Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull Problem
Any idea on how I would begin to narrow that down? There are 2000 mail accounts and since I can't get vpopbull to run through all of them I can't get a very good list. Brendan On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: recent/new user with an illegal character in their name or id? "'"?? Brendan McAlpine wrote: Hey all, I am running Vpopbull version 5.3.16, and I am running into the following problem. I am trying to use vpopbull to send a message to all users in a certain domain. This is my command: vpopbull -f filename -V domainname I hit return, and it starts running through all the accounts. However, once it gets to the middle of the accounts that begin with M it just stops like its done, returning me to a command prompt. I know earlier versions of vpopbull had a bug that did this, but I've used this copy to send messages to all my users in the past. Any ideas? TIA Brendan
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull Problem
Brendan McAlpine wrote: Any idea on how I would begin to narrow that down? There are 2000 mail accounts and since I can't get vpopbull to run through all of them I can't get a very good list. man vpopbull: -v Verbose mode. Prints out each email address it is sending to -n Don't actually mail it. Using -v and -n can be used to list out all virtual domain email accounts. Maybe that will help. -- Aj. Systems Administrator / Developer
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull Problem
Problem solved. You were dead on. There were a couple of accounts with symbols in their passwords. Once I got rid of those it ran right through. Weird. Thanks Brendan On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: recent/new user with an illegal character in their name or id? "'"?? Brendan McAlpine wrote: Hey all, I am running Vpopbull version 5.3.16, and I am running into the following problem. I am trying to use vpopbull to send a message to all users in a certain domain. This is my command: vpopbull -f filename -V domainname I hit return, and it starts running through all the accounts. However, once it gets to the middle of the accounts that begin with M it just stops like its done, returning me to a command prompt. I know earlier versions of vpopbull had a bug that did this, but I've used this copy to send messages to all my users in the past. Any ideas? TIA Brendan
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
At 09.21 14/10/2002 -0500, Ken Jones wrote: I think vpopbull uses the vauth_getall() function. This function should return an entry for every user in the system. For cdb it uses the vpasswd.cdb file for mysql it uses the entries in the tables. For each user returned, it will use the directory entry for their Maildir location. If the Maildir doesn't yet exist it won't be able to write the file. vpopbull doesn't automatically create Maildir directories for users that have not had a directory assigned to them. The problem is that the user has a directory assigned to it, because une of the features of vpopmail is the auto dir creation if u add a record in mysql, so I think this vpopmail feature should be implemented into vpopbull too No ? Regards Ken Jones On Monday 14 October 2002 03:28 am, Edoardo Serra wrote: > Hi, > I'm using vpopmail 5.2.1 with mysql authentication, to add a user to a > domain I simply add a record to the DB > and vpopmail will create the user directory as soon as they login or they > receive a message. > > If I use vpopbull to send a mail to every user of the domain, the users who > have never logged in or > nevere received a mail won't receive the vpopbull mail, probably because > the don't have yet their > own Maildir > > Am I right or I have to look for the problem somewhere else ? > > Regards > > Edoardo Serra
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
Feel free to submit a patch for vpopbull. Ken Jones On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:32 am, Edoardo Serra wrote: > At 09.21 14/10/2002 -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > >I think vpopbull uses the vauth_getall() function. > >This function should return an entry for every user > >in the system. For cdb it uses the vpasswd.cdb file > >for mysql it uses the entries in the tables. For each > >user returned, it will use the directory entry for their > >Maildir location. If the Maildir doesn't yet exist it won't > >be able to write the file. vpopbull doesn't automatically > >create Maildir directories for users that have not had > >a directory assigned to them. > > The problem is that the user has a directory assigned to it, because une of > the features of > vpopmail is the auto dir creation if u add a record in mysql, so I think > this vpopmail feature should be > implemented into vpopbull too > > No ? > > Regards > > >Ken Jones > > > >On Monday 14 October 2002 03:28 am, Edoardo Serra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm using vpopmail 5.2.1 with mysql authentication, to add a user to a > > > domain I simply add a record to the DB > > > and vpopmail will create the user directory as soon as they login or > > > they receive a message. > > > > > > If I use vpopbull to send a mail to every user of the domain, the users > > > who have never logged in or > > > nevere received a mail won't receive the vpopbull mail, probably > > > because the don't have yet their > > > own Maildir > > > > > > Am I right or I have to look for the problem somewhere else ? > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Edoardo Serra
RE: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
There were a lot of bug fixes made to the vpopbull program in the devel version 5.3.6 This was also "backported" to the stable version 5.2.1 You can read more about this at http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ChangeLog So it is my recommendation that you try either the latest "devel" version 5.3.8 or use the latest "stable" version 5.2.1 Hope that helps! Michael. > -Original Message- > From: Brendan McAlpine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 8:46 AM > To: Michael Bowe > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem > > > I think its 5.3.5. > > Is there anyway I can troubleshoot this without sending out test > messages to all my mailboxes? > > I would prefer to work behind the scenes until it is fixed so that my > users don't get 25 copies of the same test message. > > Brendan > On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: > > > What version of vpopmail do you have installed? > > Michael. > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Brendan McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:40 AM > > Subject: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem > > > > > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I am having a problem using vpopbull on my server. > Basically, vpopbull > >> starts firing off emails to everyone of the users in my > domain, but > >> then > >> after a couple hundred it just stops. There are about > 6000 mailboxes > >> within this domain. > >> > >> I'm not sure even where to start looking. > >> > >> TIA > >> > >> > >> Brendan > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
What version of vpopmail do you have installed? Michael. - Original Message - From: "Brendan McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:40 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem > Hey all, > > I am having a problem using vpopbull on my server. Basically, vpopbull > starts firing off emails to everyone of the users in my domain, but then > after a couple hundred it just stops. There are about 6000 mailboxes > within this domain. > > I'm not sure even where to start looking. > > TIA > > > Brendan > > >
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
Hmm.. I wonder if it's not closing file descriptors. On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:40 am, Brendan McAlpine wrote: > Hey all, > > I am having a problem using vpopbull on my server. Basically, vpopbull > starts firing off emails to everyone of the users in my domain, but then > after a couple hundred it just stops. There are about 6000 mailboxes > within this domain. > > I'm not sure even where to start looking. > > TIA > > > Brendan
Re: [vchkpw] Vpopbull problem
I think vpopbull uses the vauth_getall() function. This function should return an entry for every user in the system. For cdb it uses the vpasswd.cdb file for mysql it uses the entries in the tables. For each user returned, it will use the directory entry for their Maildir location. If the Maildir doesn't yet exist it won't be able to write the file. vpopbull doesn't automatically create Maildir directories for users that have not had a directory assigned to them. Ken Jones On Monday 14 October 2002 03:28 am, Edoardo Serra wrote: > Hi, > I'm using vpopmail 5.2.1 with mysql authentication, to add a user to a > domain I simply add a record to the DB > and vpopmail will create the user directory as soon as they login or they > receive a message. > > If I use vpopbull to send a mail to every user of the domain, the users who > have never logged in or > nevere received a mail won't receive the vpopbull mail, probably because > the don't have yet their > own Maildir > > Am I right or I have to look for the problem somewhere else ? > > Regards > > Edoardo Serra
