Cyrusmaster - A Cyrus administration web tool

Features and Services

Some of the most important features that Cyrusmaster delivers are briefly listed below.

Users and user mailboxes administration

User properties are stored in an LDAP server
Create, delete, rename mailbox
Create, delete, rename, move a mailbox subfolders
Setquota, getquota
Set ACL, get ACL
Set multiple alternate mail addresses (aliases) for each user mailbox
Set the cyrus partition in which the mailbox will be stored
Search for a user or its mailbox using any attribute, which is stored in the directory structure, as a search criterion

Shared folders and Bulletin Boards

Folder properties are stored in an LDAP server
Create, delete, rename folders or subfolders
Create Bulletin Board or Virtual User
Setquota, getquota
Set folder mail address independent of the folder's name
Set multiple alternate mail addresses (aliases)
Set the cyrus partition in which the folder will be stored
Search for a folder using the foldername or the mail address as a search criterion

Folder permissions and posting control

There are four different levels of folder permissions.

read	Read messages of the folder
append	read + Post and copy messages to the folder
delete	append + Delete messages (only) from folder
admin	delete + Administer a folder. Create, delete, rename subfolders. Setquota and permissions to other users, modify folder attributes etc.

For each folder permission there are two options :

local	User owns the permission only to the folder, one was given the permission
recursive	User owns the permission to the folder, one was given the permission, and all its subfolders

Cyrus administrator can assign any of the above permissions to each user.
Use of Dynamic filters. A filter for each permission can be set. Every user that meets the filter criterion is granted the permission dynamically on login.

Delegated administration

Cyrusmaster introduces the following administrative attributes

Maximum Quota
Maximum Depth
Maximum Children
Allowed Mail Domains
User pool

Note 1 : The above administrative attributes represent the resources which can be allocated to a folder.

Maximum Quota	Storage quota that can be assigned to each administration layer
Maximum Depth	The maximum depth of the folder structure tree that the administrator is allowed to build in each administration layer
Maximum Children	The maximum number of immediate subfolders that each folder may have.
Allowed Mail Domains	The allowed mail domains which can be used to form the mail addresses of the folders.
User Pool	An administrator might give permission on the folder to anyone. This way we face the problem of group spamming. User pool is a filter that restricts the users to whom permission on the folder can be assigned.

Note 2 : Currently cyrusmaster implements a concept of administration assignment as described above only for the root folders in the folder structure, due to the complexity that this concept implies and the lack of such features in the Cyrus server infrastructure.