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Russell Packer | 27 Aug 2002 13:30

SQUAT

Hi,

I get these 'failed' messages repeated every 15 minutes in my imap debug
log:

Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: open: user user^name opened INBOX
Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT returned 328 messages
Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish last message repeated 2 times
Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT string list search failed on
string nms with part types f
Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT failed

What do these messages mean? What is wrong? How do I best resolve the
problem (if indeed there is one)

Thanks in advance!

Russell Packer
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Russell Packer | 27 Aug 2002 13:50

FW: SQUAT

>
> Hi,
>
> I get these 'failed' messages repeated every 15 minutes in my
> imap debug log:
>
>
> Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: open: user user^name opened INBOX
> Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT returned 328 messages
> Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish last message repeated 2 times
> Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT string list search
> failed on string nms with part types f
> Aug 25 11:34:19 mailfish imapd[4597]: SQUAT failed
>
>
> What do these messages mean? What is wrong? How do I best resolve
> the problem (if indeed there is one)
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Russell Packer
>

Also, right after this happens, our client reports that the server has hung
up. There are no details in the imap debug log - is this normal? If so, is
there any way to change the logging so that hangups are logged?

Thanks!
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Yann K. | 27 Aug 2002 15:44

secure pop with Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.19

I use a Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.19 server. on a debian woody
All run fine.
Some of my users would to use secure pop to retrieve their mails.
Today i use pop3d for pop3 protocol on the 110 port , ans stunnel to 
encapsulate pop3 on the 993 port. 
It works.
But i have seen that each process of stunnel run a process on the server.
Really, i find it can be very hard for the server.
I prefer, if it's possible, to run a secure pop daemon instead.
Some people say me that there is a possibility with cyrus...
If somebody have a proposition...

Regards,

Yann K.
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Igor Brezac | 27 Aug 2002 15:53

Re: Have anybody successully compiled saslauthd with LDAP support on FreeBSD?


On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Igor Karpov wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:22:32AM -0400, Igor Brezac wrote:
> >
> > > > What does it say at the bottom of config.log?  You might want to
> > > > 'make distclean' and rerun configure before you check the log file.
> > >
> > > You mean these lines?
> > >
> > > configure:4048: checking to include experimental LDAP support
> > > configure:4067: checking for ldap_initialize in -lldap
> > > configure:4086: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lldap -llber  1>&5
> > > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lldap
> > > configure: failed program was:
> > > #line 4075 "configure"
> >
> > Configure cannot find ldap libs. Try
> >
> > ./configure --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --includedir=/usr/local/include --enable-static
--enable-login --with-rc4=openssl --with-ldap=/usr/local --disable-krb4 --disable-gssapi
>
>
> I've grep history and found exactly what you suppose me to:
>
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --includedir=/usr/local/include --enable-static
--enable-login --with-rc4=openssl --with-ldap=/usr/local --disable-krb4 --disable-gssapi
>
> The only difference is that _today_ it compiles without any problems. I
> bet it didn't three days ago...
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fabian-cyrus | 27 Aug 2002 14:48
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migrating from sasl v1->sasl v2

Hi List,

i'm actually trying to update my cyrus-imapd from
2.0.9 to 2.1.7.
My Problem is that a have a serious problems with the
migration from sasl1 to sasl2.
I've compilied the sasl-2.1.7 sources successfully
but the dbconvert-2 doesn't want to work for me.
I always get to following error:

>[root <at> abu utils]# ./dbconverter-2 

>This program will take the sasldb file specified on the
>command line and convert it to a new sasldb file in the >default
>location (usually /etc/sasldb). It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED >that you
>backup sasldb before allowing this program to run

>We are going to convert /etc/sasldb and our output will be >in /etc/sasldb2

>Press return to continue

>Error opening password file /etc/sasldb

I don't have a glue what might be the problem. My sasldb is
at /etc/sasldb and as root it shouldn't be a rights problem.

Any Ideas?

Greetings
Fabian Ruff
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kevin_myer | 27 Aug 2002 16:23

Re: My Take on Virtdomains so far

> 
> > The addition of per-service config files, was my first "poor-man's"
> > virtdomains implementation.  You were the first one to take the ball and
> > run with it!  ;)
> 
> 
> Actually this guy Kevin did that. Then he told me about it, and I documented
> it. I think it's the optimal solution for very robust virtual hosting.

That Kevin would be me I suppose.  I haven't been following the mailing list too
closely for awhile so I'm reading this virtual domains thread/feature addition
with interest.  I actually prefer the "poor-man's" virtdomains implementation
because it works well with my setup here and I do want multiple config files. 
So am I correct in saying 1) that the new virtdomain support really extends
cyrus IMAPd to do virtualhost by name and that 2) the "poor-man's"
implementation will continue to work and be maintained?

Are there any benefits to me to switching from my current setup and implementing
the new virtdomains layout?  I have to migrate to SASL2 and a newer cyrus
install at some point but I'd like to know if I should be including a
virtdomains migration at that point too (I know the answer is probably going to
be "It depends..").

Basically my current config is to have multiple service definitions bound to
different IP addresses and to define a different realm in each config file.  I
specify a different LDAP directory tree for each config file and thereby
guarantee that uids are unique per server instance but need not be unique per
entire LDAP directory.

Also, I saw that the mysql auxprop has been added to SASLv2.  Are there plans to
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Sebastian Hagedorn | 27 Aug 2002 17:09
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Feasibility of Red Hat Cluster Manager and LVM for Cyrus IMAP

Hi,

we're currently planning a big scale migration of our mail system. At the 
moment we use two different setups for students and for staff, both running 
sendmail and UW IMAP and POP.

We want to move to one system using sendmail and Cyrus 2.1.x. There will be 
about 50,000 users. The current plan is to use a cluster of altogether four 
Dell servers running Red Hat 7.3. The MTA-Out and some other services will 
be load balanced on two of the machines using LVS aka Piranha.

The MTA-In / IMAP / POP part will not be load-balanced, but the idea is 
rather to increase its availability. This we plan to achieve by using the 
Red Hat Cluster Manager as Failover Service. The two servers will be 
physically connected to an external RAID box with two SCSI controllers. 
When one of them goes down the other one mounts the required volumes off 
the RAID box and starts the configured services.

Has anybody on the list ever done something like this?

Another question I have regards the partitions for the Cyrus mailboxes. 
Using the Linux logical volume manager (LVM) and XFS's xfs_grow command it 
is possible to grow partitions while the machine is running and they are 
mounted. To me it seems easiest to use just one such partition for the 
mailboxes. Because the *physical* arrangement of the data can be adjusted 
at will using LVM this is very flexible. Are there any downsides to this 
approach that I'm overlooking? The bottleneck will be the UW-160 SCSI 
controller, but I would think that that would be enough ...

All comments are welcome.
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Rob Siemborski | 27 Aug 2002 17:41
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(unknown)


Hi All,

I'd like to announce the release of Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.8 on
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu.  This release fixes a critical locking problem with
the CREATE command that was introduced in 2.1.6 and 2.1.7.  It is strongly
encouraged that any sites which are running these versions
upgrade immediately to 2.1.8.

This release also includes a performance improvement when doing a
cross-partition RENAME, and a bugfix for the rehash script.

Many thanks to Amos Gouaux for his help in tracking the locking problem.

The distribution is available at:

ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.8.tar.gz
or
http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.8.tar.gz

-Rob

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Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
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Ken Murchison | 27 Aug 2002 18:01

Re: Feasibility of Red Hat Cluster Manager and LVM for Cyrus IMAP


Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we're currently planning a big scale migration of our mail system. At the
> moment we use two different setups for students and for staff, both running
> sendmail and UW IMAP and POP.
> 
> We want to move to one system using sendmail and Cyrus 2.1.x. There will be
> about 50,000 users. The current plan is to use a cluster of altogether four
> Dell servers running Red Hat 7.3. The MTA-Out and some other services will
> be load balanced on two of the machines using LVS aka Piranha.
> 
> The MTA-In / IMAP / POP part will not be load-balanced, but the idea is
> rather to increase its availability. This we plan to achieve by using the
> Red Hat Cluster Manager as Failover Service. The two servers will be
> physically connected to an external RAID box with two SCSI controllers.
> When one of them goes down the other one mounts the required volumes off
> the RAID box and starts the configured services.
> 
> Has anybody on the list ever done something like this?
> 
> Another question I have regards the partitions for the Cyrus mailboxes.
> Using the Linux logical volume manager (LVM) and XFS's xfs_grow command it
> is possible to grow partitions while the machine is running and they are
> mounted.

AFAIK, xfs_grow can only be done on an unmounted filesystem.  I'd also
be surprised if you could add to a logical volume while its mounted.
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Ken Murchison | 27 Aug 2002 17:56

Re: My Take on Virtdomains so far


kevin_myer <at> iu13.org wrote:
> 
> >
> > > The addition of per-service config files, was my first "poor-man's"
> > > virtdomains implementation.  You were the first one to take the ball and
> > > run with it!  ;)
> >
> >
> > Actually this guy Kevin did that. Then he told me about it, and I documented
> > it. I think it's the optimal solution for very robust virtual hosting.
> 
> That Kevin would be me I suppose.  I haven't been following the mailing list too
> closely for awhile so I'm reading this virtual domains thread/feature addition
> with interest.  I actually prefer the "poor-man's" virtdomains implementation
> because it works well with my setup here and I do want multiple config files.
> So am I correct in saying 1) that the new virtdomain support really extends
> cyrus IMAPd to do virtualhost by name and that 2) the "poor-man's"
> implementation will continue to work and be maintained?

Yes and yes.

> Are there any benefits to me to switching from my current setup and implementing
> the new virtdomains layout?  I have to migrate to SASL2 and a newer cyrus
> install at some point but I'd like to know if I should be including a
> virtdomains migration at that point too (I know the answer is probably going to
> be "It depends..").

Yup, it's entirely up to you.  If you like the flexibility of per-domain
configs, then I'd stick with what you have.
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