Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:51:49 -0500 "Steve Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message ----- > From: "Jacob S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Debian (and Ubuntu - based on Debian) and FreeBSD all use Exim by > > default. I'm not sure about any Linux distros other than Debian. > > FreeBSD ships sendmail (8.13.4 in the latest releases) by default. Not > Exim. whoops... I confused a default FreeBSD install with one modified by the cPanel (ugh!) installation. Sorry. Jacob
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
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] forward emails to remote users for local domain
> >> Hello, > >> > >> I am running qmail 1.03, vpopmail 5.4.5, qmailadmin 1.2.0, > >squirrelmail> 1.4.2, clamv 0.74, courier IMAP 3.0.5, spamassisn 2.63 > >on my Red Hat> Linux > >> 7.3 box, I have hosted two email domains virtually using vpopmail > >5.4.5> > >> > >> I have four office in different countries. > >> > >> I want to know how can I forward emails to internet for users on my > >> domain > >> that do not exist locally, as in vpopmail I have only the option > >for> this > >> is > >> "set catch all to remote email address", "delete email", "bounce > >back",> if > >> I > >> get the option to forward mails for remote users of my local domain > >to> some > >> SMTP server or to internet then my problem will be resolved. > >> > >> > >> > >> I m sure this is possible as I am running the same scenario in > >windows> mail > >> server, can someone tell me how can I do this in vpopmail. I must have missed something. What's wrong with making a .qmail file in the user's directory for each non-local [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the format of something like "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? This .qmail file would go in /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/user1/. If you want a nice GUI interface for it, use qmailadmin (I'm using 1.2.1, so I know it supports it, probably some older versions too). All you have to do is login as root, click the link for Email Accounts, click the icon to modify a user, check the box for forwarding mail and enter the address to forward it to. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #13: The nice thing about Windows is - It doesn't just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. pgpvI0EG4oPrK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] Aliases vs. Forwards
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:54:51 -0600 "Fred Colclough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a 'newbie' question: > > I just deployed a new mail svr running qmail with vpopmail, mysql, > qmailadmin. My 'old' server was running qmail, but with vmailmgr > instead. > > I 'used' to be able to create aliases that would forward to MULTIPLE > users, for example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... was forwarded to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > etc. > > > How can I re-create that same functionality w/ vpopmail? The Forwards > in vpopmail appear to allow only ONE acc't to forward to. After creating a forward, go to the page that lists all forwards for that domain. Find the forward that you want to have multiple recipients and click the 'modify' icon. You should now see a page with an option to 'add forward' - this will add a recipient to the current forward. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #55: Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent UNIX. pgpyzmbFF12Fi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] Qmail SMTP AUTH + vchkpw on 64 bit...
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:36:47 -0700 Tom Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone with this problem use strace (or ptrace?) to get a trace > > of what happens when vchkpw is called? > > It should be as easy as adding: "/usr/bin/strace -ff -o > /tmp/vchkpw.dump" right before "/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw" in the > qmail-smtpd/run file. > > Attempt a SMTP AUTH connection, and then send me a copy of the > /tmp/vchkpw.dump file and I'll try to isolate the source of the > problem. Is an strace from a working 64 bit installation of any help? I'm unable to duplicate this bug on a new vpopmail 5.4.5 installation using the qmailrocks.org toaster on a Sun Ultra 10 with a 64bit Sparc processor. Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #9: Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117. pgpH8JE2X06ii.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] Migration
(quoting fixed) On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:35:27 -0500 "Dave Kettmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 2:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [vchkpw] Migration > > > Hello everyone, > > I am presently running. vpopmail 5.2.1 with qmailadmin 1.0.6. I have > just built a new box running vpopmail 5.4.0 and qmailadmin 1.2.0. The > new box is running without a problem. I would like to move my current > domains to the new box. I was planning on tarballing the domains > folder and then untarballing it on the new machine. I assume that its > not this simple any help would be appreciated. I believe this can work, but make sure that the path to ~vpopmail is the same on both servers. Also don't forget to copy your changes in /var/qmail/users/assign. > > It depends on how you are storing your passwords. I did a move from > > one machine to another (not sure what versions) and if qmailadmin > > and vpopmail are working fine on the new box, I had no problem just > > tarring up the mail structure (/home/vpopmail/*) and putting it on > > the new machine. Just dont forget to copy the passwords over :) I > > may be wrong in this, but it did seem to work for me. If I'm wrong > > .. someone please correct me. Don't you mean tarring the mail structure _/home/vpopmail/domains_? Simply tarring /home/vpopmail/* will will defeat his upgrade, as the vpopmail bin directory is part of what you just tarred. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #57: Windows NT encountered the following error: The operation completed successfully. pgpsJhb6X9uFi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:10:17 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 > > Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to > >my> server. They are from different users. Since the local user > >doesn't> exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the > >sender.> Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. > > You can delete them pretty easily if you create a "catchall" account > > and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. > > Something like "junk" or "spamtrap" is usually a good name for the > > catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail > > coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid > > e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. > Could the "postmaster" account be used for this or would creating a > special account be preferred? I strongly recommend against using the postmaster account that way. If your domain is ever believed to be spamming or causing any other kind of problem to people on the internet, the postmaster account is one of the first places they'll try to use to get you to correct it. Very little (if any) postmaster mail should be discarded - even if it's spam. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Computers are like air conditioners -- they stop working properly if you open Windows pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my > server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't > exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. > Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. > > I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to > configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address > doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? You can delete them pretty easily if you create a "catchall" account and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something like "junk" or "spamtrap" is usually a good name for the catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Where do you want to go today? Don't ask Microsoft for directions. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail and message logging?
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:06:41 -0600
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For those using a search engine to look for this same information later
on (as I was trying for quite a while):
I was finally able to solve this problem using procmail. I'm sure the
same could be done with maildrop.
While this method required a bit more work than just being able to have
vpopmail and queue_extra work together, it also provided a lot more
features and capability to the logging options and made everyone happy
all the way around. ("log" on this domain could not be a regular
mailbox, but instead had to be delivered to another user's mailbox w/o
touching the queue again or running into permissions problems. Now they
can also define which messages they want a copy of and which should just
be dumped in /dev/null.)
Jacob
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GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135
I prefer an OS made by programmers that need marketing that an OS made
by marketing that need programmers...
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Re: [vchkpw] setuid vpopmail
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:32:18 -0600 Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:08, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:17, Jacob S. wrote: > > forgot to add, if the user qmail-local is trying to deliver to doesn't > own the directory, it won't deliver to it, period. It won't even pass > it off for program delivery, so putting setuid bit on there is > pointless. > > see 'man qmail-local' for more information. Thanks. That at least answers the question of why chmod u+s vdelivermail won't fix it. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Windows: 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Linux: The ultimate windows patch. http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] setuid vpopmail
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:08:26 -0600 Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:17, Jacob S. wrote: > > Ok, I'm having trouble getting qmail's QUEUE_EXTRA feature and > > vpopmail to play well together. > > > > Can someone remind me how /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail could be > > abused if it were chmod u+s vpopmail:vchkpw? > > why on earth would you want to setuid it? qmail-lspawn setuid's then > spawns qmail-local to handle the delivery. there's no need to setuid > it. Because I'm not getting it to work that easily. > If you want to make queue-extra deliver to a vpopmail mailbox, tell it > to deliver to domain.com-youruser and the qmail-users/vpopmail will > handle the rest. I wish it would. I've tried setting queue_extra to "Tlog\0" and "Tdomain.com-log\0" and adjusting queue_extralen appropriately. The latter simply causes qmail to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the logfiles. The former would probably work for copying to a normal user's mailbox, but that doesn't allow the filtering method described at http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/12/msg00814.html I've tried various other methods, including running vdelivermail from a .qmail file in /var/qmail/alias. The closest I've come is using a .qmail-log file in /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/ to copy to another user and getting 2 copies, instead of just one. Worst case, everyone sending e-mail to this domain starts getting messages about their e-mail looping. For more of what I've tried, see my message from Tuesday titled "Vpopmail and message logging?". Any other suggestions? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[vchkpw] setuid vpopmail
Ok, I'm having trouble getting qmail's QUEUE_EXTRA feature and vpopmail to play well together. Can someone remind me how /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail could be abused if it were chmod u+s vpopmail:vchkpw? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. http://www.linux.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[vchkpw] Vpopmail and message logging?
I'm doing some work for a client and ran into some problems I can't find mentioned in the manual. According to the following two urls, you can edit extra.h in the qmail source, recompile and then have a copy of all e-mails going to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then of course you have to setup a filter to use in .qmail-log so you only get a copy of the messages you want and not all e-mails. And once an e-mail meets the description the filter's looking for, you can't send the copy to an e-mail address or it will be back in the queue and get copied again, causing a loop. I also found that since vpopmail works by setting all domains up as virtual, the modification to extra.h drops the copy in the queue addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which can also result in a loop. So, I changed qmail to treat hostname.domain.tld as a local domain, even though domain.tld is still a virtual domain handled by vpopmail. Then for the messages that meet the filter, I had qmail deliver the message to "| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/arroway.com/mike", but now it fails with permission problems. (Unable to open the Maildir because it's owned by vpopmail, but vdelivermail is being executed by qmail.) I suspect if I had qmail deliver straight to the appropriate Maildir it would still fail, as it would still lack permission privileges. I'm thinking using the setuid bit on vdelivermail is a _bad_ thing, as would be changing the permissions on "mike's" Maildir. Am I right and can anyone else think of a way this could be accomplished? Having the user log into the server and use a text editor to read the copies of the messages isn't really an option. (And yes, they understand all the legal ramifications of copying mail... all of their employees are aware that mail to them from certain people or from them to certain people is copied to the office manager.) http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#copies http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/12/msg00814.html TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 I prefer an OS made by programmers that need marketing than an OS made by marketing that need programmers... http://www.linux.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] [OT?] QmailAdmin and Ezmlm-idx
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:23:49 -0700 Tom Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Jacob S. wrote: > > After successfully troubleshooting a couple of problems, I've now > > got ezmlm-idx installed and delivering mail just fine, but it > > doesn't seem to be recognizing the options for a moderated list and > > posting by members only. If I do an ls-l on > > ~vpopmail/domains/domain_name/list_name/ before and after I change > > options using qmailadmin, I can see the timestamp updated, but > > ezmlm-idx > > still doesn't restrict posting or hold the message for moderator > > approval. > > What version of qmailadmin? 1.0.12 (I think) is the first with an > improved interface for setting mailing lists options, and definitely > works for setting up moderated mailing lists. 1.0.6 required that you > > set a few options correctly for moderated lists to work right. > > By the way, your message should have been posted to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably my problem then: qmailadmin - 1.0.6 vpopmail - 5.2.1 ezmlm - 0.53 idx - 0.40 And that's my second problem - I was looking for the qmailadmin mailing list at qmailadmin.sourceforge.net. Thanks! Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Where do you want to go today? Don't ask Microsoft for directions. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[vchkpw] [OT?] QmailAdmin and Ezmlm-idx
Sorry if this is the wrong list... I couldn't find an appropriate list for qmailadmin and the ezmlm list will only tell you that you shouldn't be using a web interface. :-) After successfully troubleshooting a couple of problems, I've now got ezmlm-idx installed and delivering mail just fine, but it doesn't seem to be recognizing the options for a moderated list and posting by members only. If I do an ls-l on ~vpopmail/domains/domain_name/list_name/ before and after I change options using qmailadmin, I can see the timestamp updated, but ezmlm-idx still doesn't restrict posting or hold the message for moderator approval. When I applied the idx patches to ezmlm it didn't give me any errors or anything indicating there was a problem. Is there something I'm missing? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 I prefer an OS made by programmers that need marketing that an OS made by marketing that need programmers... http://www.linux.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] How to Stop Spam
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:44:21 -0400 X-Istence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesus Ruiz wrote: > > > I'm using spamcontrol 2.0.9, but i receive a lot of spam mail from > > the ip address block that i allow to relay through my MTA. > > > > The problem is that the client receive they ip address dinamically > > when they connect with dialup or ADSL. Is there away to block and IP > > > > address dinamically, when they sent more than a xx numbers of email. > > > > Any suggestion are welcome. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Jesus Bernardo Ruiz Flores > > > > I personally use qMail-STMPD with auth patch, that way they have to > auth before they can send mail thru my SMTP server. What did you have to change to get qmail-smtpd to auth through vchkpw? TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
