I was expecting an incoming e-mail from PayPal but noticed these errors
in my syslog when it tried to deliver it:
Jan 26 01:11:28 isolar courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.info]
started,ip=[:::173.0.84.227]
Jan 26 01:11:28 isolar courieresmtpd: [ID 952582 mail.error] courieresmtpd:
STARTTLS fail
Back on Jan 20, 2003, Russell Premont wrote:
> Can [you] give me some suggestions on where to look to figure out why make
> stalls at the point below? I have go[ne] back to the original release of
> Solaris 9 SPARC because of issues with 12/02 release. I have make 1.79.1,
> Tcl 8.4.1, Tk 8.4.1, E
I've got Courier 0.42.2 built & installed but I can't seem to do
something that seems relatively simple in concept.
Our home directories are served over NFS from a NetApp Filer box.
I want the mail server to be self-contained - I don't want everyone's
Maildir to be in $HOME/Maildir.
Instead, I ha
Sam Varshavchik writes:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> As a test I've changed "DEFAULTDELIVERY" in "etc/courierd" to use "maildrop"
>> (i.e., "| /opt/courier/bin/maildrop") and I created "etc/maildroprc" with
>> the sin
Sam Varshavchik writes:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> Sam Varshavchik writes:
>>> Greg Earle writes:
>>>
>>>> As a test I changed "DEFAULTDELIVERY" in "etc/courierd" to use "maildrop"
>>>> (i.e., "| /opt/cour
This isn't strictly Courier-related, so I'll keep it brief:
I'm using Courier 0.42.2 and am trying to use SpamAssassin 2.60 with it,
keeping user prefs in a MySQL 4.0.14 database.
Because I'm using virtual users with Courier, I can't find any code to
do what I want to do that groks doing authenti
This isn't strictly Courier related (well, it *is*, in a sense), but
I'm stuck ...
I've got Courier 0.42.2 installed and running fine on a Solaris 8 box.
In making design decisions on how to set up user accounts and access,
we decided that we didn't want to let anyone log onto the machine,
and we
A co-worker that I'm trying to get converted over from using our old
Qpopper POP server to my beta Courier 0.42.2 setup immediately complained
that attachments no longer worked right. He does lots of Photoshop
image processing work for us, and people often send him images as
attachments (please, n
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Why did Courier attempt to alter the attachment encoding in the first place?
>> ("X-Mime-Autoconverted: from x-uuencode to 7bit by courier 0.42")
>
> Because ?x-uuencode? is not a valid MIME transfer encoding, as defined by
> RFC 2045.
>
>> Also, if it claims it "Autoco
While trying to debug another problem (Courier 0.42.2, Solaris 8),
I discovered the following anomaly:
The start of my "maildroprc" file is a pretty common template for use
with SpamAssassin:
import SENDER
import RECIPIENT
import HOME
import USER
import SIZE
import LOGNAME
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> While trying to debug another problem (Courier 0.42.2, Solaris 8),
>> I discovered the following anomaly:
>>
>> The start of my "maildroprc" file is a pretty common template for use
>> with SpamAssa
I'm trying to convert my testbed Courier environment (0.44.2) from
being "userdb"-based (which is what's currently running on our
production Courier server) to being passwd-based (from NIS) instead.
Under the old "userdb" environment, the home directories in "userdb"
were all of the form
/var/maild
I'm using Courier 0.45.2 along with Horde/IMP/Ingo/etc. for WebMail
on a Solaris 8 platform.
I'm having problems getting dotforward to work right with
"vacation" entries in the ".forward" file.
I was formerly using
DEFAULTDELIVERY="| /opt/courier/bin/preline /opt/procmail/bin/procmail"
in .../etc
On Mar 30, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Jon Nelson wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Greg Earle wrote:
I'm using Courier 0.45.2 along with Horde/IMP/Ingo/etc. for WebMail
on a Solaris 8 platform.
I'm having problems getting dotforward to work right with
"vacation" entries in the ".forw
On Jun 11, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
From: Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 11, 2004 7:01:23 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] Courier 0.45.6/Courier-IMAP 3.0.5
Download: http://www.courier-mta.org/download.ph
On Jun 14, 2004, at 9:24 PM, I wrote:
On Jun 11, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
From: Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 11, 2004 7:01:23 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] Courier 0.45.6/Courier-IMAP 3.0.5
Download:
I'm running Courier 0.45.6 on Solaris 9. I was investigating a problem
sending mail out from home through my work server using port 465, thus
talking to "esmtpd-ssl" on the work/Courier side.
What I found was that "esmtpd-ssl" was getting told that my sending
address was in SORBS as a dynamic addr
On Jul 27, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
I'm running Courier 0.45.6 on Solaris 9. I was investigating a
problem
sending mail out from home through my work server using port 465, thus
talking to "esmtpd-ssl" on the work/Courier side.
What I found w
On Jul 28, 2004, at 4:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
courieratwork:1:260 [/] # ( setenv TLS_VERIFYPEER NONE ; addcr |
couriertls
-host=localhost -port=465 )
220 courieratwork.My.Do.Main ESMTP
Then it just sits there. After 10 minutes or so, it times out and
returns
to the
There are very few things I miss about Sendmail after having
switched to Courier, but this is one of them:
At my work, we're requested to use canonical names for our
"From: " e-mail address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In order to try and keep the load down on our internal e-mail
servers, someone wro
On Nov 12, 2004, at 4:15 PM PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 12, 2004 4:15:58 PM PST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Can Courier call external mailers for
certain outgoing addresses?
Greg Earle writes:
overloaded c
-On 19. November 2004 21:34 -0800 Greg Earle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Finally had a chance to try it out and got some strangeness:
isolar:1:81 [/opt/courier/etc/aliasdir] # cat .courier-x500-default
'|/usr/local/sbin/mail500 -f "$SENDER" -h "$HOST" -m
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 21, 2004, at 7:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
Hmmn, OK. I *did* read dot-courier(5), from head to toe, and am
looking at it now, again. All I saw was
RUNNING AN EXTERNAL PROGRAM
Lines that begin with a single | character run an external
program. The
On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$gdb maildrop
GNU gdb 6.1
[...]
This GDB was configured as "sparc64-unknown-openbsd3.6"...(no debugging
symbols found)...
(gdb) run < testmsg
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/maildrop < testmsg
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbol
On Nov 21, 2004, at 3:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
If so, should I be using something like "$USER"@"$LOCAL" instead (to
get just-plain "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" fed to the external
X.500 mailer)? Or perhaps "$EXT"@"$LOCAL"? (I
On Nov 24, 2004, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I traced the output of the "couriertcpd" process that accepted
the outgoing mail, and curiously, I saw the ".courier-x500-default"
file accessed, but never read!
Correct. The job of the process kicked off by couriertcpd is to
accept a message
On Nov 23, 2004, at 4:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
@domain: user
This special entry results in any recipient address of the
form [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be rewritten as [EMAIL PROTECTED], where me is
the hostname of the machine, which we expect to be
A co-worker of mine is no longer able to send mail out through our
production (still at 0.44.2) Courier server as of yesterday morning.
He is on a PowerBook that does not run an SMTP server, yet somehow he
has run afoul of SORBS.
In /path/to/courier/etc/esmtpd, I have
BLACKLISTS='-block=dnsbl.sorbs
On Dec 17, 2004, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
On Friday 17 December 2004 14:12, Greg Earle wrote:
Short of not using SORBS, is there anything else that I can try?
I really don't like the idea of disabling the SORBS check, but he
has to be able to send mail out ...
There's probably a better
A user at work is getting these errors in Eudora "5-10 times a day":
"Could not transfer message.
17
[ALERT] COPY failed - no write permission or out of disk space"
Looking at imap/imapd.c (Courier 0.44.2, in this case), it looks
like an attempt to copy a message is failing, but the error above
m
I was watching my mail server logs and just happened to notice that
about 20 minutes ago, the latest Courier digest e-mail got rejected
by my external Sendmail setup because SourceForge's outbound SMTP
server is suddenly listed in the SORBS dnsbl blacklist ...
Jan 12 20:13:37 isolar sendmail[2754]:
Sam,
I'm running Courier 0.45.6 on my production server at work.
When one of my users tries to send a mail out that's larger
than the default 10 MB limit, there is a diagnostic with the
size of the attempted message:
Feb 8 09:33:32 courier0.45.6 courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.info]
started,ip=[::f
On Jun 28, 2004, at 3:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
I would like to know why the real maximal length of To: header is
only 5000 characters?
I'd like to ask a different question: why is it necessary to have
single
mail headers that are over five thousand bytes lon
Sam,
Just tried to build 0.49.0 on Solaris 9. It builds fine but
there is an error (ignored) in the webmail directory:
rm -f TIMEZONELIST
/usr/bin/perl ./sv-make_timezonelist.pl
Could not find a zoneinfo directory
*** Error code 2 (ignored)
A quick look at webmail/sv-make_timezonelist.pl shows tha
This is a bit strange ... I've just discovered that on my
production server (Courier 0.45.6) I've got a small bunch
of old mails from a very particular timeframe (starting
9:54 PM March 27, last one 1:16 AM March 28) that somehow
got "trapped" in their respective directories under
.../courier/var/m
On 5/6/05 9:07 PM, "Sam Varshavchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Earle writes:
>> This is a bit strange ... I've just discovered that on my
>> production server (Courier 0.45.6) I've got a small bunch
>> of old mails from a very particular ti
Starting with 10.3.9, the Apple Mail.app client has not played
nice in the sandbox with Courier. The 10.4 client (Mail.app 2.0;
now 2.0.1 in 10.4.1) fares no better. This is what I posted to
MacInTouch a week ago regarding the symptoms I'm seeing:
"Mail.app 2.0 has been a disaster for me. Perfor
I'm trying to upgrade my home e-mail setup from 0.44.2 to 0.50.0 and
it's not going very well.
Jun 27 11:49:35 isolar courieresmtpd: error,relay=:::24.130.129.94,
ident=root,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
450 Service temporarily unavailable.
Jun 27 11:49:35 isolar courieresm
Randall Shaw wrote:
> The authlib daemon seems to have been split into its own sole entity
in the
> newer version of courier. You must start it BEFORE starting courier
now, and
> stop it AFTER starting courier.
>
> If you use (or have) ntsysv installed, you can go turn on authlib as a
> servic
On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Randall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Greg Earle scribbled something like:
I got authdaemon started manually (will check for an init script now,
thanks), but have a new problem - mail comes in, "submit" gets called,
everything looks OK, "
Is there any way to set up Courier to accept incoming SMTP
connections, but to TMPFAIL all of them unless the recipient
is one particular user id?
I'm about to make the Big Leap to moving my production server off
of an old SPARCserver 20/sendmail config to my quasi-production
Courier setup, and a
I'm trying to integrate ClamAV (0.86.1) with Courier (0.47) on
my test server (Solaris 8), using Michael Carmack's perlfilter
for ClamAV found here:
http://karmak.org/2004/courier-clamav/
I can manually run what his filter does and it works fine:
Executive Summary:
What is the proper way in Courier to handle incoming mail
that is addressed with a To: address that includes a machine
name that is not the mail server's name, but either an old
name which still exists in the DNS as a CNAME for the current
name, or a different machine name but
I'm having a problem that appears to be case-sensitivity in user names:
Jul 24 11:04:12 orgmailserver courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.error] \
error,relay=:::131.142.11.56,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, \
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 550 User unknown.
"kjl" is a perfectly valid user name on the "orgmai
P.S. I should have mentioned that I did not have a
"locallowercase" file because we have some Kerberos-only
accounts that have upper-case letters in them. Clearly
I'll have to create this file and get these users to
switch to lower-case-only user names. I had just assumed
[First off, I want to apologize for the two brain-dead previous
e-mails I sent to this list this last weekend. Converting over
an old Sendmail-based system to Courier in my production
environment at work was very nerve-wracking and I paniced and
posted to the list a little too soon.]
This ma
On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:23 AM, "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Flavio Stanchina said:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Is there any way to configure Courier to *not* generate DSNs
for this kind of situation?
No. This is how SMTP is supposed to work.
You will have to either stop using a seconda
I'm having trouble with getting Horde/IMP's "Vacation" module
working with Courier.
My "courierd" entry for DEFAULTDELIVERY is
DEFAULTDELIVERY="|| dotforward
| /opt/courier/bin/preline /opt/procmail/bin/procmail"
When I go into the Horde/IMP WebMail interface and enable
Vacation messages, it cr
I wrote:
> I'm having trouble with getting Horde/IMP"s "Vacation" module
> working with Courier.
>
> My "courierd" entry for DEFAULTDELIVERY is
>
> DEFAULTDELIVERY="|| dotforward
> | /opt/courier/bin/preline /opt/procmail/bin/procmail"
OK, forget about this line of reasoning - I realized
afterwar
I wrote:
>> I"m having trouble with getting Horde/IMP"s "Vacation" module
>> working with Courier.
>>
>> My "courierd" entry for DEFAULTDELIVERY is
>>
>> DEFAULTDELIVERY="|| dotforward
>> | /opt/courier/bin/preline /opt/procmail/bin/procmail"
>
> OK, forget about this line of reasoning - I realize
On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Ricardo Meleschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
3) LD is in /usr/local/bin because I downloaded binutils and compiled
them with the Solaris GCC in an attempt to have the latest version on
the system. The Solaris provided gnu version of ld produced the exact
same error.
Is there some way to override BLACKLISTS on a per-host basis?
I'm still running a setup at home with a front-end relay server
accepting mails for my domain and relaying copies to my Courier
server (now up to 0.47.0!) on another machine (straight port 25
transfers with no authentication, obviously
On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
Is there some way to override BLACKLISTS on a per-host basis?
Change that to:
allow,RELAYCLIENT,BLOCK,BOFHCHECKDNS=0
Thanks for the tip. I tried it (and even tried "BLOCK=0", just
Is there any way to get "imapd"/"imapd-ssl" to log all of the IMAP
protocol transactions from a particular client? Like the "NNN FETCH
(INTERNALDATE ... )" commands and all the "NNN FETCH (UID XXX FLAGS
(\Seen NotJunk))" commands, et al.?
I can normally get this information from network sniffing
I have a really old version of Courier (0.45.6) running in an environment that
is locked down for a JPL flight project, so it cannot be replaced until/unless
the whole machine is replaced.
On extremely rare occasions, I get e-mails that are empty, as received on my
end via this Courier server.
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
From: Sam Varshavchik
Date: November 18, 2009 3:14:23 PM PST
To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Huge "To:" list results in empty
message in (old) Courier
Greg Earle writes:
I have a really old
Sam:
I notice that when "courierd" logs to syslog, quite often (usually with SPAM)
the DNS entry in the logged message is a random 7-character name:
isolar:1:50 [/] # egrep 201.229.207.84 /var/log/syslog | grep dns
Feb 25 14:50:50 isolar courierd: [ID 702911 mail.info]
newmsg,id=00088941.4B86FE
Thanks Sam. I got out "tcpflow" and verified that they were coming in the
HELOs. Added
* allow,BOFHCHECKHELO=1
to etc/smtpaccess/default and now I am a very, very happy camper. Much
appreciated.
Now I just hope no legitimate mail comes in with bad HELOs :)
- Greg
--
On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> I have a really old version of Courier (0.45.6) running in an environment
>> that is locked down for a JPL flight project, so it cannot be replaced
>> until/unless the whole machine is replac
On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>>> grep elizabeth.r syslog | grep size= | grep earle | head -1
>> Mar 4 16:42:51 courierlocal: [ID 702911 mail.info]
>> id=000377CA.4B90538B.1F84,from=,addr=,size=709,success:
>&g
I turned on BOFHCHECKHELO/BOFHCHECKDNS and it's been a real life-saver with all
these 'bots barraging me with spam from fake (e.g. "HELO 8lpzcod", etc.) hosts.
But I'm on a Yahoo! Groups mailing list that consistently fails:
Mar 23 21:41:14 isolar courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.error]
error,rel
Because of relentless SPAM delivery attempts I decided to implement
BOFHCHECKHELO in smtpaccess/default:
# Demand valid DNS record for HELO/EHLO greeting
* allow,BOFHCHECKHELO=1
For the most part it's worked very well for me, with the occasional need for
exceptions for brain-damag
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> syslog:Feb 16 16:15:20 isolar courieresmtpd: [ID 702911 mail.error]
>> error,relay=:::98.138.91.23,from=: 517 HELO
>> nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com does not exist.
>> I don&#x
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:52 AM, mr...@courier-mta.com wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Sam Varshavchik mta.com> wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
syslog:Feb 16 16:15:20 isolar courieresmtpd: [ID 702911
mail.error] error,relay=:::98.138.91.23,from=>: 517 HELO n
After over a decade of running my old, frozen Courier configuration on a
work host (call it "myorg.my.do.main"), with matching e-mail addresses of
u...@myorg.my.do.main
The people in my organization want to roll out a new organizational Web
server running on a different machine, and they want to
rs@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> Greg Earle writes:
>
>> Which means I'll have to change the Courier machine name to something else,
>> like "myorg-mail.my.do.main" or something, and MX myorg to myorg-mail.
>>
>> But everything else mail-wise needs t
(Forgive the Senior Moment - I know I was able to do this once before,
but I've forgotten how.)
My Courier setup has
DEFAULTDELIVERY="| /opt/courier/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/procmail"
in "etc/courierd" for Maildir delivery.
A short while back, my home directory filled up and a small bunch
of
On 2/29/16, 3:56 AM, "Greg Earle" wrote:
>(Forgive the Senior Moment - I know I was able to do this once before,
>but I've forgotten how.)
Please ignore this post - this wasn't how I did it before, but I
found a script (called, ironically, "reproce
I'm running an older version of Courier in a production
environment (read: takes an act of God to make any changes)
and have run into a problem with too many imapd's running
for a particular UID.
A user of mine recently upgraded his Mac from 10.3.9 to 10.4.11
and uses Apple's Mail.app. Since the
On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Greg Earle writes:
Is there any chance of implementing a MAXPERUID variable
of some sort, to limit the total number of running "imapd"
processes under a particular uid?
This is a system function. On Li
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