Re: [vchkpw] Re: Tom's fork of vpopmail (and qmailadmin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/ -- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[vchkpw] what are qmail address extensions?
Hello, Was just looking through the configure help before installing 5.3.24 and was wondering what qmail address extensions are? Thank you, -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] what are qmail address extensions?
Benjamin Tomhave wrote: Hello, Was just looking through the configure help before installing 5.3.24 and was wondering what qmail address extensions are? Check out the man page for dot-qmail (here's a link to one online: http://resin.csoft.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5topic=dot-qmail) Search for EXTENSION ADDRESSES Ok, this confuses me more than it helps. Some specific questions...first, I'm already using some .qmail files successfully (.qmail-default, .qmail-user for mailing lists or forwards). The configure help says the address extensions support is disabled by default (at least in 5.3.24). With it disabled, will this completely hose-up my current .qmail files? Where I am apparently having trouble is with .qmail files setup with forwards, etc., in user's home directories (same level as Maildir). For instance, /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/user/.qmail and /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/user/Maildir are at the same level. Would enabling these extensions then allow me to make use of that .qmail file? Or is this something completely different? Thanks!
RE: [vchkpw] vpopbull question
No, there can't be a switch to do that because vpopbull doesn't do any processing on the input, it only copies it into place. It doesn't take much to create a properly formatted email message. -Original Message- From: Evren Yurtesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 6:06 AM To: Tom Walsh Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] vpopbull question thats nice but there could be also a nice switch to just set the date :) or insert the date headers... Thanks, Evren On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Tom Walsh wrote: vpopbull expects a fully rfc compliant email message as its input. Make sure you have the email headers in place and correctly formatted. Also any aliased domains will have duplicate emails delivered Learned that one the hard way... Tom Walsh Network Administrator http://www.ala.net/ ::-Original Message- ::From: Evren Yurtesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ::Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 6:57 AM ::To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::Subject: [vchkpw] vpopbull question :: :: ::I have a funny question, unless I set the date in the email file that I ::provide to vpopbull, the email is dated that its sent at about 1970 :) ::or the mail client assumes so... ::Is there any way to set the date automatically? :: ::Evren :: ::
[vchkpw] user setup of forwards
Hello, (Cross-posting to vchkpw and qmailadmin mailing lists.) I'm currently running qmailadmin 1.0.25 and vpopmail 5.3.20 (been waiting for a 5.4 release). When users login to qmailadmin with their personal, non-postmaster accounts and create a forward, a .qmail file is created in the account/ directory, at the same level as Maildir. This does not appear to be getting processed correctly as the messages appear to disappear into oblivion (w/o so much as a bounce). I've typically always manually setup forward as .qmail-account in the domain's base directory, not through use of .qmail files in the user's directory. So, what I'm wondering is a couple things. First, does my older version of vpopmail not deal with .qmail files correctly in the user's account directory? Second, is use of the .qmail file the best/correct implementation, or was this fixed in 1.0.26 (which I haven't had time to compile yet) by reverting back to the .qmail-account format in the domain's base directory? Thank you, -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] Re: user setup of forwards
It works for me, although I'm using vpopmail 5.3.23. I don't know if it was broken in some earlier versions. Are you sure the contents of the .qmail file are sensible? Yep, the file appears to be created correctly (vpopmail:vchkpw chmod 600) and the contents appear to be correct ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). It just seems that it's not being processed correctly. Guess I'll try upgrading the most current vpopmail devel version and see if this resolves the issue.
RE: [vchkpw] Re: user setup of forwards
What's your qmail log file say? If the contents are just a forward, no mail is going to be saved locally for that account, are you sure the remote account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is *not* receiving the mail? I just setup a test account, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then logged into qmailadmin and setup a forward to go to my work account, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent an email from my work account to my test account, and I see the below information. Possibly of interest is that the .Spam folder was dynamically created, meaning that despite having the forward in place (in the .qmail file) maildrop is still being called and SpamAssassin is being run against the message. I'm currently doing spam filtering with maildrop on a domain-wide level, not on a per-user level, and I'm wondering if maildrop is not able to process the .qmail file correctly? In the case of valid mail, the list thing the mailfilter would do is deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. @40003f3d02b0186e054c new msg 229974 @40003f3d02b0186f7094 info msg 229974: bytes 975 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4017 uid 505 @40003f3d02b018987c64 starting delivery 1963824: msg 229974 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003f3d02b018997e34 status: local 1/50 remote 3/100 @40003f3d02b20f450114 delivery 1963824: success: did_0+0+1/ @40003f3d02b20f451884 status: local 0/50 remote 3/100 @40003f3d02b20f452054 end msg 229974
RE: [vchkpw] Re: user setup of forwards
Where is maildrop being called? In the .qmail-default file of the sofast.net domain? What's it look like? .qmail-default in the sofast.net domain root -- it's the standard call of maildrop ../mailfilter within that file. And is the test message you sent in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox? No, the message disappeared into the void, never the be seen again.
RE: [vchkpw] Re: user setup of forwards
Do you have just maildrop or /usr/local/bin/maildrop? That might not be on vpopmail's path. Is /usr/local/bin/maildrop actually there? If you cd into the sofast.net domain then cd .. and do an ls, do you see mailfilter in the listing? As already stated, this solution has been working for approximately 6 months. Mail is being delivered perfectly. Spam filtering is great. The only problem that has occurred is with forwards created in .qmail files placed in an account's base directory alongside the Maildir/ directory. Oh, and have you done a mailq do see if they really have vanished or if they're deferred? I showed you the complete log chain before, it says the message is delivered, no deferral occurs, and there's nothing in the local queue.
[vchkpw] maildirsize file in Maildir/
Hello, Can anybody explain the purpose of the maildirsize folder in an account's Maildir/ with a mysql-based vpopmail install? It seems kind of redundant to me that there should be a static file with quota information such as is contained in maildirsize since quota info is maintained (partially or wholly?) in the vpopmail database. I ran into a situation this week where I modified a user's quota in the db and it didn't take as far as courier-imap was concerned until I removed the maildirsize file, thus causing it to be regenerated. Wondering if something needs to be fixed so that issues like this won't occur in the future? Thank you, -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] is there a max user quota value?
Hello, Is there currently a max user quota value? I have an employee who has temporarily boosted their account quota to 5G (very excessive) in order to transfer their mail from Outlook to Evolution via IMAP. Running vuserinfo indicates the correct quota size and says only 7% used, but courier-imap is blocking the transfer and reporting that the user has exceeded quota. I was wondering if something might be broken in an API that the quota info is being misreported to courier-imap? Thanks, -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] change request
I have a minor change request for future releases: Could a flag be added to remove the permission/ownership fixing at the end, or at least add a prompt that allows one to opt-out? I recently reinstall 5.3.20 due to a weird permission issue and I have other files stored in /home/vpopmail/domains than just my vpopmail domains (it's an NFS mount, so a good place for joining logs, etc.). The file/directory ownership/permission changes hosed that stuff, which took me a while to then sort out. Thank you! -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] vpopmail-5.3.21
Sourceforge worked a-ok for me. Maybe the mirror you chose was broken. Try a different one, perhaps? -Original Message-From: John Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:26 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail-5.3.21 Ok, I can't locate vpopmail-5.3.21.tar.gz anyplace.. Not on Inter7, Sourceforge errors out when I try to download it and it's not on shupp.org. Is there anyplace I can get it? -John
RE: [vchkpw] Merging Maildirs
Title: Message It doesn't have to overwrite files. And why wouldn't it see "hidden" folders (by which, I'm assuming you mean folders starting with "."). I've done this in the past and it seems to work fine. Test it on the side, just to be safe and sure, but I believe you can just do "cp -R --reply=no user1/Maildir user2/". -Original Message-From: Joe Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [vchkpw] Merging Maildirs I have searched the mailing list archives but haven't been able to find anything on my subject. I have two maildirs that both contain emails and folders and I want to merge all of the email into one maildir. I am hoping that someone has had to deal with this before and has already writen a script or program that will do it. I know that I could just 'cp' the maildir to the other but that will overwrite the files. 'cp' also doesn't pick up the hidden folder dirs. I was thinking about writing a shell script with a 'for loop' to copy all the files and dirs but I just hope that someone has already done that work. Thanks, Joe H.
RE: [vchkpw] Merging Maildirs
Title: Message Sorry, also might want to put in the --preserve flag to save yourself having to fix permissions and ownerships later on. So, that would be: cp -R --preserve --reply=no user1/Maildir user2/ -Original Message-From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:05 PMTo: Joe HowardCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [vchkpw] Merging Maildirs It doesn't have to overwrite files. And why wouldn't it see "hidden" folders (by which, I'm assuming you mean folders starting with "."). I've done this in the past and it seems to work fine. Test it on the side, just to be safe and sure, but I believe you can just do "cp -R --reply=no user1/Maildir user2/". -Original Message-From: Joe Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [vchkpw] Merging Maildirs I have searched the mailing list archives but haven't been able to find anything on my subject. I have two maildirs that both contain emails and folders and I want to merge all of the email into one maildir. I am hoping that someone has had to deal with this before and has already writen a script or program that will do it. I know that I could just 'cp' the maildir to the other but that will overwrite the files. 'cp' also doesn't pick up the hidden folder dirs. I was thinking about writing a shell script with a 'for loop' to copy all the files and dirs but I just hope that someone has already done that work. Thanks, Joe H.
RE: [vchkpw] Forwarding....
I didn't follow your thread before, but this is all elementary qmail configuration. What was the problem? Are you familiar with qmailadmin, because it does all of this for you through a compiled CGI GUI (soon to be PHP-based, with a little luck). -Original Message- From: Bill Sappington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:10 AM To: 'vpopmail list' Subject: [vchkpw] Forwarding Ok so after wading through documentation that didn;t document so very damn well, and the snide remarks from a few people on this list and suffering through the whole It was hard to write so it should be hard to use attitude this works for forwarding. The following assumes a standard Qmail install on Linux, a standard install of Vpopmail. Standard install will create: /home/vpopmail/domains Within the domains directory a sub-driectory for each domain you put onto the system is created it: New Domain = MyNewDomain.Com So you will have the following directory structure: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com for the obligitory postmaster you will have: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/postmaster within the above you will have /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/postmaster/MailDir within Maildir you will have three directories: new, cur tmp *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= THE DEFAULT FORWARD *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Create a user for the domain MyNewDomain.com, ie: 'info' and you will have: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/info/MailDir within Maildir you will have three directories: new, cur tmp within the directory: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com execute the ls -all command and you will see the file '.qmail-default'. This file handles all e-mail comming to this domain that has no valid destination. The contents of this file are: | /home/vpopmain/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce To make all e-mail without a valid destination in MyNewDomain.com go to a specific user, replace the word 'bounce' with the fully qualified address of the person you want it to go to. This can be ANYONE! Inside or outside your domain. So suppose you want all e-mail with no valid destination at MyNewDomain.com to go to your mailbox on hotmail.com change the line to look like this: | /home/vpopmain/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Catch All! *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= THE INDIVIDUAL FORWARD *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To forward for a specific user create a file in the DOMAIN directory: /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com name it .qmail-[user name of the person in this domain for which you would like to do forwarding] So in the above example, I have a domain called 'MyNewDomain.com' and a user named 'info'. If I want to forward ALL e-mail for the user 'info' to my hotmail address I would use a text editor such as pico since its very simple to use and execute the following command: pico /home/vpopmail/domains/MyNewDomain.com/.qmail-info Then add the following to the file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Save the file and I have just created the forwarding rule for the individual user. = end
RE: [vchkpw] getting local mails via pop3
I'm a little confused here...why would you be continuing to use local accounts if you've installed vpopmail? I'm not an authority and not certain about this, but it seems to me that it has to be one or the other, not both. -Original Message- From: Gonzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] getting local mails via pop3 Hello. I have qmail and vpopmail installed. Getting mails for virtual domains works well, but not for local users. pop3d runs as root (so it has access to /etc/passwd), but I don't know why this error occurs when I wan't to get my local mail via POP3: The client gets: -ERR authorization failed Syslog prints: Jun 25 18:39:41 base vpopmail[24197]: vchkpw: vpopmail user not found phi@:10.200.10.1 I'm running the client from the internal machine 10.200.10.1, thats why the IP is in the logs. phi definitly exists in /etc/passwd. Any ideas? Gonzo
[vchkpw] proper catchall format?
Hello, What's the proper format for setting up a catchall account in the .qmail-default? I have seen both of the below formats used. However, when I move to using maildrop with a customized mailfilter file, the latter works, but the former does not (in the case where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a forward, anyway -- I have not tried this with [EMAIL PROTECTED] being an account). If both are ok, any idea why the first one would not work anymore? | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/catchall Thank you, -ben --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL 5.3 release
I was going to say check the archives but they seem to be broken...??? A 5.4 stable release was just discussed at the beginning of this month. I don't know where you get March from, either, as 5.3.20 devel was released 4/10/2003 according to the Inter7 devel web site. I've been running 5.3.20 for several weeks on a cluster with good success, so it is likely quite deployable and probably not too far off from the 5.4 stable release. -Original Message- From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL 5.3 release Hi Folks, So I've been watching this list for some time as well as the development page, just itching to try out some of the new features available and reworking of many things. I am building another few racks of servers for use in production, and am seeing the vpopmail 5.3 is still in development phase. The last changelog entry is March, and it's seemingly fairly still in the past few months. Any indication on a potential release? Any thoughts on whether it's stable enough to be used in production at this point? Thanks in advance -M _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
[vchkpw] vpopbull WARNING
If you choose to run vpopbull, I highly advise doing su vpopmail first. If you run vpopbull as root, it will insert a file owned by root, and this will essentially kill vpopmail (POP3 retrieval) until you can recursively chown the files to the correct owner:group. Just wanted to make others aware of what just befell me. --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery
Hello, This might be a qmail question, not a vpopmail question, but thought I'd start here first. Please point me away if appropriate. I am working on a new mail system (based on RH8), based mostly on Bill's toaster scripts. I have qmail 1.03 + vpopmail 5.3.19 w/ mysql + qmail-scanner (clamav, SpamAssassin) + maildrop 1.5.2. Under default configs, with qmail-scanner running, everything works swell. However, as soon as I modify the .qmail-default file to be | maildrop ../mailfilter where the mailfilter contains: VPOP=| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox to $VPOP ...then mail delivery ceases to work. I started out with a full-fledged mailfilter script, but have simplified to the above just to verify that the handoff works correctly. Does anybody have any ideas on why switching to this would break delivery? I'm wondering if my maildrop is buggy or something. I'm working with v1.5.2 on a RH8 platform, compiled clean last week. No upgrading involved. Permissions all appear good. All files/dirs are owned by vpopmail:vchkpw, the .qmail-default is chmod 600 and the mailfilter is in /home/vpopmail/domains and is chmod 400. Just at a complete loss here and nearing wit's end... Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery
A little additional information...it was suggested that I try to su to vpopmail and run the maildrop command...here's what I got from that: When I compiled, I used the following configure options, and not that seekable is enabled (by default) -Original Message- From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery Hello, This might be a qmail question, not a vpopmail question, but thought I'd start here first. Please point me away if appropriate. I am working on a new mail system (based on RH8), based mostly on Bill's toaster scripts. I have qmail 1.03 + vpopmail 5.3.19 w/ mysql + qmail-scanner (clamav, SpamAssassin) + maildrop 1.5.2. Under default configs, with qmail-scanner running, everything works swell. However, as soon as I modify the .qmail-default file to be | maildrop ../mailfilter where the mailfilter contains: VPOP=| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox to $VPOP ...then mail delivery ceases to work. I started out with a full-fledged mailfilter script, but have simplified to the above just to verify that the handoff works correctly. Does anybody have any ideas on why switching to this would break delivery? I'm wondering if my maildrop is buggy or something. I'm working with v1.5.2 on a RH8 platform, compiled clean last week. No upgrading involved. Permissions all appear good. All files/dirs are owned by vpopmail:vchkpw, the .qmail-default is chmod 600 and the mailfilter is in /home/vpopmail/domains and is chmod 400. Just at a complete loss here and nearing wit's end... Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery
Sorry for the 3rd postfreakin' Outlook translates CTRL-ENTER to be send
the message now...gotta get rid of this Windows garbage... X-( ANYWAY
The maildrop command test ran as su vpopmail resulted in:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bentest.com]$ echo | /usr/bin/maildrop ../mailfilter
vdelivermail: no EXT environment varilable
This is particularly distressing, I think, since shouldn't the EXT and HOST
variables be present?
Here's my configure line and results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] vpopmail-5.3.19]#
./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-tcpserver-file=/home/vpopmail/
etc/tcp.smtp --enable-relay-clear-minutes=180 --enable-auth-logging=y --enab
le-mysql-logging=n --enable-logging=v --enable-default-domain=sofast.net --e
nable-mysql=y --enable-mysql-replication=y --enable-valias=y --enable-defaul
tquota=1000 --enable-clear-passwd=n
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... i686-unknown-linux
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
yes
checking for floor in -lm... (cached) yes
checking for compress in -lz... (cached) yes
checking for crypt in -lcrypt... (cached) yes
checking for gethostbyaddr in -lnsl... (cached) yes
checking for getsockname in -lsocket... (cached) no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... (cached) yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... (cached) no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/varargs.h... (cached) no
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... (cached) time.h
checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
checking for mkdir... (cached) yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for strstr... (cached) yes
checking for fdatasync... (cached) yes
checking for sigaction... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating config.h
config.h is unchanged
vpopmail 5.3.19
Current settings
---
vpopmail directory = /home/vpopmail
uid = 90
gid = 90
ip alias = OFF --enable-ip-alias-domains=n (default)
address extentions = OFF --enable-qmail-ext=n (default)
roaming users = ON --enable-roaming-users=y
tcpserver file = /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp
open_smtp file = /home/vpopmail/etc/open-smtp
user quota = 1000 -enable-hardquota=1000
domain quotas = OFF --enable-domainquotas=n (default)
auth module = mysql --enable-mysql=y
mysql replication = ON --enable-mysql-replication=y
table optimization = many domains --enable-many-domains=y (default)
system passwords = OFF --enable-passwd=n (default)
file locking = ON --enable-file-locking=y (default)
file sync = OFF --enable-file-sync=n disable vdelivermail fsync
(default)
make seekable = ON --enable-make-seekable=y (default)
auth logging = ON --enable-auth-logging=y (default)
mysql logging = OFF --enable-mysql-logging=n (default)
clear passwd = OFF --enable-clear-passwd=n
users big dir = ON --enable-users-big-dir=y (default)
valias processing = ON --enable-valias=y
mysql limits = OFF --enable-mysql-limits=n (default)
pop syslog = log success and errors including passwords
--enable-logging=v
default domain = sofast.net --enable-default-domain=sofast.net
auth inc = -I/usr/include/mysql
auth lib = -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery
A little additional information...it was suggested that I try to
su to vpopmail and run the maildrop command...here's what I got from that:
When I compiled, I used the following configure options, and not
that seekable is enabled (by default)
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [vchkpw] modifying .qmail-default breaks delivery
Hello,
This might be a qmail question, not a vpopmail question, but thought I'd
start here
[vchkpw] what's --enable-file-sync for?
Hello, After a few hours of googling, I'm at a loss. What is the --enable-file-sync flag for? In a previous build, according to my notes, I set it to =y. However, it appears that =n is the default and that most people configure that way. I for one am using a mysql backend, so perhaps they're related? If anybody could set me straight, would appreciate it. Thank you! -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] Spam Assassin implementation
I would suggest checking out http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ in order to learn about how qmail-scanner is setup and to help you figure out what's being called, etc. -Original Message- From: John McGivern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:18 PM To: Jonas Pasche; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] Spam Assassin implementation Well, I think however the UNIX guy set this up before that it does actually work - somehow (I'm obviously a little light on the UNIX stuff compared to you guys!) I know that if these people weren't getting mail I would be in big trouble so they are receiving mail. And I know from looking in the queue that spam messages are getting bounced back. I don't really know how to find out how the spam assassin is being called. I don't really know anything about qmail-scanner either. I guess I need to do some research on that. I would just like to understand the whole process and know it is set up properly because obviously it isn't set up properly :0 ;) Any ideas on where to start would be appreciated! Thanks, John McGivern -Original Message- From: Jonas Pasche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 19, 2003 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Spam Assassin implementation Hi John, Somebody else had set this up a while ago - I think it is working but I'm not sure if it is affecting other mail deliveries. Oh well, it is... Basically I have spam assassin installed and I have a .qmail-default in every domain folder on my server. It looks like this: | /var/qmail/bin/preline -d /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying \ [message to bounce back if not SPAM] | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail ' ' bounce-no-mailbox The first line simply bounces _everything_ back to the sender, telling him it is spam. You don't actually call any SpamAssassin program in your .qmail-default file - how do you expect SpamAssassin to be actually used in your setup? ;-) Does this look like it should work okay with spam assassin? Definitely not. I notice others .qmil-default files look a little different. Theirs might be hopefully working ;-) Personally, I'd prefer qmail-scanner to mark all messages with a spam analysis header, and then use dot-qmail filtering to sort them out later. Try out this, if your mail server supports qmail-scanner with SpamAssassin integration. You'll need the 822mess package from DJB to get the 822field program. $ cat .qmail-default | bouncesaying I don't want your spam 822field X-Spam-Flag /dev/null | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox It's 822field in this case that checks for the presence of the X-Spam-Flag header. If it's present, it bounces the message back to the sender. If not, it continues with the next delivery instruction. Please be aware that qmailadmin occasionally rewrites .qmail-default, causing your manual filtering rules to disappear! Jonas
RE: [vchkpw] tcp.smtp file perms/owns for -enable-roaming-users?
In my setup, I see the tcp.smtp.cdb file getting updated regularly, seeming to indicate perhaps that the pop-before-smtp may actually be working. Is there anyway to verify the contents of the cdb file to see if it actually matches with the current relay table contents? -Original Message- From: Jonas Pasche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] tcp.smtp file perms/owns for -enable-roaming-users? Hi Jesse, I may just be mouthing off again, but I gather from the last paragraph in INSTALL that vpopmail may not even bother with vpopmail/etc/tc.smtp and open-smtp anymore. vpopmail never writes to tcp.smtp. It need read access to that file when building tcp.smtp.cdb. vpopmail writes open-smtp if you have configured it for roaming users, but without MySQL support. vpopmail writes tcp.smtp.cdb, if you have configured it for roaming users, independent of wheter you have enabled MySQL support or not. I think the default may be to assume that since you're using MySQL, you should use Matt Simerson's tcpserver-mysql patch. The relay table is certainly populated in my database, but the vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb is NOT generated. I bet on write permissions. Personally, I don't have any qualms about vpopmail defaulting to MySQL based tcpserver relay control when I'm using MySQL. It actually doesn't. However, I strongly disagree with the INSTALL wording if that's the case! It makes it sound like Matt's patch is only suggested, but it honestly seems to be REQUIRED when mysql support is enabled in vpopmail. The INSTALL file is right. Don't blame it just because your setup didn't work. You simply didn't care about the permissions on tcp.smtp.cdb - it's obvious that vpopmail can't write to that file if it's only writable by root while you don't have vchkpw running as root. Jonas
[vchkpw] tcp.smtp file perms/owns for -enable-roaming-users?
Hello, Apologies if this is already answered elsewhere -- I didn't see it. What should the file permissions and ownership be for the tcprules tcp.smtp file in order to enable vpopmail pop-before-smtp roaming user support? In other words, for qmail/vpopmail to temporarily add an IP address for pop-before-stmp temp-relay support, what setup do I need? Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] where to get dev releases?
Hello, This is probably a stupid question, but where can I find the dev releases of vpopmail? I was only able to find a download link for the current stable release on the inter7 web site. Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] building vpopmail w/ qmail rpm instead of src?
Has anybody tried building vpopmail with one of the man qmail RPMs out there? Would such an approach work? Without creating my own RPMs or kickstart, looking for methods to decrease install time in preparation for cluster builds/deployments. Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] switching database servers
Hello, If I want to switch from using localhost to another remote host for my vpopmail, does that require a rebuild/recompile, or is there a configurable parameter somewhere that can be modified to make that adjustment? My notes seem to imply that the only way to change this is by editting the proper values in the vmysql.h file. Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers
What would it take for this to be a configurable parameter instead of a compiled-in parameter? In other words, would it be possible to add a config file, read at startup, from, say vpopmail/etc or qmail/control or similar? It seems to me that this would make a lot more sense than requiring the server, user and password to be compiled into the program itself. -Original Message- From: Clayton Weise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:47 PM To: 'Benjamin Tomhave'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers Recompile. And do it from fresh source, don't just do a make clean and reconfigure it. -Clayton -Original Message- From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] switching database servers Hello, If I want to switch from using localhost to another remote host for my vpopmail, does that require a rebuild/recompile, or is there a configurable parameter somewhere that can be modified to make that adjustment? My notes seem to imply that the only way to change this is by editting the proper values in the vmysql.h file. Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] DEAD THREAD RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers
Ok, I started it, I wish to kill it. All points well made, though a bit ruder than necessary. I'll compile against a hostname that is configured into /etc/hosts and life will be grand. Thank you. BTW, I'm disappointed nobody compared file read for looking up a sql server vs. file read for looking up hostname. Can't imagine that would be much different, and thus doesn't really gain you much in performance. Just a thought. Again, thank you for the responses. Hi Andrew !! I guess You did not read the whole story :-) It's not about shutting down deliveries. It's not even about compiling vpopmail... It's a comparison of having a vpopmail SQL configfile vs. compiled in SQL config (vmysql.h) Please read the story, I'm tired... bye... Original Message - Date: 15-Feb-2003 05:00:47 +0100 From: Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] switching database servers 5 min * 60 sec/min = 300 sec 300 sec / .02 sec/delivery = 15000 deliveries Why on earth would you shut down delivery for the compile? time to make install: 30 seconds 30 sec / .02 sec/delivery = 1500 deliveries that's one order of magnitude, assuming that you need the full 30 seconds to do a shutdown/make install/startup. I would believe you could get this down by another order of magnitude with a simple script -- making your total deliveries on the order of 150-250. Speaking from experience on a mid-volume mail server (about a thousand deliveries per hour) -- qmail compensates perfectly. In my case I'm also running every message though spamc and procmail *and* an antivirus scan (Rav antivirus) -- You get a 1min load spike of about 22-30 which goes away within a minute and you're back down to normal levels. What about all POP/IMAP connections ? Many users gets maybe less than 10 emails a day but they do POP their mailbox every 5 (or less) minutes !!! You schedule it during a normal maintenance window. Not many people are up and about at 4am. And also speaking from experience, people will get an error, go hmm and try again. By that time you're back up and nothing happens. And if you really needed to look like you were always up, you'd have already written a very quick and dirty pop/imap server which just replied yup, password good, no messages to any query. Regards, Andrew -- Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communicationswww.sofast.net
[vchkpw] field defs for .dir-control?
I was wondering if anybody knew what the field definitions are for the .dir-control file, or more appropos to me, what the varias fields in the dir-control table mean. I show the follow column headers, but this really doesn't speak to what the values should typically be set to. This is the only item that I have not reviewed wrt the vadduser blowups I've been experiencing with some domains. | domain | cur_users | level_cur | level_max | level_start0 | level_start1 | level_start2 | level_end0 | level_end1 | level_end2 | level_mod0 | level_mod1 | level_mod2 | level_index0 | level_index1 | level_index2 | the_dir | Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
RE: [vchkpw] field defs for .dir-control?
Nevermind, I figured out the problem! Apparently somehow, some way the the_dir column on broken domains had NULL inserted, instead of just being blank. I updated the field and viola! the problem is solved! -Original Message- From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] field defs for .dir-control? I was wondering if anybody knew what the field definitions are for the .dir-control file, or more appropos to me, what the varias fields in the dir-control table mean. I show the follow column headers, but this really doesn't speak to what the values should typically be set to. This is the only item that I have not reviewed wrt the vadduser blowups I've been experiencing with some domains. | domain | cur_users | level_cur | level_max | level_start0 | level_start1 | level_start2 | level_end0 | level_end1 | level_end2 | level_mod0 | level_mod1 | level_mod2 | level_index0 | level_index1 | level_index2 | the_dir | Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
[vchkpw] vadduser blows up for one domain
Hello, I have a strange situation. As of sometime recent, for only one domain, vadduser is blowing up, dropping core. This is with qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 5.2. I can add users with other domains, and everything seems to be setup correctly for this domain. Recreating this domain from scratch is a last-ditch option only due to account content and number of users that would have to be recreated. If desired, I can send a copy of the core file (or at least strings on it). Any ideas or suggestions on how to resolve this issue are greatly appreciated. Thank you, -ben Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sofast Communications www.sofast.net
