Re: [vchkpw] Restrict amount of vchkpw authentications

2002-08-31 Thread Charles Sprickman
You might be best off hacking up your popd to achieve this. Have it look at last login time and spit out an -ERR You are popping too often see http://blahblahblah;. Some clients will show this others won't. As a shortcut you could pull some existing data out of mysql and send a nagging email

RE: [vchkpw] qmail-inject Error

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Clayton Weise wrote: I agree on both points. I feel that these mailing lists should be for the odd problems that can't be solved by doing a simple search on google, or reading through the archives. But not everyone takes things that far. There are also so many

RE: [vchkpw] qmail-inject Error [T2002091803GK] (fwd)

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I know someone brought this up about a month or so ago, but it appears [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still subscribed to this mailing list. Could the list maintainer please manually remove that address? I don't see a list-owner address in the headers of the vchkpw list, so I'm posting this hoping

RE: [vchkpw] Qmail AntiSpaming

2002-10-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
For what it's worth, where I used to work they just started using spam assassin system-wide. There was some laborious tuning involved, but they are now sinking about 50-65% of incoming mail to the trash. False positives don't seem to be a problem. I've seen my inbox almost completely free of

Re: [vchkpw] Feature request: Usage of SSLREMOTEIP

2003-03-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
On 3 Mar 2003, Jonas Pasche wrote: The drawback is that tcpserver sets (besides others) the environment variable TCPREMOTEIP, which vchkpw uses for logging and for opening dynamic relays. sslserver from the ucspi-ssl package set SSLREMOTEIP instead, which causes vchkpw to stop logging IP

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.3.19

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Tren Blackburn wrote: Also, how many other people would be interested in a feature like this? My company doesn't offer lifetime accounts either. When their contract is up, we remove the domain. Personally, I think your billing system should be taking care of the

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.3.19

2003-03-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote: But I don't think it would break functionality for you, and it would probably add functionality that people with less friendly billing programs (or no billing program at all) could appreciate. You have much bigger problems if you are trying to make

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.3.19

2003-03-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jesse Guardiani wrote: You're probably right. My billing system does suck. But hey, what am I supposed to do? I help run a small ISP with just over 1K users. I didn't ask for the billing system. It came with my job. And I don't think we have enough money for a better

Re: [vchkpw] SpamAssassin - scaling

2003-03-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Rob Gridley wrote: I realize this topic has been beaten to death, but I've decided to keep on poking it anyhow. It also might be a little OT. I wasn't able to find anything in the list archives similar to this, so I decided to post it in case it's useful to someone. Not

Re: [vchkpw] IMAP dot folders

2003-03-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ajai Khattri wrote: I found that the folder names corresponded exactly with the folder names in SquirrelMail. Since SquirrelMail uses IMAP, Im assuming it told courier-imap to make these folders. And the fun part starts when you throw multiple mail clients into the mix.

RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Nick Harring wrote: Rather than questioning why we would refuse to accept from non-reversible hosts, why don't we ask why anyone would set a host up without reverse DNS? Because they're not running DJBDNS. :) ducks C Nicholas Harring System Administrator Webley

Re: [vchkpw] make install error (v5.3.20)

2003-07-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
I think in general you'll have better luck using gmake (/usr/ports/devel/gmake). Charles On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to install vpopmail-5.3.20 on a freebsd4.8 machine. I'm receiving the following errors:

Re: [vchkpw] error:domain already exsits

2003-07-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Tom Collins wrote: If others have patches that have not been accepted to the vpopmail source, please send them to me or post them to the Patch Tracker on SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpopmail/. Just checking, is the SF stuff in full effect at this point for

[vchkpw] 5.3.24 and Delivered-To header

2003-08-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, It looks like the Delivered-To problem has returned: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wasn't seeing this under 5.3.21... Thanks, Charles

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.24, maildrop and catchalls

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
. The overzealous logging is most important to track down problems in the maildrop config. This is not my creation by a long shot, but the result of examples posted here in the past and examples from Mr. Sam's docs. Thanks, Charles On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, Just a quick

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail mysql

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, eLgino wrote: hi folks, does work vpopmail with MySQL 4.1.0? or only with version 3? I've been running with 4.0.x with no problems. 4.1.x is not recommended for production use though, as stated on the mysql.com website... Charles thx

Re: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrongpw?

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, jeff thomas wrote: Ok... I tried this fix. I edited vchkpw.c and removed the FOOB and ENDIF. recompiled. No luck. Same thing. Any password I put in still works. Thoughts? Since you're using a pre-packaged build, I'd go here:

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.24 and Delivered-To header

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jeff Hedlund wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wasn't seeing this under 5.3.21... What's the problem that has returned? That line should look like: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't that the correct delivery to line (at least

[vchkpw] 5.3.24, maildrop and catchalls

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Just a quick note, I just gave 5.3.24 a spin, and vdelivermail still doesn't pass the $EXT and $HOST variables along when delivering to a catchall address. This, in effect means that you cannot filter any mail destined to a catchall address. I've seen a posting where someone had

Re: [vchkpw] qmail quotas won't work

2003-08-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Doug Clements wrote: I use Maildrop to deliver with quota features, but I had to enable that and set the quota in the recipe file. Could you expand on that a little? I know maildrop has a compile-time switch to turn on quotas, but it natively has no way of talking to

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail mysql !!

2003-08-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, eLgino wrote: could not connect to mysql update server Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server. Consider upgrading MySQL client Server: 4.1.0 Client 3 and 4 all right, right password for vpopmail user and the server is running!! But your

Re: [vchkpw] RE : [vchkpw] Webmail question

2003-08-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: another alternative is TWIG - http://twig.screwdriver.net . nice clean interface, and lots of functionality. Does TWIG have a plugin system like squirrelmail? I'm leaning towards exclusively going with squirrelmail, as I've found a number of

Re: [vchkpw] debugging vchkpw?

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John P. Looney wrote: Any ideas why this could happen ? Is there docs on running vchkpw so I could see how it works ? Yes, the code does have bits pieces like; printf(vchkpw: what the hell are you doing running vchkpw on the command line!! It's only for talking with

Re: [vchkpw] courier pop3d

2003-08-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jonas Pasche wrote: How could a supervisescript for that look like ? You should consult the Courier IMAP list for that; this isn't vpopmail related. Heh heh. I wouldn't. I looked at the archives and Mr. Sam is about as helpful and caring as DJB. The only thing I

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.26 error with chkusr patch + mysql

2003-09-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
FWIW, I'm getting a similar error with 5.3.27: ./load qmail-smtpd rcpthosts.o commands.o timeoutread.o timeoutwrite.o ip.o ipme.o ipalloc.o control.o constmap.o ssl_timeoutio.o ndelay.a -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto -L/home/vpopmail/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lvpopmail -lmysqlclient

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Tom's fork of vpopmail (and qmailadmin)

2003-09-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Collins wrote: I have forked ownership since I felt that Inter7 was doing a poor job of maintaining vpopmail and qmailadmin. I readily acknowledge that Ken created vpopmail and qmailadmin. They're GPL projects, so I'm free to fork them if I like. Since moving the

[vchkpw] malicious subs

2003-09-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
It seems that someone is subscribing this list to a number of improper addresses to disrupt things... -an address that responds back to posts with a virus -various abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses Could whomever maintains this list have a look at the subscription list and pull some of the more

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Inter7, vpopmail, and open source standards

2003-09-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Paul L. Allen wrote: Ms. Catherine Kouzmanoff writes: It is a time to call together everyone on this list to insist that Tom Collins add Ken Jones or another representative from Inter7. I've been using vpopmail for a few years now and didn't really care who was in

Re: [vchkpw] UPGRADE to MD5 encryption

2003-09-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ken Jones wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 1:14 pm, Mike Miller wrote: Wondering if someone can answer this for me. I've got maybe 100 domains thus yet using crypt() encryption for passwords, as well as storing clear text [for CRAM-MD5 encryption requiring the

Re: [vchkpw] imap before smtp

2003-09-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
This is a good FAQ item, for when we have a FAQ. Mr. Sam has disabled the imap-before-smtp function in the authvchkpw code. I've looked at the courier archives, and there's no explanation from him as to what the problem is... Just lots of questions. :) Bill's suggestion might not work, as he

[vchkpw] new(?) qmail-smtpd patch

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
While looking for info on how to get more logging out of qmail-smtpd (auth failures), I found this on the qmail mailing list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmailw=2r=1s=qmail-smtpd+logging+authq=b Looks interesting, but of course trying it out requires another round of patch massaging to make

Re: [vchkpw] new(?) qmail-smtpd patch

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
This one's also interesting, it filters bad mime types, without needing to incur the overhead of a perl-based scanner (ie: qmail-scanner): http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail.html (scroll to warlord) This guy's site is worth exploring, lots of neat stuff. Charles On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Charles

Re: [vchkpw] new(?) qmail-smtpd patch

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Bill Shupp wrote: On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: While looking for info on how to get more logging out of qmail-smtpd (auth failures), vchkpw compiled with --enable-logging=v, will show success smtp logins, as well as failures

Re: [vchkpw] new(?) qmail-smtpd patch

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote: I've got that, so I can see possible auth failures, but my problem seems to come after TLS negotiation and before smtp-auth. If I setup pine to use this mail server for outgoing, it negotiates ssl and then prints smtp server has gone away

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail POP: ERR aac, chiled crashed after reboot, core dumped

2003-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Chris Shenton wrote: The machine was recently rebooted and vpopmail's POP now crashes upon successful authentication (names changed for privacy, sorry): Two quick thoughts: -When you say it was rebooted, was that on purpose, or something went awry with the machine? If

Re: [vchkpw] Anyone know how to do prefix-forwards?

2003-09-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Qmail handles this, and it can be enabled for vpopmail at compile time with this: --enable-qmail-ext=y|n enable qmail email address extensions (default no). I don't know how well-tested that is or if it brings up any lurking bugs in vpopmail though... Charles On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Taylor

Re: [vchkpw] maildirsize update when using maildrop

2003-09-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, J. Kendzorra wrote: Hi, in the archives I found a few, unanswered messages from people (like me) using maildrop and not vdelivermail to get messages delivered. The (well known?) problem is that the maildirsize file doesn't get updated after making quota changes via

[vchkpw] Maildrop and quotas/warnings

2003-09-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I'm having some problems getting maildrop to behave properly when someone goes over quota. This is vpopmail 5.3.27 and maildrop 1.5.2 (with quota support). First of all, when vdelivermail is delivering the mail, there's no problem. If the user is over 90%, they get a warning, if

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail 5.3.27

2003-09-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Paul L. Allen wrote: Bottom line: if somebody is obviously doing his or her best to get an answer, I will respond if I can. If somebody is trying to get me to do hi9 or her homework for them I will flame. I think the person who asked was stuck, but I didn't have an

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail 5.3.27

2003-09-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
I'd look at making /usr/local/vpopmail/lib readable by the vchkpw user as well... Charles On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, X-Istence wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Paul L. Allen wrote: Bottom line: if somebody is obviously doing his or her best to get an answer, I

Re: [vchkpw] Re: maildir++ patch doesn't solve the problem

2003-09-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Tim Hasson wrote: I am not setting the environment variable MAILDIRQUOTA for some reasons: 1. If user has access to their maildrop filter, or they have shell access, then the MAILDIRQUOTA makes no sense. I didn't even know there was a MAILDIRQUOTA environment variable

[vchkpw] [OT] mbox to Maildir programs

2003-09-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've been googling for some time on this, and I'd like some feedback from someone who has perhaps already moved a large number of accounts from mbox to Maildir as part of a migration to vpopmail. My favorite so far is mb2md: http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md This one does almost everything.

Re: [vchkpw] adding domains error

2003-10-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Tom Collins wrote: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Trey Nolen wrote: After upgrading to 5.3.29, we are getting the following error when trying to add a domain: Error: (vadduser) can't read domain limits If you have a ~vpopmail/etc/vlimits.default file,

[vchkpw] testing methods

2003-10-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm in the middle of migrating a large site to vpopmail (currently running sendmail). I've got a script to do the bulk add for the main domain (call it isp.com). I also currently have some staff members routed here with the domain test.isp.com, so I don't want to break anything for them.

Re: [vchkpw] autoresponder/vacation

2003-11-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
And probably this one as well: http://untroubled.org/qmail-autoresponder/ On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, Is anyone else using something other than the autorespond package to handle vacation-style messages? I'm finding that autorespond doesn't look like a good choice

Re: [vchkpw] Re: autoresponder/vacation

2003-11-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Paul L. Allen wrote: I'm finding that autorespond doesn't look like a good choice for people used to a standard vacation responder It is a BAD choice for a vacation responder. It lacks many features ESSENTIAL in a vacation responder. You might as well ask if

Re: [vchkpw] testing methods

2003-11-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, My question is this, if I do vaddomain isp.com so that I can test my syncing script, and I want to keep qmail in the dark about the existence of this domain, can I simply pull the isp.com entries out of the rcpthosts and assign files

Re: [vchkpw] vpopbull broke in 5.2.2?

2003-12-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Joe Boyce wrote: Hello, Is vpopbull broke in 5.2.2? When I run it, it simply silently exits, even when using -V (verbose). I noticed the same thing in 5.3.30. Even running verbose, it's silent. But in my case, it does copy the bulletin... Charles I'm running it like

Re: [vchkpw] Re: spamassassin patch ready ahead of schedule

2004-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ken Jones wrote: Hi, Just a few notes, I've been busy migrating to a vpopmail server from sendmail/uw-imap, so I've missed reading the list for a while. 2) I saw on a previous post that spam filtering can be disabled for a specific user, but what about for an entire

Re: [vchkpw] spamassassin patch ready ahead of schedule

2004-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
Sorry to be replying late... But, if anyone is interested, we have a squirrelmail plugin and a small C program to handle turning spam-filtering on/off and also for setting vacations and forwards from within SquirrelMail. It does not require running your webserver as the vpopmail user. Combined

[vchkpw] 5.3.30 + quotas

2004-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Recently migrated from a sendmail/uw-imap server to vpopmail w/courier pop/imap. For the most part everything went very well. I just have a few quick questions: First, for Tom, what are you recommending for a good devel version? 5.3.30 seems to have some lingering bugs (looking at

Re: [vchkpw] spamassassin patch ready ahead of schedule

2004-01-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
, this gives vacation/forward/spam-controls to users within squirrelmail. Thanks, C Charles Sprickman wrote: Sorry to be replying late... But, if anyone is interested, we have a squirrelmail plugin and a small C program to handle turning spam-filtering on/off and also for setting vacations

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail with sha1 hashes

2004-02-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bentamix wrote: I would like to implement sha1 hashes support into vpopmail, I know that qmail only support md5 or based crypt Depends on the OS. I'm using Blowfish on FreeBSD, and the only thing I had to change was the max allowed characters in vpopmail. The system's

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.30 + quotas

2004-02-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, Recently migrated from a sendmail/uw-imap server to vpopmail w/courier pop/imap. For the most part everything went very well. I just have a few quick questions: First, for Tom, what are you recommending for a good devel version? 5.3.30 seems to have some

Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw and courier 2.2.1 (long)

2004-02-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Michael Bowe wrote: I have been doing some work on the vpopmail code that comes with courier. The work fixes many problems including this particular bug. I have recently submitted this patch to the courier author, and hopefully they will include these updates in a

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.30 + quotas

2004-02-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Nick Harring wrote: I've experienced this with several versions of courier and several versions of vpopmail. Seeing as the way I read the maildir++ standard each time you manipulate a maildir its your job to update the maildirsize file, then what deletes messages without

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail with SA

2004-02-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Tom Collins wrote: This is a bug we've tried to squash multiple times in vdelivermail. I thought that in 5.4.0, we had finally ironed out the problems that resulted in Delivered-To containing the domain name twice. At least I'm not crazy. I've never been able to get

Re: [vchkpw] vadddomain hangs up. (qmail/vpopmail over NFS cluster)

2004-02-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #strace '/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain sdfsdfsdfsdf.it' strace: /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain sdfsdfsdfsdf.it: command not found If you are running freebsd, you want ktrace; strace is a linux-ism. Peek at the manpages for ktrace and kdump.

[vchkpw] 5.3.30 problems with new domains

2004-02-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm running 5.3.30 (haven't had time yet to spec out 5.4.x) and am seeing some odd problems with newly-created domains. Everything sent to a real account in a new domain bounces. Aliases that point anywhere outside the domain do work, so it seems that qmail/vpopmail know the domain is

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.30 problems with new domains

2004-02-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tom Collins wrote: On Feb 19, 2004, at 6:35 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: So what could I be missing here? Any input is appreciated, this is making me nuts. Domain was added using vadddomain, users added with vadduser; any other users created there also fail

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.3 released

2004-03-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Tom Collins wrote: Tom Collins - Fix vsetuserquota() to write properly formatted quota to maildirsize file. Hi Tom, Can you elaborate on what that fix does and what problems it addressed? Thanks, Charles

[vchkpw] call for scripts/tools

2004-03-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm finally settling in to a nice vpopmail install, and I'm trying to help our support staff deal with this wildly different system (the old mailserver was sendmail/uw-imap). There were a number of shell scripts and whatnot on the old server to show things like what aliases from any hosted

[vchkpw] OT: Radius server

2004-03-31 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, This is somewhat OT, but I'm curious what people here are using for radius authentication against the vpopmail mysql db? There are a number that support SQL auth, but the whole pw_gid thing in vpopmail is giving me some pains. I wish to use the dialup y/n flags that end up in the pw_gid

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
particular numeric values in the pw_gid field mean... Thanks, Charles --Doug - Original Message - From: Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:42 PM Subject: [vchkpw] OT: Radius server Hi all, This is somewhat OT, but I'm curious

Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Iavor Raytchev wrote: In our company we had a discussion on the issue and the prevailing opinion is that we should not waste time with the extension, but write a daemon. This weekend we will experiment with that. Today, searching more in depth on the issue - I found some

[vchkpw] pw_gid flags was: OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
Ken (and anyone else who knows), Can you explain a bit how these flags work? When I look in the db at the pw_gid fields, they are all decimal values (ie: 64, 128, etc.). I hope this isn't some kind of bitmasking thing, because that just makes my head spin. I'll try to give a detailed listing.

Re: [vchkpw] pw_gid flags was: OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Rick Widmer wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I hope this isn't some kind of bitmasking thing, because that just makes my head spin. That is exactly what it is... So how does one deal with that? How does this work? Thanks, Charles

Re: [vchkpw] test copy of vpopmaild.c

2004-04-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Ken Jones wrote: I'd like any comments or votes on how this version is using a POP3 type protocol. Sounds good to me, this is getting exciting! One little question... What are you thinking of as far as encryption? I'm sure there's going to be some people running the

Re: [vchkpw] test copy of vpopmaild.c

2004-04-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Ken Jones wrote: One little question... What are you thinking of as far as encryption? I'm sure there's going to be some people running the client on a box seperate from the server. You looking at adding ssl support, or are you thinking of just letting something like

Re: [vchkpw] test copy of vpopmaild.c

2004-04-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Rick Widmer wrote: There is no need to send the ~vpopmail/domains/ part of the path, because the user has no choice on that part. If we always send the full path from that point down, then the path is always: $Domain/$User/$whatever or maybe

Re: [vchkpw] Difference between +OK and +OK+

2004-04-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ken Jones wrote: I'll upload the code into cvs today so you can get the latest code from there. Just out of curiousity, does this build against vpopmail 5.3.x or 5.4.x? Thanks, Charles Ken

Re: [vchkpw] Re: pw_gid flags was: OT: Radius server

2004-04-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Sorry for the top post... Peter, thanks for that info. Between you and a co-worker, I've got this figured out. It's a very cool way to set user rights; I like it. So in case anyone is wondering, here's the magic to make gnu-radius obey these flags. I'll use our setup as an example here. We

Re: [vchkpw] VLOG....aaarrrrrggggg!!!!

2004-04-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Tom Collins wrote: On Apr 13, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: Yes, your best bet would be periodically issue an SQL command such as DELETE FROM vlog WHERE timestamp whateverdate This should work as well: DELETE FROM vlog WHERE timestamp DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE,

[vchkpw] chkusr patch - false negatives

2004-05-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I've seen a few people complaining that their mail is getting bounced. Not good, needless to say. On examing the bounces, I see that it's the chkusr error message that the user does not exist. At this point my best guess, by looking at overall server activity is that this is happening

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr patch - false negatives

2004-05-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
of 100 concurrent qmail-smtpd's, what would be a safe number of concurrent mysql connections when the box is maxed out? Multiply 100 by 2, 3, 4? For mail retrieval, I can measure a bit more easily... Thanks, Charles On Tue, 11 May 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I've seen a few people

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr patch - false negatives

2004-05-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 12 May 2004, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: You have the same problem in vdelivermail, if MySQL is down. You see chkuser because it is the first filter in the chain. Unless I'm mistaken though, in this case the mail will simply go back in the queue, it won't be lost, right? Thanks,

[vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I read with some interest the thread about 5.4.5 that mentions this particular error: Jul 1 19:11:41 blah pop3d: vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists Today we've been getting a ton of complaints about users needing to enter their passwords multiple times.

Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
, vpopmail is just doing select's right? Charles On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I read with some interest the thread about 5.4.5 that mentions this particular error: Jul 1 19:11:41 blah pop3d: vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists Today

Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Collins wrote: If you have roaming users (POP before SMTP) enabled, it stores the IP information in a table. Every POP auth will generate an update or replace into that table. Ah. Thanks, I thought there was something, but that slipped my mind. The more I look at

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before we take this costly step, what have you noticed for user / system loads before you start hitting the limits of your hardware? Should we be having these issues with about 15,000 email users and 5 front-end 'work' servers? Well, you're making

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: Also, on top of that, I would consider disabling auth logging as it performs an insert/update upon every authentication which, no matter what will go back to your central mysql server, and if you have mysql being replicated, will be replicated to the

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Eric Ziegast wrote: With webmail, the session state is not saved nor cached, so with each new request, the mailbox can be rescanned. A relatively modest webmail application might only rescan all headers and show subject lines. A complex application might scan all

Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Rick Widmer wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -vpopmaild will be nice - no need to have webmail on the same box vpopmaild has nothing to do with webmail, although I guess you could use it to retrieve mail through the back

[vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent events have made me think of this again... The standard chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's update to the original: http://www.shupp.org/patches/chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch) has some rather nasty behaviours.

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: At 06/07/2004 06/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent events have made me think of this again... The standard chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's update to

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: For most vpopmail operations, it's not a big deal; an occasional login failure or mail being deferred. But on the chkusr side, a mysql burp leads to rejected mail. Personally, I feel MySQL unsafe for such operations, and I'll switch to

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Tom Collins wrote: On Jul 7, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Should I make a patch with just this feature against 5.4.5? Will someone merge it - or can I? If you can isolate that change, I'll make sure it gets into the 5.4 series. Yeah! We can make it

Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi, I read with some interest the thread about 5.4.5 that mentions this particular error: Jul 1 19:11:41 blah pop3d: vmysql: sql error[1]: Can't create database 'vpopmail'. Database exists Today we've been getting a ton of complaints about users needing to enter

Re: [vchkpw] Migrating from crypt /etc/shadow to md5 vpasswd

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Brian Feeny wrote: I am moving customers over from a non-vpopmail setup authenticating off /etc/shadow with crypt passwords, to a vpopmail setup (same box) which uses md5. Brian, I haven't seen you since the usr-tch days... This should just work; vpopmail uses the system

[vchkpw] finding over-quota users

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
howdy, Is there any simple way to run through a large number of users (3000 or so) and find out who is over quota and when they last checked their mail? I see vuserinfo with no arguments doesn't iterate through all users like vdominfo does. I suppose the easiest (but somewhat intensive) method

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail md5/crypt behavior

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: yes, the crypt() call should support both md5 and crypt format. Any new passwords will be in md5, so if they change it or something, it'll be md5. And on *BSD, it also supports blowfish or anything else the MCF (modular crypt format) supports.

Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 04:39 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote: Just following up to myself with a related question... If I have a seperate update server, and the read-only server is working fine, does any failure on the update server (doing relay

Re: [vchkpw] Failing logins - mysql issue?

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: http://untroubled.org/relay-ctrl safe over nfs doesn't require rebuilding a cdb file every authentication easy to install I know, I saw you mention this the other day, but I'm not using qmail-pop3d, I'm running courier. If I switch pop3 servers

RE: [vchkpw] finding over-quota users

2004-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kister wrote: On Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:48 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: Is there any simple way to run through a large number of users (3000 or so) and find out who is over quota and when they last checked their mail? you can try http://jeremy.kister.net/code

[vchkpw] upgrading 5.3.30 to 5.4.x

2004-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I've been looking through the release notes on all post 5.3.30 releases and so far I don't see any big gotchas except for this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10747937905r=1w=2 Out of curiousity, what has changed? My current super-patch-pack for qmail was quite difficult to put

[vchkpw] dir_control oddity

2004-07-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, Yesterday I recompiled/installed my existing 5.3.30 vpopmail install. The changes vs. the old configure line are: -removed mysql logging -removed lastauth logging (thanks Jeremy, cut my updates in half!) -enabled mysql replication Other than that, everything is the same (verified against

RE: [vchkpw] Vdelivermail high load

2004-07-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Fernando Costa de Almeida wrote: Hi Jeremy, thanks for your explanation! Im using FreeBSD and consequently an UFS Filesystem (with DIR_HASH and SoftUpdates enabled). I will delete the emails, but I posted this question just to make sure that my problem was

Re: [vchkpw] upgrading 5.3.30 to 5.4.x

2004-07-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Tom Collins wrote: Someone, somewhere determined the proper order (based on documentation, perhaps related to the chkpasswd(?) program used on non-vpopmail systems) and the latest (0.42) SMTP AUTH patch and the code in vpopmail 5.4.0 were both fixed. Excellent. Sounds

[vchkpw] db failover

2004-07-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I can't recall the original thread that went off on a tangent, but there was some talk about whether or not the mysql C libs handled failover, round-robin, etc. I was curious myself, so I asked about this on the mysql list. Apparently the libs don't do anything special; if you hit a db

RE: [vchkpw] queue

2004-08-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Shane Chrisp wrote: Using the chkusr patch is probably your best option. Another option if all of your mxers are running qmail/vpopmail is to use chkuser, but to protect yourself from the intermittent false negatives it may give, set it's error string to return a temp

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