real vs virtual domain
What happens if I use qmailadmin to declare as a virtualdomain the 'real' domain on/under which qmail, vpopmail, qmailadimn, vqadmin, etc., have been installed in the first place? In other words: right now, qmail's me file contains something like 'mail.realdomain.com'. But if 'realdomain.com' acquires a position under /home/vpopmail/domains...(uh)...does everything work out okay, or...? -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: real vs virtual domain
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:34:03PM +0100, Lou Hevly wrote: At 15:56 07/07/01, Jeff Gordon wrote: What happens if I use qmailadmin to declare as a virtualdomain the 'real' domain on/under which qmail, vpopmail, qmailadimn, vqadmin, etc., have been installed in the first place? Works for me. I have one IP, 216.216.32.170 that serves as both my name server and NameVirtualHost in Apache. All my domains are served virtually, including visca-server.com, which is the machine name and what I have in /me. As a domain, I added it using: Great -- thanks, Lou. :-) Uh, I've got a few localdomain /Maildirs in place, outside of the /home/vpopmail 'tree'. Will they need special attention as I make this changeover or will vpopmail et al. figure out what's needed...? -- Jeff -- $ ./vadddomain visca-server.com pwd I can administer it using qmailadmin and have had no problems at all; as far as qmail/vpopmail are concerned, it's just another domain. Be sure your /var/qmail/control/locals file is empty; as you may be aware, virtually subhosted domains must not be in this file. But vadddomain will automatically do the right thing, so you shouldn't have to worry about it. -- All the best (Adéu-siau), Lou Hevly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visca.com -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: real vs virtual domain
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:55:13PM -0400, Jeff Gordon wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:34:03PM +0100, Lou Hevly wrote: At 15:56 07/07/01, Jeff Gordon wrote: What happens if I use qmailadmin to declare as a virtualdomain the 'real' domain on/under which qmail, vpopmail, qmailadimn, vqadmin, etc., have been installed in the first place? Works for me. I have one IP, 216.216.32.170 that serves as both my name server and NameVirtualHost in Apache. All my domains are served virtually, ... Great -- thanks, Lou. :-) Uh, I've got a few localdomain /Maildirs in place, outside of the /home/vpopmail 'tree'. Will they need special attention as I make this changeover or will vpopmail et al. figure out what's needed...? AND that answer is: The new virtual domain gets properly added -- but any existing 'real' domain mail users have to be identified and moved to the new virtual domain mail service. Until that's done, they're lost in limbo, neither here nor there. -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
hacked, need help restoring
Our system fell prey to a hacker and we've done a complete system reinstall -- BUT only /home was backed-up and restored -- so, anything vpopmail had created in /var/qmail/control is now missing-in-action; and I think certain permisssions settings might be absent now too, lost when we had to reconstruct /etc/passwd records to match owner-IDs on the backed up files and subdirectories in /home. :( Is there any reasonable way to set things right from here? Or is the only sane option to re-create vpopmail domains, lists and users from scratch? -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: hacked, need help restoring
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0700, Chris Scheller wrote: Is there any reasonable way to set things right from here? Or is the only sane option to re-create vpopmail domains, lists and users from scratch? one thought would be to not restore the ~/domains/ right away, but first readd the domains with the command line utils. this will put all your control files back in place. once this is done delete ~/domains/* and restore from your backup. Hmm; not bad -- the restore has been done but I could rename /domains and use it as sort of a roadmap for what needs to happen. Thanks for the spark of that idea. :-) else you could always just recreate the control files by hand, shouldn't be horribly difficult(notice i didn't say easy.) Right. :-) I'm too new to feel confident that I know how to go about that -- the 'hacked' server had my first-ever installs of qmail, vpopmail, ezmlm-idx, qmailadmin, sqwebmail, and one other web-based thing I can't seem to remember the name of now -- not vmailmgr, not vmailadmin, but the same idea A newbie tried in the fire would describe my current level of expertise on this. :-) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
is a pop server -required- for vpopmail?
I'm sure the answer must be dirt-simple but it's eluding me at the moment -- does vpopmail -require- an additional server (either pop or IMAP, etc.), or with sqwebmail could all mail be handled straight from the Maildirs without having to 'pop' it along the way? (Asked differently, do I need to go ahead and install qmail-pop3d?) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: is a pop server -required- for vpopmail?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:14:56AM +0530, Dushyanth Harinath wrote: I'm sure the answer must be dirt-simple but it's eluding me at the moment -- does vpopmail -require- an additional server (either pop or IMAP, etc.), or with sqwebmail could all mail be handled straight from the Maildirs without having to 'pop' it along the way? (Asked differently, do I need to go ahead and install qmail-pop3d?) every mail client reads mails from a pop or imap server and not directly from the maildir.I guess u dont have any other option. (Thanks.) You make a good point -- it's a question of how the system will generally be utilized by the mail subscribers... (hmm)... Faruque's answer is the one that 'fits' my situation; he's saying SqWebmail makes a pop3 server unnecessary -if- that's the way one wants the system set up. I rely on Mutt, myself -- I don't like web-based email; but the owner of the system I'm admin'ing for wants to limit it to web access only -- and it sounds like SqWebmail makes that possible to accomplish. -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: is a pop server -required- for vpopmail?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:54:57AM +0600, Syed Faruque Ahmed wrote: The very first feature described of Sqwebmail on its Features list is - Very lightweight. Reads mail directly from maildirs. (Yes.) Plus it was made to work well with vpopmail, et all. It does not need qmail-pop3d. The only reason you would need qmail-pop3d (served with tcpserver or otherwise) is to provide pop3 service to remote machines. Thanks, Faruque; sounds like I'm assembling the right pieces for this particular system. :-) -- Jeff -- At 11:14 AM 7/7/01 +0530, Dushyanth Harinath wrote: every mail client reads mails from a pop or imap server and not directly from the maildir.I guess u dont have any other option. regards dushyanth I'm sure the answer must be dirt-simple but it's eluding me at the moment -- does vpopmail -require- an additional server (either pop or IMAP, etc.), or with sqwebmail could all mail be handled straight from the Maildirs without having to 'pop' it along the way? (Asked differently, do I need to go ahead and install qmail-pop3d?) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: problem with vpopmail+qmailadmin+sqwebmail
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:32:35PM +0530, hari_bhr wrote: hi i have moved the qmail server with vpopmail+sqwebmail+qmailadmin its moved good condition, i checked user and groups all are same and same OS also iam bale to loging from qmailadmin and monitor those domains i have moved from old to new server. iam able to login only two domains from sqwebmail, rest of all the domain when i try to login its giving Internal server error what could be the problem I don't know -- but Internal Error almost always means a problem with either paths or permissions, so I would look into those things first. -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: vQadmin problems
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:15:46PM -0700, Qmail wrote: But fails when I try to do anything: Authentication Failed: Authentication Failed: Username unknown vQadmin was unable to determine your username, which means your webserver is improperly configured to run with this CGI. For security reasons, this script will not run without Apache htaccess lists. .htaccess is setup, and I've edited the ACLs No errors are logged, so I'm unsure of what's wrong! Any ideas? I didn't find any logged errors either -- turned out to be a finger error in the Directory text I'd added to httpd.conf. Apparently Apache didn't mind it, but it was enough that Apache didn't know the directives in that chunk of text had anything to do with the -actual- directory being accessed and requested by the server, so authentication was -not- attempted (under this Apache setup) and vQadmin didn't receive the info it needed, from the server. Also in my case, the initial page looked like I was being recognized -- but it was a page from the browser cache, I think, and not reflective of who I was being as I approached it this time. Had to close my browser down completely before I could be seen as 'a new visitor'. (Computers make our lives easier; could you tell...? :-) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
how to start vQadmin...?
I surrender -- I've finally got vQadmin installed, apparently per instructions -- but on calling to it, I get an error message about not being able to identify me. I'm guessing there's a bit of instruction missing, about a Query string that should be there...? This by itself: http://www.my_domain.com/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi ...doesn't seem to do the trick. Should I be seeing a -server- dialogue that I'm not? Should the server be asking for my credentials beforehand...? It isn't. I can see the .htaccess file right there, so -- why isn't it? -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Mutt, and local-user email
About a week ago Kieran Barnes was asking how to get Mutt working in a vpopmail environment. Answers were here's my .muttrc and set up an IMAP server, essentially -- good answers, but I'm not sure we ever got to the heart of what the problem was. Maybe the question is: How can you log onto the server, then access mail that's in a vpop 'virtualdomain'...? To the server, you're -not- that user, and you're not user 'vpopmail' either -- so, given that arrangement, how could you make use of Mutt to handle email from on the server...? Would this be solved by having Mutt talk to an IMAP server (or even a POP server with Mutt's 'unset pop_delete' switch thrown), instead of accessing the Maildir directly? And, I expect, you'd have to make all sorts of changes in Mutt to get the ougoing message headers to turn out right -- since whichever 'user' you are when using Mutt won't have the same name as the virtualdomain user. (scratching head) Have I got it about right...? -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: Off Topic: Re: Mutt, and local-user email
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:31:10PM -0500, Jeffrey D. Gordon wrote: Ack No! Not another Jeff Gordon *panic attempt to flee* I know the feeling. :-) (Aside from the racecar driver, there's also a spokesman for the Navy who pops up from time to time.) Jeffrey B. Gordon, here. -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
announce-only list and ezmlm-send...?
(Current stable versions of qmail, qmailadmin, ezmlm, and vpopmail are installed, on a RedHat release 6.2 box.) Someone on the qmail list advised I could set up an announce-only list, by eliminating ~/.qmail-list and ~/list, then piping messages directly to ezmlm-send. Only: I've got vpopmail installed -- and that changes things. :-) Piping to ezmlm-send works okay, from the command line, as root -- but I need for this to happen via a web form. After two solid days of attempts, the most common error I find says ezmlm-send doesn't have permission to 'cd' to (read from): /home/vpopmail/domains/my-domain/my-list Any idea how to enable this, using a web form that submits to a Perl script which in turn opens a pipe to ezmlm-send? (True answers, thoughtful theories, and wild ideas, all welcome. :-) -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
(update) Re: announce-only list and ezmlm-send...?
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:20:53PM -0400, Jeff Gordon wrote: Someone on the qmail list advised I could set up an announce-only list, by eliminating ~/.qmail-list and ~/list, then piping messages directly to ezmlm-send. Piping to ezmlm-send works okay, from the command line, as root -- but I need for this to happen via a web form. After two solid days of attempts, the most common error I find says ezmlm-send doesn't have permission to 'cd' to (read from): /home/vpopmail/domains/my-domain/my-list Any idea how to enable this, using a web form that submits to a Perl script which in turn opens a pipe to ezmlm-send? ANSWER to that part: 'suexec', which makes CGI scripts appear to be the user/owner of the file -- thus, this succeeds to a point: open(EZ,|/usr/sbin/suexec $ezpath/ezmlm-send $listdir ); print EZ $message; BUT NOW, we get the error, failed to open log file and the mission aborts anyway. :-) Anybody know -which- log file? I can see maillog got no entry but then it wouldn't if the run aborted -- so perhaps this is someone else's log file...? -- -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
