Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
s? I don't know about costs. I do know that you could not outsource our email service without simplifying it a lot. For example, would your contractors be able to use your campus authentication mechanism? Would they be able to use your existing user support processes? Would you be able to in

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
the POP3 moves the mail from the > IMAP4 INBOX to the Outlook Inbox. So, now we have to say "In POP3 this gets a bit blurred as the Outlook inbox is also a mechanism for receiving new mail". Heck, wherever you read the email, it got delivered there by some means. -- Ian Eiloart IT

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
mechanism didn't have a place the email to go, then the transport could not take place. What I don't understand is that you seem to think that there's a possibility that email could be stored in some place that it can't be transported to. Where would that be? -- I

RE: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
essing going on in Exim before hand off to Cyrus (with LMTP) including spamassassin, clamav and Exim filters. There are also processes between the two, for example Mailman. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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: Collaboration replacement via Toltec/Bynari (was How many people to admin a Cyrus system?)

2007-11-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
ocessing needed by Outlook. It cannot > convert iTip and winmail.dat attachments to the related message objects > and do the linking in the Outlook message store. This is where you need > the transport mechanism of Outlook. > So, the problem has nothing to do with IMAP, and everything to do wit

Re: Cyrus on Solaris at universities?

2007-12-16 Thread Ian Eiloart
ion IMAP proxy on 4 Apple X-Serves mediating an almost completed transition from UoW IMAP, also on a Sun-Fire-880. We migrated partly because the UoW server couldn't handle the disk throughput, and partly for the additional functionality. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex

Re: Reject large emails

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Eiloart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Waechterstrasse 76 >> 72074 Tuebingen >> ------------ >> >> >> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki >> List Archives/Inf

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Eiloart
t each time they've made it worse. There was originally a work around (give the group a name that is valid in headers), but then they broke that workaround. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://c

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-18 Thread Ian Eiloart
quire either To: or Cc: to be present.) > > Phil. > --- > Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > University of Exeter > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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: Deleted cyrus.* files

2008-02-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
ECTED] > lmtp_admins: cyruslmtp > allowanonymouslogin: no > allowplaintext: yes > sasl_passwd_check: auxprop > sasl_mech_list: plain login > ># OTHERS > postmaster: postmaster > unixhierarchysep: yes > username_tolower: yes > lmtp_downcase_rcpt: 1 > --->END< > &

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
ook at my compilation options to try to reduce the starting size, but can I limit the process growth? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
I suppose that's a good thing, though. > > As a point of reference. We have quite old machines with 8G RAM, 8T > attached storage that easily handle 2000+ processes under linux just fine. > > Rob > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 7 April 2008 10:20:33 -0700 Andrew Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Ian Eiloart wrote: > .. >> >> Is there a way to limit Cyrus process sizes at all? I guess I can take a >> look at my compilation options to try to reduce the startin

Re: cyrus perdtion , connections not dying

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
ections. Do > you really mean POP connections, or do you mean IMAP? Or do you mean POP > and IMAP? How many "imapd" and "pop3d" processes do you see on each > server? How many do you see in total across all 4 servers? > > Rob > -- Ian Eiloart IT

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
you aren't using SPF, then you can't really complain about backscatter. If you deploy SPF, then you can expect a bit less backscatter, and you can encourage others to check your SPF records. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusim

lmtp problem - end of file reached

2008-05-22 Thread Ian Eiloart
pt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 2.1.5 ok data 354 go ahead Subject: foobar . 250 2.1.5 Ok quit 221 2.0.0 bye Connection closed. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 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: lmtp problem - end of file reached

2008-05-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
g the values of proxy_authname: and proxy_password: as defined in imapd.conf? Hmm, anyone else considering trying this on a live service should make sure that soft_noauth: is enabled. Otherwise, you'll reject email deliveries in the event that your authentication fails. -- Ian Ei

Re: MUA not noticing new mail

2008-09-01 Thread Ian Eiloart
xample, we use a cluster of OSX servers, each of which is limited in the kernel to 2500 open processes (and there is no way to change this!). I'd hate to think of all my users having several processes open just on the off chance that email will be delivered to them. --

CAPABILITY response code.

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Eiloart
here is that my front end proxies are issuing referrals causing AL/PINE to attempt to directly reach my backend server (when Fcc copying a message to a Sent mailbox). My firewall causes this to fail. In general, though, there may be other reasons for suppressing advertising of capabilities. --

capability

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
Hi, Is there a way that I can prevent the proxies on the front end of my Murder cluster from advertising MAILBOX-REFERRALS in the CAPABILITY string? Or from issuing referrals? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki

offering limited pop access

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
ecifies how to access the LDAP servers. I want everything the same, but with a different value for ldap_filter. Can I just override this in pop3.conf? Or do I set sasl_ldap_filter my cyrus configuration, instead? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 Cyrus Home Page: http://cyr

Re: capability

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 29 October 2008 11:25:04 -0400 Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:18, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> Is there a way that I can prevent the proxies on the front end of >> my Murder >> cluster from advertising MAILBOX-REFERRALS in the CAPAB

Re: offering limited pop access

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
t;> documentation. >> >> and >> /local/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22/etc/saslauthd.conf >> which specifies how to access the LDAP servers. >> >> I want everything the same, but with a different value for ldap_filter. >> Can >> I just override this

Re: offering limited pop access

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Eiloart
n cram-md5 digest-md5 > > and > ># SASL-Config for all other Daemons > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > sasl_mech_list: plain login > > or you can use just: > > sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop saslauthd > sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb > > This would look in both backend

Re: Planning for load balancing

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
ple hosts. > Can anyone advice what could help? > > Best, > > Jar. > > 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 -- Ian Eiloart IT

RE: murder configuration issue final stretch

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
mtp cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="2004" prefork=1 maxchild=50 >lmtpunix cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtpunix" > prefork=1 > > This should listen on port 2004 (instead of the usual 2003) on all > interfaces, plus listen on the un

Re: Fwd: Huge header detection

2009-02-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
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Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
e there some clients that to > many connect/disconnects ? Yes. Anything that opens a bunch of mailboxes at the same time might be doing way more than that. You should be measuring "failed attempts", not "attempts". -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Suss

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 13 February 2009 15:30:46 + Alain Williams wrote: > [23~On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:21:06PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> >> --On 13 February 2009 14:35:43 + Alain Williams >> wrote: >> >> > That got me thinking >>

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Eiloart
ot his entire userbase. Most public mailing lists do obfuscated email addresses, and those that don't ought to. > David Lang > > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Eiloart
by spammers. > > David Lang > > 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 -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Ian Eiloart
. > > >> It can hardly be accidental that Microsoft's flagship email clients >> don't quite interoperate nicely with standards based IMAP servers. >> Seems to me it's a driver towards sales of Exchange server services. > > Indeed -- it is no accident, and i

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-03 Thread Ian Eiloart
wo? I see lots of > negative reports about Exchange, but they mostly come from people who > are using another product based on open standards. I was speaking to a friend who provides Exchange servers for small businesses locally. He says that the most important thing is to have a really good (f

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-06 Thread Ian Eiloart
d > easy to run (both administratively and for users) is definitely a > strategy to think about. Many have already made the move to good > success and the WWW is full of their stories. > -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support reques

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 July 2009 17:42:04 -0400 "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > At Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:40:44 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails? >> >> Suggestions? > > The answers will depend entirely on what platform one chooses and what

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
s book). The best solution would be say To: Group Name:; and revert to "undisclosed recipients:;" if the group name has any syntax problems. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Ho

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
r ought to be on the border MTA, so that the user can tell the server to reject the message at SMTP time. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 09:15:32 -0400 Jorey Bump wrote: > 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

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 09:54:31 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> 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. >

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 11:27:55 -0400 Jorey Bump wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 10:46 AM: >> >> --On 9 July 2009 09:54:31 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams >> wrote: >> >>>>> Ian Eiloart wrote, at 07/09/2009 05:39 AM: >>>>>> Except

Re: Automatically moving marked mails?

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 9 July 2009 11:51:32 -0400 "Greg A. Woods" wrote: > At Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:42 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > Subject: Re: Automatically moving marked mails? >> >> There >> probably aren't any SIEVE implementations that do what I suggest, and >

Re: sieve configuration (was Automatically moving marked mails?)

2009-07-13 Thread Ian Eiloart
ion v2 > project: > > http://www.planix.com/~woods/projects/BSD-vacation-v2.html > > It's far from perfect, stale due to lack of Round Tuits, etc., but it's > also, IMHO, orders of magnitude better than the original BSD/Sendmail > version too. :-) It sounds

Re: Set Folder Permissions

2009-07-17 Thread Ian Eiloart
cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://cyru

Re: Setting Up of IMAP Server

2009-12-11 Thread Ian Eiloart
nd line tool. (5) You can use your regular file system backup tools to back up Cyrus-IMAP mailboxes. Emails are stored in separate files, so incremental backups are very efficient. It's possible to use delayed expunge to ensure that all emails are backed up, even if they arrive and are del

Re: Any interest to implement RFC4978 (IMAP COMPRESS)?

2010-02-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
simap.web.cmu.edu/twiki >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > 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.h

Re: Global Sieve scripts?

2006-03-27 Thread Ian Eiloart
fulfill. It doesn't matter. The principle is the same. Anyway, can you please point me to a suitable documentation on how to implement the function at an earlier level? That would be your postfix documentation. Anders. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex Cyrus Home Pa

Re: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
ives, doesn't it? Even without IDLE, there are benefits in leaving the session open. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.

RE: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
vity. <http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.html#sec-5.4> Of course, if the client logs out, then the TCP session should be disconnected. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ Cyrus Hom

Re: disable IMAP IDLE

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
t;> >> I was asked by IT to not permit IDLE since the current server went >> down after 4-500 blackberries ate up all the (limited) capabilities of >> that machine.Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place, the point is >> the demand I am facing is to have IMAP that es

Re: cyrus.index file

2011-11-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
the message isn't there, that should be pretty good evidence. > We are using cyrus & postfix, and would like to check if a user deleted a > certain mail > > thanks > > a > > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://list

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
the URLs listed in the footer require cyrus.edu accounts for unsubscription. The argument that list members ought to be able to find the List-Unsubscribe header because they're email professionals doesn't wash. It can't be presumed that they all are, and those that aren'

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 21 May 2012, at 12:49, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 11:32 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> On 18 May 2012, at 14:45, Adrian Kovacs wrote >> Using the mechansims described in the List-Unsubscribe header: >> List-Unsubscribe: >> Having said tha

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 21 May 2012, at 15:08, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> As long as most users don't have easy access to the List-Unsubscribe header >> (Outlook, Apple Mail, etc), then the List-Unsubscribe header can't satisfy >> t