Re: [vchkpw] [SPAM] block vpopmail brute force
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Hartmut Wernisch | Domaintechnik.at
h...@domaintechnik.at wrote:
I am using fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page).
Maybe it is useful for you, too.
That's what I use too - works quite well - using this vpopmail.conf for the
filter configuration:
#---
# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Chris Stone
#
# $Revision: 510 $
#
[Definition]
# Option: failregex
# Notes.: regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
# host must be matched by a group named host. The tag HOST
can
# be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias
for
# (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?Phost\S+)
# Values: TEXT
#
failregex = vchkpw-pop3: password fail.+:HOST
vchkpw-submission: password fail.+:HOST
vchkpw-smtp: password fail.+:HOST
vchkpw-smtps: password fail.+:HOST
vpopmail user not found.+:HOST
# Option: ignoreregex
# Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
# Values: TEXT
#
ignoreregex =
#---
Chris
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Chris Stone
AxisInternet, Inc.
www.axint.net
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Re: [vchkpw] [SPAM] Problem with authentication
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Leangen david.lean...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is with authentication. When I run my test: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah /home/vpopmail/bin/vhckpw pwd +OK 17922.1333842429@blah user t...@test.com +OK pass asdf -ERR authorization failed So look at /var/log/maillog and what does it say about your test as the reason for the failure? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net !DSPAM:4f80da3934847311510756!
[vchkpw] vpopmail Authentication Problem
Hello, I am having trouble with user authentication. I am running Fedora Core 5 on a Dell PowerEdge blade server with the latest (as of a few days ago) versions of qmail, vpopmail, and qmailadmin. I can log into qmailadmin just fine through Apache and I have added a virtual domain and some virtual users. This is reflected in my /var/qmail/ rchphosts and virtualdomain files. It is also reflected in /home/vpopmail/. The passwords for various users work in vpopmail but no where else. I have tried telnetting to port 110 on the box and applying crudentials but it always reports: -ERR authorization failed Here are my run scripts. Let me know what other information you require. It may be important to note that this box does not have a FQHN, instead, I have lied to it that it's name is stormtrooper.ucdavis.edu, when there is in actuality another box with that name (our old mail server). I cannot give it that proper name until this box works, because we support hundreds of users and cannot have an e-mail downage. The new blade's hostname is stormtrooper and if I ping that name according to the box it thinks it's 127.0.0.1, so I _think_ it's not a problem. /service/qmail-pop3d/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ localhost /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 /service/qmail-send/run: #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc /service/qmail-smtpd/run: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts! echo Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 I appreciate any help. Chris Thielen Network Programmer Creative Media http://creativemedia.ucdavis.edu/
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail Authentication Problem
About [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the user that works in qmailadmin on my test box), I cannot log in using telnet localhost 110 with that account either. I followed your commands to setuid for that program and issued qmailctl stop, qmailctl start and tried again. Still the same auth errors. Here are the versions I'm using: Fedora Core 5 (2.6.16-1.2080_FC5smp, 32-bit i686) netqmail-1.05 (qmail-1.03) ezmlm-0.53 vpopmail-5.4.13 qmailadmin-1.2.9 I'm also running bincimap and squirrelmail but that's not really related to these problems. Any help is appreciated! Chris Thielen Network Programmer Creative Media University of California, Davis On 2006-04-19, at 1231, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble with user authentication. I am running Fedora Core 5 on a Dell PowerEdge blade server with the latest (as of a few days ago) versions of qmail, vpopmail, and qmailadmin. specific version numbers? any patches applied on top of the source? I can log into qmailadmin just fine through Apache and I have added a virtual domain and some virtual users. This is reflected in my /var/qmail/ rchphosts and virtualdomain files. It is also reflected in /home/vpopmail/. The passwords for various users work in vpopmail but no where else. I have tried telnetting to port 110 on the box and applying crudentials but it always reports: -ERR authorization failed even for the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] account that you used with qmailadmin? Here are my run scripts. Let me know what other information you require. It may be important to note that this box does not have a FQHN, instead, I have lied to it that it's name is stormtrooper.ucdavis.edu, when there is in actuality another box with that name (our old mail server). I cannot give it that proper name until this box works, because we support hundreds of users and cannot have an e-mail downage. The new blade's hostname is stormtrooper and if I ping that name according to the box it thinks it's 127.0.0.1, so I _think_ it's not a problem. that's an /etc/hosts issue. both of the run scripts are using 0 as the IP address, so the hostname shouldn't be an issue for starting the services. the one thing to note is that when you do throw the switch, i'm assuming that part of the process will be changing the machine's IP address to be the same as the old server... when you change the IP, you should restart any services which are listening for incoming connections. your pop3 service is running as root, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue... very strange. the smtp service is running as qmaild, which means that when qmail- smtpd runs vchkpw, it will try to run vchkpw as the qmaild user, which doesn't have permissions to read the vpasswd.cdb files (which contain the mailbox names and encrypted passwords.) there are two solutions for this problem: (1) run the qmail-smtpd service as the vpopmail user, which can cause issues with other qmail-smtpd add-ons (qmail-scanner, simscan, etc.) (2) make the ~vpopmail/bin/vchkpw binary setuid, so that no matter which userid starts it, it runs as the vpopmail user. # cd ~vpopmail/bin # chown vpopmail:vchkpw vchkpw # chmdo 6711 vchkpw neither solution is the best for everybody- the first one can cause issues with other programs, and the second one opens a hole which could potentially allow a local user to conduct a dictionary attack against mailbox passwords by running vchkpw directly. if you don't allow non-trusted people to run arbitrary commands on your machine (this includes CGI or PHP scripts as part of a web site) then the second option is a non-issue, and is in fact what i've been doing on my own server for several years. however, i have modified qmail-smtpd to check a cdb file when validating an AUTH command. i will be rolling a patch file for it, and writing a web page to document it, later this week. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | --
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail Authentication Problem
Solved. It was a softlimit problem. On 2006-04-19, at 1231, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble with user authentication. I am running Fedora Core 5 on a Dell PowerEdge blade server with the latest (as of a few days ago) versions of qmail, vpopmail, and qmailadmin. specific version numbers? any patches applied on top of the source? I can log into qmailadmin just fine through Apache and I have added a virtual domain and some virtual users. This is reflected in my /var/qmail/ rchphosts and virtualdomain files. It is also reflected in /home/vpopmail/. The passwords for various users work in vpopmail but no where else. I have tried telnetting to port 110 on the box and applying crudentials but it always reports: -ERR authorization failed even for the same [EMAIL PROTECTED] account that you used with qmailadmin? Here are my run scripts. Let me know what other information you require. It may be important to note that this box does not have a FQHN, instead, I have lied to it that it's name is stormtrooper.ucdavis.edu, when there is in actuality another box with that name (our old mail server). I cannot give it that proper name until this box works, because we support hundreds of users and cannot have an e-mail downage. The new blade's hostname is stormtrooper and if I ping that name according to the box it thinks it's 127.0.0.1, so I _think_ it's not a problem. that's an /etc/hosts issue. both of the run scripts are using 0 as the IP address, so the hostname shouldn't be an issue for starting the services. the one thing to note is that when you do throw the switch, i'm assuming that part of the process will be changing the machine's IP address to be the same as the old server... when you change the IP, you should restart any services which are listening for incoming connections. your pop3 service is running as root, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue... very strange. the smtp service is running as qmaild, which means that when qmail- smtpd runs vchkpw, it will try to run vchkpw as the qmaild user, which doesn't have permissions to read the vpasswd.cdb files (which contain the mailbox names and encrypted passwords.) there are two solutions for this problem: (1) run the qmail-smtpd service as the vpopmail user, which can cause issues with other qmail-smtpd add-ons (qmail-scanner, simscan, etc.) (2) make the ~vpopmail/bin/vchkpw binary setuid, so that no matter which userid starts it, it runs as the vpopmail user. # cd ~vpopmail/bin # chown vpopmail:vchkpw vchkpw # chmdo 6711 vchkpw neither solution is the best for everybody- the first one can cause issues with other programs, and the second one opens a hole which could potentially allow a local user to conduct a dictionary attack against mailbox passwords by running vchkpw directly. if you don't allow non-trusted people to run arbitrary commands on your machine (this includes CGI or PHP scripts as part of a web site) then the second option is a non-issue, and is in fact what i've been doing on my own server for several years. however, i have modified qmail-smtpd to check a cdb file when validating an AUTH command. i will be rolling a patch file for it, and writing a web page to document it, later this week. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | --
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail extensions not working correctly
Er, Mike .. Wouldn't that due to the fact that .. home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/.qmail-michael and home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/.qmail-michael-testing are two *entirely separate* accounts? C. --- Michael Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using 5.4.15 vpopmail and I've noticed that extensions aren't quite working right. If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get mail going to my inbox and blackberry. If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get mail going only to my inbox. # cat /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/.qmail-michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail-send logs: bytes 1329 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 7661 uid 89 starting delivery 77: msg 374730 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] delivery 77: success: did_0+0+1/ And that's it. When I send to just 'michael', it then creates a new message to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED], as it should. but sending to michael-testing doesn't. That doesn't seem right. -M __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[vchkpw] 571 Errors
Hello, I am having some problems whenever people try to send to more than 15 people in the same email. They get back some variation of the 571 error, either "571 sorry, reached maximum number of recipients for one session (#5.7.1 - chkuser)\r\n"or "571 sorry, you are violating our security policies (#5.7.1 - chkuser)\r\n" is their any way to change the maximum number without re-compiling anything? Thanks, Chris Holloway Network Technician THUMBTECHS CORPORATION 8205 Camp Bowie West # 110 Fort Worth, TX 76116 (817) 923-2419
Re: [vchkpw] vacation messages
vpopmail supports piping mail to autoresponder, autoresponder does the vacationing. You could write a script that does the sql operations for you. This is easilydone using a php shell script. You're pretty much on your own with this one as there are now projects that links horde vacation with autorepsonder. - Original Message - From: Andrew Preece [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: [vchkpw] vacation messages Hey all, I'm trying to set up vacation messages, and I'd like to use the horde vacation plugin, as we already have all of our users well versed in horde. In the docs for vacation, it says that it supports an SQL based vacation message, as long as your mail server supports it. Does vpopmail supports this? As we already use MySQL for all of our user information, it would be convenient. Thanks, Andrew.
Re: [vchkpw] vacation messages
Okay I'll try to spell it out for you When setting a vacation message you've got to set the .qmail file for the user to pipe the email to a program. Normally it's autoresponder. But what you're going to have to do is pipe it to a custom script written by you in a language that can execute sql queries(php, perl, python, et cetera). That script is going to have to read the vacation message from the sql table and then email the person back. When I said you're on you own I meant it, I assumed that also implied that there would be no documentation on it. If you have qmailadmin, make a test email account and set a vacation message. then look at the dot qmail file to see how autoresponder works. - Original Message - From: Andrew Preece [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:26 PM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vacation messages vpopmail supports piping mail to autoresponder, autoresponder does the vacationing. I'm not seeing any really clear cut documentation on how to do this. Do I just change the .qmail-default file, and then it just works for whomever has an autoresponder entry in the database? Thanks, Andrew.
Re: [vchkpw] vacation messages
That's actually very good. I'd make a cron job to check the db entries. then every five minutes it would write the dot qmail files based on what the db says. btw how's horde working out. I was thinking of using it. More on the script, the script should write indevidual dot qmailfiles for each user in their home dirs that way compatability with qmailadmin isn't broken. - Original Message - From: Andrew Preece [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vacation messages Okay I'll try to spell it out for you You spell very well ;) Do you think it would work if I wrote a program to check if the recipient has an autoresponder entry in the DB, and if they do, do an autoresponder thing. So I'm thinking that the qmail-default could look something like |checkforawaymessage |vdelivermail etc... That way, I'd never have to edit the users .qmail file.
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
dude, yahoo uses qmail, nuff said! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail? I cannot name any company name but I used to work for a large telecommunications provider. They are world leader for supplying mobile operators with core network solutions like SMS and WAP. While designing their MMS solution they had to choose an MTA to handle all the email involved in MMS. Of all the options, they choose qmail becuase it was secure, scalable and very reliable. Also their idea of scalable and reliale is 99.999% uptime and 200 msg/sec. That secures qmail as my mail server, always!! -Dougal On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:05:22 -0300 Bruno Negrão [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does your boss have a rationale for his doubts, or are they based upon a 'gut' feeling? usually doubts arise based upon shortcomings. what shortcoming does your boss see in qmail (note, small 'q' - it is not Qmail). OK. He wants to know if there is a tendency on the market for some other mailserver. He asks me what mailservers the biggest linux/Unix distributors are using on their products. For example, what's the mailserver shipped with RedHat, Solaris, Mandrake, Debian, etc? I really don't know. I believe all of them are shipped only with Sendmail, but I'm not sure on this actually. Debian (and Ubuntu - based on Debian) and FreeBSD all use Exim by default. I'm not sure about any Linux distros other than Debian. I've seen a couple ISPs and such before that use sendmail - but that was simply a mandate from the higher ups that didn't know anything about mail servers. Evidently Sendmail was the only software name they recognized, so they decided it needed to be the only one used in their company - none of the techs liked it. Personally, I think sticking with qmail is a pretty good choice. HTH, Jacob
Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ...
gentoo is great, but the developers handleing the ebuilds for vpopmail and qmail need to freakin chill on the custom crap... I see it as forcing me to go from source on everything. - Original Message - From: Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ... This is pretty much in responce to Jeffrey A Schmidt's mail called can't relay any more posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:28:34 -0700 Jeffrey, Gentoo has once again made HUGE changes to a package without informing it's users thereof before allowing the package to install. this is from the ebuild : einfo Use of vpopmail's tcp.smtp[.cdb] is also deprecated now, consider einfo using net-mail/relay-ctrl instead. incase you're wondering what this means ... from the install section: econf \ ##SNIP## --disable-tcp-rules-prog --disable-tcpserver-file --disable-roamin g-users \ || die # TCPRULES for relaying is now considered obsolete, use relay-ctrl instead #--enable-tcprules-prog=/usr/bin/tcprules --enable-tcpserver-file=/etc/tcp.s mtp \ #--enable-roaming-users=y --enable-relay-clear-minutes=60 \ #--disable-rebuild-tcpserver-file \ They have disabled roaming users aka relaying in vpopmail. You need to emerge relay-ctrl instead. Or work around this .. for a howto : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_QMAIL_RELAY-CTRL_VPOPMAIL -- Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 82 958 2525 http://www.geekware.co.za DISCLAIMER : Unauthorised use of characters, images, sounds, odors, severed limbs, noodles, wierd dreams, strange looking fruit, oxygen, and certain parts of Jupiter are strictly forbidden. If I find you violating, or molesting my property in any way, I will employ a pair of burly convicts to find you, kidnap you, and perform god-awful sexual experiments on you until you lose the ability to sound out vowels. I don't know why you are still reading this, but by doing so you have proven that you have far too much time on your hands, and you should go plant a tree, or read a book or something. - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/
Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ...
problems with qmailrocks-- vpopmail mail quota system is broken because of no maildir++ patch and few patches that enable chkuser and others, qmailscannerqueue is a freakin mem hog. Uses qscanqueue or simscan. If you use simscan, clamav's out of date warning will cause a hard smtp error on the client end, you must not enable custom smtp rejection messages. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ... The BEST howto: Was using this for ages before I made the crazy leap to gentoo ebuild. May have to move back soon!! http://qmailrocks.org/ On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:19:18 -0500 Jeremy Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: solution: don't use gentoo's qmail ebuilds. where is a decent howto these days ... since I HAVE to get my vpopmail working with relay on pop as it was before .. right now it's broken. I've been saying this all over the place for well over a year now. yeah ... things are getting a little out of hand .. -- Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 82 958 2525 http://www.geekware.co.za DISCLAIMER : Unauthorised use of characters, images, sounds, odors, severed limbs, noodles, wierd dreams, strange looking fruit, oxygen, and certain parts of Jupiter are strictly forbidden. If I find you violating, or molesting my property in any way, I will employ a pair of burly convicts to find you, kidnap you, and perform god-awful sexual experiments on you until you lose the ability to sound out vowels. I don't know why you are still reading this, but by doing so you have proven that you have far too much time on your hands, and you should go plant a tree, or read a book or something. - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/
Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ...
the only way to avoid double bounces is chkuser patch. Postfix is find for a few domains, less control imho. simscan has a spamassasin.pl patch that enables peruser sa checking with vpopmail. - Original Message - From: Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ... On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:42:28 - (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BEST howto: Was using this for ages before I made the crazy leap to gentoo ebuild. May have to move back soon!! sadly .. after all this .. and the missions I have been through to get any kind of decent spam/virus protection going the problem with bouncing to spoofed spam accounts causing double bounces, I'm looking at switching to postfix. I love qmail/vpopmail I just wish they could make adding some features easer then right now .. it's just tomuch of a hastle to keep up. -- Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] +27 82 958 2525 http://www.geekware.co.za DISCLAIMER : Unauthorised use of characters, images, sounds, odors, severed limbs, noodles, wierd dreams, strange looking fruit, oxygen, and certain parts of Jupiter are strictly forbidden. If I find you violating, or molesting my property in any way, I will employ a pair of burly convicts to find you, kidnap you, and perform god-awful sexual experiments on you until you lose the ability to sound out vowels. I don't know why you are still reading this, but by doing so you have proven that you have far too much time on your hands, and you should go plant a tree, or read a book or something. - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/
Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ...
All I know is that I installed simscan and chose clamav as the viral scanner. The error message that shows as follows: odin clamav # clamscan LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html *** LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html *** LibClamAV Warning: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log: OK /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log: OK which is from clamscan NOT freshclam is read by simscan as an error when using custom smtp rejection compiled in. Not answering your question as why these things happen. Just stating that they just happen. - Original Message - From: Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ... Chris Godwin wrote: problems with qmailrocks-- vpopmail mail quota system is broken because of no maildir++ patch and few patches that enable chkuser and others, qmailscannerqueue is a freakin mem hog. Uses qscanqueue or simscan. If you use simscan, clamav's out of date warning will cause a hard smtp error on the client end, you must not enable custom smtp rejection messages. Uhhh, why would the out of date warning (that comes from freshclam) cause a hard smtp error on the client end ? I use it on a lot of machines and I've never had that problem. Regards, Rick
Re: [vchkpw] mail quotas
here's my two cents on this issue... maildirsize will not reset unless you use courier pop3d or qmail-pop3d with maildir++ patch. Otherwise peoples quotas will fill up and never go down unless you run a cron to remove maildirsize for every user. - Original Message - From: Jeff Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:37 PM Subject: [vchkpw] mail quotas Is there a command to force vpopmail to recalculate the maildirsize. We see a few cases where it is out of sync with the actual bytes and message count. Also, we see a few accounts that are over quota still are accepting mail - especially dictionary attack spams. Can the system enforce strict quotas and just not accept any mail when over quota. We had a account go over 997MB due to dictionary attacks and they had set the account as the default. TIA Best Regards, Jeff Koch,
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
perms do you have on the folders? what distro, using packages or source? - Original Message - From: James McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied Ok, it's been about a week now of upgrading my box. I've changed from vpasswd cdb's to the mysql auth type. I've imported all my old mail/domains/users/etc. Everything seems good, and I was planning to do the flip this weekend... well, everything but imap. noticed trying to login with squirrelmail, it rejected every user. vuserinfo is succesful, but my maillog states the following: Jun 30 15:37:03 minoru imapd: chdir /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster: Permission denied Jun 30 15:40:20 minoru imapd: chdir /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster: Permission denied Jun 30 15:41:38 minoru imapd: chdir /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/mint: Permission denied imap is running as root minoru# ps axfu | grep cour root 512 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.05 [couriertcpd] root 515 0.0 0.1 1212 712 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd root 522 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 [couriertcpd] root 524 0.0 0.1 1208 672 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd-ssl and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw Any clues?
Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ...
clamav isn't the problem. Wait a month and your output will look like this. This happens when clamav wants you to update clamd and whatever. That's fine but the admin might not get to it as soon as it becomes outdated, but with this issue mail smtp breaks immediatly so the admin is forced to update clamav the very second the scanning engine becomes outdated. I first discovered this when I got a custom smtp rejection full of astisks **, it was the first line of clamscans output. as soon as I update clamscan simscan's smtp sessions work. - Original Message - From: Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] mail relay problems ... Chris Godwin wrote: All I know is that I installed simscan and chose clamav as the viral scanner. The error message that shows as follows: odin clamav # clamscan LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html *** LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html *** LibClamAV Warning: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log: OK /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log: OK which is from clamscan NOT freshclam is read by simscan as an error when using custom smtp rejection compiled in. Not answering your question as why these things happen. Just stating that they just happen. Strange, inexia1:/var/src# clamscan /var/src/linux-2.4.27.tar.bz2: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 36123 Engine version: 0.85.1 Scanned directories: 1 Scanned files: 1 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 48.07 MB Time: 21.658 sec (0 m 21 s) no warnings for me. (0.85.1 and freshclam does warn me), besides simscan uses clamdscan. Very strange, did you use any special compile options with clamav ? I'd like to see where this might happen so we can apply a patch to simscan if needed. Regards, Rick
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
tough one... - Original Message - From: James McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
if you ported /home/vpopmail/domains over from another box then you need to chown vpopmail:vchkpw on all the /home/vpopmail dirs owner and groups arent saved to files, uid and gid are. - Original Message - From: James McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied Ok, just for fun... I chmod -R 777 the postmaster dir. Then I logged in, and sent a mail, and back, then checked the new permissions. Now the directory shows uid 89, which is my old mailservers uid for vpopmail. The new server's vpopmail uid 1008. It seems that the uid is statically compiled somewhere I just don't know where. G Chris Godwin wrote: tough one... - Original Message - From: James McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop from src
or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses ebuilds,
ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier,
vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this change.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail server.
Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year and
recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the only
part that is failing.
To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try to
introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the qmail-send
logs:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_
mailbox./
@400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I have checked the permissions of all the maildrop related files and the
maildir:
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-x--- 1 vpopmail mail 166816 May 18 19:25 /usr/bin/maildrop
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 545 May 18 20:28 /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
This is my .qmail-default and corresponding mailfilter.
xen2 qmail-send # cat /var/vpopmail/domains/hippotje.com/.qmail-default |
/usr/bin/maildrop /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
xen2 qmail-send # cat /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
MAX = 15
VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPOP=| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
JUNKFOLDER=.Spam
if ($VHOME)
{
`test -d $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER`
if( $RETURNCODE != 1 )
{
if ( $SIZE 262144 )
{
exception {
xfilter /usr/bin/spamc -f -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
}
}
if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER/
}
else
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/
}
}
else
{
to $VPOP
}
And finally -v output from maildrop.
xen2 root # maildrop -v
maildrop 1.8.0 Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.
GDBM extensions enabled.
Courier Authentication Library extension enabled.
Maildir quota extension enabled.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. See COPYING for additional information.
xen2 root #
Does anybody have any advice? This is the key to my complete mail server!!
I don't know if this is maildrop or vpopmail or qmail causing me the
issue.
Kind regards,
Dougal
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Man, I don't know, maildrop is pretty cut and dry. The compile options are
proper, what is the specific issue that you're having, basically give me a
scenario error messages, logs. Also paste the output from emerge
maildrop -vp.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I complied maildrop from the ebuild. Nothing has been compliled from raw
source. I have opened up the ebuild and checked the compile options. They
are as follows:
./configure
--prefix=/usr
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib
--with-devel
--disable-tempdir
--enable-syslog=1
--enable-use-flock=1
--enable-maildirquota
--enable-use-dotlock=1
--enable-restrict-trusted=1
--enable-trusted-users=apache dspam root mail daemon postmaster qmaild
mmdf vmail
--enable-maildrop-uid=root
--enable-maildrop-gid=mail
--with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/
--enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
--cache-file=/var/tmp/portage/maildrop-1.8.0-r3/work/maildrop-1.8.0/co
nfiguring.cache
--with-db=gdbm
The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop from
src
or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses
ebuilds,
ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier,
vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this
change.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail server.
Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year and
recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the
only
part that is failing.
To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try to
introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the qmail-send
logs:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_
mailbox./
@400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I have checked the permissions of all the maildrop related files and
the
maildir:
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-x--- 1 vpopmail mail 166816 May 18 19:25 /usr/bin/maildrop
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 545 May 18 20:28
/etc/maildrop/mailfilter
This is my .qmail-default and corresponding mailfilter.
xen2 qmail-send # cat /var/vpopmail/domains/hippotje.com/.qmail-default
|
/usr/bin/maildrop /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
xen2 qmail-send # cat /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
MAX = 15
VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPOP=| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
JUNKFOLDER=.Spam
if ($VHOME)
{
`test -d $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER`
if( $RETURNCODE != 1 )
{
if ( $SIZE 262144 )
{
exception {
xfilter /usr/bin/spamc -f -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
}
}
if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER/
}
else
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/
}
}
else
{
to $VPOP
}
And finally -v output from maildrop.
xen2 root # maildrop -v
maildrop 1.8.0 Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.
GDBM extensions enabled.
Courier Authentication Library extension enabled.
Maildir quota extension enabled.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. See COPYING for additional information.
xen2 root #
Does anybody have any advice? This is the key to my complete mail
server!!
I don't know if this is maildrop or vpopmail or qmail causing me the
issue.
Kind regards,
Dougal
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
no
#emerge maildrop -vp
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
It has been killing me too! The basic issue I have is that as soon as I
change my .qmail-default to use maildrop it returns the following error:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to local
hippotje.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_ma
ilbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_mailbox./
All I can think of is permissions. But i have checked them all.
xen2 root # maildrop -vp
maildrop 1.8.0 Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.
GDBM extensions enabled.
Courier Authentication Library extension enabled.
Maildir quota extension enabled.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. See COPYING for additional information.
xen2 root #
Man, I don't know, maildrop is pretty cut and dry. The compile options
are
proper, what is the specific issue that you're having, basically give me
a
scenario error messages, logs. Also paste the output from emerge
maildrop -vp.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I complied maildrop from the ebuild. Nothing has been compliled from
raw
source. I have opened up the ebuild and checked the compile options.
They
are as follows:
./configure
--prefix=/usr
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib
--with-devel
--disable-tempdir
--enable-syslog=1
--enable-use-flock=1
--enable-maildirquota
--enable-use-dotlock=1
--enable-restrict-trusted=1
--enable-trusted-users=apache dspam root mail daemon postmaster
qmaild
mmdf vmail
--enable-maildrop-uid=root
--enable-maildrop-gid=mail
--with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/
--enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
--cache-file=/var/tmp/portage/maildrop-1.8.0-r3/work/maildrop-1.8.0/co
nfiguring.cache
--with-db=gdbm
The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop
from
src
or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses
ebuilds,
ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier,
vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this
change.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail
server.
Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year
and
recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the
only
part that is failing.
To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try
to
introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the
qmail-send
logs:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to
local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_
mailbox./
@400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I have checked the permissions of all the maildrop related files and
the
maildir:
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-x--- 1 vpopmail mail 166816 May 18 19:25 /usr/bin/maildrop
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 545 May 18 20:28
/etc/maildrop/mailfilter
This is my .qmail-default and corresponding mailfilter.
xen2 qmail-send # cat
/var/vpopmail/domains/hippotje.com/.qmail-default
|
/usr/bin/maildrop /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
xen2 qmail-send # cat /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
MAX = 15
VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPOP=| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
JUNKFOLDER=.Spam
if ($VHOME)
{
`test -d $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER`
if(
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
OH HERE'S THE PROBLEM
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --enable-maildrop-u
id=root --enable-maildrop-gid=vchkpw --enable-maildirquota
look at the uid and the gid that i have verses what you have. you are going
to have to change the ebuild, what I would recoment is that you make what is
called an overlay.
insturctions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I complied maildrop from the ebuild. Nothing has been compliled from raw
source. I have opened up the ebuild and checked the compile options. They
are as follows:
./configure
--prefix=/usr
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib
--with-devel
--disable-tempdir
--enable-syslog=1
--enable-use-flock=1
--enable-maildirquota
--enable-use-dotlock=1
--enable-restrict-trusted=1
--enable-trusted-users=apache dspam root mail daemon postmaster qmaild
mmdf vmail
--enable-maildrop-uid=root
--enable-maildrop-gid=mail
--with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/
--enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
--cache-file=/var/tmp/portage/maildrop-1.8.0-r3/work/maildrop-1.8.0/co
nfiguring.cache
--with-db=gdbm
The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop from
src
or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses
ebuilds,
ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier,
vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this
change.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail server.
Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year and
recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the
only
part that is failing.
To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try to
introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the qmail-send
logs:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_
mailbox./
@400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I have checked the permissions of all the maildrop related files and
the
maildir:
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-x--- 1 vpopmail mail 166816 May 18 19:25 /usr/bin/maildrop
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 545 May 18 20:28
/etc/maildrop/mailfilter
This is my .qmail-default and corresponding mailfilter.
xen2 qmail-send # cat /var/vpopmail/domains/hippotje.com/.qmail-default
|
/usr/bin/maildrop /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
xen2 qmail-send # cat /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
MAX = 15
VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPOP=| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
JUNKFOLDER=.Spam
if ($VHOME)
{
`test -d $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER`
if( $RETURNCODE != 1 )
{
if ( $SIZE 262144 )
{
exception {
xfilter /usr/bin/spamc -f -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
}
}
if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER/
}
else
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/
}
}
else
{
to $VPOP
}
And finally -v output from maildrop.
xen2 root # maildrop -v
maildrop 1.8.0 Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.
GDBM extensions enabled.
Courier Authentication Library extension enabled.
Maildir quota extension enabled.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. See COPYING for additional information.
xen2 root #
Does anybody have any advice? This is the key to my complete mail
server!!
I don't know if this is maildrop or vpopmail or qmail causing me the
issue.
Kind regards,
Dougal
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
leave everything in the ebuild except you need to change the gid to vchkpw,
no promises but this is a big discrepency that might be causing it.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Chris,
Thank you. I will look into that right now. Also what about the restricted
users setting?
xen2 root # emerge maildrop -vp
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] mail-filter/maildrop-1.8.0-r3 +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ldap
+mysql -postgres 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
xen2 root #
OH HERE'S THE PROBLEM
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local
--enable-maildrop-u
id=root --enable-maildrop-gid=vchkpw --enable-maildirquota
look at the uid and the gid that i have verses what you have. you are
going
to have to change the ebuild, what I would recoment is that you make
what
is
called an overlay.
insturctions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I complied maildrop from the ebuild. Nothing has been compliled from
raw
source. I have opened up the ebuild and checked the compile options.
They
are as follows:
./configure
--prefix=/usr
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib
--with-devel
--disable-tempdir
--enable-syslog=1
--enable-use-flock=1
--enable-maildirquota
--enable-use-dotlock=1
--enable-restrict-trusted=1
--enable-trusted-users=apache dspam root mail daemon postmaster
qmaild
mmdf vmail
--enable-maildrop-uid=root
--enable-maildrop-gid=mail
--with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/
--enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
--cache-file=/var/tmp/portage/maildrop-1.8.0-r3/work/maildrop-1.8.0/co
nfiguring.cache
--with-db=gdbm
The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop
from
src
or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses
ebuilds,
ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier,
vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this
change.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
Hi,
I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail
server.
Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year
and
recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the
only
part that is failing.
To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try
to
introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the
qmail-send
logs:
@400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815
@400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210
@400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to
local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral:
maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_
mailbox./
@400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
I have checked the permissions of all the maildrop related files and
the
maildir:
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop
-rwxr-x--- 1 vpopmail mail 166816 May 18 19:25 /usr/bin/maildrop
xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
-rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 545 May 18 20:28
/etc/maildrop/mailfilter
This is my .qmail-default and corresponding mailfilter.
xen2 qmail-send # cat
/var/vpopmail/domains/hippotje.com/.qmail-default
|
/usr/bin/maildrop /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
xen2 qmail-send # cat /etc/maildrop/mailfilter
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
MAX = 15
VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VPOP=| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
JUNKFOLDER=.Spam
if ($VHOME)
{
`test -d $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER`
if( $RETURNCODE != 1 )
{
if ( $SIZE 262144 )
{
exception {
xfilter /usr/bin/spamc -f -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
}
}
if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)
{
to $VHOME/.maildir/$JUNKFOLDER/
}
else
Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop
try to re-edit the ebuild and set the group to vpopmail - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop Well, still no joy. Still getting the following in the error logs and I have used the local ebuild, as seen from maildrop permissions. BTW I have group vpopmail not vchkpw. This is making me go insane!! @400042c2fd140fb556e4 new msg 1109851 @400042c2fd140fb70c64 info msg 1109851: bytes 1579 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4749 uid 210 @400042c2fd141302e3d4 starting delivery 792: msg 1109851 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @400042c2fd141302eba4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400042c2fd141bd0f6cc delivery 792: deferral: maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_ mailbox./ xen2 qmail-send # ls -la /usr/bin/maildrop -rws--x--x 1 root vpopmail 167988 Jun 29 15:52 /usr/bin/maildrop xen2 qmail-send # leave everything in the ebuild except you need to change the gid to vchkpw, no promises but this is a big discrepency that might be causing it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop Chris, Thank you. I will look into that right now. Also what about the restricted users setting? xen2 root # emerge maildrop -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] mail-filter/maildrop-1.8.0-r3 +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ldap +mysql -postgres 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB xen2 root # OH HERE'S THE PROBLEM ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --enable-maildrop-u id=root --enable-maildrop-gid=vchkpw --enable-maildirquota look at the uid and the gid that i have verses what you have. you are going to have to change the ebuild, what I would recoment is that you make what is called an overlay. insturctions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop Hi, I complied maildrop from the ebuild. Nothing has been compliled from raw source. I have opened up the ebuild and checked the compile options. They are as follows: ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-devel --disable-tempdir --enable-syslog=1 --enable-use-flock=1 --enable-maildirquota --enable-use-dotlock=1 --enable-restrict-trusted=1 --enable-trusted-users=apache dspam root mail daemon postmaster qmaild mmdf vmail --enable-maildrop-uid=root --enable-maildrop-gid=mail --with-default-maildrop=./.maildir/ --enable-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail --cache-file=/var/tmp/portage/maildrop-1.8.0-r3/work/maildrop-1.8.0/co nfiguring.cache --with-db=gdbm The first question that comes to mind is, did you compile maildrop from src or did you let portage to it for you? the guide you mentioned uses ebuilds, ebuilds that replace Maildir with .maildir in the source of courier, vpopmail, and qmail. Maildrop from source might not know about this change. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:41 PM Subject: [vchkpw] Problems with qmail/vpopmail/maildop Hi, I am having problems trying to get maildrop working in my mail server. Have been using this configuration on a Redhat box for over a year and recently moved to a Gentoo solution. Getting maildrop to work is the only part that is failing. To build the server, I have used the following gentoo documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml Everything is running well but I get permission problems when I try to introduce maildrop. I am getting the following errors in the qmail-send logs: @400042bdac521ae5d764 new msg 1109815 @400042bdac521ae5e704 info msg 1109815: bytes 1568 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2638 uid 210 @400042bdac521d5d0954 starting delivery 4890: msg 1109815 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @400042bdac521d5dfb84 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400042bdac522a5dbdc4 delivery 4890: deferral: maildrop:_error_writing_to_mailbox.//usr/bin/maildrop:_Unable_to_deliver_to_ mailbox./ @400042bdac522a5dcd64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 I have
Re: [vchkpw] forwarding mails
Payal Rathod wrote: How in the world am I suppossed to forward mails in qmail+vpopmail setup? # pwd /home/vpopmail/domains/example.net # echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] .qmail-rp This does not work. This is the correct format. With the right permissions no reason why it shouldn't work. Neither this does, # echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] rp/.qmail ( scratches head.. ) What are perms and ownership of the .qmail- files? --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mine scripted to be 644 and vpopmail:vchkpw at creation. They work tickety-boo as below, -rw--- vpopmail vchkpw .qmail-rp If it's really giving you grief, why not use qmailadmin to set them? HTH Chris. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [vchkpw] Anyone using vpopmail 5.4.11?
Seems fine at the moment. Butthen, I'm probably not bullying it enough .. :o) Regards, Chris. --- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been using (or even testing) vpopmail 5.4.11? I haven't gotten much in the way of feedback on it, and I waswondering if some brave souls out there were successfully using it. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: [vchkpw] Authentication problem
your mail client is probably trying 3 different login types before it tries plain. - Original Message - From: Nikodemus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:42 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Authentication problem Hi, I've set up a qmail server with vpopmail and vchkpw authentication on a Gentoo box. When I try to send mail through the smtp server from a remote host, I have to authenticate 3 times before I come through. My /var/log/messages files looks like this during the authentications: May 12 15:57:15 jupiter vpopmail[15822]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:82.182.88.166 May 12 15:57:23 jupiter vpopmail[15824]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:82.182.88.166 May 12 15:57:31 jupiter vpopmail[15826]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:82.182.88.166 May 12 15:57:36 jupiter vpopmail[15828]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:82.182.88.166 I have a ssl certificate (servercert.pem) in the qmail control directory, and according to the instructions on the Gentoo web site (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml), I would be able to authenticate with ssl/tls. But the log says plain... What can cause these passwords fails (yes, I type the correct passwords), and how do I get a ssl connection? TIA Nikodemus
Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL 5.4.10 configuration doesn't create a single vpopmail table
of course
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail and vpopmaild
I use it stably.
Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL 5.4.10 configuration doesn't create a single vpopmail table
5.5.3 does - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL 5.4.10 configuration doesn't create a single vpopmail table Thanks for confirming that. I was able to create a single vpopmail table running make distclean first. (Thanks to Tom Collins response). After that my qmailadmin stopped authenticating as well as imp, even the user was there and password was correct and all services were up. I rolled back to the individual tables per domain. Does new vpopmail 5.5.x has mysql driver for the multiple domains/tables setup?
Re: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias'
Wierd. - Original Message - From: Dirk Tanneberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias' when i do SELECT * FROM valias; on vpopmail host, i see an output like this: +---+---++ | alias | domain| valias_line| +---+---++ | tanne | envia-tel.net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is no problem. I can get data from valias-table. When i do valias -s [EMAIL PROTECTED], i see the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] This looks also ok. regards Dirk Am 10.05.2005 18:51 schrieb Chris Godwin: My first action would be to login to the mysql server from the box that vpopmail is on. See if you can run this query SELECT * FROM valias;. Sometimes if your mysql server is on another box host permissions can get fowled up. - Original Message - From: Dirk Tanneberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias' Well it is clear what the problem is. Have you granted privilages to the user vpopmail in your mysql database? Have you edited /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql? /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql is edited correctly and user vpopmail in my mysql database has not enough privileges to do this. He has only the rights for read and write in the table. This should be enough for an incoming only server, or? I'm wondering what is the reason that vmysql will create this table? The only tool that works during the smtp-session is chkuser, or? regards Dirk Tanneberger Am 10.05.2005 14:24 schrieb Chris Godwin: Well it is clear what the problem is. Have you granted privilages to the user vpopmail in your mysql database? Have you edited /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql? - Original Message - From: Dirk Tanneberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:32 AM Subject: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias' hello, i'm using a server for incoming mail only, with the following software: - netqmail-1.05 - vpopmail-5.4.10 with mysql-server on other host - chkuser-2.0.8b-release - qmail-scanner-1.25 vpopmail-configure-options: ./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-auth-module=mysql --enable-mys ql-replication=y \ --enable-incdir=/space/software/mailserver/mysql-standard-4.0.24-pc-linux - gnu-i686/include \ --enable-libdir=/space/software/mailserver/mysql-standard-4.0.24-pc-linux - gnu-i686/lib \ --enable-relay-clear-minutes=60 --enable-logging=v --enable-clear-passwd= y \ --enable-valias=y --enable-auth-logging=y --disable-passwd --disable-md5- p asswords in my smtpd-log i see sometimes a entry like this: + @400042804ea611514bd4 vmysql: error creating table 'valias': create command denied to user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' for table 'valias' + user vpopmail has no rights to create the valias-table on remote mysql-db, that's right, but on remote mysql-db valias-tables already exists. What is the reason that vmysql will create this table and where can i shut up this action? Thanks for any answer. regards Dirk Tanneberger
Re: [vchkpw] vipmap
Awww c'mon. None of you have ever had any problems with vipmap? - Original Message - From: Chris Godwin To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vipmap one more tidbit. I'm using courier-imap(s) and courier-pop3d(s) as my listening daemons. - Original Message - From: Chris Godwin To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: [vchkpw] vipmap I've just trouble shot for hours on why this doesn't work. I've discovered on my own that courier reports all ips in ipv6 format. I thought this was the root of my problem. I found a patch for an old vpopmail version that patches vipmap.c. I nanoed into vpopmail.c and realized that the patch had already been added to the stable version. Now i'm running vpopmail version 5.4.7 and I cannot get ip-alias-domains to work. I'm not asking what the problem could be I just need a place to start troubleshooting. We will be micrating 4000 accounts from a box users qmail install to a virtual users install and need this info as soon as possible. Thank you for you attention to this matter. Chris Godwin.
Re: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias'
My first action would be to login to the mysql server from the box that vpopmail is on. See if you can run this query SELECT * FROM valias;. Sometimes if your mysql server is on another box host permissions can get fowled up. - Original Message - From: Dirk Tanneberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias' Well it is clear what the problem is. Have you granted privilages to the user vpopmail in your mysql database? Have you edited /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql? /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql is edited correctly and user vpopmail in my mysql database has not enough privileges to do this. He has only the rights for read and write in the table. This should be enough for an incoming only server, or? I'm wondering what is the reason that vmysql will create this table? The only tool that works during the smtp-session is chkuser, or? regards Dirk Tanneberger Am 10.05.2005 14:24 schrieb Chris Godwin: Well it is clear what the problem is. Have you granted privilages to the user vpopmail in your mysql database? Have you edited /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql? - Original Message - From: Dirk Tanneberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:32 AM Subject: [vchkpw] undefined entry in smtpd-log - vmysql: error creating table 'valias' hello, i'm using a server for incoming mail only, with the following software: - netqmail-1.05 - vpopmail-5.4.10 with mysql-server on other host - chkuser-2.0.8b-release - qmail-scanner-1.25 vpopmail-configure-options: ./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-auth-module=mysql --enable-mys ql-replication=y \ --enable-incdir=/space/software/mailserver/mysql-standard-4.0.24-pc-linux- gnu-i686/include \ --enable-libdir=/space/software/mailserver/mysql-standard-4.0.24-pc-linux- gnu-i686/lib \ --enable-relay-clear-minutes=60 --enable-logging=v --enable-clear-passwd=y \ --enable-valias=y --enable-auth-logging=y --disable-passwd --disable-md5-p asswords in my smtpd-log i see sometimes a entry like this: + @400042804ea611514bd4 vmysql: error creating table 'valias': create command denied to user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' for table 'valias' + user vpopmail has no rights to create the valias-table on remote mysql-db, that's right, but on remote mysql-db valias-tables already exists. What is the reason that vmysql will create this table and where can i shut up this action? Thanks for any answer. regards Dirk Tanneberger
[vchkpw] Vpopmail + courier-authlib-0.55
Having a hard time getting courier authlib to compile with vpopmail installed. Used the following config options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/courier-authlib --without-authpam --without-authldap --without-authpwd --without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-authshadow --without-authuserdb --without-authcustom --without-authcram --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --with-mailuser=vpopmail --with-mailgroup=vchkpw Configure works without error. However the make breaks in the middle with the following: fgets 0x170e /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x172c /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x17a2 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x1812 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x1882 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x18f2 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x1924 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x1cc3 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) fgets 0x60c /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vlimits.o) rewind 0x4cd /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vauth.o) usleep 0x1274 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(maildirquota.o) ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libauthvchkpw.la' Current working directory /root/software/courier-authlib-0.55 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /root/software/courier-authlib-0.55 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' Anyone know how I can get courier-auth to work with vpopmail? Chris Akins System Admin Alpha Internet -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 5/10/2005
[vchkpw] Vpopmail + courier-authlib-0.55
I am getting compile errors in courier-authlib-0.55 when I compile with the --with-authvchkpw option. I can compile it with vpopmail integration turned off just fine. Is there a minimum verision of vpopmail needed to successfully compile courier-authlib-0.55 with it? I am currently running vpopmail version 5.4.3 Any help would be appreciated. Chris Akins System Admin Alpha Internet No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 5/10/2005
[vchkpw] vipmap
I've just trouble shot for hours on why this doesn't work. I've discovered on my own that courier reports all ips in ipv6 format. I thought this was the root of my problem. I found a patch for an old vpopmail version that patches vipmap.c. I nanoed into vpopmail.c and realized that the patch had already been added to the stable version. Now i'm running vpopmail version 5.4.7 and I cannot get ip-alias-domains to work. I'm not asking what the problem could be I just need a place to starttroubleshooting. We will be micrating 4000 accounts from a box users qmail install to a virtual users install and need this info as soon as possible. Thank you for you attention to this matter. Chris Godwin.
Re: [vchkpw] vipmap
one more tidbit. I'm using courier-imap(s) and courier-pop3d(s) as my listening daemons. - Original Message - From: Chris Godwin To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: [vchkpw] vipmap I've just trouble shot for hours on why this doesn't work. I've discovered on my own that courier reports all ips in ipv6 format. I thought this was the root of my problem. I found a patch for an old vpopmail version that patches vipmap.c. I nanoed into vpopmail.c and realized that the patch had already been added to the stable version. Now i'm running vpopmail version 5.4.7 and I cannot get ip-alias-domains to work. I'm not asking what the problem could be I just need a place to starttroubleshooting. We will be micrating 4000 accounts from a box users qmail install to a virtual users install and need this info as soon as possible. Thank you for you attention to this matter. Chris Godwin.
Re: [vchkpw] courier-imap roaming-users problem
Newer version of courier-imap will no longer be able to write the IPs into the relay table. This is because all authentication has now been moved out of courier (and sqwebmail) and into the courier-authlib package. As has always been the case, authdaemon doesn't support POP before SMTP. That's why I chose never to use authdaemon. Now that courier no longer supports POP before SMTP via the authvchkpw module, it's just one more good reason not to use courier-imap for POP3 services. Use qmails pop3d instead. That way POP users still get roaming access. IMAP users are users newer email clients that support SMTP AUTH and should be directed to use that instead. I have overcome this via the relay-ctrl package. My roaming users don't roam very often, but -do- (and are required to) use DDNS. Via their DDNS record, I can easily access their machine if need be...but I digress. I have written a -simple- perl cron that reverse queries their name/ip mapping, and updates the relay-ctrl directory of the allowed ip's that can relay. This way, I'm still using courier. (not that qmail-pop is bad, I've used it too...just have courier in this case) Just my approach. -Chris
Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure
Yes. I'm suggesting that we could use directory names outside of the user namespace so that you could have bigdir support and one-character email addresses at the same time. It would be difficult to handle existing domains though... There would need to be a lot of directory renaming and updating of the user database to pull it off. This is probably a silly idea but... You could always write a dot-file, e.g. .domain-version, that contains the 'version number' of the domain layout. If the file doesn't exist of if the 'version number' is, say, 1, vpopmail uses the old convention for bigdir. If the 'version number' is, say, 2, vpomail uses the new convention. A program could be written to convert between domain versions. The advantage to this is that it wouldn't automatically require conversion for new domains when vpopmail is upgraded. The disadvantages are that it may be overly complex/complicated and, well, it does seem rather silly. (That said, I use something like this on a website so I can track the versions of the SQL schemas so I can pass along intelligent upgrade scripts to the website maintainer.) Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
RE: [vchkpw] Qmail queue
Matt Simerson makes a tool called qqtool . This has many options including what your asking for. -Original Message- From: Andrew Averin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Qmail queue Hi all, How could I clean qmail queue manually Thank in advance. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] Vpopmail w/ MySQL still checking vpasswd.cdb w/ qmail-smtpd
We've migrated to a MySQL backend which works great for pop and IMAP, but incoming mail to the qmail-smtpd stills has to check the vpasswd.cdb if there is no .qmail-user file. We compiled and installed vpopmail, then qmail ( with ./config-fast etc) I assumed the vpopmail libs would get picked up and reflect the authmysql usage. Am I missing something obvious here? Feel free to drop a boot to my melon if so. We've had to use old vmkpasswd's and mod the vpasswd for virtual domains then mkpasswd with the old binary to get it to work. Vpopmail-5.4.7, qmail-1.03 TIA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 10/22/2004
Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger pipe is missing
Adrian Pircalabu wrote: Most probably, something / someone messed up with your /var/qmail/queue directory. IMHO the most secure way to solve your problem is to recreate queue directory. So, stop qmail services, back up your qmail installation, change to qmail source tree, run'make setup check' and, eventually, restore your initial backed-up files excluding, of course, the queue directory. Or you could run queue-fix ( http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz ) on it, which should fix your problem with a minimum of fuss. At least, it works well for me.
Re: [vchkpw] Modifying accounts with PHP
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, a.h.s. boy wrote: I installed vpopmail with MySQL support, without valias support (as seems to be recommended). I've written some PHP scripts that can create and modify email accounts by direct interface with MySQL, but I'm looking for ways to do more administration of vpopmail -- creating aliases, adding domains, etc. I used to have an issue with valias but that has been fixed in newer versions of vpopmail. If you use valias, adding and deleting aliases is as simple as manipulating rows in the table. As mentioned on this list at the beginning of the month, you can essentially add users by adding a row to the table for your users (usually vpopmail) with an empty home directory. When an email is first delivered or the account is checked via POP3 or IMAP, the directory field is populated and the directory is set up. (Emails from this thread are also in the README.mysql file in vpopmail 5.4.7.) There is unfortunately no like mechanism for deleting users as far as I know. Adding/deleting domains requires modifying qmail control files so these would need to be done as root (unless you want to play ownership games with said files). There is work underway to create a vpopmail daemon that can parse requests from PHP scripts or other sources and make the appropriate changes. My understanding is that the existing PHP vpopmail extension has been obsoleted in favour of a new set that will use the daemon. Since .qmail files needs to be owned by vpopmail:vchkpw, and the v* applications need to run as root, I can't really have Apache/PHP try to accomplish any of that stuff directly. What I'm thinking right now is that I could write out formatted text files to a specific directory, then have a cron job (running as root) that parses them and executes various commands: vadddomain, valias, etc. That would work. I do something vaguely like that for deleting users through my vpopmail admin module for squirrelmail already. (Really what I do is put the information for the deleted user into a separate table and take the user out of the vpopmail table. A perl script then handles archiving/deleting the user data.) Another method, advocated by some people, is to run a separate copy of apache with the user vpopmail and group vchkpw. I don't like this solution at all. (Which is why I ended up writing my own admin module. Maybe my boss will let me distribute it. I must remember to ask him...) There's always suexec (and mod_phpsuexec) but I don't like that solution much either. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail migration
I've a mail server which I've installed qmail1.03 with vpopmail-5.2.1, MySQL 3.23 and qmailadmin. All email users are stored in MySQL's vpopmail database (in vpopmail.vpopmail table). Yes, 1 table for all users in different domains. Now, I am migrating everything to another machine. On that machine, I've installed netqmail, vpopmail 5.4 and MySQL 4.0. Everything goes fine. But in the final stages, I need to migrate all user accounts with their passwords, sql tables, domains and their leave mail on servers' mails to the new machine. I can't find any docs about migration, backup and restore to a new server. Can anyone help me? I am installing everything on RedHat's Fedora Core 2. Here's my stab at it: On the new server, add all of the domains with vadddomain. This takes care of the domains. Then, when done, drop the vpopmail table and clear out the contents of /home/vpopmail/domains This will be replaced below. On the old server, generate a dump of the vpopmail table with mysqldump. Import this into your other server. This takes care of the passwords and SQL tables. Assuming all of your users are virtual, you should then be able to just tar up the contents of /home/vpopmail/domains (or whatever you use) and then untar in the equivalent directory on the other server. That should take care of the email and directory structure. Warning: I have never used this process in practice and, well, it may not work as expected. I'm pretty sure someone else has better directions. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] QMail + Vpopmail vs. Postfix + Cyrus IMAP
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:20 am, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: What, precisely, is gained by supporting postfix? i don't see the point. Postfix is a MODERN sendmail replacement. Qmail is not. You don't need to patch Postfix. Patches suck. :) (in re 'MODERN') I disagree. Despite the age of the original code base, qmail is still a modern and viable replacement for sendmail. However, it's not very featureful -- which is fine for replacing most versions of sendmail anyway. I believe that the majority of sendmail installations do not use STARTTLS or SMTP AUTH. (in re patches) Funny. I've never thought so. One thing I like about having to patch qmail is the ability to decide at compile-time what extensions I want to use. This allows me to limit the amount of unused code compiled into my MTA. (In the era of modern computing and the prevalence of CPU's well over 2GHz, this may not mean a lot. However, I run qmail on a 50MHz SparcStation LX and I'm a bit picky about what goes into it.) Having only ever compiled Postfix once (and many moons ago at that), I do not know if the same option is present there. But I'm wandering off topic for the vpopmail list. Ooh... While we're at it, we could add vpopmail support for sendmail... ^_~ Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + billing server integration
I'd like to connect via an encrypted shell, like SSH, but I'd also like the connection to be persistent, to avoid connection costs for batch operations. I'd also like to provide a FIFO queue mechanism so that if the mail server reboots, anyone working on the billing server won't get error messages when they attempt to provision services. Then, when the mail server comes back up, the SSH tunnel is re-established and the queued operations begin to execute. However, so far in my google searches I haven't seen anything that would help me implement a persistent SSH connection with a FIFO queue. Can anyone give me tips? Have you considered 1. A VPN between the two? 2. Using an on-demand connection method rather than a persistent method? 3. Just connecting to a dedicated socket or service rather than SSH? 4. The security issues inherent in connecting your billing server to your mailserver? To keep this topic vaguely vpopmail-related, have you considered keeping all of the necessary vpopmail information (or at least most of it) in a MySQL database or some other separate data repository and having something on your billing server update that? (Or, alternatively, why not run the MySQL database on your billing server if you go that route? That gets around the connection issues mentioned above although it does not fix any possible security issues.) Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + billing server integration
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2004 11:19 am, Chris Ess wrote: [behold, the power of mail scissors! snip snip] Have you considered 1. A VPN between the two? solves encryption, but not persistence. Also, that's a rather heavy-weight solution. I didn't say it was a clean or nice solution, did I? ^_^ This was to deal with connecting the two servers in my mind. I realized afterwards that this wouldn't be necessary. It's been a long week already (and I had Monday off too). 2. Using an on-demand connection method rather than a persistent method? Trying to avoid it. Our CSRs see the billing server pause while the hook executes to provision a service. I want to keep that pause time to a minimum. That depends on if a scripted SSH connection or whatever you use takes a long time to execute. When I used it, the Net::SSH perl module is pretty fast and added negligible time. 3. Just connecting to a dedicated socket or service rather than SSH? Not secure, and how would that work? I thought vpopmail's only manipulation system is either SQL or command line based... It would work however you want it to. This suggestion would require building your own methods (or finding something someone else has done). You could make it as secure or as insecure as you like. You might also want to look at the vpopmail daemon in development. (Which reminds me that I need to subscribe to that list.) 4. The security issues inherent in connecting your billing server to your mailserver? Sure. People do it all the time, right? It's not my favorite idea and not one I would implement myself if I had a choice -- but, then again, I'm very used to the idea of the accounting and technical departments being separate and us techs not getting access to the accounting systems or data. To keep this topic vaguely vpopmail-related, have you considered keeping all of the necessary vpopmail information (or at least most of it) in a MySQL database or some other separate data repository and having something on your billing server update that? It's been suggested. I'm not happy with that solution though. I'd rather keep it command line based. Okay. Then you're pretty much chained to the SSH solution unless you want to craft another one. (Or, alternatively, why not run the MySQL database on your billing server if you go that route? Kills scalability. Bad solution. I suggested this because this would create the illusion of persistence. I'd much rather run it on a different server altogether. I don't know if I'd say it kills scalability though. You can run a qmail/vpopmail server cluster based around a MySQL database without too much of a problem. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + billing server integration
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ken Jones wrote: Hi, Here is something we built into vpopmail for sites like yours. Use mysql on the email server. Have the billing system insert an entry in the vpopmail table, leaving the directory field blank. vpopmail will automatically create the users directory and update the database when any program tries to deliver mail to the user, or authenticate as the user. That's really neat! I didn't realize you could do this. (Now someone will tell me that it's in the documentation that I seem to've not read recently.) (I know this is getting offtopic...) So I could use an INSERT statement in SQL instead of vadduser? Or am I not understanding this correctly? Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail + billing server integration
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ken Jones wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:25 pm, Chris Ess wrote: [snip] It is probably in the mailing list archives. I'm not sure if anyone has updated the documentation. I wonder if a group of us should get together and update the documentation with all of the neat things mentioned on the mailing list. (Alternatively, I wonder if we'd ever have the time...) (I know this is getting offtopic...) So I could use an INSERT statement in SQL instead of vadduser? Or am I not understanding this correctly? That is the idea. A while back some folks wanted to hook up their billing systems to vpopmail. Basicly they would insert into the vpopmail sql table. The only thing they couldn't do easily was create the hashed directory path. So we put in vpopmail code to check if the path is blank and automatically create the new path and update the database. Okay. Makes sense. You will also need to set the encrypted password using mysql's CRYPT function. Mysql's standard encryption functions are not compatible with unix/linux. Yep. I'm not sure how far I trust MySQL's ENCRYPT() function since I've had issues with MD5 passwords and the crypt() function in Perl. The 'Change MySQL Password' plugin for squirrelmail at http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=25 includes an MD5 password algorithm in PHP which works pretty nicely. I'll have to test out the functionality of the INSERT. I have a vpopmail admin plugin for squirrelmail (have to ask my boss if I can distribute it so don't ask me for a copy yet) that uses a set-uid vadduser to handle adding users. I'd love to get rid of that. While I'm thinking about it, I can use a DELETE query to remove the row for a user and then queue a job (I'll worry about how to set this up) to archive/delete the user's mail, right? Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] allowing users to change their own passwords
Jim, My har'pennyworth .. Most of the webmail interfaces out there that overlay qmail/vpopmail, allow users to modify their mail account password. Some are easy to install, some not .. it sort of very much depends on the kind of access your provider ( by all means name them, off-list if you wish ), gives you.. Cheers, Chris. --- Charles M. Gerungan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jim, Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:15:07 -0400 UTC, Jim Clark wrote: JC Well, the thing is I don't have access to vpopmail directly - my web hosting JC service controls that. And I want the actual mailbox user to be able to JC change their own password. I went to the qmailadmin page and the demo showed JC an interface that looked more like an administrator interface rather than a JC mailbox user interface - which I already have from my hosting provider. Did JC I miss something? Maybe. Did you log in as postmaster or as a regular mail user? For the postmaster for that domain, yes, it is an admin interface. -- Regards, Charles. ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
[vchkpw] vpopmail = 5.4.2 (sybase vulnerability) (fwd)
I don't know if this is even relevant anymore (i.e. has been fixed) but
this showed up on bugtraq yesterday. Figured I should pass it along, just
in case.
Sincerely,
Chris Ess
System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
-- Forwarded message --
Date: 17 Aug 2004 10:44:52 -
From: Jérôme ATHIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vpopmail = 5.4.2 (sybase vulnerability)
Bug: format string and buffer overflow (sybase)
Product: vpopmail = 5.4.2 (sybase vulnerability)
Author: Werro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realease Date : 12/08/04
Risk: Low
Vendor status: Vendor is in a big shit :)
Reference: http://web-hack.ru/unl0ck/advisories/
Overview:
vpopmail is a set of programs for creating and managing
multiple virtual domains on a qmail server.
Details:
Bugs were founded in SyBase. In vsybase.c file.
---\
char dirbuf[156]; \__Vulnerability___
...
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if ( strlen(dir) 0 )
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{
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sprintf(dirbuf,%s/%s/%s, dom_dir,dir,user);
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^^^ - buffer overflow
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}else{
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sprintf(dirbuf, %s/%s, dom_dir, user);
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^^^ - buffer overflow
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}
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...
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if ( site_size == LARGE_SITE ) {
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sprintf( SqlBuf, LARGE_INSERT, domstr,
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user, pass, pop, gecos, dirbuf, quota);
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^^^ - format string
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} else {
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sprintf( SqlBuf, SMALL_INSERT,
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SYBASE_DEFAULT_TABLE, user, domain, pass, pop, gecos, dirbuf, quota);
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} ^^^ - format string
__|
/
Two vulnerability : format string and buffer overflow.
Latest Version is Vulnerable.
To avoid this bugs, you must use snprintf() with format like %s.
12/08/04.
(c) by unl0ck team.
http://web-hack.ru/unl0ck
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail = 5.4.2 (sybase vulnerability) (fwd)
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Tom Collins wrote: [...] I've also contacted the publisher of the original report (but have not posted a followup to bugtraq since I'm not a subscriber). I can post one if you and Mr. Athias would like. (I think that between the three of us, the proper people to follow up are either yourself or Mr. Athias. Personally, I'd just end up linking to the email on the list archives since that seems the proper thing to do. Also, I don't think you have to be a subscriber to post to bugtraq. I could be wrong though.) Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] Help with VpopMail 5.4.5 install!
Iain, Vpopmail install can't find the mysql header files. Usually in /mysql/include/mysql for a standard install. ( Could be elsewhere, sorry don't use Redhat. ) Either include them in your PATH, or copy the lot to a directory that is in your path, say /usr/bin Then the install should wizz through without a hitch. HTH. Incidentally, why are you using MySQL 3.23, since we are now on 4.0.20? Slange! Chris. PS Greetings from south of the border. ;-) --- Iain Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am currently trying to install VPopmail 5.4.5 and I get the following errors: --- vauth.c:33:19: mysql.h: No such file or directory vauth.c:40: syntax error before mysql_update vauth.c:40: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mysql_update' vauth.c:40: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c:41: syntax error before mysql_read_getall vauth.c:41: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mysql_read_getall ' vauth.c:41: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c:59: syntax error before '*' token vauth.c:59: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `res_update' vauth.c:59: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c:60: syntax error before '*' token vauth.c:60: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `res_read_getall' vauth.c:60: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c:68: syntax error before row vauth.c:68: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `row' vauth.c:68: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c:69: syntax error before row_getall vauth.c:69: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `row_getall' vauth.c:69: warning: data definition has no type or storage class vauth.c: In function `vauth_open_update': vauth.c:203: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_init' vauth.c:204: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_options' vauth.c:204: `MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this function) vauth.c:204: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once vauth.c:204: for each function it appears in.) vauth.c:207: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_real_connect' vauth.c:217: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_select_db' vauth.c:221: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_query' vauth.c:226: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_error' vauth.c:226: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 3) vauth.c: In function `vauth_adduser': vauth.c:394: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 3) vauth.c: In function `vauth_getpw': vauth.c:444: warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 3) vauth.c:448: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_store_result' vauth.c:448: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast vauth.c:453: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_num_rows' vauth.c:454: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_free_result' vauth.c:472: warning: implicit declaration of function `mysql_fetch_row' vauth.c:473: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer - The system I am running this on is running RedHat Enterprise 3 (Kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp) with 2Gb Ram. I have installed MySQL 3.23.58 and this is working properly. In addition I have setup Qmail and Qmail-Scanner with no problems. I guess that I must be missing a command line switch or something but I cannot find any help on the Internet :-( Before I issue the Make command I am entering the following configure settings: ./configure --disable-roaming-users \ --enable-logging=p \ --disable-passwd \ --enable-clear-passwd \ --disable-domain-quotas \ --enable-auth-module=mysql \ --disable-many-domains \ --enable-auth-logging \ --enable-msql-logging \ --enable-valias \ --disable-mysql-limits \ --enable-incdir=/usr/lib/mysql And Ideas or points I should do or have known! are most welcome. I look forward to your reply's. Best regards, Iain Morrison ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by Network Associates Virus Scan for the presence of computer viruses. ** __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [vchkpw] simscan test release: simplified scanner for clamav/spamassassin
Ken Jones wrote: Anyone interested in trying simscan before I release it? If you are interested, please email me directly and I'll send you a tar ball. Absolutely. I'd love to test it on our test mail machine. :) Thanks in advance! Chris Kalin
Re: [vchkpw] What's the better Webmail for Vpopmail?
Just to add chuck another item into the melting pot... ;-) I look at SQuirelmail but it needs IMAP and I'd not like to install a new service. Try http://ilohamail.org, has it's own integral IMAP should you decide to try it. Works directly with Qmail/ Vpopmail and the source is there for you to meddle with as well. I look also at Openwebmail but I didn't find a distribution integrated with QMail/VPopmail. Is there one? I've tried quite a few interfaces out there, including Openwebmail, all of which seem to overlay quite well except are maybe just a wee bit fiddly to install from source. Or are there other webmails more advanced than SQWebmail? I'd say, lots. You are spoilt for choice. ;-) Cheers, Chris. -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: [vchkpw] [semi-OT] which is more portable?
grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{print $6}'
or
grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f6
I would think that cut would be more portable. However, every machine
I've used has had some variant of awk installed too.
You might want to consider using 'grep ^vpopmail' or even 'grep
^vpopmail:' rather than 'grep vpopmail' to ensure that you're only getting
the 'vpopmail' user. (I have a server in which we've had to transparently
migrate users who were set up under sendmail so we have users whose home
directories are under the vpopmail directory. Nasty, I know.) The one
catch is that I don't know if 'grep ^string' is supported in all versions
of 'grep'.
Reason I'm asking is I'm making some minor modifications to the Makefile
for the chkuser patch and I want to make sure they're as absolutely
portable as possible before releasing it to the masses.
also, while on the topic of portability, I noticed that djb does not include
ANY variable substitutions (only backtick ` ` substitutions) in his Makefile.
I'm curious if this is also for portability reasons. Anyone aware of any
implementations of the 'make' program that don't understand variable
substitions in Makefiles, or any situations (lack of /bin/sh compatible
shell, perhaps?) that might make variable substitutions not possible?
I don't know of any portability concerns in this regard. I wonder if this
is just a design choice.
Sincerely,
Chris Ess
System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
Re: [vchkpw] [semi-OT] which is more portable?
[snip] right, which is why it's better to just specify it in conf-vpopmail. However, I'm having trouble getting that value into a variable in a Makefile, so I'm thinking that just setting it at the top and pointing documentation to change it would be best. Why not just use the backtick substitutions like you pointed out djb does? This gets around dealing with Makefile variables and prevents people from needing to edit the Makefile. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
[vchkpw] Bounce Messages with Certain Attachments
I would like to setup qmail to bounce messages with *.vbs, *.scr and a few other attachments. If a message gets sent to a user on my system with an attachment like that, I want to bounce it back to the sender letting them know it was undeliverable because of the attachment. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
Re: [vchkpw] Aliases
at the moment I have a console built in php that talks to vpopmail directly. I am trying to figure out what I need to do if I were to create aliases for the pop accounts that I have created because I don't think there is a straight forward command like vadduser. Do you have any ideas? I have also found a function in php vpopmail_add_user_alias(). Have you ever used this before? Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I manage/create aliases for an email account created with vpopmail? Please Help You can do it the easy way, or the hard way... The easy way: (Requires a web server on the mail server machine.) http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmailadmin/ The hard way: Create .qmail files in the domain directory of the domain where you want the alias. There many possibilities for the .qmail files, so if you want to go this way, please be more specific about what you want the alias to do. It usually works best if you give specific examples.
[vchkpw] Aliases
How do I manage/create aliases for an email account created with vpopmail? Please Help
[vchkpw] qmailadmin question
When I setup a user in qmailadmin and check the Spam detection? box, it adds |preline /usr/local/bin/maildrop /etc/mailfilter to their ~/.qmail. This is great, except I need it to be something different. Where do I set what the Spam detection box adds to a users .qmail file? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] User-managed mailing lists in virtual hosting environment?
Why no check out Matt Simersons site for the FreeBSD Toaster. http://www.tnpi.biz -Original Message- From: Michael Bellears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] User-managed mailing lists in virtual hosting environment? Complicating things (apparently) is that our mail server is separate from the Web server on which we provide clients' virtual hosts: I am hoping to be able to allow a customer to create (say) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (but ezmlm-web appears to want to use the canonical hostname for the mail server as the RHS of the email address). Is there some other choice I might plausibly make to support such lists? I don't know if this will be applicable in your environment, but qmailadmin (http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin.html) has mailing list management functionalities. HTH, MB
RE: [vchkpw] Any ideas
Check your password for sql. -Original Message- From: Mark Matrafajlo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:08 AM To: vpop Subject: [vchkpw] Any ideas Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: enter password again: vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone away Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: no auth connection I had set it up to use mysql as the backend and now it just doesn't work anyone have any ideas of whats goin on Thx Mark
RE: [vchkpw] Problem
When you say freezeing, what exactly do you mean? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Problem Hopefully someone can help me with this. I am running Red Hat Linux 9.0, qmail, courier-imap-2.2.1, and vpopmail-5.2.1. For the past six months everything has been running smoothly almost no problems whatsoever. I have about 20 different domains using vpopmail. Recently, the mail has been freezing. Starting and stopping qmail seems to clear the problem up. I don't know if this is a vpopmail issue or a qmail issue. I've checked the que and everything has been processed. One of the domains did have a catch all account which they stopped using. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Simon
[vchkpw] SMTP Slowness
Now Ive got another problem with SMTP. When I try to connect, it takes FOREVER to send the welcome message. Go ahead and telnet into rhost1.zfx.com on port 25 and issue a HELO, and youll see what I mean. Just give it a few minutes before you do anything and youll see. After the initial wait, things are fine, but that first part takes forever. I thought that it could be something with DNS, but everything seems fine with DNS. The hostname and reverse DNS entries for the box are in there, and the DNS servers on the server are set correctly so it should be able to resolve its self pretty quickly (the DNS server it uses is on the local box, as is the zone for the domain). Any idea?? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] Major SMTP AUTH Issues
Thanks, that fixed it. However, now SMTP is really slow (see my other message that should be coming through in a few minutes). Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Jeremy Kister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] Major SMTP AUTH Issues On Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:17 PM, Chris Miller wrote: I'm having major issues with SMTP AUTH. Currently, if a user authenticates they are allowed to relay. The problem is even if the user authenticates incorrectly, they are allowed to relay. I'm sure it's something in my qmail-smtpd run script, so I'm pasting it below: this has been discussed extensively, but... you are probably using Krzysztof Dabrowski's qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31 patch either patch your qmail with Erwin Hoffmann's http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/auth/qmail-smtpd-auth-043_tgz.bin or fix your run script: exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL \ -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $VPOPUID -g $VPOPGID 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $LOCAL /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 I recommend Erwin's fixup, as it has bug fixes and updated functionality you may also want to investigate using the -H flag for tcpserver. Jeremy Kister http://jeremy.kister.net/
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP Slowness
No, qmail-smtpd. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Rick Romero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Slowness On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 08:42, Chris Miller wrote: Now I've got another problem with SMTP. When I try to connect, it takes FOREVER to send the welcome message. Go ahead and telnet into rhost1.zfx.com on port 25 and issue a HELO, and you'll see what I mean. Just give it a few minutes before you do anything and you'll see. After the initial wait, things are fine, but that first part takes forever. I thought that it could be something with DNS, but everything seems fine with DNS. The hostname and reverse DNS entries for the box are in there, and the DNS servers on the server are set correctly so it should be able to resolve it's self pretty quickly (the DNS server it uses is on the local box, as is the zone for the domain). Any idea?? Are you running rblsmtpd? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + postfix
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, X-Istence wrote: Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, How can we setup vpopmail to work with Postfix? Is necessary have qmail installed too? Thanks, Paulo. vpopmail was created for qmail only, postfix and qmail are two different MTA's so this is not a solution you can use with postfix. See this sentence from http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail.html : Inter7 has developed vpopmail (vchkpw), a free GPL software package, to provide an easy way to manage virtual email domains and non /etc/passwd email accounts on your qmail or Postfix mail servers. So it looks like there should be a way to get it to work with Postfix. (Or someone needs to fix the page.) There's even a link for a short howto on the Inter7 page: http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/postfix.txt That said, I have never used vpopmail with Postfix, nor do I ever plan to, so I can't vouch whether or not any of the above is accurate beyond face value. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
RE: [vchkpw] Re: SMTP Slowness
I just tested it again and timed it. 10 seconds until I get the banner from the time I connect and issue the EHLO command. That's unacceptable, it should be nearly instant. It's not like this is a slow box or anything (dual xeon box, it's got some ummph). Any ideas as to why the long delay? Also, you wanted me to run the command ps auxwww |grep '[t]cpserver .*qmail-smtpd': vpopmail 3628 0.0 0.1 2104 1328 ?S07:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l rhost1.zfx.com -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 50 -u 89 -g 89 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Peter Palmreuther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:55 PM To: Chris Miller in vpop Subject: [vchkpw] Re: SMTP Slowness Hello Chris, On Monday, April 26, 2004 at 3:42:40 PM you wrote (at least in part): Now I've got another problem with SMTP. When I try to connect, it takes FOREVER to send the welcome message. Go ahead and telnet into rhost1.zfx.com on port 25 and issue a HELO, and you'll see what I mean. Both, connecting and issuing a EHLO (or HELO), is just a matter of seconds from here. I thought that it could be something with DNS, but everything seems fine with DNS. The hostname and reverse DNS entries for the box are in there, and the DNS servers on the server are set correctly so it should be able to resolve it's self pretty quickly (the DNS server it uses is on the local box, as is the zone for the domain). Well, it nevertheless could be a DNS related problem. The self referring reverse entries are not that much of a matter. What takes time most times this behavior is seen is reverse resolving of connecting client. So what's your 'tcpserver ... qmail-smtpd' invocation line[1]? [1]: ps auxwww |grep '[t]cpserver .*qmail-smtpd' -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
RE: [vchkpw] Re: SMTP Slowness
Awesome, that did it. Thanks a bunch! Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Rick Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Re: SMTP Slowness You haven't set the -H flag, so by default it's trying to look up the remote hostname in DNS for $TCPREMOTEHOST This may take a long time if reverse DNS isn't set up properly for the host connecting. On Monday 26 April 2004 12:23, Chris Miller wrote: I just tested it again and timed it. 10 seconds until I get the banner from the time I connect and issue the EHLO command. That's unacceptable, it should be nearly instant. It's not like this is a slow box or anything (dual xeon box, it's got some ummph). Any ideas as to why the long delay? Also, you wanted me to run the command ps auxwww |grep '[t]cpserver .*qmail-smtpd': vpopmail 3628 0.0 0.1 2104 1328 ?S07:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l rhost1.zfx.com -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 50 -u 89 -g 89 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Peter Palmreuther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:55 PM To: Chris Miller in vpop Subject: [vchkpw] Re: SMTP Slowness Hello Chris, On Monday, April 26, 2004 at 3:42:40 PM you wrote (at least in part): Now I've got another problem with SMTP. When I try to connect, it takes FOREVER to send the welcome message. Go ahead and telnet into rhost1.zfx.com on port 25 and issue a HELO, and you'll see what I mean. Both, connecting and issuing a EHLO (or HELO), is just a matter of seconds from here. I thought that it could be something with DNS, but everything seems fine with DNS. The hostname and reverse DNS entries for the box are in there, and the DNS servers on the server are set correctly so it should be able to resolve it's self pretty quickly (the DNS server it uses is on the local box, as is the zone for the domain). Well, it nevertheless could be a DNS related problem. The self referring reverse entries are not that much of a matter. What takes time most times this behavior is seen is reverse resolving of connecting client. So what's your 'tcpserver ... qmail-smtpd' invocation line[1]? [1]: ps auxwww |grep '[t]cpserver .*qmail-smtpd' -- Rick Morris Network Manager WeDoHosting.com 101-4226 Commerce Circle Victoria BC V8Z 6N6 ph: +1 250 479 1595 fax: +1 250 479 1517 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wedohosting.com
[vchkpw] Major SMTP AUTH Issues
Im having major issues with SMTP AUTH. Currently, if a user authenticates they are allowed to relay. The problem is even if the user authenticates incorrectly, they are allowed to relay. Im sure its something in my qmail-smtpd run script, so Im pasting it below: #!/bin/sh # QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` # NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` VPOPUID=`id -u vpopmail` VPOPGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $VPOPUID -o -z $VPOPGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo VPOPUID, VPOPGID, MAXSMTPD or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts! echo Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 300 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD -u $VPOPUID -g $VPOPGID 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] pros and cons of smtp auth and pop before smtp
Personally, I feel better knowing that each user authenticates before they send mail with SMTP AUTH rather then keeping an ad-hoc list of IPs that have POP-ed their mail in the last x-minutes. But that would be covered in Jeff's conceptually a more elegant approach bullet. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] pros and cons of smtp auth and pop before smtp I'll take a crack at it. At 07:28 AM 4/12/2004, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Can anybody point it out to me the pros and cons of: 1. smtp auth - some users have continual trouble configuring their email clients for smtp-auth - conceptually a more elegant approach - can allow the smtp and pop servers to be on different machines if you use mysql-auth 2. pop before smtp? - creates problems with qmail-scanner. Servers authorized to relay skip qmail-scanner virus checks. - simpler and easier to setup. Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 18:27:38 up 9:50, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAen1nkp5CsIXuxqURAsrHAJ9TQGI5ATNVH7TaUwLoVhVyJvKH+QCgvlON BGDFmqVjncW5pBi+41R2C3A= =mcA/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best Regards, Jeff Koch, Intersessions
RE: [vchkpw] domain quotas
I too would like to know the same information along those lines. Are the quotas in qmail a way to control actual disk quotas on the file system, meaning I'd have to have quota support in my kernel before I use this feature, or is this just something ad-hoc that vpopmail has done at a higher level than the file system quotas? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] domain quotas Hi All: I'm thinking about implementing domain quotas on a new mailserver with qmailadmin and courier IMAP. Are domain quotas working OK in the latest vpopmail release? What should we be aware of in implementing this feature Any booby traps with clients and users? How does the notification process work? Are these hard quotas or soft quotas? Are they supported by qmailadmin and squirrelmail? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Jeff Koch
RE: [vchkpw] roaming.
It's POP-before-SMTP. Personally, I like the idea of SMTP AUTH better, but both work... Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Jasmine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] roaming. What exactly are roaming users? Jasmine
RE: [vchkpw] incdir
When you configure, include enable-incdir=/path/to/MySQL/include/directory/ Mine was /usr/local/mysql/include/ Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Jasmine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] incdir I get this error whilst configuring vpopmail; configure: error: Unable to find your MySQL inc dir, specify --enable-incdir. what does it mean? I chose to use mysql authentication. Jaz.
RE: [vchkpw] Which File System?
I've had awful experiences with reiserfs. I've had many reisterfs file systems totally bomb on me -- not fun. Personally, I use XFS when possible and find it to be the fastest and most stable file system on the planet. Never had a problem with it. Ext3 is good too. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Which File System? Hi All, Im in the process of setting up a new server with a large disk array of sata disks running on debian and im wondering if I should stick with ext3 or go with reiserFS. Whats your experiences been either way? cheers Shane
[vchkpw] mbox to maildir
Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not. If its not, feel free to slap me.\ I have several mailboxes in the mbox format (traditional one file in /var/spool/mail/username). I need to convert these to maildir format. Ive seen the maildir2mbox, but thats going the wrong way. I need mbox2maildir. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away
Well guys, Ive made progress on this. If I change the IP to my external IP rather than localhost it works. So apparently, its looking for the socket in the wrong place. Where does it pull the path of the socket from? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away I am using 5.4.0, which is the latest version. I was using an older version before, but I ditched it and am reinstalling it. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Remo Mattei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away The version of vpopmail you are using is not using the file for password you need to modify the vmysql.c or .h I cant remember which one so make sure either you are using the latest version or modify that file and then recompile.. Remo Mattei NetworkSecurity Engineer cell 801-808-unix email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away Heres what I get when I try to add a domain: [/var/vpopmail/bin]# ./vadddomain test.com Please enter password for postmaster: enter password again: vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone away Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: (vadduser) no auth connection [/var/vpopmail/etc]# cat vpopmail.mysql localhost|0|vpopmail|***|vpopmail My password has odd characters in it, specifically the + character. Could that cause anything to break? I have tried connecting manually with the username/password in that file, and I can get in fine. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
[vchkpw] SMTP AUTH with vchkpw
Below is the run script that supervise uses for qmail-smtpd. Notice now it uses /bin/checkpassword which is patched for MySQL support. However, Im moving to vchkpw, so how would I go about changing the script so that SMTP AUTH will work? [/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd]# cat run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID $QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID $NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD $MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL $LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts! echo Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1000 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -u $QMAILDUID -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /bin/checkpassword /bin/true 21 Thank you! Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net 423.276.6692
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH with vchkpw
Thank you. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Werner Amon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH with vchkpw Chris Miller schrieb: Below is the run script that supervise uses for qmail-smtpd. Notice now it uses /bin/checkpassword which is patched for MySQL support. However, I'm moving to vchkpw, so how would I go about changing the script so that SMTP AUTH will work? [/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd]# cat run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID $QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID $NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD $MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL $LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts! echo Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1000 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -u $QMAILDUID -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /bin/checkpassword /bin/true 21 Thank you! Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net 423.276.6692 Change QMAILDUID and NOFILESGID from qmaild to vpopmail and change /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /bin/checkpassword /bin/true 21 to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd rhost1.zfx.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 this should work Werner
[vchkpw] Learning Passwords
With the learning passwords feature enabled, does that set users passwords to the one they supply whenever they check their mail for the very first time? When Im adding a user, will it automatically overwrite the password that I enter? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
[vchkpw] vpopmail database?
I just installed vpopmail and Im using MySQL support. I added the database vpopmail and user vpopmail and gave the user rights to the database. Now what? I cant find anything that documents the schema of the database. Do I have to manually create tables, or is there a SQL file somewhere that has the structure of the tables in the database? Also, my current setup uses the MySQL PASSWORD() function to store passwords encrypted. Am I going to be able to use this with vpopmail? I disable storing passwords in clear text, so Im assuming that it will use the same function to encrypt passwords correct? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail database?
I just realized that. I was using 5.2.1, but Im installing 5.4.0 right now -- MUCH more info with this version. I think Ill figure it out okay from here. J Thanks!! Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Remo Mattei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail database? You need to read the readme file for MySQL which is in the tar file. Remo Mattei NetworkSecurity Engineer cell 801-808-unix email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail database? I just installed vpopmail and Im using MySQL support. I added the database vpopmail and user vpopmail and gave the user rights to the database. Now what? I cant find anything that documents the schema of the database. Do I have to manually create tables, or is there a SQL file somewhere that has the structure of the tables in the database? Also, my current setup uses the MySQL PASSWORD() function to store passwords encrypted. Am I going to be able to use this with vpopmail? I disable storing passwords in clear text, so Im assuming that it will use the same function to encrypt passwords correct? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail database?
Does vpopmail use the PASSWORD() function in MySQL to store passwords? I need this, since my current setup uses this method and I want to move accounts over without many problems. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail database? I just realized that. I was using 5.2.1, but Im installing 5.4.0 right now -- MUCH more info with this version. I think Ill figure it out okay from here. J Thanks!! Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Remo Mattei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail database? You need to read the readme file for MySQL which is in the tar file. Remo Mattei NetworkSecurity Engineer cell 801-808-unix email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail database? I just installed vpopmail and Im using MySQL support. I added the database vpopmail and user vpopmail and gave the user rights to the database. Now what? I cant find anything that documents the schema of the database. Do I have to manually create tables, or is there a SQL file somewhere that has the structure of the tables in the database? Also, my current setup uses the MySQL PASSWORD() function to store passwords encrypted. Am I going to be able to use this with vpopmail? I disable storing passwords in clear text, so Im assuming that it will use the same function to encrypt passwords correct? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
[vchkpw] MySQL has gone away
Heres what I get when I try to add a domain: [/var/vpopmail/bin]# ./vadddomain test.com Please enter password for postmaster: enter password again: vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone away Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: (vadduser) no auth connection [/var/vpopmail/etc]# cat vpopmail.mysql localhost|0|vpopmail|***|vpopmail My password has odd characters in it, specifically the + character. Could that cause anything to break? I have tried connecting manually with the username/password in that file, and I can get in fine. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away
I am using 5.4.0, which is the latest version. I was using an older version before, but I ditched it and am reinstalling it. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Remo Mattei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away The version of vpopmail you are using is not using the file for password you need to modify the vmysql.c or .h I cant remember which one so make sure either you are using the latest version or modify that file and then recompile.. Remo Mattei NetworkSecurity Engineer cell 801-808-unix email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away Heres what I get when I try to add a domain: [/var/vpopmail/bin]# ./vadddomain test.com Please enter password for postmaster: enter password again: vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone away Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: (vadduser) no auth connection [/var/vpopmail/etc]# cat vpopmail.mysql localhost|0|vpopmail|***|vpopmail My password has odd characters in it, specifically the + character. Could that cause anything to break? I have tried connecting manually with the username/password in that file, and I can get in fine. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Yes, it does get me in. Let me try escaping the +. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH does mysql -D vpopmail -user=vpopmail --password=pass get you in as well? Im guessing you might need to escape the \+ sign or your permissions on the vpopmail.mysql file are wrong. -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw235 Sep 4 2003 vpopmail.mysql Shane. -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Nope, same error... -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw 41 Mar 27 14:24 vpopmail.mysql Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH does mysql -D vpopmail -user=vpopmail --password=pass get you in as well? Im guessing you might need to escape the \+ sign or your permissions on the vpopmail.mysql file are wrong. -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw235 Sep 4 2003 vpopmail.mysql Shane. -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Nope, Same problem. Is there any way to have it use a socket at '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' instead of over TCP/IP? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH try changing the 0 in the file to 3306 like localhost|3306|vpopmail|pass|vpopmail Shouldn't have any effect but who knows. I have also had issues where ive needed to connect to the ip of the machine rather than localhost due to a few crazy mysql dns bugs. Adding the details to the hosts file sometimes fixes that one too. Shane -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Nope, same error... -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw 41 Mar 27 14:24 vpopmail.mysql Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH does mysql -D vpopmail -user=vpopmail --password=pass get you in as well? Im guessing you might need to escape the \+ sign or your permissions on the vpopmail.mysql file are wrong. -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw235 Sep 4 2003 vpopmail.mysql Shane. -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Well, my connection file is correct. So why is it still saying MySQL Server has gone away? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Michael Bowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH It is my understanding that : MYSQL CONNECTION SETTINGS FOR VPOPMAIL Line 1 defines the connection to use for database reads, Line 2 defines the connection to use for database updates/writes. If you omit line 2, then the same settings will be used for both read and write. settings for each line: host|port|user|password|database eg localhost|0|root|secret|vpopmail Note: The value of host may be either a hostname or an IP address. If host is 'localhost', then sockets (Unix) or named pipes (Windows) will be used instead of TCP/IP to connect to the server. Michael. - Original Message - From: Chris Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:43 AM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Nope, Same problem. Is there any way to have it use a socket at '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' instead of over TCP/IP? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH try changing the 0 in the file to 3306 like localhost|3306|vpopmail|pass|vpopmail Shouldn't have any effect but who knows. I have also had issues where ive needed to connect to the ip of the machine rather than localhost due to a few crazy mysql dns bugs. Adding the details to the hosts file sometimes fixes that one too. Shane -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Nope, same error... -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw 41 Mar 27 14:24 vpopmail.mysql Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH does mysql -D vpopmail -user=vpopmail --password=pass get you in as well? Im guessing you might need to escape the \+ sign or your permissions on the vpopmail.mysql file are wrong. -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw235 Sep 4 2003 vpopmail.mysql Shane. -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
RE: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away
Somehow, the subject of this conversation has gotten changed the original subject was MySQL has gone away. Please make sure all future messages related to this problem have this subject, NOT SMTP AUTH as that is a different problem. Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Well, my connection file is correct. So why is it still saying MySQL Server has gone away? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Michael Bowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH It is my understanding that : MYSQL CONNECTION SETTINGS FOR VPOPMAIL Line 1 defines the connection to use for database reads, Line 2 defines the connection to use for database updates/writes. If you omit line 2, then the same settings will be used for both read and write. settings for each line: host|port|user|password|database eg localhost|0|root|secret|vpopmail Note: The value of host may be either a hostname or an IP address. If host is 'localhost', then sockets (Unix) or named pipes (Windows) will be used instead of TCP/IP to connect to the server. Michael. - Original Message - From: Chris Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:43 AM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Nope, Same problem. Is there any way to have it use a socket at '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' instead of over TCP/IP? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH try changing the 0 in the file to 3306 like localhost|3306|vpopmail|pass|vpopmail Shouldn't have any effect but who knows. I have also had issues where ive needed to connect to the ip of the machine rather than localhost due to a few crazy mysql dns bugs. Adding the details to the hosts file sometimes fixes that one too. Shane -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Nope, same error... -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw 41 Mar 27 14:24 vpopmail.mysql Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH does mysql -D vpopmail -user=vpopmail --password=pass get you in as well? Im guessing you might need to escape the \+ sign or your permissions on the vpopmail.mysql file are wrong. -rw-r-1 vpopmail vchkpw235 Sep 4 2003 vpopmail.mysql Shane. -Original Message- From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Is it safe to use 0.31 with vpopmail-5.4.0? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net -Original Message- From: Erwin Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP AUTH Hi, dont use the version 0.32 of the smtp-auth patch; it's not gonna work with vpopmail 5.4.x. Read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. At 14:38 22.03.04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mo, 2004-03-22 um 14.30 schrieb Chris Miller: Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Try this one: qmail-smtpd-auth, http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/, Gruss, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], gpg -key http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x690A1AC2 Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
[vchkpw] SMTP AUTH
Does vpopmail come with SMTP AUTH? Is there a compatable patch out there? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
[vchkpw] reinstall of vpopmail
I had to reinstall vpopmail 5.2.1 and now I am having various problems with my setup. I can log in to existing mailboxes and most of them get mail. Some of them don't though. If I erase and recreate them they work again. However, forwards are not at all working anymore. I can create them, but they don't appear, and worse, old ones do not work and the mail is not bounce, but blackholed somewhere. Any advice, this is a big problem here... I'm using vpopmail with mysql Thanks Chris
RE: [vchkpw] reinstall of vpopmail
I'm sorry, this is resolved. I had a DNS issue so the mail was not forwarding properly. Thanks anyway though. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] reinstall of vpopmail I had to reinstall vpopmail 5.2.1 and now I am having various problems with my setup. I can log in to existing mailboxes and most of them get mail. Some of them don't though. If I erase and recreate them they work again. However, forwards are not at all working anymore. I can create them, but they don't appear, and worse, old ones do not work and the mail is not bounce, but blackholed somewhere. Any advice, this is a big problem here... I'm using vpopmail with mysql Thanks Chris
[vchkpw] Weird problems
I reinstalled vpopmail 5.2.1 and now I am having some problems with qmailadmin and sqwebmail. Qmailadmin (1.0.6) will add email accounts, but cannot add alias/forwards. It appears that it works, but the forwards don't appear. Additionally, sqwebmail does not work properly. Users log in and in the upper right, they see [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of their correct domain name. They can see their messages, but cannot delete/move them. However, some users do see their correct [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Those users can use their mail normally. I can find no rhyme or reason to who can and can't do this. If I erase their account and recreate it, the problem goes away. Thanks, Chris
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail shared library patch
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Ken Jones wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 4:22 pm, Tom Collins wrote: [snip] I'm not sure that there's a need to disable the shared library option -- I'd like to always build it. I'd like to be able to disable shared libraries. I like not having run time linking each time vchkpw and vdelivermail are run. I'd rather link once at compile time. Makes it just-a-bit-more efficent. The only thing it would save me is recompiling vpopmail dependent libraries on an update, and that's not a big deal for me. I see where Mr. Jones is coming from and I agree. However, I also see where having a shared library could be better. (See, for instance, the recurring theme on this list of I just recompiled vpopmail and now qmail doesn't work/users can't authenticate through courier-imap/other stuff is broken now.) Perhaps, for a 'best of both worlds' (or 'horrible compromise') idea, maybe we should have configure switches so that we can build static vchkpw and vdelivermail binaries (since these are the two most run programs under vpopmail as far as I can see) and yet still build the shared library for linking with other binaries, including vadddomain, qmailadmin, courier's authvchkpw module, etc. I think that any performance hit we might take by making vadddomain and the other binaries link against the shared library would be tolerable. Sincerely, Chris Ess System Administrator / CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician)
RE: [vchkpw] Have I screwed myself?
Alright, thanks. Does anyone else know how I can migrate from what Ive got now to vpopmail? Also, hows this going to work with any SMTP AUTH patch? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net From: Shane Chrisp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] Have I screwed myself? Yes if you use vpopmail + the chkusr patch, you can prevent those messages from ever reaching the queue of your mail server. Im not familiair with a qmail + Checkpassword with the MySQL patch setup, so you may need to recompile qmail to get it all working nicely. See a few of the howto documents like http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htmor http://www.shupp.org just to name 2 of the many howto's that are out there. Shane From: Chris Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Have I screwed myself? Simple question: Have I screwed myself, and is it going to be possible to setup true multi domain hosting coming from what I have? My current setup is qmail + Checkpassword with the MySQL patch (from http://iain.cx/qmail/mysql/). It works great, but there is a major flaw with it. Lets say I setup an account to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and another at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. If I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], it will get to their mailbox. It should bounce, but it does not that is BAD. By using vchkpw, would that solve my problem? But how do I go about moving my current accounts in MySQL to work with the new schema of vchkpw? Also, is moving to vchkpw going to break my SMTP AUTH patch that I also use? Thanks, Chris Miller Compuville www.compuville.net
