Cyrus IMAP use questions.

[Etienne Goyer]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:56:26AM -0700, Denis V. Suhanov wrote:
> First  of  all,  I  wanted  to  implement  incoming  mail  sorting via
> procmail. Considering that none of my users have local shell accounts,
> what  is the right way to implementing individual procmail scripts for
> those  users  who don't want to use sieve? Or should I use sieve as an
> alternative?  My  only  concern with it is that most of the clients my
> users  use are unaware of sieve and I have no clue how to provide them
> an access to their sieve's scripts in this case.

Give them a web interface to Sieve.  Websieve is an option, as would
the Ingo module of the Horde framework.

I do not think it would possible to use procmail with Cyrus.  Is it
possible to do MTA -> procmail -> Cyrus deliver ?
 
> I  also  was  asked  to  provide an ability to collect mail from other
> user's  accounts  automatically (mostly pop3) and to put it in my IMAP
> server's  folders. Fetchmail seems to be useful for that, but the same
> problem  appears - since my users do not have local accounts, I am not
> sure  what  would  be  a right way to create fetchmail's configuration
> files  for  each  of  them  individually.  I  am thinking of providing
> something  like  an  SSL-wrapped  web page with authentication against
> sasldb  for  this,  but  still  you  might have a better idea on that.
> Speaking  of  this approach, is there a standard tool for this kind of
> authentication  (SSL-ed  webpage  and  sasldb)?  I  am  asking because
> another problem I have here is letting users change their sasldb-based
> passwords without having to log in to the box.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, you might want to look into the CVS
HEAD version of the IMP webmail (also part of the Horde framework).  It
have a feature to fetch mail from other account over POP3, IMAP, etc.

With IMP "fetchmail" feature and the Ingo Sieve script manager, you
should really try Horde (www.horde.org ... get a nightly snapshot for
the latest features).

Not a flame, but if possible you should turn off plain-text
justification. It make your email very hard to read in mono-spaced font
(console mail reader).  If this a feature of The Bat! ?

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Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
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