[courier-users] Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I configured courier esmtpd for blocking spam, using a MAPS subscription. So far so good. I also configured a secondary MX for each domain I host, using such service by an ISP connected via a different carrier. This also proved quite useful. However, the two things don't match. Some

[courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alessandro Vesely writes: Hi all, I configured courier esmtpd for blocking spam, using a MAPS subscription. So far so good. I also configured a secondary MX for each domain I host, using such service by an ISP connected via a different carrier. This also proved quite useful.

[courier-users] [Mail-server setup]: How do I realize/implement this?

2002-07-11 Thread Sangohn Christian
Hello all! I' m running Debian GNU/Linux woody (3.0 unofficial). Probably most of the questions I'm going to ask here have already been answered here but it often comes that I don't even know exactly what people are talking about here because the topics are quite specific and some words are

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Mark Constable
Sam Varshavchik wrote: iii) Get rid of the second MX. A second MX doesn't get you anything unless your primary has been down for at least 24 hours, and if that happens you'll have other things to worry about. You sure ? I have a courier box doing secondary MX for our main sendmail based

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Binand Raj S.
On Thursday 11 July 2002 06:52 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Yeah, so the secondary's going to try to immediately contact the primary, which is temporarily unavailable (obviously), so the secondary is going to defer the mail, and try again later. The mail that you see off the secondary is from

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Mark Constable
Sam Varshavchik wrote: ... As I said, you'll only receive tangible benefits from secondary MXes if you routinely go down for 24 hours, since at that time some senders will begin to bounce mail, instead of deferring it. Granted but still some minor browny points for taking part of the load

[courier-users] Auth problems

2002-07-11 Thread David Mir
I had to recently reinstall courier, I already have all users entered and they already have home directories and Maildir directory from previous machine (machine went down so it is more like a transfer). It is a RH 7.3 with only red hat updates and nothing else installed. I had to copy the

[courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: As I said, you'll only receive tangible benefits from secondary MXes if you routinely go down for 24 hours, since at that time some senders will begin to bounce mail, instead of deferring it. There are different ways one goes down. Last winter it happened that I

[courier-users] Web portion of Courier-MTA

2002-07-11 Thread Randall Shaw
I been looking at docs, and cannot seem to get a clear answer on this, so, heres a shot in the dark... Does the web administration portions of the web part of courier, properly handle adding/editing/removing virtual domains/virtual users under those domains/aliases, AND do all this with the

[courier-users] courier-imap and authmysql issue

2002-07-11 Thread Razvan Cosma
OK, I got to the point where ps shows: /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/authdaemond.mysql start and /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/couriertcpd -address=0 \ -stderrlogger=/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/logger \ -stderrloggername=imapd -maxprocs=50 -maxperip=50 \ -pid=/var/run/imapd.pid

Re: [courier-users] Auth problems

2002-07-11 Thread David Mir
I'm going coo-coo for coco puffs! this is driving me crazy the server is ready roll I just can't get courier to auth anyone , any ideas? , places to look? Here is what my authdaemond looks like: root 7274 0.0 0.1 1660 528 ?S00:43 0:00

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Andrew Newton
Mark Constable wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: iii) Get rid of the second MX. A second MX doesn't get you anything unless your primary has been down for at least 24 hours, and if that happens you'll have other things to worry about. You sure ? I have a courier box doing secondary MX

[courier-users] Re: Auth problems

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
David Mir writes: I had to recently reinstall courier, I already have all users entered and they already have home directories and Maildir directory from previous machine (machine went down so it is more like a transfer). It is a RH 7.3 with only red hat updates and nothing else

Re: [courier-users] courier-imap and authmysql issue

2002-07-11 Thread Razvan Cosma
update: I also cannot login using authdaemond.plain I looked around the docs, but cannot find some debugging options - is there a switch or something for verbose logging? On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Razvan Cosma wrote: OK, I got to the point where ps shows:

Re: [courier-users] courier-imap and authmysql issue

2002-07-11 Thread Razvan Cosma
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Roland Schneider wrote: Wont work that way. You bad-edited authmodules in etc/imapd, or vice versa. double and triple checked :( mysql is up and running, postfix uses the db and correctly delivers mails, but courier makes no connections to mysql, so login fails.

Re: [courier-users] Re: Auth problems

2002-07-11 Thread David Mir
Thanks, I thought I had an option...RPMS or no. But you the man so I will re-install via RPM. Can I just remove the /usr/lib/courier dir and it should work?? Thanks for your time. On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:41 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: David Mir writes: I had to recently reinstall

Re: [courier-users] Re: passwordless key-based ssh authenticationto courier imapd

2002-07-11 Thread Mark T. Valites
No go. The more more I think about it, the more I wonder how this even works. I have a feeling the courier imapd binary in /usr/bin/ that does the preauth stuff was made for doing stuff similar to this ( the uw passwdless way in the previous post). Perhaps it's more of a pine question, but

[courier-users] Problem with Courier.

2002-07-11 Thread DeigoDude
Hello all, I seem to be having a rather large problem with courier. It configured, made and installed without any detectable flaws (although i did have to install gcc 2.95 because of issues with 3.1). When i start the master courier process it correctly spawns the childs as shown: root

Re: [courier-users] [Mail-server setup]: How do I realize/implementthis?

2002-07-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 05:16, Sangohn Christian wrote: What I want is get my mails from my various mail accounts out there in the internet. I now this can be done with fetchmail and I've already successfully tested it. ... Now I want courier to sort these mail depending on the recepient

[courier-users] Quota's actual size?

2002-07-11 Thread Randall Shaw
From the docs: maildirmake {-q} {1000S} {./Maildir} For setting a quota enforcement (also you can set the quota in the authmysql as well). However all the docs that talk about set a quota using a quota following quotas... they seem to leave out what the quota actual _IS_... is it in

[courier-users] purging of .Trash / ctime

2002-07-11 Thread Georg Lutz
Hi Sam, in maildir/maildirpurgetmp.c, function dopurge, the ctime of the files is used. Is there a reason not to use mtime? Our backup software resets the atime after backup, so everytime the backup runs, the ctime changes and things in .Trash/cur never get deleted. BTW: Not resetting the

[courier-users] Problem with Courier -Update

2002-07-11 Thread DeigoDude
I have now successfully gotten sendmail to bind to port 25 by adding it to xinetd and using the sendmail wrapper /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail. I can now make connections to port 25, unfortunatly, I am not greeted with any response. It does not close the connection, it just stays open and

Re: [courier-users] Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Rod Collen
It explains clearly what the problem is... [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No such domain. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases more http://thinkgeek.com/sf

[courier-users] Re: Auth problems

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
David Mir writes: Thanks, I thought I had an option...RPMS or no. You do, as long as you know how to set it up. But you the man so I will re-install via RPM. Can I just remove the /usr/lib/courier dir and it should work?? Thanks for your time. Just blow it away before building

[courier-users] List removal!

2002-07-11 Thread Daniel Corbe
Hello, I'm trying to get off of this mailing list. The unsubscribe address listed does not work and returns an error and I do not remember my username and password for the web-based interface nor is there an obvious way to retrieve it. In addition, my mailings to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail

Re: [courier-users] Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Tim Hunter
If you note in the original message : Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 48) who is uid 48? - Original Message - From: Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: [courier-users] Hack attempt? This

Re: [courier-users] Problem with Courier.

2002-07-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I seem to be having a rather large problem with courier. It configured, made and installed without any detectable flaws (although i did have to install gcc 2.95 because of issues with 3.1). When i start the master courier

[courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Keating writes: [message/delivery-status (337 bytes)] Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.j2solutions.net Arrival-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:00:32 -0700 Received-From-MTA: dns; localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0

[courier-users] Re: passwordless key-based ssh authentication to courier imapd

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mark T. Valites writes: No go. The more more I think about it, the more I wonder how this even works. I have a feeling the courier imapd binary in /usr/bin/ that does the preauth stuff was made for doing stuff similar to this ( the uw passwdless way in the previous post). The default

[courier-users] Re: purging of .Trash / ctime

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Georg Lutz writes: Hi Sam, in maildir/maildirpurgetmp.c, function dopurge, the ctime of the files is used. Is there a reason not to use mtime? Yes. Our backup software resets the atime after backup, so everytime the backup runs, the ctime changes and things in .Trash/cur never

[courier-users] Virtual Hosting outbound

2002-07-11 Thread Kevin Barnard
I have virtual hosting inbound working in a manner similar to sendmails virtual file. Is there equivalent to the generics file? I also tried the virtual hosting using userdb as in the FAQ and this did not work. I'm scanning the Docs right now but any help from someone who has done this would

Re: [courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:41:43 -0400 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #The original message was sent by whoever logs in as uid 48. # #Anybody can put anything they want in the From: header, or use any return #address. UID 48 belongs to apache... Do messages sent via sqwebmail get that

[courier-users] NetBSD 1.x - 1.5.3 /bin/sh bug -- Courier startup problem

2002-07-11 Thread Eric Gustafson
Problem: NetBSD 1.x - 1.5.3's /bin/sh has a subtle bug (1.6, which is in prerelease fixes this). The bug is that the '-a' flag (and 'set -a') are not implemented. A couple of the Courier start up scripts (esmtpd, esmtpd-ssl, imapd, ...) [grep for 'set -a' in courier/shared] take advantage of

[courier-users] Re: NetBSD 1.x - 1.5.3 /bin/sh bug -- Courier startup problem

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Eric Gustafson writes: Problem: NetBSD 1.x - 1.5.3's /bin/sh has a subtle bug (1.6, which is in prerelease fixes this). The bug is that the '-a' flag (and 'set -a') are not implemented. A couple of the Courier start up scripts (esmtpd, esmtpd-ssl, imapd, ...) [grep for 'set -a' in

Re: [courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:54:52 -0400 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #No. Mail from sqwebmail originates under whatever uid the mail account #uses. Yeah, so, any other idea on how this could be happening? Perhaps there is an exploit in apache that lets them send mail? I'm somewhat

[courier-users] Re: Virtual Hosting outbound

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Barnard writes: I have virtual hosting inbound working in a manner similar to sendmails virtual file. Is there equivalent to the generics file? I also tried the virtual hosting using userdb as in the FAQ and this did not work. I'm scanning the Docs right now but any help from

Re: [courier-users] Re: .mailfilter ignored I have same problem

2002-07-11 Thread moshe . gurvich
Well, what i did temporary, is for users that need .mailfilter to make ..courier: |/usr/local/bin/maildrop Also I noticed that in /etc/courier/maildirfilterconfig it's MAILDIRFILTER=../.mailfilter I'm not sure what it means, may be there's a problem... But didn't play with it yet. if have

[courier-users] Implementing Shared Folders

2002-07-11 Thread Al Sparks
I’ve been exploring shared folders. What I want to do is create an account, make that account’s Maildir a shared folder, and give selected userid’s access to the mail messages that come into it. I also want it to be accessible from a standard IMAP client such as Outlook or Outlook Express. Is

[courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Keating writes: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:54:52 -0400 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #No. Mail from sqwebmail originates under whatever uid the mail account #uses. Yeah, so, any other idea on how this could be happening? Perhaps there is an exploit in apache that

[courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Bill Williamson
Jesse Keating writes: UID 48 belongs to apache... Do messages sent via sqwebmail get that UID attached to them? The reason I ask, the contents of the original email don't match anything that would have been sent via apache. YOU ARE COMPROMISED from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/

Re: [courier-users] Re: Hack attempt?

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:01:28 -0500 Bill Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #YOU ARE COMPROMISED # #from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/ scan of your server # - #The site www.j2solutions.net is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) # - # #from

Re: [courier-users] Re: passwordless key-based ssh authenticationto courier imapd

2002-07-11 Thread Mark T. Valites
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:37:38 -0400 From: Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [courier-users] Re: passwordless key-based ssh authentication to courier imapd Mark T. Valites writes: No go. The more more I