[courier-users] courierpop3dsizelist - suggestion

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Candler
I have a simple optimisation suggestion for the new courierpop3dsizelist mechanism. At the moment it is written out as soon as the mailbox is opened. I suggest delaying writing it out until the mailbox is closed (excluding any DELEted items) or the session dropped. The benefit of this is that in

[courier-users] Quota implementation ?

2003-01-13 Thread Hilton De Meillon
Hey All, Has anyone successfully implemented quotas on their mailboxes ? What steps did you take to implement this. I have got quotas working altough it does not warn you before you reach your quota limit andI was contemplating writing a script to do this and I was wondering if anyone else had

[courier-users] Re: courierpop3dsizelist - suggestion

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Brian Candler writes: The benefit of this is that in the normal case where a client downloads and deletes all messages, no courierpop3dsizelist file needs to be written at all - thus there is no overhead in terms of disk space, inodes, and disk operations to maintain it. The overhead here is a

[courier-users] Courier-imap won't query mysql at localhost

2003-01-13 Thread bersi
Hey all Im trying to setup a virtual domain mailserver but it simply won't work. I made mysql log to sql.log and watched as I tried to login but nothing happend in sql.log and the mailclient said I didn't have the right username og password. Courier-imap wont query mysql. I've tried telneting:

Re: [courier-users] Quota implementation ?

2003-01-13 Thread Lukas Vesely
copy the quotawarnmsg.example to quotawarnmsg in courier etc directory, edit it and it should start sending warnings wen 90% of the quota is used. Lukas On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Hilton De Meillon wrote: Hey All, Has anyone successfully implemented quotas on their mailboxes ? What steps did

RE: [courier-users] Quota implementation ?

2003-01-13 Thread Saxon Jones
Title: RE: [courier-users] Quota implementation ? At the end of each day I scan the mail logfile to determine if anyone had bounces due to quota. I then check their maildir, see if it's greater than 15MB (we have a 20MB default quota here) and if so drop a notification email into their

Re: [courier-users] Re: courierpop3dsizelist - suggestion

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:03:20AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Brian Candler writes: The benefit of this is that in the normal case where a client downloads and deletes all messages, no courierpop3dsizelist file needs to be written at all - thus there is no overhead in terms of disk

[courier-users] imap mysql authentication problem

2003-01-13 Thread Onno
For a while now, I am working on a mailserver setup using postfix, maildrop, imap and mysql. Most of it is working fine now, but I'm not able to authenticate my users with the use of a mysql database. As a local user I can be authenticated It seems to be a problem reported a couple of times

[courier-users] Re: install-configure and its ability to upgrade

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Davies
From: Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:40:56 -0500 Peter Davies writes: so after the make install, i overwrote the /usr/lib/courier/etc directory with the (few) files containing my changes (esmtpd, imapd etc) then launched the make install-configure. the script

[courier-users] Courier unable to authenticate

2003-01-13 Thread Barley
I have Courier-IMAP up and running. I am able to telnet to it and get a response, but when I send a login command, it immediately closes the connection. It has been suggested to me that Courier is unable to run its authentication module, but I don't know how to verify this or troubleshoot the

RE: [courier-users] realy error message

2003-01-13 Thread Dirk Kulmsee
Hi Patrick, 212.47.160.250 resolves as gateway.nextra.ch. Is nextra.ch allowed to relay? Try esmtp with authentication when coming from outside. Use the same data as for pop3. regards Dirk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paeddy Sent:

[courier-users] other uses for .courier files? (feature request)

2003-01-13 Thread Chris Petersen
It's my understanding that .courier files can contain only a maildir or mda entry, correct? I'm wondering if it would be possible to also use these to respond with smtp error codes, too.. particularly something like unknown user (I forget the numerical code). I enjoy having all email to my

[courier-users] Problem dealing with the queue

2003-01-13 Thread Marcelo Graziato Tanure
Hi list, I am having some difficulties to deal with postfix queue. There is amail serverthat is not receiving mail from my server (probably they put an ACL, because the connection times out), and because of that, my queue is growing very faster, causing delays to the deliver of every

[courier-users] random authentication failure squirrelmail qmail courier

2003-01-13 Thread Dan
RedHat 8.0 using the distributed apache from RPM, Latest Squirrelmail from the source, qmail from qinstall 1.1 which includes: sqwebmail-3.3.1 vpopmail-5.2 ezmlm-0.53 qmail-1.03 ucspi-tcp-0.88 daemontools-0.70 I have a squirrelmail web interface to a qmail backend. POP3 and SMTP work perfectly,

[courier-users] Request for testing on OpenBSD

2003-01-13 Thread Johan Lindh
Hi all, I recently found an incompatibility between my fave MTA courier and my fave OS, OpenBSD. You can get the details (and patch) from http://www.linkdata.se/sourcecode.html What I'd like is, if you're running courier on OpenBSD, and have areasonable fast machine at 600 MHz+, try the stress

[courier-users] maildir

2003-01-13 Thread randy meyer
can any one tell me how to reset the rights and groups on maildirs can i do it with the maildirmake utility or do i need to burn the dirs and start over... not raely an option i like have lost of mail in there Please advise asap please. --

Re: [courier-users] Request for testing on OpenBSD

2003-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 11:09, Johan Lindh wrote: I recently found an incompatibility between my fave MTA courier and my fave OS, OpenBSD. You can get the details (and patch) from http://www.linkdata.se/sourcecode.html That sounds reasonable. I believe that both OpenBSD and Solaris (at least)

Re: [courier-users] maildir problem

2003-01-13 Thread Michael J Wise
randy meyer wrote: I have a problem with courier when checking mail users get an error that there password is bad but when i check the logs we see that courier says it cant change dir So I take it that the permissions are hosed the format we are running is /maildir

RE: [courier-users] random authentication failure squirrelmail qmail courier

2003-01-13 Thread Jesse Cablek
Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled; [snip] I tried using authvchkpw as the only option in the authmodulelist, to the same result. Specify authvchkpw as the only one in the configure line, and don't use authdaemond. I experienced the same with courier-imap and sqwebmail. authdaemond doesn't

Re: [courier-users] Looking to migrate a metric ton of users...

2003-01-13 Thread Tim Hunter
I have tried to do this without access to the filesystem but its not possible. Some suggestions are to write to a file that gets read from crontab and make the changes on the filesystem or use sudo, neither of which I like. Aliases and forwards I think should be possible to be used from the db,

[courier-users] relay problems

2003-01-13 Thread Paeddy
hi, its me again. i now tried everything but it won't work. i have multiple domains on the same machine like mail.schorsch.ch,mail.cori.ch,mail.maruscheli.ch etc. i also made the dns entries so that it should work, as example: @ IN SOA ns1.maruscheli.ch. postmaster.maruscheli.ch.

[courier-users] Re: courierpop3dsizelist - suggestion

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Brian Candler writes: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:03:20AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Brian Candler writes: The benefit of this is that in the normal case where a client downloads and deletes all messages, no courierpop3dsizelist file needs to be written at all - thus there is no overhead

[courier-users] Re: imap mysql authentication problem

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Onno writes: AUTHDAEMONRC: authmodulelist=authcustom authcram authuserdb authldap authpam authmysql List authmysql and authldap first. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server

[courier-users] Re: maildir

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
randy meyer writes: can any one tell me how to reset the rights and groups on maildirs can i man chmod --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE

Re: [courier-users] random authentication failure squirrelmail qmail courier

2003-01-13 Thread lists
Do you mean when I compile Courier? e.g. ./configure \ --without-authpam \ --without-authldap \ --without-authpwd \ --without-authmysql \ --without-authpgsql \ --without-authshadow \ --without-authuserdb \ --without-authcustom \ --without-authcram \ --without-authdaemon \

[courier-users] relay problems

2003-01-13 Thread Paeddy
hi, its me again. i now tried everything but it won't work. i have multiple domains on the same machine like mail.schorsch.ch,mail.cori.ch,mail.maruscheli.ch etc. i also made the dns entries so that it should work, as example: @ IN SOA ns1.maruscheli.ch.

[courier-users] Re: Looking to migrate a metric ton of users...

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Keating writes: it require access to the file system? I have not tried to setup any such aliases in my courier setups, so I'm unsure how these are handled. Very similar to sendmail's: an alias file. There is infrastructure in place to be able to resolve aliases via a database, however

[courier-users] Re: other uses for .courier files? (feature request)

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Petersen writes: It's my understanding that .courier files can contain only a maildir or mda entry, correct? I'm wondering if it would be possible to also use these to respond with smtp error codes, too.. particularly something like unknown user (I forget the numerical code). | echo

[courier-users] Re: random authentication failure squirrelmail qmail courier

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dan writes: RedHat 8.0 using the distributed apache from RPM, Latest Squirrelmail from the source, qmail from qinstall 1.1 which includes: sqwebmail-3.3.1 vpopmail-5.2 Known vpopmail bug. Upgrade to vpopmail 5.3.8, or later. --- This

[courier-users] Re: Request for testing on OpenBSD

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gordon Messmer writes: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 11:09, Johan Lindh wrote: I recently found an incompatibility between my fave MTA courier and my fave OS, OpenBSD. You can get the details (and patch) from http://www.linkdata.se/sourcecode.html That sounds reasonable. I believe that both OpenBSD

Re: [courier-users] Re: Looking to migrate a metric ton of users...

2003-01-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:53:26 -0500 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very similar to sendmail's: an alias file. There is infrastructure in place to be able to resolve aliases via a database, however it's only implemented for LDAP, now. Now that I've thought about it a bit, this could

[courier-users] nfs problem

2003-01-13 Thread Andrea Ubiali
hallo, i have a problem running courier-imap (1.6.2) with nfs I can't see messages in 'new' folder SMTP server is qmail The nfs server is under Windows 2000 The server with courier is a SuSe 8.0 kernel 2.4.18 ... from /etc/fstab 192.168.1.49:/posta /home/vpopmail/domains nfs

[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:45, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's been brought to my attention that OpenBSD 3.2 can assign the same pid to different processes in the same chronological second (that is, one process terminates, and its pid is immediately assigned to a new process that's created soon

Re: [courier-users] Re: nfs problem

2003-01-13 Thread Three Letter Acronym
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrea Ubiali writes: hallo, i have a problem running courier-imap (1.6.2) with nfs I can't see messages in 'new' folder SMTP server is qmail The nfs server is under Windows 2000 You are absolutely certain that Windows isn't going to barf on filenames that contain

[courier-users] OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
It's been brought to my attention that OpenBSD 3.2 can assign the same pid to different processes in the same chronological second (that is, one process terminates, and its pid is immediately assigned to a new process that's created soon thereafter). Since filenames for messages in maildirs

[courier-users] Re: nfs problem

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andrea Ubiali writes: hallo, i have a problem running courier-imap (1.6.2) with nfs I can't see messages in 'new' folder SMTP server is qmail The nfs server is under Windows 2000 You are absolutely certain that Windows isn't going to barf on filenames that contain the ':' character?

[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Sam Varshavchik writes: This breaks Courier and Qmail. No. qmail's maildir_scan() looks only at files with mtime time, so it can't move anything out of the delivery directory until the next second. Duplicates are eliminated by the standard use of stat() in delivery. ---D. J. Bernstein,

[courier-users] courierfilter.pid not found during Courier setup

2003-01-13 Thread Peter William Lount
Hi, When I run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/courier.sh startup script the following error occurs: /var/spool/courier/tmp/courierfilter.pid: Permission denied authdaemond courierd esmtpd imapd pop3d I've checked the ownership and permissions on the /var/spool/courier/tmp/ directory and it is owned

[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Sam Varshavchik writes: Since filenames for messages in maildirs are generated based on the combination of the pid, and the current time, in seconds, there is now a race condition that will result in loss or corruption of mail. This breaks Courier and Qmail. Not for qmail, it doesn't.

[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Russell Nelson writes: Sam Varshavchik writes: Since filenames for messages in maildirs are generated based on the combination of the pid, and the current time, in seconds, there is now a race condition that will result in loss or corruption of mail. This breaks Courier and Qmail.

[courier-users] Re: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.

2003-01-13 Thread Russell Nelson
Click on this URL to check the validity of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://q249.crynwr.com/nelson/1042528048.23966.63f797456aebb2fbab13da5d7b5a Sam Varshavchik writes: Russell Nelson writes: Sam Varshavchik writes: Since filenames for messages in maildirs are generated based on the