Re: Performance question...

2004-02-25 Thread Simon Brady
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > db 3.2 is safe. I don't know about 3.3. 4.0 and 4.1 are a NO GO for SMP. Is this all Linux SMP installations, or just those using NPTL? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical

Re: lmtpd reporting faulty parse errors

2004-02-16 Thread Simon Brady
eady know the special meaning being given to the verb "require": perhaps something like "require" statement missing for fileinto capability would be clearer? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin,

Re: skiplist vs db format

2004-01-25 Thread Simon Brady
p/proc on tmpfs. At our site this made a dramatic improvement to load average, and although it won't cure your bottleneck it should at least free up some disk I/O capacity for DB access. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of

Re: Trouble logging with syslog

2004-01-07 Thread Simon Brady
nd anything in the docs, a crude approach would be catch *.debug then selectively add ";foo.none" on to the end of it until you find which one imapd is using. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: deletemailbox: System I/O error

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Brady
database: easiest way (although it involves restarting your server) is to dump the database to text with ctl_mboxlist -d, edit the output text file and remove all lines referring to the user, then reimport with ctl_mboxlist -u. This assumes you want to completely get rid of the

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-29 Thread Simon Brady
n the original message properly - while you might get away with autoconf 2.53 for 2.57, automake 1.5 is probably too far behind 1.7 to be of use. Then again, maybe it's worth testing - if it does work out then I'll claim to have known so all along :-) -- Simon Brady

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.2-BETA Released

2003-10-29 Thread Simon Brady
(but not 7.2) supplies more recent auto* tools in the automake15 and autoconf253 RPMs. How about adding a weak dependence on those, for cases where users need to run them? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: Quota problems running 2.1.15

2003-10-20 Thread Simon Brady
with ctl_mboxlist -u then rerun quota -f. You should be able to identify the offending mailbox by observing where quota gets up to before dying. Good luck! -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: cyrus auto account provisioning

2003-07-29 Thread Simon Brady
nd simplifies manual operations too). As well as mailbox creation the scripts do things like LDAP updates and delivery of standard welcome messages - it's highly site-specific and more than a little crufty, but it does the job for us. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EM

Re: quota warning problem - Is it a bug of cyrus imap?

2003-06-30 Thread Simon Brady
th was being done in 32 bits: 10G mod 4G = 2G, and 90% of 2G is 18% of the original 10G figure. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: problems with imap and imsp installation

2003-06-27 Thread Simon Brady
ing on Solaris 8 (SASL 2.1.10) but it was a painful process - not because of the Cyrus code, but because of problems with the supporting infrastructure. This page was a lifesaver for me, especially the gem about libtool and runpaths: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/LDA

Cyrus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2003-06-10 Thread Simon Brady
see anything official). We have zero SuSE experience in-house, so RH kind of have us by the danglies...] Thanks for any feedback, Simon -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: Message with attachments shows up totally empty.

2003-06-03 Thread Simon Brady
ilename="attached.html" You'll need to consult the MIME spec (RFC2045) if you want all the gory details, but even a cursory look at the raw message should give you an idea of what's coming through. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

RE: Questions about LDAP schema and Multi-Domain IMAP

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Brady
S, in which case they seem to be a _lot_ simpler to set up from scratch than some of the other mechanisms (judging by the frequent requests for help I see on the SASL list). Of course, if you can't enfore strong transport-layer encryption then your point stands. -- Simon Brady

Re: Deleting records from db

2003-02-26 Thread Simon Brady
way (the damaged mailbox had killed an overnight quota check and corrupted the quota db), so this "brute force and ignorance" approach made sense at the time. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: compiling error - cannot find -lssl

2003-02-18 Thread Simon Brady
documented in http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1798 This is due to an OpenSSL detection patch I submitted, which unfortunately lost a line somewhere between submission and application... -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services Univer

Re: compiling error - cannot find -lssl

2003-02-18 Thread Simon Brady
re is only 7389 lines long (vs 12902 for 2.53). To be absolutely certain, I'd suggest completely nuking your build dir, untarring the source distro again, then copying in the configure.in from CVS and rerunning autoconf 2.13. Yes, I know it sounds superstitious, but it's got me out of a fe

Re: compiling error - cannot find -lssl

2003-02-17 Thread Simon Brady
ther the RPMs will work on RH8, but a troll through the list archives should answer that question. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: compiling error - cannot find -lssl

2003-02-17 Thread Simon Brady
, replace the top-level configure.in with the latest mainline version (currently 1.259) from CVS: http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/configure.in Obviously you'll need to reconfigure after this. If this doesn't help, can you please p

Re: Issues with Install

2003-02-04 Thread Simon Brady
other things in imapd.conf you need to set - the imapd.conf manpage is a must-read for this. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: PHP 4.2.3 for Redhat 7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Brady
etimes make the best sense. Until you go to upgrade, of course :-) -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: PHP 4.2.3 for Redhat 7.3

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Brady
nother distribution (www.rpmfind.net lists a few) and do an rpm --recompile, but that may introduce subtle problems of its own. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: Problem after removing quota

2003-01-25 Thread simon . brady
will run amok. Smelly stuff will happen. I'm quite happy for Cyrus to shut down when it detects a "this can't happen" situation, but personally I wish quota could have done so in a less drastic fashion. Maybe it's worth considering how quota management can be made more robu

Re: lmtpd NUL rejection

2003-01-13 Thread simon . brady
not sure what the right fix is for this. It's trivial to identify the long-line case, but should lmtpd return an error (and if so, what?), or should it try to handle this pathological case? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: lmtpd NUL rejection

2003-01-11 Thread simon . brady
.0 so it looks like we've got another upgrade to do. Fortunately the new edition of the bat book has come out just in time... Thanks! -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: saslauthd performance anxiety

2003-01-11 Thread simon . brady
passwords, it might be useful to show info like the username, when its entry was added to the cache, and when it was last hit. This could be handy when answering questions like "why did user X experience an auth failure at time T?". -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL

Re: saslauthd performance anxiety

2003-01-09 Thread simon . brady
"out-of-band signalling", which seems better than tinkering with the socket protocol. -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

lmtpd NUL rejection

2003-01-09 Thread simon . brady
ving to lmtpd encountered this, or are we just particularly weird? Thanks... Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Specialist Ph. +64 3 479-5217 ITS Technical Services Fax +64 3 479-5080 Univer

Re: saslauthd performance anxiety

2003-01-09 Thread simon . brady
to understand and maintain, so going to a smart back-end is a better long-term solution. Oh well, live and learn... Thanks for the advice all the same! Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Specialist Ph. +64 3 479-5217 ITS

Re: saslauthd performance anxiety

2003-01-09 Thread simon . brady
panding the ldap_filter expression gives the fully-qualified DN 2. There is no cost to staying bound as a named user These held for our shell back-end, but I don't know how applicable they are to wider use. Still, if anyone's interested I've attached the patch (against

Re: Problems with authentication

2003-01-02 Thread simon . brady
Michael Obster wrote: >S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure >Authentication failed. generic failure >Security strength factor: 0 Are you logging cyrus (local6.debug) and SASL (auth.debug)? If so, what do they say? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

saslauthd performance anxiety

2002-12-31 Thread simon . brady
m would keep going. Can anyone offer advice on tuning the saslauthd pool? Are there particular options, either on the command line or in saslauthd.conf, which I should be looking at? Many thanks... Simon -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: someoone are using saslauthd+ldaps?

2002-12-31 Thread simon . brady
work from the machine, e.g. can you do an ldapsearch to ldaps://host? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: SASLAuthD keeps dying.

2002-12-31 Thread simon . brady
advice about checking which libraries it's picking up: I sweated several hours over a different saslauthd problem only to find that ldd told me the answer instantly.) -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: [Annoyed] Cyrus-imapd/sasl upgrade and lmtpd behaviour...

2002-12-31 Thread simon . brady
server. Mind you, it's under Sendmail 8.9.x - perhaps it need to be moved to an outer scope? -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: make depend problems

2002-12-31 Thread simon . brady
ea what the problem could be ??? I am using standard > GNU tools on Solaris 9. Are you using the --disable-sieve configure option? It's broken and will produce this error, but the attached patch (tested on Solaris 8 with GNU tools) fixes the problem. -- Simon Brady

Re: Question: How to specify path to saslauthd mux socket inimapd.conf?

2002-12-10 Thread simon . brady
t in Light mode you have to open the "Last SSL Info" dialog to get to Cert Manager, and you can't open that dialog until you've had a successful SSL connection. Hmm... -- Simon Brady mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Technical Services University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand