Re: CalDAV?

2014-12-16 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > Sorry, I wasn't clear on this point. Cyrus CalDAV sends out remote > invites/replies in the same way that Sieve does its work. Its done via > the MTA by piping the email to the local "sendmail" binary. Thanks for the clarification but I'm still not clear on what happens for users / mailbo

Re: CalDAV?

2014-12-16 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > Email-based appointment scheduling is only used if you try to schedule > with someone NOT on the Cyrus server. The Cyrus server will send out > invites/replies via email for remote users. Any local attendees will > have the appointment automatically added to their calendar per the > ca

Re: running cyrus-imapd over openstack cloud storage ?

2012-12-17 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I ask if anyone ever tried cyrus-imapd /var/spool/imap partion over an > openstack cloud storage. > I have such an idea to try it but if anyone already did it, I wanted to > ask if this can slow the cyrus-imap > access to file and folders, or if this is just good for a sort of imap > stor

Re: rooling replication and many pop3d

2011-11-24 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> What IO subsystem do you have on this machine? What filesystem are you >> using? > > I have 4 HDD 500GB S SATA II > with LSI 8704 ELP SAS > RAID 6 > filesystem ext3 mounted with noatime, nodiratime > this my vmstat after I run the command find -type f | xargs cat > > /dev/null : >

Re: rooling replication and many pop3d

2011-11-23 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >>> I enabled replication between two servers with version 2.4.10 cyrus. >>> I set the option for the rolling replication, and it works fine but >>> obviously I have a high CPU load. >>> Unfortunately after 10 minutes of running processes pop3d increasing >>> from 50 to over 200, making the se

Re: rooling replication and many pop3d

2011-11-22 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I enabled replication between two servers with version 2.4.10 cyrus. > I set the option for the rolling replication, and it works fine but > obviously I have a high CPU load. > Unfortunately after 10 minutes of running processes pop3d increasing > from 50 to over 200, making the server unu

Re: Removing sharing of mailbox when granted user is deleted

2011-10-26 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I've searched with "ACL" keyword all my cyrus-info archive and nothing similar > came up in the last 18 months. > > The situation is: > - user A shares a mailbox with user B > - user B at some point is deleted > > how do I remove the ACL on A's folder for B? > > The only way I can think o

Database truncation on ENOSPC (was: Re: Cyrus imap server and filesystem type.)

2011-10-04 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > Yeah, XFS has had its fair share of interesting failure modes along > the way too - but it's not too bad with Cyrus, because Cyrus is very > careful about fsyncs. I use Cyrus on XFS and I've noticed that, for example, the SEEN database can get truncated if you accidentally run out of space.

Re: Migration using imapsync

2011-09-20 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I'm trying to move from an old uw-imap to Cyrus 2.4.8 using imapsync 1.456. > > So far my main problem has been the lack off useful documentation on > imapsync's part. Specially on the --regextrans2 parameter. I managed > to figure that one out by 2 days of Googling and trial-error attempts

Re: Setting TCP keepalive for Cyrus daemons

2011-07-04 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> I just noticed something else when I went to apply the patch. I would >> have added the options to cyrus.conf so a typical entry would change >> from: >> >> imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" proto="tcp4" prefork=0 maxchild=6000 >> >> to: >> >> imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" proto="tcp4"

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> i have a rather peculiar case involving an offline user, who has no >> possibility of internet given his location (satellite is too >> expensive). >> there is power, and he has computer, and there is a "proxy" -- i.e. >> someone who passes once a day in the late afternoon, and picks up a >>

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> How about moving a UUCP spool on the USB stick? ;-) >> >> You could use something like rsync on "incoming" and "outgoing" folder. >> Is it just for eMail? What format are the messages in? > > hi andy, > > the user is running windows, and has a preference for using lookout. i > suppose tha

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > i have a rather peculiar case involving an offline user, who has no > possibility of internet given his location (satellite is too expensive). > > there is power, and he has computer, and there is a "proxy" -- i.e. > someone who passes once a day in the late afternoon, and picks up a usb >

Re: Shared mailboxes doc

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >>> > Does anyone know the option that needs to be set (and how to set it) in >>> > order to do a "bulletin board". i.e. have a separate SEEN state for each >>> > user? >>> Do the imapd.conf sharedseenstate option (disabled) and setting the >>> anyone 's' ACL help? >> I think that the imap

Re: Shared mailboxes doc

2011-01-07 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > > Does anyone know the option that needs to be set (and how to set it) in > > > order to do a "bulletin board". i.e. have a separate SEEN state for each > > > user? > > > > > Do the imapd.conf sharedseenstate option (disabled) and setting the > anyone 's' ACL help? I think that the

Re: Shared mailboxes doc

2010-12-14 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I was experimenting with shared mailboxes today. That's something new > I've never used before. > I wrote a wiki page of my setup on debian squeeze (still on cyrus 2.2) > and was wondering if that was the state of the art, or if there were any > better way to do it. > > http://wiki.linux

Re: Cyrus Imap + Thunderbird 3

2010-11-05 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> Telnet: >> >> telnet solipym.net 143 >> >> * BYE Cannot connect to IMAP server 88.25.37.109 (88.25.37.109:993), >> connect err >> or 10061 >> >> Connection to host lost. > > I get a different response: > > ~$ telnet solipym.net 143 > Trying 88.25.37.109... > Connected to solipym.net. > E

Re: competition

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > Kolab Systems is thinking of such SQL databases for integration purposes, > where the performance penalty now lies within having to use the IMAP > protocol to gain access to the underlying metadata (seen status, message > indexes) in distributed groupware environments where Cyrus itself i

Re: A beginner question about Murder

2010-09-10 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > The tricky part is - there should be a master, and it should > probably either be chosen by some sort of election between the active > servers (here lies high-availability heartbeat magic) or by IP address > allocation. Anybody know if avahi and friends can help here? spread (http://www.sp

Re: DNS load balancing

2010-05-11 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I'm setting up a two-machine cyrus cluster using OCFS2 over DRBD. The > setup is working fine, and I'm now considering the load balancing > options I have. > > I believe the simplest option would be to simply rely on DNS load > balancing. However, for this to work, I need to consider what h

Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

2010-02-16 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > Is there really a significant downside to performing backups on a hot > cyrus mailstore? Should I care if Suzie's INBOX was backed up at 3am and > Sally's INBOX was backed up at 4am? Whilst Cyrus is running, the state of any databases might be inconsistent on disk. This will mean you mi

Re: Incorrect sort order when sorting by date

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I bet if you look at the Date headers of the problem emails, you'll find > that they're not RFC compliant. > > The cyrus date parser is very strict, and if the header isn't RFC > compliant, you'll get a bad value, and bad sorting. > > Looking at the RFC > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc525

Re: Incorrect sort order when sorting by date

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, > I am running cyrus imapd 2.2.13 on NetBSD, as installed from pkgsrc. I've also got a cyrus + roundcube installation and I see the same problem. I've got cyrus 2.2.13-10 on Debian etch. The out of order messages in my INBOX just happen to be spam and some have weird character sets. The d

Re: Delivery to Shared Folders via authenticated SMTP then LMTP

2009-04-22 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, I've managed to get things working now. >> 2009-04-21 15:10:27 H=mx2.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.11.36] >> F= >> temporarily rejected RCPT : response to "MAIL >> FROM:<>" from localhost [127.0.0.1] was: 430 Authentication require > > AB> Your reply went to the list and directly to me: the dire

Re: Delivery to Shared Folders via authenticated SMTP then LMTP

2009-04-21 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, Thanks for your reply. > You should have lines in syslog (/var/log/maillog) from lmtpd of the form > > cyrus/lmtp[]: login: [] >User logged in > > The authzid there will be the user as whom Exim authorized. But I don't > think that's the problem (see below). I do. is exim.

Delivery to Shared Folders via authenticated SMTP then LMTP

2009-04-21 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, I'm having problems getting delivering messages via exim to Shared Folders under cyrus. I've googled around and futzed with configuration options for an entire afternoon and not got very far so I'm wondering if anyone here can help me. First, here's a few words about my configuration. I'm