Re: [courier-users] Has anyone incorporated RAV Anti-virus on Courier?

2001-12-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Nat Sakimura writes: Hi. While I am awaiting the HOW-TOs on Sophos + Courier ... Ok, I wrote a couple of pages describing that solution and the pieces of code used http://www.tana.it/sw/avfilter/ Meaningful comments will be appreciated Has anyone tested RAV Ani-virus on Courier?

[courier-users] Re: perlfilter and bcc

2001-12-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, excuse me for jumping late into this thread, I'm running my own little filter and I am very interested in the filtering protocol (not using perlfilter, I skipped the thread.) Sam wrote: I think that probably the best thing to do is to append the control filename to the message queue id,

[courier-users] Re: Has anyone incorporated RAV Anti-virus on Courier?

2001-12-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: However, reformime is not smaller: it is 157Kb while the whole avfilter takes 88Kb. Not over here it isn't: Ooops, I'm using not stripped versions. size /usr/local/bin/reformime avfilter textdata bss dec hex filename

[courier-users] Q: What are filters, anyway?

2001-12-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I'm puzzled about unusual mime types that sometimes loom around throwing established mail criteria up in the air. Is a filter a kind of user agent (MUA)? And, what should a filter do with message/partial stuff? BTW, does anyone know about clients that do automatically reassemble or at

[courier-users] Re: There must be an answer...

2002-01-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Bryan Ross writes: /usr/lib/courier/sbin/makehosteddomains is owned by courier.admin and has been chmod'd u+s. makehosteddomains is a script, not a binary executable. setuserid bit has no effect on scripts. Hmmm... sometimes if a script starts with

[courier-users] Re: courierfilter

2002-01-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Bill Williamson writes: Question I have is, can a filter change the text of an email, or just block/pass? Just block/pass. That is not enough. E.g. for sanitizing html messages against swf or js viruses that can really act in the preview window. The

[courier-users] Re: courierfilter

2002-01-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely wrote: Let me just note that putting some antivirus or sanitizer filter *before* courier, one could not use black list filtering based on relay address. So put one after Courier. But then, if a message goes to N recipients, it will have

[courier-users] Re: I.P. based (virtual) multiple Domains ...

2002-01-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sorry answering with much delay, but I've been out and I'm surprised nobody answered correctly to this. Bill Williamson wrote on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:19:14 -0600: [...] When you connect to imap/pop3/smtp, you connect via IP address. That is all. If you look at the session, you never see am

[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 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] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility

2002-07-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Bowie Bailey writes: [...] cp -f /export/B/userdb /courier/etc/userdb makeuserdb cp -f /courier/etc/userdb.dat /export/B/userdb.dat Since we're at it, would Samone confirm or deny that it is correct to use cp on userdb files? (I heard that some implementation may result in

[courier-users] What about GCC 3.2?

2002-09-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
about to install a new server, I recall Courier was not alone having problems with newer releases of GCC. Debian 'stable' Woody still has 2.95.4. I know that Courier installation instructions still say that 2.NOTE: At this time, Courier cannot be compiled by gcc 3.0 but I keep forgetting why.

[courier-users] Feature request for Sqwebmail

2002-09-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Wouldn'it be cool to have a preference to open a new window for each message? (I'm getting my right finger tired) It amounts to adding a ' target=_blank' 3 times for each row of a folder page, which wouldn't bloat the html code very much and could save the time to rebuild folder's content after

[courier-users] Re: howto discard mail messages using courierfilter

2002-09-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Patrick O'Reilly writes: ...how-to mark recipients as delivered... http://www.courier-mta.org/queue.html Control File Format section. I suggest examining a couple of records in a live queue, until you're familiar with it. That's great, but it in turn raises a

[courier-users] Courier vs. Dot-courier: who comes first?

2002-09-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
I get bounces saying useralias@domain: System error - unable to forward message. Probably, it is just a documentation failure (whazzat?) In courier.html I read, about bofh file, spamtrap user@domain [...] this check is made after any alias processing

[courier-users] Re: postmaster aliasing to one address from multiple virtual domains

2002-10-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
trout writes: [...] is there a way to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] go into one mailbox? one way is to resort to aliasdir. I use it as follows: mail-542# cd aliasdir mail-543# ls -lab total 20 drwxr-xr-x2 courier courier 4096 Sep 26 09:24 . drwxr-xr-x 12 courier courier 4096 Sep 13

[courier-users] Re: How to renew mail messages

2002-10-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Some POP3 MTAs apparently don't retrieve messages that are not new, e.g. Lotus Notes (?) There is no such thing as a new message in the POP3 protocol. All messages are alike, as far as the server is concerned. That's

[courier-users] fuzzy mime boundaries

2002-10-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
What is the following (re)interpretation of boundaries for a mime compliant utility (reformime, in this case)? [ ] legal: both structures are legal and equivalent [ ] required: must be able to interpret such quirks [ ] tolerant: should accept not properly coded messages [ ] safe: no entity is

[courier-users] Re: fuzzy mime boundaries

2002-10-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: --B57772158E.1035822756/svpegasus1.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch --B57772158E.1035822756/svpegasus1.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch --B57772158E.1035822756/svpegasus1.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch --0__=jbWsAZXFFywhcPE7ZWjoR0lMsv0mxbsnaYbTYfU3d3D7h4Ch2ESN3wfy --0__

[courier-users] Re: fuzzy mime boundaries

2002-10-31 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam wrote: Alessandro Vesely writes: My filter complains it cannot understand such MIME structure, it dumps a copy of the message and blocks it. So I have to manually look at it, run reformime -r and send it over again. Reformime returns a valid MIME structure. I doubt that the output from

[courier-users] Re: BOFH's badfrom

2002-12-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: Is it correct? Yes. The From: header has absolutely nothing to do with the return address. Look at the Return-Path: header. Ooops! Thanx, I'll try and be more careful... Ale

[courier-users] Re: Can Courier-IMAP handle password locked SSL-certs?

2002-12-05 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Tomas Ericsson writes: For example when using Apache one get asked about the PEM-password when you are starting the server... That makes the difference between a server that can boot unattended (e.g. when UPS restores power) and one that needs the guy to get there.

[courier-users] Re: .mailfilter problems

2002-12-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Karl Kuehn writes: [...] Is there some step I am missing to turn on filtering? On my setup, I have to specify the mail filtering engine as a | command on a .courier file (same directory, ownership and permissions as .mailfilter). If you don't have it on as DEFAULTDELIVERY, you need to specify

[courier-users] Re: Adding users

2002-12-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Jeff Slutzky writes: where or how do you add users to the mail server and passwd table in Mysql? I live just well with 3 scripts: showmailuser, newmailuser, newmaildomain. The first script can show one or many users. The second one calls the third script. For special needs I do it by hands

Re: [courier-users] Re: Adding users

2002-12-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Ale -Original Message- From: Alessandro Vesely [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:[courier-users] Re: Adding users File: ATT5.txt; charset = utf-8

[courier-users] Re: sqwebmail 20021212 observations

2002-12-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: If you want to get anal: this is your browser's bug. I18n is completely broken in HTML forms, because the browser has no means to specify what charset/encoding it is using for sending stuff. It just says Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded (note: that

[courier-users] Re: Where does my mail go??

2003-01-01 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Peter Andersson writes: The mail log says that the mail gets delivered but i canĀ“t find it anywhere. Courier stores mail in a clever queue mechanism and may hold it there for a while. Just run `mailq` to check. If it's not there nor in user's box, chances are it was forwarded (depending on

[courier-users] What's ULIMIT? Why cannot receive a 4Mb message?

2003-01-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, sometimes I get errors 523 Message length exceeds administrative limit. otherwise I just get 534 SIZE=Message too big. I guess the latter only happens when the sender politely says MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=10485761 to inform the server of the size. I have no sizelimit file and no

[courier-users] OT: what about newsletters?

2003-01-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, is Courier-MTA going to host any program, similar to couriermlm but for newsletters rather than mailing lists? On a newsletter, we want the recipient to be able to unsubscribe with one click and we don't want replies to go to the list. But handling subscriptions and bounces just the way

[courier-users] ?

2003-01-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
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[courier-users] How to control DSNs

2003-02-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Is it possible or recommendable to have positive DSNs only be emitted for certain users, e.g. internal users, and disable them for others? TIA Ale --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld =

[courier-users] Re: How to control DSNs

2003-02-03 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: Is it possible or recommendable to have positive DSNs only be emitted for certain users, e.g. internal users, and disable them for others? The sending mail client is fully capable of specifying which DSNs are to be generated for a particular

[courier-users] Re: How to control DSNs

2003-02-04 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: if such [DSNs] specifications can/should be overridden, so as to avoid helping spammers confirm addresses. Spammers do not need DSNs to confirm addresses. Did you actually ever log a succesful dictionary attack against a Courier server

[courier-users] Re: How to control DSNs

2003-02-04 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: Spammers just use typical addresses (e.g. sales@yourdomain). Also, many people give away what they believe to be a fancy address, but may actually match some aliasing criteria at the domain. In addition, some spammers, after giving a wrong

[courier-users] Re: Filter modifying spool files.

2003-02-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi Roland, --Sam Varshavchik wrote on 24.02.03 19:53 -0500: I suppose I'll look at what needs to be changed to allow filter to safely modify the message. That's a long term project, though. [...] No. I am not working on this area at the moment. I am currently inserting X-Spam: at the top of

[courier-users] Re: imapd slow

2003-03-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
James A Baker writes: [...] because I store useful messages in much more well organized folder categories (from 10 to 500 messages per folder typically) so I can find what I'm looking for quickly when I need it, rather than searching a 10,000 or 100,000 message folder for 1 message. Average

[courier-users] Re: Courier 0.42/Courier-IMAP 1.7.1

2003-03-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: You'll just have to tune the parameters in accordance to your mail traffic levels. How do I know what are my mail traffic levels? (Personally, I have small traffic and seldom run mailq.) And, how do I learn what would happen if non-average conditions will occur? TIA Ale

[courier-users] DSNs need new boundaries

2003-03-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
This is the Courier Mail Server 0.39 on wmail.tana.it. Please notify the original sender that their message was not properly formatted by their mail software. The specific mail protocol error in the original message is as follows:

[courier-users] Re: DSNs need new boundaries

2003-03-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: The MIME boundary delimiter strings in the following message are ambiguous, and cannot be parsed. The bad delimiters were boundary=wrefhhxwrefhhx inside wrefhhx, I suppose. The software that produced them is W32/Yaha-E. Curiously, Courier

[courier-users] OT: what's that spam?

2003-06-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, once again someone choose my e-mail as the sender for tons of spam. What I've never seen before is that the original messages contained in failure reports show the following 1. every message comes from a different IP. Often those IPs are in MAPS dul list. I didn't find any of them with an

[courier-users] Feature request: Attachments in filtered bounces

2003-07-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam, is it possible that Courier behaves differently depending on the return code of the filter? I don't know what should be the preferred return code when a virus is found in a message. I currently use 554, can't remember why. The idea is to reserve one of the 5xx codes to bear the additional

[courier-users] Re: Feature request: Attachments in filtered bounces

2003-07-03 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: Sam, is it possible that Courier behaves differently depending on the return code of the filter? I don't know what should be the preferred return code when a virus is found in a message. I currently use 554, can't remember why. The idea

Re: [courier-users] Re: Global filtering

2004-02-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Mitch (WebCob) wrote: There IS a way to do this, it's just a bit ugly (IMHO at least). Sam says the way is to run your filter and read the message file - do any rewriting you want to, and inject a new message. The control file can be modified to indicate successful delivery of the first

Re: [courier-users] RE: Minor flaw in courierfilter implementation of SPF

2004-02-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Anand Buddhdev wrote: [...] It would be so nice if courier allowed adding,removing or modifying message headers at filter-time. What about environment variables? They are not saved in the control file, are they? --- The SF.Net email is

Re: [courier-users] Re: Global filtering

2004-02-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Nice one, thank you $TCPREMOTEHOST (and/or maybe $TCPLOCALPORT) is all you need. Courier currently lacks some mechanism to exclude hosts from filtering. One easy to implement solution could be to skip the filtering-stage alltogether when RELAYCLIENT (and maybe BLOCK=) ist set. But if you

Re: [courier-users] Re: Global filtering

2004-02-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
I think Roland answered most of this already - except to say that the way to exclude messages from refiltering was to set an X-Already-Seen-By-My-Filter header so that you could skip re-running if you saw that header. Suggested injection method was I belive by sendmail call. The

[courier-users] globalfilters cannot drop messages

2004-02-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Despite much talking about dropping and resubmitting a message, there is no way a global filter can _cleanly_ mark all recipients as delivered. Looking at the code in submit2.C reveals that, before calling a global filter, ctlfile is flushed so that the filter can read it, but it's not closed, so

[courier-users] ANNOUNCE: avfilter-2 for Sophos

2004-03-01 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Avfilter is a global filter using Sophos antivirus New in version 2: - upgraded to CSAVI3 interface - by default drop infected messages - e-mail driven download of new virus identities (ide) - reload configuration and virus database on SIGHUP - GNU configure script - GPL except sophos

[courier-users] Yet another patch reminder (was: Re: Queue ID patch reminder

2004-04-07 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: It looks to me like your patch reinvents the wheel. I'm not sure why wheels have to be reinvented every now and then, but on the ChangeLog I found the following: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/courier/courier/courier/ChangeLog?rev=1.600view=markup : 2002-08-01 Mr.

Re: [courier-users] Re: 412 You are whitelisted ....

2004-05-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: [...] Now, one change that can be made is to disable all filtering completely if RELAYCLIENT is set. This is going to disable all content filtering for all senders with relaying privileges. I'm just not sure if we want to do that. Pardon my intrusion, but this option

Re: [courier-users] Courier + Amavisd-new

2004-05-01 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: I've been semi-succesfull in setting up Courier and Amavisd-new. Everything works, except that amavisd-new (running as a courierfilter) cannot seem to add any headers to the message. I don't have a clue where to look for a solution, besides the config-file

[courier-users] Re: 412 You are whitelisted ....

2004-05-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: Sam, may I ask if filters are going to be redesigned one day? In this case it would seem more polite to sprout two control files, similarly to what is being done with 200 recipients... I don't follow you. Splitting the message

[courier-users] Re: 412 You are whitelisted ....

2004-05-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Lindsay Haisley wrote: Thus spake Alessandro Vesely on Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:42:12AM CDT Pardon my intrusion, but this option looks like requiring two servers: one to accept incoming mail from any stupid client and the other for filtering e-mail according to varying recipients

Re: [courier-users] Error-Message with /usr/sbin/courierfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] OK, now I know it is /usr/sbin/courierfilter which produce the error Unable to reserve file descriptor 3. I'd be curious as to why that happens. As fd's 0, 1, and 2 are in use, the sequence close(3); if (open(/dev/null, O_RDONLY) != 3

Re: [courier-users] Error-Message with /usr/sbin/courierfilter

2004-05-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2004-05-25 10:04:38, schrieb Alessandro Vesely: cannot fail. Can you reproduce the failure running the program by itself? yes If that's possible, truss can reveal what's going on. Sorry, I said truss but I meant strace. If you run a line like strace -f

Re: [courier-users] Support for outbound mail filtering

2004-06-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
That's an interesting idea! Jason L. Buberel wrote: After reading through the on-line man pages of courierfilter, localfilter, and maildrop, I'm left wondering how I would go about implementing a mail filter that processes all outbound messages. AFAIK maildrop is only used for messages

Re: [courier-users] Maximal length of To: header

2004-06-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Isn't this the same as Problem (and patch for) 534 Message header size, or ... error 22 Jan 2004 05:51:42 +0100 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7102594 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I would like to know why the real maximal length of To: header is only 5000

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: [...] Overview of the planned courier-authlib package: 1. Uses the existing configure options. 2. Uses standard FHS install paths. 3. Installs: A) Various authdaemond builds, and the authdaemond startup script B) Configuration files C) Test

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authenticationlibrary.

2004-09-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: I think authtest might also be good as a generic configuration tool as it delivers name, home directory, uid and gid of a given user. (Suppose a configure script takes an option like [EMAIL PROTECTED] for installing some data

Re: [courier-users] Utility for determining DEFAULT courier delivery location?

2004-10-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Lloyd Zusman wrote: % deliveryloc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/uname/Maildir What about # authtest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authenticated: module authdaemon Home directory: /home/uname UID/GID: 12345/12345 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AUTHFULLNAME=User Full Name Not (always) installed, no

[courier-users] maxlongsize may be a 64-bit portability issue

2004-09-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
The maxlongsize.h header used to define the max size of a decimal representation of the largest long int using the size of its string representation as given in limits.h, i.e. (simplified slightly) #define MAXLONGSIZE MAXLONGSIZE1(ULONG_MAX) #define MAXLONGSIZE1(x) MAXLONGSIZE2(x) #define

Re: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Julian Mehnle wrote: In the old times of the Internet where a.com (everybody) could send a message and claim it to come from x.com, forwarders would have to take no responsibility for what domains are used as the sender addresses of the mail they forward. As a result, everybody could simply

[courier-users] Building courier-authlib on solaris

2004-12-30 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi Sam, I hope that requiring GNU ld is a temporary feature of courier-authlib. The GNU loader has traditionally been buggy on solaris-sparc and requiring it may jeopardize the portability of Courier. It is only the line that builds libcourierauthcommon.la that fails. I rewrote that command line

Re: [courier-users] Building courier-authlib on solaris

2004-12-31 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik writes: Alessandro Vesely writes: replacing -Wl,--whole-archive with -Wl,-z -Wl,allextract, and -Wl,--no-whole-archive with -Wl,-z -Wl,defaultextract. That's a job for libtool, as (not much extensively) exemplified in http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual

Re: [courier-users] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 550 User unknown error

2005-01-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Toby Heywood wrote: [...] MySQL Log - -- 050101 12:52:23 5 Query SELECT id, crypt, , uid, gid, home, , , name, FROM passwd WHERE id = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is mandc the correct domain name? I get a strage MX record for it. Sure the MySQL log lines originated from incoming

[courier-users] auth_sasl API possible problem

2005-01-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi Sam, I was browsing the docs when I found auth_sasl initializes *authtype_ret and *authdata_ret. They will be set to a malloc(3)-ed buffers that can be directly passed as arguments to auth_generic(3). It is the application's responsibility to free(3) these buffers when it's done with

Re: [courier-users] ssl serving multiple domains

2005-01-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely
chester c young wrote: does anyone have any idea on how to have ssl with multiple domains? Must use different ip addresses. That's rooted in the ssl handshake: the client does not send the name of the (virtual) host before it receives the server's certificate.

Re: [courier-users] New in Courier- Group emails

2005-01-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely
alekosr wrote: 2) Is it possible to forward a copy of all emails to a single email account ? There is an ARCHIVEDIR variable you can set in courierd (the big-brother option). --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday

Re: [courier-users] courier-authlib problem on Solaris 9 x86

2005-01-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
David K. wrote: [...] pstack core core 'core' of 17227: /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond d26cf539 strcmp () + 115 d2793d3d authcheckpassword (804d234, d254bba6, d277bb7b, d253e724) + 101 d253e73d () Possibly that is a strcmp in do_authcheckpassword, comparing

Re: [courier-users] courier-authlib problem on Solaris 9 x86

2005-01-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
', `print' and `quit' as needed. See e.g. http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_9.html - David Alessandro Vesely wrote: David K. wrote: [...] pstack core core 'core' of 17227: /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/authdaemond d26cf539 strcmp () + 115 d2793d3d

Re: [courier-users] courier-authlib problem on Solaris 9 x86

2005-01-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
this mean you are missing the crypt function? Would you mind compiling the attached test program to check that? (As usual, you may compile it with/without, say, -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=400 see man standards -shouldn't really change much in this case.) Alessandro Vesely wrote: David K. wrote: I have

[courier-users] Re: courier-authlib problem on Solaris 9 x86

2005-01-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi David, David wrote: Hi Alessandro, I just realized that my email client was translating some of the test program source as smileys. :-) I have saved the code as an attachment and it compiles fine as you sent it. gcc crypttest.c crypttest.c: In function `main': crypttest.c:8:

[courier-users] Re: courier-authlib problem on Solaris 9 x86

2005-01-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
and try rebuilding with that. To reconfigure you should amend the top level configure so that it reads case `$LD -V 21` in instead of case `$LD -V` in at line 25767. Good luck! Ale - David Alessandro Vesely writes: Hi David, David wrote: Hi Alessandro, I just

Re: [courier-users] To MX or not...

2005-01-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Julian Mehnle wrote: Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle said: If it's a cost issue, run just one (i.e. drop the differently configured secondary MX). That's what I actually do. Have you ever had issues with downtime or lost mail? Nothing where a secondary MX would

Re: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Gordon Messmer wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's always safe to append more stuff to the control file. Whether it's safe to rewrite it from scratch is something I need to think about. I thought it was, too. However, when I started actually testing that theory, I found that it's

[courier-users] ctlfile (was: Re: Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-28 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Gordon Messmer wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: I think that ctlfile should be opened for append mode. ...capital idea. Am I wrong to assume that all of the calls to open() in the openctl() function should have the same flags? I'm not sure what you mean. And I wonder what sense may have

Re: [courier-users] Filtering messages

2005-02-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Lucio wrote: [...] Rejects all outgoing messages if they do not specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] in one of the headers. Courier already has a big-brother option. Check it out in etc/courierd before you proceed. If you are going to test a filter, setting an ARCHIVEDIR is a convenient way to debug

Re: [courier-users] Filtering messages

2005-02-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Lucio wrote: Alessandro Vesely wrote: Courier already has a big-brother option. Yes, I know. But I need the users to be aware of the fact that their messages are being sniffed, so I have to force them to send CCs of thier messages to the big-brother address. If you want users to type

Re: Migrating to courier IMAP (Re: [courier-users] Filtering messages)

2005-02-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Good Luck! Original Message Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:55:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: Migrating to courier IMAP (Re: [courier-users] Filtering messages) From: Martijn Lievaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alessandro

Re: [courier-users] Courier as virus/spam filter for another mailserver

2005-02-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Bowie Bailey wrote: [...] Since there are no DNS records for the domain, it is impossible to deliver directly to this address from anywhere else. H... except for purposely built malaware? --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product

Re: [courier-users] Filter not cleaning up its socket

2005-04-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Ben Kennedy wrote: Hey all, I've been having a slightly annoying issue with mail filters. Specifically, doing 'courierfilter stop' or otherwise having courier stop or restart leaves sockets kicking around, leading to socket already exists log messages and/or 432 Mail filters temporarily

Re: [courier-users] Filter not cleaning up its socket

2005-04-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Julian Mehnle wrote: Alessandro Vesely wrote: Ben Kennedy wrote: In this example, pureperlfilter is cleaning up its socket (though sometimes for whatever reason the socket stays around causing it to refuse to launch subsequently); perlfilter is not removing its. IMHO, the latter

Re: [courier-users] Filter not cleaning up its socket

2005-04-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Julian Mehnle wrote: Alessandro Vesely wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: pureperlfilter is the bootstrapping executable for Courier::Filter. C:F cleans up its socket when shutting down (e.g. when told to by courierfilter), but refuses to start if the socket it wants to create already

Re: [courier-users] Header size exceeds policy limit, LOGIC?

2005-05-31 Thread Alessandro Vesely
uchu wrote: If someone wants to run a mailing list they should use a mailing list management software that's designed for that purpose, instead of trying to shoehorn something out of an ordinary E-mail client. Totally agreed on that. The lack of functionality that had been objected

Re: [courier-users] Automatically use secondary MX host if primary fails

2005-06-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Malcolm Weir wrote: [...] The second MX is _strictly_ a fallback system. It will store and forward messages for the primary, but it doesn't do the SMTP-level message rejection. So it will accept pretty much anything sent to it, and then shovel that on to my primary when the primary

Re: [courier-users] MX randomizing: trying to understand thesources.

2005-06-24 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: A real DNS server returns records in random order. That's a fundamental function of DNS: load balancing. Is it random or round robin? For multihoming, load balancing should imply that querying from net A results in (at least averagely) different addresses than

Re: [courier-users] MX randomizing: trying to understand thesources.

2005-06-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Rodrigo Severo wrote: [...] I'm wondering if it might be better to: a) not to deal with it at all because there might be so few cases Appealing as this option can be, to make an informed decision we still need a sharp view of what we don't want to deal with. Your clear analysis of the

Re: [courier-users] Questions about the courier filters

2005-07-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Vlad, a similar question was discussed last year, you may want to check the thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7110106 Vlad Dinulescu wrote: Thanks for the quick answer! How can I modify a message from the filter? Like adding a header, or modifying the body? Sam

Re: [courier-users] Spamfilter, Blacklists, Blocking

2005-08-04 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Bernhard Lukas wrote: [...] BLACKLISTS=-block=blackholes.mail-abuse.org,BLOCK -block=relays.mail-abuse.org,BLOCK [...] Nevertheless I am still getting much SPAM and often from the same address - does the blacklist really work? No. To check that, you should try the query by hands, e.g. dig

Re: [courier-users] Future direction of maildrop.

2005-08-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: PCRE will be able to support all of maildrop's functionality except for the w pattern option. With PCRE, the w option would require the entire message to be loaded into memory. Maildrop does not load large messages into memory, and this would not be desirable.

Re: [courier-users] Future direction of maildrop.

2005-08-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Alessandro Vesely writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: PCRE will be able to support all of maildrop's functionality except for the w pattern option. With PCRE, the w option would require the entire message to be loaded into memory. Maildrop does not load large messages

Re: [courier-users] Courier/SqWebMail 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: This release of SqWebMail filters out certain MSIE-only scripting constructs that could be used for malicious purposes. As an alternative: a cumulative patch [...] Apparently, that patch is not related with the downloading of viral attachments that has been recently

Re: [courier-users] Courier/SqWebMail 20050905

2005-09-07 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Although in the rest of the world, any !-- comment -- in HTML gets ignored, with MSIE a specially formatted HTML comment can get processed as regular HTML code, with scripting, et al:

Re: [courier-users] Courier/SqWebMail 20050905

2005-09-08 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Alessandro Vesely writes: E.g. checking xxx entities terminate with `;'? But there's no _hot_ security concern, is there? Just being proactive here -- in case MSIE, or something else -- misparses it in a way that could be exploited: fooscript... Thank you so

Re: [courier-users] trouble delivering bounces...

2005-09-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ricardo Kleemann writes: However, isn't the mail server supposed to accept for DSNs ? Correct. Is there a way to get around this? No, there's no way to get around an idiot who is placed in charge

Re: [courier-users] replicated mail servers...

2005-10-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Chris Petersen wrote: [...] Our goal is to set up one server at our colo for fast handling of incoming mail. This server would do spam/virus scanning/blocking to reduce the download load on our in-office DSL connection. A second on-site server would be set up to receive mail from the first

Re: [courier-users] replicated mail servers...

2005-10-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Chris Petersen wrote: Yeah. VPN and just host the imap server on our dsl line. It's fast enough for the few times that people will be checking their mail from home. Fine. That appears to be the best practice (with minor worryings about security) See also thread Best practices for

Re: [courier-users] does Courier MTA has a big picture?

2005-10-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,all does Courier MTA has a big picture like as qmail? http://www.nrg4u.com/. If you mean A4-sized approx. 50K gifs, then no, not really. Courier doc is cool readable html. In http://www.courier-mta.org/queue.html there is an ascii crude diagram, though.

Re: [courier-users] food for thought

2006-01-06 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Michael Mattess wrote: [...] First we looked at a plane installation, we limited our selves to mail retrieval so we only used courier-pop and mounted the maildirs via NFS [...] i modified Courier-pop to use a PostgeSQL DB instead of the maildirs and the results were quite surprising. It

Re: [courier-users] SPF / SRS Courier

2006-01-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Dirk Kulmsee wrote: E.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fills out the mailform and the mailform generates a mail to the company's responsible recipient who has her/his mail account on some other mail server on this planet. The mailform uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] as sender address to give the recipient a

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