mail question
Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mail question
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v Hello again, I guess i have found what i want. Postfix MILTER http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html. So basically i create a filter in C, perl or something, I use it via STMP or non-STMP. That filter makes the necessary changes and afterwards i reinject the mail into postfix. If anybody has the time/chance to verify if I am right please let me know. thanks, v ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mail question
Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and afterward deliver it. I have postfix + dovecot installed. Some suggestions ... thanks, v Hello again, I guess i have found what i want. Postfix MILTER http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html. So basically i create a filter in C, perl or something, I use it via STMP or non-STMP. That filter makes the necessary changes and afterwards i reinject the mail into postfix. If anybody has the time/chance to verify if I am right please let me know. Depending upon your wishes can MimeDefang (http://www.mimedefang.org/) do a lot for you (without you having to code anything). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mail question
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Re: mail question
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:27:07 +0100, adminakos at gmail.com wrote: Hello, how can we have a pop mail with domain FreeBSD.org ? Yes, of course. All it takes is to show some committment to the cause, by consistently helping in one of the following areas: * Improving FreeBSD, by fixing existing flaws, bugs or documentation * Extending FreeBSD, to include new features * Advertizing FreeBSD to the world * Documenting, or explaining FreeBSD Then the team will honor your continued help with a `commit bit', and you get the email for free :) More information about contributing to FreeBSD can be found in our web site, if you are interested to pursue such a goal: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron/send mail question
Dear all, What command (when using cron) should I invoke to automatically sent /var/log/exim/rejectlog file to a specified email address? I just need to analyze it and would best prefer to have it in my inbox in the morning. Thanks a lot in advance! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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zbigniew szalbot wrote: Dear all, What command (when using cron) should I invoke to automatically sent /var/log/exim/rejectlog file to a specified email address? I just need to analyze it and would best prefer to have it in my inbox in the morning. The following should be on one line in crontab : 1 * * * * mail -s File contents [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/steveb/file.name It will send your file to you inline in an email ad one minute after midnight every day. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron/send mail question
existats comes to mind as well. Does the whole analyze thing for you... Quoting Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: zbigniew szalbot wrote: Dear all, What command (when using cron) should I invoke to automatically sent /var/log/exim/rejectlog file to a specified email address? I just need to analyze it and would best prefer to have it in my inbox in the morning. The following should be on one line in crontab : 1 * * * * mail -s File contents [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/steveb/file.name It will send your file to you inline in an email ad one minute after midnight every day. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron/send mail question
On 2007-11-15 13:47, zbigniew szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, What command (when using cron) should I invoke to automatically sent /var/log/exim/rejectlog file to a specified email address? I just need to analyze it and would best prefer to have it in my inbox in the morning. There are several ways. (1) Add a new shell script to `/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily'. (2) Add the commands you want to run in `/etc/daily.local'. (3) Add a cronjob in `/etc/crontab' to run a custom script. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 02:33:23AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
Looks like that's exactly right. Copying the maintainer and suggesting
the no-brain patch, pardon the broken tabs from pasting, against the
head / stable versions (checked) .. I should sendPR I guess .. time!
Cheers, Ian
--- /usr/sbin/rmuserSat Mar 3 16:48:29 2007
+++ /home/smithi/rmuser Fri Oct 5 00:30:51 2007
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
echo -n mailspool
rm ${MAILSPOOL}/$login
fi
- if [ -f ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ]; then
- verbose echo -n ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ||
+ if [ -f ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop ]; then
+ verbose echo -n ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop ||
echo -n pop3
- rm ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
+ rm ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop
fi
verbose echo '.'
}
Thanks! I'll take care of this immediately.
Cheers,
Mike.
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by
rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is
to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a
problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
-ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
I've read this whole thread, and what's strange is that this used to
work. I just checked our old FreeBSD 2.2.6 system where rmuser always
cleaned up /var/mail/.{$user}.pop properly. Its /usr/sbin/rmuser had:
# Remove some pop daemon's leftover file
$file = $mail_dir/.${login_name}.pop;
if (-e $file || -l $file) {
print STDERR Removing pop daemon's temporary mail file ${file}:;
unlink $file ||
print STDERR \n${whoami}: Warning: unlink on $file failed ($!) -
continuing\n;
print STDERR done.\n;
}
So I wonder whether it's a bug - or maybe a later popper update? - that
has the present version of rmuser looking for ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
instead?
Cheers, Ian
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users
by
rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do
is
to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't
a
problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
-ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
I've read this whole thread, and what's strange is that this used to
work. I just checked our old FreeBSD 2.2.6 system where rmuser always
cleaned up /var/mail/.{$user}.pop properly. Its /usr/sbin/rmuser had:
# Remove some pop daemon's leftover file
$file = $mail_dir/.${login_name}.pop;
if (-e $file || -l $file) {
print STDERR Removing pop daemon's temporary mail file ${file}:;
unlink $file ||
print STDERR \n${whoami}: Warning: unlink on $file failed ($!) -
continuing\n;
print STDERR done.\n;
}
So I wonder whether it's a bug - or maybe a later popper update? - that
has the present version of rmuser looking for ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
instead?
As far as I can tell the change was introduced back in 2002 when rmuser was
changed from a Perl program into a shell script - presumably as part of the
process of removing Perl from the base system.
FreeBSD versions 2.2 - 4.11 used the Perl version of rmuser, while all
5.x and 6.x releases have used the shell script version.
I have no idea if the difference - if the file rmuser looks for has a leading
'.' in the filename or not - was deliberate or simply a mistake, but I
suspect the latter: it is the kind of thing that is very easy to miss when
rewriting a program in another language.
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove
users by
rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't
do is
to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This
isn't a
problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
-ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated
with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
I've read this whole thread, and what's strange is that this used to
work. I just checked our old FreeBSD 2.2.6 system where rmuser always
cleaned up /var/mail/.{$user}.pop properly. Its /usr/sbin/rmuser had:
# Remove some pop daemon's leftover file
$file = $mail_dir/.${login_name}.pop;
if (-e $file || -l $file) {
print STDERR Removing pop daemon's temporary mail file ${file}:;
unlink $file ||
print STDERR \n${whoami}: Warning: unlink on $file failed ($!) -
continuing\n;
print STDERR done.\n;
}
So I wonder whether it's a bug - or maybe a later popper update? - that
has the present version of rmuser looking for ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
instead?
As far as I can tell the change was introduced back in 2002 when rmuser was
changed from a Perl program into a shell script - presumably as part of the
process of removing Perl from the base system.
FreeBSD versions 2.2 - 4.11 used the Perl version of rmuser, while all
5.x and 6.x releases have used the shell script version.
I have no idea if the difference - if the file rmuser looks for has a leading
'.' in the filename or not - was deliberate or simply a mistake, but I
suspect the latter: it is the kind of thing that is very easy to miss when
rewriting a program in another language.
Looks like that's exactly right. Copying the maintainer and suggesting
the no-brain patch, pardon the broken tabs from pasting, against the
head / stable versions (checked) .. I should sendPR I guess .. time!
Cheers, Ian
--- /usr/sbin/rmuserSat Mar 3 16:48:29 2007
+++ /home/smithi/rmuser Fri Oct 5 00:30:51 2007
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
echo -n mailspool
rm ${MAILSPOOL}/$login
fi
- if [ -f ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ]; then
- verbose echo -n ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ||
+ if [ -f ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop ]; then
+ verbose echo -n ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop ||
echo -n pop3
- rm ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
+ rm ${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop
fi
verbose echo '.'
}
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FreeBsd e-mail question
Hi, I'm running Sendmail and Qpopper on FreeBsd. (And perhaps I ought to be asking this on the Qpopper list, but hopefully someone here knows an answer). We have all of our mailboxes in mbox format in /var/mail. When a customer pops his mail for the first time it creates a file .username.pop in /var/mail which never goes away, it remains as a zero byte file. It's quite useful as we can tell from the timestamp on it when the customer last popped his mail. The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc. If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc. -rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15 .jjvc.pop Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote:
The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users
by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file,
removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is
to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a
problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new
account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge:
-ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc.
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
Since rmuser is a shell-script, you could easily change it to suit your
needs. Look at the function rm_mail (lines 79-95), and change
'${login}.pop' to '.${login}.pop' in line 89,90 and line 92.
A more elegant approach would be to duplicate lines 89-93 and add the
dot before the login in the second instance, changeing pop3 to
qpopper as well.
If you make this change, do not forget to re-apply it after doing a
installworld. :-)
Roland
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated
with that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these
manually?
It really depends on what version of rmuser you have.
In /usr/sbin/rmuser, do you have something similar to this code snippet?:
if [ -f ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ]; then
verbose echo -n ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop ||
echo -n pop3
rm ${MAILSPOOL}/${login}.pop
fi
...if so, try putting a . character before each instance of ${login}.pop.
Steve
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:30:54 Lisa Casey wrote:
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
rmuser is a shell script. There's 2 ways to solve this problem:
1) edit the rm_mail function in /usr/sbin/rmuser to use:
${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop
2) Better option is to change the default temp-name in qpopper.config:
set temp-name %s.pop
so that rmuser will detect it automatically.
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:04:58PM +0200, Mel wrote:
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:30:54 Lisa Casey wrote:
If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the
ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc.
-rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15
.jjvc.pop
Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with
that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually?
rmuser is a shell script. There's 2 ways to solve this problem:
1) edit the rm_mail function in /usr/sbin/rmuser to use:
${MAILSPOOL}/.${login}.pop
2) Better option is to change the default temp-name in qpopper.config:
set temp-name %s.pop
so that rmuser will detect it automatically.
A third option is to write a wrapper shell script that first calls rmuser
and then removes the remaining mail drop file, and use this script to remove
users instead of calling rmuser directly.
Option 2) above sounds like a better solution though.
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Re: FreeBsd e-mail question
At 03:30 PM 10/3/2007, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I'm running Sendmail and Qpopper on FreeBsd. (And perhaps I ought to be asking this on the Qpopper list, but hopefully someone here knows an answer). We have all of our mailboxes in mbox format in /var/mail. When a customer pops his mail for the first time it creates a file .username.pop in /var/mail which never goes away, it remains as a zero byte file. It's quite useful as we can tell from the timestamp on it when the customer last popped his mail. The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is to remove the .username.pop file associated with that mailbox. This isn't a problem unless we add another account with the same username. The new account cannot pop his mail because he gets the following error messge: -ERR [SYS/PERM] Temporary drop /var/mail/.jjvc.pop not owned by jjvc. If I take a look at /var/mail/.jjvc.pop it isn't owned by anyone, the ownership of the file is the group number of the original jjvc. -rw-rw 1 1473 mail 0 Sep 11 19:15 .jjvc.pop Is there anyway to have rmuser remover the mail drop file associated with that account also, or am I just going to have to remove these manually? Thanks, Lisa Casey Lisa, rmuser only removes the system dependent files that adduser creates. You would need to creat your own shell script to remove the qpopper file and to call rmuser. Remember the basic utilities are meant to manage the core services, not add-on ports. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, 2) Better option is to change the default temp-name in qpopper.config: set temp-name %s.pop so that rmuser will detect it automatically. A third option is to write a wrapper shell script that first calls rmuser and then removes the remaining mail drop file, and use this script to remove users instead of calling rmuser directly. Option 2) above sounds like a better solution though. I agree, that sounds like the best solution. Just to be on the safe side, I think I'll make a backup of rmuser first ;-) Thanks for all the suggestions. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail question
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:02, Chris Petrovitch wrote: Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. I'm in the same situation I used /etc/passwd for people with shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts.. any insight on this would be great! Chris, I can't help directly, but couier-imap does have an addon courier-passd which allows remote changing of passwords. There is an example on the qmailrocks site: http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/imap.htm Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Chris Petrovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. I'm in the same situation I used /etc/passwd for people with shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts.. any insight on this would be great! Note that in neither case does the password have anything directly to do with Postfix. For shell accounts, passwd(1) is the standard answer, and there are add-on services (e.g., mail/poppassd). For Courier databases, you may need something specific to Courier; is security/courierpassd relevant? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello. I can describe my problem: server will be located in school (school web server). And i'd like to create mail accounts for pupils and teachers, there's no problem. But...i'd like user to change his password by himself, he is just user, and don't have shell account in this server, only mail! Maybe, i should write any PHP script to change /etc/passwd ? On 16 Sep 2005 08:55:09 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Petrovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. I'm in the same situation I used /etc/passwd for people with shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts.. any insight on this would be great! Note that in neither case does the password have anything directly to do with Postfix. For shell accounts, passwd(1) is the standard answer, and there are add-on services (e.g., mail/poppassd). For Courier databases, you may need something specific to Courier; is security/courierpassd relevant? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ -- Best regards, Alexander Bogdanov (GSM: +3716100890). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail question
Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I can describe my problem: server will be located in school (school web server). And i'd like to create mail accounts for pupils and teachers, there's no problem. But...i'd like user to change his password by himself, he is just user, and don't have shell account in this server, only mail! 1) Postfix or any other SMTP server does not need passwords with default configuration 2) Passwords are used for _receiving_ mail from mail server (POP3 or IMAP) 3) Most current IMAP servers support virtual users 4) There are several ways to change passwords of these virtual users, which depend on your IMAP/POP3 server 5) If you use Samba or NT4/Win2000/XP domain, then you can install security/pam_smb port, and tell your IMAP server to use pam_smb for authentification, then users will be able to change their password from their NT/Win2K/XP workstation. 6) In school environment you may consider giving users shell access, so they can use gcc and other tools in education process, there are not very big security risk with shell users ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail question
Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. -- Best regards, Alexander Bogdanov (GSM: +3716100890). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail question
Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. I'm in the same situation I used /etc/passwd for people with shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts.. any insight on this would be great! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Mail Question
* Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 02:12]: wrote: Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail Hi Sean, The easy answer is NO. The complicated answer is everything is possible under the sky. Maybe yes, if you ask this question on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) You will ask them to direct you to a tool that takes a .dbx file, splits it into individual e-mails, in a format that is not proprietary to Microshit and then you can FTP those back to the server, placing them either in ~smurphy/Maildir/new/ or in /var/mail/smurphy - I guess you already see how much time you will waste using Microshit products! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Mail Question
On Monday 23 August 2004 04:11 pm, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? No - the previous answer to your query was correct - but imap is going in the right direction. You could set up an imap server on your own FreeBSD machine and access your email and all your folders from anywhere with it, even from multiple accounts (which can be pop3 or imap, or whatever), feeding into your imap server. Of course, you have to set up your machine as a real mail server to do this, which might not be what you want to do. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Mail Question
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:03:34AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington typed: * Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 02:12]: wrote: Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail Hi Sean, The easy answer is NO. The complicated answer is everything is possible under the sky. Maybe yes, if you ask this question on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) You will ask them to direct you to a tool that takes a .dbx file, splits it into individual e-mails, in a format that is not proprietary to Microshit and then you can FTP those back to the server, placing them either in ~smurphy/Maildir/new/ or in /var/mail/smurphy - I guess you already see how much time you will waste using Microshit products! Actually, since Sean seems to be using Eudora (X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.1.1), whose files are in the standard Unix mailbox format, simply uploading the mailbox file and appending it to /var/mail/user on the server *should* do the trick. Ruben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Mail Question
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail You could use UIDL on your pop3-client (e.g. fetchmail). It keeps a database of which mails have been downloaded already (using server-side checksums), and that way you could leave all your mail on one central server, downloading it on different clients (and downloading every mail only once per client). Your .fetchmailrc would look something like this: poll pop3-server with protocol POP3 options uidl user pop3-username there with password pop3-password is local-username here options keep GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Mail Question
Odhiambo Washington said: * Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040824 02:12]: wrote: Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail Hi Sean, The easy answer is NO. The other easy answer is YES. Just open up your mail client and send the messages back to yourself. It's always worked for me. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard Mail Question
Without using leave mail on server or leave mail on server for x days is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... would that throw it back on the server? FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail --- Sean Murphy Network Technician California Institute of the Arts [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.calarts.edu/network ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Squirrell Mail question
No, squirrelmail requires IMAP, it won't do POP3. Check the Squirrelmail Requirements page at: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelMailRequirements ---Marius -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Squirrell Mail question Does squirrell Mail do pop3 as well as smtp ? In other words, must I install a mail server for smtp prior to installing squirrell mail ? thanks, Darryl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Squirrell Mail question
Does squirrell Mail do pop3 as well as smtp ? In other words, must I install a mail server for smtp prior to installing squirrell mail ? thanks, Darryl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squirrell Mail question
- Original Message - From: Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: Squirrell Mail question Does squirrell Mail do pop3 as well as smtp ? In other words, must I install a mail server for smtp prior to installing squirrell mail ? thanks, Darryl Squirrel mail is a client. So, for it to be able to send mail, it has to pass the message to a smtp server. For it to read mail, it has to have an imap server that it connects to. Squirrellmail doesn't handle POP3 directly. You have to configure your imap server to pull mail from a pop3. Check out the squirrellmail faq about this at http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/HowToPOP -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squirrell Mail question
- Original Message - From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Squirrell Mail question - Original Message - From: Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: Squirrell Mail question Does squirrell Mail do pop3 as well as smtp ? In other words, must I install a mail server for smtp prior to installing squirrell mail ? thanks, Darryl Squirrel mail is a client. So, for it to be able to send mail, it has to pass the message to a smtp server. For it to read mail, it has to have an imap server that it connects to. Squirrellmail doesn't handle POP3 directly. You have to configure your imap server to pull mail from a pop3. Check out the squirrellmail faq about this at http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/HowToPOP -- Correction, Squirrellmail has a built in utility to pull mail from a remote POP3 server and store it on your local imap server, http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/MailFetch -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Squirrell Mail question
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:53:06 -0500 Darryl Hoar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does squirrell Mail do pop3 as well as smtp ? In other words, must I install a mail server for smtp prior to installing squirrell mail ? Squirrelmail has a pop3-plugin available for fetching pop from pop3-servers but squirrelmail needs an IMAP-server somewhere anyway (there's UW-imap, Cyrus-imap, Courier-imap and more options) when you use your ISP's smtp-host in the squirrelmail-settings then you don't need to set up your smtp-software for that ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pop Mail Question
Hello, I need to install a relay for my mobile to be able to send through my mail servers. I was wondering what is the better solution to do this, pop-before-smtp or smtp-auth. I am open to installing any on my server, however, I don't know the limitations of both. Thanks -cs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail question...
Hi list, there is a package / tool to protect against spam ??? Thanks... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail question...
Xpression wrote: Q: Hi list, there is a package / tool to protect against spam ??? Thanks... A: A few ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports] [21:49] #make search key=spam | grep port Path: /usr/ports/mail/adcomplain Path: /usr/ports/mail/bayespam Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter-qdbm Path: /usr/ports/mail/bogofilter-tdb Path: /usr/ports/mail/dcc-dccd Path: /usr/ports/mail/dspam Path: /usr/ports/mail/filtermail Path: /usr/ports/mail/hashcash Path: /usr/ports/mail/junkfilter Path: /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner Path: /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner-devel Path: /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang Path: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-Graph Path: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin Path: /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-snapshot Path: /usr/ports/mail/py-spambayes Path: /usr/ports/mail/pyzor Path: /usr/ports/mail/qconfirm Path: /usr/ports/mail/qsf Path: /usr/ports/mail/razor-agents Path: /usr/ports/mail/relaydb Path: /usr/ports/mail/sccmilter Path: /usr/ports/mail/smtp-vilter Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter Path: /usr/ports/mail/spambnc Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamd Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamguard Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamoracle Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamprobe Path: /usr/ports/mail/spamstats Path: /usr/ports/mail/tmda Path: /usr/ports/misc/spamcalc Path: /usr/ports/news/cleanfeed Path: /usr/ports/news/nntpcache Path: /usr/ports/security/amavisd-new Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/pipemeter Path: /usr/ports/www/p5-Apache-AntiSpam Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sending mail question...
On 07/01/04 16:11 -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've a little bit confused, I have a mail server running Exim as MTA, now what about if I want to send mail with another server to some mailboxes on the server running the MTA...I think I've to install a client or something like that ??? Thanks... The mail program is a simple utility that will fulfill your needs. See man 1 mail. If you need to send and/or receive mail manually on a regular basis, a mail client that I recommend is mutt, which you can find in the ports. Good Luck, Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sending mail question...
On 07/01/04 16:11 -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I've a little bit confused, I have a mail server running Exim as MTA, now what about if I want to send mail with another server to some mailboxes on the server running the MTA...I think I've to install a client or something like that ??? Thanks... I'm not completely sure what you're asking, so might be barking up the wrong tree or telling you stuff you know, but to make a FreeBSD machine running Exim be the mailserver for your domain(s) you need to: 1. Edit the Exim config file to identify the domain(s) you want it to handle as local, and to ensure that delivery rules are as you would wish. 2. Make sure there is a valid mx record in the dns entry for the domain(s) identifying your Exim-running server as the message exchanger. And it should work. To test the Exim setup (before updating the DNS records), you can telnet to the smtp port on the FreeBSD/Exim machine and compose an e-mail to a valid recipient on that box using the command line. If it's delivered successfully, update the DNS. Then, after a propagation interval of a day or two, you will be able to send mails to that machine from anywhere. If you simply want to send a mail to your Exim server using another FreeBSD machine, you've been answered already by others though, regardless of the mail client you choose, your Exim machine will still need to be the mx for your domain in the DNS records if you want to address the mails to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the normal way. PWR ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sending mail question...
Hi list, I've a little bit confused, I have a mail server running Exim as MTA, now what about if I want to send mail with another server to some mailboxes on the server running the MTA...I think I've to install a client or something like that ??? Thanks... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail question...
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:35:43PM -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi guys, I have read the man pages about mail, but I can't found something to attacht files to sent mails, and I want to mail me some files from the server to not have to login to read them...somebody can tell me ??? There is any other solution to get the files, please any help deeply grateful... There's a couple or three things you can do. If all you want to do is be able to read the file at the other end (rather than saving it to disk), and it's an acsii text format, then you can just pipe the file into the mail(1) command as the body of an e-mail: % mail -s Some subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] the-file-in-question If the file you want to send is binary, or you want to be able to extract it from the e-mail at the other end, then you can use uuencode(1): % uuencode filename filename | mail -s Some subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that you have to put *two* file names on the uuencode command line: the first is the file to read into uuencode and the second is the name that uudecode(1) should use to save the file as at the other end. Most unix mail clients will understand how to extract uuencoded messages, or you can just save the message to a file, which you then run uudecode on. uudecode will ignore all of the message headers and other stuff automatically. That's about the limit of what you can do with the default system: more sophisticated things are possible if you install various bits and pieces out of the ports tree. If you want the file to be sent as a full-blown MIME attachment, there are quite a lot of bits of software for handling MIME encapsulation in there. Probably the easiest thing to do is install one of the mutt ports -- mail/mutt or mail/mutt-devel; either will work. Then: % mutt -a file-name will pop you into an editor where you can fill in the message recipients, subject line, any cover noted required etc. and then send the message with the file as an attachment. If you want to send a message unattended (described as batch mode in the mutt documentation http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#ss6.1 ) then all you need to do is redirect mutt's standard input from a file -- the contents of the input will form the body of the message: % echo Here is the file you want | mutt -a file-name -s Some subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are all sorts of things you can make mutt do -- see http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual.html -- it really is the least sucky mail client around. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mail question...
Hi guys, I have read the man pages about mail, but I can't found something to attacht files to sent mails, and I want to mail me some files from the server to not have to login to read them...somebody can tell me ??? There is any other solution to get the files, please any help deeply grateful... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/mail question
I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding was that if the SUID bit is turned on for either U, G or O, that security is more at risk. Please let me know what I should do... Thanks, Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/mail question
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:59:51AM -0400, quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding was that if the SUID bit is turned on for either U, G or O, that security is more at risk. Please let me know what I should do... Thanks, Eric chmod 1777 turns on the sticky bit, as well as giving rwx permissions for all. This is the same as, for example, /tmp. The sticky bit tells the system to allow only the owner of a file to unlink that file. That is, although any user can create a file, only the user that created it may unlink it. With the default mode of 0775, any member of the group owner of the directory could delete files. However, provided you only have trusted users in that group, it shouldn't be a problem. I have never seen such warnings, so have never given it any thought. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/mail question
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding was that if the SUID bit is turned on for either U, G or O, that security is more at risk. Please let me know what I should do... Read the man page for chmod. The suid and sgid bits mean something different on directories than on files. When set, they force all files created in that directory to be owned by the owner of the directory. Again ... see the man page for more detail, as well as (I believe) a description of how this helps security. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/mail question
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding was that if the SUID bit is turned on for either U, G or O, that security is more at risk. Please let me know what I should do... Permission 1777 involves the sticky bit, which is used for /tmp, not setuid or setgid: STICKY DIRECTORIES A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory, or, more accurately, a directory in which the deletion of files is restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user. This feature is usefully applied to directories such as /tmp which must be publicly writable but should deny users the license to arbitrarily delete or rename each others' files. I think the stock BSD permissions of 775 imply that the LDA must be running as root in order to perform local delivery. The other type of mail configuration (used by SysV-style Unices) involves 770 permissions and having the LDA be setgid to mail. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail Question
Hello I have a very simple question that I cannot seem to find a simple answer for. I would like to have all SMTP delivered mail to (Box A)relayed to a external mail server (Box B) for delivery then have the mail delivered to its destination. User A send mail 10.0.0.10(smtp Box A) relay to 216.X.X.X (external server Box B) for delivery to destination host. Is there any simple way to do this? I am not sure how to relay the mail from box A to Box B I am running 4.7 with the default sendmail install. Thanks Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail Question
If he wants mail for ALL domains forwarded, why not just edit the smart host line in sendmail.cf and restart sendmail? Bri - Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:48 AM Subject: Re: Mail Question On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:30:34AM -0500, Chris Collins wrote: I have a very simple question that I cannot seem to find a simple answer for. I would like to have all SMTP delivered mail to (Box A)relayed to a external mail server (Box B) for delivery then have the mail delivered to its destination. User A send mail 10.0.0.10(smtp Box A) relay to 216.X.X.X (external server Box B) for delivery to destination host. Is there any simple way to do this? I am not sure how to relay the mail from box A to Box B Define box B as the smart host in box A's /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc: define(`SMART_HOST', `boxb.your.dom.ain') If `hostname`.mc doesn't exist, typing 'make' in /etc/mail will generate a default version. After editing that file, simply: cd /etc/mail make install restart-mta to generate the modified sendmail.cf and load it into the sendmail MTA process. Simple enough for you? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail Question
I wrote: Define box B as the smart host in box A's /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc: define(`SMART_HOST', `boxb.your.dom.ain') On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:54:29AM -0800, Brian wrote: If he wants mail for ALL domains forwarded, why not just edit the smart host line in sendmail.cf and restart sendmail? Same difference. Sure, he could do that, but it's usually a good idea to have sendmail.cf correspond to what's in the `hostname`.mc file. For instance, you could quite easily mysteriously lose your edited sendmail.cf by over-eager mergemaster-ing... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail Question
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:30:34AM -0500, Chris Collins wrote: I have a very simple question that I cannot seem to find a simple answer for. I would like to have all SMTP delivered mail to (Box A)relayed to a external mail server (Box B) for delivery then have the mail delivered to its destination. User A send mail 10.0.0.10(smtp Box A) relay to 216.X.X.X (external server Box B) for delivery to destination host. Is there any simple way to do this? I am not sure how to relay the mail from box A to Box B Define box B as the smart host in box A's /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc: define(`SMART_HOST', `boxb.your.dom.ain') If `hostname`.mc doesn't exist, typing 'make' in /etc/mail will generate a default version. After editing that file, simply: cd /etc/mail make install restart-mta to generate the modified sendmail.cf and load it into the sendmail MTA process. Simple enough for you? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mail Question
define(`SMART_HOST', `boxb.your.dom.ain') WORKED great.. Thanks to everybody that responded. Chris On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 11:48 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: define(`SMART_HOST', `boxb.your.dom.ain') To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
