Re: [qmailtoaster] using registrar's DNS instead of djbdns or Bind

2011-04-26 Thread Dan McAllister
somewhere else... So, to summarize -- especially for testing, you can leave your resolv.conf pointing to your ISP's (or registrar's) DNS server and everything should work just fine... but when you are truly ready to go into production, you should implement either BIND or DJBDNS on th

[qmailtoaster] Re: SpamAssassin Version

2011-05-02 Thread Dan McAllister
Just to throw my 2-cents worth in here... Binary packages are fine in a well-controlled environment, but source packages offer far more flexibility -- especially if the Makefiles are sophisticated enough to recognize advanced features and take advantage of them (without REQUIRING them). And wh

[qmailtoaster] SPAM Designation Option

2011-05-03 Thread Dan McAllister
ocess messages for his domain? Thanks in advance, Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-490-4394 Fax "We make IT work for small business!"

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RE; spamdyke ?

2011-05-03 Thread Dan McAllister
NOTE: I have seen this behavior when SSL connections are made and there is not enough RAM allocated for the SSL libraries. The result is that the SMTP (actually the qmail-smtp service) hangs (bad memory alloc), and so never returns On 5/3/2011 11:14 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: This looks hunky do

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: SPAM Designation Option

2011-05-03 Thread Dan McAllister
Lack of rDNS records will cause messages to fail to MSN/Hotmail, and Yahoo! accounts (don't know about Gmail)... I'm not at all worried about the blocking of messages (the SPAM he doesn't see he won't bitch about)... he just didn't like the ***SPAM*** label behavior! BTW: I warned him that ther

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RE; spamdyke ?

2011-05-03 Thread Dan McAllister
The fix is to edit your SSL-capable run files in /var/qmail/supervise/*/run Depending on what you've got configured, you may need to modify: *smtp*, *submission*, *smtp-ssl*, *pop-ssl*, & *imap-ssl*. The last line in each of those run files is the exec that spawns the actual program -- and the

Re: [qmailtoaster] Allow relay without auth

2011-05-11 Thread Dan McAllister
variables RELAYCLIENT and SENDER_NOCHECK before processing the message, which in turn tells QMail to allow relaying from the IP address specified (in the example above, 1.2.3.4). If your client system is behind a DHCP Internet Service (that is, the IP address may change), you'll need

Re: [qmailtoaster] CentOS 6

2011-06-08 Thread Dan McAllister
I have a free 64-bit box, so I can test both 64-bit & 32-bit builds. Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 6/8/2011 6:40 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: Just an FYI, COS6 is scheduled to be rolling out to mirrors this coming Sunday 6/12, which means it should be available for download on Monday. Anyone p

[qmailtoaster] RE: User Creation Issue - Default Folders not being created - SOLVED

2011-07-04 Thread Dan McAllister
I'm certainly no fan of Outlook... but there is no bug causing the Drafts, Sent & Trash folders not to show -- they're simply not there to begin with. Allow me to explain: _*When you create a new user via *~vpopmail/bin/vadduser*, ONLY the INBOX maildir is created... no trash, no sent, no draf

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-remote/qmail-smtpd and multiple WAN IP addresses on same box

2011-07-14 Thread Dan McAllister
Tim, I think your problem is different from what you've read on the other forums... specifically, I suspect that they wanted to have the system attached to both IP addresses (both ISPs), but have QMail use only one THAT requires a patch. What you're proposing is that you have 2 IP addres

[qmailtoaster] CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

2011-07-18 Thread Dan McAllister
Just an FYI -- I have successfully installed QMT (although not QTP) onto CentOS 6 64-bit. However, I did have to manually build the ezmlm package because the gcc-compat-32 package isn't available for CentOS 6 (only compat-34)... never the less, with a little tweaking of the dependencies, I th

Re: [qmailtoaster] centos 6

2011-07-22 Thread Dan McAllister
As I previously posted, I was successful at installing the QMT using the install script -- with one problem that had to be resolved manually. The problem was the ezmlm-toaster package would fail dependencies for the gcc-compat32 libraries (which are not available for CentOS-6)... so I "winged

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos 6 x64 Installation Notes

2011-07-26 Thread Dan McAllister
"the usual 32-bits"? Just an opinion, but if you're running 32-bit CentOS on 32-bit hardware, you should stay with CentOS 5.6 for a while... it's scheduled to remain under full support until March 2014, and extended support for 3 more years after that. By that time, you should be upgraded to 6

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos 6 x64 Installation Notes

2011-07-27 Thread Dan McAllister
If you are on 32-bit hardware, I recommend staying with CentOS 5.6... but if you're insistent that you upgrade to version 6, who am I to argue... Regardless, you are (pending 3rd-party development that may or may not ever arrive) looking at a "clean install" to properly upgrade from CentOS 5.x

Re: [qmailtoaster] OT: Bind9 DNS question

2011-08-06 Thread Dan McAllister
You have only specified yourself as a recolving DNS server... and the configuration you have shown does not permit anyone (including yourself) to do recursion... thus, you will resolve domains for which you are a master server for, but nothing else (which is the RIGHT configuration for the Inte

[qmailtoaster] Trash being emptied for some users but not all

2011-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
Greetings QMailers... I have a client who's hopping mad because his Trash folder is being cleaned out periodically & he clearly does not want this to happen. He reports that this is happening on his system and a colleagues, but not everyone on the domain. I suspect his Thunderbird client is

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Trash being emptied for some users but not all

2011-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/22/2011 11:22 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 08/22/2011 08:04 AM, Maxwell Smart wrote: On 08/22/2011 07:31 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings QMailers... I have a client who's hopping mad because his Trash folder is being cleaned out periodically & he clearly does not want this

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Trash being emptied for some users but not all

2011-08-22 Thread Dan McAllister
the server for 10 days, then remove it. That usually gives them enough time to get their mail at home/office/phone, and prevents years worth of their porn links from piling up on my server... Any, keep looking. You'll find they both have second mail clients somewhere that are deleting the tra

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: TLS on 587

2011-08-26 Thread Dan McAllister
Please excuse me if I'm "Johnny Come Lately" on this -- and I'll admit from the start that I haven't read the entire thread... BUT... requiring SSL/TLS on an SMTP port (25, 587, or 465) is quite easy in QMT... just edit the appropriate RUN file. Also, the use of port 465 isn't really /depreci

Re: [qmailtoaster] Server domains

2011-09-01 Thread Dan McAllister
Scott, 1) I'm sure you're getting a LOT of read message receipts... be careful when posting something to a list like this and asking for a read-receipt -- you'll certainly get a lot of them! 2) I think your best bet is to set your QMT to FORWARD messages for your domain to the new service...

Re: [qmailtoaster] Rebuilding on CentOS 6

2011-10-06 Thread Dan McAllister
Just to be clear: QMail isn't dependent on PHP, some of the tools included in the toaster are... like qmailadmin (the web page GUI for configuring users, etc.) & SquirrelMail (the web interface for users to read mail)... Seeing a pattern? The web-based tools use PHP -- and were developed many

[qmailtoaster] qmail-lspawn errors

2011-10-27 Thread Dan McAllister
e an assumption I've made about qmail behavior and dependencies that makes the whole scheme not work consistently? 3) Is there something else I'm missing... Thanks in advance... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-lspawn errors - Please disregard

2011-10-27 Thread Dan McAllister
s old-timers have slow-brain days! :-) Thanks for reading anyways! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 10/27/2011 10:01 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings QMailers -- I have been getting reports from multiple users that they are getting errors on occasion while sending to our servers. (One server of

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to only enable smtp authentication

2011-12-15 Thread Dan McAllister
, ONE of the reasons) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 12/15/2011 12:44 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 12/15/2011 01:28 AM, Christian wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:30:06 -0700 Eric Shubert wrote On 12/14/2011 03:47 PM, Christian wrote: Hi, Just a small question: if I want that all users that send

Re: [qmailtoaster] how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-20 Thread Dan McAllister
in *"=25*" and change that one! d) OPTIONALLY: If you're UNLIKE like me and you trust users NOT to be the SOURCE of SPAM, then you can remove any SPAMDYKE or SPAMASSASSIN processing you may have configured for your standard (open) SMTP port I hope this helps! Dan McAlli

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-20 Thread Dan McAllister
Eric, et. al: The same *qmail-smtp* program (different instances) listens on all 3 ports (if you have them configured) - the controlling "features" are: 1) the port number listed on the exec line (25, 587, & 465 are the most common) 2) the status of the REQUIRE_AUTH environment variable (unde

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-22 Thread Dan McAllister
There are many "fundamental issues" with Internet Mail -- we've (as a community) been grappling with them for decades now. The fact that users CAN submit SMTP messages (to be relayed elsewhere) is 1/2 of the function of an MTA as defined in the ORIGINAL spec (ca. 1980)... The fact that everythi

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-22 Thread Dan McAllister
The problem with RFC 6409 (and many others that have been dismissed or didn't work out very well) is that we have to remain backwards compatible. The Internet Community is no longer a group of some 50 system administrators who can simply decide amongst themselves to apply some patch to SMTP to

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-22 Thread Dan McAllister
I would assume (given the essential "newness" of encryption technologies and IP), that we'll eventually "sunset" some of the older encryption methods -- but I would also hazard a guess (knowing how the Internet Community moves on these things) that it'll be a long

Re: [qmailtoaster] how to SMTPS submission/port 587

2012-01-23 Thread Dan McAllister
nts to use port 465. Is it the correct way ? thks again Dan. Em 20-01-2012 15:41, Dan McAllister escreveu: Kalil (aka: Kalz): Port 587 ususlly does NOT force the use of SSL/TLS -- the port is defined as a "submission" port and is most often used as a "replacement"

Re: [qmailtoaster] FW: Error in POP3 over SSL

2012-01-25 Thread Dan McAllister
The most common reason for this error is that the pop3 server isn't being given enough RAM when it starts up to be able to run the SSL/TLS encryption/decryption. CD into your /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl/ folder and edit the file named run. You'll see a lin

Re: [qmailtoaster] Hypervisor recommendations for virtualizing QMT

2012-01-27 Thread Dan McAllister
To be honest, this is akin to asking which Linux Distro is best... ask 100 people, and get 102 different answers! I used Xen in CentOS 5, and now use KVM in CentOS 6 (yes, I like CentOS better than the more popular Debian-based distros). I found little difficulty in migrating from my knowledg

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on CentOS 6? Alternatives?

2012-01-28 Thread Dan McAllister
get the compilations right, but its nothing that's not obvious when you look at the error logs during the build cycle. I am hoping to get a free weekend in about a week, at which time I am hoping to spend some time in the PHP scripts and see if I can fix what ails them... Dan McAll

[qmailtoaster] QMT Build Error FC8 (yuk!)

2012-01-30 Thread Dan McAllister
; -DPERL_WARN="" -DPERL_TAINT="" -m755 -isa-update.raw -osa-update cp sa-update blib/script/sa-update /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" blib/script/sa-update ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm did not return a true value. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. make: *** [manifypods] Error 255 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17194 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.17194 (%build) I included everything after the last make ... hopefully there is enough to help you to point me to what's breaking... Thanks in advance! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO 877-484-7646 Phone 727-490-4394 Fax "We make IT work for small business!"

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT Build Error FC8 (yuk!)

2012-02-01 Thread Dan McAllister
to CentOS 6.2 yesterday and everything is back to normal. (As a side benefit, they're also running Samba 3.5 - so they're ready for Windows 7 (when they finally are willing pay for new systems in 2020!) Dan IT4SOHO On 1/30/2012 6:14 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 01/30/2012 01:14 PM, Dan Mc

[qmailtoaster] CentOS and Perl versions

2012-02-07 Thread Dan McAllister
If you want "bleeding edge" support for packages, you shouldn't be running CentOS because that runs counter to the very principles of that Linux Distribution. Pick Ubuntu, Fedora, or another frequently updated release - but be aware that constant updates means constant repair of new mis-matche

Re: [qmailtoaster] Error receiving mail from 1 domain

2012-02-07 Thread Dan McAllister
nstall anyway" or "allow" or whatever... and then they get mad that their AV didn't protect them... sigh Really people, if we assume that every "hit" on a SPAM blocker or AntiVirus is a false positive, then why run one at all? Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 2/7/

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmailtoaster DNS migration

2012-02-10 Thread Dan McAllister
QTP is distributed as binary packages... thus, for CentOS issue: sudo yum update qmailtoaster-plus You should get the latest version (0.3.2-1.4.17) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 2/10/2012 2:11 PM, Joel Eddy wrote: Eric, For those of us that will surely ask. How do we upgrade qmailtoaster

Re: [qmailtoaster] Future Distros - RHEL/CentOS ONLY

2012-02-15 Thread Dan McAllister
or my QMT, but also for my apache (HTTP) and DNS/DHCP/Auth systems... Just my 2-cents worth... Dan McAllister IT4SOHO PS: I use Ubuntu 10.4 LTS as a desktop on old laptops -- other than HD media (where they just don't have enough horsepower) and some Windoze Media (where there just

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT CentOS 5.7/64 - submission port "cannot allocate memory"

2012-02-15 Thread Dan McAllister
I know I'm johnny-come-lately on this one, but have you checked to make sure your filesystem (whichever one holds /tmp) isn't full? I tend to get these errors when I've accidentally let /var (which is the home of /var/tmp -- which is the target of my sym-link /tmp) get full Dan IT4SOHO O

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT Domain Aliases

2012-02-20 Thread Dan McAllister
Domain Aliasing will indeed result in the messages for domainA and its alias, domainB, being placed in the same mailbox... But nothing in the message handling affects the TO: field, so it will be very east to see which address the message was sent to -- look in the header! Sometimes we over-

Re: [qmailtoaster] migration from ms exchange to qmailtoaster

2012-02-21 Thread Dan McAllister
I have not used the migrationwiz.com product before, but I can tell you this: 1) If you have a cleartext copy of the user (e-mail addresses of their mailbox) and password information, that can easily be scripted into the vpopmail/bin/vadduser command to automagically (via script) add the user

Re: [qmailtoaster] Mail box size

2012-03-02 Thread Dan McAllister
On 3/2/2012 9:37 AM, Bharath Chari wrote: On Friday 02 March 2012 07:45 PM, rajeshrudramani wrote: Hi, In qmail single user when touches 2GB mail box size was showing IMAP error(but user didn't have quota restriction) . For many user getting this error in webmail. Let's be cl

Re: [qmailtoaster] chkuser rejecting mail to users with hyphens

2012-03-05 Thread Dan McAllister
Russ, The easy fix is to disable chkuser... you can do this in the tcp.smtp file -- just don't forget to do the _*qmailctl cbd *_command when you're done editing the file... Never seen it crap out on a hyphen before, but there are other non-standard (but legal) characters in names that chkus

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail-toaster-1.03-1.3.21 now available

2012-03-05 Thread Dan McAllister
You really shouldn't hijack the thread with a new question... But as I just wrote to another user, the easy fix is to disable chkuser... you can do this in the tcp.smtp file -- just don't forget to do the _*qmailctl cbd *_command when you're done editing the file... This is a common issue whe

Re: [qmailtoaster] Backup MX with spamdyke

2012-03-05 Thread Dan McAllister
Scott, I chose to implement my backup mail servers as essentially exact duplicates to my main mail server, with the exception of the smtproutes entries (and the lack of a fully populated mysql database)... so I currently DO run spamdyke against all inbound mail on my backup MX systems... howe

[qmailtoaster] QMT DNS services - a call for participation

2012-03-16 Thread Dan McAllister
ting up either your DNS or web servers to support your volunteer work, there are several of us here more than willing to help. Thanks for reading, and thanks even more for at least considering becoming an infrastructure volunteer for QMT! Best Regards, Dan McAllister IT4SOHO PS: Whe

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT DNS services - a call for participation

2012-03-17 Thread Dan McAllister
lunteering your support of the QMT project... You're our first volunteer from Africa! Welcome aboard! Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] re: IMAP problem

2012-03-19 Thread Dan McAllister
our system daily, right?" Of course, that's a great lead in to my offsite backup solutions... :-) Seriously though, when my clients are hiring me for consulting work, I ALWAYS recommend IMAP for the safety of their data! Just my thoughts... remember what you paid for them before compl

Re: [qmailtoaster] re: IMAP problem

2012-03-19 Thread Dan McAllister
On 3/19/2012 1:10 PM, Délsio Cabá wrote: Hi, I only do backup once a week :( and the backups are local to another NAS As for the IMAP I must agreed that it's safer since they benefit from the backups of the server. But there is a downside: As time goes on the user will have a larger Inbox/Outb

Re: [qmailtoaster] Make mail messages readable by all

2012-03-19 Thread Dan McAllister
Shortcutting all of the permissions issues, if you have an e-mail account that is to be shared, why not just use one mailbox that multiple people can access with IMAP? There is no "limit" to the number of users who can be logged into a single IMAP account -- I do this all the time for "bosses"

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: CentOS 6 install update?

2012-03-21 Thread Dan McAllister
he environment of a fresh COS6 install (and it supports both x86 and x64 installations). /*As such -- please report any problems or bugs directly to me -- _OFF-LIST_*/ -- at qmt.it4soho.com. I hope you find it useful Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-05

Re: [qmailtoaster] qmail IMAP issue

2012-03-23 Thread Dan McAllister
where the Drafts and Sent Items get stored... but if you're using 2003, you're outta luck... Personally, I tired of Microsoft's unwillingness to properly implement IMAP, so I switched to Thunderbird. Dan McAllister On 3/23/2012 7:01 AM, rajeshrudramani wrote: Hi all,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Questions on setting for the special e-mail account

2012-03-29 Thread Dan McAllister
S 4, but the same process works for CentOS 5 (and if you're using CentOS 6, pretend [in the --with] that you're using CentOS 5!) I hope this helps! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail!

[qmailtoaster] RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-02 Thread Dan McAllister
than PATA or SATA drives). But times have changed and 2TB SATA (or even SAS) drives are _cheap and common._ The only RAID technology that out-PERFORMS a hardware RAID 1 array is a hardware RAID-10 array (which is a striped mirror)... and I personally only use those for EXTREMELY large RAID-1 arrays

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-02 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/2/2012 8:06 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/02/2012 02:55 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: From an earlier post: Of course your hardware configuration can make a difference too. You mentioned 2x2TB drives. I hope you have them configured as raid-1 mirrors (software raid should do fine

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-03 Thread Dan McAllister
. RAID-1 drives are a "special case" in the RAID world -- because they're the simplest to implement and have some easy-to-follow standards to adhere to... Cheers! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-03 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/3/2012 11:55 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 04/03/2012 08:48 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: You are absolutely correct... if you're striping (as in RAID-10), then you cannot plug it into a standard SATA controller (BTW: The same goes for SW RAID -- you cannot take striped volumes and just

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-03 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/3/2012 1:43 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: That doesn't really answer my question. You said "you cannot take striped volumes and just plug them in elsewhere unless you do a LOT of things right". In a simple SW raid-10, let's say you have a1,a2,b1,b2 members (a/b being the mirrors, 1/2 being the

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: RENAMED - Hardware vs. Software RAID

2012-04-03 Thread Dan McAllister
On 4/3/2012 4:21 PM, Helmut Fritz wrote: Personally I would recommend SW raid. With the CPU's available nowadays the cpu overhead for even a raid 5 is insignificant. There are a lot more how to's on sw raid implementation and recovery for linux than there are for hw raid, and by the time you ne

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problem with CATCH-ALL

2012-04-05 Thread Dan McAllister
ble Also, remember the permissions restrictions on .qmail -- if it is executable, you can only really set mail addresses (# and & lines only!), and if it's writable by anyone other than the owner, qmail-local will not process it at all... That should about cover your .qmail behaviors!

Re: [qmailtoaster] Bounce error after sending mail to certain client

2012-04-17 Thread Dan McAllister
Retrace your DKIM implementation steps and make sure you enter the public key as a TXT entry in your DNS server -- that's the DNS server for you Internet Domain (the part after the @ in your email address). Dan McAllister PS: Check out the tools here: http://w

Re: [qmailtoaster] Time zone

2012-04-19 Thread Dan McAllister
l work for CentOS or RHEL... but do the search on your own (exact) OS version, and you'll likely get a plethora of useful answers. Good Luck! Dan McAllister On 4/19/2012 3:01 AM, rajeshrudramani wrote: Hi, Can't able to change timezone to CST. Regards, Rajesh On Thu,

Re: [qmailtoaster] difference between the various versions of qmail

2012-04-30 Thread Dan McAllister
luck! Dan McAllister On 4/30/2012 3:16 PM, Giuseppe Perna wrote: thanks Pak Ogah for you replay. where can I find documentation on qmailtoaster to install centos 6.2? This link is valid for centos 6.2? http://www.qmailtoaster.com/distro/info/EZ-QmailToaster-Install.txt thanks -- IT

[qmailtoaster] Header Dates

2012-05-11 Thread Dan McAllister
" line ... like changing it to "^SENDER-Date:"... and then insert a proper "^Date:" with the data from the receiving server... that should be fine! - Comment: You'd want to do this only as a part of qmail-local so that you only modify LOCALLY delivered messages Look

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Qmailtoaster iso upgrade issue

2012-05-16 Thread Dan McAllister
DED performance is POOR So you'll see that I agree with David and Eric on some of these points... and I know we differ on others... that's what opinions are all about! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 5/16/2012 7:58 AM, David Milholen wrote: As a standard and when possible I like to do ra

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Qmailtoaster iso upgrade issue

2012-05-16 Thread Dan McAllister
I used to be a fan of ADAPTEC RAID, but TWICE I had an issue where a RAID1 mirror recovered from the wrong disk, thus erasing TONS of data that had to be recovered from backups (archives, to be more language-correct). In both cases, ADAPTEC admitted that it was a flaw in their firmware that re-

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Qmailtoaster iso upgrade issue

2012-05-16 Thread Dan McAllister
me to re-evaluate my own decisions and examine my own reasons for doing certain things (its far too easy to fall into the "I've always done it that way" trap!) Dan McAllister IT4SOHO On 5/16/2012 12:31 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: Let's be clear, that raid is *not* a backup solu

[qmailtoaster] Call for participation - Mirors

2012-05-22 Thread Dan McAllister
ll get volunteers -- this is indeed a AWESOME project to be a part of! Best Regards, Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] php 5.3

2012-07-10 Thread Dan McAllister
On 7/9/2012 5:50 PM, Mailinglists wrote: What's the current status on using php 5.3 with a toaster? Safe to do so? D - To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmai

Re: [qmailtoaster] Mail from outside the network disabled

2012-07-17 Thread Dan McAllister
w to force AUTH and/or TLS/SSL on the connections. Personally, to avoid the "it works on my laptop at Starbucks, but not at home" issues, I always configure IMAP connections to use ports 993 & 465. Good luck! Dan McAllister On 7/17/2012 11:13 AM, Mahesh Bhat wrote: Hi Guys, I a

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Installing on CentOS 6.x

2012-07-19 Thread Dan McAllister
r mirrors have these files. Finally, if you use either and have an issue, please let me know off-list (e.g.: e-mail q...@it4soho.com, NOT the list address) and I'll address the issue ASAP. Thanks, Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin -- IT4SOHO,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Installing on CentOS 6.x

2012-07-23 Thread Dan McAllister
h the vpopmail upgrade, so you may not need Qcontrol once that's available. Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail! - To un

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Installing on CentOS 6.x

2012-07-24 Thread Dan McAllister
idn't install them either. If there is a problem, I am committed to fixing it... please let me know the error or other output you experienced... Thanks, Dan McAllister On 7/23/2012 9:59 PM, Amit wrote: Hi Dan, I tried QMT-CentOS6.sh script from mirror4, but it didn't update the Cla

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Installing on CentOS 6.x

2012-07-24 Thread Dan McAllister
) for client connections... as a result, I set my softlimit to 128MB (134217728 bytes) I don't error out on SSL connections (port 465), so that's been enough for me... FWIW... I hope this helps Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FR

Re: [qmailtoaster] Error while receiving mail

2012-07-27 Thread Dan McAllister
Amit, I suspect chkuser is choking on the presence of the = characters in the mail address... Dan On 7/27/2012 3:23 AM, Amit wrote: Hi,   I’m using QMT to scan and forward ma

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: New Packages Available - spamassassin, simscan, autorespond, control-panel

2012-07-31 Thread Dan McAllister
Tony, I just ran my mirror-check script and all of the current mirrors are showing the correct files except for Alex in the UK (mirror3). I have temporarily removed his address from the active mirrors list, so please flush your DNS cache and try again. Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: New Packages Available - spamassassin, simscan, autorespond, control-panel

2012-07-31 Thread Dan McAllister
w spamassassin file... Please remove the existing spamassassin-toaster-3.3.2-1.4.3.src.rpm and re-run... Thanks, Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin On 7/31/2012 1:45 PM, Tony White wrote: Hi Dan, No change I'm afraid... Getting source packages ...(this may take a while) spamassassin

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: New Packages Available - spamassassin, simscan, autorespond, control-panel

2012-07-31 Thread Dan McAllister
ncluding any file attachments. You may not disclose this information to a third party without written permission from the Author. On 01/08/2012 03:53, Dan McAllister wrote: Tony, Your included log file states that you've /*already got*/ a spamassassin vers. 1.4.3, so you won't attempt to d

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: New Packages Available - spamassassin, simscan, autorespond, control-panel

2012-07-31 Thread Dan McAllister
time have marked the problematic mirrors as down. It might be reasonable to create a command-line option to force a mirror location... but I would hope our mirror ordeal here will be resolved very soon. Thanks, Dan McAllister QMT DNS/Mirror Admin -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: New Packages Available - spamassassin, simscan, autorespond, control-panel

2012-07-31 Thread Dan McAllister
On 7/31/2012 2:32 PM, Amit wrote: Hi Dan, I’m trying to upgrade the same on my CentOS 6 server using mirror4 QMT-Centos6.sh script but it is not working. [root@mail ~]# sh QMT-CentOS6.sh Building on CentOS release 6.3 (Final) Updating existing packages [ DO

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: vpopmail-5.4.33, qmailadmin-1.2.16, vqadmin-2.3.7 upgrades

2012-08-06 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/6/2012 4:30 AM, Philip wrote: On 8/6/2012 12:10 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 08/05/2012 02:52 PM, Philip Nix Guru wrote: On 08/05/2012 09:55 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: The subject software upgrades for QMT are now available. These long awaited upgrades are seriously overdue, as QMT has been

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: vqadmin

2012-08-06 Thread Dan McAllister
out as we maintain our PHP scripts (and templates). (It should be as easy as a global replace in php-only files!) Just my thoughts! Before you complain, remember how much you paid for them! Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail!

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: vqadmin

2012-08-06 Thread Dan McAllister
;band-aid" solution, and someone will have to look over the source material. Fortunately, there is no rush, as we'll be OK with the "band-aid" until RHEL/COS 7 (which should include PHP 6). More of my thoughts for free... I have a serious accounts receivable issue here! ;-

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: vpopmail-5.4.33, qmailadmin-1.2.16, vqadmin-2.3.7 upgrades

2012-08-06 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/6/2012 1:21 PM, Philip Nix Guru wrote: Hello Eric yes .rpmmacros is in the root of the user's dir # cat .rpmmacros %_topdir /root/src/rpm # ls /root/src/rpm/ BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS Just my 2-cents worth... In RHEL/COS 6, the default build is ~/rpmbuild Dan McAll

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: qtp-newmodel issue

2012-08-13 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/11/2012 12:35 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 08/11/2012 08:43 AM, Mike Tirpak wrote: I keep getting these errors when I run qtp-newmodel... http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/repos/nodist/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/repos/centos/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [E

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: qtp-newmodel issue

2012-08-13 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/11/2012 8:08 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: qtp.qmailtoaster.com is back up again, as of several hours ago. That host is serviced by business cable account which has been very reliable in the past. As of late it has experienced occasional outages. The cable company is taking measures to remedy

[qmailtoaster] smtp-server options

2012-08-13 Thread Dan McAllister
est... b) They don't like the fact that plaintext AUTH is even allowed on port 25... which is what raised my question above. Regards, Dan McAllister PS: I would look into the source code, but I'm pretty sure that the qmail-smtp that we use is not the stock QMail 1.03 version... --

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Non Alpha characters in email addresses!

2012-10-01 Thread Dan McAllister
ause it is special in the qmail parsing of mailboxes... so don't create email accounts with dashes in them! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have

Re: [qmailtoaster] Delete alias

2012-10-24 Thread Dan McAllister
On 10/24/2012 2:47 PM, Daniel Persson wrote: Hi, When i in Qmail Toaster Admin list user in domain mydomain.com all the users are listed, but i have one old alias left after an deleted account. Now when i try to add the user i got the message that user exists. How can i manually delete the ali

Re: [qmailtoaster] Qmailtoaster - CentOS 5 - php53

2012-11-10 Thread Dan McAllister
Sebastian, If you really want php5.3 on CentOS 5, you can manually build the control-panel package. Google how to disassemble a SRC RPM and how the build process works... then remove the PHP dependency (since you already have PHP5.3 installed). It shouldn't be that hard! Good Luck

[qmailtoaster] QMT-CentOS6-12010.07.sh

2012-12-04 Thread Dan McAllister
(as root: "*bash QMT-CentOS6-12.10.28.sh*") Please provide feedback as to how well it works for you! Thanks Dan McAllister -- IT4SOHO, LLC PO Box 507 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-0507 CALL TOLL FREE: 877-IT4SOHO We have support plans for QMail! #!/bin/bash # Version 2012-10-27

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos 6 script

2012-12-17 Thread Dan McAllister
The version of my script released 202.10.27 has some dependency issues with the perl modules... I will release a new script when time permits, but I'm swamped with other issues at this moment. Thanks, Dan McAllister On 12/17/2012 3:03 PM, Gman wrote: Hi list Testing on a fresh in

Re: [qmailtoaster] Centos 6

2013-01-06 Thread Dan McAllister
On 1/7/2013 1:07 AM, Sebastian Grewe wrote: Only a chef cookbook, not a script by itself. Cheers, Sebastian On 07.01.2013, at 05:13, Dave MacDonald > wrote: Hi all Any one got a working install script for centos 6 Thanks Dave Check the wiki -- I had an install s

[qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin Question

2013-01-28 Thread Dan McAllister
Greetings List! I have a client who is having a problem with SpamAssassin's default setting of modifying the Subject of a suspected SPAM message with the tag "***SPAM***" I went into the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and changed the string to just be "***" I wasn't sure how to "re-load" th

Re: [qmailtoaster] SpamAssassin Question

2013-01-29 Thread Dan McAllister
S, what you're saying is RTFM :-) I ran it -- waiting to see if the new string is applied Thanks! Dan On 1/28/2013 11:48 PM, PakOgah wrote: On 01/29/13 2:28, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings List! I have a client who is having a problem with SpamAssassin's default setting of mod

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT-CentOS6-12010.07.sh

2013-02-14 Thread Dan McAllister
te many an hour learning Exchange 2010 (barf) and SharePoint (more barf) Dan On 2/13/2013 10:28 PM, Cecil Yother, Jr. wrote: On 12/04/2012 03:09 PM, Dan McAllister wrote: Greetings all... I've received a few requests lately from people wanting the latest QMT-CentOS6 script... the latest

Re: [qmailtoaster] External domain forward to one mail id

2013-03-01 Thread Dan McAllister
On 3/1/2013 6:28 AM, rajeshrudramani wrote: Dear Sir, In qmail, is there any possible way to forward a external domain (like HCL,wipro,etc...)mails to one mail id (internal domain in qmail) to another mail id from server. Regards, Rajesh Assuming you want to forward EVERYTH

[qmailtoaster] QMT Project - DNS Refresh

2013-03-10 Thread Dan McAllister
Greetings all QMT lovers! As I approach the finish line on the Mirror Refresh Project (we should be back up to 9 or even 10 mirrors very soon now), I'm going to start a new project: Over the past year or so, we've had some attrition in our DNS server ranks. As a result,*I'm asking for**some "f

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: How to use qmail toaster as a Mail Filter Layer

2013-03-11 Thread Dan McAllister
e behind a NAT-Firewall and are still using the same PUBLIC IP for your MX. Enjoy! Dan McAllister PS: A more interesting question I'm working on -- I want to make QMT a SPAM filter -- only I want the NON-SPAM to be forwarded to the real server (Exchange), while the SPAM is held back (u

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