FreeBSD installs SASL under /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib (see the
package port). Please fix cyrus-sasl configure so that it can locate these.
Is there a patch for this at this time?
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This person was kind enough to provide this suggestion:
From: "Ilya" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Forrest Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cyrus configure errors on FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:00:37 -0500
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I'm new to Cyrus IMAPD SASL2. For the time being, using the FreeBSD
ports to build and configure.
Having a devil of a time making some sense of the configuration process
(post build), getting imtest to authenticate correctly, etc.
I don't see any up-to-date FAQs out there, but I imagine
All of this sort of information could (should?) be pooled in a place
like the Cyrus Wiki.
I'm wondering if O'Reilly has any plans to update their dated Managing
IMAP book ;-) My guess is probably not.
Cyrus/SASL is one of those great products that is very complex, and it
deserves some
All of this sort of information could (should?) be pooled in a place
like the Cyrus Wiki.
I'm wondering if O'Reilly has any plans to update their dated "Managing
IMAP" book ;-) My guess is probably not.
Cyrus/SASL is one of those great products that is very complex, and it
deserves some
I ran into the infamous /var/imap/socket/lmtp write problem - all the
permissions were correct. The issue was solved by completely removing
Cyrus (and all directories) then rebuilding (FreeBSD port) and
reinstalling. Then it work.
I'm getting mail on my test machine - but now receiving this
Using Cyrus IMAP 2.1.10 (FreeBSD port), I'm able to create folders
within my account, but cannot delete them.
The mailbox was created via standard cyradm:
cyradm --user admin my.domain.com
cm user/username
Perhaps I missed a step here - I assume that creating a mailbox will
permit for full
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:53 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Using Cyrus IMAP 2.1.10 (FreeBSD port), I'm able to create folders
within my account, but cannot delete them.
The mailbox was created via standard cyradm:
cyradm --user admin my.domain.com
cm user/username
Perhaps
As I understand, you must grant the admin user c (or more) under
cyradm first, then delete.
There's also web-cyradm at http://www.web-cyradm.org/. Though I
loath having to depend upon a gui for things like this, Cyrus is complex
and maybe a gui will help with day-to-day tasks.
This topic
One of the problems I've run into is no user in db in the logs
from imap/imaps - yet, I'm able to authenticate, send/receive mail,
create folders (but cannot delete folders).
So I think something's wrong on the SASL end.
I have (this is on a spare machine):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: userPassword
is owned by sasl:sasl and /etc/group has both
cyrus and postfix in that group.
Thanks,
Forrest
Norman Zhang wrote:
Forrest
Aldrich wrote:
One of the problems I've run into is "no user
in db" in the logs
from imap/imaps - yet, I'm able to authenticate, send/receive mail,
crea
Suddenly I have a Trash folder in my Cyrus mailbox and the
create/delete issue is now resolved.
I seem to recall a patch or config directive that will autocreate for
each user certain root-level folders - Trash, Sent, Bulk, etc.
Though I'm confused as I don't recall our having this problem on
Is there a FAQ on disaster recovery and such for Cyrus IMAP. If not,
there ought to be one ;-)
Some of the more esoteric items such as the ctl_* commands - and what to
do when your server (db) goes south, etc.
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Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:
We recently deployed Cyrus IMAPD on an internal corporate server.
We plan on using it for a larger installation (once I get comfortable
with all the technical quirks ;-))
In any case, an issue was brought up whereby if a user doesn't Compact
their mailbox (done via most common MUA's like
Tuna Sundae wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:33 -0700, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:03 -0500, Tuna Sundae wrote:
Hi, when I used to use sendmail, I used aliasname: |/path/to/app in
/etc/aliases to pipe mail to a program. Now, I used postfix with
cyrus'
Hi there,
I'm still searching - however, are there any quick HOWTOs on correctly
setting up Sieve with Cyrus IMAP.
I have the IMAP server compiled (with Sieve support) - and now I'd like
to begin the task of converting my procmail scripts (which are simple,
thankfully) to Sieve and testing it
Nothing like following-up to your own posts.
The consensus of the private emails I've received is that some people
opt not to utilize Sieve, based upon the lack of documentation.
I find that surprising, but I've not found much to speak of yet -
anyone? Or do we just use procmail as the mailer
Derrick J Brashear wrote:
[ ... ]
Something I will point out, procmail is more fully-featured than
sieve, mostly by design. procmail can do anything you could do if you
were logged into the machine and had a shell. sieve has limited powers.
So, it may not be possible to convert every procmail
I have a situation where a user needs her old email copied from an mbox
into her new Cyrus account. Easy enough; however, she's a remote user
and her auth is via SASL. So, it would potentially require me to either
1) get her password, or 2) reset the password on Cyrus so I could use
imapcopy
Here's what I ended up doing (for those that run into this situation):
1 - Gave myself full rights to the user's mailbox
2 - Created a folder Archive on her mailbox (Cyrus)
3 - Took the mbox files locally (on my home system) where I'm still
using mbox-formatted IMAP folders
4 - Once the Shared
I'm trying to determine what the max length is for SASL2 passwords
Looking through /usr/local/include/sasl/sasl.h, I see references to:
typedef int sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t(sasl_conn_t *conn,
void *context,
const char *user,
In addition to my other post re: Maximum SASL2 password length, I'd like
to know what the maximum login-id (or account name) length of a Cyrus
IMAPD account is.
Thank you.
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Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
List Archives/Info:
I had to grant myself ALL on a user's mailbox tree to perform some
maintenance (restore backups of her folders).
After I removed the ACL and since then, Other Users view continues to
show up in my IMAP view (currently using Thunderbird).
I'm curious why this happens... and if it's a bug. I'm
The Sieve web page states:
At present, there is no mailing
list or newsgroup for end users of Sieve.
I'm curious, how is it expected Sieve will be more widely adopted with
1) limited documentation (ie: not end-user friendly) and 2) no formal
resources to discuss the protocol/language.
I'm
defeats
our purpose of Cyrus and a closed system. ?
Thanks,
Forrest
Derrick J Brashear wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
The Sieve web page states:
At present, there is no mailing list or newsgroup for end users of
Sieve.
I'm curious, how is it expected Sieve
I had a shared folder with another user (for backups and restore of
message) which I no longer need. So, I removed the ACL that allowed
access.
This does not remove the Other Users and the shared folder from my
view (though the server says it no longer exists), and I cannot delete
those
I did this, and there's no effect - the share still shows up in my
Other Users listing.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:51:11PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
I had a shared folder with another user (for backups and restore of
message) which I no longer
No it is not, but would that prevent it from running. Port 2000 is
allocated to callback (tcp|udp) in /etc/services.
Ken Murchison wrote:
Forrest Aldrich wrote:
I installed the lastest cyrus, compiled from the FreeBSD port.
I'm having a problem with timsieved not running as it's
free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
Abort trap (core dumped)
I have saslauthd running in "- pam" mode. I'm able to connect and
interact via imapd.
Ken Murchison wrote:
Forrest
Aldrich wrote:
I installed the lastest cyrus, compiled from
the FreeBSD port.
I would like cyrus imapd to log elsewhere other than /var/log/messages.
I'm looking through the manpage, and I see the option for
syslog-prefix. Is it possible to change the facility without changing
the src?
Thanks.
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:
I just brought up a new system (FreeBSD_6) with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.12.
The system has been on for a while prior to today, and things seem to
be working fine; however, I'm noticing the below in the logs:
Aug 22 03:41:12 forrie master[18392]: process 86622
exited, status 0
Aug 22 03:41:13
Typically you have one mailstore defined, as I understand.
However, I have a situation where I have archives of thousands of
messages, going back years ago, that I wish to keep. I'd rather not
keep all of these on my primary mailstore (no need, and it eats up space).
Is it possible with
I just finished copying a few thousand (grin) messages to various
folders on my new Cyrus installation (2.2).
One of the folders, email from 2002, is not showing up with any mail via
the imap client (Thunderbird, in my case), yet I see the messages in the
physical directory mailstore.
I
Per my last post, I've been copying over (via imap-to-imap) various
folder contents from times past.
In a few instances, I've noticed duplication of messages - probably when
the transfer became too congested or the client exited improperly.
In either case, is there a means by which to prune
I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1 (compiled via FreeBSD ports) on
FreeBSD-6.0-BETA4.
I'm trying to track down a non-fatal error that keeps popping up (on
every transaction) in my syslog:
Sep 15 22:33:01 forrie lmtpunix[68054]: sql_select option
missing
Sep 15 22:33:01 forrie lmtpunix[68054]:
Are there any browswers that actually support using this yet? Firefox
does not - I posted a question a while back on the Firefox forums,
suggesting this functionality would be very good to have.
_F
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:
Slightly OT: however, there are a few programs out there that offer a
richer indexing method (a la Google for your email).
I wonder if there's a place for that somewhere in the Cyrus structure.
There's obvious utility in a richer search-and-find method.
I'm probably not alone with my hoard
Had a disk crash today (thunderstorm related).In so doing, I
neglected to copy over /var/imap which has the *.db files. I can
start up Cyrus Imapd fine, but the logs complain about checkpointing...not being able
to do database operations, DB_NOTFOUND and archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error, etc.I
I'm unable to authenticate with the server, using the original configuration. I recompiled cyrus, sasl2, saslauthd (FreeBSD) and installed them, but I re-used the original /usr partition on another drive, which contains the configurations, sasldb, et al.
It should just work. But it's
Hours after my crash, I am figuring a few things out. One of the problems has to do with permissions on sasl2.db.Right now, I have run reconstruct -r and it caught all but one subdirectory in my restored archive. This other directory has
cyrus.index files, etc. and is quite large - however, after
For the record... what about file systems for the mail spool on
non-linux systems, such as FreeBSD, et al.
I've read a number of documents that addressed (classic) Usenet-based
activity (applicable to cyrus) - most agree that FreeBSD UFS+SoftUpdates
performs very well.
Thanks.
I just configured squatter on my cyrus-imapd-2.3.7 installation.
I configured it as an EVENT in cyrus.conf and ran it manually on the
command-line (as cyrus user).
If I run the command:
./squatter -v -s -r user
(I'm not sure user is needed here, the manpage wasn't clear about how
to do
This has been discussed before.
Short answer, there are no good books. Managing IMAP is minimally
useful - in a basic sense.
However, I contacted O'Reilly about a possible Nutshell book, and as I
recall the response was there were no plans for anything.
And so, we have this large
What does this mean (from Cyrus IMAP 2.3):
imap[88386]: DBERROR db3: 4 lockers
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
I know it's recommended not to use Cyrus over NFS. But what about NFSv3
or 4 via TCP, instead of UDP?
On a small network, I would imagine this would work alright. I wonder
if the documentation (caution) is referring to UDP.
Thanks.
Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
I set up my Cyrus system a long time ago to use LMTP, where the MTA and
Cyrus live on the same machine.
I'm faced with a situation where I would like to have a central MTA on a
private LAN service email, however it lacks the disk space to accomodate
the inbound (anticipated) messaging.
This is slightly off-topic; however, I've been referred here because the
behavior we're seeing is unexplainable (as of yet).
I have Cyrus 2.3.8 on FreeBSD_6.1, and on a couple of Linux systems
(Fedora Core 6).
When I update to Thunderbird 2.0, the delete button and menu function is
disabled
I experienced this error with APPEND unknown flag notjunk. Searching
the net, I see several references to it; however, as mysteriously as it
appeared, it disappeared.
At the time, I was trying to copy it to another (Linux) cyrus instance
into a Trash folder. I don't know if that made any
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
I'm having a problem with authentication. I can get/read/send mail fine
through Cyrus, Sendmail. But when I try to authenticate to sieve, it's
failing. This started happening after updating Cyrus on FreeBSD-7.0,
where I currently have:
cyrus-imapd-2.3.11
cyrus-sasl-2.1.22
Nikos Gatsis wrote:
Hello list.
Can somebody recommend me a web interface for cyrus?
An interface where I can manage cyrus accounts?
Thanks Nikos
There was once a neat project named Cyrusmaster (University of Athens)
which added LDAP capability. But it's old, and probably not being
I've got several thousand emails from the early 90's that I have, packed
into a Cyrus Mail system, which I backup regularly.
I had thought it might be nifty to utilize one of the Email archiving
solutions out there (Zoe, DevonThink, DBMail, etc) to allow me to do
better searches, etc. But
Would it be feasible to enable configuring the syslog facility used by
cyrus in the imapd.conf file?
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
On 9/5/09 8:07 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:28:59AM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Would it be feasible to enable configuring the syslog facility used by
cyrus in the imapd.conf file?
You can configure it at compile time.
That said, I suspect we'd accept
Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
--On 9. November 2009 14:10:54 +0100 Simon Matter
simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote:
While virtualization has advantages it has also disadvantages. One thing
is that it introduces an additional layer of complexity into the game.
It's my impression that in many areas
On 1/13/10 2:11 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
[ ... ]
My own real problem as RPM maintainer is that I'd like to stay with
logging to mail facility and not touching syslog config.
[ ... ]
Chiming in here, specifically on this issue. I manually tweak the
*.spec file to suit my local site
On 2/11/10 11:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 10:35 -0500, Zachariah Mully wrote:
Howdy all-
Is anyone out there running Cyrus on an Amazon EC2 instance with EBS?
During these brutal storms we've had in the DC area, we've been
discussing how to improve the
I've run into a strange problem that I originally thought was my IMAP
client (Thuderbird) which turns out to be something with my cyrus
setup. I deleted the account and re-configured it to be sure.
I have a duplicate Drafts folder that appears in ~/Drafts and
~/Mail/Drafts (or should that be
I have an older system that crashed - cyrus version is a couple years
or so old. I have 1000's of messages in the spool that I need to
preserve. My question is about whether there's a way to import that
huge tree of messages into a new cyrus installation without imap-to-imap
connectivity?
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