RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-15 Thread Jason Wilkinson
Charles J. Boening wrote: Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: is there any way to run chkusr on these 'gateway' MX servers? i use MySQL authentication. The mysql server is the pop server, and i replicate that on the primary MX (where the majority of mail comes in). is there any way to 'hook' into the

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-15 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jason Wilkinson wrote: This is was thinking about doing. I'm not sure why everybody is replicating the database and mail structure when you can just export it via NFS (assuming you're on the local net) and be reading live data. Its not a good idea because if your primary

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-15 Thread Jason Wilkinson
Ajai Khattri wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jason Wilkinson wrote: This is was thinking about doing. I'm not sure why everybody is replicating the database and mail structure when you can just export it via NFS (assuming you're on the local net) and be reading live data. Its not a good

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Ken Jones
On Monday 14 February 2005 12:11 pm, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: I'm a little confused about implementation of chkusr. i really want to implement it, as i'm tired of my paid bandwidth being chewed up by spammers sending tens of thousands of messages to non-existent addresses. instead of having

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Jason Wilkinson
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: is there any way to run chkusr on these 'gateway' MX servers? i use MySQL authentication. The mysql server is the pop server, and i replicate that on the primary MX (where the majority of mail comes in). is there any way to 'hook' into the authentication info in the

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Tom Collins
On Feb 14, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: but reading the docs, it appears i have to install vpopmail on the server that's going to run chkusr, and i don't much like the idea of that. i'm a tad worried that i might suddenly find all incoming messages being delivered to 'local'

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: but reading the docs, it appears i have to install vpopmail on the server that's going to run chkusr, and i don't much like the idea of that. i'm a tad worried that i might suddenly find all incoming messages being delivered to 'local' and going

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 10:42 AM 2/14/2005, you wrote: You could try one of the goodrcptto patches to qmail-smtpd. We have one we use for gateways to exchange servers. Basicly, you export a list of users to a file. Put that file on the gateway machines. With our patch we build a goodrcptto.cdb file. Then qmail-smtpd

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Cream
Ken Jones wrote: You could try one of the goodrcptto patches to qmail-smtpd. We have one we use for gateways to exchange servers. Basicly, you export a list of users to a file. Put that file on the gateway machines. With our patch we build a goodrcptto.cdb file. Then qmail-smtpd checks the cdb

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Charles J. Boening
Paul, I would think you're ok putting vpopmail on your gateway servers. Remember, the CHKUSR patch is only checking that the user exists to vpopmail. I take it you're using the smtproutes file to forward to the real server behind the gateway boxes? If so, you should be just fine. It's not going

Re: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: is there any way to run chkusr on these 'gateway' MX servers? i use MySQL authentication. The mysql server is the pop server, and i replicate that on the primary MX (where the majority of mail comes in). is there any way to 'hook' into the

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jason Wilkinson wrote: 2) the file system (to check the ~qmail/control files and .qmail- files for aliases and catchalls) rsync is your friend ;-) --

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Jeff Koch
We are doing exactly this with our gateway MX server. First we replicate the MySQL database then we use rsync running every 30 minutes to just sync the first couple of directory levels from the /home/vpopmail/domains/x/domain.com on the vpopmail server (this picks up the aliases, mailing

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Charles J. Boening
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:01 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx? Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: is there any way to run chkusr on these 'gateway' MX servers? i use MySQL authentication. The mysql server is the pop server, and i

RE: [vchkpw] chkusr on gateway mx?

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
thanks to everyone for the insights. while i still think it's kind of 'ugly' to have to replicate a portion of the vpopmail directory structure on my MXes, i suppose the benefits will surely outweigh the 'ugliness'. At 03:07 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote: We are doing exactly this with our gateway