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 +0000 Alain Williams > wrote: > > >That got me thinking > >I rate limit ssh connections to try to prevent dictionary attacks (3 > >attempts/3 minutes

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Alain Williams
exact same charge could be leveled against HTTP, FTP, > SSH, etc... and if you use certificate/PKI authentication you run the > risk that someone could steal the private keys (and it isn't hard to > make a setup where that is comically easy). It is really far and away > more about

Re: Recommend how to move 31GB of mail to a new server

2007-06-24 Thread Alain Williams
0GB still takes forever. I ran rsync over a few nights, just killing it at 8am. This got us close to where we wanted to be, then on a Saturday I took everything down and ran a final rsync that, IIRC, took about 1/2 hour; switched cyrus/mail/... on the new server on and voila - migration complet

Re: mail lists and cyrus

2006-09-05 Thread Alain Williams
as that of a list and pass it to appropriate mail list software, mailman is what I use and it works well; others like majordomo. -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-28 Thread Alain Williams
at site don't want. 3) most system admins don't have the skills/inclination/... to optimise the set of headers cached. -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://ww

LDAP problem

2005-12-15 Thread Alain Williams
e: [user=testuser] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=ldap] [reason=Unknown] I am at a loss has anyone got any pointers please. TIA -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http:

Re: [info-cyrus] put on the subject line. was: spam

2005-05-17 Thread Alain Williams
a tag to > the subject line and I have always thought that it was a little weird and > wished it was there. > > Just an opinion, Seconded. -- Alain Williams Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 7

Re: Spam coming from list server??

2005-05-16 Thread Alain Williams
>restrict posting to subscribed members. > > The spam can be (and on other lists has been) forged as from members. Then > what? Quite possible ... but more difficult for the spammer to do. Making it closed would improve matters. I would also like to see '[info-cyrus]' p

Re: Messages from 2004

2005-02-26 Thread Alain Williams
getting messages of the > >last year (December)? Someone else too? > > > >By, > > > > -- > Igor > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ma

Re: Cyrus + (insert Best MTA here) Suggestions

2004-11-18 Thread Alain Williams
yrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Alain Williams #include --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: reconstruct with unixhierarchysep:yes

2004-10-14 Thread Alain Williams
eful. See: http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/ > If you submit a complete documentation patch, then either Derrick or I > will take a look at it. I'll put it on my jobs list. -- Alain Williams #include --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: h

Re: reconstruct with unixhierarchysep:yes

2004-10-13 Thread Alain Williams
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:28:45PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote: > Alain Williams wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:56:56PM +0200, Christiaan den Besten wrote: > > > >>Use > >> > >>'reconstruct -r user/ben.lacy' > >> > >

Re: reconstruct with unixhierarchysep:yes

2004-10-13 Thread Alain Williams
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:56:56PM +0200, Christiaan den Besten wrote: > Use > > 'reconstruct -r user/ben.lacy' > Thanks. I have submitted a patch for the reconstruct.8 man page that describes this. -- Alain Williams #include --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.ed

reconstruct with unixhierarchysep:yes

2004-10-13 Thread Alain Williams
x27;t do anything. Am I doing something wrong or is there a real problem here ? I also tried: reconstruct -r ben.lacy still does nothing. -- Alain Williams #include --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info

Re: Antivirus solution

2004-01-30 Thread Alain Williams
ace to something like 15 antivirus scanners, the one that I have been using is Clam AntiVirus (http://www.clamav.net/), open source & seems to have a well updated database (again no subscription). Slotted in nicely with exim, I think that MailScanner has postifx hooks. -- Alain Williams #incl

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Alain Williams
yte of cr*p at their start and were missing a byte at the end. -- Alain Williams #include FATHERS-4-JUSTICE - Campaigning for equal rights for parents and the best interests of our children. See http://www.fathers-4-justice.org

[cyrus] Mail list subject line

2003-12-15 Thread Alain Williams
Would it be possible for the list administrator, to force the adding of something like [cyrus] into the subject line for all mail reflected from this list ? I get quite a lot of mail, other lists do this & I find it a useful way of deciding what to read. Thanks -- Alain Williams #inc

Re: imap and ldap

2003-12-11 Thread Alain Williams
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:02:42PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Alain Williams wrote: > > > Tweak master.c (version 1.82), starting line 138, insert: > > #include > > > > int allow_severity = LOG_DEBUG; > > int deny_severity

Re: imap and ldap

2003-12-11 Thread Alain Williams
ing/verification side of authentication very difficult to do if things go wrong, there is little information that is given to help trace problems. There is also an assumption that you are intimate with the workings of your authentication mechanism. But I like Cyrus, which is why I will to doc

Re: Authenticate Cyrus off active directory

2003-12-04 Thread Alain Williams
when logging in for > the first time. Autocreate seems to be the thing to do, thanks all -- first to get authentication going. Thanks for bearing with me. -- Alain Williams #include FATHERS-4-JUSTICE - Campaigning for equal rights for parents and the best interests of our children. See http://www.fathers-4-justice.org

User creation - automatic subscriptions

2003-12-04 Thread Alain Williams
st is stored in: /var/imap/user/f/fred.sub Is there any reason why I should not just create that file ? Come to that, is there any reason why I should not create the user's mailbox directly, ie .../users/fred/ and use reconstruct to rebuild the cyrus.cache, etc files ? -- Alai

Authenticate Cyrus off active directory

2003-12-03 Thread Alain Williams
saslauthd currently working off pam. I don't mind if I authenticate using kerberos or ldap - whatever works. I am running Cyrus and Sasl 2.1.15 on top of SuSE Linux (enterprise server 8). Uses will (mainly) access cyrus via horde/imp webmail. Can anyone give a simple HOWTO for this ? Many tha

Re: Interesting space issue

2003-03-10 Thread Alain Williams
* Exceeded 2Gb on some file ? * Tried fscking /opt ? -- Alain Williams #include