Gary Mills wrote:
> We have a moderate-sized Cyrus system for 30,000 students and 3000
> employees. ... I know that CMU and other universities want
> to maintain their own e-mail systems. What's the justification in
> these cases?
>
>
>From a security perspective, you maintain control and priv
Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:18:04AM -0800, Vincent Fox wrote:
>
>> Our latest line of investigation goes back to the Fastmail suggestion,
>> simply
>> have multiple Cyrus binary instances on a system. Each running it's own
>> config and with it's own ZFS filesystems out o
Original Message
Subject: Re: Is the hard limit on mail box quota (still) 2 Gigs?
From: Alain Spineux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Steven Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:20:18 PM
On Feb 6, 2008 7:30 PM, Steven Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
H
Original Message
Subject: Re: cyrus pop3 question
From: Jorey Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:18:58 PM
Corey wrote, at 04/16/2008 04:29 PM:
I just had an experience where my server was getting slammed with thousands
o
Original Message
Subject: Re: cyr_expire -E ?
From: Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:23:16 AM
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:19:40AM +0100, David Carter wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David R Bosso wrote:
Original Message
Subject: Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct
From: Derrick Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:20:28 AM
> I have been having a few problems as of late.
>
> First, lost emails. Well they aren't
Sounds like bad RAM maybe corrupting the cyrus
databases... Any other
indication of file corruption or system
locking/freezing/rebooting
(things associated with bad memory) ?
In a PC I'd run memtest86, dunno if that option is
available to you.
-Blake
Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct
From: Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Derrick Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:53:52 AM
I am on a mac os x server 10.3.9
not sure how to find the cyrus version, naive i
know.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus questions, lost emails, reconstruct
From: Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Blake Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:29:37 AM
my
own PAM module which denies all upper case usernames (we wanted all
lowe
Hey all, last time I checked replication was undergoing major overhauls
and incompatibility between minor versions of 2.3.x was pretty great.
There were also a few bugs that could potentially cause trouble down the
road. I've had the need to create setups with failover servers and have
continue
I believe you'll need 2.3.x for that.
--Blake
Original Message
Subject: Quota >4GB, in which version?
From: Lars Schimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:42:38 PM
> Hi!
>
> Just a quick question: from which version on does c
You should be able to delete the deliver, annotations, and tls_sessions
db files along with the files in /var/lib/imap/db and restart without
any loss of data.
If this does not fix the problem you likely have issue with the
mailboxes db file. In that case, you will likely have to replace it wit
I brought this subject up on the list a few times over the years and
never received any interest in updating cyradm/fud to report on the last
pop(login) date correctly.
Rather than try to fix cyrus myself, I decided to write my own script
which tails the mail log and looks for successful pop/imap/
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 storage vendors is what is the IOPS required per
> mailbox
>
Original Message
Subject: Re: howto list inactive users in cyrus:
From: Chris Conn
To: Blake Hudson
Date: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:38:38 AM
> Blake Hudson wrote:
>> I brought this subject up on the list a few times over the years and
>> never received
Original Message
Subject: Fwd: Huge header detection
From: Carlos Horowicz
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:34:39 PM
> Hi there,
>
> postfix author suggested me to post here following issue :
>
> we received a spam that bypassed all control
Original Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus DB Errors "DBERROR: error fetching user.username"
evenafter reconstructs
From: Josh Whitver
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:32:52 PM
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Josh Whitver wrote:
>
> Yea
We're able to utilize ~ 4GB of cache on a 32bit installation of
Cyrus/Postfix (we're using ext3 - dunno if it has a different cache
limitation compared to reiser). This installation serves ~15k mailboxes
and has between 250 and 500 active POP/IMAP sessions at any given time.
Unfortunately, we
I'm not a sieve guru, but I might be able to point you in the right
direction for troubleshooting... How are you making your sieve scripts
(websieve, squirrelmail plugin, horde/IMP, etc)? Are you sure the
forwarding and sieve reject options are working as expected to generate
new messages? Do y
Cyrus + Sieve
From: Gottschalk, David
To: Blake Hudson , info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:18:02 PM
I'm using SmartSieve to create the scripts.
The forwarding and reject options are working as expected.
Do duplicate delivery dbs create issues?
David Gotts
That looks valid as far as I can tell... Are you sure the messages are
actually being sent to one of the listed addresses?
--Blake
Original Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus + Sieve
From: Gottschalk, David
To: Blake Hudson , info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Thursday, May
eve
From: Gottschalk, David
To: Blake Hudson , info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:41:05 PM
Yeah, I’m sending emails to that address.
How do I enable duplicate suppression? I think that might be my issue.
I’ve enabled it in imapd.conf, and defined the database type,
Any errors in the log? does your configdirectory have the proper
ownership/permissions?
drwxr-x--- 18 cyrus mail4096 May 21 13:01 imap
-Blake
Original Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus + Sieve
From: Gottschalk, David
To: Blake Hudson , info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date
riginal Message
Subject: Re: Cyrus + Sieve
From: Gottschalk, David
To: Blake Hudson , info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:24:09 PM
Cannot find any error(s) in the logs.
Permissions are correct on the folder.
David Gottschalk
UTS Email team
Is there a general way of estimating typical squat file usage when
compared with the number of messages in a mailbox?
When comparing a du of the server against quotas I noticed that some
mailboxes where using almost twice as much disk space than their set
quota. The culprit seems to be many sma
I recently setup a new server and everything tested well. However, once
in production I am seeing errors like the following:
pop3PRTC[20896]: badlogin: [204.x.x.x] PLAIN encryption needed to use
mechanism
I wasn't aware that POP utilized other mechanisms? I can login just fine
with telnet and
Original Message
Subject: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Blake Hudson
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:13:52 AM
> I recently setup a new server and everything tested well. However, once
> in produc
to be advertising PLAIN. Why isn't PLAIN
advertised over both?
--Blake
Original Message
Subject: Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Scott M. Likens
To: Blake Hudson
Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1
Original Message
Subject: Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Dan White
To: Blake Hudson
Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:49:51 AM
Blake,
What sasl lines do you have in /etc/imapd.conf. Do you have an
Original Message
Subject: Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Dan White
To: Blake Hudson
Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:20:08 AM
> Blake Hudson wrote:
>> Original Message
>
>
> Agreed. A possible work around until you figure out the issue would be
> to add '-p 256' within cyrus.conf, for your pop3 entry (see man pop3d).
>
> That would emulate a sasl security layer of 256 bits, and would be
> treated as if you had connected via SSL when you hadn't.
>
> - Dan
That d
Original Message
Subject: Re: 'PLAIN encryption needed to use mechanism' error
From: Dan White
To: Blake Hudson
Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:01:19 AM
>
> However, on an older server, I *do* have the -p option specifie
Is there a howto for setting up multiple cyrus instances?
I have created two sets of:
startup scripts
cyrus.conf files (each process told to use the corresponding config file
and IP)
imapd.conf files
/var/spool/imap directories
/var/lib/imap directories
I thought I had everything running fine
Original Message
Subject: Multiple instance Howto?
From: Blake Hudson
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:30:55 PM
> Is there a howto for setting up multiple cyrus instances?
>
>
> I have created two sets of:
> startup scrip
Andy Bennett wrote:
> In failure cases existing clients will wobble for a bit until their
> cache expires and then the connections will have to be reestablished.
>
I wish it were that straightforward. After performing several
switchovers where DNS A records were repointed, many clients (days
Jim Norton wrote:
Quoting Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Anyone knows any scripts for stress testing an email system I just
brought up??
Would appreciate pointers to some if possible.
How about a simple Perl script that sends multiple emails per second
to a few system and Cyrus mailboxes
Ole, I've noticed that Thunderbird can often slow down on larger imap
accounts or certain folders with a large number of messages. One thing I
have done is to clear out the files in
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\\ImapMail
This should not cause loss of messa
Scott, just for some simulated testing I installed Cyrus 2.3 on a test
box and loaded up a mailbox to over 10GB (hundreds of thousands of tiny
messages). The mailbox was still responsive, however the squat process
would take a long time to run and would lock the mailbox for long
periods while i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> I am not sure if this is the right forum to place my question. If not
> i would appriceate if everyone would forgive me my mistake.
>
> I have a Standard Fedora 5 Installation running. Standard meens to me
> everything installed via RPMs (the Cyrus-sasl2.12
Hello, I'm working to implement a system that will automatically disable
a user's account due to inactivity. Inactivity is defined as a user not
logging into their mailbox within an arbitrary amount of time(90, 120,
... , n days).
I can handle the scripting if there's a way I can determine the las
I haven't seen a response to how to accomplish this through cyrus. I
could parse the log files, but I see this as a fairly messy way to
accomplish what I'm after.
How does fastmail accomplish this? Does anyone else currently do this?
Thanks in advance,
-Blake
Blake Hudson wrote:
&g
Mirosław Jaworski wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:19 -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen a response to how to accomplish this through cyrus. I
>> could parse the log files, but I see this as a fairly messy way to
>> accomplish what I'm after.
>
I know I've seen it before, but I've been having a hard time finding a
good comparison of the different db types supported by cyrus and their
respective strengths/weaknesses. Does anyone have a link they could share?
Thanks in advance,
-Blake
Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
Cyr
ll be a berkeley db environment stored in db?
Also, are there any foreseeable problems making this move?
Thanks,
-Blake
FORMER 03 | Baltasar Cevc wrote:
>
> On 19.01.2007, at 01:02, Blake Hudson wrote:
>
>> I know I've seen it before, but I've been having a hard time f
Do you have your admin user defined correctly in imapd.conf?
timdau wrote:
> I am trying to move a cyrus-imap server from a freebsd machine to a
> linux machine.
>
> On the freebsd machine I have db4.2 and cyrus-imapd-2.2.8
> On the linux machine I have db4.2 and cyrus-imapd-2.2.12
>
> I copied th
I would suggest starting by reviewing your memory usage (esp. swap) with
top and disk usage with "iostat -x 3" (part of the sysstat package)
More than likely you are running into problems in one of these areas.
-Blake
Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello
>
> We have a cyrus server that runs under heavy
What format is your deliver.db file?
I've had success changing mine to skiplist on more heavily utilized servers.
-Blake
Andre Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:00 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
>
>> Well, it's funny, I still see the "duplicate_check" lines in the log,
>> but watching the
I am having a problem where long POP transactions are being closed by
the server.
I turned on per-user debugging, but didn't actually see the problem
until I ran a packet sniffer(wireshark) on the server.
The transaction goes as follows:
1) Client connects/auths
2) Client lists mailbox contents a
John M. Crawford wrote:
> Blake,
> I'm wondering about the same thing... Did you come up with
> a nice method to determine last login event?
> thanks,
> John
I have not yet put in the effort into making a system to do this. It may
be easy enough to hack at the cyrus code, but honestly I don't feel
Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>
>> List,
>>
>> And this spammer is racking up a zillion processes which is killing my
>> machine. I need a way to throttle this somehow where he is only allowed
>> one connection per IP at a time, or perhaps a way to ignore th
Thunderbird automatically downloads messages for pop accts into the
"Local Folders" at the bottom of the folder list. IMAP acts have
individual inbox, outbox, etc folders. The messages retrieved via POP
should still be under local folders and the client can drag n' drop them
into the IMAP folders i
Cyrus could lag at this stage if there is a problem reversing its own
IP. With the 'listen' argument specified as is, I would think it would
be reversing 127.0.0.1 (or possibly the main IP on the box?). Make sure
that you have both of these IPs specified in the hosts file. Also make
sure that your
Joseph Brennan wrote:
> --On Tuesday, October 9, 2007 14:19 +0100 Ian G Batten
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> We have ~35K mailboxes (as reported by ctl_mboxlist -d | wc -l), and
>> the LIST takes upwards of 5 minutes. The imapd spins as much CPU as
>> it can get hold of, too.
>>
>
>
> Meanwhile, we hacked around this in a very cool way. We copied the imapd
> process 60 times (assuming average of 12,000 processes, shooting for 200
> processes per executable, that is 60 individual executables). These were
> named /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd_001 through /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd_060. W
Original Message
Subject: POLL: what should reconstruct -f do?
From: Bron Gondwana
To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu, cyrus-de...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Friday, April 22, 2011 6:07:00 PM
> 1) what we do now - require a cyrus.header in the directory
>or ignore it.
>
> 2
Ron Vachiyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a small tool we were using in an earlier version of Cyrus, using
> fud-client to check the last-seen time of a mailbox;
>
>
>
> user: ronvach
> mbox: user.ronvach
> Number of Recent 1
> Last read: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
> Last arrived: Tue May 10 12:27:16
>
>> Really? I've never gotten anything but epoch on any Cyrus version (2.1,
>> 2.2, 2.3) or OS (Fedora 3, 5, CentOS5) that I've tried. I brought it up
>> on the list a long time ago (2006) and it never got any interest, and
>> others have brought it up since (2009) with no interest, so I
>> impl
I'm looking to create a tool that will double check replication,
backups, and migrations to ensure that they are working correctly and no
corruption has crept in.
The tool MUST:
1) Work via IMAP
2) Compare a single user's mailbox between 2 servers and report any
differences between the two
ssage
Subject: Re: Replication double check
From: Bron Gondwana
To: Blake Hudson
Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Friday, May 27, 2011 5:27:36 PM
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 01:07:27PM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote:
>> I'm looking to create a tool that will doubl
rsync
As often as you want (we perform between 1 and 24 snapshots per day,
depending on the server).
Expect someone to want x message(s) restored that he/she accidentally
deleted. If you don't use delayed expunge/delete, you'll probably want
to retain a week's worth of daily backups for such event
I see some mention back in 2004 on this list about preliminary logwatch
script creation for Cyrus. It looks like there's nothing official
(couldn't find mention of logwatch in the cyrusimap.org site, didn't see
anything in the latest release tar.gz) and no logwatch script for Cyrus
is included
Ram wrote the following on 5/30/2012 8:53 AM:
>
> On 05/30/2012 02:26 PM, Eric Luyten wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 9:24 am, Ram wrote:
>>> On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote:
>>>
On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote:
> I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a diff
Marcus Schopen wrote the following on 10/16/2012 10:26 AM:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about a strategy to keep my cyrus server (2.2.13 on Ubuntu
> 10.04 LTS) in sync with a cold standby server. This hasn't to be a
> live/hot sync and I'd like to keep it as simple as possible. A sync
> delay up to 30 m
> In another email discussion on the Redhat mailing list, I've confirmed
> we have
> an issue with partition alignment. This is getting to be quite the mess
> out there. I saw one posting where it is speculated there are
> thousands of
> poorly set up disk partitions for their RAID stripe size
francis picabia wrote the following on 1/25/2013 7:55 AM:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Blake Hudson <mailto:bl...@ispn.net>> wrote:
There are a couple suggestions I'd like to put forth. First, improper
partition alignment is generally masked by the contr
Rudolf Gabler wrote the following on 9/11/2013 2:46 AM:
> the system is running as expected. After approximately the 10 imaps contact
> suddenly the following occurs:
>
> Sep 11 09:43:29 xmailer imaps[8168]: DBERROR: SQL query failed: MySQL server
> has gone away
> Sep 11 09:43:29 xmailer imaps[8
Simon, while I think you're the best contact for my question, I'm
including the list to be helpful to others that may have a similar question.
We run multiple instances of Cyrus on a server and I noticed that your
cvt_cyrusdb_all script cites mult-instance support several places in the
change l
Michael Hieb wrote on 5/19/2017 4:48 AM:
Apologies for long post, most of it is configuration details.
...
# UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/socket
SERVICES {
# add or remove based on preferences
#imap cmd="imapd" listen="imap" maxchild=-1 maxforkrate=100
imap cm
Ditto. Noticed the issue yesterday afternoon.
C:\Users\blake>ping www.cyrusimap.org
Pinging WWW-01.cyrusimap.org [128.2.12.195] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 128.2.12.195:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received =
Thank you Bron. I was not aware of the advent calendar posts, but after
reading one I can see what a great level of transparency and insight
you've provided. I'm going to go back and read the rest now.
--Blake
Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote on 12/22/2015 2:03 AM:
For those of you not foll
I saw that Dovecot was recently audited by a security team known as
Cure53, funded by Mozilla. The team's conclusion was favorable, finding
few minor errors within the core components of Dovecot (lesser used
components were not included in the audit).
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/4/4d/Do
Niels Dettenbach wrote on 1/25/2017 4:43 AM:
Am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2017, 09:10:42 CET schrieb Blake Hudson via Info-
cyrus:
As a security conscious server admin, I am curious whether similar
audits been performed against Cyrus or are future audits on the road map?
Hi Blake,
from my view
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