Cyrus-2.1 + murder: can't disable apop.

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Apr 4 09:14:05 EDT 2006


Alexander Vlasov wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We're trying to migrate from single-server setup to murder and we faced the
> following problem: setting 'allowapop: no' has no effect on murder setup. This
> option is set to 'no' on all backends and frontend/murder; when I try to connect
> to backends apop seems to be disabled
> 
> wolf:~# telnet n1 110
> Trying 10.1.0.31...
> Connected to n1.mail.internal.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK n1.mail.xxx.xxx pop3 server ready
> 
> but on frontend greetings looks like apop-enabled 
> 
> wolf:~# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK wolf.mail.xxx.xxx Cyrus POP3 Murder v2.1.18-IPv6-Debian-2.1.18-1.0.0.gala.0
> server ready <7129491054605917733.1144166597 at wolf.mail.xxx.xxx>
> 
> despite allowapop is disabled
> 
> wolf:~# grep allowapop: /etc/imapd.conf
> allowapop: no
> 
> With apop, I'll quickly run out of randomness and cyrus will stuck.
> Can anyone explain me how to disable apop in my case?

Its entirely possible that the ALLOWPOP code wasn't put in pop3proxyd in 
Cyrus 2.1.  I'd recommed that you upgrade to Cyrus 2.2, or you'll have 
to patch pop3proxyd.c yourself.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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