Re: [vchkpw] Failure to update tcp.smtp - No authorized relaying for roaming user!
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, atomdeb...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, here's a little bit of progress. I gave ownership of vchkpw to root:vchkpw, and setuid on it: %chown root:vchkpw /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw %chmod 4711 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw Now I authenticate while using SMTP-AUTH... which is great, since it's more secure than the roaming users thing. Unfortunately, I still get the error about the recipient not being listed in rcpthosts: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts. One issue I've had with vpopmail and roaming is the location of the tcp.smtp.cdb file. For example, FreeBSD ports wants to put in in /var/etc/vpopmail, or some bizarre place like that. Do a search on the file and make sure there's only one of them and check the time stamp, to make sure it's being updated every time somebody POPs in. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am = !DSPAM:4af97f0032711042420519!
Re: [vchkpw] Failure to update tcp.smtp - No authorized relaying for roaming user!
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, atomdeb...@gmail.com wrote: @James: I used 'find' to look for both tcp.smtp and tcp.smtp.cdb, and found only two: the one in /etc, and the one in /home/vpopmail/etc. None of them get updated when I authenticate. Of those two, only the .cdb file gets updated by vpopmail. Look for another file called open-smtp. vpopmail is supposed to merge that and /etc/tcp.smtp into one cdb file. You likely need to symlink one of them to the other. Possibly: cd ~vpopmail/etc/ rm tcp.smtp.cdb ln -s /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.cdb Or something similar... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am = !DSPAM:4af9c0fd32711866011105!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
Sigh- this is a shame - it doesn't work. still getting smtp auth issues with fehcom's auth. So i've given up on it for now it works now, but now simscan messages are bled in: simscan:[17008]:PASSTHRU (7.70/5.00):2.6977s:[SPAM] :93.89.85.51:ja...@imaj.es :ima...@gmail.com I'm wondering if i'm fundamentally doing something wrong- could i convince someone to login and take a look? Thanks, james On 11 Jun 2009, at 16:18, Remo Mattei wrote: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` export QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/simscan export NOP0FCHECK=1 export SIMSCAN_DEBUG=0 #IPADDR=208.53.44.231 exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -l 0 \ -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -r x.r.mail-abuse.com:see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lo okup?ip_address=%IP% -r zen.spamhaus.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 Here you go... On 6/11/09 9:16 AM, James Cox ja...@imaj.es wrote: Remo, what's your full run script? -james On 11 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Remo Mattei wrote: Did u try this settings on your server? #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` export QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/simscan export NOP0FCHECK=1 export SIMSCAN_DEBUG=0 Just my 2 cents.. Remo On 6/11/09 8:44 AM, James Cox ja...@imaj.es wrote: I just did a fresh install of toaster. i'm still getting these frustrating smtp auth problems - it's conflating the first portion of domain, so if for example i have the user f...@example.com, it tries to auth foo.com@:myip huh?? -james On 11 Jun 2009, at 13:51, Tren Blackburn wrote: I apologize if this has already been mentioned but have you tried Bill Shupp's toaster if you're on Linux or Matt Simmerman's toaster if you're on BSD? There's others, but I've used both over the years with no problems. I haven't switched to netqmail 1.06 but I thought it was primarily just a version increment to reflect the change in qmail's license. But if these have already been suggested and are not viable to you for some reason then please disregardmy 2 cents here is in Canadian... ;) Regardless I hope you can track down your problem! Regards, Tren From: James Cox ja...@imaj.es To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thu Jun 11 04:47:52 2009 Subject: Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:41, James Cox wrote: Patch in Shupp toaster is taken from Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP- AUTH (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html). qmail 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 should be extremely similar and I wonder if it is worth using 1.0.6. Weird, i installed the patch with Erwin's smtp-auth, and have ended up with failed auths: Jun 10 16:39:21 reason vpopmail[7505]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found james.es@:86.13.225.60 when authing with username ja...@imaj.es all, halps! throwing this in again - chkuser + krystopf's smtp auth ends up spitting random log stuff into the smtp stream. now i'm seeing simscan messages after turning logging off for chkuser. So somehow either my service scripts or some patch to netqmail has caused errant bleeding of log messages into the smtp stream, which is of course weird and broken. I tried Erwin's smtp auth (fehcom) thinking this is where the problem lies- but alas, i can't auth at all there. anyone able to help shed some more light for me? thanks. james !DSPAM:4a324d2632667166074158!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:41, James Cox wrote: Patch in Shupp toaster is taken from Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP-AUTH (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html ). qmail 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 should be extremely similar and I wonder if it is worth using 1.0.6. Weird, i installed the patch with Erwin's smtp-auth, and have ended up with failed auths: Jun 10 16:39:21 reason vpopmail[7505]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found james.es@:86.13.225.60 when authing with username ja...@imaj.es all, halps! throwing this in again - chkuser + krystopf's smtp auth ends up spitting random log stuff into the smtp stream. now i'm seeing simscan messages after turning logging off for chkuser. So somehow either my service scripts or some patch to netqmail has caused errant bleeding of log messages into the smtp stream, which is of course weird and broken. I tried Erwin's smtp auth (fehcom) thinking this is where the problem lies- but alas, i can't auth at all there. anyone able to help shed some more light for me? thanks. james !DSPAM:4a30ef1d32665615831132!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
I just did a fresh install of toaster. i'm still getting these frustrating smtp auth problems - it's conflating the first portion of domain, so if for example i have the user f...@example.com, it tries to auth foo.com@:myip huh?? -james On 11 Jun 2009, at 13:51, Tren Blackburn wrote: I apologize if this has already been mentioned but have you tried Bill Shupp's toaster if you're on Linux or Matt Simmerman's toaster if you're on BSD? There's others, but I've used both over the years with no problems. I haven't switched to netqmail 1.06 but I thought it was primarily just a version increment to reflect the change in qmail's license. But if these have already been suggested and are not viable to you for some reason then please disregardmy 2 cents here is in Canadian... ;) Regardless I hope you can track down your problem! Regards, Tren From: James Cox ja...@imaj.es To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thu Jun 11 04:47:52 2009 Subject: Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:41, James Cox wrote: Patch in Shupp toaster is taken from Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP-AUTH (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html ). qmail 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 should be extremely similar and I wonder if it is worth using 1.0.6. Weird, i installed the patch with Erwin's smtp-auth, and have ended up with failed auths: Jun 10 16:39:21 reason vpopmail[7505]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found james.es@:86.13.225.60 when authing with username ja...@imaj.es all, halps! throwing this in again - chkuser + krystopf's smtp auth ends up spitting random log stuff into the smtp stream. now i'm seeing simscan messages after turning logging off for chkuser. So somehow either my service scripts or some patch to netqmail has caused errant bleeding of log messages into the smtp stream, which is of course weird and broken. I tried Erwin's smtp auth (fehcom) thinking this is where the problem lies- but alas, i can't auth at all there. anyone able to help shed some more light for me? thanks. james !DSPAM:4a31185532662012537108!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
Remo, what's your full run script? -james On 11 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Remo Mattei wrote: Did u try this settings on your server? #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` export QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/simscan export NOP0FCHECK=1 export SIMSCAN_DEBUG=0 Just my 2 cents.. Remo On 6/11/09 8:44 AM, James Cox ja...@imaj.es wrote: I just did a fresh install of toaster. i'm still getting these frustrating smtp auth problems - it's conflating the first portion of domain, so if for example i have the user f...@example.com, it tries to auth foo.com@:myip huh?? -james On 11 Jun 2009, at 13:51, Tren Blackburn wrote: I apologize if this has already been mentioned but have you tried Bill Shupp's toaster if you're on Linux or Matt Simmerman's toaster if you're on BSD? There's others, but I've used both over the years with no problems. I haven't switched to netqmail 1.06 but I thought it was primarily just a version increment to reflect the change in qmail's license. But if these have already been suggested and are not viable to you for some reason then please disregardmy 2 cents here is in Canadian... ;) Regardless I hope you can track down your problem! Regards, Tren From: James Cox ja...@imaj.es To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Thu Jun 11 04:47:52 2009 Subject: Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:41, James Cox wrote: Patch in Shupp toaster is taken from Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP-AUTH (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html ). qmail 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 should be extremely similar and I wonder if it is worth using 1.0.6. Weird, i installed the patch with Erwin's smtp-auth, and have ended up with failed auths: Jun 10 16:39:21 reason vpopmail[7505]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found james.es@:86.13.225.60 when authing with username ja...@imaj.es all, halps! throwing this in again - chkuser + krystopf's smtp auth ends up spitting random log stuff into the smtp stream. now i'm seeing simscan messages after turning logging off for chkuser. So somehow either my service scripts or some patch to netqmail has caused errant bleeding of log messages into the smtp stream, which is of course weird and broken. I tried Erwin's smtp auth (fehcom) thinking this is where the problem lies- but alas, i can't auth at all there. anyone able to help shed some more light for me? thanks. james !DSPAM:4a311fba32661067792816!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
On 10 Jun 2009, at 14:26, Rick Macdougall wrote: James Cox wrote: I've had it running for a few hours, and have this: 1 CHKUSER rejected relaying 5 CHKUSER accepted any rcpt 28 CHKUSER relaying rcpt 362 CHKUSER accepted rcpt 1719 CHKUSER rejected rcpt 1758 CHKUSER accepted sender and... in my defines... neither of those two are enabled. version 2.0.9 for me. What version of SMTP AUTH are you using ? I know there is a version out there that causes the exact problem you are seeing, although to my knowledge it hasn't been seen in years. Rick: yeah, i saw that patch. but i am using the current version (i think?) 0.31 james !DSPAM:4a2fc87f3291712120!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:02, Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: Roberto ha scritto: Hi James, what version of netqmail are you using? does anybody knows if chkuser is compatible with 1.06? Problem should be the auth patch which breaks the output. In the past other people with other auth patches complained. They passed to the one contained in Shupp's Toaster (the unique one I've checked) and all problems went away. As alternative, should try to disable logs. So, versions- I've got - netqmail 1.06 - smtp auth 1.03 from http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ - chkuser 2.0.9 i tried looking at the toaster, but it is patched against a different netqmail - 1.05? wasn't sure if i should look to back out that patch and rebuild qmail.. --james !DSPAM:4a300bed32661846241777!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:00, Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: James Cox ha scritto: On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:02, Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: Roberto ha scritto: Hi James, what version of netqmail are you using? does anybody knows if chkuser is compatible with 1.06? Problem should be the auth patch which breaks the output. In the past other people with other auth patches complained. They passed to the one contained in Shupp's Toaster (the unique one I've checked) and all problems went away. As alternative, should try to disable logs. So, versions- I've got - netqmail 1.06 - smtp auth 1.03 from http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ - chkuser 2.0.9 i tried looking at the toaster, but it is patched against a different netqmail - 1.05? wasn't sure if i should look to back out that patch and rebuild qmail.. --james Patch in Shupp toaster is taken from Erwin Hoffmann's SMTP-AUTH (http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html ). qmail 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 should be extremely similar and I wonder if it is worth using 1.0.6. Weird, i installed the patch with Erwin's smtp-auth, and have ended up with failed auths: Jun 10 16:39:21 reason vpopmail[7505]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found james.es@:86.13.225.60 when authing with username ja...@imaj.es huh? -james !DSPAM:4a3028a832664575497802!
[vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
Hey, Here's an (edited) example of a smtp conversation, with a netqmail install with smtp auth and chkuser patches: 220 mail.23i.net ESMTP EHLO imaj.es 250-mail.23i.net 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME AUTH LOGIN 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 username 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 password 235 ok, go ahead (#2.0.0) MAIL FROM: ja...@imaj.es CHKUSER accepted sender: from ja...@imaj.es:james.es: remote imaj.es:unknown:86.13.225.60 rcpt : accepted any sender always 250 ok RCPT TO: ima...@gmail.com CHKUSER relaying rcpt: from ja...@imaj.es:james.es: remote imaj.es:unknown:86.13.225.60 rcpt ima...@gmail.com : client allowed to relay 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead sdfsdfsdf .. 250 ok 1244567136 qp 7815 Now this is fine- except the two CHKUSER log lines screw up various clients (specifically Outlook and Thunderbird) who essentially blow up and refuse to respond. Anyone got any tips for how to skip those log lines? I've been looking at the chkuser_settings and i'm not confident i've seen anything immediately obvious. I'm also not convinced that these lines should ever exist in the smtp conversation anyhow... thanks, james !DSPAM:4a2e976832668643747827!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
On 9 Jun 2009, at 18:16, Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Cox wrote: Anyone got any tips for how to skip those log lines? I've been looking at the chkuser_settings and i'm not confident i've seen anything immediately obvious. I'm also not convinced that these lines should ever exist in the smtp conversation anyhow... You are supposed to redirect stdout and stderr to another location. Either to /dev/null or to logfiles. Hmm - makes sense. This is how i'm running it, and not sure why i'm getting logs in the smtp conversation: env CHKUSER_START=DOMAIN \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -vHR -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 21 since it's running under supervise, and is logged... -james !DSPAM:4a2ebb8432661324210016!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
hey Harm, Here's the run file for the log - exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 n 10 /var/log/qmail/smtpd and yeah- i figured that i'm pushing to stdout... which i expect the log/run should catch via the multilog. therefore i'm a bit confused as to how it's still getting into the smtp conversation. :) -james On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:15, Harm van Tilborg wrote: Hi James, You are copying stderr (file descriptor 2) to your stdout (that's what the terminating 21 is for). However, this log is only saved if multilog is indeed catching it. Find in the directory where this `run' file was located the directory `log', and publish the content of the `run' file in that directory... James Cox wrote: On 9 Jun 2009, at 18:16, Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Cox wrote: Anyone got any tips for how to skip those log lines? I've been looking at the chkuser_settings and i'm not confident i've seen anything immediately obvious. I'm also not convinced that these lines should ever exist in the smtp conversation anyhow... You are supposed to redirect stdout and stderr to another location. Either to /dev/null or to logfiles. Hmm - makes sense. This is how i'm running it, and not sure why i'm getting logs in the smtp conversation: env CHKUSER_START=DOMAIN \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -vHR -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/ true 21 since it's running under supervise, and is logged... -james !DSPAM:4a2edfda32661019412068!
Re: [vchkpw] smtp auth with chkuser problems
I've had it running for a few hours, and have this: 1 CHKUSER rejected relaying 5 CHKUSER accepted any rcpt 28 CHKUSER relaying rcpt 362 CHKUSER accepted rcpt 1719 CHKUSER rejected rcpt 1758 CHKUSER accepted sender and... in my defines... neither of those two are enabled. version 2.0.9 for me. -james On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:31, Harm van Tilborg wrote: Hi James, What version of chkuser are you using? When I look at the 2.0.9 source, I see the following lines inside chkuser_settings.h: /* * the following line enables debugging of chkuser */ /* #define CHKUSER_DEBUG */ /* * The following line moves DEBUG output from STDOUT (default) to STDERR * Example of usage within sh: ./qmail-smtpd 2 /var/log/smtpd- debug.log */ /* #define CHKUSER_DEBUG_STDERR */ Did you perhaps uncomment one of these defines? That would explain the behaviour. You are indeed correct about how the output should be catched by multilog. What /do/ your logs provide (i.e. what's in / var/log/qmail/smtpd/current)? (Ow, and between your log's command `...n 10...' there's no need for a space in between) -- Kind regards, Harm van Tilborg http://zeroxcool.net James Cox wrote: hey Harm, Here's the run file for the log - exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 n 10 /var/log/qmail/smtpd and yeah- i figured that i'm pushing to stdout... which i expect the log/run should catch via the multilog. therefore i'm a bit confused as to how it's still getting into the smtp conversation. :) -james On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:15, Harm van Tilborg wrote: Hi James, You are copying stderr (file descriptor 2) to your stdout (that's what the terminating 21 is for). However, this log is only saved if multilog is indeed catching it. Find in the directory where this `run' file was located the directory `log', and publish the content of the `run' file in that directory... James Cox wrote: On 9 Jun 2009, at 18:16, Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Cox wrote: Anyone got any tips for how to skip those log lines? I've been looking at the chkuser_settings and i'm not confident i've seen anything immediately obvious. I'm also not convinced that these lines should ever exist in the smtp conversation anyhow... You are supposed to redirect stdout and stderr to another location. Either to /dev/null or to logfiles. Hmm - makes sense. This is how i'm running it, and not sure why i'm getting logs in the smtp conversation: env CHKUSER_START=DOMAIN \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -vHR -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/ true 21 since it's running under supervise, and is logged... -james !DSPAM:4a2ee3f232665271019884!
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail user/group
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Rick Widmer wrote: Oh, the vpopmail uid and gid is not hardcoded into the binaries? The uid and gid are hard coded into the bianaries by ./configure. I've always wondered about this .. why is it done this way? Why not resolve the vpopmail login/group name into a UID/GID at runtime? James
Re: [vchkpw] configure --prefix / --datadir options ignored?
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Rick Widmer wrote: I'm afraid the only options you have are to submit a patch or to sponsor the development. I don't think anyone else has shown any interest in needing this feature. It doesn't seem harmful so there probably won't be any objection to adding it as long as it does not change default behavior. Thanks for the response -- if I have to revisit this problem I'll be submitting a patch :-) James
Re: [vchkpw] IMAP connections fail after undetermined period.
I've had it happen when there's only been a couple of connections on the mysql processlist, and the server is mostly for my testing purposes thus far, so it getting slammed with connections is highly unlikely. I'll up the connection limits and see if anything improves just to check for sure. Even if this were the case, after the connections drop, wouldn't it be expected that you'd be able to connect then? When the problem happens, it's permanent.On 3/8/06, Michael Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your connection limits to the MySQL server. Seems to occasionally happen when a flood of smtp connections or pop connections opens up a lot of MySQL backends. Essentially it means that it tried to run its database queries and the server isn't there and has broken or didn't accept the connection. -M james cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,After a few hours of running - I haven't narrowed it down to a certain time, it seems to vary - IMAP connections fail with: dovecot: Mar 08 16:29:59 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone awaySetup is FreeBSD 5.4, qmail 1.03, vpopmail 5.4.13, dovecot 1.0, mysql 5.0.18.I thought the issue was with the imap server, but it occurred with courier-imap also. Auth with pop3 continues to work, and if I reset dovecot then imap begins to work again temporarily, as it did with courier-imap.I'm assuming this might be some sort of MySQL version or connection timeout issue, but I'm at a loss on where to go from here, I'm fairly new to this area in general, any feedback would be very welcome. Thanks, James Cooke
Re: [vchkpw] IMAP connections fail after undetermined period.
Apparently, when the mysql connection is lost, it doesn't reconnect as it should, I killed the process in mysql and tried to reconnect via imap and got the error(with no other mysql processes). I had assumed if that if IMAP connections were failing in this situation, pop3 connections would also. If I restart dovecot, then the connection is resumed. Any guidance on what I would need to do for it to reconnect when connection is dropped would be very helpful, I've read somewhere that it may need to be patched because it's returning true for being connected to mysql regardless of if it actually is, but I can't find the post now. Thanks,James CookeOn 3/9/06, james cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had it happen when there's only been a couple of connections on the mysql processlist, and the server is mostly for my testing purposes thus far, so it getting slammed with connections is highly unlikely. I'll up the connection limits and see if anything improves just to check for sure. Even if this were the case, after the connections drop, wouldn't it be expected that you'd be able to connect then? When the problem happens, it's permanent. On 3/8/06, Michael Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your connection limits to the MySQL server. Seems to occasionally happen when a flood of smtp connections or pop connections opens up a lot of MySQL backends. Essentially it means that it tried to run its database queries and the server isn't there and has broken or didn't accept the connection. -M james cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,After a few hours of running - I haven't narrowed it down to a certain time, it seems to vary - IMAP connections fail with: dovecot: Mar 08 16:29:59 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone awaySetup is FreeBSD 5.4, qmail 1.03, vpopmail 5.4.13, dovecot 1.0, mysql 5.0.18.I thought the issue was with the imap server, but it occurred with courier-imap also. Auth with pop3 continues to work, and if I reset dovecot then imap begins to work again temporarily, as it did with courier-imap.I'm assuming this might be some sort of MySQL version or connection timeout issue, but I'm at a loss on where to go from here, I'm fairly new to this area in general, any feedback would be very welcome. Thanks, James Cooke
[vchkpw] IMAP connections fail after undetermined period.
Hello, After a few hours of running - I haven't narrowed it down to a certain time, it seems to vary - IMAP connections fail with: dovecot: Mar 08 16:29:59 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away Setup is FreeBSD 5.4, qmail 1.03, vpopmail 5.4.13, dovecot 1.0, mysql 5.0.18. I thought the issue was with the imap server, but it occurred with courier-imap also. Auth with pop3 continues to work, and if I reset dovecot then imap begins to work again temporarily, as it did with courier-imap. I'm assuming this might be some sort of MySQL version or connection timeout issue, but I'm at a loss on where to go from here, I'm fairly new to this area in general, any feedback would be very welcome. Thanks, James Cooke
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Hey Rick, Thanks, but I've sent an email to List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 times now... me thinks ezmlm is borked? Or something. Jimmy Rick Macdougall wrote: James McMillan wrote: Hey, I love you people, but I need to move it to another account Use the headers Luke! List-Post: mailto:vchkpw@inter7.com List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: vchkpw@inter7.com -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
Re: [vchkpw] How do I unsubscribe...
Ah ha, that was it... I've been using an alias address for the past year and I forgot what the original address was. LOL, thanks Sorry for rotting up the mailinglist. Niek wrote: On 2/7/2006 9:08 PM +0100, James McMillan wrote: Hey Rick, Thanks, but I've sent an email to List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 times now... me thinks ezmlm is borked? Or something. Jimmy You have to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the email address you used when you signed up for this list. Niek Baakman -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
[vchkpw] User defined .qmail files
Is there any way, with vpopmail, to have specify a .qmail file to be processed as a user? For instance: - Mail comes in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] - qmail-local delivers mail as vpopmail/vpopmail using ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/joe/.qmail - Something in vpopmail kicks in, recognizes that joe has his own .qmail file in /home/joe/.qmail, which should be processed as joe - /home/joe/.qmail processed as joe - Delivery as normal I (and my users) can modify ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/.qmail through qmailadmin, but they can't add | lines. Is there a sensible way to allow this? Frankly, it seems that I'm defeating the purpose of vpopmail -- I would get rid of it if it didn't mean getting rid of better control/management of lists.
Re: [vchkpw] is the dev version with enable spamassassin still available.
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Darrel O'Pry wrote: I was wondering if there was a version of vpopmail with spamassassin support that can be downloaded. I haven't been able to find it on SF or in any of the 5.4.x versions. I've seen mention of it in the source for vuserinfo.c and some defines in vpopmail.h but that's about it. As I understand it (also how my setup works), the usual way is to change qmail's deliverer to qmail-scanner.pl, which works with spamassassin and clamav, among others. James Longstreet
Re: [vchkpw] Multi-user vpopmail/ezmlm web interface
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, DAve wrote: In this situation ezmlm-MySQL is your friend. We setup a webpage with access to the SQL tables for ezmlm and allow the list admin to add, remove, update users from the list. They also get a report on what users have failed probes so they can re-add the users corrected email. I'd throw you an example but, each one is added to the clients intra pages in a unique way. It's not difficult to do in perl or php. Rails would be a slam dunk if you use it already. I think I'm going to do this, probably in Rails. How feasible is it to move to ezmlm-mysql? Are there any docs other than the ones I found on ezmlm.org? I need to move everything over to mysql, then I'm thinking I'll start a formal project. So I guess you could construe this as a who's with me message. James Longstreet
[vchkpw] Multi-user vpopmail/ezmlm web interface
I'm running a qmail/vpopmail/ezmlm setup with about 15 lists, all with different administrators/moderators. Qmailadmin is great for me to use, but the list moderators don't have a web interface to manage subscribers, etc. Is it possible to have qmailadmin allow other users to administrate mailing lists? Otherwise, what is the best option for such an interface? One that is in Gentoo's Portage tree would be ideal, but not strictly necessary. James Longstreet ACM @ UIC Sysadmin
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail/ezmlm problems
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Bob Hutchinson wrote: make sure you used vpopmail/bin/vadddomain to create the virtual domain, then use vadduser to create the popbox for listname. Then check in vpopmail/domains/domain.com/listname/. Look for Maildir which should contain new, tmp and cur. Check that everything under vpopmail belongs to user 'vpopmail', then test again. You might find qmailadmin a handy package too. Just to make sure (as I've reinstalled vpopmail several times), I ran: # /var/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain -d /var/vpopmail/domains/domain.com \ domain.com postpass Error: domain already exists I created the list with qmailadmin, so that should have added the popbox, right?
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail/ezmlm problems
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ken Jones wrote: You should just do this: /var/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain domain.com postpass Let vpopmail figure out where to put the domain directory. If you want to initialize directory hashing just delete the /var/vpopmail/domains/.dir-control file. Ken Well, since nothing was working, I just rm -rf'd the domains/domain.com directory, and dropped the vpopmail database, effectively starting from scratch. Then I recreated the domain and added the mailing list, and it worked. Now I should be able to add my normal /etc/passwd users to the domain by: # vconvert -e -m However, it skips all the users with: user username domain domain.com did not add However, it created all their directories (and maildirs) in the domains/domain.com directory. Thanks for all your help.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail/ezmlm problems
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Bob Hutchinson wrote: did it create entries in your mysql db? if not Are permissions correct for command line mysql access? I see that vconvert has a -d parameter for debug info, might help It did create all the entries. Maybe it said it wasn't adding them since they were all in users/assign? Doesn't matter, qmail-inject delivers mail to domains/domain.com/username/.maildir, which is all I wanted, and mailing lists work. Thanks once again for all the suggestions and help, I appreciate it. James Longstreet System Administrator Association for Computing Machinery University of Illinois at Chicago http://acm.cs.uic.edu
[vchkpw] vpopmail/ezmlm problems
Hello, I'm having a problem with my qmail/vpopmail/ezmlm setup. I'm new to qmail and vpopmail, so it's hard for me to determine what the problem is. None of the lists I create (either through ezmlm-make or qmailadmin) work. When trying to send a message to the list, I just get a Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) bounce. qmail's users/assign file has lines for every normal user on the system, and then the line: +domain.com-:domain.com:89:89:/var/vpopmail/domains/domain.com:-:: From my understanding, this should be telling qmail to deliver to / var/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-listname for mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but apparently it's not. Can someone help me understand what's going on, and how to fix it?
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail/ezmlm problems
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Ken Jones wrote: You might want to remove the lines for your system users. Then make sure there is a .qmail-listname file in your domain.com directory. Then send it an email and watch your qmail log file to see the status of the delivery. Ok, I removed all the other lines. $ echo test | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail-send log: @400043125c03080f29ec new msg 162864 @400043125c03080f35a4 info msg 162864: bytes 220 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 7420 uid 0 @400043125c0308c24964 starting delivery 22: msg 162864 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @400043125c0308c3a124 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400043125c0308d28d74 delivery 22: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @400043125c0308d52584 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @400043125c030a4207ac bounce msg 162864 qp 7422 @400043125c030a43a1d4 end msg 162864
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
Haha, Let the bidding begin. tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: There are a lot of us here using qmail and able to give you an e-mail service. So you can continue to use qmail and your boss will have an outsourced service! Ciao, Tonino At 15.29 05/07/2005, you wrote: Guys, let me explain why I'm asking this. My boss (not me) has doubts about Qmail. He wants me to search for new mailservers of mail solutions like, for example, outsourcing the mail function. So I'm asking this now to have more arguments to convince him to stay with Qmail. My boss (and me) esteem Inter7 and we'd like to hear from you the answer of this question. Regards, bnegrao Hi Inter7 and everybody, I'd like to know why do you opt Qmail as your mailserver? Why not Postfix? Why not Qmail-ldap? Why not any other that I don't know about? Would you work with some other mailserver? If so, which one? Thank you in advance, -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
industry, it's anathaema. like the Franklin Stove, it still does exactly what it was designed to do. How many Franklin Stoves are they selling today? :) But in terms of complaints over nearly a decade, that's a stunningly low number of problems, none of them actually serious. Quite untrue. vpopmail exists as a testament to a problem that qmail was capable of handling, but which was never realized. A lot of volunteers and a few small companies put a lot of work into vpopmail not because qmail couldn't do what they needed to do, but because they had serious problems with how it was done. Then again, had I undertaken it myself, I would have patched qmail for many of the things that vpopmail did... though I understand the design philosophy of retaining qmail's basic structures. think it says something about the ease of maintenance, ease of patching, and ease of configuration that qmail has lasted this long virtually unchanged. Creak? Far from it. No, I think it says quite a bit about how poor the alternatives were back in 1997. They were positively horrible. Today, you'll find that most of the patches being made are from long-standing qmail users (look at the age of many of the patches, btw) that just can't or won't take the time, energy, cost; risks involved with moving to another mail platform. I'm securely in this camp. I'm not moving, but I'm not totally happy with the status quo, either. While it may be harder to install than ./configure make make install, I don't see any reason to think qmail isn't up to the task anymore. qmail itself isn't. Plain and simple. Without all the patches, tuning information and hard work of the admins that have used qmail for years, qmail would be completely irrelevant right now. In fact, I'd say that it is... netqmail and its patched friends are what are relevant, the qmail source code is just the chair that those stand on. Without those patches, most people couldn't even compile qmail anymore. P.S. I've also paid Inter7 for consultation time to set up clamav with their spam/virus checking solution. Nothing ever came of it, but I never asked for any money back... because vpopmail has been quite good to me. -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Oh, interesting... Thanks DAve wrote: James McMillan wrote: 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 FreeBSD reserves the uid and gid of 89 just for vpopmail and vchkpw. It would be a good idea to use them to avoid ports conflicts later down the road. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html DAve 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
[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] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source Chris Godwin wrote: 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? -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
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] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Thanks, I actually just ran into that before you wrote, but how do i update the assign.cdb file? Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:31 pm, James McMillan wrote: 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. it's in the /var/qmail/users/assign file. Generally when you migrate between systems you should make sure all relevant information (uids, paths to binaries/directories, etc) are all the same as they were on the old system. Otherwise you will have problems like the one you are experiencing now. -Jeremy -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Thanks Jeremy. that did the trick. Jimmy Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:39 pm, James McMillan wrote: Thanks, I actually just ran into that before you wrote, but how do i update the assign.cdb file? man -M /var/qmail/man qmail-newu -Jeremy -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
[vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Has anyone tried to hold the vpopmail home as a NFS mount? I've gotten the mount setup properly, and the permissions are fine, however when adding a domain or a user I recieve the following error. minoru# ./bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: enter password again: Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: no auth connection If copy out all the files in the ~vpopmail mount, unmount, and copy the files into the now-local ~/vpopmail I do not have this problem. Has anyone done this, or know what the problem is? Thanks in advance. Jimmy McMillan -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Hey thanks... Let me explain the scenario a bit better. NFS Server is a Slackware 10.1 box. NFS Client (and qmail/vpopmail server) is a FreeBSD 5.4 box. My server side client export file looks like this. /mnt/hd/mail_store/test minoru(no_root_squash,rw,sync) I believe the 'no_root_squash' flag is the equiv of the -maproot=0 for BSD/other OS's. I'm not having any issue at all creating files, chowning, or chmoding. It seems that it's a simple locking problem. [lockd] seems to be running on the NFS host, however I'm wondering if it's the difference in NFS standards. I've compiled vpopmail with the --disable-file-locking configure flag, and then everything seems to work fine, however it's not very multi-user-safe. Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Jimmy Andre Fortin wrote: I use NFS for my vpopmail directories, and haven't seen this.. I'm assuming you're using CDB files for auth; that means the DB files are all on NFS. If you don't have your root mapped properly, you won't be able to create files. Try using -maproot=0 (freebsd, others may be similar) in your exports on the NFS server, and re-mount the NFS mountpoint; see if that helps. Andre -Original Message- From: James McMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:47 AM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS Has anyone tried to hold the vpopmail home as a NFS mount? I've gotten the mount setup properly, and the permissions are fine, however when adding a domain or a user I recieve the following error. minoru# ./bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: enter password again: Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: no auth connection If copy out all the files in the ~vpopmail mount, unmount, and copy the files into the now-local ~/vpopmail I do not have this problem. Has anyone done this, or know what the problem is? Thanks in advance. Jimmy McMillan -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106 -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Clayton, thanks... that's exactully what i did. Everything seems good now. Thanks a million for you input. Jimmy Clayton Weise wrote: Slight correction on my verbage there: Second would be improved performance, since you'll be querying a local database instead of having to travel across NFS to deliver the mail. I meant to say that it won't have to travel across NFS to find if the user exists, only to deliver the mail. -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] how to do simple vpopmail delivery with filtering
Thanks for this, I was in middle of implementing something like this
when I read the post and realized it would work. It did raise a
question for me though. If I'm using the valias with mysql, how
would I enable those accounts to be check for viruses since
vdelivermail would need to be called to have it forward it according
to the mysql table? I can't use a .qmail-alias file that sends it
to the script which then sends it to vdelivermail for the reason you
had mentioned.
On Apr 7, 2005 12:41 AM, Kurt Bigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 4/5/05 5:41 PM, Kurt Bigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 4/5/05 6:28 AM, Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| preline yourfilter | maildir /path/to/vpopdomains/`echo $USER | tr A-Z
a-z`/`echo $EXT | tr A-Z a-z`/Maildir/
Thanks, that's great.
In the mean time, what is the best (simplest, most reliable) way to
achieve this simplistic delivery functionality?
I think maildir (or safecat) is what you want to use. If you think
the environment manipulation is a bit much, I agree, but them's the
breaks, at the moment.
Ok, but that's not too bad. It just bugs me to have to install yet another
package, just to do what vpopmail already knows how to do.
But thanks, that's what I needed to know!
But I have a question to the vpopmail developers:
If I were to implement this, as a option to vdelivermail, say:
-d Deliver only. Do not preline and skip all .qmail processing
would you find this to be something worth integrating? I'm not sure that
I'd have time now, but it seems worth asking the question.
I actually implemented this in my copy of vdelivermail.c. It was actually
easier than I thought, and there were fewer issues, apparently, although I'm
not intimately familiar enough to know that I haven't missed something.
Here's what I did:
I tentatively reclaimed the unused there-for-compatibility command-line
argument 1. If that argument equals '-d', intended to mean Deliver Only
(but could also mean Disable .qmail processing), then processing proceeds as
if the .qmail file did not exist, which I guess is just what Kyle Wheeler
was suggesting. That appears to be all there is do it.
This change allows you do basic filtering in your .qmail files without
needing any of:
procmail
maildrop
maildir/safecat
In my book this is a very good thing. It not only avoids the need for
dependencies on extra packages, but offers all the advantages that
vdelivermail already provides, including quota checking. As README.quotas
says:
NOTE: Non-system domain quotas are only enforcable when vdelivermail is the
local delivery agent. If you pipe your mail into anything else, like
maildrop, then the non-system domain quota will be ignored.
So with this change, you can now have the following line in your user/.qmail
file:
| myfilter | vdelivermail -d bounce-no-mailbox
and it will not result in infinite vdelivermail recursion. And so you can
have a pure-vpopmail solution for your QmailAdmin-enabled Spam Detection
option.
Here are the changes to vdelivermail.c in vpopmail-5.4.10 needed to
implement this:
==
--- vdelivermail.orig.c Wed Apr 6 05:07:36 2005
+++ vdelivermail.c Wed Apr 6 05:15:06 2005
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
struct vqpasswd *vpw;
off_t message_size = 0;
char bounce[AUTH_SIZE];
+char option[AUTH_SIZE];/*kkb*/
int CurrentQuotaSizeFd;
#ifdef QMAIL_EXT
@@ -177,6 +178,11 @@
vexit(111);
}
+ /*kkb begin*/
+ /* get the obsolete/option argument */
+strncpy(option, argv[1], sizeof(option));
+ /*kkb end*/
+
/* get the last parameter in the .qmail-default file */
strncpy(bounce, argv[2], sizeof(bounce));
@@ -733,6 +739,14 @@
int deliver_err;
chdir(dir);
+
+ /*kkb begin*/
+if ( strcmp(option, -d) == 0 ) {
+
+/* feature disabled, so just return */
+return(-1);
+ }
+ /*kkb end*/
/* format the file name */
if ( (fs = fopen(.qmail,r)) == NULL ) {
==
It was probably eaiser for me to do that than it would have been to download
and make procmail, maildrop, or safecat!
If there's not something wrong with this that I'm missing, I'd love to see
this (or something similar) get integrated into vpopmail.
-Kurt
Re: [vchkpw] hashing directories
In the next three months, I will more than likely start looking into writing a script of some kind to interact with .dir-control so that I will be able to update the hashed directories to recognize spots that can be filled in previous directories. Do you think this is a feasible goal (at this point I haven't looked into how the .dir-control file works since it will be a later project for me). I don't like the solution of deleting the file and restarting over completely from scratch nor do I like the idea that after a while I will more than likely have a lot of empty directories (or directories with only a couple domains in it). James On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:26:45 -0600, Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 4:15 pm, Charles J. Boening wrote: Right. But if you remove the .dir-control file and already have an existing structure, are the routines smart enough to reuse the space and skip where the directories are full? Or does it just start from scratch in which you would reuse the directories but it would be additive to existing structure. So if you have 100 users in the c directory it would add 100 more. The second. Starts over again from scratch. Charles -Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:42 AM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] hashing directories On Monday 14 February 2005 1:16 pm, Charles J. Boening wrote: If it sees an exiting one will it skip it? If it sees an existing .dir_control file then it will use the information contained therein. Meaning the directories will continue to be in the sub directorys. If you remove the .dir_control file it will automatically create a .dir_control file with the initial values. meaning no subdirectories yet. Ken Jones -Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:36 AM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] hashing directories On Sunday 13 February 2005 9:38 pm, James Whitt wrote: My question is on the removal of empty hashing directories or at least their reuse. While running through our test server which we are setting up to replace our old system, I noticed that when domains are removed, they aren't being replaced when new domains are being created. To get to the point, we now have basically 0 - N directories with no domains in them, and they are completely empty, yet when we create more domains, a new directory will be created when the last one is filled (so if P gets filled, then Q is created even though 0 - N are sitting with no domains in it). Is there an easy way to have it reuse directories that are not hitting the quota anymore instead of potentially having a lot of empty directories? James Whitt If you remove the ~vpopmail/domains/.dir-control file, then the directory hashing will start over at the begining. Ken Jones
[vchkpw] hashing directories
My question is on the removal of empty hashing directories or at least their reuse. While running through our test server which we are setting up to replace our old system, I noticed that when domains are removed, they aren't being replaced when new domains are being created. To get to the point, we now have basically 0 - N directories with no domains in them, and they are completely empty, yet when we create more domains, a new directory will be created when the last one is filled (so if P gets filled, then Q is created even though 0 - N are sitting with no domains in it). Is there an easy way to have it reuse directories that are not hitting the quota anymore instead of potentially having a lot of empty directories? James Whitt
[vchkpw] mysql and valias_insert()
I'm currently using vpopmail version 5.4.6 (from FreeBSD ports) and i'm curious about how vpopmail handles aliases while using mysql. I have build vpopmail with --enable-valias and --enable-auth-module=mysql (using the USE_MYSQL and WITH_VALIAS settings in ports for those FreeBSD people out there). The problem that I have run into is that I'm writing an application in c which uses the vpopmail libraries, and if I use the valias_insert(alias, domain, line) function that is provided, it creates a .qmail-alias file instead of inserting it directly into the database. I was curious if this is how it's supposed to work even though mysql has been specified or possibly in the new versions it places the information in the valias table now. I know I can just have my program use the mysql database directly, I was just hoping to use the vpopmail library as much as possible. James Whitt
Re: [vchkpw] vmailmgr - vpopmail
I'm currently in the same situation and am looking for feedback in the same area. So far as I have planned it out, I have come up with this steps: 1) Create the domains using the vpopmail script 2) Create mailboxes through vpopmail script of all the mailboxes in vmailmgr. Once the mailboxes are created, replace the password strings in vpopmail with the password strings (md5 or crypt) that were in vmailmgr. Then copy the contents of mailbox from vmailmgr to vpopmail (understanding a little change in the directory structure). 3) Aliases ... can just use .qmail-alias when moving over. This is the way I was thinking might work since I don't have a second machine to put vpopmail on and then transfer everything that way. If anybody has any thoughts on problems/concerns/pointers I would greatly appreciate it. James On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:37:25 +0100, Alexander Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi together, does anybody know a way to convert mails and accounts from vmailmgr to vpopmail? i already searched the archive and google without any result. thanks! regards alex
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[vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help
Hey all, I've just moved to qmail with vpopmail and i'm following this doc http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Now i'm tring to get courier-imap working correctly, when i try pop3 access i login fine, however imap is a different story kristine:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login [EMAIL PROTECTED] kilo22 a NO Login failed. This is in /var/log/mysql/mysql.log This is the table return mysql select pw_name, pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell , pw_clear_passwd from wtfhax_com where pw_name = tristram; +--++++++--+-+ | pw_name | pw_passwd | pw_uid | pw_gid | pw_gecos | pw_dir | pw_shell | pw_clear_passwd | +--++++++--+-+ | tristram | $1$CNMfwBu0$2JeNEmXhQPH8kTUCOMBii. | 0 | 8 | Tristram+Cheer | /home/vpopmail/domains/wtfhax.com/tristram | NOQUOTA | realpass | +--++++++--+-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I've changed my /etc/courier/imapd file to AUTHMODULES=authvchkpw I run a debian system and i'm pulling my hair out, what am i doing wrong Is anyone able to help?
Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help
I used apt-get install courier-imap and compiled the rest with the options in the DOC I dont think there is a compile option because imapd is querying the db and getting the correct response Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what options did u compile it with? Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:31 PM Subject: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help Hey all, I've just moved to qmail with vpopmail and i'm following this doc http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Now i'm tring to get courier-imap working correctly, when i try pop3 access i login fine, however imap is a different story kristine:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login [EMAIL PROTECTED] kilo22 a NO Login failed. This is in /var/log/mysql/mysql.log This is the table return mysql select pw_name, pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell , pw_clear_passwd from wtfhax_com where pw_name = tristram; +--++--- -++- ---+-- --+--+ -+ | pw_name | pw_passwd | pw_uid | pw_gid | pw_gecos | pw_dir | pw_shell | pw_clear_passwd | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ | tristram | $1$CNMfwBu0$2JeNEmXhQPH8kTUCOMBii. | 0 | 8 | Tristram+Cheer | /home/vpopmail/domains/wtfhax.com/tristram | NOQUOTA | realpass | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I've changed my /etc/courier/imapd file to AUTHMODULES=authvchkpw I run a debian system and i'm pulling my hair out, what am i doing wrong Is anyone able to help?
Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help
Courier's website only has 2.1.2 are you able to point me to another website with it on? i'm assuming you mean verion 1.7 of courier-imap Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here is what I have on mine. I notice that the version 3 had problem so I use 1.7 which is working very well for me. I have it on several servers now. export CFLAGS=-DHAVE_OPEN_SMTP_RELAY ./configure --disable-root-check --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw \ --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs I would suggest you do apt-get remove courier...x then get the code and compile it Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help I used apt-get install courier-imap and compiled the rest with the options in the DOC I dont think there is a compile option because imapd is querying the db and getting the correct response Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what options did u compile it with? Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:31 PM Subject: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help Hey all, I've just moved to qmail with vpopmail and i'm following this doc http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Now i'm tring to get courier-imap working correctly, when i try pop3 access i login fine, however imap is a different story kristine:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login [EMAIL PROTECTED] kilo22 a NO Login failed. This is in /var/log/mysql/mysql.log This is the table return mysql select pw_name, pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell , pw_clear_passwd from wtfhax_com where pw_name = tristram; +--++--- -++- ---+-- --+--+ -+ | pw_name | pw_passwd | pw_uid | pw_gid | pw_gecos | pw_dir | pw_shell | pw_clear_passwd | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ | tristram | $1$CNMfwBu0$2JeNEmXhQPH8kTUCOMBii. | 0 | 8 | Tristram+Cheer | /home/vpopmail/domains/wtfhax.com/tristram | NOQUOTA | realpass | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I've changed my /etc/courier/imapd file to AUTHMODULES=authvchkpw I run a debian system and i'm pulling my hair out, what am i doing wrong Is anyone able to help?
Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help
OK ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/courier-imap \ --disable-root-check \ --without-authpam \ --without-authldap \ --without-authpwd \ --without-authmysql \ --without-authpgsql \ --without-authshadow \ --without-authuserdb \ --without-authcustom \ --without-authcram \ --with-authdaemon \ --with-authvchkpw \ --with-ssl make make install make install-configure Same issue 040924 17:46:57 42 Connect [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 42 Init DB vpopmail 42 Query select pw_name, pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell , pw_clear_passwd from wtfhax_com where pw_name = $ 42 Query replace into lastauth set user='tristram', domain='wtfhax.com', remote_ip='imap', timestamp=1096004817 42 Quit Still a NO Login failed. Connection closed by foreign host. Any ideas guys? Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: correct. if you want here you can download it here: http://italy1.com/courier-imap-1.7.0.tar.bz2 have fun. Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help Courier's website only has 2.1.2 are you able to point me to another website with it on? i'm assuming you mean verion 1.7 of courier-imap Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here is what I have on mine. I notice that the version 3 had problem so I use 1.7 which is working very well for me. I have it on several servers now. export CFLAGS=-DHAVE_OPEN_SMTP_RELAY ./configure --disable-root-check --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw \ --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs I would suggest you do apt-get remove courier...x then get the code and compile it Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help I used apt-get install courier-imap and compiled the rest with the options in the DOC I dont think there is a compile option because imapd is querying the db and getting the correct response Quoting Remo Mattei [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what options did u compile it with? Remo - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:31 PM Subject: [vchkpw] Courier-Imap with Vpopmail help Hey all, I've just moved to qmail with vpopmail and i'm following this doc http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Now i'm tring to get courier-imap working correctly, when i try pop3 access i login fine, however imap is a different story kristine:~# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. a login [EMAIL PROTECTED] kilo22 a NO Login failed. This is in /var/log/mysql/mysql.log This is the table return mysql select pw_name, pw_passwd, pw_uid, pw_gid, pw_gecos, pw_dir, pw_shell , pw_clear_passwd from wtfhax_com where pw_name = tristram; +--++--- -++- ---+-- --+--+ -+ | pw_name | pw_passwd | pw_uid | pw_gid | pw_gecos | pw_dir | pw_shell | pw_clear_passwd | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ | tristram | $1$CNMfwBu0$2JeNEmXhQPH8kTUCOMBii. | 0 | 8 | Tristram+Cheer | /home/vpopmail/domains/wtfhax.com/tristram | NOQUOTA | realpass | +--+++ +- ---++--- ---+ -+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I've changed my /etc/courier/imapd file to AUTHMODULES=authvchkpw I run a debian system and i'm pulling my hair out, what am i doing wrong Is anyone able to help?
[vchkpw] questions on implementing/converting
I actually have two questions. The first one is if anybody has experience with converting a qmail system from vmailmgr to vpopmail. We have devised ways of doing it, but if anybody has already done it and has to do's/don'ts/pointers they came across I would appreciate it if you would share them. Second question. We have a lot of domains that resided on our server and due to directory limitations, can not have all the domains reside in ~path/vpopmail/domains. Is there any good solutions that people know of? The only one that we have come up with is to modify the code to add the domain directories into sublevels (ie ~path/vpopmail/domains/a-e/, ~path/vpopmail/domains/f-n, etc). After considering this, I realized that this probably would require a lot of changes in the code which is possible but we're hoping for a shorter time frame to get it up and going.
Re: [vchkpw] How to configure mutt
On (30/06/04 23:37), Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:37:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Alejandro Aguilar Sierra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] How to configure mutt Hello: If this is a faq please let me know the link. Which is the best way to configure mutt to access an email account on a server which uses qmail, vpopmail and an imap server (courier). After much fiddling, I use mutt regularly with our qmail cluster. You'll need the latest version of mutt, and some arcane info in the .muttrc: account-hook imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED] 'set imap_pass=xxx' (this is optional, to prevent always getting prompted for the password, and involves some security risk by putting passwords into the file) Then I use a shell alias to actually call it up: mydomainmail is alliased to: mutt -f imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver/INBOX Good luck! (this mail prepared with Mutt 1.4i) james
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail + Mysql, can't add domains
I'm not entirely sure how to rebuild qmail-smtpd to use the new libvpopmail for MySQL. I'm imagining I have to recompile Qmail, but how do I single out qmail-smtpd to be the only thing to build, and how do I get it to recognize vpopmail with mysql support exactly? Thanks for your help! On Jun 15, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Tom Collins wrote: On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:41 PM, James Taylor wrote: Looking though the other directories of domains that DO work, I'm noticing they have a file called vpasswd. I've had trouble getting MySQL to completely work, I thought I had it before but now it's acting funky again with this issue. I think what's happening is Vpopmail is using MySQL to store the information, but then it's not using MySQL to retrieve. It sounds like you originally compiled vpopmail for CDB, then compiled qmail-smtpd with the chkusr patch, and then reconfigured/installed vpopmail for MySQL. You need to rebuild qmail-smtpd so it links to the new libvpopmail that's built for MySQL instead of CDB. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail + Mysql, can't add domains
Actually, strangely enough, this DID fix the problem so mail is at least working, but I'm going to have to try to figure out how to get everything else going. On Jun 16, 2004, at 2:10 AM, Alastair Battrick wrote: Hi James I ask because I am having a problem with bounce-no-mailbox. Every domain (about 6 of them) that had bounce-no-mailbox set, was bouncing everything including messages to postmaster. If you could change bounce-no-mailbox to /home/vpopmail/domains/testdomain.com/postmaster (ie set the domain to catch all mail to postmaster) and see if that fixes (albeit temporarily) your problem, it most likely means that we are having the same problem, and I would like to know why too :) Cheers Alastair James Taylor said: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox .. which is think is what it's supposed to be set at, no? On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Alastair Battrick wrote: Hi James What is in the .qmail-default for the domain? Cheers Alastair James Taylor wrote: Hi everyone, running vpopmail 5.4 compiled with MySQL (Everything else via Bill's Qmail Toaster) and everything was working just fine until today when I tried to add a domain. Existing domains seem to be working just fine, you can add/delete users fine, information is stored in MySQL and it all looks good. Now though, when I go to add a new domain, just for instance say ./vadddomain testdomain.com testpw It appears to have added the directory - it creates the domain directory as well as the postmaster maildir, and adds the testdomain_com table to MySQL with the postmaster user. It also adds the testdomain_com information to the dir_control table. However, if I try to send mail to postmaster: telnet localhost 25 helo mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1 - chkusr) ./vuserinfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] name: postmaster passwd: $1$YnGeWacE$YYLUcT0Gw.te3HGkRa9lD. clear passwd: testpw uid:0 gid:0 flags: 0 gecos: Postmaster limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/testdomain.com/postmaster quota: NOQUOTA usage: NOQUOTA account created: Tue Jun 15 14:28:53 2004 last auth: Never logged in Same information listed in the MySQL row. ./vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] testpw .. same results with that user as with postmaster, everything LOOKS good, but nothing works Looking though the other directories of domains that DO work, I'm noticing they have a file called vpasswd. I've had trouble getting MySQL to completely work, I thought I had it before but now it's acting funky again with this issue. I think what's happening is Vpopmail is using MySQL to store the information, but then it's not using MySQL to retrieve. The weird thing about it though is that I can add users to other domains, make changes to existing domains, and it all takes just fine. It makes the changes in the MySQL DB, and it READS those changes, it's just new domains aren't wanting to work anymore. I tried doing ./vconvert -m -c to see if it was using CDB to store all the user info instead of mysql for some reason, but it still doesn't pick up the user information when trying to send them mail. Gives the same as above. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it, I've been pulling my hair out for the past couple hours now.
[vchkpw] Vpopmail + Mysql, can't add domains
Hi everyone, running vpopmail 5.4 compiled with MySQL (Everything else via Bill's Qmail Toaster) and everything was working just fine until today when I tried to add a domain. Existing domains seem to be working just fine, you can add/delete users fine, information is stored in MySQL and it all looks good. Now though, when I go to add a new domain, just for instance say ./vadddomain testdomain.com testpw It appears to have added the directory - it creates the domain directory as well as the postmaster maildir, and adds the testdomain_com table to MySQL with the postmaster user. It also adds the testdomain_com information to the dir_control table. However, if I try to send mail to postmaster: telnet localhost 25 helo mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1 - chkusr) ./vuserinfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] name: postmaster passwd: $1$YnGeWacE$YYLUcT0Gw.te3HGkRa9lD. clear passwd: testpw uid:0 gid:0 flags: 0 gecos: Postmaster limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/testdomain.com/postmaster quota: NOQUOTA usage: NOQUOTA account created: Tue Jun 15 14:28:53 2004 last auth: Never logged in Same information listed in the MySQL row. ./vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] testpw .. same results with that user as with postmaster, everything LOOKS good, but nothing works Looking though the other directories of domains that DO work, I'm noticing they have a file called vpasswd. I've had trouble getting MySQL to completely work, I thought I had it before but now it's acting funky again with this issue. I think what's happening is Vpopmail is using MySQL to store the information, but then it's not using MySQL to retrieve. The weird thing about it though is that I can add users to other domains, make changes to existing domains, and it all takes just fine. It makes the changes in the MySQL DB, and it READS those changes, it's just new domains aren't wanting to work anymore. I tried doing ./vconvert -m -c to see if it was using CDB to store all the user info instead of mysql for some reason, but it still doesn't pick up the user information when trying to send them mail. Gives the same as above. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it, I've been pulling my hair out for the past couple hours now.
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail + Mysql, can't add domains
| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox .. which is think is what it's supposed to be set at, no? On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Alastair Battrick wrote: Hi James What is in the .qmail-default for the domain? Cheers Alastair James Taylor wrote: Hi everyone, running vpopmail 5.4 compiled with MySQL (Everything else via Bill's Qmail Toaster) and everything was working just fine until today when I tried to add a domain. Existing domains seem to be working just fine, you can add/delete users fine, information is stored in MySQL and it all looks good. Now though, when I go to add a new domain, just for instance say ./vadddomain testdomain.com testpw It appears to have added the directory - it creates the domain directory as well as the postmaster maildir, and adds the testdomain_com table to MySQL with the postmaster user. It also adds the testdomain_com information to the dir_control table. However, if I try to send mail to postmaster: telnet localhost 25 helo mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1 - chkusr) ./vuserinfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] name: postmaster passwd: $1$YnGeWacE$YYLUcT0Gw.te3HGkRa9lD. clear passwd: testpw uid:0 gid:0 flags: 0 gecos: Postmaster limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/testdomain.com/postmaster quota: NOQUOTA usage: NOQUOTA account created: Tue Jun 15 14:28:53 2004 last auth: Never logged in Same information listed in the MySQL row. ./vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] testpw .. same results with that user as with postmaster, everything LOOKS good, but nothing works Looking though the other directories of domains that DO work, I'm noticing they have a file called vpasswd. I've had trouble getting MySQL to completely work, I thought I had it before but now it's acting funky again with this issue. I think what's happening is Vpopmail is using MySQL to store the information, but then it's not using MySQL to retrieve. The weird thing about it though is that I can add users to other domains, make changes to existing domains, and it all takes just fine. It makes the changes in the MySQL DB, and it READS those changes, it's just new domains aren't wanting to work anymore. I tried doing ./vconvert -m -c to see if it was using CDB to store all the user info instead of mysql for some reason, but it still doesn't pick up the user information when trying to send them mail. Gives the same as above. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it, I've been pulling my hair out for the past couple hours now.
Re: [vchkpw] RE: Redundant server
This doesn't have anything to do with vpopmail. Very simple qmail config. On your secondary server, add the domains for which you are running backup to rcpthosts. Then add the backup server as a lower priority MX to your DNS. The qmail server on the backup machine will accept the mail, realize they are not locals (since they are NOT found in virtualdomains on the backup server) and forward them to the primary. Not sure what you mean about backing up the secondary, this doesn't really have to do with this service. However you back up the server in general ought to be just fine for backing up any queued mail as well. -- Jamie Thursday, June 3, 2004, 11:31:30 AM, you wrote: DP Has anyone who is running vpopmail/qmail/mysqlcreated a DP backup/redundant or even a secondary server for the same domains? DP I’mlooking to do that and I was wondering if there was any DP documentationavailable.  Also is there any documentationI can read DP on how to properly backup the e-mails, users, configfiles on the DP setup stated above.  Iam running that on redhat 9. Any assistance DP will be greatlyappreciated. -- Best regards, Jamesmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] RE: Redundant server
On second reading I may have misunderstood your question, are you trying to load balance between two servers for a single domain? If that is the case a pretty simple solution would be to split up addresses using subdomains. That is, at the bottom line you have mail1.domain.com, and mail2.domain.com and divide the addresses among these. So you could have different users in the same TLD on different servers. It would probably be easy enough to set something up to route mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the correct final destination so users wouldn't need to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address. -- Jamie Thursday, June 3, 2004, 11:31:30 AM, you wrote: DP Has anyone who is running vpopmail/qmail/mysqlcreated a DP backup/redundant or even a secondary server for the same domains? DP I’mlooking to do that and I was wondering if there was any DP documentationavailable.  Also is there any documentationI can read DP on how to properly backup the e-mails, users, configfiles on the DP setup stated above.  Iam running that on redhat 9. Any assistance DP will be greatlyappreciated. -- Best regards, Jamesmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] Customizeable .qmail defaults?
I've got a third-party spam filter that is used as a pipe in users .qmail file. In migrating to vpopmail, I've been able to configure it to work fine, but if a user makes any changes via qmailadmin, anything I've added to their .qmail is lost. Also, for standard mail configuration, there is no user .qmail file (it deletes it). I'd like to be able to have a .qmail file *always* in a user directory which contains my custom pipe, and have qmailadmin always include this user-specific configuration at the top of any .qmail file it writes. I guess in an ideal world, the qmailadmin interface would have a setting where a user could add anything they wanted to be included in their .qmail file and maintain it with their profile. I'm relatively new to vpopmail/qmailadmin so I don't know if this is possible to configure either by hand or through qmailadmin. I've read everything I could and couldn't find an answer to my question; the instructions for handling mail filtering seems different. Any suggestions or existing hacks? Thanks in advance. Jamie
Re: [vchkpw] Bug in vpopmail 5.3.26 causes problems in QmailAdmin
The -r option for vadddomain is broken in 5.3.26.
it always prompts for a password whether or not you use the -r.
Jim
James H. Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vpopmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: [vchkpw] Bug in vpopmail 5.3.26 causes problems in QmailAdmin
Apologies for the massive cross-post, but there's a small bug in
vpopmail 5.3.26 that impacts QmailAdmin. It will appear the QmailAdmin
is broken, when it is actually Vpopmail that has a problem.
In the code optimizations from vpopmail 5.3.25 to 5.3.26, a static
buffer in vgetent() in vpopmail.c was changed to not static. This was
a bad idea, and the problem first surfaced when using QmailAdmin.
It's a simple patch, I'm attaching it and pasting it into this email.
--- vpopmail-5.3.26/vpopmail.c Tue Aug 26 21:08:09 2003
+++ vpopmail-5.3.27/vpopmail.c Tue Sep 2 16:31:20 2003
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@
struct vqpasswd *vgetent(FILE *pw)
{
static struct vqpasswd pwent;
-char line[MAX_BUFF];
+static char line[MAX_BUFF];
int i=0,j=0;
char *tmpstr;
char *tmpstr1;
I will probably release 5.3.27 soon. There isn't much to it other than
the new Makefile.am, this fix, and some other minor changes to the
make/install process.
--
Tom Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sniffter.com/ - info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester
[vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail problem forking vchkpw?
I'm working in gentoo with qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.2.1. POP works just fine but authenticated STMP is a bust. Using some of the information I have found here and other places I used strace to try and find out what the problem is. As best as I can tell I am getting a bad file descripter when qmail is forking vchkpw. For the gory details see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=490320 Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Re: [vchkpw] .qmail file with users with dot
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:51:37AM +0100, Bruno Morais wrote: The problem is that .qmail files works ok for users like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when i use [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail ignores the .qmail file and uses the .qmail-default file. man dot-qmail(5). See the 'EXTENSION ADDRESSES' section. ATB, james
[vchkpw] API call failing to detect errors
I noticed that when using the API and adding a new domain, there are cases where no error is returned even though the operation failed. I suspect that this is becuase in in vpopmail.c in the routine vadddomain there are several calls to routines that do not check for an error return code. For example, the call: add_domain_assign( domain, domain, TmpBuf, uid, gid ); can fail (and did in my case), but no check is made to see if that happened. Is this a oversight/bug or is there something I'm overlooking? Thanks. Jim James H. Thompson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Control/Me?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:32:14PM -0800, Wil Hatfield wrote: Received: from unknown (HELO ns1.a-zhost.com) (216.120.76.2) by h6.a-zhost.com with SMTP; 31 Mar 2003 21:03:59 -0800 Where does the h6.a-zhost.com value come from shown above. I thought it came from control/me which I have checked and double checked. This email did not go through h6.a-zhost.com at all. That's from tcpserver. Check the value of the -l flag to tcpserver, if present. Otherwise tcpserver will look up the system's name in DNS. Check your reverses. ATB, james
Re: [vchkpw] About to release new devel version 5.3.20
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:53:58PM -0600, Ken Jones wrote: Does anyone have any patches they would like to submit? Hi Ken, I've a patch at http://romana.now.ie/#vadddomain-maildir which slighly modifies the -e flag to vadddomain. I wanted a way to specify a ``catchall'' in the same way as qmailadmin does: supply a pathname to write directly into the catchall user's Maildir. Using -e as it is currently -- specifying an email address -- means I don't get access to the original envelope recipient in the Delivered-To header line. Applying the patch does not change vaddomain's behaviour when one specifies an email address with -e. But if one specifies a value without an @ symbol it is taken as a user into whose Maildir catchall mail should be delivered (as qmailadmin does). With the patch, I can say: vadddomain -e postmaster maildir.org And get: fridge# cat maildir.org/.qmail-default | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/maildir.org/postmaster ATB, james
[vchkpw] [announce] vodmr - ODMR server for vpopmail+qmail
Hi, I have written an RFC 2645 On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) / Authenticated TURN (ATRN) server for vpopmail/vchkpw mail servers running qmail. It has a working title of ``vodmr''. It is written in perl and is available under the same licence as perl itself. It's available for download from http://romana.now.ie/#vodmr The current release is version 0.8, released 6th September 2002. It should be considered as beta software. It has been tested with fetchmail 5.9.11/5.9.13 and XATRN 1.2.2 ODMR clients and qmail-smtpd 1.03, sendmail 8.9.3/8.11.3 and MDaemon 5.0.7 SMTP servers. It hasn't yet been subjected to widespread public testing. This is a request for beta testers to download it, try it out and let me know how you get along with the program itself and its documentation. For the program to work, you will need: 1. A working vpopmail/vchkpw using qmail. 2. Perl 5 with MIME::Base64, Mail::Header, CDB_File and Digest::HMAC_MD5 modules 3. Maildir mailboxes 4. A UCSPI-TCP server (tcpserver is ideal) or inetd / xinetd Some things to note; Requires vpopmail (and qmail) Uses your existing qmail configuration files No changes are needed to vpopmail or qmail Implements CRAM-MD5 challenge-response authentication (required by RFC) Uses either comment or password field of vpasswd.cdb for secrets Domains can be setup for ODMR with qmailadmin and/or the vpopmail command line tools Minimal implementation Message bouncing Logs to stderr (the default) or syslog The vodmr server is explicitly not a long running daemon. tcpserver/inetd manage the networking elements, including starting the vodmr daemon to service new connections. vodmr deals only with stdin, stdout and stderr. vodmr does not need to run as root so don't! Run it as your vpopmail user. (It'll complain if you do run it as root) PROBLEM REPORTING If you want to report a problem, submit a patch, a comment or a question please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thanks, james -- James Raftery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] quotas exceeded problem
Hi, I am noticing a problem with quota's. For instance, vqadmin shows that I have 1000 for quota. However, there are only about 200 messages from lists such as this one. On another email account I have, I deleted all mesgs, waited for about 20 to show up from email lists, tried to mv the messages into folders and get the '[ALERT] You exceeded your mail quota'. The setup for vpopmail was: --enable-defaultquota=200 I had thought that meant a 'default' which could be overridden on a per-user basis. How can I fix this up. Thanks for your help. Paul
Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host?
Wouldn't something like this totaly depend on the hardware resources and general config/maintenance of the server? I can tell you that one of my servers running an older copy of qmail/vchkpw is running over 800 domains with lots of steam to spare (each domain is minimal traffic). Hardware is a PIII733 w256MB ram and 30GIG EIDE drives (promise mirror) - Original Message - From: alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host? um.. m'key.. you should've state that before so no one would get wrong thoughts (like i did) - Original Message - From: Steve Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: alexus [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:58 AM Subject: Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host? and who are you to do such a survey? Down boy! Down! LOL! No need to snap, I'm doing this because a PROGRAM I AM WRITING has VARIABLES that need to be defined to a certain array size, as they will hold FQDN's. In order to make this program universally useful, I would like to know the maximum number of domains that has been (realistically) hosted on one server. K? -- Steve
number of users on a virtual domain
Hi, I have qmail+vpopmail+courier imap. I would like to control the number of users for a given virtual domain. How can I do that? Please help. Thanks, James
SQL Server
In order to keep the system clean from 'garbage' in RAM (meaning left-over crap from queries), I have instructed the SQL server to 'Stop' and 'Restart' itself every morning at 3:00am - this should ensure the overall health of the server. James BeamNetwork OperationsBiznizWEB, Inc. / Touch Plchttp://www.biznizweb.comhttp://www.touchplc.co.ukhttp://www.dynaportal.comhttp://www.dynaportal.co.uk "If it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is..."
qmailmrtg7
OK - Got the tool, now could someone please tell me how I am supposed to get the smtp and pop3 logs to not be placed in the messages logfile in /var/log? All I need is an example Thanks
Re: small cgi to add users with needed
Here is a little script I use: adduser.cgi #!/bin/sh # # CGI Utility for adding users via Dynaportal/TSI # # Created by: James Beam - BiznizWEB, Inc. 08/20/2000 read STDIN QUERY_STRING=`echo $STDIN` USER=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -d -f1 | cut -d= -f2` PASSWORD=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -d -f2 | cut -d= -f2` /mail/bin/vadduser $USER $PASSWORD exit 0 I run that apache virtual as vpopmail.vchkpw and it works like a charm. To delete a user: deluser.cgi #!/bin/sh # # CGI Utility for deleting users via Dynaportal/TSI # # Created by: James Beam - BiznizWEB, Inc. 08/20/2000 read STDIN QUERY_STRING=`echo $STDIN` USER=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -d -f1 | cut -d= -f2` /mail/bin/vdeluser $USER exit 0 To change a user password: password.cgi #!/bin/sh # # CGI Utility for changing passwords via Dynaportal/TSI # # Created by: James Beam - BiznizWEB, Inc. 08/20/2000 read STDIN QUERY_STRING=`echo $STDIN` USER=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -d -f1 | cut -d= -f2` PASSWORD=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -d -f2 | cut -d= -f2` /mail/bin/vpasswd $USER $PASSWORD exit 0 Hope this helps! James Beam ASP/Network Operations BiznizWEB, Inc. / Touch PLc - Original Message - From: Kim Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vpopmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:49 AM Subject: small cgi to add users with needed Hi! I need a cgi script that could be called from an other program or script that would work like this; http://myserver.domain.com/cgi-bin/somescript.cgi?username=somebodydomain=s ome.domainpassword=password and the cgi would then pass on the arguments to vadduser and create the new user. Is this possible already with vqsignup or the kind or is it difficult to do for a non programmer? Thanks, Kim
Re: user@domain
I have seen the user:domain before, but it is not used with vpopmail that I know of - it is used with vmailmgr...another QMail add-on similar to vpopmail (but we all know which one is better). ;-) James Beam Network/ASP Operations BiznizWEB, Inc./Touch PLc http://www.biznizweb.com http://www.touchsmart.co.uk http://www.dynaportal.com http://www.townsourceinteractive.com - Original Message - From: Bill Shupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: Re: user@domain on 5/9/01 12:05 PM, Ed Henderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: According to the FAQ vpopmail requires the POP3 client to use account name in the form of user:domain for virtual domain email. Is it possible to configure it to use the form user@domain? This is much more intuitive for users. I don't know where you got user:domain, as I don't see that anywhere in the FAQ. You can use user@domain with many modern clients, including Outlook. Some older clients, and all Netscape Messenger versions (to my knowledge) choke on the @, so you need the % instead, i.e.: user%domain. When setting up new customers, I tell them to use the @. I also include a foot note that if they are using Netscape Messenger, or their login fails, try a % sign, and I include some examples to make it clear, and usually there's no confusion. Hope this helps. -Bill Shupp
qmail+vchkpw+courier imap?
Anyone has tried the following combinations? qmail + vchkpw + courier imap I've qmail and vchkpw running and would like to incorporate an imap server. Any advices? Thanks, James
more qmail+vpopmail problem.
I've just got qmail and vpopmail installed and I'm seeing strange things. I've the following : - real user, real host (/etc/passwd) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - virtual user and virtual domain : [EMAIL PROTECTED] The /var/qmail/control/locals has the following localhost localhost.localdomain sol.oficina.es The /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts has the following localhost localhost.localdomain oficina.es The /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains has the following oficina.es:oficina.es I can send and receive mails to and from both the real and virtual user but I always get a reply from the MAILER DAEMON saying that Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) And the mail actually got delivered! Any clue anyone? Thanks, James
/var/qmail/users/assign
I've installed my qmail with a rpm and apparently there's a cronjob that rebuilds the assign file from the /etc/passwd file, destroying the vpopmail info. My problem is I don't have a glue who is the owner of the cronjob. I've tried doing crontab -l for all the qmail* in the /etc/passwd including root but none has a cronjob. Can anyone please tell me how could I remove the cronjob or if there's any solution to this. Thanks, James
qmail-103.patch
Never mind, I found a site that had it...(that will teach me to look harder before I ask). Sorry for the bother folks. James BeamNetwork/ASP OperationsBiznizWEB, Inc./Touch PLc http://www.biznizweb.comhttp://www.touchsmart.co.ukhttp://www.dynaportal.comhttp://www.townsourceinteractive.com
Clearing out the Que...
My que is getting rather cluttered up (I am running Qmail MRTG (http://mail.royaleq.com/qmail/), and it shows a constant 12 - 16 message back-log in the que). How can I either force the que to re-process, or clear it out altogether? It is lagging other messages flowing through the system. Thanks in advance for any help folks... (Also, up2date on RedHat 7 seemed to worked fine. Once I finaly got up3date to work correctly, everything went smooth - and all tests seemed to show a healthy system - only time will tell for sure - thanks) James BeamNetwork/ASP OperationsBiznizWEB, Inc./Touch PLc http://www.biznizweb.comhttp://www.touchsmart.co.ukhttp://www.dynaportal.comhttp://www.townsourceinteractive.com
Slow POP3 connects More Info
BTW, I am running tcpserver with the -H and -R options, so it shouldn't be trying to do lookups. --James
Re: Unable to chdir problem
James, Perhaps the info in your users/cdb file is corrupt. I can't find any problems in the info you have provided. Have you tried running qmail/bin/qmail-newu? That will rebuild the cdb file. I ran qmail-newu and it created a new cdb file (at least the file date changed). It didn't seem to have any effect. If that fails, what about creating a test virtual domain and see if delivery works for it? If it works, you can compare settings with the new domain to pnamatrix.net. I created another domain and it too has the same problem. I've even removed the panmatrix.net domain, restarted qmail, and added it again. Still the same problem. Hope this helps. -Bill Yes, any input at all opens up all kinds of other things I find along the way and helps me question my assumptions. Thank you very much. --James --- From your message of Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:20:51 -0600: on 3/8/01 2:20 AM, James Blackwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I just started getting the dreaded Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir error message on a system that was functioning. I've done all the research I can with no results. Based on the information I found, I came up with a list of the important points that might be helpful in solving this. I'm trying to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail v4.9.8 on a RH6.2 box Permissions: /var/vchkpw/domains drwx--4 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 01:19 . drwxr-x--- 18 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 15 20:03 .. -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 43 Feb 28 21:08 .dir-control -rw-r--r--1 root root 136 Mar 8 01:19 .qmail-default drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 01:19 panmatrix.net /var/vchkpw/domains/panmatrix.net drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 01:19 . drwx--4 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 01:19 .. -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 34 Mar 7 15:44 .dir-control -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw136 Mar 7 19:59 .qmail-default -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 Mar 7 15:44 .vpasswd.lock drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 jamesb drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:27 postmaster drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 7 15:44 test -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw249 Mar 7 15:44 vpasswd -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 2363 Mar 7 15:44 vpasswd.cdb /var/vchkpw/domains/panmatrix.net/jamesb drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 . drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 01:19 .. drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 Maildir /var/vchkpw/domains/panmatrix.net/jamesb/Maildir drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 . drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 .. drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 7 19:54 cur drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 7 19:54 new drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 6 00:31 tmp And the test, su'ed in as vpopmail: bash-2.04$ whoami;pwd;touch test;ls -la;rm test -f;ls -la; vpopmail /var/vchkpw/domains/panmatrix.net/jamesb/Maildir/tmp total 8 drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 02:17 . drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 02:11 .. -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 Mar 8 02:18 test total 8 drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 02:18 . drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 8 02:11 .. Files: - /etc/qmail/rcpthosts: panmatrix.net /etc/qmail/virtualdomains: panmatrix.net:panmatrix.net /etc/qmail/users/assign: =root:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =abuse:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =operator:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =uucp:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =anonymous:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =backup-reports:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =bbsadmin:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =dumper:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =hostmaster:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =listmaster:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =mailer-daemon:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =manager:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =orphanage:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =warnings:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: =webmaster:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:-:postmaster: +panmatrix.net-:panmatrix.net:1001:101:/var/vchkpw/domains/panmatrix.net:-:: . (70 is user alias, 1001 is user vpopmail, 65534 is group nogroup, and 101 is group vchkpw) I really have tried to figure this out on my own. If anyone has any suggestions at all I'd greatly appreciate it. James, Perhaps the info in your users/cdb file is corrupt. I can't find any problems in the info you
Changes in 4.9.8
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this: I upgraded one of our mail servers to vpopmail 4.9.8 recently and saw two behaviour changes I hadn't expected in vadddomain. - The .qmail-default file created now has 'bounce-no-mailbox' as the last argument to vdelivermail, whereas it used to default to the postmaster Maildir. I'd like to be able to tell vadddomain to default to sending mail to the postmaster if possible. - Ownership of the present working directory is changed to vpopmail:vchkpw. I'm running this from a script so I just change the pwd to /home/vpopmail first, but this seems odd. Has anyone else seen this, or is it likely I've done something unusual when running configure? As an aside, I upgraded in order to be able to use sqwebmail which has exceeded expectations - thankyou very much to all involved. Best regards, James McGlinn Consultant Entertainz * NZ Web Hosting Solutions http://www.entertainz.co.nz/
random local delivery strangeness..
Everyonce in a while we will get a report of someone getting a bounce when someone sends a message to a valid account. This does not happen often and when it does happen it seems to only either happen for a few min or just one message. We are using vpopmail with cdb. I have not looked at the code is there anytime during when the cdb database is being rebuilt that it would vpopmail would not beable to lookup users? JD
Re: vchkpw lacking authentication security
Using stunnel: stunnel -d 995 -r localhost:pop3 -p /usr/local/etc/stunnel.pem Change the last argument to the path your private key/cert PEM file. Only downside is your pop3 logs now show the logins from 127.0.0.1. Ken Jones writes: Thanks. I'm reading the url now. I think I confused it with ssl tunnels. Does anyone have information on how to run vpopmail with ssl tunnels?
Re: Temporary Deactivation of Accounts
I believe support for this already exists... i.e. the gid field in the vpasswd file (or equiv for SQL). The only catch is, the software you use to interact with vpopmail has to honor that field. I'm pretty sure the vchkpw program honors disabling pop3 access. Run the vmoduser program without any arguments to see how to limit access. Steve Fulton writes: On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Joe Modjeski wrote: I was thinking of hacking a patch for this if there are no plans. Is there any other interest in a patch like this on the list? I second that motion .. That would be very useful for my clients as well. Steve.
Re: A repeat question that is very urgent
It isn't dependant on the version that you use. As long as you pick the appropriate encryption library during the reinstall, then it should work just fine. It is said by many that the DES encryption libraries will work properly with both DES and MD5 hashed passwords. The MD5 library will only work with MD5 hashed passwords. But, just to be on the absolute safe side, I would choose the same encryption libs that you're using now. You can tell which ones you're using in FreeBSD by doing the following: ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypt.so If this is symlinked to libdescrypt.so, then you're using DES encryption. If it's symlinked to libscrypt.so, then you're using MD5. If you see something else, then I don't know what to tell you. You should be able to backup ~vpopmail/domains, and restore it after the reinstall. But you will also need to keep /var/qmail/users/assign, and various /var/qmail/control/ files that contain info on your domains. David Comeau writes: I am upgrading a machine from FreeBSd 3.4 to FreeBSD 4.2. How can I rebuild my vpopmail passwords without recreating them? Does the same encrypted vpopmail password work for FreeBSD 4.2? And can one simply back up the vpopmail/domains tree and reinstall it once vpopmail has been compiled? Please, I really need some help on this one. There isn't any documentation on the subject. Sincerely, David Comeau Technical Support WiSOL, Inc.
Re: Additional domains.
Have you tried using the ./vaddaliasdomain mail.checkoutislenet.xxx ? that will solve your problem I think. James Beam Network/ASP Operations BiznizWEB, Inc. http://www.biznizweb.com - Original Message - From: "Brad Dameron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: Additional domains. First I am using Qmailadmin .39 and vpopmail 4.9.7. How can I setup qmail to accept mail to "checkoutisle.net" and "mail.checkoutislenet" for the same virtual? I am using MySql database with vpopmail. The checkoutisle.net domain works fine since I used vadddomain. But then I manually added mail.checkoutisle.net to the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file and the virtualdomains file. Then I added it to the vpopmail database under the vpopmail table. So the testuser account is identical. Even after a reload of qmail it still bounce's the mail. The only other file I see that might need edited is the /var/qmail/users/assign file but I have no idea what change. Anyone else doing this? It should be part of the vpopmail package. --- Brad Dameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Account Executive 877-663-4349 TSCNet Online Services www.tscnet.com
Re: Restricting frequency of POP3 connects
Why is easy: It keeps users from dominating all resources on a mail server with excessive POP traffic (lets face it, POPing in every 1 or 2 minutes is rather silly and a waste of resources. Every 5 minutes (minimum) is what I tell my users - but I would like a way to enforce that rule). Think of it this way - you have a sever with 1000 users, if every one of them was POPing in every 1 minute or so, imagine the strain on your POP3 daemon (not to mention wasted bandwidth - it may only be 1 or 2kb, but that adds up for those of us who co-locate our servers). I would be interested in such a patch as well. James Beam Network/ASP Operations BiznizWEB, Inc. http://www.biznizweb.com - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Prasenjeet Pati" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Restricting frequency of POP3 connects One question... Why in the world would you want to do this?? Prasenjeet Pati writes: Hi All, I would like to restrict the frequency of POP3 check on my mail domain in order to restrict users from checking for emails every 1 min or sometimes even more frequently. Can someone please give me some reference to any such patch/ code available that I can use with QMail + VPopmail. Thanks in advance. Warm regards Prasenjeet Pati
recommended setup - fix
I have found the exact reason that people were getting lag. The ident check was NOT turned off, and all of the people that were having problems were behind a firewall that wasn't letting ident requests back in. So this obviously has to wait for 26 seconds before it times out... hence the 20+ second delay. Hope this helps anyone else having similar problems.
recommended setup for pop3
Can someone that's running vpopmail with 600+ users please recommend a better way of running the pop3 service? My current setup is running it out of tcpserver, and my run script(for svscan) is at the end of this message. The problem that I'm having with this setup, is many many people are getting a fairly decent amount of lag when first connecting to the server.. at least 20 seconds.. but many people are also NOT having any lag at all. I've managed to connect to the server with over 200 simultaneous sessions, and I still had room for more. Another problem is that some of our customers' email clients are timing out during authorization (but they do manage to connect). None of this can be internet lag, as it's all local network traffic. I've noticed at most 8 concurrent pop3 sessions going. I'm completely lost as to where to go with this now. I really hate the idea of having to go back to NT for email, but this may be the only option, as too many people are calling up to complain. In case anyone is interested, the server is FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE. It's services include: smtp, pop3, and http for sqwebmail. The box is a Pentium I - 200MMX, with 64MB RAM, 160MB swap, a 20GB drive, and a Netgear FA310TX NIC. Here's the contents of the pop3 run script: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 100 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -D -c 150 -v \ -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ mail.ourdomain.net /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21
vpopmail + filtering
Has anyone successfully filtered mail that was delivered to a vpopmail account? I've taken a previously working procmail filter and tried it out with my vpopmail account, and it just writes the same message to the maildir over and over. I've modified it to point to the proper location of my mailbox of course. I also tried the filtering capabilities in sqwebmail, following the directions that came with it. It has the same result. Has anyone had better luck with this?
APOP auth using vchkpw-4.9.4 and /etc/passwd (shadow)
Hi there, I have no problems retrieving mail using pop authentication with vchkpw. However, when I authenticate using APOP I get an authorization error. Does vchkpw APOP authentication not support /etc/passwd (shadow)? Thanks in advance, --jtb
vchkpw APOP authentication using /etc/passwd (shadow)
Hi, Since I never got a response from my previous post, I assume my question was lame or lacked detail. I'll try again... Is there anyway I can configure vchkpw to handle APOP for /etc/passwd users? I know there are other means for handling this (patches to checkpassword, checkpw, etc.) but I like the logging features of vchkpw and the fact if configured, will maintain the relay cdb. I do NOT (at least at this time) wish to use vpopmail other than to maintain the relay cdb and for authentication. From investigation it appears virtual apop users' passwords are stored in clear text in order to match md5 hashed copies sent across the wire. Qualcomm's qpopper supports the use of APOP with /etc/shadow-- can vchkpw offer the same? Just curious, anyone know how qpopper utilizes /etc/shadow with APOP? I ask only because from searching the qmail archives it appears passwords need be stored in clear text on the server. The qmail site offers numerous alternatives, but if vchkpw can use /etc/shadow with APOP authentications, then I won't have to change the auth mechanism. A response of any sort would be appreciated. many thanks, --James
Re: sqwebmail build problem
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:19:45AM -0700, Ross Lawrie wrote: Okay, I've tried that, but still getting the same set of errors. Here's the entry in the Makefile: LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient LIBS = -lz Is that where the MySQL libs are installed on your system? If so, does "ldconfig -r |grep -i mysql" produce anything?
Re: --enable-ip-alias
If your only planning on running virtual domains (all pointing to 1 IP address), then you do not need to use the --enable-ip-alias switch. This switch is for those who plan on running some or all of the domains the mail server is hosting using unique IP address(s). - Original Message - From: "Dan Fairs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 8:48 AM Subject: --enable-ip-alias Hi, There've been a couple of mails on the list with regards to the above configure switch. I don't *believe* that I configured with this switch (though I may be wrong), and I intend to support multiple virtual domains on one IP - there is no PTR record for each of the domains. Should I have configured with this switch? I'm successfully running a 'virtual subdomain' of my 'real' domain - ie. I've got spiderplant.net as my 'real' domain, and working virtual addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will this continue to work when I register unrelated domains? Incidentally, is there a way of finding out how a program was configured, ie. which switched were used on the command lines? Thanks for your help, Dan -- Daniel Fairs[EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator+44 (0) 7881 922949 spiderplant.net www.spiderplant.net
Re: Different quotas for different virtual domains
I agree with this one. It would be nice to have a web based control over user/domain quotas. Is there any way to show in the interface how much space(quota) a user is using? Perhaps even the number of messages he/she currently has on the server? (probably asking allot I know...) Also, how is qmailadmin performing when there are a LOT of users in the list (by allot I mean over 25-1000+)? Does is blow up, or does it break them out into lots of 10 - 25 at a time (to keep the browser from timing out waiting for the list to show up)? I don't have a domain with more users than that at the moment, but I will next month and am just curious what to expect from qmailadmin. A search feature would be nice as well - I mean if you have a domain with a snarf load of users (1000+), wouldn't it be cool if you could search by username (just a thought)? Also, for those of you who want it, My company has developed a ColdFusion based POP3 client (needs to run on NT/IIS with ODBC - will not work on CFLinux/CFSolaris). We designed it for use on our ASP model, but if anyone on this list wants a copy - send me a note and I will forward a zip copy of it (free). It only runs on CF versions 4.0.1 or 4.5.1 Pro/Enterprise. Kind of a neat little app, but you will have to modify it a bit, as it is designed to be incorporated with our Portal product, but it does work stand alone (It pulls the messages off the server and stores them in a Access database (handles attachments as well). Does the same thing with sent Items. It has an addressbook. It was designed to send username as user@domain - but you can hack this as well if needed. I made it this way to help take the load off of the mail server). I would have done it in PHP, but I am not very good at that yet :( Most of this was a wish list as you can see - thank you for indulging me :) Enjoy! James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.
Ummm, one more thing on qmailadmin...
Are there any plans to add a popbull function to qmailadmin so Domain admins can put a bulletin up for all users in a given domain? I would try this myself, but when I hack code it ends up in a compost heap :( Thanks James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.
Question about OS Type...
I am stuck. I have had a qmail/vpopmail(3-4-11) server running on Slackware for some time now and it is doing fine. Serving 118 Domains with about 8 Users average per domain (Hardware: PII400 w256M Ram and9gig SCSI - un-modified Slackware Install). It has been running without fail the whole time (save for routine HUPs etc). I am in the process of setting up a new server that will have the potential of serving 3 or 4 dozen domains with 1000+ users (possibly much more). The hardware is PIII650 w384M Ram and Duel 30GIG 7200RPM EIDE Drives (Mirror). My dilemma is this: I am currently using SUSE 6.4 on several servers for web and like the way it works with the ReiserFS (very fast!). However, QMail/vpopmail seems to be working great on Slackware. But I want to take advantage of the ReiserFS for the speed (not to mention I am terrible at compiling a kernel so the install would stay default). Also, I am not sure if I need to use MySQL with an install like this or just stick with the default database that vpopmail creates. Does anyone have any suggestions or insight into this? I am open to all comments or thoughts on the subject. Thanks in advance for your time. James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.
Crypt Libraries...
I noticed in the FAQ that the most recent versions of slackware have bad crypt libraries in the distro. That my be the reason that I cannot check ANY of my boxes via pop3 - yet IMAP is working fine. Can anyone tell me which Crypt libraries I need to update to the correct versions so I can re-compile and get mail working again? It has been down for 30 hours now :( thanks in advance. James Beam
