Don Jackson wrote:
>
> Each of my users has a mailbox that contains their voice mail messages.
> I want to write an application that turns on the user's message waiting
> indicator if they have unread messages in their voice mail mailbox. In
> order to do so, I need to know if they have any unread messages.
>
> I wrote a perl script that uses the IMAP protocol to do this for myself.
> In order to get this info for a user, my perl script has to log into the
> cyrus server as the user. So my script needs to know the password for
> each user. This is pretty unacceptable from a security perspective, my
> script would have to know the passwords of every user it was providing
> service to.
>
> Is there a way to create a user that has access to the unseen msg count
> for other users, but nothing else? (eg, would not be able to actually
> read any users messsages). That way if the password was compromised, the
> only thing that could be done with it is to find out how many unseen
> msgs other people have. Is it possible to change from one user's
> mailbox to another users's mail via the IMAP protocol?
>
> The other way I thought of to solve this problem is to write a program
> that runs on the cyrus server itself, as user cyrus, and then walks
> through the mailstore, reading the cyrus.index and cyrus.seen files, and
> figuring out which users have unseen msgs in their voice mail mailbox.
> Technically this will work, but I'd rather have my app run on another
> server and use the IMAP protocol to get this info, rather than run on
> the cyrus imap server itself, and have implementation specific knowledge
> of the cyrus mailstore.
>
> Any advice or ideas?
As Cillian stated, you can proxy as the user, so doing this in perl or
some other scripting language is fairly easy. Alternatively, if you
want to do this outside of the IMAP protocol take a look at fud.c, which
is a finger-type service that tells you the number of unread messages in
the INBOX and the last time the users read his/her INBOX. This should
be a good starting point for writing your own utility.
Ken
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