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Re: [ALUG] Blackberry vs Cyrus
by Stuart Bailey 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

On Thursday 02 June 2011 18:20:27 Wayne Stallwood wrote: > On 02/06/11 10:44, Brett Parker wrote: > > They'll then complain that "my mail on my blackberry and thunderbird > > aren't in sync! I deleted that! ARGH!" instead. > > I think this is one of the reasons I hate crackberry. > > For me having a full and complete state sync of email on my phone is > important. So if I read an email on the phone I want it marked as read > on the desktop mail client. If I respond I want the response in Sent > items on the desktop client and certainly if I delete a mail I want it > deleted on the desktop. > > This way I know I only need to look in one (either) place to get a full > and complete picture of what emails I have dealt with and how I > responded to them. > > I guess to get around the 3rd party password problem I'd have to run a > local BES and last time I looked at that it looked pretty evil and > overcomplicated. > I have found an alternative to BES - funambol. I haven't yet installed it for this customer, but I've heard good things about it. Stuart Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Managing Director) Linux Specialist & Software Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: (0845) 658 3563 Direct: +44 (0)1953 878162 Fax: +44 (0) 1603 858583 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.linusoft.co.uk http://www.bluetoothadvertising.org.uk __________ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 6175 (20110602) __________ The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. http://www.eset.com

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Re: [ALUG] Blackberry vs Cyrus
by Stuart Bailey 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

On Thursday 02 June 2011 10:44:34 Brett Parker wrote: > On 02 Jun 10:29, Stuart Bailey wrote: > > I have a customer running Cyrus IMAP and Postfix. They have users with > > Thunderbird clients on their desktops and some Blackberries using the BIS > > service. > > > > They are complaining that sometime emails appear on the Blackberry 10 > > mins before they appear in their mailbox on Thunderbird. > > > > Apparently the BB is polling every 5 mins, and Thunderbird every minute > > Any ideas what may be causing this delay? > > Simples - if the blackberry poll hits at the time that the mail comes > in, it'll mark things as having been grabbed, and so the Recent flag > stops being relevant and thunderbird won't notice until it does a full > proper check (usually, I'd guess that it asks for a status from the imap > connection, notes there's nothing Recent and carries right on, and > probably doesn't check Unread). > > Simple, easy test: set the blackberry to check a different mail account > and set postfix to deliver mail to both accounts - see if they then stop > complaining about it... > > They'll then complain that "my mail on my blackberry and thunderbird > aren't in sync! I deleted that! ARGH!" instead. > > Also, BIS stores passwords in plain text on their end (have to so that > they can auth with the mail server)... I Really Don't Trust RIM to get > this right consistently, so I tended to make it so that RIM had a > different account and password to the main user (damage limitation!). > > Cheers, Thanks Brett. that is helpful. I have found that turning off polling in Thunderbird and using IDLE instead may help. I'm evaluating this at the moment. Stuart Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Managing Director) Linux Specialist & Software Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: (0845) 658 3563 Direct: +44 (0)1953 878162 Fax: +44 (0) 1603 858583 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.linusoft.co.uk http://www.bluetoothadvertising.org.uk __________ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 6175 (20110602) __________ The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. http://www.eset.com

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Postfix (Sendmail) problem
by Barry Samuels 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Debian Testing/Wheezy, kernel 2.6.38, Postfix I've had a procmail receipe in place for a few weeks now and it's been working well. :0 * ^(TO|FROM):.+@mydomainname.* { :0c # Send a copy to the other email account. ! someone(a)anotherdomainname.com # File the original as normal :0 foldername } Then a few days ago, probably after some OS updates, it fails with: status=deferred (host mail.*******.*****.com[000.00.00.0] said: 451 4.4.0 DNS temporary failure (chkuser) (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) (I've removed the data identifying the destination) I have also tried sending an email directly using /usr/bin/sendmail and that produces the same result, whatever the emails destination, so I'm assuming it must be my setup. I can't explain why it worked before but doesn't now though. I have really no idea what this means as Postfix configuration is a series of magical incantaitions which I don't understand. Some help would be much appreciated. -- Barry Samuels

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Blackberry vs Cyrus
by Stuart Bailey 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

I have a customer running Cyrus IMAP and Postfix. They have users with Thunderbird clients on their desktops and some Blackberries using the BIS service. They are complaining that sometime emails appear on the Blackberry 10 mins before they appear in their mailbox on Thunderbird. Apparently the BB is polling every 5 mins, and Thunderbird every minute Any ideas what may be causing this delay? Many thanks, Stuart __________ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 6172 (20110601) __________ The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. http://www.eset.com

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Java woe
by Bev Nicolson 27 May '11

27 May '11

I'd like to test my broadband speed but the BT test page says I don't have Java installed. I do. I've got sun-java6-jre. I don't seem to be able to enable it though via Firefox (or Chrome for that matter.) Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Help. Bev.

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Freebies
by James Bensley 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi Everyone, Im moving away on Monday so I have some stuff that is free to anyone that wants it, just come and pick it up. I have a black ATX tower case (might have a spare PSU not sure) and a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo. I can provide pictures if anyone wants them. -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...?

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Want to get my printer connected
by Bev Nicolson 26 May '11

26 May '11

I'd quite like to get this new printer to do some printing but it says it doesn't seem to be connected. The following is from the troubleshooting thing (whatever you call it.) I hope someone can read this and make a diagnosis. Please. Thanks. Bev. Page 1 (Choose printer): {'cups_dest': <cups.Dest object at 0x8703100>, 'cups_instance': None, 'cups_queue': 'HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102', 'cups_queue_listed': True} Page 2 (Check printer sanity): {'cups_device_uri_scheme': u'hp', 'cups_printer_dict': {'device-uri': u'hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102?serial=000000000Q81BALRPR1a', 'printer-info': u'Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Professional P1102', 'printer-is-shared': True, 'printer-location': u'', 'printer-make-and-model': u'HP PhotoSmart P1100 Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.2', 'printer-state': 4, 'printer-state-message': u'', 'printer-state-reasons': [u'connecting-to-device'], 'printer-type': 135196, 'printer-uri-supported': u'ipp://localhost:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102'}, 'is_cups_class': False} Page 3 (Printer state reasons): {'printer-state-message': '', 'printer-state-reasons': 'connecting-to-device'} Page 4 (Print test page): {'test_page_attempted': True, 'test_page_job_id': [801], 'test_page_job_status': [(800, 'HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102', 'Job_Application_Form_General_Appointments'), (801, 'HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102', 'Test Page')], 'test_page_successful': False} Page 5 (Printer state reasons): {'printer-state-message': '', 'printer-state-reasons': 'connecting-to-device'}

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(OT/Rant) Why can't Linux be as easy as Windows?
by Mark Rogers 25 May '11

25 May '11

I've just been working on a new Dell server. It shipped with 2008 Foundation Server R2. It turns out the application to be run on the server needs 32-bit, and all R2 releases are 64-bit only. I can't downgrade Foundation, so I need to first upgrade to Server 2008 Standard R2, from which I can downgrade to 2008 Standard (not R2) which has a 32-bit option. I say "first upgrade" but actually the upgrade option is more expensive than buying a new licence, so I've ordered a new Server 2008 R2 disk that I won't use (because I need the older version, which thankfully I am able to download from MS). So, that's the licensing sorted for a mere £700 (Foundation + 2008 Standard), all I need to do now is install it. Using an old 2008 server disk, I try to install, but having booted from the CD the first thing it complains about is not having drivers for the CD drive, so I can't proceed until I locate the driver, which of-course I'm not given any useful information to locate and the Dell site gives me several options, but I get there in the end. These days MS Server is quite advanced, so as well as supplying drivers on a floppy disk I can also use USB stick or CD, so that was something. Once the O/S is installed I need drivers for several unknown devices, which Windows can only tell me are unknown, so I download all the drivers I can find and eventually find the half-dozen I need. This was made extra fun because Internet Explorer blocks pretty much everything except MS website by default (so I made an exception to allow me to download firefox....). In the meantime I downloaded updates, and (as required) rebooted; after the reboot another half dozen updates are there, and after the subsequent reboot a couple more, and so on. I'm nearly there now though, having installed an alternative to the wonderful "notepad", a database server (MySQL), a web server (Apache), and an office suite (LibreOffice). Oh, and a task scheduler (nncron) and half a dozen other things. So yes, I remember the days when Linux was this easy. Well nearly. Pah! [The reason for posting? It's times like this that I'm reminded just how much better Linux is at so many things, and including things like "installation" that Windows is apparently better at. Perhaps it is, when you have your hardware vendor's pre-configured install disk, although I'd probably still disagree. I think most of the time I forget just how lucky I am that I don't get forced to use Windows daily. Anyone who thinks Linux is better just because it would have saved me £700 is missing the point!] -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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getmail + email2trac
by Mark Rogers 25 May '11

25 May '11

I sent this originally to the trac mailing list, but the more I look at it the more I think this is a getmail or other issue, so I wondered if anyone here had any ideas? I want to read an IMAP folder and inject into trac. (I'm using the packages in the Ubuntu 11.04 repos (trac 0.11).) I have things working so that I can manually inject into trac: echo "Subject:xx\n\nxx" | email2trac -p myproject .. but when I try injecting from getmail I'm getting errors: msg 1/5 (72687 bytes) msgid 646810065/INBOX/6 from <myemail> 2011-05-20 17:22:33 Delivery error (command email2trac 3118 error (1, )) (etc) I'm not exactly what you'd call proficient in either trac or getmail, which doesn't help. My getmailrc file contains: [destination] type=MDA_external path=/usr/bin/email2trac arguments = ("--project myproject", "-f /etc/email2trac.conf") .. and I'm just running it manually from the same directory as the config ("getmail -g.") My email2trac config has varied a bit with my experiments but it currently reads as follows - an anyone spot the obvious flaw in my setup? [DEFAULT] project: /path/to/trac/default debug: 1 umask: 022 spam_level: 5 reply_all : 0 mailto_link: 0 email_header: 0 trac_version: 0.11 enable_syslog : 1 alternate_notify_template : alternate_notify_template_update : drop_spam : 0 verbatim_format: 1 strip_signature: 0 email_quote: > strip_quotes: 0 ignore_trac_user_settings: 0 black_list: MAILER-DAEMON@ drop_alternative_html_version: 1 log_file: /path/to/trac/email2trac.log log_level: INFO [myproject] project: /path/to/trac/myproject spam_level: 1 enable_syslog: 1

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GNU Screen Locale Settings
by richard.lee.parsons＠gmail.com 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi all I'm having difficulties with GNU Screen and the pound sterling sign. If I enter the sterling sign at a bash prompt then it works fine. If I run Screen and then enter one then I get the wrong character--I don't know how to describe the weird character that I get. I have tried to set my locale this way: export LC_ALL="en_GB.utf-8" What am I doing wrong? Is there something I should be setting in my screen conf file? Many thanks Richard

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