I thought with newer versions of Cyrus you could just run commands as
root. Yup, from 2.3.9 on
Changes to the Cyrus IMAP Server since 2.3.8
Allow utilities to be run as root (acquiring 'cyrus' uid on-the-fly).
Thanks, I missed that change. I guess I'd still prefer to work as user
cyrus, but
On 10/16/2015 10:08 AM, Tom Sparrow wrote:
Not sure how 'answered' this question is since 3rd, but since I was
having this problem this week thought I'd pitch in.
I used
sudo -u cyrus /bin/sh
which saves on forgetting to change it back (and has the advantage of
not opening anything up further th
Not sure how 'answered' this question is since 3rd, but since I was
having this problem this week thought I'd pitch in.
I used
sudo -u cyrus /bin/sh
which saves on forgetting to change it back (and has the advantage of
not opening anything up further than required in the mean time).
On 16/10/1
--On 3. Oktober 2015 05:51:42 -0500 Patrick Goetz
wrote:
I have a question about best practices. I usually have the shell for
user cyrus set to /bin/false. So to run a reconstruct, I have to change
this to /bin/bash (or something) first in order to be able to log in as
cyrus and execute the
This is just a follow up to my previous email (see below).
Reconstructing the mailboxes:
# systemctl stop cyrus-master
# su - cyrus
# /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/djones
# -d
# systemctl start cyrus-master
resolved the problem.
I have a question about best practices.
On 22/09/15 11:01, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> Upgrading from 2.4.17 to 2.5.3 resulted in one very strange problem.
> Some of the users have a large number of nested mail folders. After the
> upgrade, exactly one user found that some of his folders (say 3 out of
> 30) are now inaccessible. In Thunde
Hi -
I think you mean compare the actual mail spool to the contents of (on Arch)
/var/imap/user/d/djones.sub
Yes, as far as I can tell the subscription file contains only valid mail
folders; however, I did notice that one of the mail subfolders starts
with a number:
user.djones.Archi
Am 22.09.2015 12:01, schrieb Patrick Goetz:
Upgrading from 2.4.17 to 2.5.3 resulted in one very strange problem.
Some of the users have a large number of nested mail folders. After the
upgrade, exactly one user found that some of his folders (say 3 out of
30) are now inaccessible. In Thunderbir
