[vchkpw] vpasswd format
Hi, I would like to understand the format of vpasswd file, specially regarding those codes used to allow and deny the access to some services like pop, disable account and so on. Is there some documentation about it? I didn't find anything in vpopmail docs. Ciao Giorgio
[vchkpw] vpop RFC
hi, i've some new ideas. i've decided to post them here for disscussion bevore i start to code. my startigpoint was that it would be nice to have really everyting in a database without the need of any binary C program creating the databaseentries. what i do not want (because i siply don't like it) is: - a C cgi - a webserver running at the vpop userid one major thing to get this is allready done: valias. the next should be domains and accounts. this could be done by vdelivermail. when vdelivermail ever comes over a domain or an account that exists in the database but the directories are missing it simply creates them - qmail style - by calling vadddomain and/or vadduser. vadddomain and vadduser need a new commandline option. this option checks the maildir structure and corrects respectively creates it, if necessary. all this could be done with out breaking any existing fuctionality. autorespond could easily be modified not to use flat files but a database. as said, valias, needed for autoresponders allready exists. perhaps autorespond should be comletely rewritten an get as vautorespond part of vpopmail. my problem is, that i've only rudimentary knowledge of ezmlm. i've no idea how to place all necessary information in a database nor how to create needed directories on the fly. i know, that everything is driven by .qmail files and could be easily done by valias but ezmlm binaries trust on a certain directorystructure afaik. any suggestions? best regards Matthias Henze[EMAIL PROTECTED] Use PGP!! http://www.mhcsoftware.de/MatthiasHenze.asc - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MHC SoftWare GmbH voice: +49-(0)9533-92006-0 Fichtera 17 fax: +49-(0)9533-92006-6 96274 Itzgrund/Germanye-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - msg08750/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[vchkpw] maildirsize problem
Hi, i have run qmail and vpopmail for a long time along without the maildirsizepatch now the mailboxes says full and accept not mails. How can i simple update the maildirsize to the new current size? Can i only delete the maildirsize or what must i do? Greetz, Jens Gassmann
[vchkpw] quotas exceeded problem
Hi, I am noticing a problem with quota's. For instance, vqadmin shows that I have 1000 for quota. However, there are only about 200 messages from lists such as this one. On another email account I have, I deleted all mesgs, waited for about 20 to show up from email lists, tried to mv the messages into folders and get the '[ALERT] You exceeded your mail quota'. The setup for vpopmail was: --enable-defaultquota=200 I had thought that meant a 'default' which could be overridden on a per-user basis. How can I fix this up. Thanks for your help. Paul
Re: [vchkpw] vpasswd format
On Thursday 05 September 2002 02:30 am, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote: Hi, I would like to understand the format of vpasswd file, specially regarding those codes used to allow and deny the access to some services like pop, disable account and so on. Is there some documentation about it? I didn't find anything in vpopmail docs. Ciao Giorgio Basicly it is the same structure as /etc/passwd entries, except the uid is not really used and the gid field uses the following bit flags. from vpopmail.h /* gid flags */ #define NO_PASSWD_CHNG 0x01 #define NO_POP 0x02 #define NO_WEBMAIL 0x04 #define NO_IMAP0x08 #define BOUNCE_MAIL0x10 #define NO_RELAY 0x20 #define NO_DIALUP 0x40 #define V_USER0 0x080 #define V_USER1 0x100 #define V_USER2 0x200 #define V_USER3 0x400 #define NO_SMTP 0x800 #define QA_ADMIN 0x1000 In addition the pw_shell field contains the quota and if you have enabled clear passwords, it follows the pw_shell field It's all in the source code No Secrets Ken Jones
[vchkpw] SqWebmail, Qmailadmin not authenticating
Hello, Last week I setup Qmail + Vpopmail + Courier-IMAP + Sqwebmail + Qmailadmin (and ucspi-tcp, of course!) for a Customer (using vchkpw to authenticate). Initially installed everything using Qinstall, but had some problems with Vpopmail not authenticating. On someone's advice, I recompiled/installed Vpopmail and Courier-IMAP with the following options: Vpopmail: ./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-clear-passwd=y --enable-logging=e Courier-IMAP: ./configure --disable-auto-rename-sent --without-authpwd --without-autoshadow --without-authpam --without-auth-userdb -- without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-ldap Everything was authenticating properly afterwards. However, when I go to Sqwebmail (still compiled from the Qinstall), I am unable to log in as any of the virtual users: I get authentication failure. I am using the full email address as the username. It's the same thing with Qmailadmin: I try to log in as the postmaster for any of the virtual domains, and get authentication failure. On the same person's advice, I tried recompiling Qmailadmin with almost the same options as Courier-IMAP (i.e., turning off all authentication methods except vchkpw), but that did not help. I also did add the '--htmldir', '--html-libdir', and '--cgibindir' options to point to the directories I was installing them to (I setup a virtual host in my websites directory) I am not sure what I have done wrong here, or why it is not authenticating. Maybe someone here does, or has some suggestions? TIA, = -- Alan Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail ODBC port?
Why? If you use MySQL for the backend just use the MyODBC module. It's free. Regards, Tren -Original Message- From: Johan Kuuse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail ODBC port? Hi, Has anyone been working on an ODBC port for vpopmail? Best Regards, Johan Kuuse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [vchkpw] maildirsize problem
Did you patch your pop3 server to handle Maildir++ style quotas? If not do that as that's the real solution to your problem. Read the README.quotas in the vpopmail distribution for the answer to your question. Regards, Tren -Original Message- From: Jens Gassmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] maildirsize problem Hi, i have run qmail and vpopmail for a long time along without the maildirsizepatch now the mailboxes says full and accept not mails. How can i simple update the maildirsize to the new current size? Can i only delete the maildirsize or what must i do? Greetz, Jens Gassmann
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail ODBC port?
Why I ask: I need to solve the following scenario: I have all mail accounts in an Mimer database, accessing the data using the unixODBC driver. Other applications access this information as well. I don't know how to configure vpopmail/MySQL/MyODBC to access data physically stored in the Mimer database. Anyone who knows? Best Regards Johan Kuuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tren Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:30 AM Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail ODBC port? Why? If you use MySQL for the backend just use the MyODBC module. It's free. Regards, Tren -Original Message- From: Johan Kuuse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail ODBC port? Hi, Has anyone been working on an ODBC port for vpopmail? Best Regards, Johan Kuuse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vchkpw] Using tcpserver/mysql
Paul, You are exactly correct. Even when using my patch, vpopmail continues to update the tcp.smtp.cdb file. There's one reason for that. The first is that my suggestion for adding a --dont-update-tcprulesfile=true was never implemented. Granted, it would only benefit a few users (really big ones like me) and it really doesn't make that much difference. So, in short you are right. You can do as I do and manually disable the routines in the vpopmail code that writes out the file, or you can just ignore it. If you're really clever, you can code in a --don't-update-tcprulesfile function but to save some time, you might want to search through the archives of this list as I've already been down that road. Matt On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 12:08 PM, Paul Fries wrote: Greetings, I am trying to accomplish using vpopmail with the tcpserver/mysql patch. Based on the documentation found on step 13 of http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/INSTALL: -- For sites using the mysql module and --enable-roaming-users=y it is highly suggested to use Matt Simersons tcpserver-mysql patch. This removes the need for vpopmail to compile a tcp.smtp.cdb file for each pop authentication. -- I have implemented the patch, and verified that tcpserver is reading my /var/qmail/control/sql file properly (if I chmod 000 this file, tcpserver complains about it on startup). Also with --enable-roaming-users=y in vpopmail, vchkpw properly writes the authenticated IP addresses/timestamp to the vpopmail.relay table in MySQL. My problem is this: Even though it is properly writing the IPs to the vpopmail.relay table, it is also writing them into the tcp.smtp.cdb hash file. I would like it to ONLY write to MySQL and not to the .cdb. I have tried --enable-roaming-users=n, but this causes vchkpw to stop writing the IP addresses to either location. It is almost like there should be a --dont-update-tcprulesfile=true variable upon configuration. Am I missing something here? Has someone else configured vpopmail in this manner and gotten around this problem? Thanks! Regards, Paul Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] Vdelivermail patch.
Busy day for me, I've been patching left right and center. I have patched vdelivermail.c to properly handle the exit codes generated by Autoresponder (by Brad Dameron), used with QmailAdmin. Now, depending on the exit code returned, vdelivermail.c will either deliver it or bounce it. Wait! Wasn't it doing that before? Yes it was, but it was not handling exit code 99, which aborted autoresponder but still meant for the message to be delivered. As always, I've tested that patch on my systems and it appears to work fine. I offer no guarantees. http://www.esoteric.ca/software/src/vdelivermail-5.3.8.patch And for those who are curious, here are the other patches I did today: I've patched the autoresponder that is required by QmailAdmin for vacation/autoresponder's to work. Now duplicate From: and Subject fields will no longer persist in messages -- and I'm sure my customer inquiries will go down because of it. The details: Autoresponder 2.0.3 http://www.esoteric.ca/software/src/autorespond-2.03.patch - Patched autoresponder.c to allow new option -. This option causes Autoresponder to only insert the To: header, thus the autoresponder file must contain the From: and Subject: lines first. This patch was submitted to Brad D, though I haven't heard back from him yet. QmailAdmin 1.0.6 http://www.esoteric.ca/software/src/qa-autorespond.patch - Patched autorespond.c to include new option. - Patched user.c to include new option. In addition to modifying user.c (vacation messages) to use new option, I also increased the number of messages the autoresponder can receive from a unique e-mail address before it defers additional messages. I also reduced the amount of time funtil the number is reset rom 24 hours to 12. I did this because many offices have people sending multiple e-mails a day to an account with a vacation autoresponder. I've tested this on my own production setup without problems, but of course I offer no guarantees. Make sure you are using those versions listed above, and apply BOTH patches for it to work. Your users will have to recreate their autoresponders / vacation messages in order to take effect. -- Steve
RE: [vchkpw] Using tcpserver/mysql
Thanks Matt. =) Yeah I have been really pulling my hair out over that one. =) With as many Pop-3 connections/sec that our servers handle I thought that I would make things a little smoother if Vpopmail didn't write the cdb. I am afraid that the hash would become corrupt and cause relay problems for my users. Instead, I am just having vpopmail write to a cdb elsewhere on the file system that nothing else reads. Then I have tcpserver read a different cdb file that I have created. It's messy, but it works. =) Paul J. Fries CWIE, LLC - Internet Services -Original Message- From: Matt Simerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:24 AM To: Paul Fries Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Using tcpserver/mysql Paul, You are exactly correct. Even when using my patch, vpopmail continues to update the tcp.smtp.cdb file. There's one reason for that. The first is that my suggestion for adding a --dont-update-tcprulesfile=true was never implemented. Granted, it would only benefit a few users (really big ones like me) and it really doesn't make that much difference. So, in short you are right. You can do as I do and manually disable the routines in the vpopmail code that writes out the file, or you can just ignore it. If you're really clever, you can code in a --don't-update-tcprulesfile function but to save some time, you might want to search through the archives of this list as I've already been down that road. Matt On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 12:08 PM, Paul Fries wrote: Greetings, I am trying to accomplish using vpopmail with the tcpserver/mysql patch. Based on the documentation found on step 13 of http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/INSTALL: -- For sites using the mysql module and --enable-roaming-users=y it is highly suggested to use Matt Simersons tcpserver-mysql patch. This removes the need for vpopmail to compile a tcp.smtp.cdb file for each pop authentication. -- I have implemented the patch, and verified that tcpserver is reading my /var/qmail/control/sql file properly (if I chmod 000 this file, tcpserver complains about it on startup). Also with --enable-roaming-users=y in vpopmail, vchkpw properly writes the authenticated IP addresses/timestamp to the vpopmail.relay table in MySQL. My problem is this: Even though it is properly writing the IPs to the vpopmail.relay table, it is also writing them into the tcp.smtp.cdb hash file. I would like it to ONLY write to MySQL and not to the .cdb. I have tried --enable-roaming-users=n, but this causes vchkpw to stop writing the IP addresses to either location. It is almost like there should be a --dont-update-tcprulesfile=true variable upon configuration. Am I missing something here? Has someone else configured vpopmail in this manner and gotten around this problem? Thanks! Regards, Paul Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] Bogus subscription to list
Hi Ken et al, It appears someone signed [EMAIL PROTECTED] up to the list .. I just received an automated response from them regarding a message I posted to the list. -- Steve
[vchkpw] error adding domains
hello, i get the following message when adding domains, then when i try to check mail for the automatically corrected "postmaster" account, the password gets rejected. any ideas? thanks, brendan could not connect to mysql update server Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) with databasecould not connect to mysql update server Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone awayvmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone awayError: Unable to chdir to vpopmail/users directory
RE: [vchkpw] error adding domains
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did you provide the right info in the mysql.c file? Seams like it does not see you mysql server. Did you check if you can log in with your username and password you provide with vpopmail and check if it allows you in? Remo - -Original Message- From: tripnkid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] error adding domains hello, i get the following message when adding domains, then when i try to check mail for the automatically corrected postmaster account, the password gets rejected. any ideas? thanks, brendan could not connect to mysql update server Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) with database could not connect to mysql update server Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[b]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away vmysql: sql error[2]: MySQL server has gone away Error: Unable to chdir to vpopmail/users directory -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPXf6mF+JHhJFWglrEQJouACfXYMW7NqnHMTcBBlOtIQj5qiVbugAoLvx YRkvPrrvw1k633UygdqPkQR/ =8/Ei -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Re[2]: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
Thanks for the feedback, I am going to have a look at both packages. I think I will start another thread for this to solicit info/opinions on Webmail interfaces. Thanks again! Cheers, Bob Porter On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:32 am, Michael Anderson wrote: On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 11:01 PM, Robert Porter wrote: Bob, we started out with sqwebmail. Personally, I liked it a lot, however, our clients like the squirlmail system much better. They are both excellent web interfaces, and it's more like personal choice. sqwebmail was a little easier to install, but neither one is very difficult.
