Re: Shared Mailboxes and Postfix

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Josh Whitver wrote: As I understand it, this should allow us to send mail to Conference+shared mailbox name@domain and have the message delivered to the shared mailbox. This isn't what's happening, however. Initially, there was no mail-capable user named Conference, so I created one, but now all

Re: Shared Mailboxes and Postfix

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Josh Whitver wrote: Thanks for the help thus far, but now when I start the mail service, I get this in /var/log/mail.log: May 9 11:37:59 testldap postfix/master[12863]: daemon started -- version 2.1.5 May 9 11:38:40 testldap postfix/smtpd[12887]: fatal: open database shared_folders.db: No such

Re: Invalid Header

2005-04-18 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Vernon A. Fort wrote: so I could see what part of the header was invalid. There was/is a line: Message-ID: with nothing after the line. I removed the line and re-sent the message successfully. Why would single line called Message-ID: cause lmtpd message header errors? Because it's invalid

Re: confusion about setting up certificates

2005-03-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Jim Miller wrote: I'm still having trouble will Outlook and connecting with IMAPS to cyrus-imap 2.2.10. when I set 'tls_reqire_cert: true'. However I don't have the problem when I set tls_imap_reqire_cert: true' That's because this second setting is ignored. For settings to apply to specific

Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-25 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Marco Colombo wrote: So it seems its usage is deprecated. If you are to code a patch, you may look into the alternative name(s). Those are standard v3 extensions. As I understand it, comforming applications should look there in order to find email addresses (of type rfc822Name). Of course, since

Re: --with-auth only for group memberships?

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Igor Brezac wrote: --auth-auth specifies an authorization (not authentication) mechanism. The unix module is mostly useful for group. OK, yeah, authorization vs. authentication, right. Since SASL cannot provide authorization details, Cyrus IMAP has to get them from somewhere else, so that's

Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Marco Colombo wrote: What field is that, exaclty? v3 extension? I'm not sure... it's in the OpenSSL headers files as NID_pkcs9_emailAddress. Anyway, the goal of authentication is to identify users not email addresses. The whole idea of using certs is broken, unless you use the cert itself. No CA

Re: Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Igor Brezac wrote: Your bigger issue is to find a client that supports SASL/EXTERNAL. I do not believe c-client library (this is what drives IMP/Horde via PHP) supports SASL/EXTERNAL, so this is what you need to start hacking. OK, I've successfully connected using imtest and SASL/EXTERNAL and

--with-auth only for group memberships?

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I've just reworked my Cyrus IMAP installation, and I'm beginning to get the impression that --with-auth (which defaults to unix) is only for group memberships, and really has no other effect. It certainly doesn't seem to affect SASL in any way, which is what actually handles authentication.

Re: Basic FAQs and HOWTOs

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Craig White wrote: My goal was to be my own CA - generate per user certificates and have revocation rights. I haven't had many issues with creating certs for various applications such as ldap/apache etc. I was looking for some granular control for individual users. I do this manually using OpenSSL

[RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I'm working on a webmail system using client certificates for authentication. I have Cyrus IMAP working fine with Cyrus SASL and AUTH=EXTERNAL after negotiating TLS... the IMAP daemon authenticate the user properly. However, it chooses the CN from the client cert as the authentication

Re: Basic FAQs and HOWTOs

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Wil Cooley wrote: Lately I've been trying to migrate my self-signed certs to certs generated with TinyCA from a self-signed root cert; that way once I import my root CA I can bypass all of the prompts. Yes, that is a much better plan. I do that for my clients who have private webmail/intranet

Re: Hardware RAID Level Performance

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Andrew Morgan wrote: You may want to look into Dell's AX100 SAN (a rebranded version of the EMC Clariion AX100). These use SATA drives with a FC front end. They are relatively inexpensive for the amount of storage you can get, if your I/O needs match. You can also go a little more upscale

Re: Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Edward Rudd wrote: This is really a Cyrus-SASL topic. as Cyrus IMAP doesn't really care how the user gets authenticated, only that the SASL layer authenticates the users. So client certificate authentication would have to be added as a SASL authentication module. It's never been clear to me where

Re: Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Igor Brezac wrote: SASL/EXTERNAL is what you want although I have to not tried it. OpenLDAP works great. In theory, the CN part of the client certitificate subject needs to be a valid mailbox. You can test this with imtest -t client_cert_file -m EXTERNAL I assume that you have SSL/TLS

Re: Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cyrus/imapd[15511]: starttls: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits new) no authentication cyrus/imapd[15511]: login: localhost[127.0.0.1] pascal plaintext+TLS The no authentication at the end of the first line is due to client certicats are not allowed with

Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I'm trying to come up with a configuration of Horde/IMP and Cyrus 2.2.x that will be easy to use and easy to manage :-) (I've got a number of these systems to set up). So far, I have been successful using client certificates to identify users to Apache 2.0.x, and using a custom Horde auth

Re: HowTo-ish question

2005-02-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rich West wrote: We did manage to get the cyrus-imap server up and running in a Fedora Core 2 environment authenticating against PAM (which in turn talks to our LDAP servers), but we could not get users in to the system. Essentially, with our test environment, the mail client (in this case,

Re: High availability ... again

2004-06-28 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Etienne Goyer wrote: On a similar note, RedHat have apparently bought Sistina, and GPLed GFS. This is great news for HA under Linux, IMHO. I will be testing it soon. Well, on their site is it listed as open source, but it is not on sources.redhat.com (where LVM2 and device-mapper landed when

Re: High availability ... again

2004-06-28 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Norman Zhang wrote: I think you can get it here, http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ Yes, thanks. When I looked at the sources page I was looking for GFS directly, not a cluster subproject. This page appears to have everything needed to use GFS. --- Cyrus Home Page:

Re: mail server replication

2004-05-21 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Colin Bruce wrote: I haven't tried it yet but it may be that DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) might be able to do what you want. We used it with a UW Imap server and I don't see why it shouldn't work with Cyrus. It is probably possible to split the users between two cyrus servers and have each group

Re: Authenticate to IMAP server via Active Directory

2004-03-31 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure Outlook can use GSSAPI?? I tried the following : Windows 2000 Prof., Member of W2K-ADS, logged in with user@realm Mailclient OE 6 (latest security packs), Secure Password Authentication enabled Outlook and Outlook Express are not the same thing, in fact they

Re: newspostuser -- To, but what about Reply-To?

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: I finally got around to dealing with this. I just committed a patch which does the following: - use Followup-To (if exists) instead Newsgroups when constructing Reply-To - strip any post addresses from Reply-To when feeding the article upstream (via NNTP or SMTP) These

Re: exim and user+mailbox format

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Erik Myllymaki wrote: Can any Exim-Cyrus users help me out here? There's a few posts around that detail this using cyrus_deliver, but my cyrus_transport in exim.conf is LMTP... Direct subfolder delivery with LMTP is a little tricky, you basically have two choices: - Set up cyrus.conf to start

Re: newspostuser -- To, but what about Reply-To?

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: It shouldn't be. I never change the Newsgroups header, so once the article hits NNTP, it will propagate as usual. Well that's just dandy! --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info:

Re: newspostuser -- To, but what about Reply-To?

2004-02-17 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Ken Murchison wrote: I've actually been looking for more info on this type of thing, and here is what I found: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html I can strip the address before

Re: [OT] MUA's with direct post support?

2004-02-05 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: If you're talking about posting via NNTP, the article will still end up having the To: header added by nntpd (if configured to do so). Unfortunately no, I'm considering an environment where the users don't have NNTP clients at all. Their only access to the shared folders

[OT] MUA's with direct post support?

2004-02-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I'm looking to set up shared folders to use as discussion boards, as well as possibly to use the new NNTP functionality to mirror some newsgroups into shared folders. However, that pretty much dictates using an MUA that supports direct posting of messages into those folders, rather than

Re: [OT] MUA's with direct post support?

2004-02-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Wil Cooley wrote: Not that everyone in your organization will have a Linux desktop, but Evolution 1.4 has this capability. I had heard that Evolution supported this type of posting, so I'll take a look. See my other reply to Ken though about how this might now work out, as the posted message

Re: [OT] MUA's with direct post support?

2004-02-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: Are you worrying about how user's reading newsgroups via IMAP shared folders will post to these groups? If so, you can allow this fairly easily by using the newspostuser option and the lmtp2nntp software. Take a look at doc/install-netnews.html for details on how to set

Re: nntp fiddling

2004-01-18 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Nils Vogels wrote: Kevin, may I ask how you managed to get multiple groups using one fetchnews command ? I've been trying comma delimited group names (fetchnews -n -w nl.test,nl.someother news.myisp.nl) but for some reason no articles are fetched then. If I use space delimitations, only the

Re: nntp fiddling

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: Yes, it uses IHAVE. I can take a look at adding support for POST (the commands are almost identical). Does your provider also require you to authenticate? Ken, I'd like to try out this support too, I've been hanging around waiting for it to more stable (and get features

Re: nntp fiddling

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: Would you want to feed to all of the servers, or just one? Currently, fetchnews and nntpd are only setup to have one upstream peer. Yes, I would want to feed messages back to all the servers. Actually fetchnews can work with any server you want, but it doesn't keep track

Re: nntp fiddling

2004-01-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: There is no overlap between the groups from the different servers, and grouping them is easy with wildcard matching: cups.* microsoft.* infragistics.* everything else OK, so you need the newspeer option to be a *list* of peers? But you *don't* need fetchnews to track

Re: Authenticate Cyrus off active directory

2003-12-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rob Siemborski wrote: Our webmail (squirrelmail) is doing kerberos authentication. We gutted the authentication part of squirrelmail and instead launch a persistant imtest process, which squirrelmail connects to instead (this was relatively easy to do, actually -- most of the changes that were

[Slightly OT]: NTLM auth via SquirrelMail?

2003-11-07 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I just recently set up SquirrelMail connected to an existing Cyrus 2.1.15 installation. So far so good, things are working well. However, I'd like to move towards a single sign-on model, and this should be possible given that the clients are running Windows/IE and authentication against a

Re: Whose fault? vacation messages bounce to postmaster.

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
mark london wrote: I am running cyrus/squirrelmail/sendmail. I have a vacation plugin for squirrelmail and set up vacation autoresponding. However, if vacation responds to a spam message that has a bogus email address, the bounced message that says that the vacation message can't be

Re: Determining deliverability

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Pat Lashley wrote: I've been thinking about finding the cycles to whip out a utility that would take a local_part on the command line; and return success or failure to indicate whether it is deliverable. It would work by starting an LMTP session and issuing a RCPT; then RSET and QUIT after

Re: Determining deliverability

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Pat Lashley wrote: I've been thinking about finding the cycles to whip out a utility that would take a local_part on the command line; and return success or failure to indicate whether it is deliverable. It would work by starting an LMTP session and issuing a RCPT; then RSET and QUIT after

Re: MTAs that pass SMTP AUTH?

2003-03-31 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Scott Balmos wrote: Does anyone know of any other MTAs that can pass SMTP AUTH info along to Cyrus, other than Sendmail? I'm thinking in the base case here, of a single server, for an intranet. We've already, unfortunately, ruled out Postfix earlier last week, I think I remember reading. Exim,

Re: MTAs that pass SMTP AUTH?

2003-03-31 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Scott Balmos wrote: My question is, where is Sendmail getting, or even sending to the deliver program, the information that says to match against username msmith, johndoe, or whatnot? I know of the -a switch for deliver, but pretty much all the other MTAs (including Postfix) say that there can

Re: Perl 5.8 and Cyrus Imap

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Ken Murchison wrote: Does cyradm display the password prompt? I did a fresh RedHat 8.0 + updates (Perl 5.8.0) install on a laptop so I could do some development while on the road, and the prompt for the password doesn't display. It took me a while before I realized that cyradm wasn't hung, its

Re: Case sensitve user/mailbox names

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Kerstin Espey wrote: As long as you don't use the option caseful_local_part in the exim router, exim will send all mails to the lowercase mailbox. Regards, Kerstin Exim 4.x does not act this way, but Exim 3.x did. If you don't make specific provisions to supply Cyrus a lowercase local part

Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.12 Released

2003-02-03 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rob Siemborski wrote: The distribution is available at: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.11.tar.gz or http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.11.tar.gz And those links should, of course, be: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.12.tar.gz or

Re: unix:lmtp vs /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ?

2003-01-21 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Thomas Hannan wrote: Anyways, with the AMaViS virus filtering, could you clarify a bit? Does your Get amavisd-new, tell your MTA to deliver to amavisd-new through SMTP, then deliver it back to the MTA through SMTP, and let it deliver to

Re: Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Lawrence Greenfield wrote: --On Friday, January 03, 2003 12:48 PM -0700 Kevin P. Fleming wrote: This is all working fine, except that I had to add my dummy authentication user (which I create solely for Exim to authenticate itself to lmtpd with) to the admins entry in /etc/imapd.conf. I had

Re: Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: This is all working fine, except that I had to add my dummy authentication user (which I create solely for Exim to authenticate itself to lmtpd with) to the admins entry in /etc/imapd.conf. I had to do this because lmptd

Re: Not seeing Inbox

2002-11-20 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Gregory Chagnon wrote: Thanks...so how would I go about setting up an IMAP account for user testuser that would have the same folders as a Microsoft Exchange server? I'm trying to get this thing looking as similar to the Exchange server as possible so I'd like to have a visible Inbox, Sent