Matt Brookings wrote:
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On 07/07/2010 01:14 AM, Den Arion wrote:
courier authlib has not more support for vchkpw, what other option do I
have for webmail? I install sqwebmail but I remembered too late the
courier authlib doesn't have support for
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 06:43 AM, Den Arion wrote:
I was looking for a version or patch to work with authentication with
vpopmail. Almost all patches I found need additional software that it’s
not available..
Does somebody in the list have running smtp auth with vpopmail users
On 06/29/2010 03:00 AM, stea...@neotech-hk.com wrote:
Dear Juraj Hantak
technicky riaditel
This user has been banned from the list.
/me face palms
The level of cluelessness in HK is just incredible. No doubt thanks to
the dumb efforts of this lot:
Hi all,
In case any of you want to use a postgresql backend, here is a patch
that fixes some typos that get in the way of compilation and adds
support for valias.
I have not tried 5.5.0 but I suspect that it will apply to vpgsql.c if
in the backends/postgresql dir and using 'patch -p1'.
BTW, I have also submitted this to sourceforge.
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In case any of you want to use a postgresql backend, here is a patch
that fixes some typos that get in the way of compilation and adds
support for valias.
I wondered why I did not recall doing the code. This patch is against
5.4.30 but it is originally from Bruce McAlister. Been using it
Sorry folks,
Just noticed that the vpgsql.c's create index statement had extra
brackets. Attached patch fixes the typos, removes extra brackets and
adds valias and sql loggin support.
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diff -urN vpopmail-5.4.30/vpgsql.c vpopmail-5.4.30-pgsqlfixed/vpgsql.c
Do you mind posting the output of pstree and 'netstat -tlpn |grep :25'
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Alessio Cecchi wrote:
Hello,
this is my situation, one qmail+vpopmail(MySQL)+dovecot server that
works like an MX record and provide access on mailbox via POP3 or IMAP.
Another server with postfix and SASL for SMTP-Auth only, with SASL that
query the vpopmail DB for user authentication.
Alessio Cecchi wrote:
Christopher Chan ha scritto:
Alessio Cecchi wrote:
Hello,
this is my situation, one qmail+vpopmail(MySQL)+dovecot server that
works like an MX record and provide access on mailbox via POP3 or IMAP.
Another server with postfix and SASL for SMTP-Auth only, with SASL
Remo Mattei wrote:
Hi everyone not sure if this is related to vpopmail but maybe you can
direct me to where to check. I have a client that when he gets email
from a newsletter it changes the _ (underscore) into %20. I use simscan,
spamassassin, qmail and vpopmail. I have now changed the
Tom Collins wrote:
Even if it's possible to set up imap-before-smtp, you'll be much better
off if you have your clients use SMTP AUTH instead. More reliable, more
predictable, and supported by almost every email client out there.
If you really want to try it, consider Dovecot instead of
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
See my reply to your other post. If vpopmail can also handle multiple
system user accounts instead of just virtual domain mailboxes under a
single system user...we can integrate with samba and other stuff.
It can. OTOH the main reason I chose
One large factor for me deciding to migrate to dovecot's lda ('deliver')
is to use SIEVE, which is under active development and is likely to
become a standard (imho). I see no point in creating another lda.
Yeah, with SIEVE support being found in Kmail and addons or plugins for
thunderbird
Eric Shubert wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that
examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit.
I'm not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used
it a bit as part of the qmail-toaster
Matt Brookings wrote:
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Christopher Chan wrote:
Right now I can use either maildrop or dovecot's lda with postfix. No
injecting into a qmail queue for final delivery into the vpopmail mail
store. Are you saying you would like a vpopmail lda
I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that
examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit. I'm
not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used it a
bit as part of the qmail-toaster (see http://www.qmailtoater.com).
vpopmail has
this. /var/qmail/control ain't a bad place to
put configuration files anyway. :-D
t
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From: Christopher Chan christop...@ias.com.hk
To: vchkpw@inter7.com vchkpw@inter7.com
Sent: Wed Aug 26 20:16:40 2009
Subject: [vchkpw] Untie vpopmail from qmail
Hello all
Matt Brookings wrote:
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Christopher Chan wrote:
Hello all,
Is this at all possible?
Right now I use postfix and I only have a qmail queue just for vpopmail
to install but qmail is otherwise not at all involved.
We'd love to see vpopmail work
Hello all,
Is this at all possible?
Right now I use postfix and I only have a qmail queue just for vpopmail
to install but qmail is otherwise not at all involved.
cheers,
Christopher
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Tariq Azad/OPS wrote:
Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary
qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains
having more then 7000 users.
Try nfs or whatever backend storage interface you fancy for your storage
server and put
Tariq Azad/OPS wrote:
Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary
qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains
having more then 7000 users.
Sigh, I guess you meant qmail configuration and not the mail store.
Don't post when you get back
Stephane Bouvard (ML) wrote:
Hi,
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Did any body tried using rsync to replicate between backup and primary
qmail servers. Is it recommended for a Qmail hosting multiple domains
having more then 7000 users.
Try nfs
Now if you only do a normal rsync backup, it's also lost for good, you
can not recover, doing it my way means we can recover, might have lost
a couple days but we can recover their mail (so long as they dont go
away for over a week anyway hehehe)
That is why I rsync to a backup server
http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/combined.shtml
Try the patch there. And take this up with Mr. Simpson if you have
problems with his patch (you should not)
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Patrick Ale wrote:
On 12/23/07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Patrick Ale wrote:
On 12/22/07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
PSU = Power Supply Unit, and you need at least two of them when using
XFS IMO (and according to SGI self).
A UPS is also good but it only
Ed McLain wrote:
snip As for recoveries after a hardware failure, I've only had to do 3 or 4. On
one of them we had a buggy version of xfs_repair, and that caused some weirdness, but we
had done a full dd before the restore to a secondary disk.. After upgrading xfs_repair we
got back
Jeff Koch wrote:
By the way, to give you an idea of the speed of the i-ram drive with the
XFS file system we tar-zipped the entire /usr directory into an 811MB
archive. It took 54 seconds to untar-unzip it on a 4GB I-Ram drive and
141 seconds on a Seagate 750 GB SATA drive with the ext3
Patrick Ale wrote:
On 12/22/07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I'd say XFS. But with the restriction you have battery-backed caches
and redundant PSUs. XFS is so fast cause of it's caching mechanism. A
power failure without battery-backed caches or redundant PSU will make
you
Jeff Koch wrote:
We're setting up a new mailserver with a Gigabyte i-ram drive to handle
the qmail queue, and qmail logs. The i-ram drive uses standard DDR
modules, has a battery backup and is lightning fast - much faster than
solid state drives. We'll use SATA RAID for the maildirs and
Ed McLain wrote:
XFS.. I'm addicted and will freely admit it.
We ran some benchmarks a while back between EXT3, XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS with
both qmail and mysql. While MySQL didn't care much, qmail was able to deliver
between 10,000 and 20,000 messages per minute more on XFS than either
Ed McLain wrote:
The answer is a bit of yes and no. The code is there but Dovecot doesn't by
default set the TCPLOCALPORT setting which is what allows vpopmail to limit
users to webmail, pop3, or imap access. I've written a patch to add that and
it is attached to this email. As an FYI, my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Inspired by you discussion I moved from Courier to Dovecot yesterday. All took
some 30 minutes and now it os waroking like a charm.
That is good.
So far customers are not complaining :) I got some 60-70 domains and some 4k
accounts.
What luck.
Just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Inspired by you discussion I moved from Courier to Dovecot yesterday.
All took some 30 minutes and now it os waroking like a charm.
That is good.
First advantage I noticed is that login failure take less time. With courier it
took
Shane Chrisp wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:19 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Inspired by you discussion I moved from Courier to Dovecot yesterday.
All took some 30 minutes and now it os waroking like a charm.
That is good.
First
Tariq Azad wrote:
I am having following error in log
tail -f /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current
warning: dropping connection, unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: out of
memory
on building the cdb file the error disappears for a while but comes up
after 5 min or less.
Try increasing the
Public Domain. That is a valid choice on SouceForge.
:-)
I hope you can garner more support.
Me too... We'll see I'm about to reply to you on the qmail list and
we'll see what happens...
Well, now that Charles has responded...
You did previously say that you would rather not
Yes. As far as I am concerned, the project is not possible without the
support of the major qmail players. I will probably see about shutting
it down.
none of the lads here interested? I doubt many of you use vpopmail with
postfix like i do and now that qmail is public domain, i will
I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.
congrats on getting the qmail project name.
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Michael Johnson wrote:
For those that don't mind Flash, there is also a video up on Google
Videos (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412)
where he announces it as well.
I just can't help but wonder if his action is too little too late.
Who cares? Those who hate DJB will
The question in my mind is who will own the name qmail, and what
product, if any, will bear that name.
I don't know if it'll be approved, but I got the qmail project name on
SourceForge, minutes after I heard it was put in public domain.
What license? GPL or BSD? :-D
I hope you can
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
What does chkuser log say about passing messages?
As I said in my initial message, I can't find any
chukser logs anywhere. qmail and vpopmail write to
/var/log/mail/info
But that file contains no data for chkuser.
Logging IS enabled, via
I think this is the right line of inquiry, but I don't
know why what I've already tried hasn't worked. Part of
the problem is that chkuser is not writing log files,
so diagnosis is hindered.
Summary:
- When I test qmail-smtpd manually (from the command line)
as root, chkuser rejects bad
Message-
From: Christopher Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 November 2007 02:34
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Qmail errors
Matthew Moore wrote:
Hi,
I can see in my qmail send log -
@4000474479971c31105c delivery 79455: deferral:
qmail-inject:_fatal
Matthew Moore wrote:
Hi,
I can see in my qmail send log –
@4000474479971c31105c delivery 79455: deferral:
qmail-inject:_fatal:_unable_to_parse_this_line:/To: XX
Car/write_to_qmail-inject_failed:_32/system_error_calling_qmail-inject/
Now what seems strange is the email
All that is needed is identical assign, rcpthosts and virtualdomains
files for mail delivery and acceptance. Patched qmails may or may not
need a bit more.
I am retracting this comment if the setup is for one qmail instance to
pass the mail to another qmail instance instead of both
Both qmail-smtpd instances can share the tcp.smtp.cdb file without
trouble. Now that you actually brought up routing...I see that I have
made a mistake. You must do your scanning with the /var/qmail instance
or which ever vpopmail does it changes on. The other qmail instance must
be the one
Quey wrote:
ed wrote:
I think you should off load the processing work. Look into running a
remote clamd/spamassing, or setup multiple mail hubs jms has a guide on
that at http://qmail.jms1.net
I agree he needs to offload, but the jms1 way seems very cumbersome.
We have sendmail boxes as
So I have think that I could compile qmail one time and copy to two
different locations for example /var/qmail and
/var/qmail-scanning-server... is this possible? and is this possible
without having two different vpopmails? two different databases for smtp
auth... (Internet qmail scanner will
Hello,
I have never used vpopmail with cdb. A script at inter7.com seems to
indicate that user information is stored in a vpasswd cdb file for each
domain. Is there any single cdb of all vpopmail users?
regards,
Christopher
Howard Jones wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
If I had a server hardware failure... and my hardware breaks... so I need
to set up a new one qmail server... what should I have backed up in my
actual qmail server and how could I recover all data? I mean... I suppose
I should compile, install
- courier-imap (4.1.2) with autentification via courier-authdaemon (0.59.1)
against vpopmails vchkpw
Sam has released courier-authlib-0.60.1. You may want to try that.
The single best performance enhancer you could do would be the external
todo patch, from my point of view.
Depends on the filesystem. If the filesystem has indexed directory
support, ext-todo should be sufficient. Otherwise, you need the
big-ext-todo patch.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sorry for insisting but this happens when courier enters, it's the same
for pop, or imap or... in the moment courier enters in the play for imap
only imagine because you use qmail-pop there in the way I told
yesterday... after some time of inactivity happens this...
tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
MysSQL has now an hardcoded timeout of eight hours.
Courier uses it's authentication daemon with persistent attach to
vpopmail/MySQL, it could be that during the night there are no requests,
so MySQL connections are droppped (by MySQL).
I thought this was
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not you must.
Yes, I will create they when installing the package in my destination
host. This is the why I need to get these values into the package when
building. The build host isn't my dest host.
That is a tough nut to crack.
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not you must.
Yes, I will create they when installing the package in my destination
host. This is the why I need to get these values into the package when
building. The build host isn't my
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not you
must.
Yes, I will create they when installing the package in my destination
host. This is the why I need to get these values
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not you
must.
Yes, I will create they when installing the package in my
destination
host
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Rick Widmer wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not
you must.
Yes, I will create they when
Japheth J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Have you created the vpopmail user and vchkpw group? If not you must.
Yes, I will create they when installing the package in my destination
host. This is the why I need to get these values into the package when
building. The build host isn't
Am I missing something obvious? I always thought -default was checked
last and I can't see why its not using the exact match on
.qmail-bob-clamav
There was some discussion of enabling such support in vpopmail. If you
look in your assign file, you will find that your address will become
John Simpson wrote:
On 2007-10-02, at 1928, Christopher Chan wrote:
Am I missing something obvious? I always thought -default was checked
last and I can't see why its not using the exact match on
.qmail-bob-clamav
There was some discussion of enabling such support in vpopmail.
i'm
Also, just a supposition on my part, but if you're running (e.g.)
courier-authdaemon linked against libvpopmail.so all the time, wouldn't
that (theoretically) mean that other dynamically linked vpopmail programs
would run faster than the static version since the library would already
be loaded
Quey wrote:
Rick,
I did not bother to read the guys second post once I got as far as
outblaze as that said enough, however, how can anything to do with
vpopmail be OT ? I had a private email from Wietse overnight showing me
a work around, my only concern about postfix using mysql to auth
has anyone actually got postfix to work with vpopmail using the
current stable release?
I have and it would have been documented here if I had actually got
round to completing it.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/vpopmail
Not that I know of. Vpopmail is tightly integrated with qmail,
Quey wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
I think it is your subconscious dislike of postfix that is preventing
you from exploring postfix and really make full use of its capabilities.
possibly, it may have a lot to do with all the postfix spammers, oh
why use sendmail piss it off use
Quey wrote:
Hi All,
Currently we have a large setup of domains and users, we have a couple
of qmail boxes, which are fed by front line sendmail boxes, since its a
sinch to have all todays modern anti-spam and whatever else, this way
qmail machines only ever see real email (apart from
People has not the courage to say that Bernstein design and coding is
horrible.
???
QMAIL was a secure product and a good academic programming model, ten
years ago. Now, a modern MTA facing millions of emails has completely
different problems from the ones Bernstein faced. But he made a
QMAIL was a secure product and a good academic programming model, ten
years ago. Now, a modern MTA facing millions of emails has completely
different problems from the ones Bernstein faced. But he made a
closed architecture, not a modular one, adding a no-sense license.
Hmm...qmail is STILL
... You apparently do the way it was formerly done too at the outfit;
generate cdb and then scp the cdb file across to relevant boxes. What
did you do to ensure that it is an atomic operation on the push/copy
out to mailhub?
the mailbox server sends the file using a command line this:
John Simpson wrote:
On 2006-12-22, at 1006, Christopher Chan wrote:
John Simpson wrote:
http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/validrcptto.cdb.shtml
There is a better patch for vpopmail support in qmail. A mysql patch
that goes straight the vpopmail mysql database but I am not sure of
its location
John Simpson wrote:
On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote:
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems.
I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and
what their experiences were.
Yeah, I use vpopmail with postfix. Love
In addition, I believe Matt Simerson authored a tcpserver mysql patch to
allow the removal of cdb files altogether. http://www.tnpi.biz - it's
great for heavily loaded servers, because constantly recompiling that
damn file with multiple processes tends to corrupt it.
Eh? Rebuilding it
Rick Romero wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
In addition, I believe Matt Simerson authored a tcpserver mysql patch
to allow the removal of cdb files altogether. http://www.tnpi.biz -
it's great for heavily loaded servers, because constantly recompiling
that damn file with multiple processes
I'm less concerned about the smtp end of the equation. I'm more
interested in the deliver half of the equation. After all that is what
vpopmail plays a part in, and that is the part of the system I hope to
keep. I do radius and ftp authentication against it.
Currently I use vpopmail with
DAve wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
John Simpson wrote:
On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote:
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems.
I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and
what their experiences were.
Yeah
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems.
I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and
what their experiences were.
Yeah, I use vpopmail with postfix. Love it. postfix user existence
checks mean I don't have large queues.
that's what i was thinking- at some point in the future, somebody (maybe
myself, if i ever get some free time) (yeah, right) will want to write a
web interface which gives individual mailbox owners the ability to
either edit their own .mailfilter file, or choose from a list of options
which
Hello,
I wonder how things are between courier tools and vpopmail?
regards,
Christopher
Hello,
What are the major differences between these versions? What is so
special about the 5.5 server code?
Stability and security wise, which one is more mature?
regards,
Christopher
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