Re: mailinglists

2003-02-06 Thread Patrick Boutilier
What version of cyrus? If 2.x : man ipurge Peter Burggraef wrote: Hi, I want cyrus to delete mails, older then sometime. How can I do this? Thank You Peter

Re: Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?

2003-02-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
We are using LVM to give the ability to add disk space and expand our reiserfs when necessary. We are using LVM on top of hardware RAID 5 so as long as 2 disks don't fail at once we should be OK. Hans Wilmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:38:30AM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote: We

Re: Huge Cyrus site (Was:Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?)

2003-02-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
We don't use quotas yet. :-) Pål Olsen wrote: - Original Message - From: "Patrick Boutilier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:38 PM Subject: Re: Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus? Ben, We have been using L

Re: Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?

2003-02-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Ben, We have been using LVM for a while (since 0.7 I believe) and have not had any troubles with it. We have 130,000 users and use reiserfs. Ben Poliakoff wrote: Hi all, We're preparing to roll out a new cyrus mail system which will handle the bulk of our 1700 users' email. The server platfo

Re: 2.2cvs, imapd OK, pop3d hangs before sending banner to clients

2003-01-10 Thread Patrick Boutilier
You might be running out of enthropy. cat /dev/random to check. Jonathan Marsden wrote: On one of our (Red Hat 7.3, dual PIII CPU) servers running cyrus-imapd (2.2 CVS as of late September 2002), last night POP3 and POP3S access mysteriously "stopped working". IMAP and IMAPS access are still

Re: Cyrus Startup-Check

2002-12-16 Thread Patrick Boutilier
A sleep command in your script will probably do the job in the meantime. sleep 60 before you start fetchmail will wait 60 seconds for cyrus to be up and running for example. Christian Bomhardt wrote: Hallo, I run cyrus with fetchmail. Every night, a cron script stopps cyrus and fetchmail, ta

Re: error making 2.1.10

2002-11-26 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Andrei, Try -with-perl=/usr/bin/perl or wherever your perl binary is installed. Andrei Loukinykh wrote: After sucessfull installation I'm trying to compile 2.1.10 to avoid problems with sieve.. And with the same 'configure' I get now: (./configure --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB --with-ope

Re: Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

2002-11-21 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I use TSM to backup my Cyrus mail store. Over 7 million files so it does take TSM almost 8 hours to go through the store on a nightly basis. Steve Barber wrote: I've seen some interesting comments in this thread so far, but none seem to discuss our concerns: We have a fairly large installation

Re: OT LVM Snapshot for backups (was: Best way to backup cyrus syste)

2002-11-21 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I have been using LVM since version 0.6 and I have had no problems with it. My Cyrus mail store runs on LVM. Christian Schulte wrote: Jared Watkins wrote: I would think you could use LVM the linux volume manager along with it's snapshot feature.. and then any sort of backup program you want

Re: to live or to fight

2002-11-19 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Recompile cyrus-imapd with: --with-duplicate-db=skiplist and then convert the duplicate-db to skiplist or just delete it if you want to start with a new duplicate-db Darci Antônio Tartari wrote: Patrick Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From personal experience I would suggest

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: For Linux: 1. Heavily tested and debugged AND patched BerkeleyDB 3.2, stay away from 4.x for now. (i.e. use the ones from RedHat or Debian, not upstream). 2. Linux stability patches for Cyrus (see the Debian Cyrus package :-) Cyrus upstream

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Tim, RedHat 7.2 with BDB 4.0.14 Tim Pushor wrote: Patrick, What version of Berkeley (Sleepycat) DB were you using? What OS? Thanks, Tim Patrick Boutilier wrote: duplicate? mboxlist? seen? subs? tls? db3_nosync, skiplist, skiplist, flat, db3_nosync I had nothing but trouble using

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Rob Siemborski wrote: This is in the mailing list about 8 times, but.. duplicate? mboxlist? seen? subs? tls? db3_nosync, skiplist, skiplist, flat, db3_nosync I had nothing but trouble using db3_nosync for duplicate so I would suggest using skiplist as well for duplicate. -Rob

Re: lmtpd gets stuck when started under load

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Try duplicate.db = skiplist Solved all of my lmtpd hanging problems. I see you are using RPMs so I guess you would have to compile from source to make the change. Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, while testing our server setup we've found a (to me) strange behavior of lmtpd. Here's the setup:

Re: to live or to fight

2002-11-13 Thread Patrick Boutilier
From personal experience I would suggest using skiplist for deliver.db Ever since I have switched from db3_nosync to skiplist my lmtpd's have stopped hanging and the box appears to be performing better. It has only been two weeks since I changed but I haven't had lmtpd hang yet and it used to ha

Re: Strange compilation problem

2002-11-03 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Adrian, Could be a wrong db.h Which version is /usr/include/db.h ? Adrian Senn wrote: Hi list I've got a strange compilation problem with cyrus and i've got no idea how to resolve it. I found on the googe group search someone other which got the same problems as i do. http://groups.google.d

Re: pop3d unstable

2002-10-30 Thread Patrick Boutilier
You might be running out of entrophy. What happens when you: cat /dev/random ? Felix Cuello wrote: Hello, i'm using cyrus-2.1.9 and sasl 2.1.9, and pop3d sometimes doesn't respond. That means, when I do this: [root@sinclair tmp]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to loca

Re: update: Re: cyrus, mysql, is anyone out there?

2002-05-03 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Here is what I have in my /etc/pam.d/pop file in Redhat 7.2: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=xxx passwd=xxx db=school table=user usercolumn=userid passwdcolumn=passwd accountrequired /lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=xxx passwd=xxx db=school table=use

Re: [Re: PAM + Cyrus]

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I didn't see that the first read through. :-) What about the permissions of /etc/pam.d/imap ? I do believe the cyrus user needs to be able to read the file -rw-r-1 cyruscyrus 285 Dec 21 12:02 imap E M Recio wrote: >Patrick Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PAM + Cyrus

2002-02-15 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Do you have this line in your /etc/imapd.conf ? sasl_pwcheck_method: pam E M Recio wrote: >Is there a 'special' configuration option I have to give cyrus (when >compiling) so that it looks at PAM for authentication? I tried the following >(On RH7.2): > >./configure --with-sasl=/usr/lib/sas

Re: rfc822.h and cyrus

2001-10-29 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I think you need the UW Imap code to compile imap support in PHP. ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2001a.RELEASE-CANDIDATE.2.tar.Z Chris Beggy wrote: >I'm trying to build php with imap support, and I can't find an >rfc822.h in 2.0.16. Is there one available someplace else? > >Thanks.

Re: pam/mysql doesnt work

2001-10-11 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Mark, Try substituting --with-pam for --with-passwd_method=PAM when configuring sasl. Also try removing: pwcheck_method: PAM from your /etc/imapd.conf . You should only require: sasl_pwcheck_method: pam Mark Davis wrote: >Hi all... > >I want to authenticate the users via a mysql-db.

Re: Migrating existing mailboxes to cyrus imapd

2001-09-18 Thread Patrick Boutilier
You can use a script like the following: ftp://ftp.ednet.ns.ca/pub/its/mail/mbox2cyrus.pl Sherpya wrote: >I must migrate existing unix mailboxes (e.g. /var/spool/mail/bill) >to a cyrus imapd server. I have access to the filesystem (I'm root) >but I don't known user's passwords. >What is the r

Re: Compiling cyrus-imap 1.6.24

2001-09-10 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Yes I did. Change line 47 of dump_deliver.c and line 51 of deliver.c from #include to #include Frederik Seiffert wrote: >Hello! > >In the cyrus mailing list, you wrote on Jul 28 2001: >--- >Has anybody successfully compiled cyrus-imap 1.6.24 or 1.6.25 under >RedHat 7.1? I keep getting thi

Re: Deliver -l -q

2001-09-04 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Sorry. I am using Cyrus 2.0.16 Lawrence Greenfield wrote: >What version are you using? The latest version has support for this. > >Please specify your version when asking questions. > >Larry > > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:46:55 -0300 > From: Patrick Boutilier <[

Re: NIS+, Cyrus-IMAP, PAM and SASL

2001-08-28 Thread Patrick Boutilier
What do you have in /etc/imapd.conf ? Benjamin Bacon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I started setting up Cyrus IMAP server a few weeks ago and I had to > take a break to setup a several NIS+ domains. Now the machine that I > am planning on being the IMAP server is a NIS+ client. The probl

Deliver -l -q

2001-08-27 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Can the deliver options -l and -q be used together? I have tried and receive this in my exim logs: 2001-08-27 14:43:23 15bQPz-0001qN-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery_cyruslmtp defer (-1): LMTP error after end of data: 452 4.2.2 Over quota If I use deliver without the -l option then -q

Re: perl scripts

2001-08-23 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I use the following perl script to create users: (Put in valid userid/passwd for $user and $pass) #!/usr/bin/perl -w # adduser.pl # Usage: adduser.pl newuser # use File::Basename; use Net::IMAP; $newuser = "user.$ARGV[0]"; $user = "user"; $pass = "password"; # Set this to the

PAM woes

2001-08-21 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Hello, Just a note about PAM and 2.0.16. The cyrus user must be able to read /etc/pam.d/imap in order for PAM authentication to work under 2.0.16. When using 1.6.24 the cyrus user *does not* need to have read access to /etc/pam.d/imap I ran into that problem last night trying to upgrade. :-)

Re: turning off AUTH=CRAM-MD5

2001-08-20 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Also note that sasl will look for the plugins in /usr/lib/sasl even if you install to /usr/local/lib I had plugins from the RedHat cyrus-sasl RPM in /usr/lib/sasl so I renamed /usr/lib/sasl to /usr/lib/sasl.OLD and made a link from /usr/local/lib/sasl to /usr/lib/sasl to only use the plugins I

Re: Exim, Cyrus, and LMTP

2001-08-20 Thread Patrick Boutilier
failed: Connection refused Exim transport: local_delivery_cyruslmtp: driver = lmtp command = /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -l batch = all batch_max = 35 user = cyrus > > > Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Has anybody setup exim to deliver dire

Exim, Cyrus, and LMTP

2001-08-17 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Hello, Has anybody setup exim to deliver directly to lmtp (instead of using the delivery program) on Cyrus 2.0.16?

Re: Questions about mass importing accounts

2001-08-17 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Jeff, You could move the /var/spool/mail directory off the old machine (using rsync for example) and the run the following perl script on the new machine. This will create the cyrus mail accounts and migrate the mail from /var/spool/mail into the cyrus format. ftp://ftp.ednet.ns.ca/pub/its/ma

RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.1 upgrade notes

2001-07-28 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I just upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.1. I am running imap 1.6.24 and sasl 1.5.24. After the upgrade I kept getting these errors in my log even though I am using pam for authentication. Users could still login fine but the logs were filling up with this error. unable to open Berkeley db

Compiling 1.6.24 under Redhat 7.1

2001-07-28 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Has anybody successfully compiled cyrus-imap 1.6.24 or 1.6.25 under RedHat 7.1? I keep getting this from configure. checking for dbopen... no checking for dbopen in -ldb... no When I compile I get this error: dump_deliver.c dump_deliver.c:47:18: ndbm.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [

Re: Moving accounts from one cyrus server to another

2001-07-26 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Dan, I would just use rsync to move the relevant data from the old box to the new. Dan Makovec wrote: > Hi folks, > > > > I've got an old FreeBSD 3.x server running cyrus 2.0.7, which I want > to decommission. I've set up a new box with FreeBSD 4.3 and Cyrus > 2.0.15, and would like to

Re: SleepyCat 3.3.11

2001-07-25 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Cyrus imap 2.0.15 and SASL 1.5.24 compile fine on RedHat 7.1 using SleepyCat 3.3.11 I can also telnet to port 143 and sending mail using deliver works as well. /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -a boutilpj -m -- boutilpj I haven't tested it. I scanned the release notes quickly and it >didn't seem like t

Re: imapd (2.0.15) dies immediately

2001-07-20 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Matt, This is most likely the problem of imapd and sasl being linked against different libdb's Can you provide the results of: ldd /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd ldd /usr/cyrus/bin/master ldd /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so Matt J Bradshaw wrote: >hello all, > >i'm running into some (painful!) problems wit

Re: pine thinks my INBOX is empty? Anyone know if this is a common pr oblem with pine and cyrus?

2001-07-17 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Or configure within Pine. 1. Choose the Setup option from the main Pine menu (S) 2. Choose C for config 3. Put something like this for inbox-path : {your.imap.server/user=yourusername}INBOX 4. Choose E to exit config and save your changes ronen amity wrote: > in .pinerc that sits in you

Re: pine thinks my INBOX is empty? Anyone know if this is a common pr oblem with pine and cyrus?

2001-07-17 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Have you configured Pine to check your IMAP mailbox? Pine defaults to checking /var/spool/mail by default I believe. Lumpkin, Buddy wrote: >Subject says it all ... > >TIA > >--Buddy >

Re: deadlines suck! <- imtest = zero response

2001-07-16 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Brendon, Did you compile the programs or are you using RPM packages? Can you provide the ldd output from /usr/cyrus/bin/master, /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd, and /usr/local/lib/libsasl.so ? Brendon M. Maragia wrote: >hey list, > > ># quick details you should know: >cyrus-imapd-2.0.15 >cyrus-sasl-1.5

Re: [SOLUTION] lmtpd signaled to death by 11

2001-07-07 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Ken, Yes it does. I just tried the CVS version on RedHat 7.1 and there are no more "Death by 11" for lmptd. Ken Murchison wrote: >The attached patch *should* fix the problem of lmtpd crashes -- it did >locally. It was a simple problem of double-freeing memory, but a hard >one to track down

CVS server problem

2001-06-28 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Hi, Whenever I run: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co cyrus I get the following error: cvs server: Updating cyrus/contrib/notify_unix cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/cvs/src/cyrus/contrib/notify_unix': Permission denied cvs server: failed to obtain dir lo

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.0.14: lmtpd signaled to death by 11

2001-06-21 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Just writing to say that I have the exact same problem on RedHat 7.1 2.0.14 segfaults on lmtpd (sometimes) while 2.0.12 works fine. Using BDB 3.2.9 (although problem was there with 3.1.17 also). ldd master libssl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1 (0x40028000) libcrypto.so.1 => /usr

Re: Cyrus 2.0.14 on Linux and signal 11

2001-06-15 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Is there a way to compile SASL against the libs in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/lib instead of /lib ? There is a configure option (--with-dbdir=DIR) for Cyrus-imapd but none for cyrus-sasl Mobeen Azhar wrote: > Well, here are a couple of things to try, even though they did not solve my > prob

Re:

2001-05-23 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Gary Wallis wrote: > -hi folks, > -am a newbie at this, please be gentle. > -successfully installed cyrus-sasl-1.5.24 going step by step thru > -the cyrus IMAP HOWTO. > -However when i came to the install of cyrus-imapd-1.6.24 on to RH 7.0, > Did you run "configure" and did it complete succes

Re: Authentication problems

2001-05-22 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Can the cyrus user read the /etc/shadow file? Andrew Kirilenko wrote: > Hello! > > I've problems with authentication :( > Can somebody help me with this problem? It's really urgent and important! > > Here's log: > cyrus@isserver:/home/iced$ imtest -p imap -m login localhost > C: C01 CAPABILITY

Re: Can't find com_err.h

2001-05-01 Thread Patrick Boutilier
I use the following configure option to get around that problem. --with-com_err Rolfe Tessem wrote: > I'm trying to compile cyrus-imapd-2.0.13 on a Redhat 6.2.3 system and am > running into the following problem. > > The compilation is barfing while in ../cyrus-imapd-2.0.13/imap with the >

Re: Web e-mail frontends

2001-04-04 Thread Patrick Boutilier
We use IMP. (www.horde.org) jennyw wrote: > Just wondering if anyone had recommendations for Web e-mail frontends. > I've looked around a bit, and Squirrel Mail seems the most promising > (www.squirrelmail.org) right now, but thought I'd ask for other > opinions. > > Also, I was wondering if p

Re: migrating mailboxes to cyrus

2001-03-05 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Or you could use the perl script at: ftp://ftp.ednet.ns.ca/pub/its/mail/mbox2cyrus.pl Worked well for me. Ronen Amity wrote: > you will need the imaptools from wu. > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Stefanita Vilcu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any tool able to migrate mbox mailboxes to cyru

Re: building under RedHat 6.2

2001-02-23 Thread Patrick Boutilier
This problem appeared in version 2.0.8 and has been there ever since. 2.0.7 compiles fine on RedHat 6.2 Erez Lirov wrote: > I'm trying to build under 6.2 now, hoping that this might shed some light on > my 7.0 problems. I'm running into the following error: > $ ./configure -with-dbdir=/usr/lo

Re: Determining which version of cyrus I'm running

2001-02-01 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Chris, Telnet to port 143 of your server and the version will show up in the banner. Chris Blackstone wrote: > I'm beginning the process of upgrading our email server that was setup > by a person no longer with my organization. First order of business is > upgrading cyrus, but I'm having trou

Re: moving users from one cyrus server to another

2001-01-25 Thread Patrick Boutilier
What version of Cyrus? If you are using 1.6.x or 1.5.x you could probably rsync over the users mailbox directories under the mail partiton (usually /var/spool/imap) to the new server. You can then rip out the relevant lines in /var/imap/mailboxes and put them in /var/imap/mailboxes on the new se

Re: PROBLEM!!!...

2001-01-15 Thread Patrick Boutilier
linux S from lilo prompt. "Jorge A. Rodriguez" wrote: > ohhh, sorry i forgot it, is a Linux Red hat 6.1, well i actually resolve the > problem typing "init S" in boot: > > but a like to know is there is another way... > > thanks > > === > Lic. Jorge A. Rodríguez Suárez

Re: WebMail

2001-01-10 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Peter, IMP is what we use (http://www.horde.org). As for authentication IMP authenticates against the IMAP server. It is up to the IMAP server what kind of authentication it does. Peter Erickson wrote: > Okay I finally got Cyrus Imap up and working and am looking at adding > WebMail. I know tha

Re: User password management

2000-12-28 Thread Patrick Boutilier
We keep all our userid/passwords in a Mysql database and use PAM/pam_mysql to have Cyrus 1.6.24 authenticate against the MySql database. As for password changing we use IMP/Horde so I modified a script provided with IMP to allow users to change their passwords when they are logged into IMP. Bri

Re: SUMMARY (Well, sort of): Authentication against MySQL Database

2000-12-10 Thread Patrick Boutilier
Shouldn't this be passwd=bar instead of password=bar ? Tim Evans wrote: > > #%PAM-1.0 > authoptional/lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=foo password=bar > db=healthhub table=auth usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 > account required/lib/security/pam_mysql.so user=f

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