-Original Message-
From: Alessandro Vesely [mailto:ves...@tana.it]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:40 AM
In my experience, enterprises of size actually operate dedicated boundary
servers as their MX platforms, and final delivery is handled by an
entirely
different set of servers
-Original Message-
From: Ben Kennedy [mailto:b...@zygoat.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:58 PM
The most straightforward configuration is not to have secondary MX
servers at all, and has been for many years.
With respect, I still find this argument somewhat specious.
From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:mr...@courier-mta.com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:06 PM
To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [courier-users] courier subdomain
Michelle Konzack writes:
And this is the question: WHY is Outlook not able to create it?
Because Outlook is written
-Original Message-
From: Mick [mailto:bare...@tpg.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:11 PM
[ snip ]
I definitely am not singling out courier with my grumbles,its
simply a matter of this being the only package I have
received real comment, maybe I'm more terse than I intend,
-Original Message-
From: Mick [mailto:bare...@tpg.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:13 PM
I spent a day googling before I started and didn't find
anything not full of archane jargon.
I think it's just the Unix way of doing things - first, know what
you're
-Original Message-
From: Mark Constable [mailto:ma...@renta.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:06 AM
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 23:37:57 Bowie Bailey wrote:
Mark Constable wrote:
I have a situation where a large company is sending out bulk
(legit) invoices from an internal
-Original Message-
From: Robert Penz [mailto:rob...@penz.name]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:09 AM
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:02:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik
mr...@courier-mta.com
wrote:
Well, you have to turn off everything that uses DNS, in the esmtpd
configuration file.
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Phillip Brink [mailto:ohnobi...@ohnopublishing.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:27 AM
[ Snip ]
Maybe I stated something unclearly before. Even though the
courier.lock file I examined earlier pointed to the PID a
running dkim-milter process,
-Original Message-
From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:mr...@courier-mta.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 3:23 PM
alexus writes:
why? because that's the latest version that did had authvchkpw in
there before it was taken out...
If you're going to use Courier, you will have no
Hi, Ray...
The problem is that the failing message isn't being sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
So the host that's being looked up is not design-electric.com, but
design-electric.com'.
If you do a nslookup on anything ending with .com', it will fail...
It's a user error.
And another thing...
Ray,
This sort of nonsense:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
loraninc.com [216.117.220.102]:
550 Sorry, h-74-0-35-146.snfccasy.covad.net (74.0.35.146) seems to be a
dialup: use your ISP's SMTP server, or Fix your RDNS. If you feel you are
receiving this message in error, please call
-Original Message-
From: Ray Collazo
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:44 PM
Malcolm:
Thanks for your opinion: In using the qpsmtpd plug in to
guess dialups to reduce junk mail, I have been able to
eliminate about 85% of junk mail that Courier was having to
deal with, and
-Original Message-
From: Ray Collazo
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:50 PM
[ Snip ]
Those quotes seem to be coming from the users Outlook.
The odd thing is that he is set up exactly like the 10 other
outlook users I have, yet he seems to be the only one having
this
-Original Message-
From: Gordon Messmer
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:46 PM
Malcolm Weir wrote:
No-one else
seems to care that the valid RDNS maps to a name that's
different from
the DNS entry, because the server(s) behind that address handle
traffic for multiple
-Original Message-
From: Curtis Vaughan
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:41 AM
I've had this strange issue for some time now and I'm not
sure whether this is a Postfix, Courier-IMAP issue, or just
one with my mail client.
The symptom is that under my Inbox are numerous
-Original Message-
From: J. Pablo Fernández
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 11:53 PM
Is it possible to make Courier accept relay for mails sent
from localhost? If so, how?
Yes. In my experience, this is the normal behavior, but your config file(s)
may have been modified.
-Original Message-
From: Julie S. Lin
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:34 AM
Hi
is there a way in spf to exempt an entire domain or specific address?
If you mean something like is there a way to tell Courier not to do SPF
checking for an entire domain or address?, then yes:
you can
-Original Message-
From: Sam Varshavchik
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:26 PM
Mark Constable writes:
Ah right, thanks Sam. Now I know what the signature of
backscatter
suppression looks like in the log files. However, I'm still
unsure of
why I can't clear this
-Original Message-
From: Norbert Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:02 PM
So why not set up a cron job to poll your mail every ten minutes, or
something reasonable? Is there a good reason why its
execution must be
tied directly to IMAP polls?
what's reasonable depends
-Original Message-
From: Lisa Muir
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:14 AM
Read on another list where a user was trying to change the
TTL of packets on an IMAP server from 56 to 247.
Is there any actual benefit to doing this for the IMAP protocol?
Err... TTL limits the number of
-Original Message-
From: Sam Varshavchik
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:43 PM
The more vaguely interesting thing is that
pthread_cond_destroy() *is*
returning EBUSY.
Yes, that's the interesting part. I'll fix the pthread error
checking, but the EBUSY return suggests
There's a call to pthread_cond_destroy at line 311 in threadlib/pthread.c
that may be (mildly) troublesome.
The simple issue is that the code reads:
if ( pthread_cond_destroy(cit-threads[i].gocond))
perror(pthread_cond_destroy(gocond));
However,
-Original Message-
From: Bernd Wurst
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:02 PM
Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 10:42 schrieb Alessandro Vesely:
However, I'm concerned about that and no other version.
I'm concerned about the frequent use of or any later
version in many free
-Original Message-
From: Victor Star
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 6:45 AM
The major benefit for me is that whenever I have to give in
some email on sites requiring subscription I just make up one
like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now if I start getting spam to
this specific address I
-Original Message-
From: Aine Douglas
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:20 AM
I know courier won't accept email for non existent local
users, but has anyone any ideas on how to prevent this
feature being abused by those who would use it as a means to
build up a list of legitimate
-Original Message-
From: Renato Otranto Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:04 AM
I am configuring courier imap/pop (version 0.47) on a debian
sarge and it must authenticate against an Active Directory,
through authdaemon ldap module.
As I'm sure Sam is about to point out,
-Original Message-
From: Jaz
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:41 AM
Okay, trying imapcopy from a client again...
I opened port 143, changed IMAP_TLS_REQUIRED to 0, and restarted
Courier
via:
/usr/local/libexec/imapd.rc restart
I now get 'Connection refused' from 'telnet
-Original Message-
From: Anton Basistov
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:27 AM
No-no you dont understand me. Communigate pro server has a
function, thich allows to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Other servers do such too, as I know. I want such in
Courier-MTA. I have
-Original Message-
From: dick hoogendijk
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:27 AM
telnet 192.168.11.1 25 from a local client gives an ESMTP
answer from 192.168.11.1
telnet 192.168.11.1 25 from the 192.168.11.1-machine
itself drops the connection inmediately.
The smtpacces
-Original Message-
From: Rodrigo Severo
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:03 PM
And, contrary to the implication, it would be a BAD idea to include
logic that selects lower priority (secondary) MXs for the
subsequent
attempts unless (all) the higher priority ones cannot be
-Original Message-
From: Pupeno
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:20 PM
What I'd like to achieve is to be able to decide on a
per-account basis to either
*) mark spam with a header and leave it on inbox (for those
using pop3).
*) mark spam with a header and move it to Spam (for those
-Original Message-
From: Angus Lee
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:01 PM
[ Snip ]
I cannot reproduce the error myself. because i cannot read
these dead file.
So, maybe special character within the mail file cause the
error? i dunno.
If so, it's not the mail software's fault.
-Original Message-
From: John Jablonski
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:13 AM
Since I can't change filenames, I actually got permisson to
put a linux box at our offsite location. An old P2 with a new
140G hard drive. Yea.
Backup? Offsite? Consider *two* new hard drives and
-Original Message-
From: Sam Varshavchik
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:43 PM
Or is there another backup method I should be using?
[Mitch says:] You can also tar / gzip or bzip BEFORE you back up -
makes rsync a lot less efficient - but so does windows ;-)
If it's all
-Original Message-
From: Wolfgang Jeltsch
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:14 AM
[ Snip ]
The background of this whole thing is that I want to have
IMAP folders like Inbox, Sent and Trash which reside on the
same hierarchy level. If I just let Courier direct mail to
-Original Message-
From: Alexei Batyr'
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:28 AM
Mark Constable wrote on 14.11.2004 16:42:
For the last 2 months we've been getting an increasing amount of
incoming messages with incomplete headers and an empty
message body.
They prevent POP
-Original Message-
From: Kóczán Péter
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:47 AM
Again. Is it somehow possible to filter thos messages who
have null body?
I did reply direct following your last post, but it bounced (cannot find
koczan.org)
Anyway, as others have noted, filters
-Original Message-
From: Martijn Lievaart
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 1:48 PM
The problem is that I use a cronjob for backups. It never
sends mails.
All other cronjobs send mail fine. The only difference is
that this job runs for almost two hours. If it stops on
mounting
-Original Message-
From: Julien V.
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 6:52 PM
But I have a BIG problem with ESMTP mechanism for authentification.
I need to host a few domain for which user can post message
from any IP to any email, with an authentification (i must be
sure that's
-Original Message-
From: Topper Harley
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:20 PM
Eric N. Valor a écrit :
dpkg --get-selections | grep sendmail
See if you get anything back (I'm certain you won't, or if
you do it
will be status deinstall).
IIRC, the sendmail you have now is
-Original Message-
From: Joris
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:55 PM
[ Snip ]
Imap could use an outbox. Not just a mua outbox queuing up
all the mail 'till a connection is made, no, a real outbox.
The mail client sends outgoing mail to the outbox on the imap
server, wich hands it
-Original Message-
From: David Gomillion
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:33 PM
Peter Holm said:
is it an unrealistic or unintelligent approach to limit the
amount of
mail that can be sent with a server?
Limiting the possibility to send mail to only once per
minute
-Original Message-
From: Robert Horton
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:47 PM
[ Snip ]
As for what OS I am running: I do the LFS (linux from
scratch) and I am running the 2.4.25 kernel. I do not have
the RPM package installed nor am I very excited about
installing it as I
-Original Message-
From: Kirk Wolff
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:10 PM
Thank you, I think I understand what you say. Let me make it clear:
From: Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:58 PM
I saw Sam and Jeff's answers, and was going Huh? until
-Original Message-
From: Kirk A Wolff
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:11 PM
I saw Sam and Jeff's answers, and was going Huh? until it dawned on me
where I was misconnecting... 465!=587 g
How do I make one courier mail server send all of its mail
through another courier mail server,
-Original Message-
From: Scott Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:15 PM
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 15:22, Sander Holthaus wrote:
Both machine's have the same MX-prefernce.
Thats your problem. Smallest number for the final destination. Period.
Scott, you're wrong.
If you want
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:47 AM
Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's exactly what I meant. *Mounting* the license plate
on the roof
is bad, but *looking* for the license plate on the roof isn't -- if
it's not
-Original Message-
From: John Bossert
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:17 PM
One of my machines is seeing the following from Courier (0.45.4):
220 hermes.affidian.com ESMTP
helo bucky.affidian.com
250 hermes.affidian.com Ok.
mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
517-Domain does not
-Original Message-
From: Sean Butler
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:53 AM
[ Snip ]
Now, if someone can fix the archives, or point me to a url
that has the post Malcolm has referenced, or forward me that
email, or give some kind of advice to someone who has now
spent many
-Original Message-
From: Sean Butler
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:59 PM
[ Snip ]
Is there anywhere to get the detail of what courier-imap is
sending the client and why, since there doesn't seem to
currently be adequate logging as I have it configured.
Gee, good to see folks
-Original Message-
From: Shaun T. Erickson
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:02 AM
I need to see the entire imap session, not just the login
details. Is there any way to get imap to tell me more?
In the etc/imapd config file, define a variable IMAPDEBUGFILE to have the
value of a
-Original Message-
From: synrat
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:25 AM
I would like to setup some kind of high availability
configuration for Courier IMAP.
I was wondering if anyone tried simultanous write access to a
fiber channel array that only has Maildirs. I know nobody
-Original Message-
From: Dennis
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:25 AM
[ Snip ]
Another thing I always feel frustrated about is diagnostics
and troubleshooting with Courier. It seems like Sam various
users have this knowledge in their heads from experience, but
I don't think
-Original Message-
From: Vincent
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:53 PM
I don't understand. Why doesn't it do on on other targets like
install-strip?
Install-strip is a target, and is in the [Mm]akefile on
the left of a
colon.
Huh?
install-configure isn't?
Is
-Original Message-
From: Vincent
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 7:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [courier-users] make: invalid option when using
DESTDIR with install-configure
Thanks for the reply.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:59:00PM +1300, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Zusman
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:15 AM
[ Snip ]
And as for this patch itself, remember that it consists
solely of putting a unique id field into the Received
header. This is a minor change, and it mirrors what some
other MTA's already
-Original Message-
From: Anand Buddhdev
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:09 PM
There is probably an obvious fix for this, but I'm noticing that
emails to a particular domain are failing. I'm receiving
the following in the diagnostics output:
I0 P mail.sarc.org
-Original Message-
From: Bowie Bailey
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:58 PM
[ Snip ]
BTW, if MSA is ESMTP with mandatory authentication, why is
the setting AUTH_REQUIRED=0 in the config by default?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
Ah, sorry, that description was a mix of the
to tell me why you're not driving the
2033 Porsche.
I only gave a somewhat sarcastic answer to Malcolm's question:
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Sure. Now, explain why [SPF] isn't already being used universally?
Why doesn't Yahoo simply implement it?
Neither SPF nor YASAF
-Original Message-
From: Julian Mehnle
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:41 PM
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why do you, and others, seem so upset with a proposal
that *is*, in
at least some regards, more secure and more useful (to large ISPs)?
I'm getting upset
-Original Message-
From: Julian Mehnle
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:53 PM
Malcolm Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Julian Mehnle wrote:
while some people think it
should be generally adopted *instead* of rivaling schemes
like SPF
due to Yahoo's 800lb Gorilla factor
-Original Message-
From: Gordon Messmer
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:19 AM
To: Courier Users
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Gordon Messmer writes:
Acknowledging that my opinion isn't worth much, this seems
stupid.
As described, the solution would require all of the work
-Original Message-
From: Julian Mehnle
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:08 PM
[ Snip ]
As each message is injected into the public internet by a SMTP
server, that message is signed with a private key controlled by
whoever owns the injecting domain.
From that point on,
-Original Message-
From: James McTavish
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:04 AM
[ Snip ]
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde2 490023 23988440733 6% /
/dev/vg1/home 85980604 33240 85947364 1% /home
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gordon
Messmer
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [courier-users] 431 Mail system full
Malcolm Weir wrote:
(C) Reiserfs' policy of reporting the fsinfo
-Original Message-
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:09 PM
Malcolm Weir wrote:
As a matter of fact, returning -1 *will* make *some*
applications magically
work, it *won't* break anything else, and it disambiguates the situation
-Original Message-
From: Julian Mehnle
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:16 PM
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could imagine that there are many people out there that would like
to run newsletters based on courier-mlm, if they knew how they could
assure that only allowed
My configuration are as follows:
my Courier-0.44.0 is installed in Solaris 9
Configure Mail delivery as:
DEFAULTDELIVERY=|| /usr/lib/courier/bin/dotforward
./Maildir
Is the double | correct? I know it's in the file as an example, but it
might be worth checking to see what happens with only
-Original Message-
From: Bill Hacker
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:42 AM
[ Snip ]
IMNSHO, the community *needs* and should value Linux-archy for the
creativity it fosters, even if we choose to run the results of that on
*BSD, OS X, or OS/2 for stability.
Ummm... it might be
[ Snip ]
There are some functions that I would like to see in maildrop's
filtering language, and I'm wondering how you folks feel about me
writing these functions and then supplying patches for maildrop?
If there is enough interest in this, I will start work on this right
away in my spare
-Original Message-
From: Thomas von Hassel
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:17 AM
[ Snip ]
I have to disagree, while it can be a pain in the butt to deal with
disgruntled users and idiot admins, if we start slacking up on things
like this we end up with a set of RFC's that
-Original Message-
From: Phillip Hutchings
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:26 AM
[ Snip ]
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
-Original Message-
From: dick hoogendijk
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:44 AM
[ Snip ]
My 2 ct: I agree fully to the compliance rules of courier. Why? 'cause I
see everyday waht non-compiance does on the web (www). And I hate it. If
I would want a MTA that was more
-Original Message-
From: Julian Mehnle
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:34 AM
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
-Original Message-
From: Bryan Rentoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:31 AM
[ Snip ]
So... here are the contents of
/home/vpopmail/domains/cybermedix.co.nz/mail/Maildir
drwxr- 2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Sep 23 18:27 cur
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Reese
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:38 PM
I have a user that would like to reply to emails from their personal isp
account fdn.com, Courier of course won't allow relaying by default i
have learned. How can I allow courier to send mail for this
This weekend I've spent a lot of time working out how to use the Maildrop
embedded mode, mainly because of the SWEN.A virus that has been annoying
people all around.
I now have a working setup, which blocks most of the SWEN Microsoft
security update attempts, plus which blocks all Windows
-Original Message-
From: Three Letter Acronym
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:26 PM
Bryan Rentoul wrote:
Well, after running
find . -type f -exec grep No such file or directory {} \;
No such file or directory is a message from a library routine.
From
Hi, all.
I'm trying to set up an embedded maildrop content filter (i.e. smtpfilter)
that wants to check the envelope recipient (as specified by the SMTP RCPT
TO command) against the message headers. The idea is that I want to reject
messages containing a windows-executable attachment if the
-Original Message-
From: Sam Varshavchik
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:54 AM
[ Snip ]
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
Hi,
I'm currently on my third or fourth upgrade (for the whole Courier shebang)
and it's finally dawned on me that some of the documentation could use a
little help. While I'll try to assemble HOW-TO's as I go along, one thing
that I spotted straight away (this time!) was this statement in the
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