Re: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Simon Matter
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 01:53 schrieb Edward Rudd: That's not correct.. You can use mysql and have accounts automatically created.. If you install the autocreate patches.. http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3/ I think you do not need to even patch 2.2.3 for this to

Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread sm_os
The top-class idiotic mail from a David Grant deserved no response or at least not any polite one. Naturally I appreciate those bringing any relevant information, but do change the subject line, please. The incredible amount of work put into the free applications so many people benefit from

Php script that will show the size of each directory I have.

2004-02-03 Thread Ronen AmitY
Hi all, Im looking for a php script that will show me the size of my directories. (after adding username and passwd). If it works with horde system, even better. Ronen Amity ClearCase and Sys Admin MainsoftCorporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +972-8-9781300 mobile:

RE: cyradm problem

2004-02-03 Thread Arturo Mardones
Hi to all!! Alter fitght a lot of time with postfix... now when test imap following Luc'c howto cyradm hangs... and log say deliver[2051]: incorrect version of Berkeley db: compiled against 4.2.52, linked against 4.0.14 ctl_cyrusdb[2233]: incorrect version of Berkeley db: compiled against

RE: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Craig Ringer wrote: Does it sound useful to keep a page of 3rd-party cyrus patches on the wiki? I'm sure it'd help a fair few people to know that the autocreate patch, for example, is out there when first setting up Cyrus. There was the Cyrus Utils project that was going

RE: New rpms of Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.3

2004-02-03 Thread David Brown strato
(resend, sorry if you get this twice) -Original Message- From: David Brown Yahoo! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 14:08 To: David Brown Yahoo!; CyrusMail Cc: David Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Artur Wystub; Simon Matter Subject: RE: New rpms of Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.3

Proper shutdown of cyrus IMAP server.

2004-02-03 Thread Earl R Shannon
Hello, We've recently experienced problems with some of the cyrus index files in user account getting suffixed with .NEW and not going away. Their presence indicates a problem with the account. We are currently guessing that the files are being left as a result of the server being shutdown and

Re: Proper shutdown of cyrus IMAP server.

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Earl R Shannon wrote: We've recently experienced problems with some of the cyrus index files in user account getting suffixed with .NEW and not going away. Their presence indicates a problem with the account. We are currently guessing that the files are being left as a

RE: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Peter P. Benac
The message did deserve a response; however, the tone of the message could have been more polite. Unlike David I let my jets cool before I fired off a message to the list, but I was indeed angry. The problem with Freeware is that most times the documents that accompany the software severely

Re: Cyrus-sasl-2.1.17-2 build fails

2004-02-03 Thread Shelley Waltz
Simon, Thanks ... the RH9 src rpm builds fine on ES 3 Shelley On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Simon Matter wrote: I am trying to build cyrus-sasl-2.1.17-2 from the invoca.ch source rpm on a RH ES3 system. RH ES3 comes with db4-4.1.25-8. The spec file for the src files indicates db3 is

RE: New rpms of Cyrus IMAPd 2.2.3

2004-02-03 Thread Simon Matter
[Thanks for all your help, Simon!] Well, I'm to the point where telnet localhost imap shows: * OK ServerCharlie Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.16-Invoca-RPM-2.1.16-6 server ready I also installed all the RPMs that came with Simon's package. Now I am having trouble with cyradm. It's telling me file not

RE: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Peter P. Benac wrote: I for one would love to be able to use a SQL like MySQL to backend this software. I don't have a problem with Berkeley DB, but I know MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres to whole lot better. If I knew which routines actually did the database work I don't

Re: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Avtar Gill
Peter P. Benac wrote: The problem with Freeware is that most times the documents that accompany the software severely lack any substance. What needs to be stressed here is that its *free* software. You are more than welcome to donate either efforts (like Ken suggested) or funds to correct the

Re: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Murchison
Peter P. Benac wrote: The message did deserve a response; however, the tone of the message could have been more polite. Unlike David I let my jets cool before I fired off a message to the list, but I was indeed angry. The problem with Freeware is that most times the documents that accompany

2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Ian G Batten
On my small personal server, supporting a few family members, I run Cyrus latest where possible. I was running 2.1.16 with every database set to skiplist. Upgrading to 2.2.3 with the same ./configure command ./configure --with-openssl --with-sasl --without-cmulocal --with-cyrus-user= cyrus

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: On my small personal server, supporting a few family members, I run Cyrus latest where possible. I was running 2.1.16 with every database set to skiplist. Upgrading to 2.2.3 with the same ./configure command You should read the 2.2.3 upgrade

sig11 with autocreate feature

2004-02-03 Thread Simon Matter
I just discovered a problem with the autocreate patches from http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3/ which have been discussed today on this list. Since the maintainers of the patches also read the list I think it's okay to mention this here. When the createonpost feature is set,

Cyrus Manual

2004-02-03 Thread Christopher Paluch
Since no one has answered by previous post, I will try a different tact. In another post I've seen reference to a manual section 18.5 or something like that. Where is this manual? The Cyrus website points to the doc/ directory that comes with the distribution as containing the manual. I've

Cyrus Manual

2004-02-03 Thread Christopher Paluch
-Original Message- From: Avtar Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 3, 2004 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ) Peter P. Benac wrote: The problem with Freeware is that most times the

Re: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Brian
Incidentally, even a cursory search through the archives would show that this has been debated to death and the developers have stated time and again that the benefits to a SQL backend haven't been worthwhile enough for them to want to implement it. There has been many cases of a lack of

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: It's in changes.html. It didn't leap out at me when I switched, so perhaps it might be worth making louder noises about. Actually, I was referring to install-upgrade.html. I'm not sure where we'd put this sort of stuff that is more obvious than the

Re: some error messages

2004-02-03 Thread James A. Pattie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joao Pedras wrote: | Hi all! | | I wonder if someone could help me with the following error messages: | | 1) imap/socket/lmtp: Connection refused by localhost | | The socket is there as it has always been. It just in the last few days. :| what mta are

Re: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Christian Schulte
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 10:50 schrieb Simon Matter: Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 01:53 schrieb Edward Rudd: That's not correct.. You can use mysql and have accounts automatically created.. If you install the autocreate patches.. http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3/

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: I thought that meant ``no change''. Looking at it more closely, the default format for deliver.db is still Berkeley, hence my problem. I think it would be worth being more specific than ``the default backend''. All of the default values for

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Ian G Batten
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: On my small personal server, supporting a few family members, I run Cyrus latest where possible. I was running 2.1.16 with every database set to skiplist. Upgrading to 2.2.3 with the same ./configure

Re: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Christian Schulte
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 15:53 schrieb Peter P. Benac: I did mention the Documents could use a bit more polish, and Ken has asked me to update the documents with the issues I had and how I overcame them. I will do this, and I challenge each of you to do the same thing. And that is the way

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Ian G Batten
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: It's in changes.html. It didn't leap out at me when I switched, so perhaps it might be worth making louder noises about. Actually, I was referring to install-upgrade.html. I'm not sure where we'd put

RE: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Igor Brezac
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Peter P. Benac wrote: I had asked several stupid questions on the list because I couldn't find a stupid answer and I didn't get a single response. It took digging through the archives and piecing together a solution. A solution that came mainly from guessing.

Re: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Christos Soulios
In order the patch to function, the autocreatequota option at the imapd.conf file must have a non zero value. Then, when the mailbox is created, the autocreatequota value is set as the mailbox's initial quota. If the autocreatequota option is zero, then the patch disables itself. Regards,

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Ian G Batten
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: I thought that meant ``no change''. Looking at it more closely, the default format for deliver.db is still Berkeley, hence my problem. I think it would be worth being more specific than ``the default

Re: Php script that will show the size of each directory I have.

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ronen AmitY wrote: Hi all, Im looking for a php script that will show me the size of my directories. (after adding username and passwd). If it works with horde system, even better. Doesn't Horde/IMP already include example code for displaying the user's quota and

Re: sig11 with autocreate feature

2004-02-03 Thread Christos Soulios
Ok, I think I found it. It was a stupid segmentation fault, because I did not check a variable for being NULL. I hope I fixed it now. You can download it at http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-autocreate-0.8.6.diff Thank you for reporting it Simon. I am waiting

Re: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Bill Earle
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christian Schulte wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 10:50 schrieb Simon Matter: Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 01:53 schrieb Edward Rudd: That's not correct.. You can use mysql and have accounts automatically created.. If you install the autocreate patches..

Re: some error messages

2004-02-03 Thread Joao Pedras
James, I am using sendmail. Further investigation showed that sendmail's queue was huge due to an over quota account which gets a lot of mail. Every half hour sendmail with do its thing and the system would just go to an extreme high load. Sendmail would refuse connections for about a minute

Re: Difference between . list * % and . list * *

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: Sure, but should a 'list' command ever return the same mailbox name multiple times. It just seems wrong to me... Oh, I missed that. I don't know why its doing that. Rob, is this another side

Re: some error messages

2004-02-03 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 10:27 Uhr -0600 James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what mta are you using? If sendmail, this has happened to me and it turned out to be the hoststat was getting a connection refused/timedout error and then having to wait 30 minutes before it would try again.

Re: sig11 with autocreate feature

2004-02-03 Thread Simon Matter
Could I have a look at your imapd.conf file? Christos, I'm sorry for not providing imapd.conf. Here it is configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail hashimapspool: true sasl_pwcheck_method:

RE: cyradm problem

2004-02-03 Thread Arturo Mardones
Hi! I resolv rebuild problem, but now cannot connect to cyrus with cyradm... # cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain Password: input password IMAP Password: input the same password Login failed: can't request info until later in exchange at

Re: Migrate passwords from shadow to mysql

2004-02-03 Thread Shelley Waltz
The more I have thought about it, I do not wish to have my users' passwords in plaintext anywhere. I have about 250 users with already encrypted md5 passwords in the shadow file. Is there a utility to migrate this information the the MySQL mail database? This will allow me to manage the user

Re: Cyrus Manual

2004-02-03 Thread Christopher Paluch
I didn't think there was a manual, that's why I was surprised when I saw this: Msg # 11532 Previous in SequenceNext in Sequence DateTue, 4 Dec 2001 12:51:43 + To [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FromSean Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Sean Witham

Re: sig11 with autocreate feature

2004-02-03 Thread Simon Matter
Ok, I think I found it. It was a stupid segmentation fault, because I did not check a variable for being NULL. I hope I fixed it now. You can download it at http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3/cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-autocreate-0.8.6.diff Thank you for reporting it Simon. I am

Re: 2.1.16-2.2.3 on Linux

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Murchison
Ian G Batten wrote: On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ian G Batten wrote: I thought that meant ``no change''. Looking at it more closely, the default format for deliver.db is still Berkeley, hence my problem. I think it would be worth being more specific than

Re: Migrate passwords from shadow to mysql

2004-02-03 Thread Tero Matinlassi
Lainaus Shelley Waltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The more I have thought about it, I do not wish to have my users' passwords in plaintext anywhere. I have about 250 users with already encrypted md5 passwords in the shadow file. Is there a utility to migrate this information the the MySQL mail

Re: Cyrus Manual

2004-02-03 Thread Tero Matinlassi
I think these are references to _exim_ manual, not a Cyrus one. After all prefix and suffix are exim config keywords... see http://www.exim.org/ for documentation on these. -Tero Lainaus Christopher Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I didn't think there was a manual, that's why I was surprised when I

RE: CYRUS = GARBAGE

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew Morgan
I'll say again, Cyrus wasn't designed to do what you're asking it to. You don't call a hammer a piece of garbage because it's not a screwdriver... :) I agree that the initial setup can be confusing, particularly configuring authentication with sasl. However, I'm not sure what you hope to gain

Re: Cyrus Manual

2004-02-03 Thread Christopher Paluch
Thanks. I thought there might be another source of info I couldn't find. I need as much help as I can get. -Chris [Original Message] From: Tero Matinlassi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/3/2004 11:30:14 PM Subject: Re: Cyrus Manual I think these are references to

Documentation, Community Advocacy was: RE: Kill this thread, it shouldn't have been one ( was: Re: CYRUS = ....)

2004-02-03 Thread Oliver Jones
I'm afraid I have to concur with this. The documentation for Cyrus is very bad. Much of what I have ever done with Cyrus has been constructed with guess work, trial and error, and browsing the mailing list archives or asking stupid questions on the list. What documentation is available for

Re: unix hierarchy delimiter

2004-02-03 Thread Mike O'Rourke
Patrick Welche [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/04 02:18pm set ' unixhierarchysep: yes' in the imapd.conf config file but something I get 'mail/user^pieter^with^points' instead . That's fine.. The mailboxes are constructed and a login is possible, but I can't access the INBOx folder : *ERROR

RE: Migrate passwords from shadow to mysql

2004-02-03 Thread Joe Hrbek
I had to use pam_mysql and run saslauthd -a pam. Works quite nicely. I also tried to use the sasl mysql auxprop plugin (or something like that), but it didn't work out then. Auxprop is a way better way to go than to use saslauthd, especially for mysql. imho, -j

PERL IMAP client module

2004-02-03 Thread Rob Mueller
A while ago I wrote an IMAP client interface in PERL for a project I was working on. At the time I looked at Net::IMAP, Mail::IMAPClient and Mail::Cclient, but they all had problems that made them annoying in some way (broken literals in envelopes, non-structured bodystructure responses, etc).