[JasonHeiser]

I would recommend using Cyrus’s ipurge tool.

I use it to regularly delete messages from the spam quarantine on our 10.3.9 server.[code]sudo -u cyrus /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ipurge -X -d 14 Quarantine/Spam[/code]Any message older than 14 days is deleted from Quarantine/Spam (a public folder on our server) by this command. No reconstruct is necessary.

[JasonHeiser]

I downloaded mailbfr and it was able to repair my quota.

http://osx.topicdesk.com/downloads

I’m pretty sure that the problem I was encountering was caused by me trying to repair the quota WHILE CYRUS WAS STILL RUNNING.

I’m an idiot.

[JasonHeiser]

Yes, the read status for each message in a shared folder on Cyrus is specific to each user that has access to the folder. Its behavior is very bulletin board-like.

[JasonHeiser]

As it turns out, this was just an administrative notification. I’m the administrator.

Can I delete this thread? Man.

[JasonHeiser]

Entourage X’s Exchange functionality will work with Exchange 5.5. Entourage 2004 will not.

The easiest solution might be to simply use IMAP to connect to your Exchange server. I’ve used Entourage X, Entourage 2004, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Apple Mail to connect this way. The only tricky part is getting your username formed correctly. Here is the formula:

NT Domain Name / NT Username / Exchange Alias

For example, on our Exchange 5.5 server, my IMAP username is: CPI/jason/jason.heiser

P.S. You must change the forward slash to a backslash! I used the forward slash in my examples because the AFP548 forum software strips backslashes!

[JasonHeiser]

The solution:

Execute “mnthome” when you SSH into a machine where your home directory is on a network mount. The command is available on Mac OS X Server, but not the client.

“man mnthome” will tell you everything you want to know about this command.

[JasonHeiser]

I was able to get nearly all of Sieve working correctly… Except for notifications. For some reason, notifications did nothing. Here’s what I found you need to do:

Uncomment this line:

/private/etc/cyrus.conf
notify cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/imap/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1

Insert this line:

/etc/imapd.conf
sievenotifier: mailto

Then restart your mail services in Server Admin. Be sure to wait around 10 seconds to let all mail processes shut down completely before attempting to start them up again.

P.S. to Apple developers: add a frickin’ service restart button!

[JasonHeiser]

Where I work, I really needed Sieve to react to secondary user names for Vacation messages. MacTroll adroitly observed that Postfix aliases should work in Sieve filters. I tried it, and they do work. The idea of manually maintaining an aliases file for all of our users’ short names, however, was not a happy thought. So I wrote this script.

<?php

   // odalias.php
   // DUMPS SECONDARY SHORT NAMES FROM OPEN DIRECTORY INTO A POSTFIX ALIAS FILE
   //
   // USAGE: sudo php odalias.php
   // (run this every time you change a short name in Workgroup Manager)
   //
   // This script takes all users from an Open Directory server and
   // writes their secondary short names to an aliases file for use
   // with Postfix. This allows all short names to be used in Sieve filters.
   //
   // Before running this command, you must add your new aliases file to the list
   // of alias maps in/etc/postfix/main.cnf and reload Postfix (sudo postfix reload).
   //
   // EXAMPLE:
   // alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/etc/postfix/ldap_user_aliases
   //
   // This script was tested on Mac OS X Server 10.3.8


   // Where the new alias file is to be kept
   $aliasFileName = '/etc/postfix/ldap_user_aliases';

   // FQDN of your Open Directory server
   $serverHandle = ldap_connect ("ldap.yourdomain.com");

   // Put users in here you don't want to have aliased
   $ignoreUsers = Array ("root" , "vpn_000d933d3f02");

   // Put the search DN for your users here
   $searchDN = "cn=users,dc=yourdomain,dc=com";

   $searchFilter = "(objectClass=person)";
   $attributeArray = array ("uid" , "cn");
   $serverSearch = ldap_search ($serverHandle , $searchDN , $searchFilter , $attributeArray);
   $searchResults = ldap_get_entries ($serverHandle , $serverSearch);

   $aliasTable = "";

   foreach ($searchResults as $miscArray)
   {
      if (!is_array($miscArray) || $miscArray["uid"]["count"] < 2 || in_array ($miscArray["uid"][0] , $ignoreUsers))
         continue;

      $aliasTable .= "# " . $miscArray["cn"][0] . "\n";
      foreach ($miscArray["uid"] as $uidIndex => $uidValue)
      {
         if ($uidIndex == 0)
         {
            $baseUser = $uidValue;
            continue;
         }
         $aliasTable .= "$uidValue: $baseUser\n";
      }

      $aliasTable .= "\n";
   }

   ldap_close ($serverHandle);

   $aliasFileHandle = fopen ($aliasFileName , 'w');
   fwrite ($aliasFileHandle , $aliasTable);
   fclose ($aliasFileHandle);

   exec ('/usr/sbin/postalias ' . $aliasFileName);
   exec ('/usr/bin/newaliases');

?>

[JasonHeiser]

I disliked feeling like a “Me too!” moron, so I dug in and learned a thing or two about BIND. My DNS resolutions go a lot faster now that I’m forwarding them to our ISP’s servers. You can do the same by adding a FORWARDERS option in your OPTIONS statement in /etc/named.conf.

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        recursion true;
        forwarders {209.46.63.1;209.46.63.6;};
        allow-transfer {none;};
};

[JasonHeiser]

I’m having the same issue with DNS running on on our G5 10.3.8 server. There’s a 3-4 second delay in resolving domain names not hosted on the box, and it’s irritating me terribly. Can the performance be tweaked?

[JasonHeiser]

They’re being mounted via AFP.

(Marvelous website you have here, by the way, MacTroll. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question)

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