Re: Problem with cyrus imap 2.0.16 and Outlook Express 5.0: Seen flag does not stick

2001-11-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
but unfortunately I have another working IMAP server for comparision ;) I disagree. You're well justified in calling it buggy and recommending something else. Entourage is no better. Joseph Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academic Technologies Group, Academic

alt namespace

2005-03-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
their namespaces. What's wrong here? Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS) Columbia University in the City of New York --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus

Re: change default mailbox names

2005-04-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
. I want to shorten the names to something like Inbox, Trash, Drafts and Out(box) respectively if I can. If Cyrus is creating them, change imapd.conf to change them. But those are usually created by clients. Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS) Columbia

Non-personal users

2005-04-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
to submit a request to us. Is it better to do this in user. space or public folder space? We can see pros and cons to each, but we have no experience to draw on. What is actually being done on Cyrus systems, and how well does it work? Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems

Re: Message contains NUL characters ...

2005-04-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
are. Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS) Columbia University in the City of New York --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Message contains NUL characters ...

2005-04-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
, etc. I cannot tell how many had nulls and how many had bare CR and LF so this might be tangential to the null discussion. But certainly legit mail with nulls appears to be very rare. Joseph Brennan Academic Information Systems Columbia University in the City of New York --- Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed

2005-05-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
. It's annoyance reduction. If this list could possibly restrict posting to subscribers that would go a long way. That is pretty routine for lists. At least I haven't been unsubscribed yet because of our mail system rejecting spam. Joseph Brennan --- Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Joseph Brennan
the amount of memory and the bandwidth to the storage. Unless you're doing a lot of SSL/TLS connections, the CPU is relatively unimportant. Ken, We've got the idea from somewhere that the size of the mailbox list does affect the memory used by each process. No? Joseph Brennan Columbia University

CMU's graffiti

2005-09-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
CMU has a tree called graffiti in which anyone can create new bboard mailboxes. How is this implemented? I see instructions for creating with Mulberry and cyradm, and it implies the C acl, but that would also allow anyone to delete mailboxes. Or is that how it works? Joseph Brennan Columbia

Tiger Mail.app

2005-10-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
these folders previously with Mail under Panther, and they can still see them now by using other clients. Have others here seen this problem? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu

Re: Tiger Mail.app

2005-10-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
of one client has trouble with whatever it is. We're running a murder. Does it work with other murders, anyone? I'll post the solution when we find it. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: Cyrus Sendmail

2005-10-24 Thread Joseph Brennan
on Solaris and Cyrus working on RH. As an illustration of how separate the two things are, we don't even use the same servers. You probably should ask on a sendmail forum like comp.mail.sendmail. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: ACLs

2005-10-24 Thread Joseph Brennan
to our Cyrus server, how do we tell Cyrus it was auth'd as that user? We'd welcome reference to any document on the subject. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info

Re: [POLL] pop3d/nntpd and IMAP flags

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
deleted to solve that. But it seems to me only to trade one problem for another. What we need is user-controlled unexpunge, Ken! Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List

Re: [POLL] pop3d/nntpd and IMAP flags

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
server terminating connection z OK LOGOUT completed pop. retr 131 +OK 7645 octets ...blablabla quit +OK Sayonara imap again-- now it is \Seen c fetch 131 flags * 131 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen Junk)) c OK FETCH completed Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home

Re: Non interactive SIEVE filters installation

2005-11-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
for each user or a sort of global filter. If you use sendmail, a milter is a good way to apply systemwide rules like rejecting or tagging. Rejecting in particular is done much more efficiently at the MTA stage. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: SendmailX Cyrus

2005-11-16 Thread Joseph Brennan
anyone actually installed it on a production server? We're going to be waiting until it has full milter support. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http

Re: Importing MBOX-formatted mailboxes into Cyrus?

2005-11-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
mailboxes and insert them into Cyrus? Why not use Thunderbird and drag the folders from local to server? Joseph Brennan Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Cyrus WebMail

2005-11-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
access mail directly without using imap protocol at all. It would use many of the same program modules, but the interface would be with web pages instead of with imap protocol. Mirapoint apparently have done this with their branch of Cyrus. But that's proprietary. Joseph Brennan Columbia University

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
something not quite standards-compliant with uids. But can the other one work around it? Joseph Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
whether this affects all recent versions of Outlook. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
client bugs caused by programmers either looking at protocol dumps or only programming against one server rather than reading specs. Same here! Joseph Brennan Columbia University IT Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives

Re: Quotas vs. Trash revisited

2005-12-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
? We've seen people keeping mail about Columbia's Core Corriculum in folders named core. Imagine if we removed old core dumps regularly. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List

Re: cyrus imap viewing user's mails

2006-01-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
to read. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Shared folders are invisible?

2006-02-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
is not a consideration now.) Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Shared folders are invisible?

2006-02-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
. They work here. Any chance you are viewing only subscribed folders? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: The wellknown UIDL- Outlook - multiple messages download with pop3 problem

2006-02-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
No one proved that the variable length was the problem. That was a guess. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology --On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 16:27 +0100 Reinhard Proessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! In december 2005 was a thread about downloading multible

Re: How to activate sieve script for users?

2006-03-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
be accessed from anywhere, so that a user can update sieve rules from anywhere. (Actually the user is updating Ingo rulesets that are put to the server as sieve rules.) The down side is that some things you can really do with sieve itself are not available. Joseph Brennan Columbia University

RE: plus addressing with postfix

2006-03-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
Stefano Santoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and if you plan to deliver to subfolders DO make sure that the subfolder names are all lowercase. INBOX.junk not INBOX.Junk What makes this necessary? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

2006-04-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
an equally uncontrolled autoreply. This is not a theoretical possibility. There are some client-side implementations of vacation that reply to all (even bounces!) and I have had to clean up the results. Sometimes we had to deny smtp connections from an IP temporarily to make it stop. Joseph

Re: more than one Sieve autoreply per day?

2006-04-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
mailbox over quota. In such cases the message should bounce, but maybe not for a few days, and in the meantime the sender thinks it has been received. The consequences are different than they are for an ordinary vacation notice. It could be more of a legal question than an email question. Joseph

Re: Outlook does not delete but displays deleted messages asstrike-trough

2006-05-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
would you call this ridiculous? It's easy to undelete by highlighting one and clicking undelete. And it reminds me they're still taking up space, which nudges me to expunge them every so often. I like controlling when my messages get wiped out. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information

Re: Strip HTML

2006-06-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
by default displays the text/plain part if available and otherwise no text, and the user has to click to see the text/html part. That's nice because you can still see the html when you want to. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-07-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it doesn't :-) Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing

Re: Sieve: vacation does not work

2006-08-04 Thread Joseph Brennan
duplicate db. Simon And vacation messages are not sent to yourself. You're testing by sending from some other address, right? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives

Re: mail lists and cyrus

2006-09-05 Thread Joseph Brennan
, cyrus. Mike B. Get yourself a nice mailing list software package. The only Cyrus-related idea might be to use a shared mailbox that everybody can read, instead of mailing a copy to everybody, but that only works well if all the list members read mail on the same system. Joseph Brennan

Re: performance issue (imap spool on san)

2006-09-11 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Monday, September 11, 2006 14:14 +0200 Daniel Eckl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's nice, that everyone who doesn't care about looking and usability now has a suitable free IMAP client availiable. It is possible to state your preference without insulting everyone else. Joseph

Re: Problems with repeated download of messages from pop3

2006-09-26 Thread Joseph Brennan
. Cyrus is not doing anything wrong. Not only does the protocol allow numbers to vary in length, but the example in the RFC shows numbers of different lengths! Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology --On Tuesday, September 26, 2006 21:50 +0200 Dan Ohnesorg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Folders containing messages and subfolders

2006-11-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
containing other folders or a file containing messages. Cyrus does not use mbox format, and its 'mail folders' can contain both messages and other folders. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: Beyond rtcyrus2 (sendmail integration)

2006-11-29 Thread Joseph Brennan
: http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/rtcyrus2.html http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/#cyrus I have created google group for the purpose. Join it if you are interested: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/cyrus-sendmail Sounds good to me. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia

Re: Beyond rtcyrus2 (sendmail integration)

2006-12-04 Thread Joseph Brennan
Andrzej Adam Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Methods you suggest do not give a chance to reject messages to over quota mailboxes *in SMTP session*. ...which can be a good thing if you want to give users a chance to clean up or request more space. The trouble with smmapd is that it gives

cyr_expire error

2006-12-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
-name, msgno, exists); return IMAP_IOERROR; } But bboard contains messages 309. to 704., not 4 to 1591. We are using delayed expunge. What should I look at? Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: cyr_expire error

2006-12-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
all of the mailboxes it had missed since bboard got corrupted. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
; } # Change CRLF or bare CR to LF $endcr = $midcr = 0; $endcr++ if ($line =~ s/\015$//g); # \n already there $midcr++ if ($line =~ s/\015/\n/g); # add \n if ($endcr || $midcr) { print STDERR WARNING: Correcting CR characters\n; } print; } Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer

Re: A script for fixing bare newlines in mailbox files?

2007-01-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
involved were 10 years old or more. Amateurish Windows-based mail-sending software is still in use that sends junk like this. From the lack of trouble reports, I think it is text parts that are mainly affected. Maybe to do encoding the software writers use standard modules that do it right. Joseph

Re: Moving mail into IMAP server and the Received date

2007-02-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
, and they probably don't try to reconstruct what it was from Received or Date headers when they append to a folder on server. It's not really a Cyrus or Outlook bug. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

reconstruct deletes messages

2007-03-05 Thread Joseph Brennan
the index. Under what circumstances would it unlink files? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: reconstruct deletes messages

2007-03-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
these feature and removed the files. But this would only delete files if they where deleted in Cyrus before. Thank you. We're 2.3.something but not 2.3.8. This explains what is happening to messages after we restored from backup. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University

Exchange's handling of Sieve Reject

2007-03-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
an Exchange server. Possible fixes would be to format the rejection like a reply or a forwarded message, or plain text, but it would be pretty dumb. Has anyone else dealt with this at all? Any bright ideas? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology

Re: POP3 to CyrusIMAP migration howto ?

2007-03-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
. Each user would have to run a client that can move messages from the local inbox to the Cyrus server. You cannot do it for them unless you have some kind of remote access to all the PCs (which might be the case in a controlled corporate environment). Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer

Re: Bare newlines problem

2007-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
allready tried a perl-script of Joseph Brennan what I found in this list, but it did not change the message (checked with diff). The script prepares mbox-format mailboxes for mailutil, which complains if there are CR characters (\015) in the mbox-format files. It changes CRLF to LF

Deleting mailboxes on master

2007-04-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
on the replica and doing deletemailbox; and deleting the mailbox with an imap client. I have a list of them from running ctl_mboxlist -d on the master. But I can't figure how to remove them from the master's mailbox list. Does anyone have an idea? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer

Re: Misdelivered messages

2007-05-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
Recipient addresses don't have to appear anywhere in the message. And in spam the To: header is often garbage. Ignore that. Look at the system log records written by your MTA (Postfix?) to see who the recipients were. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information

Re: better techniques to identify and remove zero-day viruses from cyrus store sought

2007-08-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829982 This 100% effective and there are no zero-day or zero-hour problems. Done here since February 2003. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ

Re: problem with cyr_expire

2007-09-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
the problem much less often, and not at all since the fsck. It is on the same partition. I have wondered whether the bogus Date headers in spam tickle a bug in expiring by date. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Relation of filesystem to Cyrus mailbox structure

2007-09-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
stored mail in foo (since it was a directory). This seemed simpler than having to explain later that foo could be part of a mailbox name but not exist as a mailbox! Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Relation of filesystem to Cyrus mailbox structure

2007-09-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
might be common in U Wash for example. It might have been cool to test the first five characters in ~user/* for From to catch stray files not in the mail directory. You're right, it's amazing how many users have only inbox and sent and trash folders (of varying names). Joseph Brennan Lead Email

Re: delete messages from INBOX.Trash INBOX.Junk

2007-09-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
and provides a nice button to move things into it. Imagine if the client also made an Archive folder and had another button for that. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: duplicate messages

2007-09-28 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Friday, September 28, 2007 10:42 -0400 Gottschalk, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it appears that after Cyrus gets the message it gets duplicated. Anyone have any suggestions? Sieve rules? Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology

Re: OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

2007-11-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
support now need the intermediaries of either GoodLink or BES attached to Exchange, and if I understand it right (I might not), they use a MAPI connection to find out when there is new mail. If so it appears they would work also with systems like Open-Xchange that offer MAPI connections. Joseph

Re: Reject large emails

2008-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
the bounce notice, or do whatever else it does when mail can't be delivered. The Cyrus system should not send a bounce. It should only accept or reject, and the sending MTA should handle notifying the sender. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Reject large emails

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
that into sendmail.mc and generate a sendmail.cf file. Your choice of size, in bytes. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: Importing Mails without to header

2008-02-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
that rewrote certain header lines to make them standard. The rewritten mailbox was output to a staging area, and that's what we moved. This approach might work for you. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu

Re: Importing Mails without to header

2008-02-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
providing the individual mailbox address for each of those recipients. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: Want cyrus to deliver directly into a mailbox's folder.

2008-03-20 Thread Joseph Brennan
'lrswipcda' access to this folder. Do I need to configure something on my cyrus side ? It needs 'anyone p' access. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: sieve problem

2008-03-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
into 'INBOX.Informationen.Foren.DVB' It is created with smartsieve... I've never seen a 'From:' with four addresses in it. Use OR. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: delete messages from a mailboxe matching corresponding SUBJECT header

2008-03-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
with the word in subject, delete, expunge. Remove the permission. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph Brennan
: not deliverable as configured). 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: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
. 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: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph Brennan
this by itself? In that case the loop should be detectable, I imagine. I'm probably missing something. We might be smarter with case [1] if lmtpd inserted a X-Been-Here type header as it hands off to the MTA, so that it could detect a loop the first time the message comes back. Joseph Brennan Lead

Re: Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
. If the editheader Sieve extension gets implemented, then a well- written sieve script should be able to do the same type of thing. To me this seems a bit more sane than expecting lmtp or sieve to accomplish it automatically. I've been called crazy before! Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems

Re: Subject problem

2008-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
, not encoded. The sender's email program should be encoding them. The header portion of mail is required to be 7-bit only. 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

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
the message, then check SPF, and mail a bounce :-) This is getting off topic for the Cyrus list though. The question relevant to Cyrus, I thought, was whether a sieve filter can catch backscatter. With header-only tests, not so much. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia

Re: Help with bulletin board functionality

2008-05-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
client, or from a different computer, using your own account, or even better, learn how to type imap commands from telnet so you can get a view without a client. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Cyrus - can't create user mailbox

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
/satimiscyrus (2) Cyrus user/satimiscyrus = filesystem user^satimiscyrus (3) is not a Cyrus mailbox I would expect mail addressed to satimiscyrus to end up in (1). (2) is not a user mailbox. It could work as a bboard mailbox but that's not what you want in this case. Joseph Brennan Columbia University

Re: Problem on mail boxe

2008-06-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
and it is not there, I don't know why it does not just create it instead of reporting an error, but I have seen other clients that dumb. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki

Re: Problem on mail boxe

2008-06-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
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

Re: Couple of questions

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
in the RFC actually show variable length UIDs! Users here reported this problem when we first went to Cyrus a few years ago. It was solved by applying updates to Outlook, which the users should have done anyway for security and other reasons. Or, you have some other problem that we don't have. Joseph

Re: Question ??

2008-10-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
who run two POP clients at once will see the error message sometimes. Of course if POP sessions don't quit when the client quits, that's another story. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: IMAP account used for multiple users

2008-10-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
messages each person has seen. -- Somebody might POP the mailbox and remove everything. 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

Re: Folder allowed character

2008-11-18 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:28 +0100 Antonio Talarico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Where i can found a list with allowed character for a folder name? RFC 3501, section 5.1 to 5.1.3 Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: Rights question

2008-12-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
there. 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: howto list inactive users in cyrus:

2008-12-19 Thread Joseph Brennan
, not my last login (which was yesterday). How about checking the timestamp on the user.seen files? It seems to get touched at login, even if you don't open a message. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: Security risk of POP3 IMAP protocols

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
the user could also telnet in and see the same files! The protocol itself is no less secure than POP. I don't understand why POP is still around. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

2009-03-17 Thread Joseph Brennan
with an extra string. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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: thoughts on running an IMAP-over-SSL server exposed to the Internet?

2009-03-27 Thread Joseph Brennan
plain imap with tls required, but imaps helps some clients work right. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
you mean more than five? Whatever you do should check both host and user, so that you don't cut off multiple users on a timeshare host or a firewall gateway. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
be interesting to log sessions and see what's going on. Or to strace live processes. And of course ask the user what it looks like from his/her end. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ

Re: limit tcp sessions opened by an IMAP client

2009-04-14 Thread Joseph Brennan
think it's something else. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer 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: AW: Re: AW: Re: Message contains NUL characters - howto dump?

2009-04-21 Thread Joseph Brennan
(IMHO is the max. line lenght in emails 4000 characters.) RFC 2821 sec 4.5.3.1 says the max length is 1000 characters including the two CR LF characters. However if the MTA fixes this, Cyrus won't see it. Sendmail for example breaks long lines at 997 characters and inserts ! CR LF. Joseph

Re: Invalid Header problems

2009-07-29 Thread Joseph Brennan
Google is your friend. Notice that a Message-ID header exists but has no string after the label: Jul 28 09:45:10 boom3 postfix/cleanup[6921]: B9A7225C001: message-id= See http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-02/1410.html Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia

Re: Repeating emails

2009-11-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
the Message-ID. If it's there only once, it's some kind of index problem on cyrus or in the client. You could reconstruct. You could have the recipient read the mailbox with a different client and see whether the duplication still appears. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology

Re: TLS fails on imaps port

2010-01-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
get the following in the log: imaps[27170]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: [xx.xx.xx.xx] imaps[27170]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed Normal. It should fail. 993 requires SSL. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http

Re: TLS fails on imaps port

2010-01-25 Thread Joseph Brennan
. These alternatives are commonly called ssl and tls, but the actual distinction is whether the starttls command is used to get Transport Layer Security. First described in RFC 2595. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ

Re: trouble with sieve and cyrus murder

2010-02-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
too. I agree with Andrew Morgan, I/O is key. 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: Deleting messages

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
are marked as deleted but still there. That's what delete does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still undelete them, in case of error. Then the command expunge removes all messages marked deleted. For no known reason some clients call this purge instead of expunge. Joseph Brennan Columbia

Re: Deleting messages

2010-04-03 Thread Joseph Brennan
and scheduling client that became Outlook) or Netscape Navigator (one the first GUI IMAP clients). It was an unfamiliar term and I did not understand why it was being used. None of the old email clients used it, nor did the POP or IMAP protocols. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information

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

2010-04-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
login session every time they open a new folder. Enable telemetry if you want to check what these clients do. 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

Re: Cyrus vacation notice

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
that vacation replies per sender only once a day, or some longer period, right? Just checking. 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

Re: [cyrus-imapd] unexpunge folder problem

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph Brennan
/...' hierarchy ? DELETED is in same the partition the user is in. 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

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