Re: SirCam and sieve

2001-07-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
tent-disposition: Multipartmessage' (several), 'Content-Disposition: MULTIPART' (one), no Content-disposition header, and bounces with the virus message inside them as a mime part. Joseph Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)

Re: Problem with cyrus imap 2.0.16 and Outlook Express 5.0: Seen flag does not stick

2001-11-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
r imap or anything else? Thus, > I'd blame Outlook Express but unfortunately I have another working IMAP > server for comparision ;) I disagree. You're well justified in calling it buggy and recommending something else. Entourage is no better. Joseph Brennan

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

2007-11-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
yrus for the much larger university community of faculty and students.) Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
ffer MAPI connections. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: Reject large emails

2008-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
er's MTA will create the bounce notice, or do whatever else it does when mail can't be delivered. The Cyrus system should not send a bounce. It should only accept or reject, and the sending MTA should handle notifying the sender. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technolog

Re: Reject large emails

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
how to put that into sendmail.mc and generate a sendmail.cf file. Your choice of size, in bytes. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
ertain header lines to make them standard. The rewritten mailbox was output to a staging area, and that's what we moved. This approach might work for you. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusi

Re: Importing Mails without "to" header

2008-02-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
named sets of recipients, without actually providing the individual mailbox address for each of those recipients. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.

Re: Want cyrus to deliver directly into a mailbox's folder.

2008-03-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
t in my spam folder!! > > User 'cyrus' has 'lrswipcda' access to this folder. > > Do I need to configure something on my cyrus side ? It needs 'anyone p' access. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology

Re: sieve problem

2008-03-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
x27; contains '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > AND 'From:' contains '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' THEN file into > 'INBOX.Informationen.Foren.DVB' > > It is created with smartsieve... I've never seen a 'From:' with four addresses in it. Use OR. Joseph B

Re: delete messages from a mailboxe matching corresponding SUBJECT header

2008-03-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
ox with an imap client to select messages with the word in subject, delete, expunge. Remove the permission. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.ed

Re: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
grounds: ignore a bad rule) or back to sender (grounds: not deliverable as configured). Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
the system know the message already passed through a local sieve script. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
pd hands this to the MTA, it's like case [1]. Or does lmtpd handle this by itself? In that case the loop should be detectable, I imagine. I'm probably missing something. We might be smarter with case [1] if lmtpd inserted a "X-Been-Here" type header as it hands off to the MTA

Re: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
han bounce to sender, and way better than losing the message. > If the "editheader" Sieve extension gets implemented, then a well- > written sieve script should be able to do the same type of thing. > To me this seems a bit more sane than expecting lmtp or sieve to > accompl

Re: Subject problem

2008-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
It means the Subject had 8-bit characters, not encoded. The sender's email program should be encoding them. The header portion of mail is required to be 7-bit only. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wik

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
ms are just as likely to accept the message, then check SPF, and mail a bounce :-) This is getting off topic for the Cyrus list though. The question relevant to Cyrus, I thought, was whether a sieve filter can catch backscatter. With header-only tests, not so much. Joseph Brennan Lead Email S

Re: Help with bulletin board functionality

2008-05-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
ds like evolution is showing you something different from what is on the server, which would be pretty bad. Maybe you could check by reading with a different client, or from a different computer, using your own account, or even better, learn how to type imap commands from telnet so

Re: Cyrus - can't create user mailbox

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
timiscyrus (3) is not a Cyrus mailbox I would expect mail addressed to satimiscyrus to end up in (1). (2) is not a user mailbox. It could work as a bboard mailbox but that's not what you want in this case. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: Problem on mail boxe

2008-06-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
y means a mailbox called Trash under user.satimiscyrus. If Squirrelmail wants to use Trash and it is not there, I don't know why it does not just create it instead of reporting an error, but I have seen other clients that dumb. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Inf

Re: Problem on mail boxe

2008-06-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
take it back. This is really at the point where I think I would wipe everything out and start over. Use the dot separator next time, to clarify the distinction between Cyrus mailboxes and unix files. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://c

Re: Couple of questions

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
roblem that we don't have. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: Question ??

2008-10-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
protocol requires the mailbox be locked for the duration of a POP session. People who run two POP clients at once will see the error message sometimes. Of course if POP sessions don't quit when the client quits, that's another story. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Tec

Re: IMAP account used for multiple users

2008-10-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
or, nobody can. -- They can't keep track of what messages each person has seen. -- Somebody might POP the mailbox and remove everything. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.we

Re: Folder allowed character

2008-11-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:28 +0100 Antonio Talarico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Where i can found a list with allowed character for a folder name? > RFC 3501, section 5.1 to 5.1.3 Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus

Re: Rights question

2008-12-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
sages are not mailed, but written with imap, so you need the 'i' right to save sent mail there. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: howto list inactive users in cyrus:

2008-12-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
rresponds with the last time the account received > an email, not my last login (which was yesterday). How about checking the timestamp on the user.seen files? It seems to get touched at login, even if you don't open a message. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology

Re: Security risk of POP3 & IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
n since the user could also telnet in and see the same files! The protocol itself is no less secure than POP. I don't understand why POP is still around. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrus

Re: List to Spam Harvest

2009-02-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
h " at " sounds pretty good though. No argument. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

2009-03-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
yradm. It will start "DELETED." and end with an extra string. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: thoughts on running an IMAP-over-SSL server exposed to the Internet?

2009-03-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
ou need only plain imap with tls required, but imaps helps some clients work right. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
calls. Do you mean more than five? Whatever you do should check both host and user, so that you don't cut off multiple users on a timeshare host or a firewall gateway. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyr

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
ht be interesting to log sessions and see what's going on. Or to strace live processes. And of course ask the user what it looks like from his/her end. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyru

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
vals, so I think it's something else. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: AW: Re: AW: Re: Message contains NUL characters - howto dump?

2009-04-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
> (IMHO is the max. line lenght in emails 4000 characters.) RFC 2821 sec 4.5.3.1 says the max length is 1000 characters including the two CR LF characters. However if the MTA fixes this, Cyrus won't see it. Sendmail for example breaks long lines at 997 characters and inserts ! CR LF.

Re: misterious duplicate message-id

2009-05-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
lieve it's incompetence, but I don't, because Microsoft could afford to hire expert engineers and make it work right if they wanted to. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:

Re: Invalid Header problems

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Brennan
Google is your friend. Notice that a Message-ID header exists but has no string after the label: Jul 28 09:45:10 boom3 postfix/cleanup[6921]: B9A7225C001: message-id= See http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-02/1410.html Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia

Re: Repeating emails

2009-11-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
on the cyrus server. Grep the Message-ID. If it's there only once, it's some kind of index problem on cyrus or in the client. You could reconstruct. You could have the recipient read the mailbox with a different client and see whether the duplication still appears. Joseph Br

Re: TLS fails on imaps port

2010-01-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
t the > following in the log: > > imaps[27170]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: [xx.xx.xx.xx] > imaps[27170]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed Normal. It should fail. 993 requires SSL. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http:/

Re: TLS fails on imaps port

2010-01-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
alternatives are commonly called "ssl" and "tls", but the actual distinction is whether the starttls command is used to get Transport Layer Security. First described in RFC 2595. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web

Re: trouble with sieve and cyrus murder

2010-02-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
ends, since we are doing replication too. I agree with Andrew Morgan, I/O is key. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: Deleting messages

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
; as deleted but still there. That's what "delete" does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still undelete them, in case of error. Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted. For no known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of

Re: Deleting messages

2010-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
in the Exchange Client (the interoffice memo and scheduling client that became Outlook) or Netscape Navigator (one the first GUI IMAP clients). It was an unfamiliar term and I did not understand why it was being used. None of the old email clients used it, nor did the POP or IMAP protocols.

Re: user_deny.db, very high load and Apple-Spotlight

2010-04-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
session every time they open a new folder. Enable telemetry if you want to check what these clients do. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.w

Re: Cyrus vacation notice

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
vacation message. You know of course that vacation replies per sender only once a day, or some longer period, right? Just checking. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/

Re: [cyrus-imapd] unexpunge folder problem

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
DELETED/user/...' > hierarchy ? DELETED is in same the partition the user is in. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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 vacation notice

2010-04-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
. Have people reported that too? Look at the log records on the gateway and the cyrus system to see what the sender address is. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: Cyrus vacation notice

2010-04-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
note the sender address. Is it the same, or "r...@server.domain"? If it has changed to "r...@server.domain", that is the problem. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu

Re: Odd Behavior w/ HTML Attachment

2010-04-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
look 2007. If you want, send me an example directly and I'll examine the MIME format. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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

Re: Cyrus vacation notice

2010-04-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
ion replies, bounces, or receipts. It looks like you can't deliver bcc'd messages either, if you are trying to guess recipients by reading headers. Anyway none of this is a cyrus problem. I'm out of here. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home

Re: sieve problem with vacation filter again.

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
Maria McKinley wrote: > The only thing unusual about this account, that I can think of, is that > he is forwarding mail to this account from other accounts. Did you put those other addresses in the sieve rule? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Hom

Re: Occasionally weird behaviour with mboxes

2010-05-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
t;alpha" not what he got which was only... * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "Fornitori G-Z" Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archi

Re: How to activate sieve script for users?

2006-03-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
age can be accessed from anywhere, so that a user can update sieve rules from anywhere. (Actually the user is updating Ingo rulesets that are put to the server as sieve rules.) The down side is that some things you can really do with sieve itself are not available. Joseph Brennan Columbia

RE: plus addressing with postfix

2006-03-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
Stefano Santoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... and if you plan to deliver to subfolders DO make sure that the subfolder names are all lowercase. INBOX.junk not INBOX.Junk What makes this necessary? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page

Re: more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

2006-04-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
nd had an equally uncontrolled autoreply. This is not a theoretical possibility. There are some client-side implementations of vacation that reply to all (even bounces!) and I have had to clean up the results. Sometimes we had to deny smtp connections from an IP temporarily to make it stop.

Re: more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

2006-04-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
question than an email question. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Outlook does not delete but displays deleted messages asstrike-trough

2006-05-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
is Outlook. Why would you call this ridiculous? It's easy to undelete by highlighting one and clicking undelete. And it reminds me they're still taking up space, which nudges me to expunge them every so often. I like controlling when my messages get wiped out. Joseph Brennan Colum

Re: Strip HTML

2006-06-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
example by default displays the text/plain part if available and otherwise no text, and the user has to click to see the text/html part. That's nice because you can still see the html when you want to. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http:/

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
red folders. My telnet client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it doesn't :-) Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http:

Re: Sieve: vacation does not work

2006-08-04 Thread Joseph Brennan
cleaning up duplicate db. Simon And vacation messages are not sent to yourself. You're testing by sending from some other address, right? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.e

Re: mail lists and cyrus

2006-09-05 Thread Joseph Brennan
g sendmail, ldap, cyrus. Mike B. Get yourself a nice mailing list software package. The only Cyrus-related idea might be to use a shared mailbox that everybody can read, instead of mailing a copy to everybody, but that only works well if all the list members read mail on the same system.

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Monday, September 11, 2006 14:14 +0200 Daniel Eckl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But it's nice, that everyone who doesn't care about looking and usability now has a suitable free IMAP client availiable. It is possible to state your preference without insulting everyon

Re: Problems with repeated download of messages from pop3

2006-09-26 Thread Joseph Brennan
. Cyrus is not doing anything wrong. Not only does the protocol allow numbers to vary in length, but the example in the RFC shows numbers of different lengths! Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology --On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 21:50 +0200 Dan Ohnesorg <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Folders containing messages and subfolders

2006-11-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
'mail folder' is either a directory containing other folders or a file containing messages. Cyrus does not use mbox format, and its 'mail folders' can contain both messages and other folders. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology -

Re: Beyond rtcyrus2 (sendmail integration)

2006-11-29 Thread Joseph Brennan
below: http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/rtcyrus2.html http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/#cyrus I have created google group for the purpose. Join it if you are interested: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cyrus-sendmail Sounds good to me. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Co

Re: Beyond rtcyrus2 (sendmail integration)

2006-12-04 Thread Joseph Brennan
Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2) Methods you suggest do not give a chance to reject messages to over quota mailboxes *in SMTP session*. ...which can be a good thing if you want to give users a chance to clean up or request more space. The trouble with smmapd is that it gives

cyr_expire error

2006-12-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
dex/expunge record %u/%lu", mailbox->name, msgno, exists); return IMAP_IOERROR; } But bboard contains messages 309. to 704., not 4 to 1591. We are using delayed expunge. What should I look at? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home P

Re: cyr_expire error

2006-12-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
is now running through all of the mailboxes it had missed since bboard got corrupted. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://

Re: A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
STDERR "WARNING: Removing NUL\n"; } # Change CRLF or bare CR to LF $endcr = $midcr = 0; $endcr++ if ($line =~ s/\015$//g); # \n already there $midcr++ if ($line =~ s/\015/\n/g); # add \n if ($endcr || $midcr) { print STDERR "WARNING: Correcting CR characters\n";

Re: A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
that do it right. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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: Moving mail into IMAP server and the Received date

2007-02-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
't preserve it in local folders, and they probably don't try to reconstruct what it was from Received or Date headers when they append to a folder on server. It's not really a Cyrus or Outlook bug. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information T

reconstruct deletes messages

2007-03-05 Thread Joseph Brennan
d the index. Under what circumstances would it unlink files? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology 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/

Re: reconstruct deletes messages

2007-03-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
these feature and removed the files. But this would only delete files if they where deleted in Cyrus before. Thank you. We're 2.3.something but not 2.3.8. This explains what is happening to messages after we restored from backup. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia

Exchange's handling of Sieve Reject

2007-03-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
utlook shows when it reads as an imap client off the Cyrus server. All the above was read off an Exchange server. Possible fixes would be to format the rejection like a reply or a forwarded message, or plain text, but it would be pretty dumb. Has anyone else dealt with this at all? Any bright i

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
n each PC. Each user would have to run a client that can move messages from the local inbox to the Cyrus server. You cannot do it for them unless you have some kind of remote access to all the PCs (which might be the case in a controlled corporate environment). Joseph Brennan Lead Email S

Re: Bare newlines problem

2007-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
rning is correct. I allready tried a perl-script of Joseph Brennan what I found in this list, but it did not change the message (checked with diff). The script prepares mbox-format mailboxes for mailutil, which complains if there are CR characters (\015) in the mbox-format files. It changes CRL

Deleting mailboxes on master

2007-04-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
on the replica and doing deletemailbox; and deleting the mailbox with an imap client. I have a list of them from running ctl_mboxlist -d on the master. But I can't figure how to remove them from the master's mailbox list. Does anyone have an idea? Joseph Brennan Lead Email System

Re: Misdelivered messages

2007-05-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
Recipient addresses don't have to appear anywhere in the message. And in spam the To: header is often garbage. Ignore that. Look at the system log records written by your MTA (Postfix?) to see who the recipients were. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Inform

Re: better techniques to identify and remove zero-day viruses from cyrus store sought

2007-08-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
ort.microsoft.com/kb/262631 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829982 This 100% effective and there are no zero-day or zero-hour problems. Done here since February 2003. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu

Re: problem with cyr_expire

2007-09-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
other mailbox we have that has an expire annotation. But this other one has the problem much less often, and not at all since the fsck. It is on the same partition. I have wondered whether the bogus Date headers in spam tickle a bug in expiring by date. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Enginee

Re: Relation of filesystem to Cyrus mailbox structure

2007-09-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
yrus mailboxes for the directories too. For ~janedoe/mail/foo/bar (mbox file) we created both user.janedoe.foo and user.janedoe.foo.bar, even though the user had never stored mail in foo (since it was a directory). This seemed simpler than having to explain later that foo could be part of a mailbox

Re: Relation of filesystem to Cyrus mailbox structure

2007-09-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
/mail/user, ~user/mbox, and ~user/mail/* which might be common in U Wash for example. It might have been cool to test the first five characters in ~user/* for "From " to catch stray files not in the mail directory. You're right, it's amazing how many users have only inbox and

Re: delete messages from INBOX.Trash INBOX.Junk

2007-09-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
the client makes a Trash folder and provides a nice button to move things into it. Imagine if the client also made an Archive folder and had another button for that. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusima

Re: duplicate messages

2007-09-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Friday, September 28, 2007 10:42 -0400 "Gottschalk, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it appears that after Cyrus gets the message it gets > duplicated. Anyone have any suggestions? Sieve rules? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University

Re: LIST is slow for 35K mailboxes

2007-10-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
xes in a murder. It takes about 1 second to do LIST "" * and oddly enough it takes longer, 7 seconds, to do ctl_mboxlist -d | wc -l Sorry this doesn't help solve your problem but it proves it should be a lot faster than that. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Tech

alt namespace

2005-03-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
OK Completed (0.000 secs 10 calls) Clients that use namespace will list the contents of Other Users and Shared Folders twice if we use this configuration, once under "" and once under their namespaces. What's wrong here? Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Informat

Re: change default mailbox names

2005-04-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
eted Messages, Drafts, and Sent Messages. I want to shorten the names to something like Inbox, Trash, Drafts and Out(box) respectively if I can. If Cyrus is creating them, change imapd.conf to change them. But those are usually created by clients. Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Info

Non-personal users

2005-04-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
each unit to manipulate this and not have to submit a request to us. Is it better to do this in "user." space or public folder space? We can see pros and cons to each, but we have no experience to draw on. What is actually being done on Cyrus systems, and how well does it work? Joseph Br

Re: Message contains NUL characters ...

2005-04-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
.1 defining what characters are. Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS) Columbia University in the City of New York --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Message contains NUL characters ...

2005-04-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
Viagra ads, bank phishing, etc. I cannot tell how many had nulls and how many had bare CR and LF so this might be tangential to the null discussion. But certainly legit mail with nulls appears to be very rare. Joseph Brennan Academic Information Systems Columbia University in the City of New York

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed

2005-05-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
It's not a security issue. It's annoyance reduction. If this list could possibly restrict posting to subscribers that would go a long way. That is pretty routine for lists. At least I haven't been unsubscribed yet because of our mail system rejecting spam. Joseph Brenn

Re: Retreiving folders size from clients

2005-09-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
that, synching changes to the server. It's like they're always on offline mode to some extent. If a client does this, it can figure out mailbox size locally without asking the server. I believe Outlook is one of these. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Joseph Brennan
mpacts both the amount of memory and the bandwidth to the storage. Unless you're doing a lot of SSL/TLS connections, the CPU is "relatively" unimportant. Ken, We've got the idea from somewhere that the size of the mailbox list does affect the memory used by each process

CMU's graffiti

2005-09-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
CMU has a tree called graffiti in which anyone can create new bboard mailboxes. How is this implemented? I see instructions for creating with Mulberry and cyradm, and it implies the C acl, but that would also allow anyone to delete mailboxes. Or is that how it works? Joseph Brennan Columbia

Tiger Mail.app

2005-10-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
d see these folders previously with Mail under Panther, and they can still see them now by using other clients. Have others here seen this problem? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cm

Re: Tiger Mail.app

2005-10-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
t only one version of one client has trouble with whatever it is. We're running a murder. Does it work with other murders, anyone? I'll post the solution when we find it. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu

Re: Cyrus & Sendmail

2005-10-24 Thread Joseph Brennan
rking on Solaris and Cyrus working on RH. As an illustration of how separate the two things are, we don't even use the same servers. You probably should ask on a sendmail forum like comp.mail.sendmail. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home

Re: ACLs

2005-10-24 Thread Joseph Brennan
cated a sender, and we find that the the message should relay to our Cyrus server, how do we tell Cyrus it was auth'd as that user? We'd welcome reference to any document on the subject. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.

Re: [POLL] pop3d/nntpd and IMAP flags

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
aults to DELE on server. It's tempting to mark deleted to solve that. But it seems to me only to trade one problem for another. What we need is user-controlled unexpunge, Ken! Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus C

Re: [POLL] pop3d/nntpd and IMAP flags

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
4rev1 server terminating connection z OK LOGOUT completed pop. retr 131 +OK 7645 octets ...blablabla quit +OK Sayonara imap again-- now it is \Seen c fetch 131 flags * 131 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen Junk)) c OK FETCH completed Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus

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