Re: [courier-users] Slow Copies with Courier-Imap
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/09/2009 01:51 PM, Alexander M Thompson wrote: The only problem is, it seems like Copy operations are very slow for the first 30-45 seconds of a given imap session, sometimes to the point where you only can do one operation before it gets better (i.e. copying a small mail to the sent folder takes 30 seconds). ... You do realize that copying a message to the sent folder will cause thunderbird to initiate a new connection, right? If the first copy operation has a long delay and subsequent copy operations do not, then you're probably seeing general connection delays. Check TCPDOPTS in imapd, and add -nodnslookup -noidentlookup if they're not present. I'd checked all that previously, the connection completes successfully and starts issuing imap commands before pausing. I've gone so far as to truss the imapd process on a test server while one of the people experiencing the problem used it. What I found is disheartening to say the least: PID TIMESTAMP SYSCALL = RETURN CODE 26243: 173.5222openat(-3041965, ./.Sent/cur, O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 26243: 173.5223fcntl(7, F_SETFD, 0x0001) = 0 26243: 173.5223fstat64(7, 0x08042420) = 0 26243: 173.8125getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 7824 26243: 173.9659getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 7776 26243: 174.0832getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 7776 (Lots and lots of getdents64 [get directory entries] calls, enumerating every file in ./.Sent/cur) 26243: 214.3709getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 7792 26243: 214.3973getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 480 26243: 214.3975getdents64(7, 0xFEF64000, 8192) = 0 For whatever reason, courier is enumerating every single file in .Sent/cur and doing *something*, an operation that takes about 41 seconds in this case. Again, this only happens once per connection or so, so it must be putting it all into a hash table for future use... or something. But it's doing this before telling the client it has completed the copy operation (which it has, I can tell from the truss output). I'm truly at a loss as to how I could fix this behavior. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Slow Copies with Courier-Imap
I have a new mail server running courier-imap 4.5.0 on Solaris 10u7, with home directories and maildirs (Maildir format) mounted using autofs. Clients connect via SSL(only) using a variety of mail clients (although I'm seeing the behavior on both sylpheed and thunderbird specifically). The primary back-end file server is a netapp running NFS, connected via gigE across a cisco switch. Neither the server nor the netapp are reporting any kinds of errors or stress, and traffic is way under what I've been able to get with direct copies. I've got MAXDAEMONS=250 and MAXPERIP=50 (probably excessive, but shouldn't cause a problem), neither of which is even being scratched (about 150 daemons during peak times). The only problem is, it seems like Copy operations are very slow for the first 30-45 seconds of a given imap session, sometimes to the point where you only can do one operation before it gets better (i.e. copying a small mail to the sent folder takes 30 seconds). It seems to happen every time a given user reconnects after about 30 minutes of inactivity (I'm guessing its after the old connection shuts down, because thats about the right time frame). It doesn't feel like mount or authentication overhead though, since most times the user is able to log in, browse their messages, and then initiate a copy operation(copy to sent folder, folder to folder copies, or move to trash all exhibit this) before it hangs waiting for the operation to finish. Also, I run squirrelmail on the same server, although it connects to localhost without SSL, and have had no reports of any slow downs what-so-ever on squirrelmail. I've read over pretty much everything I could find about things that could slow courier down, and nothing seems to be jumping out at me. I'm not using FAM/Gamin; no high resource utilization; no network overload; keywords are turned on, but none of the users have massive keyword :lists. As you might be able to tell, I'm at a total loss as to what could be causing this. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Mac users can't use pop sometimes due to a message
We've had mac users who at some point in time get a message that prevents them from being able to use pop to get their mail. Once that email message is deleted then they can suddenly use their email account again. Any ideas? (Its only been the mac users who have had this problem). I didn't see anything helpful in the logs.. just that they tried to log into pop, and there was a big number in TOP, and retries were several times I think... actually they were actually all quite random numbers... Note - the last time this happened it was a local user sent global email so other users mac and xp still received the message fine, and it wasn't a message from some spammer / virus maker etc. But it prevented one mac guy from being able to use pop to get his email. He had to go into webmail - and once he deleted that message he could d/l his email via pop again. _ Are you ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5 ? Get the latest for free today! http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Weird messages received
Sometimes I receive an email to my admin account stating that the email I sent to an [EMAIL PROTECTED] was not sent. The message has an attachment and when you open them down eventually you find a spam email that is FROM the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] How is this happening? What do I look at? From an external account I teleneted in and sent a message from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And it worked... so I thought it is an open relay. But when I try any of the websites etc. to check for this none of them can find an open relay on my mail server. This is a delivery status notification from icarus, running the Courier mail server, version 0.47. The original message was received on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:46:17 -0600 from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) --- UNDELIVERABLE MAIL Your message to the following recipients cannot be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Are you ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5 ? Get the latest for free today! http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Weird messages received
To expand on this problem I think it is possibly this: http://www.nabble.com/Spam-with-Delivered-To-header-t3689885.html I'm just not quite sure how to go about fixing it. Could someone give me a few more details. How do you use the script that they are talking about? This seems like what I have: postmaster sends me a user unknown email. Inside that email is another email that is addressed to a known user, from an unknown user that was sent from the post master to the unknown user saying This is a delivery status notification from icarus, running the Courier mail server, version 0.47. The original message was received on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:16:55 -0600 from danielpwns ([:::98.18.15.171]) --- UNDELIVERABLE MAIL Your message to the following recipients cannot be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mail loop - already have my Delivered-To: header. AND attached to that email is a spam email... from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a known user at my domain. _ R U Ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5? Try it today! http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Weird messages received
That's not one of the checks that Courier performs, AFAIK. To carry out that check, you need to roll out your own filter. Are there any docs on how to write filters for courier? I agree, I can't find any good examples on how to fix this problem or setup that filter. It mentions using the rcptfilter file, but courier doesn't have any docs on how to setup this file. _ R U Ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5? Try it today! http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Setting up maildrop
--Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:37:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [courier-users] Problem forwarding to other user account maildroprc or .mailfilter M Core wrote: I think the question is - HOW do I CC or TO an email message to a different mail directory? I suspect this is the problem with TO /home/username/Maildir. (Note that TO or CC does work if it is in the user's directory that the email is being sent to e.g. TO $HOME/Maildir, or CCMaildir, or TOMaildir/.trash etc. these work.) Did you check permissions? Your .mailfilter is executed on *delivery* of a message, thus, in general, you shoudn't be able to do whatever you want around the system. However, if you host *virtual* users, then they all have the same courier uid/gid. --- Well if I try to do the TO or CC that is sent to some other users directory so I guess that is what I'm getting at. How to get around those permissions? I've seen examples on the web where people did that but never explained that they needed to do anything extra. My goal is to avoid the user having to redirect spam to me to file for learning. It would be nice to use maildroprc or .mailfilter to do a check for 'high scoring spam' and send it to the spam-forsure user account. _ Show your pals how you really feel! Learn more today! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Problem forwarding to other user account maildroprc or .mailfilter
My goal is to get my filtered email to all be CC'ed to my maildirectory for a set user [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I edit my .mailfilter file, or my maildroprc file this works cc | /usr/bin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] However - this does NOT work cc guy or cc!guy or cc/home/guy/Maildir I would like to use cc/home/guy/Mailder because then it wouldn't be mailed and get two spamassassin header changes. However, I can't figure out what non of these other things work. I think the question is - HOW do I CC or TO an email message to a different mail directory? I suspect this is the problem with TO /home/username/Maildir. (Note that TO or CC does work if it is in the user's directory that the email is being sent to e.g. TO $HOME/Maildir, or CCMaildir, or TOMaildir/.trash etc. these work.) _ Get cool Messenger Emoticons! Click here to learn more. http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Can't send mail to navy.mil - DNS lookup failed
Hi folks, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here because all of the online mail services I've tested from seem to be able to successfully send and receive mail from navy.mil, but my courier mailserver cannot do either. The email that is sent back to me gives me the following error message: DNS lookup failed. And, in fact, looking up navy.mil returns nothing: 12:41:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host navy.mil 12:41:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- When I look up the MX record with dig, I do get something, which is what I assume Courier is doing. In /etc/courier/esmtpd, I set BOFHCHECKDNS from 1 to 0 to see if it made any difference, but to no avail. This is quite annoying and I'm not sure what else to do. I don't seem to have any problems sending/receiving mail to any other domain that I know of. This is likely something really simple that I've mis-set, but I'm not sure how or what. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Shawn M. Jones - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Can't send mail to navy.mil - DNS lookup failed
Manuel Schneider [Everything Open] wrote: The email that is sent back to me gives me the following error message: DNS lookup failed. And, in fact, looking up navy.mil returns nothing: 12:41:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host navy.mil 12:41:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- This looks to me like an ordinary resolving problem which is not connected to courier. Check the contents in /etc/resolv.conf, maybe you want to enter another nameserver there. Checking other .mil addresses does yield similar results, with the exception of usmc.mil: 13:06:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host navy.mil 13:06:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host army.mil 13:06:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host af.mil 13:06:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -- host usmc.mil ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached What bothers me is that I've tried this from different servers in different geographical locations (using different DNS services) and have gotten the same results. What also bothers me is that the free mail services I've tried (gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail) can send email to navy.mil just fine. This leads me to believe that something must be wrong on my end. --Shawn - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] SPAM filters (was: mail queue purge)
BTW can anyone suggest a more efficient spam filter other than Spamassassin ? I use the Spamhaus and Spamcop blocklists, SPF, clamav, spamassassin, razor, pyzor, and dcc. Courier can be easily configured to use blocklists. They stop known SPAMmers from even getting a message on the server. SPF is tricky. Because not everyone has implemented it, you have to accept everything except mail from hosts that thoroughly fail SPF. It stops many phishers in their tracks. ClamAV gets rid of many phishing emails in addition to virii. Spamassassin will call razor, pyzor, and dcc if it finds them on your machine and use their input to make its decisions. Other than that, I've tried Bayesian SPAM filters, but didn't like having to keep large archives of SPAM around to retrain them every once in a while. Hope this helps, Shawn M. Jones - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] SPF Issues
Alessandro Vesely wrote: So have I. Probably it has never been made crystal clear that people should define TXT records for each host (probably v=spf1 +a -all). See http://new.openspf.org/FAQ/The_demon_question Yeah, I've done this for my domains. I see I'm in the minority. :-) What field was marked softfail? When you forward mail you must replace the MAIL FROM sender with something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SRS'idea is to forward any resulting bounce to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luckily Courier does not do so.) The FROM field is marked softfail sometimes if the FROM and HELO do not pass. At any rate, the internal FROM sender is considered the author and is usually left alone. That's why there is a mailfromok. (One reason one checks FROM is when MAILFROM is empty.) Thanks to your suggestion, I've put mailfromok in there, as I see that most of the time MAILFROM passes, but FROM may not (mixed bag of not pass, unknown, and softfail). I also let 'error' for both FROM fields. After you mentioned this I saw error for some legitimate mail in the maillog. I've added that to the list too. By doing SPF filtering you are making a favor to the users of the domain(s) specified in those fields. In facts, you save their domain name from abuse. However, the domain owners must be smart enough to provide robust DNS servers and good TXT records. When they succeed in putting a 'fail' on an address, your server obeys. Isn't it that way? This works wonderfully when this is all set up. Most clients are not SPF-aware, and don't let users configure the HELO name. Ok, that explains why so few seem to pass on HELO. Well, thank you Alessandro for clearning a lot of this up for me. I've noticed that SPF does improve my chances of not getting phising mails, but I still get two SPAM a day (rather than 300). I've set up DNS blocklist checking as well. Other than bogofilter and client-side SPAM solutions, are there any other free options I can set up on the server that are in any way effective at not removing/bouncing legitimate mail? Thanks again for the response, --Shawn - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] -ERR pop3login requires exactly two arguments.
Hey there again. I thought I finally got the whole things working after a crash, but no luck. Now it's the problem with pop3d. When I'm trying to pop3 the server, it reports an error: -ERR pop3login requires exactly two arguments. and just writes nothing to the log files. I've set debug levels to 2 both in authdaemonrc and pop3d, but still nothing showed up. An error comes up even before any login procedure actually starts: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.lanck.net. Escape character is '^]'. -ERR pop3login requires exactly two arguments. Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 and installed courier-0.52.1 from ports. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] -ERR pop3login requires exactly two arguments.
I thought I finally got the whole things working after a crash, but no luck. Now it's the problem with pop3d. Report a port bug. This error message indicated that the POP3 server wasn't installed correctly. The startup script is wrong. What the install script should look like? What's missing in there? I've read that the syntax of the startup has changed with version 0.52.1 How can I fix the problem whilst ports team resolves the problem? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] SMTP not working
Pavel M. Rebrov writes: Hi there! I've upgraded to Courier 0.52.1 from FreeBSD ports and smtp stopped working. The daemon does run, imap and pop3 do work, but I can't even telnet to port 25. The smtp _server_ is started by a separate command: esmtpd start Yeah, finally got it running. Now will try to get all things straight. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] SMTP not working
Hi there! I've upgraded to Courier 0.52.1 from FreeBSD ports and smtp stopped working. The daemon does run, imap and pop3 do work, but I can't even telnet to port 25. I did check /usr/local/etc/courier/locals, it does contain my hostname (the rest is in hosteddomains). Portmap which I had to turn on because of FAM requirement allows all connections. The logs seem to report a successful startup: Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Loading STATIC transport module libraries. Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Courier 0.52.1 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installing [0/0] Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installing local Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installed: module.local - Courier 0.52.1 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installing esmtp Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installed: module.esmtp - Courier 0.52.1 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installing dsn Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Installed: module.dsn - Courier 0.52.1 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Initializing local Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Initializing esmtp Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Initializing dsn Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Started ./courierlocal, pid=1044, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1 Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Started ./courieresmtp, pid=1045, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100 Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Started ./courierdsn, pid=1047, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1 Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400 Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs Oct 31 19:38:09 ddt courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Mon Oct 31 20:38:09 2005, wakeup time=Mon Oct 31 19:40:00 2005, queuedelivering=5, inprogress=0 It also seems that SMTP sends the mail, but doesn't want to receive it: Oct 31 19:39:27 ddt courierd: newmsg,id=003E.436648BF.0483: dns; localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) Oct 31 19:39:27 ddt courierd: started,id=003E.436648BF.0483,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],module=esmtp,host=mail.ru,addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 31 19:39:27 ddt courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=none, wakeup time=Mon Oct 31 19:40:00 2005, queuedelivering=6, inprogress=1 Oct 31 19:39:28 ddt courieresmtp: id=003E.436648BF.0483,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 250 OK id=1EWchO-0001Z6-00 Oct 31 19:39:28 ddt courieresmtp: id=003E.436648BF.0483,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED],size=713,success: delivered: mxs.mail.ru [194.67.23.20] Oct 31 19:39:28 ddt courieresmtp: id=003E.436648BF.0483,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED],size=713,status: success Oct 31 19:39:28 ddt courierd: completed,id=003E.436648BF.0483 Oct 31 19:39:28 ddt courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Mon Oct 31 20:38:09 2005, wakeup time=Mon Oct 31 19:40:00 2005, queuedelivering=5, inprogress=0 Any help would be greatly appreciated! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Help please! Strange glibc errors generated by courier-mta and maildrop 06x error
Folks, I've been trying to get courier-mat working for a week now. I'd like some help or at least a direction. I am running Sourcemage Linux (Gentoo like) and everything is compiled from source using 64-bit code. I have an amd-64 3000 running on a asus a8n-sli deluxe board with 1 gig of memory. Versions Linux: 2.6.13 gcc: 3.4.4 glibc (all locals included): 2.3.5 courier: 0.51.0 courier-authlib: 0.57 maildrop: 1.81 Symptoms: Mail is stuck in my queue. I get the same mail from days ago in my queue over and over while my queue fills up. Deleting the files in /var/courier/msgs and /var/courier/msgq does not help. Doing a courier flush does not empty the queue either. Doing a 'mailq' as root will tell me i have about 1000 messages in the queue and looking at the log files i see things like queuedelivering=400, inprogress=4. The value for queuedelevering never equals the count by the mailq command. A 'courier-flush' will sometimes reduce this number, but since the mail doesn't seem to be leaving the queue i get mostly older messages. I can send mail just fine. Debugging: Looking through /var/log/mail/current (i'm using metalog) i see the following three things frequently, but not always and these three messages never appear together: 1) Aug 28 10:07:41 [courierlocal] id=000AFB39.43108F73.60EF,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x7fd18eb0 *** Aug 28 10:07:41 [courierlocal] 2) Aug 28 11:00:11 [postfix/local] CA1FA8861A: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=419430, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock. ) 3)Aug 30 00:11:54 [courierlocal] id=00029B1C.4313BB32.4E12,from=,addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: maildrop: signal 0x06 #2 is rare, and #1 and #3 are quite frequent. I have recompiled glibc, gcc, courier, courier-authlib many times. I am authenticating via plain. Can anyone give me a hand? I'm not sure how i can fix this. Please let me know if there is any more information i can provide or have left out. Thanks in advance. Please don't respond to me via direct email as i may not get it anyway. Bearcat M. Sandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6628727 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Help please! Strange glibc errors generated by courier-mta and maildrop 06x error
Folks, I've been trying to get courier-mat working for a week now. I'd like some help or at least a direction. I am running Sourcemage Linux (Gentoo like) and everything is compiled from source using 64-bit code. I have an amd-64 3000 running on a asus a8n-sli deluxe board with 1 gig of memory. Versions Linux: 2.6.13 gcc: 3.4.4 glibc (all locals included): 2.3.5 courier: 0.51.0 courier-authlib: 0.57 maildrop: 1.81 Symptoms: Mail is stuck in my queue. I get the same mail from days ago in my queue over and over while my queue fills up. Deleting the files in /var/courier/msgs and /var/courier/msgq does not help. Doing a courier flush does not empty the queue either. Doing a 'mailq' as root will tell me i have about 1000 messages in the queue and looking at the log files i see things like queuedelivering=400, inprogress=4. The value for queuedelevering never equals the count by the mailq command. A 'courier-flush' will sometimes reduce this number, but since the mail doesn't seem to be leaving the queue i get mostly older messages. Doing a strace on 'courier flush' tells me that some /usr/lib64 files can not be found, but i'm not sure this is the cause. See http://www.feline-soul.net/courier_flush for the strace I can send mail just fine. Debugging: Looking through /var/log/mail/current (i'm using metalog) i see the following three things frequently, but not always and these three messages never appear together: 1) Aug 28 10:07:41 [courierlocal] id=000AFB39.43108F73.60EF,from=[EMAIL PROTECTED],addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x7fd18eb0 *** Aug 28 10:07:41 [courierlocal] 2) Aug 28 11:00:11 [postfix/local] CA1FA8861A: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=419430, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock. ) 3)Aug 30 00:11:54 [courierlocal] id=00029B1C.4313BB32.4E12,from=,addr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: maildrop: signal 0x06 #2 is rare, and #1 and #3 are quite frequent. I have recompiled glibc, gcc, courier, courier-authlib many times. I am authenticating via plain. Can anyone give me a hand? I'm not sure how i can fix this. Please let me know if there is any more information i can provide or have left out. Thanks in advance. Please don't respond to me via direct email as i may not get it anyway. Bearcat M. Sandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6628727 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Trouble shooting Maildir's?
Thank you Sam,The user in question has about 1500+ emails in his inbox. Any suggestions on finding the bad file(s)?Thanks again!JoshThe "rm" command will do nicely. The maildir format cannot be any more simpler than it already is: one file per message. Other ancillary files that the server uses are rebuilt automatically, when needed. The only potential source of possible corruption are illegal filenames. Names of the individual message files must follow a specific convention. The filename format is actually very liberal, and almost anything goes. The only real problem would be having an extra ":" character in the filename, or more than one file with the same base part, but a different suffix. In that case, identify the problem files, and rm-ing them will take care of it. I need some help trouble shooting a maildirI suspect there is a corrupt item somewhere is a user maildir.When the user tries checking mail with his client it hangs.Is the case for POP and IMAP and while using Squirrel Mail and other clients.The pop/imap process starts and runs for a short while then it vanishes.What are the tools available to reconstruct, rebuild, etc a maildir under Courier?Thanks,Josh
[courier-users] Trouble shooting Maildir's?
I'm sorry, make that 6800+ messages in his inbox... (some people)Thank you Sam,The user in question has about 1500+ emails in his inbox. Any suggestions on finding the bad file(s)?Thanks again!JoshThe "rm" command will do nicely. The maildir format cannot be any more simpler than it already is: one file per message. Other ancillary files that the server uses are rebuilt automatically, when needed. The only potential source of possible corruption are illegal filenames. Names of the individual message files must follow a specific convention. The filename format is actually very liberal, and almost anything goes. The only real problem would be having an extra ":" character in the filename, or more than one file with the same base part, but a different suffix. In that case, identify the problem files, and rm-ing them will take care of it. I need some help trouble shooting a maildirI suspect there is a corrupt item somewhere is a user maildir.When the user tries checking mail with his client it hangs.Is the case for POP and IMAP and while using Squirrel Mail and other clients.The pop/imap process starts and runs for a short while then it vanishes.What are the tools available to reconstruct, rebuild, etc a maildir under Courier?Thanks,Josh
[courier-users] Re: SMTP connections very slow/timing out
The server has been running for at least 1.5 years. It is running Courier 0.44.2-1.7.3 I don't see connections being dropped but I do see a lot of entries like this: Jun 24 10:47:23 mail courieresmtpd: 255 active connections. Jun 24 10:47:52 mail courieresmtpd: 256 maximum active connections. I disabled TCP and IDENT lookups as per the suggestion from another post. I am not seeing the max active connections in the log anymore. I am getting about 1-3 connection per second. Any other suggestion would be appreciated! Josh --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] SMTP connections very slow/timing out
Hello, I have taken over management of a server running courier mail services. Today for the first time users were complaining that sending mail was either really slow or timing out entirely. Not knowing much about courier I started trudging through logs and config files. I found that MAXDAEMONS was set at 40 and that limit was being reached in 1-2 seconds after courieresmtpd was restarted. We do receive a lot of spam, I counted about 12000 connection attempts in about 8 hours to the esmtp server. I increased the MAXDAEMONS to 128, which helped a bit. Then later to 256 which seems to have helped a bit more. I am still reaching the max connection limit and maintaining it within 20 or so all day. I am not seeing a large number of errors in the log besides user unknown (spam) Is setting MAXDAEMONS this high normal? It seems a little extreme to me. Am I just putting a band-aid on a bigger issue? Does anyone have any ideas of where I should look? Thanks, Josh --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] anyone know how to resolve this
CORRUPTED MESSAGE This is the Courier Mail Server 0.45 on x.com. I received the following message for delivery to your address. This message contains several internal formatting errors. This is often caused by viruses that attempt to infect remote systems. Instead of blocking this message, it has been converted as a safe, text-only attachment that can be safely read with a text editor. This sometimes also happens when the sender's mail software has a bug that creates improperly-formatted messages. Although these kinds of formatting errors may often be ignored by other mail servers, this server detects and intercepts improperly-coded messages in order to prevent viruses from taking advantage of bugs in E-mail programs: -shane
[courier-users] makedatprog
Hello, I'm installing courier-authlib and courier-imap on Slackware. Instead of doing a normal install, Im creating Slackware packages. The makeuserdb perl script that is installed with authlib references $makedat=/usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/makedatprog;. makedataprog is installed by courier-imap. Is it assumed that /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/makedataprog is a symlink to the real makedataprog? I'm sure I can add the symlink to my package, but I want to make sure I understand what is going on. Thank you for answering my previous post. I realize now that the answer to that question was in the docs. Sorry!! I've grep'd and looked in the docs and did not see an answer to this question. Google returns an option of this --with-makedatprog=. Maybe this is the answer to my question. However I did not see this option in the INSTALL doc nor via ./configure --help. If the answer to this question is well documented, then please just reply look harder or you dumb*** and I will continue the search. Thanks in advance. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Fwd: Re: [courier-users] makedatprog
Sorry, this should've been sent to the list. --- Andrew M. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:11:00 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew M. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] makedatprog To: Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, That is not the reply I expected. I must be doing something horribly wrong then. I'm using the DESTDIR variable with make install and make install-configure to install to my temporary build directories for courier-authlib and courier-imap. Here you can see that makedatprog is in my temp courier-imap dir: Services /home/andy/temp/pkg/build/courier-imap/usr/local/libexecls -l total 436 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 387023 2005-02-12 14:24 couriertcpd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1493 2005-02-12 14:24 imapd-ssl.rc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1510 2005-02-12 14:24 imapd.rc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37679 2005-02-12 14:24 makedatprog* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1462 2005-02-12 14:24 pop3d-ssl.rc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1446 2005-02-12 14:24 pop3d.rc* Services /home/andy/temp/pkg/build/courier-imap/usr/local/libexec Here is my courier-authlib temp dir: Services /home/andy/temp/pkg/build/courier-authlib/usr/local/libexec/courier-authlibls -l total 64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60708 2005-02-12 13:44 authdaemond* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1813 2005-02-12 13:44 authsystem.passwd* Services /home/andy/temp/pkg/build/courier-authlib/usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib Using find produces these same results. Thanks, --- Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew M. Campbell writes: Hello, I'm installing courier-authlib and courier-imap on Slackware. Instead of doing a normal install, Im creating Slackware packages. The makeuserdb perl script that is installed with authlib references $makedat=/usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/makedatprog;. makedataprog is installed by courier-imap. Is it assumed that /usr/local/libexec/courier-authlib/makedataprog is a symlink to the real makedataprog? I'm sure I can add the symlink to my package, but I want to make sure I understand what is going on. makedatprog should also be installed by courier-authlib. ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: reject unknown users on mx backup servers
Jan Stanik writes: Hi all, I need to reject unknown 'local' users on my mx backup server (with no local delivery). Spamers try to send spam to mx backup servers directly, as they assume that those servers do not have as good protection as primary mailservers. They are right ;-) Do yo have any suggestion how to implement this check in courier? Mmmm, easier said than done. I think it can be done, but not very easily. How about this. Make the secondary a primary as well, but the delivery instructions send it on to the real primary. Now you only need to replicate your userdatabase, but there are mechanisms for that. Alternatively, make your domain a hosteddomain on the secondary. Regularly extract userdatabase, send over to secondary, convert to aliasdatabase. Alias all real users from user@domain.tld to user@mx1.domain.tld so they get sent on to the real primary. A completely different solution that more and more people use is not have any backup MXen! Make all mailservers primary (same prio) and have them all on site. If any of them fails you're covered, another will take over. If your Internet connection fails, the sending server will hold the mail for just as long as a backup MX normally does, 4 days. People even use this scenario with only one primary mailserver and no others. On the outside this looks like a badly thought out strategy (What? No backup mailserver?) but if ou cannot affort multiple primaries it is a good choice. Mmmm, must try that myself real soon now to see how it works. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: Courier + SSL + AUTH
Johan van Vliet writes: I think.. I'm going to test this.. change my esmtproutes into: : [127.0.0.1] setup an stunnel on 25 to other host on 465 change my esmtpauthclient into: 127.0.0.1 myuid mypwd If your courier does not listen on 127.0.0.1:25 or *:25, yes. Otherwise you'll have to fiddle it a bit, but it's not hard. You can also setup a dummy interface and bind stunnel to that, but you still have a problem if courier listens on *:25. Just make courier listen only on the interfaces where it should listen. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: ssl certificates problem
Andrei Iordache writes: I am trying to set up imapd-ssl. If I use the mkimapdcert script, everything works fine. The problem is that the script creates a certificate file with both private and public keys in it. If I try to split it in 2 like this: courier-key.pem: -BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY- Private key stuff -END RSA PRIVATE KEY- courier-cert.crt: -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- Certificate stuff -END CERTIFICATE- You may want to read up a bit about this stuf works. But in short, just extract the certificate stuf from the courier generated file and import only that in your mailclient. Leave the courier generated file alone. and I instruct [for example] imapd-ssl to use the courier-key.pem (after I import the file courier-cert.crt in my email client ie Outlook Express), it doesn't work anymore. I find in the logs something like k-server imapd-ssl: couriertls: /path-to-the-certificate/courier-key.pem: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line That's right, there is no certificate, so there is no startline. This also happens if I generate the certificate manually with openssl (a x509 that is, i have read the documentation, it says that SSL requires a valid, signed, X.509 certificate to be installed where Courier expects to find it) and if I put the private key into a separate file than the public (the actual ceritificate, isn't it?) one. I also am making sure that both files have a new end-line each. Am I doing something wrong ? You are not providing the certificate to courier, so it cannot work. A PEM file can contain any number of items, and a program can load one or more items from a PEM file. Depending on how the software is set up, one can have settings for a private key file and a certificate file (which may point to the same PEM file), or the software dictates the private key and certificate should be in the same PEM file by only providing one combined setting for this. Reading your problem, I assume courier is in this second catagory, which is fairly common btw. Remember that a certificate must be present at both ends of the connection (commonly achieved by sending it over from server to client at connection setup), but the corresponding private key should only be at the server side (client and server as in who consumes and who provides authentication, not an IMAP server or so). Importing the certificate in the client is a good way to make sure you are really talking to a particular webserver. Without further setup, a certificate only assures you are talking over an encrypted channel, not who you are talking to and not even that this channel is end-to-end (man in the middle attack possible). Importing certificates into your mailclient solves these problems. But another possibility (I don't know if outlook supports this) would be to create your own CA, generate a root certificate, sign the mailserver certificate with this CA certificate, import the root certificate into the client and tell the client to only accept certificates signed by this CA. By setting up things this way, you can regenerate mail certificates and have the client automagically accept only servers with an certificate issued by you. Very useful from a continuity point of view, you can add backup MXen, migrate mailservers, etc without having to reconfigure clients. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: Courier and batched SMTp
Sander Holthaus - Orange XL writes: Sander Holthaus - Orange XL writes: HTML content follows Newbie question here, but does Courier support batched SMTP? If yes, how? If not, is there a way to implement it? There's no such thing called batched SMTP. Here in the Netherlands, many providers are offering Batched SMTP, and I even had several asking me for it. Perhaps this will help: http://www.spinnaker.de/debian/bsmtpd.html There is such a thing as batched smtp. Fortunately it's dead. And there is ETRN. Unfortunately, the Netherlands somehow calls ETRN batched SMTP, don't ask me why. Somehow it is not possible to convince my fellow dutchmen that Batched SMTP is something completely different than they think it is. If one searches the web for batched smtp one will find lots of references to this (rightfully) dead implementations of real batched smtp and lots of dutch providers offering batched smtp when they actually mean ETRN. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: Filtering specific domains by sender IP address
Martin Horak writes: Run another MTA (another instance of courier f.i.) on a different IP on the same machine. Accept only those IPs, reject all others. Rely all mail to 127.0.0.1. Yes, nice and simple. Thank you. Anyway, is there other solution? What if I want to allow some IPs unconditionally, and others only with properly signed messages? I'm not a real guru, so I cannot tell you unconditionally. But I don't think it can be done easily. You may want to have a look at the BLOCK2 variable to signal different classes of IPs to a filter that accepts rejects the message based on the contents and BLOCK2. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Courier not delivering outbound mail
My Courier installation was recently upgraded to version 0.45.6.20040618. I noticed that Courier is no longer delivering outbound e-mail from my server. When I look at Courier's logs both queuedelivering and inprogress are non-zero and increase with each outbound mail that is sent. I've been all through the configuration but can't figure out why Courier isn't delivering outbound e-mail. Incoming mail works just fine. I've searched all over the documentation for Courier and the web in general looking for assistance but couldn't really find any that pertained to my specific situation. So I'm turning to the mailing list for suggestions. Does anyone have any recommendations of things to check to resolve this problem? I would greatly appreciate it. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: Client can't get mail, if HEX 0x00 in mail
Ingo Reinhart writes: If a mail includes unknown chars the client can't receive the mail complete. The unknown char look in HEX-Code like 0x00. The client is an Outlook 2003 with Norton Internet Security 2004. I've seen enough trouble with Norton desktop security products that I would first check if the problem persists if you disable that. Should be easy enough to do. I would not rule out courier though as the source of the problem, but lets take it step by step. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: Client can't get mail, if HEX 0x00 in mail
Ingo Reinhart writes: Hi! Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]: first check if the problem persists if you disable that. Hm, that is one case. But not a general way for my environment. I would not rule out courier though as the source of the problem, but lets take it step by step. Yes, I think that is not a courier problem, too. But my users can't get mails Try first to get that clear. That way you can file a bugreport and get it fixed instead of relying on (potentially broken) workarounds. That does obviously not mean that you should wait for a fix, a workaround may still be in order. form the server. So I think if the server can handle the problem my users more happy than they must deactivate the virus-scanner. If the virusscanner indeed is broken (not proven yet! But I've seen problems before with Norton) maybe switch to another AV vendor? There are many alternatives. You might also want to have a look at using clamav on the imap server. It's what I do and it works like a charm. That way not having your mail scanned inbound on the client may be acceptable. Is there a way to ignore some chars for courier? Hack the source. Open-source, you have the source, so it's your own fault. :-) Seriously, I doubt courier can do this out of the box. Maybe someone else can confirm this. I also doubt someone is willing to implement this workaround if indeed Norton is the cause of the problem. But as said before, first let's see where the problem really lies. If it is a problem with courier it'll probably be fixed quickly. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: can't access Maildirs
Comrade Burnout writes: i just installed courier-imap on a new machine, and i'm getting the following in /var/log/maillog: imapd: chdir /var/mail/vmail: Permission denied drwx-- 6 vmuser vmuser 512 Jul 22 22:52 . drwxrwx--- 3 rootmail512 Jul 27 03:01 .. drwx-- 10 vmuser vmuser 512 Jul 28 13:32 Maildir-brian Here's your problem I think. /var/mail is not readable for vmuser. I personally have a /var/vmail directory with the correct permissions and that works for me. Saves having to change the permissions on /var/mail. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: IMAP outbox/sent mail folders
Sam Varshavchik writes: Warren Konkel writes: I read somewhere that there's a setting somewhere in the imap config file that will turn on auto-sending of anything placed in the Outbox, but will courier then move it to a Sent Items box when it's done or something? No. Although the Outbox is a great feature, you can do a lot yourself using cronjobs. It takes some thinking to get it right, but once it works, it works great. One can implement an outbox this way that does move the item to sent items. I use this myself to process the occasionally misidentified spam or ham. By placing it in the right folder, a cronjob picks it up, feeds it through spamassassin, if spam sends it to spamcop, and files the message in the appropriate folder. This is very easy to do when one user is involved. When multiple users are involved it is actually not that much harder, something like (I have real users and virtual domains): for d in /home/*/Maildir/.Outbox/cur/ `find /var/vmail \ -path /var/vmail/*/.Outbox/cur/` do # process outbox done Processing of a mailbox should ofcourse be done in a manner that is resilient to multiple invocations of the script, I leave that up to your imagination. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: courier and mailman
Javier Olascoaga writes: I create the list mailman, but when I put the aliases in /etc/courier/aliases/system mailman: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman mailman-admin:|/var/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman mailman-bounces: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman mailman-confirm: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman mailman-join: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman mailman-leave:|/var/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman mailman-owner:|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman mailman-request: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman mailman-subscribe:|/var/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman mailman-unsubscribe: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman and run makealiases I get this error. aliasexp: ERR: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman: 553 Syntax error: |/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman@spezialk.net aliascombine: ERR: Success any tip about how to resolve this situation? Looks to me you should drop the quotes. Read http://www.courier-mta.org/makealiases.html for more information and why you probably want a .courier file instead. HTH, M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: grrrr
Jerry Amundson writes: You have just the one file in smtpaccess/ right? Just to emphasize, /all/ files are processed in this directory. That includes editor backup files (*~) and editor autosave files (#*#). I've been bitten by this more than once. Sam would you accept patches that exclude these files (and some other known artifacts)? M4 -- Courier-mta rocks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Aliases in MySQL
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[courier-users] Unable to submit messages
Hi there! I've got the following problem. I'm running FreeBSD 4.9 (PIII, 512Mb RAM), Courier 0.45.5, Apache 1.3.31. I've also got Amavis-new running through Courier filters, using ClamAv (+FreshClam) and SpamAssassin. The problem is that all of sudden, some time ago the system ran into trouble. Every several hours it gets flooded with the following processes (ps -aux): courier 11425 0,0 0,0 17640 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit esmtp dns; justyna. www 11454 0,0 0,0 17280 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit local dns; localhos courier 11460 0,0 0,0 17480 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit esmtp dns; pD9E041E courier 11524 0,0 0,0 17440 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit esmtp dns; mail2.ez www 11532 0,0 0,0 17440 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit local dns; localhos courier 11611 0,0 0,0 17600 ?? IW - 0:00,00 submit esmtp dns; 69-167-7 Submits are owned by courier and apache. The number of those processes grows up to hundreds and the mail system halts. I mean, it does work, IMAP and POP do work, but mail doesn't deliver. Once I restart Apache and Courier (and those submits are terminated), it gets back to work, all the mail is being delivered. Till next flood. What could that be? I'm getting frustrated with that and just have no idea what to do. I was thinking about Amavis as a bottleneck in the system and tried to turn off Spam filtering, but that didn't help. I'm not risking to turn of ClamAv, or Amavis at all, but could that be a problem? I was also doing some FreeBSD tuning lately (maxsockbuf, somaxconn, nmbclusters, maxsockets, etc), but that was working fine for several weeks. Thanks, Pavel M. Rebrov --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] sqwembail not sending email (sendmail error)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:53:31PM +0100, Jose M. Rus wrote: I installed Courier 0.44.2, everything works fine except webmail. When I send I new message with sqwebmail I receive the following error: sendmail: ERR: Permission denied 400 Unable to submit message - service temporarily unavailable. I placed a symbolic link to the Courier sendmail under /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (same permissions), also the Apache process is a member of the Courier group. No luck. I noticed that local users need to be added to the Courier group in order to to send emails (for example with the mail command) or sendmail complains. Any suggestions? Jose, did you check the permissions of sendmail? These are working ones: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mirko]$ ls -l /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail -r-s--x--x1 root daemon 143394 Nov 4 08:29 /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail I guess the last x is missing on your system. If this is not the problem, I suggest you run strace with sendmail on your system (available for Linux, I know that there are similar programs for other Unices). This will show you where the ERR comes from. Regards Mirko Arghhh, it was that sendmail lost the setuid flag. Thanks Mirko. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278alloc_id=3371op=click ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] sqwembail not sending email (sendmail error)
I installed Courier 0.44.2, everything works fine except webmail. When I send I new message with sqwebmail I receive the following error: sendmail: ERR: Permission denied 400 Unable to submit message - service temporarily unavailable. I placed a symbolic link to the Courier sendmail under /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (same permissions), also the Apache process is a member of the Courier group. No luck. I noticed that local users need to be added to the Courier group in order to to send emails (for example with the mail command) or sendmail complains. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278alloc_id=3371op=click ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] mysql-based user administration utilities?
I am running courier-imap, using the mysql account/authentication backend. Right now, I'm using Captainnet's mailAdmin ( http://maxo.captainnet.net/mailAdmin/index.php ) to administer accounts, but I'm finding it to be something of a crude hack, and am looking for something more robust. Surely I've simply somehow managed to miss seeing the big, useful, stable tool that everyone uses to administer courier-imap+mysql? Or are people all writing their own by hand? -- Daniel Drucker / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Indexing of arbitrary header-fields
Is it possible to make Courier index arbritary header-fields? I run a large-scale courier based IMAP-site - and we have a steady growth in header-searches (mostly for self-defined X-SOME-NAME: some-value). On the same time these folders are increasing in size and number of messages. I presume this is kind of difficult since IMAP's protocol defines a match for a search as a substring of the valuefield: SEARCH HEADER My-Field MyValue so a SEARCH in My-Field for al, My og MyValue would all match, hence hashing or other techniques won't work - at least not for a substring - thus breaking the protocol if implemented this way. Does courier implement any [propitary] indexes? Do anybody know of an IMAP server that can make use of a back-store in a database or the likes, giving faster searching, and a IMAP capable front? Thanks in advance, Dave -- David J. M. Karlsen - +47 90 68 22 43 http://www.davidkarlsen.com http://mp3.davidkarlsen.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] indexing of arbitrary header-fields
Is it possible to make Courier index arbritary header-fields? I run a large-scale courier based IMAP-site - and we have a steady growth in header-searches (mostly for self-defined X-SOME-NAME: some-value). On the same time these folders are increasing in size and number of messages. I presume this is kind of difficult since IMAP's protocol defines a match for a search as a substring of the valuefield: SEARCH HEADER My-Field MyValue so a SEARCH in My-Field for al, My og MyValue would all match, hence hashing or other techniques won't work - at least not for a substring - thus breaking the protocol if implemented this way. Does courier implement any [propitary] indexes? Do anybody know of an IMAP server that can make use of a back-store in a database or the likes, giving faster searching, and a IMAP capable front? Thanks in advance, Dave -- David J. M. Karlsen - +47 90 68 22 43 http://www.davidkarlsen.com http://mp3.davidkarlsen.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] SSL decryption failed error
Hi! I've been using courier-imap with SSL for about two years now, very happily. I'm setting up a new server now, to replace my current server, so I installed Courier again. On my new server, thought, all connections are rejected with Input/Output error! Every time that I try to connect, Courier-imap puts this in my /var/log/messages file: Mar 17 22:17:07 sp imapd-ssl: Connection, ip=[:::208.187.215.92] Mar 17 22:17:07 sp imapd-ssl: couriertls: accept: error:1408F455:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac what the heck does any of this even mean? The configuration files for the two servers are pretty much the same, so I can't figure out why the new one would have this error. I made a self-signed cert as the installation instructions advised. I tried changing the IMAPDSSLSTART and IMAPDSTARTTLS options. Nothing helps. Does anybody have an idea what is going on here? Or how to fix it? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
RE: [courier-users] Maximum number of logins from the same IPaddress
That won't work if any of your users use Outlook as his client. Outlook likes to establish as many as a dozen simultaneous connections when it starts up. As far as I can tell, it doesn't use them all but they're there and any that go away generate dialogs in the client that confuse the users. Outlook's behaviour is not expressly a violation of the standard but it's not a really good idea. Bumping session would create all kinds of problems... Cheers! Bob On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:37, Rick Erlandson wrote: There is an option for imap: MAXPERIP= On my system it is in /etc/courier/imapd. But I wouldn't do it that way. Everyone behind a proxy may be using the same external ip.. You could do it using sessions. If a session is already registered for that user, don't start another one... or give the option to kick the previous session.. or something along that line. just a thought. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of lall tarun Sent: November 26, 2002 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [courier-users] Maximum number of logins from the same IP address Hi, How can I set the maximun number of logins for an email account for the same IP address. I have written a java program using JavaMail API to access my qmail server using IMAP but it gives a connection failure error in one of the processes if I run two simultaneous processes to access the mail account. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Tarun __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users -- Robert M. Meyer Sr. Network Administrator INSTALLS inc 14 Lafayette Sq, Ste 410 Buffalo, NY 14203-1904 (716)332-1451 04 (716)332-1451 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] How to convert from UW-IMAP w/maildir patches to Courier
I installed UW-IMAP with the maildir patches on my system but there are several bizarre problems. I intend to convert to Courier (tested it on a development server) but I have to convert all of my users from one maildir format hierarchy to the Courier hierarchy. The format of the current directories is: INBOX Folder1 |---sub1--- | |---subsub1 | |---sub2 So the paths would be $HOME/Folder1, $HOME/Folder1/sub1, $HOME/Folder1/sub1/subsub1, $HOME/Folder1/sub2... ad. nausium Since Courier likes this folder tree to look like: $HOME/Maildir/.Folder1, $HOME/Maildir/.Folder1.sub1, $HOME/Maildir/.Folder1.sub1.subsub1, $HOME/.Folder1.sub2, etc., I need a routine to recursively fix this mess. Has anyone done this programmatically before? I have a 7 gigabyte mail spool at this point with 178 users and LOTS of folders. I obviously don't want to try to do this manually. This is a production system but I have a machine to test on. I need to do the whole conversion process over the course of one evening... Any help would be greatly appreciated... I might even buy you lunch if you're ever in Buffalo, NY :-) Cheers! Bob -- Robert M. Meyer Sr. Network Administrator INSTALLS inc 14 Lafayette Sq, Ste 410 Buffalo, NY 14203-1904 (716)332-1451 04 (716)332-1451 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] How to convert from UW-IMAP w/maildir patchesto Courier
My directories are ALREADY in maildir format. The problem is that the naming convention is all wrong for courier. Where the maildir patches for uw-imap make a hierarchical directory structure, courier essentially wants a flat structure with folder hierarchy identified by folder naming, rather than directory structure. I need to be able to convert the directory structure naming, not the messages which should be OK, already. Thanks for the help... Cheers! Bob On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 12:56, Christian Hammers wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:26:32PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: there are several tools for converting mbox style mailboxes to the maildir format - one of these is mb2md which I maintain (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ written by Robin Whittle). The only drawback is that it cannot convert mboxes recursively and I'm not aware of any tool that does. mb2md can at least convert all mailboxes on one level, whereas some of the other tools just do one mbox at time. I, too, can recommend it as it was the only tool from 4 or 5 I tested which could convert all my mails and kept the flags correctly. BTW: What it is also lacking is an easy to see command line to just convert one single mailbox into a given directory. For me it does too much magic.. bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Security for ProfessionalsFax 0241/911879 WESTEND ist CISCO Systems Partner - Authorized Reseller -- Robert M. Meyer Sr. Network Administrator INSTALLS inc 14 Lafayette Sq, Ste 410 Buffalo, NY 14203-1904 (716)332-1451 04 (716)332-1451 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] How to convert from UW-IMAP w/maildir patchesto Courier
Many thanks!! The script rocks. I modified it to just test a single
user with a 700Meg spool. It converted everything in about 6 seconds.
There is only one problem that was easy to fix. There needs to be
double quotes around the $WD on line 7. This is 'cuz outlook users like
to put spaces in their folder names :-)
Cheers!
Bob
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:54, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:40, Robert M. Meyer wrote:
I installed UW-IMAP with the maildir patches on my system but there are
several bizarre problems. I intend to convert to Courier (tested it on
a development server) but I have to convert all of my users from one
maildir format hierarchy to the Courier hierarchy.
I think that the attached script will convert all of your folders
appropriately.
#! /bin/sh
scan_maildirs_in () {
local WD=$1
local PREFIX=$2
local x
pushd $WD
for x in * ; do
if [ $x = Maildir -o $x = new -o $x = tmp -o $x = cur ] ; then
continue ; fi
if test -d $x -a -d $x/new -a -d $x/tmp -a -d $x/cur ; then
scan_maildirs_in $x $PREFIX.$x
newx=`echo $x | sed -e 's/\./,/g'`
echo mv $x $homedir/Maildir/$PREFIX.$newx
fi
done
popd
}
awk -F: '{ if($3 = 500){print $6}}' /etc/passwd | \
while read homedir; do
pushd $homedir
## Don't convert this user if there's already a Maildir folder
#test -d Maildir continue
## Only convert if this user has an INBOX
#test -d INBOX || continue
echo mv INBOX Maildir
scan_maildirs_in $homedir
popd
done
--
Robert M. Meyer
Sr. Network Administrator
INSTALLS inc
14 Lafayette Sq, Ste 410
Buffalo, NY 14203-1904
(716)332-1451
04
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[courier-users] Thanks Sam
Just wanted to send a quick word of thanks. I'm the IT Administrator of a small college here in Oxford, UK. I wanted to put in a decent mail server that was standards compliant and supported IMAP and a webmail interface. I chose Courier, after much investigation. Even though the initial learning curve was steep, I'm glad I did. We have just finished our first academic year using Courier, 0.35 initially, moving up to 0.38 when it came out. With around 330 users, and lots of mail traffic, both internally, and to other addresses around the UK and indeed the world, performance (on a single 633MHz Celeron based machine, 256MB RAM, IDE disks) has been very good. Although I will be moving it to a 1GHz CPU RAID box this summer. I have to say that the software has been superb. The few problems I *have* encountered have mostly been either down to me messing up the configuration, or to users being stupid. Thanks again Sam, Courier is a wonderful piece of work indeed. Sean Keogh IT Administrator -- * Oxford Institute of Legal Practice King Charles House Park End Street Oxford. OX1 1JD Office Tel: +44 (0)1865 260 000 Fax: +44 (0)1865 260 002 * --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] PROBLEM SOLVED: Re: courier-imap and virtual domains withvmailmgr qmail...
Hi Gurus and everybody who is using qmail with VMAILMGR and Courier-IMAP!
After several tests we've found the problem and solved it!
No, it's not Outlook or anything else:
It's the authvmailmgr-module from vmailmgr.
So, if you want to log the user of a virtual domain who is using
courier-imap here's how to handle this:
The authentication-module of vmailmgr sends the virtual name of the domain
only! The solution:
Set an ENV with a name where no prog is using this ENV, except the
(modified) imapd from courier-imap:
look at authvlib.cc from the source of vmailmgr:
[...]
if(!lookup_baseuser(fulluser, basepw, virtname))
fail_login(Invalid or unknown base user or domain);
presetenv(VUSER=, virtname);
/*
the following line must be added! The ENV-Name can be different, but
notice to change this in the imapd.c too!
*/
presetenv(FULL_USER=, fulluser);
if(!virtname) {
if(virtual_only)
[...]
Notice: We add the ENV FULL_USER to the code so that the full
functionality of vmailmgr for qmail will be untouched!
Then make it with: make
and copy the program authvmailmgr to the auth-dir of courier-imap where your
original authvmailmgr resides.
Go to the source of courier-imap and look into the path imap for imapd.c.
Open the file and look for:
[...]
writes(* BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down\r\n);
writes(tag);
writes( OK LOGOUT completed\r\n);
writeflush();
emptytrash();
/*
Original: getenv(AUTHENTICATED)
NOW: getenv(FULL_USER)
*/
fprintf(stderr, INFO: LOGOUT, USER=%s, ip=[%s],
headers=%lu, body=%lu\n,
getenv(FULL_USER), getenv(TCPREMOTEIP),
header_count, body_count);
exit(0);
}
if (strcmp(curtoken-tokenbuf, LIST) == 0
[...]
Now we put the FULL_USER-ENV instead of AUTHENTICATED-ENV, because
according to vmailmgr the variable fulluser contains the domain and the
virtual user!
Next step:
STOP imap ( imap-ssl if your using)
make
make install (or copy the imapd to /usr/lib/courier-imap/bin or whereever
your imap-path is)
After you've overwritten the original imapd-prog: start it again and log
into your mailbox via imap and logout.
Look in the maillog (/var/log/maillog) and you should see something like:
INFO: LOGOUT, USER=domain.com-test, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], headers=0, body=0
Now you have the alternative Login from the user:
Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Becomes: domain.com-test
Login: domain.com-test - Besomes: domain.com-test
I was surprised why NOBODY is interested to get the size of a virtual user
who is getting mails via imap over vmailmgr-auth
Any ideas?
milli
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[courier-users] courier-imap and virtual domains with vmailmgr qmail...
Hi Gurus, i've searched the list but nothing found similar. I've got a problem to log the user WITH domain in the Logs. The normal way shows the user only. from imapd.c [...] fprintf(stderr, INFO: LOGIN, user=%s, ip=[%s]\n, getenv(AUTHENTICATED), ip); [...] maillog: [...] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: Connection, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:44 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGOUT, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], headers=76, body=4477 [...] (btw: HOST is the name of the server) So, how get we logged the virtual domain? Like, for ex.: user1 is a user from virtual domain example.com. It could look like: maillog: [...] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: Connection, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, domain=example.com, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:44 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGOUT, user=user1, domain=example.com, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], headers=76, body=4477 [...] thx. m. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] courier-imap and virtual domains withvmailmgr qmail...
make sure your users login with their full name + email address. They do! Ex:login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass: pass e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] that way it gets logged with the vhost. No. When somebody uses (for ex.) outlook and the login is defined as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+ his password) we get this LOG: Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::: NO host-info!!! Do you get something else? the problem with your vhost setup is, is that you can't have two of the same accounts for different domains, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is handled trough vmailmgrd! We have [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on! Every user has to login with his FULL login-name like mentioned above. And everything works as expected! But we don't see any domain in the logs! i use ldap is the authentication backend and altered the me file /courier/etc to change the domain name to something other then the default domain, as it gets appended by default to the username and authentication fails. also i have created a hostedddomains file with domains that i host. Is 'hosteddomains' handled by courier? If yes, how? *** Any comments? thx. m. Mail me if you want more info, With kind regards, Tjeerd van der Zee - Original Message - From: M. Jolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:16 PM Subject: [courier-users] courier-imap and virtual domains with vmailmgr qmail... Hi Gurus, i've searched the list but nothing found similar. I've got a problem to log the user WITH domain in the Logs. The normal way shows the user only. from imapd.c [...] fprintf(stderr, INFO: LOGIN, user=%s, ip=[%s]\n, getenv(AUTHENTICATED), ip); [...] maillog: [...] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: Connection, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:44 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGOUT, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], headers=76, body=4477 [...] (btw: HOST is the name of the server) So, how get we logged the virtual domain? Like, for ex.: user1 is a user from virtual domain example.com. It could look like: maillog: [...] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: Connection, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, domain=example.com, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Jul 1 22:10:44 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGOUT, user=user1, domain=example.com, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], headers=76, body=4477 [...] thx. m. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: courier-imap and virtual domains withvmailmgr qmail...
When somebody uses (for ex.) outlook and the login is defined as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+ his password) we get this LOG: Jul 1 22:10:37 HOST imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=user1, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::: NO host-info!!! File a bug report with microsoft. The IMAP mail client completely controls the userid it sends to the server. But there's only one problem: Our Users have to login with [EMAIL PROTECTED] with their password and this has to be transmitted, otherwise our server wouldn't allow to log in. So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is transmitted and via the authvmailmgr authenticated as mentioned on www.inter7.com (-free software-courier-imap). Maybe this could be a solution: In imapd.c: SetENV(DAMNEDVIRTUALUSER)=user; and further on where the code will log through syslog: fprintf(stderr, INFO: LOGIN, user=%s, ip=[%s]\n, getenv(DAMNEDVIRTUALUSER), ip); Is this possible? m. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Re: courier-imap and virtual domains withvmailmgr qmail...
courier logs whatever the auth-module puts into $AUTHENTICATED: fprintf(stderr, INFO: LOGOUT, user=%s, ip=[%s], headers=%lu, body=%lu\n, getenv(AUTHENTICATED), getenv(TCPREMOTEIP), Use one of the auth-module which comes with courier, or fix vmailmgr (which also has a couple of other problems reported). Do you know about other problems? What kind of? The problem is: We're using qmail with vmailmgrd (for virtual hosts) with pop smtp. So we decided to use courier-imap as an additional module because it's faster than pop and we like the possbility to keep messages in folders or to mark them as seen/deleted... But we don't want to have a conf for vmailmgr (qmail) and another for imap. We're just talking about a solution with qmail SQL where every user (vdoms too) is listed in the SQL-table. There are solution for qmail to handle this (auth via SQL). The Benefit is that users who want to connect via imap could be authenticated through the auth-SQL too. So we have only ONE database for the whole mail-system. Is anybody using this? (or similiar?) milli --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] question setting up userdb
Im having a problem setting up the userdb authentication. I want to have this authentication next to the unix shadow passwords. In the wed administration I can see that all the modules are working. Next, Ive set up the file /etc/courier/userdb as following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home=/home/courierusers|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|systempw=testpw|gid=100|uid=1011 After adding this entry Ive ran makeuserdb to update the changes. The user and groupid are from the Unix user courierusers Ive created. The mail dir Ive created with maildirmake. When I try to send an email to this user, I get an e-mail back saying: 550 User unknown Can anyone help me? What am I missing here? M. van der Kolk
RE: [courier-users] question setting up userdb
When I try this, I cannot receive any mail at all, even local to local users. I've seen an answer from A. Birkholz suggesting that I fut a file .courier-username in the aliasdir and run makealiases. But I cannot see how that will work, when I'm not trying to make an alias. I have a number of Unix users who will have a mail account on my courier MTA. Next to those users, I want to be able to have a number of mailaccounts who don't get an Unix account, for security reasons. Using userdb for those accounts was my idea. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Anand Buddhdev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: maandag 10 juni 2002 10:45 Aan: M. van der Kolk CC: Courier Mailinglist Onderwerp: Re: [courier-users] question setting up userdb On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:02:29AM +0200, M. van der Kolk wrote: I'm having a problem setting up the userdb authentication. I want to have this authentication next to the unix shadow passwords. In the wed administration I can see that all the modules are working. Next, I've set up the file /etc/courier/userdb as following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home=/home/courierusers|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|system pw=testpw|gid=100|uid=1011 After adding this entry I've ran makeuserdb to update the changes. The user and groupid are from the Unix user courierusers I've created. The mail dir I've created with maildirmake. When I try to send an email to this user, I get an e-mail back saying: 550 User unknown You have probably listed mydomain.com in the locals config file. Delete it from there, and put it instead into the hosteddomains file. -- Anand Buddhdev Personal site: http://anand.org ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] problems with inbound smtp
Hello, Ive got a problem with inbound smtp. Configured and installed courier 0.38.0.20020425 using the instructions on www.courier-mta.org. After starting the daemon Ive got a number of processes : Courierd Courierdsn Courieresmtp Courierfax Courierlocal Courieruucp Next Ive started the authorization daemon. Configured it to have 2 processes, so Ive got two of those. Starting webmail and I can login to my email account. Sending mail to both internal and external addresses works fine. Delivery from local to local works as well. The only thing that isnt working is inbound smtp from outside my domain. Ive looked in the man pages and found that I have to start esmtpd, which will start a process named couriertcpd. And so I did, but still nothing works. When I try to connect to port 25 using telnet, I get a connection refused error, so I assumed there is still no process listening on that port. But when I check this assumption with netstat lp, I get the following output: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 27173/couriertcpd So courier is listening on that port, but isnt accepting any mail. Can somebody help me? Thanxs in advance, M. van der Kolk P.S. if you need any config files, just tell me and I will put them online
Re: [courier-users] Hiding IMAP?
bronto said: While on long drives last weekend I did some thinking. I have just built a new linux mail server using Postfix-MySQL-Courier-imap. I would like to be able to restrict access to imap services to only particular users. It was apparent last week from several other messages on this list that there is currently no built in functionality for selectively granting imap privileges and was thinking there must be some other way to do this, other than a suggested method of running two instances of courier-imap. Why not hack the auth functionality so that when it tries to auth, it has to check against an additional file in /etc, such as /etc/imap-authorised, and bump any userid that isn't in that file? I'll look when I get home and see if I can hack together a script that would do that. ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
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
[courier-users] Synchronisation of IMAP-Mailboxes between multiple servers
Hi! At the place I work for, we are using Courier-IMAP/POP3 with SSL for several hundred usrs (University-environment) and are very satisfied with it's performance and memory footprint. Currently we only have one mailserver for IMAP but we'd like to make this setup redundant. For incoming mail, that's easy. The MTA just needs to pass another copy to the second box before local delivery. But in an IMAP context, we'd also need to replicate the mailboxes to a second machine so it can take over in case the main server becomes unavailable. I imagine that others have the same problem. How do you synchronize (live) IMAP mailboxes between servers ? Would just rsynching the Maildirs be sufficent ? Is there any way to tell Courier to lock a specific Mailbox so it can't be changed while rsync copies a specific user's mailboxes ? Or is there any better way to achive high availability ? Any tips or experiences would be greatly appreciated. -- Oliver M. Bolzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG (PGP) Fingerprint = 621B 52F6 2AC1 36DB 8761 018F 8786 87AD EF50 D1FF msg04224/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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
[courier-users] mbox to maildir
Let me start by stating the obvious. I dont know much. However, I am in the process of setting up sqwebmail on my Freebsd box. I thought the easy part would be moving my current mail in my standard mailbox (right now I am using sendmail and pine) to the new Maildir (which I have created). The hard part I thought was going to be setting up sqwebmail. I guess I got it backwards. I have sqwebmail setup, and I Maildir created. However, I am at a loss for how to get my mail (really all I care about is new mail) to go into my Maildir. I have tried using Maildrop, and I can take a message and drop it but it goes into the standard mbox. I should also add that I want to be able to do this a user level, or at least run in tandem with sendmail so that both my mbox and my maildir get new mail. Many thanks in adavnce. Aaron Walsh Senior JDE Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Using Courier with OS X Mail Client
On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 10:23 AM, Tim Bithoney wrote: I am trying to get subdirectories to work in Mail.app, it ONLY recognizes INBOX, none of my other Maildirs work! For example, I keep all my ebay receipts in INBOX.ebay, Entourage has no problem doing this, Mail.app refuses to open INBOX.ebay :( Hrm. What version of Mail do you use? I have 1.1 (v481) and the folders work fine here. You are using IMAP, correct? I really didn't do anything special to get it to work. Maybe it's a revision problem. -- m. kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix s y s t e m s p r o g r a m m e r michigan s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y ___ 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
RE: [courier-users] simple question about maildirmake
Sorry, forgot to paste the message: I'm not quite sure, but this is what happened to me. When I create a subfolder with webmail, say subfolder called test, it creates the subfolder, but adds a .(dot) to it in front of the name. ls will not show it. Try ls -a and see if there is a subfolder called .test instead of test. Major Nono -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Eli Spizzichino Verzonden: woensdag 13 februari 2002 16:24 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [courier-users] simple question about maildirmake Hi to all, hi need a hint to crate subfolders: when I use /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake -f /home/user/Maildir/test to create the subfolder test no error message appear but no directory is created. If I repeat the command this is the message maildirmake: fatal: unable to mkdir -f: file already exists What have I do? thank you Eli ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
RE: [courier-users] simple question about maildirmake
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Eli Spizzichino Verzonden: woensdag 13 februari 2002 16:24 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [courier-users] simple question about maildirmake Hi to all, hi need a hint to crate subfolders: when I use /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake -f /home/user/Maildir/test to create the subfolder test no error message appear but no directory is created. If I repeat the command this is the message maildirmake: fatal: unable to mkdir -f: file already exists What have I do? thank you Eli ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
Re: [courier-users] Kerberos Authentication
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:20 PM -0800 David Chait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone successfully set up Kerberos Authentication methods with Courier-IMAP? Yes (although my setup is very hacked). You should be able to get straight kerb auth through pam (remember, though, that without modifying your pam system source, and the preauthpam et. al, you will need your users to have passwd file entries). Best of luck, ./muk -- m. kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix s y s t e m s p r o g r a m m e r michigan s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] esmtpd running, not listening
Courier Users, I have been fooling with courier-imap for a bit now, and am very pleased with it. I made some modifications to the code to work with a cooked up version of pam+kerberos+mysql that I have running on my FreeBSD development box. The imapd works very well. So well, in fact that I decided to try the full courier suite. I've gone over the docs a few times, configured and installed the suite+my modifications to the authentication module. Again, imap works fine, so I start up esmtpd, which starts courieresmtpd running. I can see it in the process table, but it does not appear to be listening. Telneting to port 25 on the box gives me Connection refused as if there is no smtpd running. nmap gives me the same thing, open ports on 22,80,110,143,443 ... all services accounted for but smtpd. Hopefully I'm just missing something simple. I've tried setting ADDRESS and PORT in the etc/esmtpd but to no avail. Any advice on what to look for next would be much appreciated (else, I'll assume it's something hosed in my hacked up build process, though I didn't touch anything outside of authlib/) Thanks in advance, ./muk -- m. kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix s y s t e m s p r o g r a m m e r michigan s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
[courier-users] Re: esmtpd running, not listening
--On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:36 PM -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: m. kolb writes: the authentication module. Again, imap works fine, so I start up esmtpd, which starts courieresmtpd running. I can see it in the process table, but it does not appear to be listening. Telneting to port 25 on the box gives me Connection refused as if there is no smtpd running. You're seeing courieresmtp running, the ESMTP client, not the server. See INSTALL for instructions on starting the esmtpd server. -- Thank you for your prompt response. I believe, however, that I've been attempting to start the server correctly, by running /usr/lib/courier/sbin/esmtpd start There is no output from running this command, and it does not appear to start a new process. # /usr/lib/courier/sbin/esmtpd start # telnet kernighan 25 Trying 35.x.x.x... telnet: connect to address 35.x.x.x: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Perhaps I'm just extremely dense (distinct possibility), but running esmtpd start appears to be the proper way to start the server. I'm running courier 0.37.2 (sorry I forgot to mention that before) Again, if I've misread the documentation, please forgive my ignorance. Else, any additional direction would be much appreciated. ./muk -- m. kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix s y s t e m s p r o g r a m m e r michigan s t a t e u n i v e r s i t y ___ 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
[courier-users] never will read that messages
(hello everybody :) how to launch them to /dev/null? i wish deliver an account emails to /dev/null, how should i do? best regards... -- Juan M. Lapuerta| http://www.elmundo.es Mundinteractivos | El Mundo del Siglo XXI C\Pradillo 42, Madrid | +34 91 586 46 37 ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
