Re: [OpenAFS] cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-05-21 Thread Chaskiel M Grundman
Whether or not cyrus works with afs now, it does not seem to be a good fit for your scenario. cyrus is a "black box" mail system. All the mail files are owned by the cyrus user and live in filesystem trees designated as cyrus "partitions". The daemons all run as the cyrus user and PAM authentic

Re: [OpenAFS] cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Banz
Cyrus was designed to use a local filesystem with Unix semantics and a working mmap()/write() combination. AFS doesn't provide these semantics so won't work correctly. http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/ share/doc/cyrus21-doc/html/faq.html Is this still the ca

[OpenAFS] cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-05-21 Thread Adam Megacz
Hello, all. We (hcoop.net) currently have Courier working using Maildirs stored in afs (OpenAFS client, OpenAFS server). It's working quite well, except for the fact that courier's authentication mechanism is extremely kludgey and required a good bit of hacking in order to make it utilize pam_af