Correct use of cyr_expire on replicas when expire annotations are in use

2020-06-13 Thread Ian Batten via Info-cyrus
much smaller.  But I see that in 3.0.8 there is a “-a” flag to cyr_expire which suppresses processing of the expire annotation, which I assume deals with this case. Am I thinking along the right lines? ian Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.an

Path to shared Calendars and task lists

2020-06-05 Thread Ian
Hi All, One thing that I wasn't sure from the documentation was where shared calendars and tasklists are on the CalDav server. If joe has permission to fred's calendar https://servername/dav/calendars/user/joe/Default Attempting access to the following by joe fails even when joe has full acces

Re: Replication and Deleted Files

2020-06-04 Thread Ian Batten via Info-cyrus
r XXX XXX XXX   # expire        cmd="cyr_expire -E 7 -X 3 -D 3" at=0100 Thank you again,.,.I shall be back in another 25 years with another query :-) ian Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https

Replication and Deleted Files

2020-06-04 Thread Ian Batten via Info-cyrus
because if I ever had to reconstruct one of the mailboxes, presumably the deleted (I think) messages would all reappear.  Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks ian Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cy

Re: imap clients say i have 4K messages but spool has 12894 files

2020-06-03 Thread Ian Willis
. Delete and expunge the original mailbox and recreate, recopy. In the longer term I would be tempted to move to a newer version of cyrus or if you have the patience closely monitor the file-system to debug how this is occurring. Kind Regards Ian -Original Message- From: Brian J. Murrell To

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 21 May 2012, at 15:08, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> As long as most users don't have easy access to the List-Unsubscribe header >> (Outlook, Apple Mail, etc), then the List-Unsubscribe header can't satisfy >> t

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 21 May 2012, at 12:49, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 11:32 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> On 18 May 2012, at 14:45, Adrian Kovacs wrote >> Using the mechansims described in the List-Unsubscribe header: >> List-Unsubscribe: >> Having said tha

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
the URLs listed in the footer require cyrus.edu accounts for unsubscription. The argument that list members ought to be able to find the List-Unsubscribe header because they're email professionals doesn't wash. It can't be presumed that they all are, and those that aren'

Re: cyrus.index file

2011-11-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
the message isn't there, that should be pretty good evidence. > We are using cyrus & postfix, and would like to check if a user deleted a > certain mail > > thanks > > a > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://list

Re: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
t;> >> I was asked by IT to not permit IDLE since the current server went >> down after 4-500 blackberries ate up all the (limited) capabilities of >> that machine.Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place, the point is >> the demand I am facing is to have IMAP that es

RE: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
vity. <http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.html#sec-5.4> Of course, if the client logs out, then the TCP session should be disconnected. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Hom

Re: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
ives, doesn't it? Even without IDLE, there are benefits in leaving the session open. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.

Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

2010-02-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
simap.web.cmu.edu/twiki >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > 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.h

Re: Setting Up of IMAP Server

2009-12-11 Thread Ian Eiloart
nd line tool. (5) You can use your regular file system backup tools to back up Cyrus-IMAP mailboxes. Emails are stored in separate files, so incremental backups are very efficient. It's possible to use delayed expunge to ensure that all emails are backed up, even if they arrive and are del

Re: Set Folder Permissions

2009-07-17 Thread Ian Eiloart
cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://cyru

Re: sieve configuration (was Automatically moving marked mails?)

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
ion v2 > project: > > http://www.planix.com/~woods/projects/BSD-vacation-v2.html > > It's far from perfect, stale due to lack of Round Tuits, etc., but it's > also, IMHO, orders of magnitude better than the original BSD/Sendmail > version too. :-) It sounds

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 11:51:32 -0400 "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > At Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:42 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails? >> >> There >> probably aren't any SIEVE implementations that do what I suggest, and >

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 11:27:55 -0400 Jorey Bump wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 10:46 AM: >> >> --On 9 July 2009 09:54:31 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams >> wrote: >> >>>>> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM: >>>>>> Except

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 09:54:31 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM: >>>> Except that the sieve server ought to be on the border MTA, so that the >>>> user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time. >

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 09:15:32 -0400 Jorey Bump wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM: > >> Except that the sieve server ought to be on the border MTA, so that the >> user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time. > > That's not feasible for

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
r ought to be on the border MTA, so that the user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
s book). The best solution would be say To: Group Name:; and revert to "undisclosed recipients:;" if the group name has any syntax problems. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Ho

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 July 2009 17:42:04 -0400 "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > At Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:40:44 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails? >> >> Suggestions? > > The answers will depend entirely on what platform one chooses and what

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-06 Thread Ian Eiloart
d > easy to run (both administratively and for users) is definitely a > strategy to think about. Many have already made the move to good > success and the WWW is full of their stories. > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support reques

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Ian Eiloart
wo? I see lots of > negative reports about Exchange, but they mostly come from people who > are using another product based on open standards. I was speaking to a friend who provides Exchange servers for small businesses locally. He says that the most important thing is to have a really good (f

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Ian Eiloart
. > > >> It can hardly be accidental that Microsoft's flagship email clients >> don't quite interoperate nicely with standards based IMAP servers. >> Seems to me it's a driver towards sales of Exchange server services. > > Indeed -- it is no accident, and i

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Eiloart
by spammers. > > David Lang > > 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 -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Eiloart
ot his entire userbase. Most public mailing lists do obfuscated email addresses, and those that don't ought to. > David Lang > > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.

Re: Replication rolling or cron?

2009-02-23 Thread Ian Batten
: online since Thu Feb 12 22:53:26 2009 See: /var/svc/log/network-sync_client:default.log Impact: None. $ That way it res

Re: imp webmail, cyrus imap and virus filtering

2009-02-20 Thread Ian Batten
ur internal system then you have a problem. We use clamav-milter alongside every sendmail instance and therefore scan every piece of mail at every point of handling. ian Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archive

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 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> >> --On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams >> wrote: >> >> > That got me thinking >>

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
e there some clients that to > many connect/disconnects ? Yes. Anything that opens a bunch of mailboxes at the same time might be doing way more than that. You should be measuring "failed attempts", not "attempts". -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Suss

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Batten
not defending the argument, and indeed here we have ~4TB of email on our Cyrus servers. But I don't think the position is entirely without merit, and having gone through the simplifying and distorting mirror of sales droids I can see where it's come from... ian Cyrus Home Page: htt

Re: Fwd: Huge header detection

2009-02-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
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enforcing TLS certificates for replication

2009-01-22 Thread Ian Batten
are the options? ian 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

RE: murder configuration issue final stretch

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
mtp cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="2004" prefork=1 maxchild=50 >lmtpunix cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtpunix" > prefork=1 > > This should listen on port 2004 (instead of the usual 2003) on all > interfaces, plus listen on the un

Re: Storage Sizing: IOPS per mailbox

2009-01-08 Thread Ian Batten
On 08 Jan 09, at 1508, Blake Hudson wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Storage Sizing: IOPS per mailbox > From: ram > To: info-cyrus > Date: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:40:17 PM >> When sizing a storage device for a large cyrus server, the typical >> question asked by stora

Re: Planning for load balancing

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
ple hosts. > Can anyone advice what could help? > > Best, > > Jar. > > 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 -- Ian Eiloart IT

Re: offering limited pop access

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Eiloart
n cram-md5 digest-md5 > > and > ># SASL-Config for all other Daemons > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > sasl_mech_list: plain login > > or you can use just: > > sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop saslauthd > sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb > > This would look in both backend

Re: offering limited pop access

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
ldap to search on for pop3 access I can, but I'm switching to Cyrus IMAP proxy (to enable sharing of mailboxes across backends), and would like to abandon perdition if possible. I don't want to maintain a whole set of software just to support one user. > bye, > Chris &

Re: capability

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 29 October 2008 11:25:04 -0400 Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:18, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> Is there a way that I can prevent the proxies on the front end of >> my Murder >> cluster from advertising MAILBOX-REFERRALS in the CAPAB

offering limited pop access

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
ecifies how to access the LDAP servers. I want everything the same, but with a different value for ldap_filter. Can I just override this in pop3.conf? Or do I set sasl_ldap_filter my cyrus configuration, instead? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyr

capability

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
Hi, Is there a way that I can prevent the proxies on the front end of my Murder cluster from advertising MAILBOX-REFERRALS in the CAPABILITY string? Or from issuing referrals? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki

CAPABILITY response code.

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Eiloart
here is that my front end proxies are issuing referrals causing AL/PINE to attempt to directly reach my backend server (when Fcc copying a message to a Sent mailbox). My firewall causes this to fail. In general, though, there may be other reasons for suppressing advertising of capabilities. --

Re: Cyrus 2.3.13 RC3

2008-10-10 Thread Ian G Batten
t; this to the masses. > > Looks good. The syslog deleted change broke the fastrename patch, > so I > had to re-build it, but otherwise applied fine and is working fine on > our testbed. It's running fine on my test system (Solaris 10 on x86) with SQL backends as pr

Re: Cyrus 2.3.13 RC2

2008-10-08 Thread Ian G Batten
resting. I'll get 2.3.13 onto batten.eu.org and try some testing. The whole instance is under ZFS so I can roll back if necessary. ian 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

Re: Cyrus 2.3.13 RC2

2008-10-08 Thread Ian G Batten
On 08 Oct 08, at 1119, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:24:49 +0100, "Ian G Batten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > said: >> What's the testing status of the SQL backend for cyrusdb? I'll >> switch batten.eu.org over to it, but that onl

Re: Cyrus 2.3.13 RC2

2008-10-08 Thread Ian G Batten
e a 2.3.13. What's the testing status of the SQL backend for cyrusdb? I'll switch batten.eu.org over to it, but that only has a dozen or so users; ftel.co.uk's 1000+ users might be a little tenser. I'm keen to switch as the ability to replicate cyrusdb as well as replicat

Re: MUA not noticing new mail

2008-09-01 Thread Ian Eiloart
xample, we use a cluster of OSX servers, each of which is limited in the kernel to 2500 open processes (and there is no way to change this!). I'd hate to think of all my users having several processes open just on the off chance that email will be delivered to them. --

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-13 Thread Ian G Batten
nfs1020 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 ian 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

SASL MySQL Backend Considered Beneficial

2008-08-12 Thread Ian G Batten
ult NULL, `MD5` varchar(64) default NULL, `cmusaslsecretCRAM` varchar(64) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`username`) ) TYPE=InnoDB Not the question you asked, I know, but I'm been meaning to mention just how flexible this setup is. ian 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

Re: Couple of questions

2008-07-22 Thread Ian G Batten
k at the menus. But if they can't, they are relying on Neolithic client implementations of a Palaeolithic protocol... ian 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

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-21 Thread Ian G Batten
ht take a pass at the cope and see how hard it looks. ian 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

Re: lmtp problem - end of file reached

2008-05-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
g the values of proxy_authname: and proxy_password: as defined in imapd.conf? Hmm, anyone else considering trying this on a live service should make sure that soft_noauth: is enabled. Otherwise, you'll reject email deliveries in the event that your authentication fails. -- Ian Ei

lmtp problem - end of file reached

2008-05-22 Thread Ian Eiloart
pt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 2.1.5 ok data 354 go ahead Subject: foobar . 250 2.1.5 Ok quit 221 2.0.0 bye Connection closed. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
you aren't using SPF, then you can't really complain about backscatter. If you deploy SPF, then you can expect a bit less backscatter, and you can encourage others to check your SPF records. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusim

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
ections. Do > you really mean POP connections, or do you mean IMAP? Or do you mean POP > and IMAP? How many "imapd" and "pop3d" processes do you see on each > server? How many do you see in total across all 4 servers? > > Rob > -- Ian Eiloart IT

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
I suppose that's a good thing, though. > > As a point of reference. We have quite old machines with 8G RAM, 8T > attached storage that easily handle 2000+ processes under linux just fine. > > Rob > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 7 April 2008 10:20:33 -0700 Andrew Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Ian Eiloart wrote: > .. >> >> Is there a way to limit Cyrus process sizes at all? I guess I can take a >> look at my compilation options to try to reduce the startin

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
ook at my compilation options to try to reduce the starting size, but can I limit the process growth? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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

Re: Cyrus and popper

2008-03-12 Thread Ian G Batten
tries in sasldb are authenticated from there; people with just entries in /etc/passwd are authenticated from there. ian 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

Re: Cyrus and popper

2008-03-12 Thread Ian G Batten
another server > and I'd like to migrate users transparently on the same mail server > (the > passwords can be moved without knowledge). I'm not clear what you're asking, but Cyrus can authenticate from anything that calls getpwnam() (ie /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, NIS, e

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be lockingissues

2008-03-05 Thread Ian G Batten
On 05 Mar 08, at 1549, Simon Matter wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ian G Batten wrote: >> >>> software RAID5 is a performance >>> disaster area at the best of times unless it can take advantage of >>> intimate knowledge of the intent log in the filesystem

Re: Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be locking issues

2008-03-04 Thread Ian G Batten
group will be blown out of the water by 4x500GB SATA drives in a RAID 0+1 configuration in terms of performance and (especially) latency, especially if it can do the Solaris trick of not faulting an entire RAID 0 sub-group if one spindle fails. Rebuild still isn't pretty, mind you. ian --

Re: Deleted cyrus.* files

2008-02-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
ECTED] > lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp > allowanonymouslogin: no > allowplaintext: yes > sasl_passwd_check: auxprop > sasl_mech_list: plain login > ># OTHERS > postmaster: postmaster > unixhierarchysep: yes > username_tolower: yes > lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1 > --->END< > &

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-18 Thread Ian Eiloart
quire either To: or Cc: to be present.) > > Phil. > --- > Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > University of Exeter > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
t each time they've made it worse. There was originally a work around (give the group a name that is valid in headers), but then they broke that workaround. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://c

Re: Reject large emails

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Eiloart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Waechterstrasse 76 >> 72074 Tuebingen >> -------- >> >> >> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki >> List Archives/Inf

Re: Cyrus, Radius, Radiator, Vasco

2008-01-30 Thread Ian G Batten
nk about it. Nomadic use is my key requirement: my daughter, for example, wants to access my webmail service from school, and that's a case I'm worried about. There are all sorts of semi-legitimate and illegitimate reasons why a computer used by an 11 year old at school might have

Cyrus, Radius, Radiator, Vasco

2008-01-29 Thread Ian G Batten
many little places where things go wrong. Has anyone done anything similar? ian 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

Re: Cyrus on Solaris at universities?

2007-12-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
ion IMAP proxy on 4 Apple X-Serves mediating an almost completed transition from UoW IMAP, also on a Sun-Fire-880. We migrated partly because the UoW server couldn't handle the disk throughput, and partly for the additional functionality. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex

Re: folder unreadable

2007-12-12 Thread Ian G Batten
I once had to delete the cyrus.* files prior to a reconstruct: they had become toxic to the point that Cyrus's attempts to make use of the information in them was causing problems. ian Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

Re: TMPFS for socket and log directories?

2007-11-30 Thread Ian G Batten
tory only contains a handful of inodes which will sit in the inode cache (if they don't, you've got far deeper problems) and the log directory isn't used other than for weird corner cases. I can imagine if you do a lot of logging there might be some point, but otherwise, w

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-21 Thread Ian G Batten
never gets read back from the message store: the NFS load is almost entirely write as seen from the server. ian 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

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-20 Thread Ian G Batten
pt if the music stops at the wrong point in a directory create or something. ian 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

Re: 2.3.10 Upgrade Question

2007-11-20 Thread Ian G Batten
lbox, so delaying that open while it reads and indexes a few gigs is bad. Does the rebuild need to open every message? Read headers? Bodies? What? ian > > Also, it will only upgrade each index as it is opened for the first > time, so > the load isn't one giant hit.

2.3.10 Upgrade Question

2007-11-20 Thread Ian G Batten
k off some huge rebuild-fest without planning. ian 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

Re: Vacation

2007-11-20 Thread Ian G Batten
ssible solutions. One would be a per-user, or per- user-initial-letter, duplicate database. Another would be to not bother syncing the database (I think this is what berkeley-nosync does, but that doesn't help skiplist users). ian Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrus

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-19 Thread Ian G Batten
consequences aren't serious, and it's most of the write load through that particular filesystem. ian mailhost-new# zfs list -t filesystem | grep imap; df /var/imap/proc pool1/mailhost-space/imap 1.34G 24.6G 346M /var/imap pool1/mailhost-space/imap-seen 105M 24.

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-11-16 Thread Ian G Batten
112 0 2.29M c0t3d0s4 - - 0109 0 2.29M - - - - - - but it's showing no signs at all of being IO bound on the metadata. The spikes are really just spikes for a second: the typical level is about 10 ops / disk / sec

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 15 November 2007 22:15:32 +0200 Joon Radley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > >> Cyrus Mailstore does handle final delivery, but there's plenty of >> opportunity to handle messages before that point. For example, we now >> use Exim and Cyrus Mailstor

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 15 November 2007 15:55:32 +0100 Olaf Fraczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:50 +0200, Joon Radley wrote: >> Hi Ian, >> >> > What I don't understand is that you seem to think that there's a >> > possibility that ema

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 15 November 2007 14:05:43 +0200 Joon Radley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > >> > In IMAP this gets a bit blurred as the INBOX is also >> > the mechanism for receiving new mail. >> >> No, an INBOX is simply a mailbox. It's a place that y

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
the POP3 moves the mail from the > IMAP4 INBOX to the Outlook Inbox. So, now we have to say "In POP3 this gets a bit blurred as the Outlook inbox is also a mechanism for receiving new mail". Heck, wherever you read the email, it got delivered there by some means. -- Ian Eiloart IT

Re: Setting the location of proc independent of configdir

2007-11-15 Thread Ian G Batten
configdir:? >> Indeed, for a lot of people, just shoving it in /tmp/cyrusproc would >> be a good option. > > I didn't test but doesn't a symlink work? Yes, it does (just tried it on a development system). ian Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wi

Setting the location of proc independent of configdir

2007-11-15 Thread Ian G Batten
code says that proc is hardwired to be configdir/proc. Would it be worth considering making procdir: a configuration option, so that it can easily be put somewhere which isn't under configdir:? Indeed, for a lot of people, just shoving it in /tmp/cyrusproc would be a good option.

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-14 Thread Ian G Batten
ly being forced to adopt Exchange en-mass and abandon our > current Cyrus infrastructure. There's purported to be a solution from Concilliant. http:// www.consilient.com/media/2005/c2-for-cyrus.html ian Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Ian G Batten
On 13 Nov 07, at 1335, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> 3. Can't handle high load very well, in fact it handles load >> horribly. > > I have a friend who works at a small shop who reports exactly the same > issue with Zimbra, s..ll...ooo..... > >> 3) ClamAV. Do note how much email I said we d

Timed Actions in Sieve

2007-11-13 Thread Ian G Batten
l solution would be to have the current time available in sieve scripts, to then match on. Has anyone else thought about this area? ian 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/cyr

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Ian G Batten
ard, they think Outlook is a standard. And ``not as seamless'' is a key admission. ian 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

Calendars && Cyrus

2007-11-13 Thread Ian G Batten
n that allows Outlook to believe it has a genuine Exchange instance under it plays nice with Cyrus (its target is Oracle's IMAP server that's bundled with OCS).The OCS plugin for Exchange is smart enough to use CRAM-MD5 (or is it DIGEST-MD5) authentication if available, and TLS if

Renaming heirarchies from the bottom

2007-11-12 Thread Ian G Batten
ve already been moved. Is this safe to do? ian mailhost-new# cyradm --user=mailadm localhost Password: localhost> cm user.testcase localhost> cm user.testcase.subdir localhost> info user.testcase.subdir {user.testcase.subdir}: condstore: false lastpop: lastupdate: 12-Nov-2007 11:

Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
s? I don't know about costs. I do know that you could not outsource our email service without simplifying it a lot. For example, would your contractors be able to use your campus authentication mechanism? Would they be able to use your existing user support processes? Would you be able to in

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-11-09 Thread Ian G Batten
aner way). Begin forwarded message: > From: Ian G Batten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu 25 Oct 07 12:30:57 BDT > To: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cyrus Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released > > &g

Re: ctl_mboxlist -v not quite doing the right thing

2007-10-31 Thread Ian G Batten
On 31 Oct 07, at 1527, Ken Murchison wrote: > Ian G Batten wrote: >> user.markr has, through a sequence of events, ended up with data >> on both partition8 (/var/imap/partition-8) and default (/var/ >> imap/ partition-1). All his mailboxes have been consolidated

ctl_mboxlist -v not quite doing the right thing

2007-10-31 Thread Ian G Batten
user.markr has, through a sequence of events, ended up with data on both partition8 (/var/imap/partition-8) and default (/var/imap/ partition-1). All his mailboxes have been consolidated into default, but there are still copies in partition-8. So I think ctl_mboxlist -v should report that p

64-bit Cyrus?

2007-10-26 Thread Ian G Batten
ger: the problem probably didn't arise until the cache directory got too big! ian 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

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-10-25 Thread Ian G Batten
On 25 Oct 07, at 1501, Ken Murchison wrote: > Ian G Batten wrote: >> On the Linux box, all fresh compilations aside from the sasl >> 2.1.15 binaries: >> imapd 2.3.7 + sasl 2.1.15: works >> imapd 2.3.7 + sasl 2.1.22: works >> imapd 2.3.9 + sasl 2.1.15: not t

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-10-25 Thread Ian G Batten
ying on SIGSEGV. I've caught one in the act. That looks SASL-y: I'll check the versions and upgrade. ian [pid 29202] <... select resumed> ) = 1 (in [0], left {1799, 69}) [pid 29202] time(NULL) = 1193314959 [pid 29202] time(NULL) =

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

2007-10-25 Thread Ian G Batten
s there any way I can run replication from a master running 2.3.9 into a replica running 2.3.10? Or should I back the replica out to 2.3.9 as well? ian 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

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