[courier-users] Admin newbie question

2004-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm new to the list, so bear with me. I have a reoccurring issue with our user community, and I'll bet pot brownies to poundcake that this is a common issue with a common fix. I'm running a FreeBSD box with Postfix and Courier for POP mail for around 1500 user accounts for 150 clients.

Re: [courier-users] Re: Restricting flow of mail

2004-01-29 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On 29/1-2004, at 0.32, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 2) Your real mail server has an easily-predictable name, such as mail.elements.dk, while your MX records indicate something else, and the spammers guessed what the likely name of your real mail server is. thats the case ... /thomas -- Thomas von

[courier-users] Re: generating error responses in .mailfilter

2004-01-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ricardo Kleemann writes: Hi, My .mailfilter file has some scenarios where I'll generate an error to trigger a DSN. When I generate a delivery status notice, I combine the use of echo and EXITCODE in my .mailfilter file, how should I structure the echoed text? If the echoed response is greater

[courier-users] relational database (accessed via JDBC) as storage - not just for salted passwords but for mail content/attachments

2004-01-29 Thread Ralf Hauser
Hi, The pop3d(8) man page says: The Courier's POP3 server supports Maildir mailboxes only. My interest is not the simple mail file as mail storage engine, but a relational database where I store all mail of my (webmail) users already now. Does anybody have an experience how to use an RDBMS,

Re: [courier-users] help required for installion please

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff Jansen
On Monday 26 January 2004 12:19, Guntha Aravind babu wrote: i have been asking questions ,but i could not get any responses. You did actually get a response. Someone (wisely) said that you need to go read up on how to compile programs on a linux system and then read through the courier

RE: [courier-users] Outlook Express and Courier

2004-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all, I got a Q for y'all, and forgive me if this has been covered a zillion times already. Our CEO uses Mac OS9 and OE 5.x (the latest, the version # escapes me ATM) for Mac. It seems to choke on a regular basis when getting mail from our server, a FreeBSD box running postfix/courier. We

Re: [courier-users] Mysql user addition automation

2004-01-29 Thread Eduardo Roldan
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 22:47, David Berndt wrote: Has anyone written a script or some sort of management software for adding/removing/editing accounts in the mysql authentication tables? Try http://quica.sourceforge.net --- The SF.Net email

Re: [courier-users] Interection PHP with courier

2004-01-29 Thread Mitch (WebCob)
Why do you think this would work? I've never seen any reference to this method of controlling the sender. I use the pear/mail classes to do this - no problems. m/ Giacomo A. Catenazzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Hello. I've some problem setting the right sender in apache/PHP: In my apache

Re: [courier-users] Problems deleting empty folders

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff Jansen
On Monday 26 January 2004 14:53, Marc Balmer wrote: I am running courier-imap 1.7.2 on OpenBSD 3.4-current on Intel hardware. I can create folders, store messages etc. and also maildrop works like a charm. But... strange enough I can not delete empty folders. The IMAP server alwas returns

[courier-users] VERP Bounce/Original-Recipient: '=' mangled to ''

2004-01-29 Thread Roland
After configuring Mailman to use VERP's they get reliably mangled: esmtpacceptmailfor: list.example.com hosteddomains: list.example.com aliases: @list.example.com: mailman ~/.courier-listname-default |/home/mailman/mail/mailman $EXT2 listname Now if a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] cant be

Re: [courier-users] Re: Restricting flow of mail

2004-01-29 Thread Tim Hunter
Thomas von Hassel wrote: On 28/1-2004, at 0.24, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Thomas von Hassel writes: Ok, we have this setup now Internet --- Filtering server (Running postfix/spamassasin/uvscan/anomy) --- Courier mailserver Is there a way to setup the courier server so it only accepts mail

Re: [courier-users] Re: Restricting flow of mail

2004-01-29 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On 28/1-2004, at 9.43, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Thomas, If I understand what you're saying, you want to prevent spammers from circumventing your filtering server, correct? bingo! What's happening is spam is still getting by the filter because they connect directly to your mail server and not