Re: [vchkpw] customizing mysql table
I would think that recoding a PHP script would be easier to do than editing source files for vpopmail, as with the next upgrade your vpopmail will overwrite the changes you made. So i would personally suggest, change the php script. I guess it might be the only way. I didnt want to do it at first because its a complex system with over 20mb of php files (not only for webmail). Anyway, i'd like to make a suggestion for the vpopmail developers: to user some kind of mysql.conf table where the user can customize the layout. I've seen this in some other patch, something like: database: vpopmail table: users user_column: id pass_column: password thanks, Jw
[vchkpw] vpopmail with SA
Hi, I just installed SpamAssassin in my vpopmail installation, with maildrop. The thing is that the sample script (provided everywhere, including SA distribution), uses the following command lines to get the users home dir: VHOME=`/var/vpopmail/pop/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, the path is not the default vpopmail installation (/home/vpopmail), but I can live with that :P The problem is that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] variable provided by .qmail provides the information in the form of virtualhost-virtual_user@domain. So, for my [EMAIL PROTECTED] it provides: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using pretty much the default settings for everything, and i guess this is the normal behaviour of qmail. Just wondering if i'm missing something obvious or anyone has got around that. I am temporary using my full email on the 'vuserinfo -d' command instead of the variables, but I didnt want to go that way for each user. In case it matters, i'm using the latest stable version (vpopmail 5.4.0) with netqmail-1.04, and the latest SA (2.63). thanks in advance! Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail with SA
From: Jeremy Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] $EXT should only give you 'systest' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .qmail-test |echo $EXT testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo hi | mailsubj test kitchen-test | qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat testfile test Hm, that's right, I just changed it back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works again. I must have tried something really stupid the first time I tried. Sorry for the unnecessary thread. thanks, Jw.
[vchkpw] virtual users
Is it possible to user vpopmail for managing ONLY virtual users for my domain? I dont want to use virtual domains, all the 50k users will be on the same domain, and I dont want to make them type anything but their username. My intentions is to make a webmail+pop system for 50k users. Thanks in advance, Jw
Re: [vchkpw] virtual users
Thanks for all your help, and since you brought up that webmail subject, I would like to ask your opinion about sqwebmail and other webmails. I'm thinking about using sqwebmail for 3 reasons: As I understand, it reads mail directly from the maildir, so I dont need to install a pop/imap server and access to file should be faster. Plus, i saw that i can customize it and probably have a better integration with vpopmail for my client to manage the accounts. Sorry if i'm talking bs here, i'm about to install qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail in a few minutes and haven't messed with inter7 tools yet.. :) thanks Jw - Original Message - From: Richard Rawlings :: Pulse8 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'jean wainer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] virtual users I didn't mention...that config is for sqwebmail. If you choose to use it then it supports what you want to do. I prefer the 'feel' of IMP though. -Original Message- From: jean wainer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2003 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] virtual users Is it possible to user vpopmail for managing ONLY virtual users for my domain? I dont want to use virtual domains, all the 50k users will be on the same domain, and I dont want to make them type anything but their username. My intentions is to make a webmail+pop system for 50k users. Thanks in advance, Jw
Re: [vchkpw] virtual users
I used sqwebmail for a few years, always hoping it would mature into a decent package. The technical abilities of sqwebmail are great, but the interface is ugly and difficult for my end-users. I recently bit the bullet, installed an IMAP server and went with SquirrelMail. Happier users, happier sysadmin. Isn't sqwebmail interface customizable? What about squirrelmail? I use it at home, but haven't messed with interface yet. And for being written in PHP, is squirrelmail more lightweight than sqwebmail (which is in perl, right?)? What i'm about to build is a public 50k+ user webmail system, and the interface must be customized. I'd hate to have to write a webmail from scratch =[ Thanks, Jw.
[vchkpw] vpopmail+courier IMAP
I have vpopmail installed, as well as qmailadmin and sqwebmail and everything seems to be OK. When I try to install courier-imap I get the following error after make: Compiling modauthvchkpw.c gcc -I/home/vpopmail/include -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. -o authvchkpw modauthv chkpw.o libauthmod.a libauth.a ../numlib/libnumlib.a ../md5/libmd5.a ../sha1/lib sha1.a -L/home/vpopmail/lib -lvpopmail -lm -lcrypt /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-slackware-linux /bin /ld: cannot find -lvpopmail collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [authvchkpw] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/courier-imap-2.1.2/authlib' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/courier-imap-2.1.2/authlib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/courier-imap-2.1.2$ as the document say, courier should automatically detect if vpopmail is present and install authvchkpw module for authentication, so I didnt supply any arguments in the ./configure command. vpopmail is installed in the default directory of /home/vpopmail, and i'm running slackware 9.0. I'd be grateful if somebody could point me where I've gone wrong. TIA, Jw
[vchkpw] customizing mysql table
Hi, I have a existing qmail installation (with custom webmail in php) which was already bought with some generic japanese mysql-auth patch in a undocumented setup. I'm currently rebuilding the server, and looking to use vpopmail instead of the old setup. I want to migrate the old database to the new server (using vpopmail), and my question is: Is it possible to easily customize (change table name,user column name, etc) the mysql table which vpopmail will use to authenticate? Do I have to change anything else besides vmysql.h? thanks in advance, Jw
[vchkpw] passwords
Hi, My boss recently noticed something I didnt: vpopmail (noticed on qmailadmin and squirrelmail using courier-imap) accepts passwords with garbage at the end. Lets say, my password is secret. If I type secretJSDSDALSDKJFLASF, qmailadmin will accept it as a valid password. It doesnt accept with garbage inside the password, or before. How can I correct that? Is this a known issue? I've tested with vpopmail 5.4.3 + qmailadmin 1.2.0 AND also with vpopmail 4.9.10 + qmailadmin 0.45 (our museum servers), both have the save problem. I appreciate any help.. --Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] Re: passwords
Please create a test account with password 'password', test this account and if it is authenticated with garbage at the end please post the encrypted password from 'vpasswd' of this account. It didnt. I assume your installation does not use MD5 routines in 'crypt()' function, and therefore your passwords are limited to a maximum of 8 characters. All passwords with exactly 8 characters (so NOT 'secret' as this are only 6) than will be accepted if the first 8 characters of input match. This is due to the fact 'crypt()', using only DES, only takes the first 8 characters. A MD5-enabled 'crypt()' will not suffer this limitations Very interesting. It seems that the problem occured only with the migrated domains from other servers (the museum ones). Accounts created in the new server, or accounts which had its password changed in the new server does not have this problem. Maybe the 'museum' might be the problem: if their libcrypt is too old it might be it's not yet aware of MD5, who knows. I guess that was it. Thanks a lot, Peter! Is it possible to convert all old passwords from the old format (MD5-disabled crypt()) to the new format? --Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] Re: passwords
Is it possible to convert all old passwords from the old format (MD5-disabled crypt()) to the new format? If you have plain passwords enabled: yes. (..) Unfortunately this isn't my case. :( I guess it's not possible then, right? thanks, --Jw. If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
Re: [vchkpw] Change passwd howto
On Sat, 29 May 2004 00:32:58 +0200 Patrick Donker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I use qmail + vpopmail + courier-imapd + squirrelmail. My question is; what would be the easiest way to inplement a change-password option in Squirrel? I have found a plugin, but that is based on pam, which I dont use. I need something that uses vchkpw. My guess is that somebody on this list has solved this already before, so, why not ask ;) ? There's a vpopmail plugin for squirrelmail. The only catch is that you have to run apache as vpopmail user. --Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] Change passwd howto
On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:49:17 +0200 Patrick Donker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a vpopmail plugin for squirrelmail. The only catch is that you have to run apache as vpopmail user. --Jw. Really? Is it on the squirrel site? Looked there already, didnt see it.. http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=103 --Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] Change passwd howto
On Mon, 31 May 2004 09:30:24 -0400 X-Istence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean Wainer wrote: snip There's a vpopmail plugin for squirrelmail. The only catch is that you have to run apache as vpopmail user. Thus giving anyone that has web access or is allowed to run PHP scripts on your server the allowance to play with vpopmail as much as they want. If this is just a webmail based server i do think it is okay, but if i were you i would still be worried. We are using it on one of our webmail servers, and since we have a lot of anti-spam and account management features which depend on the vpopmail user to be configured within the webmail, we have choosen to do that.. --Jw. Jan-Willem Regeer X-Istence So i'm not the only jw here, eh? Jean C. S. Wainer --Jw.
[vchkpw] [OT?] dovecot-imap
Has anyone used dovecot-imap with vpopmail? I'm trying it on my home setup, with vpopmail 5.4.3, Maildir mailboxes, and squirrelmail. Has anyone had any experiencies with dovecot imap on such setup? Would you share them? :) Thanks, --Jw.
[vchkpw] [OT?] Courier-imap compile without pop3d
I dont know if this is the right list to ask.. But is it possible to compile courier-imap without support for tls, ssl and pop3? I just need it to interface with Squirrelmail on the local machine.. thanks in advance, --Jw.
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.5 released
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:17:53 -0700 Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://vpopmail.sf.net Release Notes: There are significant changes in here for MySQL and Postgres backends. If you've had errors stating couldn't create table/database because it already exists with MySQL, you should definitely upgrade. Well, I was having such errors with 5.4.3, and I did upgrade. It seems to be working fine, now. I noticed that this error occured only with the server under heavy load (over 8, 10). Since it is fixed now in 5.4.5, I have a question out of curiosity: What was the bug that was causing this error? Thanks, Jean
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.5 released
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:54:55 +0700 François Wautier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since I submitted that patch.. I guess I should answer. The code in vpopmail was first trying to connect to the server for a given database. If that was failing, it would try the server only and if that succeeded, it was considering that the server was fine but that the DB was not created. Apparently, under some load, it could happen that the first request would fail, but the second would be accepted... All the patch does is make the code connect to the server first and then use the Database. If the first call fails, the delivery fails (temporary failure) and the message is delivered later. Cheers, François Thanks for the explanation, François :) I was having this problem, not only when delivering messages, but specially when checking POP3 mail (vchkpw). Will that be fixed too? Or am I going to get a different error? Also, using Antonio Nati's qmail-smtpd-chkusr patch (as in http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/qmail-smtpd-chkusr-10.html), what will be the effect with the new corrected mysql patch? I was getting some no such user errors before... thanks! Jean
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.5 released
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:34:30 +0700 François Wautier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The patch applies does not solve the underlying problem, the fact that you cannot connect to the DB server. It just makes sure the system behaves properly even when one cannot access the DB. I see. You said, in your previous message: The code in vpopmail was first trying to connect to the server for a given database. If that was failing, it would try the server only and if that succeeded, it was considering that the server was fine but that the DB was not created. So, wouldnt it be safer to consider the second try, if it succeeds? Sorry, I dont understand why consider that the database was not created only because it took 2 tries to connect to the database. In the case of email delivery, proper behaviour means that the message is put back into the queue for later delivery. Right. In other cases, proper behaviour may means that the system complains it does not know your user. I do not know. Yes, that's actually whats happening. Specially for Outlook users who keep getting a request for their password (using Sylpheed, in my case, I can see the database does not exist error). Now that I think about it, that could be the problem I am having. When using IMP-Courier imap-vpopmail some of my users need to login many times. It could be that, because of the problem, authentication fails and they have to loggin again. Yes, it happes with me using courier + squirrelmail too. thanks! --Jw. Best Regards, François l On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:54:55 +0700 François Wautier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since I submitted that patch.. I guess I should answer. The code in vpopmail was first trying to connect to the server for a given database. If that was failing, it would try the server only and if that succeeded, it was considering that the server was fine but that the DB was not created. Apparently, under some load, it could happen that the first request would fail, but the second would be accepted... All the patch does is make the code connect to the server first and then use the Database. If the first call fails, the delivery fails (temporary failure) and the message is delivered later. Cheers, François Thanks for the explanation, François :) I was having this problem, not only when delivering messages, but specially when checking POP3 mail (vchkpw). Will that be fixed too? Or am I going to get a different error? Also, using Antonio Nati's qmail-smtpd-chkusr patch (as in http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/qmail-smtpd-chkusr-10.html), what will be the effect with the new corrected mysql patch? I was getting some no such user errors before... thanks! Jean
Re: [vchkpw] Migrating an entire domain to a different server.
Hi Michael, On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:33:31 +1000 Michael Bellears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running vpopmail version: 5.3.19, with MySQL auth (I know - Have to upgrade!), and we have one client who wishes to move there domain to a new server - The domain contains about 400 accounts, and I was wondering the best way to migrate the entire domain? - Add clients_domain to new server Right. - Copy /home/vpopmail/domains/clients_domain/* to new server Ok. - Copy MySQL entries for domain to new server? (This is the step I am unsure about!) Well, you can do that. Or you convert the user base to CDB on the original server (~vpopmail/bin/vconvert -m -c $domain), copy the CDB file to the other server (inside the domain dir), then run vconvert on the new server (~vpopmail/bin/vconvert -c -m $domain). I prefer this way.. :) Jean Thanks in advance. Regards, MB
Re: [vchkpw] Migrating an entire domain to a different server.
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 07:59:30 +1000 Michael Bellears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jean, Jean Wainer wrote: - Copy MySQL entries for domain to new server? (This is the step I am unsure about!) Well, you can do that. Or you convert the user base to CDB on the original server (~vpopmail/bin/vconvert -m -c $domain), copy the CDB file to the other server (inside the domain dir), then run vconvert on the new server (~vpopmail/bin/vconvert -c -m $domain). I prefer this way.. :) Ahh - Thanks! Any gotchas moving the 5.3.19 - Current Stable with vconvert? I dont think so. Last time I did that, I moved thousands of domains from vpopmail 4.x to 5.4.5 :) Jean Regards, MB
Re: [vchkpw] How to Split a domain into 2 machines?
Just out of curiosity, Rick.. On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:41:09 -0500 Rick Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:18, Bruno Negrão wrote: Hi Rick, Rick, are you currently using this? For a whole domain. Not per user. I can't get you, what you mean for a whole domain, not per user? \ :) I use the 2nd qmail install for forwarding a whole domain, not an individual user account. Why not just using smtproutes? --Jw.
[vchkpw] chkuser in my secondary MX
hello, I need run chkuser in my secondary MX server. I followed the following steps: Install, qmail with chkuser patch. Install vpopmail Copy .qmail-* files from my Master MX to secondary MX. add domain to rcpthosts and virtualdomains files in /var/qmail/control Run qmail normaly, but it does not function, all rcpt are accepted by chkuser. so, added /var/qmail/users/assign file type: +domain.com-:domain.com:89:89:/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com:-:: and now, e-mails delivery local and not in my primary server, i add in smtproutes: :servermx1.domain.com but it does not function. any idea? Thanks PS: Sorry for my english -- Jean Carlos O. Guandalini VisãoNet Tecnologia e Telecomunicações 0800-643-5025
Re: [vchkpw] chkuser in my secondary MX
Thanks Tom, you save my life! :D Tom Collins escreveu: On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Jean Carlos Oliveira Guandalini wrote: I need run chkuser in my secondary MX server. I followed the following steps: snip but it does not function. On the backup MX, the domain should be in rcpthosts (or morercpthosts which builds morercpthosts.cdb) and users/assign (which builds to users/cdb). It should NOT be in virtualdomains and it does not need to be in smtproutes if your primary server has a lower MX record than the backup server. If you're using the CDB-backend, you'll probably want to copy the whole ~vpopmail/domains over, excluding Maildir directories, so chkuser will work. And you'll probably want to rsync it every so often so new users and aliases go across. I rsync the whole ~vpopmail/domains directory each night so I have an off-site backup of email as well. Here's what I rsync every 5 minutes, script runs on primary mx, and I've added the primary mx's ssh key to mx2's authorized_keys file: rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=Maildir --delete --exclude=lastauth \ /home/vpopmail/domains/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/vpopmail/domains/ rsync -azl --numeric-ids /var/qmail/users [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/qmail/ rsync -azl --numeric-ids --exclude=*.lock \ /var/qmail/control/*hosts* /var/qmail/control/smtproutes \ /var/qmail/control/badmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/qmail/control/ I guess if I was backing up Maildirs as well, throughout the day, I could failover to that server should the primary die a horrible death. I'd have to copy the virtualdomains file, stop the rsync, and update DNS so the backup had the lowest MX record. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ -- Jean Carlos O. Guandalini VisãoNet Tecnologia e Telecomunicações 0800-643-5025
