Re: user_deny.db, very high load and Apple-Spotlight

2010-10-19 Thread Patrick Goetz
Correction: I think you have to compile cyrus with no bdb support for the user-deny.db error message to go away: configure --without-bdb On 10/19/2010 01:20 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 10/14/2010 06:30 AM, Marc Patermann wrote: I created user_deny.db with touch to make the one error

cyrdump

2010-10-18 Thread Patrick Goetz
) -- Patrick Goetz Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: Cyrus Add-ons

2010-10-17 Thread Patrick Goetz
://mercurial.selenic.com/learn/ I use hg (mercurial) and really like it. I think in comparison with git, git is a lot more complicated/flexible, which isn't necessarily a good thing if the simpler tool does everything you need. -- Patrick Goetz Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List

cyrus db files

2010-10-16 Thread Patrick Goetz
visible Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:46:42 -0500 From: Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu To: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu This brings back the issue of a safe, canonical procedure for moving a (single server) cyrus mail system to a new server. Since particularly new

Re: Moving data from Cyrus 2.3.7 (RHEL) to 2.3.16 (Invoca)

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Goetz
at all on how to set this up and what it does? What about for creating a murder server pool? -- Patrick Goetz Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

Re: messages in mailbox aren't\H\H\H visible

2010-10-14 Thread Patrick Goetz
to syslog at all? This message should be going to /var/log/mail.err, as far as I can tell. Is this a compile-time error? 2. Under any circumstance, shouldn't this error message be written to the log files only when cyrus is started? -- Patrick Goetz Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 8:49 PM, Wesley Craig wrote: \Noselect is the result of LIST et al not finding the mailbox in question. It's not set per se, but returned descriptively. Given the odd sort order from ctl_mboxlist -d, incompatible sort order is why LIST can't see it. Wes, Bron, thanks for the

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 5:48 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: man imapd.conf on my machine gets: improved_mboxlist_sort: 0 If enabled, a special comparator will be used which will correctly sort mailbox names that contain characters such as ' ' and '-'. Note that this option

Re: Reconstruct mailboxes ................

2010-10-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
also need to copy or reconstruct the databases in /var/lib/cyrus, too, to successfully transfer mail from one server to another. -- Patrick Goetz Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/

messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
Hi - I'm stumped by the following problem. recently I transferred a bunch of users to a new 2.3.16 cyrus server. One user in particular has hundreds of mailboxes nested several levels deep. Most folders transferred correctly. One of these subfolders, however,

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 10:46 AM, Michael D. Sofka wrote: Is the new server part of a murder cluster? I've had this happen when transferring accounts between back-end servers in a cluster. The problem was that while the mailbox was created on the new back-end, not all the messages transferred. As a

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 12:02 PM, Wesley Craig wrote: Does ctl_mboxlist show the mailbox? Yes, although oddly the sub-folders don't follow immediately in the dump (the folder causing the problem is called Board): user.dsmith.AEC.Correspondence MJD.Board0 default dsmith lrswipkxtecd

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 02:25 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: Ahh... what does your improved_mboxlist_sort imapd.conf variable say? Nada -- I don't have this variable set in imapd.conf. However, when I do set improved_mboxlist_sort: 1 in /etc/imapd.conf I get the following error when trying to run

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 03:15 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: RTFM says: dump the mailbox, change the setting, undump the mailbox, restart Is there some place (e.g. an M) where this process is documented in such a fashion that I can just cut paste commands, or is this another thing I'll have to muddle

Re: messages in mailbox aren't visible

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/12/2010 03:37 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: The mailboxes database should be dumped before the option is changed, removed, and then undumped after changing the option. Which kinda sucks really. But the M I'm pasting from there is the imapd.conf docs. Where be these elusive imapd.conf

Re: service imap pid nnn in BUSY state: terminated abnormally

2010-10-09 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/9/2010 7:23 AM, Michael D. Sofka wrote: I can either rsync just the mail messages to the warm backup, and then reconstruct the index files. Or, I can take a slight detour, and upgrade the warm backup server to 2.3.16. This is something I've been wondering, too. The problem with not

Re: Using mbox2cyrus.pl

2010-10-07 Thread Patrick Goetz
This is one of the most useful pieces of information I've gotten in a long time -- Thanks! (as a none mutt user, I had no idea one could do anything like this) On 10/07/2010 11:24 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Patrick Goetz wrote: I have a few mbox files that I need

Re: packages for solaris 10 x86

2010-10-06 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/5/2010 7:01 PM, Frank Pittel wrote: In file included from auth_getpwent.c:53: /usr/include/crypt.h:36: error: syntax error before '(' token /usr/include/crypt.h:36: error: syntax error before const Did you check the /usr/include/crypt.h file to see if there is actually a syntax error on

Re: Wildcard SSL cert gives error initilizing TLS

2010-10-06 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/06/2010 07:41 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I found the problem. Very stupid: the cert-file was not readable by the user Cyrus. Ahum, very stupid. This is a very common gotcha. One debian/Ubuntu systems only members of the ssl-cert group and read private keys. Cyrus Home Page:

Re: IMAPS only for some users.

2010-10-05 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/05/2010 05:50 AM, Josef Karliak wrote: Hi there, is it possible to allow imaps only for some users (accounts are in the passwd) ? I want to accept imaps from net for few special users. Others are authorized only over imap clients from local network. Thanks. I'm not sure if you can

cyradm and allowing only encrypted passwords with 2.3.16?

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
I was having problems making Cyrus 2.2.x work with only encrypted passwords. Setting allowplaintext: no in imapd.conf prevents plain text logins, but then cyradm stops working: ibis:~etc$ cyradm localhost Login disabled. cyradm: cannot authenticate to server as pgoetz I

Re: IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/3/2010 6:57 AM, Chris Pepper wrote: More importantly, I don't know how to make the old messages accessible to my users via IMAP (I can give them the files, but that's quite awkward). chk_cyrus agrees with IMAP clients about message counts (very low). I have tried reconstruct with

Re: IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 08:37 AM, Chris Pepper wrote: No, users see the folders, just not old messages. For most (all?) INBOXes but my own, new messages started arriving as 1. and continued from there. Users can see the new mail, but not the old. This makes me think it's not an internal

Re: cyradm and allowing only encrypted passwords with 2.3.16?

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 08:41 AM, Wesley Craig wrote: TLS isn't available to Cyrus::IMAP pre 2.3.2. I expect it's a bug. Sorry,I didn't specifically say that I'm using the latest release, 2.3.16. I find cyradm to be very convenient to use for smaller sites, but is this essentially a dead tool and I

Re: IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 08:47 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: A script to find each file and IMAP append it? Just thinking outside the box here! How would you do the IMAP append? Using a Perl::IMAP function? This isn't necessarily a concern for this list, but a few days ago I upgraded a site from cyrus

Re: IMAP not seeing old mail present on filesystem

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 10:17 AM, Chris Pepper wrote: On 10/4/10 10:23 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote: I wasn't clear about whether the old install was completely gone or could still be booted. If you can still start cyrus on the old server, you could try imapsync to transfer mail to the new one. Old system

Re: cyradm and allowing only encrypted passwords with 2.3.16?

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 11:07 AM, Dan White wrote: You can connect via a non plaintext mechanism, like digest-md5. This seems like a straightforward case of RTFM, but how does one determine the auth mechanism? I'm using saslauthd, pam, and have a self-signed certificate (which I know works):

Re: cyradm and allowing only encrypted passwords with 2.3.16?

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 11:41 AM, Wesley Craig wrote: I understood that, tho I did notice you pasted the 2.2.x error, not the 2.3.x error. Nope, this is precisely the error I'm getting on my 2.3.16 install: ibis:~~$ dpkg -l | grep cyrus-common ii cyrus-common-2.32.3.16-1 Cyrus

Re: cyradm and allowing only encrypted passwords with 2.3.16?

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 10/04/2010 12:29 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote: cyrus-be4:~# cyradm --user cyrus --tlskey '' localhost That did it! The trick is to use --tlskey with an empty field as demonstrated above. Who knew? -- ibis:~~$ cyradm --user pgoetz --tlskey '' localhost verify error:num=18:self signed

Re: cyrus 2.3.14 on opensuse 11.1 x64 and lmtp errors

2010-09-27 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 09/27/2010 05:39 AM, Josef Karliak wrote: What is going on ? On cyrus 2.2.12 is all ok. When subject don't contain =?utf-8?B?Tm9 (I rewrote it to test subject for example), email is delivered. It sounds like your email header contains 8-bit letters. This is a violation of RFC2882,

Re: competition

2010-09-23 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 9/22/2010 10:20 PM, Shuvam Misra wrote: I was a strong advocate of bundling DB libraries, etc, with Cyrus. The points you've made here are very interesting. I didn't know many of these things. I'm re-thinking whether bundling is such a good idea now. Thanks. There's a lot to be said for

Re: De-duping attachments

2010-09-15 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 09/14/2010 11:55 PM, Rob Mueller wrote: Eg. An architectural firm might end up sending big blueprint documents back and forth between each other a lot, so they'd gain a lot from deduplication. Not to throw a damp towel on this discussion, but isn't this really an administrative problem

Re: Draft: Bugzilla Work Flow

2010-09-14 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 09/04/2010 07:41 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: To allow some early feedback, I'm putting the page on the list now as opposed to when I feel like I'm done documenting everything in full ;-)

Re: Store documents in IMAP folders

2010-09-14 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 09/12/2010 09:10 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote: The goal is to have a PDF library available at any time, with basic file search on document/message name, so a file share doesn't solve my problem (and I don't want any document management system, I just want access to files). I don't imagine

Follow-Up: Unable to update seen flag for some mailboxes

2004-01-17 Thread Patrick Goetz
Yesterday I posted a question to this list regarding a problem I was having with the mailboxes for some users on cyrus 2.1.15; namely previously read messages were being marked as unread every time the mailbox listing was refreshed by the IMAP server. One thing I didn't make clear was that this

Cyrus 2.1.15 database files

2004-01-16 Thread Patrick Goetz
OK, no response on the unable to update user.seen database files for some users question I asked earlier, so let me try something else. Is there any documentation on the cyrus database files? For example, since /var/lib/cyrus/user/t/this_user.seen seems not to be keeping track of what messages

Re: Plus Addressing (ORA book)

2003-12-16 Thread Patrick Goetz
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Pollywog wrote: There is also an O'Reilly book and some of the book is available online here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html Looks like a book I might want to buy. Save your money -- this book is hopelessly out of date. I've read it and found

Mailboxes which won't come back online

2003-11-24 Thread Patrick Goetz
This using Cyrus 2.1.15 ... Last week I pestered this list about a situation wherein the contents of /var/lib/cyrus (i.e. the database) were lost in a system crash while the contents of /var/spool/cyrus/mail (i.e. the actual messages) were preserved. After using cyradm - cm to recreate the

Mailboxes which won't come back online

2003-11-24 Thread Patrick Goetz
Many thanks to everyone who responded to this question. Yes, it seems pretty safe to assume that this (not reconstructing mail folders that don't contain explicit messages) is a bug; but then why doesn't cyrreconstruct -m work? I can't imagine why this would be that more complicated to

automating administrative tasks in Cyrus 2.1.15

2003-11-20 Thread Patrick Goetz
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm relatively new to cyrus as an administrator and have made an effort to RTFM. I'm wondering if there is any way to automate administrative tasks in Cyrus? I ask because I recently inherited the job of administering a debian Cyrus 2.1.15 system at the same

Re: automating administrative tasks in Cyrus 2.1.15

2003-11-20 Thread Patrick Goetz
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote: It depends what you are trying to do... It is pretty easy to call reconstruct once for each user just by feeding a list of usernames to a shell or perl script. We do all of the regular administration tasks here using perl scripts and the

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