Setting up a 'deny ALL but ...' in user-deny.db for POP3 service.

2015-11-26 Thread Eric Luyten via Info-cyrus
Hi, I have about 7,000 POP3 users and do not want newly created accounts to be able to use the POP3 protocol, forcing them towards IMAP instead. Is there a way to accomplish this without adding a 'deny' line for each and every new user to user_deny.db ? Can I build a 7,000 names li

Re: plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections

2015-10-15 Thread ellie timoney
gt; > On 24/09/15 22:57, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > > > The plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections, even those that > > > are encrypted via pop3s or STARTTLS. Not that this is necessarily a > > > bad thing But is it expected behaviour? > > > &g

Re: plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections

2015-10-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
@Ellie - let's add this, it's plainly the right thing to do. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015, at 02:54, Wolfgang Breyha wrote: > On 24/09/15 22:57, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > > The plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections, even those that > > are encrypted via pop3s or STA

Re: plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections

2015-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Breyha
On 24/09/15 22:57, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > The plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections, even those that > are encrypted via pop3s or STARTTLS. Not that this is necessarily a > bad thing But is it expected behaviour? True for 2.4.18 and 2.5.6. Looking at the code in p

plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections

2015-09-24 Thread Michael D. Sofka
The plaintextloginpause affects all POP3 connections, even those that are encrypted via pop3s or STARTTLS. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing But is it expected behaviour? Mike -- Michael D. Sofka sof...@rpi.edu C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, TeX, Epistemo

hanging POP3 client, how to kill

2014-10-23 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, from time to time I have hanging pop3 clients. I've activated telemetry logging (thanks Bron) for that single user to see the interaction between client and server. While downloading messages the client stops suddenly (in middle of the body of a 6 MB big message) but the pop3 proce

Re: pop3: counts: retr=<0> top=<0> dele=<0> mailbox not empty

2014-10-02 Thread Bron Gondwana
=<0> top=<0> dele=<0>" on a non empty > > mailbox. The pop3 client is connecting, but doesn't fetch and drop > > mails. Client problem? > > > > > > Oct 2 06:10:06 master cyrus/pop3[4990]: USAGE testuser-01 user: > > 0.0

Re: pop3: counts: retr=<0> top=<0> dele=<0> mailbox not empty

2014-10-02 Thread Bron Gondwana
Nah, it just means it ran a UNIDO and didn't find anything to download. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014, at 07:25 PM, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Hi, > > what exactly means "counts: retr=<0> top=<0> dele=<0>" on a non empty > mailbox. The pop3 client is connectin

pop3: counts: retr=<0> top=<0> dele=<0> mailbox not empty

2014-10-02 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, what exactly means "counts: retr=<0> top=<0> dele=<0>" on a non empty mailbox. The pop3 client is connecting, but doesn't fetch and drop mails. Client problem? ---- Oct 2 06:10:06 master cyrus/pop3[4990]: USAGE testuser-01 user: 0.00 sys

Re: Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-15 Thread Bron Gondwana
Good-o. It's still a Cyrus bug, because Cyrus tries and fails to work around it. And it's possible, in various ways (like filesystem corruption) to wind up with a file with a long line in it - the pop3d should at least abort in that case, not hang. Bron. On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 08:27 AM, Vin

Re: Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-14 Thread Vincent Fox
Just to follow up on this, I realized as Joseph pointed out, the larger problem is my MTA shouldn't be delivering RFC-breaking messages to the Cyrus backends. However, sendmail seems to set L=0 on the Cyrusv2 mailer, and doesn't provide an easy way to redefine it in my macro file. I hand-editted

Re: Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-14 Thread Vincent Fox
On 6/14/2014 6:16 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > Vincent Fox wrote: > >> I have recently noticed that certain malformed messages hang POP3 clients. >> The pattern is that the mesages all have obscenely long last lines. I >> can see it >> when I set up debug

Re: Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
Vincent Fox wrote: > I have recently noticed that certain malformed messages hang POP3 clients. > The pattern is that the mesages all have obscenely long last lines. I > can see it > when I set up debug log dir for the account, that the download of the > message > proceeds fi

Re: Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 04:40 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently noticed that certain malformed messages hang POP3 clients. > The pattern is that the mesages all have obscenely long last lines. I > can see it > when I set up debug log dir for the account, that t

Cyrus POP3 long line problem

2014-06-13 Thread Vincent Fox
Hi, I have recently noticed that certain malformed messages hang POP3 clients. The pattern is that the mesages all have obscenely long last lines. I can see it when I set up debug log dir for the account, that the download of the message proceeds fine up until 2048th character and then stops

Re: POP3 Connections persist after a long time

2012-01-16 Thread Dan White
On 01/16/12 14:43 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >Hi, > >I've found a lot of connections POP3 that are established since some weeks >ago. Is there something wrong with it? > >I understand that is common for IMAP, but I wonder if there is something >wrong having the same on

POP3 Connections persist after a long time

2012-01-16 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I've found a lot of connections POP3 that are established since some weeks ago. Is there something wrong with it? I understand that is common for IMAP, but I wonder if there is something wrong having the same on pop3. Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelki

Re: badlogins pop3 thunderbird 3.1.6

2010-11-22 Thread steffo76
gards, Stephan Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:39:53 +0100 > Von: Eugen Bier > An: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Betreff: badlogins pop3 thunderbird 3.1.6 > hello all, > > we have strange behavior of our cyrus 2.3.16 on pop3 and pop3s pr

badlogins pop3 thunderbird 3.1.6

2010-11-22 Thread Eugen Bier
hello all, we have strange behavior of our cyrus 2.3.16 on pop3 and pop3s protocol with thunderbird 3.1.6. User does connect to a mailbox correctly, the first login is successful. After 5 min, when the user reconnects to a mailbox it comes to a 'badlogin' and then the client attempt

Re: Can't log into IMAP but pop3 works

2009-07-11 Thread Dan White
J. Pilfold-Bagwell wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem where I can log into cyrus using POP3 but can't with > imap. Telnet sessions return the following: > > sysad...@smbserver:~$ telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.localdomain. >

Can't log into IMAP but pop3 works

2009-07-11 Thread J. Pilfold-Bagwell
Hi All, I have a problem where I can log into cyrus using POP3 but can't with imap. Telnet sessions return the following: sysad...@smbserver:~$ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK smbserver Cyrus POP3 v2.2.1

POP3 locking. Is there a way to reduce this "issue"?

2009-05-26 Thread Vladimir Vassiliev
Yeah, it's really annoying issue. I can add to your summary that poptimeout option is not very useful because POP daemon may stall much more than its value. It's because of blocking write() call whose timeout depends on TCP settings of host system. For example, with my system defaults timeout r

Re: POP3 locking. Is there a way to reduce this "issue"?

2009-05-18 Thread Vincent Fox
Jose Perez wrote: > Some people could just say "don't use POP3 anymore, use IMAP" right? > YES! > Ok, I'd say the same as a sysadmin but you know exactly that this > isn't always possible is some organizations for others reasons not > technical. > &g

POP3 locking. Is there a way to reduce this "issue"?

2009-05-18 Thread Jose Perez
Hi there: I'm having problems with POP3 locking. I already read the forums and info-cyrus mail archives talking about this but I didn't find a solution yet: - RFC states that is it necessary a minimum of 10 minutes before detect a timeout on the client - RFC states that only one con

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Wesley Craig
On 13 Feb 2009, at 04:23, Ian Batten wrote: > Security isn't about protocols, it's about systems, and I suspect POP3 > vs IMAP is metonymic for local vs remote mail storage. Also keep in mind that IMAP can be used just like POP, i.e., you can use IMAP to download & remo

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Vincent Fox
in other juristictions, that's > something that needs to be addressed when you outsource your mail (via > contract > with whoever you are having host your mail for you) > > I worked at one organization that supported ONLY POP3. No IMAP was offered. Each client was configur

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Ian Batten wrote: > On 13 Feb 09, at 0149, Joseph Brennan wrote: >> >> The protocol itself is no less secure than POP. > > Security isn't about protocols, it's about systems, and I suspect POP3 > vs IMAP is metonymic for local vs remote mail

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Dennis Davis
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Alain Williams wrote: > From: Alain Williams > To: Cyrus Mailing List > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:30:46 + > Subject: Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols ... > > Yes. Anything that opens a bunch of mailboxes at the same time > > might

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 13 February 2009 15:30:46 + Alain Williams wrote: > [23~On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:06PM +, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> >> --On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams >> wrote: >> >> > That got me thinking >> > I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Jorey Bump
Alain Williams wrote, at 02/13/2009 10:30 AM: > [23~On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:06PM +, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> --On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams >> wrote: >> >>> That got me thinking >>> I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 >>> attemp

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Alain Williams
[23~On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:06PM +, Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > --On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams > wrote: > > >That got me thinking > >I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 > >attempts/3 minutes/IP address). If I were to do the same

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Jason Voorhees
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hi people: > > A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & > POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP > protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams wrote: > That got me thinking > I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 > attempts/3 minutes/IP address). If I were to do the same with IMAP would > that cause problems with some clients, ie are there some cl

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Alain Williams wrote: > That got me thinking > I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 > attempts/3 minutes/IP address). > If I were to do the same with IMAP would that cause problems with some > clients, > ie are there some clients that to many connect/disconne

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Alain Williams
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:13:40AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:17 +, Duncan Gibb wrote: > > Jason Voorhees wrote: > > JV> a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is > > JV> less secure than POP3 protocol. > > Other peo

[OT] Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Duncan Gibb
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: JV> a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is JV> less secure than POP3 protocol. ATW> It is really far and away more about end-to-end security ATW> practices than it is the OSI layer 7 protocol(s) involved. Indeed. ATW> I stand by my ass

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:17 +, Duncan Gibb wrote: > Jason Voorhees wrote: > JV> a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is > JV> less secure than POP3 protocol. > Other people have covered the IMAP vs POP3 issues - Ian Batten most > comprehensively - but one c

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Duncan Gibb
Jason Voorhees wrote: JV> a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is JV> less secure than POP3 protocol. Other people have covered the IMAP vs POP3 issues - Ian Batten most comprehensively - but one comment I would add is that if you make either service available to the open in

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Batten
On 13 Feb 09, at 0149, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > The protocol itself is no less secure than POP. Security isn't about protocols, it's about systems, and I suspect POP3 vs IMAP is metonymic for local vs remote mail storage. I can see an argument that says that one problem w

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & >> POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP >> protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This reminds me of a concern that was raised about U Wa

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & > POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP > protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not > related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. &g

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not related to Cyrus

Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi people: A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. I'm sea

Re: Cyrus "hanging" when connecting to POP3 port several times

2009-01-05 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Mike Eggleston schrieb: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski might have said: >> Stracing it leads me to an empty /dev/random. >> >> After looking at man pages, I see there is no option to specify an >> alternative random file location (i.e., /dev/urandom). >> >> Is recompilation the only wa

Re: Cyrus "hanging" when connecting to POP3 port several times

2009-01-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: >> My Cyrus is hanging when I try to connect to the POP3 or POP3S port >> several times, i.e. when connecting like this three-four-five times in a >> row: > >> $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110 >> Trying 12

Re: Cyrus "hanging" when connecting to POP3 port several times

2009-01-05 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: > My Cyrus is hanging when I try to connect to the POP3 or POP3S port > several times, i.e. when connecting like this three-four-five times in a > row: > $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). >

Cyrus "hanging" when connecting to POP3 port several times

2009-01-05 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
My Cyrus is hanging when I try to connect to the POP3 or POP3S port several times, i.e. when connecting like this three-four-five times in a row: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK <2041089544.1231155...@imap

Re: Logging number of pop3's email retrieved during a connection - was (IMAP/POP traffic accounting)

2008-11-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:42:09PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > Counting messages would be a separate patch to just pop3. Something like this... Bron ( it counts retr, top and dele commands only, I figured I couldn't be arsed counting list and uidl ) Index: cyrus-imapd-2.3

Re: Logging number of pop3's email retrieved during a connection - was (IMAP/POP traffic accounting)

2008-11-22 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Anthony Tibbs wrote: > Hi Eddy, > > I had worked on this briefly and, given a day or so, I could probably come > up with a working solution at least for byte/traffic accounting. Logging > 'messages retrieved' for POP3 could mak

Re: Logging number of pop3's email retrieved during a connection - was (IMAP/POP traffic accounting)

2008-11-21 Thread Anthony Tibbs
Hi Eddy, I had worked on this briefly and, given a day or so, I could probably come up with a working solution at least for byte/traffic accounting. Logging 'messages retrieved' for POP3 could make some sense, but it gets complicated with clients using "TOP" to partially r

Logging number of pop3's email retrieved during a connection - was (IMAP/POP traffic accounting)

2008-11-21 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Hi! Netfriends, I sent this email last week but didn't received any replies. So, I would like to spin it again... Maybe my title was obscure. ;-) I would like to log some statistics when any user retrieves their pop3's emails. Currently: ... pop3[32760]: login: address [ip] user

Re: Logging IP numbers for POP3 and IMAP

2008-09-26 Thread Marc Patermann
Paul van der Vlis schrieb: > Is it possible to log the IP-numbers from people who access a server > using POP3 or IMAP? Isn't that what IMAPd does anyway? Sep 26 10:08:26 local6:notice imap[2551820]: login: hostname.domain [inter.net.add.ress] username plain+TLS User logged

Logging IP numbers for POP3 and IMAP

2008-09-25 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, Is it possible to log the IP-numbers from people who access a server using POP3 or IMAP? Or is there maybe a way to block people who do a trying too many passwords? With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu

Re: cyrus pop3 question

2008-04-16 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: cyrus pop3 question From: Jorey Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:18:58 PM Corey wrote, at 04/16/2008 04:29 PM: I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed wi

Re: cyrus pop3 question

2008-04-16 Thread Jorey Bump
Corey wrote, at 04/16/2008 04:29 PM: > I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed with thousands > of concurrent pop3 requests. This went on for over an hour before it finally > ceased, at which point I was able to start cyrus again. > > Anyhow, what are som

Re: cyrus pop3 question

2008-04-16 Thread Corey
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:44:50 pm Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Corey wrote: > > I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed with > > thousands of concurrent pop3 requests. This went on for over an hour > > before it finally ceased, at whic

Re: cyrus pop3 question

2008-04-16 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Corey wrote: > I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed with thousands > of concurrent pop3 requests. This went on for over an hour before it finally > ceased, at which point I was able to start cyrus again. > > Anyhow, what are some mechan

cyrus pop3 question

2008-04-16 Thread Corey
I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed with thousands of concurrent pop3 requests. This went on for over an hour before it finally ceased, at which point I was able to start cyrus again. Anyhow, what are some mechanisms to prevent this in the future? In the mean time, I&#

Re: AUTH response for POP3 Over SSL

2008-04-01 Thread Joshua Tew
ist > of advertised mechanisms by using the 'sasl_mech_list' option in > imapd.conf > > > Joshua Tew wrote: >> I have not been able to authenticate POP3 over SSL from thunderbird >> 2.0.0.12 to Cyrus POm.3.8 on a OS X Server 10.5. >> I have narrowed

Re: AUTH response for POP3 Over SSL

2008-03-31 Thread Joshua Tew
d.conf > > > Joshua Tew wrote: >> I have not been able to authenticate POP3 over SSL from thunderbird >> 2.0.0.12 to Cyrus POm.3.8 on a OS X Server 10.5. >> I have narrowed down the cause to be a wrong set of supported >> authentication mechanism being advertised w

Re: AUTH response for POP3 Over SSL

2008-03-31 Thread Ken Murchison
You can either remove the CRAM-MD5 SASL plugin, or restrict the list of advertised mechanisms by using the 'sasl_mech_list' option in imapd.conf Joshua Tew wrote: > I have not been able to authenticate POP3 over SSL from thunderbird > 2.0.0.12 to Cyrus POm.3.8 on a OS X Server

AUTH response for POP3 Over SSL

2008-03-19 Thread Joshua Tew
I have not been able to authenticate POP3 over SSL from thunderbird 2.0.0.12 to Cyrus POP3 v2.3.8 on a OS X Server 10.5. I have narrowed down the cause to be a wrong set of supported authentication mechanism being advertised when thunderbird queried the POP3 server in AUTH. For example

imap refusing connections while pop3 is not

2008-03-13 Thread mahecha
yesterday I was using squirrelmail to try send a message via my cyrus... i got an "imap server refused connection" "server busy; try again later" "unable to open imap thread" message; i tried pop3 with my outlook and it worked; i was able to send the message (esmtp

Cyrus POP3 and OS X Server

2008-03-06 Thread Joe Topjian
Hello - I realize that this question is based on OS X Server and not a true Cyrus installation, but I thought I would ask anyway. I'm having a problem where I would like people to authenticate by their full email address (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]). In the OSX Directory Service, I have given each

Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-10-01 Thread Ken Murchison
Yann Rouillard wrote: > Le dimanche 30 septembre 2007 à 11:39 +0300, Georgy Goshin a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the answer but the answer was not do I need this or not, I've >> asked how to do it. I'll try to explain why I need this and I beleive that >> not only I am. > > You're not, I

Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-09-30 Thread Jarod Watkins
er a patch or find someone to do > it. > > Yann > But as Jorey Bumb said, wouldn't it be easier to just switch to IMAP and offer your customers a better protocol than POP3? I don't see why you are still offering POP when IMAP provides what you want in the first place. Plus

Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-09-30 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 30 septembre 2007 à 11:39 +0300, Georgy Goshin a écrit : > Hello, > > Thanks for the answer but the answer was not do I need this or not, I've > asked how to do it. I'll try to explain why I need this and I beleive that > not only I am. You're not, I opened a bug about this sometim

Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-09-30 Thread Georgy Goshin
g) clients uses POP3 to get their mails form the server, almost all of them leaves the messages on the server for a 5-20 days, about a half of them uses webamil access to read their mail from home, from places other than office and this is a place where we need all read mails marked as

Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-09-29 Thread Jorey Bump
Georgy Goshin wrote, at 09/29/2007 06:12 AM: > I need the Cyrus POP3 server marks all messages read by client but left on > server as read. How to do this? POP3 does not mark messages as read. The client downloads the messages, then *it* tracks which messages are read. For obvious reason

POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

2007-09-29 Thread Georgy Goshin
Hi, I need the Cyrus POP3 server marks all messages read by client but left on server as read. How to do this? Thanks, G. Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Leave emails on server when using POP3

2007-07-02 Thread Johannes Luber
Hello! I've been looking through the docs and searched with Google, but I have only seen the mentioning that it is possible to configure cyrus that emails are left on the server, even when they have been downloaded via POP3. Can someone help me please? Thanks in advance, Johannes

Re: Disabling the POP3 request time limit

2007-06-29 Thread Johannes Luber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > >> I'm trying to find an option regarding the POP3 time limit. The default >> is that one can't request again to look for new emails within 60 seconds >> counting from the last request. I need to disable this or to reduce it &g

Re: Disabling the POP3 request time limit

2007-06-29 Thread c . grill
Hi, > I'm trying to find an option regarding the POP3 time limit. The default > is that one can't request again to look for new emails within 60 seconds > counting from the last request. I need to disable this or to reduce it > to a few seconds at best. Who can help m

Re: Disabling the POP3 request time limit

2007-06-29 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Johannes Luber wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to find an option regarding the POP3 time limit. The default > is that one can't request again to look for new emails within 60 seconds > counting from the last request. I need to disable this or to reduce it > to a few s

Disabling the POP3 request time limit

2007-06-29 Thread Johannes Luber
Hello! I'm trying to find an option regarding the POP3 time limit. The default is that one can't request again to look for new emails within 60 seconds counting from the last request. I need to disable this or to reduce it to a few seconds at best. Who can help me? Thanks in advance

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-23 Thread Matthew Schumacher
David S. Madole wrote: > > If you are talking about the suggestion I made, which looked like this: > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 \ > -m state --state NEW \ > -m recent --update --seconds 60 -j DROP > > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 \ > -m state --state

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-23 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:14:49AM -0400, Robert Banz wrote: > *security people seem to obsess on "perfect" solutions. It bothers me. No, _real_ security people know that there is NO perfect solution. You always have to balance the cost of the defenses with the cost of the thing you want to prot

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-22 Thread Matthew Schumacher
David S. Madole wrote: >> From Matthew Schumacher on Monday, May 21, 2007 6:35 PM >> >> I agree with Blake, while I can do it with IPtables it's not >> a good solution. >> >> The first iptables suggestion blocked the offending IP, which >> is fine, but also requires me to babysit the server. The

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Bücker
Matthew Schumacher wrote: May 21 11:02:01 larry pop3[5945]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext cristopher SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed May 21 11:02:02 larry pop3[5965]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext easter SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed May 21 11

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Banz
On May 22, 2007, at 10:34, Philip H. O'Neill wrote: We do the same but there is an issues. One File::Tail delays polling the log for up to 30 seconds unless you tell it otherwise. So it will allow a number of attempts before reading the log. If you increase the polling you add load to the s

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-22 Thread Philip H. O'Neill
We do the same but there is an issues. One File::Tail delays polling the log for up to 30 seconds unless you tell it otherwise. So it will allow a number of attempts before reading the log. If you increase the polling you add load to the system. Not much but some. We like the idea of adding the t

RE: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-22 Thread Mogens Melander
m > To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Subject: Connection throttling POP3. > > List, > > I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: > > May 21 11:01:55 larry pop3[5845]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext bob > SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkp

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Banz
On May 21, 2007, at 21:50, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 05:10, Matthew Schumacher wrote: I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: I use the following to protect my SSH server (well not the SSH server per se, just me reading logfiles the next day) ht

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 05:10, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: I use the following to protect my SSH server (well not the SSH server per se, just me reading logfiles the next day) http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/brute-force-mitigatio

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Jorey Bump
applied to POP3. Your logs indicate that a much lower time limit would suffice (not sure why your second line is -1 seconds after the first, though). Even if the protocol allows it, I'm willing to bet you'll find some brain-dead mail client that has problems, though. C

RE: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread David S. Madole
> From Matthew Schumacher on Monday, May 21, 2007 6:35 PM > > I agree with Blake, while I can do it with IPtables it's not > a good solution. > > The first iptables suggestion blocked the offending IP, which > is fine, but also requires me to babysit the server. The > second suggestion would c

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Blake Hudson wrote: > > These types of threats are becoming more and more common and in reaction > awareness is increasing and more software seems to be implementing > mechanisms to cope. I would personally love to see Cyrus implement some > sort of connection limit or throttling per IP/network/us

RE: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread David S. Madole
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > >> List, >> >> And this spammer is racking up a zillion processes which is killing >> my machine. I need a way to throttle this somehow where he is only >> allowed one connection per IP at a time, or perhaps a way to ignore >> them after so

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote: > Andrew Morgan wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > > > >> And this spammer is racking up a zillion processes which is killing my > >> machine. I need a way to throttle this somehow where he is only allowed > >>

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Andrew Morgan wrote: > I believe there are also some solutions to monitor > connections and automatically add IP addresses to the /etc/hosts.deny > file, but I've never used them myself. Fail2ban will do this (and more) see http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/ If your system uses PAM, it's also worth

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Blake Hudson
Andrew Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > >> List, >> >> And this spammer is racking up a zillion processes which is killing my >> machine. I need a way to throttle this somehow where he is only allowed >> one connection per IP at a time, or perhaps a way to ignore th

Re: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Schumacher wrote: List, I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: May 21 11:01:55 larry pop3[5845]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext bob SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed May 21 11:01:54 larry pop3[5860]: bad

RE: Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Jonathan Villa
mu.edu Subject: Connection throttling POP3. List, I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: May 21 11:01:55 larry pop3[5845]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext bob SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed May 21 11:01:54 larry pop3[5860]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32

Connection throttling POP3.

2007-05-21 Thread Matthew Schumacher
List, I'm getting some spammer trying to guess usernames and passwords: May 21 11:01:55 larry pop3[5845]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext bob SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed May 21 11:01:54 larry pop3[5860]: badlogin: [83.209.35.32] plaintext complaints SAS

Re: pop3 CLOSE_WAIT hang

2007-04-03 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, tloudev wrote: hi, I have serious problem with my cyrus21 (debian sarge 2.1.18-1) - I have hundreds of connectin in CLOSE_WAIT state. I can telnet to port 110 , but sometimes I can't even get the banner of the service. I tried to increase maxchild (now -1 - unlimited), I tr

pop3 CLOSE_WAIT hang

2007-04-03 Thread tloudev
hi, I have serious problem with my cyrus21 (debian sarge 2.1.18-1) - I have hundreds of connectin in CLOSE_WAIT state. I can telnet to port 110 , but sometimes I can't even get the banner of the service. I tried to increase maxchild (now -1 - unlimited), I tried babysit, increasing maxfds up to

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-30 Thread Fabio Silva
Hi, you could use fetchmail to do it, just need to reset all the password from the "Old" server, and configure the file /etc/fetchmailrc works good! Regards, On 3/27/07, BipinDas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I would like to migrate my existing POP3 inboxs to newly cr

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-29 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:10:39PM +0530, BipinDas wrote: > >>I would like to migrate my existing POP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus > >>IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement. > >>Please give me a right solution. > >>Thanks in advance. >

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:10 +0530 BipinDas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I would like to migrate my existing POP3 inboxs to newly created Cyrus IMAP mailbox. Is anybody gone across this requirement. Please give me a right solution. POP3 inboxes are stored locally o

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-28 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Michael Menge wrote: Hi, i know too different konzepts of migrating mailservers. They both have pros and cons. 1. split mbox, copy, reconstruct depending on how your POP-server stores the mails, you have to split each mailbox into single files for every e-mail. Then you copy the files

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