of give me idea on how I can troubleshoot
further? Any help appriciated, Let me know if more data is needed
Thank you in advance.
Nick
/not responding
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 19:58, Nick wrote:
Hey all, out of nowhere vchkpw stopped responding
on port 110. I'm running it on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I think
another Admin on the system might have broke something..
Either way, I start vchkpw under tcpserver with :
#!/bin/sh
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-Original Message-
From: Charles M. Gerungan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:48 AM
To: Anuradha Kalyan on the vchkpw list
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Authentication
Hello Anuradha,
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:21:28 -0700 UTC, Anuradha Kalyan wrote:
AK where do
Hi
i successfully aplied chkuser to curent vpopmail qmail,
i put the 'maxwrongrcpt' limit to just 2 attempts.
i noticed in the logs sometimes spamserver stubbornly keep trying to
send, and chkuser keep denying it.
CHKUSER rejected intrusion: from closeness...@legendpartys.com::
remote
I see now
Thanks for the explanation ! :D
On 6/12/2010 3:56 PM, Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
Hi Nick,
actually, chkuser can do just that, for a well tought (I hope) reason:
when an intruder tries your addresses, it is important to deny
informations to him; if we drop connection, he
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21
Am I doing this right? How can I test tcpserver to see if its reading
the sql db?
Thanks
Nick
So is there anyway to monitor traffic on customers email virtualhosts?
So i can keep track of the bandwidth their domain is using through
qmail?
//did_0+0+1/
@40003d930cb92eb227ac status: local 1/10 remote 4/100
@40003d930cb92eb22f7c end msg 1443955
So I check the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox, and it isn't there. Any ideas?
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Is there a way to extract cleartext passwords from vpasswd files?
I'm moving virtual domains from an older server (vpopmail) to a newer
one (vpopmail+mysql). Whats the best way to do this, without having to
have customers reset all of their passwords?
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Eonet
that is designed to convert from one
authentication method to antother (e.g. cdb to mysql).
http://inter7.com/vpopmail/doc/vconvert.html
-Clayton
-Original Message-
From: Nick Lomonte [mailto:nick;eonet.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [vchkpw
the new one as /home.
Does anyone see a problem with this? Is there something I'm overlooking
that would cause this to not work?
Thanks
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Eonet
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409.833.1700
/vpopmail/domains/3/domain.com/A/user
Is this no longer a feature?
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Eonet
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On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 14:34, Cory Wright wrote:
|spamc | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /var/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/
This works good, is there a way to do this in a .qmail file in the
user's home dir?
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~vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/.qmail
Is this what you are asking?
Yes ;)
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Title: customizing quota messages
I'm new to the list, however I've searched the archives and couldn't find an answer to this, nor could I find it in the docs, so I think I'm not duplicating a previous question.
I run a site where I have users in a dozen or so domains, and need to customize
local delivery path?
Thanks,
Nick
-Original Message-
From: Michael Bowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] customizing quota messages
vpopmail supports custom quota warning messages already.
It does the following
. VIC. 3218
Tel (03) 5229 7643
Fax (03) 5229 0282
Mobile 0419 242 136
http://www.pipeline.com.au/
-Original Message-
From: Nick Harring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 7:49 AM
To: 'Michael Bowe'; [EMAIL PROTECTED
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!
We currently run our hosted systems requiring reverse DNS and haven't really had any complaints about mail not being received. While there's no rule requiring reverse DNS, systems without it are much more likely to be spam
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!
As the only other person on this apparently doing this, I thought I'd just weigh in briefly (again) with regards to why we do it. For those folks who're worried about the sanctity of my users email, don't be. My users understand
om Collins
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:28
AMTo: vpopmail listSubject: Re: [vchkpw] Strange
problem?
On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Nick Harring wrote:
Is there a way around this limitation by modifying permissions
on the affected files in /var/qma
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Strange problem?
Is there a way around this limitation by modifying permissions on the affected files in /var/qmail/control and /var/qmail/users? The setup I run doesn't allow root access to the vpopmail/domains directory, and so I'd like to be able to add domains as
I personally would love to see the MySQL data moved out of the library and
into a config file. The thought of recompiling vpopmail if/when my database
info changes is disconcerting. Configuration data belongs in configuration
files, not shared libraries.
The only concern of course is that apps
Rudi-
If the servers are not geographically separated, then you can do this
fairly easily by simply placing them behind some sort of
load-balancing/fail-over device (Foundry, Cisco Local Director, Linux
LVS director) and either load balance them or do active/passive
failover.
For the vpopmail
than acceptable (its a pretty darn fast cluster
imho). The master read/write mysql database is running on a semi-ancient
Sun E250, however there's not a lot of writing going on as I turned off
mysql logging in vpopmail.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Rodrigo Pinheiro wrote:
Hi,
I've a domain
Michael -
I'd be happy to. I've copied the list since someone else may find the
additional detail useful.
Michael Bellears wrote:
Hi Nick,
What I do is run a local read-only copy of the
mysql database on each of my qmail servers, which are
replicated off of
a master read
that helps,
Nick Harring
System Administrator
Webley Systems, Inc.
Doug Clements wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:31:39PM -0500, Nick Harring wrote:
I'm about to tackle this same problem myself, since I'm about to ditch a
pair of Solaris boxes for my NFS mounted mail spools and instead move to
filers. My plan is to instead use Linux HA to have
to settle all of this with what he
has to say.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
with that, it'd probably
behoove him to let us know why he waited, and where he'd see things
going from now, Nick Harring.
i. Inter7 has been in rapid development of several free and open
source development projects including the rapid demand for commercial
support since the downturn in the economy has
as.
2525 is a good idea though, since the mnemonic is pretty strong.
Cheers,
Nick
a correlation.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Tim Hasson wrote:
This is a followup for the problem discussed last week.
Is there anyone even running maildir on nfs with maildir++ quotas enabled??
- Forwarded message from Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:55:26 -0400
an alias for x.com.
If y.com exists and x.com doesn't, x.com becomes an alias for y.com.
If neither or both exist, vaddaliasdomain exits with an error.
That wasn't so hard now was it?
Cheers,
Nick Harring
work around it.
I happen to not care about the order of the arguments, however I do very
much care that the documentation stay accurate for any future versions
of vpopmail.
Cheers,
Nick
verbosity of qmail-smtpd when auth'ing because I had some similar
problems that I had a devil of a time tracking down.
HtH,
Nick Harring
David Benson wrote:
Eric, thanks for the suggestion, but that was not the solution... I will be
reviewing the site you recommended to see if I can find a clue
Wrong, and sometimes also wrong. There may be very legitimate reasons,
technical or political, for not allowing scripts to execute shell
commands on a mail system. There may be integration reasons why only DB
queries can be performed, instead of invoking a cgi or doing an ssh and
executing a scri
o do
perl -e 'print crypt("password", "$1$salt");' The same rules apply to
the string being used as a salt.
For more info see the MySQL manual available at www.mysql.com, or for
the perl function see perldoc -f crypt.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
Oliver Etzel - G
the base64
encoded [EMAIL PROTECTED], then it'll send back a base64 encoded
string that says Password:, to which you reply with the base64 encoded
password. Simply reading the smtp auth spec would tell you how each auth
method is expected to work.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
-logging=v this will set verbose with errors logging.
if i try to auth with evolution i get the password dialog again and
again without any error messages in smtp/log/main/current
so i try to debug my problem
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
vchkpw allow for MD5 auth logins?
X
Recent versions of vpopmail support md5 auth. I think I've actually
tested it and it worked as well.
Hope that Helps
Nick Harring
, and I'm working up a patch to do the
first bit, though I know zero about configure/autoconf and thus can't
help there. I'll submit via sourceforge once I get it working and non-ugly.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
Paul L. Allen wrote:
I'm going to try to answer both you and Tom at the same time. One of
the few times I didn't bother checking mail at least once after finishing
on Friday night and I have over 300 waiting for me on Monday morning.
Nick Harring writes:
Better than what you have
Nick Harring wrote:
This is the Right Thing imho. It might be easier though to move the
srandom()/random() and new reads from /dev/urandom into a function of
its own, rather than replacing them whereever they're sprinkled
through the code. I realize that's even more work, but its probably
/vpopmail/courier/sqwebmail/squirrelmail/etc list just for
new version announcements so that anything related to the cluster of
packages that many of use some group of would have one place to be
announced at.
--
Nick
Tom Collins wrote:
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 05:40 AM, Nick Harring wrote:
Actually, this is already a right place to put this, which is in
randltr. Oddly that's what's used for generating the salt, but not
what's used for generating the password. Instead the password just
uses
ng to send a mail before i have logged in via pop3.
hanez
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
see a need for this. It would only add more
confusion. Unless its a compile time configurable argument, in which
case it would be okay.
X
Notice the --enable-feature part of the description of the patch? By
default this would suck, as an option its perfect.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
.
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
ins
EXACTLY the same on the new box.
You'll also want to dump the dir_control table entry for this domain so
that vadduser and whatnot create people in the right place.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
). You can build an LVS load
balanced cluster with pretty low end hardware that'll keep up with full
100Mbs line speed.
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
might give.
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Winshop Internet Pty Ltd
http://www.winshop.com.au
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I was thinking a way to migrate my old database, which doesnt use
pw_clear_passwd, to a new vpopmail configuration, which does, so i can
use vqadmin.
Any sugestion will be appreciated
thanks in advance,
Filipe
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Winshop Internet Pty Ltd
http
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:18, Doug Clements wrote:
Ken Jones wrote:
I was wondering where the best place to put a
domain wide enable/disable flag for spamassassin would be.
What do you folks think?
The idea would be to have a file checked by vdelivermail.
If spam assassin is enabled,
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:26, Jeff Koch wrote:
We're setting up a smart-host mail router to just handle qmail scanning.
The mail will then go to the appropriate mailserver where spam filtering
will be done and the mail dropped into vpopmail accounts.
We get about 50-60K spam emails per day
When trying to use sqwebmail's change password feature, it always
reports:
ERROR: Unable to change password. Possible reasons why you cannot change
the password are:
* You did not enter the old password correctly
* You did not enter the new password twice correctly
* Your new
Ok, it looks like this functionality in sqwebmail 3.6.2 is broken. (is
anyone else able to change passwords in 3.6.2?)
I installed 3.6.0 with the same configure options and it works fine.
I'd post this message on the sqwebmail list, but it'll just be ignored
like the rest of my messages.
Same results with the new version, still won't change the passwords.
Also, I upgraded to 5.4.0 release of vpopmail.
I saw a message on the sqwebmail mailing list over the weekend.
Mr Sam posted a new version that fixed changing passwords.
Ken Jones
of their routines on several architectures. I
know SHA1 is implemented by OpenSSL, just not how fast it is.
Charles
I need it because iplanet only store sha1 hashes password, and crypt on
way can't to convert..
anybody help me ??
regards
Rodrigo Pinheiro
Nick Harring
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:24, Tom Collins wrote:
On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:37 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
First, for Tom, what are you recommending for a good devel version?
5.3.30 seems to have some lingering bugs (looking at subsequent 5.4.x
release notes).
I recommend the final 5.4.0
that can access MySQL, which is
virtually everything these days, can get in and access/manipulate that
data.
Regrads,
Eduardo M. Bragatto.
Hope that helps,
Nick
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dynamically linked? The bulk of the bloat comes from compiling in all of
that functionality.
-Jeremy
Cheers,
Nick
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Webley Systems, Inc.
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:25, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:01, Nick Harring wrote:
except for the segfaults adding domains and users when using mysql
replication along with it :)
Which segfaults would those be? I use mysql replication and add users
all the time without
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:13, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:07, Nick Harring wrote:
Well, I'll not flame, but I will correct. Stripping removes debugging
symbols only which only get loaded, iirc, when you load the binary in a
debugger like gdb.
Thanks, I'll have
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:45, Tom Collins wrote:
On Feb 16, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Nick Harring wrote:
In most setups, i.e. less than 1k users, I'd probably agree. For larger
sites though I'd be interested in trying to benchmark, maybe with
something like oProfile?, how much of a difference
then aclocal
then automake.
Please let me know if people have issues with it, however I'm not the
worlds greatest autoconf/automake person, so its very possible I won't
be able to help.
Hope folks enjoy it,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
to eliminate outside influences. The vpopmail binary tested was
vdelivermail, as everyone I think would agree its the most frequently
executed binary on a busy system.
The test run was a loop of 10K vdelivermails to the same account by
doing:
export EXT=nick
export HOME=qa.webley
time for((i=0;i1;i
and counsel.
Jeff Koch
Also, if anybody here also uses big brother to monitor their servers,
I've got a perl extension I wrote for monitoring mysql replication that
works for MySQL 4.x (monitors both the IO thread and the sql thread).
Hope that helps,
Nick
easily...
Thanks,
Charles
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
,
Nick
think this'd be a show us the code request. There are quite a few
ways to use spamassassin where its not a ridiculous memory hog
(spamc/spamd for one).
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
.
I definitely recommend this functionality be made optional, hard to
turn on, and as unadvertised as possible. Those few people who know
they'd benefit and not suffer can then find it, and those people who
think they'd benefit but wouldn't realize the consequences wouldn't
clobber their users.
Nick
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Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 11:38, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
I've checked the archives, but searching on archive or log is
fruitless.
Generic qmail offers a way to archive all emails to a specific user
via a
fix to the extra.h file prior to compiling
and I have
both setup, is absolutely the best for a setup like yours.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
, it clearly isn't
supposed to do that (as it would take forever for the server to get
anything done).
Is this a known issue? Possibly my compile-time options for vpopmail?
Did I do something wrong, or is this a bug? Any comments/suggestions are
welcome.
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Terraworld, Inc
http
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 19:20, Tom Collins wrote:
On Jun 29, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
I will try this, but could you elaborate on why that is/would cause
this? Is this 'by design' for a setup with domain limits turned on?
It's a poor design that requires vdelivermail to traverse
had zero hiccups since deploying in production, and the performance
absolutely clobbers the previous Solaris/SCSI based solution I was
using.
I've got about a dozen domains, 85K mailboxes and about 600K
messages/day that's only putting about 20% load on my netapps.
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
.
-Jeremy
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Technologies, Inc.
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int'l
kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
Hope that helps,
Nick
5.4.x. I have tried adding -I/usr/local/vpopmail/include to
conf-cc even though qmail-smtpd.c includes vpopmail.h, vpopmail_config.h
and vauth.h (with full paths).
Any suggestions?
-nick
Jeremy Kister wrote:
after patching, did you modify the Makefile, as well ?
edit the Makefile, look for qmail-smtpd:, and after `cat socket.lib`, add
/home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a
(adjusting for you're vpopmail's home, of course)
you'll also need to look for qmail-smtpd.o:, and add
(perldoc -f getpw) since they've
ported perl to virtually every *nix on earth and have dealt with all of
these shifting standard things.
Thanks.
-Jeremy
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Hope that helps,
Nick
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.qmail-default, also if a user gets a custom .qmail
file, they don't get spam-scanned.
Basically, I'd just like to know where this is stored at and how to
adjust it if it's not just a simple file. Thanks in advance.
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http://home.terraworld.net | 888-332-1616
that. It is also not creating
the prefrences entry if it doesn't exist, which I belive it should.
Again, any assistance is greatly appreciated.
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:30, Nick Bright wrote:
Greetings,
I'm using vpopmail 5.4.5 on WhiteBox EL 3.0, and I'm trying to set up
per-user prefrences
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:37, Nicholas Harring wrote:
Nick Bright wrote:
and my .qmail-default file contains:
| /usr/bin/spamc -U /var/run/spamd.socket |
/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
As far as I can tell, this should tell spamd to get the username from
throwing away the bulk of
their prior effort and reverting to crap for long periods of time with each new
release.
I solved all of my queue scaling problems by simply buying NetApp filers. WAFL just
kicks the ass of everything else out there.
Just my own 2 cents.
Nick
was that it stored the output of the crypt()
function, so whatever your system crypt() does by default is what gets used.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Tom Collins wrote:
Try renaming the assign and cdb files, make a copy of the renamed
assign file as 'assign' and set the correct
ownership/permissions on it, and then try adding the domain.
I renamed the assign and cdb files, copied them back to their original
names, set
Can you try running strace and paste the output? That error could be
coming from several different places within
update_file().
Thanks for the reply Nick. Below is the strace of running the
vadddomain
command.
execve(/home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain,
[/home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain
overhead of launching procmail and having to generate
procmailrc files.
Thanks,
Nick Harring
Sr System Administrator
Webley Systems
binaries).
I'm merely asking that the ability to have a message checked be
decoupled from the ability to have it delivered into a SPAM folder, so
that we can pick and choose the features we need.
Nick
How about making it an environment variable that could be set via
tcpserver?
I don't think that would work, since the environment variables only
flow through to qmail-smtpd. I don't think there's a way for the
variables to flow through to qmail-local.
Correct, they cannot propagate
one pass and applying it
globally.
Or am I not aware of something in simscan that makes the above not
feasible?
Nick Harring
Parus Interactive
. They setup custom settings with the
understanding those settings would be used.
Nick Harring
Sr. System Administrator
Parus Interactive
submitted a simscan patch
which implemented the functionality I'm talking about, to show it can be
done (or to learn it can't) rather than discussing how it could?
Nick Harring
Sr. System Administrator
Parus Interactive
RHEL4 AS on Intel Xeons, following configure statement and compile error:
./configure --prefix=/var/vpopmail --enable-auth-module=mysql
--enable-qmail-ext=y --enable-sql-logging=n --enable-incdir=/usr/include
--enable-clear-passwd=y --enable-file-locking=y --enable-libs=/usr/lib/
The other odd thing is that vqadmin and qmailadmin still seem to be
using the mysql database after recompiling vpopmail for use with
postgres.
You need to recompile them both, as they are statically linked to the
vpopmail libraries from your previous version.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
is stored in the vpgsql.h file?
Have you checked for a /path/to/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.pgsql file? MySQL used to
be controlled out of vmysql.h but moved to vpopmail.mysql. Not sure if pgsql
did the same.
Hope that helps,
Nick
) MAX_PW_NAME).
Is this intentional, and if so then why is the mysql column
defined the way it is?
Cheers,
Nick
Nicholas Harring
Ph/Fax/VM 877-609-4795
Sr. System Administrator
Parus Interactive
Nevermind, just noticed this is fixed in
5.4.7.
Nick
From: Nick Harring
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 3:51
PM
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Subject: [vchkpw] Max username
length
In vpopmail.h MAX_PW_NAME is defined as 32, and the mysql
column
this is:
CFLAGS=-fPIC ./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-logging=p
--enable-qmaildir=/var/qmail
CFLAGS is an environment variable, not an argument to configure.
Hope that helps,
Nick
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