Re: [vchkpw] Re: Qmail, Vpopmail, Sqwebmail, Courier-IMAP and Gentoo
I follow the same procedure to install qmail, and later add qmail-scanner. My vpopmail is V5.2.2 with roaming users. No matter what rules I apply to /etc/tcp.smtp, only incomming email is scanned. You suggest me to drop qmail ebuild and build from scratch using the link you gave. gentoo's qmail is completely and utterly broken. It also contains a patch that allows mail to be delivered to ~root/ which is a major major security problem. -Jeremy _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: [vchkpw] OpenBSD / vpopmail ssl???
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 22:24, Seth Banks wrote: I am running an OpenBSD 3.x system with qmail/vpopmail installed and running wonderfully. I am worried about POPing my mail from remote locations (wifi @ cafés etc ) and would like to be able to run vpopmail on an SSL protected port. Despite hours of searching, Ive not found any article or information that would show me how to do this. http://superscript.com/ucspi-ssl/intro.html -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
Re: [vchkpw] OpenBSD / vpopmail ssl???
You don't find documentation about vpopmail SSL, because there is not the job of vpopmail. You have to use a POP3 wrapper with SSL support (check Jeremy's answer). Another solution is to use a POP3 server which support SSL natively. http://www.inter7.com/index.php?page=courierimap. It work fine with vpopmail for offer POP3/SSL and IMAP/SSL services. David. Jeremy Kitchen a acrit : On Wednesday 30 June 2004 22:24, Seth Banks wrote: I am running an OpenBSD 3.x system with qmail/vpopmail installed and running wonderfully. I am worried about POPing my mail from remote locations (wifi @ cafs etc) and would like to be able to run vpopmail on an SSL protected port. Despite hours of searching, Ive not found any article or information that would show me how to do this. http://superscript.com/ucspi-ssl/intro.html -Jeremy
[vchkpw] Switching from mysql to non-mysql setup.
I run about 10 domains under vpopmail (and qmail, courier-imap, vqadmin, qmailadmin). vpopmail has been compiled with mysql support and as such is storing its data in a mysql data base. Is it doable to convert everything to a system that does not depend on mysql? Will I use functionality? -- Regards, Charles.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
--- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 29, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Kaan Ertürk wrote: I also typed 'libtoolize --force' and the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail-5.4.5]# libtoolize --force Remember to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' to `configure.in'. Using `AC_PROG_RANLIB' is rendered obsolete by `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. So, what does all this mean? At this point, run aclocal to update the aclocal.m4 file. You should then be able to ./configure make make install. If you don't have automake and autoconf installed, then you could have problems during the build process. If you're going to compile software on that box, you really need to have those tools installed. I fixed this problem by installing newer versions of automake and autoconf. Now I can add/remove domains/pop accounts with vpopmail. But, another problem occurs as qmailadmin doesn't log in! I think this is a serious problem that lots of people got as they wrote on the mail list. Anyway, thank you very much. I'll try to write this new problem to the qmailadmin list. Kaan Ertürk __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[vchkpw] POP3 Auth Fails
Hi!I recently upgraded from vpopmail 5.3.29 to 5.4.5. After the upgrade, the SMTP auth still works ( using elysium patch ). The imap auth through vchkpw works too ( courrier ). But the POP3 auth fails. I am using virtual domains and Mysql backend. Do you know what may be causing it?Another question: Before the upgrade I used the smtp auth running vchkpw though /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run with qmail users and groups, but setting 4755 to /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw. After the upgrade, this stopped working, and I had to set the vpopmail users. Does something changed on vchkpw that do not permit using suid anymore?Thanks
[vchkpw] Incorrect Time
Hi. the date of the outgoing mail is ok, but the time is totally incorrect, when my clients check for mails on their outlook/eudora,etc, the date of the mail is ok but the time is incorrect, the server time is ok, anyone knows why ??? Thank you Lucas G. ObredorSistemasDivisión Banda AnchaTel. 4469-7477 Int (2130)
[vchkpw] Bug in vpopmail 5.4.5 (vconvert)?
I've a server with qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.4.5 using mysql authentication, well i'm migrating from another server with vpopmail 5.4.4 using cdb authentication. When i add domains about 300 domains in a new server create /home/vpopmail/domains/domains.com after 100 domains create /home/vpopmail/domains/0/anotherdomains.com and using vconvert from cdb to mysql, the domains out from /home/vpopmail/domains in mysql are deleted and the migration is failed. How i can remove or edit the hash from domains dir (not user dir)? PS. I compiled vpopmail 5.4.4 and deleted all and insert agains but the hash domain dir persist. Thanks Marcos
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Kaan Ertürk wrote: I fixed this problem by installing newer versions of automake and autoconf. Now I can add/remove domains/pop accounts with vpopmail. But, another problem occurs as qmailadmin doesn't log in! I think this is a serious problem that lots of people got as they wrote on the mail list. Did you compile and install qmailadmin after installing vpopmail? You'll need to in order for it to work. Is the partition that qmailadmin is installed on mounted with the nosuid option (look at /etc/fstab for the word nosuid)? It has to be on a partition that allows suid binaries. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
Re: [vchkpw] Incorrect Time
On Jul 1, 2004, at 6:32 AM, Lucas G. Obredor wrote: he date of the outgoing mail is ok, but the time is totally incorrect, when my clients check for mails on their outlook/eudora,etc, the date of the mail is ok but the time is incorrect, the server time is ok, anyone knows why ??? The 'Date' header is inserted by the sender's email client. If the sender's computer has the wrong time (or the right time and the wrong time zone), then the Date header will be wrong. Other than emailing the person that sent the mail and asking them to fix their computer, there's nothing you can do. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
Re: [vchkpw] How to configure mutt
On (30/06/04 23:37), Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:37:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Alejandro Aguilar Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] How to configure mutt Hello: If this is a faq please let me know the link. Which is the best way to configure mutt to access an email account on a server which uses qmail, vpopmail and an imap server (courier). After much fiddling, I use mutt regularly with our qmail cluster. You'll need the latest version of mutt, and some arcane info in the .muttrc: account-hook imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED] 'set imap_pass=xxx' (this is optional, to prevent always getting prompted for the password, and involves some security risk by putting passwords into the file) Then I use a shell alias to actually call it up: mydomainmail is alliased to: mutt -f imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver/INBOX Good luck! (this mail prepared with Mutt 1.4i) james
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
--- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you compile and install qmailadmin after installing vpopmail? You'll need to in order for it to work. Is the partition that qmailadmin is installed on mounted with the nosuid option (look at /etc/fstab for the word nosuid)? It has to be on a partition that allows suid binaries. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/ Yes, I compiled and installed qmailadmin. It works fine. I mean only with the first screen. I checked and there is no 'nosuid' at /etc/fstab. I changed the permissions of qmailadmin to root (I am logged in as root) but no way. Kaan Ertürk __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster
Sorry for the delay on this.. We've got two F740. They're setup in an active-passive scenario with a VIP (virtual ip). What they call snap mirrors are made every minute. So basically the slave filer mirrors the master filer every minute. The chance of a filer head blowing out is really slim to none, so you could start with one filer. We currently handle about 800+ domains at the moment, some of which have 400-500 accounts. We have it hooked into a Cisco 3550 switch. Sorry for the delay, got busy :). -Clayton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and performance) NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers into a cluster. SATA RAID units seem to be what I am looking for. I would appreciate those out there who have experience using NAS boxes for this purpose to share your wisdom. What are you using ? How has it been working for you ? Any performance issues during busy times etc ? Thanks a lot. Lu From: Clayton Weise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We use netapps (www.netapp.com) and it works great. One of the big things that made me move towards the netapp in place of many of the other NAS units out there was the fact that it runs a nix based OS. Most of the ones, say.. Dell for example just run a stripped down version of windows with file sharing for unix. It doesn't give you the ability to make any tweaks to the nfs server. We've been using the netapps for about 6 months now and it's been awesome. A client that hosts in our datacenter turned us on to the netapps nas units. He's been using them for I think about 2 years now and swears by them. That's great to hear. Can you let me know the specific model you are using ? How many domains are you currently handling with the above unit ? Also, do you have any redundancy capability in case that box goes down ? Thanks again Clayton Lu
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Kaan Ertürk wrote: I changed the permissions of qmailadmin to root (I am logged in as root) but no way. Qmailadmin should be owned by vpopmail:vchkpw and have the suid bit set. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster
Thank you to : Clayton Weise Mike Horwath Nick Harring Rainer Duffner Jay Tortorelli for your feedback and insight into this. I will now use those information to go on from there. Regards, Lu
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
--- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Kaan Ertürk wrote: I changed the permissions of qmailadmin to root (I am logged in as root) but no way. Qmailadmin should be owned by vpopmail:vchkpw and have the suid bit set. I know. What I wrote was just what I have done for a solution. Now, qmailadmin is owned by vpopmail:vchkpw with the uid of 89. What does qmailadmin should have the suid bit set mean? Is it something about the uid 89? Kaan Ertürk __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
Hello Kaan, On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:14:59 -0700 (PDT) UTC, Kaan Ertürk wrote: KE What does qmailadmin should have the suid bit set mean? Is it KE something about the uid 89? There's a lot of info on the setuid bit. Do a search on Google. If you just want to follow instructions: chmod 4755 qmailadmin. -- Regards, Charles.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
--- Charles M. Gerungan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kaan, Hi, There's a lot of info on the setuid bit. Do a search on Google. If you just want to follow instructions: chmod 4755 qmailadmin. Thank you very much. I did a Google search, and found some information. I am now reading them. I remember that I have typed that, chmod 4755 qmailadmin, after typing chown vpopmail.vchkpw qmailadmin Kaan Ertürk __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail installation on Mandrake 10
--- Charles M. Gerungan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kaan, Hi, Don't try to remember, verify: -rwsr-sr-x. I can't! Because I am home now, I will go to work tomorrow. I haven't set up the modem at the office properly to direct me to my computer, that's why I can not connect now. I will try tomorrow and post the results. Thank you for help. Kaan Ertürk __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[vchkpw] oracle database backend
I'm just curious... is anyone using the oracle backend for vpopmail? and if so, is it pretty solid? Thanks :) -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
[vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?
Hi, I read with some interest the thread about 5.4.5 that mentions this particular error: Jul 1 19:11:41 blah pop3d: vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists Today we've been getting a ton of complaints about users needing to enter their passwords multiple times. This is pop, imap, and smtp-auth. Additionally it looks like the chkusr patch is having issues as well; I've seen a few bounces (my C-coding buddy is hopefully going to get that patch to act a bit more nicely if it can't hit mysql). This is vpopmail 5.3.30, mysql 4.0.17 on FreeBSD 4.8. Seeing as I'm getting failures across the board, I have to assume there's some issue with accessing mysql. The box is working hard, but not struggling. I've seen the above errors when the load is as low as .40. MySQL is set to a max-connections of 2000. MySQL does not log anything interesting when I enable logging except for the expected Aborted connection messages from the vpopmail stuff not calling mysql_close(). I'm stumped here. MySQL seems to be fine, the load isn't insane, the vpopmail user has no cpu/file limits, nor does MySQL's user, yet all vpopmail stuff that hits the db fails periodically. Any ideas what to look at? I know I should get on 5.4.x, but I have to test that elsewhere for any surprises first.
RE: [vchkpw] oracle database backend
Jeremy, We are doing a proof of concept on Oracle right now. I can send along my notes as we move forward if you'd like. To be honest though I think we will end up standardizing on LDAP for read type calls and mySQL for writes/updates purely for price vs. performance reasons. The idea being that LDAP is (based on implementation of course) much faster for reads then writes and much, much cheaper then Oracle. Keep in mind I'm not dismissing Oracle by any means, it's just a much harder sell. BTW, how's Cathy doing? Thank you, Jake Seitz Agatestreet.com http://www.agatestreet.com d 1.866.850.1608 f 1.858.964.6461 -Original Message- From: Jeremy Kitchen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] oracle database backend I'm just curious... is anyone using the oracle backend for vpopmail? and if so, is it pretty solid? Thanks :) -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
[vchkpw] vpopmail and mailfilter
When you use vpopmail, does it still use an LDA like mailfilter to deliver the mail, or is that now handled by vpopmail up until the very end? I ask because I am migrating a bunch of users to vpopmail who now have .mailfilter files to sort mail etc, and want to know if vpopmail just does the final delivery lookup and hands off to an LDA or actually does the delivery itself? And if it does the delivery itself does it have any scripting mechinism like mailfilter does? Brian
[vchkpw] vpopmail / postgres config issues
OK, I'm trying to configure vpopmail 5.4.6 with postgres 7.4.1. The compilation process seems to work fine, but I can't get a connection to the database when actually running the tools. Mike Bowe's quick guide to vpop/pg seems fine, although I can fine noplace in the ./configure help or documentation about how to authenticate to the database (the postgres user has a password that I'm never prompted for, nor do I see anything asking for a config file). The vpopmail db exists in the database. The error given when I type ./vadddomain test.com test is this: vauth_open: can't connect: fe_sendauth: no password supplied pg_begin: no connection to the server vpgsql: error creating table 'dir_control': no connection to the server vcreate_dir_control: insert failed: no connection to the server I have compiled vpopmail using the following options: ./configure --enable-postgres=y --enable-tcpserver-file=/var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-logging=v --enable-auth-module=pgsql --disable-ip-alias-domains --disable-roaming-users --disable-passwd --enable-clear-passwd --disable-domain-quotas --enable-valias Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!! darius
Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?
Just to add a bit, it certainly looks mysql related. But one thing that's really got me stumped is that my db is showing almost as many update and replace queries as select queries, which seems kind of odd. I'm not creating new users, and the mysql logging is disabled. As far as I can recall, vpopmail is just doing select's right? Charles On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I read with some interest the thread about 5.4.5 that mentions this particular error: Jul 1 19:11:41 blah pop3d: vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists Today we've been getting a ton of complaints about users needing to enter their passwords multiple times. This is pop, imap, and smtp-auth. Additionally it looks like the chkusr patch is having issues as well; I've seen a few bounces (my C-coding buddy is hopefully going to get that patch to act a bit more nicely if it can't hit mysql). This is vpopmail 5.3.30, mysql 4.0.17 on FreeBSD 4.8. Seeing as I'm getting failures across the board, I have to assume there's some issue with accessing mysql. The box is working hard, but not struggling. I've seen the above errors when the load is as low as .40. MySQL is set to a max-connections of 2000. MySQL does not log anything interesting when I enable logging except for the expected Aborted connection messages from the vpopmail stuff not calling mysql_close(). I'm stumped here. MySQL seems to be fine, the load isn't insane, the vpopmail user has no cpu/file limits, nor does MySQL's user, yet all vpopmail stuff that hits the db fails periodically. Any ideas what to look at? I know I should get on 5.4.x, but I have to test that elsewhere for any surprises first.
