Re: [courier-users] Re: RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Giovanni Panozzo
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:35:00 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni Panozzo writes: > > > and that solved most, but not all, of my problems: > > > > a) Every HTML message sent ftom Outlook Express 5.5 Italian has > > an invalid 8bit section at the beginning. > > File a

Re: [courier-users] Re: imapd slow

2003-03-11 Thread James A Baker
On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 09:13 US/Central, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Average users don't really know what to do. They delete messages (even "good" ones) when their archive grows beyond what their tools (i.e. client+connection+server) can manage. Then they really don't _need_ them, do they now

[courier-users] Dropped connection during LOGIN from missing maildir

2003-03-11 Thread elijah
When I issue the IMAP command LOGIN for a valid user/password with no maildir, courier-imap drops the connection. This seems like a reasonable response to me. Unfortunately, this causes the popular web mail client squirrelmail to go into an endless loop and eat up all the available CPU until apach

[courier-users] Courier 20030311

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Download: http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php Changes: * Solaris and OS.X-specific fixes * authmysql fixes * open_smtp_relay() call in the vpopmail module is broken. Disable it, until it gets fixed. --- This SF.net email is sponsored

[courier-users] Re: Help! Problem with post install tests - More info

2003-03-11 Thread James House
At 3/11/2003 09:47 PM -0500, you wrote: James House writes: Mar 11 11:17:04 brick courierd: id=0336E206.3E6E2806.554D,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=: 550 User unknown. Correct. Verify that 'brick.foo.net' is properly listed in locals. Verify that 'test' is actually in the password file, with

RE: [courier-users] Re: attempt to use aliasdir/.courier files fails

2003-03-11 Thread Mark McEahern
[Sam Varshavchik] > They should be named > > aliasdir/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:com > aliasdir/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:com > > See the description of the difference between the 'locals' and > 'hosteddomains' file. > > A better approach is to define a dummy alias in the aliases file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: foo1 >

[courier-users] Re: problem with LOGIN command and script

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
imap bert writes: [ HTML content follows ] Hello All,  >telepaths are out to lunch Aalrighty then...     Here's a dump of the IMAP server/client dialog: =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2003.03.11 10:06:13 =~=~=~=~

Re: [courier-users] Re: Help! Problem with post install tests - More info

2003-03-11 Thread James House
At 3/11/2003 06:04 PM -0500, you wrote: James House writes: Mar 11 11:17:04 brick courierd: id=0336E206.3E6E2806.554D,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=: 550 User unknown. Correct. Verify that 'brick.foo.net' is properly listed in locals. Verify that 'test' is actually in the password file, with

Re: [courier-users] problem with LOGIN command and script

2003-03-11 Thread imap bert
Hello All,  >telepaths are out to lunch Aalrighty then...     Here's a dump of the IMAP server/client dialog: =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2003.03.11 10:06:13 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copy

Re: [courier-users] Performance issues with LARGE mailboxes

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Penz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On one of the courier/qmail/squirrelmail boxes I run for a client, there > are several clients with directories that have say between 9,000 - 20,000 > emails.. With Maildir writing every email

Re: [courier-users] Courier 20030308

2003-03-11 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:37:32PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Download: http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php > > Here we go: new configuration file - "queuefill" - sets a timer that > periodically re-scans the mail queue when processing a large backlog. > Defaults to 5 minutes; set to

[courier-users] Re: RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Giovanni Panozzo writes: and that solved most, but not all, of my problems: a) Every HTML message sent ftom Outlook Express 5.5 Italian has an invalid 8bit section at the beginning. File a bug report with Microsoft. As you've noted, normally illegal 8-bit content gets rejected. Now, it is

[courier-users] Re: Performance issues with LARGE mailboxes

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On one of the courier/qmail/squirrelmail boxes I run for a client, there are several clients with directories that have say between 9,000 - 20,000 emails.. With Maildir writing every email to a file, this makes things intolerably slow for the users.. Beyond converting t

[courier-users] Re: attempt to use aliasdir/.courier files fails

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mark McEahern writes: I have a domain that's listed in: hosteddomains esmtpacceptmailfor I want to be able to run an external program for mail sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I setup: aliasdir/.courier-foo aliasdir/.courier-foo-request They should be named aliasdir/

[courier-users] Re: Help! Problem with post install tests - More info

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
James House writes: Wooops - I didn't include all of the error message in my first e-mail... there are actually 2 lines printed for each sent e-mail - notice that the error message is "User unknown". Mar 11 11:17:04 brick courierd: id=0336E206.3E6E2806.554D,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=: 550

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Giovanni Panozzo
Eduardo Roldan wrote: Please tell us what are the top problems you face with your customers caused by the strict RFC compliance of Courier. I apologize. Thomas gave me the right solution opt BOFHBADMIME=accept(without spaces between '=' and accept!!!) in /etc/courier/bofh and that solved m

[courier-users] Re: RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Giovanni Panozzo writes: My doubts are: - can I remove/comment the code for RFC2045_ERRBADBOUNDARY without breaking Courier code ? (according the Courier FAQs, this action does not seem to be healty) The server code won't break. Your mail clients will probably break. This error message i

[courier-users] Re: Help! Problem with post install tests

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
James House writes: I'm on RedHat 7.3, and the maillog contains the following (I've replaced the real domain name in this log message with "foo.net"): Mar 11 11:17:04 brick courierd: id=0336E206.3E6E2806.554D,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=,status:failure The mail log would also contain other e

[courier-users] Re: MySQL files needed for authmysqlrc compile

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Trey Keifer writes: I would like to compile mysql auth. support into several servers running courier. What is the specific directory or file(s) that enable this during compiling? For obvious reasons I don't want to have to install mysql on every courier server. You only need to have mysql_config s

[courier-users] Re: mail arrive but get lost

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Lars Holmström Flystanet writes: [ HTML content follows ] I asked this question some days ago, but have got no response.   I am running courier 0.80 Maybe you got no response because there is no such thing as "courier 0.80". See http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#help -

[courier-users] Re: courier imap with IPv6 on solaris8

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andree Toonk writes: During configure I see the following: checking for structs in6_addr, sockaddr_in6, and sockaddr_storage... yes checking for IPv6 flavor... unknown IPv6 is in a state of flux, somewhat. There are at least two different IPv6 structures and definitions in use, and the configure

[courier-users] Re: courier - imap - authmysql and SUBFOLDERS

2003-03-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
lysergsd writes: Hi all out there, my problem is that, dosent matter which email client i use, when i would create an subfolder in the mailbox(Maildir) See http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#namespace problem is clear, id like to see, for example the Sent Folder in the same dir as Inbox not a

[courier-users] attempt to use aliasdir/.courier files fails

2003-03-11 Thread Mark McEahern
I have a domain that's listed in: hosteddomains esmtpacceptmailfor I want to be able to run an external program for mail sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I setup: aliasdir/.courier-foo aliasdir/.courier-foo-request and ran makealiases. Each of these dot-courier fil

[courier-users] Performance issues with LARGE mailboxes

2003-03-11 Thread michael
On one of the courier/qmail/squirrelmail boxes I run for a client, there are several clients with directories that have say between 9,000 - 20,000 emails.. With Maildir writing every email to a file, this makes things intolerably slow for the users.. Beyond converting to mbox, is there a better w

[courier-users] Help! Problem with post install tests - More info

2003-03-11 Thread James House
Wooops - I didn't include all of the error message in my first e-mail... there are actually 2 lines printed for each sent e-mail - notice that the error message is "User unknown". Mar 11 11:17:04 brick courierd: id=0336E206.3E6E2806.554D,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=: 550 User unknown. Mar

[courier-users] courier - imap - authmysql and SUBFOLDERS

2003-03-11 Thread lysergsd
Hi all out there, my problem is that, dosent matter which email client i use, when i would create an subfolder in the mailbox(Maildir) root dir -> "Faild" but if i create one in as subfolder of inbox everything works fine. So please if any one can help, hop that the problem is clear, id like to

[courier-users] mail arrive but get lost

2003-03-11 Thread Lars Holmström Flystanet
I asked this question some days ago, but have got no response.   I am running courier 0.80   I notice in the /var/log/maillog it says   "size=1097,success: Message delivered."   But when I poll mu IMAP mailbox there are no mails.   How can I check that mails are delivered and to where ?

Re: [courier-users] authdaemon logging/ldap

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Augustus
Hey Jeremy, First of all, I would try using the clearpassword field first within authldaprc. This will ensure that all the troubles are on the server side. In my syslog.conf, I have: # Log all OpenLDAP info in its own file local4.*/var/log/ldap In

[courier-users] MySQL files needed for authmysqlrc compile

2003-03-11 Thread Trey Keifer
I would like to compile mysql auth. support into several servers running courier. What is the specific directory or file(s) that enable this during compiling? For obvious reasons I don't want to have to install mysql on every courier server. Thank you, - Trey Keifer - [EMAI

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On 11/03/03 17:19, "Giovanni Panozzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas von Hassel wrote: > >>> >> >> I must say i have no problems with receiving mail, even badly formatted >> ones, with courier. All that can be turned off if you want to ? >> >> /thomas > > Maybe I forgot something about t

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Eduardo Roldan
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:19, Giovanni Panozzo wrote: > After two years of courier MTA/IMAP use in a ISP (1k mailboxes), > we learned that being so RFC compliant > is only a big cost for us, in terms of helpdesk calls and > customer unsatisfaction, so we are truly considering to > change again our M

[courier-users] Help! Problem with post install tests

2003-03-11 Thread James House
Hi all, I've just built courier 0.41 and I'm running the post-install tests. I've tried running the "Test child process termination" test a few times now, with no luck. Zero messages make it into the "test/new" directory, and zero make it to the "bounces/new" directory. I'm on RedHat 7.3, and

[courier-users] Re: RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Michell
Giovanni Panozzo writes: Thomas von Hassel wrote: I must say i have no problems with receiving mail, even badly formatted ones, with courier. All that can be turned off if you want to ? /thomas Maybe I forgot something about turning off errors... how ? One year ago I removed ERR8BITCONTEN

RE: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
I hear you, and I agree, BUT if you are talking about 8-bit messages, that can be turned off... Users will be much happier then - Or can you give a more specific example? This is the only annoyance I've experienced - and it's fixable! m/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Giovanni Panozzo
Thomas von Hassel wrote: I must say i have no problems with receiving mail, even badly formatted ones, with courier. All that can be turned off if you want to ? /thomas Maybe I forgot something about turning off errors... how ? One year ago I removed ERR8BITCONTENT as specified in the FAQ. The

[courier-users] courier imap with IPv6 on solaris8

2003-03-11 Thread Andree Toonk
Hello everyone, I would like to use courier IMAP(courier-imap-1.7.0.20030307) with IPv6. Everything seems to compile and build ok, when I start it, I see it only listens on IPv4 sockets :( It seems courier isn't compiled with ipv6 support :( I compiled like this: (I executed this file sh "doconf"

[courier-users] Re: imapd slow

2003-03-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
James A Baker writes: [...] because I store "useful" messages in much more well organized folder categories (from 10 to 500 messages per folder typically) so I can find what I'm looking for quickly when I need it, rather than searching a 10,000 or 100,000 message folder for 1 message. Average us

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas von Hassel
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:19 PM, Giovanni Panozzo wrote: After two years of courier MTA/IMAP use in a ISP (1k mailboxes), we learned that being so RFC compliant is only a big cost for us, in terms of helpdesk calls and customer unsatisfaction, so we are truly considering to change again ou

Re: [courier-users] Re: imapd slow

2003-03-11 Thread James A Baker
On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 01:20 US/Central, Mitch ((WebCob)) wrote: Well, I don't know how many people "very few" is, but I do know, that as an alternative to MS-Exchange, IMAP server storage is finding more and more use amoung my clients and clients of those I network with. Just as a reminde

Re: [courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 12:19 11/03/2003, you wrote: Just one thought read RFC 1958, paragraph 3.9 3.9 Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving. Implementations must follow specifications precisely when sending to the network, and tolerate faulty input from the network. When in doubt, discard

[courier-users] RFC compliance: goodbye to courier MTA

2003-03-11 Thread Giovanni Panozzo
After two years of courier MTA/IMAP use in a ISP (1k mailboxes), we learned that being so RFC compliant is only a big cost for us, in terms of helpdesk calls and customer unsatisfaction, so we are truly considering to change again our MTA (not the IMAP/POP3 server). Just one thought read RFC 19

Re: [courier-users] Re: imapd slow

2003-03-11 Thread Juri Haberland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on > 03/10/03 >at 11:44 PM, David Ehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >>> Mitch \(WebCob\) writes: >>> >>> > To make a statement like this one would assume there is such a survey? Or is >>> > it a