On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> With a release coming up, I'm now open to suggestions for additions to the
> Courier FAQ. Anything goes, if you think that it would be helpful.
I was looking at this 5 minutes ago, so I thought I'd send in two
or three that I sent to the list months ago, but which don't seem to be on
the website.
> There's only one condition: your suggestion should be in a useable Q & A
> format, rather than “Hey, I'm tired of all the questions about X & Y”.
>
> Don't worry if you don't know HTML. As long as the text is readable, and is
> in the typical FAQ format, I can handle adding the HTML code myself.
Ok, I've listed the FAQs here, and below I've included the
original e-mails they came from.
New questions:
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Q. How do I find out about X?
A.
i) Read the FAQ and the manuals, both on the website
(www.courier-mta.org), and the man pages included in the
distribution.
Here's a cool trick for those of you who installed the courier
RPM. Enter these commands into the bash shell.
------------
for i in `rpm -ql courier | grep man`; do
echo $i ; cat $i | gunzip | nroff -man | grep BOFH
done
------------
Just replace BOFH with whatever you need to know about.
ii) Ask your question on courier-users (see information in Question
2), *after* having read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
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A few suggested modifications:
1. Consider putting the "How do I find out about X" (followed by
"Asking for help on courier-users")
2. *If it's easy*, it'd be cool to have the FAQ numbered in sections,
eg.
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1 General, community, and informational questions
a How do I find out about X?
b Asking for help on the courier-users mailing list
2 Installation questions
a General questions
i The configure script is stuck in an infinite loop
ii Configuration script reports the following error, and
stops: "Cannot find either the gdbm or the db
library, or it fails in the gdbmobj or bdbobj
subdirectory."
iii Problems compiling/linking with vpopmail
b Platform-specific questions
i Compilation fails on Solaris in the waitlib
subdirectory
ii Compiling Courier-IMAP on OS/X
iii make install-strip or make check fails
iv gmake check fails on Compaq Tru64 UNIX
v I don't know how to build the RPM packages as
non-root
3 Configuration questions
a What's the deal with authentication modules? Why can't I
get OpenLDAP/MySQL/Vpopmail/PAM/whatever working?
4. courier-mta questions
a Why am I seeing <behaviour>
i Courier delivers ESMTP mail with a strange error
message
ii Server is not accepting any mail, returns a 450
Service unavailable error every time.
iii Courier keeps restarting every minute, and there
are weird syslog messages about "unsafe" hard
links
b How do I do <feature>
i How do I enable relaying for an IP address range?
ii How do I implement virtual domain hosting?
iii Using virtual domains
iv How to configure Courier to be a backup MX for a
domain
c Performance questions
i Why are my e-mails taking so long to send?
5. courier-imap questions
a Why am I seeing <behaviour>
i My IMAP client doesn't work
ii Can't create IMAP folders, only subfolders of INBOX
iii Can't login via IMAP
6. courier-pop3 questions
a Why am I seeing <behaviour>
i Can't login via POP3
b How do I do <feature>
ii The POP3 server doesn't run at bootup
7. sqwebmail questions
a How do I do <feature>
How do I create new system accounts via the webmail
server?
8. Miscellaneous
a Using fetchmail
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3. Virtual domains (quote from an older e-mail):
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Towards the end of the section on Sendmail-style virtual domains,
you might want to add the following:
--------------
To do something along the lines of the sendmail hosting
@domain.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You will need to set the alias to:
@domain.com: user
And then set up a /home/user/.courier-default file containing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Virtual domain-wide aliasing with MySQL requires an
extra "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" table entry.
--------------
Also, might it not be useful to put the two questions on virtual
hosting together? I only noticed the second one now, and would have
assumed that I had Read The Fine Manual without noticing the second if I
had had a question.
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4. Please include Gordon Messmer's recent e-mail on diagnosing
performance problems -- it was great!
5. Have you considered using something else (eg. latex/latex2html)
for the FAQ and then converting it across? That way, it would
automatically produce the table of contents for you (or an online
FAQ system :) ).
E-mail one:
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:14:02 +1000 (EST)
From: Systems Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] More FAQs
Hi. I don't know who the FAQ maintainer is (Sam? someone else?),
but I have a couple more entries for the FAQ.
Thanks to Mr. Sam for this one. I think it belongs in the ESMTP
section, but feel free to correct me.
--------------
Q. Why are my e-mails taking so long to send?
If the delay is mostly in the initial connection, check for:
- A dead DNS server listed in /etc/resolv.conf
- That reverse DNS works on the connecting IP addresses
- A misbehaving firewall that's dropping identd packets
Should you decide that you want to turn off the reverse DNS or identd
checks, using the following in the esmtpd configuration file:
TCPDOPTS="-nodnslookup -noidentlookup"
--------------
Towards the end of the section on Sendmail-style virtual domains,
you might want to add the following:
--------------
To do something along the lines of the sendmail hosting
@domain.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You will need to set the alias to:
@domain.com: user
And then set up a /home/user/.courier-default file containing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------
Also, might it not be useful to put the two questions on virtual
hosting together? I only noticed the second one now, and would have
assumed that I had Read The Fine Manual without noticing the second if I
had had a question.
Thanks all,
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E-mail two:
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:25:16 +1000
From: Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [courier-users] More FAQs
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:14 pm, Systems Administrator wrote:
> Towards the end of the section on Sendmail-style virtual domains,
> you might want to add the following:
> --------------
> To do something along the lines of the sendmail hosting
> @domain.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> You will need to set the alias in userdb(?) to:
> @domain.com: user
Virtual domain-wide aliasing with MySQL requires an
extra "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" table entry.
LDAP ?
> And then set up a /home/user/.courier-default file containing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wish someone would set an officially sanctioned Wiki.
--markc
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Email 3:
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:48:00 +1000 (EST)
From: Systems Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jean-Rene Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] FAQ about finding help (was Re: Weird behavior
with IMAP in Outlook XP)
On 3 Jul 2003, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:51, Steve Shockley wrote:
> > Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > > I know this might be a bit off-topic but I have some problems with
> > > Outlook XP and I was wondering is somebody already had the same
> > > problems. There's a few people that get messages with weird headers,
> > > like the recipient name is listed like 10 times in the To: field but
> > > when you look at the message source it seems fine and it's the same
> > > thing when I just edit the file in the user's Maildir. Anybody had
> > > this happened to them already? What did you do to correct this?
> >
> > Do you have BOFHBADMIME turned on?
> >
>
> BOFHBADMIME?
Here's a cool trick for those of you who installed the courier
RPM.
------------
for i in `rpm -ql courier | grep man`; do
echo $i ; cat $i | gunzip | nroff -man | grep BOFH
done
------------
Just replace BOFH with whatever you need to know about. Maybe
that could be a FAQ tip too :).
Anyway, in this case, it indicates that you should be looking at
"man courier".
:)
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--
Tim Nelson
Systems Administrator
Sunet Internet
Tel:+61 3 5241 1155
Fax: +61 3 5241 6187
Web: http://www.sunet.com.au/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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