IMAP proxy advertising MAILBOX-REFERRALS and confusing Pine

[Duncan Gibb]

Andrew Morgan wrote:

DM> On the down-side, our quota scripts using Cyrus::IMAP::Admin have
DM> stopped working as they are not being sent MAILBOX-REFERRALS in the
DM> CAPABILITY string.

AM> I'm using IMAP::Admin here for quota-related activities.  However,
AM> my scripts first determine which backend the mailbox is on.  Then
AM> they connect directly to the backend.  That may be why I'm not
AM> seeing the problem you describe.  I'm using Cyrus 2.3.14 here, with
AM> referrals disabled.  This is what I see when running cyradm on a
AM> frontend:

> cyrus-fe1:/etc# cyradm --user cyrus localhost
> Password:
> localhost> lq user.morgan
> Password:
>   STORAGE 185512/256000 (72.465625%)
> localhost>

AM> It appears that it is following a referral to the backend, because
AM> it prompts me for the password again.

Vanilla 2.3.14 will not proxy quota commands (so yes, you are following
a referral and re-authenticating).

Wes Craig has written a patch to fix this

http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-devel/2008-September/000939.html
http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-devel/attachments/20080918/e5b2b120/attachment.obj

which AFAIK has not yet gone in upstream.  We use it in our 2.3.14
packages along with a bunch of other Murder-enhancing patches

<hint> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3133 </hint>


Cheers


Duncan

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