Re: [vchkpw] dovecot and vpopmail
Hi Pavel, Friday, November 20, 2009, 11:40:28 AM, you wrote: CL Hi, CL I'm trying to set up dovecot with vpopmail on a Debian Lenny CL system. I have modified the package from dotdeb.org to use MySQL. CL Now, that gives me binaries that work fine (i.e. vchkpw, vadd..., CL etc. work fine) but dovecot just doesn't want to do the CL authentication right. skip CL I tried a web search but I only found posts describing the same CL problem never a solution. CL Cheers, CL Christian Sorry if this solution is unacceptable, but why bother with packages? Both vpopmail and dovecot compile nicely from sources and you can tune them to your liking. Yeah, I've thought about that. However, I like keeping the development packages off my production machines and for that packages are usually the most convenient. Funny enough, I've tried my packages on another Debian machine now which had the dev packages installed and everything seems to work there. So, I suppose it's some kind of weird dependency problem. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:4b08ebec32711000553508!
[vchkpw] Using vusaged
Hi, I need good quota support, so I decided to upgrade my vpopmail to version 5.4.28. However, I found that version to be rather inconsistent and really hard to package for Gentoo's portage. Here are my problem. Maybe someone can tell me how to work around these issues. 1. The package produces segfaults on most tools (at least vuserinfo and vchkpw) if vusaged is not installed. However, vusaged does not get compiled and installed by the main makefile. That doesn't seem to make sense. 2. If I try to install vusaged before having installed the new version of vpopmail, it will not build because needs to find libvpopmail first. I can pass a path with --with-vpopmail= but this cannot be the path of the source directory where the libraries would be after compiling but before being installed. 3. Once I have installed the vpopmail package I can run the configure for vusaged but not compile it. It uses several include files that come with vpopmail but don't seem to get installed into a standard path. I assume that they get installed into /var/vpopmail/include/ but have currently no system to test that (I reverted my production system to 5.4.26). Are there solutions to the problems described? How can I compile and install everything in one go? Did I overlook something? Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:4ac47e7432711210518418!
Re: [vchkpw] incoming mail trigger scipts
Hi John, I wonder if there is mechanism for vitual mail box(implemented by vpopmail) which act as .qmail file that can trigger scripts by mail delivery? Do I need to create actual linux account for each virtual user for this propose? I could be wrong but I don't think vpopmail will let you do what you want. However, virtual users are still enough. What I do is to put maildrop in front of vpopmail, i.e. .qmail-default delivers to maildrop. Maildrop will have a domain wide .mailfilter which checks if the user has a .mailfilter. If there is one, it will be used otherwise, I just invoke vdelivermail through maildrop. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:481a9792120503931043840!
Re: [vchkpw] Bogus quota warnings
Hi Rick, I'm using vpopmail 5.4.16. However, I already upgraded to this version Sorry, this has to be 5.4.25. Cheers, Christian I believe there is a quota bug in 5.4.25, I'd back down to 5.4.24 I've downgraded to 5.4.24 a while ago but I'm being told that people still get these bogus warnings. Unfortunately I can't downgrade too far because I need the onchange patch but I might still try a couple of lower versions. Are you using maildrop or some other final delivery method that doesn't support maildir++ quotas ? Yes, maildrop is used on the server. However, maildrop is only used to send copies to some other email address and the like. The delivery rule invokes vpopmail. What has access to the users Maildir ? pop imap delivery sqwebmail (direct access) etc ? There are only a POP3 and an IMAP4 server that have access to the maildirs. Nothing else. I'm now trying 5.4.26 as kind of the last option. However, I don't know, yet, if the problem still persists or not. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47cb4dd3120503180293929!
Re: [vchkpw] Bogus quota warnings
Hi Rick, I'm using vpopmail 5.4.16. However, I already upgraded to this version Sorry, this has to be 5.4.25. Cheers, Christian I believe there is a quota bug in 5.4.25, I'd back down to 5.4.24 I've downgraded to 5.4.24 a while ago but I'm being told that people still get these bogus warnings. Unfortunately I can't downgrade too far because I need the onchange patch but I might still try a couple of lower versions. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47c80bd5120501832512868!
Re: [vchkpw] Bogus quota warnings
Hi, I'm using vpopmail 5.4.16. However, I already upgraded to this version Sorry, this has to be 5.4.25. Cheers, Christian I believe there is a quota bug in 5.4.25, I'd back down to 5.4.24 I've downgraded to 5.4.24 a while ago but I'm being told that people still get these bogus warnings. Unfortunately I can't downgrade too far because I need the onchange patch but I might still try a couple of lower versions. One more thing. Earlier it always seemed to me that vuserinfo would give me the right percentage but the message was still sent. What I see now is this name: someone passwd: abcdefg clear passwd: comment/gecos: Some One uid:0 gid:0 flags: 0 gecos: Some One limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/the.domain/0/someone quota: 52428800S usage: 90% last auth: Fri Feb 29 08:46:13 2008 last auth ip: but myserver /home/vpopmail/domains/the.domain/0/someone # du -sch 88K . 88K total So, here it is rather obvious that something is going awfully wrong, right? Just thought I'd add this... Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47c80e4c120502061315427!
Re: [vchkpw] Bogus quota warnings
I'm using vpopmail 5.4.16. However, I already upgraded to this version Sorry, this has to be 5.4.25. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47bd9281310541292811087!
[vchkpw] Bogus quota warnings
Hi, recently my system seems to be sending out bogus 90% of quota warnings. I've had many complaints and when I check the accounts really aren't anywhere close to 90%, so that I don't believe any more that this is due to the user just having downloaded and expunged enough email to fall below the quota again. The strangest thing, however, is that all the bogus warnings seem to go to accounts within the 0/ directory. As I have quite a few email addresses, vpopmail created this directory and put all new email addresses in there. All quota warning for the root level of the domain directory seem to be legitimate while the ones in 0/ seem to be bogus most of the time. I'm using vpopmail 5.4.16. However, I already upgraded to this version because of these problems and they did not disappear. I'm not sure what version exactly I ran before. Does anybody else experience these problems? Especially seeing them appear all of a sudden? Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47bd9102310541735113355!
Re: [vchkpw] SQL error after upgrade
Hi, I have to upgrade vpopmail from 5.4.16 because I'm using the validrcptto patch and need the onchange feature which is not included in 5.4.16, yet. However, after upgrading to 5.4.20, the POP3 server will send me the error vmysql: error creating table 'limits': Table 'limits' already exists as soon as I try to authenticate. The logs (syslog) will show me as authenticated but my email client will disconnect with an error. I don't understand this message because I would expect the table to exist. Searching the internet didn't get me anywhere, either. Any hints? Just in case anyone ever finds this in the archive... I have solved the problem. I realised that the limits table is actually empty. So I just deleted it and had vpopmail create it and everything worked fine. :) I ended up going to 5.4.22 because apparently 5.4.22 was buggy and therefore vdeluser always segfaulted. But as soon as I was on 5.4.22, everything worked fine with the fix mentioned above. Cheers, Christian !DSPAM:47588db532009227019518!
[vchkpw] SQL error after upgrade
Hi, I have to upgrade vpopmail from 5.4.16 because I'm using the validrcptto patch and need the onchange feature which is not included in 5.4.16, yet. However, after upgrading to 5.4.20, the POP3 server will send me the error vmysql: error creating table 'limits': Table 'limits' already exists as soon as I try to authenticate. The logs (syslog) will show me as authenticated but my email client will disconnect with an error. I don't understand this message because I would expect the table to exist. Searching the internet didn't get me anywhere, either. Any hints? Cheers, Christian
Re: [vchkpw] Strange problem with SMTP AUTH
Hi Tom! Can anybody tell me what is happening here? Is it a problem with permissions? If yes, permissions of what file? Make sure your SMTP server is running as the vpopmail user. This seemed to be the problem although I actually don't know how that happened because it worked for quite some time. Anyway, at least it's working again now. Christian -- Ein Geduldiger ist besser als ein Starker und wer sich selbst be- herrscht, besser als einer, der Städte gewinnt. Sprüche 16,32 Wisst, dass euer Glaube, wenn er bewährt ist, Geduld wirkt. Jakobus 1,3
[vchkpw] Strange problem with SMTP AUTH
Hi! I have a really strange problem with vpopmail and smtp. I'm using qmail and vpopmail together and for pop3 and imap4 it works perfectly. However, with SMTP AUTH it did work well for some time but doesn't do so any more. As I didn't realize the problem at once, I actually can't say what exactly has changed on the system since it worked last. I'm running Gentoo Linux and there was at least one emerge -u world since it worked. I'm using Qmail+vpopmail+MySQL. So here's what happens: My client gives me an error but there's no error message from the server. If I look into the log files I find two interesting lines. Jul 14 12:23:27 myserver vpopmail[13453]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:134.123.123.123 Jul 14 12:23:27 myserver vpopmail[13453]: vchkpw: can't write MySQL logs I've found out that if I change the permissions of /etc/vpopmail.conf to world-readability, I don't get the second line and the message is also written to my vlog-table. I guess it's only a subsequent error which I wouldn't get if the first one wasn't there. The first error message I don't understand at all because the user is valid. The same user can fetch mail without any problems. Can anybody tell me what is happening here? Is it a problem with permissions? If yes, permissions of what file? Regards, Christian -- Die Heiden, die um euch her übriggeblieben sind, sollen erfahren, dass ich der Herr bin, der da baut, was niedergerissen ist, und pflanzt, was verheert war. Hesekiel 36,36 /Paulus schreibt:/ Wir sind Gottes Mitarbeiter; ihr seid Gottes Ackerfeld und Gottes Bau. 1.Korinther 3,9
