Re: [vchkpw] Added MRTG to toaster HOW-TO
On 2002.10.30_12:03:33_+, Jeremy Oddo wrote: FYI: For those using my toaster HOW-TO as the basis for their mail server (or anyone else that may be interested), I have added MRTG to the HOW-TO. MRTG will visual graph mail and spam stats. It was a big wishlist item, so I decided to add it...plus it's pretty ;) You might want to consider my qmailmrtg+rrdtool package. It builds more eye catching graphic than MRTG. Flexibility is another thing come to mind. It is available at the URL on my sig. Also, I recalled submitting a small patch to Ken a while back. It fixed the get_tai function in qmailmrtg7 to return the correct time. Seems like the patch have not been incorporated though. You can access it via: http://www.jerfu.com/toaster Good work. Shameless plug: Everyone is doing a toaster. Actually, I have written an OpenBSD toaster couple months ago. It is in 0.3 beta version. http://www.dutnux.com/article/toaster/html/index.html -- H. D. Lee http://www.dutnux.com
Re: [vchkpw]
On 2002.10.26_23:45:42_+, Michael Christie wrote: Hi there, Hi Michael, For some time now I have been trying to get this toaster to work , I have installed all that is needed , but when I try to add a domain I get this ./vadddomain example.com Please enter password for postmaster: 1234 enter password again: 1234 could not connect to mysql update server Access denied for user: 'rootlocalhost ' (Using password: YES) with database could not connect to mysql update server Access denied for user: 'rootlocalhost ' (Using password: YES) vmysql: sql error[c]: MySQL server has gone away There is a big chance that you didn't configuree definition in vmysql.h before configure and compile. Please tell us exactly how you compile vpopmail. Can some one please help me with this and tell me what is going wrong and how to fix it ... Yes, it is in the documentation that comes with vpopmail package. Thank you all You're welcome. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] sub Domain doesn't respond
On 2002.10.22_10:23:41_+, Afif wrote: Dear all, Hi Afif, i. This is the qmail-send program at inf.untag-sby.ac.id. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1) Presuming you were installing vpopmail with virtual domain only support and from a clean qmail installation, qmail can't deliver to the user's mailbox because: - no virtual domain of that domain - no such user in that virtual domain It would be of great help if you provide more information about how you set vpopmail up, how you created the domain, user. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] qmail/vpopmail default limits?
On 2002.09.29_13:45:46_+, George Minich wrote: Hello all, Hi George, I was just wondering if there were any types of limits on a default qmail/vpopmail installation? Are there limits such as number of users that can connect at a given moment or similar limits. Message sizes would be Yes, use tcpserver -c option. another good one. I took a look around but could not find anything obvious. For message sizes, use /var/qmail/control/databytes, or DATABYTES environment variable. Thanks George HTH -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail vpasswd file difference(s) between 4.9.10 and 5.3.8
Hi Matt, On 2002.09.24_16:03:52_+, Matt Simerson wrote: Everything on the new system works just fine except the vconvert function. Can anyone verify that vconvert actually does work? Yes, it actually works. Below are the steps I have taken to come up with that statement: 1. Compile and install 5.3.8 with cdb. 2. Test create a domain (devel.dutnux.com) and some users. 3. Recompile with mysql support, install, using 5.3.8. 4. Invoke ./vconvert -c -m -v -d devel.dutnux.com version: 5.3.8 could not connect to mysql update server Unknown database 'vpopmail' with database converting devel.dutnux.com done 5. I checked mysql, it created vpopmail database and table for me. The vpopmail table contain exactly the user I created. Can you sanitize a copy of a newer vpasswd file and send it my way so I can compare it to my ancient system to see if the format is still the same? This is the first line of the vpasswd file I have. It was created using 5.3.8 with password learning support: postmaster:$1$R.O7J$cRKPnHXAkWuZ6epI94R.k/:1:0:Postmaster: /home/vpopmail/domains/devel.dutnux.com/postmaster:10M:dutnux Sorry for the wrapped line. Matt HTH -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] learn passwords
On 2002.09.24_20:51:47_+, Werner Schalk wrote: Hello, Hi Werner, I re-compiled vpopmail and installed using the --enable-learn-passwords option. How can I migrate the users from another server to it now? Must I create each user which existed on the old server on the new one without a password or what must I do? Check the list archive. It is already there. Hint: contrib directory contain a script to convert it. Bye and thanks, Werner. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] Qmail Vpopmail Backup
On 2002.09.23_11:06:37_+, George Minich wrote: Now that I have my email server just about ready to fly, I would like to ask about server backup strategy. What is the most effective method of backing up all OS email configuration and data? I was thinking about first dumping to another machine via the network and then going to tape. If this is done, I would imagine that TAR should be used. Does this method capture all data properly? I have been looking at the DUMP command but am not 100% certain as to which is a better alternative. Are 3rd party backup applicaions a better alternative? tar should be enough. AFAIK, dump doesn't work for all filesystems. If you have a tape server, I would like to suggest amanda, available at http://www.amanda.org. Other commercial utility like BRU or Arkeia have good reputations, altough I haven't tried it out myself. rsync may be just another perfect alternative. It synchronize the directories across network efficiently. A good rule of thumb, do a full backup by default, and exclude everything you don't want to backup. I would like daily complete backups if possible. I do not see this machine growing above 30 gigs any time soon. Sure.. on my workstation, actually I do a backup every so hours, using cron and rsync to the backup server, to minimize data lost. Thanks George -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] roaming users don't work
On 2002.09.23_18:50:11_+, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having problems with roaming users, I am using vpopmail5.2.1 and courier-imap1.5.3, i compiled vpopmail with: --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-tcpserver-file=/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp --enable-relay-clear-minutes=60 .but it just doesn't seem to work, i mean... i cannot relay unless I modify /etc/tcp.smtp (and then creating tcp.smtp.cdb) manually... any ideas? Why did you use /etc/tcp.smtp but passed /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp to the configure line? Current best practice is to use /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp as vchkpw may not have access to write tcp.smtp in /etc. /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp and /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp are always empty... i followed the lifewithqmail instructions to install and run qmail so i am running smtp and stuff with the following line: True, because you didn't add entries into /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp but /etc/tcp.smtp. Also, what is the content of /home/vpopmail/etc? exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 400 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD -u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /home/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 Change /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb to /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtpd.cdb ..on /service/qmail-smtp/run script. anyone can help me?? please, i am lost =/ HTH Thank you. Miguel. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] file permission error
On 2002.09.22_10:32:51_+, Werner Schalk wrote: Hello, Hello, when I try to login using qmailadmin I get the following error message: file permission error /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/postmaster/Maildir/1032672395.qw Now the permissions of that directory look like this: server1:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/postmaster/Maildir# ls -la total 20 drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 12 20:36 . drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 6 14:26 .. drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 6 14:26 cur drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 6 14:26 new drwx--2 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 6 14:26 tmp That's exactly how the other directories look like... What is messed up here? What is the permission, owner and group of the qmailadmin binary in the cgi-bin directory? Is it setuid and setgid to vpopmail and vchkpw? Also double check every directory that are parents to the Maildir for correct permissions. Bye and thanks, Werner. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] server migration, password issues (again)
On 2002.09.22_09:55:44_+, Werner Schalk wrote: Hello, Hello, it's me again. My question is quite the same: Please post only once. This is free support public mailing list. Is there a way to get the passwords of local users as I am the admin and want to migrate all users to another server (which already IS setup up)? Did you read an answer to you question by Copy Wright? If you want to setup each users on the server manually. You can retain the old password of every users by enabling the password learning feature of vpopmail. Next time they login, vchkpw will learn their password. The other solution is to copy the appropriate files: assign, vpasswd, and their cdb versions. Pay attention to the uid and gid, they must be the same for old and new servers, otherwise adjust accordingly. At least some domains should be set up on my new server and therefor I need the passwords of the users to create them... otherwise each user must re-create him- or herself. Is there a way to do this? Which method is used to encrypt the user's passwords? See above, either create users with blank password and enable --enable-learn-password, or copy the files from the old server. The method used is crypt(3). There is no way you can decode the password back. Bye and thanks, Werner. -- H. D. Lee
Re: [vchkpw] can not pop-in - It is a Socketerror
On 2002.09.18_15:57:12_+, Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM (R) wrote: Another problem. I cannot pop-in with my mailclient. But cannot pop-in by outlook or whatever. Are you sure that you can reach the POP server from another host? May be a DNS problem? Another thing to check is the tcpserver -x option blocking the connecting host. What error messages are you getting in lookout and your logs? The error-message I get is: Error. Account: 'mail.fotoaktmodelle.de', Server: 'mail.fotoaktmodelle.de', Protokoll: POP3, Port: 110, Secure (SSL): No, Socketerror: 10054, Fehlernummer: 0x800CCC0E Socket Error, what can I do? Did your server log a connection attempt? Regs, Oliver -- H. D. Lee
