[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Charles J. Boening wrote: Why not use the .qmail-default to process your skeleton directories? Have it call a script that can test for the existence of the directory and then copy the skeleton as appropriate. Because that would add overhead to every mail delivery for something that is a

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: The reason I mention this is that I'm having a bugger of a job getting my code that implements skel dirs to work with vqadmin - it works fine from the command line (as root) but I get a permission denied error when executing from vqadmin. Have

[vchkpw] Patch to create IMAPdir

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi all, After struggling for sometime to get skeldir functionality to work, I've given up for now. The primary reason for wanting skeldirs was so that new accounts could be created with IMAPdir support for use with bincimap. The following patch modifies vpopmail to create an IMAPdir directory.

[vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user

2006-03-28 Thread Jimmy Stewpot
Hello, I have a server that is setup as having vpopmail installed to run all of the emails without having system accounts. I have got users on the system that have cronjobs running. If those users have a crontab that runs and has an error it will email [EMAIL PROTECTED] the hostname of the

Re: [vchkpw] Patch to create IMAPdir

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Krieger
Did you see my post last night about the same issue and wrapping a shell script and exec call around bincimap? It means you don't have to deal with this problem for pop/smtp uses, but only imap.Why modify vpopmail to do something specific to another program?-MRobin Bowes [EMAIL

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Krieger
It is indeed possible to use wrappers as you do, but this adds overheadto every invocation of [insert progran here] which I'd rather avoid. How much overhead do you think executing a shell script and an internal call to test implements? How often do you think IMAP connections are made? Think of

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: It is indeed possible to use wrappers as you do, but this adds overhead to every invocation of [insert progran here] which I'd rather avoid. How much overhead do you think executing a shell script and an internal call to test implements? How often do you think

[vchkpw] Re: Patch to create IMAPdir

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: Did you see my post last night about the same issue and wrapping a shell script and exec call around bincimap? It means you don't have to deal with this problem for pop/smtp uses, but only imap. Why modify vpopmail to do something specific to another program? For

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Collins
On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: However, I see that doing stuff when you create users logically belongs with the program that creates users - vpopmail in this case. So to my perfectionist mind, I'd rather make vpopmail do this once when the user is added than checking for it

Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Collins
On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Jimmy Stewpot wrote: I would have expected that to route the email over to the users vpopmail account however it does not work. Any sugestions? or am I missing something totally stupid? I did the following on my system to accomplish what you're looking for. Put

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: However, I see that doing stuff when you create users logically belongs with the program that creates users - vpopmail in this case. So to my perfectionist mind, I'd rather make vpopmail do this once when the user is added

Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user~

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 16:13, Tom Collins wrote: On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Jimmy Stewpot wrote: I would have expected that to route the email over to the users vpopmail account however it does not work. Any sugestions? or am I missing something totally stupid? I did the following on

Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user~

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Collins
On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: if 'joe' exists as a system user, qmail will deliver email addressed to joe... to joe. ~alias is only consulted if the user 'joe' doesn't exist. Are you sure about that? I have a ~alias/.qmail-root file that seems to be forwarding email.

Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user~

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 17:56, Tom Collins wrote: On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: if 'joe' exists as a system user, qmail will deliver email addressed to joe... to joe. ~alias is only consulted if the user 'joe' doesn't exist. Are you sure about that? I have a

[vchkpw] qmail comparison

2006-03-28 Thread balaji
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Re: [vchkpw] qmail comparison

2006-03-28 Thread Shane Chrisp
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , iam new to qmail instllation server.before starting the qmail instllation i like to know few details, please tell me 1 The advantages and disadvantages qmail, 2 comparison of qmail with other MTA cleint like Exchabge

[vchkpw] [Fwd: qmail comparison]

2006-03-28 Thread balaji
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Re: [vchkpw] [Fwd: qmail comparison]

2006-03-28 Thread Boris Pavlov
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