Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities
shane and rick, thanks for your hints, will check it out soon. regards, stephan Quoting Rick Macdougall ri...@ummm-beer.com: d...@stean.ch wrote: hello rick, yes i have two points why i dont use bounce-no-mailbox. one is dictionary based spamming, meaning that if one tries out hard enough, he will, by scanning with lots of recipients, find out what valid user accounts exist on my server. the other one is the problem called backscatter, sending spam by bouncing back. although there seems to be a patch in the wild for the latter. however, if the patch you mention would deny the communication, instead of reject the email, i would certainly use it. The patch in question rejects at the smtp communication level. It does not cause backscatter. It's rejects the email with a 551 User unknown response. It does not stop the dictionary attack scenario but it can be set to reject any email address after a configurable bad recipient limit has been reached. I'd recommend at least taking a look at everything it can do. It can be found at http://www.interazioni.it/opensource/chkuser/ and is incorporated into many qmail/vpopmail toaster scripts. Regards, Rick !DSPAM:49f89c2532681044684452!
Re: [vchkpw] logging capabilities
hello rick, yes i have two points why i dont use bounce-no-mailbox. one is dictionary based spamming, meaning that if one tries out hard enough, he will, by scanning with lots of recipients, find out what valid user accounts exist on my server. the other one is the problem called backscatter, sending spam by bouncing back. although there seems to be a patch in the wild for the latter. however, if the patch you mention would deny the communication, instead of reject the email, i would certainly use it. regards, stephan Quoting Rick Macdougall ri...@ummm-beer.com: d...@stean.ch wrote: hello there, i am using vpopmail 5.4.17 with cdb backend and i would like to know if there are some real logging capabilities for it. i have a rather big tool chain installed on the server around qmail and i need to have an overview of what happens with all the e-mails. this includes the path they took through that chain until they land inside the users maildir, or the reason and location they got rejected (spam,...). now, using for example vdelivermail with the option delete, qmail will log in either way that the delivery was successful, however, for the overall statistics i get a wrong result, because delete mail (wrong recipient) is not the same than a mail delivered to an existing account. as far as i know vdelivermail does not log anything? any plans for this ? You should really have the chkuser qmail patch installed and use bounce-no-mailbox instead of delete. Is there a reason why you are using delete rather than rejecting unknown users in the smtp conversation ? Regards, Rick !DSPAM:49f5c5c432681607416261!
[vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to new/location/user/Maildir/ Is this possible without have to do it manually? We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the old system used vpasswd files and such. I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ... But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I couldn't just tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and tar would complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh. So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from the vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same location. SO is possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd and then find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old emails to the new dir layout? Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the accounts are already added. I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the new system but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the same places now... Hope that makes sense... Dev.
Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
Code here
snip
#!/usr/bin/perl
while() {
chomp;
@f = split /\:/;
open(VPOP, /home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $f[0]\@bluetruck.net |) || die
cannot execute vuserinfo ($!)\n;
$werd = VPOP;
chop($werd);
if ((-d $f[5]) (-d $werd)) {
`cp -R $f[5]/Maildir/* $werd/Maildir`;
print $f[5] $werd\n;
}
else {
if (!-d $f[5]) { print dir does not exist in old email server
f[5]\n; }
if (!-d $werd) { print file does not exist in new email server
$werd\n; }
}
}
snip
First needed to sed old vpasswd file...
I tar'ed it up and put it here so I have to add correct path to the old
vpasswd...
sed -e s/\/home\//\/home\/oldemail\//g vpasswd vpasswd.new
mkdir /home/oldemail
on old email system..
tar -cf - /home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com | ssh -l root
newmailserver.domain.com cat /home/oldemail/domain.tar
this will tar and transfer the old email to the new server
new server
cd /home/oldemail
tar -xvf domain.tar
which creates home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com
now it looks like
/home/oldemail/home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com
then I used the perl script above..
Thought I would send this to group just in case someone else needed to do
this
Dev.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
Ya. This shouldnt require a lot of tool creation on your part.
vpopmail should have enough information and tools for this type
of work, so you're lucky in that respect.
Just think through it one step at a time, and you shouldnt have
a problem getting it done :)
Good luck!
dev wrote:
Yea it does...
Hehe forgot about vuserinfo
Over worked does this...
Dev.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
I see what you're trying to do. I do 99% of the
conversions/migrations
between mail systems here at Inter7, so I know your problem.
Try writing a script:
* Get the next username
* Look up old directory
* Look up new directory
* Copy files
You can get their old directory from the old vpasswd files, and do a
vuserinfo | grep home | awk to get their current directory.
Hope that helps.
dev wrote:
does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to
new/location/user/Maildir/
Is this possible without have to do it manually?
We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the
old
system used vpasswd files and such.
I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ...
But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I
couldn't
just
tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and
tar
would
complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh.
So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from
the
vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same
location. SO
is
possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd
and
then
find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old
emails to
the new dir layout?
Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the
accounts
are already added.
I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the
new
system
but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the
same
places now...
Hope that makes sense...
Dev.
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Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
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