adkins wrote: --On Monday, September 11, 2006 2:14 PM +0200 Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone is entitled to their opinion and yours is certainly welcome. However

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Sebastian! That's a good point! I just looked at the linux version and didn't thought that there could be major differences! Thanks a lot for this info! Best, Daniel Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 11. September 2006 14:14:21 +0200 Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it misses a lot

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Eckl
than this is fully legitimate and it's the reason why we have such a big variety of software in the world. I call that superior, not insulting. Best, Daniel Joseph Brennan wrote: --On Monday, September 11, 2006 14:14 +0200 Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's nice, that everyone

Re: 5.1.1 User unknown bounces

2006-09-08 Thread Daniel Eckl
We handle it through a mysql db which contains all account infos. Cyrus and postfix uses the database for IMAP and SMTP authentication, postfix (with mysql support) uses it to check if an address exists and to get the local user from the emailadress. This way we can handle forwarding and aliases,

Re: To list admins: Reply-to address

2006-09-06 Thread Daniel Eckl
TB packages for SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.1: http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/08/thunderbird-with-reply-to-list.html Thanks and best, Daniel Daniel Eckl wrote: Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:14 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: Rudy Gevaert wrote: yes, this is desired. read http

Re: To list admins: Reply-to address

2006-09-05 Thread Daniel Eckl
Rudy Gevaert wrote: yes, this is desired. read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html How do you reply to list in thunderbird? Well, just assumed that thunderbird would be able to make use of that, you would need a List-Reply: header field added from the mailing list system. But

Re: To list admins: Reply-to address

2006-09-05 Thread Daniel Eckl
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:14 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: Rudy Gevaert wrote: yes, this is desired. read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html How do you reply to list in thunderbird? I had a look, it seems there is no support for it, not even

Re: Command-line reconstruct different from cyradm reconstruct?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Possibly the IMAP command uses a quota reconstruct, too, while the command line reconstruct does not do that automatically. I'd try on command line if reconstruct -rf user.jpublic; quota -f user.jpublic does what you want. If quota -f does the trick and a lot of mailboxes have the problem, I'd

OT: Mulberry availiable again and for free

2006-08-20 Thread Daniel Eckl
Sorry for being off-topic, but we had a discussion about that here some days ago. Mulberry is availiable again and it's for free for all three platforms. http://www.mulberrymail.com/ Have fun! Daniel Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:

Re: List Archives/Info is 404

2006-08-16 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Kevin! This has been asked on the list multiple times (including me). Noone seems to know who can fix this. The original list archive is on http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ An archive mirror with a feature rich interface can be found here:

Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Eckl
We have the same setup with cyrus 2.2.12 w/ IMAP IDLE and Outlook 2003 SP2. We never had Outlook crashing (well, not more than normal with outlook *g*), neither with nor without any Outlook SP. I don't think that this is cyrus or IDLE related. But I don't have any clue, to be honest... Best,

Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Eckl
I have to kill the process. Anyway, you don't have those problems. Maybe it could help to compare the config files? What do you think? Alexander Daniel Eckl wrote: We have the same setup with cyrus 2.2.12 w/ IMAP IDLE and Outlook 2003 SP2. We never had Outlook crashing (well, not more

Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Eckl
, too. No clue either. Best, Daniel Wil Cooley schrieb: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:16 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: I understand. No, we don't have this either. Curious; as the original initiator of the thread way back, I still see frequent stalls on Outlook 2003; they're definitely Outlook stalls

OT: dissapearing Outlook filter rules (was Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing)

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Eckl
Zachariah Mully schrieb: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:05 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: For myself I run linux on my workstation for many reasons, but I didn't have any stalls with outlook myself before switching to linux and all our users who use Outlook (about 250 approx) don't report problems like this one

Re: Outlook 2003 still crashing

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel Eckl
at 14:16 +0200, Daniel Eckl wrote: I have attached cyrus.conf and imapd.conf. We are running Cyrus 2.2.12 on SuSE 10.0 on filesystem XFS (HW: Dual Xeon 2GB RAM, SCSI RAID-5 0,5 TB capacity) I had freezes up to 30 seconds with the same config running on filesystem ext3, but this error was clearly

Re: Odd quota problem

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Eckl
Perhaps I didn't describe the max quota limit problem good enough: When your system is affected by this problem and you set a quota greater than 2 GB, it results in running mad. In this case it will report over quota way before 2GB. Setting quota back to 2GB (or some bytes below), the user

LMTP invalid pointer error

2006-08-03 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi dear list members! Today I got a postmaster warning mail from my postfix which wanted to deliver a mail to cyrus with lmtp. Error response from LMTP was: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7d4e094 *** Full response below. Do I have to worry? Until now it didn't

Re: Odd quota problem

2006-08-03 Thread Daniel Eckl
Well, I know, older cyrus had a max quota of 2GB. I run 2.2.12 and I can make higher quotas, but I don't know if SuSE in evrsion 10.0 added a patch for allowing that or if this version should be able to do that natively... But perhaps this subject leads to a solution for you. Good luck!

Re: High availability email server...

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
the DBs somewhat must be correct. Thanks! I would be glad if some list member who has in depth knowledge here could comment! Best, Daniel Andrew Morgan schrieb: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Daniel Eckl wrote: Well, I don't have cluster knowledge, and so of course I simply believe you that a good

Re: Only some mailboxes don't accept incoming messages, no error in the logs for this?!

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
Last time I had such a problem, the recipient accidentially discarded all mails using a sieve rule. Could this apply to you, too? Can your customers set sieve rules? Perhaps they aren't discarded, but forwarded without storing locally? Best, Daniel Rustedt, Florian schrieb: Hello, i am

Re: unable to login with cyradm

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Joe! Cyradm (or only your cyradm? Dunno...) might not be SSL capable. So either use port 143 to connect or if you have to user IMAPS Port 993, then you could establish an ssl tunnel with stunnel program. Best, Daniel Joe Harvell schrieb: Could someone *please* take a look at this? Joe

Re: unable to login with cyradm

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
addendum to my info: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.cyrus/824 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.cyrus/21264/ Best, Daniel Daniel Eckl schrieb: Hi Joe! Cyradm (or only your cyradm? Dunno...) might not be SSL capable. So either use port 143 to connect or if you have to user

Re: AW: Re: Only some mailboxes don't accept incoming messages, no error in the logs for this?!

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
Arghhh... I was too fast. Your question was actually how he redelivered the mails, am I right? ... Sorry... Best, Daniel Daniel Eckl schrieb: He told that in the part you deleted from quote. He accidentially made some kind of °catch-all alias which catched away all the mails. He deleted

Re: AW: Re: Only some mailboxes don't accept incoming messages, no error in the logs for this?!

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Eckl
He told that in the part you deleted from quote. He accidentially made some kind of °catch-all alias which catched away all the mails. He deleted the alias and the mailboxes worked again. I hope I understodd that correctly, though... Best, Daniel Rudy Gevaert schrieb: Rustedt, Florian

Re: High availability email server...

2006-08-01 Thread Daniel Eckl
). --On Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:40 PM +0200 Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As already said in this thread: Cyrus cannot share its spool. No 2 cyrus instances can use the same spool, databases and lockfiles. For load balancing you can use a murder setup and for HA you can use replication

Re: High availability email server...

2006-08-01 Thread Daniel Eckl
opinion. Can you shed some light on this subject? Best, Daniel Dave McMurtrie schrieb: Daniel Eckl wrote: Hi Scott! Your statements cannot be correct by logical reasons. While on file locking level you are fully right, cyrus heavily depends on critical database access where you need

Re: cyrus force pop3 clients to leave messages on server

2006-07-30 Thread Daniel Eckl
That's a good idea. But this may have an unwanted side effect: A pop3 client which is not configured to leave messages on server might ignore the possibility that messages on the server might be seen already. If the client doesn't compare fetched and unfetched mails with the UIDL command, it

Re: High availability email server...

2006-07-29 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Michael! As already said in this thread: Cyrus cannot share its spool. No 2 cyrus instances can use the same spool, databases and lockfiles. For load balancing you can use a murder setup and for HA you can use replication. Best, Daniel Michael Menge schrieb: Hi, Quoting Pascal Gienger

Re: duplicate suppression in murder

2006-07-28 Thread Daniel Eckl
Well, I'm guessing here, because I never tried a murder setup. But as I understand: This feature suppresses duplicate mails to the _same mailbox_. So I do not see the sense in a duplicate database which spans over multiple backends. Du you want that if user A on one backend gets an email and

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-28 Thread Daniel Eckl
Andrew Findlay schrieb: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:18:12AM -0700, Nikola Milutinovic wrote: So, perhaps we could state that the desired behavior of any IMAP client would be to fetch only those message headers it nedds to and perhaps a bit more. In case of TB, that would transalte to fetching

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Nikola! Say you have a GUI IMAP client XxX. Say you start it up and click on the INBOX. What would you desire/expect XxX to do? I would expect to see all mail headers in my inbox. Well, you cannot see _all_ of your headers when you have a big mailbox full of mails. You can only see a few

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel Eckl
My telnet client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it doesn't :-) If your telnet client would need several minutes to show you all files in case you are searching for a file you don't exactly know its name, then you would definitely prefer that it would do so. Best, Daniel

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-26 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Michael! Thunderbird is NOT an IMAP client. I don't want to start a flamewar, so I tell you that I write this email with a very polite temper in mind. Just to not set you up. But you have to admit, your saying is extremely provocative. Please can you explain your saying? Pine and Mutt both

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-26 Thread Daniel Eckl
with my statement and this subject can be closed now. Best, Daniel David Lang schrieb: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Daniel Eckl wrote: Hi Michael! Thunderbird is NOT an IMAP client. I don't want to start a flamewar, so I tell you that I write this email with a very polite temper in mind. Just

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-26 Thread Daniel Eckl
it, but that's not the issue here. -- Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have mumbled on 26. Juli 2006 21:31:40 +0200 regarding Re: performance issue (imap spool on san): In a graphical client you want to be able to scroll through your whole message list without any delay. So I

Re: trashed databases after disk full situation

2006-07-24 Thread Daniel Eckl
Ah, didn't realize that the output is flat file db. Thank you very much for poining this one out! I'll put info-cyrus on CC for others who might be interested. Thanks, Daniel Adam Stephens schrieb: On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Daniel Eckl wrote: Thanks! The code looks promising, but how can I use

Re: trashed databases after disk full situation

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! Recently I switched over to another mail host running the same software (cyrus 2.2.12) and there was one broken seen database, too with a similar error message. I didn't find any possibility to recover this db. I had to delete it, too. I think skiplist is one of the most reliable

Re: trashed databases after disk full situation

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Thanks! Interesting way to recover. :) Best, Daniel Simon Matter schrieb: Hi! Recently I switched over to another mail host running the same software (cyrus 2.2.12) and there was one broken seen database, too with a similar error message. I didn't find any possibility to recover this db. I

Re: trashed databases after disk full situation

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel Eckl
Thanks! The code looks promising, but how can I use this to recover? I couldn't try yet, but it just seems to output the key-value pairs to stdout, or did I read wrong? What would be the step for recover from a broken skiplist? Thanks, Daniel Adam Stephens schrieb: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006,

Re: Mailstore filesystem

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel Eckl
I had this setup with ext3 before and I had severe problems with extreme load through high iowait and the system hangs for up to 20 seconds while the filesystem flushed unwritten data to disk. This was on a SCSI hardware RAID 5. At the moment I have a temporary machine running the same system

Re: Mailstore filesystem

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel Eckl
reiser and xfs? Thanks, Daniel Wes Craig schrieb: On Jul 3, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote: I had this setup with ext3 before and I had severe problems with extreme load through high iowait and the system hangs for up to 20 seconds while the filesystem flushed unwritten data to disk

Re: Mailstore filesystem

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel Eckl
Thanks for your suggestions, I will try if that makes a difference and report to the list for the archives! Thanks, Daniel Wesley Craig schrieb: On 03 Jul 2006, at 11:35, Daniel Eckl wrote: At this time I didn't change the scheduler. In fact, I actually learned about it a few days ago... So

Re: Quota Report Script

2006-06-28 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi David! I attached my script. I run it with cron as user cyrus every day at 5 a.m. Every user which is over the quota warning level will get a warning mail. And for every user which gets a mail, the script prints out username and quota to stdout, so cron will send a mail to the cyrus user.

Re: Quota Report Script

2006-06-28 Thread Daniel Eckl
I got a notice, that the attachment has been blocked. But I got my own mail from the list including the attachment... So I just make the offer that I will sent this script to everyone interested. Just contact me. Sorry and thanks, Daniel Daniel Eckl schrieb: Hi David! I attached my script

cyrus.cache not working for me?

2006-06-26 Thread Daniel Eckl
Dear list members, when I connect a new IMAP client to my mailbox, it logically fetches all headers of a folder I open. My problem is, that this initial header fetch takes very long in my opinion (nearly 10 minutes for about 6000 mails) and while the client is fetching, there is a lot of

Re: How to backup cyrus-imapd without stopping service

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Eckl
Uuuuhh *run and hide* http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ.html#nfs ;) Best, Daniel Seiichirou Hiraoka schrieb am 23.06.2006 14:35: Hi, I'm using Cyrus-IMAPD 2.2.10 on two solaris9 hosts - One is main and another is backup - and using rsync (*1) to sync two host's /var/imap

Re: Looking for a *good* X based GUI IMAP client for Cyrus IMAP ...

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Eckl
Well there is a special IMAP command for making use of SQUAT. It's IMAP SEARCH. In this case the server searches for mail and by doing that, it makes extensive use of the SQUAT index if availiable. If a client doesn't make use of IMAP SEARCH, but rather download all mail bodys to search locally,

Re: deliver.db

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! That's the duplicate delivery database. http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/DuplicateDeliveryExplained Best, Daniel Sujit Choudhury schrieb am 14.06.2006 11:01: We recently had some problem with deliver.db which stopped e-mail being delivered and stopped lmptd. I would

Re: Win Thunderbird doesn't use SQUAT index

2006-06-13 Thread Daniel Eckl
Are you sure? I think that shouldn't be possible because of the same codebase Could you use wireshark (=ethereal) to trace this query? Best, Daniel Ole Hoppe schrieb: Hello, after setting up Cyrus 2.2.12/Postfix 2.2.5/Fetchmail 6.2.5.2 http://6.2.5.2 on a SUSE Linux 10.0 box, and

Re: Looking for a *good* X based GUI IMAP client for Cyrus IMAP ...

2006-06-11 Thread Daniel Eckl
Daniel O'Connor schrieb: On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:30, Marc G. Fournier wrote: growing tired of pine after many years, am trying to find a good client ... just installed balsa, but for the life of me, I can't get it to display all of my 'sub-folders', only my INBOX ... So, is there a *good*

Re: Sieve script question

2006-06-01 Thread Daniel Eckl
Would you like to explain the problem and your solution for the archives? Thank you! Best, Daniel Lars Schimmer schrieb am 01.06.2006 10:31: Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:48 +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: But if the person bonsai send a email to all, this email get

Re: strange delays in connecting to POP3 server

2006-05-30 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi Igor! Sounds to me like a DNS timeout issue. You might want to check your resolver configuration. I don't understand the sentence This delays appears accidentally, without any system.. I hope this doesn't render my answer useless. :) Best, Daniel Igor Belikov schrieb am 30.05.2006 09:51:

No IMAP IDLE event for decreasing RECENT mail count?

2006-05-30 Thread Daniel Eckl
Hi! I am running cyrus v2.2.12 on SuSE 10.0 with IMAP IDLE extension. Generally this works great, when new messages arrive (RECENT count increases) or when messages get expunged, IMAP IDLE correctly notifies the client. But sadly, IMAP IDLE does not notify the client if RECENT count decreases.