help -- vchkpw: setgid() failed !?!

2001-02-23 Thread Val Luck
Hello fellow qmail/vpopmail friends: I am trying to get an install of qmail up and running and I am stumbling at the last hurdle. I am installing qmail + vpopmail +qmail-scanner, and everything seems to be installed ok, but I noticed that qmail-scanner wants to use /usr/bin/suidperl.

Re: who owns subdirs of domains?

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Mate Wierdl wrote: So I run, as root in ~vpopmail/bin, ./vadddomain a.b.c Who is supposed to own ~vpopmail/domains/a.b.c ? Should I add the a.b.c (/etc/passwd) user first? (I have installed v 4.9.6 from rpm, and it makes the fixed nonexistent uid 521 to own all subdirs of

Re: vpopmail login problem

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Le Van Chi wrote: Dear all, I am facing problem of login to POP3 account. I install qmail + vpopmail. vadddomain ok vadduser ok mail deliver to vpopmail account ok But, cannot authenticate on port 110. In logfile, vchkpw infor that user not found Could Any one help me?

Re: vpopmail.cx connectivity

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Edward Chaves wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:57:48PM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: KJ http://www.vpopmail.cx/vpopmail-4.9.8-1.tar.gz Nobody home? oy! bad timing for a network switch. until ken changes dns for vpopmail.cx, the following url will work:

Re: ./vadddomain

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
ktt wrote: I've tryed to create virtual domains on freebsd 4.0 machine: # ./vadddomain foo.org but vpopmail didn't create any files in /home/vpopmail/domains and didn't show any errors. what it could be? I did this once. Maybe you are having the same problem I had. the vadddomain

Re: upgrading vpopmail

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Paul Juliano wrote: Hi, How does one upgrade an existing installation of vpopmail (vpopmail-3.4.11) to the latest one (vpopmail-4.9.8)? What configuration files should I back-up? Will I have to take down the existing installation? Thanks. __

Re: Submit : Patch for logging in MySQL-DB

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Thomas Foerster wrote: Hi there, i've modified vpopmail-4.9.8 do make vchkpw to log the last POP-Access for a user. It logs * Username * Domainname * Date+Time * IP-Address * Resolved IP (if available) Just compile vpopmail with mysql support , add --enable-logging=y

Re: strange delivery

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Please see my earlier posting about user-ext names. And yes, it is normal. Ken Sumith Ail wrote: The [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a catch all account...(as far as I know) - Sumith - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19,

Re: smtp user

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
BD7NQ wrote: Hi Gentleman, How to setup my qmail+vchkpw system, only the pop3 user can access smtp service. -Terry BD7NQ Look into --enable-roaming-users=y option. Ken Joens

Re: hp unix

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
zhjin wrote: can i install qmail and vpopmail on hp unix 10.20 or 11.00? Sure. Ken Jones

Re: cdb files

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Chris Ochap wrote: once the vpasswd database starts gathering thousands and hundreds of thousands of users...is it divided up into smaller counterparts? No. It is one file with one set of data. If you read over the djbdns web pages, Dan Bernstien talks about how cdb can support gigabyte

Re: Authentication problems

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Ruben Vandille wrote: Hi guys, I got a problem. I added a new virtual domain, but I wanted the mail in the users homedir, so I did it like this: [root@devet001 gaia.be]# vadddomain -i 515 -g 100 -d /home/gaia gaia.be All necessary changes were done correctly: vadddomain added the

Re: accounts stopped working.

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Theepan wrote: Heyas, I installed qmail, and everything worked fine. Everyone on the sytem could receive mails. I wanted a mailinglist, so I installed ezmlm and qmailadmin to administrate the lists from the web. Now noone in my system, except the mailinglists, can receive mails. The

Re: upgrading vpopmail

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Phoenix
I was just wondering if freebsd sqwebmail with vpopmail mysql support compiles cleanly yet? On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Ken Jones wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:07:04 -0600 From: Ken Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Juliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: upgrading

Re: Submit : Patch for logging in MySQL-DB

2001-02-23 Thread Thomas Foerster
Hi Ken, I hope that this patch *will* be added to the official vpopmail-distribution (e.g. with a configure option) Done. BIG thanks to you !!! I removed the host value, since the REMOTEHOST environment variable is not set if tcpserver -H option is on. (I like -H). I also added a

Re: Changing Password, Some Progress ...

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
"Francis P. Ling" wrote: Hi Ken and Kenneth, Just some discoveries ... I used vpopmail-4.98-1 (use vpasswd.c from the latest dist, not v4.94) modified lines as follows: snip vpopmail.c:1729:sprintf(TmpBuf2, "%s/Maildir/sqwebmail-pass", dir); vpopmail.c:1730:if ( (fs =

Re: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Kit Halsted wrote: Hi- I'm using Qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.9.6-1 on OpenBSD 2.8 -stable. Everything works as expected I'm a happy camper. Of course, there is one problem, or I wouldn't be writing... I have virtualized our primary domain so shell users won't be sending their passwords

Re: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Kari Suomela wrote: Friday February 23 2001 11:34, Kit Halsted wrote to All: KH out of 6 consultants, but one guy used telnet Pine extensively KH on KH our old system really wants that functionality. I'm thinking KH it'll KH be fine, just set him up for ssh Mutt set a symlink

Re: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Kit Halsted
At 12:27 PM -0500 2/23/01, Kari Suomela wrote: Friday February 23 2001 11:34, Kit Halsted wrote to All: KH out of 6 consultants, but one guy used telnet Pine extensively KH on KH our old system really wants that functionality. I'm thinking KH it'll KH be fine, just set him up for ssh

Re: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Kit Halsted
Sorry, I really should have been more clear. Here's what I'm looking for: A user, let's call him Patrick, has to get POP mail at night when he gets home. He also has to be able to read mail via SSH Mutt during the day. Here's the kicker: it is strictly forbidden for users on this system to

Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread vol
vQregister is new web-based signup CGI that more than replaces the old vQsignup program we released early last year. If you're running vQsignup now, or you're considering allowing users to signup for free accounts, it's worth taking a look at. We will be adding a new feature very soon which

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Phoenix
Quite honestly this is a custom form that most of us code ourselves in php to insert the info we need from users. What you really need to do is allow us to pick our own fields...and integrate whatever html we want into it. Regards, Dan On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date:

Sqwebmail and scaling beyond big to REALLY big.

2001-02-23 Thread Matt Simerson
Hi List, I have an interesting little story that all of you might find quite interesting. It has a happy ending but I'd also like a little feedback from the rest of you on other possible solutions to this. Six months ago I built, and pushed into production a mail server, running on 5 FreeBSD

vpopmail and sqwebmail running as root

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Phoenix
Complete bullshit pardon the termsplease provide docs on not running as root. I think this should have been done after first sqwebmail remote exploit..thx. -- Dan +--+ | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | |

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread vol
Maybe what I said wasn't as clear as it could have been. Exactly what you requested below, is the feature we will be adding. PHP is inefficient BTW. :) Dan Phoenix wrote: Quite honestly this is a custom form that most of us code ourselves in php to insert the info we need from users. What

Re: vpopmail and sqwebmail running as root

2001-02-23 Thread Ken Jones
Dan Phoenix wrote: Complete bullshit pardon the termsplease provide docs on not running as root. I think this should have been done after first sqwebmail remote exploit..thx. chown vpopmail sqwebmail chgrp vchkpw sqwebmail chmod ug+s sqwebmail done Need any more docs? Ken

RE: vpopmail and sqwebmail running as root

2001-02-23 Thread Matt Simerson
I wasn't going to humor such a rude request but since Ken responded, I felt that I should at least point out that sqwebmail must run as root if vpopmail is configured to use multiple uid/gid. Matt -Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread vol
Not everyone has a single box devoted to Apache with PHP modules. In fact, many people run a large amount of time consuming processes. Efficiency is always a factor, when it can be taken into account. Web based products should always be concerned with efficiency. Mark Delany wrote: On Fri,

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Phoenix
inefficent? alot of speed and very easy to code. Take me 10 lines of c code for one line in php. + it is built in apache as a module so it runs faster. Of course c is faster and for any kind of real software it should be used. But for a websitephp is generally the choice. On Fri, 23 Feb

Re: Inter7 introduces new software: vQregister

2001-02-23 Thread vol
Apparently some companies devote more time than others to their releases. Dan Phoenix wrote: inefficent? alot of speed and very easy to code. Take me 10 lines of c code for one line in php. + it is built in apache as a module so it runs faster. Of course c is faster and for any kind of

RE: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Kit Halsted
At 1:40 PM -0700 2/23/01, Matt Simerson wrote: Does it have to be Mutt or can he use Pine? I'm not sure. Pine was pulled from the OpenBSD ports for security reasons, I respect that. OTOH, if Pine can do this I might be willing to take the risk. What can Pine do? -Kit Matt -Original

RE: Virtual User, symlink, Mutt...

2001-02-23 Thread Matt Simerson
Well, what I've done for one of my domains (my personal one) is use vpopmail's multiple uid/gid so that my mail domain is in my personal home directory. So, in this example I'm set up like this: /usr/home/matt/ (that me) /usr/home/matt/domains/simerson.net (one of my domains)