Question about OS Type...

2000-08-03 Thread James Beam
I am stuck.   I have had a qmail/vpopmail(3-4-11) server running on Slackware for some time now and it is doing fine. Serving 118 Domains with about 8 Users average per domain (Hardware: PII400 w256M Ram and 9gig SCSI - un-modified Slackware Install). It has been running without fail the whol

Re: devel release 4.8.2

2000-08-03 Thread J.M. Roth
sorry this should've gone to the qmailadmin group... - Original Message - From: "J.M. Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 3:47 AM Subject: Re: devel release 4.8.2 > That's great... > Unfortunately my vpasswd

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Kathleen Farber
Thanks Bill & Einar Now we're at about a 20% connection rate without [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are we missing... we just can't figure it out. We know it must have something to do with DNS from when we converted hostname and nameservers HELP!!! This is really getting on my nerves! - Original

Re: devel release 4.8.2

2000-08-03 Thread J.M. Roth
That's great... Unfortunately my vpasswd file isn't updated any longer (can't figure out why) Add and Delete accounts works just fine. Change Password from qmailadmin only updates sqwebmail-pass file and not vpasswd file and says only "Failed to change password". Permissions seem to be correct...

Problems with sqwebmail-0.99 and courier-imap-0.99?

2000-08-03 Thread Einar Bordewich
I had some problems with compiling sqwebmail-0.99 and courier-imap-0.99 against vpopmail-4.8.7 with mySQL support (vclose). This resolved my problems: env LIBS="-L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient" ./configure \ --enable-cgibindir=/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/ \ --enable-imagedir=/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/i

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Einar Bordewich
And remember that the reverse entry must be the domain name, not the FQDN name. ex: host is webmail.somedomain.com. The the PTR record on the IP address should give back only somedomain.com regards -- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich Technical Manager

Re: possibility of apache-like name based virtual domains

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:21:43PM -0400, Jesse Peterson wrote: > OK, guess that answers my question. I was hoping to get around the > user@domain login style, but I suppose I'm stuck. appreciate it, You can set your largest domain to be the default, in which case someone can log in just as "us

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Bill Shupp
Webmaster writes: > Thank you Ken for your response but this still doesn't work. > > We are using option #2 and we still have to check mail via outlook with > username@domain > and we would prefer just the username. > > It worked fine till we changed the hostname and main nameservers for the >

RE: possibility of apache-like name based virtual domains

2000-08-03 Thread Jesse Peterson
OK, guess that answers my question. I was hoping to get around the user@domain login style, but I suppose I'm stuck. appreciate it, jesse -Original Message- From: Ben Beuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:20 PM To: Vpopmail List (E-mail) Subject: Re: poss

Re: possibility of apache-like name based virtual domains

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:01:32PM -0400, Jesse Peterson wrote: > Does anyone know what the possibility of making vpopmail do apache-like name > based virtual domains? I know apache can do it because of the http/1.1 specs > - does pop3 allow for something like that where the server would be > pre

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Kathleen Farber
Thank you Ken for your response but this still doesn't work. We are using option #2 and we still have to check mail via outlook with username@domain and we would prefer just the username. It worked fine till we changed the hostname and main nameservers for the server. Then we upgraded vpop and

possibility of apache-like name based virtual domains

2000-08-03 Thread Jesse Peterson
Does anyone know what the possibility of making vpopmail do apache-like name based virtual domains? I know apache can do it because of the http/1.1 specs - does pop3 allow for something like that where the server would be presented with the name the user attempted to access it with? Just asking be

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Webmaster
Thank you Ken for your response but this still doesn't work. We are using option #2 and we still have to check mail via outlook with username@domain and we would prefer just the username. It worked fine till we changed the hostname and main nameservers for the server. Then we upgraded vpop and

RE: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Jacob Scott
What about a ramdisk for Kernel, etc, and the database on some IDE RAID =) spd! Jacob

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Boris Mizhen wrote: > > Ken Jones wrote: > > > > > We did some measurements with a similar machine as above. About > > the same hardware except it had 128Mram. Only doing outgoing > > email, for newsletter type mail. It was able to sustain about > > 750,000 emails per day. It ranged from 500K to

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Hahah, Good point! I'd go for a second hard drive. Throwing in a sansdisk IDE solid state 400M drive would also boost performance ALOT. They go for about $800 or so. Jacob Scott wrote: > > Not to rain on anyone's parade: 20K accounts@1MB each is already 20gigs... > on a 10gb hdd- so, if you wan

RE: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Jacob Scott
Not to rain on anyone's parade: 20K accounts@1MB each is already 20gigs... on a 10gb hdd- so, if you want to allocate 1Mb/account, maybe 7K accounts? Or buy another hard drive, yeah. =P Jacob -Original Message- From: kbo [mailto:kbo]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Boris Mizhen
Ken Jones wrote:   We did some measurements with a similar machine as above. About the same hardware except it had 128Mram. Only doing outgoing email, for newsletter type mail. It was able to sustain about 750,000 emails per day. It ranged from 500K to 1.1M. But outgoing is handled by qmail only,

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Ben Beuchler wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:19:50PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > > > > Hi, I've a server with this hardware configuration: > > > AMD- K6 - 500Mhz, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD (IDE). This server is running a > > > WebServer (Apache) and a mail server (qmail and vpopmail). This s

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:19:50PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > > Hi, I've a server with this hardware configuration: > > AMD- K6 - 500Mhz, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD (IDE). This server is running a > > WebServer (Apache) and a mail server (qmail and vpopmail). This server > > has about 150 domains i

Re: VPOPMAILUID, VPOPMAILGID, VPOPMAILDIR

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Green
also sprach kbo: > Peter Green wrote: > > also sprach wuebben: > > > If so, why is this so? It makes assembling RPM packages much harder. > > > > qmail does the same thing for the same reason, I think: security. However, > > there are ways of getting around this when packaging RPMs. Easiest might

Re: Ummm, one more thing on qmailadmin...

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
> James Beam wrote: > > Are there any plans to add a popbull function to qmailadmin so Domain > admins can put a bulletin up for all users in a given domain? > > I would try this myself, but when I hack code it ends up in a compost > heap :( > > > Thanks > > James Beam > BiznizWEB, Inc. No p

Re: vpopmail API

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Edward Tsang wrote: > > Hi there, > > I just upgraded from vpopmail 3.4.11 to 4.8.7 > > vpopmail version: 4.8.7 with mysql support > > I had successfully used vpopmail API to code some simple program. > > I tried to use following function: > > pw = vauth_getpw(argv[1],"domain.com"). > > How

Re: min password length?

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Paul Culmsee wrote: > > Hi > > Is there a limit on password length? > > If I set a password for a pop user in vpopmail to password and then > password1, it still allows access for password. I assume then that there is > a character limit of 8 chars. Can this be modified? > > thankyou > > Paul

Re: Casesensitive vpasswd

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
HipHop wrote: > > Hi, > > I have sucessfully installed qmail 1.03, tcpserver and > vchkpw on a linux SUSE 6.4 distribution. > > I added some virtual pop users under > /home/popusers/users and passwd entries in /home/popusers/vpasswd. > > How can I put up aliases for this virtual popusers ? >

Re: email free...

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Eric Scopinho wrote: > > Hi, I've a server with this hardware configuration: > AMD- K6 - 500Mhz, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD (IDE). This server is running a > WebServer (Apache) and a mail server (qmail and vpopmail). This server > has about 150 domains in it, but now one of then, would like to giv

Re: User@domain Authentication (Still Newbie question)

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Webmaster wrote: > > Is there a way to bypass the username@domain when checking mail? > > Kathleen You are probably asking "can i log in with just username and not username@domain?". Read over the INSTALL and FAQ files. Basicly, you have two options: 1) You can login with just username with o

Re: Large Site Question

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have been successfully using qmail with vpopmail-3.4.11-1.released for > the past three months. > > My question concerns the enable-large-site option for building the package. > When I originally set up the server, it was only for one domain with a few > users. I

Re: weird pop error

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
In the vpopmail source code directory. Check your config.h file for the line: #define TCPRULES_PROG "/usr/local/bin/tcprules" What ever that is set to, make sure it points to a good tcprules program. It might be crashing when it attempts to run tcprules Ken Jones Val Luck wrote: > > Hello,

Re: R F C - filters

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Could you make the filter code match sqwebmail's filter specification? Then sqwebmail users could set vpopmail filters. Keeping the two projects working together is a noble goal ;] Ken Jones Matthias Henze wrote: > > hi, > > i'm going to modify my filtermodule to vdeliver as described below

Re: no relaying error message

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
> "J.M. Roth" wrote: > > Hi, > I remember reading this once somewhere (at least the question) > > If I'm using the roaming users functionality how do I put another text > than the "5.7.1 domain isn't in my list ..." message in the smtp > response in case the user has f.e. not authenticated via P

Re: VPOPMAILUID, VPOPMAILGID, VPOPMAILDIR

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Peter Green wrote: > > also sprach wuebben: > > Hi! > > Am I assuming correctly that VPOPMAILUID, VPOPMAILGID and VPOPMAILDIR are > > statically compiled into the binaries? > > Yep. Yep ;] > > > If so, why is this so? It makes assembling RPM packages much harder. > > qmail does the same thin

Re: safestring bug. patch attached

2000-08-03 Thread Ken Jones
Nice one ;] It's in the devel 4.8.8 version now. Thanks! Ken Jones Markus Wuebben wrote: > > Hi! > > scopy() in safestring.c has a bug. Just start vdelivermail(from vpopmail > 4.8.7) from the shell > and it wil segfault. This is due to a bug in scopy. > It doesnt check if the char *src point

Ummm, one more thing on qmailadmin...

2000-08-03 Thread James Beam
Are there any plans to add a popbull function to qmailadmin so Domain admins can put a bulletin up for all users in a given domain?   I would try this myself, but when I hack code it ends up in a compost heap :(     Thanks   James Beam BiznizWEB, Inc.

Re: Different quotas for different virtual domains

2000-08-03 Thread James Beam
I agree with this one.   It would be nice to have a web based control over user/domain quotas.   Is there any way to show in the interface how much space(quota) a user is using? Perhaps even the number of messages he/she currently has on the server? (probably asking allot I know...)   Also, h

Re[2]: New Guy

2000-08-03 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
> Yeah I have installed qmail-1.03 and it has been working with tcpserver for > over a year now but I have never attempted to install vpopmail but I guess > there no time like the present! > One Question! Do you see a problem if my users are authenticating off a > mysql database and do not actual