Re: [courier-users] Re: IMAP login failes
On 2002.05.15 20:03 Sam Varshavchik wrote: AlexB writes: the problem is with IMAP not with vpopmail. I mentioned that I use vpopmail for reference only. Don't be wise ass Please refrain from discussing things you know very little about. The IMAP server uses the vpopmail library for authentication. That's the whole purpose of that library, Einstein. You are reporting a problem with authentication. Therefore, the problem is in the vpopmail library. Also, learn how to properly reply to Internet E-mail. -- Sam heh We were wondering how Sam was going to respond to that venerable gentleman... David M. Stowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] --disable-root-check ?
On 2002.05.03 17:12 Rick Updegrove wrote: Ok so just for the heck of it I decided to see if it would compile as root, which it does. Now, because I read the documentation I know that is not the way it was mean to be installed, but I cannot fifure out why yet. When I look at the Makefile for the (working) ports version I see the following: Should I ./configure --disable-root-check and then gmake as root? etc. If not why not? I know I am not supposed to gmake as root but I am not sure why. I have been looking around for a written explanation of when --disable-root-check is needed/adviseable but so far I haven't located anything. The problem you are having in installation is somewhat curable, though not something I've had to deal with in a while. As I'm sure Sam will emphasize, executing *any* action, espeecially a complex one like building courier, has the potential to destroying your system. As a metter of course, one shouldonly resort to root login and su when they are appropriate and needed, and at no other time. David Stowell ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] INSTALL: IMAP package conflict with pam.d
On 2002.04.17 22:50 Patrick Beart wrote: I'm a complete novice with both (RH 7.2) Linux and Courier. However, I've managed to create RPM's from the tarball (Courier 0.37.3.20020317-1.7.2), thanks to the FAQ. I've also managed to install the RPM's with ... rpm -Uvh package name No, you haven't installed it yet, because you got an error message. RPM won't complete an install unless everything is perfect or you --force the issue. Consider this a good thing. I've run into an error with one of the packages and could use some advice: The IMAP package install resulted in the following error: file /etc/pam.d/imap from install of courier-imap-0.37.20020317-1.7.2 conflicts with file from package imap-200c-15 How do I recover from this (and get the IMAP component installed)? TIA You got the error because there's a file (/etc/pam.d/imap) that is owned by the current imap package that your RPM wants to replace. Given that you want to replace the current IMAP package with courier-IMAP, your best option (check me on this) is to remove the current IMAP package with the command: rpm -e imap and then reexecute: rpm -Uvh courier package name Hope this helps, David Stowell ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] banner
On 2002.03.16 03:07 Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:01:02PM -0500, alexus wrote: is there anything else can be done other then modifing source code? No. Most people don't need to change the POP and IMAP server banners, so it's not a runtime configuration option. But why don't you want to change the source code? It's quite simple really. Just a comment: I realize that we're in a open source community, and I haven't looked to see what kind of license Sam has placed on courier, but the majority of the banner is a copyright notice, and if he's put a copyright notice in the banner, it would seem to me that he's the ultimate arbiter as to whether a user of the product has the right to remove it. I would guess not. Even when software is under the GPL, a notice to that effect is part of the requirements of the license. Does that make sense? David Stowell Ravenslake Consulting ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Completely remove Courier
On 2002.02.19 13:13 M.B. wrote: I want to completely remove courier from my system so it would not interefere with another attempt with another e -mail server installation besides, rpm -e, is there anything else I have to do to completely remove it and when I say COMPLETELY I mean COMPLETELY ( ala the INSTALL file) When I was researching e-mail servers, one of the factors that sold me on courier was its relative ease of installation. By contrast, I found Cyrus to be very difficult to deal with. Any full-featured systems administration package will be rather intensive to install and maintain. If you are looking for easier installations, at the cost of fewer features, there are a number of e-mail servers out there. But with a certain amount of patience, you'll find courier to be worth the effort. And as the INSTALL document points out, the initial installation is the worst one - upgrades are quite smooth, even if you are compiling. At last report, you seemed to be on your way. Don't give up yet. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems after install- please help .. closer maybe
On 2002.02.18 17:42 M.B. wrote: I am thinking just to remove the RPM's and every thing they installed, remove the user accounts, and start over with courier. If I do that can I use the same RPM's or do I have to build them again Insofar as I can tell, this should be unnecessary. Will RPM -e * take care of getting rid of courier and its ffiles it installed or is there something else I have to do The -e option would work. Again, I suspect that this would not help your problems. pac10fans.com was set as locally-hosted domain . I went to add it to local domains and I got this error 'ERROR: domain cannot be both local and locally-hosted' I will delete the locally-hosted one and add it to local domains and report back === After changing pac10fans,com too a local domain from a localy-hosted one === I sent my self a message from my isp '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and it DID NOT bounce back to me as 'Returned Mail' like before so I checked the webmail and again it did not show up in the INBOX so I checked the mailog and this is what it said messages clipped Feb 18 11:50:23 pac10fans courierlocal: id=7D9F.3C715AFF.0B33,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=mb18@pac10fans. com,size=776,success: Message delivered. Feb 18 11:50:23 pac10fans courierd: completed,id=7D9F.3C715AFF.0B33 Feb 18 11:50:23 pac10fans courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Mon Feb 18 12:23:51 2002, wakeup time=Mon Feb 18 12:23:51 2002, queuedelivering=0, inprogress=0 It sais it was delivered but its not showing up in mb18's sqwebmail. I then with OE on my win 98 se computer on the LAN I created a new mail account to retrieve mb18's mail from pac10fans.com. I used mail.pac10fans.com for both the POP3 and SMTP server. I went to see if I could get it this way and I got this error Did you look on the server's /home/mb18/Maildir/new directory to see if the messages landed there? In other words, don't trust OE or sqwebmail until you have the base level functioning first. Also, did you do *all* the testing prescribed in INSTALL, including the perftest1 script? What were the results? Then again, if you created RPMs, you may not have seen that script, or for that matter, the INSTALL instructions. They cannot be ignored. Go to http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html, read *EVERYTHING* and do all the testing described there. For the record, this is one of the few packages I use that I do not create RPMs for - I compile the program directly, and am thankful for that. BOFH mail filters Spamtraps = @mail.pac10fans.com (can not delted it, it wont let me) CAN THIS BE THE PROBLEM!! If this is in the text box (which is likely - it's what's in my system), it is not a problem - it is just a suggestion. If it is written as text on the page itself, with the word remove to the right of it, then it needs to be removed by clicking on the word remove. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems after install- please help .. closer maybe
On 2002.02.18 21:21 M.B. wrote: I'd skip the RPM business and compile from first principles, but that's just me. With my little experience, RPM I would think is better for me. I did install Mysql and PHP 4.1.1 from source but I found a great tutorial for it If people were not getting this to work with RPM, I am sure it would be noted somewhere The fact that the Courier writers do not provide an RPM should be taken as a caution. When I first started using courier, I tried making RPMs, but found that the assumtions made in the process were not valid for my machine, and the testing suite was not available to diagnose installation problems. So I took out the RPMs, compiled the source and got courier running rather quickly. I think the more important question is whether you've been through Sam's test suite. Have you read the INSTALL page yet? I did read the INSTALL page and the one in the TAR. The problem I find is it is not clear on what you HAVE to do if you are using RPM's. There are quite a few things the INSTALL file says to do but its more geared to compiling from source, I find very few instruction when using RPM. Half the stuff is in a different place using RPM The testing suite must be done to verify proper installation. Compiling from source makes the perftest much more feasible. I dont know, it might be me, but there should be an RPM.INSTALL file detailing what needs to be done going the RPM route. Honeslty, I dont know what I HAVE MUST do after installing the RPM's Given the complexity of installation of server-level software, my opinion is that making RPMs an option is doing a disservice to the system administrator (IMHO only). Having said that, by carefully following the directions in INSTALL, you'll find that compilation of courier is much easier than it looks. Then it says if you are using webadmin the rest of the file can be configured with it. There is no documentation on webadmin, if someone needed to use it they obviously dont have all the terminolgy down. If I could configure it without webadmin, I would not need to use webadmin, and since I do there should be explanation on what all those settings are for. If you study the documentation for the configuration files, you'll understand the settings in webadmin. At thqat point, webadmin is an easier way to alter those settings. Whats Sam's test suite. I did not see anything called Sam's test suite. From Post-Installation Setup onward in the INSTALL doc. http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#postinst Courier seems like a great piece of software. I chose it because it is an full mail server in one package. I figures it would be best to have one system running POP, SMTP, WEBMAIL, a WEBADMIN was a bonus good feature You're right on that point. :) Is there a site with more detailed instruction using RPM's To my knowledge, no. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems after install- please help .. closer maybe
On 2002.02.17 22:44 M.B. wrote: Hi again, I really hope someone can help me with this. As I said before I can send e - mail fine with my domain. but I can not receive Here is the error messsage someone gets when they send me an email or reply to one I sent inal-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; mail.pac10fans.com [IPx.x.x.x] Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 User unknown. snip - courier RPMS I have no idea why its saying user unknown but could it be related it to this I noticed in the properties of an e - mail I sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my ISP account Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from lamx01.mgw.rr.com ([66.75.160.12]) by orngca-mls05.socal.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U25L25S0V35) with ESMTP id com for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:38:10 -0800 Received: from mail.pac10fans.com (sc-24-24-202-102.socal.rr.com [24.24.202.102]) by lamx01.mgw.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1I4ckN21474 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) = == right here, is that correct The only error I see in syslog is Feb 17 21:44:36 pac10fans su(pam_unix)[32541]: session opened for user mb18 by courier(uid=0) This is not even from today and I started, rebooted courier several time today Call it me, but has anyone looked at this guy's DNS records? I just did (using dig) and things look a bit strange up there to me. Seriously, I would guess that you are new to systems administration. I think you should *seriously* consider calling in a consultant to wire things together and get you on your feet. Otherwise, it really looks like you're going to keep fumbling. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL P.S. No, I do not consult in mail administration :) ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems after install- please help .. closer maybe
On 2002.02.18 00:21 Juha Saarinen wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, David M. Stowell wrote: Call it me, but has anyone looked at this guy's DNS records? I just did (using dig) and things look a bit strange up there to me. They look all right to me. # dig pac10fans.com. mx ; DiG 8.3 pac10fans.com. mx ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 5 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; pac10fans.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: pac10fans.com. 1D IN MX1 mail.pac10fans.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: pac10fans.com. 1H IN NSns1.mydomain.com. pac10fans.com. 1H IN NSns2.mydomain.com. pac10fans.com. 1H IN NSns3.mydomain.com. pac10fans.com. 1H IN NSns4.mydomain.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.pac10fans.com. 1D IN A 24.24.202.102 ns1.mydomain.com. 5M IN A 216.148.213.141 ns2.mydomain.com. 5M IN A 216.148.221.142 ns3.mydomain.com. 5M IN A 216.148.213.143 ns4.mydomain.com. 5M IN A 216.148.221.144 I didn't get the MX record on my query. That was the main oddness. Also, I didn't check, but nameservers called ns_.mydomain.com looked strange, even if they really exist (which I'm sure they do). My suggestion to get experienced help on site still stands. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems after install- please help
On 2002.02.18 00:24 Juha Saarinen wrote: So... is pac10fans.com in your locally hosted domains file? All the standard user names that I've tried, root, hostmaster, postmaster, etc. give you a 550 - User unknown. This may be too simple, but is there a Maildir in the valid users' home directories? David M. Stowell ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
addendum to [courier-users] Inbound traffic jam
I've attached what bounced back from one of my attempts to send a message into my courier server from an outside account. To reiterate, sending throught courier is working wonderfully from any of my machines in my network, and receiving between machines in the network works, too. It's receiving from the Internet that it seems to be choking on. Hopefully this will help in debugging. David M. Stowell Ravenslake Consulting Chicago, IL From raven Mon Jan 7 15:24:03 2002 Return-Path: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Mail Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:13:05 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; Boundary_ _= 7992248(24187)1010419985 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Status: RO Content-Length: 1914 Lines: 56 --===_ _= 7992248(24187)1010419985 Content-Type: text/plain This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server. The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why each recipient was rejected. Recipient: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason:Relaying denied. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you feel this message to be in error. --===_ _= 7992248(24187)1010419985 Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net Arrival-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:19:04 -0600 Received-From-MTA: dns; chopin.ravenslake (66.73.252.54) Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.2.0 Remote-MTA: dns; ravenslakeconsulting.com (66.73.252.54) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 513 Relaying denied. --===_ _= 7992248(24187)1010419985 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from chopin.ravenslake ([66.73.252.54]) by mailhost.chi.ameritech.net (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:19:04 -0600 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:17:39 -0600 From: David M . Stowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disposition-Notification-To: David M . Stowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Content-Length: 34 Lines: 1 test from Ameritech to ravenslake --===_ _= 7992248(24187)1010419985--
Re: addendum to [courier-users] Inbound traffic jam
On 2002.01.07 18:59 Sysop wrote: Sysop wrote: Oh, I think I see where some of the problem lies... I thought somebody was trying to use you as an SMTP server, from outside your network. This is just general mail coming in from another smtp server for delivery where do you have your domains listed, for hosted or local? I have them listed in locals. No domains are listed in any other configuration file. I've attached a copy of locals. Thanks, David M. Stowell locals Description: Binary data
[courier-users] Inbound traffic jam
As far as e-mail administration is concerend, I am a complete neophyte. Treat me gently... ;) I've set up courier 0.37 and all seems well as far as the battery of tests outlined in INSTALL.html is concerned. Additionally, I can use IMAP to reach from my workstation to my server without a hitch. Finally, outbound traffic runs smoothly. The only remaining question is that of incoming traffic. while everything works well inside the network, courier seems not to be seeing Internet inbound traffic at all. I have two domain names pointed at the same server - ravenslakeconsulting.com and ravenslakeconsulting.net. Internally, the network is called ravenslake. I've enclosed the locals file as an attachment if that helps. I should mention that I'm using Linux kernel 2.4 and the accompanying iptables for a firewall, with a hole punched in for SMTP traffic. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance David M. Stowell locals Description: Binary data
Re: [courier-users] cannot create mailbox at root?
On 2002.01.04 00:41 Lee Ming wrote: I am using qmail + courier-imap + vpopmail + omail-webmail. Client is using outlook express. But when I connect to my imap server, it only show up the inbox to subscribe. When I create mailbox at root, it always say no right to create. I can only create mailbox under inbox, how can I create mailbox at root. I have seen the mail list archive but seem no one can really answer this question, can any one help? Short form: You can't. Copurier will not allow you to ever deliver mail to root. This is documented in the installation instructions. David M. Stowell ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Sending into oblivion (was Re: 450 Service temporarily unavailable)
On 2001.12.30 22:10 Sam Varshavchik wrote: David M . Stowell writes: Point. :) I've attached the courierd and authdaemonrc files. Is there anything else I should be examining at this point? authdaemonrc indicates that you've installed all three LDAP, MySQL, and PostgreSQL authentication drivers. I suspect that none of them are properly configured; and that you don't want to use any of them in the first place. Therefore, set version=authdaemond.plain Well, after making that change, fixing some SPEs (Stupid Programmer's Errors on my part), and finding the documentation from the last time we had this conversation, I've gotten over all the humps related to installation. Now, I'm trying to send messages from one user to another on the server, using variants of the syntax: echo To: raven | /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail (sometimes with the -Nsuccess flag) There are no error messages from the console, but the messages disappear into /dev/null without a trace that I can find. I've enclosed the tail end of /var/log/maillog, and it seems that the log is complaining about the status of the receiveing Maildir, and keeping the messages in a queue, yet mailq reveals nothing. Any thoughts? David M. Stowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] maillog Description: Binary data
Re: [courier-users] Re: 450 Service temporarily unavailable
On 2001.12.29 19:03 Sam Varshavchik wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, David M . Stowell wrote: On 2001.12.29 09:22 Sam Varshavchik wrote: David M . Stowell writes: When I run the perftest1 test during installation, all the messages I send are being returned with the above message. I am anticipating using userdb authentication, and have made sure that the auththentication daemon is running. What now? Check its configuration. All config files checked for reasonableness, How do we know that? Define reasonableness. Point. :) I've attached the courierd and authdaemonrc files. Is there anything else I should be examining at this point? What is my next step? If you don't understand the problem with your configuration, the next logical step is to indicate what your configuration files say. heh The annoying thing about this problem is that I had this problem the *last* time I did this install, and should have learned the answer more clearly. sigh David M. Stowell authdaemonrc Description: Binary data courierd Description: Binary data
[courier-users] 450 Service temporarily unavailable
Okay, I feel really stupid asking this again, as we've gone around the block with this before. When I run the perftest1 test during installation, all the messages I send are being returned with the above message. I am anticipating using userdb authentication, and have made sure that the auththentication daemon is running. What now? Thanks, David M. Stowell ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
