qmail Digest 26 Nov 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1195
Topics (messages 52826 through 52854):
Re: Multiple users on virtual domain
52826 by: Chris Johnson
52837 by: David Benfell
Re: secrets and lies
52827 by: Al
52834 by: Robin S. Socha
52838 by: Al
52839 by: Romeyn Prescott
52843 by: Adam McKenna
52845 by: Romeyn Prescott
52852 by: David Dyer-Bennet
Mailbox ownership
52828 by: Neil Grant
52833 by: Robin S. Socha
52836 by: Neil Grant
52853 by: Robin S. Socha
Perl doubts
52829 by: Cleiton Luiz Siqueira
52831 by: Chris Johnson
Re: Last message!
52830 by: Fernando Barreto
auto append signature file to all outgoing messages
52832 by: John Reddie
52835 by: Romeyn Prescott
52844 by: Andy Bradford
Svscan, Multilog and performance issue
52840 by: dkwok
How to start programms with .qmail?
52841 by: Hans-Juergen Schwarz
52842 by: Alex Pennace
identd
52846 by: Phil Barnett
52847 by: Romeyn Prescott
52848 by: Timothy Legant
52849 by: Phil Barnett
How can I add log in qmail-queue.c?
52850 by: Simon Liu
sendmail to qmail pine problems
52851 by: David Daugherty
52854 by: Robin S. Socha
Administrivia:
To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe to the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To bug my human owner, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To post to the list, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:14:57AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > I am trying to set up a virtual domain to be controlled by a user. [snip] > The purpose of this is to set up a secondary MX for our Star Trek fan > club e-mail addresses. If this is a secondary MX, you should add the domain name to rcpthosts *only*. That's all the configuration necessary. Don't make it a virtual domain on this server. [snip] > So far I have added trek.parts-unknown.org to /var/qmail/control/locals and > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. I have put an entry in > /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains which looks like: A domain should never be in both locals and virtualdomains. If it's in locals, the virtualdomains entry will be ignored. But if this is a secondary MX setup, it shouldn't be in either locals or virtualdomains. Chris
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:14:44AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:14:57AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > > I am trying to set up a virtual domain to be controlled by a user. > > [snip] > > > The purpose of this is to set up a secondary MX for our Star Trek fan > > club e-mail addresses. > > If this is a secondary MX, you should add the domain name to rcpthosts *only*. > That's all the configuration necessary. Don't make it a virtual domain on this > server. > [Chuckle...] Gee, that makes sense. She succeeded in confusing me. This is easy to do. Thanks! > [snip] > > > So far I have added trek.parts-unknown.org to /var/qmail/control/locals and > > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. I have put an entry in > > /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains which looks like: > > A domain should never be in both locals and virtualdomains. If it's in locals, > the virtualdomains entry will be ignored. Bingo! Thanks a million! > > But if this is a secondary MX setup, it shouldn't be in either locals or > virtualdomains. > Since she's the administrator of the primary site, I'll have to find out from her what she really wants to do. Thanks again! -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. -- Benjamin Franklin. [from fortune]
PGP signature
> So, what is your point here? When was the last time a serious > security > fanatic went through: > > a. Linux kernel source code. > b. BSD kernel source code. > c. Solaris kernel source code. > d. etc., etc., etc. > Answer to b would be OpenBSD. - "One of the best examples of pure democracy in action is the lynch mob" - AA4YU
* Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, what is your point here? When was the last time a serious security >> fanatic went through: >> >> b. BSD kernel source code. > Answer to b would be OpenBSD. And when did a serious security professional last go through it? gd&r -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
> > And when did a serious security professional last go through it? gd&r > -- Since there is no way to guess the standard you would require for "serious" and "professional" I guess there is no way to answer the question. The OpenBSD team maintains a solid reputation for quality and security. But I doubt they would consider themselves as "serious security professionals". Just good coders. But then again when I see some of the people who claim to be knowledgeable in security (i.e. John Vranesevich and Carolyn Meinel) I just have to laugh. - "One of the best examples of pure democracy in action is the lynch mob" - AA4YU
At 1:32 PM +0100 11/23/00, Felix von Leitner wrote: >Thus spake Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Picking up a leaflet does not involve making a copy of it. > >> Pulling something off of a web site involves creating a copy on your >> local machine. > >Please enlighten me: who bullshitted you Americans into believing that >one needs a license to use software? Or that software is patentable? > >And how did he go about this feat? > >The bullshit level of this comes close to major religions (who tell you >that there is an invisible man in the sky who makes you rot in hell if >you believe in other gods, but he also loves you). > Ah, Felix, welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism! I'm American and I don't believe I need a license to use software. I simply have no LEGAL choice. Money being a religion unto itself, everyone's in the software game for the money. There IS a certain amount of sense to it...why spend countless hours pounding out code and never realizing any financial gain from your efforts? I suppose that's great and groovy if you're independently wealthy or have no family or friends, but for most people writing/creating software, they are doing so as a means of financial support. They therefore want/need to look out for their interest. If a man sells 10 copies of his software and it gets installed on 10,000 computers, he's still only sold and received money for 10 copies. Where's the profit in that? And if there's no profit, why do it? It's a question I often ask a friend of mine. He's a real Open Source zealot (not a Bad Thing!) and writes/invents all this mind-bogglingly useful software...and then gives it away!!!!!! This confuses the bejeezus out of me, and I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand WHY. Not being a prrogrammer, I guess I'll never realize the sense of prestige or satisfaction one gets out of putting 1's and 0's together in an order that no one ever has before. But just because there is no physical result or manifestation of one's toilings, does than mean, as you, sir, seem to imply, that one is not deserving of a portion of the rewards (financial or otherwise) reaped from the use of one's inventions or ideas? I think that's the whole point. If there's nothing to be gained by doing something, then why do it? I guess that's the whole idea. We are all, after all, rational self maximizers; there's no such thing as a selfless deed. What, Felix, (and you probably ought to respond offline, should you be so inclined, as this has precious little to do with qmail) do you suggest? How should the software "empires" of this world make their money if not by charging for their software and protecting the license (bought and paid for permission to use it) that goes along with it? I'm genuinely curious. Sincerely, ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm cubiclecam: http://digirom.potsdam.edu/~prescor/cubiclecam.html ^^^ <--- New and improved!
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:33:44PM -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote: > What, Felix, (and you probably ought to respond offline, should you > be so inclined, as this has precious little to do with qmail) do you > suggest? How should the software "empires" of this world make their > money if not by charging for their software and protecting the > license (bought and paid for permission to use it) that goes along > with it? I'm genuinely curious. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-3.html and other similar writings by ESR and others involved in the open source movement. The motives behind Open Source are not secret -- they are readily available, all you need to do is look. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | connected to a bunch of other wires." 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A | Joe Rogan, _NewsRadio_ 6:11pm up 168 days, 16:27, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.02
> >See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-3.html >and other similar writings by ESR and others involved in the open source >movement. The motives behind Open Source are not secret -- they are readily >available, all you need to do is look. I can't believe I read the whole thing... ;-) *whew* Some of that was pretty heavy. I'll re-read it again when I can devote more attention to it. But thank you very much. I found it most enlightening! ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm cubiclecam: http://digirom.potsdam.edu/~prescor/cubiclecam.html ^^^ <--- New and improved!
Greg White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 November 2000 at 23:11:06 -0800 > Paul Jarc wrote: > > Dan's software isn't open source. > Oh, really? By whose definition? I have the source, and I have the > actual program. I suppose if you're some ESR/RMS fanatic, this does > not comply with your vision of "open source". The source is > available, and by Dan's own words you can do what you like with > it. As far as I am concerned, this meets anyone's definition of > "open source" except a fanatic. Might I suggest that you limit yourself to expressing your own opinion? This "all reasonable people agree with me" assertion is unsupported, and I suspect overly broad. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / [EMAIL PROTECTED] SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/
* Neil Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. ( ) text/plain (*) crap/html_by_mircosoft <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3103.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>should the user own the Mailbox file in their directory and what attributes need to be set?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil Grant</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3103.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the user should own the Mailbox file in their directory and the attributes should be 700 as set my maildirmake.</FONT></DIV> Man, I *love* HTML... -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
doh - I set outlook to use plain text when I first installed w2k, then it has switched (by itself) back to html, some time at the end of october - what a stupid bit of software! so my question was: should the user own the Mailbox file in their directory and what attributes need to be set? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Qmail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Mailbox ownership > * Neil Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. ( ) text/plain (*) crap/html_by_mircosoft > > a lot of crap > > Man, I *love* HTML... > -- > Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/> >
* Neil Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > should the user own the Mailbox file in their directory and what > attributes need to be set? As I said: "the user should own the Mailbox file in their directory and the attributes should be 700 as set my maildirmake." -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
Hi all,I know this mailing list is about qmail, but I have some doubts about perl pogram
as checkpassword.
I use this perl program "checkpassword", because I use Postgres Database to
authenticate my users.
There are somethings into this perl program that I am not able to figure out.
First:
I start POP3 through inetd using the following line into the inted.conf file:pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup mydomain.com
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d MaildirI know that qmail-popup is a responsible program to get username and password from the
network and after it gets it runs a sub-program (checkpassword) to check username
and password and set the environment variables.
I have three questions about it:
How does qmail-popup get the username and password from the network?
How does qmail-popup send to sub-program (checkpassword) the
informations about username and password?
More specifically what is the format of the data sent to this sub-program (checkpassword)?I have the checkpassword program done, but I would like you to help me about understanding
what the program does. If someone could help about my checkpassword program I would thank.This is my checkpassword program:
The most important line that I'd like to figure out is about how it gets from the qmail-popup the
informations about username and password, how it gets to split this information and what means
the lines started with $ENV.
If it gets from the standart input, where is it? In the expression "<&=3"?
If the lines $ENV are to set up the environment variables why must it do this?
What Do the procedures in bold do?
About the connection with database I don't have any problem.#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use Pg;
my $TABLE = 'emails';$conn = PQsetdb('','','','','ab');
%ENV = () ;
my( $len, $buf, ) ;
open( USER, "<&=3" )
or exit( -3 ) ;
$len = read( USER, $buf, 512 ) ;
close USER ;
exit(-3) if $len < 4 ;# extract null-terminated user/pass pair from buf
my( $user, $pass ) = split /\x00/, $buf ;
$user = lc $user ;
$buf = "\x00" x $len ;# Verifying the username and password
$domain = 'ab.com.br';
$result = PQexec($conn,"SELECT * from $TABLE where email= '$user' AND password = '$pass';");
if (PQntuples($result) > 0) {
if (-e "/home/$domain/$user") {
}
else
{system("mkdir /home/$domain/\"$user\"");
system ("/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/$domain/\"$user\"/Maildir");
system (" echo ./Maildir/ > /home/$domain/\"$user\"/.qmail");
system (" touch /home/$domain/$user/.timestamp");
system("/usr/sbin/chown -R alias.qnofiles /home/$domain/\"$user\"");
system("/usr/sbin/chown -R alias.qnofiles /home/$domain/\"$user\"/*");
system (" touch /home/$domain/$user/.timestamp");}
}$ENV{'USER'} = $user;
$ENV{'UID'} = "alias"; #$ary[0][3];
$ENV{'GID'} = "qnofiles"; #$ary[0][4];
$ENV{'HOME'} = "/home/$domain/$ENV{'USER'}";
$ENV{'SHELL'} = "/bin/date";exit(-4) unless $ENV{UID} ;
$ENV{HOME} =~ m!((?:/\w[-_.\w]+)+)! ;
$ENV{HOME} = $1 ;
chdir $ENV{HOME} ;
$> = $ENV{UID} ;
$) = $ENV{GID} ;
exec @ARGV;
exit(0);
exit( -4 );
Thanks in advance!
Cleiton
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 01:13:16PM -0200, Cleiton Luiz Siqueira wrote: > I know that qmail-popup is a responsible program to get username and password > from the network and after it gets it runs a sub-program (checkpassword) to > check username and password and set the environment variables. > I have three questions about it: > How does qmail-popup get the username and password from the network? > How does qmail-popup send to sub-program (checkpassword) the > informations about username and password? > More specifically what is the format of the data sent to this > sub-program (checkpassword)? Read the qmail-popup man page. It answers all these questions. > I have the checkpassword program done, but I would like you to help me about > understanding what the program does. If someone could help about my > checkpassword program I would thank. > > This is my checkpassword program: > > The most important line that I'd like to figure out is about how it gets from > the qmail-popup the informations about username and password, how it gets to > split this information and what means the lines started with $ENV. If it > gets from the standart input, where is it? In the expression "<&=3"? It reads it from file descriptor 3, as the qmail-popup man page will tell you. Chris
HI... > > tai64nlocal.c:60: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. > > > > > > I checked the include file sys/time.h and I didn't the structure > > that tai64nlocal.c calls. > > try including <time.h> (you might need to put it before or after > the sys/time.h line, or to delete the sys/time.h line - i don't > know about AIX). > > Regards, Uwe > YES... there is a /usr/include/time.h ... I tought that the time.h only exists in /usr/include/sys/time.h :-) In /usr/include/time.h there is that structure "tm". Now I can compile... Thank's BYe
Hi I nearly found this in the FAQ, but not quite... We need to add a 'disclaimer' automatically to all outgoing messages from every user. I guess this is easy if you know how! help please! many thanks John e systems limited 232 royal college street camden london nw1 9nj tel: 020 7485 4859 fax: 020 7485 2448 http://www.esystems.co.uk
At 3:57 PM +0000 11/25/00, John Reddie wrote: >Hi > >I nearly found this in the FAQ, but not quite... > >We need to add a 'disclaimer' automatically to all outgoing messages from >every user. > >I guess this is easy if you know how! > >help please! > >many thanks I searched the list archives and came up with this idea: ----- Run two queues. In the regular qmail, operating at /var/qmail/, create a virtual domain by putting this into /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains: :remote and then put | cat - signature | /var/qmail-remote/bin/qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -a "$EXT2" in ~alias/.qmail-remote-default The other qmail should be compiled with /var/qmail-remote in conf-qmail. It should have empty locals and virtualdomains files. ----- There may be others. I have no idea if this will work. ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm cubiclecam: http://digirom.potsdam.edu/~prescor/cubiclecam.html ^^^ <--- New and improved!
Thus said Romeyn Prescott on Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:52:05 EST: > There may be others. I have no idea if this will work. It may work for a few cases, but with today's mailiers, it most likely will corrupt the message or not be seen at all. Consider the different Content-Type made available in most of todays MUA: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/html Without parsing the message in some fashion it will most likely not work properly. Now, if your company's mail policy/standard is to only send text/plain messages then you might be able to get away with it... Andy -- [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 5:43pm up 23 days, 20:02, 5 users, load average: 1.13, 1.21, 1.21
Hello all, I like to start webalizer when I send a Mail to a certain address (i.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) So I created a .qmail-webalizer file with the following in it: | /path/to/webalizer -and /all/the/options but it won�t work. Does anybody know how to handle that? Thank you very much and best regards Hans-Juergen
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:07:32AM +0100, Hans-Juergen Schwarz wrote: > Hello all, > I like to start webalizer when I send a Mail to a certain address > (i.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) So I created a .qmail-webalizer file > with the following in it: > | /path/to/webalizer -and /all/the/options > but it won�t work. > Does anybody know how to handle that? > Thank you very much and best regards What do the logs say?
Does qmail require identd to be running to operate properly? -- Phil Barnett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ FTP Site ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net
No, you can, per the docs, use tcpserver, tcpd, or xinetd as an alternative. ...ROMeyn At 12:26 AM -0500 11/26/00, Phil Barnett wrote: >Does qmail require identd to be running to operate properly? > > >-- > Phil Barnett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ > FTP Site ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm cubiclecam: http://digirom.potsdam.edu/~prescor/cubiclecam.html ^^^ <--- Off-line unless someone knows how to get camserv to compile under RedHat 7... *sigh* :-(
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:26:05AM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: > Does qmail require identd to be running to operate properly? It doesn't *require* identd. However.... tcpserver attempts an identd lookup on each incoming connection. If the lookup times out, it carries on normally. Waiting for the timeout can be annoying, though, especially as it typically affects users relaying through SMTP who don't understand why sending mail takes so long. Clients like Outlook and Netscape may timeout on the SMTP connection. Use -R on the tcpserver command line to prevent tcpserver from attempting the lookup. -thl
On 26 Nov 2000, at 1:34, Romeyn Prescott wrote: > At 12:26 AM -0500 11/26/00, Phil Barnett wrote: > >Does qmail require identd to be running to operate properly? > No, you can, per the docs, use tcpserver, tcpd, or xinetd as an > alternative. I was referring to identd, not inetd. -- Phil Barnett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ FTP Site ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net
I just installed qmail 1.03 and I'm using Pine 4.21 on a FreeBSD 4.2Beta box. I was using sendmail and have all of my folders in $HOME/mail. Now I guess qmail wants to use Maildir. So I followed the docs and created a Maildir folder and through my shell I can see all of the new emails in Maildir/new. I changed inbox-path to Maildir and it keeps telling me this is not a selectable folder. It doesn't complain if I set it to $HOME/Maildir but I don't see any of the new emails. Just my old folders. I looked in your archive and everything pertaining to this is over a year old and didn't make too much sense. Can anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong here? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* David Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed qmail 1.03 and I'm using Pine 4.21 on a FreeBSD > 4.2Beta box. I was using sendmail and have all of my folders in > $HOME/mail. Now I guess qmail wants to use Maildir. So I followed the > docs and created a Maildir folder and through my shell I can see all > of the new emails in Maildir/new. > I changed inbox-path to Maildir and it keeps telling me this is not a > selectable folder. It doesn't complain if I set it to $HOME/Maildir > but I don't see any of the new emails. Just my old folders. You need to patch pine (unless something good has happened in pine 4.3) to read Maildir. The patches can be obtained from http://qmail.org/. Look, Ma, 4299 accidents waiting to happen: find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' | wc -l 4299 -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
