Re: [vchkpw] create a bunch of ezmlm lists from a webpage.
On Jun 12, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Jason wrote: I can create a list using qmailadmin, but I noticed that it puts all of the list files and .qmail files in /home/vpopmail/domains/(domainName)/ So here are my series of questions: 1.) how do I create a list that vpopmail can recognize ? 2.) how can I get that list's directory in the web users web space directory 3.) any other help with my situation is appreciated, after 3 days I have yet to create a list via the command-line that has worked. Read up on how qmail and qmail-local work, and you'll learn why your requirements won't work. You need to have the .qmail-alias files somewhere that qmail-local can find them. If you're only creating lists, you could set up the users/assign file to point domains into the web space directory, but then you're going to run into permissions problems. Your best bet might be to come up with a way to modify qmailadmin to suit your needs (like disabling everything but mailing list support in it). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
[vchkpw] REQUEST FOR NEW FEATURE: INTERNAL-ONLY ACCOUNTS
Hi guys, As managers and directors of the companies are getting more acquainted about the Internet use (and abuse) inside their companies, they want to have more and more control over what employees can and cannot do on the Internet. Now, the director of one of the companies I give support asked me to set a bunch of e-mail accounts as internal-only, i.e., they can send e-mail internally but cannot send or receive external e-mails. As I reconized that his need probably will also be desired for a lot of other companies, I think it's worth to discuss here which would be the most appropriate manner to achieve this feature with Qmail and Vpopmail. THE IDEAL SCENE: The ideal scene for me would be if vpopmail could provide a means for doing this. To set the internal-only account I'd like to end up going to Qmailadmin, editing the properties of some user account, and just checking the new check-box: ( ) Internal-only account; I have no idea of how this could be implemented by vpopmail. Can someone out there imagine something? IDEAS: Until now, the only thing that occurs to me in order to accomplish this, is to edit (manually) the famous /var/vpopmail/tcp.smtp file and laboriously add a bunch of IP addresses, of each internal-only user, unsetting the RELAYCLIENT variable for each one of them. This would prevent the users from sending e-mails to external domains. But they could receive external e-mails (althouth they would not be able answer the e-mails). Or, suddenly, I could set the IPs of all internal-only user's machines inside a specified IP range, and I would disable RELAYCLIENT just for this range. I should explain this change to my customer, and they should follow the IP range specification. Still, I would be relying on tcp.smtp file to accomplish this. Further ideas? Regards, - Bruno Negrao - Support Analyst Engepel Teleinformática. 55-31-34812311 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
RE: [vchkpw] REQUEST FOR NEW FEATURE: INTERNAL-ONLY ACCOUNTS
The ideal scene for me would be if vpopmail could provide a means for doing this. To set the internal-only account I'd like to end up going to Qmailadmin, editing the properties of some user account, and just checking the new check-box: ( ) Internal-only account; Look at how vpopmail implements things like disabling inbound mail and disabling smtp auth functionality. What you're looking for would require qmail integration, or integration with the chkuser patches. Then you could add flags for disable external relay, and disable external inbound mail. I have no idea of how this could be implemented by vpopmail. Can someone out there imagine something? Sounds not terribly difficult, and does actually sound pretty useful. Similar functionality exists in commercial servers like Exchange and Domino, so obviously other folks find it useful. Hope that helps, Nick
Re: [vchkpw] REQUEST FOR NEW FEATURE: INTERNAL-ONLY ACCOUNTS
Hi Nick, Sounds not terribly difficult, and does actually sound pretty useful. Similar functionality exists in commercial servers like Exchange and Domino, so obviously other folks find it useful. Good to know that other mailservers already implement this feature. Maybe this helps to motivate the developers to run for a solution. Also, now I know what servers I can install if that director crazily wants this feature NOW!! Regards, - Bruno Negrao - Network Manager Engepel Teleinformática. 55-31-34812311 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
[vchkpw] Re: REQUEST FOR NEW FEATURE: INTERNAL-ONLY ACCOUNTS
Hello Bruno, On Monday, June 13, 2005 at 9:22:50 PM Bruno wrote: Now, the director of one of the companies I give support asked me to set a bunch of e-mail accounts as internal-only, i.e., they can send e-mail internally but cannot send or receive external e-mails. vmoduser -r $ADDRESS At least 5.4.5 has this possibility. If you further enforce SMTP-AUTH for all SMTP-connections that need to relay (i.e.: don't set RELAYCLIENT for anything other than 127.0.0.1) and disable roaming users you should have gained what you're looking for. -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther hselF ruoY eM roF...luoS ruoY doG roF
[vchkpw] Vpopmail aliases - messages getting stuck in Qmail
Hi,
I have a Vpopmail with aliases set up with more than one user in the
alias:
sales joe.blow, john.smith
Now sometimes when a user sends messages to one of these aliases the
message will get stuck in the queue, and they will receive multiple
copies, until I can find the message and remove it using find
/var/qmail/queue -name message -exec rm {} \; after first stopping
qmail.
Any ideas?
At first I thought it was the size of the alias, but it is happening
on aliases with 2-3 people in them also.
Thanks.
Andrew.
Re: [vchkpw] REQUEST FOR NEW FEATURE: INTERNAL-ONLY ACCOUNTS
On Jun 13, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Bruno Negrão wrote: Now, the director of one of the companies I give support asked me to set a bunch of e-mail accounts as internal-only, i.e., they can send e-mail internally but cannot send or receive external e-mails. It would have to take place entirely in qmail-smtpd, I would think. If it's a singled, dedicated server, it should be a simple patch to qmail-smtpd to make sure that both the sender's domain and the recipient's domain are in /var/qmail/control/locals. You could probably accomplish this if you don't publish an MX record for the domain -- only mail submitted directly to the server will be delivered, and that would only be messages sent by these clients. Disable qmail-remote on the server and it will be impossible for it to send mail to remote servers. Keep in mind that you will need to have the users' email clients use your smtp server for outbound email. If they point to their ISP's server, you can't prevent them from sending to external addresses. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail aliases - messages getting stuck in Qmail
On Jun 13, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have a Vpopmail with aliases set up with more than one user in the alias: sales joe.blow, john.smith Now sometimes when a user sends messages to one of these aliases the message will get stuck in the queue, and they will receive multiple copies, If there's a problem delivering to john.smith that causes a deferral, the message will go to joe.blow again on the next attempt (and get a deferral delivering to john.smith and thus loop up). -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
Re: [vchkpw] vdominfo showing wrong user counts
On Monday 23 May 2005 21:51, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: Why does vpopmail show users for a domain as 1 or 0, when there are actually 10 users? vdominfo showed 1, then I removed .dir-control, and now it shows 0: No ideas on this??? Another question, why does vuserinfo show a last auth time for some accounts, but not for others even though I know the account is being logged into on a regular basis? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cell 425-443-4653 AIM Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com
