Re: [vchkpw] Misc Bugfixes- update, cleanup
On Jun 5, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Michael Krieger wrote: These seem to clear up all of the issues I've noticed with vpopmail-5.4.16 at this time [fortunately that big bugfix last release helped as well]. Think we may be ready for 5.4.17 soon? I want to make sure these get in there. I'll make sure they get in, along with Ron Gage's patch related to MySQL 5. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] [bug][patch] - vchkpw/vmysql and Mysql 5
On Jun 5, 2006, at 7:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is what I am running here - 5.4.16. Had the same problem - worked fine for the first 8 hours, then started getting failed auth errors. I minimized the problem from the MySQL side by changing the interactive_timeout and wait_timeout values to , but this obviously doesn't actually fix the problem. If the server is kicked for some reason (mysqladmin shutdown then mysqld_safe), then the auth will still fail since the socket is destroyed. Thanks Ron, I'll get your patch into CVS and the 5.4.17 release and shoot for getting something up on SourceForge this week. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] New version of vpopmail?
On Jun 12, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Steve Cole wrote: It's been over a month now... any word on a release with the issues identified in 5.4.16 resolved? I recall Tom saying that we should expect a version mid last week, but Sourceforge isn't reflecting that. Sorry, last week was a busy one for me (keeping me from paying work in addition to vpopmail), and I'm on vacation this week. I'll try to get the submitted patches into CVS and have a release sometime next week. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Blocking Fake Froms?
On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:50 AM, Mustafa Şimşek wrote: 2. this spammer use fake ip addresses so i can't detect real user. is it possible to detect real user from logs? If you check the Received headers, you can see what SMTP AUTH address he used. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Segfaulting in vadddomain
On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Manuzhai wrote: What trips up vpopmail: the localhost line. I'm not sure whether this *should* be valid or not, but the extract_domain() function in vpopmail.c sure doesn't like it. Here's what it looks like with the fprintf statements that are already in the code doing their work: Rick, If you can get a patch to me (that fixes the segfault in the users/assign sorting code when a domain doesn't have a dot in it) by the end of the week, I'll work at getting another vpopmail release out (with your patch, and others in my queue). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1).
On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:04 PM, N0K wrote: Hello, when i try, send a mail with my qmail-smtp server if i used a mail address specifics, i get this error: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: sorry, your envelope sender domain must exist (#5.7.1). Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. What are you using as the from address? Are you sure there isn't a typo in it? Do you have a /var/qmail/control/mfcheck file? If so, you might be able to put '0' in there to temporarily disable this check. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Forwarding spec. users w/o local domain
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Ted Fines wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this goal, using qmailtap or something else? If the server that accepts mail for macalester.edu can be convinced to accept mail for somehost.macalester.edu, you can use vpopmail and qmailadmin to accomplish your goals. Make sure [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working correctly before modifying your gateway system. Stop qmail-smtpd and qmail-send before doing any of this, to make sure you get it set up right. You're going to add macalester.edu as a vpopmail domain on your gateway system. Change the catchall to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. If you're using qmailadmin, you can just enter @somehost.macalester.edu as the catchall email address, and it will automatically set it up. Here's the feature request on that undocumented feature: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detailaid=910410group_id=6691atid=356691 Remove the entry from smtproutes. At this point, you might be able to start qmail-send (leaving qmail-smtpd off) and use qmail-inject to inject a test message. Watch the logs to make sure it gets through. If so, you can start qmail-smtpd back up. Now, add aliases for the addresses you want forwarded elsewhere. Use QmailAdmin, or just create a .qmail-user45 file in the domain directory. If an alias exists, the email will be forwarded. If it doesn't exist, it will go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably also want to modify the postmaster user to have its mail get forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you really want to be safe, you could add the domain as test.com first, make sure everything works (using qmail-inject, or manually telnetting to port 25 on localhost) before doing it with the real domain. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?
On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: so how the heck can i do that? i'm baffled how to change the name of an existing domain. i don't see any options in vqadmin or in the command line interface to accomplish this. Edit /var/qmail/users/assign. You'll find two entries related to the domain, like this: +rfpowerdevices.com-:rfpowerdevices.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/ rfpowerdevices.com:-:: +hvvi.com-:rfpowerdevices.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/ rfpowerdevices.com:-:: Change the second field from rfpowerdevices.com to hvvi.com: +rfpowerdevices.com-:hvvi.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/ rfpowerdevices.com:-:: +hvvi.com-:hvvi.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/rfpowerdevices.com:-:: Run qmail-newu, HUP qmail-send (you may not need to do that step), and you should be all set. If you want to change the directory for the domain, that gets a bit more tricky. You have to change it in /var/qmail/users/assign, the vpasswd file (for CDB) or database table (for the DB backends), .qmail files that have a hard-path to a maildir, mailing list configurations, etc. Believe me, it's easier to just keep the old directory name. You (the server admin) should be the only person who will se it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] quotawarn not always working
On Jun 28, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: This is vpopmail 5.4.10, haven't gotten around to looking at all the release notes on newer versions yet for gotchas. vdelivermail was rewritten for 5.4.11 (or so). 5.4.16 is a pretty good release, I have a few patches to put into 5.4.17, but nothing serious enough to keep you from trying 5.4.16. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Misc Bugfixes- update, cleanup
On Jun 5, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Michael Krieger wrote: Hey folks, I've submitted a few bugfixes against 5.4.16 to fix: - a crash when there are no names and one is using the cdb module- qmailadmin can cause this one as well as the command line programs - a series of lockfile permissions fixes when using the locking to... 1. comply with the man pages': mode MUST be specified when O_CREAT is in the flags, and is ignored otherwise which suggests that mode should be specified in those cases, and 2. prevents lock files from (on my base Debian system) being created with 000 and then failing on all future attempts after the first one to obtain a lock on the file as a result of a lack of permission. I advise seeing if you have any ~vpopmail/domain/*/.vpasswd.lock files and removing them if they do not have at least some permission. These seem to clear up all of the issues I've noticed with vpopmail-5.4.16 at this time [fortunately that big bugfix last release helped as well]. Think we may be ready for 5.4.17 soon? I want to make sure these get in there. I just added your patch to CVS, and it will be in 5.4.17. One question related to the vpalias.c fix. Why is mydir static? It's always set to NULL before that function exits. Wouldn't making it not static and initializing it to NULL make more sense? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] new Installation on Fedora Core 5
On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Roger wrote: We recently purchased an Intel 64 bit Server which i installed with Fedora Core 5 64 bit version. I successfully installed Qmail in about 2 days. So now when i look at the MySQL database i notice that there is a database in there called vpopmail in that database a seperate table is created for each domain that i add, when i compare with my older running installation of Qmail, there is a database called vpopmail and inside that that database is a another table called vpopmail which contains all the information on my domains. Is there any advantage to the new way of doing things, or did i miss something during installation, could someone offer me some advice incase i run the risk of breaking things when i deploy this server over the weekend. Two different configure options... You chose --disable-many-domains on the FC5 box and got a table for each domain. The default, --enable-many-domains puts all domains in a single table. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] [bug][patch] - vchkpw/vmysql and Mysql 5
This patch is in the upcoming 5.4.17 release.
-Tom
On May 29, 2006, at 7:05 AM, Ron Gage wrote:
Greetings:
I don't know if anyone in here is encountering this problem (yet), but
it has
been affecting me for the past few weeks - ever since I upgraded my
MySQL
server to 5.0.19. It took quite a bit of digging, but I believe I
have found
the problem.
To describe the problem: when you run vpopmail in MySQL mode, with
courier-authdaemond and MySQL v5.0 or later, you will find that for
the first 8
hours, everything works just fine, but after 8 hours, nobody will be
able to
authenticate to the email server and you will see MySQL server has
gone away
errors in the maillog.
The cause of the problem is that in MySQL 5.0 (and probably some 4.1
releases),
MySQL implements a new timeout definition for connections, a timeout
that
ignores traffic. This timeout will shut down the socket thread from
the MySQL
side. The problem is that the client (vchkpw and friends) do not
know/understand about this timeout and socket termination so they
continue on
in ignorate bliss until they try to send to the socket and find that
it's no
longer valid - literally the server has gone away.
The fix is to simply destroy the internal flags and file handles
related to that
socket, rebuild a new one, and try again.
The included patch (inline and attached) implements this fix. Please
note that
there doesn't appear to be any way at this time to disable the timeout
feature
in MySQL.
Please feel free to comment, tear apart, beat up, or otherwise rip to
shreads my
fix!
--
Ron Gage
(LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+)
Westland, Michigan
--- vmysql.c~ 2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
+++ vmysql.c2006-05-29 10:17:20.0 -0400
@@ -465,7 +465,31 @@
);
if (mysql_query(mysql_read,SqlBufRead)) {
fprintf(stderr, vmysql: sql error[3]: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql_read));
-return(NULL);
+/* Ron Gage - May 29, 2006 - With newer versions of MySQL,
there is
such a thing
+as a connection timeout regardless of activity. By default
under MySQL
5, this
+timeout is 28800 seconds (8 hours). If your vpopmail system
runs fine
for the
+first 8 hours, then stops authenticating, this timeout is
your problem
(especially
+under authdaemond).
+
+What this code does is when an error is encountered, it first
tries to
drop and
+rebuild a connection to the SQL server and tries again. If
this second
attempt
+fails, then something other than the connection timeout is
the problem.
This fix
+need to be implemented in other places but in my setup
(Slackware 10.2,
netqmail,
+vpopmail, courier-authdaemond, courier-imapd and a few
others), this is
always where
+the auth attempt died with a SQL server has gone away error.
+*/
+
+fprintf(stderr, Attempting to rebuild connection to SQL
server\n);
+vclose();
+verrori = 0;
+if ( (err=vauth_open_read()) != 0 ) {
+ verrori = err;
+ return(NULL);
+}
+if (mysql_query(mysql_read, SqlBufRead)) {
+ fprintf (stderr, vmysql: connection rebuild failed: %s\n,
mysql_error(mysql_read));
+ return(NULL);
+}
}
if (!(res_read = mysql_store_result(mysql_read))) {
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Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?
On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Remo Mattei wrote: copy the users from the location under the old dir domain rfpowerdevices.com delete the domain create a script that will recreate all the users you can do this very easily by doing an ls -l |grep etc... the run vadduser -n is you have the option in vpopmail to learn passwd then add the new domain and all the users then copy back the users dir with the right permission and you should be fine. You can also just copy the email to their location without any problems. But if you have mailing lists or autoresponders you won't be fine, because their files will reference the old directory name. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?
On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: well, i did it, and it still didn't work. this time, with both lines changed, vqadmin saw hvvi.com as the 'real' domain, and rfpowerdevices as the alias - and showed no users for either. so i had to rapidly switch back for fear of disrupting the account's access. so i'm confused. maybe a confused dumbass, but confused nonetheless. vqadmin hasn't been maintained in a long time... And before you ask, I have NO plans to even try using it. I just blew about 4-5 hours last night and today working on the vpopmail 5.4.17 release. The last thing I need to do is get sucked into another open source project. ;-) I'd be curious to hear whether the domain worked correctly in qmailadmin or not after making the change. I just ran a test, and it worked fine. Note that I had problems because I forgot to run qmail-newu after making the changes to users/assign. Once I made that change, it was OK. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?
On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: gotcha. since i need to keep vqadmin consistent for various reasons, i think i'll try doing a complete overhaul of the domain the 'old fashioned way'. If you're using cdb, here's a sneaky way to do it... First, backup the domain on the off chance that deleting the alias domain messes something up. Stop qmail until you're done making the changes. We'll call the domains old.com and new.com for this process. # delete the old domain ~vpopmail/bin/vdeldomain new.com # add it back, as it's own domain (not an alias) ~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain new.com xyz # use the old domain's files instead rm -rf ~vpopmail/domains/new.com mv ~vpopmail/domains/old.com ~vpopmail/domains/new.com # make an link from the old name to the new name so mailing lists work cd ~vpopmail/domains ln -s new.com old.com Start qmail back up, and you should be in business. Now you can search through the various .qmail files and mailing list configuration files, looking for references to old.com and changing them to new.com. Eventually, you can ditch the link from old.com to new.com in the domains directory. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail and Global Aliases
On Jul 10, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Ken Schweigert wrote: How can I add this functionality back in? I'd really hate to have to add symlinks to the .qmail files every time I add a domain, or worse, need to add them to every domain for any new global aliases. I haven't tested it, but see if adding the following to virtualdomains would work: abuse@:abuse Trying to read djb's code is next to impossible (comments would have been helpful), and the docs for qmail-send don't say whether abuse@ will match or not. It's worth a shot though. If it doesn't work, I think you're out of luck. The domain isn't in locals, so .qmail files in ~alias are ignored. It jumps to virtualdomains, which takes it to users/assign, which takes it to the domain's directory. At that point, you'll need a .qmail-abuse in the domain's directory. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.17 Released
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=85937package_id=89115release_id=431536 5.4.17 - released 12-Jul-06 Release Notes: Lots of fixes to bugs in the 5.4.16 release, some caused by the back- ported code from the 5.5 development series. This release resolves all known problems with 5.4.16. ChangeLog: Rick Widmer - vpopmaild: remove debug output from find_domain function. - vpopmail: fix segfault in users/assign sorting code caused by entries that don't contain a dot (.). [1514733] Jeremy Kister - vdelivermail: pass qmail-inject's error code instead of always deferring. [1484105] Ron Gage - vmysql: reconnect to server if connection timed out. Rolf Eike Beer - vchangepw: add error checking and other code improvements. [1371572] - change API for vgetpasswd() to make more sense. [1371566] - Update del_control() to properly handle remove_lines() return value. [1514613] - vpopmail: minor improvements to remove_lines(). [1371536] secnetdk - vmysql, vpgsql: remove entries from vlog when deleting a domain or a user. [1099800, 995762] Michael Krieger - vcdb, vpopmail: pass mode to open() when creating files. Fixes bug where lock files were created with permissions. [1499043] - vpalias: set mydir to NULL after closing it. [1499045] Tom Collins - vpalias: don't trash alias name passed to valias_insert(). [1491087] - vpopmaild: don't show last auth if auth-logging disabled. [1511313] - Only include err.h if it's present. [1484110] - vpgsql: convert domain name to lower case when creating table name. [1227383] - vpopmail: fix minor error in remove_lines() when file locking not defined.
Re: [vchkpw] Weird messages in qmail-send
On Jul 18, 2006, at 5:15 AM, Christoph Petersen wrote: Hey guys, in the last time I've some weird messages in my qmail-send log and I don't where I have to look to solve these problems if they are problems. I not even know if vpopmail is the cause of these messages. I'm using netqmail-1.05 with vpopmail 5.4.13, chkuser and simscan. Looks like a web script on your server (which typically uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] as sender) or perhaps a cron job is trying to email the root account on your mail server. You don't have an alias set up for root (you need a .qmail-root file in ~alias) so a bounce is generated. You (understandably) don't have an alias for postmaster, so the bounce bounces to postmaster, and you don't have an alias for that either, so the triple bounce is discarded. You can use the control files doublebouncehost and doublebounceto to change who gets double- bounces -- in most cases you just want to throw them out. Solution: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~alias/.qmail-root -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] file error 1
On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Rob Genovesi wrote: Anyone getting file error 1 errors when using qmailadmin to add/ remove/edit aliases? This seems to be happening randomly and I haven't found any cause for it yet. That error only comes up when QmailAdmin tries to delete a line from a .qmail file (or from the valias table if you have valiases enabled). Is there anything quirky about the .qmail file you're trying to delete lines from? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Upgrading from 5.2.1, qmail-ext and quotas
On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Harm van Tilborg wrote: 1) I'm still running vpopmail 5.2.1 on some servers and it's finally time to upgrade (yes, finally :[). In the UPGRADE instructions it says it shouldn't be a problem (I'm using the cdb auth-module). Is that really true? I think so, but I haven't done an upgrade from 5.2.1 in a long time. 2) And I would like to turn off qmail-ext support in the upgrade. Could that give any problems? If you have users relying on it to get their email, then it will be a problem. Some of my users make use of it to generate unique email addresses (like tom-amazon for all email from amazon.com) that they can later turn into blackhole or bounce addresses. 3) Domain and user quotas are kind of broken, aren't they? The only way to make them work is with the Maildir++-patch, is that true? Domain quotas are definitely broken, and have been disabled in the current release. 4) Will this upgrade change anything to the already set (but not working) quotas? I don't know -- I don't personally use quotas. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Upgrading from 5.2.1, qmail-ext and quotas
On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Harm van Tilborg wrote: If users have only access to qmailadmin (maybe not really vpopmail related, but ok), are they able to use qmail-ext addresses? Or do they really have to know how qmail deals with the 'ext' addresses? With qmail-ext enabled, users can put -anything after their email address and still get the message. They'd have to know about that feature, and chances are they aren't making use of it. If you're unsure, you could modify vdelivermail to log any qmail-ext addresses that it matches. If nothing comes through in a few weeks, you can probably safely disable that feature. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Mail Domain Aliases
On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Jeff Koch wrote: Does anyone know if there is an easy way to setup a mail domain alias so that mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes into [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know I can do it by adding another rcpt host and adding lines to /users/assign but maybe there's an easier way. We also use qmailadmin. I assume you intend for mail sent to all users (not just eric) would be aliased... Is domain2.com on the same server? If so, vaddaliasdomain will do the trick. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Alias becoming default domain
On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote: I have a qmail setup from qmailrocks.org running fine on FreeBSD with some domains. Recently we had some name changes and our names, domain.com used to be default and domain1.com an alias, now we must discard domain.com and domain1.com must be default, how can I make it work? Here's a thread from June, with my response on one way to do it. http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg23872.html -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Virtual Domains
On Aug 2, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Doug Appleton wrote:I have configured a qmail+vpopmail mail server that is running on Redhat Enterprise 4 and is running perfectly except there is one small problem with the old mail server we currently have running. As it stands I have created a domain called test.edu and all mailboxes that are not found on this box are flipped over to the old mailserver where the remaining mailboxes are located. This is done with through the .qmail-default file. It seems to be working fine other than when a person tried to send a mail from the webmail client at test2.edu and the test.edu does not recognize the mailboxes and rejects the mail. Question.. Would creating an alias domain on the test.edu box work? And if so, how would I flip it back through the .qmail-default file so that any mailboxes that the alias domain couldn't find would be flipped back over to the old mailserver where the remaining mailboxes are?I'm not sure I completely understand your setup, but if you add test2.edu to the rcpthosts file on test.edu, it will accept email for that domain and forward it on to the server hosting test2.edu. --Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] chkuser + localhost as sender MX
On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Veit Guna wrote: I've noticed some spam sending hosts, which use e.g. localhost/ 127.0.0.1 as their sender MX. When my mailserver tries to verify the sending account via bounce check (connecting to 127.0.0.1), the rcpt to: check is ok, because chkuser accepts unknown rcpt to's from localhost. Is there a settings to get rid of that? Better would be a patch to qmail-smtpd that only accepted localhost and 127.0.0.1 as the HELO name on connections from 127.0.0.1. I don't know enough about chkuser to answer your original question. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] qmail + vqadmin 2.3.5 + vpopmail 5.4.13 problem
On Aug 17, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Krzysiek Włodarczak wrote: Hello! A am trying to set up qmail to work with non-system passwords. I've made the virtual domain using vadddomain, the folders for my domain have been created, even mails are reaching the test-user Maildir. Unfortunately I can't download the e-mails from the server using MUA. Authorization doesn't work and I guess I can also send the e-mail with no authorisation. Please help me. -- Best regards, Chris Have you configured your POP/IMAP client to use vchkpw to authenticate users? Do you have the SMTP AUTH patch for qmail-smtpd, and have you configured its run file to call vchkpw to authenticate users? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Abort_trap
On Aug 21, 2006, at 5:35 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: using qmailadmin did a vacation message. i see the vacation directory and the .qmail. they are fine. the default .qmail for the domain is: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the log i get: Aug 21 20:30:15 chavo qmail: 1156206615.049242 starting delivery 4546: msg 487281 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 21 20:30:15 chavo qmail: 1156206615.049948 status: local 1/10 remote 5/10 Aug 21 20:30:15 chavo qmail: 1156206615.059064 delivery 4546: deferral: Abort_trap/ why is that?! Heck if I know. What versions of vpopmail and qmailadmin are you using? I don't see abort trap in the recent vpopmail source. Does the catchall work when you don't have a vacation on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Abort_trap
On Aug 22, 2006, at 2:30 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: What versions of vpopmail and qmailadmin are you using? qmailadmin 1.2.0 vpopmail 5.4.0 Upgrade to the latest stable releases (do vpopmail first, then qmailadmin) and see if the problem goes away. Vpopmail 5.4.0 is 2-1/2 years old. The 5.4.17 release, even though it's labeled as dev, is actually stable enough to move to stable now. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Mail to all users?
On Sep 4, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: In an ISP situation, i.e. with many domains, each with many users, what's the easiest/best way to send a mail to all users? Here's my thoughts so far: vpopbull - would need to loop over all domains and run vpopbull once for each domain - not a major issue - Seems to write directly to the Maildir so it ignores any forwards ezmlm mailing list - Would be a bit of a pain to keep all addresses current, i.e. to keep the list members syncronised with the accounts on the server Any further ideas? Use `vpopbull -n` to generate a list of email addresses, and then paste that into the bcc of an email sent from your email client. Or, set up an ezmlm mailing list that doesn't allow users to subscribe or unsubscribe. Before sending an announcement, delete all subscribers and re-subscribe them by piping the output of vpopbull -n to ezmlm-sub. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Memleak when using vpopmail with mysql, but without --enable-mysql-limits. + patch
On Sep 10, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: The problem is that, if (mysql_num_rows(res_read) == 0, the function inmediately returns without freeing res_read. I attached a little patch that corrects the issue. (simply adds a mysql_free_result(res_read); ) Thanks a lot. I'll make sure this gets into the next release. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Segfault when invalid domain in ./qmail/users/assign file.
On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Same bug from the 5.4.17 changelog ? - vpopmail: fix segfault in users/assign sorting code caused by entries that don't contain a dot (.). [1514733] Yep. BTW - 5.4.17 should be production quality now. Tom or Bill, are you going to release it as stable soon ? It has passed all my stress testing. Good point -- I just switched it to stable on SourceForge. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Segfault when invalid domain in ./qmail/users/assign file.
On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Is that with- or without Me Zwinkels' mem-leak fix? No, that patch just came out a week ago. vpopmail 5.4.17 was released back in July. Also, somebody should update http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/changelog.txt Or is it on sf.net somewhere? SourceForge is the primary home and distribution point for vpopmail and qmailadmin. See my .sig for URLs. Also ,the changelog should feature the sf.net bugtracking ids, if they apply. So one can deduce which of the bugs and patches still marked active on sf.net is actually relevant. It does include those IDs. For those curious, here's the system I use on SourceForge. Once a tracker item has been addressed by a particular release (bug fixed, patch added), I modify the description of the tracker item to start with [in 5.4.17] where 5.4.17 is the relevant release. Once 5.4.17 is released, I go through and change the status of all the [in 5.4.17] tracker items to closed. Here's a cool way to look at all trackers related to a particular release: https://sourceforge.net/search/? type_of_search=artifactgroup_id=85937words=5.4.17 -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vuserinfo and quota
On Sep 25, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: All I'm saying is that when you upgrade someone's quota, the maildir size file is not rebuilt unless 1) It doesn't exist (you remove it) 2) A new email is delivered 3) The account is popped or IMAPed (with courier-imap or qmail- pop3d patched) If you use vmoduser to change the quota, it will recreate the maildirsize file. You are right on the max quota size -- 2GB is it, and you might be able to find a patch on SourceForge to take it up to 4GB (unsigned long). You'd potentially have to modify code in vpopmail, qmail, courier-imap and qmail-pop3d to support larger quotas. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] transfer (rename) domain
On Sep 21, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Shane Chrisp wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:58 +0200, Jerkovic Bosko wrote: Hello, Im having a problem. I had one domain domain.com and we have a lot of users there, now we decided to transfer all users to another domain domain2.com. How can this be done ? We are using vpopmail + mysql. Any help ? I think this will work. 1. Create the new domain using vadddomain 2. Update the mysql vpopmail table changing the domain field from domain.com to domain2.com 3. Physically mv or rsync the users dir from the domain.com to domain2.com directory. I guess the 2nd and 3rd steps would be best done with the smtp/pop/ imap access being off. Im sure if im wrong or someone knows a simpler or better way, they will say so. Easier to keep everything as-is and add an alias to the original domain. If you want, you can tweak the users/assign file to make the new name look like the real domain name, and have the old name as the alias. I'd avoid actually changing the domain path though. You'll have to update all user entries in vpasswd (or the database backend), user's .qmail files (in case they have a vacation message), autoresponders and mailing lists. All make use of full pathnames (IIRC). Tom Collins Tom Logic LLC PO Box 5717 Napa, CA 94581 (707) 265-6622 (707) 265-6646 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] Email addresses with spaces
There's a tracker item on SourceForge[1] about vdelivermail not accepting email addresses with spaces in the local part (something like "a b [EMAIL PROTECTED]"). The problem is that qmail-smtpd accepts them as valid, but vdelivermail does not.Anyone want to weigh in with an opinion before I make some change we'll regret? I doubt anyone is using spaces, but a quick web search seems to imply (discussion of RFC2822) that they're legal (along with a lot of other crap).[1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=577798aid=1565423group_id=85937 --Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Why is vadduser creating a hierarchy?
On Oct 14, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Joshua Megerman wrote: Nope, it doesn't (I wrote the patch, and last I heard it hadn't even been considered... ) I posted the patch here a while back - while it may take a little hacking, it should work fine with the latest vpopmail. Please re-email it directly to me and I'll put it in my queue of patched for vpopmail. A slew of them were just posted to SourceForge, so I'll probably try to get a 5.4.18 release out before too long. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] MAIL FROM question
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Rick Romero wrote: I have an auditor who is telling me that allowing non-SMTP-AUTHd clients to use a valid local user in MAIL FROM: is a potential spoof, and a security vulnerability. I don't know if it came up in the original thread, but enforcing that limitation assumes that your users send all of their email through your server. I guess no one works from the road and has to use the ISP's mail server for outbound messages. It might be a good way to detect possible spam, and I can see a grain of truth in their reasoning. If you enforce that policy, the Return- Path header on email received on your sever should be accurate if it's a local domain. I'll tell the auditors that your Received headers contain the SMTP AUTH information of any validated users, so if you need to validate a message with a forged MAIL FROM header, you just need to look at the Received headers. After that, forge an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanking them for their efforts in securing the homeland. ;-) -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vdelivermail patch in order to handle maildrop filtering capabilities
On Oct 25, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Jérôme MOLLIER-PIERRET wrote: You'll find our patch below, if it can help someone ... I'll put it in my personal patch queue for inclusion in a future release of vpopmail, but since I don't use maildrop, I may not include it unless others tell me it's worth adding. Please upload it to SourceForge http://vpopmail.sf.net/ so there's a permanent record of it out there, and someone searching for that functionality can use your patch until it's added to the release versions of vpopmail. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Qmail smtp oddity with vpopmail and chkuser
On Oct 27, 2006, at 7:06 AM, DAve wrote: mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## At this point qmail-smtpd just sits and never responds 250 ok The only difference is the colon after the mail from command. No colon and qmail-smtpd responds, a colon and it does not, ever. I narrowed it down to stock qmail works, and qmail + chkuser does not. It seems to make no difference which vpopmail I use. This is very odd to me because this configuration has passed millions of messages in the past two years. I see no reason why it should fail to respond to an incoming connection incorrectly now. Just as an FYI, RFC821 says you need angle brackets around the email address (and no space after the colon). Regardless, qmail-smtpd should come back. I just tried your test on my system (Shupp Toaster) and it came back fine. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] domain quotas
On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Jeff Koch wrote: I remember reading on the list some time ago that domain quotas didn't work. Has this been fixed? If so, are there any doc's on how this works? Specifically when the domain quotas is reached who is notified? I don't think domain quotas worked in any 5.4.x release, and they still don't work. When (and if) they did work, they could put a heavy load on the server if it had lots of mailboxes with lots of emails. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] Missing loop check in vdelivermail
I was quite surprised to learn that vdelivermail from vpopmail 5.4.13
and 5.4.17 (and probably most earlier releases) does not detect all
mail loops.
The checks are all performed when parsing .qmail files and the like.
In my particular situation, an Exchange server was picking up mail
from my server (via POP), and deciding to re-distribute it to
everyone in the To field (including the mailbox it picked mail
from). I ended up seeing messages in this mailbox with the same
Delivered-To line repeated dozens of times.
I've added a simple fix, which is to check the address right at the
start of main(). I've tested it, and it works. I'd really like to
rework the way Delivered-To headers are checked and added*, but don't
have the time to get into it now. For now, here's the patch if
anyone wants to try it out.
--- vdelivermail-orig.c 2006-06-29 12:36:43.0 -0700
+++ vdelivermail.c 2006-10-28 08:17:42.0 -0700
@@ -111,8 +111,14 @@
*/
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
+char loopcheck[255];
+
/* get the arguments to the program and setup things */
get_arguments(argc, argv);
+snprintf (loopcheck, sizeof(loopcheck), [EMAIL PROTECTED], TheUser,
TheDomain);
+if ( is_looping( loopcheck ) == 1 ) {
+vexiterr (EXIT_BOUNCE, mail is looping);
+}
#ifdef VALIAS
/* process valiases if configured */
--
Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/
QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
* I think vdelivermail should insert 1, maybe 2 Delivered-To headers
on each email. The first should be the raw email address from qmail-
local. The second should be the catchall address (or non-ext
address) of the mailbox that ultimately receives the email. The
ultimate delivery address would appear in the headers before the
envelope address.
Re: [vchkpw] Troubleshooting enable-roaming-users
On Nov 2, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: So my question should then be: How to get Courier SSL connections to pass the connect message to vpopmail? I assume this is an issue for IMAP and IMAP-SSL users as well. You probably just need to recompile/reinstall courier so it relinks libvpopmail and picks up the correct setting for roaming users. My guess is that your initial install didn't support roaming users, but you updated vpopmail later to enable it. libvpopmail is always statically linked (for now) so updating vpopmail requires updates to Courier-IMAP, QmailAdmin and any other app that links to libvpopmail. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Troubleshooting enable-roaming-users
On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:42 AM, Quinn Comendant wrote: Further research turned up some threads that indicate that this is maybe just not supported with courier anymore? Can anybody confirm this? Yes, that is correct. The vchkpw code embedded in courier-imap doesn't know the IP address of the end user, so it can't update the relay table. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] running sa-learn from valias
On Nov 7, 2006, at 4:51 AM, andrej wrote: are you sure its not working (adding the mail to spam/ham)? My guess is that the mail is still in the queue and cannot be delivered because after running your script its stuck because it has no more instructions on what to do with it. That should be easy to test by adding a valid mailbox (of fiddling with the script return code, but thats behind my qmail knowledge ;). Let me know if it works. It might be because your script to add it to the spam/ham database doesn't use an exit code that qmail-local understands. From `man qmail-command`: command’s exit codes are interpreted as follows: 0 means that the delivery was successful; 99 means that the delivery was successful, but that qmail-local should ignore all further delivery instructions; 100 means that the delivery failed permanently (hard error); 111 means that the delivery failed but should be tried again in a little while (soft error). What do you see in the qmail-send log when a message goes through the process? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vdeluser: Failed to delete user from auth backend / Error: Illegal username
On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Jarkko Ranta wrote: I have a problem: If I try to remove a user, it deletes the user from the MySQL-database but doesn't remove the directory structure from /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.tld/username and I get an error. If I try to create a user by a same virtual username, it fails because there is already such user. What version of vpopmail? I think we saw this problem during the 5.3.x development series... -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Error: Entry is out of order
On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:40 AM, Alessio Cecchi wrote: This is the first time that i see this error: scbs1:~# /home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain test.lan Please enter password for postmaster: enter password again: Entry is out of order: pippo.com vpopmail now sorts users/assign and other control files. The first time you run vadddomain, it sees that the file isn't sorted and so it sorts it. Unless you manually edit the files, you won't see the notices again. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ !DSPAM:455261c127411318765578!
Re: [vchkpw] Memleak when using vpopmail with mysql, but without --enable-mysql-limits. + patch
BTW, I just added Tijs's patch to vpopmail CVS yesterday, and it will be included in 5.4.18. -Tom On Nov 28, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: Sorry for the late reply, i simply missed your mail until now. I don't know if that's always the case, but in my case: Yes, authdaemond was statistically linked against vpopmail, and needed to be recompiled in order to remove the memory leak. - Tijs On 11/21/06, Dave Smulsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I applied that patch to the latest vpopmail, and its still consuming more and more memory... Is there something else you had to do to make the patch take? Did you have to recompile/install authdaemond too?? Thanks Dave
Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw works manually but not from vpopmail-authlib
On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: However, if I run vchkpw manually, it works great: vpopmail-authlib from Courier-IMAP doesn't actually run the vchkpw program. Make sure you compiled authlib AFTER compiling and installing vpopmail. If you changed anything in your vpopmail config, you need to recompile and reinstall authlib. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw works manually but not from vpopmail-authlib
On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Off Topic: Tom: Did that qmail patch for simscan work for you when your server gets overloaded (regarding duplicate messages when simscan takes to long to get back to the remote server and the remote server times out ?) I'm pretty sure it did -- I haven't heard anything from my users since installing it. I also installed a ucspi-tcp (tcpserver) patch from http:// linux.voyager.hr/ucspi-tcp/ that lets me limit simultaneous connections per IP or class C netblock, and based on server load. Right now, if the server load hits 7.00, I stop accepting mail on port 25. I continue to accept it on port 587 (which now requires AUTH, thanks to another patch) regardless of the system load. I've been able to up my concurrencyincoming from 10 to 25, since it will throttle under load but continue to accept connections if the current connections are slow. I also set up another server as backup MX with simscan/sa/clamav, mirrored vpopmail/domains and most qmail/control files (so chkuser works), and trust the mail that comes from that server. The backup MX also handles mail that we simply forward to some clients' Exchange servers, so that helped reduce my load as well. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] root owned maildirsize revisited
On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: vdelivermail, maildrop, qmail-local - none are setuid root. I see this on users that have pop/imap access closed off. So I think that means we're talking about something doing the delivery is doing this. So how do they pick up their email? Or are you saying that it happens on accounts where no one could possibly pick up the messages? What version of vpopmail are you using? I made some major changes to vdelivermail around 5.4.12 (or so) that may have improved handling of the maildirsize file, but since vdelivermail never runs as root, I don't see how it could rebuild the maildirsize file as root. To the best of my limited knowledge, vdelivermail will change maildirsize, as will the POP or IMAP server, but not much else. EXCEPT, vmoduser and some of the other command-line tools. Is it possible that an admin on the box is running one of the command-line tools to modify the user, resulting in the maildirsize file getting rebuilt? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] duplicate emails in simscan when remote server times out
On Nov 30, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Off Topic: Tom: Did that qmail patch for simscan work for you when your server gets overloaded (regarding duplicate messages when simscan takes to long to get back to the remote server and the remote server times out ?) I thought it did, but I just got a message that seems to indicate that it didn't. Someone emailing me got this error: Message delivery to the host '123.45.67.89' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'domain.com' for the following reason: The semaphore timeout period has expired. I checked my logs, and the virus scan took 12 seconds. Most of that (11s) was scanning the msg file, so I assume it took another 11s to ripmime it before calling clamav. I guess 23 seconds is a long time to wait for a response after ending the DATA part of an SMTP conversation. It could just be a bad timing thing where the other end drops the connection and simscan replies that it was received OK before it knows the connection closed. It might need some further testing by the simscan developers to find additional failure points. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] duplicate emails in simscan when remote server times out
On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Interesting. Do you have any idea what the remote email server was ? (The actual MTA I mean). Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.1830 Maybe an older version of Exchange that needs to be updated? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] 5.4.17 patches
On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a patch for implementing personal .qmail files (.qmail files inside the user directory and not just in the domain directory), I also have a variation on this patch to name these .vpopmail files. I also have a patch which implements alias line removal in valias.c (-r flag), removal of SQL aliases only and adding alias line removal in vpalias.c (function valias_remove()). I also have a patch which changes vpopmaild.c to use the new valias code (as requested in vpopmaild.c - as a comment). Does anyone want these patches - I did not want to litter the list with them. I had sent the first one to the list before which while it provoked a discussion got forgotten. I find them all VERY useful. We're definitely interested. I maintain the 5.4 releases, and have 5.4.18 waiting to be released. It includes a lot of changes by Rick Widmer, and patches by Peter Pentchev. I'm not sure I understand the first one though -- vdelivermail and qmailadmin already support a .qmail file in the user's directory. Are you talking about .qmail-extension files? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] 5.4.17 patches
Drew, The functionality added by these patches sounds great. If the code looks good I'll get them into the next release. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] .vpopmail-* instead of .qmail-*
On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Qmailadmin should read .vpopmail files before .qmail files and delete the .qmail file if it exists when the .vpopmail file is written. Effectively the files will be renamed as they are edited. Maybe there needs to be a ./configure option to disable the new file name. What do you think? If we go with that, should the user's .qmail file become .vpopmail- default? I think that it should be a configure option in vpopmail that cascades into QmailAdmin. We'll need to make it clear to the admin enabling the feature that they need to update their QmailAdmin as well. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified Rabbit Semiconductor Consultant based in Napa, California
Re: [vchkpw] 5.4.17 patches
On Dec 12, 2006, at 7:48 PM, John Simpson wrote: no, but my onchange patch (which is waiting to be included, hint, hint guys) will add a hook that you can use to send a welcome message whenever a mailbox is added. it's a much more generic mechanism, but it can be used with the appropriate scripting to do what you need. http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/vpopmail.shtml the only thing it's waiting on is for somebody (rick?) who knows how to edit the ./configure script to add an option to enable or disable it from the ./configure command line, and have that add lines to config.h... and then somebody (tom?) to add it to an official version of vpopmail. The squeaky wheel gets the grease... It's in my queue, and I hope to have some time to work on vpopmail and qmailadmin over the holidays. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Incorrect From address when using valias
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:16 AM, John Swarbrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail-smtpd]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.testserver.com ESMTP HELO me.com 250 mx1.testserver.com mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok data 354 go ahead Test . 250 ok 1166640551 qp 29612 The email correctly arrives in the mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so the alias worked) but the from address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - why isn't the from address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because you didn't include any headers in the DATA section of the SMTP conversation. Try adding From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and To: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] and maybe even a subject. Don't forget a blank line before the body (Test). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] onchange
On Dec 22, 2006, at 5:02 AM, John Simpson wrote: i think it's easier to just leave it as running a shell script- the concept is a lot easier for people to understand and administer. and again, unless you're running a huge ISP and have a steady stream of changes, the script isn't run so often that the overhead is worth worrying about. I'd have to agree with John. This fits well with djb's principle of having small programs interact with each other. There's no need to us to maintain pipe writing code like that in vpopmail. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] 5.4.18 release candidate
On Dec 23, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: - SQL backend fixes - Extend length of domain from 64 to 96 in all database backends. Add delete_spamassassin and delete_spam to the limits table. REQUIRES DATABASE STRUCTURE CHANGES! Since MySQL is the most common SQL backend, we should include the SQL statements (ALTER TABLE) someone would have to use to make the necessary changes. - MySQL backquotes around table names so you can use a digit as the first character. - Don't update the relay CDB for statically covered addresses. (extended version.) Do we have to worry about a race condition where I do my POP pickup and the relay CDB isn't updated with the new timestamp (since I'm in there from an earlier pickup) but the entry expires before my SMTP starts? I don't think I've ever used the pop-before-smtp feature, so I'm not sure on the details of how it works... -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] creating a custom field in vpopmail
On Dec 28, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Yahoo User wrote: Hi all, im trying to modify the source to add a custom field when a user is created... IE... on the web admin when u create a new user the admin is also asked to put an ID number in... just a simple field, so here goes my theory, i did a search on all source files for gecos, then i created similar fields. ie instead of pw_gecos i would add pw_idnumber... i finish editing all the files and i get unusual errors when i try to compile. Errors such as. You're in luck -- the pw_uid field isn't used by vpopmail, so you can re-use it for your needs. If you're a non-programmer, it won't be easy to get it to show up in QmailAdmin though. You might be able to pay one of the QmailAdmin developers on the list qmailadmin-devel (go to http:// qmailadmin.sf.net/ for subscription info) to do it for you. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] A vpopmail farm/NFS framework?
On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:37 PM, DAve wrote: front-end (target)- NFS (source) --- /home/vpopmail/domains - /shared/vdomains /var/qmail/control - /shared/qmail-control /usr/local/www - /shared/webmail /var/tmp - /shared/webmail-sessions Don't forget /var/qmail/users as well. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Further thoughts on my localrelay patch
On Jan 3, 2007, at 10:48 AM, John Simpson wrote: there does need to be a way to set what gets added to the smtpd access control file for dynamic entries. i'm not sure that highjacking an existing option is the right way to do it, nor do i think it should be a configure option. i think it makes more sense to let it be configured at run time- something like read the first line of a ~vpopmail/etc/_ file and use that. I like the idea of an environment variable -- no overhead from reading it from a file every time vchkpw runs. You can also customize it per connection if necessary. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Rename user's .qmail to .vpopmail
On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Rick Widmer wrote: I did not see any objections on changing to .vpopmail* files in user but not domain directories. If anyone does object, now is the time. Files in ~vppopmail/domains/user_name/ are executed by vdelivermail and will be renamed. Files in ~vpopmail/domains/ will stay .qmail and are executed by qmail-local. Vdelivermail will look for .vpopmail files and .qmail files in the users directory. If both exist, only the .vpopmail file will be executed. If it does not check the sticky bit and defer messages like qmail- local it needs to. Editing a user .qmail file with the library should result in it being renamed to .vpopmail. If both exist, the .qmail file is ignored. UPGRADE will recommend running Jeremy's script to bulk rename the files when you install. I don't see a huge reason to change to .vpopmail. Yes, it's true that vdelivermail is responsible for parsing it, but we're using identical syntax to a .qmail file. Looking at the old source, it appears that someone was working on a replacement for qmail-local that would understand the vpopmail setup. Here's where I get worried: QmailAdmin and (I think) SquirrelMail plugins and who-knows-what-else already make use of .qmail files. Now that .qmail files are fully supported in vpalias.c, we can update QmailAdmin to use the vpopmail API to work with the files, and it won't know anything about their contents. I do worry about version compatibility though -- someone running new vpopmail and old qmailadmin. I see limited benefit to changing at this point. If we're going to make vdelivermail more and more like qmail-local, then I'm for keeping the .qmail filenames. Tom Collins Tom Logic LLC PO Box 5717 Napa, CA 94581 (707) 265-6622 (707) 265-6646 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Rename user's .qmail to .vpopmail
(sorry for not including this in my last email) On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Rick Widmer wrote: I still want to change files to .vpopmail, unless they go out of their way to disable it. I think Charles Cazabon's objection to .qmail files that are executed by vdelivermail is a strong enough reason to do so. I want to eliminate as many of his objections to vpopmail as I can. Who the heck is Charles Cazabon and why should I care that he thinks our files shouldn't be called .qmail? Vpopmail is an add-on to Qmail -- let's just rename vdelivermail to qmail-vpop... If vdelivermail handled the file identically to the way qmail-local does, would he be OK with that? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] The future of valias other topics
On Jan 6, 2007, at 12:26 AM, John Simpson wrote: as for making .vpopmail* files fully compatible with .qmail* files, that could also be a good thing- however the interface (in terms of which environment variables will be passed to scripts run from the .vpopmail file, what values will be contained in those variables, and how the return values will be interpreted) should be not only documented, but made to be as compatible as possible with what qmail-local would pass to a script in the .qmail file of a system account mailbox. this way if somebody has to transition a domain from being system accounts to being managed by vpopmail, there should be no changes to the files or scripts (as long as they are using the environment variables properly, as opposed to hard- coding path names into the script- which we all know users do.) Except they would need to rename all of the .qmail-ext files in the user's directory to .vpopmail-ext. i respect charles and his opinion about .qmail and .vpopmail files... but making charles happy is not a primary goal of vpopmail, and it's certainly not an excuse to unsafely force this change on all of the existing vpopmail systems out there. i think it makes more sense to explain the situation to the administrators, provide them with a tool to manually rename the files en masse (and identify any problem cases where both .qmail and .vpopmail files already exist) and TELL them that it should be done- but the final decision about whether and when to do the change should be left in the hands of the administrator of each system. of course i would also remove the either/or filename logic from the NEXT version of vpopmail, so that if they haven't renamed the files, they become broken and it's their own fault. How about this -- make it a configure option. People who want to call them .vpopmail can choose that option and run the tool to do the conversion. People who want to continue using .qmail (like me) can easily do so. Seriously, I don't see any advantages for vpopmail admins to use .vpopmail instead of .qmail, other than it makes clear which files are parsed by .qmail-local and which are parsed by vdelivermail. (2) change all of the database back-ends to store their aliases in the filesystem. while this allows these users to control the sequence in which the delivery instructions will be processed, it TAKES AWAY their current ability to maintain the contents of their aliases by doing SQL queries, and FORCES them to have to edit a file on the filesystem in order to maintain their aliases. the second option would certainly be easier to write (only one set of maintenance functions involved.) however, if there are users who NEED to have the alias lines stored in a database, and they are willing to adjust their own systems to deal with a sequence field, then there is no reason (other than time constraints) that we can't store everything in a database. This already exists -- no need to write it. Just compile with -- disable-valias. i've already written pseudo-code for the framework of each maintenance operation, the only thing preventing me from turning that into real working code at this point is free time, and the lack of a consensus about how it will be handled (i.e. i don't want to write code which won't actually be used.) if there are users out there who NEED to have the alias lines stored in their database back-ends, we CAN make that happen. granted, it means more coding and more testing, which means it'll probably take a little longer to finish, but if it makes the program usable to more people, isn't that the important thing? I've pictured this in my head as well, and I agree with John that we should add a sequence field to the existing table, then add the tools to support it properly. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Rename user's .qmail to .vpopmail
On Jan 6, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Rick Widmer wrote: Tom Collins wrote: Now that .qmail files are fully supported in vpalias.c, we can update QmailAdmin to use the vpopmail API to work with the files, and it won't know anything about their contents. I'm planning on it. I may even have it done in some of the old code I have around here. I was working on unifying aliases when Ken released the daemon. Please let me do it -- I'm in the middle of working with some guys on making QmailAdmin skinnable with css. I know where to make the change, because I remember when I added valias support to QmailAdmin and had to leave some code in to handle dotqmail files. I'd bet a little bit that we are there already, I think extension handling was the last missing piece. I compared vdelivermail.c with man qmail-local and nothing stood out. Before I say they _are_ the same I'll have to compare the source code of both and do some testing. Since it took a week to write my last message, I make no promises when that will happen... maybe I'll just wait till someone discovers a difference. Do you think it would be possible for vdelivermail to set up the environment variables correctly and then call qmail-local on the virtual user's directory? Just a thought. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] The future of valias other topics
On Jan 6, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Yes there will be a sequence field in the table. The question is how do we add the tools. Do we break the existing alias interface, or do we provide an alternate interface for when order is important, leaving all existing code intact. I'm working on a reply to John on this, but it may be a day or two... If the order isn't specified, it's added to the end. Create a new function in libvpopmail and new switches to the valias program to specify order. The old function just becomes a call to the new function. Include a define or configure check in QmailAdmin to see if they new API is present and, if so, show an interface to the user for it. Or, to make things easier, that QmailAdmin can require a minimum version of vpopmail. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] onauth API
Guys, If you're on the vpopmail-devel list on Sourceforge, it would be a great place to take these discussions. They're good discussions to have, but I think it helps to keep discussions of the nitty-gritty details separate from the general user list. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] qmail-tap installation issue
On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Facundo Barrera - GMail wrote: any ideas how to solute this?? You want -p1 instead of -p0. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] how use chkuser on dmz
On Jan 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Miki wrote: Ho I can handle it ? Chkuser is working fine when are domains on server, but how I can check user existency on remote server ? FYI: rsync of passwd.cdb is ok, but how check against aliases ? rsync ~vpopmail/domains but have it ignore any directory with Maildir in the name. That way you won't be syncing gigabytes of email. As Rick mentioned, mirror the /var/qmail/control/* and /var/qmail/ users/* files, *except* for /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Error: Illegal username
On Jan 15, 2007, at 7:19 AM, martin wrote: cd /home/vpopmail/bin ./vpasswd [EMAIL PROTECTED] password Error: Illegal username domain and user still exists. Tried other users in the domain and the second domain It fails with Error: Illegal username on all attempts. Is domain in /var/qmail/users/assign? Does vuserinfo work? Can you see the domain and it's vpasswd file in ~vpopmail/domains (exact directory will be listed in /var/qmail/users/assign)? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail max quota of 2GB
On Jan 15, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Iulian Liviu Ionescu wrote:
It seems that there's a limit in quota at 2GB. What are the options
available to have mail accounts with more than 4 GB quota?
One options: rewrite the Maildir++ patches for qmail and POP/IMAP
servers, along with vpopmail's quota support code to use a larger
variable type to store the sizes (long long?). It might be possible
to work around it with a hack of storing message sizes in bytes, but
the total of the sizes (and the user's quota) in KB. This would get
you up to 2TB quotas.
foreach message_size do {
bytes += message_size;
kbytes += bytes / 1024;
bytes = bytes % 1024;
}
I'm sure that at the time it was written, 2GB seemed like an insane
quota for a mailbox. Unfortunately it's now a realistic number.
Keep in mind that if you've got 2GB mailboxes, it probably requires
lots of resources to recalculate disk usage. Consider running a
nightly cronjob that calculates disk usage for all email users and
warns the ones who are over quota. If they stay over for a certain
period, bill them or turn their account off.
Not a pretty solution, but I'm afraid there's no easy way to support
quotas over 2GB.
--
Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/
QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Change/Rename all users to new domain
On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Juliano Souza - Tecnologia wrote: I have 300 users at the domain anyexample.net, we register a new domain called example.net. But the users authenticate via imap using [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I want to change/rename all the users to the new domain example.net , so the user are now [EMAIL PROTECTED], and authenticate using this account. How I can change transparently the method of auth and internal delivery (qmail/vpopmail) ? vaddaliasdomain anyexample.net example.net -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Change/Rename all users to new domain
On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Juliano Souza - Tecnologia wrote: I know about it, but it is incoming mails, if the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] send an email for the internet, the receiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] see the origin via anyexample.net, not example.net To fix that, you'll need to get the users to update their email client. I don't know of any way to have qmail rewrite headers on outbound email... -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Better smtp logs
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Max Esquivel wrote: Is there any way to configure the smtp log to show which account is being logged in or auth'ed to send, sort of like what the pop log shows? Take a look at the chkuser patch http://www.interazioni.it/ opensource/chkuser/. It will log the SMTP envelope information, including what account authenticated. It also rejects email to non- existent users at the SMTP level, instead of waiting for it to get to vdelivermail and generate a bounce. Also consider simscan http://inter7.com/simscan/. It logs the sender, recipient, ip address and subject line of messages considered spam. You could modify it to log more headers if chkuser isn't giving you enough. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Moving vpop virtual acounts to another server
On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Claas Langbehn wrote: sure there is. You need to copy ~vpopmail/domains to the new server. That countains all accounts and data. To make qmail know about them you need to copy /var/qmail/users/*, /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and /var/qmail/control/morercpthosts, too. Jst in case, check the directories under /var/qmail/ for special configs on your system. You forgot /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail smtp-auth
DAve, I think you've found a bug in vchkpw. For some reason, it wants to create the user's directory if it doesn't already exist. This could be related to updating the lastauth file in the user's directory. Disabling AUTH_LOGGING on that system will help, but you'll still have code trying to create the directory. Go into login_virtual_user() and get rid of everything from the comment, If thier directory path is empty make them a new one to right before #ifdef CLEAR_PASS. Let me know if that works, and I'll make changes to the release version. That code could probably be permanently removed -- the user's directory is created by vdelivermail when necessary. vchkpw doesn't need to be doing it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] [SPAM] Re: [vchkpw] [SPAM] valias dont authenticate! helpzz
On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I give this command: mailz#valias -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] But, When I do an telnet localhost 143: -a login [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass -a NO Login failed. valias is used for email forwarding, and it can forward messages to any address (including remote servers). Logins only work for POP/ IMAP mailboxes. vaddaliasdomain creates a domain alias, which is treated just like the real domain name in almost all cases. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ !DSPAM:45f7014c19878534716275!
Re: [vchkpw] admin forwards via email
On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote: I advocate giving separate email addresses to everyone possible. Meaning if you're signing up for an account with a new site called BigFancySite.tld, i'd give them the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then I'd create a forward called bigfancysite.tld and send it to my main mailbox. This is useful because it's an instant way to see who's given out your email address as well as being able to turn off the address with ease. I've just advised users to use extended addresses. As in email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it automatically go into [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, a person could probably figure out your real email address, but in most cases you're looking at automated systems. I guess that spambots might get smart and try dropping the -whatever and +whatever extensions on some email addresses at some point... Either way, your script looks like a cool way to add a forward. Should I add it to vpopmai's contrib directory? Do you want to wait a few weeks for feedback, make updates, and then have it added? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Re: chkuser wrongly accept emails for default@
On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:31 AM, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: I suggest also to introduce a new notation for rejecting users/ aliases with a custom message (i.e.: reject user has changed address. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This would be a lot more useful than barely put a generic bounce string. Until that's a part of chkuser, Stephane (and others) can use qmail's bouncesaying program in their .qmail-alias files. # cat .qmail-someaddress |/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 'user has changed address. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Please be aware that vdelivermail should ONLY be in a domain's .qmail- default file. Putting it into a .qmail-alias file or a user's .qmail file can introduce a mail loop (which vdelivermail should detect and stop looping) and probably won't accomplish what you want it to. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Farewell
On May 14, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. And it was great to meet Michael as well. Those of you who weren't using vpopmail before 2003 probably don't realize how many improvements were made back in the 5.3 days. Michael helped out considerably with documentation and making code changes to prevent buffer overflows. Take a look a the ChangeLog entries from 5.3.20 to 5.4.0 to get an idea of how much Michael helped me in improving vpopmail. Thanks for your help Michael, and if you find a suitable replacement for vpopmail that works with postfix, let us know about it! -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries
On Jun 24, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Selling a commercial product that includes vpopmail code is exactly what the GPL license is designed to prevent. Why should you get to sell our labor without paying us? What if QmailAdmin had been written as a proprietary, commercial app? Would the GPL have prevented someone from doing that? IANAL, but I don't think that linking libvpopmail and using it's API would necessarily force a program to be GPL. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Rules on linking against the vpopmail libraries
On Jun 25, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Rick Widmer wrote: I think it would because QmailAdmin includes vpopmail code at the linker level which requires it to be under the GPL license too. Late linking with .so files is acceptable, because the product does not include GPL code, and only links to an existing copy at run time. That effect is why he wants the vpopmail library to be under LGPL, but it is not. Vpopmail does make .so files now, but there are configuration options that change the library interface. If Bert can dictate to the customer what vpopmail ./configure options to use it should work. If various customers demand different settings he may need to compile a different version of his program for each. I don't know what options are safe to change and what will be a problem. Perhaps Bert could contribute to vpopmail to make it a dynamically linked library (.a instead of .so?), and to work in a way where programs like QmailAdmin don't need to pull information from Vpopmail's config.h file in order to compile correctly. I'd really like to see that in vpopmail's future, so it would theoretically be possible to upgrade vpopmail without having to recompile qmailadmin, qmail-smtpd (for the chkuser patch) and whatever other apps have a statically linked vpopmail in them. Of course, if the company Bert is working for is just going to use this software internally, then he might be OK as well (again, IANAL). I thought GPL only came into play when you sold and/or distributed binaries to other people. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] alias .qmail-default do not work, qmail complains message_is_looping
On Jul 7, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Shaohui Zheng wrote: 4. I replace /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local with /home/vpopmail/bin/vqmaillocal(by following the installation docs) if I do not replace, .qmail-default can work, but I can not recevie any mail. after I install vpopmail, I try to send a mail to an nonexist account like this Don't use vqmaillocal. It hasn't been kept up to date, and is no longer supported. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Using vdelivermail
On Jul 13, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Bounce-no-mailbox is no longer recommended, as it allows your mail server to be used in Joe-Jobs. It now seems better to delete all mail to invalid addresses rather than spamming the random senders used by spam-bots. I still recommend bounce-no-mailbox, certainly if you have the qmail- smtpd chkuser patch installed. It's the best way to reject bogus emails at the SMTP level and avoid wasting resources on spam/virus scanning. With chkuser, is it possible to pull a joe-job? The spammer connects directly to my SMTP server, but I reject it at the SMTP level instead of generating a bounce that I then try to deliver to the actual target (the forged sender of the message). Please reconsider that recommendation. Perhaps some discussion on the list is in order... -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web- based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] chkuser in my secondary MX
On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Jean Carlos Oliveira Guandalini wrote: I need run chkuser in my secondary MX server. I followed the following steps: snip but it does not function. On the backup MX, the domain should be in rcpthosts (or morercpthosts which builds morercpthosts.cdb) and users/assign (which builds to users/cdb). It should NOT be in virtualdomains and it does not need to be in smtproutes if your primary server has a lower MX record than the backup server. If you're using the CDB-backend, you'll probably want to copy the whole ~vpopmail/domains over, excluding Maildir directories, so chkuser will work. And you'll probably want to rsync it every so often so new users and aliases go across. I rsync the whole ~vpopmail/domains directory each night so I have an off-site backup of email as well. Here's what I rsync every 5 minutes, script runs on primary mx, and I've added the primary mx's ssh key to mx2's authorized_keys file: rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=Maildir --delete --exclude=lastauth \ /home/vpopmail/domains/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/vpopmail/domains/ rsync -azl --numeric-ids /var/qmail/users [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/ qmail/ rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=*.lock \ /var/qmail/control/*hosts* /var/qmail/control/smtproutes \ /var/qmail/control/badmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/qmail/control/ I guess if I was backing up Maildirs as well, throughout the day, I could failover to that server should the primary die a horrible death. I'd have to copy the virtualdomains file, stop the rsync, and update DNS so the backup had the lowest MX record. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] CRAM-MD5 vchkpw problem
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Selander wrote: I've set up SMTP AUTH and AUTH LOGIN works without problems, however when i try to login with mozilla thunderbird (which as far as i know uses CRAM-MD5), the login fails with the error message: Aug 28 14:39:30 mail vpopmail[16420]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail (pass: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]') [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 127.0.0.1 As if it uses the CRAM challenge as the password or something? I run vpopmail 5.4.17-6 (debian package from http:// wiki.debian.iuculano.it/quick_howto) You've got the wrong AUTH patch to qmail-smtpd. Use the one from vpopmail contrib. A long time ago I had considered modifying vchkpw to try swapping the challenge and response if the first pw check failed, but I don't think I ever got around to trying it. That would allow vchkpw to work with both the old patch (which passed the challenge and response in the wrong order) and the current one. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Feature Request - vmoduser addition
On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Quey wrote: Is it possible to have vmoduser modified so that changing a password with a new -$option changes both encrypted and clear text passwords in one run? It already does that. When you set the clear password, it also updates the encrypted password. I can't think of a time when you'd use the option to set the encrypted password directly, but it's there in case someone needs it... -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Mysql table
On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: If I remember right, speed was the reason for separate tables, but testing showed it was not faster. I think the single table works better because all your mail users are accessing the same table, and its indexes so they stay loaded all the time. If you use separate tables it is always thrashing the cache as different files need to be accessed. If we were really looking for speed, we could move to a ng (next generation) table format that was more relational. Provide tools to migrate from the old to the new for those people who only access the data through vpopmail's APIs. Continue to support the old method for people who have home-grown apps that access the data. The domains should be in a table of their own, and the users table should index the domains table. Having an index in the users table on an int (and the resulting size savings) would be measurable. The biggest change would be updating the selects and inserts in the code. Not a huge change -- just a join between the tables. Something to consider, and perhaps discuss further (on this list or vpopmail-devel). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] 5.4.22 + Qmailadmin...is it going to be fixed ?
On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: There is a patch for qmailadmin on SourceForge. Its tracker number is [1795973]. On the other hand, this weekend I will release 5.4.23 that backs out the change that caused this problem. I want a stable release that does not require any changes to existing code before the next batch of innovation. Thanks for that -- I'm going to try to make a QmailAdmin release, and that patch to QmailAdmin isn't really a proper solution. You'll get compiler errors from the implicit declaration of readuserquota (since it's been removed from the .h). One solution would be to keep readuserquota() as it is, and create a new function to replace it (if that's necessary). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Mysql table
On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Comments? I think we'll get better domain alias support if you pull column `domain` out of table `Domains` and add it to the table `domain_alias`. Domain name to domain on the system is a many to one relationship, so the name should be in a separate table. I'm not sure we need to have a master and alias -- the names can all be equal with this setup. I mention it because it reduces lookups to a single query (or at least a simpler query). Instead of needing to check for the domain name in one of two tables, you just check one. Apologies if this SQL has any MySQL-flavored syntax... SELECT `user`.`password`, `user`.`flags` FROM `domain_name`, `domain`, `users` WHERE `domain_name`.`domain_id` = `domain`.`domain_id` AND `user`.`domain_id` = `domain`.`domain_id` AND `domain_name`.`name` = '%s' AND `user`.`name` = '%s' You might even want to have the limits fields go into a separate table, with one entry in that table declared default. That way, domains with default entries can all point to that single row in the limits table. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Shared libvpopmail thoughts
On Sep 25, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Joshua Megerman wrote: Perhaps the first step is to document the API as it currently stands, and give people the option to build a shared library with the caviat that if you reconfigure vpopmail, you need to rebuild those things that link against it. That would be a 5.5 branch, since it doesn't change the current functionality (much). Then we can in parallel start developing the truly stable API and other changes that will become 6.0, and when we do we can increment libvpopmail.so to indicate the ABI difference. I would love to see this happen, but it is going to take a considerable amount of work. I'm willing to provide lots of input on the API, but really don't have time to contribute actual code. I can help out with documenting some of the ways that QmailAdmin interfaces with vpopmail. Getting a new version of QmailAdmin to compile to a shared vpopmail lib with a single vpopmail.h to describe the API would be great. As it is now, QmailAdmin actually uses vpopmail's config.h file at build time. That will definitely have to go. If we use two different names, could we retain backward compatibility by building a libvpopmail the way we do now (statically linked, apps may use vpopmail's config.h, etc.) in addition to the new-style, shared library with a well-defined API? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Shared libvpopmail thoughts
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:06 AM, John Simpson wrote: the idea of splitting the domains and mailboxes into different directories has been around forever, there's no excuse for somebody to not have made the adjustment by now. I'm all for keeping it, but someone should fix it. On my server, with a cdb backend, I have the following structure: main directory: 65 domains 0: 25 domains 1: 2 domains 2: 2 domains 3: 0 domains 4: 3 domains 5: 44 domains Just for reference, here's the .dir-control file for that server: 116 0 3 0 0 0 61 61 61 0 2 2 5 0 0 5 I'd love to see vadddomain do a better job of back-filling domains. Maybe vadddomain and vdeldomain could work together to keep directories at a balanced level. Keep track of the next directory to fill in a file (which needs to be protected by a file lock). The .dir-control file is supposed to work that way. On vdeldomain, if the domain came out of a directory less than the next_directory, update next_directory. On vadddomain, if next_directory has 100 domains after the addition, scan forward until you find a directory with 100 domains and update next_directory. It should be possible to make the code generalized enough to work for the domains directory and the individual domain directories (for managing users via vuseradd and vuserdel). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Possible problem with nested pipes in vpopmail 5.4.18?
On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Tren Blackburn wrote: However as soon as I append another pipe like so: cat .qmail-default |/home/vpopmail/etc/qmail-pipe |/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox (I'm working offline, so apologies if an answer has already shown up on the list). If qmail-pipe doesn't alter the contents of the message, then you wan this: cat .qmail-default |/home/vpopmail/etc/qmail-pipe |/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox With that setup, qmail-pipe's exit code will tell qmail-local to defer delivery if necessary. If it does alter the contents, then you want to make sure you're not passing any output to vdelivermail. I'm not an expert on pipes, but you may have to break the pipeline somehow for the qmail-pipe exit code to get through to qmail-local. Otherwise, it really doesn't matter how qmail-pipe exits, the message will continue to flow through the pipeline. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.4.24 released
On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:02 AM, DAve wrote: I am not a developer, and I didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. I would like to know what is going on and just maybe, when I am certain it may be a good thing, comment. Could I subscribe to the dev list? I would absolutely understand a no answer and not give it a second thought. I think if you go to the vpopmail Sourceforge page (see my .sig) you can find the link to subscribe. The developer list is open to anyone who's interested. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail or qmail problem?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:19 PM, John Simpson wrote: and knowing qmail like i do, i suspect there's nothing wrong with qmail-local except maybe some error or warning condition that it's silently ignoring, where we might wish it would complain about, so we know what's happening and can fix it. My quick guess: .qmail-bob-clamav is a blank file, when you really want a single line with # and nothing else. Blank files are ignored; a file with a comment will be treated like delete. If you want to go even further, take a look at the bouncesaying program that's a part of qmail. You can use it to bounce messages for a particular address with a message of your choice. - -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHAyzLve7eT9VwhJURAqbSAJ9+ec4cQbhWgqc8pzq9hf+c6gXxFQCeJtj3 httVt1yz3q31XBSK/Rmmjmg= =3+dY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail or qmail problem?
On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Andy wrote: jedi padawan.org # cat .qmail-kindred-clamav | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete There's your mistake. What's happening is qmail-local hands the message off to vdelivermail (because you told it to), which looks for an account kindred-clamav (which it does not find), then an account named kindred (which it does) and then delivers to kindred. domain.com/.qmail-alias files are only read/processed by qmail- local. vdelivermail only looks at accounts (in whatever backend you're using) and possibly valias entries in a database. Rick, can you put this somewhere in the documentation: VDELIVERMAIL SHOULD ONLY APPEAR IN YOUR .qmail-default FILE. IF YOU PUT IT ELSEWHERE, IT WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU EXPECT IT TO DO. Solution: echo # .qmail-kindred-clamav Or to bounce the email: echo |/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 'Invalid account' .qmail- kindred-clamav -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?
One of my hosting servers has become overwhelmed with processing inbound mail, and it's affecting the web and POP/IMAP hosting too much. I feel that it will be easier to move spam/virus scanning off to another machine than it will be to try splitting my customers across two servers (I do not want to move web and email hosting for a bunch of domains). I'm currently considering a VPS (virtual private server) solution, and it looks like I'll be fine with a server that provides 512MB of RAM and a minimal amount of disk space. Can anyone recommend a hosting company that they've been happy with? My plan is to do a full Shupp Toaster install, but leave out apache and SquirrelMail. I'll use rsync from my main server to sync ~vpopmail/domains (minus Maildir directories) so chkuser will work. I'll sync the appropriate files from /var/qmail/control, and add an smtproutes file built from the rcpthosts and morercpthosts files (it will just point to my server's IP). If, over time, the VPS becomes overloaded, I should be able to pay for a larger resource allocation with my VPS provider, or just duplicate the VPS and start another instance with it's own IP and have equally-weighted MX records point to each. I'd probably even host the VPS copy with a different provider for redundancy. Thoughts? Recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
[vchkpw] chkuser and qmail ext
What am I doing wrong with my chkuser setup? I want to have an alias of .qmail-fred, yet allow email to be accepted for .qmail-fred-something. I'm using chkuser 2.0.8. Do I need to create .qmail-fred-default and define CHKUSER_ENABLE_ALIAS_DEFAULT? I have CHKUSER_ENABLE_USERS_EXTENSIONS defined, but it only seems to apply for users and not aliases. If I have a .qmail-fred-default, will email for fred come in, or will it only work for fred-something? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
