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
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-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
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
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
Upgrading from 3.4.11...
Are there any issues I should know about when upgrading from vpopmail-3.4.11 to the latest version? I have a server that has been running for about a year now on version 3.4.11. I would like to upgrade it to the latest version if for no other reason than to have it consistent with my new server. It has about 3 dozen domains on it, and I do not want to interrupt mail service on those domains if at all possible. I am thinking this is just a compile like I did the previous version and install it? Thanks for any advice you folks can offer. James Beam
Ack! HELP!
I read the FAQ about upgrading, and just went ahead and did it. I can send to all of the domains just fine, but I cannot pop in to check mail on any of them (even if I add a new test user) Here is what the log says: Jul 29 09:43:24 host vpopmail[19301]: vchkpw: No user found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:216.12.206.128Jul 29 09:43:28 host vpopmail[19303]: vchkpw: No user found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:216.12.206.128 Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? the domain exists and has not changed since the last version, and delivery works fine - heck, even my imap server is working fine. Is something wrong with vchkpw that it is not seeing the users? Is there a way that I can re-create the user cdb file? Thanks in advance for your time. James Beam
I have a problem...
I just finished installing vpopmail-4.8.6 on SUSE 6.4 Linux. I have everything working, but I am noticing a serious delay when trying to check mail via POP3 - it takes almost 20 seconds before the server will respond. It does this on both SMTP and POP3. Now this server is running a PIII600 with 256meg RAM - and no live domains are currently running on it. You can see the delay by telneting to 206.20.158.62 ports 110 and 25 - it will take 20 or so seconds before the server will even respond! Qmail 1.03 w/DNS and Tarpit patch ucspi-tcp-0.88 vpopmail-4.8.6 daemontools-0.70 That is what I am running. Here is my POP3 start string: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -uXXX -gXXX 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup biznizweb.com/mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir All one line (in case your client wraps it) Please, if anyone can help or make a suggestion. Thanks in advance, James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.
Please help - something is strange
I just finished installing vpopmail-4.8.6 on SUSE 6.4 Linux. I have everything working, but I am noticing a serious delay when trying to check mail via POP3 - it takes almost 20 seconds before the server will respond. It does this on both SMTP and POP3. Now this server is running a PIII600 with 256meg RAM - and no live domains are currently running on it. You can see the delay by telneting to 206.20.158.62 ports 110 and 25 - it will take 20 or so seconds before the server will even respond! Qmail 1.03 w/DNS and Tarpit patch ucspi-tcp-0.88 vpopmail-4.8.6 daemontools-0.70 That is what I am running. Here is my POP3 start string: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -uXXX -gXXX 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup biznizweb.com/mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir All one line (in case your client wraps it) Please, if anyone can help or make a suggestion. Thanks in advance, James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.
