First, thanks, Sam, for pointing out the error in my configuration file. While it didn't solve my entire problem, it gave me enough of a leg up that, as of this moment, I am watching the queue from my old mail server to my brand-spanking new courier 0.42.2 server slowly dwindle. Let's just say that I spent a good deal of my workday today going though the archives of this list: every issue I ran into was covered. Whether or not the articles covered my specific issue, well not always, but they worked well enough to get me on the road of righteousness.
And to give back a little to the community, especially those Debian users who are on 3x because of apt. Step-by-step, updating APT to allow you to get courier 42.2: 1) your APT cache needs to be increased to handle the unstable tree. Goto /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. Add the line APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; To the end of the file therein titled 70debconf. This increases the size of the APT cache so you don't get hung up trying to read the APT files for unstable. 2) Add unstable sources to your APT-SOURCES files. This will allow APT to deal with data from the unstable tree. Do a cd .. From the above, into /etc/apt. Find the file sources.list. Add the following two lines to it: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free 3) Run apt-get update. This will pull down files from the above two sources, and add them to your APT lists. If you don't do this, you're SOL. 4) Time to get to business. You _have_ backedup your machine right? Good, then let's get to it... Run the following: Apt-get install courier{-base,-authdaemon,etc}/unstable Inside the curly braces, put the extensions of all of the packages you are using. If you're not sure, type 'apt-cache search courier' and it will show you a list of the courier packages in APT, along with others that reference it. Now, this will install the 42.2 packages, along with the support libraries. It will ask you some questions regarding files, and if you want to keep yours or use the ones that the maintainer supplies (you _did_ back up your system, right?). I let it overwrite mine. It took me a couple minutes to reset the various tweaks I'd made, but you have the backups to let you know what those were. :) 5) now, after all that is said and done, you (hopefully) have a system that is just about to run like a champ. For me, I had to rerun all of my make scripts (makehosteddomains, makesmtpaccess, etc.), and force kill the couriertcpd. But now, voila! To all of you with vastly more Linux knowledge than me, please do add whatever clarification you deem necessary to this; I am the guy who, until a few hours ago, was running a Winbloze mail server. :) Kindest regards, Matthew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Fwd: NOTICE: mail delivery status. --On Montag, 3. November 2003 11:00 +0100 Robert Penz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on this list now for > 1,5 years and I did a full text search for > "Invalid confirmation" and didn't get one single hit. > > I also entered: "Invalid confirmation" courier into google and got no > hit. There where some posts, this note could refer to your problem: 2002-07-24 Mr. Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * courier/cmlmbounce.C: Ignore case of bounce tokens. >> archive - back when courier 0.37 was used. >> But you better spend the time with the long overdue upgrade. > thats not that easy .. 0.37 is still the version thats shipped with > debian 3.0 (woody) and I like to stay with the debian packages Your choice, but apt easy allows to use unstable for individual packages, and Debian would be rather unusable if not ;) <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/courier-base.html> > anyway I moved from a woody to a woody .. so no change in the version > of courier, on the first server it worked on the second not. Apt to 0.42.2, and this also fixes many bugs you dont want to know about. Roland ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
