Index Symbols frontend server 282–285 *, in server reply 31 allowanonymouslogin (Cyrus option) 203 *, wildcard for LIST 300 allowsubscribes (Cyrus option) 287 ., as mailbox separator (Cyrus) 205, 235, 238 allowusermoves (Cyrus option) 287 /, as mailbox separator (Cyrus) 205, 235, 238 altnamespace (Cyrus option) 277 % (wildcard), for LIST 300 annotation database (Cyrus) 259 8-bit characters see eight-bit characters annotation_db (Cyrus parameter) 259 annotations.db (file) 267, 278 A \Answered (flag) 35 a (permission) 37 in the filename (maildir) 113 access permissions see ACLs searching for 305 access time, of a file see atime APOP 27, 28, 148 account options see user options (Courier) POP3 command 317, 319 ACLs 34, 36, 37, 154 AppArmor 193 Cyrus 231, 232 APPEND (IMAP command) 302 group-based (Courier) 144 Apple Mail 279 identifier 154 aquota.user (file) 168 IMAP extension 34, 316 arbitron 263 activating (Courier) 102 arbitronsort.pl (tool) 190, 269 listing (Cyrus) 272 atime, switching off 57–58, 64 manipulating (Courier) see maildiracl (tool) attachments, retrieving individually (IMAP) 310 negative permissions 155 AUTH (IMAP extension) 315 removing (Cyrus) 272 AUTH (POP3 command) 317, 319 saving in Courier see courierimapacl (file) AUTH=PLAIN (capability) 296 setting (Cyrus) 272 authcram (Courier) 120, 129, 144, 148 switching off at filesystem level 58 authcustom (Courier) 121, 130 for virtual domains (Cyrus) 236, 237 authdaemond (Courier) active directory with user data 81 activating 99 ADDRESS (Courier parameter) 98 configuration file see authdaemonrc address (Sieve command) 246 starting 88 administration directory (Cyrus) 203 daemon 20, 121–123 administrator, creating (Cyrus) 194 configuration file see authdaemonrc admins (Cyrus option) 203, 287, 288 custom authentication modules see aggregator 51, 281–290 authcustom backend server 282, 286–287 using with Cyrus SASL 189, 213 331 The Book of IMAP (C) 2008 by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben Index authdaemonrc (Courier configuration file) 95, authProg (authentication tool) 131 123, 134, 145 authpwd (authentication module for Courier) AUTHENTICATE (IMAP command) 218, 297 120, 143 Authenticated (IMAP status) 32 authshadow (authentication module for Courier) available commands 298–303 120, 143 switching to 303 authtest (tool) 121–122 Authenticated Post Office Protocol see APOP authuserdb (authentication module for Courier) authentication see logging in 120, 124–129, 144 by fingerprint 213 authvchkpw (authentication module for Courier) by hash values instead of passwords 213 120 by iris scan 213 autocreate_sieve_script (Cyrus option) 251 Cyrus 207–224 autocreatequota (Cyrus option) 203, 226, 251 via Kerberos 212, 214, 223–224 autologout timer, resetting 296 via LDAP 212–214, 220–223 auxprop (Cyrus SASL module) 189, 194, 213 via MySQL 213, 216–220 LDAP connection via 220, 221 via PAM 219–220 MySQL connection via 216 via SQL database 213 availability 19, 43–51 daemon (Courier) see authdaemond avelsieve (Squirrelmail plugin) 244 choosing method (POP3) 319 choosing method (Courier) 99, 122 B IMAP commands 297 backup (IMAP folders) 29 library (Courier) see Courier Authlib backup (main Cyrus database) 278 password in cleartext 210 backup/ (directory) 278 POP3 commands 317 BALANCE (iptables) 47 programs, custom (Courier) 121 Bcc header, searching in 305 proxy (Courier) see authdaemond benchmark tools 55 authenumerate 160 berkeley (Cyrus database format) 259 tool 138, 145 berkeley-nosync (Cyrus database format) 259 authldap (authentication module for Courier) berkeley_cachesize (Cyrus parameter) 258 121, 140–146 berkeley_txns_max (Cyrus parameter) 258 caching requests 122 block size, for NFS 64 authldaprc (file) 95, 140 body authlib 120–144 retrieving (IMAP) 310 AUTHMODULES (Courier parameter) 99, 122, retrieving partially (IMAP) 311 123 retrieving partially (POP3) see TOP (POP3 authmysql (authentication module for Courier) command) 120, 133–139, 144, 147 searching in 305 caching requests 122 bonnie 55 authmysqlrc (file) 134–139 byte-octet conversion 296 authorization state (POP3) 317 authpam (Courier) 120, 123–124 C authpgsql c (permission) 37 authentication module for Courier 120, 139, CA see certificate authority (CA) 140, 144, 147 cache proxy 51, 73–74 caching requests 122 cached IMAP see offline IMAP file 139 CAPA (POP3 command) 319 authpipe (Courier) 121, 131–133 capabilities 33 332 The Book of IMAP (C) 2008 by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben Index for encrypted communication (IMAP) 297 configuration parameters polling (IMAP) 296 Courier 96–105 polling (POP3) 319 reading out (Courier) 100 specifying for Courier 100 connection CAPABILITY (IMAP command) 175, 295, 296, 314 information, caching (SSL) 260 for encrypted communication 297 keeping open see NOOP case sensitive terminating folder names 301 automatically for POP3 (Cyrus) 259 search 40 with IMAP see LOGOUT (IMAP com- Cc header, searching in 306 mand) cell phone (and IMAP) 176, 273 with POP3 see QUIT (POP3 com- certificate authority (CA) 208 mand) 318 list in email clients 208 unintended (IMAP) 32 trustworthy 208 testing see NOOP certificates see SSL certificates contents, of an email see body challenge-response procedure 129, 148, 242, 297 convert-sieve.pl (tool) 190, 269 change time, of a file see ctime COPY (IMAP command) 313 character encoding, considering during a search using the Unique ID 313 305 Courier 18, 85–179 character set, considering during a search 305 configuration 95–105 CHECK (IMAP command) 303 configuring SSL encryption 102–105 CHILDREN (IMAP extension) 34, 315 crashing 93 chk_cyrus 264 vs. Cyrus 20–21 chmod, influence on c and mtime 57 downloading 322 cleartext IMAP proxy 50, 145 login see LOGIN (IMAP command) installation 86–87 passwords 81 installing from the source code 321, 324 client, workaround for faulty 101 migration problems 110 CLOSE (IMAP command) 32, 303 misleading reply to LIST (POP3) 25 cluster 20 MTA 85 Cyrus 281, 291 paths 87 Cluster filesystem, as email repository 45 project 85 CLUSTERIP (iptables) 47 Courier Authlib 85 cm see createmailbox Courier team com_err.h (Common Error library) 329 reaction to bug reports 93 compile_sieve (tool) 268 reaction to change requests 110 compiling courierimapacl (file) 109, 154–155 Courier 321, 324 courierimapkeywords (directory) 116 Cyrus 325, 330 courierimapsubscribed (file) 109 CONCAT (SQL command) 137 courierlogger (tool) 98, 103 conditional query (Sieve) see if (Sieve) couriertcpd 88 Cone 85 specifying command-line parameters 98 config2header (tool) 269 COURIERTLS (Courier parameter) 104 config2man (tool) 269 couriertls (tool) 87, 104 configdirectory CPU see processor Cyrus option 203 CRAM 129 Cyrus parameter 270 CRAM-MD5 100, 119, 148, 214 333 The Book of IMAP (C) 2008 by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben Index using with Cyrus 213 installation 184–187 when testing the login with imtest 218 under Debian 186 CRAM-SHA1 100, 119, 148 under Red Hat 186 CRAM-SHA256 148 from source code 325, 330 crash, Courier 93 under SuSE 185 CREATE (IMAP command) 300 LMTP see LMTP createmailbox location in the filesystem 204 cyradm command 239 lowercase addresses 204 cyradmin command 272 maximum email size 204 creating users Murder cluster 51, 281–290 Cyrus 194 ports 191 with saslpasswd2 194 and Postfix 191–197 Crispin, Mark 33 project origins 183 crypt Red Hat source RPM for 186 hash, instead of cleartext password 119 refusing to accept email (quota) 204 as password hash algorithm 147 SASL authentication methods 205 ctime 57 Sieve directory 205 ctl_cyrusdb (tool) 266 SSL certificates 205 ctl_deliver 266 user vs. Unix system account 215 ctl_mboxlist 266 working directory 188 cur Cyrus (IMAP server) for creating directories 88 data security 255, 257 for listing contents of a directory 108, 112 domain administrators 237 for listing purpose of a directory 108 notify daemon 252 cvt_cyrusdb 267 operating with other MTAs 254, 255 cyr_expire (tool) 202, 268 sorting email 237 cyradm (tool) 21, 194, 271–274, 277 specifying a timeout 205 setting quotas 228 virtual domains 232 setting up shared folders 230 Cyrus Aggregator see aggregator cyrdump (tool) 267 Cyrus SASL see libsasl Cyrus 18, 183–291 library 190 activating SSL support 210 cyrus-admin-2.2 (Debian package) 186 administration information 277–280 cyrus-clients-2.2 (Debian package) 186 as administration tool see cyradm, (tool) cyrus-common-2.2 (Debian package) 186 allowing anonymous users 203 cyrus-imap-utils (Red Hat package) 186 connecting to MySQL 213, 216–220 cyrus-imapd connecting to PostgreSQL 213 Red Hat package 186 vs. Courier 20–21 SuSE package 185 creating an administrator 194 cyrus-imapd-2.2 (Debian package) 187 creating users 194 cyrus-murder-2.2 (Debian package) 187 with saslpasswd2 194 cyrus-nntpd-2.2 (Debian package) 187 directory hierarchy 187 cyrus-pop3d-2.2 (Debian package) 187 downloading 325 cyrus-sasl encrypting access data 189 package 189 and firewalls 191, 220 Red Hat package 186 function test 195–197 cyrus-sasl-crammd5 (SuSE package) 185 IMAP proxy 51 cyrus-sasl-digestmd5 (SuSE package) 185 334 The Book of IMAP (C) 2008 by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben Index cyrus-sasl-otp (SuSE package) 185 possible (Cyrus) 259 cyrus-sasl-plain quota database (Cyrus) 260 Red Hat package 186 quotalegacy (Cyrus) 260 SuSE package 185 subscription database (Cyrus) 260 cyrus-sasl-saslauthd (SuSE package) 185 date cyrus-sasl-sqlauxprop (SuSE package) 185 as search criterion 305, 307 cyrus.cache (file) 276 determining the internal (IMAP) 311 cyrus.conf 188, 199–202, 266 format in IMAP commands 305 checkpoint 202 db.backup1/ (directory) 278 cleanup