POP Server - Password management

2001-06-22 Thread Stephen Froehlich
I apologize for being slightly off topic. The qmail server is also my pop server. (RH 7.1) I'd like to give my users the ability to manage their own passwords (IMO, a sysadmin shouldn't know his/her users passwords). In truth, its a switched network, so I'm not too worried about sniffing

Re: pop server

2001-06-07 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
-Original Message- From: PUB: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Miércoles 6 de Junio de 2001 20:09 To: qmail list Subject: Re: pop server [snip] PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Which are the advantages to use Maildir instead of Mailbox? What about

Re: pop server

2001-06-07 Thread peter green
* GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 14:05]: PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Which are the advantages to use Maildir instead of Mailbox? [http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html] What about mail clients mail readers (mutt, elm pine, etc) using Maildir? mutt == yes,

RE: pop server

2001-06-07 Thread Joshua Nichols
What about mail clients mail readers (mutt, elm pine, etc) using Maildir? --yapedu/xgnu Mutt plays well with Maildirs. Good mutt. --joshua.

pop server

2001-06-06 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? --yapedu

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail-pop3d, ofcourse. Greetz, Peter.

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail includes qmail-pop3d, which does everything I need it to. What is your criteria for better? Charles

RE: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Tim Hunter
qmail-pop3d? comes with qmail, only works for ./Maildir/ what could be better? -Original Message- From: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:44 AM To: qmail list Subject: pop server is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? A pop3d daemon comes with qmail. The FAQ[1] describes how to install it. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html

RE: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Virginia Chism
How does vpopmail compare? -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:08 AM To: qmail list Subject: Re: pop server On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Virginia Chism [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail-pop3d, ofcourse. How does vpopmail compare? Not positive on this, but I belive vpopmail uses qmail-pop3d to provide POP3 access, just like vmailmgr does. The only part that changes

RE: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
qmail includes qmail-pop3d, which does everything I need it to. What is your criteria for better? I said better in terms of performance. I was using sendmail/qpopper from several years ago and last month I switch to qmail and (thanks god ;-) it's working ok. I'd read in the list several

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using sendmail/qpopper from several years ago and last month I switch to qmail and (thanks god ;-) it's working ok. I'd read in the list several messages talking about pop servers but nobody named qpopper, so I was asking for a good

Re: pop server

2001-06-06 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:17:33PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: [snip] PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Greetz, Peter.

Re[2]: pop server setting passed/available in checkpoppasswd ?

2001-02-07 Thread David Hasbrouck
Hello Peter, Wednesday, February 07, 2001, 6:13:40 AM, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:44:54AM -0600, David Hasbrouck wrote: [snip] The way we see this being done is to read in the POP3 server name during the checkpoppasswd program and look in that directory for the corresponding

Re: pop server setting passed/available in checkpoppasswd ?

2001-02-07 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:46:55PM -0600, David Hasbrouck wrote: [snip] In the email program, you enter mail.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com as the POP3/Incoming Email setting to retrieve emails. I am trying to find a way to get that setting in order to break up the password file

pop server setting passed/available in checkpoppasswd ?

2001-02-02 Thread David Hasbrouck
Hello, Am working on setting up qmail on our servers for our clients to use. Everything seems to be working very well and much cleaner than what sendmail did :-) Anyways, trying to do a few changes in the POP3 part of the system. We would like to allow, for example, the pop account of

Problem authenticating to POP server

2000-12-20 Thread Andrew Buenaventura
I am running Open BSD 2.8 and Qmail. I am calling SMTP and POP using TCPServer with the ff script: if [ -x /usr/local/bin/tcpserver ]; then echo -n ' Qmail-SMTP'; /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger

Pop server

2000-11-07 Thread Travis Turner
.) where is the best place to put the mailboxes under a RedHat distribution? 2.) Where do you specify that location so the pop server knows where to find it. 3.)what is the best (easiest to configure) program for running pop mail. 4.) What is the best way to set up Pop3 accounts and passwords

RE: Pop server

2000-11-07 Thread Alexander Jernejcic
webinterface too) ;) a -Original Message- From: Travis Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pop server Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 12:07:08 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Travis Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To All

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-05 Thread Scott Gifford
"clemensF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott Gifford: to use apop, germanynet (calisto) barked, thay would not change their entire setup for just one customer, when i asked them for apop. i dared to ask only because their greeting looks like an apop prompt, and it even changes on

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-05 Thread clemensF
Scott Gifford: Just a guess; if the provider that won't provide APOP can provide you with plaintext passwords, then I don't know what their excuse is. well i told you mom! first they asked what apop is and when i explained it and hinted i'd want it -- pause -- and then they said they

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-04 Thread clemensF
Scott Gifford: to use apop, germanynet (calisto) barked, thay would not change their entire setup for just one customer, when i asked them for apop. i dared to ask only because their greeting looks like an apop prompt, and it even changes on every dialup... so much for technical

Re: Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Scott Gifford
Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. May anyone explain me what

Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Scott, Monday, July 03, 2000, 5:54:00 PM, you wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? [ ... ] To protect the POP password. But wouldn't it be way easier to just use APOP? Or does that one have its own

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Scott Gifford
Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Scott, Monday, July 03, 2000, 5:54:00 PM, you wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? [ ... ] To protect the POP password. But wouldn't it be way easier to

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Joe Kelsey
Scott Gifford writes: Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Scott, Monday, July 03, 2000, 5:54:00 PM, you wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? [ ... ] To protect the POP

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread clemensF
Scott Gifford: The only particularly nasty implication of using APOP are that it requires that the server have the password stored in plaintext. The most mail-servers that i, as a simple leafnode fetching private mail, care for has my password(s) stored in plaintext somewhere anyway, so

Re: Re[4]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Scott Gifford
"clemensF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott Gifford: [ ... ] POP over SSL solves both of these, by making no changes to the POP protocol, but just encrypting the whole session. i've checked around here in germany: isp's offer pop3 access plus web access. with freenet (mobile) i just

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Thomas Neumann
"Brett Randall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, here's the deal: qmail-pop3d is NOT secure, nor are most other standard POP3 daemons. POP passwords are sent in cleartext and are not encrypted. They can be viewed by people snooping a connection (although this is not as easy as it sounds). A

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread schinder
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:23:20PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: } Ok, here's the deal: } } qmail-pop3d is NOT secure, nor are most other standard POP3 daemons. POP } passwords are sent in cleartext and are not encrypted. Yes, but if you use APOP, the password goes out in the clear but is useless

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:37:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:23:20PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: } Ok, here's the deal: } } qmail-pop3d is NOT secure, nor are most other standard POP3 daemons. POP } passwords are sent in cleartext and are not encrypted.

Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been

Re: Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:38:30PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? I mean as long as SMTP isn't encrypted the message already WAS unencrypted on the net so why should I encrypt

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread clemensF
amir: How do you plan on using SSL with POP? I know that SSL and IMAP work nicely together, but SSL and POP, never heard about that... maybe some SSL proxying techniques??? APOP is the variant with challenging secrets. clemens

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread clemensF
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, but if you use APOP, the password goes out in the clear but is useless afterwards. Any client I can think of, including Eudora on my no, apop challenges the client which has to respond with an encrypted version of the password thus verifiable at the server. you can

The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA)
Hi , I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . Roberto Samarone Araujo

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 10:58 PM 7/1/00 -0300, RSA wrote: Hi , I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ?

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Brett Randall
I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ? I was thinking of suggesting that one but it isn't very secure... Brett ManagerInterPlanetary Solutionshttp://ipsware.com/

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 11:59 AM 7/2/00 +1000, Brett Randall wrote: I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ? I was thinking of suggesting that one but it isn't very secure... can you

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread amir
Irwan Hadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:59 AM 7/2/00 +1000, Brett Randall wrote: I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ? I was thinking of suggesting that one

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Dave Granath
so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ? I was thinking of suggesting that one but it isn't very secure... can you give the explanation why qmail-pop3d is not secure ? Should then we combined SSL

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:34:18PM -0600, Irwan Hadi wrote: At 11:59 AM 7/2/00 +1000, Brett Randall wrote: I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . how' bout qmail-pop3d ? I

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Brett Randall
Ok, here's the deal: qmail-pop3d is NOT secure, nor are most other standard POP3 daemons. POP passwords are sent in cleartext and are not encrypted. They can be viewed by people snooping a connection (although this is not as easy as it sounds). A way of fixing this insecurity is to use SSL,

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:56:18AM +, amir wrote: How do you plan on using SSL with POP? I know that SSL and IMAP work nicely together, but SSL and POP, never heard about that... maybe some SSL proxying techniques??? It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:23:20PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: Ok, here's the deal: qmail-pop3d is NOT secure, nor are most other standard POP3 daemons. POP passwords are sent in cleartext and are not encrypted. They can be viewed by people snooping a connection (although this is not as

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:58:17PM -0300, Roberto Samarone Araújo (RSA) wrote: Hi , I'm installing the Qmail so , I would like to know the most secure POP server to install and that doesn't have problems with Maildir . Roberto Samarone

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Mark Mentovai
Brian D. Winters wrote: It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. Some servers have built in support for SSL, or you can

RE: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread Brett Randall
Nice cover. So when you said "I was thinking of suggesting THAT ONE but IT isn't very secure", you were actually talking about the POP3 protocol and not qmail-pop3d specifically? If that's the case then why did you reply at all, and in such an ambiguous way? You certainly didn't answer

Re: The most secure POP server

2000-07-01 Thread asantos
From: Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was thinking of suggesting that one but it isn't very secure... Ah, these guys can't take a joke :) However, again we find ourselves with the language problem. When Roberto Samarone Araujo says "secure", possibly he is associating the word "secure" in a

POP Server keeps dying.

2000-06-14 Thread blue
My pop server keeps dying. I only have 5 users on my system. Why would this be happening ? I am looking at the logs for hours but I do not get any information from them. I am running my pop server like this: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mymail.server.com

POP Server keeps stopping.

2000-06-09 Thread blue
Hi all of a sudden my POP server keeps quitting every 20 mins or so. I am constantly looking at /var/log/qmail*/* but I dont get any messages on the server dying or anything like that. How would I debug this problem ? Anyone know what could be the cause offhand ?? I am running tcpserver

Re: POP Server keeps stopping.

2000-06-09 Thread clemensF
blue: Could it be a permissions problem with a recently added user ?? Is there a script that I can run to check my qmail config file rather than manually going through them 1 by 1 to check permissions and the like ?? the configuration i don't know about, but the qmail-general-setup can be

Re: BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-16 Thread wightman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Date:Mon, 15 May 2000 16:43:17 CDT To: Jhun Hubac [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:"David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BACKUP POP SERVER [snip] I don't see what is saved by this arrange

Re: BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-15 Thread David L. Nicol
that I can back-up my pop server? I'm using qmail for my two servers (both have SMTP POP3 service). No problem of having redundant SMTP servers but it seems that the MUA (clients) are polling on only 1 of the two servers. I'm using NIS/NFS to distribute information between the two, so

BACKUP POP SERVER

2000-05-14 Thread Jhun Hubac
Hi! Is there a way that I can back-up my pop server? I'm using qmail for my two servers (both have SMTP POP3 service). No problem of having redundant SMTP servers but it seems that the MUA (clients) are polling on only 1 of the two servers. I'm using NIS/NFS to distribute information between

can't telnet to pop server

2000-05-10 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, How to determine whether my pop server is running or not. I have tried to telnet to 127.0.0.1 110...and I got the connection refused. Then, I went for ps -aux, and i don't see any pop server running. Thus, i have already put pop server startup srcipt in /var/qmail/rc according

Re: can't telnet to pop server

2000-05-10 Thread Dale Miracle
Mark Lo wrote: Hi, How to determine whether my pop server is running or not. I have tried to telnet to 127.0.0.1 110...and I got the connection refused. Then, I went for ps -aux, and i don't see any pop server running. Thus, i have already put pop server startup srcipt

Running supervised pop server?

2000-04-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I'm currently running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver (til yesterday, it run under inetd) and as it crashedtoday just one hour after a reboot, I'd like to let it run some kind of supervised. tcpserver is start in /var/qmail/rc but what do I have to do in order to get the supervision? TIA

Re: Running supervised pop server?

2000-04-10 Thread Dave Sill
Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver (til yesterday, it run under inetd) and as it crashedtoday just one hour after a reboot, I'd like to let it run some kind of supervised. tcpserver is start in /var/qmail/rc but what do I have to do in

Almost there (pop server)

1999-09-28 Thread Marek Narkiewicz
Hi again. I almost have my setup as I would like it. I have used vpopmail to add popaccounts for my users. I have checked the popserver and connected to it remotely. All is well. I can use qmail as a relay if I use my equipment to dial in. The only problem is that when I send emails to

Pop Server

1999-09-20 Thread Qmail-User
I am having some difficulty starting my pop server. Could someone give me an example of what type of syntax they use to start the qmail pop service? Regards Vivian Lal

Re: Pop Server

1999-09-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
to /var/qmail. That's where you most likely installed qmail. I am having some difficulty starting my pop server. Could someone give me an example of what type of syntax they use to start the qmail pop service? Regards Vivian Lal -- See complete headers for more info

Re: pop server crashing nightly

1999-06-06 Thread Peter Samuel
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, wrote: Hello, Ever night since I sent up my qmail pop server it has crashed sometime during the night. There is no/very little traffic on the machine and the machine did not reboot during the nights. The startup scripts in rc work fine. I'm running linux redhat 5.2

pop server crashing nightly

1999-06-04 Thread
Hello, Ever night since I sent up my qmail pop server it has crashed sometime during the night. There is no/very little traffic on the machine and the machine did not reboot during the nights. The startup scripts in rc work fine. I'm running linux redhat 5.2. Has anyone experienced anything

Re: pop server crashing nightly

1999-06-04 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 08:37:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever night since I sent up my qmail pop server it has crashed sometime during the night. There is no/very little traffic on the machine and the machine did not reboot during the nights. The startup scripts in rc work fine

Re: POP server IP address

1999-05-15 Thread thomas . erskine-dated-61e810e1f4cf5927
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Fred Backman wrote: Hi, I have a mail server with a couple of virtual IPs set up and I want to modify qmail's pop server so that it can tell which one of the IP interfaces the remote user is connecting to. As an example of what I want to achieve in the end, if a remote

POP server IP address

1999-05-14 Thread Fred Backman
Hi, I have a mail server with a couple of virtual IPs set up and I want to modify qmail's pop server so that it can tell which one of the IP interfaces the remote user is connecting to. As an example of what I want to achieve in the end, if a remote user is connecting to port 110, the pop server

pop server Help Please

1999-04-26 Thread Jason L. Skoland
I am having the hardest time trying to figure out how to make my Linux system a mail server.. It surely can not be that hard but I can not find what I am looking for... Tell you what I am going to do (or want to do).. I live in a small town and I have a dedicated line to the internet...

Re: Qmail as a pop server

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:10:04AM -0800, Glaza, Lorenz wrote: I just setup qmail on my server and I want to use it as a pop server for my friends. I can pop all the mail I want from my server, but I am unable to send mail from a pop client like Eudora. I get a message, "we do not

Re: Qmail as a pop server

1999-02-05 Thread phil
Chris Johnson wrote: If it's saying literally, "we do not relay," then you're not talking to qmail. qmail doesn't give out that message. Can I make it give such a message, or preferrably, a message of my own design such as "I spit on scum like you"? -- Phil Howard | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL