Article:		Sanitizing Mail on Panther Server
Subject:		Series of problems/questions
Date:		2004-01-29 02:02:20
From:		notmicro
I was extremely grateful for this article; I have just completed migration to Server 10.3 (from 10.1), which supports corp e-mail for approx 100 users. I needed to start using Procmail, and get some filtering going (hopefully eventually using SpamAssassin). I very carefully implemented the file-changes outlined in this document, using copy-and-paste to get everything updated (I did not implement Virex). Sanitizer correctly handled a test e-mail to me with an attachment named "test.vbs". However subsequent problems have caused me to deactivate it. Problem #1 - the OS X "Mail" app receives the e-mail with the original message-text encoded in a MIME document which Mail cannot handle; the result is that the original message "disappears". Problem #2 - Then I started noticing that the system-log is full of new error-messages like: localhost lmtpd auxpropfunc error -1 localhost pop3d auxpropfunc error -1 I started looking into this. A Restart didn't make any difference. This is still unresolved. Problem #3 - I figured out that if Sanitizer intercepts an e-mail, and the User's Mail settings are defined for POP only and not IMAP, the e-mail disappears and is never received. Most of our users are POP-only because the various old e-mail clients in use do not support IMAP yet.

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• Series of problems/questions
  2004-08-06 16:09:42  oag [Reply | View]
  
  
  I'm hoping that people contributing to these articles might have encounter the need to transfer mail between different types of IMAP servers.

  
  
  In my case, I used UW IMAP under Linux, for years This built up a huge mailbox repository of valuable data. As I migrated to 10.3 Server and Cyrus/Postfix, I saw the need to move all that data over cleanly and safely.

  
  
  My first attempt was that of mounting both IMAP servers, Linux and Cyrus, via Mail.app. Then dragging mailboxes across. It all seemed to work, especially for those small mailboxes. However, I have noticed that for the large mailboxes, not all messages have transferred.
  
  Any other suggestions?
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  -otto

• Series of problems/questions
  2004-03-03 13:08:34  jurg [Reply | View]
  
  
  wrt problem #1:
  I seem not to encounter this problem after setting
  
  feat_force_name = 1
  
  in /opt/anomy/sanitizer.cfg
  
• Series of problems/questions
  2004-07-26 08:22:20  ryanschwartz [Reply | View]
  
  
  A message from Joel Rennich to the Mac OS X Server list:
  
  From: Joel Rennich <mactroll@afp548.com>
  Subject: Re: auxpropfunc error -1
  Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:35:55 -0500
  To: matt@nimug.org
  
  This is a result of Cyrus trying to use the /usr/lib/sasl2/pwauxprop
  SASL plugin. It appears that this plugin handles password policies such
  as minimum length and whether the user has to have numbers in the
  password or not. Use of this plugin requires reading in the password
  server database in /var/db/authserver. When DirectoryServices calls
  this plugin it's running as root, so it can easily read the database
  in. However, Cyrus runs as the cyrus user which has no ability to read
  that file. As such the plugin fails. Since cyrus has no need to check
  password policy, you don't really have a way to change your pass
  through Cyrus, this isn't an issue.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Joel
  
  www.afp548.com
  mactroll@afp548.com