Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:11:03PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ben Rosengart writes: On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:55:13PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ben Rosengart writes: Simple: we generate a userdb on host A, in /export/foo. We read it on host B, in /foo. Please do not suggest

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:43:13AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:32:14 -0400 Ben Rosengart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #If I build courier to use /foo/userdb*, and have a symlink on host #A from /foo to /export/foo, then to build the database for host C, #I have to

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:57:20 -0400 Ben Rosengart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #No, I want to maintain multiple userdbs across multiple servers. # #(I also want to maintain the same userdb across multiple servers, but # I can do that without patching makeuserdb, as you point out, so it's # not

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:07:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: A) when replying please use 'l' to reply, instead of reply-all. Your client (mutt) is smart enough to handle list email, so l replies to the list, and I don't get a second copy of your reply in my inbox. What do you have this

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:30:24PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Why don't you simply build Courier using --sysconfdir=/etc/courier and --with-userdb=/etc/courier/userdb, and install a soft link on each host, /etc/courier, that points to the right configuration directory for that host

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:34:03PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: The problem with running makeuserdb on [production hosts instead of a management host] is that it costs me an ssh every time I change a database on [the management host]. It also means that if I have N hosts and N/4 different

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
If you're only running 'makeuserdb' on host A, then there's not much of a problem with the current system. You can symlink userdb/whatever to the files you need, and run 'makeuserdb' on host A. Hosts B and C only need to read userdb.dat, so there shouldn't be a need for external files. If you

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:32:43PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: If you're only running 'makeuserdb' on host A, then there's not much of a problem with the current system. You can symlink userdb/whatever to the files you need, and run 'makeuserdb' on host A. Hosts B and C only need to read

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Juha Saarinen
Ben Rosengart wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:07:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: A) when replying please use 'l' to reply, instead of reply-all. Your client (mutt) is smart enough to handle list email, so l replies to the list, and I don't get a second copy of your reply in my inbox.

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:39:29AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: Ben Rosengart wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:07:06AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: A) when replying please use 'l' to reply, instead of reply-all. Your client (mutt) is smart enough to handle list email, so l replies to the

RE: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
: Gordon Messmer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility If you're only running 'makeuserdb' on host A, then there's not much of a problem with the current system. You

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:39:29 +1200 Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #Jesse probably meant the 'reply to (g)roup' key. Nope, I meant the L key, only lowercase. It means reply-list in Mutt. Most _smart_ clients handle mailing lists the way that they should, when the list is adhering to

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:53:30PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Nope, I meant the L key, only lowercase. It means reply-list in Mutt. Most _smart_ clients handle mailing lists the way that they should, when the list is adhering to RFC's, and not munging the reply-to header. Hmmm... 'L'

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:06:35PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: Without changing makeuserdb, you're not going to be able to keep your current setup without moving some files around every time you rebuild userdb. That is correct. cp -f /export/B/userdb /courier/etc/userdb

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:03:26PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: That's fine. A small change of plans: you're not going to run makeuserdb by hand. You'll run a shell script that creates a soft link from /etc/courier to /export/B before running makeuserdb once, then creates a soft link

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:03:26PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: That's fine. A small change of plans: you're not going to run makeuserdb by hand. You'll run a shell script that creates a soft link from /etc/courier to /export/B before running makeuserdb once, then creates a soft link

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:04:56PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ben Rosengart writes: The destination directory can currently be set at compile time. I am proposing making this configurable at run-time too. What is the down-side? Who could possibly be harmed by making the software

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 13:16, Ben Rosengart wrote: Simple: we generate a userdb on host A, in /export/foo. We read it on host B, in /foo. Please do not suggest that we maintain two builds of courier-imap. I don't think you would appreciate it if someone treated you as if your time had no

Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:55:13PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ben Rosengart writes: Simple: we generate a userdb on host A, in /export/foo. We read it on host B, in /foo. Please do not suggest that we maintain two builds of courier-imap. I don't think you would appreciate it if