Re: index on custom headers for fast ipurge
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Eric Luyten wrote: >> A Cyrus administrator can authenticate as an administrator and authorize >> as a user. You can then perform operations on behalf of the user. > > > Andrew, > > > What "commodity" mail client offers this possibility ? I've never tried to do this with a real mail client, so I can't say. I suspect very few can, if any. The imtest tool which comes with Cyrus supports this feature. I thought the perl module Mail::IMAPClient supported it, but it appears you would have to tie it to imtest (which is given as an example in the source distribution of Mail::IMAPClient). In the context of the original question, I'm not sure it is even necessary to authorize as the end user. An admin user can open any mailbox on the system to find the notification messages and delete them. If you want to simply read a user's mailbox (not *be* the user), then an admin can grant access to the mailbox to any other Cyrus user. We do that here to help diagnose user problems. Andy 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: index on custom headers for fast ipurge
> A Cyrus administrator can authenticate as an administrator and authorize > as a user. You can then perform operations on behalf of the user. Andrew, What "commodity" mail client offers this possibility ? Regards, Eric Luyten, VUB/ULB Computing Centre. 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: index on custom headers for fast ipurge
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, ram wrote: > I am setting up a cyrus imap server with 40k-80k mailboxes > > I have a particular requirement that some particular messages should be > deleted from all mailboxes.These are the usual yada-yada system > notifications no one reads > > For this I plan to add custom headers in al these notifications and run > ipurge for all mails with that header > > Is this possible ? I don't use ipurge, so I can't say whether ipurge can do this. > Alternatvely I could use an ImapClient script to logon to the mailboxes > and delete the mails. But I wont have passwords for all mailboxes ? A Cyrus administrator can authenticate as an administrator and authorize as a user. You can then perform operations on behalf of the user. You don't need to know the user's password. Andy 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
index on custom headers for fast ipurge
I am setting up a cyrus imap server with 40k-80k mailboxes I have a particular requirement that some particular messages should be deleted from all mailboxes.These are the usual yada-yada system notifications no one reads For this I plan to add custom headers in al these notifications and run ipurge for all mails with that header Is this possible ? Alternatvely I could use an ImapClient script to logon to the mailboxes and delete the mails. But I wont have passwords for all mailboxes ? Thanks Ram 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
