[vchkpw] MySQL has gone away error ..

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, To those that remember me, long time no see. Nice to be back. Or more accurately, nice to be paid what I enjoy doing, again. I've installed vchkpw on a fresh RH 7.3 box and I've run into the error in the subject line. I'm using an RPM install of MySQL 4 (server, development, client

Re: [vchkpw] MySQL has gone away error .. UPDATE.

2003-08-17 Thread Steve Fulton
At 01:13 AM 18/08/2003 -0400, you wrote: Scratch this and chuck it into the up-too-late file. It was a typo when I created the MySQL user. D'oh. Wonderful. Now my mistake will be eternal, for posterity, on Google. ;) -- Steve Hi all, To those that remember me, long time no see. Nice to

[vchkpw] MySQL Optimization.

2003-07-09 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, Can anyone recommend some good MySQL optimizations that will not corrupt the vchkpw DB? I'm referring to daily or weekly cleanups, FYI. (Currently I'm using ISAM tables) -- Steve

Re: [vchkpw] courier-IMAP

2003-06-23 Thread Steve Fulton
At 09:04 PM 23/06/2003 +0800, you wrote: Wrong list, check the Courier list. -- Steve Hello All! I'm using OpenBSD. I've turned off the inetd functions in rc.conf I've compiled Courier-IMAP successfully and gmake it to /usr/local/courier-imap When I try to execute the imapd, I get the

Re: [vchkpw] Working towards vpopmail 5.4 stable

2003-06-04 Thread Steve Fulton
Hmm ... the only additional feature I could use, is the ability to set user accounts to expire on a certain date, like system accounts. Look at Freeside, Optigold ISP or Billmax. Each has that ability (and more), the latter two are not free. Yes, they do more than you probably want, but the

[vchkpw] MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, Quick, obvious question: Now that the Powers That Be(tm) have declared MySQL 4.xx production ready, has anyone run into any difficulties with it and Vpopmail? -- Steve

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail 5.3.19

2003-03-07 Thread Steve Fulton
At 13:03 07/03/2003 -0500, you wrote: SF Define user expiry for me, I'm curious as to what you mean. I will, if you post to the list. I had assumed you had, but I had missed it. I'm not be confrontational, I'm simply curious if you're referring to a system where I clients e-mail account or

Re: [vchkpw] NOOB: POP3 auth problems on new FreeBSD install

2003-01-17 Thread Steve Fulton
At 14:39 17/01/2003 -0800, you wrote: What I know: telnet USER/PASS authentication on port 100 with the box works. Port 100? In that case you are not using the standard POP3 port, 110. I suggest you correct this. However, if you can authenticate at that port, using telnet with a valid

Re: [vchkpw] [slightly OT] mail vs web virtual hosting

2003-01-04 Thread Steve Fulton
At 09:32 04/01/2003 -0500, you wrote: Hi Alan, I have a pressing engagement, so I must be brief. If I miss something, feel free to ask -- I can follow up later. It is possible to have redundant servers, most mid-sized and large ISP's, as well as e-mail providers and corporations do so. It

Re: [vchkpw] Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name

2002-12-20 Thread Steve Fulton
At 16:19 20/12/2002 -0500, Hugo Escobar wrote: Check the Qmail control files (rcpthosts, virtualdomains), as well the assign file in the users/ subdirectory of your Qmail directory. Specifically, look for the domain in question, and make sure it is there. -- Steve Hi list: It's been now

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Log/back up all in/out msgs on a unique virtualdomain

2002-12-10 Thread Steve Fulton
At 09:22 10/12/2002 +0100, Peter Palmreuther wrote: There's no known way to log outgoing mails in a different way, except maybe making use of QMAILQUEUE patch, which is in the above mentioned tar.gz as file 'qmail-1.03-queuevar.patch'. Nevertheless you'll have to patch and re-compile/re-install

Re: [vchkpw] change to mysql support on a running system?

2002-10-19 Thread Steve Fulton
At 18:49 19/10/2002 +0200, Ingmar Heinrich wrote: I would suggest reading the README.mysql document in the Vpopmail source directory. Instructions are there. -- Steve Hi there! I want to change a system to mysql support while running, i.e. a) import all domains and users to the mysql db b)

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail under devel any longer?

2002-10-14 Thread Steve Fulton
At 17:44 14/10/2002 -0700, Brad Dameron wrote: Well, there was a pre-development post of a link to Vpopmail 5.3.9 in September, though I found that rather perplexing for obvious reasons. That said, I to am finding the lack of response disconcerting, though I do know Inter7 has been very busy

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail under devel any longer?

2002-10-14 Thread Steve Fulton
At 22:08 14/10/2002 -0500, David U. wrote: post of a link to Vpopmail 5.3.9 Is anyone actually running it? I tried to but then reverted because of a couple issues. I am, though I'm curious about what problems you've discovered.. I'm happy to setup a public repository on one of my machines

Re: [vchkpw] moving domains between servers

2002-10-10 Thread Steve Fulton
At 13:01 10/10/2002 -0700, Bryce C wrote: Learn shell or perl scripting. You'll be set for life. If that's not possible, I'm sure someone here can be convinced to do it for a reasonable fee. -- Steve Hi, Please forgive me if this has been discussed before. I could not find it in the

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail locking problem on NFS filesystem

2002-10-09 Thread Steve Fulton
At 10:42 09/10/2002 +0200, you wrote Which directories did you mount as NFS? Are you using CDB files or an SQL backend for authentication? -- Steve Hi, I'm trying to share maildir directories with NFS from a backend file server to distribute load on a couple frontend pop/smtp boxes. In my

[vchkpw] RE: Major autorespond problems - SOLVED.

2002-10-05 Thread Steve Fulton
At 17:56 05/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: SIGHUP causes qmail-send to reread locals and virtualdomains. You want to send it SIGALRM, which causes it to reschedule everything in the queue for immediate delivery (i.e. it tries to delivery everything). Actually I use LWQ's qmailctl script, and type

Re: [vchkpw] pop + mysql

2002-09-22 Thread Steve Fulton
At 12:14 22/09/2002 -0400, Hugo Escobar wrote: Yes, this is a common mistake. The answer is in the archives. Think softlimit. -- Steve Hi list: I know this must be covered in the archives. (Sorry!) Any comments about what happened here?: [root@sb01 bin]# telnet localhost 110 Trying

[vchkpw] Trailer / list signature.

2002-09-22 Thread Steve Fulton
As a way of alleviating the constant clutter of questions once-and-future asked, I propose putting a link to the list archives in a list signature. It would be one or two lines extra, but is well worth it. Another potential option is to have the list rules clearly laid out for new

Re: [vchkpw] qmailadmin strange problem

2002-09-20 Thread Steve Fulton
At 21:16 20/09/2002 -0300, Martínlistas wrote: This should be posted to the QmailAdmin list, not the Vpopmail list. Please make an effort to ensure you are posting to the correct list. -- Steve Hi. I have installed qmailadin... was working great, till i changed the server time... afeter

Re: [vchkpw] OOT:cannot find authlib

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 15:42 18/09/2002 +0700, Mantus wrote: This is more appropriate for the Sqwebmail list, ask there. -- Steve Hi list, i try to install sqwebmail on my machine, but it failed because there's no authlib on my system File not found: /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/libexec/authlib # ls

Re: [vchkpw] rcpthosts

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 12:22 18/09/2002 +0200, Till Klampaeckel wrote: This is a question more suited to the Qmail list, try asking there. -- Steve Hey, I have a question regarding rcpthosts. I'm using Qmail with Vpopmail. I put my domain, domain.com in there, also put it into locals. Whenever I try to send an

Re: [vchkpw] qmail-inject Error

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 13:37 18/09/2002 +0200, Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM \(R\) wrote: It appears you have very little idea of how a unix-like OS works. I suggest you start educating yourself regarding the OS you are using. Once you have a clue about what exactly this ENV variable is, then learn about how

Re: [vchkpw] OOT:cannot find authlib [T2002091801XF]

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 11:55 18/09/2002 +, you wrote: I'm still getting these .. perhaps someone has there mail forwarded to the abuse@verizon address. One radical solution may be to force everyone to resubscribe, or at least respond to a keep-alive style message. -- Steve Thank you for bringing this

[vchkpw] Vdelivermail patch.

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Fulton
Busy day for me, I've been patching left right and center. I have patched vdelivermail.c to properly handle the exit codes generated by Autoresponder (by Brad Dameron), used with QmailAdmin. Now, depending on the exit code returned, vdelivermail.c will either deliver it or bounce it. Wait!

[vchkpw] Bogus subscription to list

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi Ken et al, It appears someone signed [EMAIL PROTECTED] up to the list .. I just received an automated response from them regarding a message I posted to the list. -- Steve

[vchkpw] Strange autoresponder messages.

2002-09-04 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, I know this isn't the list for supporting the autoresponder, but since there is no list for supporting the autoresponder, I'll post here. I've received several complaints from one of my clients. There are approximately 50 accounts, some with vacation/autoresponders set up.

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail integrate with windows 2000 active directory

2002-08-27 Thread Steve Fulton
At 20:12 26/08/2002 -0700, Yee Siew Chin wrote: how can i integrate vpopmail to authenticate with windows 2000 active directory? Write your own module. Or Inter7 could do it for a fee. -- Steve

Survey .. how many domains do you host?

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Fulton
The subject says it all, how many domains do you host (or are in your rcpthosts file)? 10? 1000? 100,000? 1,000,000? -- Steve --- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - B. Franklin, 1759

Re: Survey .. how many domains do you host?

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Fulton
and who are you to do such a survey? Down boy! Down! LOL! No need to snap, I'm doing this because a PROGRAM I AM WRITING has VARIABLES that need to be defined to a certain array size, as they will hold FQDN's. In order to make this program universally useful, I would like to know the

Quotas?

2001-10-26 Thread Steve Fulton
Ken Bill, Is it possible to set a default quota for a domain, one that applies to each user? Yes, quotas can be applied to individual users postmaster (when creating the domain), but how about one that applies to any additional users added to that domain? I thought it worked that way, but

Re: Mass mail.

2001-10-26 Thread Steve Fulton
is there a function to send mail all the users in vpopmail? For one domain or for all the domains. has anybody try this before? From the FAQ: 13. How do I post a email to all users of a virtualdomain or a set of domains? use the new vpopbull program: vpopbull -f email_file

Re: silently dropping mail

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Fulton
What's the best way to drop mail to certain accounts (nobody@.com)? Your best bet is to use the vmoduser program (in vpopmail/bin) to bounce the mail. It can be applied to a single user or a whole domain. If you'd prefer to use a web frontend rather than a CLI (or you've got some

Vqadmin 1.18 patch.

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Fulton
Ken et all, I've attached a patch for Vqadmin 1.18 (gzipped, eh Bill? ;) . Now when editing a specific user, admins can enable/disable the following: - Disable Account / POP Access - Disable Web access - Disable IMAP Access - Disable Change Password - Bounce E-mail - Disable

Re: slightly OT - qmail scanner

2001-10-22 Thread Steve Fulton
I've tried the directions below, but I can't seem to get the patch to fly (my patch doesn't understand -c1, it supports -p1 though): I had the same problem, you have to apply the patch against 2.04, not the latest version. -- Steve

Re: No requirement for postmaster to be default administrator.

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Fulton
The best way I can think of (to work across ALL auth modules) is to make a new gid entry (domain_admin). That makes much more sense. In my DB, the gid is set to 0. Is that the case in all installs? If so, then simply putting a non-zero digit would indicate admin status. == Steve

No requirement for postmaster to be default administrator.

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Fulton
I agree, it would be very useful -- we have a client who has several employees they wish to be admins, but would rather have it specifically applied to that user rather than a general account. Looking over the Vpopmail source, I do not think it will be that difficult to incorporate, and update

Vpopmail's TCP.SMTP routines logging.

2001-09-22 Thread Steve Fulton
I recently noticed that when --- If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. -- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859)

MySQL passwords..

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Fulton
I switched on the MySQL clear-text password option, and while I can now see there is a clear text password in the table, there is also an encrypted. So, my question is simple: Which does vpopmail actually read? Is it possible to tell it to read one, but not the other? -- Steve --- If once a

Re: qmail and Hight CPU

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Fulton
there are 2 qmail-send proceses, one supervised and one alone. I did configure the qmail like LWQ, so there are a qmail script in init.d and S*** links in 12345 levels, i also have a qmail-send directory under /service.Is this wrong ?? I've had the same problem, it has to do with vpopmail

Update: POP-3 logon failures..

2001-07-06 Thread Steve Fulton
I was having a problem with logon failures throughout the day using the latest development version of vpopmail, and for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. The accounts were set up, were visible to vpopmail's utilities, but no dice -- always a logon failure. Anyway, I figured it out: I

Users cannot get mail via POP.

2001-07-05 Thread Steve Fulton
I've run into this problem: Users are rejected when attempting to get their mail via POP-3. However, the user accounts are created and they can receive mail just fine (vacation messages work, etc). When the user try to POP in, I get this message in my logs: Jul 5 20:04:07 postoffice

Feature suggestion.

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Fulton
First, let me say that I'm really impressed by the recent developments of the vpopmail package - its helped me sell qmail/vpopmail to management. Good work guys! For my suggestion: This came up during one of the many meetings I had getting vpopmail running at the ISP I work for.. Would it be

Re: Feature suggestion.

2001-07-03 Thread Steve Fulton
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bill Shupp wrote: This is already in the package. See vaddaliasdomain -h homer D'OH! /homer Thanks! -- Steve

Re: Build Failure: vpopmail-4.10.26, OpenBSD 2.8

2001-07-01 Thread Steve Fulton
I have the same build error message as below, running Linux 2.4.4, so it doesn't appear to be platform specific. -- Steve - Original Message - From: Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vpopmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: Build Failure:

Re: Temporary Deactivation of Accounts

2001-01-19 Thread Steve Fulton
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Joe Modjeski wrote: I was thinking of hacking a patch for this if there are no plans. Is there any other interest in a patch like this on the list? I second that motion .. That would be very useful for my clients as well. Steve.

Spanning vpopmail across multiple servers

2001-01-16 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi, I would like to use vpopmail spanned across multiple, back-end servers, using LDAP for authentication. A main POP server will be the front-end server and send the requests to the back-end servers. I know this is possible using qmail-ldap. Is that possible? Also, I would like to use