Thunderbird with shared folders

2005-07-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've got a couple of users set up with shared folders here, and I'm having a problem with Thunderbird correctly storing mail in them. I'm posting it here in the hope someone has seen it before, as my experience filing IMAP related bugs with mozilla.org has been that it's a good way to get igno

Re: cyrus accepts mails for "unknown users"

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Marcus Schopen wrote: > Is there another way? There are no sendmail-8.13.x and Cyrus-2.2.x packages > for Debian and I don't want to build all that stuff from source. I'm in the same situation as you. The options are basically:- a) Upgrade to Cyrus 2.2 and sendmail 8.13 and use the socket map.

Re: silly question: how does mail get in the sent folder?

2004-11-25 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Jochen Staerk wrote: > hmm. As long as you're referring to POP, I completely agree and > understand. But since IMAP-"Sent mail" is stored on a server folder, my > question is: how does it get there? Your mail client puts it there. In the case of your "Sent Mail" being local, it just writes the

Re: How do I fix this: lmtp appears to be case sensitive

2004-10-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Rob Tanner wrote: > Yep. It's in the manpage and i plain just missed it. That works for > me because all out names are lower-case. But I though that both the > recipient and hostname werte supposed to be case insensitive (i.e., > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are the same address).

Re: Sieve overview

2004-10-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Warrick FitzGerald wrote: > Hi All, > > I've trying to find a simple overview of how sieve interacts with Cyrus. > I'm trying to understand if this is a seperate daemon that scans the > mailboxes, or if this is some kind of inline local delivery agent. Sieve filtering is done by Cyrus' lmtpd da

Re: Why doesn't Cyrus put mail into boxes?

2004-08-19 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Mike Jones wrote: > Maybe somebody can help with this: > > I'm working my way through a Postfix/Cyrus/SASL setup with the intention of adding > MySQL later. > > I have come so far that I can see files named __db. grow in the > > /var/lib/cyrus/db directory (Debian woody). What version? Are you

Re: State on shared folders

2004-06-24 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Rob Siemborski wrote: > The only state that is maintained per-user is seen state (well, and > private annotations). All the rest is per-folder. This is both because > its sane (people read folders at different times) and the fact that having > a single file for all seen state users in a share

State on shared folders

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've just set up shared folders on my Cyrus server, and Cyrus is maintaining per-user state for these folders. For my purposes, it would be useful to be able to have state information maintained per folder, as opposed to per user. Is it possible to have Cyrus do this - I can't see any obvious

Re: Remote IMAP Mirror - Suggestions?

2004-04-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Ken Murchison wrote: > > Darren Joy wrote: > >>Well, after an immense struggle, I have persuaded Cyrus to actually work. >>I've never experienced such huge problems with any open source software, >>this is by far the worst, by orders of magnitude. My main problem I think >>was expected the test p

Cyrus and Mozilla (and other multi-threaded clients)

2004-03-12 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, (I've sent this before, but it never seemed to show up, so apologies if anyone has recieved it twice) I remember having seen this discussed before, but I can't find any resolution, so I'm asking about it again in the hope that someone can educate me about exactly what goes on... AFAIK, when

Re: Performance question...

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Michael J Barber wrote: > This rings a bell. > > His test system is a Pentium 200 with less than 10 users and just auto generated > test messages. The mail boxes were growing to 20-30MB...at least with the > Courier setup. > > Any other info would be great and thanks for the note. > > BTW the e

Re: Performance question...

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Michael J Barber wrote: > Folks I need a bit of feedback and insight. > > A co-worker of mine is implementing an IMAP server here and has decided to ditch > Cyrus after he thought it was too slow and could not configure it. That being > said, I don't want to address the configuration issue. I am

Re: Cyrus 2.1.15 blocking connections after upgrade

2004-02-09 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > Master and the service processes communicate over a socket -- master keeps > track of the number of available and busy workers, and when the available > number gets too low (below the "prefork" value)

Re: Cyrus 2.1.15 blocking connections after upgrade

2004-02-09 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > >>Some connections behave as expected, but some connections to port 143 >>just hang. Using telnet to connect to the port shows that the TCP >>connection is established, but the Cyrus banner never ap

Cyrus 2.1.15 blocking connections after upgrade

2004-02-09 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've just upgraded a 50 user Cyrus installation from 2.0.16 to 2.1.15, and users are now having problems connecting. Some connections behave as expected, but some connections to port 143 just hang. Using telnet to connect to the port shows that the TCP connection is established, but the Cyrus

Re: Install problem resolved.

2004-01-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
David Grant wrote: > Jan 29 08:58:42 server1 pop3s[31979]: pop3s: required OpenSSL options not > present > Jan 29 08:58:42 server1 pop3s[31979]: Fatal error: pop3s: required OpenSSL > options not present > Jan 29 08:58:42 server1 master[24086]: service pop3s pid 31979 in READY > state: terminated

Preserving IMAP flags across an upgrade

2004-01-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I'm upgrading from Cyrus 2.0.16 to 2.1.15, and, while I'm now nearly there, I've still got one outstanding problem - IMAP flags other than (\Seen) and (\Recent) are not being preserved across the upgrade. My understanding is that the (\Seen) and (\Recent) flags for an account called bob are b

Re: Upgrade from 2.0.16 to 2.1.15 debian package - cvt_cyrusdb aborts

2004-01-29 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Mike Brodbelt wrote: > $ /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb \ /var/lib/cyrus/user/s/se.seen.old flat \ > /var/lib/cyrus/user/s/se.seen skiplist Converting from > /var/lib/cyrus/user/s/se.seen.old (flat) to > /var/lib/cyrus/user/s/se.seen (skiplist) cvt_cyrusdb: > cyrusdb_skiplist.c:1037: mys

Upgrade from 2.0.16 to 2.1.15 debian package - cvt_cyrusdb aborts

2004-01-27 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I'm trying to migrate my users from a Cyrus 2.0.16 install (built from source) to Cyrus 2.1.15 (the Debian package backported for Woody). I'm currently testing the procedure on a copy of my mail mail server - here's a brief outline of the migration process:- Shut down old Cyrus, exported ma

Upgrade causing trouble with sasldb2

2004-01-27 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my Cyrus 2.0.16 setup to Cyrus 2.1, and I'm hitting a snag with /etc/sasldb2. I have cloned my old install on a new machine in order to test the upgrade, and ran the old /etc/sasldb through sasldbconverter2(8) in the process of upgrading. However, because I cloned the s

Re: sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17: check presence of the cyrus mailbox during establishing SMTP connection

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:57:01AM -0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > Sendmail has a mailer flag, usually associated with the `local' mailer, > but one that could be associated with the `cyrus' mailer. When this > flag is present, sendmail will l

Re: sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17: check presence of the cyrus mailbox during establishing SMTP connection

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:35:31PM +0100, Andrzej Filip wrote: >> Mike Brodbelt wrote: >> >> There are two alternative approaches I can think of right now: >> 1) custom milter >> [servicing only "RCPT TO:"] >> 2) socket map >> [ avai

Re: sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17: check presence of the cyrus mailbox during establishing SMTP connection

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
A Clockwork Orange wrote: > Hello, > > sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17 > > I'd like sendmail to check presence of the cyrus mailbox during > establishing SMTP connection. > If the cyrus mailbox doesn't present sendmail drops SMTP connection > (doesn't recieve email). > What have i to write in s

Re: Slightly OT - export formats

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Brodbelt
mb/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Can anyone suggest a good format to export this mail into, that will >>>retain the messages, folders, and folder structure. They're going to try >>>an import it into Outlook at the other end, so something that Outlook >>>can read would be good. >> > > We are assuming

Slightly OT - export formats

2003-10-28 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Not really primarily a Cyrus question, but I was hoping someone here might have prior experience. I had a few users hosted on a Cyrus server here, who have now departed for a new office, and would like to take their mail with them. Preferably, I'd like to be able to stick it onto a CD and send it

Re: Sieve interface for spam filtering scripts?

2003-09-30 Thread Mike Brodbelt
> Squirrelmail has a sieve plugin. Maybe give that a try ;) I'll second that. I'm using Squirrelmail and the sieve plugin in production, and can vouch for it. Works very well, and users have no problem setting up spam filtering. I use sendmail/milter/spamassassin to tag all incoming mail - it's th

Re: converting /var/spool/mail to cyrus format

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Brodbelt
joe ritter wrote: > Hello, > We need to transition standard UNIX mbox's in > /var/spool/mail/$username to the cyrus format. IWe are > basically moving from UW IMAP to Cyrus. I was > wondering if documetnation on this proceudre was > available and/or if there were any gotchas. When I did this, I ba

Re: looking for Cyrus mail format documentation

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote: >>| Doing replicated IMAP stores (espeically geographicly distanct ones) is >>| not an easy problem. >> >>It's easy if every message is a separate file. > > This is not true. It has nothing to do with the implementation of the > mails

Re: convert Unix-style spooled mail to cyrus

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Brodbelt
test s wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to convert Unix-style spooled mail to cyrus. There's a program called mbxcvt in the UW imap-utils package that'll do it. It will parse a unix mailbox file and put it into an IMAP folder using IMAP commands. I think they've changed the name in recent v

Re: Migrating from Exchange to Cyrus!?

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Brodbelt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello folks! > > Is it possible to migrate from Exchange 5.5 to Cyrus? Yes. That said, it's not necessarily entirely painless > We have a mailserver running with multiple domains about 500 mailboxes > and want to use Cyrus on FreeBSD now. How i can do that, any ho

Re: Migrating from BSD style mailbox to Cyrus v2

2002-11-13 Thread Mike Brodbelt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We currently tested mbxcvt and mailutil from the UW-IMAP utils to > copy/transfer all the mails to the new Cyrus mail server but the problem > that we've encoutered is that using for example: > > mailutil transfer '{oldmailserver/imap}' '{newmailserver/imap}' > > is th

Re: Perl filtering before final delivery

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Ian McDonald wrote: > > The IMAP users won't have Unix logins on the server. This FAQ answer > suggests that putting the IMAP users in /etc/passwd is a prerequesite for > using .forward. Is it? Yes. The FAQ addresses sendmail, and you don't actually say which MTA you're using, but it is the MTA w

Death by Sieve

2002-09-28 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, The following story happened to me on Friday - it's posted here for amusement and edification, and also because I have a nagging feeling that the software ought to be able to do something to prevent this sort of thing, though I'll admit I'm not entirely sure what. Some background - I run a cy