Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > How many > > and what sort of people does it take to maintain a system such as > > this? I need a good argument for hiring a replacement for me. > At a minimum you want 1 qualified person and someone cross-trained > as a backup, so that person can reasonably enough have vacations. > Any decent

Re: Calendars && Cyrus

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > If we could ever get a decent calendar system that works together with > > Cyrus or other software many people would be happy. We use OpenGroupware - http://www.opengroupware.org Server is entirely Open Source; Outlook plugin (MAPI provider) is commercial. Works very well with Cyrus; which

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> 3. Can't handle high load very well, in fact it handles load horribly. I have a friend who works at a small shop who reports exactly the same issue with Zimbra, s..ll...ooo..... > 3) ClamAV. Do note how much email I said we dealt with a minute. We > didn't get a great deal of email. May

Re: FW: Retrieving a banned e-mail

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
nto a folder in /var/virusmails then it isn't in the Cyrus mail store (seems like a bad idea) and thus can't be accessed via a mail client. Why not reconfigure to but the junked e-mail into a Junk folder? (Or, IMHO, stop wasting time with overly complex SPAM solutions like Spamassasin). -

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> One key piece of functionality that seems to be missing from every OSS > solution mentioned thus far is mobile device push support (Activesync), > this is not to be underestimated as it is for us, a key reason why we > are ultimately being forced to adopt Exchange en-mass and abandon our > cu

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > This describes exactly the point of view of administrative staff. They > > live in Microsoft Office, and they need a server to support it. That is > > the assignment given. > > I was looking at Open-Xchange on the web . > > The server provides webmail and MAPI in

Re: Calendars && Cyrus

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > > Server is entirely Open Source; Outlook plugin (MAPI provider) is > > > commercial. > > > Works very well with Cyrus; which is its intended IMAP server. > > Speaking of calendars,... What about Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning? > > They can speak to WebDAV enabled ICS calendar format. With a specia

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > Never had a corrupt PST using ZideLook (the Outlook plugin for > > OpenGroupware). Make sue they provide a *real* MAPI provider for > > outlook and not some background sync thingy (as several Open Source > > Outlook connectors do or at least did). > I'll have to give OGo a shot again, when I t

Re: Plugging into the imap system

2007-12-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > If you are using linux, maybe you can use inotify-tools to notify you of > > any change in cyrus' spool. > Be aware that the files on disk are created _before_ the index record, > so you need to wait or poll until the index record has had a chance to > be created. > Even if you capture the "a

Re: Can't access the imap server using telnet, nor send email.

2008-01-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > OK, so with PAM, how do you set passwords to your virtual users ? > > sorry, i'm like _really_ lost, and running out of time :-/ Then take a breather and go back to the documentation. I'm not aware of any remotely normal configuration that would authenticate virtual user's against PAM. Virt

Re: Move to new server

2008-02-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
n-user to copy everything? Yep. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu

Re: Dual & Quad Core processors

2008-02-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 08:45 -0600, Sam Egelhof wrote: > Does Cyrus-imapd take advantage of Dual and\or Quad core processors? Yes. > We are looking at upgrading our server to either 2x Dual core Xeon’s > or 1 x Quad core Xeon processor. Does Cyrus have the ability to take > advantage of this? Y

Re: Couple of questions

2008-07-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> A couple of questions. I just migrated our company over to Cyrus/postfix > from UW/sendmail and I've noticed a few little quirks that I'm not able to > find a solution to. > 1.) If a pop user selects "keep messages on server" they start to see > duplicate emails. I saw that other people on

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> The real question is because we have only 2 options : > Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? Features like delayed expunge, message expiration, etc... that allow you to have a managed mail store. Cyrus is the only Open Source IMAP/POP server I know of with any capacity to support data

Re: Cyrus vs Dovecot

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:53 +0200, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : > >> The real question is because we have only 2 options : > >> Why should I choose Cyrus instead of dovecot ? > > Features like delayed expunge, message expiration, etc... t

Re: Web-cyradm and Zimbra maybe?

2008-08-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:48 +0300, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: > Hello All, > I'm using web-cyradm (mysql frontend for virt. domains+cyrus+postfix > integration) for years and very happy with it. > Now we need some implementation for shared calendars (let's say calendar > solution for all our users). >

Re: Web-cyradm and Zimbra maybe?

2008-08-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > I'm using web-cyradm (mysql frontend for virt. domains+cyrus+postfix > > integration) for years and very happy with it. > > Now we need some implementation for shared calendars (let's say calendar > > solution for all our users). > > What would you recommend? > > Web-cyradm and Zimbra integrati

Auto setting an expiration

2008-08-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Via autocreateinboxfolders and autocreatequota a user's mailbox/mailboxes can automatically be created when they authenticate to the server. Is there any way to automatically assign an "expire" value to newly created mailboxes? We automatically create a sent-mail folder when the user logs in and

Re: Deleting messages "marked for deletion" older than X days

2008-08-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:05 +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:09:53PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > > In the manual page, the definition of the '-X' option seems to > > do what you want: > > > > -X expunge-days > > Expunge previously deleted messages

Telemetry Data Files

2008-09-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I'm looking at Cyrus' ability to log telemetry data, but not finding allot of documentation, so... <12203617881220361788>* 66 FETCH (UID 485619 BODY[] {5256} Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from kyack.mormail.com (KYACK.mormail.com [192.168.1.8]) by imap.mormail.com (Cyrus v2.2

Re: Problem with skiplist

2008-09-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > That said - the one I posted is stable as well, we're running it in > > production with all those patches - but what I'm pushing for 2.3.13 > > is just those two patches you mentioned above. Here's a copy of > > cyrusdb_skiplist.c with just those two. > I have included both patches into our rp

info correct / quota wrong

2008-09-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
After migrating and updating my IMAP server everything seems to working, but the quota reports wrong information for *SOME* mailboxes, seemingly at random cyrus-imapd-2.3.12p2-1 (CentOS5) The quota value is crazy wrong! localhost.localdomain> info user.fred {user.fred}: condstore: false dupl

Re: Cyrus IMAP/POP Banner

2008-09-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I have been googling over there and haven't find the answer to my question > just another man looking for the same as me... I wanted to change the banner > that cyrus imap and pop sends when you connect to them... basically the > server greeting... I think it could be quite dangerous to show the

Re: info correct / quota wrong

2008-09-14 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After migrating and updating my IMAP server everything seems to working, > but the quota reports wrong information for *SOME* mailboxes, seemingly > at random > cyrus-imapd-2.3.12p2-1 (CentOS5) > The quota

Re: [OT] m$ activesync with cyrus backend

2008-09-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> an off-topic question, but maybe you can help. > i've got a lot of iphones to deploy and funambol will only sync contacts > (apple has not placed access to calender/notes/tasks in their api). I've been meaning to look into it as an alternative to Funambol

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I noticed that dovecot and cyrus don't differ that much in speed to > each other. Both seem to excel at certain points, while being weaker > at another. But overall the performance on a huge mailbox seemed to be > comparable. Dovecot seemed to be slightly better at searching in the > mailbox, esp

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:12 -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: > >> Why does cyrus need it's own > >> structure for the mailboxes, which is similar, but not wholly > >> compatible, to maildir. Maildir and cyrus b

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 22:28 -0700, Scott M. Likens wrote: > ... > I debated writing a gui for Cyrus for administration, but I realized > that people implement Cyrus in so many different ways. Kerberos, LDAP, > *SQL, various forms of PAM. Then you add in virtual domains, and how > you might wan

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 03:28 -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 21:12 -0700, David Lang wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wesley Craig wrote: > >>> On 17 Sep 2008, at 11:40, Jens Hoffrichter wrote: >

Re: lmtpunix: DBERROR db4: Logging region out of memory; you may need to increase its size

2008-09-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I got no answer on this subject, does someone has a suggestions, or > maybe should I give more details ? Possibly create a DB_CONFIG file in the db directory and restart Cyrus? I ***ASSUME*** that Cyrus will honor the settings in the DB_CONFIG file. (?)

Re: suggestion need to design an email system.

2008-09-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I'm planning to use Phamm again but this time with Cyrus. First I need > to know how to execute cyrus tasks without cyradm (creating mailboxes, > setting/changing quota, remove mailboxes, etc). All of these tasks, AFAIK, can be performed via IMAP. So I'd image they are performed the same way

Re: Archiving emails with Cyrus

2008-11-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> we use Cyrus 2.2 on a Debian Etch Linux with Sasl and Thunderbird as a > IMAP mailclient for our users. The problem is, that the mailboxes become > very big, so I look for an automatic archiving software, which takes the > mails out of the mailbox into a file and a searchable database. Are you l

Re: Archiving emails with Cyrus

2008-11-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Adam Tauno Williams schrieb: > > Are you looking to archive message for data-retention or because you > > need to recover capacity? > I'll need both, sooner or later. For the moment it'll be enough to gain > some more capacity. Thanks for your answer. > >

Re: Cyrus Deadblocking

2008-12-15 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> since yesterday i have strange behavier of my productive mail server, and i > cannt find the reason for 2 days allready. Does "dmesg" show anything odd? > I didnt changed anything lately, but yesterday my cyrus starts rise cpu > load up to 100% and after some time it stop responding. Mostly its

Online ChangeLog

2008-12-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Is the Cyrus website's ChangeLog no longer updated? Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Migrating mailbox from cyrus-imapd-2.2.10 to 2.3.7

2008-12-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> A server of mine crashed. I'm brought up another new server that's >running cyrus-imapd 2.3.7. I copied my backup of /var/spool/imap to > the new server. Did you copy the metadata? /var/lib/imap? > When I connect, I can see all of the mail in my Inbox, but none of the > subfolders show up

Re: migrating mapi

2008-12-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:50 +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hi, I'm on the run to install a new cyrus imap server with 50 clients. > All of them have mapi clients with their old pop account on Outlook or > Express, containing all their history emails in folders. > I was going to develop a mini tool

Invalid certificate @ bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu

2008-12-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
If I try to visit the link my browser presents a certificate error (untrusted issuer); I don't even get an opportunity to connect-anyway. Does anyone else have this issue accessing bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu? Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusim

Re: Invalid certificate @ bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu

2008-12-19 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:46 -0500, Matt Selsky wrote: > On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > If I try to visit the link > > <http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3115> my browser > > presents a certificate error (untrusted is

Re: Cyrus Deadblocking

2008-12-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 14:27 +0100, Teresa wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:30:31 +0100, Teresa wrote: > > Teresa wrote: > > reconstruct -r -f user > > and now run cyrus without squatted. And it seems to work. I have no idea > > if its on squatter, or on few broken folders. Running stable for about

Re: Cyrus Deadblocking

2008-12-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 02:44 +0100, Teresa wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> Does "dmesg" show anything odd? > Another thing i get sometimes connecting hanging cyrus process with > strace is a lot of : > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 25000}) = 0 (Timeout)

Re: Cyrus Deadblocking

2008-12-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:11 +0100, Teresa wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> since yesterday i have strange behavier of my productive mail server, > >> and i > >> cannt find the reason for 2 days allready. > > Does "dmesg" show anything o

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:47 +0100, LALOT Dominique wrote: > Thanks for everybody. That was an interesting thread. Nobody seems to > use a NetApp appliance, may be due to NFS architecture problems. Personally, I'd never use NFS for anything. Over the years I've had way to many NFS related problems

Re: choosing a file system

2008-12-31 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 15:46 +0200, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:38:21AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > In regards to ext3 I'd pay attention to the vintage of problem reports > > and performance issues; ext3 of several years ago is not the ext

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > I had the feeling whatever optimizations done at the FS level would give > > us a max of 5-10% benefit. > > We migrated from ext3 to reiserfs on our cyrus servers with 30k > > mailboxes. I am not sure I saw a great benefit in terms of the iowait. > > At peak times I always see a iowait of 40-6

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> On the other hand, XFS was the only Linux filesystems capable to handle our > 5 million files (at that time, we're now at 33 million) we had in these > days with an acceptable performance. Ext3 was way too slow with directories > with > 1000 files (but many things have changed from kernel 2.4

Re: help: i want to unsubscribe mail list

2009-01-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:54 +0800, Leo P CHENG wrote: > Hi : > > > > Excuse me , I want to unsubscribe mail list from > info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu . > > But , how to do it ? As included in every message: Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusi

Re: help: i want to unsubscribe mail list

2009-01-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:54 +0800, Leo P CHENG wrote: > Hi : > Excuse me , I want to unsubscribe mail list from > info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu . > But , how to do it ? As included in every message - List-Unsubscribe: , Cyrus Ho

Re: Lmtp w/ Postfix and LDAP: change mailbox name when saving mail.

2009-01-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
quot;mailRoutingAddress" schema you describe above; the user portion of the e-mail address is completely irrelevant. If you have ... mailLoadAddress: fred.t.sm...@example.com mailRoutingAddress: fred ... Then mail to "fred.t.sm...@example.com" should get s

Re: Folders created by hand are not seen by cyradm

2009-01-23 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I created folders Trash, Sent, Queue, Draft, for a mailbox user, > assigned permissions and owner for cyrus, recontructed, > but still cyrus can't see them. Please, what can I do?? What does "created by hand" mean? You modified the filesystem directly in the Cyrus spool? Do not do that. I

Displaying server metadata

2009-02-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
The description of "info" in cyradm is - info display mailbox/server metadata But how does one get it to display server metadata? It will display mailbox metadata, but I can't find any information on displaying the values set with setinfo (admin/comment/expire/motd/s

setinfo admin

2009-02-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
According to the man manpage the "setinfo admin " command sets the administrator e-mail address of the server. Is this value actually used anywhere or for any purpose? Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http:/

setinfo squat

2009-02-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
The cyradm "setinfo squat " command documentation says: Indicates that all mailboxes should have a squat indexes created for them (unless overridden by a mailbox annotation). It doesn't seem to indicate if the value of the value (???) has any meaning. Does assigning any value to this attribute

Re: Displaying server metadata

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>> The description of "info" in cyradm is - >> info display mailbox/server metadata >> But how does one get it to display server metadata? It will display >> mailbox metadata, but I can't find any information on displaying the >> values set with setinfo (admin/comment

Re: setinfo admin

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Am Sonntag 08 Februar 2009 20:26:45 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: >> According to the man manpage the "setinfo admin " command sets >> the administrator e-mail address of the server. Is this value actually >> used anywhere or for any purpose? > Cyrus-IMAP itsel

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> A friend of mine is asking me about security risks of using IMAP & > POP3 protocols. Why? Because a sales person told my friend that IMAP > protocol is less secure than POP3 protocol. This assumption is not > related to Cyrus IMAP, instead is related only to the protocols. > I'm searching at Goog

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:17 +, Duncan Gibb wrote: > Jason Voorhees wrote: > JV> a sales person told my friend that IMAP protocol is > JV> less secure than POP3 protocol. > Other people have covered the IMAP vs POP3 issues - Ian Batten most > comprehensively - but one comment I would add is that

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-02-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:03 -0800, David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, John Thomas wrote: > > I know little, so please forgive if this is wrong. > > The following link seems to be crawled by Google and exposes our email > > addresses to spam harvesters. I wonder if it makes sense and is > > p

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-02-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:38 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: > --On Friday, February 27, 2009 13:46 -0500 Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: > > And posting these here in > > plain text unobfusticated will have no measurable effect on the amount > > of SPAM I receive. I've b

Re: Separating master processes for different services to utilise multiple cores/cpus

2009-03-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I've never seen this problem. I've been running cyrus for eight years > now on dual P3 systems, dual Xeon (hyperthreaded), and now dual quad > core systems. The load has always been distributed across all > processors. Ditto, I've never seen a hot-processor situation. Processes have always

Re: mailbox directory

2009-03-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:48 -0500, Tanis Patrick wrote: > Greetings, > I am using cyrus on redhat enterprise linux 5.3. Since i have upgraded > to the last version, i notice the partition mailbox grow everyday. By "partition mailbox" do you mean the partition that contains the user's actual mailbo

Re: mailbox directory

2009-03-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:26 -0500, Tanis Patrick wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > I mean the folder that contains the user mailboxes. This folder grows > exponentially as soon as i upgrade to the last version. Can you tell me more > about SQUAT and delayed expunged? See WMOGAG

Re: Intermittent mailbox not found

2009-03-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I have inherited a cyrus / postfix server, which is generally well-behaved. > However, there is an intermittent error when delivering messages to a certain > mailbox. It is infrequent, and generally the message is delievered on the > user's next attempt in his MUA. The log is something like: W

Re: Intermittent mailbox not found

2009-03-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:52 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:52:04PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Mar 9 14:29:07 captain cyrus/lmtpunix[20645]: verify_user(user.sirius-john) > > failed: Mailbox does not exits > Where on earth is that error message from? I don't see "no

Re: Calling all regressions

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:07 +0100, Michael Menge wrote: > Quoting Bron Gondwana : > > Is there any good reason for a site to continue running 2.2 or even 2.1? > Some Enterprise Distibutions still use 2.2.x as they maintain the > same version for a very long time. E.g. Suse (SLES 10) uses Cyrus 2.2.

Re: Vacation Application

2009-03-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 13:42 -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > Hi All, > I have a question regarding a vacation application for Cyrus servers. I want > to know what others are using to meet this need. Currently, we have a home > grown application that allows users to enable/disable vacation mess

Re: Intermittent mailbox not found

2009-03-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:29 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On 2009-03-09, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> I have inherited a cyrus / postfix server, which is generally well-behaved. > >> However, there is an intermittent error when delivering messages to a > >>

cyrus events off by an hour

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have - delprunecmd="cyr_expire -E 3 -D 120 -X 120" at=0400 - so cyr_expire should run at 4:00, right? But it runs at 5:00. The time on the server is correct. Could daylight savings time change effect this? -- OpenGroupware developer: awill...@whitemice.org

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> does anybody know, how ctl_cyrusdb works (how it should be used)? I've never felt very compelled to mess with the default: checkpointcmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30 > I've > seen ctl_cyrusdb's man pages, but there is just few notes and nothing more. > I assume ctl_cyrusdb is used (in /e

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes > when delayed delete is in use? Use the unexpunge command; the man page isn't bad, and I have examples and some notes in the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

2009-03-17 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > Not exactly sure what you mean here. I think you only need the database in > > db.backup? and of course clean the environment before restoring such a db. > AFAIK only that three databases are copied to the db.backupX directory. So if > there are other checkpointed dbs they stay in the original

Re: Question about CYRUS-IMAP and FETCH BODY[]

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:32 +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > The library we're using is: > > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/imaplibrary.aspx > Looking at the documentation it strikes me that there appears to be no way > to actually list the contents of a mailbox. If those commands are really

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

2009-03-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:18 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > Hi, > thanks all for the answers. Some summary what I know (please correct me if > I'm > wrong): > 1) checkpointing > "Checkpointed" are this databases: > but only DBs with Berkeley DB-Engine it does something. So really > checkpointed

Re: Searching for a Sieve web Autoreplier OR Outlook solution

2009-04-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>I'm searching for months without success for either one of these solutions : >a) Out-of-office (away) plugin for Outlook that would use Sieve ? No idea. >b) Web interface to manage an out-of-office message in Sieve ? Horde's Ingo provides a very nice web interface for configuring various, incl

Re: Multiple copies of cyr_expire running

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 08:13 -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > I notice that there are two of these running today: > $ ps -fp "$(pgrep cyr_expire)" > UID PID PPID CSTIME TTY TIME CMD >cyrus 2510 986 3 04:00:01 ? 219:28 cyr_expire -E 3 >cyrus 18280

Re: misterious duplicate message-id

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 15:45 +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 7. Mai 2009 13:13:24 +0200 Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > as a follow up to my "finding by message id" message, I found the reason > > why that message was silently discarded: for 3 times that Outlook user > > could send an email with

Re: misterious duplicate message-id

2009-05-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Or you can believe it's incompetence, but I don't, because Microsoft > could afford to hire expert engineers and make it work right if they > wanted to. "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence." Or in this case possibly indifference. But from indifference to conspiracy

Re: imapd locked

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > It might well be that I hit the maxchild limit on imap, but that shouldnt > > stall the complete imap, should it? > Depends on what you mean. New connections to imapd block block indefinitely > until the number of processes goes below maxchild. If that's what you call > "stall", it's to be ex

Re: Api for seen state, perl preferred

2009-05-20 Thread Adam Tauno WIlliams
> > I'm following a previous thread. I would like to be able to open a seen > > skiplist database in order to verify if a particular user has red its mail. > > If possible, a way to do that in PERL would be perfect. > > Thanks in advance > That's, um, tricky actually. > You need to read the uniquei

RE: Cyrus + Sieve

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 08:51 -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > Well, this is interesting. > I tested one of my reject rules (to make sure I'm not crazy), and it > replied the rejected message to my inbox, not to the sender. What do the "Received:" headers of the message look like (how did it end u

RE: Cyrus + Sieve

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 08:52 -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > Do you mean the From: header line? No, the "From:" line is, as always, utterly meaningless. > I have multiple "Received:" headers since the message had to transverse > multiple > servers to get to the Cyrus server. Which is normal.

RE: Cyrus + Sieve

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:03 -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > The Return-Path must be my problem them. > Right now, any emails that come into dgot...@miriam have a return path of > that. > So your saying the Return-Path should be the sender of the email, not the > recipient? Correct? Yes, your

RE: Sieve: Vacation not working

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 09:21 -0400, Gottschalk, David wrote: > See, I'm using this entirely custom deliver script in .procmailrc, and > I think that is my problem. I think if Sieve doesn't get a proper from > address, it will not reply. The question is how do you know if this is > occurring? Sendma

Re: Sieve: Vacation not working

2009-05-27 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:35 +0200, Carsten Hoeger wrote: > On Wed, May 27, Garry wrote: > > > Also, the logfile created by this line: > > > [..] > > > doesn't show up right away either ... > > Actually, I just noticed that timsieved of course isn't even the process > > responsible for doing any fil

Re: Cyrus APIs ?

2009-05-29 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > - IMAP protocol extensions (most needed thing would be to "idle" on > > every folders, not just inbox) > Yeah, good luck with that one. It's a pretty major "protocol extention", > and everything's very folder centric. It would be a rather large SMOP > (small matter of programming) for this.

ipurge and delayed expunge

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
We use delayed expunge with a delay of 120 days. I was just playing with ipurge and it appears to 'physically' delete the messages rather than just marking messages as expunged. Is it possible to have ipurge just mark messages as expunged rather than removing them? Looking at the man page I as

Re: ipurge and delayed expunge

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:35 -0400, Brian Awood wrote: > This issue is fixed in CVS; > http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2009-March/030753.html Sweet, it appears this patch is included in Simon's awesome RPMs! cyrus-imapd-2.3.14-unexpunge.patch

unexpunge Bus Error (signal 7) [Was: Re: ipurge and delayed expunge]

2009-06-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 14:43 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:35 -0400, Brian Awood wrote: > > This issue is fixed in CVS; > > http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2009-March/030753.html > Sweet, it appears this patch is included in Si

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 14:48 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:35:15 +0200, Garry wrote: > Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails? > > The point is not when decent MUAs are used, like Thunderbird, but rather > > crap like Outlook ... which is unable to do a decent, logica

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> It's true that the concept of delete/expunge is difficult for many new > users to grasp. In my experience, the worst consequence is when users > who delete but never expunge exceed quota and don't know why because > deleted messages are hidden from view. A visual indicator (such as a > strike-thr

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> The kind of functionality you want could be achieved more elegantly and > more usefully by implementing lemonade-imap-sieve (sieve-like scripting > on the imap operation level, not only on delivery, see > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lemonade-imap-sieve-05). That would be very useful; b

No -k option for cyradm's reconstrcut [Was: Re: unexpunge Bus Error (signal 7) [Was: Re: ipurge and delayed expunge]]

2009-07-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 10:06 -0400, Brian Awood wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009 @ 20:47, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > A reconstruct works, but then none of the expunged messages appear > > (list from unexpunge -l is empty). Should a reconstruct loose > > expunged messages in

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 09:25 -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:02:35AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I really don't know anyone, neither amongst home-based users nor > > corporate e-mail users, who truly believe they're better off with an > > MS-Exchange server handling their e

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I don't like these "all in one solutions", but the people here LIKE > THEIR OUTLOOK! Everybody wants to use Outlook and our students want > Google, they like Gogle! Safe harbour for personal data? not > interesting to this youth which even posts pictures of their drunk > parties on facebo

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 10:40 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > --On 3 July 2009 14:09:19 -0400 "Greg A. Woods" > wrote: > >> There's pressure here to move to Exchange because it supports Outlook > >> better. > > Take away Outlook in effect by giving them better and different open > > source and open sta

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > For an integrated email and calendar tool? > After all these years I still fail to see what e-mail and calendar > keeping have to do with each other. It's lunacy to put them in the same > tool. Use the right tool for the job. Because they are both about collaboration (communication) so users

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM: >>> Except that the sieve server ought to be on the border MTA, so that the >>> user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time. >> That's not feasible for mail with multiple recipients. > It is if your rule is to reject all email from a spe

Re: DBERROR with Cyrus 2.2.12

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> Would it be helpful to others, it is to me, to include the cited list message > below on that same wiki page telling others how to convert from one backend > to another? Page 120 - 121 of my 'book' has an example of cvt_cyrusdb

Re: how to exclude subfolder from expiration using annotations?

2009-07-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> I'm currently trying to find out how to use cyr_expire in combination with > annotations exluding one single subfolder per mailbox. > I'm running RHEL5 with v2.3.7-Invoca-RPM-2.3.7-2.el5_3.2. > What I did: > . setannotation "user/test1001" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire" > ("value.shared" "1")

Re: Reducing log verbosity

2009-07-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 19:45 -0700, Bryan Hill wrote: > thanks! I figured that might be the case after looking into this in > more detail. A better solution, IMHO, is to post-filter. The filtering provided by Syslog is pretty crude and requires bouncing the syslog service to change. If you use s

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