[courier-users] using SPF with a local filter and maildrop

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Newton
Is there a way for a local rcptfilter to get the output of the courier SPF check (the ones on HELO and MAIL FROM)? Or is it better to check the Received-SPF header using an smtpfilter? -andy --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide

Re: [courier-users] DEPLOY: SPF/Sender ID support in Courier.

2004-08-31 Thread Andrew Newton
On Aug 30, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Another question is if the M$ stuff is good. By chance, isn't it that piece of specs prescribing XML content in the name server? Sender ID does not use XML. -andy --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [courier-users] Courier 20040816

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Newton
On Aug 16, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Sender Policy Framework implemented for HELO and MAIL FROM. The documentation also refers to the From: header. SPF checking of the From: header is not yet implemented. This is good to see. Are you planning on full Sender ID if that gets

Re: [courier-users] Support for outbound mail filtering

2004-06-15 Thread Andrew Newton
On Jun 14, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Jason L. Buberel wrote: Any info on how/where in the mail processing pipeline this can be done would be appreciated. Also, if you think using this mechanism for an auto-whitelist feature is really bone-headed, I'd like that feedback too! I'm not sure how practical this

Re: [courier-users] freemail list and questions about yahoo... YAHOO.COM doesn't work?

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Well, that host is not in Yahoo's MX list (that's what I assume freemail is checking). If freemail is comparing the result of a reverse lookup, then something is not working. -andy Mitch (WebCob) wrote: I don't want to pick a fight ;-) But it seems to send from yahoo.com - BUT, courier says

Re: [courier-users] Re: freemail list and questions about yahoo... YAHOO.COM doesn't work?

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Reverse, and forward. So why is web60006.mail.yahoo.com not being seen as in yahoo.com? -andy --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up

[courier-users] localmailfilter and HELO/EHLO host

2003-11-29 Thread Andrew Newton
Is there a way for a maildrop mailfilter being used as a localmail filter to get the hostname handed to courier on the HELO/EHLO command? The man page only shows SENDER, BLOCK2, TCPREMOTEHOST and TCPREMOTEIP. -andy --- This SF.net email is

Re: [courier-users] couriertls, rfc1035, and /etc/hosts

2003-11-25 Thread Andrew Newton
Jon Nelson wrote: So last night I'm trying to use couriertls for an application outside of the normal courier mechanisms. Initially, things went great. However, I quickly ran into a problem, which I spent altogether far too long debugging - couriertls does not do normal name resolution. By that I

Re: [courier-users] couriertls, rfc1035, and /etc/hosts

2003-11-25 Thread Andrew Newton
Jon Nelson wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Andrew Newton wrote: Er, oops. I saw that you put section 5 in there. I misspoke earlier. What I mean to ask is this: what does this have to do with couriertls, and more importantly, what does this have to do with the parts of courier that have *nothing

Re: [courier-users] cur, new, tmp ... and arc?

2003-11-10 Thread Andrew Newton
Bill Taroli wrote: Well, my understanding is that Maildir will not recognize anything in the directory OTHER than cur, tmp, and new. By that read, you should be able to put anything else in there you want. But nothing other than the OS will see it (MTA, MUA, etc), since Maildir only recognizes

Re: [courier-users] Virtual domain aliases

2003-10-31 Thread Andrew Newton
I'm sure it is in the man pages for makealiases, but perhaps the easiest way to do it is via the webadmin interface. See http://www.courier-mta.org/makealiases.html look under Virtual domains. I've been quite successfully doing [EMAIL PROTECTED]: realuser. -andy Rodrigo Severo wrote: Hi,

Re: [courier-users] RE: Certificate

2003-07-08 Thread Andrew Newton
Julian Mehnle wrote: Last but not least, AFAIK the wildcard scheme is an old proprietary Netscape invention and is not really standardized, so some clients might not understand it. From RFC 2595: Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP Section 2.4. Server Identity Check A * wildcard character MAY be

Re: [courier-users] Good log analyser/mailstatistics tool ?

2003-03-27 Thread Andrew Newton
I was planning on grabbing the webmin source (it's really just a glorified tarball), figuring out what the author did, and reimplement (possibly better) in awk and/or python. awk is /vastly/ quicker than any other regex-capable language I've ever used, incl. perl. Using awk to produce an

Re: [courier-users] Tagging spam or redirecting it instead of blockingit...

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Mark Janssen wrote: Hi List, I'm using courier on my home and office mail systems and have been playing around with the DNS based blacklists (spamcop, monkeys.com etc) Is it possible to have 'submit' either tag suspected spams with added headers or having the spams delivered to seperate mailboxes

Re: [courier-users] Tagging spam or redirecting it instead of blockingit...

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Is there a particular advantage to doing it this way rather than just using maildrop and something like SpamAssassin? Roland Schneider wrote: --Mark Janssen wrote on 05.03.03 23:56 +0100: It takes about two lines of code to record the contents of $BLOCK2 in a X-Spam-header for later filtering.

Re: [courier-users] Re: courier developers, protection of investment

2003-01-29 Thread Andrew Newton
Three Letter Acronym wrote: I for one would like to thank Sam for a fine piece of software -- it's certainly been good to me. I second this. I would also like to address a few rediculous notions: *) Just because a piece of software has more than one developer doesn't mean it will last

Re: [courier-users] Re: SSL/TLS, Compression, and Tunnels

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: You missed: WARNINGS Once the identities of the compression methods for the TLS protocol have been standardized, the compression API will most likely be changed. Using it in the current state is not recommended. I believe there is a draft before the

Re: [courier-users] Re: The IETF hit squad.

2003-01-18 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Crispin gets pissed off every time I point that out. His own revision to RFC 2060, which is going to get published soon, contains an appendix listing over a hundred errata, and revisions to RFC 2060. Each time he starts flapping his gums about something I point out

Re: [courier-users] Re: Looking to migrate a metric ton of users...

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Newton
Going with Sam's suggestion of LDAP, there is a project on sourceforge called JAMM (http://freshmeat.net/projects/jamm/?topic_id=28) that does mail account management via LDAP. It mentions Courier IMAP, but it may not take much to get it to do other LDAP features for the MTA. -andy Jesse

Re: [courier-users] Rotating mail on a monthly basis

2003-01-08 Thread Andrew Newton
My guess is that you shouldn't be renaming foo at all... instead you should just move the older/read/marked/whatever files from foo/new and foo/cur to your new folder. I've got a bash script that uses find to move mail from folders that is more than 2 weeks old. It does this without renaming

Re: [courier-users] imap wont start

2002-12-19 Thread Andrew Newton
This sounds like you have etc/imapd or etc/esmtpd screwed up. Something is causing it to interpret the argument to be passed to couriertcpd to be interepretted as an executable by the shell. It is normally assigned to the variable TCPDOPTS. Thomas Stian Bergheim wrote: Hi. After following

[courier-users] feature request

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Newton
I just switch over to maildrop from procmail, and in the process, switched all my filters from triggering on the To: or From: headers to the List-Id: or Mailing-List: headers. However, with the wrapping that is done by courier for bad 8-bit messages, these headers only appear in the wrapped

Re: [courier-users] case sensitive email addresses

2002-12-09 Thread Andrew Newton
As often as this gets asked, it should really be in the FAQ. Look here: http://www.courier-mta.org/courier.html Search for: locallowercase -andy Randy Robb wrote: Hi all - I've run into a problem after setting up a new Courier email server. It blocks any email addresses that are not all lower

Re: [courier-users] mta not forwarding mail

2002-07-16 Thread Andrew Newton
I had this very thing happen to me before. The root cause was that I had a user who created a procmailrc file that had gone nuts. Delievery to that user was failing every time and for some reason the queue would stop processing after the failure. Anyway, the solution to get the queue

Re: [courier-users] I find a bug

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Newton
George Hill wrote: hy all, i find a bug when i use outlook to get the mail by courier-imap. i can't see some mail in the outlook, but i can see it in web. and netscape can too. i find the outlook can get some special email, the special email's from address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]. i want to

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocked spam comes back through 2nd MX

2002-07-11 Thread Andrew Newton
Mark Constable wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: iii) Get rid of the second MX. A second MX doesn't get you anything unless your primary has been down for at least 24 hours, and if that happens you'll have other things to worry about. You sure ? I have a courier box doing secondary MX

Re: [courier-users] Courier and Mailman, 431 Error (Too Many Recipients)

2002-06-14 Thread Andrew Newton
Anand Buddhdev wrote: This is a courier issue. Courier's SMTP server will only accept n recipients, and reject the rest with a temporary error. I was also looking at the documentation to find the value of this elusive 'n'. I could even swear I had seen it somewhere, but I can't find it now.

[courier-users] using new imapd Outbox feature - getting no write permission

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Newton
I'm trying to use the new Outbox sending feature of imapd, and I'm running into a bit of trouble. I've used both Mozilla and mutt as the MUA and both get the same error message back when I attempt to copy mail to the Outbox folder: COPY failed - no write permission or out of disk space. If I

Re: [courier-users] Re: using new imapd Outbox feature - getting no write permission

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrew Newton writes: I also get the following in the logs when copying from one imap folder into the Outbox: error sending a message, user=anewton: Send failed without logging an error. This shouldn't happen. This is reported whenever the sendmail child

Re: [courier-users] Hiding IMAP?

2002-05-29 Thread Andrew Newton
First, after re-reading the entire thread, I seem to recall that there is someway to do this using the userdb auth module. As I recall, you can give a user separate smtp, imap, and pop passwords. If you simply change the passwords to imap to something they don't know, they won't be able to log

Re: [courier-users] Hiding IMAP?

2002-05-29 Thread Andrew Newton
bronto wrote: I've read the userdb info at http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/INSTALL.html#userdb, and indeed it does sound like it is what I want to do. But it makes no mention of MySQL, which is what I'm am using to store my virtual user data. I want to make sure I'm not going to screw

Re: [courier-users] Blocking reverse dns peaces

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Newton
I don't think that can be done out of the box. Atleast, I don't see it anywhere, but I could be mistaken. However, if you are willing to recompile your system, perhaps changing references from RFC1035_TYPE_A to RFC1035_TYPE_PTR in tcpd/tcpd.c docheckblocklist() might do the trick. It looks

Re: [courier-users] Re: Blocking reverse dns peaces

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrew Newton writes: However, if you are willing to recompile your system, perhaps changing references from RFC1035_TYPE_A to RFC1035_TYPE_PTR in tcpd/tcpd.c docheckblocklist() might do the trick. It looks like it would cause -block on couriertcpd (use

Re: [courier-users] Win32 IMAP cleints

2002-05-20 Thread Andrew Newton
Nathan J. Mehl wrote: If you want to use the _same_ client on Windows and MacOS, your options are drastically limited. There's basically, Eudora, Netscape/Mozilla and, um, nothing else that I can think of. If you're willing to use different clients on each OS, there are a lot more

Re: [courier-users] m$ exchange to courier

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Newton
Normally, I just tar up maildir directories, but I guess moving the messages over from exchange might not be as easy to do. You might want to look into isync for moving the messages, though I don't think it will create the subfolder structures. -andy smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

[courier-users] webmail and filtering

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Newton
In webmail, is there a way to add a filter rule with one or two clicks based on the sending or receiving address when viewing mail? -andy ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You

[courier-users] feature request: x-header for wrapped messages

2002-05-06 Thread Andrew Newton
Would it be possible to add a feature where an x-header is added to all the non-compliant 8bit messages that get wrapped. It would seem that the wrapping is defeating Spam Assassin, and it would be easy to identify the wrapped mail by a simple header. If the x-header existed, Spam Assassin

[courier-users] setgid: not owner

2002-05-03 Thread Andrew Newton
For some reason last night, one of my mail servers rebooted and we found it in maintenance mode. Anyway, after restarting the machine and starting courier, we can no longer authenticate via ESMTP. We get the following in the log file: May 3 04:27:38 cliffie courieresmtpd: [ID 702911

Re: [courier-users] Two separate lists for courier

2002-04-18 Thread Andrew Newton
Just to throw in my $0.02. I started out with just the IMAP portion mostly because I didn't know there was an MTA, POP, maildrop, etc... I now have two sites running the full suite. I certainly understand people not wanting to wade through email they think is off topic, but I think there

Re: [courier-users] Re: outbound mail filtering

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Only inbound. Note though that out-bound mail relayed through the server via SMTP will get sifted through some of the filters. Which ones? The bofh filter and the /etc/courier/filters/active filters if enablefilter is set to smtp? Correct. Since the global

[courier-users] outbound mail filtering

2002-04-10 Thread Andrew Newton
Forgive me for asking a second time and considering this may be a relatively naive question, do the hooks in Courier for doing mail filtering also work for out-bound mail? Also, does /usr/lib/courier/etc/aliases/.courier-default only get consulted when trying to deliver mail to non-existent

Re: [courier-users] Re: outbound mail filtering

2002-04-10 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Only inbound. Note though that out-bound mail relayed through the server via SMTP will get sifted through some of the filters. Which ones? The bofh filter and the /etc/courier/filters/active filters if enablefilter is set to smtp? Define a non-local non-existent

Re: [courier-users] Permission denied, ABNORMAL TERMINATION

2002-04-09 Thread Andrew Newton
Keith Pettit wrote: Apr 9 14:14:39 barcelona courierd: Purging /usr/lib/courier/var/msgs Apr 9 14:14:39 barcelona courierd: Permission denied Apr 9 14:14:39 barcelona courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION, exit status: 1 Apr 9 14:14:39 barcelona courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds. Perhaps

[courier-users] filtering outbound mail

2002-04-04 Thread Andrew Newton
Is it possible to filter out-bound mail? I would like to add a mail header or an attachment to out-bound mail and I'm wondering where to place the script file to do this. My first thought was the system .courier-default file. However, the program invoked via .courier-default will have to

Re: [courier-users] Outlook express and courier IMAP issues

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Everytime I run across some strangeness in IMAP and Courier like this, I switch over to another client and retest. I have OE and Mozilla on my machine. So when I switch from OE to Moz (or vice versa) to find the bug in Courier, I always discover it being a bug in the mail client. Try

Re: [courier-users] Speed up without DNS

2002-02-06 Thread Andrew Newton
Leonardo Cabral wrote: Hi: I'm testing a Courier server and I found that if it can't find a DNS server, esmtp connections have a big delay before sending the 220 message. I'm running a cache-only DNS server in the same machine. In the future, I'll need that users don't notice about DNS

[courier-users] changing the dash in .courier files

2002-02-04 Thread Andrew Newton
Is there a way to change the dash (e.g. .courier-foo, .courier-bar) to another character, such as + or .? -andy ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users

Re: [courier-users] Courier virus Checker.....?!?!?

2002-01-29 Thread Andrew Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone that is using the Full Courier Mail Suite that has a working virus checking system?? I would prefer to use the courier mail suite instead of Qmail with courier addons.I have looked on freshmeat.net for other projects out there I have found

[courier-users] help me sell Courier

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew Newton
My department at work runs its own mail system (separate from the rest of the company's Exchange fiasco), and it is less than satisfying for those of us trying to be remote users (especially when being a remote user at a conference or public meeting over a wireless network). So I'm trying to

[courier-users] running multiple versions of esmtpd

2002-01-13 Thread Andrew Newton
Will I cause any problems if I run multiple versions of esmtpd? I want to run one on port 25 and one on port 465. -andy ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users

Re: [courier-users] Re: running multiple versions of esmtpd

2002-01-13 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrew Newton writes: Will I cause any problems if I run multiple versions of esmtpd? I want to run one on port 25 and one on port 465. You can already do this. In fact, the PORT setting in the esmtpd configuration file tells you how to do it. Hey, that's

[courier-users] client authentication via certificate

2002-01-11 Thread Andrew Newton
Is there a way to setup Courier to do client authentication via a client's certificate? I'm interested in this from both the SMTP/TLS and IMAP/SSL perspective. -andy ___ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:

Re: [courier-users] OT: Recognized SSL cert for imap?

2002-01-08 Thread Andrew Newton
Well, I haven't done this, so naturally I should comment on it. :) Thawte (www.thawte.com), which is really VeriSign, has some informaton on using OpenSSL and submiting the CSR to them. All the information is under the Apache section. I'm assuming the procedure is the same as for web sever

Re: [courier-users] Re: Replacing maildir message storage with SQL

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Newton
Simon Cocking wrote: Has anyone contemplated modifying Courier to support the storage of messages in SQL tables rather than Maildirs? Why? Give me a logical reason other than it sounds cool. Two words -- replication and redundancy. We already have systems in place which make use of

[courier-users] A user wedged my mail server

2002-01-06 Thread Andrew Newton
So I just had one of those the sky is falling experiences. After about an hour of trying to figure out why Courier wasn't processing any mail, I discovered a message in the queue that was in /msgs. After I deleted it, everything in /tmp started processing again. courierd just kept doing

Re: [courier-users] Re: advice on mail purging/moving

2002-01-05 Thread Andrew Newton
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Andrew Newton writes: My other thoughts are that I could simply write a shell/Perl script to accomplish this. I don't know about the important Maildir rules to follow and the concurrency issues involved with a cron job modifying the folder while an IMAP session

Re: [courier-users] dot extension file not working

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew Newton
Scott Morizot wrote: On 17 Dec 2001, at 11:28, Andrew Newton wrote: Is there something else that must be done to enable this feature? The permissions on the .courier-foo file are world-readable. I believe there need to be no group or other permissions at all. I tried that too

[courier-users] images in SqWebMail with Courier 0.36.1

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Newton
I just upgraded to Courier 0.36.1. On the webmail pages, such as the login page, I am now getting things like this: [#@logo.gif, width=263 height=35 alt=SqWebMail Copyright 1999-2001 Double Precision, Inc. border=0@SqWebMail - Copyright 1999-2001 Double Precision, Inc.@#] [#@signin.gif,

Re: [courier-users] images in SqWebMail with Courier 0.36.1

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Newton
Nevermind. I didn't copy the cgi-bin executables to the cgi-bin directory. Once I did that, the problem was solved. Andrew Newton wrote: I just upgraded to Courier 0.36.1. On the webmail pages, such as the login page, I am now getting things like this: [#@logo.gif, width=263 height