Re: [vchkpw] Connecting to mysql
check vmysql.h in vpopmail source dir.. -- Best Regs,Masood Ahmad ShahSystem Administrator^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *| Fibre Net (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore, Pakistan| Tel: +92-42-6677024| Mobile: +92-300-4277367| http://www.fibre.net.pk| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.(Dennis Ritchie) - Original Message - From: Grant Cooper To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Connecting to mysql I can't find the config file to change the password to connect to mysql. And what/how do I have to do to reset it. Is there a link that describes all of the conf. types for vpopmail?
[vchkpw] maildrop account on Virtual Domains
Hi Can someone please tell me howto do this? If I have a domain, with one main account, and 10 mailboxes, how do I tell it that everything except for the 10 mailboxes must goto the main account? And then, how would this setup work if I had fetchmail running as well? tia--
Re: [vchkpw] maildrop account on Virtual Domains
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Re: [vchkpw] maildrop account on Virtual Domains
Hi Rudi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:47:59 Rudi wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me howto do this? If I have a domain, with one main account, and 10 mailboxes, how do I tell it that everything except for the 10 mailboxes must goto the main account? Change '~vpopmail/domains/DOMAIN/.qmail-default' with a text editor from |/path/to/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox to |/path/to/vdelivermail '' /Full/path/to/a/vpopmail/user/directory, e.g. |/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/mainuser And then, how would this setup work if I had fetchmail running as well? ??? Fetchmail injects to MTA and MTA decides how to deliver. Above setup tells MTA (qmail) and MDA (vpopmail) what to do, what should fetchmail have to know about this catch-all? P.S.: For future mails to this list you really should disable Reply-To. 1.) It's superfluous. It contains the same address as From and therefore is absolutely useless. 2.) It makes it impossible to easily reply to the list for those MUAs capable of List-Reply by evaluating 'List-Post' header. 'Reply-To' takes, for obvious reasons, precedence over 'List-Post'. Thank you. -- Ciao, Pit
Re: [vchkpw] A new tools for vpopmail
I´ve already made a set of tools for my users like a script to them change their passwords needing only to know the old password of their accounts. At the time, I had the same problem that you´re talking now. The first thought that occurs is chmod +s tool_that_i_want_to_use like you´re saying. I´ve solved the problem using sudo. It allows me to run some programs as others (like setuid), but I can make only one or some users have this kind of permission. It made my solution much more security than allowing all users to run a command with vpopmail´s user id. If this kind of tool really became part of vpopmail, it will be a big step to lots of other people (like me), to develop their own specific solutions. - Mensagem Original De: Gerald Villemure [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: [vchkpw] A new tools for vpopmail Data: 23/07/03 05:10 The problem is, how to you get a web server that is running as nobody to run commands as vpopmail? The answer has been to set qmailadmin SETUID vpopmail. The problem with that is. What if you want to develop your own front-end in PHP for example? One answer is to introduce a new command in the base distribution of vpopmail which would run SETUID vpopmail which could then be called by whatever front-end you care to design. COMMAND SUMMARY You must authenticate with a valid user/pass for any commands to be executed. Some commands will only execute if the user/pass has admin rights on the domain in question. Webmail - 99one Internet Provider
[vchkpw] same domain on more servers Problem
Hi, I have qmail+vpopmail for company.com, but they have 3 departments located in other cities, these 3 locations are connected on slow lines. Problem is, that poeople in all 3 locations using same domain for mail adresses. I want setup somehow mailserver on each site like d1.company.com, d2.company.com. But I dont want let them send mail which is local send through main site. |-d1.company.com (smith, neo) ---internetcompany.com(main)--- |-d2.company.com (trinity) Main Server has primary mailboxes for neo, trinity, smith. and it has setup to forward these adreses to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] but how setup server d1.company.com to send mail between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] without message traveling to main server and back. i need save traffic ;(( I try vaddaliasdomain to setup alias for d1.company.com but it works only on local users, if i send mail from d1.company.com to regular user on main server, it wont work. or i miss something ? its possible do it somehow thru .smtproutes ? plz, any info really help. Thank you in advance Miki ps: sorry for crappy english ;)
[vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
hello everyone. I have several domain names for my company on my qmail server. Everything was working fine (qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, courier-imap and the like) then one day I upgraded to the latest vpopmail version (5.2.1). The problem is that when I launch vpopbull (or use qmailadmin) all I see are the first two users of my main domain name. the vpasswd file is fine. Everybody is still receiving and sending mail without any problem; I add new users using vadduser and then I create aliases by hand by creating .qmail files. But I still don't like it, and don't understand what is going on. does anyone has suggestions? ps: I've searched the FAQs but found no topic like this one. I apologize if this is an already discussed topic. redegards, -- :Lorenzo Grespan System Administrator, GRECAV S.p.A. http://www.grecav.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] +39-0376-589252
[vchkpw] [Fwd: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem]
Hi, I read this today on the qmail list. This is not the first bad word I've heard said against vpopmail. Would the any of the authors care to respond? R. Original Message Subject: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem From:Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, July 23, 2003 2:33 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Mikeska writes: I have qmail+vpopmail for company.com, but they have 3 departments located in other cities, these 3 locations are connected on slow lines. Problem is, that poeople in all 3 locations using same domain for mail adresses. Yup, that's a problem. Fortunately, there's a solution. Enumerate all the local users on each machine, and insert them into virtualdomains like this (using example.com instead of company.com): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward And then you need a ~alias/.qmail-forward file which has this: |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea how to make this work with vpopmail. I don't use vpopmail, nor do I recommend that anybody else use it. I've read the code for vpopmail, and although it's written to industry standards, it's crap. Total and unmitigated crap. Fixed-length buffers everywhere, #ifdef every time you turn around, null-terminated strings instead of counted strings, it's crap; crap, crap, crap. I understand that not everybody can afford a custom-crafted solution from Crynwr Software, but sometimes you only get what you pay for in the open source world. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com
Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
Hi, Manually edit the vpasswd files and add a : to the end of lines missing it. Then run mkpasswd domain.com, voila! In other words, the newer versions of vpopmail require a : (or :50s) on the end of each line, where 50s is a quota. Regards, Rick Lorenzo Grespan wrote: hello everyone. I have several domain names for my company on my qmail server. Everything was working fine (qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin, courier-imap and the like) then one day I upgraded to the latest vpopmail version (5.2.1). The problem is that when I launch vpopbull (or use qmailadmin) all I see are the first two users of my main domain name. the vpasswd file is fine. Everybody is still receiving and sending mail without any problem; I add new users using vadduser and then I create aliases by hand by creating .qmail files. But I still don't like it, and don't understand what is going on. does anyone has suggestions? ps: I've searched the FAQs but found no topic like this one. I apologize if this is an already discussed topic. redegards,
Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
Hi, Lorenzo Grespan wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: Manually edit the vpasswd files and add a : to the end of lines missing it. Then run mkpasswd domain.com, voila! In other words, the newer versions of vpopmail require a : (or :50s) on the end of each line, where 50s is a quota. excellent. it works. thank you very much! ps: isn't this something that should be more documented somewhere? I haven't found any useful information about that in the FAQs or the vpopmail admin guide.. Yes it should be added to a FAQ or something somewhere. Maybe one of the maintainers can do that. Regards, Rick
Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, Manually edit the vpasswd files and add a : to the end of lines missing it. Then run mkpasswd domain.com, voila! In other words, the newer versions of vpopmail require a : (or :50s) on the end of each line, where 50s is a quota. it seems to me that the newer versions of vpopmail should automatically add this extra : to the end of lines which are missing it, if there was a file format change from one version to another. either that, or provide a conversion program with the newer versions that will fix vpasswd files created by older versions. if nothing else, a quick perl script can do this. i may write one, if somebody can send me a sample of what the old format vpasswd file looks like (all of my boxes are running 5.2.1 right now.) -- --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | --- pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [vchkpw] [Fwd: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem]
Hi, Top posting so people who wish to ignore it can see my responses without reading the entire message. Well, you do get what you pay for sometimes and sometimes not. The whole point of it being Open Source is that if you see something you don't like, you can change it and submit it back to the original author(s). Looking through the code I see... ifdef's used around various configuration options. Dunno how else you would do it. grep ifdef on some of the *BSD or Linux source code sometime. Null terminated strings? Not really, a few (and I mean a few) here and there, mainly when adding a domain to one of the SQL databases. The default vpasswd structure uses counted strings, separated by : to define the user structure. If he's talking about the cdb storage, that's a problem with CDB and not vpopmail. Fixed length buffers I can't really comment on since I'm originally a Cobol programmer and I now use php and perl mainly. If he found it a big enough problem, he could have fixed it and sent the patches to the authors. I won't even go into the politics and money aspect of recommending custom software design by a third party. You might as well buy MS products and get locked in that way instead :) Just my 2 cents. Regards, Rick Robin Bowes wrote: Hi, I read this today on the qmail list. This is not the first bad word I've heard said against vpopmail. Would the any of the authors care to respond? R. Original Message Subject: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem From:Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, July 23, 2003 2:33 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Mikeska writes: I have qmail+vpopmail for company.com, but they have 3 departments located in other cities, these 3 locations are connected on slow lines. Problem is, that poeople in all 3 locations using same domain for mail adresses. Yup, that's a problem. Fortunately, there's a solution. Enumerate all the local users on each machine, and insert them into virtualdomains like this (using example.com instead of company.com): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward And then you need a ~alias/.qmail-forward file which has this: |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea how to make this work with vpopmail. I don't use vpopmail, nor do I recommend that anybody else use it. I've read the code for vpopmail, and although it's written to industry standards, it's crap. Total and unmitigated crap. Fixed-length buffers everywhere, #ifdef every time you turn around, null-terminated strings instead of counted strings, it's crap; crap, crap, crap. I understand that not everybody can afford a custom-crafted solution from Crynwr Software, but sometimes you only get what you pay for in the open source world.
Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:26, John Simpson wrote: it seems to me that the newer versions of vpopmail should automatically add this extra : to the end of lines which are missing it, if there was a file format change from one version to another. either that, or provide a conversion program with the newer versions that will fix vpasswd files created by older versions. if nothing else, a quick perl script can do this. i may write one, if somebody can send me a sample of what the old format vpasswd file looks like (all of my boxes are running 5.2.1 right now.) the old version was something like username:password:uid:gid:full name:maildir:quota while the new version could be either: username:password:uid:gid:full name:maildir:quota: or: username:password:uid:gid:full name:maildir:quota:cleartext password So it should be enough to check that every line has at least 7 fields, and 7 colons. It might have 8 fields (cleartext password) but it does not require another colon after the cleartex password field. redegards, -- :Lorenzo Grespan System Administrator, GRECAV S.p.A. http://www.grecav.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] +39-0376-589252
Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 08:26 AM, John Simpson wrote:
it seems to me that the newer versions of vpopmail should
automatically add
this extra : to the end of lines which are missing it, if there was a
file
format change from one version to another.
The current 5.3 series does that, and I'm back-porting some of the
bugfixes from 5.3 for a 5.2.2 release. So far, 5.2.2 includes this
patch, and the missing-backslash fix to mysql.h. If anyone else knows
of outstanding problems with 5.2 (that were hopefully fixed in 5.3),
please let me know.
Here's the patch:
--- vpopmail.c Fri May 17 23:25:49 2002
+++ ../vpopmail-5.3.22/vpopmail.c Sun Jul 20 09:07:51 2003
@@ -1408,13 +1404,7 @@
if (fgets(line,sizeof(line),pw) == NULL) return NULL;
for (i=0; line[i] != 0; i++) if (line[i] == ':') j++;
-
-#ifdef CLEAR_PASS
-/* Must count the clear password field */
-if ( j != 7) return NULL;
-#else
-if ( j != 6) return NULL;
-#endif
+if (j 6) return NULL;
tmpstr = line;
pwent.pw_name = line;
@@ -1435,23 +1425,22 @@
*tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr;
pwent.pw_gid = atoi(tmpstr1);
-
pwent.pw_gecos = tmpstr;
while (*tmpstr!=0 *tmpstr!=':') ++tmpstr;
*tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr;
pwent.pw_dir= tmpstr;
while (*tmpstr!=0 *tmpstr!=':') ++tmpstr;
-*tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr;
+if (*tmpstr) { *tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr; }
pwent.pw_shell = tmpstr;
while (*tmpstr!=0 *tmpstr!=':' *tmpstr!='\n') ++tmpstr;
-*tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr;
+if (*tmpstr) { *tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr; }
#ifdef CLEAR_PASS
pwent.pw_clear_passwd = tmpstr;
-while (*tmpstr!=0 *tmpstr!=':' *tmpstr!='\n') ++tmpstr;
-*tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr;
+while (*tmpstr!=0 *tmpstr!='\n') ++tmpstr;
+if (*tmpstr) { *tmpstr = 0; ++tmpstr; }
#endif
return pwent;
[vchkpw] Is vpopmail crap?
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 07:46 AM, Russell Nelson wrote: I have no idea how to make this work with vpopmail. I don't use vpopmail, nor do I recommend that anybody else use it. I've read the code for vpopmail, and although it's written to industry standards, it's crap. Total and unmitigated crap. Fixed-length buffers everywhere, #ifdef every time you turn around, null-terminated strings instead of counted strings, it's crap; crap, crap, crap. I understand that not everybody can afford a custom-crafted solution from Crynwr Software, but sometimes you only get what you pay for in the open source world. I can't really disagree with him. I've done a lot of work on the qmailadmin source recently, and I'm getting into the vpopmail source now. It is poorly written code. There are opportunities for buffer overflows in many places. Code is duplicated where it should be replaced with functions. Some of the code is very inefficient. There are a lot of static, fixed-length buffers that could be replaced by dynamically-allocated buffers of the proper size. It uses global variables. It isn't well documented. But, it works. It works surprisingly well and I think it's a great way to do virtual domains with qmail. I see this as an opportunity for improvement. One of my goals of contributing to the vpopmail/qmailadmin projects is to clean the up. Make them more efficient and more secure. I'm hoping that by doing so, others will take an interest and be encouraged to contribute patches that fix large sections of code, instead of just adding ugly band-aids on already ugly code. -- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sniffter.com/ - info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester
Re: Re: [vchkpw] maildrop account on Virtual Domains
Hi Thanx for the suggestion, but this doesn't seem to work in my case, since I have Maildir mailbox'es. The question I have with fetchmail is, I have a multidrop pop account, which I download via fetchmail. This account can take any-email-address@domain, and this is where the problem lies. I want to be able to filter say pete@domain, and forward that to the user Pete. And this is where I got stuck--Kind RegardsRudi AhlersTradeleads IT Director 27 (80( 926 1689--- Original Message From: "Peter Palmreuther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: Subject: Re: [vchkpw] maildrop account on Virtual DomainsDate: 23/07/03 01:07Hi Rudi,On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:47:59 Rudi wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me howto do this? If I have a domain, with one main account, and 10 mailboxes, how do I tell it that everything except for the 10 mailboxes must goto the main account?Change '~vpopmail/domains//.qmail-default' with a text editorfrom "|/path/to/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox" to"|/path/to/vdelivermail '' /Full/path/to/a/vpopmail/user/directory",e.g."|/home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ''/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/mainuser" And then, how would this setup work if I had fetchmail running as well Fetchmail injects to MTA and MTA decides how to deliver.Above setup tells MTA (qmail) and MDA (vpopmail) what to do, what shouldfetchmail have to know about this catch-all?P.S.: For future mails to this list you really should disable "Reply-To".1.) It's superfluous. It contains the same address as "From" andtherefore is absolutely useless.2.) It makes it impossible to easily reply to the list for those MUAscapable of List-Reply by evaluating 'List-Post' header.'Reply-To' takes, for obvious reasons, precedence over'List-Post'.Thank you.--Ciao,Pit
[vchkpw] Accepting mail for localhost, when using virtual domains
Hi again This whole Virtual Domain thing is rather new to me, so I hope you have patience with me. My default local domain is set to tradeleads.co.za, but the machine my virtual domain runs on is knocky.tradeleads.co.za. How do I accept local emails? i.e, email sent to root / local system users? Email generated from crontab / at / logs / etc?--Kind RegardsRudi AhlersTradeleads IT Director 27 (80( 926 1689
Re: [vchkpw] Accepting mail for localhost, when using virtual domains
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 09:34 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: My default local domain is set to tradeleads.co.za, but the machine my virtual domain runs on is knocky.tradeleads.co.za. How do I accept local emails? i.e, email sent to root / local system users? Email generated from crontab / at / logs / etc? Create files in /var/qmail/alias: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster I also recommend the following to blackhole doublebounce notices (99.9% of which are from spammers forging email): echo doublebounce /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto echo # /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-doublebounce -- Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sniffter.com/ - info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester
[vchkpw] valias and vuserinfo
Hello guys I am looking to get information for aliases what command do I need to get it going, I have a script that will check if a user exist if it doesn't then it will forward to another box but if it does then it will deliver the mail locally. Therefore, I uses vuserinfo but I am not sure how would I check that with aliases. Thanks for any suggestions. Remo Mattei Network Security Engineer cell 801-209-8554 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment: winmail.dat
