[vchkpw] vacation messages / robots / copy and forward and MySQL
We are running the following vpopmail-5.4.18 courier-imap-4.1.2 courier-authlib-0.59.1 autorespond-2.0.4 netqmail-1.05 Vpopmail is setup to use MySQL with valias table created. We can create users directly in MySQL and everything works great the users pw_dir field is populated and the actual mailbox dir is created when the user logs in for the first time or receives their first email. We can create aliases in the valias table alias, domain, valias_line that point to an existing users email box, as well as single forwards (no box on system) Example Alias - record alias - joe, domain - mydomain.com, valias_line - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Example Forward - record alias - bill, domain - mydomain.com, valias_line - [EMAIL PROTECTED] What we would like to be able to do is take the remaining features in qmailadmin and push them to MySQL as well by getting rid of .qmail files in the users mail dir. Copy and Forward - example .qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/bob/Maildir/ Vacation Message - example .qmail /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/bob/Maildir/ | /usr/local/bin/autorespond 86400 3 /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/bob/vacation/message /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/bob/vacation Robot - example .qmail |/usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/ROBOT/message /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/ROBOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the Vacation Message and Robot we would like to have the contents of the directory stored in MySQL as well. The ultimate goal is to allow for a custom web frontend that can be incorporated into what ever web email client we run. I have see the file dotqmail2valias but from what I can tell it makes changes for alias and forwards only not anything above. Has anyone looked at this before or been able to get it to work? Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Ron
[vchkpw] password problem converting from 5.3 to 5.4
having a problem with user pop authentication on new users or users who's passwords were changed after the upgrade. With 2 additional characters added to the salt I am not able to login using pop3. Upgrade 5.3.27 to 5.4.8 Redhat Enterprise 3 Mysql 3.23.58-1 ./configure --enable-roaming-users --enable-logging=v --enable-log- name=vpopmail --disable-ip-alias-domains --disable-passwd --enable-clear-passwd --enable-domain-qoutas --enable-auth-module=mysql --enable-auth-logging --enable-mysql-logging --disable-mysql-limits I dumped the DB from the old server and created it on the new server. Old (salt) users login fine but if I create a new user (vpopmail command line) or Qmailadmin 1.2.3, or change the users password with either tool I get login errors. If I change the salt code in vpopmail.c back to the same code from 5.3.27 then everything works correctly. Did I miss something in the upgrade that should have changed the existing passwords to the new salt format and thus allow authentication correctly? Any help would be appreciated. -- Ron Culler
[vchkpw] vcalias not compiling
vpopmail-5.4.8 Get the following messages vcalias.c: In function `main': vcalias.c:73: `MYSQL_DATABASE' undeclared (first use in this function) vcalias.c:73: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once vcalias.c:73: for each function it appears in.) -- Ron Culler
[vchkpw] smtp-auth on separate server queries vpopmail -mysql
I'm and having difficulty setting up a separate qmail server as a smtp-auth server. (* Its being done to provide inbound virus scanning prior to the message being delivered to the local mailbox) I have successfully setup Qmail and can get smtp-auth to work with checkpassword and the local shadow users. I installed vpopmail enabling roaming users, and mysql-auth. I then set the vpopmail.mysql file to use the DB on my main vpopmail server. I can see it connect but it returns an incorrect password response for the user and then sends the email. My question is can vpopmail provide this type of functionality? If not has anyone seen something that can? I want to be able to have smtp-auth query the vpopmail user DB. Thanks Ron Culler
Re: [vchkpw] Antivirus Scanner
Qmail-Scanner works well and gives you the ability to incorporate SPAM filtering On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:37, Guillermo Villasana Cardoza wrote: Hi guys, do anyone know a good antivirus scanner that can be installed on linux but not directly in the machine with the email server? and that works with qmail+vpopmail? eg: Firewall---Antivirus Mail scanner---Qmail+Vpopmail Mailserver Thanks again -- Ron Culler
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail as a daemon
How about this for an Idea. Since I believe that we all agree in the power of Qmail and its superiority over the other systems. I think that we leave that portion of Qmail and Vpopmail alone. As a suggestion I think that Jesse did bring up some valid points when it comes to the administration of Vpopmail. I believe that some middle ground exists on this issue. Vpopmail could benefit from a more flexible set of webbased tools. As a user of Qmailadmin I like the unified design and the security of not having to run my web server as the vpopmail user(It lacks the ease of integration into perl/php based web email frontends). On the other hand the vpopmail.pm file gives me some of the flexibility that I want when it comes to integration with a web based mail frontend but has the security issues to contend with. I have looked at the php vpopmail extensions and while they have great flexibility you are forced to give on security. Having a flexible/secure web based control tool would allow you to have the speed/security of Qmail, the power/expandablity of Vpopmail. I submit that having an admin daemon running on your Vpopmail server would solve this. You could submit calls from the webased interface of your choice giving you the flexibility of integrating Vpopmail seamlessly into your web systems. I agree that some of this functionallity exists with the Mysql integration of Vpopmail 1) the ability to change users passwords 2) Alias/Forward support with valias (This precludes the use of qmailadmin for any alias/forward creation) as the .qmail file takes precedence ) 3) creation of new users (you either send them a welcome email or wait for the first message to arrive for that user to create the dir structure) This is just my 2cents worth of input on the topic Thanks On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:38, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: At 12:01 AM 02-24-2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi !! If you dislike NFS, then why did you go with qmail to begin with? That was the target for qmail. To use NFS without file locking. I hope this never reaches djb since I'm 100% sure he never thougth qmail to be designed for Network Failure System... :-) he didn' t design qmail for NFS. however, he designed Maildir specifically for NFS, and it's an integral part of qmail. qmail and NFS play together in harmony. production systems I built back in 1998 are still up and running (though i no longer work for that company), running qmail on dual Sun E4500's, behind redundant Big/IP's, with the filestore on clustered Netapps, NFS mounted over gigabit to the E4500's. still running like a top. NFS has come a long way since qmail 0.91 was released back in 1996. Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com http://folding.stanford.edu The Nicest Misanthrope on the Net -- Ron Culler
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail as a daemon
I agree with that it would make life alot easier to integrate other web-based email apps. I currently use vpopmail with a mysql backend and have compiled in the valias support. This works great except that if I use qmailadmin I loose the valias(mysql) support as it only creates a .qmail file in the users Maildir. Having the ability to integrate the functionality of qmailadmin into what ever web front-end that you wish using the lang. of your choice would be great. On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:03, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Greetings list, I'm sure people have considered this before, but I'd like to collect everyone's thoughts on the idea I'm about to present: VPopMail as a daemon What does everyone think about the possibility of turning vpopmail into a daemon? Complete with network ports and the like. It would allow for a much more distributed architecture, IMHO. Currently, if someone wants to run qmailadmin on a separate web server, they have to create an NFS share, right? Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to provide a vpopmail network protocol that allows connections from remote administrative utilities? Possibly even implement support for vpopmail clusters (although I'm thinking you'd have to have a crazy amount of users to need a cluster! Vpopmail is pretty darn efficient.) Administrative programs like qmailadmin and vqadmin would benefit by not having to be run on the primary mail server, but I highly doubt that the majority of web traffic comes from the admin CGIs. Programs like sqwebmail would benefit by not having to be recompiled every time vpopmail is upgraded. The port protocol wouldn't change much between versions, and developers could maintain backward compatibility. Sqwebmail WOULDN'T be able to run on a separate server, as it accesses maildirs directly, but at least administration, upgrades, and general package stability would likely improve a bit. Who knows. One might even be able to implement a maildir access protocol. But that would probably just duplicate the functionality of the IMAP protocol. Can anyone else think of a good reason why vpopmail might benefit from being made into a daemon? Can anyone think of a really good reason why it shouldn't? (Other than the time it would take to code everything.) I'm just thinking aloud here, but I'd like to hear everyone's ideas on the matter. Thanks, -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net We are actively looking for companies that do a lot of long distance faxing and want to cut their long distance bill by up to 50%. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. -- Ron Culler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] password hash info
I am writing a perl module that will change the users passwords after verifing the old password. What I'm looking for is the method used by vpopmail to generate the password. My goal is to create a perl version of this. -- Ron Culler
[vchkpw] client gets multiple copies of email
We are seeing a strange problem with some of our pop email clients. They are seeing multiple copies of an email message appear in thier inbox (outlook or outlook express) when only one copy of the email was ever in the inbox to begin with. This only appears to happen when receiving mail from one particular source (running ComunigatePro 4.0) they send to several different domains that we host and all appear to have the same thing happening. I have looked at the message and the headers and they look normal. But the end-user seems to get the message over and over(usually 4-20 copies) when the check the mailbox with POP3 Running Redhat 7.3 vpopmail 5.2 Any Ideas -- Ron Culler
[vchkpw] Using vchkwp on a seperate box for smtp auth
I am wanting to setup a seperate smtp auth server and use vchkpw to query a vpopmail DB for user id and password. I then use the qmail smtproutes command to foward that mail to a virus scanning gateway and then to the final destination (the vpopmail users mailbox or external MTA). My question is do I need to set anything different on the vpopmail install other than pointing to the server running MySQL and the vpopmail db? If not will this allow the users to just use the smtp auth settings with thier email address and password? -- Ron Culler
RE: [vchkpw] Spamassassin per user (MySQL)
valias support in mysql will work. the current problem is that qmailadmin does not support the valias mod for vpopmail. It only likes .qmail files... If you can write a webfront end that only writes to the mysql tables you can get most of qmailadmins features - user creation/ mods (not deletes -cant remove the mail dir) Note: if you create a user in the sql table the directory is only created when that user receives its first email Ron On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:26, Andy BIERLAIR wrote: First intersting thing would probably be the integration of .qmail files from each user into mysql and maybe even .qmail-default e.g. ~vpopmail/domain/postmaster/.qmail ~vpopmail/domain/any_user/.qmail My primary objective is getting rid of all the flat files (except the Maildir of course) Andy ** The Firelan(tm) Virus Scanning Service has scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. http://www.firelan.net **
[vchkpw] valias questions
Has valias (mysql) be integrated with qmailadmin yet? I know its the wrong list but I'm posting to both to get a response.. Sorry Ron ** The Firelan(tm) Virus Scanning Service has scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. http://www.firelan.net **
[vchkpw] smtp auth only server questions
Looking for a configuration that would allow users to use the vpopmail virtual user and password as thier smtp auth credentials. The configuration requires the smtp auth server to be separate from the pop store (filtering, av scanning). I don't want to use the auto tcp.smtp create that vpopmail normally uses as this machine will only responed to valid auth requests and all others will be rejected. I am able to get checkpassword to work with a locally created account but this adds an unwanted process. Has anyone done this ? if so what mods did you have to make to the vpop install? Thanks Ron ** The Firelan(tm) Virus Scanning Service has scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. http://www.firelan.net **
[vchkpw] (.mailfilter) and vpopmail
Is there a way to delete a message when it arrives based on the body content? I get 3-4 messages from a system that are part of is logging and I don't need them. I use vpopmail and courier imap and haven't found a way to auto delete these messages without touching the mail folder with an email client. Thanks Ron ** The Firelan(tm) Virus Scanning Service has scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. http://www.firelan.net **
