Re: [courier-users] Courier 20031219

2003-12-20 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:54:56AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: ??? A content search of some Chinese text may result in the server reporting an internal error, and existing. wiseassI'm guessing exiting?/wiseass -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years

Re: [courier-users] courier solution

2003-09-22 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:42:10PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: As a postfix user, setting up a box for another bussiness that plans to handle 15 or so domains, I've begun implementation of the ole trusty postfix+courier-imap+mysql+maildrop+sqWebmail solution. It dawned on me, I have never

Re: [courier-users] Maildir file modification utility

2003-07-31 Thread Peter C. Norton
( echo #!/bin/bash [ x = x$1 ] exit echo touch -d \\$( egrep '^Date: ' $1 | head -1 | sed 's/^Date: //')\ $1' ) /tmp/timechange.sh chmod +x /tmp/timechange.sh find /path/to/maildirs -type f | xargs -n 1 /tmp/timechange.sh This is untested, and it won't be fast, but if you only need to

Re: [courier-users] Accepting alternative ATs in email addresses during login - patch

2003-06-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
I think this'd be a nice feature, since it will prevent duplicate entries in the database. I can consider using unique constraints for users id's again with this. -Peter On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:48:08AM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote: I am sending a patch to make Courier accept alternative ATs

Re: [courier-users] Re: Accepting alternative ATs in email addresses during login - patch

2003-06-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:41:44AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: If you need compatibility with old Netscape 4.x mail clients in your environment (I'm not aware of any other mail client that's unable to handle @ characters in login addresses), then you should simply keep this as a local

Re: [courier-users] Re: Courier TOO good

2003-05-29 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:24:48PM +0200, Lars Holmstr??m wrote: The company I work for have customers that once a week, or a couple of times per week, would like to send out a LARGE number of emails with basically identical content. Large for them, is around 500.000 emails. Yes, they are

Re: [courier-users] imap accessing maildir and failing

2003-04-12 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:43:01PM -0400, Thad Marsh wrote: It is creating .deleted items above Maildir [...] Where else should I look??? It looks like your 'maildir' column is set to the same directory as your 'home' column. Change 'maildir' to be $HOME/Maildir (or whatver name you're using

Re: [courier-users] Can not login via pop3, please help

2003-04-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:54:52AM -0500, Gary MacKay wrote: Thanks Mike! Yup, tried all that. I even changed the DEBUG setting in the imapd and pop3d config files to 5 but nothing new is added to the log files. I restarted it also. No difference. Very hard to debug something with no help

Re: [courier-users] User unknown problem

2003-04-02 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:35:32PM +0400, ? ?? wrote: Hi list! I have courier-0.42 with authmysql. I have properly configured authmysqlrc file and have entries in Mysql DB. When i send test mail to my host i have an error: Apr 2 03:03:30 netfuncards sm-mta[81030]: h32UIWm081030:

Re: [courier-users] Turning off logging

2003-04-02 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:35:12PM +0200, Alain NAKACHE wrote: At 15:48 02/04/03 +, William Hue wrote: True. Courier is not the friendliest of programs when it comes to control of logging; however, not many programs are ultra-flexible about logging. Perhaps Sam could set a new

Re: [courier-users] Re: RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-12 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:47:36AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Sounds good in principle, but keep in mind that not everyone who uses open source software is capable of making changes to a complex piece of C code. I am a system administrator, not a programmer. The difference between the two is

Re: [courier-users] problem with courier imap/pop performance

2003-03-12 Thread Peter C. Norton
Have you tuned slowlaris to allow as many processes as you need per user? Have you tuned your network settings with ndd so you don't have sockets sitting and waiting for days for a fin+ack that windows' ip stack won't send? Have you enabled noatime on your mail spool dir? -Peter On Wed, Mar

Re: [courier-users] IMAP directory error

2003-02-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
Its documented. It uses the home column + /Maildir/ or it obeys the content of the home column + a .courier file or, if there's something in the maildir column in the database it uses that instead. -Peter On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:00:24PM -0800, Joseph Turley wrote: When I try to log into the

Re: [courier-users] Server Load

2003-02-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
What processes are running. When you run top what is showing up? -Peter On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:30:47PM -0500, Ogden Nefix wrote: Hi, I have a few questions regarding the server load on our mail server. A few weeks ago, the server load would always rise with Sendmail and Courier

Re: [courier-users] Server Load

2003-02-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:55:36PM -0500, Ogden Nefix wrote: Thank you for the replies... You really dont give enough information for anybody to help. Post at least one screen full, and information about cpu, disks, pop-users. The CPU is a 1Ghz Pentium III and the hard drives are SCSI.

Re: [courier-users] Re: Please help make stalls on courier-0.40.2.20030119

2003-01-31 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:17:40PM -0800, Greg Earle wrote: The reason this happens is because the libauth1.sh and libauth2.sh scripts in authlib call the tr program. There are two different tr binaries - /usr/bin/tr and /usr/ucb/tr: -r-xr-xr-x 1 binbin 15684 Oct 6 1998

Re: [courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:11:29AM +0100, Johan Lindh wrote: Well, if the goal is to eliminate race conditions, this still won't do the trick. Remember one of my early mails about this, Sam? Before we took it to the list. Can you explain how the inode becomes not-a-unique identifier on the

Re: [courier-users] Re: inode not unique enough?

2003-01-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Seriously, I'd still appreciate documentation in the man pages somewhere. I demand that qmail's maildir(5) be fixed, so consequently, I'll have to ask that the Postfix man pages be fixed as well. I'm willing to write up the

Re: [courier-users] MBX to Maildir

2002-12-13 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:08:22AM -0700, Nick Couchman wrote: I'm switching my IMAP server to Courier and am having some conversion problems. I was previously using the University of Washington's IMAP server with MBX (NOT MBOX, they are different) formatted mail boxes. Now I need to convert

Re: [courier-users] Saving sent mail on the IMAP server (offtopic?)

2002-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:51:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to store the mail he sends into the folders named 2002-12-Sent/, 2003-01-Sent/ and so on too? I'm using the Sendmail (because it's delivered with OpenBSD by default) as MTA if it matters That's a mail client

[courier-users] MAILUSER overwriting From header

2002-11-06 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'm using courier-0.37.3 from debian woody. I'm seeing behaviour that if I send a prepared message to a set of users, and I want to VERP the message, I can't use the MAILUSER or related environment variables to set the envelope from, because if I do that the email address in the From header (not

Re: [courier-users] Re: Courier vs. japanese

2002-11-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:13:27AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Peter C. Norton writes: If the mail's contents consists only of seven-bit characters, transfer encoding can be 7bit. Since it seems to be munged somewhere, I suspect that its not 7-bit. But I could be wrong. I'll try to get

[courier-users] Courier vs. japanese

2002-11-04 Thread Peter C. Norton
What's normally involved in receiving email from users of japanese mail clients? I am getting what seems to be garbled email through a courier server from an exchange server. One thing that bothers me is that in the transfers the content-transfer-encoding is 7bit, but the content-type is

Re: [courier-users] Run courier-imap as non-root user

2002-11-02 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:02:33PM +0100, Peter Hanusiak wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:57:04AM +, Brian Candler wrote: Under FreeBSD, there is a '-m' option to su which makes the login happen as _your_ shell rather than the account's shell. I don't know about other OSes.

Re: [courier-users] Re: 432 w/ sendmail and webmail, EOF from submit

2002-10-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
You should attach to the process as root, or replace the binary with a script along the lines of: # mv binary binary.real # echo '#!/bin/sh' binary # echo 'exec strace -ff -s 256 -o /tmp/binary.trace binary.real $*' binary That should give you a file in /tmp called binary.trace, and a seperate

Re: [courier-users] Re: Restrict some users to local delivery only??

2002-10-08 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:47:07PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to restrict only some user to be able to email only other users on the same local domain?? No. Or rather, how good a programmer are you, and how much do you like to program?

Re: [courier-users] Re: Maildrop dropping mail?

2002-10-07 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:03:44PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: In /etc/courier/courierd: DEFAULTDELIVERY=| /usr/local/bin/spamassassin | /usr/local/bin/maildrop Maybe something along the lines of the following would give you a better CYA: if [ -x /usr/local/bin/spamassassin ] [ -x

Re: [courier-users] Courier behind a Firewall

2002-10-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:11:55PM +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: now I would like it to recieve mail from te rest of the world. So my qustion is what to do on the FW. Schould I only put some general- gateway on my FW that only passes TCP-connections on port 25 from the WAN sid to the Courier

Re: [courier-users] Courier esmtp authentication

2002-09-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:35:58PM +0200, Roland Schneider wrote: How do I find out what happends with authentication or what DON'T happend? Run a sniffer, but first switch off ssl ;) If you want to test in interactively, there's a really good python2.2 module to do esmtp auth: $

Re: [courier-users] Installing in a different directory

2002-09-23 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:49:40AM -0300, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: I'm trying to compile Courier-IMAP and install it in a temp directory somewhere else on the system so I can just pack it up and copy it on another system. But if I use prefix=/temp/dir in the ./configure when I install it on

Re: [courier-users] authentication problem - courier-imap 1.5.3 + redhat linux 7.2 i686

2002-09-23 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:17:50AM -0700, Friedrisch Muller wrote: When trying to let Squirrelmail 1.2.8 authenticate (ofcourse it's configured for courier-imap with the default settings) I get the classical user/password failure. With UW-IMAP it worked perfect (but now I like to use

Re: [courier-users] authcustom - impossible to get it work?

2002-09-22 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:15:08PM +0100, challenger wrote: Now my next problem. This line is out of /var/log/maildir: Sep 22 18:47:24 server1 pop3d: LOGIN,user=moretti^M,ip=[:::X.X.X.X] I've already recognized this ^M before I got all the above problems solved. Where does it come

Re: [courier-users] authcustom - impossible to get it work?

2002-09-21 Thread Peter C. Norton
Have you considered using authuserdb instead of hacking authcustom? -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven.

Re: [courier-users] Re: domain being removed from esmtp/postgresql auth query?

2002-07-19 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 05:17:06PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 250 DSN mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok. rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 User unknown. quit Should I try pushing back to 0.38? Read the error message again. I've read it again, and still I think I know what it

Re: [courier-users] Re: domain being removed from esmtp/postgresql auth query?

2002-07-19 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:29:07PM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: Am I missing something? I'm wondering if esmtpd strips out the contents of /etc/courier/me, even if I'm trying to do a complete virtual hosting setup (by which I meanno local users, no local domains). Pardon the possible

Re: [courier-users] Re: domain being removed from esmtp/postgresql auth query?

2002-07-18 Thread Peter C. Norton
As a fix, I've inserted a DEFAULT_DOMAIN of insidecinema.net to the authpgsqlrc. I don't believe I've needed this in the past. I'm going to experiment with setting up virtual domains and seeing if the esmptd/authdaemon/authpg modules will strip out other domains or just the domain in

[courier-users] domain being removed from esmtp/postgresql auth query?

2002-07-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'm setting up the domain insidecinema.net. I've gone the path of least resistance, and set most of the system up through the webadmin. I've got a working schema for virtual users in postgres, and now I'm seeing the following: When I authenticate using smtp, the query that gets sent to the

Re: [courier-users] Re: domain being removed from esmtp/postgresql auth query?

2002-07-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 07:09:32PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Run a quick little test: echo 'user@domain' | tr -d '\012' | makemime -c auto -e base64 - echo 'password' | tr -d '\012' | makemime -c auto -e base64 - This is the most convenient way to get base64-encoded strings.

Re: [courier-users] Thanks Sam

2002-07-15 Thread Peter C. Norton
Thanks from me, too. I'm also damn happy with courier. I may have to hack parts of it soon, so if that goes as easily as it used to with qmail, I'll be thanking Sam again then. So, in order: Thanks for developing courier rapidly and openly Thanks for putting it under the gpl Thanks for

Re: [courier-users] Connection to port 113

2002-07-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:36:51AM -0500, Matt Barton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Peter C. Norton wrote: That makes sense. Any idea how to do a reject with a Cisco access list? As far as I know it's just accept or deny. If its only

Re: [courier-users] catch all email

2002-07-09 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:18:06PM -0400, David Mir wrote: So this will actually still send the mail to valid users only? It just seems that all email at that domain will come to me regardless if it is valid or invalid with that alias. If it is that easy I will add it to the alias file.

Re: [courier-users] Connection to port 113

2002-07-09 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:55:27PM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: That makes sense. Any idea how to do a reject with a Cisco access list? As far as I know it's just accept or deny. If its only accept or drop, you can always let it through and let your mail host reject it. -- The 5 year plan: In

Re: [courier-users] Connection to port 113

2002-07-09 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:46:18PM -0500, Richard Geoffrion wrote: I thought reverse-dns lookups were done on port 53, but I could be wrong. All dns queries go to port 53/udp, and rarely to 53/tcp. Not all requests originate from port 53, tho. -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up

Re: [courier-users] SMTP Connection refused

2002-07-08 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:44:56PM -0400, Mohamed Metwaly wrote: Hi, I installed courier (imap, sendmail, esmtp) on redhat 7.1. When I send from localhost to localhost it is fine, but when I try so send from somewhere else on the internet to the actual ip address of the machine, I get the

Re: [courier-users] Re: authpgsql bug

2002-07-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:36:42AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm not sure what the deal is there. The PGSQL_HOST setting goes directly to postgres, unaltered... -- Sam Sam, I sent in an explanations and changes to the documention in the authpgsqlrc months ago. Could you update

Re: [courier-users] MySQL authorization

2002-06-25 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:44:18AM +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: Have you tried using varchars instead of chars? I don't think this can be the reason. In the postgres module, using char instead of varchar returns a whitespace padded string which prevents matching of hashed passwords. I don't

Re: [courier-users] MySQL authorization

2002-06-24 Thread Peter C. Norton
Have you tried using varchars instead of chars? -Peter On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:09:46PM -0700, David A. Mason wrote: Greetings. My courier is allowing system authentication via PAM with no problem, and when I attempt to use an account listed in the mysql table, I can see in the mysql

Re: [courier-users] Really over a barrel here...

2002-06-12 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:13:21AM -0500, Jonah Sullivan wrote: The server timeout is set to something ridiculous like 2 hours. The IP concurrency limit is 10. The server has no other problems sending or receiving and is actually very well-behaved otherwise. What's the client timeout set

Re: [courier-users] Really over a barrel here...

2002-06-12 Thread Peter C. Norton
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter C. Norton Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Really over a barrel here... On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:13:21AM -0500, Jonah Sullivan wrote: The server timeout is set

[courier-users] Increased error logging verbosity?

2002-05-29 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'm getting the following in my logs: May 29 10:24:51 ghetto courierlocal: id=00112A60.3CF4E387.42EF,from=spacey@mailhost,addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: maildir.open: Permission denied What would it take for the open method to print the directory that failed to be opened to syslog as well? --

Re: [courier-users] Increased error logging verbosity?

2002-05-29 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:28:01PM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: I'm getting the following in my logs: May 29 10:24:51 ghetto courierlocal: id=00112A60.3CF4E387.42EF,from=spacey@mailhost,addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: maildir.open: Permission denied What would

Re: [courier-users] Opinions wanted: mail gateway?

2002-05-24 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:58:39PM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote: Public services should be placed in the dmz, and not even the dmz should be allowed to create connections into the internal net. Except for the mail hub smtp'ing to/from the internal mail server, right? You could probably

Re: [courier-users] Re: 0.35.1 Solaris 8 : crash/restore probleme

2002-04-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
So to make a backup/restore process possible, you have to write a script that'll rename files based on the inode of the file that the name is generated from. The general approach is foreach file in $queue_dir; do $INUM=$(ls -ils | awk '{print $1}') for i in $(find $queue_dir -name

Re: [courier-users] UserDB problem

2002-03-04 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:18:42AM -0700, Deric Abel wrote: I am currently having a problem with the UserDB deleting it's self or entrys there in. We have traced it down to happen when update (or adding to) the UserDB file with userdb..if we add a user account with userdb as a user

Re: [courier-users] authpgsql problems

2002-03-01 Thread Peter C. Norton
This came up for someone else a few weeks ago. You need varchar and not char types for postgresql, or else it apparently pads responses with spaces (iirc). Sam, can you create a separate README.postgresql.html file that at least says: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01

Re: [courier-users] I have written a HOWTO, where to post it?

2002-03-01 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:20:33AM -0500, Geevarghese Philip wrote: 1. What sort of disclaimer, licensing(I want it to be free for all) etc should I put in the document? I'd recommend taking a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/copyright.html which uses the gnu free

[courier-users] correction to authpgsqlrc comment/docs

2002-02-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
This answers a question I was asking on my first installation. The following (important) correction to the comment in authpgsqlrc: ##NAME: LOCATION:0 # # The server hostname, port, userid, and password used to log in. # # To connect to a socket, delete PGSQL_HOST, and put the socket filename #

Re: [courier-users] Courier clustered?

2002-02-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
You need to define your idea of a cluster. I.e. do you want something excessive like 2 systems with 1 TB of disk in a database with all messages written to postgres on each system and drbd replicating transactions and a HA/failover to another server with 20 pop/imap/smtp front-ends? Or do

Re: [courier-users] Cannot authenticate; userdb/authdaemond/FreeBSD

2002-02-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:59:29PM +0100, Roland Schneider wrote: Try the utility 'authtest' from the sources, and the utility authdaemontest.pl has to be somewhere in the archives. You also could configure --without-authdaemon, much easier to debug with strace. The way I tend to do it is

Re: [courier-users] reconstruction utility

2002-02-04 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:37:35AM +0200, Oguz YILMAZ wrote: does courier imap have a reconstruction tool for Maildirs? like reconstruct utility in cyrus imap. this is reallyy needed. Why? What's being broken in your maildirs? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan.

Re: [courier-users] Re: reconstruction utility

2002-02-04 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:21:12AM +0200, Oguz YILMAZ wrote: how should you know nobody will need? 1-no software can be thought as perfect. errors always may occur.(even maybe outside of the software like black outs) Nope - atomic filesystem operations like rename, etc. guarantee that

Re: [courier-users] Submission port ;)

2002-01-28 Thread Peter C. Norton
You probably do not need to punch a hole in the firewall for it. It seems to be for local users to send their email out. On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:25:17AM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: Hi List, I've been running Courier for some weeks now, and am now gearing up to do a larger scale beta test

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
You assign one real uid/gid combination(to own the maildirs, etc) and you build a database (either userdb, ldap, postgres, mysql, or anything else you want to program for) and use that database to authenticate users, with all uid and gid set the the virtual user that you set up. Some schema

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:03:02PM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote: I'm assuming I need to do a maildirmake as that user to create the maildir. Absolutely correct. My question (maybe this is more than I need to know) is how does Courier use a single maildir for multiple users. Specifically, if I

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
You mean something like # mail -s my mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/log/my_log ??? On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:40:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to create a bash script that will parse certain log files for errors and forward them to postmaster. I can manage

Re: [courier-users] MTA Comparison

2002-01-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:31:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very cool stuff. So does Exim.. Exchange well it has the marketting arm I like to know small things like why it looses attachements due to not following the RFCs. Wonder where they go? ;-)) Attachments? Attachments? That

Re: [courier-users] Re: MTA Comparison

2002-01-16 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:01:00PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Correction: did. Qmail was revolutionary in 1996. Not any more. Qmail is not, by any stretch of imagination, revolutionary right now. It's OK, for most intents and purposes, but you can't point out anything in Qmail to me

Re: [courier-users] Auto-upload mail from backup server to main server?

2002-01-15 Thread Peter C. Norton
You could deliver all email that you're intending to forward into a maildir and user djb's serialmail to deliver when you want it to. Its pretty simple to setup and should work fine with a virtualdomain setup for each domain that you backup. You could just set serialmail to run ever 5 or 10

Re: [courier-users] MTA Comparison

2002-01-15 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:10:35AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: I think this opinion came to be in 1996/97 after some qmail proponents grepped the Exim 1.x source for instances of strcpy and called that a security audit (I might be remembering the details wrong). Its because the code didn't

Re: [courier-users] Auto-upload mail from backup server to main server?

2002-01-15 Thread Peter C. Norton
Its easy to use, but if the documentation doesn't do it for you let me know and I'll send you a one-liner that works for me from a backup host. For those who are interested the advantages of this over a normal backup MX scenario are as follows: 1) Serialmail never bounces. If your DNS gets

Re: [courier-users] Re: running multiple versions of esmtpd

2002-01-13 Thread Peter C. Norton
A couple of us have done this. You have to wind through the courier install, but you can start another daemon on the smtps port with tls/ssl on by default. Check the archives. -Peter On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:13:31PM -0500, Andrew Newton wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrew Newton

Re: [courier-users] Re: Replacing maildir message storage with SQL

2002-01-07 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:15:40AM +1100, Simon Cocking wrote: It seems to me the ultimate goal is to replicate not just the mail, but the state of the mail back and forth. *Exactly* :o) Then use a cluster filesystem or something like drdb. SQL databases are really really slow compared

Re: addendum to [courier-users] Inbound traffic jam

2002-01-07 Thread Peter C. Norton
You need to have domains listed in files in esmtpaccpetmailfor.dir/ and then you need to run makeacceptmailfor. Check out the man page for it. -Peter On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:48:50PM -0600, David M . Stowell wrote: On 2002.01.07 18:59 Sysop wrote: Sysop wrote: Oh, I think I see where

Re: [courier-users] Suggested patch: check mail before entering IDLE mode

2002-01-07 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:15:14AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: This is definitely wrong. If no mailbox is open, you SHOULD NOT open INBOX due to IDLE! Sam, Not having looked carefully at the patch, are you speaking in all caps because you're quoting an RFC (in which case SHOULD NOT could

Re: [courier-users] authpgsql don't authenticate ... but authuserdb do .. need help please ...

2002-01-06 Thread Peter C. Norton
[ I think I sent something similar, but munged the To: line. Apologies if this turns up twice ] The comment doesn't really explain it. Postgres creates a socket in a directory that you specify, but I believe I've observed that this socket name changes based on the pid of the postmaster

Re: [courier-users] authpgsql don't authenticate ... but authuserdb do .. need help please ...

2002-01-06 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:32:20PM -0200, Theo Cabrerizo Diem wrote: Any other idea ? Is there a option to debug courier that gives me a more compreensive error like : Auth FAILED: Password Incorrect : password was to be foobar ? or Auth FAILED: I made a boo boo running a query ? :o) Use

Re: [courier-users] Add Buy.com to list of 8-bit header offenders

2002-01-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:30:51PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote: I would like to cast my vote against this proposal. Not only do I admire Sam's dedication to the RFC's, I also support it. I say, go ahead and encapsulate. Sam bypasses RFCs when it suits him - the recent calendaring

Re: [courier-users] Relay for dynamic clients

2002-01-02 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:19:23AM -0800, Sysop wrote: Sorry to push this, but I havn't really gotten a responce Exqueeze me, but I did answer this: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/3723/0/7436386/ Have you tried out my answer? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make

Re: [courier-users] Relay for dynamic clients

2002-01-01 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:24:23AM -0800, Sysop wrote: So I have come clients, that need to use me as an SMTP server. Problem is, they are on DHCP, so I can't easily add them to the smtpaccesslist. I would like to enable it so that certian hosts, EG static hosts, can rely period. And

Re: [courier-users] Courier + LDAPX

2001-12-13 Thread Peter C. Norton
Perhaps at www.sunfreeware.com the package includes the .h and .a files for openldap? -Peter On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:34:36PM -0600, Jason bone wrote: I have read in the readme files where it says you need the development libraries for OpenLDAP no matter what implementation of LDAP you are

Re: [courier-users] smtps?

2001-12-13 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:38:58PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: Sam~ Any chance of including this in the distribution when I get it right? Well, if my vote counts for anything, you've got it. It'll certianly be helpful. -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just

Re: [courier-users] smtps?

2001-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
. Otherwise, I'll try to f1x0r it later this week. On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Peter C. Norton wrote: What's the proper method to get esmtpd to use couriertls to listen on port 465? I've tried looking at how the imapd does this, but it seems to be some magic that I haven't figured out. I'm

[courier-users] Changes to get smtps/ssmtp working

2001-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
It'd be nice if this could be setup by the default courier install scripts. The first attachment is the diff that'll make esmptd-msa into esmtpd-ssl. The other thing you need to do is a modification to /usr/lib/courier/share/esmtpd. Around line 31, add: 'esmtpd-ssl')

Re: [courier-users] Changes to get smtps/ssmtp working

2001-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
Oh yeah, I had to # ln -s /usr/lib/courier/share/esmtpd /usr/lib/courier/sbin/esmtpd-ssl -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:

Re: [courier-users] RPM install of courier-0.36.1.20011210

2001-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
You built the rpm's and it found a perl install in /usr/local/bin. However rpm only knows about perl if you installed a perl rpm. Solution: if this is the only problem you're seeing, then just run rpm -Uvh --nodeps courier-*.rpm On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:16:39AM -0800, Sysop wrote: I built

Re: [courier-users] RPM install of courier-0.36.1.20011210

2001-12-11 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'll postulate that someone put a symlink in /usr/local/bin and it was the first perl that the configure script tried out. -Peter P.S. Anyone have a postgres config that they can share using a unix domain socket? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use

[courier-users] Password changing in sqwebmail

2001-12-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
I'm using the webmail portion of courier. My system is entirely virtual-user based - no users will shells are to receive email, and no email addresses have shells. Would the webmail password change form be useful for my environment? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another

[courier-users] calendar goals?

2001-12-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
Is there any intention to make the calendar backend work as an icalendar (rfc 2445). I'm starting to read the rfc, and I've noticed that there's the beginnings of an implementation of some part of the library under the name of libical at sourceforge. Again, focusing on evolution (and I guess

[courier-users] smtps again

2001-12-09 Thread Peter C. Norton
I've been playing with couriertls and I'm still a bit confused. Has anyone else done this, and can you post the command line that you're using to achieve this? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.