Re: [vchkpw] [vpopmail] handle 'postmaster' as non existing user (reject mails)

2006-05-10 Thread Ron Guerin
Ken Jones wrote: > Lars Uhlmann wrote: >> We only need this mailbox for »qmailadmin« to log in. Is it possible to >> treat this account as non existing? I've tried a domain-global >> '.qmail-postmaster' (... bounce-no-mailbox) and a '.qmail' (same content) >> inside the folder 'postmaster' but noth

Re: [vchkpw] Virtual SMTP Greeting?

2006-03-24 Thread Ron Guerin
Jeremy Oddo wrote: > Lately, our mail has had trouble getting to Yahoo, Hotmail, > and a smaller ISP. Sometimes the mail ends up in the spam > folders so I know our mail is getting to their box. I > checked the big blacklist sites and we are not listed. I > then ran our domain through the test at

[vchkpw] Tip for using chkuser with Maildrop

2004-04-04 Thread Ron Guerin
Thought I'd share this tip with the crowd... The chkuser patch, which ensures an address is valid in the given domain before accepting a message, would be defeated if you simply replace your vdelivermail line with a Maildrop delivery line in .qmail-default. After taking a peek at how the chkuser

[vchkpw] Hooks ignored / vpopmail daemon

2004-04-03 Thread Ron Guerin
I'm looking to use the .qmailadmin-hooks to call my vadduser shell script which turns on my spam handling system for new mailboxes by default. My problem is, my .qmailadmin-hooks file seems to be being ignored. Whether I put it in ~vpopmail/etc or in the domain's directory itself, the mailbox get

Re: [vchkpw] Blackholing a sender

2004-04-01 Thread Ron Guerin
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:07, Devendra Singh wrote: > I have a peculiar requirement of just trashing a particular "Mail From:" to > any of the virtual domains hosted on a Server. In that case even I do not > want to bounce the mail just trash (/dev/null) it. Since you haven't gotten an answer yet

Re: [vchkpw] sourceforge documentation

2004-03-20 Thread Ron Guerin
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 11:20, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > was just poking around vpopmail.sf.net - came across the docmanager project > documentation. one of the articles - 'suggestions for building a large > vpopmail server' looked interesting, but the formatting it utterly hosed, > rendering i

Re: [vchkpw] single letter local part

2004-01-26 Thread Ron Guerin
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 17:02, Alastair Battrick wrote: > Can someone explain why vpopmail won't let me have "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as a valid > email address. Single characters are reserved for directory hashes. > Is there any way around this? Use a dot-qmail file (.qmail-u) to alias the desired add

RE: [vchkpw] vpopbull question

2003-08-18 Thread Ron Guerin
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:55, Tom Walsh wrote: > Also any aliased domains will have duplicate emails delivered Learned > that one the hard way... What version of vpopmail? I'm just curious if that behavior remains in the development version. That sounds like a "bug". - Ron

Re: [vchkpw] Maildrop, Qmail, Qmail-Scanner, Spamassassin,filterto folders.

2003-08-16 Thread Ron Guerin
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:20, Steve Schofield wrote: > > Hi Ron, > > > > I'm still having some questions. I changed the .qmail-default file from > > |preline /usr/local/bin/spamc|/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' > > /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/mail.adminblogs.com/steve > > > > to > > | maild

Re: [vchkpw] Maildrop, Qmail, Qmail-Scanner, Spamassassin, filterto folders.

2003-08-15 Thread Ron Guerin
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:30, steve schofield wrote: > What is the best way once the email has went through qmail-scanner, > and spamassassin to place it in the folders i want vs going directly > into INBOX? That's where Maildrop comes in. There's more than one way to do this, but since you're usi

Re: [vchkpw] qmail+SMTP auth

2003-08-15 Thread Ron Guerin
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 20:08, eLgino wrote: > i have installed qmail with SMTP-Auth, and all works fine with Outlook > Express of MS!, but when i try to connect via telnet "telnet host 25" and do > a "auth login" and enter my username (VALID!) and password (VALID!) it > comes: "user invalid ªï-Ö½-z

Re: [vchkpw] Why support imap?

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:06, Adam Hooper wrote: > I can't speak for squirrelmail, but as far as I know, sqwebmail is just > a Maildir client. It does not open any IMAP or POP connections, just > reads and writes files. (Note: This saves processor cycles!) I have always considered that _the_ key

Re: [vchkpw] "vpopmail documentation initiative"

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:16, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > You have a point but you cant possibly make a documentation which > describes every possible situation. You can give the basics and let the > user use it as required. I agree 100% complete documentation of all possible scenarios is impossible.

[vchkpw] "vpopmail documentation initiative"

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
Greetings all, I know some of you (like myself) have probably poked around in the vpopmail docs and maybe fixed a spelling error or added a new command line option to your local documentation. Others may have prepared HOWTO documents describing their setup, as I also was thinking of doing. Would

Re: [vchkpw] Detailed installation instructions on FreeBSD -attached

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:34, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Here is the detailed installation instructions from my own installation on > FreeBSD! > [snip] > I also think that this might be included in vpopmail distribution. I came > to 0.0.6 version of this document while fixing the mistakes in it though

Re: [vchkpw] Re: "vpopmail documentation initiative"

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:27, Adam Hooper wrote: > I might as well add something *constructive* to all this: I've heard and > seen nothing but good things from Wikis. Sourceforge has all you need to > set one up :). (I've used phpwiki, but as far as I know they're all > quite similar.) I think a

Re: [vchkpw] "vpopmail documentation initiative"

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:23, Ajai Khattri wrote: > Also, do you have an FAQ of some kind? (I haven't looked). We ought to > have some sort of cookbook will tried and proven solutions to common > scenarios... Let's start one. I'll get into the DocManager after business hours today and see what

Re: [vchkpw] Re: "vpopmail documentation initiative"

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Guerin
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:05, Paul L. Allen wrote: > Ron Guerin writes: > > > I don't think spending an evening wandering around Google and hitting > > dead links is a substitute for proper documentation. > > I would agree there - googling is very much a last reso

Re: [vchkpw] Fwd: template .qmail file

2003-06-13 Thread Ron Guerin
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:57, Tom Collins wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > It would be nice to have a template .qmail file that gets coppied into > the vpopmail user's directory when creating a new user. This would > work sort of like how useradd takes /etc/skel and copies those files > into th

RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Ron Guerin
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:40, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > translation: "i don't know the RFC's, I have no basis for claiming that > other's mailserver are broken, and I'll continue to evade directly > confronting my error and apologizing for my mistaken claim by pretending to > take 'the high r

RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Ron Guerin
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:22, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > rather than trumping up your argument with etiquette fascism, how about > pointing out a relevant RFC that backs up your [baseless] opinion that a > mailserver must accept messages from a site without reverse DNS? Please, spare me your r

RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Ron Guerin
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:05, Nick Harring wrote: > Rather than questioning why we would refuse to accept from > non-reversible hosts, why don't we ask why anyone would set a host up > without reverse DNS? Rather than question why you've deliberately broken your mail server, I should explain to yo

RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Ron Guerin
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:55, Nick Harring wrote: > We currently run our hosted systems requiring reverse DNS and haven't > really had any complaints about mail not being received. While there's > no rule requiring reverse DNS, systems without it are much more likely > to be spam originators in my e

Re: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!

2003-03-27 Thread Ron Guerin
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:21, Matt Simerson wrote: > Apparently a server named "ns1.inter7.com" is doing the delivery for > the vchkpw mailing list. This wouldn't be a problem except that it > doesn't have reverse DNS. > > I started blocking connections to my mail server from servers who don't >

RE: test spam; should be rejected

2001-12-07 Thread Ron Guerin
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 06:36, Lou Hevly wrote: > At 12:17 02/12/01, Tren Blackburn wrote: > It's pretty simple: > > % ezmlm-make -+u DIR > > > If you want complete > >details, search the archives, but this horse has been beaten to death > >already. > > Sorry, then. I must have missed it. You

Re: why use we .qmail-default file...

2001-11-11 Thread Ron Guerin
On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 21:23, osman kazým wrote: > why use we .qmail-default file and what must be in it. http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/dot-qmail.html > waht doest mean bounce no mailbox. http://inter7.com/vpopmail/doc/vdelivermail.html

RE: Autorespond 2.0.

2001-10-26 Thread Ron Guerin
Brad Dameron wrote: > Anyone have any additions they want to see in the new autorespond > or any bugs? I noticed tonight the autorespond 1.x doesn't honor Reply-to headers, and it doesn't appear the 2.0 does either. I'm not sure if this is a bug to fix, or a feature request. ;) Ron

RE: EPS - Email Processing System

2001-08-13 Thread Ron Guerin
Any possibility of adding a third level, for domain-specific filtering? (in addition to global and user filtering) The present vpopmail filtering does this, and it's quite useful for multiple-domain installations. I'm sure this could be done in the global filter, but that makes allowing each doma

vpopmail filtering

2001-07-03 Thread Ron Guerin
I understand [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on integrated filtering for vpopmail. Could we hear some details on how it's going to work, operationally? Will it support multiple-levels (server, domain, user) of filtering? Ron

RE: vpopmail filtering

2001-06-26 Thread Ron Guerin
Tim Hunter wrote: > The thing I liked about the filter option in vpopmail is that it would look > for a .vpopfilter file in my virtual home dir and then follow the delivery > instructions there. I also liked that it worked its way down to your home directory. First it applied rules for the entire

RE: Anyone using the filtering extensions?

2001-06-04 Thread Ron Guerin
Ben Beuchler wrote: > Is anyone using the filtering extensions in a production environment? I use them. There seems to be some odd quirks, but the author doesn't respond to my questions, so I'm glad they're going to be replaced by new Inter7 code soon. One thing: It's important to make sure no

RE: does anyone knows vpopmail + mysql SMTP AUTH ?

2001-02-05 Thread Ron Guerin
Jino Lee wrote: > i need real advice.plz help. No excuse for an open relay. None. Use POP Auth until or unless you get SMTP Auth working properly.

RE: anyone can tell me why it is no use of .vpopfilter? i touch the .vpopfilter,but it is no use.

2001-02-05 Thread Ron Guerin
dick wrote: > any suggestion is welcome. Which one? If you're using the one included with vpopmail, lose it and use the one from the vpopfilter author's own site. (see the vpopfilter readme) The next problem is, vpopfilter is buggy. It is possible that this is why it isn't working. When it wo

RE: Next 5.0 features

2001-02-03 Thread Ron Guerin
The only thing I wish for not on the list is integrated (lightweight) filtering. The current filtering patch would be great if it worked a little better (it's got some issues, alas), but anything else like it would be great too. And of course, qmailadmin support so users can set their own filter

RE: .vpopfilter ?

2001-01-28 Thread Ron Guerin
I think it has some problems. Some of my filters work, but by just changing an e-mail address to another address the filter doesn't run. Ron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: .vpopf

Go Ken,... Go Ken,... Go Ken!

2000-12-14 Thread Ron Guerin
Ken, Great stuff you're doing... God himself couldn't write code that would meet with the approval of the pre-pubescents that live in IRC. You must have *wanted* a beating if you went in there looking for approval. ;) Did any of them offer to show you "proper code"? No? oh that's right

RE: qmailadmin

2000-12-14 Thread Ron Guerin
Brian Kolaci wrote: > A feature missing from qmailadmin is the ability > to set the "catch all" box to an alias or forward > rather than just the pop accounts. Many customers > want their catch all to go to an external account YES! Indeed. Last thing I need is a Postmaster POP account. A forwa