Re: [vchkpw] Courier support

Where's the best documentation to migrate off of Courier? I presume Dovecot is the favored IMAP now for Vpopmail? Any known issues in making this switch? Matt Brookings wrote: My question is this: Courier-IMAP has dropped us, should we drop Courier-IMAP? Most definitely Yes!

[vchkpw] chkuser 2.0b - somes false positives

A system that's been running with 9000 users is now experiencing intermittent false positives when checking for invalid recipients. It's allowing invalid recipients sometimes. I cannot find a pattern. Any guess on areas that might be culprits? Does chkuser have a default permit behavior if it

[vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner

A customer has challenged whether this can be done... Anti-SPAM appliances A, B, and C are available on an internal LAN via DNS round-robin through SMTP at appliance.example.com VPOPMAIL server D is on the same LAN. Customer has had a few local accounts that had their password guessed and

RE: [vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner

-Original Message- From: ISP Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:41 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] How to route local delivery through a separate SMTP spam scanner A customer has challenged whether this can be done... Anti-SPAM appliances A, B

Re: [vchkpw] Distribute Qmail + Vpopmail bundle

Joshua Megerman wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:55:14 pm Nick Bright wrote: While the qmail sources are available, it is not GPL. It's my understanding that the way qmail is licensed specifically forbids repackaging. Um, no. As the original poster stated qmail is now in the public

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Which RBLsmtpd lookups are you using?

Adi Pircalabu wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:33:53 +1000 Quey wrote: dnsbl.sorbs.net bl.spamcop.net Don't use these to reject connections at SMTP level, they give many false-positives. Eventually use them only after queueing, and only to increase the spam score. zen.spamhaus.org and

[vchkpw] OT: Which RBLsmtpd lookups are you using?

Which RBLsmtpd references are you using in your smtpd listeners and why? (example sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtp/run) !DSPAM:47a1f0e1310547134712337!

[vchkpw] OT: Webmail trends for vpopmail/qmail/IMAP

Off-topic, perhaps respond off-list? What are the hot applications in F/OSS webmail that start to move towards AJAX clients (yahoo! mail beta, gmail) that might function well on a vpopmail/qmail/IMAP infrastructure? I looked at Sourceforge and didn't see much that would leap past squirrelmail.

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Webmail trends for vpopmail/qmail/IMAP

ISP Lists wrote: Off-topic, perhaps respond off-list? What are the hot applications in F/OSS webmail that start to move towards AJAX clients (yahoo! mail beta, gmail) that might function well on a vpopmail/qmail/IMAP infrastructure? I looked at Sourceforge and didn't see much that would

Re: [vchkpw] courier maildirfolder files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ISP Lists wrote: Therefore, to fix a partially failed rsync during a migration, I should use the following rules: /Maildir/.Sent|.Drafts|.Trash/maildirfolder is NOT correct usage /Maildir/.MyFolder/maildirfolder is NOT correct usage

Re: [vchkpw] Problem compiling courier-auth 0.59.3+

Some very smart person - I'm REALLY sorry I cannot easily find the link to give proper credit - posted this patch out there a few weeks ago. I don't think it's become mainstream yet, but I literally just went through the same problem with authlib 0.59.3 and vpopmail 5.4.17. Yes, the patch

Re: [vchkpw] Problem compiling courier-auth 0.59.3+

Crud, NO that is not the correct link for what I thought was the patch source. OK, I found it! It's in French, that's why it's kinda hard to find. You can run this page through Babelfish and get something readable, but the patch originated from this page

[vchkpw] Alternate routing for failed send

I had a case where a single destination SMTP MX server was denying my send request from what appeared to be an IP range-based RBL blacklist. Nobody elses MXs levered that blacklist, so I only had the one problem delivery. I was able to mockup a gateway on another server of mine in another IP

[vchkpw] Anti-spam solution - favs?

I've got vpopmail/netqmail built using typical clamav and spamassassin (clamd, spamd). I've got XBL filtering and CHKUSER enabled on smtp. I'm actively training my Bayes filters. I do not use verified sender or SPF. Spamassassin's local.cf look like this: required_score 6 rewrite_header

[vchkpw] announce: bantcp for CHKUSER patch

I wanted to announce a little script project I'm starting called 'bantcp'. I got frustrated by a dictionary attack on one of my domains. Tonix' CHKUSER patch did it's job in repelling the offending IPs (who were not already RBLd) but I wanted more. I wanted a (semi-)automated way to extract the

[vchkpw] CHKUSER 2.0.8b - banning IPs into tcp.smtp

CHKUSER 2.0.8b on qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.4.10. I LOVE that CHKUSER can single out the unknown recipients and block the offending SMTP session - big traffic control helper! However, I've got one domain that's really being hit hard by dictionary attacks. Some attack traffic is a few hits from

[vchkpw] How expensive is reloading the tcp.smtp.cdb?

Related to my earlier post, how expensive is it - resource-wise - to reload a tcp.smtp file of 100-1000 lines? If I have processing that is updating tcp.smtp every 5-10 minutes and I choose to reload the cdb from that tcp.smtp, is that a bad idea? The qmailctl cdb command runs very fast for me

[vchkpw] Spotty behavior authenticating: MySQL server has gone away

Something peculiar happened to mysql during a reboot and now vpopmail authdaemond is having trouble completing authentications /var/log/maillog says: Aug 24 08:36:15 hostname authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away This problem is spotty though. I have several

Re: [vchkpw] Spotty behavior authenticating: MySQL server has gone away

Something peculiar happened to mysql during a reboot and now vpopmail authdaemond is having trouble completing authentications /var/log/maillog says: Aug 24 08:36:15 hostname authdaemond: vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away This problem is spotty though. I have several

[vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?

sys: Fedora core3, manually compiled vpopmail 3.4.10, RPM Mysql 3.23.59?, compiled courier imap 4.0.2, compiled qmail-1.03, patched qmail-ej-cocktail-14.tar.gz, manually patched Tonix' chkuser 2.0. I have installed vpopmail with roaming/SMTP-AUTH before, again using Michael Bowe's webmail guide.

Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?

You've got an old SMTP AUTH patch that sends the MD5 challenge and response in the wrong order. Use the patch from the contrib directory of vpopmail, and then remove the $LOCAL from your run file, as the newer SMTP AUTH patch does not use it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?

You've got an old SMTP AUTH patch that sends the MD5 challenge and response in the wrong order. Use the patch from the contrib directory of vpopmail, and then remove the $LOCAL from your run file, as the newer SMTP AUTH patch does not use it. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH works POP3 not SMTPd?

On Jun 17, 2005, at 11:21 AM, ISP Lists wrote: Built as netqmail-1.05, patched SMTP-AUTH from vpopmail contrib, then manually added Tonix' chkuser 2.0 Everything is VERY happy now. Did you remember to remove $LOCAL from your qmail-smtpd/run file? If not, you can now auth with any username

Re: [vchkpw] RBL setup

Hello, how to setup RBL cheking to my qmail-vpopmail instalation. How can I chack if my RBL check works. TNX Hello, Check the relevant section of this guide http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm

Re: [vchkpw] OT: Migration of Lotus Notes to Vpopmail

Googling shall set ye free http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=convert+lotus+notes+to+mboxbtnG=Google+Search Hi list. I need migrate accounts and mailbox from Lotus Notes 5.0.1 to Qmail+Vpopmail. The accounts creation isn't problem, but my main problem is migrate the mailbox to maildir.

[vchkpw] Howto reject invalid recipients AFTER SMTPD receipt of msg?

I want to reject incoming email to invalid users AFTER accepting the email by SMTPd. Where can I insert a small bash script to check valid users against VPOPMAIL MYSQL DB before allowing SPAMD, CLAMAV, qmail-inject, etc. to run??? Vpopmail 5.4.5, Mysql 3.23.54. Also, I'm aware of Tonix's patch

[vchkpw] Re: Howto reject invalid recipients AFTER SMTPD receipt of msg?

On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:07 AM, ISP Lists wrote: I want to reject incoming email to invalid users AFTER accepting the email by SMTPd. Where can I insert a small bash script to check valid users against VPOPMAIL MYSQL DB before allowing SPAMD, CLAMAV, qmail-inject, etc. to run??? Vpopmail

[vchkpw] fetchmail and maildrop to a vpopmail account

I'm struggling finding a howto on a particular issue: I have a webmail/pop3 account, no IMAP. I do not run that server and only have user privs on the email account. I want to do a ONE-TIME conversion to pull the 400+ messages from this account using fetchmail (or whatever you recommend) for

Re: [vchkpw] fetchmail and maildrop to a vpopmail account

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:06, ISP Lists wrote: I'm struggling finding a howto on a particular issue: I have a webmail/pop3 account, no IMAP. I do not run that server and only have user privs on the email account. I want to do a ONE-TIME conversion to pull the 400+ messages from

[vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH fails, POP3 auth works. Mysql, Linux

I've built vpopmail 5.4.5 with mysql 3.23.57-ish on Debian potato. I've enabled roaming users and have included the SMTP-AUTH patch. Courier, vpopmail, qmail, and everything else compiled fine (I did not use Debian packages). POP3 works fine. Spam filtering works fine. Squirrelmail fine.

Re: [vchkpw] SMTP-AUTH fails, POP3 auth works. Mysql, Linux

I've built vpopmail 5.4.5 with mysql 3.23.57-ish on Debian potato. I've enabled roaming users and have included the SMTP-AUTH patch. Courier, vpopmail, qmail, and everything else compiled fine (I did not use Debian packages). POP3 works fine. Spam filtering works fine. Squirrelmail fine.

[vchkpw] only allow SMTP from SMTP-AUTH relays

Is there a vpopmail mechanism to only permit SMTP connections inbound for those IPs that appear in the current relays table? I realize that this means that SMTPd probably needs to talk to the MYSQL db with the relay table (my implementation), but I'm curious if this is doable. VPOPMAIL 5.2.1, RH

[vchkpw] vdelivermail bounce-no-mailbox. Can I drop?

The standard implementation of the ~.qmail-default for a vpopmail domain is to use the string | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox I don't care about handling bounces for typo'd addresses and I want to /dev/null them. does vdelivermail mail have a drop-no-mailbox option?

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vdelivermail bounce-no-mailbox. Can I drop?

Hello List, On Monday, May 10, 2004 at 2:20:31 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (at least in part): I don't care about handling bounces for typo'd addresses and I want to /dev/null them. does vdelivermail mail have a drop-no-mailbox option? Yes: ,- [ vpopmail FAQ ] | 32. I don't want

Re: [vchkpw] dial-up authorization with vpopmail

How about a cron'd script to extract from your MySQL/LDAP to populate FreeRadius's user tables? Is there anyone using vpopmail as backend for a dial-up authorization system? Any tip/suggestion on which could be the easiest way to configure a RAS server asking to a vpopmail backend? I'm

[vchkpw] Maintaining vlog in mysql

I noticed that my vlog table+index in vpopmail with MySQL enabled is up to around 30MB. Is there a maintenance procedure to cull records from this table? I can just start deleting oldest records, BUT.. D.

[vchkpw] Losing messages into a new folder

Linux: vpopmail 5.2.1, courier 1.7, qmail 1.03, squirrelmail 1.4.1. When a user through squirrelmail creates a new folder, all appears well. Then, user moves two or more messages to the folder and the messages are deleted, as in lost. I don't see anything wrong in vpopmail with the folder

Re: [vchkpw] Losing messages into a new folder

I am trying those lists, Tom. However, I was asking here because many of us are running the same combination of apps. I was hoping to find some common ground. Apologies if I've miffed anybody. D. On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a user through

Re: [vchkpw] qpsmtpd

Henry, I too just started looking into it.. was the idea from this list?? Anyhow, what concerns me is the perl overhead for qpsmtpd, but I'm probably paying for that overhead by using SpamAssassin... There is a link for something that virtualizes a perl processor session to make the thing run

Re: [vchkpw] from vpopmail5.2.1 to 5.3.29

I am also interested in this roadmap.. Hi to all, i have to convert vpopmail pop3 accounts done with 5.2.1 vpopmail and mysql to 5.3.29 and mysql. I noticed that the database structure is different. Is there anything to convert the domains all together ? thanks in advance Shape

[vchkpw] my vpopmail is a bad sender to ezmlm lists

address into two parts. It breaks at the equal sign and send two messages to: 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) magicmail-us-isp without a domain which is parsed as a local domain user. This happens to every ezmlm list I work with now and has become a gross pain. I am running a system mostly built

Re: [vchkpw] Re: my vpopmail is a bad sender to ezmlm lists

is parsing this by breaking the email address into two parts. It breaks at the equal sign and send two messages to: 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) magicmail-us-isp without a domain which is parsed as a local domain user. This happens to every ezmlm list I work with now and has become

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Inserting new users via mysql-insert into the vpopmail database

You can do with with Perl's system or exec calls, and I'm sure that PHP has equivalent calls as well. Just call the binary from your script. Why not use the product as its architected? Sheez! Hello Paul, hello all, Paul: The reason why I do NOT want vadduser or any commandline tool is

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Tom's fork of vpopmail (and qmailadmin)

Please end this thread. Enough has been said.

Re: [vchkpw] 5.3.26 error with chkusr patch + mysql

Just thinking out loud. The approach of tarpitting is to slow down the attacker without impacting your network or requiring additional resources on your end to deal with the cracker. I *think* it does this by analyzing the volume of incoming SMTP requests from the same host. The approach of

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Webmail question

Has anyone considered the Alternative PHP Cache http://apc.communityconnect.com/ ?? It's the PHP accelerator that is compiled in when you use the Apache Toolbox kit http://www.apachetoolbox.com Just curious why you guys use the one you do? I have also been using that software on my server for a

[vchkpw] which vpopmail to upgrade from 5.2.1

I'm getting increasingly worried about my install running vpopmail v5.2.1. Don't want to get too far behind the times. :-) Michael Bowe's guide http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm now advocates v 5.3.24, which I guess seems ok given how the recent bug reports have

Re: [vchkpw] Losing messages when I move them?

Tim, MrSam, Michael Bowe - (Sorry for top-posting;) I do enable IMAP_Emptytrash... but here's what's confusing. This server has been running this exact configuration since January. Only in the last month have I noticed the dropped/lost messages. In that month's time, the only change to the