Brian Candler writes:
OK, well I think you are saying that the single tag [#L#] expands into
a lot of HTML - indeed it does - and you want to be able to modify parts
of it without modifying the C source.
I agree with the proposal that this would generally be a good thing.
Designing a
Petri Riihikallio writes:
IIRC: In classic Unix the mode of the socket doesn't matter. You have
to control the access to the directory where the socket is. Linux
obeys the mode of the socket itself. So it depends on what you are
running.
The directory is 700 owned by root. But I have
Sagara Wijetunga writes:
[templates]
This used to work earlier when the SqWebMail run under
setuid-root.
The template directory pointed by
SQWEBMAIL_TEMPLATEDIR owns by the mailuser and group
mailgroup with drwxr-xr-x permission. Html files are
also same user/group with -rw-r--r--.
Sagara Wijetunga writes:
I have a predicament. I have installed the SqWebMail
as a setuid root program
Not a good idea. A hole in sqwebmail could allow somebody to
execute arbitrary code as root. Sqwebmail is big and complicated.
Mr Sam is a good coder, but it's always possible to miss
Petri Riihikallio writes:
And you need to set --with-chacheowner=vmail or whatever.
If it's a new installation or you're re-installing for some other reason.
Otherwise it's easier to just chown the cache directory.
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Softflare Support
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One problem remains: As some of you pointed out, the characters are utf-8
encoded, which are not displayed correctly.
They should be if you tell sqwebmail to use utf-8 and you're using a
relatively recent browser.
I switched the characterset of sqwebmail to utf-8
Jay Lepore writes:
I am running 5.2.1 which appears to be the latest version outside of the
'development version'
From the FAQ which does not exist, or from any day's worth of messages on
this list in the past month: there is a bug in 5.2.1 (and earlier) which
means it doesn't like being
Brian Candler writes:
I know very little about unicode either, but the document does explain
what to do to get support for additional character sets in sqwebmail
What puzzles me is why 8859-1 is not good enough for him in the first
place,
since it has all the German umlauted characters and
Petri Riihikallio writes:
Sqwebmail does not support any mode of operation other than suid CGIs
with suexec DISabled.
Good I hadn't read your post before I tried. It took me about an
hour: rebuilding Apache once and sqwebmail twice.
If you had read my post first it might have taken two
Petri Riihikallio writes:
I think I found a track! I have not used to running suid CGIs. I
started thinking that maybe sqwebmail isn't executing under the privs
I am expecting. I don't know any way to test this. Researching Apache
docs revealed that I need suexec enabled, which I didn't
Jason Murray writes:
Is there a way to get sqwebmail to ignore HTTP requests but answer HTTPS
requests?
The Apache VirtualHost directive springs to mind...
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Paul Allen
Softflare Support
Brian Candler writes:
As told to me off-list by matti, if you go to the demo page
https://karhula.taivassalo.fi/cgi-bin/demo
and login explicitly then you get the usual sqwebmail-in-frames.
If you tried it and it works then the thing is actually secure after all
and the apparent
matti writes:
[...]
Comments are welcome.
One of the points you seem proud of is that you have eliminated frames.
Yet
a cursory inspection of the SECURITY readme shows why frames are used. The
fact that you blithely eliminate a security feature without apparently
understanding why it is
Brian Candler writes:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:27:00AM +, Paul L. Allen wrote:
Not only that, most of the new
functionality, which is in demand, is missing from your implementation.
When you say something like that, perhaps you could reference an
explicit list of those things
Brian Candler writes:
Oh I see what you mean: new functionality already in sqwebmail is missing
from riwos. I originally read it as there are new functions which are
missing from sqwebmail which are also missing from riwos
Sorry if my statement was ambiguous. The new functionality in
matti writes:
One of the points you seem proud of is that you have eliminated frames.
proud ?
So it appeared from your readme, which complained about sqwebmail's use
of frames.
Yet a cursory inspection of the SECURITY readme shows why frames are
used. The
I have not changed this.
matti writes:
The word frames is used once in the readme:
The riwos implementation does not use frames.
In the sqwebmail source you will find a file called SECURITY (or
SECURITY.html if you prefer that). I suggest you read one or other of
them.
I've added does not use frames to
Paul L. Allen writes:
In the sqwebmail source you will find a file called SECURITY (or
SECURITY.html if you prefer that). I suggest you read one or other of
them.
Matti has since contacted me directly to explain that Riwos does use
frames to maintain security but does not use ADDITIONAL
Brian Candler writes:
[sound for incoming mail]
It would be hard to arrange anyway - server push? Client auto-refresh
every 60 seconds?
Our standard mod is a meta refresh on the folder list so people can see
when stuff arrives. Yes, it also means that it defeats the soft timeout,
making it
Martin Kos writes:
i remember in some other cases (perhaps an earlier version of
sqwebmail?) i have had the same problem as you that showed the
filenames with .dat instead the right file extension... okay the
whole filename is still wrong :-(
The problem with the extension may be that the
Tom Lisjac writes:
I'm new to the list and apologize if this question has been asked
before. I'm trying to get sqwebmail going on a remote v-host running
apache and courier. Everything compiles ok but make install trips on
the chown root for the sqwebmail executable. I will never have root
Wolfgang Ebneter writes:
When I try to access it from the internet the webserver's log shows an
303 error.
303 is not an error, it is a redirect and exist primarily to allow the
output from a POST request to redirect the browser elsewhere.
All access attempts to the machine where sqwebmail
Davide Salerno writes:
Thank you very much Jab
Your explanation for my issue was very good. But another strange thing is
that sometimes certain attachments, such as .doc, are changed in .dat by
sqwebmail indeed if I use Outlook Express as mail client to download and
open them it works! How
Adam Webb - Network Manager writes:
If I create a logindomainlist file, authentication stops working. Is
there something obvious I'm forgetting?
Without seeing the contents and knowing what substitutions you're trying to
make it's impossible to guess. But since you always get to see how it
Francisco Morales writes:
Somebody knows how to put Europe / Spain in the TIMEZONELIST file I
try with GMT , CET but it does not work.
As you ought to be able to see by looking at the timezone list that comes
with sqwebmail, you specify timezones by using the conventions of the
Olsen
Tanmaya Anand writes:
I want that user should only type his user name, he should be logged in.
For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] , when opens mail.abc.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail
or abc.con/cgi-bin/sqwebmail, he should only supply his username user1
not complete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In recent
Trevor Astrope writes:
This is how I did it. Using the logindomainlist was not an option for me,
since I have 5000 virtual domains already configured with unique
usernames, so having them all listed in logindomainlist was not practical
and seems like a spammer's honeypot to me.
If each of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is prehaps ambiguous, more accurately I should have said
The users who go to the web interface can check mail and take advantage
of all of the functionality of sqwebmail except for sending email
That is an entirely different matter.
I beg your pardon for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4) Mail is NOT being sent for users who login via SQWEBMAIL and try
to send email: NOT OK
Why would you expect that to work?
Users collecting by pop3 or imap have a local mail client which is
capable of sending mail out by smtp and they have a requirement
to do so.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -
From: Paul L. Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: [sqwebmail] Re: Sqwebmail not sending
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4) Mail is NOT being sent for users who login via
Having played with sqwebmail 3.5.3 I have a few items on my wish-list (if I
were a good enough C programmer I'd try to create and submit a patch, but
I'm not).
The first is the timezone drop-down on the login page. Although most of
our
clients are based in the UK, some of them are either based
On the subject of template design, might I suggest potential authors
consider what happens when people set their preferences to 50
messages/page.
Having the previous/next icons at the top of the folder display is useful
if you know that you're looking for an old message with a specific date,
no
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