[vchkpw] chkuser patch

2003-07-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I think I just possibly found a bug in the chkuser patch. If you have a .qmail alias with a . in the name, it gives a 553 user unknown. Yes, the alias is correctly defined with : replacing the . I've tested this with Bill Shupp's modified patch and the easy-way patch. Running an strace on

[vchkpw] chkuser patch

2003-07-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Never mind, it was a permissions problem. I'm just slow sometimes :) Regards, Rick

[vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent events have made me think of this again... The "standard" chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's update to the original: http://www.shupp.org/patches/chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch) has some rather nasty behaviours.

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2003-07-04 Thread tonix (Antonio Nati)
Hi Rick, read carefully the running instructions on my page at www.interazioni.it/qmail. You must not use SUID and GUID bits on qmail-smtpd with the "Easy-version", but must run it directly as vpopmail root from tcpserver (or root if you have different users for different domains), and all will

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: I'm also wondering if there are any plans for the vpopmail stuff to support talking to multiple databases; ie: if no answer or timeout on one, hit a slave that's replicating off the master. I don't see anything happening with multiple databases beyond specifying a read da

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 05:23 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote: > I'm also wondering if there are any plans for the vpopmail stuff to > support talking to multiple databases; ie: if no answer or timeout on one, > hit a slave that's replicating off the master. Ken and I were talking about this one time

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread tonix (Antonio Nati)
At 06/07/2004 06/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent events have made me think of this again... The "standard" chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's update to the original: http://www.shupp.org/patches/chkuser-0.6.mysql

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Rick Widmer
tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: So the problem is not inside chkusr, but inside the vpopmail library. Simply put the vpopmail library does not distinguish between 'no such user' and 'cant open database'. This is a known problem, that will be resolved as vpopmail will integrate such checks (I've be

RE: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Russell Mann
> The "standard" chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill > Shupp's update to the original: > http://www.shupp.org/patches/chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch) has > some rather nasty behaviours. > > If for some reason your mysql server is unavailable (load has > shot so high that mysql can't return a p

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: > At 06/07/2004 06/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I believe there was some discussion about this some time ago, but recent > >events have made me think of this again... > > > >The "standard" chkuser patch that vpopmail uses (see Bill Shupp's

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Rick Widmer
Charles Sprickman wrote: I'm preparing chkuser 2.0, that will integrate all these changes, and will improve a lot of other things. Excellent. I also have a coworker looking at the patch to see if he can build a workaround. I'm also considering just changing the patch to return a temporary failu

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-07 Thread Tom Collins
On Jul 7, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: Should I make a patch with just this feature against 5.4.5? Will someone merge it - or can I? If you can isolate that change, I'll make sure it gets into the 5.4 series. We can make it available for testing first, and then roll it into a release.

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-08 Thread tonix (Antonio Nati)
At 07/07/2004 07/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: There's some larger issue here that involves a moderately loaded machine running both mysql and qmail (and incidentally, vpopmail) having trouble getting some sql queries out in time. The mysql people (mostly Zawodny) don't think it's a bug/problem with m

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: > >For most vpopmail operations, it's not a big deal; an occasional login > >failure or mail being deferred. But on the chkusr side, a mysql burp > >leads to rejected mail. > > Personally, I feel MySQL unsafe for such operations, and I'll switch to

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Tom Collins wrote: > On Jul 7, 2004, at 7:22 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: > > Should I make a patch with just this feature against 5.4.5? Will > > someone merge it - or can I? > > If you can isolate that change, I'll make sure it gets into the 5.4 > series. Yeah! > We can make it

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-11 Thread Jeremy Kister
On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:32 AM, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: > I'm preparing chkuser 2.0, that will integrate all these changes, and will > improve a lot of other things. Hi, Antonio Could you make chkusr work with djb's serialmail (http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html) ? instead of just having a

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch

2004-07-11 Thread tonix (Antonio Nati)
Jeremy, pls switch to private, as I need more info on serial mail. Tonino At 11/07/2004 11/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:32 AM, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: > I'm preparing chkuser 2.0, that will integrate all these changes, and will > improve a lot of other things. Hi, Ant

[vchkpw] Chkuser patch and bouncer messages?

2003-09-19 Thread Thomas Lojmann Jorgensen
Hello vchkpw, When someone send a mail to xxx and this user dosen't exist on my domain. Then my server send a "report" back to the sender. When the senders address dosen't exist, my "postmaster" account recive a bouncer message that tell me that the "bounce bounced"... I'm tiret of getting this m

RE: [vchkpw] Chkuser patch and bouncer messages?

2003-09-19 Thread Shane Chrisp
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, 19 September 2003 4:48 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [vchkpw] Chkuser patch and bouncer messages? > > >Hello vchkpw, > >When someone send a mail to xxx and this user dosen't exist on my >domain. Then my server send a "repo

[vchkpw] chkuser patch and mysql on different machine

2003-08-21 Thread Dave Richardson - Lists
I want to build a mail gateway to deny incoming SMTP for unknown virtual domain users by building it with the chkuser patch (correct patch name?). I use MySQL for my user database on the mail server. Can I hook the gateway (via VPN) to the user database on the mail server for the auth checks??

Re[2]: [vchkpw] Chkuser patch and bouncer messages?

2003-09-19 Thread Thomas Lojmann Jorgensen
Hello, Do you think that I can set the "doublebounceto" to use "MAILER-DAEMON" also? I've got all my this messages to my postmaster account? Will it be possible, and will it only affect bounced bouncer messages? -- Best regards, Thomasmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch and mysql on different machine

2003-08-21 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Dave Richardson - Lists wrote: I want to build a mail gateway to deny incoming SMTP for unknown virtual domain users by building it with the chkuser patch (correct patch name?). I use MySQL for my user database on the mail server. Can I hook the gateway (via VPN) to the user database on th

[vchkpw] chkuser patch causes problems with qmails sendmail binary

2005-06-04 Thread mike
Ever since I installed chkuser (which has been great, might I add), pine has had issues using the sendmail binary replacement qmail provides. After some stracing I've determined this is because after sending: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is getting a responce of "CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from 25

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser patch causes problems with qmails sendmail binary

2005-06-06 Thread tonix (Antonio Nati)
What you see is chkuser logging, that is handled correctly is you send using smtp port. So, you can either disable chkuser logging or send using smtp local port. Ciao, Tonino At 20.17 04/06/2005, you wrote: Ever since I installed chkuser (which has been great, might I add), pine has had is