[vchkpw] Listing all users on a Vdomain and showing mail count
Hi, I wish to view all mails on a virtual domain on our Vpopmail server and show the mail count, in preparation for moving the users to another server. Is this possible using any of the Vpopmail tools? Thanks. Andrew. -- allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above.
[vchkpw] Upgrading from 5.3.12
Hi, When we had the original Qmail installation (before I got here), we were using the Vpopmail 5.3.12. This was some sort of development release, and I want to upgrade it to the latest stable release, mainly so I can get later version of Qmailadmin installed. What do I need to look at before upgrading? I am running a backup mail server which I built in September which runs a much later release, and the data seems fine in the new installation, however, I just wanted to know what to expect when doing an upgrade from such an old version? Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Ezmlm and Autorespond
Hi, I have moved some of our large internal distribution lists to Ezmlm because some of them are over 100 users. However, I think what is happening is that Ezmlm is marking a user as bouncing if they set a vacation message on their account. Is there any way round this? Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:30:03 -0500, in gmane.mail.vpopmail you wrote: Hi, The command #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto worked. As for the second command #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce Nothing happened. I do not know why, but I installed it using #touch .qmail-doublebounce then I put# and saved. I did wonder whether that command would work - it didn't seem right when I wrote it. I may have had to escape the # character or something. I take it you didn't copy the # character at the beginning - if you left this in it would have made a comment and would not be processed. Andrew.
RE: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy
Hi, Run the commands: #Echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto #echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce In this way doublebounces will go to the user doublebounce, who's .qmail file has nothing in it and so the mail will fall into a black hole. I think this is what Tom is getting at. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2005 14:50 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy Tom you hit it right. My problem is tones of doublebounces of spam from forged return and bad addresses. I do not have doublebounceto file under /var/qmail/control/ How do I set it up and what should be in it, to have doublebounces go to that file instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarding them to postmaster? I will create .qmail-doublebounce and put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce to delete all doublebounces Thanks, Sam - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Sam wrote: @4000436ab0a417e5a724 info msg 116176: bytes 2174 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 20947 uid 501 Looks like doublebounce messages. What do you have in /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto? I've set my server to have doublebounce in that file, and then put # in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce. That way doublebounces are just deleted -- 99.9% of them are crap and not worth looking at (e.g., spam from forged return 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 ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
RE: [vchkpw] Helo command rejected?
Hi, Usually this happens because the helo parameter sent by the MTA is just servername instead of servername.domain.com. Also, ideally, this should be the same data as found in your public PTR record. The helo host can be changed by adding the parameter to /var/qmail/control/helohost, although this is only needed if /var/qmail/control/me is something weird. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Michele (System Administrator) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2005 18:46 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] Helo command rejected? Hi, my qmail installation is working fine, but when I try to send mails to recipients of some domains (such as libero.it), the mail is bounced back with this error: Reporting-MTA: dns;myservername Received-From-MTA: dns;myservername Arrival-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:59:48 +0200 Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;504 myservername: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname So, there's something I need to setup in qmail to avoid this response? Thanks Mik. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
RE: [vchkpw] safe to use with courier's authdaemon?
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Guardiani Sent: 14 September 2005 17:32 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] safe to use with courier's authdaemon? Hi Jesse, Hello, I haven't posted on this list in a while. I'm currently running 5.4.6. It looks like two separate versions of vpopmail are being maintained. A Stable version (5.4.x) on sourceforge, and... I see mention of a 5.5 version with a vpopmaild from a thread back in August 2005, but I can't find a download for 5.5 on the inter7 site anymore. Kinda scary. So I've come up with three questions: 1.) I'm due for another round of mail server upgrades, and I've noticed that courier imap on Gentoo is now more or less demanding authdaemon support. At one time in the past, vpopmail was far too leaky to run under authdaemon. Is that still the case? Or has it been cleaned up enough that authdaemon isn't a problem anymore? I have just done this on our backup mail server, and found that it works fine - certainly with Sqwebmail. I built authdaemon thusly: ./configure --without-authpam --without-authldap --without-authpwd --without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-authshadow --without-authuserdb --without-authcustom --without-authcram --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --with-mailuser=vpopmail --with-mailgroup=vchkpw You then need to put the line: /usr/local/sbin/authdaemond start Into your startup scripts. When building courier-sqwebmail or courier-imap, I found I needed to do the following before ./configure command: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH export PATH Then test the courierauthconfig command using Courierauthconfig --configfiles If you don't do the path bit, the ./configure fails with the courier authdaemon not installed message. 2.) Also, Mr. Sam seemed to be getting increasingly hostile toward the vpopmail community. One such example was the disabling of vpopmail auth support (or was it something related to pop-before-smtp? I can't remember the specifics, I just know I'm running a patch for it right now) in sqwebmail due to a supposed security vulnerability in vpopmail. Do Courier-IMAP sqwebmail still work well with vpopmail? Or is everyone beginning to look elsewhere? The only issue I think is IMAP before SMTP in version 4.x of courier-imap doesn't work, but I don't use IMAP yet here so it didn't bother me. Hope this all helps; I did this all for the first time a few weeks ago because we had a system made up for us ages ago before I worked here which I felt we needed to understand more and have later packages of. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Autorespond and Qmailadmin
Hi, When a user inputs data into the subject and body of the autoresponder, when autorespond sends out the message, it seems to leave a gap in the header, so the from: and subject: lines get added in the body. Why is this happening? Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
RE: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns
Hi, Thanks - will try this. Actually my LDAP post was regarding using LDAP as authentication for another program which only uses LDAP. I want to try and do LDAP lookups on the SMTP envelope on another gateway product before forwarding it to Qmail. I am still wanting to use maildirs (of course!). Thanks. Andrew. -Original Message- From: Bruno Negrao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2005 17:08 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns I had already tried this, however, I pipe the output of the command to a log file which I check most days to ensure it is still working. For some reason the errors don't go to the log but get sent to root. If I use -q I get no output in the log even. Hi Andrew, Well, it seems to be a silly mistake - i believe your error messages are going to root because your pipe is redirecting only the stdout of the first command, letting the stderr to the console (which is forwarded to root). Try this: command_a 21 | command_b And I read your posting about using a LDAP server in order to have a synchronized backup server. I don't know if you are aware that when you use the vpopmail LDAP backend only the authentication data will be synchronized. You'll still need to use rsync in order to copy the maildirs. (I'm sorry if you already know that). So maybe you wouldn't like to move to LDAP and keep using vpopmail.cdb backend and rsync to synchronize. Regards, bruno. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
RE: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns
-Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2005 19:02 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns Hi Ken, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, I have two Vpopmail servers - one which is a backup of the other at a remote site. I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because the users are collecting mail via POP. I am not too bothered about this, but wonder what other people are doing for simple backups like these?? I run the Rsync each hour. I use rsync too. I just ignore those errors about email files not existing. You could try adding the -q (quiet) option to stop those messages. I had already tried this, however, I pipe the output of the command to a log file which I check most days to ensure it is still working. For some reason the errors don't go to the log but get sent to root. If I use -q I get no output in the log even. Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Vpopmail and LDAP
Hi, I am thinking of altering one of our machines to authenticate via LDAP through the Vpopmail database. Currently it uses files in /home/vpopmail/domains/virtualdomain, which contains all the data for the passwords. Theoretically, how easy is it to put the data into an LDAP system and keep the two syncronised? We aren't big enough for an SQL database (only with around 120 users). Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Rsync concerns
Hi, I have two Vpopmail servers - one which is a backup of the other at a remote site. I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because the users are collecting mail via POP. I am not too bothered about this, but wonder what other people are doing for simple backups like these?? I run the Rsync each hour. Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Using the Courier-authentication modules with Vpopmail for use on Sqwebmail
Hi all, Has anyone seen an issue where they build Vpopmail fine and add the users: #groupadd -g 89 vchkpw #useradd -g vchkpw -u 89 vpopmail I then build Courier authentication modules using the following commands: ./configure --without-authpam --without-authldap --without-authpwd --without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-authshadow --without-authuserdb --without-authcustom --without-authcram --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --with-mailuser=vpopmail --with-mailgroup=vchkpw make make install make install-configure I then run the .configure script on latest Sqwebmail build thusly: #./configure --prefix=/usr/local/share/sqwebmail --with-cachedir=/var/cache/sqwebmail --enable-imageurl=/images/sqwebmail --enable-imagedir=/srv/www/htdocs/images/sqwebmail --enable-cgibindir=/srv/www/cgi-bin --with-cacheowner=bin --without-authpam --without-authuserdb --without-authpwd --without-authshadow However I get an error about the authentication modules not being loaded. I have started the authdaemon and it seems to start without error. Any suggestions/clues? Vpopmail is working fine, but I posted here as per the comments in the configure script of the courier-authentication package. Thanks. Andrew. ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[vchkpw] Re: Using the Courier-authentication modules with Vpopmail for use on Sqwebmail
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:29:15 +0100, Andrew Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Has anyone seen an issue where they build Vpopmail fine and add the users: #groupadd -g 89 vchkpw #useradd -g vchkpw -u 89 vpopmail I then build Courier authentication modules using the following commands: ./configure --without-authpam --without-authldap --without-authpwd --without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-authshadow --without-authuserdb --without-authcustom --without-authcram --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --with-mailuser=vpopmail --with-mailgroup=vchkpw make make install make install-configure I have subsequently found the authtest program which works as expected - so the module is working as expected. This is in /usr/local/sbin. This is on a SLES9 box btw. Thanks. Andrew.
[vchkpw] Re: Vpopmail aliases - messages getting stuck in Qmail
Tom Collins tom at tomlogic.com writes: 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). Now I am back in work I don't even know if this is a Vpopmail problem. I ahve been logging the state at which this occurs and have found that the ID of the message is always 250676 in the queue, so the command find /var/qmail/queue - name 250676 will always give the stuck message. Furthermore if you write to the alias again after removing the message from the queue, it will subsequently be given the same ID and will stick again. Any ideas? Thanks. Andrew.
[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.
