how to proxy for a user [was Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores]

2003-03-19 Thread Luca Olivetti
Ken Murchison wrote: When you authenticate, you need to use a SASL mech which supports proxying. Look at doc/mechanisms.html in the SASL distro for a complete list. In your case, you should be able to use at least PLAIN (you can use others if using OpenLDAP 2.2's auxprop plugin). Here's how you

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Ken Murchison
"John C. Amodeo" wrote: > > Rob, > > >Admin users can authorize as any user they want. > > I've heard this can be done...but how exactly? Does it have something > to do with the 'proxy user' setting or something? What if sasl is > patched for LDAP and does not authenticate locally against t

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread John C. Amodeo
Rob, >Admin users can authorize as any user they want. I've heard this can be done...but how exactly? Does it have something to do with the 'proxy user' setting or something? What if sasl is patched for LDAP and does not authenticate locally against the sasldb? Thanks, -John Rob Siemborski w

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Fair
p.cyrus Cc: "Cyrus Info (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores > We looked into a number of solutions to do what you're doing, and the > best solution (within our budget)

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Lee
We looked into a number of solutions to do what you're doing, and the best solution (within our budget) was to use block level syncing software like drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) with heartbeat (linux-ha). Basically replicates a all data written to disc on the primary to

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Michael Fair wrote: > Is there a reliable way to query the known list of users? > I thinking of big loop: > foreach $user (@users) { syncMailbox($user); } As an admin, you can do a LIST "" "user.%", which will get you the list of user inboxes, which is probably good enoug

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Fair
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Michael Fair wrote: > > > I'm doing some work on how to create a somewhat > > reliable geographically redundant mail system. > > Since I'm guessing you don't want to hear the reasons that this won't work > (synchronizing UIDs and flags, for example, is hard), I won't go into

Re: Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Michael Fair wrote: > I'm doing some work on how to create a somewhat > reliable geographically redundant mail system. Since I'm guessing you don't want to hear the reasons that this won't work (synchronizing UIDs and flags, for example, is hard), I won't go into that. Inste

Geographically Redundant mail stores

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Fair
Greetings all, I'm doing some work on how to create a somewhat reliable geographically redundant mail system. The idea is that site A would be the primary site. The MX record would point to a machine at that site and everything would work as normal. Then there'd be a site B. The backup site if