ipurge doesnt work for mailbox pattern

2005-10-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hi, I want to delete all older mails from my cyrus mailboxes If I run ipurge like ipurge -d 60 -f user then it works file But If I run ipurge with a pattern it fails ipurge -d 60 -f user/someuser I tried user/someuser or user.someuser etc ... doesnt help Thanks

Can I bypass authentication for connections from a host

2005-10-20 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hi, We are running cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-8 on linux. I would like to run some maintenance script from a server. Can I configure cyrus to bypass authentication for connections from one IP We are using saslauthd with mysql based authentication Thanks Ram Cyrus Home Page:

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

2005-09-07 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. we have about 30,000 users using the same OS, using the RPMs from

Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-06 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hi, I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. ( Single machine 2GB Ram dual-cpu with RAID ). Most of the users (90%) use pop to read their mails The problem is with frequent corruption of mailboxes. I have to reconstruct the mailboxes and then runs fine again. Is

Re: backend database ?

2004-02-08 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 23:21, Joakim Ryden wrote: on 02/08/2004 03:15 AM Michael Jonsson said the following: For all the mail... Mail is not stored in any database. -- May not be now, But is there any reason mail cannot be stored in a database. Or a ldap directory. This thought occurred

Re: api to access cyrus header/index files

2004-01-23 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:14, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I am using cyrus mailboxes to store rss feeds users have subscribed to. Now I am putting special headers in the mails for every feed which are specific to my application. I want to do an optimum

api to access cyrus header/index files

2004-01-22 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am using cyrus mailboxes to store rss feeds users have subscribed to. Now I am putting special headers in the mails for every feed which are specific to my application. I want to do an optimum search on all mailboxes somewhat like select all mails from all mailboxes where header Xmyheader

Lmtp refusing connection all of a sudden

2004-01-12 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I have a cyrus 2.1.12 server running on redhat 7.2 with around 1500 users Now all of a sudden lmtp is refusing connections even though cyrus is running and the sock /var/imap/socket/lmtp is created Now How do I debug this error , Can I enable some loging somewhere I cant see anything in my

Re: Autodelete of old mails

2004-01-08 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:44, Craig Ringer wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I want to maintain my cyrus-imap server in such a way that all mails older than 30 days will be deleted for all users I have written a client code using perl Mail::IMAPClient. But I was wondering

Re: Autodelete of old mails

2004-01-08 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:26, Craig Ringer wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I am trying ipurge out. Seems a good idea, but does not work even if one mailbox is corrupt. A better question might be why you have corrupt mailboxes. I don't run a particularly large server, but I haven't

ipurge simply exits in between

2004-01-03 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I want to delete all users mails older than 30 days on my cyrus imap server running on redhat linux 7.3 Thanks to members in this group , I found out I could do that with a utility called ipurge So I do a ipurge su - -c'/usr/cyrus/bin/ipurge -f -d 30 -s user' cyrus This program starts with

Autodelete of old mails

2003-12-30 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I want to maintain my cyrus-imap server in such a way that all mails older than 30 days will be deleted for all users I have written a client code using perl Mail::IMAPClient. But I was wondering if it was possible at the cyrus level. the popexpiretime: in imapd.conf parameter is something

Quotawarn settings

2003-12-12 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hi all , I want to use quotawarn to automatically intimate user and the admin that the user quota is above a particular %age of the quota I have put quotawarn: 90 in /etc/imapd.conf Now where Do I enter the text message ( if any ) that will go to the user Is there a way I can Cc: the

Cyrus +ldap howto

2003-12-11 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Is there a how to for using cyrus with cyrus sasl and ldap for passwords I already have got this working on my machine rehdhat linux 9.0 , But the problem is I am using it with plain text passwords in ldap. I want to encrypt them ( any encryption , SSA CRYPT etc ) . So what changes do I have

Audit logs of mailbox access

2003-12-05 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello everyone One of my clients is using planning to use his own server , running cyrus+postfix or sendmail on linux. This imap server will be used by customers who will receive regular newsletters. One of the requirements is that whenever a customer reads / moves / deletes a mail the

How to get last logged in time

2003-11-11 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
How do I come to know when a user last logged on to the server using either a pop/Imap client Thanks Ram NETCORE SOLUTIONS *** Ph: +91 22 5662 8000 Fax: +91 22 5662 8134 MailServ and FlexiMail: Messaging Solutions:

Return permanent failure on quota

2003-10-27 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I want to bounce back mails immediately if the mailbox quota is exceeded. Can I do this with just some parameter change Thanks Ram

Cyrus aggregator

2003-10-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am sorry, for a question that looks a FAQ. I am looking for a scalable cyrus architecture that can support POP and maybe IMAP too. I came across this document http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html I am reading this yet but I am not able to understand the idea completely. Can I just

Re: script for creating folders into users mailboxes

2003-10-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:34, RJ45 wrote: Hello, I would like to create automatically a folder SPAM in every user mailbox. Is it possible to do that with a cyradm script ? Anyone did that already ? Anyone could point me to an already avaliable sript if such a thing does exist ? thank you Rick

Re: Still can't get cyradm to work

2003-10-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:41, Doug Koobs wrote: Is there any way to re-compile and install cyradm without completely re-installing Cyrus? I still cant get cyradm to work (no response, just drops me back to bash prompt when I try to run it). I used less to look at the cyradm file,

RE: Still can't get cyradm to work

2003-10-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:03, Doug Koobs wrote: Ram, I am somewhat familiar with using CPAN to install perl modules, so I used perl MCPAN e shell and ran the command cpan install Cyrus::IMAP::Shell and

Disable leave a copy in cyrus pop

2003-10-10 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello all, Is there a way I can disable leave a copy on the server. I have got some users who have kept a leave a copy on the server and now their mails are bouncing because of quota. Seeing how pop works I assume that it is quiet difficult to disable leave a copy, Is there a way I can

Problems with pop access

2003-10-01 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am using cyrus imapd 2.1.13 on redhat 9.0 with saslauthd and pam_ldap for authentication Most of my users are using pop access but sometimes the server just refuses connection, or accepts connection and delivers mail but does not delete mail from the server. I restart cyrus and things start

Can I use sieve scripts with procmail

2003-09-22 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I have been using lmtp and am considering using procmail instead Will sieve work with procmail as well Thanks Ram

Unable to delete big mails

2003-09-20 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello all, I am using cyrus-imapd-2.1.13 on redhat 9.0. Some users are using pop some imap ( total around 400 ). Everything runs fine. But sometimes( It has happened almost 4-5 times this week ) Some users are complaining that they are unable to purge mails. Almost always the mail is above

Re: Login without a mailbox

2003-09-17 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:04, Richard Gilbert wrote: We use PAM and LDAP for authentication (pam_ldap from PADL). All our users are in the LDAP server but not all our users have mailboxes on the Cyrus IMAP server. Users without a Cyrus mailbox are still able to login via our Webmail service

Re: Sql based Spamassassin with sieve

2003-09-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 21:08, Darron Froese wrote: On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 09:38 AM, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: So Does that mean That I have to use procmail and .procmailrc You have to use procmail to do it this way - but you don't have to use .procmailrc. You could put

Re: Sql based Spamassassin with sieve

2003-09-15 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:16, Darron Froese wrote: On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 03:11 AM, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: Precisely. But thats what I do not want. There are some people in my office who themselves will decide what is spam and what is not Now How Can I run

Re: Sql based Spamassassin with sieve

2003-09-15 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 20:54, Darron Froese wrote: On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 01:53 AM, Joakim Ryden wrote: How about this? http://au2.spamassassin.org/full/2.5x/dist/sql/README works for me. -- darron froese I started from that page too. My actual problem is How Do I tell cyrus

Re: Sql based Spamassassin with sieve

2003-09-12 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 05:53, Ted Cabeen wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using a gateway spamassassin with Mailscanner. The problem is every user would like his own individual preferences stored. So I was looking if there was a way I could use sieve to fork

Sql based Spamassassin with sieve

2003-09-09 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am using cyrus on my mailserver ( Linux redhat 7.2). The users dont have any system accounts. I am using a gateway spamassassin with Mailscanner. The problem is every user would like his own individual preferences stored. So I was looking if there was a way I could use sieve to fork

Sieve forwarding to multiple-ids

2003-09-01 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
How can I use sieve for forwarding to multiple email ids Thanks Ram

Re: Anyone migrating from lotus to cyrus

2003-08-01 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:28, Joakim Ryden wrote: En viss Ramprasad A Padmanabhan skrev: [...] Great to hear that you too are using Mail::IMAPClient. Just a question When I used the migrate function to migrate the folders ( from a WU-imap server to a cyrus server ) I found that My script

Server Sizing for 50,000 mailboxes

2003-07-28 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello all, I have a basic question on sizing. How does one decide on the sizing Now My client wants a sizing for 50,000 mailboxes. Say I use Sendmail/Cyrus and expect 50 mails/s then What will be the server sizing? I have a three server architecture for 1 mailboxes one SMTP one IMAP

Re: Unable to delete folders in shared mailbox

2003-07-17 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 21:10, Brett Thomson wrote: Hi there, I am rather new to cyrus and wasn't involved in the installation or configuration of the cyrus imap server and now have to look after it. So please forgive me if this is a stupid question or problem. For the company i work for, we

Re: Anyone migrating from lotus to cyrus

2003-07-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 20:56, Mike Cathey wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 10:40, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: Can Anyone give me any leads Set 'Debug = 1' in your source Mail::IMAPClient instance. What version of Mail::IMAPClient are you using? If you're not running the latest version from

Re: subscribing for a user

2003-07-16 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Phil Chambers wrote: I am still new to cyrus and trying to find my way. I have tries searching this list archive but could not find this issue. If I create a folder for a user using the Cyrus::IMAP::Admin perl module, is it possible to mark that folder as being one of the user's subscribed

Re: sa prior to lmtp delivery

2003-07-15 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 05:06, pnelson wrote: RH 9 cyrus 2.1.13 sasl 2.1.13 sendmail 8,12,8 spamassassin 2.44 Have been using sa on my clients (evolution) and then sending the INBOX inbound mail to a filter that runs spamc -e to check for spam. This works great. But I would like to move this

Anyone migrating from lotus to cyrus

2003-07-15 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello all, Is there any utility that can migrate mails from a lotus server with imap support to a cyrus server I have written a perl script using Mail::IMAPClient which copies mails from one server to another using imap protocol This script works fine with cyrus or WU imap servers but just

Re: Recovering a corrupt mailboxes.db

2003-07-14 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 20:09, Patrick Welche wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:03:54PM +0530, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: Is it possible to reconstruct the mailboxes.db I know I can use ctl_mboxlist and a file with all the mailboxes but there seems to be no utility that create

Re: Recovering a corrupt mailboxes.db

2003-07-14 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 16:55, Ken Murchison wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 20:09, Patrick Welche wrote: /On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:03:54PM +0530, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: Is it possible to reconstruct the mailboxes.db I know I can use ctl_mboxlist

Recovering a corrupt mailboxes.db

2003-07-12 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Is it possible to reconstruct the mailboxes.db I know I can use ctl_mboxlist and a file with all the mailboxes but there seems to be no utility that create this file from the mail spool directory Thanks Ram NETCORE

Re: login failed in cyradm

2003-07-11 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 18:17, Simon Matter wrote: Hi, Did you create the file /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd? You have to put 'MECH=pam' into the file and restart saslauthd, otherwise saslauthd on RedHat 9 will default to use shadow instead of pam. Obviously I did or else it would not work with

API to write to lmtp directly

2003-07-09 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
and aliases. The problem is there are too many lmtp processes and I get lmtp lock errors too often -- Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netcore Solutions NETCORE SOLUTIONS *** Ph: +91 22 5662 8000 Fax: +91 22 5662 8134

FAQ How to change a userid

2003-06-30 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Is there a way I can change the user id I was searching the internet people have said I will have to create a new account and move the mails to the account That Seems quite laborious. When I am easily able to rename A subfolder of inbox ( using cyradm ) 'user/usarname/folder

Re: Best way of putting a single file into multiple mailboxes

2003-06-26 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:48, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I dont want to increase no of concurrent lmtp connection on the contrary decrease them. I figured out the way of decreasing them But still the results are no great I have

Re: LMTP won't deliver the mail

2003-06-26 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 09:45, Rob Tanner wrote: Hi, Intalled v2.1.13 on Solaris (sunos 5.7). Solved one problem only to have another pop up out of the blue a few hours later. LMTP simply stopped delivering. At one time I had over 700 lmtp processes running, but no mail was being

Best way of putting a single file into multiple mailboxes

2003-06-25 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am trying to deliver newsletters to multiple people who have accounts on my own server. I am sending it as mail to postfix and delivering to all mailboxes The problem is there are so many lmtp connections that cyrus dies. Especially When I have hundreds of such newsletters generated The

Re: Cyrus takes long time to restart

2003-06-23 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I am running cyrus 2.0.16 on redhat 7.2 linux There are 2000+ mailboxes on the server and almost everyone uses POP to download the mails The problem is whenever cyrus is restarted it takes too long to start almost 3

LMTPD error on NUL characters

2003-06-23 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
\\000' on the file before delivery But Only a small percentage of my mails give this error and it is not worth scanning all mails for NUL chars Is there a better way -- Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netcore Solutions

Cyrus takes long time to restart

2003-06-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
I am running cyrus 2.0.16 on redhat 7.2 linux There are 2000+ mailboxes on the server and almost everyone uses POP to download the mails The problem is whenever cyrus is restarted it takes too long to start almost 3 minutes. Is there some pruning that needs to be done with cyrus database. And