Re: [vchkpw] php vpopmail daemon etc. - developing story

2004-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Paul Oehler wrote: The daemon MUST require all connections to be authenticated, preferably against the vpopmail user base. user rwidmer ok password mypassword ok This is only slightly related to Rick's comments (which I think a

Re: [vchkpw] php vpopmail daemon etc. - developing story

2004-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
X-Istence wrote: I'd like to keep it in the vpopmail project. The daemon could be part of the regular code and the php client module could be part of contrib? Ken This would cause problems. Then it would not be in PHP releases, and only in the contrib directory, thus making it still an "remote

Re: [vchkpw] php vpopmail daemon etc. - developing story

2004-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
X-Istence wrote: why? We could talk to it using normal sockets. I dont see why it would require a special API to talk to a normal deamon on a TCP/IP. Even Unix sockets. Here is my $0.02 on how to best implement a daemon... The daemon is in C [1] and runs under tcpserver. It opens a unix s

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Radius server

2004-04-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Doug Clements wrote: Radiator (open.com.au) rules. You can do virtually anything, including custom SQL queries. I know, I used to use it. Best radius server ever. But it costs $$ that we don't have. A good start to getting something else workin

Re: [vchkpw] pw_gid flags was: OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: Ken (and anyone else who knows), Can you explain a bit how these flags work? When I look in the db at the pw_gid fields, they are all decimal values (ie: 64, 128, etc.). I hope this isn't some kind of bitmasking thing, because that just makes my head spin. That is e

[vchkpw] New PHP extension

2004-04-01 Thread Rick Widmer
A new update to the vpopmail extension for PHP has been uploaded to http://kimberly.developersdesk.com/ I believe it now supports everything that QmailAdmin uses.

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Rick Widmer
Would someone please make sure this information finds a home somewhere in the vpopmail distribution! Thanks, Rick Ken Jones wrote: On Wednesday 31 March 2004 07:42 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, Also, does anyone have some info on what exactly the values in pw_gid are? It's numeric, an

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Radius server

2004-04-01 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Doug Clements wrote: Radiator (open.com.au) rules. You can do virtually anything, including custom SQL queries. I know, I used to use it. Best radius server ever. But it costs $$ that we don't have. A good start to getting something else workin

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail management with php

2004-03-29 Thread Rick Widmer
the vpopmail user. If you want to look at what I've done with pMailAdmin, let me know off list, and I'll send you a copy. Rick Widmer Iavor Raytchev wrote: Hello, I am new to the list. The last weeks I tried to research on php based vpopmail manager. The nearest I found were so

Re: [vchkpw] Trash folder not counted for quotas

2004-03-16 Thread Rick Widmer
Rainer Duffner wrote: Alex Borges wrote: Is there any reason why the folder named .Trash is not included in quota accounting? Is that part of tyhe maildir++ spec or what? I'd say it's a quick and dirty hack to enable people who are over quota the removal of mail. The operation of putting s

Re: [vchkpw] Weird problems

2004-03-15 Thread Rick Widmer
Chris wrote: I reinstalled vpopmail 5.2.1 and now I am having some problems with qmailadmin and sqwebmail. Qmailadmin (1.0.6) will add email accounts, but cannot add alias/forwards. It appears that it works, but the forwards don't appear. Additionally, sqwebmail does not work properly. Users

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.2.2 minor auth problems

2004-03-07 Thread Rick Widmer
Matt Darcy wrote: Hi all, I built a vpopmail on qmail system for the first time in a long time. I'm using netqmail 1.05 and vpopmail 5.2.2 (for the first time) The first thing I would do is get vpopmail 5.4.0 from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpopmail/ Many bugs have been fixed

Re: [vchkpw] Re: roaming users

2004-02-25 Thread Rick Widmer
davila wrote: 1) Destroy all spammers and take back our network 2) Write a small proxy listener that I can connect to and forward the traffic to my smtp server. 3) Continue being happy using my sqwebmail install when I am out a lovely little cafes Of the possible solutions 3 seems to be the easie

Re: [vchkpw] roaming users

2004-02-24 Thread Rick Widmer
davila wrote: 1) there must be some way to clear that cache (if it exsists) ~vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp does that job. Somewhere in your install instructions you should be adding that to crontab so it is run periodically. 2) I don't fully understand the concept of roaming users in vpopmail

Re: [vchkpw] PHP extension for vpopmail

2004-02-23 Thread Rick Widmer
Marcin Soltysiak wrote: Another problem, if you allow the www user access to the vpopmail programs - how do you keep every web site on the server from having full access to mail system? The vpopmail library functions don't provide authentication. (They do provide functions for doing authentica

Re: [vchkpw] PHP extension for vpopmail

2004-02-22 Thread Rick Widmer
Thomas Madej wrote: On 22-Feb-04, at 7:29 PM, Marcin Soltysiak wrote: sudo with PHP extension? When PHP is a module? How? Solt Via PHP's CGI module. Please try it and let me know how it works! Personally, I am quite happy keeping general web sites off the mail server, and running PHP a

Re: [vchkpw] PHP extension for vpopmail

2004-02-22 Thread Rick Widmer
Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote: Rick Widmer wrote: There are two ways to run the extension that I know of. o Start a separate instance of Apache on its own port or IP address, running as the mail user. This instance should only serve mail related pages. This is very easy to do. o Don't allo

Re: [vchkpw] Re: [qmailadmin] Re: PHP vpopmail extension

2004-02-21 Thread Rick Widmer
Existence wrote: Rick Widmer wrote: That is what i meant, not everyone is able to have a special server just for mail, and thus running Apache as vpopmail:vchkpw is not an option. If you created some sort of deamon that allows you with public and privatekey's to communicate. Then yo

Re: [vchkpw] autorespond with a [dot] in the email address

2004-02-21 Thread Rick Widmer
Darren Beale wrote: Hi The problem is that the foo.bar address is the one that everyone will be using. I did think about deleting foo.bar reinstating the account to foo and setting up a valias foo.bar but this seems heavy handed and will require quite a bit of work to migrate a lot of users

Re: [vchkpw] PHP extension for vpopmail

2004-02-20 Thread Rick Widmer
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Rick Widmer wrote: There are now 21 functions available to access and update information about email addresses. To work they must be run as the vpopmail user. I do it by running apache under the mail user. Hopefully there are other

[vchkpw] PHP extension for vpopmail

2004-02-19 Thread Rick Widmer
There is now a sneak peek at the updated PHP extension for vpopmail available on my test web site: http://kimberly.developersdesk.com/vpopmail.php.tar.gz Basic installation instructions are in INSTALL. You should read README, NEWS and TODO. There are now 21 functions available to access and

Re: [vchkpw] Encrypt passwords like vpasswd

2004-02-19 Thread Rick Widmer
Radu Bighiu wrote: How can i encrypt passwords with php or perl like vpasswd? crypt() This does require your system so support md5 passwords for it to work in php. http://www.php.net/crypt I whant to insert and change passwords from the web page dirctly in MySQL vpopmail db via PHP or Pe

Re: [vchkpw] Re: [qmailadmin] Re: PHP vpopmail extension

2004-02-18 Thread Rick Widmer
X-Istence wrote: Rick Widmer wrote (At least in part): I am adding the following functions to vpopmail: valias_select_names, valias_select_names_next, valias_select_names_end Kinda like C++'s std::vector things, allowing you to walk thru an "array" of aliased domain names. I d

Re: [vchkpw] qmailadmin: File permission error

2004-02-18 Thread Rick Widmer
Thomas Madej wrote: There is no such file. I tried logging in as different domain and i'm having the same problems. They, too, have no such file. If the file is not being created, then there is a problem with permissions or something else that does not allow the user QmailAdmin is running as to

[vchkpw] Re: [qmailadmin] Re: PHP vpopmail extension

2004-02-14 Thread Rick Widmer
qmadmin wrote: I'm interested in the PHP extensions you have for the current versions of vpopmail. Since I got more than one response, I'll answer on the list... I have changed vpopmail_auth_user (which calls vauth_user) so it returns false if the username/password/domain is invalid, or for

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Heureka! Finished POP3-Frequency-Patch (against brute forcing)

2004-02-13 Thread Rick Widmer
Here is an obnoxious idea for you... If the user is checking mail too often, send them an email every time they check telling them how often you think they should be doing it... Dear subscriber, It has only been 32 seconds since you last c

[vchkpw] PHP vpopmail extension

2004-02-13 Thread Rick Widmer
Is there anyone on these lists that are using the PHP extension for vpopmail? I have made substantial changes that adapt it to vpopmail 5.4.0 and I am wondering how much effort I need to put into compatability with older versions.

[vchkpw] Re: [ vpopmail-Patches-895348 ] Ordered Alias Names for cdb

2004-02-12 Thread Rick Widmer
SourceForge.net wrote: Rick, please upload the patch again. Remember, you need to click on the "Upload and Attach a File" checkbox, select the file to upload and provide a description. It must have been the checkbox I missed... I know I selected the file. Please make sure that you aren't u

[vchkpw] Functions provided by database interfaces

2004-02-11 Thread Rick Widmer
If you are currious about what is missing from your favorite database interface take a look here.(I hope the formatting survives!) This table lists which functions are defined by each of the database interface modules in vpopmail. I hope someone else finds it helpful. * = full function

Re: [vchkpw] "multimaildir" in .qmail

2004-02-03 Thread Rick Widmer
Tom Collins wrote: >> On Feb 2, 2004, at 7:21 AM, Luca Morettoni wrote: >> > I have two server running vpopmail (5.3.27 on the first and 5.3.30 on the second), some user have a particular .qmail file (with some command executed with | command) and all work fine. The problem (on

Re: [vchkpw] similar functions in libvpopmail

2004-02-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote: A way to let final users to do some basic tasks (like change passwords, forwards, filters) from another application like a squirrelmail plugin would be fine. It seems to me the way to handle that is to have the plugin call vpopmail functions directly. I see Qmai

Re: [vchkpw] similar functions in libvpopmail

2004-02-02 Thread Rick Widmer
Sorry, this should have gone to the list the first time... Ken Jones wrote: Hi Rick, Use the ones without the "_" characters. The ones with the "_" are the lower level functions which encapsulate the details of each authentication backend. OK. What kind of changes are you planning on putting i

[vchkpw] similar functions in libvpopmail

2004-02-02 Thread Rick Widmer
about, that are not mentioned in README.* and docs/* ? Thanks, Rick Widmer

Re: [vchkpw] moving servers

2004-01-23 Thread Rick Widmer
Jon Reynolds wrote: I am moving from one server to a new and was wondering what I need to do to move my users from the old server to the new. I am thinking I need to move the /etc/passwd,/etc/master.passwd and /etc/group then move the domain directory in /home/vpopmail/domains/. I've done it tha

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.0 Release Candidate 2 released

2004-01-19 Thread Rick Widmer
Tom Collins wrote: >> http://vpopmail.sf.net/ >> >> We are getting closer to a stable release, and we need everyone's >> help in testing this release. Using SuSE Linux 8.2 and the following settings ./configure \ --enable-auth-module=cdb\ --enable-roaming-u

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail and courier authentication whoas

2003-12-31 Thread Rick Widmer
Geoff Sweet wrote: So per Courier's instructions I am posting my questions to this list. Any thoughts? Try this... ./configure \ --disable-root-check \ --without-authdaemon \ --with-authvchkpw \ --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs Rick

Re: [vchkpw] Rebuilding vpasswd?

2003-12-23 Thread Rick Widmer
Shaun Reitan wrote: How can i rebuild a users vpasswd.cdb from vpasswd with out using any of the vpop utilitys? I assume i can do this some how with the cdb util? i have tryed the following and this is the error i get... Why? If you remove the .cdb file it will be automagically recreated th

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail installation

2003-01-13 Thread Rick Widmer
At 09:20 PM 1/13/03 -0500, Frank A wrote: My question is how do I start up Qmail to just run the queue and not have it try and bind to port 25. That pretty much is the answer too... Run qmail, but don't start it listening on port 25. Running qmail is related to a .rc file in the /var/qmail d

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + mysql + sqwebmail

2002-12-22 Thread Rick Widmer
on 12/22/02 5:37 PM, Hugo Escobar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > authdaemond is running. > > Any ideas? One thing comes to mind... I did not look at your specific problem, but in everything I've seen when using sqwebmail with vpopmail says you should NOT use authdaemon. I've seen numerous pr

Re: [vchkpw] ps

2002-10-13 Thread Rick Widmer
At 01:55 PM 10/13/02 +0200, Raboo Treed wrote: >Isn't it better to make vpopmail leave a pid file instead then? No. ps output is always right, an old pid file could point to the wrong process. Rick

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