Bug#379881: cyrus-imapd-2.2: several oddities about imapd.conf parameters

Ross Boylan ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Wed Jul 26 03:34:04 UTC 2006


Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-3
Severity: normal

I've left severity at normal since some of these might affect
someone's ability to get the system working.

1.lmtp_admins
The distributed imapd.conf has this
# Space-separated list of users that have lmtp "admin" status (i.e. that
# can deliver email through TCP/IP lmtp) in addition to those in the
# admins: entry above
#lmtp_admins: postman

The imapd.conf man page doesn't mention the parameter.

And the upstream upgrade instructions (from 2.1 to 2.2) says "the
admins and lmtp_admins configuration options no longer union.  Per
service options completely override the default value when they are
specified."  This contradicts the comment in the config file, which
says they do union.  It is also a bit ambiguous whether the upgrade
instructions mean that if you do not specify lmtp_admins, you will get
them equal to the admins list.

2. lmtp_allowplaintext is no longer defined say the upgrade
instructions "and must be specified using the service name of your
lmtp process if you require a specific value".  The parameter is
absent from imapd.conf and its man page, which is good (or at least
consistent).  I can't tell what the alternate syntax is, however, or
how this relates to the sasl options.

3. Both of the preceding suggest there may be some new syntax for
specifying options in imapd.conf (something like the sasl_foo for sasl
options), but I don't see it spelled out anywhere.

These are likely all upstream issues.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cyrus-imapd-2.2 depends on:
ii  cyrus-common-2.2        2.2.13-3         Cyrus mail system (common files)
ii  libc6                   2.3.6-15         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.2                4.2.52-23.1      Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libsasl2                2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2 Authentication abstraction library
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8b-2         SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6.dbs-9        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra

cyrus-imapd-2.2 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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