Re: [vchkpw] How do I unsubscribe...
Ah ha, that was it... I've been using an alias address for the past year and I forgot what the original address was. LOL, thanks Sorry for rotting up the mailinglist. Niek wrote: On 2/7/2006 9:08 PM +0100, James McMillan wrote: Hey Rick, Thanks, but I've sent an email to List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3 times now... me thinks ezmlm is borked? Or something. Jimmy You have to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the email address you used when you signed up for this list. Niek Baakman -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
Re: [vchkpw] How do I unsubscribe...
Hey Rick, Thanks, but I've sent an email to List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3 times now... me thinks ezmlm is borked? Or something. Jimmy Rick Macdougall wrote: James McMillan wrote: Hey, I love you people, but I need to move it to another account Use the headers Luke! List-Post: <mailto:vchkpw@inter7.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: vchkpw@inter7.com -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
Re: [vchkpw] How do I unsubscribe...
I tried that... :( Niek wrote: On 2/7/2006 8:36 PM +0200, James McMillan wrote: Hey, I love you people, but I need to move it to another account Take a look at the headers of the mails this list sents. Niek Baakman -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
[vchkpw] How do I unsubscribe...
Hey, I love you people, but I need to move it to another account -- James McMillan, CIO The NetMark Consulting Group www.thenetmark.com 888.767.8750 x106
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
pretty simple to decipher. Many people disagree with you. This is subjective, I guess. It's looking mighty old these days... You say that like "old" is a bad thing. In the software industry, it's anathaema. like the Franklin Stove, it still does exactly what it was designed to do. How many Franklin Stoves are they selling today? :) But in terms of complaints over nearly a decade, that's a stunningly low number of "problems", none of them actually serious. Quite untrue. vpopmail exists as a testament to a problem that qmail was capable of handling, but which was never realized. A lot of volunteers and a few small companies put a lot of work into vpopmail not because qmail couldn't do what they needed to do, but because they had serious problems with how it was done. Then again, had I undertaken it myself, I would have patched qmail for many of the things that vpopmail did... though I understand the design philosophy of retaining qmail's basic structures. think it says something about the ease of maintenance, ease of patching, and ease of configuration that qmail has lasted this long virtually unchanged. "Creak"? Far from it. No, I think it says quite a bit about how poor the alternatives were back in 1997. They were positively horrible. Today, you'll find that most of the patches being made are from long-standing qmail users (look at the age of many of the patches, btw) that just can't or won't take the time, energy, cost; risks involved with moving to another mail platform. I'm securely in this camp. I'm not moving, but I'm not totally happy with the status quo, either. While it may be harder to install than ./configure && make && make install, I don't see any reason to think qmail isn't up to the task anymore. qmail itself isn't. Plain and simple. Without all the patches, tuning information and hard work of the admins that have used qmail for years, qmail would be completely irrelevant right now. In fact, I'd say that it is... netqmail and its patched friends are what are relevant, the qmail source code is just the chair that those stand on. Without those patches, most people couldn't even compile qmail anymore. P.S. I've also paid Inter7 for consultation time to set up clamav with their spam/virus checking solution. Nothing ever came of it, but I never asked for any money back... because vpopmail has been quite good to me. -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
Haha, Let the bidding begin. tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: There are a lot of us here using qmail and able to give you an e-mail service. So you can continue to use qmail and your boss will have an outsourced service! Ciao, Tonino At 15.29 05/07/2005, you wrote: Guys, let me explain why I'm asking this. My boss (not me) has doubts about Qmail. He wants me to search for new mailservers of mail solutions like, for example, outsourcing the mail function. So I'm asking this now to have more arguments to convince him to stay with Qmail. My boss (and me) esteem Inter7 and we'd like to hear from you the answer of this question. Regards, bnegrao Hi Inter7 and everybody, I'd like to know why do you opt Qmail as your mailserver? Why not Postfix? Why not Qmail-ldap? Why not any other that I don't know about? Would you work with some other mailserver? If so, which one? Thank you in advance, -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Oh, interesting... Thanks DAve wrote: James McMillan wrote: Ok, just for fun... I chmod -R 777 the postmaster dir. Then I logged in, and sent a mail, and back, then checked the new permissions. Now the directory shows uid 89, which is my old mailservers uid for vpopmail. The new server's vpopmail uid 1008. It seems that the uid is statically compiled somewhere I just don't know where. G FreeBSD reserves the uid and gid of 89 just for vpopmail and vchkpw. It would be a good idea to use them to avoid ports conflicts later down the road. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html DAve Chris Godwin wrote: tough one... - Original Message ----- From: "James McMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Thanks Jeremy. that did the trick. Jimmy Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:39 pm, James McMillan wrote: Thanks, I actually just ran into that before you wrote, but how do i update the assign.cdb file? man -M /var/qmail/man qmail-newu -Jeremy -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Thanks, I actually just ran into that before you wrote, but how do i update the assign.cdb file? Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:31 pm, James McMillan wrote: Ok, just for fun... I chmod -R 777 the postmaster dir. Then I logged in, and sent a mail, and back, then checked the new permissions. Now the directory shows uid 89, which is my old mailservers uid for vpopmail. The new server's vpopmail uid 1008. It seems that the uid is statically compiled somewhere I just don't know where. it's in the /var/qmail/users/assign file. Generally when you migrate between systems you should make sure all relevant information (uids, paths to binaries/directories, etc) are all the same as they were on the old system. Otherwise you will have problems like the one you are experiencing now. -Jeremy -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Ok, just for fun... I chmod -R 777 the postmaster dir. Then I logged in, and sent a mail, and back, then checked the new permissions. Now the directory shows uid 89, which is my old mailservers uid for vpopmail. The new server's vpopmail uid 1008. It seems that the uid is statically compiled somewhere I just don't know where. G Chris Godwin wrote: tough one... - Original Message - From: "James McMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw FreeBSD, source Chris Godwin wrote: perms do you have on the folders? what distro, using packages or source? - Original Message - From: "James McMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied Ok, it's been about a week now of upgrading my box. I've changed from vpasswd cdb's to the mysql auth type. I've imported all my old mail/domains/users/etc. Everything seems good, and I was planning to do the flip this weekend... well, everything but imap. noticed trying to login with squirrelmail, it rejected every user. vuserinfo is succesful, but my maillog states the following: Jun 30 15:37:03 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster": Permission denied Jun 30 15:40:20 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster": Permission denied Jun 30 15:41:38 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/mint": Permission denied imap is running as root minoru# ps axfu | grep cour root 512 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.05 [couriertcpd] root 515 0.0 0.1 1212 712 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd root 522 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 [couriertcpd] root 524 0.0 0.1 1208 672 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd-ssl and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw Any clues? -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
[vchkpw] [qmr] imapd: chdir Permission denied
Ok, it's been about a week now of upgrading my box. I've changed from vpasswd cdb's to the mysql auth type. I've imported all my old mail/domains/users/etc. Everything seems good, and I was planning to do the flip this weekend... well, everything but imap. noticed trying to login with squirrelmail, it rejected every user. vuserinfo is succesful, but my maillog states the following: Jun 30 15:37:03 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster": Permission denied Jun 30 15:40:20 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/postmaster": Permission denied Jun 30 15:41:38 minoru imapd: chdir "/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/xxx.com/mint": Permission denied imap is running as root minoru# ps axfu | grep cour root 512 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.05 [couriertcpd] root 515 0.0 0.1 1212 712 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd root 522 0.0 0.2 1252 864 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 [couriertcpd] root 524 0.0 0.1 1208 672 con- I 3:25PM 0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger imapd-ssl and the directory is 700 vpopmail:vchkpw Any clues?
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Clayton, thanks... that's exactully what i did. Everything seems good now. Thanks a million for you input. Jimmy Clayton Weise wrote: Slight correction on my verbage there: Second would be improved performance, since you'll be querying a local database instead of having to travel across NFS to deliver the mail. I meant to say that it won't have to travel across NFS to find if the user exists, only to deliver the mail. -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Hey thanks... Let me explain the scenario a bit better. NFS Server is a Slackware 10.1 box. NFS Client (and qmail/vpopmail server) is a FreeBSD 5.4 box. My server side client export file looks like this. /mnt/hd/mail_store/test minoru(no_root_squash,rw,sync) I believe the 'no_root_squash' flag is the equiv of the -maproot=0 for BSD/other OS's. I'm not having any issue at all creating files, chowning, or chmoding. It seems that it's a simple locking problem. [lockd] seems to be running on the NFS host, however I'm wondering if it's the difference in NFS standards. I've compiled vpopmail with the --disable-file-locking configure flag, and then everything seems to work fine, however it's not very multi-user-safe. Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Jimmy Andre Fortin wrote: I use NFS for my vpopmail directories, and haven't seen this.. I'm assuming you're using CDB files for auth; that means the DB files are all on NFS. If you don't have your root mapped properly, you won't be able to create files. Try using -maproot=0 (freebsd, others may be similar) in your exports on the NFS server, and re-mount the NFS mountpoint; see if that helps. Andre -Original Message- From: James McMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:47 AM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS Has anyone tried to hold the vpopmail home as a NFS mount? I've gotten the mount setup properly, and the permissions are fine, however when adding a domain or a user I recieve the following error. minoru# ./bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: enter password again: Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: no auth connection If copy out all the files in the ~vpopmail mount, unmount, and copy the files into the now-local ~/vpopmail I do not have this problem. Has anyone done this, or know what the problem is? Thanks in advance. Jimmy McMillan -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106 -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
[vchkpw] vpopmail via NFS
Has anyone tried to hold the vpopmail home as a NFS mount? I've gotten the mount setup properly, and the permissions are fine, however when adding a domain or a user I recieve the following error. minoru# ./bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: enter password again: Failed while attempting to add user to auth backend Error: no auth connection If copy out all the files in the ~vpopmail mount, unmount, and copy the files into the now-local ~/vpopmail I do not have this problem. Has anyone done this, or know what the problem is? Thanks in advance. Jimmy McMillan -- James McMillan V.P. Of Information Technology www.TheNetMark.com 412 New Broadway Brooklawn, NJ 08030 888.767.8750 X106
