Re: [courier-users] Re: Problems with Hotmail and required MIME headers

2002-01-17 Thread Andrew Burnette
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Re: [courier-users] A virtual example

2002-01-17 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, thomas debel wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a working example and was hoping for one: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix account = bob1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]unix account = bob2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix account = bob3 > > How to keep the bob's email seperate. > W

[courier-users] Re: backup MX?

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Daniel Higgins writes: > how long will courier defer the delivery of a mail for a domain it is the > backup mx for before bouncing it? The default amount of time Courier tries to deliver mail, before giving up. The default time is one week. -- Sam __

Re: [courier-users] A virtual example

2002-01-17 Thread Sysop
thomas debel wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a working example and was hoping for one: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]unix account = bob1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]unix account = bob2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]unix account = bob3 > How to keep the bob's email seperate. > We tried all the solutions in the

[courier-users] A virtual example

2002-01-17 Thread thomas debel
There doesn't seem to be a working example and was hoping for one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix account = bob1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] unix account = bob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]unix account = bob3 How to keep the bob's email seperate. We tried all the solutions in the docs and always end

RE: [courier-users] Re: New User help please

2002-01-17 Thread Walter Taucher
Thank you! that did it. Courier is looking good to us. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [courier-users] Re: New User help please Walter Taucher wr

RE: [courier-users] searching archives

2002-01-17 Thread Lance Lovette
No, here's what I dug up after I asked the same question two weeks ago... Let me know if you stumble on anything else. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [courier-users] Searching archives I ran across

[courier-users] backup MX?

2002-01-17 Thread Daniel Higgins
how long will courier defer the delivery of a mail for a domain it is the backup mx for before bouncing it? ie i have mail.glphi-tech.com listed as MX 10 and netcom.netc.net as MX 20. if glphi-tech.com goes down, how long will courrier keep retrying before giving up? ___

[courier-users] domain bucket

2002-01-17 Thread Petr Burian
Hello, I would like to ask if it is possible to set up domain bucket (or domain bin, I am not sure how to translate it to English) in courier 0.36 or higher. I tried it some time but with no result ;(( Thanks for any help Petr ___ courier-users maili

RE: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread courier_users
Hi I created a file called /tmp/a with the following lines Subject: Test To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Test I then run the following as root on Redhat 7.1 Cat /tmp/a | /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail [EMAIL PR

[courier-users] Re: RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mark Constable writes: > Yes to the last one. Every time I try to self-maintain various > patched versions of any particular package then that need and > situation deteriorates into a disaster over time but that's my > problem, not courier-mta or this lists. For the better half of last year I h

[courier-users] Re: serving different content with imap?

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andreas Schuldei writes: > However, even if I start different imap servers and authlib for > authentification and finding the right maildir for one set of > content, I get the same set of data from authlib for every imap > server (no mætter which port it runs on). But I need to find the > differe

[courier-users] Re: Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi > > Sorry. I forgot to mention that the server has courier (POP/SMTP/IMAP) > installed (so sendmail was replaced and mail (mailx) does not work). mail/mailx certainly works with Courier, as long as you feed it only 7-bit data, as Roland mentioned. > Is it sti

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:47, Tomas Fasth wrote: > I think you're right, but your moment of disappointment seem to > affect your judgement. It's a couple of patched lines of source > code, nothing more. Multply that by a dozen servers AND every time a new version of courier-mta comes out vs apt-get

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Rich Buggy
> Sorry. I forgot to mention that the server has courier (POP/SMTP/IMAP) > installed (so sendmail was replaced and mail (mailx) does not work). > > Is it still possible? Yes. Just use sendmail (the version that comes with courier). It's not a full version of sendmail but it will allow you to se

Re: [courier-users] 505 user unknown (was virtual email)

2002-01-17 Thread Roland Schneider
--Tony Bibbs wrote on 17.01.2002 15:17 -0600: > sorry, I meant to say that x and y are the uid/gid respectively of the > user courierusers. This is ok then, hope you also have: /home/courierusers/couriertest/[tmp|new|cur] > I did a 'telnet localhost 25' and got: > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > teln

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Roland Schneider
--Johannes Erdfelt wrote on 17.01.2002 15:58 -0500: [...] >> #!/bin/sh >> >> ( echo "Subject: Whatever you want, 7bit-chars only >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> "; cat /var/log/my_log ) | sendmail

[courier-users] Work-around to allow "%" or ":" as name/domain sperator for NetscapeMessenger - authmysql

2002-01-17 Thread Randy Lewis (Kenneth R. Lewis)
Here is a little patch that allows for use of the "%" (percent), or ":" (colon) chars as separators for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] problem for Netscape Messenger clients in a virtual domain(s) environment. --- authmysqllib.c-save Thu Jan 17 11:41:41 2002 +++ authmysqllib.c Thu Jan 17 16:06:46 20

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Tomas Fasth
Mark, I think you're right, but your moment of disappointment seem to affect your judgement. It's a couple of patched lines of source code, nothing more. So what's the issue? Are you unable to compile a patched source tree yourself? Are you forbidden to tamper with open source by your employer? Do

Re: [courier-users] 505 user unknown (was virtual email)

2002-01-17 Thread Tony Bibbs
sorry, I meant to say that x and y are the uid/gid respectively of the user courierusers. I did a 'telnet localhost 25' and got: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused Which is very strange. It's almost like the service isn't running. I did a ps -ef to ver

[courier-users] serving different content with imap?

2002-01-17 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I plan to run several imap servers on one box, serving the same group of users different types of mails/content. My backend is a postgresql database, which I (of cause) authenticate against via the authlib. My MTA is postfix, which does not know about different imap folders, but can only deliver

RE: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread courier_users
Hi Sorry. I forgot to mention that the server has courier (POP/SMTP/IMAP) installed (so sendmail was replaced and mail (mailx) does not work). Is it still possible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roland Schneider Sent: Thursday, Ja

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002, Roland Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --Peter C. Norton wrote on 17.01.2002 11:30 -0800: > > > You mean something like > > > > # mail -s "my mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/my_log > > > > ??? > > Probably not, logs often contain 8bit-characters and they > need

[courier-users] debugging of authlib - postgresql

2002-01-17 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I have found the information about putting together sql queries for authentification against databases and put together some config file. However it does not work yet. even the login to the imap server is not working. I put together a perlscript that speakes imap protocol and prints out all the

Re: [courier-users] 505 user unknown (was virtual email)

2002-01-17 Thread Roland Schneider
--Tony Bibbs wrote on 17.01.2002 13:50 -0600: > running perftest1 I get a bunch of 505 user unknown errors in 505 ??? read them again and start with one single mail. Use either courier's sendmail or `telnet localhost 25`. > /var/log/maillog. I tried using submit as follows: > > /usr/lib/couri

Re: [courier-users] 505 user unknown (was virtual email)

2002-01-17 Thread Tony Bibbs
Also, to help: 1) hosteddomains directory doesn't exist 2) locals file has these entries: mydomain.com .mydomain.com localhost myhostname1 3) can't find the me file --Tony On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 13:50, Tony Bibbs wrote: > running perftest1 I get a bunch of 505 user unknown errors in > /var/log/m

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Roland Schneider
--Peter C. Norton wrote on 17.01.2002 11:30 -0800: > You mean something like > > # mail -s "my mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/my_log > > ??? Probably not, logs often contain 8bit-characters and they need the proper encoding - at least with stock courier :) #!/bin/sh ( echo "Subject: Wha

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 03:00, Papo Napolitano wrote: > > WTF is going on with you ppl??? > The question asked was "Is there any reason I can't just do a make > install?", not "which mta is the best?" > Thank you for answerring Kens original question. The reason he asked the question under this Su

[courier-users] 505 user unknown (was virtual email)

2002-01-17 Thread Tony Bibbs
running perftest1 I get a bunch of 505 user unknown errors in /var/log/maillog. I tried using submit as follows: /usr/lib/courier/libexec/courier/submit -vrfy=couriertest@localhost local 'dns; helo-fqhn (host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)' and I get the same results. I verified that /usr/lib/courier/etc/lo

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Sysop
Tony Bibbs wrote: >Makes sense to use the domain name. > >Ok, so I have this setup and I try testing this by creating a maildir >called couriertest and another called bounces. I then edit >.courier-test-default to have "./couriertest" and .courier to have >"./bounces" and then I run: > >perftes

Re: [courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
You mean something like # mail -s "my mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/my_log ??? On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:40:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to create a bash script that will parse certain log files for > errors and forward them to postmaster. > > I can manage e

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:03:02PM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote: > I'm assuming I need to do a maildirmake as that user to create the > maildir. Absolutely correct. > My question (maybe this is more than I need to know) is how > does Courier use a single maildir for multiple users. Specifically, if

[courier-users] Sending mail from the console

2002-01-17 Thread courier_users
Hi I'm trying to create a bash script that will parse certain log files for errors and forward them to postmaster. I can manage everything except the message delivery. What command can I use to delivery an email message from a bash shell. If possible, could you please provide an example of t

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Sysop
Tony Bibbs wrote: >Thanks Peter, that helps! > >OK, so what I did was I created a user called courieruser and the >system, for example, give it a uid of 3 and a gid of 4. I did an alter >table on passwd so that the uid/gid default to those values and I did an >update on the table to apply those v

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Sysop
Tony Bibbs wrote: >I'm a Courier convert and I've dug around in the installation document >an can't seem to find how to configure Courier to use virtual email >accounts as opposed to creating valid system accounts (I'll be using >mysql authentication). Any points of reference, gotchas, etc would

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Tony Bibbs
Thanks Peter, that helps! OK, so what I did was I created a user called courieruser and the system, for example, give it a uid of 3 and a gid of 4. I did an alter table on passwd so that the uid/gid default to those values and I did an update on the table to apply those values to any existing rec

Re: [courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Peter C. Norton
You assign one real uid/gid combination(to own the maildirs, etc) and you build a database (either userdb, ldap, postgres, mysql, or anything else you want to program for) and use that database to authenticate users, with all uid and gid set the the virtual user that you set up. Some schema examp

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Papo Napolitano
WTF is going on with you ppl??? The question asked was "Is there any reason I can't just do a make install?", not "which mta is the best?" If you comment out the if's and do a "make", you'll notice only one file is recompiled (and that is courier/submit) So, if you fear the "make install", you

[courier-users] virtual email

2002-01-17 Thread Tony Bibbs
I'm a Courier convert and I've dug around in the installation document an can't seem to find how to configure Courier to use virtual email accounts as opposed to creating valid system accounts (I'll be using mysql authentication). Any points of reference, gotchas, etc would be appreciated. Thank

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Marcus Felipe Pereira wrote: > This config OPTION is what I suggested two days ago. > > Compiling the full Courier package (mta, authdaemon, tcpd, pop, > imap, sqwebmail and maildrop) is very painful for many people. patch -p1 < ../patch... make *MY FLESH!!* > I see only

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Aly S.P Dharshi
Exim has a the same command line parameters as sendmail actually, this is to keep compatability with sendmail, I find that it is just that Sendmail was horrible, even our comp sci department has issues with it but want to stick to it since it is stock Sun software, but Exim has offered alot more,

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, Once more Postfix_is_a_Drop_in_replacement_for_Sendmail It plays nice with Courier-Imap. However if you really do need help well get this. If you mail me off list i will get you started. The total time after compile for a basic setup is err 2 variables changed in one file. For more elabo

[courier-users] Bug in IMAP server threading code

2002-01-17 Thread Bob Pepin
Hi, I've found a bug in the threading code that makes it not comply to the ietf draft anymore and keeps the Mulberry client from working. The problem was basically that the draft requires top-level THREAD responses to be of the form "* THREAD (1) (2) (3)", but courier was sending "* THREAD 1 2

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, Well you might want to consider Postfix since it is the closest drop in replacement for sendmail. That is its intent from day one. Courier smtpd really can't say other than if Courier-Imap is any indication it is very good. Exim don't know. QMail that is quite diff than Postfix and Sendm

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Marcus Felipe Pereira
> I cannot believe there is not a config setting to give us > courier users the OPTION of being RFC strict with binary > attachments or keeping the peace with employers and clients. This config OPTION is what I suggested two days ago. Compiling the full Courier package (mta, authdaemon, tcpd, p

Re: [courier-users] Re: 2 probs: return-path set wrong and /etc/aliases

2002-01-17 Thread Roland Schneider
--Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote on 17.01.2002 13:38 +: >>> id=0001F9D3.3C458CC9.5940,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=<"| >>> /usr/local/listar/listar -s technik"@bnbt.de>: 550 User unknown. Jan 16 >> Try without parantheses, as documented in makealiases(8). > > I tried without parentheses and sti

[courier-users] Re: 2 probs: return-path set wrong and /etc/aliases

2002-01-17 Thread Gerhard Pfeiffer
Hallo, Roland Schneider wrote: >>> technik: "| /usr/local/listat/listar -s technik" >> >> I put this into the aliases dir and courier tells me in his logfile: >> Jan 16 15:23:05 earth courierd: >> id=0001F9D3.3C458CC9.5940,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=<"| >> /usr/local/listar/listar -s

[courier-users] Re: weird domain bug and rfc1035

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Daniel Higgins writes: > erm well that domain has been around for 6+ years > > the MX is pointing at the mail server, but not the A record (which we're not > pointing anywhere right now, but might in the future) and that causes that > problem No, you were not listening to me. Two of the six

[courier-users] Re: make fails on solaris 8

2002-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Knecht writes: > I'm using a solairs 8 Intel box. > > These are my settings for courier-0.37.0 > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/courier --with-db=gdbm > --with-mailuser=courier --with-mailgroup=staff --with-mailgid > --with-mailuid --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs --with

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Constable
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:31, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020117 05:56]: wrote: > > Apologies for a "me too" post and not answerring your > > question but FWIW I'm also up against it and have to > > either re-in

[courier-users] IMAP quota

2002-01-17 Thread Taymour A. El Erian
Hi, I am using qmail-ldap and courier imap (I run imap from tcpserver with auth_imap which comes with qmail-ldap). I am having problems with folders, if I try to write a copy of sent mail to the sent_mail folder I get quota exceeded message although it is still empty. The entry for each use

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020117 05:56]: wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:33, Ken Nagorski wrote: > > > OK. I am recompiling courier without these checks. I don't care what > > garbage ends up in users mailboxes. I am sick of dealing with compliants... &

[courier-users] minor problem

2002-01-17 Thread Ilkka Urtamo
Hi Im a newbie with courier so bear with me. I have successfully installed courier imap to my RH72. I use pam authetification and systemV start up skript form www pages I have outlook as a client, i can connect to the server. i can move mails in and out from the server to my "local" outlook fold

Re: [courier-users] RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT

2002-01-17 Thread Tomas Fasth
Juha Saarinen wrote: > > I've found the combination of Exim as the MTA and Courier-IMAP + SqWebmail > very good indeed. Exim is very flexible and much easier to configure than > Sendmail, and Courier-IMAP and SqWebmail just work... can't ask for more > than that. ;-) I second that, Juha. I run