RE: [courier-users] [request], please extende MAXPERIP options

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
I'm not sure, but I thought localhost was expempt from this limit, which would let you connect unlimited times if you went through a tunnel - alternatively, you could run two daemons - one for your webmail, and one for your other users - BUT, your webmail probably can't have any more connections th

RE: [courier-users] Prevent folder deletion

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Hey Matt - I never realized the Trash folder was undeletable... if that's the case, I imagine that is hardcoded - you could look... and add your own folder. I do remember discussion of placing files owner by another user inside the folders to prevent them from being deleted. If you experiment, you

[courier-users] dynamic delivery instruction and 550 User unknown

2004-02-12 Thread Nat Sakimura
Hi. (B (BI am using dynamic delivery instruction in (B/etc/courier/aliasdir/courier-default . (BThe external program makes a lookup into a database and decides where is the (Bfinal destination. I want to make it such that if the lookup fails, the mta (Breturns 550 User unknown to the client p

[courier-users] [request], please extende MAXPERIP options

2004-02-12 Thread Miroslav Ris
hi, thanks Sam for courier-imap server. it's really best! i am using this over 2 years. request: please add per tcp/ip:netmask MAXPERIP options for courier-imap server. problem: using webmail (squirrelmail and smm) for access to mail boxes (about 5000 users, and set MAXPERIP=5000). but same user

[courier-users] Re: Failure running .make after configuring courier-imap

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jacobs, Andre writes:  HTML content follows  Failure running .make after configuring courier-imap Hello,  I am running into a wall. I am trying to configure and install courier-imap, to be used with postfix, which I successfully built and installed. My problem is that the make script is

[courier-users] Failure running .make after configuring courier-imap

2004-02-12 Thread Jacobs, Andre
Title: Failure running .make after configuring courier-imap Hello,     I am running into a wall. I am trying to configure and install courier-imap, to be used with postfix, which I successfully built and installed. My problem is that the make script is looking for openssl/ssl.h and err.h

Re: [courier-users] Message submission process (Re: Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?)

2004-02-12 Thread Jon Nelson
I won't quote more than necessary, but I *would* like to say thanks for clarifying. That most certainly helps out. I'm still a little unclear as to where exactly global filters are invoked and played with, but since I'm composing this email after having read a few responses (which ask questions

[courier-users] Prevent folder deletion

2004-02-12 Thread Matt
I have an exim router that automatically handles spam for virtual users, by delivering it to a Maildir/.Spam folder. I would like to make this folder "undeletable", like the Trash to maintain the integrity of the exim router. Is there an easy way to do this, or is the Trash functionality hard-cod

[courier-users] Re: Message submission process (Re: Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?)

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Markus Wernig writes: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:22:37 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diligently divulged: The submit process is responsible for inserting a new message into the mail queue. submit gets invoked by sendmail, courieresmtpd, or the courierdsn modules, as a child process. [...]

[courier-users] Re: ESMTP Authentication problems

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
John BOSSERT writes: Current issue - setting up ESMTP to use (simple) authentication. ESMTP is showing me: 220 hermes.unifiedsignal.com ESMTP 250-Requested mail action okay, completed There is no such message "Requested mail action okay, completed" in Courier. Whatever this is, it's not Courier

RE: [courier-users] Odd sendmail issue

2004-02-12 Thread Malcolm Weir
> -Original Message- > From: Anand Buddhdev > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:09 PM > > There is probably an obvious fix for this, but I'm noticing that > > emails to a particular domain are failing. I'm receiving > > the following in the diagnostics output: > > > > I0 P mail.sarc

Re: [courier-users] Message submission process (Re: Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?)

2004-02-12 Thread Markus Wernig
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:22:37 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diligently divulged: > The submit process is responsible for inserting a new message into the mail > queue. submit gets invoked by sendmail, courieresmtpd, or the courierdsn > modules, as a child process. > [...] > Not that

RE: [courier-users] Message submission process (Re: Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?)

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Hey Sam - Thanks! I think I understand a lot better, and imagine others do too... And of course if it isn't said often enough - we appreciate that you have a day job too and that there are always priorities... Now, for those of use who want to hack... I have a counter proposal... First the long t

[courier-users] ESMTP Authentication problems

2004-02-12 Thread John BOSSERT
Current issue - setting up ESMTP to use (simple) authentication. ESMTP is showing me: 220 hermes.unifiedsignal.com ESMTP 250-Requested mail action okay, completed 250-8BITMIME 250 SIZE No mention of: 250-AUTH LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN (I wouldn't expect to see DIGEST-MD5 or PLAIN, per ESM

[courier-users] Re: IMAP/POP-SSL and Comodo Certificates

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stefan Hornburg writes: Hello, I would like to know how to use Comodo SSL certificates with Courier POP/IMAP etc. Setting up Apache to recognize this is a no-brainer ... For Courier I did the following steps: - put the Comodo root certificates into /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts alongside with the

RE: [courier-users] Making user names case-insensitive?

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
search for locallowercase in the manual. The restriction is that ALL your user names and aliases MUST be in lower case... then all mixed case names will be converted to lower case before matching and local delivery. hth > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[courier-users] Message submission process (Re: Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?)

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jon Nelson writes: Mr. Sam: could you please give us a detailed "process overview" as to how messages go from (say, esmtpd) through submit, through the global filters, and then the final signaling of courierd? If the queue docs on courier-mta.org are close but a bit out of date (I don't see /any

Re: [courier-users] Odd sendmail issue

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Taroli
Other than having to specify an MX for a domain I don't administer, this worked great. Thanks! Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:19:43PM -0800, Bill Taroli wrote: There is probably an obvious fix for this, but I'm noticing that emails to a particular domain are fa

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Derrick T. Woolworth writes: I think its important to the evolution of Courier that it eventually support modification of messages from any courierfilter. I've never quite understood why this isn't allowed - possibly a filesize issue, security? I would only be guessing, but in the grand schem

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jon Nelson writes: I come from a qmail background, and it seems to me that 'submit' takes the place of qmail-inject and qmail-queue. It also seems like there might be some benefit to writing a qmail-inject-like wrapper for submit. Submit takes place of qmail-queue. sendmail takes place of qmail-

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mitch (WebCob) writes: Looking forward to the benchmarks - and also secretly wanting to try modifying a message file to see what happens. Maybe we misunderstood Sam - it is possible a modification could be ok as long as it doesn't corrupt the mime envelope?? Just a thought... No. The only modific

[courier-users] unimportant authmysqlrc question

2004-02-12 Thread P.R.
Hi This is just a question out of curiosity, not a problem: The sql database has a field home, with an absolute path to the (virtual) home directory, e.g. /var/mail/directory/account Is there a way to tell the authmysqlrc that there is a prefix which has to be put before every home directory? My

Re: [courier-users] Making user names case-insensitive?

2004-02-12 Thread Phillip Hutchings
touch $COURIER_PREFIX/etc/locallowercase On 13/02/2004, at 11:33 AM, Flavio Stanchina wrote: Is there a way to tell Courier that user names should be treated as case-insensitive? I know I should educate my users until they understand that email addresses are case-sensitive, but until then... -

Re: [courier-users] Making user names case-insensitive?

2004-02-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:33:45PM +0100, Flavio Stanchina wrote: > Is there a way to tell Courier that user names should be treated as > case-insensitive? > > I know I should educate my users until they understand that email > addresses are case-sensitive, but until then... man courier, and s

Re: [courier-users] Odd sendmail issue

2004-02-12 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:19:43PM -0800, Bill Taroli wrote: > There is probably an obvious fix for this, but I'm noticing that emails > to a particular domain are failing. I'm receiving the following in the > diagnostics output: > > I0 P mail.sarc.org [207.215.13.60] > I0 S STARTTLS > I0 T smt

[courier-users] Making user names case-insensitive?

2004-02-12 Thread Flavio Stanchina
Is there a way to tell Courier that user names should be treated as case-insensitive? I know I should educate my users until they understand that email addresses are case-sensitive, but until then... -- Ciao, Flavio Stanchina Trento - Italy

[courier-users] Odd sendmail issue

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Taroli
There is probably an obvious fix for this, but I'm noticing that emails to a particular domain are failing. I'm receiving the following in the diagnostics output: I0 P mail.sarc.org [207.215.13.60] I0 S STARTTLS I0 T smtp I0 R 454 4.3.3 TLS not available I checked to confirm that the *_TLS_REQUI

[courier-users] EMTPD Blacklist A Record setting

2004-02-12 Thread Drew Gibson
Quick question re- blacklists... the webadmin page lists the 'A' Record setting as optional for a particular blacklist zone, Is the Courier default "127.0.0.2" or "any record"? (spamhaus.org have a "combined" lookup that may return 127.0.0.2 or 127.0.0.4) regards, Drew --

Re: [courier-users] Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?

2004-02-12 Thread David Bruha
Hmm - that's interesting. Really could use more documentation to this topic (scheme, more about the filters). A Howto would be excellent. ;) Regards, David. V Čt, 12. 02. 2004 v 17:22, Jon Nelson píše: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, David Bruha wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am now fighting my way through config

Re: [courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
"Mitch \(WebCob\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ... ] > > Looking forward to the benchmarks - and also secretly wanting to try > modifying a message file to see what happens. Maybe we misunderstood Sam - > it is possible a modification could be ok as long as it doesn't corrupt the > mime envelo

RE: [courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> I think that's a great idea! However, my suggestion would be to use > submit to your advantage here. The "submit" protocol is well documented > somewhere (I read it for over an hour the other night) and while a > little unwieldy IMO it also seems like the best way to do injection. > > I come fr

Re: [courier-users] IMAP/POP-SSL and Comodo Certificates

2004-02-12 Thread Bill Taroli
I've had my Courier 0.44 install using Comodo certs -- that I also first used with apache -- working fine for a while now. The trick is that you have to split the certificate from the trusted certs. The cert for my domain (kept in /usr/lib/courier/share) was supplied in the config using TLS_CER

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
"Malcolm Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Lloyd Zusman >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:15 AM > > [ Snip ] > >> And as for this patch itself, remember that it consists >> solely of putting a unique "id" field into the "Received" >> header. This is a

Re: [courier-users] can't find root@www.my-domain.com

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Jansen
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:49, Eric Livingston wrote: > I have an alias for postmaster, like this: > > postmaster: eric > > This appears near the bottom and seems to work in general, as several other > aliases that point to postmaster do wind up getting to my account just > fine. run "makeali

RE: [courier-users] My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Me too. If it's still a long way off, then maybe this is the way to go - on the other hand if Sam can provide some guidance as to where one would have to look to start making such a change - and perhaps what the bigger challenges are, then maybe we can amass enough effort amounst us to make it happ

Re: [courier-users] Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?

2004-02-12 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, David Bruha wrote: > Hi, > I am now fighting my way through configuring courier-mta with virus and > spam filtering and I must admit I lack some good documentation for that. > > I have read about the rejection/re-insertion metodology and would like > to ask you if you could en

Re: [courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Jon Nelson
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Well, from what I know about the structure of Courier, it would take > a lot of refactoring to allow the modification of messages during > a global filter. That's because the message file that we see during > this step is a temporary file. The "real" me

Re: [courier-users] can't find root@www.my-domain.com

2004-02-12 Thread Eric Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Courier Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [courier-users] can't find [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:19, Eric Livingston wrote: > > Yet, I get error

RE: [courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Malcolm Weir
> -Original Message- > From: Lloyd Zusman > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:15 AM [ Snip ] > And as for this patch itself, remember that it consists > solely of putting a unique "id" field into the "Received" > header. This is a minor change, and it mirrors what some > other MTA's

[courier-users] IMAP/POP-SSL and Comodo Certificates

2004-02-12 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Hello, I would like to know how to use Comodo SSL certificates with Courier POP/IMAP etc. Setting up Apache to recognize this is a no-brainer ... For Courier I did the following steps: - put the Comodo root certificates into /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts alongside with the shipped one - run c_reh

Re: [courier-users] can't find root@www.my-domain.com

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Jansen
On Thursday 12 February 2004 13:19, Eric Livingston wrote: > Yet, I get error messages emailed to me with 550 errors, saying that > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknown user. > > What am I missing? My aliases file started with: > > root: postmaster If you'll forgive one of those "maybe you missed the o

[courier-users] Rejection/re-insertion methodology howto?

2004-02-12 Thread David Bruha
Hi, I am now fighting my way through configuring courier-mta with virus and spam filtering and I must admit I lack some good documentation for that. I have read about the rejection/re-insertion metodology and would like to ask you if you could enlighten me about it a little bit more. As far as I u

[courier-users] can't find root@www.my-domain.com

2004-02-12 Thread Eric Livingston
I have www.my-domain.com listed in the following places: In /etc/courier/locals: my-domain.com .my-domain.com www.my-domain.com in /etc/courier/me: www.my-domain.com Yet, I get error messages emailed to me with 550 errors, saying that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unknown user. What am I missing?

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ ... ] > > And as for this patch itself, remember that it consists solely of > putting a unique "id" field into the "Received" header. This is a minor > change, and it mirrors what some other MTA's already do. Even if we > don't end up using this to fa

Re: [courier-users] Does Courier override MX entries with local settings? If yes, how to change this?

2004-02-12 Thread Tim Hunter
Peter Holm wrote: > Hi, > > does courier override dns mx entries with it´s local settings? I have > a situation, where this happens. I would like to change this. > courier does not change any dns settings, however if a domain is in hosteddomains or in locals it is treated as such and will attempt

[courier-users] Re: My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
"Mitch \(WebCob\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Lloyd. > > Would like to hear what others think including Sam - but it sounds like the > best of a bad situation to me. I wonder how the effort and overhead you are > making compare with a patch to courier that would allow modification of > messa

Re: [courier-users] Re: Global filtering

2004-02-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
> I think Roland answered most of this already - except to say that the way to > exclude messages from refiltering was to set an X-Already-Seen-By-My-Filter > header so that you could skip re-running if you saw that header. Suggested > injection method was I belive by sendmail call. > The X-Alrea

Re: [courier-users] Re: Global filtering

2004-02-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Nice one, thank you > $TCPREMOTEHOST (and/or maybe $TCPLOCALPORT) is all you need. > > Courier currently lacks some mechanism to exclude hosts from filtering. > One easy to implement solution could be to skip the filtering-stage > alltogether when RELAYCLIENT (and maybe BLOCK="") ist set. > > Bu

RE: [courier-users] My Modest Proposal

2004-02-12 Thread Derrick T. Woolworth
I think its important to the evolution of Courier that it eventually support modification of messages from any courierfilter. I've never quite understood why this isn't allowed - possibly a filesize issue, security? I would only be guessing, but in the grand scheme of things I'm sure there's a