[Web-cyradm] Password length and max # of MySQL connections

[Luc de Louw]

Robo Kupka wrote:

>It seems that no one can answer my questions from the past week...
>
>1. IMAPD and POP3D from cyrus-imapd-2.1.12  accept only first 8 chars from
>passwords. Why ?  My users have more than 8-chars passwords... Is there a
>possibility to set max length somewhere ?  Has the newer (2-2-3) version
>this problem too ?
>  
>
I dont know about the limit in 2.2.3. Usually password more that 8 chars 
does not make a lot of sense.
Could you tell us what actually happens? Are all chars over 8 chars 
ignored or auth fails?

If nobody complains, I'm going to limit the size in web-cyradm (not in 
the database)

>2. I had to set max-connections parameter for MySQL startup, because
>default value "100" caused a lot unsuccessful logins into IMAP and POP3
>daemons (PAM logger reported this: "MySQL:too many connections"). IS there
>a better workaround of this ?
>  
>

Please see the mailinglist archives, there was a recent discussion about 
this.
May I ask you how many users do you have?

>3. A couple of ideas for Luc, what would I like to have in next
>web-cyradmin release:
>   - Do some statistic/log analysis pages... for example - which mailboxes
>are over quota..., who didn´t log for a long time... I think that
>logging into mail database is quite useless now.
>  
>
It has to be reworked, thats for sure.

>   - I´d like to have a possibility to delete all e-mail messages from
>choosen mailbox directly from web-cyradmin interface (for exmaple -
>user asks me to delete all e-mail from his mailbox, there are several
>thousands of  messages and over a slow dial-up line it takes long time
>to delete with IMAP client).
>  
>
Hmm... Why not providing your users a webmail interface such as 
horde/imp or squirellmail? Then they could choose which mails are do be 
deleted without downloading them. I do not like such a option. Other 
opinions?

rgds

Luc