Re: [vchkpw] Courier support
Where's the best documentation to migrate off of Courier? I presume Dovecot is the favored IMAP now for Vpopmail? Any known issues in making this switch? Matt Brookings wrote: My question is this: Courier-IMAP has dropped us, should we drop Courier-IMAP? Most definitely Yes! !DSPAM:49ba554232689351814391!
[vchkpw] chkuser 2.0b - somes false positives
A system that's been running with 9000 users is now experiencing intermittent false positives when checking for invalid recipients. It's allowing invalid recipients sometimes. I cannot find a pattern. Any guess on areas that might be culprits? Does chkuser have a default permit behavior if it cannot reach IMAP or Sql? Not sure if there's a resource issue on the machine yet. Mysql backend, linux, courier imap, vpopmail 5.4.17, chkuser 2.08b Thanks. !DSPAM:497e28c432685692751208!
[vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner
A customer has challenged whether this can be done... Anti-SPAM appliances A, B, and C are available on an internal LAN via DNS round-robin through SMTP at appliance.example.com VPOPMAIL server D is on the same LAN. Customer has had a few local accounts that had their password guessed and spammers sent spam through webmail. S We're considering doing something inline to the delivery process that would 1) accept the authenticated user's email for remote/local delivery, 2) force that delivery off of box D to A-C over SMTP in ALL cases (not just remote), 3) Scan on A-C, 4) return the inbound (local) mail back to D for further delivery to the locals. I realize this is pretty insane, but the customer isn't excited about adding a local spam daemon to D and would like to leverage the investment in the appliances A-C to control for local delivery abuses. The appliances are doing a nice job on SMTP scanning, but the vendor says that their appliance does not have a port listener (like a spamd daemon) that could answer a stream request - thus only SMTP will do. Ideas? THANKS! Dave. !DSPAM:48223e3e120508248733278!
RE: [vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner
/me thumps head Very cool! Thanks for the idea on options! It can be done quite easily. Two options: Preferred: Configure webmail to send messages directly to the appliances. Alternatively: Install a dumb SMTP mailer on D that listens on a port other than 25. Configure that dumb-mailer to forward all mail to the appliances. Configure webmail to send messages to the dumb mailer's listening port. webmail -SMTP- D dumb-mailer listening on tcp:125(example) -SMTP- appliances via static SMTP route -SMTP- back to D tcp:25 via static SMTP route for local deliveries -Original Message- From: ISP Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:41 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner A customer has challenged whether this can be done... Anti-SPAM appliances A, B, and C are available on an internal LAN via DNS round-robin through SMTP at appliance.example.com VPOPMAIL server D is on the same LAN. Customer has had a few local accounts that had their password guessed and spammers sent spam through webmail. S We're considering doing something inline to the delivery process that would 1) accept the authenticated user's email for remote/local delivery, 2) force that delivery off of box D to A-C over SMTP in ALL cases (not just remote), 3) Scan on A-C, 4) return the inbound (local) mail back to D for further delivery to the locals. I realize this is pretty insane, but the customer isn't excited about adding a local spam daemon to D and would like to leverage the investment in the appliances A-C to control for local delivery abuses. The appliances are doing a nice job on SMTP scanning, but the vendor says that their appliance does not have a port listener (like a spamd daemon) that could answer a stream request - thus only SMTP will do. Ideas? THANKS! Dave. !DSPAM:48225a58120502068847775!
Re: [vchkpw] Distribute Qmail + Vpopmail bundle
Joshua Megerman wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:55:14 pm Nick Bright wrote: While the qmail sources are available, it is not GPL. It's my understanding that the way qmail is licensed specifically forbids repackaging. Um, no. As the original poster stated qmail is now in the public domain, which means there is not only no restrictions to its distribution, there's not even any license anymore. Well, that is excellent. I was not aware that it had been placed into the public domain. Perhaps now someone could get a project together with some traction to integrate all of the best patches into qmail and make a technologically recent package that doesn't have to have 15 patches applied to get anything resembling a recent feature set. Are you aware of the netqmail project or Bill Shupp's qmail toaster project? Easily googled if you weren't. I for one would love to see inter7 take the lead on such a project, as they have a proven track record and as far as I can tell, know qmail quite well. And please try not to top-post :) I'll never understand why people don't like top posting. I find it easier to read, but lets not get OT on this; I'm sure it's been argued about before. Josh !DSPAM:47c4001f31054114656!
Re: [vchkpw] OT: Which RBLsmtpd lookups are you using?
Adi Pircalabu wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:33:53 +1000 Quey wrote: dnsbl.sorbs.net bl.spamcop.net Don't use these to reject connections at SMTP level, they give many false-positives. Eventually use them only after queueing, and only to increase the spam score. zen.spamhaus.org and list.dsbl.org, au contraire, are much better choices for rblsmtpd. My 0,02RON each to our own, I dont consider they give many false positives at all, not in this part of the world, but of course it may be different for where you are, however even with the acceptable FP's they *may* give, the massive reduction in spam makes it completely worth it. The more they hit there, the less work MailScanner has to do, it can use system resources just to scan for viruses and phishing and of course whatever spam it detects that get past the RBL's :-) A good thing to do as well which also dramatically reduces spam, is enforce DNS forward and reverse, if someone can't be bothered making sure their mail server is RFC compliant, then I am under no obligation to allow my servers to accept connections from them. My thanks to everyone who contributed! I'm on zen.spamhaus.org now! Noticed at least some increase in stopped connections at smtpd! A good thing, in my review. I'll research FPs for downside. Thanks! !DSPAM:47a381a0310549759113929!
[vchkpw] OT: Which RBLsmtpd lookups are you using?
Which RBLsmtpd references are you using in your smtpd listeners and why? (example sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run) !DSPAM:47a1f0e1310547134712337!
[vchkpw] OT: Webmail trends for vpopmail/qmail/IMAP
Off-topic, perhaps respond off-list? What are the hot applications in F/OSS webmail that start to move towards AJAX clients (yahoo! mail beta, gmail) that might function well on a vpopmail/qmail/IMAP infrastructure? I looked at Sourceforge and didn't see much that would leap past squirrelmail. !DSPAM:477d4215310543745219514!
Re: [vchkpw] OT: Webmail trends for vpopmail/qmail/IMAP
ISP Lists wrote: Off-topic, perhaps respond off-list? What are the hot applications in F/OSS webmail that start to move towards AJAX clients (yahoo! mail beta, gmail) that might function well on a vpopmail/qmail/IMAP infrastructure? I looked at Sourceforge and didn't see much that would leap past squirrelmail. We use RoundCube in addition to Squirell. http://roundcube.net/ Regards, Rick Thanks Rick, good stuff! Any other ideas are most appreciated. !DSPAM:477d4fd9310541599016348!
Re: [vchkpw] courier maildirfolder files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ISP Lists wrote: Therefore, to fix a partially failed rsync during a migration, I should use the following rules: /Maildir/.Sent|.Drafts|.Trash/maildirfolder is NOT correct usage /Maildir/.MyFolder/maildirfolder is NOT correct usage /Maildir/.MyFolder.MySubFolder/maildirfolder IS correct usage. I'm not sure what you're saying here about incorrect usage. maildirfolder files must exist under any folder directory you wish Courier-IMAP to honor. Is the presence of 'maildirfolder' in subfolders actually MANDATORY for IMAP to function properly? Not for IMAP, for Courier-IMAP. I'm sure you knew that, but I figured I'd be a little more technical on this point for anyone else who may not have caught that. - -- /* Matt Brookings [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ABA26FE7 Software developer Systems technician Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 */ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTzBeYaj0Mauib+cRAhsDAJ0TYcF6vqbndnV5Pe+nIsIC1CthCgCgmkrN xE/PM6o3fJZTkthW6gFHtr4= =E+3Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Matt, thanks for your post, the answer surprises me. Is there a resource you can recommend? I hadn't anticipated that 'maildirfolder' is a requirement for all folders; by inspection, my existing vpopmail/courier kit seems to run fine with very few 'maildirfolder' files that don't seem to conform to any particular methodology/rule. Thus the basis for my confusion. Again, I really appreciate the help! Dave. !DSPAM:474f442732002376413044!
Re: [vchkpw] Problem compiling courier-auth 0.59.3+
Some very smart person - I'm REALLY sorry I cannot easily find the link to
give proper credit - posted this patch out there a few weeks ago. I
don't think it's become mainstream yet, but I literally just went through
the same problem with authlib 0.59.3 and vpopmail 5.4.17. Yes, the patch
works; no I don't know why.
the patch I used came from discussion here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg24923.html
I tried to google for the filename of the patch below but I think it's a
filename I made up... I was in a rush to get something built, so my notes
are incomplete. Bad dog, I know.
Meanwhile, here's the patch code
===
--- courier-authlib-0.59.3/authvchkpw.c 2007-04-22 20:53:30.0 +0200
+++ courier-authlib-0.59.3b/authvchkpw.c2007-04-25
17:53:58.908980669 +0200
@@ -55,16 +55,19 @@
return (*i-callback_func)(a, i-callback_arg);
}
#if HAVE_HMACLIB
#includelibhmac/hmac.h
#includecramlib.h
+static int auth_vchkpw_login(const char *service, char *authdata,
+int (*callback_func)(struct authinfo *, void *), void
*callback_arg);
+
static int auth_vchkpw_cram(const char *service,
const char *authtype, char *authdata,
int (*callback_func)(struct authinfo *, void *),
void *callback_arg)
{
struct cram_callback_info cci;
===
And how I build the authlib for my system
cd /usr/src/qmail
wget
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/courier/courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar.bz2
bunzip2 courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar.bz2
tar xf courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar
chown -R root.root courier-authlib-0.59.3
cd courier-authlib-0.59.3
wget http://www.dermanagement.com/qmail/courier-0.59.3-authvchkpw.patch
patch courier-0.59.3-authvchkpw.patch
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/courier-authlib \
--without-authpam \
--without-authldap \
--without-authpwd \
--without-authmysql \
--without-authpgsql \
--without-authshadow \
--without-authuserdb \
--without-authcustom \
--without-authcram \
--without-authpipe \
--with-authdaemon \
--with-redhat \
--with-authvchkpw
Good luck.
Dave.
I can compile courier-authlib version 0.59.2 or lower just fine with
vpopmail
5.4.17 but I cannot get newer versions to compile. I tried asking on the
courier-imap list but they say not our problem.
Here's the errors:
--
authvchkpw.c: In function 'auth_vchkpw_login':
authvchkpw.c:40: warning: empty declaration
authvchkpw.c:43: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
In file included from authvchkpw.c:63:
libhmac/hmac.h:15: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_h_rcsid'
libhmac/hmac.h:15: error: parameter 'hmac_h_rcsid' is initialized
libhmac/hmac.h:50: warning: empty declaration
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter 'hmac_md5'
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_sha1'
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_sha256'
libhmac/hmac.h:61: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_list'
In file included from authvchkpw.c:64:
cramlib.h:17: warning: empty declaration
cramlib.h:19: error: storage class specified for
parameter 'auth_cram_callback'
cramlib.h:26: warning: empty declaration
authvchkpw.c:71: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:87: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:106: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:170: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:177: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:227: error: parameter 'authvchkpw_info' is initialized
authvchkpw.c:229: error: 'auth_vchkpw' undeclared (first use in this
function)
authvchkpw.c:229: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
authvchkpw.c:229: error: for each function it appears in.)
authvchkpw.c:231: error: 'authvchkpwclose' undeclared (first use in this
function)
authvchkpw.c:232: error: 'auth_vchkpw_changepass' undeclared (first use in
this function)
authvchkpw.c:238: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:240: error: old-style parameter declarations in prototyped
function definition
authvchkpw.c:240: error: expected '{' at end of input
make[2]: *** [authvchkpw.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/netsrc/courier-authlib-0.59.3.20070721'
--
This is NOT just for the pre-release, before anyone asks. I tried it
because
they mentioned some authvchkpw fixes.
--
--
Cheers,
Steve
Re: [vchkpw] Problem compiling courier-auth 0.59.3+
Crud, NO that is not the correct link for what I thought was the patch
source.
OK, I found it! It's in French, that's why it's kinda hard to find. You
can run this page through Babelfish and get something readable, but the
patch originated from this page
http://christian.caleca.free.fr/qmail/courier-imap.htm
Credit due.
D.
Some very smart person - I'm REALLY sorry I cannot easily find the link to
give proper credit - posted this patch out there a few weeks ago. I
don't think it's become mainstream yet, but I literally just went through
the same problem with authlib 0.59.3 and vpopmail 5.4.17. Yes, the patch
works; no I don't know why.
the patch I used came from discussion here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg24923.html
I tried to google for the filename of the patch below but I think it's a
filename I made up... I was in a rush to get something built, so my notes
are incomplete. Bad dog, I know.
Meanwhile, here's the patch code
===
--- courier-authlib-0.59.3/authvchkpw.c 2007-04-22 20:53:30.0
+0200
+++ courier-authlib-0.59.3b/authvchkpw.c2007-04-25
17:53:58.908980669 +0200
@@ -55,16 +55,19 @@
return (*i-callback_func)(a, i-callback_arg);
}
#if HAVE_HMACLIB
#includelibhmac/hmac.h
#includecramlib.h
+static int auth_vchkpw_login(const char *service, char *authdata,
+int (*callback_func)(struct authinfo *, void *), void
*callback_arg);
+
static int auth_vchkpw_cram(const char *service,
const char *authtype, char *authdata,
int (*callback_func)(struct authinfo *, void
*),
void *callback_arg)
{
struct cram_callback_info cci;
===
And how I build the authlib for my system
cd /usr/src/qmail
wget
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/courier/courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar.bz2
bunzip2 courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar.bz2
tar xf courier-authlib-0.59.3.tar
chown -R root.root courier-authlib-0.59.3
cd courier-authlib-0.59.3
wget http://www.dermanagement.com/qmail/courier-0.59.3-authvchkpw.patch
patch courier-0.59.3-authvchkpw.patch
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/courier-authlib \
--without-authpam \
--without-authldap \
--without-authpwd \
--without-authmysql \
--without-authpgsql \
--without-authshadow \
--without-authuserdb \
--without-authcustom \
--without-authcram \
--without-authpipe \
--with-authdaemon \
--with-redhat \
--with-authvchkpw
Good luck.
Dave.
I can compile courier-authlib version 0.59.2 or lower just fine with
vpopmail
5.4.17 but I cannot get newer versions to compile. I tried asking on
the
courier-imap list but they say not our problem.
Here's the errors:
--
authvchkpw.c: In function 'auth_vchkpw_login':
authvchkpw.c:40: warning: empty declaration
authvchkpw.c:43: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
In file included from authvchkpw.c:63:
libhmac/hmac.h:15: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_h_rcsid'
libhmac/hmac.h:15: error: parameter 'hmac_h_rcsid' is initialized
libhmac/hmac.h:50: warning: empty declaration
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_md5'
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_sha1'
libhmac/hmac.h:54: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_sha256'
libhmac/hmac.h:61: error: storage class specified for parameter
'hmac_list'
In file included from authvchkpw.c:64:
cramlib.h:17: warning: empty declaration
cramlib.h:19: error: storage class specified for
parameter 'auth_cram_callback'
cramlib.h:26: warning: empty declaration
authvchkpw.c:71: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:87: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:106: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:170: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:177: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:227: error: parameter 'authvchkpw_info' is initialized
authvchkpw.c:229: error: 'auth_vchkpw' undeclared (first use in this
function)
authvchkpw.c:229: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
authvchkpw.c:229: error: for each function it appears in.)
authvchkpw.c:231: error: 'authvchkpwclose' undeclared (first use in this
function)
authvchkpw.c:232: error: 'auth_vchkpw_changepass' undeclared (first use
in
this function)
authvchkpw.c:238: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__'
before '{' token
authvchkpw.c:240: error: old-style parameter declarations in prototyped
function definition
authvchkpw.c:240: error: expected '{' at end of input
[vchkpw] Alternate routing for failed send
I had a case where a single destination SMTP MX server was denying my send request from what appeared to be an IP range-based RBL blacklist. Nobody elses MXs levered that blacklist, so I only had the one problem delivery. I was able to mockup a gateway on another server of mine in another IP block and I temporarily used 'smtproutes' to clear my queue for that issue. Q: What solutions are being used in the wild to deal with this kind of case? I could see an 'smtproutes' file that uses a :farm.of.hostnames.tld in order to send your outbound email through a farm of servers in diverse netblocks, but that implies a bit more scale than I can offer/afford. I don't believe there's any available logic that says something like after a message is SMTP-connect-refused XX times, please try alternate send path via 'othersmtproutes' That's probably more overhead than value, but it occurred to me... Feedback is most welcome. (Please let me know if this is more appropriate for the qmail list than vpopmail.) Dave
[vchkpw] Anti-spam solution - favs?
I've got vpopmail/netqmail built using typical clamav and spamassassin (clamd, spamd). I've got XBL filtering and CHKUSER enabled on smtp. I'm actively training my Bayes filters. I do not use verified sender or SPF. Spamassassin's local.cf look like this: required_score 6 rewrite_header Subject [SPAM] report_safe 0 use_pyzor 0 use_razor2 1 use_dcc 0 dcc_home /var/dcc skip_rbl_checks 0 rbl_timeout 3 score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 2 use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_path /home/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes I STILL find a good bit of spam is getting through. (pharma, mortgages, stock hype, etc) I wonder whether there are other/better anti-spam tools I should use to cull the spam more effectively. Suggestions most welcome.
[vchkpw] New release?
Hey, a time I've read about the vpopmaild feature for some new vpopmail release. Unfortunately I doesn't know where I've read about it. Is this feature planned and what pricisly is it for? Regards Christoph
[vchkpw] All e-mails tagged from Spamassassin automatically in a different directory
Hi, I'm using qmail with vpopmail and simscan. Via simscan I'm using Spamassassin 3.1. Is there any possibility to move any incoming mails, which are tagged by sa, in a special directory for that perticular domain? Or is this a qmail question? Regards Christoph
[vchkpw] Feature for vdelivermail
Hi, after the resultless search for a filter for emails tagged by spamassassin I now want to add some small code to vdelivermail. The plan: When the mail is tagged by spamassassin vdelivermail should not deliver to $DOMAIN/$USER/Maildir/new but to $DOMAIN/$USER/Maildir/.Spam/new. This feature should be domainbased and customizable via a controlfile like tcp.smtp or simcontrol. Is there any idea where to put these code best? Regards Christoph
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Feature for vdelivermail
Hi Robin,
Zitat von Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As someone has already replied, maildrop can do this for you.
This sort of code does not belong in vdelivermail.
Yeah,
that mail was too late. I've seen it a few minutes after my last mail
:D. Some other question: Why maildrop doesn't executes the following
lines:
snip
`maildirmake $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM`
`chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM`
/snip
Here is my complete mailfilter file:
snip
import EXT
import HOST
import HOME
HOME=$HOME/$EXT
if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)
{
`test -d $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM`
if ($RETURNCODE == 1)
{
`maildirmake $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM`
`chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM`
}
to $HOME/Maildir/.SPAM/
}
to $HOME/Maildir/
/snip
Regards
Christoph
RE: [vchkpw] Re: Feature for vdelivermail
Zitat von Charles J. Boening [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't believe you need the HOME=$HOME/$EXT line. $HOME should point to the user directory containing Maildir. The first error was, that maildrop has forgotton the username. So HOME=$HOME/$EXT ends in the absolute path to the maildir for me. I've had problems with maildrop when I first set things up. It was like indentation had to be a certain way or something. Of course, it could just be that while changing indentation I fixed something else. I would put both commands on the same line. I've tried it with one line and other variants. I printed out the commands an tried it manually on the commandline - everything works fine. When I try to call these commands from inside the mailfiler - nothing happens even not, when I try to call TEST=`ls`. Again, here's the way I do it and it works. Not sure about the changes you made or why. You don't need the whole path when testing for the .SPAM folder. Everything can be relative to where the maildrop script is run from. I've allready tried it with relative paths. The same error shows up... Also, check your logs. Maildrop errors will show up. Yeah, I get the maildrop:_Unable_to_create_a_dot-lock. error because the target Maildir doesn't exists. Thanks for any help. Regards Christoph
[vchkpw] announce: bantcp for CHKUSER patch
I wanted to announce a little script project I'm starting called 'bantcp'. I got frustrated by a dictionary attack on one of my domains. Tonix' CHKUSER patch did it's job in repelling the offending IPs (who were not already RBLd) but I wanted more. I wanted a (semi-)automated way to extract the attacking IPs from my qmail logs and insert them into my tcp.smtp file using selection criteria based upon how many attacks had been made from an IP during a specific window of time. I felt this was a way to prevent further abuse from these IPs. bantcp is version 0.01 It's a cobbling of bash and perl to provide the output suitable for pasting into your tcp.smtp file. It's not terribly elegant yet, but I'm hoping for some suggestions. Flames are welcome too, though please be kind. I'm not a coder. I'm also guessing that a 'sed/awk' guru could tighten bantcp up a lot - maybe kill off the perl jumps altogether. http://www.bantcp.com/ Thanks, Dave.
[vchkpw] CHKUSER 2.0.8b - banning IPs into tcp.smtp
CHKUSER 2.0.8b on qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.4.10. I LOVE that CHKUSER can single out the unknown recipients and block the offending SMTP session - big traffic control helper! However, I've got one domain that's really being hit hard by dictionary attacks. Some attack traffic is a few hits from many IPs, other traffic is many hits from few IPs. What I'd like to do is get something that's like an IDS that reads log output for CHKUSER rejections - currently only outputting to /var/log/qmail/smtp/current and have that information parsed for the specific domain and have the offending sender IP stuffed into a database (probably with a timestamp). Then I would build some scripted logic to query the database to figure out if I've been hit N number of times from an IP in a certain window of time; thus the trigger to update tcp.smtp with the offender. I think I might go ahead and just compile the tcp.smtp at each pass, that way I can keep tcp.smtp as compact as possible. Those who've stopped being naughty are taken off the blocklist eventually. Almost an RBL mentality I guess. (and yes, I AM running with the Spamhaus RBL also). I gotta believe some smart person already built this, but I don't know if it's called something specific. Big challenge for me is how to keep an eye on a logfile for any particular time (particularly given DJB's arcane date values in the above log file) and not end up reprocessing data I've already seen. Help appreciated and thanks! Dave.
[vchkpw] How expensive is reloading the tcp.smtp.cdb?
Related to my earlier post, how expensive is it - resource-wise - to reload a tcp.smtp file of 100-1000 lines? If I have processing that is updating tcp.smtp every 5-10 minutes and I choose to reload the cdb from that tcp.smtp, is that a bad idea? The qmailctl cdb command runs very fast for me now, but I don't have any idea what impact it has on any smtpd instances having to restart or re-read. Anyone know?
[vchkpw] Spotty behavior authenticating: MySQL server has gone away
Something peculiar happened to mysql during a reboot and now vpopmail authdaemond is having trouble completing authentications /var/log/maillog says: Aug 24 08:36:15 hostname authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away This problem is spotty though. I have several successful authentications before this error occurs. I then have to restart mysqld before I can get any other authentications to succeed. I am still able to use the mysql client to connect to the server for an interactive session. What seems strange to me is that there are only two mysql daemons running: root 23923 0.0 0.1 5060 1108 pts/0S09:13 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid mysql23956 0.0 0.5 38620 5656 pts/0Sl 09:13 0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/var/lib --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking Every other instance of mysql 3.23.x I've ever run has about 10 child threads running, so this seems strange to see only one child thread. I have not updated any packages on this box recently. None at all, I swear. Suggestions to investigate? Googling on the MySQL server has gone away is a wild goose chase.
Re: [vchkpw] Spotty behavior authenticating: MySQL server has gone away
Something peculiar happened to mysql during a reboot and now vpopmail authdaemond is having trouble completing authentications /var/log/maillog says: Aug 24 08:36:15 hostname authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away This problem is spotty though. I have several successful authentications before this error occurs. I then have to restart mysqld before I can get any other authentications to succeed. I am still able to use the mysql client to connect to the server for an interactive session. What seems strange to me is that there are only two mysql daemons running: root 23923 0.0 0.1 5060 1108 pts/0S09:13 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid mysql23956 0.0 0.5 38620 5656 pts/0Sl 09:13 0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/var/lib --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking Every other instance of mysql 3.23.x I've ever run has about 10 child threads running, so this seems strange to see only one child thread. I have not updated any packages on this box recently. None at all, I swear. Suggestions to investigate? Googling on the MySQL server has gone away is a wild goose chase. Hrm, rebooting the box seems to have helped. Still same number of mysql daemons, but they're answering now... Damned strange. dmesg on reboot didn't show any ext3 errors being fixed - I was wondering if this was a disk thing. Thoughts still welcome and appreciated on this.
[vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?
sys: Fedora core3, manually compiled vpopmail 3.4.10, RPM Mysql 3.23.59?, compiled courier imap 4.0.2, compiled qmail-1.03, patched qmail-ej-cocktail-14.tar.gz, manually patched Tonix' chkuser 2.0. I have installed vpopmail with roaming/SMTP-AUTH before, again using Michael Bowe's webmail guide. SMTP-AUTH is failing authentication and I cannot tell why. I had created the qmail install with Tonix' chkuser patch and saved that qmail-smtpd binary. Substituting between the original and the Tonix patched qmail-smtpd binaries does not seem to change the behavior. compiled vpopmail as: ./configure \ --enable-roaming-users \ --enable-logging=p \ --disable-passwd \ --enable-clear-passwd \ --disable-domain-quotas \ --enable-auth-module=mysql \ --disable-many-domains \ --enable-auth-logging \ --enable-sql-logging \ --enable-valias \ --disable-mysql-limits /home/vpopmail/etc: qmail]# ls -l ~vpopmail/etc/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jun 8 19:47 inc_deps -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 Jun 8 19:47 lib_deps -rw-r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 1107 Jun 8 19:47 vlimits.default -rw-r- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 43 Jun 8 19:43 vpopmail.mysql /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run: #!/bin/sh QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl export QMAILQUEUE VPOPMAILUID=`id -u vpopmail` VPOPMAILGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1700 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver \ -H -l [[[my.host.name]]] \ -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c 30 -R -u $VPOPMAILUID -g $VPOPMAILGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -C \ -r 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org:Your message was rejected ' \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $LOCAL /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /usr/bin/true 21 mysql's vpopmail database table vlog contains: | id | user | passwd | domain| logon | remoteip | message | timestamp | error | ++---+--+---+-+--+-++---+ | 1 | daver | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | example.net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | MYIP | vchkpw-25: password fail (pass: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]') [EMAIL PROTECTED]:MYIP | 1119024854 | 3 | | 2 | daver | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | example.net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | MYIP | vchkpw-25: password fail (pass: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]') [EMAIL PROTECTED]:MYIP | 1119025751 | 3 | THIS IMPLIES that some element of the hostname and a timestamp(?) are being forwarded instead of the submitted password?? I'm at a loss here, help appreciated! BTW, all incoming SMTP delivery works to all accounts. All POP3 pickup and authentication works too. Just SMTP-AUTH to send is broken.
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?
You've got an old SMTP AUTH patch that sends the MD5 challenge and response in the wrong order. Use the patch from the contrib directory of vpopmail, and then remove the $LOCAL from your run file, as the newer SMTP AUTH patch does not use it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com Tom, thanks. I didn't realize there had been a change in patches that did this... Wilco.
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?
You've got an old SMTP AUTH patch that sends the MD5 challenge and response in the wrong order. Use the patch from the contrib directory of vpopmail, and then remove the $LOCAL from your run file, as the newer SMTP AUTH patch does not use it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com Tom, thanks. I didn't realize there had been a change in patches that did this... Wilco. Follow-up Built as netqmail-1.05, patched SMTP-AUTH from vpopmail contrib, then manually added Tonix' chkuser 2.0 Everything is VERY happy now. Thanks for the help! Dave.
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?
On Jun 17, 2005, at 11:21 AM, ISP Lists wrote: Built as netqmail-1.05, patched SMTP-AUTH from vpopmail contrib, then manually added Tonix' chkuser 2.0 Everything is VERY happy now. Did you remember to remove $LOCAL from your qmail-smtpd/run file? If not, you can now auth with any username/password. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com Yes, I did and I tried using nonsense/invalid combos to ensure that I wasn't AUTH'ing the world. Appreciate your concern! Thanks again!
Re: [vchkpw] RBL setup
Hello, how to setup RBL cheking to my qmail-vpopmail instalation. How can I chack if my RBL check works. TNX Hello, Check the relevant section of this guide http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm
Re: [vchkpw] OT: Migration of Lotus Notes to Vpopmail
Googling shall set ye free http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=convert+lotus+notes+to+mboxbtnG=Google+Search Hi list. I need migrate accounts and mailbox from Lotus Notes 5.0.1 to Qmail+Vpopmail. The accounts creation isn't problem, but my main problem is migrate the mailbox to maildir. The mailbox for one user, in Lotus, is into a file .nsf (database Lotus). I need convert 1062 mailbox to Maildir. Somebody know how convert this? If isn't possible convert directly the file nsf, I'm think use imap migration tool http://migrationtool.sourceforge.net/ but I never use this tool Somebody has some experience using tools like to fetchmail, migrationtool, or others? Any suggestion is been thankful Bye friends Juan Enciso Condeña Área de Operaciones Qnet Soluciones Tecnológicas Av. Paseo de la República 4675 - Lima 34 Telf: (511) 241-4122 Anexo 2244 Fax: (511) 446-8135 www.qnet.com.pe
[vchkpw] Howto reject invalid recipients AFTER SMTPD receipt of msg?
I want to reject incoming email to invalid users AFTER accepting the email by SMTPd. Where can I insert a small bash script to check valid users against VPOPMAIL MYSQL DB before allowing SPAMD, CLAMAV, qmail-inject, etc. to run??? Vpopmail 5.4.5, Mysql 3.23.54. Also, I'm aware of Tonix's patch to prevent invalid users BEFORE SMTPD accepts mail. Am considering it, but want to understand options if I'm willing to take the bandwidth hit but not provide hints to dictionary attackers. Really hoping to put a small script inline to SMTP processing. THANKS! My current /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file reads thusly. #!/bin/sh QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl export QMAILQUEUE VPOPMAILUID=`id -u vpopmail` VPOPMAILGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1500 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver \ -H -l server.example.com \ -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c 20 -R -u $VPOPMAILUID -g $VPOPMAILGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -C \ -r 'relays.ordb.org: denied' \ -r 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org: denied' \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $LOCAL \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/bin/true 21
[vchkpw] Re: Howto reject invalid recipients AFTER SMTPD receipt of msg?
On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:07 AM, ISP Lists wrote: I want to reject incoming email to invalid users AFTER accepting the email by SMTPd. Where can I insert a small bash script to check valid users against VPOPMAIL MYSQL DB before allowing SPAMD, CLAMAV, qmail-inject, etc. to run??? Vpopmail 5.4.5, Mysql 3.23.54. Also, I'm aware of Tonix's patch to prevent invalid users BEFORE SMTPD accepts mail. Am considering it, but want to understand options if I'm willing to take the bandwidth hit but not provide hints to dictionary attackers. Really hoping to put a small script inline to SMTP processing. THANKS! My current /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file reads thusly. #!/bin/sh QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl export QMAILQUEUE You can incorporate it into qmail-scanner-queue.pl. If the qmail-queue program exits with the proper exit code, qmail-smtpd will reject the message. You can run vuserinfo and check the exit code to determine if an account is valid or not. You'll need to check the catchall setting (unless catchall is bounce/delete, all addresses are valid). You'll have to add some additional code though to check for mailing list, autoresponder and alias/forward accounts. We have bounced around the idea of writing a simple vpopmail program that checks to see if an account is valid or not (taking into consideration the catchall setting). Another option would be to modify Tonix's patch to do the checking after receiving the message. I have no idea how hard that would be though. On possible problem with this setup is that if I legitimately email two people at your company and one address is invalid, the entire message bounces and I don't know which address was wrong. -- 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/ Tom, thanks for your well considered message. Your last point is probably the most troubling to any scenario that rejects by name. I haven't taken a serious look yet into the docs/code from Tonino to see its behavior in such a case. I, for one, would like to see some additional movement in vpopmail to expand control of smtpd - if not replace it as LinuxMagic have done. That's a bit far-reaching, so perhaps your thought of extending some service for checking valid IDs is useful. I, for one, do NOT run with a catchall, BTW
[vchkpw] Funny error with POP3
For all my accounts when I try to authenticate Evolution pops back a message that says: Unable to connect to POP server mail.whootis.com. Error sending password: could not create vlog table CREATE TABLE vlog ( id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, user char(32), passwd CHAR(32), domain CHAR(64), logon VARCHAR(200), remoteip char(18), message VARCHAR(255), timestamp bigint default 0 NOT NULL, error INT, INDEX user_idx (user), INDEX domain_idx (domain), INDEX remoteip_idx (remoteip), INDEX error_idx (error), INDEX message_idx (message) ) Now this all started this evening when I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE to 4.10-STABLE. I booted back into 4.9-STABLE but I am still getting these errors. I am running vpopmail 5.4.5 with qmail 1.03 with only the qmail-scanner patch. Can someone please help, Thanks! GEoff Sweet
Re: [vchkpw] Funny error with POP3
I thought I would point out that in my logs I get this entry: Oct 6 21:46:28 serv vpopmail[972]: vchkpw-pop3: (PLAIN) login success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xx.xx.xx.xx whenever I get that error and just attempt to click on the ok that Evolution presents me. However something must fail along the way because none of my mail is getting downloaded. -Geoff Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For all my accounts when I try to authenticate Evolution pops back a message that says: Unable to connect to POP server mail.whootis.com. Error sending password: could not create vlog table CREATE TABLE vlog ( id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, user char(32), passwd CHAR(32), domain CHAR(64), logon VARCHAR(200), remoteip char(18), message VARCHAR(255), timestamp bigint default 0 NOT NULL, error INT, INDEX user_idx (user), INDEX domain_idx (domain), INDEX remoteip_idx (remoteip), INDEX error_idx (error), INDEX message_idx (message) ) Now this all started this evening when I upgraded my server from FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE to 4.10-STABLE. I booted back into 4.9-STABLE but I am still getting these errors. I am running vpopmail 5.4.5 with qmail 1.03 with only the qmail-scanner patch. Can someone please help, Thanks! GEoff Sweet
[vchkpw] fetchmail and maildrop to a vpopmail account
I'm struggling finding a howto on a particular issue: I have a webmail/pop3 account, no IMAP. I do not run that server and only have user privs on the email account. I want to do a ONE-TIME conversion to pull the 400+ messages from this account using fetchmail (or whatever you recommend) for delivery to my vpopmail user account. I run the destination server, it runs vpopmail/courier/mysql, and has a domain with the particular ./Maildir account that I want to deliver the mail into. I was going to use fetchmail - maildrop - ./Maildir I was doing okay pulling together information to accomplish this until I realized that I didn't have a local account for maildrop since the destination account is a virtual user in vpopmail (/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/username/Maildir) Does anybody have some guidance on where I should go to cook up a solution? All help appreciated! Thanks, Dave.
[vchkpw] Modifying accounts with PHP
I installed vpopmail with MySQL support, without valias support (as seems to be recommended). I've written some PHP scripts that can create and modify email accounts by direct interface with MySQL, but I'm looking for ways to do more administration of vpopmail -- creating aliases, adding domains, etc. Since .qmail files needs to be owned by vpopmail:vchkpw, and the v* applications need to run as root, I can't really have Apache/PHP try to accomplish any of that stuff directly. What I'm thinking right now is that I could write out formatted text files to a specific directory, then have a cron job (running as root) that parses them and executes various commands: vadddomain, valias, etc. Has anyone done this, or are there any other suggestions for good solutions to this situation? Are there good reasons to avoid this altogether (assuming its done with a modicum of security checking)? I know there's a vpopmail extension for PHP, but it's been in beta for a long time, isn't well documented, and seems pretty limited if you're running PHP as an Apache module (for the same reasons that direct calls to v* binaries are). Cheers, spud. --- a.h.s. boy spud(at)nothingness.orgas yes is to if,love is to yes http://www.nothingness.org/ ---
Re: [vchkpw] fetchmail and maildrop to a vpopmail account
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:06, ISP Lists wrote: I'm struggling finding a howto on a particular issue: I have a webmail/pop3 account, no IMAP. I do not run that server and only have user privs on the email account. I want to do a ONE-TIME conversion to pull the 400+ messages from this account using fetchmail (or whatever you recommend) for delivery to my vpopmail user account. I run the destination server, it runs vpopmail/courier/mysql, and has a domain with the particular ./Maildir account that I want to deliver the mail into. I was going to use fetchmail - maildrop - ./Maildir I was doing okay pulling together information to accomplish this until I realized that I didn't have a local account for maildrop since the destination account is a virtual user in vpopmail (/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/username/Maildir) Does anybody have some guidance on where I should go to cook up a solution? All help appreciated! Thanks, Dave. You're fine just using Fetchmail - after that, IMHO, you're overcomplicating it with maildrop :) I do fetchmail like so: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -s -f /home/root/fetchmail/fetchmail2.rc where fetcmail2.rc contains: poll mail.com.com proto POP3 user username pass password smtpname [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchall Basically grab anything from the remote user's mailbox and redirect it via smtp to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Then your SMTP setup takes care of the delivery as if all those emails came in to your localuser originally. Rick Shucks, that was too easy. Worked great! Thanks Rick!
[vchkpw] retrieve assign file from vpasswd
Hello everyone. I am using qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.2. I have a lot of virtual domains created and I am having quite a problem. I tried to add a new domain and mismatch a few times the password... for some reason the /var/qmail/users/assign file was emptied. The rcpthosts and morercpthosts are fine though. How can I retrieve all the accounts and domains information from the domain/vpasswd file or the domain/vpasswd.cdb file to the /var/qmail/users/assign file? Is there a script or something I can use for that?
[vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH fails, POP3 auth works. Mysql, Linux
I've built vpopmail 5.4.5 with mysql 3.23.57-ish on Debian potato. I've enabled roaming users and have included the SMTP-AUTH patch. Courier, vpopmail, qmail, and everything else compiled fine (I did not use Debian packages). POP3 works fine. Spam filtering works fine. Squirrelmail fine. Squirrelmail sends via 127.0.0.1 SMTP fine via /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp. SMTP-AUTH fails on password look ups and therefore roaming users cannot send email. ERROR LOG: Aug 7 06:58:21 puffer vpopmail[28939]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail [email protected]:[ip protected] vpopmail was compiled like this: ./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-logging=y --enable-ip-alias-domains=y --enable-auth-module=mysql --enable-clear-passwd=n --enable-libdir=/usr/include/mysql/ --enable-tcpserver-path=/home/vpopmail/etc/ --enable-tcpserver-file=/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-qmail-ext --enable-logging=e --enable-tcprules-prog=/usr/local/bin/tcprules --enable-rebuild-tcpserver-file My qmail-smtp/run file reads: #!/bin/sh QMAILQUEUE=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl export QMAILQUEUE VPOPMAILUID=`id -u vpopmail` VPOPMAILGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1500 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver \ -H -l [server hostname protected] \ -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c 20 -R -u $VPOPMAILUID -g $VPOPMAILGID 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -C \ -r 'relays.ordb.org:Your message was rejected. \ -r 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org:Your message was rejected \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $LOCAL /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /usr/bin/true 21 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw is owned by vpopmail.vchkpw /usr/local/courier-imap/etc/imapd bears the line AUTHMODULES=authdaemon How do I go further debug this? Thanks. D.
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH fails, POP3 auth works. Mysql, Linux
I've built vpopmail 5.4.5 with mysql 3.23.57-ish on Debian potato. I've enabled roaming users and have included the SMTP-AUTH patch. Courier, vpopmail, qmail, and everything else compiled fine (I did not use Debian packages). POP3 works fine. Spam filtering works fine. Squirrelmail fine. Squirrelmail sends via 127.0.0.1 SMTP fine via /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp. SMTP-AUTH fails on password look ups and therefore roaming users cannot send email. [SNIP] OK, I've found that it was a client software error where CRAM-MD5 login is advertised first. Pegasus mail wouldn't keep trying to get to plain LOGIN, but The BAT! would fail back from CRAM-MD5 to plain LOGIN and roaming SMTP relay works fine. Sorry for the initial concern, but I'd like to remove CRAM-MD5 from the advertised capabilities to avoid this kind of confusion with users. Any help there?! Sorry, but thanks so far!
[vchkpw] unable to parse this line
Hi all, I've recently been seeing a number of error messages in my qmail send logs, which relate to messages with multiple recipients. The email being sent gets delivered to some of the users on the list but not all. I've checked and doublechecked that the accounts are valid, but can't find any clues as to why its failing. I'm not even sure whether this is a vpopmail issue or a qmail-inject problem. Has anyone come across this? 2004-02-23 05:59:10.701648500 delivery 121519: success: vdelivermail:_valiases_processed/qmail-inject:_fatal:_unable_to_parse_this_line:/To:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]/did_0+0+1/ vpopmail version: 5.3.30 Many thanks Martin.
[vchkpw] Vpopmail and maildrop
Hy guys, I filter my messages through maildrop.
The problem is that I want to bounce no_such_user messages back to
sender using vdelivermal.
So I put a line
to |/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
in my maildrop filter script, but no message is bounced!
Any idea???
Here my .qmail-default and my maildrop script
.qmail-default
|maildrop ./maildroprc
Maildroprc
.
.
VHOME=/home/vpopmail/domains/$HOST/$EXT
VPOP=|/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
`test -d $VHOME/Maildir`
if ( $RETURNCODE = 1 )
{
to $VPOP
exit
}
.
.
.
---
Thanks in advance
Ciao
Gianni
[vchkpw] Lists, stable/devel, and where is it for newbies
My hope, now that Ken and Tom have apparently been united in mind, is that the mailing lists, stable vs. devel issues, and what the Inter7 website and Sourceforge project pages say about vpopmail will be quickly and uniformally aligned as well. Just consider what a new user to vpopmail would encounter if they searched Sourceforge for *this* list and its VERY helpful archives. Also consider what a newbie would find if they went to Inter7 to find current source code and development mail list(s). It's hard enough as a new user to spend time Googling to find answers, but dual, unaligned official web sites would be truly awful. Again, my hope is that Ken and Tom (and all other related parties) can again gather the vpopmail resources into a unified organization with a common and well understood direction. I worry that there will be lingering confusion about who does what with whom and where, such that it will impact future adoption of the application It's too darned good for that! D.
Re: [vchkpw] Re: Tom's fork of vpopmail (and qmailadmin)
My only two points: 1) *IF* there is a fork, with two codebases, follow the others' suggestions and name the new fork differently so that we can have sane discussions about which program we are dealing with on any given matter. 2) *IF* there is a fork, and for either fork, manage releases and bug checking with the CVS proving ground to deal with dev. issues. I would be hard pressed right now to recommend a particular stable version of vpopmail due to the heavy (and very welcome) rapid development and code polishing efforts over the last two months. I LOVE the product, the confusion scares me. D. Tom Collins wrote: On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 10:07 AM, Ken Jones wrote: Just so everyone knows. Tom Collins is attempting to fork the vpopmail project. He refuses to let me share ownership of the vpopmail and qmailadmin projects on source forge. When I asked him to add me as an owner on the project he said he refuses now and at any time in the future to allow me to share ownership. I have forked ownership since I felt that Inter7 was doing a poor job of maintaining vpopmail and qmailadmin. I readily acknowledge that Ken created vpopmail and qmailadmin. They're GPL projects, so I'm free to fork them if I like. Since moving the projects to SourceForge, we've kept up with submitted patches and bug reports. I feel that making the move was beneficial to the projects themselves and the people that use them. I'm certainly not doing this to be malicious or to hurt Ken and Inter7. I've told Ken that he's more than welcome to contribute to the project on SourceForge, or to maintain his own version of vpopmail and qmailadmin. I also stated that until I stopped actively maintaining vpopmail and qmailadmin, I saw no need to add him as a project administrator. Michael Bowe has been actively involved with vpopmail development, and I had no problem adding him as an admin. Ken Jones hasn't contributed to vpopmail and qmailadmin development since March. We've had 12 qmailadmin releases and 7 vpopmail releases since then. Managing the projects on SourceForge keeps everything out in the open, and allows anyone to contribute. Ken hasn't stated why he wants to be an owner of the project. I'm not sure I understand what he loses out on by being a developer on the project and not an admin. -- 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 and mysql replication
You could potentially code in a multiple call update from vpopmail to some IFDEF'd in mysql servers. I'm thinking that you could make certain update calls to as many MySQL servers as you wanted, sending the same SQL statement to each. I imagine some critical thinking in the process could lead to judgement on what would be the essential updates to multi-home and which updates could be written to the master for later replication. My $0.02USD, before taxes. Doug Clements wrote: Greetings, I've got a working mysql and vpopmail setup going, with replication support. For those that don't know, replication support in vpopmail means that all updates go to a single server, where lookups can be sent to another server. I have a local copy of the replicated database on each machine to spread the load out and to be more robust in the face of other machine failure. Unfortunately, this makes each machine dependant on the mysql update server, since each login triggers an update to the lastauth table. How have other people solved this, without just disabling mysql logging? Has anyone used any of the more rare multiple-master ring topologys in mysql to let each server update? I really don't want to setup a dedicated mysql server just to handle updates like this. I'm also planning to start using spamassassin mysql preferences, so I'd like any server to be able to update the database with user preferences, and the change replicate around. Does anyone have any input on this? Anyone use squirrelmail with their preferences in the database as well? Thanks! --Doug
[vchkpw] Pulling raw messages out of a maildir
I have a filter that moves incoming virus found msgs in my Admin account to a subfolder so that I can observe what kind of virus flow/traffic is hitting my domains. I had intended to write a little perl/mrtg processor and make some pretty graphs to WOW! my customers. And then this asswipe SoBig variant worm hits this week and I've got thousands of virus found notices now, still arriving at almost 1 per minute. I want to physically pull the mail message files out of the Admin user's virus found folder (below INBOX) and just save them in a tar.gz file until I write my scripts and process them. Q: Any harm in leaving qmail/vpopmail up and running while working at the file system level to move the messages out of the Maildir tree? I DO NOT want to risk damaging this account, since it's my real Admin account. Help appreciated. Thx,D.
[vchkpw] chkuser patch and mysql on different machine
I want to build a mail gateway to deny incoming SMTP for unknown virtual domain users by building it with the chkuser patch (correct patch name?). I use MySQL for my user database on the mail server. Can I hook the gateway (via VPN) to the user database on the mail server for the auth checks?? I haven't worked with the chkuser patch so this is very new ground for me. No, I'd rather not start replicating MySQL databases if I can help it. I want the gateway to save resources for scanning virii and stopping this Sobig crap. Thanks in advance, Dave.
[vchkpw] Help please, double message
Hi folks, need an help. I set up my qmail-vpopmail system to filter mail via maildrop. So i put this two lines in my .qmail-default file | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox | /usr/bin/maildropmailfilter Where mailfilter is my mail filter file that moves spam messages in a different folder. The problem is that in this manner all messages are sent twice in mailbox. Obviously, removing the firt line solve the problem, but invalid addresses are no more notified. TIA Ciao Gianni
Re: [vchkpw] mysql gone away. Please help a noob.
did you configure for your mysql user/password in vmysql.h? if not, amend the entries and recompile. also, did you create the tables or check that they were created? did you allow mysql access from within mysql? did you 'flush priviledges' to make the privs stick in mysql? Good luck jon kutassy wrote: I'd like to get vpopmail working with authenticating against mysql... I have a working version of mysql that Id rather not break: Excuse me if I include too much info : Im not sure what is and isnt relevent: mysql Ver 12.21 Distrib 4.0.14, for pc-linux (i686) Server version: 4.0.14-standard Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock I compiled with ./configure --enable-mysql=y when I run add domain I get: Please enter password for postmaster: enter password again: could not connect to mysql update server Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) with database could not connect to mysql update server Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away I have a database called vpopmail and a user vpopmail that has (I believe got access to this db).. but looking at this error message makes me wonder... does Access denied for user: mean that the database has been found just that its not allowing the user to authenticate? Im lost.. Regards Jon _ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
Re: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrongpw?
I apologize for not reading enuf of the thread, this is a diff issue than what I wrote. Good luck. Sorry. Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: There's something about logging into virtual accounts with the order and number of parameters in your smtp run file with the new(er) versions of vpopmail. The parameter count changed and many online examples have /bin/true one position too early. This has the effect of allowing all passwords to be authenticated, irrespective of their lookup result. LIST: Can we call this problem something specific: The /bin/true bogus auth issue and make a link to reference/fix it? I think this is your issue Jeff. jeff thomas wrote: Ok... What the hell ... I just compiled 5.3.24 WITHOUT learn-passwords. Installed it. Restarted all mail services. I can STILL log into any account with any password. Someone here must be able to shed some light on this for me?? Please? --- jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... So, I just compiled 5.3.24 and installed it. I used the following configure line: ./configure --enable-qmaildir=/var/qmail --enable-tcprules-prog=/usr/local/bin/tcprules --enable-learn-passwords=y --enable-tcpserver-file=/usr/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-defaultquota=1000 --enable-logging=e --enable-valias=y --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-relay-clear-minutes=30 --enable-mysql=y --enable-sqlincdir=/usr/local/include/mysql --enable-sqllibdir=/usr/local/lib/mysql --enable-default-domain=domain.com --enable-qmail-ext=y --prefix=/usr/home Same freaking problem. I can log into all of the accounts with any password. Thoughts? --- jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... I tried this fix. I edited vchkpw.c and removed the FOOB and ENDIF. recompiled. No luck. Same thing. Any password I put in still works. Thoughts? --- Michael Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remembered that learn-passwords was broken in 5.3.20, and then eventually fixed in 5.3.24 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=783824group_id=85937atid=577798 Maybe this has something to do with your problem? Michael. - Original Message - From: jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrong pw? Learn passwords was enabled. However, it should learn only the FIRST password entered for each account not multiple passwords for each account. Right? It would seem logical that with learn-passwords, the first time i put in the password for [EMAIL PROTECTED], it learns that password. If I try to log into [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a different password, I should be rejected, as it learned the first password. --- Michael Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be barking up the wrong tree here but... Perhaps did you configure vpopmail to learn passwords ? It rings a bell for me that if you upgrade from an v4.x vpopmail, and you enable clear passwords in your v5.2 vpopmail, you loose all your existing passwords and the general way to recover from this is to enable vpopmail's learn passwords functionality This could explain why any password works. But then again, once the password has been learned, you shouldn't be able to go back and use some other password and still get access Michael. - Original Message - From: jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:15 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrong pw? Hello - I recently installed vpopmail 5.3.20 from freebsd ports. I used Matt Simerson's FreeBSD Qmail Toaster scripts to install it (it uses ports). That installed without problem. I installed courier-imap and squirrelmail as well as sqwebmail. I noticed today that I can log into any of the accounts via sqwebmail with any password. I can literally put in xxx for the password on my e-mail account and it will let me in. I tried it on squirrelmail with the same problem. So, then I tried simply logging into the POP3 account with xyz as the password. It, too, let me in with full access. This is bad - obviously. Anyone care to shed some light on what I need to do to get this fixed ASAP. I upgraded from 4.9.x and use mysql4 for authentication
Re: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrongpw?
There's something about logging into virtual accounts with the order and number of parameters in your smtp run file with the new(er) versions of vpopmail. The parameter count changed and many online examples have /bin/true one position too early. This has the effect of allowing all passwords to be authenticated, irrespective of their lookup result. LIST: Can we call this problem something specific: The /bin/true bogus auth issue and make a link to reference/fix it? I think this is your issue Jeff. jeff thomas wrote: Ok... What the hell ... I just compiled 5.3.24 WITHOUT learn-passwords. Installed it. Restarted all mail services. I can STILL log into any account with any password. Someone here must be able to shed some light on this for me?? Please? --- jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... So, I just compiled 5.3.24 and installed it. I used the following configure line: ./configure --enable-qmaildir=/var/qmail --enable-tcprules-prog=/usr/local/bin/tcprules --enable-learn-passwords=y --enable-tcpserver-file=/usr/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-defaultquota=1000 --enable-logging=e --enable-valias=y --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-relay-clear-minutes=30 --enable-mysql=y --enable-sqlincdir=/usr/local/include/mysql --enable-sqllibdir=/usr/local/lib/mysql --enable-default-domain=domain.com --enable-qmail-ext=y --prefix=/usr/home Same freaking problem. I can log into all of the accounts with any password. Thoughts? --- jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... I tried this fix. I edited vchkpw.c and removed the FOOB and ENDIF. recompiled. No luck. Same thing. Any password I put in still works. Thoughts? --- Michael Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remembered that learn-passwords was broken in 5.3.20, and then eventually fixed in 5.3.24 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=783824group_id=85937atid=577798 Maybe this has something to do with your problem? Michael. - Original Message - From: jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrong pw? Learn passwords was enabled. However, it should learn only the FIRST password entered for each account not multiple passwords for each account. Right? It would seem logical that with learn-passwords, the first time i put in the password for [EMAIL PROTECTED], it learns that password. If I try to log into [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a different password, I should be rejected, as it learned the first password. --- Michael Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be barking up the wrong tree here but... Perhaps did you configure vpopmail to learn passwords ? It rings a bell for me that if you upgrade from an v4.x vpopmail, and you enable clear passwords in your v5.2 vpopmail, you loose all your existing passwords and the general way to recover from this is to enable vpopmail's learn passwords functionality This could explain why any password works. But then again, once the password has been learned, you shouldn't be able to go back and use some other password and still get access Michael. - Original Message - From: jeff thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:15 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Urgent - vchkpw/vpopmail authenticate even with wrong pw? Hello - I recently installed vpopmail 5.3.20 from freebsd ports. I used Matt Simerson's FreeBSD Qmail Toaster scripts to install it (it uses ports). That installed without problem. I installed courier-imap and squirrelmail as well as sqwebmail. I noticed today that I can log into any of the accounts via sqwebmail with any password. I can literally put in xxx for the password on my e-mail account and it will let me in. I tried it on squirrelmail with the same problem. So, then I tried simply logging into the POP3 account with xyz as the password. It, too, let me in with full access. This is bad - obviously. Anyone care to shed some light on what I need to do to get this fixed ASAP. I upgraded from 4.9.x and use mysql4 for authentication. Any and all help is appreciated.
Re: [vchkpw] Losing messages when I move them?
The offending user is der drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 May 30 07:44 der cd der; ls -l drwx-- 28 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 25 11:14 Maildir cd Maildir; ls -l -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw264 Jul 25 11:14 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 3955 Aug 1 14:40 courierimapuiddb drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 12288 Aug 1 14:49 cur -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 4498 Aug 1 14:49 maildirsize drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 8192 Aug 1 14:32 new drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 1 14:52 tmp cd cur; ls -l [99 messages, last several shown] -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 163847 Jul 31 13:25 1059675921.19351.penguin.example.com,S=163777:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 2530 Jul 31 17:09 1059689347.25043.penguin.example.com,S=2461:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 3110 Jul 31 21:23 1059704582.5611.penguin.surfinbox.com,S=3036:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 2537 Aug 1 13:51 1059763864.10523.penguin.example.com,S=2459:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 3252 Aug 1 14:18 1059765516.11705.penguin.example.com,S=3183:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 1706 Aug 1 14:26 1059765977.11975.penguin.example.com,S=1637:2,S -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 3413 Aug 1 14:26 1059766016.11998.penguin.example.com,S=3347:2,RS Did that help more info needed Jeff Hedlund wrote: Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: I run Courier1.7/Vpopmail5.2.1/Squirrel1.4.11(?)/Qmail (blah blah). Recently I've had messages get lost/deleted when I try to move them to another folder. If I use Mozilla, I'd drag-and-drop. If I use Squirrel, I'd mark and move-to-folder. Some messages move OK, others get lost. The lost ones don't go to Trash, they just disappear. No errors, nothing in the logs. I've got a theory that most the mail that gets lost on a move is either HTML or has 1+ attachments of any size. The problem doesn't seem to affect all folders of a mailbox/account, but it does seem to be a sticky problem - once a folder goes bad, it stays bad. Not all users exhibit this problem. Disk seems ok, etc... looking for debug ideas. Very strange problem! I wonder what the permissions look like on the bad folders..., any idea? Jeff
Re: [vchkpw] Losing messages when I move them?
an offending folder is INBOX.consulting pwd = der/Maildir cd .consulting; ls -l -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw609 Jul 29 14:51 courierimapuiddb drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 29 07:27 cur -rwx--1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 Jul 18 14:49 maildirfolder drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 18 14:49 new drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 29 14:51 tmp ls -l new total 0 ls -l tmp total 0 ls -l cur -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 1436 Jul 18 14:35 1058557796.M109269P14433V0302I0053812F_8.penguin.example.com,S=1436:2,S -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 2023 Jul 17 10:37 1058557805.M99846P14433V0302I00538130_11.penguin.example.com,S=2023:2,RS -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 3296 Jul 18 14:47 1058557959.M590179P14433V0302I0053812D_12.penguin.example.com,S=3296:2,S -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 2135 Jul 18 15:56 1058562075.M937013P14433V0302I0053812E_16.penguin.example.com,S=2135:2,S -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 3969 Jul 18 15:56 1058562075.M937379P14433V0302I00538132_17.penguin.example.com,S=3969:2,S -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 4258 Jul 28 13:37 1059430929.M573029P30452V0302I00538135_3.penguin.example.com,S=4258:2,RS -rw-r--r--1 vpopmail vchkpw 5247 Jul 28 19:37 1059481652.M339393P26685V0302I00538136_3.penguin.example.com,S=5247:2,S More??? Jeff Hedlund wrote: Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: Did that help more info needed How about the offending mail folder? What are it's perms? (and the dirs inside it)? Jeff
[vchkpw] Deny on bad username?
I've seen prior references on this list to a patch/script that will deny incoming SMTP when the username/account is unknown. After getting a ton of crap from the SoBIG virus (and various spam probes) I would really like to consider adding this to my system. My implementation is the following: qmail 1.03 with many common patches, including QMAILQUEUE. courier-imap (1.4?) vpopmail 5.2.1 Squirrelmail 1.4 MySQL support for both vpopmail and squirrelmail Spamassassin and CLAM AV That might be too much detail, but I wondered if the MySQL support would be an issue. Please link me to wherever I can find a description of this SMTP denial support. Thanks, Dave.
Re: [vchkpw] Antivirus Scanner
You can run an Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam gateway with a lower MX value than your real mail server. The gateway filters, cleans, and deals with bounces. Good mail is passed onto your mail server. You can have multiple gateways at the same MX if you _really_ need to. qmail-scanner with clam-av and spamassassin is a nice combo that has also been well documented. Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: Yes I know that, but I do need to have the scanner in one machine and the mail program in another, and qmail-scanner although it does stop a lot of virus, it is not enough for me. (which by the way I am also using) I have seen the bitdefender, has anyone used that one? or also I have seen the panda software. Still I am not sure that panda works with qmail. Thanks Qmail-Scanner works well and gives you the ability to incorporate SPAM filtering On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:37, Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: Hi guys, do anyone know a good antivirus scanner that can be installed on linux but not directly in the machine with the email server? and that works with qmail+vpopmail? eg: Firewall---Antivirus Mail scanner---Qmail+Vpopmail Mailserver Thanks again -- Ron Culler
[vchkpw] valias usage?
I'm on vpopmail 5.2.1 with mysql and valias enabled. I *thought* that valias would allow incoming mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the local vpopmail system. Documentation is a little sparse on this product. Am I correct in what valias does? If Yes, how do I implement the exmaple alias above?
[vchkpw] Change an account name?
I don't see a command to change a username for a vpopmail account. Is there a procedure to simply change the name of an account without having to literally pick up a maildir manually and drop it into a new account for the new name?
[vchkpw] SpamAssassin, Vpopmail, conditional handling on Spam Score?
I'm running the QMAILQUEUE patch with SpamAssassin into Vpopmail with Mysql and Courier. I'm running SpamAssassin with spam threashold required_hits = 8. I allow direct delivery to the mailbox, but it is subject prefixed [SPAM] (thus it is Spam Tagged) What I'd like to do is add another threashold (probably in SA?) where the spam score of 15 is sent to /dev/null. Scores from 7-14.99 are spam tagged (and delivered) and scores less than 7 are not spam tagged. (I've been seeing spam scores as high as 28.8 recently BTW) Is there a normal way to do this? D.
RE: [vchkpw] Re: Duplicate Messages.
Interesting Answer Peter, but I will through a bit of a loop into this. 1. User account bruce, no .qmail-bruce file. - two messages are delivered to bruce when addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. User account bruce, with .qmail-bruce file. - one message is delivered to bruce when addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, unless I am missing something (in which case, please point me to where) I do not see why the above example should go to the .qmail-default file. In the event that the message does go to the default file, I do want both. I want the bounce to go back AND a copy to be forwarded to the postmaster. I performed an intersting test. I deleted ALL .qmail-* files, including the .qmail-default and the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just got delivered once. So, my theory is that creating a .qmail-default file in a virtual domain, requires every user to have a .qmail-(user) file. -Original Message- From: Peter Palmreuther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 14, 2003 10:49 To: Bknonix Lists in vpop Subject: [vchkpw] Re: Duplicate Messages. Hello Bknonix, On Friday, February 14, 2003 at 3:51:04 AM you wrote (at least in part): And the output of: cat home-directory-of-that-domain/.qmail-default | /home/VMail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /home/VMail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox And you _really_ wonder why mails are delivered twice? The first line searches for the user in vpasswd.cdb and if found delivers the mail. If not is redirects the mail to postmaster@... The second line does exactly the same, except in case of failure it bounces the message. A successful delivery done in line 1 does _NOT_ stop qmail-local executing the other lines in .qmail-default, which a quick look into man dot-qmail and man qmail-local would have revealed. Decide ... Bounce or Forward. If you _really need_ both you'll for sure have no problem with writing an own program or script that is called from vdelivermail (|.../vdelivermail '' |/path/to/my/prog) and forwards and bounces by itself, with the effect you only have _one_ delivery instruction in .qmail-default. -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther Ummm U Ug... I rule and you don't.
RE: [vchkpw] Duplicate Messages.
Ok. Here you go. From: Jonas Pasche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 13, 2003 14:05 Hi Bruce, (a) Before I created the file .qmail-lists Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.602392 new msg 103789 Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.605824 info msg 103789: bytes 2455 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2616 uid 500 Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.734291 starting delivery 88: msg 103789 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.736996 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.189478 delivery 88: success: did_0+0+2/ Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.248579 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.532584 end msg 103789 Ok, please tell us the output of: grep bknonix.com /var/qmail/users/assign +bknonix.com-:bknonix.ca:89:89:/home/VMail/domains/bknonix.ca:-:: And the output of: ls -la home-directory-of-that-domain drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 10 21:28 . drwx--4 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 9 13:02 .. drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jan 7 01:02 bknonix drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jan 7 01:02 bruce -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 34 Feb 8 17:04 .dir-control drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jan 7 01:02 lists -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 57 Feb 9 21:10 .qmail-abuse -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 53 Feb 10 21:16 .qmail-bknonix -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 51 Feb 10 21:14 .qmail-bruce -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw109 Feb 9 21:10 .qmail-default -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 51 Feb 10 21:16 .qmail-lists -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 53 Feb 9 21:10 .qmail-postmaster -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw311 Feb 5 00:48 vpasswd -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 2425 Feb 5 00:48 vpasswd.cdb -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 Feb 5 00:48 .vpasswd.lock And the output of: cat home-directory-of-that-domain/.qmail-default | /home/VMail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /home/VMail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox Jonas
RE: [vchkpw] Duplicate Messages.
Thanks Jonas: Here are two snipits from the log. (a) Before I created the file .qmail-lists Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.602392 new msg 103789 Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.605824 info msg 103789: bytes 2455 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2616 uid 500 Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.734291 starting delivery 88: msg 103789 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 10 12:40:20 radar mail: 1044898820.736996 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.189478 delivery 88: success: did_0+0+2/ Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.248579 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 12:40:22 radar mail: 1044898822.532584 end msg 103789 (b) After I created the file .qmail-list | /home/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 10 21:20:20 radar mail: 1044930020.938573 new msg 103790 Feb 10 21:20:20 radar mail: 1044930020.941533 info msg 103790: bytes 5240 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 3803 uid 500 Feb 10 21:20:20 radar mail: 1044930020.984768 starting delivery 125: msg 103790 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 10 21:20:20 radar mail: 1044930020.990660 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 21:20:22 radar mail: 1044930022.148490 delivery 125: success: did_0+0+1/ Feb 10 21:20:22 radar mail: 1044930022.206990 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Feb 10 21:20:22 radar mail: 1044930022.224711 end msg 103790 Now, all I can see that is different is the (a) did_0+0+2 versus (b) did_0+0+1 line. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Bruce -Original Message- From: Jonas Pasche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 11, 2003 08:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Duplicate Messages. Hi Bruce, Can somebody explain why I have to create the .qmail files for the delivery? Yes, the qmail-send log. Please read it, or post the according log snippet if you're unsure how to interpret it. Jonas
[vchkpw] Duplicate Messages.
Has anybody seen this before QMAIL + VPOPMAIL - install qmail on system. Local domain is domain1.com - create user1 / user2 on system. Email works fine to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no changes to default .qmail files in alias directory. - create virtual domain vdomain.com - create [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no changes to default .qmail files - send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you get 2 copies of the message in the folder. After much searching, I created .qmail-vuser1 containing 1 line: | /home/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] And low and behold, only one copy of the message. Can somebody explain why I have to create the .qmail files for the delivery? Thanks Bruce.
RE: [vchkpw] Change password
http://inter7.com/vpopmail/doc/ http://inter7.com/vpopmail/doc/vpasswd.html please read... -Original Message- From: zafar rizvi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Change password hi ppl Any body have some idea about changepassword with virtual domain user (vpopmail user). Bcz i must need a change password script or idea thanks zafar
RE: [vchkpw] mail is not going outside
Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection. -Original Message-From: zafar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:11 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [vchkpw] mail is not going outside hello ppl i am using qmail on redhat,and using virtual domains. so that why i compile vpopmail with roaming-users=y support but when i send mail to outside from that domain then it give me error -- Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.737084 new msg 282Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.737211 info msg 282: bytes 190 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 19926 uid 507Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.787793 starting delivery 4: msg 282 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.787906 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.792076 delivery 4: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/Dec 23 11:44:07 mail2 qmail: 1040643847.792180 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 i can't understand this problem bcz mail is sending localy very fine..not remote.. plz help me regard this. zafar
[vchkpw] Vconvert problem
Hi all. I'm testing a migration from cdb to mysql on vpopmail, but I encounter a problem. If I run vconvert -c -m, it reports success but my vpopmail table in vpopmail db is clear. I also try to create a new account to test if it was a permission problem, but all works well: the new account was inserted in vpopmail table. Then, if I rerun vconvert -c -m, I find that my vpopmail table is cleared again, loosing also my new account definitions. Vpopmail version 5.3.12 Any ideas?? Thanks in advance Ciao Gianni
RE: [vchkpw] Re: smtp auth
your right. users were not vpopmail/vchkpw. working perfectly now. thanks peter. -chris -Original Message- From: Peter Palmreuther [mailto:lists;pitpalme.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Re: smtp auth Hello Lists, On Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 2:37:43 AM you wrote: smtp auth is returning user unknown: Oct 30 15:59:27 query vpopmail[9465]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:209.124.141.171 startups are: /usr/bin/tcpserver -u 63 -g 65 -l -R -H 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ query.aptedtech.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true Who's 'UID 63' and 'GID 65' on your system? User vpopmail? If not you might simply have an access problem to 'vpasswd.cdb' as it's only readable to root and vpopmail but not to qmaild, which is used in default installations for starting up qmail-smtpd. If you have enabled 'passwd' users as well in vpopmail configuration you'll have to run qmail-smtpd as user root for being able to read '/etc/passwd' and if existing '/etc/shadow', else you'll only need to run qmail-smtpd as UID/GID vpopmail/vchkpw. HTH Pit -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther
[vchkpw] smtp auth
i realize this may be a qmail list question and i have another email in my drafts folder just for the occasion but i thought it would post it here first (people tend to get eaten alive on the qmail list also :). i have set up qmail_smtpauth_qmailqueue_maildir++/vpopmail/mysql. i can pop in fine: Oct 30 15:59:33 query vpopmail[9467]: vchkpw-pop3: (PLAIN) login success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:209.124.141.171 smtp auth is returning user unknown: Oct 30 15:59:27 query vpopmail[9465]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:209.124.141.171 startups are: /usr/bin/tcpserver -u 63 -g 65 -l -R -H 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ query.aptedtech.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true /usr/bin/tcpserver -u 60 -g 60 -l -R -H 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ query.aptedtech.com /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir smtp-auth literature says qmail-smtpd needs three arguments when started (hostname, pass chekc program, subprogram). i have vpopmail installed with config of: ./configure \ --enable-tcprules-prog=/usr/bin/tcprules \ --enable-tcpserver-file=/var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp \ --enable-mysql=y \ --enable-logging=v \ --enable-valias=y \ --enable-many-domains=y \ --enable-auth-logging=y \ --enable-md5-passwords=y \ --enable-clear-passwd=y \ --enable-learn-passwords=y \ --enable-file-sync=y \ --enable-file-locking=y \ --enable-ip-alias-domains=y \ --enable-qmail-ext=y \ --enable-make-seekable=y \ --enable-defaultquota=5242880 vpopmail 5.3.9 Current settings --- vpopmail directory = /var/vpopmail uid = 60 gid = 60 ip alias = ON --enable-ip-alias-domains=y address extentions = ON --enable-qmail-ext=y roaming users = OFF --enable-roaming-users=n default user quota = 5242880 -enable-hardquota=5242880 auth module = mysql --enable-mysql=y mysql replication = OFF --enable-mysql-replication=n default table optimization = many domains --enable-many-domains=y default system passwords = OFF --enable-passwd=n default file locking = ON --enable-file-locking=y default file sync = ON --enable-file-sync=y enable vdelivermail fsync make seekable = ON --enable-make-seekable=y default auth logging = ON --enable-auth-logging=y default mysql logging = OFF --enable-mysql-logging=n default clear passwd = ON --enable-clear-passwd=y (default) users big dir = ON --enable-users-big-dir=y (default) valias processing = ON --enable-valias=y pop syslog = log success and errors including passwords --enable-logging=v default domain = --enable-default-domain= auth inc = -I/usr/include/mysql auth lib = -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz the patches all applied without error to qmail Bill Shupp www.shupp.org qmail-maildir++.patch http://www.shupp.org/patches/qmail-maildir++.patch Krzysztof Dabrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric M. Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp-auth Patch v. 0.31 http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/dist/qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31. tar.gz Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail-queue patch http://www.qmail.org/qmailqueue-patch just want to get smtp-auth working but im not really sure where to start looking from here. thanks all. -chris
[vchkpw] Cost To Get Postgresql Support In Vpopmail
I've been waiting a long time for Postgresql support in Vpopmail. Apparently it exists, but there is no autoconf support for it right now. I don't have the expertise necessary to write what is needed, otherwise I would. So how much would it cost to get someone with the experience necessary to finish up what has already been started? We are just a tiny company right now, but might be willing to pay for the cost of development. Maybe there are other companies out there that also need Postgresql support in Vpopmail and would be willing to partner on the costs of development... Jay Tortorelli
[vchkpw] mail gateway smtp auth
im an integrating my companies existing qmail/vpopmail/mysql server and an older post.office setup into one. i have three boxes that would be the listed mail exchangers and would also perform limited virus checking and spam prevention. mail comes in to one of them, passes through filtering process, if not rejected, then forwarded to the real mail server where actual mailboxes reside on some raid equipment. this plan seems great to me, but i have one problem. smtp auth. if i have qmail/smtp-auth set up on all three of these boxes and the actual server with users maildirs is on another box, how are any mails gonna make it through? well im thinking i could set up vpopmail on all boxes with mysql replication and have the main mail server as the master, but that seems a bit much to me. all the other notions i have in my head about how to do this just don't seem clean enough to really want to implement. i just need a method for qmail/smtp-auth on these three mail exchangers (gateway) to use the auth info from the main mail servers vpopmail/mysql database. does anyone have any suggestions? thanks all. -chris
Re: test spam; should be rejected
on 12/2/01 1:56 AM, Lou Hevly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason for allowing spammers to post to this list? Not sure about the vpopmail list, but this exact same argument just finished on the qmail list, which is also an open list - and thus spam friendly. On the qmail list, the major reasons for the opne configuration were ego-based, and political -- which I sincerely hope is not the case on here. How much spam were you getting? I have not been noticing any significant spam on this list. Harry
qadmin-tmda installation / administration utility
Announcing the release of the first version of QAdmin-TMDA - QAdmin-TMDA is a configuration and administration tool for the TMDA Anti-Spam solution, which integrates itself into the Qmailadmin web managment for qmail, and works seamlessly with vpopmail accounts. Find it at: http://devel.samstech.net This tool allows you to protect any individual account, edit any configuration files from the web and control every aspect of the ANTI-Spam counter measures. Some Features: - Automatic generation of all needed config files for each POP Account - POP account TMDA configuration editor Included functions are: Protect: This will configure the TMDA settings for this account, and enable a protected POP account. Disable: This temporarily disables the TMDA configuration but preserves all settings. Enable: This will reactivate a TMDA account, restoring all previous settings. Remove: This will completely eliminate all files but will back them up. The account is reset to a virgin state into a pure qmail+vpopmail style. Restore: In case the user had already previously configured TMDA for this account they can restore the previous setup, recovering any already approved or denied email addresses - in fact this option restores the entire previous state of the account prior to removal of TMDA. - Finally the Config Files editor This tool allows online editing/saving of the accounts config files including: WhiteList (approved addresses), BlackList (rejected addresses), .tmdarc (main tmda configuration file), Accept (accept template), Request (request template), Incoming (global config file for incoming msgs), Outgoing (global config file for outgoing msgs). QAdmin-TMDA comes with an extensive help system that makes an effort to respond to every available possibility that you might encounter, this help subsystem is presented in the way of system messages, warnings and error conditions. Its aim is to assist you in the management and operation of QAdmin-TMDA. Other features: - Crypto Key automatically generated for each account - Fully integrated into qmailadmin interface - On line web editor capable of editing any config file on a per-user basis - Fully automatic installer - Perl and C based You can find it at http://devel.samstech.net/ in the download area. We have made an installation tutorial (please read this prior to attempting to install), FAQs, a mailing list, forums and a news area. We consider this code beta for now but stable enough to be used in a production environment. No demo online but the tutorial has images that describe the use. Warnings: At this time we have not been able to solve a looping problem. When the postmaster and the catch account are protected this generates a mail loop. If MAILER-DAEMON bounces a mail it will send it to the postmaster and it will request confirmation - The current work-around solution to this is to enter your domain in the whitelist of the postmaster/catch all account, so that all notices are automatically accepted by the postmaster as well as by the catch all account. If anyone have some ideas as to how to solve this we would more than welcome them. Thanks. Francisco Sam Castillo SamsTech.Net Devel Team http://devel.samstech.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
support for TMDA
For those that don't know, TMDA is the Tagged Mail Delivery Agent, a white list anti-spam measure. Pretty effective too, from what I've been told. It would be nice if it were supported, in some manner, by vpopmail and qmailadmin. Please let me know if there are any plans to integrate support for the functionality into either, or if anyone has done any work in that regards. Harry
Table
How do you create a table? I have done as the readme, I do not have a any user on the it is a new install, How do I get started with a table? Kevin
vpopmail-4.10.29
How do I fix this? Thanks Kevin [root@salem vpopmail-4.10.29]# make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29' Making all in cdb make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29/cdb' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29/cdb' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29' gcc -I. -Icdb -g -O2 -Wall -c vauth.c vauth.c: In function `vauth_getpw': vauth.c:278: incompatible types in initialization vauth.c:278: incompatible types in initialization vauth.c:278: incompatible types in initialization vauth.c:278: incompatible type for argument 1 of `memset' make[2]: *** [vauth.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/vpop/vpopmail-4.10.29' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Mail goes to /home/usr/Maildir
Hello, I'm having a problem where qmail is attempting to deliver mail to /home/usr/Maildir instead of /usr/local/vpopmail/domain/mydomain/user/Maildir. Most of the users are vpopmail users and therefore do not have a /home/usr directory, so I get the dreaded 'Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir' on incoming mail to them. After 4 hrs sleep in the last 24 hrs straight trying to get this problem solved, I'm getting a little frustrated. Any feedback would be appreciated. Here are my files: warabi# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh #!/bin/sh -e # startup script from: # http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#8 #ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d /service/qmail-pop3d case $1 in start) echo -n Startng djb services: svscan cd /service env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH svscan echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid echo . ;; stop) echo -n Stopping djb services: svscan kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid` echo -n services svc -dx /service/* echo -n logging svc -dx /service/*/log echo . ;; restart|reload|force-reload) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo 'Usage: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan (start|stop|restart)' exit 1; esac exit 0 warabi# cat /service/qmail-send/run #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc warabi# cat /service/qmail-smtpd/run #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
Mail goes to /home/usr/Maildir
[sorry about the previous post - accidentally sent it before it was finished] Hello, I'm having a problem where qmail is attempting to deliver mail to /home/usr/Maildir instead of /usr/local/vpopmail/domain/mydomain/user/Maildir. Most of the users are vpopmail users and therefore do not have a /home/usr directory, so I get the dreaded 'Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir' on incoming mail to them. After 4 hrs sleep in the last 24 hrs straight trying to get this problem solved, I'm getting a little frustrated. Any feedback would be appreciated. Here are my files: warabi# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh #!/bin/sh -e # startup script from: # http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#8 #ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d /service/qmail-pop3d case $1 in start) echo -n Startng djb services: svscan cd /service env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH svscan echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid echo . ;; stop) echo -n Stopping djb services: svscan kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid` echo -n services svc -dx /service/* echo -n logging svc -dx /service/*/log echo . ;; restart|reload|force-reload) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo 'Usage: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan (start|stop|restart)' exit 1; esac exit 0 warabi# cat /service/qmail-send/run (- /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run) #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc warabi# cat /service/qmail-smtpd/run (- /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run) #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 warabi# cat /service/qmail-pop3d/run (- /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run) #!/bin/sh env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -u vpopmail -g vchkpw 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ warabi.nca.or.jp /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 warabi# cat /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start `cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery` 21 warabi# cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery ./Maildir/ warabi# cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain warabi.nca.or.jp warabi# cat /usr/local/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT= warabi# cat /var/qmail/users/assign +nca.or.jp-:nca.or.jp:1227:65535:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/nca.or.jp:-:: All files/dirs under /usr/local/vpopmail are chown vpopmail.vchkpw. All subdirs are chmod 755. Can anyone see what I am missing here? Thanks for any help. Shawn
Re: Mutt
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Kieran Barnes wrote: Hi, Does anybody use mutt to read their mail in a vpopmail enviroment? I can't seem to get it to work correctly. What options would I need in my .muttrc, and variables I'd need to set prior to starting mutt? I don't use mutt, but I use Pine and I guess you can use the same thing I do. I set up Courier IMAP for webmail (IMP) use, and set it to only bind to port 143 on localhost. Then log into Pine and set it up to access IMAP on localhost :)
Re: POP Authentication Not Working
- Original Message - From: "Chris Bolt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "GIC MLs" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:09 AM Subject: RE: POP Authentication Not Working My oh my... you run tcpserver with a shell script that runs tcpserver (again) and calls itself instead of qmail-pop3d. You also have a lot of redundance by including the full paths to binaries when they're in your path. Try putting this in /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d-new: env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver 0 pop3 qmail-popup mydom.co.jp \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw qmail-pop3d Maildir Then just run qmail-pop3d-new Thanks for the help. In the last day I have totally overhauled the installation and I now have a much "cleaner" installation. I totally cleaned up the qmail install and tried to proceed with vpopmail again, but am not getting any mail. The system was originally using /home system accounts for all users, with the Mailbox mailbox format. I used the script at http://www.qmail.org/convert-and-create to convert the mailboxes to Maildir format, and have the Maildir directories set up in /usr/local/vopmail/domains/mydom/usr/Maildir . Now when I send a mail to the user, instead of going into that Maildir, a Maildir is created in the user's /home directory and the mail is delivered there. My /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery file contains ./Maildir . Should I change that to the full path to the Maildir under the vpopmail/domains/usr directory, or... ? Another problem is that I am seeing vchkpw: password fail in /var/log/maillog as users try to check their mail. I do not get this when I am checking the test account I set up manually using vpasswd, but accounts which I attemtped to convert passwords for using the vconvert program ( vconvert -c -e domain ) are failing. Does this require mysql support? I'm not sure I specified mysql support when installing vpopmail... anything I can do to verify whether I need it or not and whether or not it is actually working or if I should reinstall? Thanks for all of the help so far. Shawn
Re: POP Authentication Not Working
- Original Message - From: "Chris Bolt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "lists" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 5:53 AM Subject: RE: POP Authentication Not Working I used the script at http://www.qmail.org/convert-and-create to convert the mailboxes to Maildir format, and have the Maildir directories set up in /usr/local/vopmail/domains/mydom/usr/Maildir . Now when I send a mail to the user, instead of going into that Maildir, a Maildir is created in the user's /home directory and the mail is delivered there. My /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery file contains ./Maildir . Should I change that to the full path to the Maildir under the vpopmail/domains/usr directory, or... ? Your defaultdelivery file must end in a slash for qmail to know that it is a Maildir. Try changing it to ./Maildir/ I tried this, but there seems to be no change. Mail is still delivered to /home/usr/Maildir/ instead of to the Maildir in the vpopmail structure. If Maildir/ does not exist in /home/usr/, it gets created. Does defaultdelivery specify the _type_ of mailbox format to use, or does it specify the location? You are using vconvert incorrectly. The first parameter is what to convert from, and the second is what to convert to. You are trying to convert from cdb to etc format, when you want to do the opposite. You should also try adding the -d parameter for some extra info. I was confused when I wrote the previous message. Looking back to check, I see that I did actually use the correct parameters. Sorry about that. Have you tried using qmail-pw2u (http://www.qmail.org/man/man8/qmail-pw2u.html)? Not yet. I am not really sure what it does. The page says: qmail-pw2u - build address assignments from a passwd file I'm not sure what 'address assignments' refers to, or how it relates to vpopmail authentication. Thank you, Shawn
errorlevels undocumented?
Morning everyone! My hosting service turned the power off on my server and ever since my pop server has been acting weird. I know vcheckpw is working since it's rejecting bad passwords just fine, but when it authenticates, it sends: -ERR aack, child crashed down the net connection and dies, nothing in the logs, qmail-pop3d is not even executed (verified) trying to run it in the shell shows it doesn't run its commandline, but instead exits at errorlevel 4 (3 for wrong password, 4 for right). other than that, it's a regular qmail installation, qmail-popup runs as UID vpopmail (but changing to root didn't help). ideas please? it doesn't seem to be eiter one of the two remarks about "child crashed" in the Changelog.. thanks in advance. Ira.
