Mail from Listbot.com ?????
What is this someone trying to spam me or worse? Thanks, David Jackson Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.207147 info msg 295259: bytes 131135 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 26707 uid 1011 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.215115 starting delivery 24: msg 295259 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.215376 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.236106 delivery 24: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.236386 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.284197 bounce msg 295259 qp 26710 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.286992 end msg 295259 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.291989 new msg 295263 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.295765 info msg 295263: bytes 131745 from qp 26710 uid 1016 Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.302560 starting delivery 25: msg 295263 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 20 00:56:58 mail qmail: 995612218.306159 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.319893 delivery 25: success: 204.71.191.253_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_995612611_qp_1264/ Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.323824 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Jul 20 00:57:38 mail qmail: 995612258.327443 end msg 295263
Re: qmail reliance on passwd file
Al Sparks wrote: Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)? In other words, can I set up a separate database (e.g. MySQL) that qmail can access for account information? I note that qmail has /var/qmail/users/assign, but it references both UID's and GID's, which are maintained by /etc/passwd. I am setting up 2 clustered systems that will use shared storage (non NFS) to maintain each user's Maildir, and would rather not have to worry about keeping 2 separate system's passwd files in sync. qmail-ldap does this, and it contains native clustering code. www.nrg4u.com for details. Mike
Re: some wierdness with qmail - rbl/rss - dnscache
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:03:00PM -0400, Kris von Mach wrote: Something very weird started happening yesterday, and I have been trying to figure out what it might be, and I was unable to narrow it down. I have been running qmail with rbl/rss and also running dnscache on the same machine for a while without any problems. Yesterday my dnscache log started filling up with these error messages: (log excerpts trimmed: ) @40003b574c21126fcb94 query 27874 7f01:e77a:701d 1 @40003b574c2113c47684 query 27875 7f01:fccb:eebc 12 @40003b574c2113eb6744 query 27876 7f01:fccb:eebc 16 @40003b574c2113f087c4 query 27877 7f01:e77a:701d 1 All these request are from localhost; so it could very well be rblsmtpd causing these requests. about 20 or so requests like this a second... about 95% of them are for 150.68.39.208.relays.mail-abuse.org/150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org which is (web01.dc.intira.com, not my server) and the other 5% are for 2.110.10.209.in-addr.arpa (my server) my qmail-smtp and qmail-send logs don't show anything interesting... What does that mean? And how do you know? [re-ordered] exec softlimit -m 1 -t600 tcpserver -S -R -H -c100 -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp rblsmtpd \ -r blackholes.mail-abuse.org \ -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%' \ qmail-smtpd splogger smtpd 21 Use '-v' with tcpserver to log connection attempts (which is what would cause rblsmtpd to do lookups). What version of ucspi-tcp do you have? My copy of 0.88 doesn't have an '-S' option. If you are getting connection attempts from this address, try using recordio to see what the host is sending to rblsmtpd (and possibly qmail-smtpd). My antivirus program (kaspersky's) didn't like this at all and was generating this error: Well, then, you must have _something_ interesting in your qmail logs, since something is reaching your antivirus thingy. [...] My qmail setup is done according to Matt Simerson's qmail-vpopmail-freebsd toaster. I'm not familiar with that document. RBL and RSS tests shows that everything is working fine... What does that mean? What sort of tests did you do? What is the 'everything' that is working fine? Obviously, it's not, since you're asking the question here. So the only thing that I can think of that might be different is that MAPS changed something? No yet. I know I haven't changed anything for over a month now (and this is a fairly busy server). The thing that really freaks me out is that I worked on Deloitte Consulting's web site around a year ago, and now my dnscache is filling up with requests for 150.68.39.208.blackholes.mail-abuse.org which the IP address is for web01.dc.intira.com... I hope the two are not related in anyway. We have no way of knowing that. Vince.
Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
Hello! I need to setup another qmail server, but this time it's going to be unusual. So far I was doing virtual domains in usuall way, by making entries in virtualdomians (domain - user), assigning those Virtual users their homes (via users/assgin), and place there .qmail-accountname for every virtual mail account. It's a good way for small systems, it's even good if you have big number of domains, but small number of account per domain. But this time I need 1 or 2 domains with about 8.000 accounts. Well, I guess that searching one of 8000 .qmail-* files on every deliver will kill overall system performance. Would you suggest better way ? I was thinking about using full doman-user assignment via users/asign.. Greetings -=Czaj-nick=-
Re: Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
Use vmailmgr: www.vmailmgr.org -tony On 20 Jul 2001 15:43:57 +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: Hello! I need to setup another qmail server, but this time it's going to be unusual. So far I was doing virtual domains in usuall way, by making entries in virtualdomians (domain - user), assigning those Virtual users their homes (via users/assgin), and place there .qmail-accountname for every virtual mail account. It's a good way for small systems, it's even good if you have big number of domains, but small number of account per domain. But this time I need 1 or 2 domains with about 8.000 accounts. Well, I guess that searching one of 8000 .qmail-* files on every deliver will kill overall system performance. Would you suggest better way ? I was thinking about using full doman-user assignment via users/asign.. Greetings -=Czaj-nick=-
How to move qmail to a new server?
Can anyone point me to some doc's on how to move a working qmail server to a new box? I have qmail installed per LWQ and all is working great. I just need to move the existing accounts/msgs to it and bring it online. Can anyone point me? - Gary
FW: Converting Maildir to Mailbox
Hi all, Newbie question. I've been using qmail for a while, and now has come requirement for a webmail package. The one I really want to use is Neomail, but it seems that it only supports Mailbox format, not maildir. Hence I was wondering if there was a way to convert back the maildir to mailbox, or run a process that does it. I've had a look at the maildir2mbox and gotten thoroughly confused. Cheers, Doogie
Re: Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
On 20 Jul 2001, Tony Gale wrote: Use vmailmgr: www.vmailmgr.org Can U say more about its design ? Some time ago I was using vpopmial, but it was actually doing its job the way I described in previous post. So we've ended with our own vpopmail-like system -=Czaj-nick=-
Re: Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
You can store your 8000 mail accounts under one user account. Each one having it's own Maildir. It will interface to courier-imap so you can use imap and/or pop3 to access each mailbox. -tony On 20 Jul 2001 16:10:31 +0200, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: On 20 Jul 2001, Tony Gale wrote: Use vmailmgr: www.vmailmgr.org Can U say more about its design ? Some time ago I was using vpopmial, but it was actually doing its job the way I described in previous post. So we've ended with our own vpopmail-like system -=Czaj-nick=-
Re: Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
On 20 Jul 2001, Tony Gale wrote: You can store your 8000 mail accounts under one user account. Each one having it's own Maildir. It will interface to courier-imap so you can use imap and/or pop3 to access each mailbox. Huh, you're genius ;) What you described is not a problem at all ;))) My problem addresses performance. Imagine that you have: /mailspools/domain1/ /mailspools/domain2/ /mailspools/domainN/ With large amount of domains, delivery can be slower because of a time needed to find particular domain directory. It can be easy worked-around by splitting the directory, say, by some hash or just domain name first letter: /mailspool/A/domains_starting_With_A.* It's similar to the way qmail's queue itself is organized. The problem starts if you have many counts in one domain, and use standard virtualdomains method. Each domain directory needs .qmail-account_name files in it. With many acounts per domain you will have large dirs to scan on every delivery. Actually I didn't check it myself, but I've heard (not once) about it's performance degradation... -=Czaj-nick=-
Re: .qmail scripting
[Please don't start a new thread by replying to a previous one. That screws up threading for those of us who use decent MUAs.] On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM -0400, Steve wrote: [...] I have looked around I haven't seen any documentation that describes what the inputs are and what the output options are Either you haven't looked hard enough, or you didn't get enough sleep before you started. Two man pages included with qmail itself document everything you need to know[*]: dot-qmail(5) qmail-command(8). [*] Except how to write scripts. 8-) -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived @: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
Odd pop problem
Hi, I'm having an odd pop problem that just started this week. We are using the Maildir format We have a nfs spool to store all mail. all mail transaction machines mount the nfs spool. We are using the qmail-popup program from the 1.03 distribution Currently the nfs spool and the mounting transaction machines are about 1 second off from each other. We used to have them running ntpd to keep in sync, but after an extended power outtage, ntp ceased to function properly and we are not sure why. Symptoms: Client will start to pop out email and it would freeze and time out during download and give an error (as usual, it's a pain to get clients to specify exactly what the error is). Email Clients Used: Most occuring from Outlook Express, one occurance from Netscape Mail so far Original thought later dismissed: We know that Nortons 2000 sometimes times out while scanning email - most of the clients noting this error were either running another virus scanner or (ugh) not running one at all. Questions: Does anyone have any thoughts as to what this could be? Also as a side note - are there any ntp wizards out there who might be able to help me with my ntp snafu? -Tony A safe place for Apple ]['s... http://www.a2haven.org --- Ugh - You mean I have to do that AGAIN??
Re: Larga amount of accounts per domain - HOWTO ?
On 20 Jul 2001, Tony Gale wrote: Use vmailmgr: www.vmailmgr.org Ok, I've checked it myself, citation from the web page follows: * A separate delivery agent that automatically deals with any address inside a virtual domain from a single .qmail-default file. And that's all I was talking about. So I need to further investigate vmailmgr and vpopmail (they are similar). -=Czaj-nick=-
disallowing certain remote recipients
Hey all-- I've searched the archives and not found a solution that seems to solve the following problem: I have a box (lwq + qmail-verh basically) that runs a number of opt in lists. Recently, a user sent a bunch of UCE, and though that problem has been solved, I'd like to be able to enforce the request of those who complained and asked to never receive another email from us. Because I anticipate other users breaking their TOS at some point in the future, I'd like to be able to block certain outbound addresses at the qmail-send or qmail-remote level. Ideally, I would have a control file that listed addresses and wildcards that this box would refuse to send mail to. That is, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests that our service not allow sending to his domain, I could put that restriction on the box, regardless of whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to one of these lists, or is added against her will or whatnot. Any and all advice would be appreciated, including pointing me to old discussion in the archives which I may have missed in my search. Thanks in advance, --joshua.
Re: .qmail scripting
Hi Steve, i am writing mail messages to a mysql database from .qmail files. the file looks like this: |/bin/cat $1 | myperlscript.pl $SENDER $1 is the whole mail-message and $SENDER is, i guess you know. regards, philipp Steve writes: Hi, I need to build a script that runs from a .qmail file and does a few side tasks but doesn't interfere with the normal mail delivery. This is to send an email or pager notification when mail arrives (ideally which will include who the message is from). Can someone point me at some descent documentation about writing .qmail scripts or point me to a script that does something close to what I need and I can hack. I guess the problem is that I don't understand the environment that the script is given and though I have looked around I haven't seen any documentation that describes what the inputs are and what the output options are. If there was some basic documentation covering the inputs and outputs I would be on my way. Philipp Steinkrüger Technik Oberberg Online Tel.: +49 2261 814240 Fax: +49 2261 814919 www.oberberg.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to move qmail to a new server?
Sorry to bug you. I guess I didn't use the right key words the first time I searched. I found it this time. Thanks. On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:56:28AM -0400, Gary S MacKay wrote: Can anyone point me to some doc's on how to move a working qmail server to a new box? It's in the archives a thousand times. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: Procmail
Xavier Pegenaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, i need that Qmail exec procmail for every user in mine system, this procmail is a little different than normal procmail, this one, zip all messages and store the messages in his own folder ... A better solution to your problem, which is How do I keep a copy of all messages is contained in the FAQ: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies You can make your special procmail the default delivery method, but users can override that with their .qmail files. And, yes, you can prevent users from using .qmail files using qmail-users, as Charles suggested, but why not just do it right and not have to worry about diddling with qmail-users? You want your users to be able to create .qmail files, don't you? -Dave
Re: disallowing certain remote recipients
At 11:38 AM -0500 7/20/01, Joshua Nichols wrote: Hey all-- I've searched the archives and not found a solution that seems to solve the following problem: I have a box (lwq + qmail-verh basically) that runs a number of opt in lists. Recently, a user sent a bunch of UCE, and though that problem has been solved, I'd like to be able to enforce the request of those who complained and asked to never receive another email from us. Because I anticipate other users breaking their TOS at some point in the future, I'd like to be able to block certain outbound addresses at the qmail-send or qmail-remote level. Ideally, I would have a control file that listed addresses and wildcards that this box would refuse to send mail to. That is, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests that our service not allow sending to his domain, I could put that restriction on the box, regardless of whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to one of these lists, or is added against her will or whatnot. Try the badrcptto patch or the spamcontrol patch, either of which will check against the envelope recipient and refuse to accept the message. Alternately, nullroute all of the MX's for the domain in question. -- John Groseclose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .qmail scripting
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:46:07PM +, Philipp Steinkrüger wrote: |/bin/cat $1 | myperlscript.pl $SENDER This is a Truly Useless Use Of cat (ISTR someone collecting these things in one DJB-run list or another 8-). It's equivalent to: |myperlscript.pl $SENDER man qmail-command to see why. -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived @: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
RE: disallowing certain remote recipients
Try the badrcptto patch or the spamcontrol patch, either of which will check against the envelope recipient and refuse to accept the message. Alternately, nullroute all of the MX's for the domain in question. Once again, these messages are not being received via qmail-smtpd. They are injected locally, so as far as I can tell, those patches will not help me. That's why I'm thinking qmail-send level. --joshua.
[OT] Re: .qmail scripting
* Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010720 13:16]: On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:46:07PM +, Philipp Steinkrüger wrote: |/bin/cat $1 | myperlscript.pl $SENDER This is a Truly Useless Use Of cat (ISTR someone collecting these things in one DJB-run list or another 8-). [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html#cat] /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions', and if you got a different 'impression', so what, can't we all be brothers? (Jack Handey)
Re: disallowing certain remote recipients
Joshua Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a box (lwq + qmail-verh basically) that runs a number of opt in lists. Recently, a user sent a bunch of UCE, and though that problem has been solved, I'd like to be able to enforce the request of those who complained and asked to never receive another email from us. Because I anticipate other users breaking their TOS at some point in the future, I'd like to be able to block certain outbound addresses at the qmail-send or qmail-remote level. Ideally, I would have a control file that listed addresses and wildcards that this box would refuse to send mail to. That is, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests that our service not allow sending to his domain, I could put that restriction on the box, regardless of whether [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribes to one of these lists, or is added against her will or whatnot. Use control/virtualdomains. Say aol.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ask you to not send them mail. Add the following to virtualdomains: aol.com:alias-devnull [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-devnull Then create ~alias/.qmail-devnull-default containing: # If you want to throw the mail away, or: |echo mail to this address is blocked locally by request; exit 100 If you want to generate a bounce message. -Dave
Re: disallowing certain remote recipients
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:38:31AM -0500, Joshua Nichols wrote: I'd like to be able to block certain outbound addresses at the qmail-send or qmail-remote level. virtualdomains should do it for you. Something like: unwanted.dom.ain:trashcan where ~alias/.qmail-trashcan contains: # -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived @: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
Re: .qmail scripting
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:46:07PM +, Philipp Steinkrüger wrote: |/bin/cat $1 | myperlscript.pl $SENDER $1 is the whole mail-message and $SENDER is, i guess you know. Nonsense. The mail gets pumped in on STDIN, and fortunately for you cat passes it to its STDOUT. $1 is empty. So your cat statement ist a no-op, remove it. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
Re: disallowing certain remote recipients
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:08:50AM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: where ~alias/.qmail-trashcan contains: Sorry, I meant ~alias/.qmail-trashcan-default, of course. 8-) -- Adrian HoTinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived @: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail Useful URLs: http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html http://www.qmail.org http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://qmail.faqts.com/
Fw: MX record and how do they exactly work
Hi can someone explain me how qmail handles higher priority mx records? basically what i want to know what happenes when lower priority MX is down and supposly it going to next MX and so on and so on i added a domain name into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file, but what i need to know on backup server do i need to do anything else? where would all mail go? will it be transferd to first mx as soon as it come online? or it'll deliver it on local server to mail boxes which is set up there..? thank you in advance
ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = Grupo Silva Carvalho Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = MENUSCATERINGLES Scanning Time = 07/21/2001 03:24:20 Action on virus found: The attachment MENUSCATERINGLES.doc.lnk exists TROJ_SIRCAM.A virus. ScanMail has Moved it. The attachment was moved to d:\Virus\MENUSCATERINGLES.doc3b5885641e.lnk_. Warning to recipient. ScanMail detected a virus in an email attachment and has been removed! If this mail is from Internet, the sender don't know his/her mail consists of virus and has been removed. Please ask the sender to clean and re-send.
VIRUS FOUND: MENUSCATERINGLES
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Sent by:Grupo Silva Carvalho Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MENUSCATERINGLES Date: 20/07/2001 22:08:49 VIRUS DETECTED ON THIS MESSAGE !!! File: MENUSCAT.lnk Virus: W32/Sircam Renamed http://www.pandasoftware.com winmail.dat
VIRUS FOUND: MENUSCATERINGLES
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Sent by:Grupo Silva Carvalho Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MENUSCATERINGLES Date: 20/07/2001 22:08:49 VIRUS DETECTED ON THIS MESSAGE !!! File: MENUSCAT.lnk Virus: W32/Sircam Renamed http://www.pandasoftware.com winmail.dat
Re: MENUSCATERINGLES
please hold on to the bar, enjoy ride. /* Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin */
[OT] conversion inetd daemontools
Sorry for Off-Topic, but there is neither a daemontools nor a ucspi mailing list. Iam using qmail now since a month, and iam really impressed by the daemontools package. Now i want to switch from using inetd for ftp rsync to daemontools. I would be very pleased, if someone could tell me a page, where i can find example scripts for those actions. thanks in advance Lukas Beeler -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
The mythical 52@pickledbeans.com
Greetings --- This is the second email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my local box), who of course doesn't exist both from @list_dommain_or_another? Am I missing something here? A well known secruity flaw in some email systems? There's no 50,51 or 53 ... just [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Also What danger would there be in creating an 52 user and see what I catch. The funny part is I jus sittinging up with my little ol' box routing mail via qmail and dyndns.org with a dommain I registerd about 10 days ago. Thanks for you comments and time. David -- /var/adm/messages Jul 20 08:33:06 mail qmail: 995639586.145650 new msg 295160 Jul 20 08:33:06 mail qmail: 995639586.145976 info msg 295160: bytes 13671 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27362 uid 1011 Jul 20 08:33:06 mail qmail: 995639586.152440 starting delivery 39: msg 295160 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 20 08:33:06 mail qmail: 995639586.152707 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jul 20 08:33:06 mail qmail: 995639586.175271 delivery 39: failure: Sorry,_no_mai lbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Re: [OT] conversion inetd daemontools
Read the man pages to learn how to invoke daemontools and tcpserver (ucspi). The qmail scripts are good examples for scripts, I have used them myself as examples. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet From: Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:59:42 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] conversion inetd daemontools Sorry for Off-Topic, but there is neither a daemontools nor a ucspi mailing list. Iam using qmail now since a month, and iam really impressed by the daemontools package. Now i want to switch from using inetd for ftp rsync to daemontools. I would be very pleased, if someone could tell me a page, where i can find example scripts for those actions. thanks in advance Lukas Beeler -- --/-/-- Lukas Beeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---\-\-- \ \ My HomePage: URL:http://www.projectdream.org / /
Re: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services
Thanks to all for giving quite a no. of solutions to the following pbl. One more query though. Can I create dynamic system users using the command useradd from inside a perl script/java servlet which need not run as root? I suppose that only root has the privilege to create system users. Is there a way around this? Any suggestions/help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. KK [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: KK To: Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:32 PM Subject: How to create dynamic users for IMAP Email services Hello Everyone - I am a new entrant to the qmail world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03 server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf utility. Now my questions are: 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)? 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg. can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server - [EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named joe? If yes, how can I make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?
