[courier-users] RE: distinct namespace with userdb ?

2003-11-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using courier (excellent!) IMAP in a multiple virtual domain environment. I'm using /etc/userdb for authentication. My problem is I can't have a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my current understanding of the userdb format. There is only a single

[courier-users] RE: dsbl.org and postmaster@[x.x.x.x]

2003-11-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Bill Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in your bofh file in your /usr/lib/courier directory add this line... opt BOFHBADMIME=accept [...] I'm basically just throwing this out there and haven't really done that much research on it. So if any of you gurus would care to correct me, please do

[courier-users] RE: couriermlm annoying yes confirmation

2003-11-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have the option of using more convenient, less secure software. There's plenty out there to choose from. The same argument applies to the use of stupid autoresponders. I don't see why Courier MLM should require a manual marking of confirmation mails

[courier-users] RE: couriermlm annoying yes confirmation

2003-11-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the MLM is going to go through the trouble to verify that a user really wants to be subscribed, it should do *something* to make sure that it's not going to interpret a very common problem as confirmation that a user wants to be subscribed.

[courier-users] RE: Umlauts choke messages

2003-11-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Martin Furmanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: part of an offending mail start offending mail --=000_Dragon381477005134_= Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=Stvr mig inte.jpg Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Stvr mig inte.jpg

[courier-users] RE: RBL lists... bl.spamcop.net doesn't resolve?

2003-10-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to understand how the RBL checking is working... I have it setup to check spamcop, using bl.spamcop.net, but it seems to me bl.spamcop.net doesn't resolve in DNS? I've tried using dig and nslookup to resolve the IP for bl.spamcop.net and

[courier-users] RE: Way to reject corrupt messages?

2003-10-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Joe Laffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Only Microsoft can fix this. So mail servers MUST accept messages with this format? (only headers and no blank lines) I can work around this by writing a script to search and destroy these messages. ISPs

[courier-users] RE: cert file Q

2003-10-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've generated the pem files for imapd, pop3d and esmtpd but still have a little question about the 'CN' position. Does it need 'localhost', the servername or the FQDN of the machine? =-=-=-cert.conf-=-=-= ... [ req_dn ] C=NL ST=DR L=Assen

[courier-users] courierfilter: multiple control files -- when?

2003-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi, the courierfilter man page says that a courierfilter will receive One or more pathnames to control files for this message through its socket. Under which conditions is there more than one control files per message? To what extent does my courierfilter have to respect any control files

[courier-users] RE: Rejection message format in log files: rejection due to DNS blacklist vs. due to custom courierfilter

2003-10-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: But when a mail gets rejected due to my custom filter, I get log entries of this format: Oct 9 03:59:00 io courieresmtpd: error,relay=:::217.88.243.27,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 511 Just testing

[courier-users] RE: Rejection message format in log files: rejection due to DNS blacklist vs. due to custom courierfilter

2003-10-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing you could do is read the control file to obtain the recipient list of the original message (there may be more than one, and courierfilter is invoked once, no matter how many recipients the message has, and some of those recipients may be

[courier-users] RE: Rejection message format in log files: rejection due to DNS blacklist vs. due to custom courierfilter

2003-10-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: But the recipient address(es) should still be known in this step, so wouldn't it make sense to include it/them in the error log message? It's not as if the recipient address was the cause for the rejection in the DNS blacklist

[courier-users] Rejection message format in log files: rejection due to DNS blacklist vs. due to custom courierfilter

2003-10-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Sam, I'm currently experimenting with writing a custom courierfilter. It works fine, except for one thing. When mails get rejected due to the sending host being listed in a DNS blacklist (via the BLACKLISTS option in /etc/courier/esmtpd), I get log entries of this format: Oct 9 03:37:30

[courier-users] RE: Proposing new functions for maildropfilter

2003-10-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
David Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about incorporating Tcl support into maildrop? You simply use a shared library (the Tcl interpreter) and don't need to fork anything. Maildrop can add commands to the Tcl interpreter as required to do more complex things. How about incorporating Perl

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong: I don't really see a harm in accepting MX-IP *in general* (although there still might be one which I don't see). After having thought about the topic a bit and having consulted RFC 1035, I think there *is* a serious argument against

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If these standards are open to interpretation then there will be discrepancies between the MTAs. And that would be a problem... why? Where did you live during the past 7 years? Under a rock? Julian, Please try to show me some

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, it's ironic that Courier *doesn't* accept the [EMAIL PROTECTED] notation, with all this frothing about the importance of standards! Agreed. Plus, I repeat my question, this time to you: What might an MX-CNAME mean if not follow CNAME to

[courier-users] RE: DNSBL list

2003-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Evelyne Pichler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know good DNSBL servers? Or a list with DNSBL servers? I use the following: bl.spamcop.net Anti-spam, lists recent spam sources, very aggressive, few to none false positives (depends on your set of e-mail correspondents). I love this one!

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Julian Mehnle
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip Hutchings wrote: If these standards are open to interpretation then there will be discrepancies between the MTAs. And that would be a problem... why? Where did you live during the past 7 years? Under a rock? To clearly see the consequences

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Julian Mehnle
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which leads to the inevitable observation that there are no prizes for conformance to the RFC, but there are for getting the job done. The job of a mail transfer agent is to transfer mail. Not pass a conformance test based on a specific interpretation of

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Julian Mehnle wrote: Not conforming to the RFC might not get you a prize, but it definitely has a price you'll have to pay some day or another. Widely accepting non-compliance will inevitably make non-compliance... well... widely

[courier-users] RE: bad MX problems...

2003-09-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Carlos Paz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [invalid MX records pointing to IP addresses] Yes, I'm totally aware that the domain with broken MX records is at fault, but telling this reason to an unhappy user won't solve the problem, and you can't really argue against their pragmatic approach: What

[courier-users] RE: Courier and dsbl.org

2003-09-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
PROTECTED]: postmaster I don't know whether this will work well enough to get you off the DSBL list, though. Good luck! Julian Mehnle, an otherwise happy Courier user. [1] http://www.courier-mta.org PS: Sam, I tried to include a link to Alexei's recent posting, but SourceForge only gives Forum

[courier-users] RE: RFC 2821/4.1.3 conformant @[ip_address] addressing not recognized by Courier?

2003-09-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFC 2821, section 4.1.3 explicitly allows @[ip_address]-style addressing (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), but Courier doesn't. I get a 513 Syntax error when trying to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] through my own

[courier-users] RE: RFC 2821/4.1.3 conformant @[ip_address] addressing not recognized by Courier?

2003-09-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: I want to send mail to the postmaster of a host with a broken DNS MX configuration. If I try so send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then Courier Someone with broken DNS configuration does not appear to be a likely candidate

[courier-users] RE: RFC 2821/4.1.3 conformant @[ip_address] addressing not recognized by Courier?

2003-09-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Tim Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: courier will let you send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ip addresses, but there is no guarntee that the other side will accept it. No, Courier will never succeed to send to such recipients: |UNDELIVERABLE MAIL | | Your message to the

[courier-users] RE: RFC 2821/4.1.3 conformant @[ip_address] addressing not recognized by Courier?

2003-09-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFC 2821, section 4.1.3 explicitly allows @[ip_address]-style addressing (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), but Courier doesn't. I get a 513 Syntax error when trying to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] through my own Courier installation. Why is that? Well, my

[courier-users] RFC 2821/4.1.3 conformant @[ip_address] addressing not recognized by Courier?

2003-09-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, RFC 2821, section 4.1.3 explicitly allows @[ip_address]-style addressing (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), but Courier doesn't. I get a 513 Syntax error when trying to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] through my own Courier installation. Why is that?

[courier-users] RE: updated blacklists?

2003-09-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an updated list of RBL servers? The ones I have seem to be no longer very effective or not functional. I've also seen mentioned dynamic rbl lists, which I'm not sure what that means... In any case, I wanted to configure courier with

[courier-users] RE: Q: Prefixed Return-Path ?

2003-09-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is done by Courier. Courier inserts its own Return-Path: header on locally-delivered mail, that contains the envelope return address. If the message already has an existing Return-Path: header, it will get prefixed by the character. Out of

[courier-users] RE: Courier and SPA

2003-07-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sander Holthaus - Orange XL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if there are any efforts being to made to support [POP3 NTLM authentication] in future realeases of Courier? I'm not sure, but I doubt that Sam plans to support NTLM auth.

[courier-users] RE: Certificate

2003-07-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Bgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice would be to use the SubjectAlternativeName (AKA SubjectAltName) SSLv3 extension instead to list multiple host names (and IP addresses) specificly. Google may tell you more. Most browsers and mail Is it possible to add domains to an existing

[courier-users] RE: Certificate

2003-07-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone happen to know whether Courier works with wildcard certificates? As Sam already said, Courier doesn't care what the certificate looks like. On another note, you really shouldn't use wildcard certificates since they pose a

[courier-users] RE: OT: what's that spam?

2003-06-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: once again someone choose my e-mail as the sender for tons of spam. What I've never seen before is that the original messages contained in failure reports show the following 1. every message comes from a different IP. Often those IPs are in MAPS

[courier-users] RE: [OT] MX-CNAME is not illegal (was: DNS violates RFC 1035)

2003-06-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
Juri Haberland [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Scott Morizot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MX record is illegal. The data section must be a canonical name of a host (created on the left hand side of an A record), not [...] an alias. Regarding MX-IP I agree

[courier-users] RE: Mail attachments

2003-06-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Jerry Amundson wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Just for fun, I added an explicit Content-Disposition: inline header to signed messages. Let's see if it makes any difference. It makes a difference with Outlook 2000. I'm using Outlook

[courier-users] RE: DNS violates RFC 1035

2003-06-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Scott Morizot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MX record is illegal. The data section must be a canonical name of a host (created on the left hand side of an A record), not [...] an alias. Regarding MX-IP I agree, but regarding MX-CNAME I object: http://www.mengwong.com/misc/rfc1912-is-wrong.html

[courier-users] RE: Debugging SMTP timeout problems

2003-06-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Penz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've the same problems since yesterday .. I can't send a mail via smtp auth for about 5 min or so, after that time it works again until the next 5 problem minutes. I've tried to narrow the problem down. during this 5 mins I get only this, after this I

[courier-users] RE: Debugging SMTP timeout problems

2003-06-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Penz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've following running, whichs is not the same as you've ? BLACKLISTS=-block=blackholes.mail-abuse.org,BLOCK/127.0.0.2 -block=relays.mail-abuse.org,BLOCK/127.0.0.2 -block=dialups.mail-abuse.org,BLOCK/127.0.0.2

[courier-users] Debugging SMTP timeout problems

2003-06-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, I have been running Courier 0.39.1 on Debian Linux as my mail server (SMTP(S), POP3(S), IMAP(S)) for about a year now without any noteworthy problems. Today, the SMTP server started to act up: it accepts TCP connections virtually immediately, but then reacts only very, very slowly. Thus,

[courier-users] RE: Debugging SMTP timeout problems

2003-06-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: [...] Today, the SMTP server started to act up: it accepts TCP connections virtually immediately, but then reacts only very, very slowly. Thus, most of the time, the connection times out on the client/peer side. [...] Can anyone give me some hints on how to debug the SMTP

RE: [courier-users] Courier+mySQL+Aliases : can you do mySQL aliases like this?

2002-04-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
(`su -c maildirmake mail /var/mail/accounts/[account.name]`). I am currently running authenticated POP3 and SMTP, and plan to support SSL for both POP3 and SMTP in the future as well. All of this works really great! :-) Julian Mehnle. ___ courier

RE: [courier-users] Courier+mySQL+Aliases : can you do mySQL aliases like this?

2002-04-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: This is the pam_mail view: |View pam_mail | Column | Type | Modifiers | --+--+--- | name | text | | password | text | | maildir | text | I forgot to include a sample of how Courier sees the view: | system=# select * from

RE: [courier-users] Courier+mySQL+Aliases : can you do mySQL aliases like this?

2002-04-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
, but this is absolutely unnecessary. The concept of views has been designed exactly for purposes like this. Julian Mehnle. ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users

[courier-users] Courier-MLM: Announcement-only lists?

2002-04-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
mailing list manager? I know that one could set up a moderated mailing list, but then, every individual posting by an/the authorized poster would have to be approved by the list owner. :-( Thanks in advance for any hints in the right direction, Julian Mehnle

[courier-users] Discarding (/dev/null'ing) mails?

2002-04-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all! Does anyone know how to create a mail address with Courier which causes all mails received through this address to be discarded? (Think [EMAIL PROTECTED]!) Regards, Julian Mehnle. ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe

RE: [courier-users] Discarding (/dev/null'ing) mails?

2002-04-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
meant `echo # .qmail-null`. Anyhow, thanks to both of you! Julian Mehnle. ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users

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