Sam,
Please consider for inclusion. I expect no adverse effects (how many
people have valid files ending in ~ or starting with #), and it makes
life easier on most common setups.
Cheers,
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Chris Petersen zei:
> I've been toying with an interesting idea at work, and since I couldn't
> come up with any ideas on my own (or my circle of friends/coworkers), I
> thought I'd present it here for more opinions (since courier is our
> current choice of mail server).
>
>
>
> That much I th
Flavio Stanchina wrote:
Martijn Lievaart wrote:
It's not just broken smtp clients. A rude socket teardown is rightly
interpreted by MTAs as a temporary error. So they try again [...]
Isn't there a way to return a permanent error in the middle of the
message? IIRC there isn&
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
If Courier would do that, there's a far greater possibility that a
broken SMTP client would interpret a rude socket teardown of this kind
as a temporary error, which calls for an immediate retry.
Been there, done that, FW-1 smtp proxy does this, and boy, does it
cau
email builder wrote:
Martijn & others,
I am seeing this make check failure when my mail spool is on nfs. Not sure
what to do with this or if this test is even that important. FC3, no options
except enabled unicode.
INFO: LOGIN, user=confmdtest, ip=[127.0.0.1], protocol=SMAP1
INFO: LOGOUT, u
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
3) I think Courier DOES work with filesystem quotas, the only
question is how ugly the non-delivery is when a user is over quota.
Maildrop simply will not be able to create the mail file and
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
3) I think Courier DOES work with filesystem quotas, the only
question is how ugly the non-delivery is when a user is over quota.
Maildrop simply will not be able to create the mail file and should
give a 4xx.
Sam what do you think
Mike Horwath wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:27:49AM +0200, Martijn Lievaart wrote:
Ah, but keep in mind that the external provider must know your valid
users, or you'll create backscatter. And that alone is reason for
blocklisting by many today. Even the popular spamcop blocklist
ac
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Obantec Support writes:
Hi
I am looking to replace dovecot as my POP3/IMAP server on FC3.
Does courier support quota's as i want mail to be under
/var/spool/mail/username (where username is the mailbox file and the
quota
for /var to limit this file size.
Courier do
Robert Pfister wrote:
This may seem strange for this forum, but I actually outsourced the
virus/spam filtering to an external provider. They have my MX records, and
I have SMTP locked down to only accept email from them.
Yes it is expensive, but so is my bandwidth.
I calculated that my in
Kóczán Péter wrote:
I've tested the memory, and it is not a fault of that.
Since then I had 1 kernel oops again with the courierpop3d process. Any
tips, what may cause this?
Whatever it is, it is not courier. Userspace processes are not able to
crash the kernel. It's either bad hardware or a bad k
Bowie Bailey wrote:
From: Pupeno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm considering putting a spam filtering on my server.
Which one do you recommend ?
It is a full courier server and I'd like to be able to train the filter by
putting messages on some folder, like Spam, of each imap account. Would
Stephen Reese wrote:
Currently if spam is flagged as yes the it's thrown into the users trash
folder for false positive dection. Well some of the spam scores are
obviously spam say 5 to 15 keep them in the trash and any higher I would
like them to either bounce or just drop off. I'm not sure if i'm
Wladimir Mutel wrote:
Hi,
In Exim, there is nice facility of sender verification by
smtp-callback. Helps to reject a lot of spam. Could you please
advise how to implement the same in Courier ? Thank you in
advance for your replies.
You may want to think ab
David Gomillion wrote:
If these two offices interact a lot, it might make sense to look into
using a VPN tunnel. Besides the security, the VPN devices will abstract
all of the hops and retain your original IP. Then, as long as SOME data
is flowing, your ADSL router should keep the connection open
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your opinions on my problem.
I will rethink the LDAP solution, possibly using active directory somehow.
Right now I really do not know enough about those Microsoft things (I have
used OpenLDAP with courier and postfix though) so maybe I will write to
this list la
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Bob Kinney writes:
I'm just trying to understand the security issues caused by either
solution and the reasons behind the apparent change in behavior of the
rpm install.
There are no changes. The configuration scripts checks which system
accounts are present. If one calle
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2005-03-16 10:01:39, schrieb Martijn Lievaart:
Theoretically the FS choosen should make a difference as well, try it
out. On Linux, reiser was designed for the type of access that imap on
maildir has, lot's of relatively small files. Try it out to see if it
Michelle Konzack wrote:
The load is realy low, but you need VERY good Harddisks
Running courier for a five user setup on an old P90 I cannot really
comment on multi thousend user setups, but I must second this based on
years of experince with different mail setups. On any serious IMAP
server,
Jerry Amundson wrote:
- I increased the number of connection per clients (randomly set it to
20).
That's most likely what fixed it...
A, that was different between the setup where it works and where it
doesn't. Looks like we found the culprit. Preliminary testing looks
good. Thanks
Bill Taroli wrote:
I'm not entirely sure if this would be related, but I know that my
Thunderbird visibility problems had more to do with the fact that it
didn't always seem to check/watch all subscribed (even with "subscribe
all" option) folders for new mail. I found that I had to add a value
Bernd Wurst wrote:
Hallo.
Am Tuesday, 8. March 2005 16:23 schrieb Jay Lee:
I have circa 500 users on my network, mostly of them using the
Courier-IMAP server and Mozilla Mail.
The problem is that sometimes emails just stop showing in the
Mozilla. I can see the files in the Maildir, but not in th
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
See the IPV6 example in the couriertcpd man page.
Raagh. The moment I saw your reply I remembered. Spell out those zeros.
Thanks, Sam!
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Hi,
Still using ancient courier-0.44.2-1.7.3, I'll upgrade real soon now, I
promise :-)
I'm having problems with HELO checks and IPv6. I receive a lot of mail
over IPv6 and the only problem I had until now was with my Windows based
PDA that insisted on saying 'HELO Inbox'. I whitelisted the add
Munir Nassar wrote:
What is the prefered way to setup web accessible archives for couriermlm?
hypermail and mhonarc and others expect mbox formatted mailspools, and
getting courier to deliver to an mbox is not something that courier
wants to do.
Any suggestion on how i should proceed with this?
Jerry Amundson said:
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 01:43 pm, Martijn Lievaart wrote:
>> Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> >Tools? Fetchmail reads IMAP and delivers via SMTP. (The two IMAP
>> >services must obviously be on different ports and/or machines...)
>>
>>
Jay Lee said:
> IMAP to SMTP wouldn't keep headers/dates/etc intact. IMAPCopy (
> http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html ) does IMAP to
> IMAP so messages are kept intact. I used it to migrate off of a Windows
> based mail server that used a storage similar to mbox but different
Alessandro Vesely wrote:
Hi Martijn,
I leave your original post intact in case it hadn't been sent to the list,
where it is clearly meant to be addressed...
Tools? Fetchmail reads IMAP and delivers via SMTP. (The two IMAP
services must obviously be on different ports and/or machines...)
Thanks,
Mark Constable said:
> Martijn Lievaart wrote:
>>> I just reset up this Wiki. Feel free to use or ignore.
>> I never editted a wiki before, so this may be a stupid
>> question, but how does one add pages?
>
> Have a look here and follow the Godaddy Certificates
>
Mark Constable wrote:
I just reset up this Wiki. Feel free to use or ignore.
http://courier.opensrc.org/
I never editted a wiki before, so this may be a stupid question, but how
does one add pages?
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Bowie Bailey said:
> I am trying to build the rpms for courier-0.46 on Fedora Core 2
> (yes, I know there are newer versions...I'm trying to duplicate my
> production server so I can test upgrades).
>
> Everything looks good on the build until it does the check on the
> imap server. At that point,
Spam wrote:
I had tried something like this, the problem comes when your users try to
do authenticated smtp with another mail server which would obviously fail
to login to your ISP's smtp server.
"Forced to use an external relay server" and "authenticated smtp with
another mail server" se
Jay Lee wrote:
Martijn Lievaart said:
[ off-list, my phone does not seem to understand mailinglists ]
>Yes I understand. The reason I ask is that for IPv4, I am forced to
>use a external relay server with my ISP. However, for IPv6 it is not
>required. In fact, my ISPs relayserver
[ off-list, my phone does not seem to understand mailinglists ]
>Yes I understand. The reason I ask is that for IPv4, I am forced to
>use a external relay server with my ISP. However, for IPv6 it is not
>required. In fact, my ISPs relayserver does not support IPv6 at all.
You could try
Julian Mehnle said:
> Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "You will lose mailinglist mail"? Huh?? I never had such a problem. Why
> would that happen?
After the mailtroubles are restored, I get a notification from the
mailinglist which mails could not be delivered. In that sense you don't
loose
Jay Lee wrote:
Julian Mehnle said:
If it's a cost issue, run just one (i.e. drop the differently configured
secondary MX). That's what I actually do.
Have you ever had issues with downtime or lost mail?
I run the same configuration since a few months. One mailserver, ditched
the backup
dick hoogendijk wrote:
"517-MX records for demarskramer.nl violate section 3.3.9 of RFC 1035"
OK, I looked it up (dig bla bla) and it's wrong indeed. One IP and two
FQDN's. It can't be helped though, I'm told. The IP is added and the
sysadmins of demarskramer.nl cannot change that.
So, does that me
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
Thus spake Greg Earle on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:37:17PM CST
[ courier user list on sorbs ]
I had the same problem a while back with a couple of other lists, one a
gentoo list and one on sourceforge. Seems they were using servers in Italy
which had been compromised
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi list
i want to change my server to another location but i want to safe first the imap
folders with all the email. is there a possibilty to export the mails and import
them on the other server again. if yes how?
Just do a file backup of all maildirs and you should be f
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Jeff Potter writes:
Hi All,
I'm wondering if there's any way that Courier can do this:
1. Receive a message on SMTP
2. After getting ".", but before responding "250 Ok"...
3. Attempt to deliver t
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Jeff Potter writes:
Hi All,
I'm wondering if there's any way that Courier can do this:
1. Receive a message on SMTP
2. After getting ".", but before responding "250 Ok"...
3. Attempt to deliver the mail: if there are delivery instructions in
a .courier file, run them.
4. If
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Alexander Skwar writes:
Hello!
In Mozilla/Thunderbird, I can set in the account options,
that "secure authentication" is to be used when authenticating
against a server. When I enable this, I cannot login to my courier
0.47 / courier imap 3.08 server. In the log, I then
get
Martin Horak said:
[ returning 421 ]
> Guys from Symantec (proxy is Symantec Gateway Security) argue that their
> proxy behaves strictly in accordance to RFC 821.
I'ld argue that it breaks SMTP as we know it, even if it is strictly
conforming (which I'm not sure of yet). A reply of 4xx means try
Ben Kennedy wrote:
On 27 11 2004 at 2:13 pm -0500, Ben Kennedy wrote:
I've now received it 12 times.
Update: 27 times.
If nobody else is experiencing this then accept my apologies and I will
contact sf.net postmaster.
Do so anyhow. I got them to 27 times.
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Steffen Zieger said:
> Can you see the warning? But, it's only a warning. Not an error.
> Sam is right.
For a complete answer:
http://www.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr=&selm=XmM1OhH9YBxo6jfyS74ZT6SZOwnO%404ax.com
(mind the wrap)
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Jerry Amundson wrote:
On Mon November 15 2004 11:23 pm, Tim Hunter wrote:
John Saunders wrote:
Either you're kidding me, or your C compiler has a bug.
I got the same result.
Then your C compiler has a bug.
RedHat Linux 7.3 gcc 2.96 says Sam is right.
Microso
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
void main()
Then your C compiler has a bug.
No. Look up te C standard. main returns an int. Always. Always has,
always will. Compilers that accept void main are non comforming.
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Bowie Bailey said:
> I have been seeing quite a few errors like this in my logs recently
> (633 of them yesterday). Most of them are like the first example.
> What are they and how do I investigate them further (if I need to)?
>
> Nov 11 04:04:19 bnofmail courieresmtpd: writev: Broken pipe
> Nov 1
Mark Bucciarelli said:
> With BOFHCHECKHELO=1, how do you figure out what domains to put in
> smtpaccess (like hotmail.com)?
>
> Manually, or do you send an autoreply with contact info in it so the
> sender
> can contact you?
I check the logs regularly. I wrote some scripts to do it, but these are
Bill Taroli said:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to whitelist by IP address rather than
> domain? After all, all it takes to spoof a domain is to change what gets
> sent in the HELO string... hence the desire for the verification in the
> first place. :-)
Obviously. Bad wording on my part, sorry.
Lloyd Zusman wrote:
Bill Taroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm just curious. Having installed 0.47 a couple of weeks ago, I was
naturally enthusiastic about the SPF features, and have enabled them
(with "all", so I can least gauge the impact of really making them
live). But the BOFHCHECKHELO fe
Robert Pfister wrote:
I could swear I've seen domain names with underscores in them, but now that
I'm looking, I can't seem to locate one.
Mainly an artifact of Windows netbios names. They died out rather
quickly as they did not propagate that well over the rest of the
Internet. Which is anothe
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Julian Mehnle writes:
I think adding such checks and issuing a syntax error in the
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>
case would be the way to go. But maybe there's a good reason why
Courier
doesn't do that?
Well, I don't think you'd have too much trouble sticking an apostrophe
into a
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Martijn Lievaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
Sure, the client (MUA) could sent to the others and after the user
corrected the address send it to the address that was originally faulty.
It could even
I agree fully except:
Julian Mehnle wrote:
Robert Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2nd choice would be to out-right remove the address with a trailing
apostrophe, as they won't be delivered anyhow.
That would be against the standards.
When the sending mail client says "RCPT TO: <'[EMAIL PRO
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
Hi,
Again, running ancient 0.44.2. Seems like imapd ios leaking memory.
Have a look at http://ma.rtij.nl/imapd.png. Not that the scal is of
by a factor 1000, read Magabytes where it says Kbytes. Anyone else
see this?
There were certainly some
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Martijn Lievaart writes:
Hi all,
I run courier 0.44.2. Ancient, I know, but it serves. However, this
problem may be a reason to upgrade.
The problem is that I use a cronjob for backups. It never sends
mails. All other cronjobs send mail fine. The only difference is
that
Hi,
Again, running ancient 0.44.2. Seems like imapd ios leaking memory. Have
a look at http://ma.rtij.nl/imapd.png. Not that the scal is of by a
factor 1000, read Magabytes where it says Kbytes. Anyone else see this?
Greets,
Martijn Lievaart
on mounting the backup directory
or fails quickly for any other reason, it sends mail fine. Anyone seen
this? Any solution or workaround?
Cheers,
Martijn Lievaart
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Stefan Hornburg wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:59:19 -0600
"Joseph C. Lininger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I am using the entire Courier package for sending and receiving mail for my
domain. To accomodate some of my users who can't send mail via standard
smtp, I am trying to use the outbo
Michael Einem wrote:
Hi all,
for some days now my server is under what I think is a dictionary
attack. Someone is trying to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from apparently different IP sources every few minutes. Is there a
way to activate the teergrube or tell esmtpd to ignore (not answer
or
Norm Yates wrote:
Okay, I’m not really expecting an answer since you are a laconic
group, but here is my next question.
How do you add users? I **assume** you do this by adding users to ldap
or mysql? IF this is the case what frontend do you like for this? I’ve
never used either as I have always ju
Sam Vilain wrote:
Maybe this delay should only be there if when you do an MX lookup of
the domain that the mail server said to be, and find that the IP
address of the incoming mail server for that domain is different.
ie, if someone connects and says HELO vilain.net, you do the
functional equiv
David Ehle wrote:
Have you looked into using aliases?
Add a file to /etc/courier/aliases with a line like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The substitution will happen at the beginning of the delivery and so
the message will go through all of the normal filtering that jsmith01
would get.
Bowie
David Ehle wrote:
Hello!
I am trying to consolidate multiple mail servers w/ assort MTAs to one
established mail serverr with Courier-MTA. Moving mail from mbox format
went beautifully with mb2mb, but now I have run into a stumper.
Since most of the machines I am conslidating were small user run sy
Holmström Lars wrote:
I have two parallel courier servers running same version
I also have a PDA using GPRS.
I configure all devices to use SMTP via SSL
To debug, try not to use ssl. Now you can use a network sniffe to see
what exactly goes on between the client and server.
HTH,
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James McTavish wrote:
Server name: aaa.com
hosted domains:
aaa.com
bbb.com
ccc.com
contents of me: aaa.com
Both bbb.com and ccc.com are fine, they can send, receive and check for
mail. However aaa.com can send and check for mail, but not receive. As
soon as I change the conte
Sebastian Lechte wrote:
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yeiy,
i'd like to set the timeout the server waits for
ident-replys to a value
much lower, eg. 5 seconds. can that be done?
Only if you modify the code yourself, and accept the
responsibility for breaking st
Brian Feeny wrote:
Also, not sure if it matters, but my filesystem is coming from an NFS
server.
The NFS server was not running fam, but i turned it on and still get
the same error.
I had problems running the testsuite on NFS. Once I compiled on a
non-nfs filesystem the problem went away.
HTH,
Anand Buddhdev wrote:
This is most often the case when a remote client sends the SMTP QUIT
command, but then immediately disconnects without waiting for the
session to complete. qmail, postfix and exim all do that, as a way to
shave off a few milliseconds of each outbound SMTP connection, since
the
Andre Coetzee wrote:
I haven't tried this, but you may get away with
exporting the relevant registry keys to a .reg file,
which students can merge into their own registry by
doudble-clicking on it.
I've succesfully done this to set up several hunderd email accounts in
OE in a test setup. Takes
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
There's nothing "uncommon" about it. It is completely irrelevant
whether A or records are queried first.
I don't know why, but in my experience others always look up ipv6 first.
Probably some RFC that mandates that.
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Julian Mehnle wrote:
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a 100% Debian/STABLE system with courier 0.37
and now I have installed the backports to 0.45.4...
Why don't you try Debian/Testing instead of Debian/Stable with backports?
It's much more maintainable.
Because Debian/Tes
Dan wrote:
I can promise you that 1) the only authentication methods I am using are:
authmodulelist="authcram authuserdb authshadow"
and 2) I have only ONE userdb entry (read: 1 file in etc/userdb/ with 1 line in
it) and the address looks nothing like "*alias*", nor does it have the home
directory
Jon Nelson wrote:
I'd like to use reformail and/or mailbot to produce "that account no
longer exists" messages, and I'd like them to be formatted as DSNs,
preferably as a bounce. Additionally, I don't want any of the original
message to be included in the bounce.
(snip)
Before I start using i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Phillip Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would have thought that the following section 2.1.1 would have
clarified this.
No, it doesn't.
Well, 2.1 says:
Messages are divided into lines of characters. A line is a series of
characters that is delimited w
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Your only option is to turn off BOFHCHECKDNS, which turns off ALL dns
checking, letting in all sorts of crap.
It's much better to tell the sender to fix their dns.
Isn't it possible to turn of BOFHCHECKDNS selectively in smtpaccess?
(And yes, the sender should fix their
John Bossert wrote:
0.45.4. Had an email with an attached PDF file rejected with
"improperly formatted binary content." I've read the FAQ and manpages
on BOFHBADMIME, but before I enable it and say "just send me junk", is
there any reasonable means of analysis?
I'm told that email (with pdf
Jeff Gamsby wrote:
Hello,
I would like to only allow incoming mail from a certain host.
I'm not sure how to do this with courier.
I don't want courier to accept mail directly,
but to come from another machine. I want all mail to come and go
through a single machine, which has a virus wall and sp
John Bossert wrote:
So, should I change the following line in smtpaccess (which includes
my private network) from
192.168 allow,RELAYCLIENT
to
192.168 allow,RELAYCLIENT,BOFCHECKDNS=0
Yes, that should do it. I use:
10 allow,RELAYCLIENT,BOFHBADMIME="reject",BOFHCHECKDNS=0
and in bofh:
o
Dan Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Are there someone out there in courier-land who won't mind sharing some
experiences with virus scanning with courier?
I've been playing around with amavisd-new and ClamAV some time now and have
not been able to get it to run to my satisfaction.
What I want to do is t
Noam Meltzer wrote:
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Hi,
For the last couple of month I have been using courier as an IMAP and
webmail server, and I'm very pleased of it.
Lately, I started to think: "gee, what will happen if my HD will
crash... I will lose *everything*".
So, I decided
Jeff Gamsby wrote:
Thanks for your help.
I made the change. I had to create the file
/usr/local/courier/etc/esmtproutes, it wasn't there. I restarted
courier. Now, how can I test that it is working properly?
Start tcpdump or (t)ethereal on your internet interface ('tcpdump -i
port 25') and
Charles Fry wrote:
What I really want is to be able to limit the number of simultaneous
delivery threads to one. I don't mind enqueueing messages while
waiting for delivery, as in the long-term the server can always keep
up with the incoming mail flow. However I would like to prevent more
than one
Charles Fry wrote:
Each piece of locally-delivered incoming email is checked for spam and
viruses, using the xfilter mechanism in maildrop. However my server is
running UserMode Linux with 64 MB of RAM, and it drops to its knees
whenever it is simultaneously checking one message for spam and anoth
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2004-03-04 09:32:39, schrieb Martijn Lievaart:
For the dutch users (or those who would like to blackhole .nl, but would
loose legitimate mail), here is a little script that makes a
white/block-list for courier for all the smtp-servers of dutch
providers. http
For the dutch users (or those who would like to blackhole .nl, but would
loose legitimate mail), here is a little script that makes a
white/block-list for courier for all the smtp-servers of dutch
providers. http://ma.rtij.nl/?page=nlwhitelist&menu=main%5B10%5D
It's dependend on a list made ava
reachable, postmaster, abuse,
etc. Also I use some spamtraps but the blocklists are way to efficient
(about 99% gets caught) while these addresses should shut up and eat
their spam.
Thanks in advancs,
Martijn Lievaart
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