qmail-cyrus
Anyone have any idea where the qmail-cyrus link went to? The link is broken in LWQ. =G= -- |---Quote of the Moment-| When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done. -- Daniel B. Luten
qmail - cyrus
Hello, does anyone know or has working the connection from qmail to IMAP-daemon Cyrus? I am experimenting with these two, but qmail does not deliver mail to cyrus. I want to use qmail as MTA and cyrus as IMAP-daemon for all users. TIA Wolfgang Wagner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: qmail - cyrus
does anyone know or has working the connection from qmail to IMAP-daemon Cyrus? I am experimenting with these two, but qmail does not deliver mail to cyrus. I want to use qmail as MTA and cyrus as IMAP-daemon for all users. Are you using the deliver program that comes with Cyrus? (You have to). Have you wrapped it or modified its permissions? (You need to). Read the following archive messages, give it a try, and if you're still having problems come back with some details about what you're trying, where it is failing, and what log messages result. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/03/msg01173.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/02/msg00561.html -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail - cyrus
Hello, does anyone know or has working the connection from qmail to IMAP-daemon Cyrus? I am experimenting with these two, but qmail does not deliver mail to cyrus. I want to use qmail as MTA and cyrus as IMAP-daemon for all users. TIA Wolfgang Wagner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.Vorsitzender Bürgernetz Allgäu Technischer Leiter
Re: qmail - cyrus
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Wolfgang Wagner wrote: Hello, does anyone know or has working the connection from qmail to IMAP-daemon Cyrus? I am experimenting with these two, but qmail does not deliver mail to cyrus. I want to use qmail as MTA and cyrus as IMAP-daemon for all users. Go to www.qmail.org. There's at least one pointer to how to set it up, maybe more. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
qmail-cyrus-authentification
Hi, we are going to start a web mail project with more then 300.000 users. As imap server we use cyrus, modified to do authentification via an oracle account_db. We decided using qmail instead of sendmail as SMTP server. My question is how to setup qmail working with cyrus, especially doing the same authentification mechanism. Is there a way to configure qmail asking cyrus for user authentification or do we also have to change qmail doing the pwcheck with an oracle db? Are there already any qmail-oracle authentification modules available? And can we use the same account_db as for cyrus or does qmail need any other authentification values? Thanks, Markus
RE: qmail-cyrus-authentification
As imap server we use cyrus, modified to do authentification via an oracle account_db. ... My question is how to setup qmail working with cyrus, especially doing the same authentification mechanism. It isn't clear to me what you want to do. In short: qmail shouldn't need to know anything about the Cyrus users, it should just hand off mail to the cyrus "deliver" program which does know, unless you're trying to do selective relaying. In detail: 1) If you're asking how to make qmail's delivery process correctly deliver to users defined in cyrus via Oracle, the answer is: configure qmail to use cyrus' "deliver" program, which presumably already knows about all the users defined in Oracle. No changes to qmail are needed except the default delivery method. For example, I've got a qmail box that delivers to Cyrus users, and my /var/qmail/rc file has the following lines: exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|preline -f /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -a $USER -- $USER' \ splogger qmail Note that for this to work, you either have to loosen the execution permissions on deliver (which compromises Cyrus quotas, but I didn't care on the server above) or wrap deliver with a setuid wrapper (presumably the "setuidgid" program in DJB's daemontools would work). 2) If you're asking how to make qmail relay for users defined in the Oracle database, I don't know a good answer. Presumably you'd want to grab the SMTP-AUTH patch and fix that up to check with Oracle, but you'll probably still have problems with that. 3) If you're asking how to make checkpassword work with the Oracle database, then either you or I are confused: checkpassword is used by qmail's POP3 server, but if you're running Cyrus, you can only use Cyrus' POP3 server anyway. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
QMAIL-CYRUS-HOWTO
I've made a first rough cut at a QMAIL-CYRUS-HOWTO which is available at http://www.compusense.com/qmail-cyrus/ There's an RPM, SRPM, tarball, and the individual files. As I caution in HOWTO, the setup is RedHat centric. The actual instructions are a bit sparse, but all the scripts are there to look at, and I've outlined the general mechanism that will work on any system. The RedHat setup works and I've documented that in the HOWTO. I'm sure there will be few things that are unclear, I whipped this one off quick. If anyone has any queries feel free to ask. Hope this is of some general help. jason.
Re: QMAIL-CYRUS-HOWTO
The LDAP integration with Cyrus can be found at: http://www.linc-dev.com/auth.html There are good instructions for adding in the C source code but if I remember correctly, there are a couple of typos in the file. I've had no problems with it accessing our LDAP servers. The only outstanding issue is that it is sending clear text from the cyrus server to your LDAP server. Jon Scarbrough Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made a first rough cut at a QMAIL-CYRUS-HOWTO which is available at http://www.compusense.com/qmail-cyrus/ There's an RPM, SRPM, tarball, and the individual files. As I caution in HOWTO, the setup is RedHat centric. The actual instructions are a bit sparse, but all the scripts are there to look at, and I've outlined the general mechanism that will work on any system. The RedHat setup works and I've documented that in the HOWTO. I'm sure there will be few things that are unclear, I whipped this one off quick. If anyone has any queries feel free to ask. Hope this is of some general help. jason.
Q re qmail / cyrus imapd and Sent folder on server
I'm still striving for mail client independence. What this means is that all mail for everyone will remain on the server and ideally I'd like the user to be able to use an imap client of his/her choosing from a PC of his/her choosing, i.e. a PC at work, PC from home, HPC from wherever. Some imap clients do store Sent mail on the server, but some still insist on keeping it local. I know that qmail can log all incoming and outgoing mail but that's a little overkill. What I'd like to do is filter a copy of a users outgoing mail to the users Sent mailbox on the server. I.e. a constant Bcc. Unfortunately I can't rely on the user to do a Bcc manually just like I can't rely on them to backup their PC notwithstanding the from what PC is the mail being read. This seems to be the last missing link for "my" perfect mail setup which basically means to read the mail from wherever with whatever imap client without fear of loosing replies or wondering at the office: did I reply from home. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have. Is it perhaps possible to pipe the qmail msg-log to procmail or some equivilant? Heinz
Re: Q re qmail / cyrus imapd and Sent folder on server
Heinz Wittenbecher writes: I'm still striving for mail client independence. What this means is that all mail for everyone will remain on the server and ideally I'd like the user to be able to use an imap client of his/her choosing from a PC of his/her choosing, i.e. a PC at work, PC from home, HPC from wherever. Some imap clients do store Sent mail on the server, but some still insist on keeping it local. I know that qmail can log all incoming and outgoing mail but that's a little overkill. What I'd like to do is filter a copy of a users outgoing mail to the users Sent mailbox on the server. I.e. a constant Bcc. There's a web CGI server for maildir mailboxes that's currently in sort of alpha-test mode. It's not an IMAP server, the only way you can use it would be via a browser. The only reason I'm mentioning is because it puts outgoing mail into the Sent folder automatically. You can find out more about it at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/sqwebmail/; I should mention that I'll have the next release out soon, so you may want to wait a couple of days. Also, be advised that it's still work in progress, so things like ease of installation and maintenance may not be there for everyone.
new qmail/cyrus imap package
Hello, I just thought I would throw this out to the crowd to see if anyone is interested: I've just finished making a little qmail/cyrus package. qmail feeds the mail to cyrus via the users/assign mechanism as per usual, the only thing I've really done is to patch the cyrus imap server so that it authenticates out of a cdb (the same hash format that users/assign uses) instead of kerberos or /etc/passwd. And I have a perl script that allow you to enter users into the system and it takes care of updating the users/assign file, and the cdb file that cyrus is using to authenticate from. I like the cyrus imap server, but I'm not personally thrilled with having to update /etc/passwd (and I haven't read up on Kerberos so I don't know if it suited my needs) to add new users to the system. It's a little hard to automate safely, at least I found it so. I wrote a little expect script to do it, but it ended up being more trouble than it was worth. I haven't done any extensive testing but the cdb method seems to be working well for me. And I know for certain that a cdb is probably going to work a lot better when I have all the masses trying to login at the same time. What I'm trying to do is make a simple mail server that has no users on it. Something that can be maintained with a web page. Right now I can maintain it with a perl script, but it would be easy to move a web form, or a simple text-based maintenance program. I'm also trying to jam SSL into the cyrus imap server, not successful yet but I'm going to try stunnel which allows you to wrap socket daemon thingy in SSL. Anyway, if anyone is interested I've got two RPMS, plus the SRPMS. qmail and cyrus go in their normal locations, I've just added a few files here and there. The SRPMS have proper build roots too, so you can rebuild the SRPMS on your systems without it them interfering with anything you've already got installed. Just drop me a line if you'd like the RPMS, if not I'll just go about my business. jason. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Tolstoy
Re: new qmail/cyrus imap package
Chris Ulrich wrote: If it is possible to reset a user's password in exchange, and if exchange truly uses the imap protocol, it should be possible to use fetchmail to suck every user's email off of the exchange server and into a proper mail server. The trick is writing the script and resetting every user's password on the exchange server so you can run the "suck the mail out of the exchange server" script. An alternative (assuming that you can use fetchmail) is to write a web wrapper to fetchmail so that the user can suck the mail onto the new server themselves. It's too bad the cyrus server doesn't support maildir. I'm not keen on using the u-washington imap server, but if I want imap + maildir it is the only option. I've been told by "on high" that I'm going to have to support an exchange server for the campus, for both mail and schedualing. I responded that everything I've heard about exchange leads me to believe that it will be a disaster, to which he responded that large companies (ford and several others I don't remember) use exchange so it must be okay. How badly does exchange work? Does it work at all? chris I've never had to maintain Exchange, I've only seen the tears. Exchange has caused a lot people I know unquantifiable amounts of grief. My advice to you is tip the Exchange server off the of server rack: blame it on the hardrive spinning so hard, trying to process two messages at a time, it caused the machine to fall of the rack. jason.
