[Installations]
A lot of Cyrus work
This week has been mostly a continuation of Cyrus IMAP work. The system itself is ready for production use, but there are a number of helper scripts and utilities that need to be developed before we can start the migration.
- Tuesday I discovered that / and /usr were both at 99% full, even before thinking about going production, and after agonizing about this, I decided that the best thing to do was to repartition and re-Jumpstart. To make it slightly easier on myself (although building Cyrus and friends really isn’t that hard, as my SSL troubles last week showed), I made Solaris packages out of most of the software: Cyrus SASL, Cyrus IMAP, Perdition (and vanessa libs), and some perl libs — Cyrus::IMAP, and Mail::IMAP. Sendmail is still an after-build, and there are a number of other perl libs that I’ve since added to support the migration, user management, and quota scripts.
- Top of the list of things yet to do, of course, is the migration utility itself. I’ve got one almost completely ready — it temporarily resets the user’s password, copies all the subscribed folders from KE to SIPALA, gets the user’s quota from the self service quota system, sets the LDAP mailHost attribute to sipala, and then resets the password back to the original. Still to complete is the part that grabs the forward and vacation settings, if present. I’d also like to extend it to general sieve copying and some other Cyrus admin work, for future use in migrating users from one Cyrus box to another, but that’s future.
- As implied, there’s a quota system tie-in. I’ve been working on an XML-RPC interface to the quota system, or at least a subset of it, to use on SIPALA rather than the direct PostgreSQL connection. I think the XML-RPC is more portable, and it means I don’t have to install PostgreSQL libraries on SIPALA. It also means we could use MySQL as the database for the quota system if we wanted to. The part of the XML-RPC server that supports the migration script is done, and some parts that support the cron update scripts are done, but there’s more work there. I also need to tool the web interface for the quota system to take you to the mail host that your mail is on, rather than assuming everyone’s on the same mail host.
- Also, as implied, there’s a WebDB tie in. WebDB is where forwarding and vacations are set, so it needs to be made aware of sieve. I’ve considered putting that info into LDAP and letting both KE and SIPALA generate the necessary stuff from there, but I think that’s actually not the best way. I think WebDB needs to be looking at the mailHost attribute itself and then either talking KE’s own peculiar language or sieve as appropriate.
Posted by Rowan Littell at March 10, 2006 03:52 PM