DRAC support in Cyrus IMAP Server

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Steffen,

indeed the DRAC support was removed from the distribution package.

There's a note about it in the UPGRADE.Debian:

--cut here--
NOTES about DRAC authentication
===============================

DRAC has been disabled in cyrus-imapd-2.4, it caused quite some trouble and
wasn't used by many. You can however build your own version by editing
00list
in debian/patches and adding 20-drac_auth.dpatch to it at the proper place
(i.e. right before the patch numbered 21) and building cyrus-imapd-2.4 with
dpkg-buildpackage or a similar tool.
--cut here--

Thanks for catching the package description, it has been fixed in recent
upload to unstable.

Sorry for the trouble, but the pop-before-smtp is really a small minority
nowadays.

Ondrej


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Steffen Moser <lists at steffen-moser.de>wrote:

> Dear Debian-Cyrus Package Developers,
>
> I've just installed Debian Testing (Wheezy, 7.0) as a platform for
> a mail server at a school. The POP3/IMAP service that I have chosen is
> Cyrus - mostly due to the fact that I made very good experience with
> this software in the past and a lot of self-written tools and scripts
> for mailbox and user management have already been available.
>
> The server is also responsible for the outgoing messages of our users.
> Therefore I use the MTA Sendmail. I've configured SMTP AUTH to allow
> our local users to send mails even when being not at the school's
> network (roaming users).
>
> This works -so far- without any problems.
>
> Some users or their legacy devices are not capable of configuring
> or doing SMTP AUTH. They rather expect the SMTP server to allow
> relaying without authentication. Of course, I cannot allow this for
> arbitrary source IP addresses due to a very-likely abuse by spammers.
>
> Therefore I would like to use a "POP/IMAP before SMTP" solution. I
> am aware that this is quite a hack, but I don't know of any better
> approach.
>
> Instead of using the really dirty hacks that parse the log files
> generated by the POP3/IMAP daemon, I've been planning to use the
> DRAC feature which is offered as an option that can be activated in
> "/etc/imapd.conf" the Cyrus server. I am aware that I also need the
> RPC-based DRAC daemon which I've already installed. But nevertheless,
> it seems that the Cyrus-IMAP doesn't send any information to the
> "rpc.dracd", so there isn't any IP address which gets put into the
> temporary DRAC allow-relay database.
>
> My question is: Is the Cyrus IMAP server that comes with Wheezy
> able to talk to "rpc.dracd"? At some sites I've just read about
> patches that have to be applied to Cyrus, but even in the package
> description
>
>   http://packages.debian.org/en/**sid/cyrus-common-2.4<http://packages.debian.org/en/sid/cyrus-common-2.4>
>
> the "POP/IMAP-before-SMTP using DRAC" is listed as a feature without
> any mentioned pre-conditions or the need of a recompilation...
>
> The reason why I'd like to use the built-in DRAC is that there is
> also a solution to combine DRAC with the grey-listing which must
> be also deactivated temporarily for IP addresses of our roaming
> users.
>
> Does anyone know more about the availability of the DRAC feature in
> the Cyrus POP3/IMAP package that comes with Debian Wheezy?
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
> Steffen
>
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