xfer problems between 2.3.15 and 2.4.17
gavin.gray at ed.ac.uk
gavin.gray at ed.ac.uk
Tue Jun 10 12:31:52 EDT 2014
this fix, detailed below, has indeed solved our problem with folder
creation on our new 2.4.17 frontends.
many thanks
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, gavin.gray at ed.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> Hi Wes,
>>
>> It looks like the whole mupdate thing is working perfectly well.
>> If I create a folder while connected to my 2.4.17 frontend then the logs
>> show the backend issuing the cmd_set and then a bunch of cmd_find going
>> out including to the frontend in question. Furthermore the new folder
>> really is there in the mailboxes.db on the frontend. So in a way that's
>> reassuring, but then why is the frontend telling email clients that the
>> folder doesn't exist when a request to subscribe to it comes in? We aren't
>> seeing any kick_mupdate getting logged.
>
> I'm pretty sure your problem is that you have the proxyservers variable set
> in imapd.conf on your frontend. See this message from the archives:
>
> http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=Murder%20mailbox%20create%20race%20condition&msg=54193
>
> I ran into this same problem, which was introduced by changes in v2.4.13. The
> imapd.conf manpage says:
>
> proxyservers: <none>
> A list of users and groups that are allowed to proxy for other
> users, separated by
> spaces. Any user listed in this will be allowed to login for any
> other user: use with
> caution. In a standard murder this option should ONLY be set on
> backends. DO NOT SET
> on frontends or things won't work properly.
>
> Let us know if removing proxyservers from your frontends fixes the problem!
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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