Re: NetBSD+qpopper3.0.2

2000-08-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:22 PM +0900 8/8/00, Takeshi Usui /=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCMTEwZiEhN3IbKEI=?= wrote: I want toinstall qpopper3.0.2 in NetBSD 1.4(sparc) pop_user.c: In function `pop_user': pop_user.c:233: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer pop_user.c:233: void value not ignored as it ought to be

Re: Qpopper2.53

2000-08-18 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:31 AM + 8/18/00, penda paul wrote: Hi, How to fix the the problem below ? I sue Linux Redhat 6.2 and i've set up Qpopper2.53, the server name is mail. First, don't use 2.53 -- use 3.0.2 (or even 3.1). 2.53 has security problem, plus Linux problems. I can't get any

Re: bulldb

2000-08-26 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:23 PM -0500 8/26/00, Jason Englander wrote: I know qpopper will read in the old .popbull files, but does it remove them when it adds the info to the bulldb? It leaves them there, but it only looks for them if the user has no entry in the bulldb.

Re: Stripping out @domain.com

2000-09-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:50 AM -0500 9/10/00, Joseph W. Breu wrote: I modifified popper/pop_user.c: There's already a patch in 3.1b11 to do this. It also happens in pop_apop.c and pop_auth.c. -Joseph W. Breu --- Joseph W. Breu

Re: looking for info as to where..

2000-10-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:14 AM -0400 10/2/00, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: Hi, I've been starting to write a log parser for the popper log for our tech support people. Putting certain things from the log into HTML tables per day, etc.. so far i'm picking out bad logins, good logins (but only after a bad

Re: New QPOP user

2000-10-03 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:42 PM +0700 10/3/00, Dapid Candra wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am a new qpopper user. I have download and installed qpopper 3.1b11 using RPM on RedHat 6.2. Since installing via RPM is too simple, I am confuse on how to configure qpopper

Re: QPopper 3.1: Drac suport VS Sendmail SMTP AUTH

2000-10-09 Thread Randall Gellens
of the popular current email clients support it, not all clients do. Therefore, you might want to do both. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only -- Randomly-selected tag: --- Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent

Re: Overquota error

2000-10-11 Thread Randall Gellens
At 7:05 PM -0700 10/10/00, Nathan Martinez wrote: I was getting errors when a user tried to pick up their mail and they were over their quota. I figured out that this was due to Qpopper needing to make a copy of the spool file and there not being enough room within the users limits. So

Re: Overquota error

2000-10-11 Thread Randall Gellens
if the attempt to write into the lock file fails due to the user being over quota. Otherwise there is a catch-22 in that the user can't get in to delete mail because the user is over quota. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only

Re: bulldb

2000-12-17 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:57 PM +0100 12/5/00, guenter wessling wrote: Hi, all. Enthusiasm was too early For some reason the bulletins don«t work. (Linux 2036) popper creates bulldb all right when a user asks for mail. But the bullis don«t show up. Settings: /var/spool/bulls root mail 755 files

Re: Using quota

2000-12-19 Thread Randall Gellens
I'd suggest enabling server mode, to avoid the spool copy and emptying of the main spool at the session start.

Re: qpopper 3.x and pop before smtp

2000-12-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:58 AM +1300 12/31/00, Alan Brown wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Kenneth Porter wrote: The DRAC home page is http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/. If you're using Red Hat, RPM's are available for DRAC (package name dracd) and a qpopper compiled to use it. (I'm the packager, and I use my

Re: mysql patch in dist.?

2001-01-09 Thread Randall Gellens
mitted? I don't see anything since last January. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only -- Randomly-selected tag: --- Computers ... are not designed, as we are, for ambiguity. --Thomas

RE: qpopper error message in /var/log/mail

2001-01-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:01 PM +0100 1/9/01, Michiel Boland wrote: popper is trying to resolve the ip address 0.0.0.0 There appears to be a bug in some versions of gcc on some platforms that cause IP addresses to appear as "0.0.0.0" when in reality they are non-zero. That's a separate issue than the

Re: Another Question

2001-01-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:13 PM -0500 1/10/01, David Andrews wrote: Thanks all for the help regarding the var/spool/mqueue directory! Another question - as a result of this problem locking my server (its all now under control), I have a locked file in var/spool/mail/.username.pop. How do I go about

RE: A comment

2001-01-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:11 PM + 1/10/01, InvictaNet Customer Support wrote: Does anyone else think that it is a bit odd to sell beta software??? When Qpopper LX is released as final, I may well buy a copy. While it is still in test mode and unfinished, no chance. We're not selling a beta per se. We're

RE: A comment

2001-01-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:36 PM +1300 1/11/01, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Randall Gellens wrote: We're not selling a beta per se. We're selling software that currently happens to be in beta. And whose development has been mostly driven by the net community over the last 15 years. I hope

Re: EOF undefined error

2001-01-19 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:32 AM -0500 1/19/01, John MacKenzie wrote: I was just wondering if there is anything else that could be causing this one customer to be constantly getting a POP timeout. (and it only seems to be the one customer). I've seen this mostly with Outlook [Express] -- is that what's being

Re: Upgrade Problems 3.1.2

2001-01-22 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:58 PM -0600 1/22/01, Ray Kase wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:44:19 -0600, Ray Kase wrote: 3. I've configured 3.1.2 with --enable-servermode and --with-pam=pop3 - that goes OK. 9. When user checks mail they get ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "xxx". System error 4. Can

Re: UIDL Bug

2001-01-23 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:53 PM + 1/23/01, Steven Fletcher wrote: Hi all, I believe I've discovered a bug/feature that affects the message UIDL's generated from within init_dropinfo(). I have tested this with both versions 2.53 and 3.1.2, both configured with --enable-hash-spool=2. Causes: Messages

Re: thanks the list... how to unsubscribe?

2001-01-28 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:45 PM +0200 1/27/01, Utku Er wrote: but how can I unscubscribe now ? no message at the bottom of the mails... Every message sent by the list has these headers: List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe

Re: qpopper duplicate messages

2001-02-07 Thread Randall Gellens
the messages as new next time. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only -- Randomly-selected tag: --- Procrastinators do it tomorrow.

Re: discrepancy with # of messages

2001-02-15 Thread Randall Gellens
At 7:40 PM -0600 2/15/01, Mike Weller wrote: Hi, One of our users claims to have "lost" email. After doing some investigations with a backup of his mailbox, I noticed something peculiar. Pine, Elm, Frm, IMP (our IMAP interface) all showed 10 messages in his inbox, but if I went:

Re: FLUSH Error

2001-02-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:45 AM -0600 2/16/01, Brent wrote: I am having clients report that while checking their mail on Eudora, I believe, that it starts to download their mail, then it stops and gives a "FLUSH" error. Does anyone know what this means or why it could be happening? I am using

Re: Regarding Qpopper 3.1.2 and password authentication

2001-02-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:27 PM -0800 2/16/01, Gustavo Viscaino wrote: Good luck with it! I'm still waiting for someone from Qualcomm to give us some feedback, if possible. Qpopper should work with md5 passwords if PAM is used. I'm also looking into adding support for md5 passwords without PAM.

Re: Qpopper 3.1 Installation problems

2001-02-20 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:11 AM +0800 2/20/01, Mohd Suhaizal wrote: Hi, Lately I have installed qpopper on a simple testing server. But then I have a problem. It didn't work properly. When I try to connect to it, it will quickly disconnects me(Tested by using telnet ip 110 /telnet ip 995). The testing

Re: Various questions for Qpopper

2001-02-20 Thread Randall Gellens
At 2:48 PM -0800 2/20/01, tsyap wrote: Hello, I have several questions which would like to ask whoever experienced on Qpopper out there. Currently I am using Qpopper 3.0.1 under Solaris 8. Below is my question... 1. How do i enable SSL for Qpopper? See

Re: Running qpopper in standalone mode.

2001-03-09 Thread Randall Gellens
? -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only -- Randomly-selected tag: --- Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. --Jean Anouilh

Re: large mail files, qpopper and high load on bsd

2001-03-12 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:02 AM +0900 3/10/01, Peter Evans wrote: This is a fundamental failing of qpopper. endymion mailman is the ultimate suckitude for accessing pop too. [1] When you open the mailbox from hell, qpopper scans the whole damned thing looking for Qpopper LX 4.0 avoids

Re: FW: Running qpopper in standalone mode.

2001-03-13 Thread Randall Gellens
. If you can't run it, then try './configure' again, then 'make' and try it again. -Original Message- From: Randall Gellens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:00 PM To: Jeremy Lunsford; Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Re: Running qpopper in standalone mode

Re: Can I send mail using QPopper?

2001-03-14 Thread Randall Gellens
At 6:13 PM -0800 3/13/01, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:43:54 -0500, BethK Corporation wrote: This may sound like a really stupid questionbut I am using Qpopper with Postfix, and I was wondering if you can send out mail with Qpopper. Sort of. Qpopper recognizes the XTND

Re: Reverse DNS only on some interfaces

2001-03-14 Thread Randall Gellens
At 2:40 PM -0800 3/13/01, Kenneth Porter wrote: Is there some way to configure qpopper to only do reverse DNS checks on some interfaces, but not all? You could run Qpopper in stand-alone mode, using separate instances for the interfaces that you want reverse-DNS and those you don't. You

RE: Can I send mail using QPopper

2001-03-14 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:30 PM -0800 3/14/01, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:29:12 -0500, Kristi L Brockway wrote: Qpopper calls sendmail. This is configurable. Does anyone know how to do this..or point me in the correct direction to where I can find documentation? I have been all through the

Re: Yet another time: hanging qpopper processes

2001-03-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:28 PM +0100 3/16/01, Oliver Fleischmann wrote: Hello to everyone out there! Yet another time we have the same old problem we experience since ages with the current qpopper 3.1.2 on Linux (2.2.16 SMP). Here are the logs: Mar 16 08:50:33 chlothar popper[22179]: [drac]: login by

Re: Qpopper Security?

2001-03-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:43 AM -0500 3/15/01, Jeff Mericle wrote: I occasionally receive qpopper error messages that look like the following. I believe that this is a hack attempt on my system. Is this an hack attempt? Was it successful? What exploit is this hacker using and is there anything I can do to

Re: Yet another time: hanging qpopper processes

2001-03-18 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:36 PM +0100 3/17/01, Oliver Fleischmann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 12:28 PM +0100 3/16/01, Oliver Fleischmann wrote: Mar 16 09:35:45 chlothar popper[24129]: ba3760 at p3E9E2005.dip.t-dialin.net (62.158.32.5): -ERR [IN-USE] /var/spool/mail/.ba3760.pop lock

Re: dracauth not found

2001-03-22 Thread Randall Gellens
Just in case anyone else runs into this, using '--with-drac' instead of '--enable-drac' fixed the problem.

Re: Mail repeatedly downloads messages

2001-03-23 Thread Randall Gellens
. (For example, Eudora at http://www.eudora.com). You could also try enabling tracing in Outllook and/or Qpopper, or even use a packet trace utility (which would help show dropped packets and such). -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only

Re: Patches to eliminate getpwnams

2001-04-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:16 PM +0100 4/7/01, Fergal Daly wrote: Here are the patches I mentioned to remove all extra calls to getpwnam from qpopper and a little bit of miscellaneous tidaying. Your patches are in the code base and will be in the next release. I appreciate your submitting them. After

Re: performance of qpopper

2001-04-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:32 PM +0200 4/7/01, robert rotman wrote: what can i do to improve performance of any pop server especcialy qpopper? (the only thing i found was to enable server-mode which did not help very much) There is a section in the FAQ about performance:

Re: Server Mode ?

2001-04-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:21 AM -0400 4/9/01, Jack Sasportas wrote: If I did a ./configure with --enable-servermode, does it matter how I call popper from inetd ? will it be in server mode for sure ? From the documentation: The determination of server mode is in the following order: o Compile-time default

Re: mailboxes LOCK - HELP ME

2001-04-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:53 PM +0200 4/9/01, Gilberto Dallan wrote: Hi all, First of all: I search the answer on the net but I have not found it. I hope someone can help me. The problem: I have installed Qpopper, Postfix, Dracd in a Redhat 7 box. I have tested the sistem with 3 accounts. All seemed to

Re: Server Mode ?

2001-04-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:24 PM -0700 4/9/01, Gregory Hicks wrote: Now, I tried setting this option on a 3.0fc1 and 3.2b1x2 qpopper line in inetd. In both cases, popper refused to start until I changed it to a lower case '-s'... I eventually figured out that the documentation was in error. 's' (lower

Re: Server Mode

2001-04-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:09 AM -0400 4/10/01, Jack Sasportas wrote: That's what I asked the other day, but nobody responded. I'm pretty sure I'm running in server mode because if you look in the mail spool dir you will see that the .pop files are no longer being created, which is how I was checking, but

Re: Server Mode

2001-04-10 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:08 PM -0700 4/10/01, Randall Gellens wrote: The .user.pop file is *always* created. That file serves two purposes: it's the temporary spool, and it is a mutual exclusion lock that prevents more than one POP session for the same user at the same time. Note that the location

Re: Qpopper 4.0 cross-device link?

2001-04-13 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:48 AM -0400 4/13/01, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I'm seeing this error with on of our pop accounts: Apr 13 01:20:03 drama popper[50937]: Unable to move /var/spool/pop/.username.pop to /var/mail/username: Cross-device link (18) I set up /var/spool/pop to be the --enable-temp-drop-dir

Re: Upgraded to 4.0, have questions

2001-04-13 Thread Randall Gellens
At 2:31 PM -0400 4/13/01, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I just upgraded qpopper from 3.0fc1 to 4.0 on a FreeBSD box. I typed ./configure --enable-server-mode-group-exclude=wheel --enable-bulletins-path =/var/spool/bulls --enable-statistics --enable-uw-kludge so as to enable server mode

Re: Upgraded to 4.0, have questions

2001-04-13 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:03 PM -0400 4/13/01, Lisa Casey wrote: After upgrading, I am now seeing this message in /var/log/messages. What does this error mean? I have not encountered this one before. Apr 13 14:41:35 i2000 -sR[21771]: I/O error flushing output to client hkj at 205 .160.50.55

Re: More questions regarding qpopper 4

2001-04-18 Thread Randall Gellens
At 2:59 PM -0400 4/18/01, Lisa Casey wrote: I have two questions that I feel are really simple and I ought to be able to find the answer on my own, but after reading the INSTALL, the Administrators Manual on the web site and the FAQ, I still don't really have a clue. The GUIDE.pdf file

Re: More questions regarding qpopper 4

2001-04-18 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:19 PM -0700 4/18/01, Roy wrote: I changed the -T setting to 300 seconds and was still getting timeouts. Since I regressed back to version 3, the timeouts ent way for the most part. I think something is broken in the timeouts. It might be if a single message takes more than

Re: 4.0: Different +OK string

2001-04-21 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:37 PM +0200 4/20/01, Jens Schleusener wrote: Hi, just a small hint: A very simple script (using expect) for testing sanity of our POP-server was broken after upgrading from 3.1.2 to 4.0 since 4.0 answers now after connecting to port 110 with +OK Qpopper ... instead of +OK

Re: compiling qpopper problems

2001-04-21 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:18 AM -0700 4/20/01, David Bitton wrote: I am receiving th following errors when I make Qpopper 4.0: undefined reference to `auth_user' My configure is: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-pam=pop3 --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl --enable-specialauth --enable-apop

Re: qpopper and qmail?

2001-04-24 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:41 AM +0100 4/24/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: though don't forget if you have shadow passwords the --enable-specialauth option too. This is not required in most cases with Qpopper 4.0 (another reason to upgrade).

Re: Invalid cross-device link

2001-05-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 7:44 AM -0500 4/30/01, Ted George wrote: we are running a redhat 6.2 box as a pop mail server with qpopper in server mode. we have been using qpopper 3.1.2 and several versions before that. recently tried 4.0 and everything looked ok except these errors started showing up in the

Re: reading from /var/spool/mail AND $HOMEdir?

2001-05-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:58 PM +0100 4/30/01, Peter Rose wrote: Is it a case of qpopper only looks in one or the other? That's correct.

Re: TLS shutdown errors with MS Outlook clients (4.0.1 LX)

2001-05-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:46 PM -0400 5/1/01, Scott McDermott wrote: One other question: is standalone mode a lot faster for serving with TLS encryption (presumably because it does session key init infrequently) ? We make heavy use of concurrency and rate limiting feature of xinetd, so standalone mode isn't

Re: Server mode based on shell

2001-05-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:48 PM -0400 5/2/01, Scott McDermott wrote: I don't know why the LX manual says continually that shell users shouldn't be allowed access to server mode and the like...what they should really say is, don't let shell users have access to programs that modify the mail spool and don't

RE: make-install doesn't work for 4.0.1

2001-05-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:08 PM -0500 5/2/01, Rich Martin wrote: Don't know what's giving me the permission denied errors; all the file ownerships and perms in the qpopper directory look fine. Unfortunately, I'm not a C or C++ programmer, or this would be less mystifying. My boss told me a couple minutes

Re: i/o error: operation not permitted

2001-05-08 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:50 PM +0200 5/6/01, Francesco Baldi wrote: Hello, I've just installed qpopper 4.0.1, everything works fine but in some cases I get lots of messages like this: I/O error flushing output to client ... : Operation not permitted (1) I already checked permissions on my spool

Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

2001-05-08 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:05 PM -0300 5/8/01, Rodrigo Luiz Anami wrote: We were using qpopper 3.1.2 and we didn´t have any type of problem with it. After we upgraded to 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 therefore, we receive a lot of messages ERR POP EOF or I/O Error on syslog and our pop clients can´t download their e-mails. I

Re: SSL insights?

2001-05-08 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:30 PM -0700 5/7/01, Derek Balling wrote: May 7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] ...SSL error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line [pop_tls_ openssl.c:348] It looks to me like this is the key error. It sounds like the cert file isn't in the right format (no start line).

Re: Duplicate messages

2001-05-08 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:19 AM -0600 5/7/01, Angela D. Chow wrote: Whenever I upgrade the version of my qpopper, users begin to receive the old emails they had already downloaded. I can't activate auto-delete and I cannot go to 1000 computers to delete lmos.dat under eudora. (some of them are using

Re: leaving mail on server gives mmdf errors

2001-05-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:04 PM -0700 5/9/01, Chris Loelke wrote: Some users leave their mail on the server, as of 4.0.2 i see this error in the syslog file, never seen this with version 3.x Can't write cache file for chris; spool is in mmdf format Anyone have any ideas? This warns you that because your

Re: Duplicate messages

2001-05-09 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:32 PM +1200 5/10/01, Alan Brown wrote: Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new, whenever qpopper is upgraded ? Yes, don't leave mail on the server :-) You may be joking, but it's worth pointing out that normally upgrading Qpopper is invisible to end

Re: Qpopper 4.02/OpenSSL 0.9.6a - TLS/Alt port error

2001-05-15 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:56 PM +1000 5/11/01, Mathew Hudson wrote: The problem (from the server side): May 11 15:10:38 host -f [24170]: (null) at address (IP): -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error May 11 15:10:38 host -f[24170]: I/O error flushing output to client at address [IP]: Broken pipe (32) I am at

Re: Newbie question

2001-05-15 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:10 PM +0200 5/11/01, David Bengtsson wrote: A simple question. How do I change the domain name provided by Qpopper You can always use 'sudo hostname mail.rightdomain.com' from a command prompt. (Qpopper uses gethostname(3) to get the host name.)

RE: Problem with timeout option in qpopper

2001-05-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:21 AM -0500 5/16/01, Wilson Machasilla wrote: All options works fine: -r -S -f /etc/config.apopper, etc. But the option -T don´t work! I've not heard of this failing before. Try enabling debug tracing and see what is going on. The debug trace records written by Qpopper include the

Re: Problem with attachments?

2001-05-16 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:40 AM -0400 5/16/01, A. M. Salim wrote: This user says he can download attachments just fine from other hosts, just us he is having a problem with, so that would lead me to believe it is something at the server end (i.e. qpopper). Try enabling debug tracing in Qpopper (at least

Re: What is the .user.cahe file for ?

2001-05-17 Thread Randall Gellens
At 7:15 PM +0200 5/17/01, Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó wrote: May someone tell me what is the .user.cache file for ? It holds the index into the mail spool. If no new mail has arrived (bulletins are OK) then it is used at session start instead of reading the spool, thus making a very big

Re: Patch for qpopper4.0.2 to set server-mode based on usershell

2001-05-23 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:12 PM -1000 5/22/01, Clifton Royston wrote: Changing the login group for thousands of users, so that we could use the group-based server mode selection seemed likely to cause problems. There's no need to change the login group. Secondary group is fine. The user only needs to be a

Re: Patch for qpopper4.0.2 to set server-mode based on usershell

2001-05-23 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:20 PM -1000 5/23/01, Clifton Royston wrote: It just seemed logical to me that if the main contraindication for server_mode is shell access, I should implement a way of making server_mode hinge on shell access. At this site, at least, it looks like it will make configuration very

Re: user can not get messages

2001-05-29 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:03 PM +0200 5/28/01, Joerg Hartmann wrote: Hallo , some of my users on different linux-mailers have problems with qpopper (Version 3.1.2 and 4.0.1) from time to time. The Mailclient (Outlook or Netscape) stops downloading the mails from the spool and hangs until timeout. Not for

Re: qpopper.config

2001-05-29 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:01 AM -1000 5/29/01, Clifton Royston wrote: If you want each user to have their own separate options file in the mail spool directory, put -U on the command line like this: popper -U It's also a good idea to make sure the config file in the spool is not writeable by users.

RE: compiling problems

2001-05-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:27 AM -0500 5/30/01, Eduardo A. Alcocer Rosado wrote: When I execute ./configure --enable-servermode I didn´t see any errors and no one when I execute make and make install Then it seems everything compiled just fine. , my problem started when I never could did a telnet

Re: 4.0.2 and qpopper.org

2001-05-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:44 PM -0400 5/30/01, rick pim wrote: the most obvious performance wins are server mode and fast-update. fast-update is listed in the manual as potentially breaking biff. if this is the worst problem then, given our setup, i'm more than willing to enable it. are there any other

RE: compiling problems

2001-05-30 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:19 PM -0500 5/30/01, Eduardo A. Alcocer Rosado wrote: thanx! It work it. the problem was the parameter s it must be S From the inetd.conf line you used, the problem looked to be that you didn't pass the program name (Qpopper or popper) as the first parameter. If you still aren't

Re: Running Qpopper on BSD/OS 4.2 and wanting qpopper to runon both ports 110 and 995

2001-06-01 Thread Randall Gellens
At 12:28 PM -0700 5/31/01, Kenneth Porter wrote: BTW, Randall, did you get my bug report on the openssl_shutdown stuff? It was getting called even when the session didn't use STLS, and there's some other shutdown error code (operating system error) when used on the alternate port. I put

Re: More TLS/SSL info

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:39 AM -0700 6/3/01, Eduardo E. Silva wrote: From outlook express: A secure connection to the server could not be established. Account: 'silvex.com', Server: 'silvex.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0x800CCC1A from /var/log/maillog Jun 3

Re: TLS/SSL

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:18 AM -0700 6/3/01, Eduardo E. Silva wrote: /etc/mail/pop/cert.pem [pop_tls_openssl.c:352] Jun 3 04:09:27 ns1 popper[12819]: ...SSL error: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line [pop_tls_openssl.c:352] It looks like the cert file isn't in the correct format. The

Re: noop has null function

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:21 AM -0400 6/4/01, John MacKenzie - Elehost wrote: Hi There, was searching the FAQ but could not find my answer, what does this error mean: noop has null function just started appearing after we upgraded to 4.02. Thanks for any help John This will be fixed in 4.0.4.

Re: Upgrading 3.1 - 4.0.3 other stuff

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:11 AM +1000 6/5/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These commands DO NOT work: set server-mode = false set group-server-mode = ppp (ie. all users, regardless of group get non-server mode, and yes the group is valid and I have tried others) I just tried this,

Re: Dual port popper

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:45 PM -0600 6/5/01, The Doctor wrote: The strings you enter will depend on your configuration. In many cases command line options alone will suffice. Try reading the manual, trying it yourself, and then asking for specific help if you are stuck. The manual was of no help.

Re: Problems with qpopper process that never terminates

2001-06-05 Thread Randall Gellens
At 1:16 PM +0200 6/5/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However on rare occasions (eg once per week) a qpopper process will hang around indefinitely. I have seen such processes and the corresponding .user.pop file hang around overnight. What is the solution? Will upgrading to the latest

Re: File Locking

2001-06-06 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:26 PM -0400 6/6/01, Homer Wilson Smith wrote: Is there a white paper on file locking and how it works, including techniques of use, particularly dotlocking and flock/fcntl? There may be, but in a nutshell, dot-locking is the most common method used for mail spools. Qpopper always

Re: File Locking

2001-06-07 Thread Randall Gellens
The dot-lock file is created by appending .lock to the name of the file being locked. The dot-lock file must be in the same directory as the file being locked. Qpopper uses an additional file, .user.pop as a mutual-exclusion lock to prevent more than one POP session at the same time. No

Re: qpopper.log does not work

2001-06-08 Thread Randall Gellens
See the Administrator's Guide. You can change the log facility used by Qpopper if you like. Whichever facility is being used needs to be configured in syslog.conf. You specify which messages are logged, and to which file.

Re: PAM problems

2001-06-11 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:38 PM +0200 6/9/01, Nhan NGO DINH (OCIC Missionary Service) wrote: I've looked at the Qpopper sources and I've seen that when the program processes the USER POP3 command it doesn't query the PAM interface but directly it uses the getpwnam() function (so it takes care of

Re: 4.0 question confirmation

2001-06-11 Thread Randall Gellens
At 11:39 AM -0400 6/11/01, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: so then even if you use server mode with fast-update, you have to put the pop temp directory on the same partition? just confirming, as i couldn't find this note in the Documentation Manual. I'm assuming it's because you can't do

Re: Changes in how keep-temp-drop works

2001-06-11 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:10 PM -1000 6/8/01, Clifton Royston wrote: However, with server mode under qpopper 4.x, while the option is still supported, it's no longer directly useful for that: the POP temp file doesn't seem to get created or touched unless the spool file has been modified since the last POP

Re: Changes in how keep-temp-drop works

2001-06-11 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:14 AM -1000 6/11/01, Clifton Royston wrote: If so, this is a bug. The .user.pop file is also used as a mutual-exclusion lock to prevent more than one POP session at the same time. How does that work together with keeping it permanently around as a zero-length file? Qpopper

Re: 4.0 question confirmation

2001-06-12 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:29 AM -0400 6/12/01, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: i think i see..the old location being important IF, in a previous compiled popper, the temp dir equaled the spool dir. but if you have had a seperate temp directory for a while now, you can safely set the --disable-old-spool-loc

Re: Qpopper 4.03

2001-06-12 Thread Randall Gellens
At 3:54 PM -0500 6/12/01, Gary White (Network Administrator) wrote: Can anybody explain why qpopper leaves these stale processes. At the time I listed these processes only 2 were actually active. What does a truss(1) or strace(1) on them show? If you don't have truss(1) or strace(1),

Re: I/O errors

2001-06-15 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:14 AM -1000 6/15/01, Clifton Royston wrote: I'd like an authoritative answer to this too, if possible. It *looks* to me like this is what happens when the client disconnects without a quit due to being disconnected, timing out on their side, etc. but I am not really sure. Yes,

Re: question about qpopper v4.0.3

2001-06-24 Thread Randall Gellens
At 8:30 AM -0400 6/22/01, Damian Ramirez wrote: But running the same php script to my pop3 server with qpopper v4.0.3 , its not work and the log of qpopper says the following: That log doesn't say much. Try enabling debug tracing and see what Qpopper says is going on. To enable tracing

RE: question about qpopper v4.0.3

2001-06-25 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:43 AM -0400 6/25/01, Damian Ramirez wrote: Jun 25 10:46:09.918 2001 [41860] +OK ready [popper.c:246] It seems you're still in SHY mode, but it doesn't seem to matter, because: Jun 25 10:46:09.986 2001 [41860] Received (4): CAPA [pop_get_command.c:105] Jun 25 10:46:09.986 2001

Re: OpenSSL certficate signing

2001-06-25 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:44 AM +0200 6/25/01, Ted Lufoma wrote: Please advise the e-mail address of the Certificate Authority. You can use any CA you choose. You can also self-sign. However, the point of the CA is that it is a third-party trusted by the client to certify that you are who you say you are. So

Re: I/O error flushing output to client ???

2001-07-04 Thread Randall Gellens
At 10:51 PM -0400 6/27/01, Jack Sasportas wrote: OK I have looked at past posts, and looked on the web with no answer to this problem. I noticed the few times I get this, there are literaly hundreds of entries in the logfile. Can someone from Qualcomm please help out and really define

Re: Qpopper 4.03

2001-07-04 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:34 PM +0400 6/28/01, Alexander Utkin wrote: From qpopper manual i found out that i have to use crypt library to compile uner FreeBSD. As far as i could understand (although i am not sure) i should compile with --enable-specialauth. On that process Qpopper.4.0.2 and 4.0.3 on

Re: Questions about authentication.

2001-07-06 Thread Randall Gellens
At 5:24 AM -0700 6/29/01, Gustavo Viscaino wrote: You're right. But I think that an easier way would be to use the --enable-specialauth, flag. Btw, Mark, this is in the FAQ: http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#shadow The fAQ needs to be updated. In most cases you don't need to

Re: define server mode for user without telling him

2001-07-06 Thread Randall Gellens
At 4:14 PM +0800 6/30/01, PM WONG wrote: Now this new version 4 has this flexible option of having the server mode for a specific user. This is handy as the global server mode has too large impact on users. Now i could trace some user's whose mailbox is tremendously large (most

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