Re: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
Hi folks, Ubuntu LTS 6.06 amd64 Hi folks, Having tried a day unable to figure out how to add users' accounts. Steps performed as follows; $ su cyrus Password: xyz sh-3.1$ cyradm localhost IMAP Password: xyz localhost cm user.aaa localhost cm user.bbb localhost cm user.ccc etc. localhost quit sh-3.1$ all went through without complaint Change to root sh-3.1$ su Password: # saslpasswd2 aaa Password: Again (for verification): # saslpasswd2 bbb Password: Again (for verification): # saslpasswd2 bbb Password: Again (for verification) etc. All also went through without complaint. However on SquirrelMail I can't login to their accounts. $ tail /var/log/mail.log Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4589]: archiving database file: /var/lib/cyrus/annotations.db Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4589]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.01 Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4589]: archiving database file: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4589]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.01 Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4589]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Jun 15 10:13:11 lampserver cyrus/master[3869]: process 4589 exited, status 0 Jun 15 10:31:55 lampserver cyrus/master[4593]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd Jun 15 10:31:55 lampserver cyrus/imap[4593]: executed Jun 15 10:31:55 lampserver cyrus/imap[4593]: accepted connection Jun 15 10:31:57 lampserver cyrus/imap[4593]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext aaa SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed * end * $ su cyrus Password: sh-3.1$ cyradm localhost IMAP Password: localhost lm INBOX.Drafts (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) INBOX.Sent (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) INBOX.Trash (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) user.aaa (\HasNoChildren) user.bbb (\HasNoChildren) user.groupware (\HasNoChildren) user.ccc (\HasNoChildren) user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) user.ddd (\HasNoChildren) user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) etc. They are there. satimiscyrus appears there twice, as user/satimiscyrus and user.satimiscyrus. I don't know why? Emails sent to them are rejected. Example email sent to user.aaa $ tail /var/log/mail.log Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver cyrus/lmtpunix[4625]: accepted connection Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver cyrus/lmtpunix[4625]: lmtp connection preauth'd as postman Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver cyrus/lmtpunix[4625]: verify_user(user.aaa) failed: Mailbox does not exist Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver postfix/lmtp[4624]: EF07387812F: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp], delay=1, status=bounced (host /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver postfix/cleanup[4622]: 37E88878132: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver postfix/qmgr[4167]: 37E88878132: from=, size=3894, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 15 10:46:15 lampserver postfix/qmgr[4167]: EF07387812F: removed Jun 15 10:46:18 lampserver postfix/smtp[4627]: 37E88878132: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.201.27], delay=3, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1213497961 20si9089638wfi.11) Jun 15 10:46:18 lampserver postfix/qmgr[4167]: 37E88878132: removed Jun 15 10:46:45 lampserver postfix/smtpd[4618]: disconnect from ti-out-0910.google.com[209.85.142.189] * end * $ su aaa Unknown id: aaa $ su bbb Unknown id: bbb etc. Searching the notes taken down during installing this box. I ran; # cyradm -u cyrus localhost Password: localhost cm user.satimiscyrus creating this acount satimiscyrus which is the only working account disregarding the problem re unable deleting the emails received and the sent_emails can't be saved on INBOX.sent You really have to understand what you are doing and how your system you configured works. Or how you want it to work. 1) didn't you use unixhierarchysep: 1 in your config. My personal impression is that it's just more confusing than using the default . as separator. I can't help you with it because I never use unixhierarchysep but from what I see you already messed up, just look at your mailboxes list: user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) user.ddd (\HasNoChildren) user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) Do you see? 2) How did you configure authentication? IIRC you were using cyrus - saslauthd - PAM. That means your Cyrus users need Unix accounts (but just for authentication). If so, then forget about saslpasswd, it does nothing for you. 3) You have created a mailbox for user aaa and expected it to become a Unix user, I see it because you tried su aaa. Cyrus mailboxes have nothing to do with Unix account so
Re: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
Hi Simon, - snip - You really have to understand what you are doing and how your system you configured works. Or how you want it to work. 1) didn't you use unixhierarchysep: 1 in your config. My personal impression is that it's just more confusing than using the default . as separator. I can't help you with it because I never use unixhierarchysep Yes I use unixhierarchysep: 1 $ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep unixhierarchysep: yes but from what I see you already messed up, just look at your mailboxes list: user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) user.ddd (\HasNoChildren) user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) Do you see? I found this funny discovery. Running cm user.satimiscyrus it creates user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren), with no mailbox for this user created. # locate satimiscyru # find / -name satimiscyrus both having no printout. Neither can I login SquirrelMail nor emails can be received, all rejected. Running cm user/satimiscyrus it creates user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren), with mailboxes for this user created. # find / -name satimiscyrus /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus # ls -l /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus total 16 -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1503 2008-06-15 08:50 13. -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1116 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.cache -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 158 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.header -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 136 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.index # ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus drwx-- 2 cyrus mail 4096 2008-06-15 14:38 /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus I can login SquirrelMail sending and receiving emails. But the email sent can't be saved on Inbox.sent. Nor incoming emails received can be deleted on Inbox. It took me half day to find it out. 2) How did you configure authentication? IIRC you were using cyrus - saslauthd - PAM. That means your Cyrus users need Unix accounts (but just for authentication). If so, then forget about saslpasswd, it does nothing for you. I already solved the authentication problem by adding a line sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux on /etc/imapd.conf I don't know why it was missed. 3) You have created a mailbox for user aaa and expected it to become a Unix user, I see it because you tried su aaa. Cyrus mailboxes have nothing to do with Unix account so creating a Cyrus mailbox never creates a Unix account. What that all means is, if you really use cyrus - saslauthd - PAM for authentication, then to create a mailbox, to this: With cyradm, create a mailbox: cm user.someuser Login cyrus then ran; cyradm localhost cm user/aaa to create mail boxes for user aaa. If running cm user.aaa, no mail box will be created. # find / -name aaa can't find it. The create a Unix account for it (the command can be different for distributions): useradd someuser And now give it a password: passwd someuser Now, when you login to the IMAP server as someuser, the user is authenticated to the Unix user someuser but that's it, there is no other relation between the Cyrus user and the Unix user. I did the same only adding the option -m on running; # useradd -m aaa to create aaa's home directory. Now mail boxes are created but the user has no previlage using them. B.R. Stephen Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com 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: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
Hi Simon, - snip - You really have to understand what you are doing and how your system you configured works. Or how you want it to work. 1) didn't you use unixhierarchysep: 1 in your config. My personal impression is that it's just more confusing than using the default . as separator. I can't help you with it because I never use unixhierarchysep Yes I use unixhierarchysep: 1 $ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep unixhierarchysep: yes I know that you are using it. I only wanted to tell you that it makes things more complicated than using the default. All examples you find in the docs are for the default, that's why using unixhierarchysep is more confusing. but from what I see you already messed up, just look at your mailboxes list: user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) user.ddd (\HasNoChildren) user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) Do you see? I found this funny discovery. Running cm user.satimiscyrus it creates user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren), with no mailbox for this user created. The example is for users without unixhierarchysep, which is the default for Cyrus. # locate satimiscyru # find / -name satimiscyrus both having no printout. Well as someone else already told you, stop looking around on the filesystem, look around with cyradm only. But if you really want, try find / -name *satimiscyrus* Neither can I login SquirrelMail nor emails can be received, all rejected. Running cm user/satimiscyrus it creates user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren), with mailboxes for this user created. # find / -name satimiscyrus /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus # ls -l /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus total 16 -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1503 2008-06-15 08:50 13. -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1116 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.cache -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 158 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.header -rw--- 1 cyrus mail 136 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.index # ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus drwx-- 2 cyrus mail 4096 2008-06-15 14:38 /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus I can login SquirrelMail sending and receiving emails. But the email sent can't be saved on Inbox.sent. Nor incoming emails received can be deleted on Inbox. Maybe your Cyrus works but you have misconfigured Squirrelmail. It took me half day to find it out. 2) How did you configure authentication? IIRC you were using cyrus - saslauthd - PAM. That means your Cyrus users need Unix accounts (but just for authentication). If so, then forget about saslpasswd, it does nothing for you. I already solved the authentication problem by adding a line sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux on /etc/imapd.conf I don't know why it was missed. I'm not talking about that. Somewhere you told us that you were using saslpasswd to add passwords. I only told you that saslpasswd is not used at all in your setup. 3) You have created a mailbox for user aaa and expected it to become a Unix user, I see it because you tried su aaa. Cyrus mailboxes have nothing to do with Unix account so creating a Cyrus mailbox never creates a Unix account. What that all means is, if you really use cyrus - saslauthd - PAM for authentication, then to create a mailbox, to this: With cyradm, create a mailbox: cm user.someuser Login cyrus then ran; cyradm localhost cm user/aaa to create mail boxes for user aaa. If running cm user.aaa, no mail box will be created. My examples are alywas for the default unixhierarchysep: 0. # find / -name aaa can't find it. Yes, because I guess the / is translated to another char with unixhierarchysep: 1. Simon The create a Unix account for it (the command can be different for distributions): useradd someuser And now give it a password: passwd someuser Now, when you login to the IMAP server as someuser, the user is authenticated to the Unix user someuser but that's it, there is no other relation between the Cyrus user and the Unix user. I did the same only adding the option -m on running; # useradd -m aaa to create aaa's home directory. Now mail boxes are created but the user has no previlage using them. B.R. Stephen Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com 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 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: Problem on mail boxe
I wrote, I assume that when Squirrelmail refers to INBOX.Trash it actually means a mailbox called Trash under user.satimiscyrus. But now that I have seen this, localhost lm INBOX.Drafts (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) INBOX.Sent (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) INBOX.Trash (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren) user.aaa (\HasNoChildren) user.bbb (\HasNoChildren) user.groupware (\HasNoChildren) user.ccc (\HasNoChildren) user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) user.ddd (\HasNoChildren) user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren) I take it back. This is really at the point where I think I would wipe everything out and start over. Use the dot separator next time, to clarify the distinction between Cyrus mailboxes and unix files. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology 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: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
Hi Simon,
OK I'll start again using cyrus.conf defualt and imapd.conf default.
If I make a wrong step please inform me. Thanks.
$ sudo cp -p /etc/cyrus.conf /etc/cyrus.conf.bak_20080615
$ sudo cp /etc/cyrus.conf.origin.20080606 /etc/cyrus.conf
$ sudo cp -p /etc/imapd.conf /etc/imapd.conf.bak_20080615
$ sudo cp -p /etc/imapd.conf.origin.20080526 /etc/imapd.conf
$ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep
unixhierarchysep: no
$ sudo nano /etc/cyrus.conf
Making following changes;
SERVICES {
# --- Normal cyrus spool, or Murder backends ---
# add or remove based on preferences
imapcmd=imapd -U 30 listen=imap prefork=0
maxchild=100
imaps cmd=imapd -s -U 30 listen=imaps prefork=0
maxchild=100
#pop3 cmd=pop3d -U 30 listen=pop3 prefork=0
maxchild=50
#pop3s cmd=pop3d -s -U 30 listen=pop3s prefork=0
maxchild=50
Adding following lines at the end of the file;
admins: cyrus
unixhierarchysep: 0
$ sudo nano /etc/imapd.conf
Making following changes
8
# Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who
# have admin rights for all services.
admins: cyrus
8
8
# Do note that, since sasl will be run as user cyrus, you may have a
lot of
# trouble to set this up right.
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
8
Adding following lines at the end of the file;
# path to mux
sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart
Stopping Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
Waiting for complete shutdown
Starting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/saslauthd restart
Stopping SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
$ su cyrus
Password: abc
sh-3.1$ cyradm localhost
Password: xyz
localhost lm
INBOX^Drafts (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
INBOX^Sent (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
INBOX^Trash (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
user.aaa (\HasNoChildren)
user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
user.bbb (\HasChildren)
user.bbb.bbb (\HasNoChildren)
user^groupware (\HasNoChildren)
user^satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
It is working now. On SquirrelMail emails on INBOX/Trash can be
deleted. Accounts aaa, satimiscyrus and bbb are working.
What shall I do with account user.bbb.bbb, user^groupware and
user^satimiscyrus?
Shall I run dm user.bbb.bbb etc. to delele them while running on
'cyradm'?
If permission denied whether I can run sam user.aaa cyrus all first?
Please advise. TIA.
B.R.
Stephen
--- Simon Matter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Simon,
- snip -
You really have to understand what you are doing and how your
system
you
configured works. Or how you want it to work.
1) didn't you use unixhierarchysep: 1 in your config. My
personal
impression is that it's just more confusing than using the default
. as
separator. I can't help you with it because I never use
unixhierarchysep
Yes I use unixhierarchysep: 1
$ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep
unixhierarchysep: yes
I know that you are using it. I only wanted to tell you that it makes
things more complicated than using the default. All examples you find
in
the docs are for the default, that's why using unixhierarchysep is
more
confusing.
but from what I see you already messed up, just look at your
mailboxes
list:
user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
user.ddd (\HasNoChildren)
user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
Do you see?
I found this funny discovery.
Running cm user.satimiscyrus it creates user.satimiscyrus
(\HasNoChildren), with no mailbox for this user created.
The example is for users without unixhierarchysep, which is the
default
for Cyrus.
# locate satimiscyru
# find / -name satimiscyrus
both having no printout.
Well as someone else already told you, stop looking around on the
filesystem, look around with cyradm only. But if you really want, try
find / -name *satimiscyrus*
Neither can I login SquirrelMail nor emails can be received, all
rejected.
Running cm user/satimiscyrus it creates user/satimiscyrus
(\HasNoChildren), with mailboxes for this user created.
# find / -name satimiscyrus
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus
# ls -l /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus
total 16
-rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1503 2008-06-15 08:50 13.
-rw--- 1 cyrus mail 1116 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.cache
-rw--- 1 cyrus mail 158 2008-06-09 16:35 cyrus.header
-rw--- 1 cyrus mail 136 2008-06-15 14:38 cyrus.index
# ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus
drwx-- 2 cyrus mail 4096 2008-06-15 14:38
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/satimiscyrus
I can login SquirrelMail sending and
Re: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
Hi Simon,
OK I'll start again using cyrus.conf defualt and imapd.conf default.
OK, that seems to be the best thing you can do.
Just one note: Be aware that you are using a distribution which heavily
modifies configs and sometimes causes much trouble to some users. As an
example take postfix, Debian/Ubuntu seems to use it chrooted whenever
possible beside the fact that the postfix creator doesn't recommend it.
That may not be a problem if you only rely on the documentation delivered
with Debian/Ubunutu, but be aware that alot of howto's on the net are not
for Debian/Ubuntu. The same applies more or less to other distros as well
but they usually do less modifications.
If I make a wrong step please inform me. Thanks.
$ sudo cp -p /etc/cyrus.conf /etc/cyrus.conf.bak_20080615
$ sudo cp /etc/cyrus.conf.origin.20080606 /etc/cyrus.conf
$ sudo cp -p /etc/imapd.conf /etc/imapd.conf.bak_20080615
$ sudo cp -p /etc/imapd.conf.origin.20080526 /etc/imapd.conf
$ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep
unixhierarchysep: no
$ sudo nano /etc/cyrus.conf
Making following changes;
SERVICES {
# --- Normal cyrus spool, or Murder backends ---
# add or remove based on preferences
imapcmd=imapd -U 30 listen=imap prefork=0
maxchild=100
imaps cmd=imapd -s -U 30 listen=imaps prefork=0
maxchild=100
#pop3 cmd=pop3d -U 30 listen=pop3 prefork=0
maxchild=50
#pop3s cmd=pop3d -s -U 30 listen=pop3s prefork=0
maxchild=50
Adding following lines at the end of the file;
admins: cyrus
unixhierarchysep: 0
$ sudo nano /etc/imapd.conf
Making following changes
8
# Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who
# have admin rights for all services.
admins: cyrus
8
8
# Do note that, since sasl will be run as user cyrus, you may have a
lot of
# trouble to set this up right.
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
8
Adding following lines at the end of the file;
# path to mux
sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart
Stopping Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
Waiting for complete shutdown
Starting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/saslauthd restart
Stopping SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
$ su cyrus
Password: abc
sh-3.1$ cyradm localhost
Password: xyz
localhost lm
INBOX^Drafts (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
INBOX^Sent (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
INBOX^Trash (\NonExistent \HasNoChildren)
user.aaa (\HasNoChildren)
user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
user.bbb (\HasChildren)
user.bbb.bbb (\HasNoChildren)
user^groupware (\HasNoChildren)
user^satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
It is working now. On SquirrelMail emails on INBOX/Trash can be
OK, it seems now SquirrelMail got the config right.
deleted. Accounts aaa, satimiscyrus and bbb are working.
What shall I do with account user.bbb.bbb, user^groupware and
user^satimiscyrus?
Shall I run dm user.bbb.bbb etc. to delele them while running on
'cyradm'?
If permission denied whether I can run sam user.aaa cyrus all first?
Exactly, I suggest you remove all mailboxes and then start creating the
correct new ones.
Looks like you are almost there.
If you really want unixhierarchysep then you may try to activate it after
you have everything up and runnning and the configs in a safe place. But I
don't think there is a very good reason to do so.
Simon
Please advise. TIA.
B.R.
Stephen
--- Simon Matter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Simon,
- snip -
You really have to understand what you are doing and how your
system
you
configured works. Or how you want it to work.
1) didn't you use unixhierarchysep: 1 in your config. My
personal
impression is that it's just more confusing than using the default
. as
separator. I can't help you with it because I never use
unixhierarchysep
Yes I use unixhierarchysep: 1
$ cat /etc/imapd.conf | grep unixhierarchysep
unixhierarchysep: yes
I know that you are using it. I only wanted to tell you that it makes
things more complicated than using the default. All examples you find
in
the docs are for the default, that's why using unixhierarchysep is
more
confusing.
but from what I see you already messed up, just look at your
mailboxes
list:
user.satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
user.ddd (\HasNoChildren)
user/satimiscyrus (\HasNoChildren)
Do you see?
I found this funny discovery.
Running cm user.satimiscyrus it creates user.satimiscyrus
(\HasNoChildren), with no mailbox for this user created.
The example is for users without unixhierarchysep, which is the
default
for Cyrus.
# locate satimiscyru
# find / -name satimiscyrus
Re: Problem on creating users account and their mail boxes
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: Just one note: Be aware that you are using a distribution which heavily modifies configs and sometimes causes much trouble to some users. As an example take postfix, Debian/Ubuntu seems to use it chrooted whenever possible beside the fact that the postfix creator doesn't recommend it. This is OT, but I second this. Debian is a really good distribution - I use it almost exclusively since 8 years, but its developers often modify upstream configurations and/or code too much; the exim (configuration done by a gazillions of others Debian-specific files) and more recently openssl (entropy broken) examples come to my mind. Back to Cyrus-imapd, I tried to use the Debian version, but after considering the Debian-specifics docs and scripts, I ended up compiling my own version, and use a really simple configuration, provided by the sources. If you really want unixhierarchysep then you may try to activate it after you have everything up and runnning and the configs in a safe place. But I don't think there is a very good reason to do so. Well, I always found the '.' separator confusing for e-mail, but this is probably because I used uw-imap a lot before. IMHO, using the '/' hierarchy separator is easier for me, because I immediatly know that it is 'talking' about sub/folder. '.' is used for many other things, such as file extensions for example... -- Nicolas 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: FUD client with virtual domains
Tornoci Laszlo wrote: I have been using the FUD client/server for local users for some time successfully. I am planning to introduce virtual domains, and did some testing. ACL's are ok for local user torlasz and virtual user [EMAIL PROTECTED]: localhost.localdomain lam user.torlasz torlasz lrswipcda anonymous 0 localhost.localdomain lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] lrswipkxtecda anonymous 0 FUD works fine for local user torlasz: $ ./fud-client localhost torlasz user.torlasz user: torlasz mbox: user.torlasz Number of Recent 5 Last read: Mon May 19 20:55:00 2008 Last arrived: Wed May 21 04:10:10 2008 However, fud times out for the virtual user (line may be wrapped): $ ./fud-client localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fud-client: request timed out. FUD responds to local users about virtual mailboxes: $ ./fud-client localhost foobar [EMAIL PROTECTED] user: foobar mbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number of Recent 9 Last read: Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 Last arrived: Wed May 21 13:44:41 2008 In the meantime I did more tests. The user requesting the FUD info does not have to be local to get a response, it just has to have a login name which is shorter than 20 chars (including local part, '@' and the domain name). If the login name is 20 chars or longer, the request times out. This is reproducible and definitely looks like a bug, or at least an inappropriate limitation. However, I am not much of a programmer to delve into the code to find it. Can anyone help? Yours: Laszlo 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
Is skiplist dependant on byte order?
I recently upgraded a murder front end server from Solaris 9 SPARC to Solaris 10 x86 by copying the /imap directory. I did dump the mailboxes database before the copy. It's a skiplist database. I'm running cyrus-imapd-2.3.8 on both systems. As a test, I first checked on the mailboxes database like this: # su cyrus -c ksh # /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d | wc -l 0 This message appeared in the log: Jun 11 16:24:43 setup01 ctl_mboxlist[14082]: [ID 864961 local6.crit] DBERROR: critical database situation After I reloaded it, I got the correct output: # /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -u mailboxes.txt # /usr/local/cyrus/bin/ctl_mboxlist -d | wc -l 77 This is a test server with only a few mailboxes. I'll upgrade the production server later. I'm assuming that skiplist is dependant on the machine's byte order, and that a dump and reload is necessary in this case. Are there any other databases that I should also dump and reload? As far as I can tell, the annotation_db, duplicate_db, and tlscache_db are empty and can simply be removed. Are there any others on a murder front end that I've missed? Where do they reside? -- -Gary Mills--Unix Support--U of M Academic Computing and Networking- 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
