[vchkpw] authdaemond and MySQL server has gone away

2005-06-22 Thread Billy Newsom
I have been having a strange issue with authdaemond ever since it split into a seperate auth port. I am running FreeBSD 5.4, net-qmail, vpopmail, Courier-IMAP, and using a mysql backend to vpopmail. The only authentication package I use or need is the vchkpw. Most or all of these are pretty

[vchkpw] authdaemond memory leak?

2005-06-22 Thread Billy Newsom
I just looked at how many times per day authdaemond logs this: received auth request it is around 6000 to 7000 times per day. That's about one every 12 seconds or so. Not a heavy use. In fact, I may have one bad auth per day, so all of those are successful. But I have noticed that the

Re: [vchkpw] authdaemond memory leak?

2005-06-26 Thread Billy Newsom
Billy Newsom wrote: I just looked at how many times per day authdaemond logs this: received auth request it is around 6000 to 7000 times per day. That's about one every 12 seconds or so. Not a heavy use. In fact, I may have one bad auth per day, so all of those are successful. But I have

Re: [vchkpw] authdaemond memory leak?

2005-06-28 Thread Billy Newsom
Jan-Willem Regeer wrote: Look and see if you have the time to check with valgrind if you can find the error. It is in the ports tree, and looks for memory leakage by programs. Hope you find what the problem is. Note: I am not using authdaemond myself. Jan-Willem Regeer I tried

Re: [vchkpw] Re: block non-relay from remote to local?

2005-07-02 Thread Billy Newsom
Peter Palmreuther wrote: YMMD, but 'fopen()', a fast, hash-driven, seek (the way 'cdb' works) and a quick 'read' for a few bytes should be less overhead than a complete SQL query, including parsing the result. Even if your MySQL would run locally and accessed through UNIX-socket I'd expect it

Re: [vchkpw] Re: block non-relay from remote to local?

2005-07-02 Thread Billy Newsom
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: At 09:32 AM 7/2/2005, you wrote: there is no 'internal' port 25 traffic. My service provides email service for businesses. I'm not an ISP. all traffic to my servers is inbound from the global internet. I guess I was looking at your customer as having an SMTP relay

Re: [vchkpw] Re: block non-relay from remote to local?

2005-07-03 Thread Billy Newsom
Peter Palmreuther wrote: Hello Billy, On Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 6:32:47 PM Billy wrote: N.B.: Number of authentication should not play a role in accessing your cdb-file, if you're configured vpopmail to only use MySQL the cdb will be as static as your kernel: unless *you* change it, it

Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?

2005-07-05 Thread Billy Newsom
Bruno Negrão wrote: Hi everybody, Thank you very much for the info. Let me tell more info about us. We already use Qmail in our 6 mailservers for 4 years. I installed all of them. I even wrote http://www.qmailwiki.org/Simscan/Related_Docs/Simscan_ClamAV_Chkuser_Installation_Guide What

Re: [vchkpw] vacation messages

2005-07-08 Thread Billy Newsom
Andrew Preece wrote: That's actually very good. I'd make a cron job to check the db entries. then every five minutes it would write the dot qmail files based on what the db says. the script should write indevidual dot qmailfiles for each user in their home dirs that way compatability with