Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

2000-07-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I've got a SuSE Linux 6.3 server which runs vpopmail 4.8.5 and needs to be migrated to FreeBSD 4-Stable (or 4.1 if you want to call it that way). So what do I have to copy over to the new machine beside /home/vpopmail/domains /var/qmail/control in order to save all of the configuration info

Re: Obtaining the e-mails using POP3

2000-07-27 Thread Juergen Hoffmann
Hi, telnet host 110 user example%domain.com pass password kind regards Juergen Hoffmann Andrés [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -> Hello. -> -> I've configured vpopmail and I would like to know which username I have to -> enter to receive my e-mails using POP3. I suppose that I'll have to tell the

Re: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Juergen Hoffmann
Hi, you have to login via the following telnet mail.server.com 110 user user%vdom.com pass password kind regards Juergen Hoffmann Andrés [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -> Hi there, -> -> I want to configure my client (Outlook Express under M$) to connect to a -> mailbox under a virtual domain. I

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread Juergen Hoffmann
Hi, could it be that you have identd running? kind regards Juergen Hoffmann James Beam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -> I just finished installing vpopmail-4.8.6 on SUSE 6.4 Linux. I have everything working, but I am noticing a serious delay when trying to check mail via POP3 - it takes almost

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread asantos
From: Juergen Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >could it be that you have identd running? Allow me to correct: "could it be that you *don't* have identd running?" Armando

Re: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Andrés
> > I want to configure my client (Outlook Express under M$) to connect to a > > mailbox under a virtual domain. I have created the domain e.g. vdom.com and > > I have created a user (named info). But I can't make a connection at all, I > > always get a "-ERR authorization failed". > > You are u

Re: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Juergen Hoffmann
Hi, have you started qmail-pop3d with the argument that it should use vchkpw to validate if the submittet information is a valid user? or do you still have checkpassword sitting in there? kind regards Juergen Hoffmann Andrés [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -> -> -> > > I want to configure my cli

RE: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Hubbard, David
vchkpw doesn't run, it just runs to authenticate a user and then exits. Try getting on the box you're using this on and 'telnet hostname.domain.com 110' so you telnet to the POP3 port. If it is working you should see something like this: mail:~# telnet domain.com 110 Trying 1.2.3.4... Connected

Re: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Andrés
Hi. I suppose that's the problem. I'm using it on a RedHat 6.0. I have modified the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init and now it looks like this: (a lot of code) supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -x $CDB -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qma

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread James Beam
Nope - identd is up and running fine. - Original Message - From: "asantos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Beam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 6:34 AM Subject: Re: Please help - something is strange > From: Juergen Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread asantos
From: James Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Nope - identd is up and running fine. In that case I'd suspect that reverse IP lookups are not working. Try -H in tcpserver. If it speeds things up, then there's your problem. Armando

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread James Beam
Thank you.   -H -R helped, but it really started to work the way I expected it to when I added -l {localhostname}   So my line now looks like this:   -H -l mail1.biznizweb.com -R   I suspect it has something to do with reverse lookup on the local host (the -l option bypasses this local check a

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread asantos
From: James Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -uXXX -gXXX 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup biznizweb.com >/mail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & >All one line (in case your client wraps it) Please rewind identd and dns answers back. :) The delay can be caused b

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread Juergen Hoffmann
Hi, exactly. kind regards Juergen Hoffmann asantos [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -> From: James Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> -> >Nope - identd is up and running fine. -> -> In that case I'd suspect that reverse IP lookups are not working. Try -H in -> tcpserver. If it speeds things up, then the

I have a problem...

2000-07-27 Thread James Beam
I just finished installing vpopmail-4.8.6 on SUSE 6.4 Linux. I have everything working, but I am noticing a serious delay when trying to check mail via POP3 - it takes almost 20 seconds before the server will respond. It does this on both SMTP and POP3. Now this server is running a PIII600 w

aliases?

2000-07-27 Thread fricke
Very strange... I´ve added some user to a virtual domain. Then I made some .qmail-username files for aliases. everything works fine. Today I want to sent a mesage to some of the users and qmail tells me : Sorry no mailbox etc. It works for 4 weeks and suddenly...? qmail want´s to deliver the ma

Re: know this?

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Sumith Ail wrote: > > hi all > > Has anybody been successful in setting hard quota for > a virtual domain instead of a user. No. We've talked alot about how to implement virtual domain quotas. Looks like the best idea is to use the file systems quota limits per user. And store each domain under

Re: problem with .qmail processing

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
The .qmail files under a users directory only support forwarding email. It doesn't support the | /program commands. You could put a .qmail-sms file in the base domain directory ~vpopmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-sms Ken Jones Flavio Curti wrote: > > hi > > i have a little problem with the p

Re: domains re: vpopmail & QmailAdmin

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Val Luck wrote: > > My biggest question is, I started adding users without a domain at the > end, for "local" users. When I run "vadduser user" it adds the user > account to ~vpopmail/users. Now, I am also running the html admin tool > QmailAdmin , and when I log into it, I have to enter the d

Re: Qmailadmin Forward-Address Sorting?

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
"Hubbard, David" wrote: > > Hi all, > does anyone know how qmailadmin sorts it's list > of forward accounts? On my system it doesn't seem to be > by Forward or Pop Account. > > Thanks, > > Dave It doesn't do any sorting. It displays them by reading the directory. So the order is how t

Re: Obtaining the e-mails using POP3

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Andrés wrote: > > Hello. > > I've configured vpopmail and I would like to know which username I have to > enter to receive my e-mails using POP3. I suppose that I'll have to tell the > server that I'm the user "example" from "domain.com", how do I do this? > > And how do I read my e-mails using

Re: How do I make vmkpasswd ?

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
YAMAMOTO Taku wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to change authentication specific popuser to apop,so need to modify > vpasswd file by hand.However I can't find vmkpasswd program both > /home/vpopmail/bin and /usr/local/src/vpopmail-x.x.x/. > > How do I configure vpopmail to compile vmkpasswd ? Tr

Re: Vpopmail authentication

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Andrés wrote: > > Hi there, > > I want to configure my client (Outlook Express under M$) to connect to a > mailbox under a virtual domain. I have created the domain e.g. vdom.com and > I have created a user (named info). But I can't make a connection at all, I > always get a "-ERR authorization

Re: Please help - something is strange

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
> James Beam wrote: > > I just finished installing vpopmail-4.8.6 on SUSE 6.4 Linux. I have > everything working, but I am noticing a serious delay when trying to > check mail via POP3 - it takes almost 20 seconds before the server > will respond. It does this on both SMTP and POP3. Now this serv

Re: qmailadmin - mail forwarding

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
> Abdul Naseer wrote: > > How can I give the right to add / delete/ modify mail forwarding to > the individual users using qmailadmin? right now only the postmaster > is able to do this. > > TIA > > Naseer Break out your favorite C code editor and make changes ;] it doesn't support it. Ken

Re: Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello, > I've got a SuSE Linux 6.3 server which runs vpopmail 4.8.5 and needs > to be migrated to FreeBSD 4-Stable (or 4.1 if you want to call it that > way). So what do I have to copy over to the new machine beside > /home/vpopmail/domains > /var/qmail/control > in ord

Re: aliases?

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Very strange... > I´ve added some user to a virtual domain. Then I made some .qmail-username > files for aliases. > everything works fine. Today I want to sent a mesage to some of the users > and qmail tells me : > Sorry no mailbox etc. > > It works for 4 weeks and s

Nothing works

2000-07-27 Thread fricke
Now nothing works... After removing the .qmail-user file for aliases I want to fetch my mail via pop3 client. But qmail still want´s to deliver the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What´s wrong? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Cord-H. Fricke Fon: 0 52 1 / 52 51-133 Fax:

Re: qmailadmin - mail forwarding

2000-07-27 Thread Matthias Henze
At 09:36 27.07.00 -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > > Abdul Naseer wrote: > > > > How can I give the right to add / delete/ modify mail forwarding to > > the individual users using qmailadmin? right now only the postmaster > > is able to do this. > > > > TIA > > > > Naseer > >Break out your favorite C cod

HMMMM?

2000-07-27 Thread fricke
Is it right that I have to use vadddomain as root and vadduser as vpopmail? When adding a domian as vpopmail it doesn´t work when adding a user as root it´s a vpopmail/users user... -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Cord-H. Fricke Fon: 0 52 1 / 52 51-133 Fax: 0 5

more ocmplete autorespond

2000-07-27 Thread Matthias Henze
hi, actual version of the autoresponder can be found at: http://www.mhcsoftware.de/qmail/autorespond/ CHANGELOG: MH 07/2000 1.1.0 added message handling MH 07/2000 1.1.0 added from adrees commandline option MH 07/2000 1.1.0a changed back to 1.0.0 compatibility - the new commandline

RE: know this?

2000-07-27 Thread Abdul Rehman Gani
> Basicly it reads the /var/qmail/users/cdb file > to extract uid/gid/dir information. Won't this break the current setup where account type info is stored in the gid field? Abdul > > Ken Jones >

[paranoia] security

2000-07-27 Thread Sean P. Scanlon
[ Apologies if this has been previously covered ] Maybe I'm a bit paranoid.. I know most people don't run shell/mail services on the same machine, But if you did it is possible for non-admin accounts to change the password of pop accounts. The simple fix is to chmod 0700 ~vpopmail/lib, which wi

Re: know this?

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Abdul Rehman Gani wrote: > > > Basicly it reads the /var/qmail/users/cdb file > > to extract uid/gid/dir information. > > Won't this break the current setup where account type info is stored in the > gid field? > > Abdul > > > > Ken Jones > > The account info is stored in the vpopmail passwd f

Re: [paranoia] security

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
Oh man. Good idea you looked at this. The solution isn't changing the access to the libraries. It should be in the vauth modules to check for the uid in the vauth_setpw and vauth_vpasswd functions. I've fixed and tested it in 4.8.7 http://www.vpopmail.cx/vpopmail-4.8.7.tar.gz You wouldn't see

how to start up? "rc" or tcpserver?

2000-07-27 Thread Val Luck
I used to start up qmail with rc file /var/qmail/rc and then later I changed over to tcpserver that starts it up in init.d directory $ cat smtpd-qmail-start /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 502 -g 501 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & (that is all one line) D

Re: how to start up? "rc" or tcpserver?

2000-07-27 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:40:44AM -0700, Val Luck wrote: > I used to start up qmail with rc file > > /var/qmail/rc > > and then later I changed over to tcpserver that starts it up in init.d > directory > >$ cat smtpd-qmail-start > >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -

Re: know this?

2000-07-27 Thread Sumith Ail
Hi ken.. Is the code you are talking about still under test.. I mean can use it with my current setup of qmail+mysql+vpopmail. If yes then how?? It'd be a great idea if the filesystem user quota can be implemented and the domain mail are stored in their own home dir rather than /home/vpopmail/dom

Re[2]: Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

2000-07-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Ken, Thursday, July 27, 2000, 4:38:40 PM, you wrote: > Becareful about uid's and gid's. Try to make them the same > from one machine to the next. Check /var/qmail/users/assign I think I'll just use the same uids and gids as on the old machine. That should beware me of the uid / gid trouble

vconvert

2000-07-27 Thread Benoit de Mulder
Hello, I have a large /etc/passwd file on a server I will convert it to cdb database on a new server. vconvert seems to use the /etc/passwd file by default. Is there a way to use a designated passwd file with vconvert ? Benoit -- System Administrator Mamma.com - The Mother of All Search Engine

MRTG & QMail

2000-07-27 Thread James Beam
Can anyone direct me to a source for getting MRTG to graph traffic on a QMail/Vpopmail Server?   I found one set of perl scripts to do this, but they are not very clear on what kind of logging I should be doing or how to set it up.   Thanks in advance for any help you folks can offer on this

Re: MRTG & QMail

2000-07-27 Thread Ken Jones
> James Beam wrote: > > Can anyone direct me to a source for getting MRTG to graph traffic on > a QMail/Vpopmail Server? > > I found one set of perl scripts to do this, but they are not very > clear on what kind of logging I should be doing or how to set it up. > > Thanks in advance for any hel

Re: MRTG & QMail

2000-07-27 Thread Bill Shupp
I'm not sure what scripts you've already seen. But there's link to these from the qmail.org: http://x42.com/qmail/mrtg/ There's a mini howto with it as well. Cheers, Bill Shupp James Beam writes: > Can anyone direct me to a source for getting MRTG to graph traffic on a >QMail/Vpopmail S

Re: MRTG & QMail

2000-07-27 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:39:31PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > > James Beam wrote: > > > > Can anyone direct me to a source for getting MRTG to graph traffic on > > a QMail/Vpopmail Server? > > > > I found one set of perl scripts to do this, but they are not very > > clear on what kind of logging

Re: MRTG & QMail

2000-07-27 Thread Peter Green
also sprach insyte: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:39:31PM -0500, Ken Jones wrote: > > > If you use the qmail-mrtg scripts and cyclog, it will work > > really nicely. cyclog is in daemon-tools-0.53. I've not > > been able to get daemontools-0.70 with multilog to work > > with qmail-mrtg. (In res

POP authentication problem

2000-07-27 Thread Warren Brundage
Hello,   I have installed qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail/qmailadmin to my system.  I can add and delete users with qmailadmin and I can check and send mail with sqwebmail but I have had no luck in getting mail remotely via POP3.  When I try a test by telneting in to port 110 I get the following:  

vpopmail warning

2000-07-27 Thread Said Madrus
Dear all, i have installed vpopmail-3.4.11-2, but when installing some message appear like this: opensmtp.o: In function `tcprules_open': /source/vpopmail/vpopmail-3.4.11-2.released/opensmtp.c(.text+0x5d): warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp() anybody know what does it

can not change password

2000-07-27 Thread Jia Rong
Hi: why i can not change password in sqwebmail. i install vpopomail with mysql and sqwebmail. Best Regards Jia Rong [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vpopmail warning

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Boman
Said Madrus wrote: > > Dear all, > i have installed vpopmail-3.4.11-2, but when installing some message appear > like this: > opensmtp.o: In function `tcprules_open': > /source/vpopmail/vpopmail-3.4.11-2.released/opensmtp.c(.text+0x5d): warning: > mktemp() possibly used unsafely; consider using m

Reflections of what needs to be done..

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Boman
EZMLM ISSUES: = The last few weeks the main questions has been the mailinglist, and as I wrote the original patch I feel somewhat responsible for it - even if it is AS-IS / worksformeware. First, I think the ezmlm package the qmailAdmin's homepage is pointing as should be patched with