Re: [vchkpw] Deleting primary domain; keeping alias domains

2009-03-31 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-03-18, at 1151, Charlie Garrison wrote: On 18/03/09 at 9:31 AM -0500, Matt Brookings wrote: Charlie Garrison wrote: Is there a proper way to delete a domain which is currently configured as the primary domain for an account? And I want one of the current domain aliases to become the

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail make install should support DESTDIR

2009-04-01 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-03-30, at 0844, Matt Brookings wrote: I think the build system needs is a way to stop the -o and -g statements when building a package, and to use them when not. Most everyone has been installing vpopmail from source, and I have a feeling many will continue to. We can't remove set

Re: [vchkpw] Deleting primary domain; keeping alias domains

2009-04-01 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-03-31, at 2252, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: so it looks like the only non-trivial thing which hasn't been covered already is updating the vpasswd file and running "vmkpasswd" to rebuild the vpasswd.cdb file. As long as you don't have any ezmlm mailing

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail make install should support DESTDIR

2009-04-01 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-01, at 0725, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:52 PM, John Simpson wrote: here's an idea... why not include a utility which sets the ownerships and permissions correctly? Actually the program is not needed. sorry, the "vfixpermissions" sc

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail make install should support DESTDIR

2009-04-01 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-01, at 0955, Matt Brookings wrote: John Simpson wrote: here's an idea... why not include a utility which sets the ownerships and permissions correctly? Ironically, this particular part of the vpopmail build system, I'm trying *not* to change. I'd like the ./co

Re: [vchkpw] Further Information for Building RPM for vpopmail

2009-04-02 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-01, at 1001, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: For the RPM installation, it is a good practice to set the permission for every file/directory under the %files section. agreed. It shouldn't be done under %pre or %post section because then the RPM cannot figure out the permissions till

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail make install should support DESTDIR

2009-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-01, at 1306, Matt Brookings wrote: John Simpson wrote: this should make it possible to not require root in order to configure or build the software... or is there some other reason root permissions are required? They are required because currently, the Makefiles want to mkdir

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail make install should support DESTDIR

2009-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-01, at 1356, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM, John Simpson wrote: the only problem i see at the moment is how the FHS stuff is going to affect where the files are. i want the program to self-adjust to "FHS layout" or "built from source layout

Re: [vchkpw] Further Information for Building RPM for vpopmail

2009-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-02, at 1036, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: 2009/4/2 John Simpson you DO NOT want these to be setuid root. in fact, you don't want ANY of the binaries to be setuid root, except possibly for vpopmaild, and that only if you want to allow it to create and remove domains- otherwi

Re: [vchkpw] big picture

2009-04-06 Thread John Simpson
On 2009-04-06, at 0923, Ron Miller wrote: See: http://qmail.jms1.net/qmail-1-incoming.pdf and http://qmail.jms1.net/qmail-2-delivery.pdf ... which have just been updated. it's now a single file instead of separate files for each page. the first two pages are pretty much identical to the

[vchkpw] [SPAM] Re: [vchkpw] [SPAM] Using onchange with jms1 mailhub (update-qmail service)

2012-08-05 Thread John Simpson
On 2012-03-06, at 1655, Tom Collins wrote: > > Anyone else using John Simpson's mailhub technique > (http://qmail.jms1.net/mailhub.shtml) for filtering inbound email? > > I'm triggering a rebuild of the valid recipient list via vpopmail's > "onchange" feature, with the following script (comments

Re: [vchkpw] Hashed domain directories - options

2012-08-09 Thread John Simpson
On 2012-08-08, at 2132, Eric Shubert wrote: > > #define MAX_USERS_PER_LEVEL 100 > ... > > In an ext3 environment, it could be set (by the admin) to 3 (ext3 > supports 32000 subdirectories), and with ext4 it could be set to 6 (ext4 > supports 64000). These settings would for the most par

Re: [vchkpw] troubles with vpopbull: users disappeared

2003-07-23 Thread John Simpson
rsions that will fix vpasswd files created by older versions. if nothing else, a quick perl script can do this. i may write one, if somebody can send me a sample of what the "old format" vpasswd file looks like (all of my boxes are running 5.2.1 right now.) -- ---

Re: [vchkpw] Error in Authorisation

2003-07-26 Thread John Simpson
software. that's not to say people here won't at least try to help you though. to sum it up, your question needs a LOT more detail before anybody is going to be able to help you. peace. -- --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --- pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail without qmail

2003-07-27 Thread John Simpson
scratch to work with postfix, but then it wouldn't be vpopmail anymore. and fix your Reply-To: header. it contains your name but no email address, making it difficult for people to reply to your messages. -- ------- | John Simpson - KG4ZO

Re: [vchkpw] Domain Limits

2003-07-29 Thread John Simpson
first read http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html then read the file README.quotas in the source. -- ------- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/<[E

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail virus scanning - but per domain

2003-08-01 Thread John Simpson
ck http://www.qmail.org/ and look there for information. your question is close to being off-topic for this mailing list. --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | ---

Re: [vchkpw] Pulling raw messages out of a maildir

2003-08-21 Thread John Simpson
l- no need to worry about timing. maildrop knows how to handle maildirs, i'm not sure if procmail does or not. - --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | - --

Re: [vchkpw] Some help needed [Off-topic]

2003-08-28 Thread John Simpson
their lists for blocking mail). peace. ------- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | --- PGP.sig Description: PGP signature

Re: [vchkpw] courier pop3d

2003-08-29 Thread John Simpson
actual scripts i've been running with for the past several months. hope this helps. ------- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | ---

Re: [vchkpw] System & virtual User Authentication

2003-09-02 Thread John Simpson
ss just like the virtual users. ------- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | --- PGP.sig Description: PGP signature

Re: [vchkpw] What if mysql was preinstalled?

2003-09-04 Thread John Simpson
rectory names to give on your ./configure command line. peace. --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | --- PGP.sig Description: PGP signature

Re: [vchkpw] [smtpauth] SMTP-Auth bug in passwords?

2003-09-10 Thread John Simpson
irst eight bytes of the password. this is why most systems use MD5 encryption for passwords. --- | John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer at Large | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.jms1.net/ | -

[vchkpw] mysql - valias sequence?

2005-07-19 Thread John Simpson
howdy- while answering a question for somebody on another mailing list i happened to notice that, at least as of vpopmail 5.4.10, the structure of the "valias" table created in a mysql database does not have any provision for sequencing the entries attached to a given alias. in many cases

Re: [vchkpw] mysql - valias sequence?

2005-07-19 Thread John Simpson
On Jul 19, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: and if so, does mysql have any guaranteed order that it will present the records with an explicit ORDER BY clause in the query? There is no ORDER BY clause in the query, so the order the records is random. They may

Re: [vchkpw] spam questions general

2005-07-23 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-07-22, at 15:06, Andras Kende wrote: I have a server where I receive about 1 spam emails / day. I had set to "Set catchall email deleted" which made it down to 1000 spam a day. Before was "Set catchall email bounced" but the queue was filling up quickly... Can you give some

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail version confusion

2005-08-23 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-08-22, at 1837, Robin Bowes wrote: Tom Collins wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: The reason I'm asking is that I currently use vpopmaild but I must have an "old" version from a previous 5.5.3 install as I'm currently using vpopmail 5.4.12 which doesn't have vpopm

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail version confusion

2005-08-23 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-08-23, at 0407, Robin Bowes wrote: John Simpson wrote: if you can write a plug-in which reads a cdb file, i've already written a script which generates a list of every valid email address on a vpopmail system. i wrote it because i also wrote a patch for qmail-smtpd which c

Re: [vchkpw] Problem with vadddomain -u and mysql authentication.

2005-08-25 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-08-25, at 0900, Tijs Zwinkels wrote: I am currently trying to use vpopmail 2.4.12 with mysql authentication. I want to store the mail in the user-directories, to make mail count for the system-quota's. Therefore i'm using the vadddomain -u flag. you do realize that vpopmail stores

Re: [vchkpw] Problem with vadddomain -u and mysql authentication.

2005-08-25 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-08-25, at 0907, Rick Macdougall wrote: Tijs Zwinkels wrote: It seems that both qmailadmin and the delivery process 'setuid' to the user that's receiving the mail. The problem is: the vpopmail.mysql file isn't readable by 'normal' users. Nor i want it to be readable by my users: With t

Re: [vchkpw] [Offtopic] How you handle old mails

2005-08-28 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-08-28, at 0815, Tanmaya Anand wrote: I would like to know everyone feedback on how you handle old mails say 2 months old. if it's that old and hasn't been read, i would ask the user why they aren't checking their email, and ask them to check it every so often and delete anything

Re: [vchkpw] Rsync concerns

2005-09-12 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-12, at 0348, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I am currently using Rsync to mirror /home/vpopmail/domains/ virtualdomain, however, while this works without errors during the night, during the day we get errors in the Cronlog because the users are collecting mail via POP. I am not too bothe

Re: [vchkpw] Help! /var/qmail removed

2005-09-19 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-19, at 1406, Matt Brookings wrote: I just wanted to follow this posting up with a script that handles hashed domains directories. It's a little longer the previous one, and may be a little fishy on older bash shells, but it should work on any newer systems. If you use it, let me kno

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser 2.0.8b

2005-09-22 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-21, at 0614, Aleks Olsen wrote: - Now, it seems the patch didnt like working with auth-jms1.4a.patch (auth patch) and/or qmail-1.03-jms1.5.patch (tls patch). both of which are ANCIENT. my combined patch is up to version 6b now. and it doesn't use "chkuser"... i doctored up a diffe

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser 2.0.8b

2005-09-22 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-21, at 0623, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: Why are you running it with -u $QMAILDUID ? You should run it as vpopmail, excluding any uidswitching (if you enabled uidswitching within chkuser_settings.h, comment it). Cert must be owned by vpopmail as well. qmail is, and has always

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser 2.0.8b

2005-09-26 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-22, at 1234, Tom Collins wrote: On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:42 AM, John Simpson wrote: if you're supporting AUTH, you really should use TLS as well. otherwise you're allowing your users to send their passwords across the internet in plain text- and all it takes is one spamme

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser 2.0.8b

2005-09-26 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-22, at 1627, Erwin Hoffmann wrote: At 18:12 22.09.2005 +0100, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: At 17.34 22/09/2005, you wrote: On Sep 22, 2005, at 1:42 AM, John Simpson wrote: if you're supporting AUTH, you really should use TLS as well. otherwise you're allowing your use

Re: [vchkpw] chkuser+vpopmail 5.4.10+qmail-smtp-auth.patch

2005-09-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-09-26, at 0105, rafael marcos bernardes wrote: Im using freebsd 4.11+vpopmail 5.4.10+qmail 1.03[qmailqueue.patch and auth-jms1.4a.patch]. ... the 4a patch is beyond ancient (the "jms1" in the filename is me.) you REALLY need to use something more recent. this web page describes the

Re: [vchkpw] qmail-tap documentation error?

2005-10-06 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-04, at 1317, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: From the qmailtap INSTALL file: 4) Done To compile it you will at least need to change the error.h file to include errno.h just after the ifdefs at the top of the file. #include error.h doesn't make sense. shouldn't the include line be #incl

Re: [vchkpw] email wildcards?

2005-10-06 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-04, at 1959, Ducky wrote: How does one go about setting up wildcards? I just moved servers and all my wild cards do not seem to be working. On my other server with qmail i would just create a .qmail-$email- default file and point it to the local directory. Example: I set up [EM

Re: [vchkpw] a vpopbull question

2005-10-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-07, at 1113, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I want to get a list of all emails accounts on my mail server, so i run vpopbull. I got this message ~vpopmail/bin/vpopbull -n -V >> ~mbeltran/cuentas.txt skipping promotionalrepaldo/home.123.hn (alias of promotionalhome. 123.hn)

Re: [vchkpw] a vpopbull question

2005-10-09 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-07, at 1830, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may want to look at my "mkvalidrcptto" script- I'm interested on your script mkvalidrcptto but it has not a help. what is the syntax? there's no real syntax- you just run it. it scans the directories it needs and sends the output to

Re: [vchkpw] vauth_getpw() with Apache/CGI

2005-10-19 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-19, at 2029, Charles Collicutt wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:32:34PM -0700, Tom Collins wrote: IIRC, it may need to read the files in /var/qmail/control and/or /var/qmail/users as well. Thank you - it makes sense now. It looks like it will be easiest to just leave the setuid b

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail upgrade ==> qmail recompile needed ?

2005-10-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-26, at 1902, Szeki - Inc wrote: If I upgrade vpopmail from an earlier version (say from the same mainline eg from 5.4.10 to 5.4.13), than I have to recompile qmail - it is using Bill Shupp's 0.8 patch - if it is using chkuser ? considering that the "chkuser" patch relies on vpopma

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail upgrade ==> qmail recompile needed ?

2005-10-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-26, at 1949, Rick Macdougall wrote: Domain Quotas are not going to happen anytime soon I think, the over head of calculating the quota for a domain of 20K users is just too much. If you really need domain quotas, use a separate user for each domain and use system quotas. Of cour

Re: [vchkpw] How expensive is reloading the tcp.smtp.cdb?

2005-10-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-26, at 1805, ISP Lists wrote: Related to my earlier post, how expensive is it - resource-wise - to reload a tcp.smtp file of 100-1000 lines? if it's anything like mine, with currently 56,270 lines and more added every time some spammer sends a message to an email address in the "

Re: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue

2005-10-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-27, at 0404, Manish Jain wrote: I have installed netqmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin on RHEL 3.0 I have configured multile domains on the server. And using smtproutes in /var/qmail/control to route the mails of different domains to the clients mailsrevers in remote. I am facing problem,

Re: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue

2005-10-29 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-28, at 0800, Ingo Claro wrote: Your could have many instances of qmail running in different ports. and with smtproutes deliver some domains to the qmails... no. you can have many instances of "qmail-smtpd" running on different IP addresses and/or ports, but it's still just the on

Re: [vchkpw] How expensive is reloading the tcp.smtp.cdb?

2005-10-29 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-28, at 0803, Ingo Claro wrote: what do you mean by "delete.net" domain ? you have a bogus virtualdomain to catch spammers? i own the domain "delete.net", and i run it as a honeypot. the http://www.delete.net/ web page explains this. -

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail upgrade ==> qmail recompile needed ?

2005-10-29 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-28, at 1328, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:57 pm, John Simpson wrote: On 2005-10-26, at 1949, Rick Macdougall wrote: Domain Quotas are not going to happen anytime soon I think, the over head of calculating the quota for a domain of 20K users is just too much

Re: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue

2005-10-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-29, at 1623, Ingo Claro wrote: but if you install many qmails in different directories (/var/qmail, /var/qmail2, ...) you can have multiple queues. i understand that. i also understand (from direct experience) that it's an administrative nightmare, and it's a lot more work than he

Re: [vchkpw] Migrating vmailmgr to vpopmail+mysql

2005-10-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-30, at 1033, aichains wrote: Resurrecting previous post that I found on MARC: does anybody know a way to convert mails and accounts from vmailmgr to vpopmail? i already searched the archive and google without any result. ... I'm currently in the same situation and am looking for

Re: [vchkpw] New user with folder

2005-10-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-10-30, at 1300, Tom Collins wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Anilkumar wrote: it create the user perfectly with his Inbox i want to create four (4) new folder at the time of creating a new user Edit the function make_user_dir() in vpopmail.c. At the beginning of the function, i

Re: [vchkpw] Re: qmail+vpopmail on redhat 7.3 server gets very busy

2005-11-06 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-06, at 1933, Sam wrote: Now that my server is up and running, two last questions: 1- I know that a bad address causes the email to bounce, but what is a "doublebounce" exactly? let's say a message arrives, addressed to a userid on your system which doesn't exist. that message wil

Re: [vchkpw] recompile or not

2005-11-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-06, at 2143, Szeki - Inc wrote: Question is: I have to recompile, if I only change some function in vpopmail ? The version remains the same, only for example, logging change from p to v. I really have to recompile courier-atuthlib if I change vpopmail option enable-sql-logging ?

Re: [vchkpw] recompile or not

2005-11-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-07, at 1015, Nicholas Harring wrote: Please, please, please don't spread FUD by even implicitly blaming chkuser for this. i wasn't trying to cast blame anywhere, and if it sounded like i was then i apologize. There's no way to implement chkuser in even a vaguely efficient manner

Re: [vchkpw] recompile or not

2005-11-09 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-07, at 2354, Tom Collins wrote: One problem is that some programs (including qmailadmin) actually make use of information in the header files to conditionally compile its code. To truly move to a dynamic lib, we need to have any program that links to libvpopmail do so without u

Re: [vchkpw] User defined .qmail files

2005-11-22 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-22, at 2015, James Longstreet wrote: Is there any way, with vpopmail, to have specify a .qmail file to be processed as a user? For instance: - Mail comes in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] - qmail-local delivers mail as vpopmail/vpopmail using ~vpopmail/domains/example.com/joe/.qmail - Somet

Re: [vchkpw] User defined .qmail files

2005-11-23 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-23, at 1154, Tom Collins wrote: On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:50 PM, John Simpson wrote: vpopmail isn't the cause of this problem- you're simply running into the limit of what qmailadmin allows the user to do. it probably wouldn't take much for them to add the ability to en

[vchkpw] vpopmaild

2005-11-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-07, at 1043, Ken Jones wrote: Cristiano Deana wrote: Hi, is 'vpopmaild' project still open? I have seen from cvs vpopmaild.c file hasn't been modified since dec 2004, why? And php => vpopmaild? Yep. It's still active. Last week I started a vpopmaild documentation page. http:/

Re: [vchkpw] smtp authentication

2005-11-27 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-27, at 1318, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok i know how to force users to provide username and password(ofcourse using jms's patch) for sending mail but what about the servers on the internet how they'll send mails to this server can i excluded say any ip to not be authenticated. it

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmaild

2005-11-28 Thread John Simpson
On 2005-11-28, at 0715, Robin Bowes wrote: John Simpson said the following on 27/11/2005 23:40: and a suggestion: how about adding a "exists [EMAIL PROTECTED]" command, which would check whether the address is "deliverable" (meaning it exists as a mailbox, an alias, a &quo

Re: [vchkpw] VPOPMAIL Backup

2006-01-16 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-01-04, at 1229, Rick Macdougall wrote: Michl wrote: Hi all, i need to setup a configuration backup for all my vpopmail domains, vpopmail settings, and qmail settings. What are the files I need to store in my backup to get a quickly disaster recovery? For qmail /var/qmail/control/

[vchkpw] vpopmaild status?

2006-01-16 Thread John Simpson
i'm wondering about vpopmaild... i plan on writing a patch for qmail- smtpd which will make it connect to vpopmaild in order to handle the AUTH command (basically try to "login" and use the "+" or "-" response to approve or deny the AUTH command.) my questions are: - how close are we to seei

[vchkpw] vpopmail suggestion - external hook?

2006-01-16 Thread John Simpson
how hard would it be for libvpopmail to implement a "hook", where an external command (defined in a ~vpopmail/etc file) is executed whenever something changes- domains added or deleted, mailboxes or aliases added or deleted, passwords changed, etc... some of you may be familiar with my "val

[vchkpw] qmailtap question

2006-02-04 Thread John Simpson
just a quick question. i'm maintaining the monster combined patch that "qmailrocks" has adopted, and over the past few months i've been hammered with questions about using QUEUE_EXTRA. apparently it works with older versions of my combined patch, but since i added the ext_todo patch (which solves t

Re: [vchkpw] Create forward

2006-02-05 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-03, at 1335, Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM ((R)) wrote: that is easy done with the configuration of the .qmail - file with is in the directory under: /home/vopopmail/domains/domail.com/user1/.qmail <- Open this file, e.g. with vi like this: # vi /home/vopopmail/domains/domail.com/us

Re: [vchkpw] qmailtap question

2006-02-06 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-06, at 1620, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: i'm thinking about possibly including the qmailtap patch in my combined patch file. however, the biggest problem i've seen from people using QUEUE_EXTRA is that they set up loops when they try to send the copies to a remote address, and because

Re: [vchkpw] cram-md5 smtp auth failure.

2006-02-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-07, at 0623, N0K wrote: Hello, and thanks for the reply, i have quit smtp auth old patch and i have patched with vpopmail/contrib patch, but now, i get the next error: tsuki:/var/qmail/supervise# telnet localhost 25 ... AUTH LOGIN 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 YnJvZHJpasffZ3sVlemJAZnVqaXRzdS5l

Re: [vchkpw] qmailtap question

2006-02-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-07, at 0214, Adam Ossenford wrote: I was able to integrate your qmail-1.03-jms1.6c patch and the qmail tap patch successfully. did you do mine first and then qmailtap, or the other way around? did the patch apply cleanly or were there any rejects which had to be handled manual

Re: [vchkpw] cram-md5 smtp auth failure.

2006-02-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-07, at 0703, N0K wrote: For the moment only want see smtp auth run. But the result is the same: tsuki:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd# telnet localhost 25 ... auth login 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 Cgp0b2xerylQHRlcF3QuY29t 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 CgasoxMaajMw 454 oops, unable to write pipe and I

Re: [vchkpw] cram-md5 smtp auth failure.

2006-02-07 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-02-07, at 0759, Rick Macdougall wrote: Just an FYI to the original poster, the new patch does not require the host name in the run file of qmail-smtpd. If it is there, it will make you an open relay. It's not part of the problem above I believe but I thought you should be made aw

[vchkpw] 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-26 Thread John Simpson
howdy- i have written a few patches for qmail, one of which implements a RCPT TO check to verify whether or not the recipient address exists or not (like the "chkuser" patch, but which reads a cdb file and can therefore run on a machine which is not the same machine where vpopmail is runn

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-03-27, at 1304, Robin Bowes wrote: John Simpson wrote: i have written a patch against vpopmail-5.4.15 which causes any changes to trigger "~vpopmail/etc/onchange", if it exists and if it is executable to the userid which is running the vpopmail program. the patch can be

Re: [vchkpw] /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-user

2006-03-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-03-28, at 0606, Jimmy Stewpot wrote: I have a server that is setup as having vpopmail installed to run all of the emails without having system accounts. I have got users on the system that have cronjobs running. If those users have a crontab that runs and has an error it will email

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-03-30, at 1019, Robin Bowes wrote: John Simpson wrote: http://qmail.jms1.net/vpopmaild.shtml shows a clearer example of how to run vpopmaild under daemontools, by the way. Clearer than what? clearer that the first few lines of README.vpopmaild from the source code, which are

Re: [vchkpw] Global addressbook support

2006-03-30 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-03-30, at 1522, Matt Brookings wrote: We're currently working on a project to integrate automatic updates to a global addressbook via vpopmail's API. During a meeting, we discussed using the hook features, rather than directly modifying the vpopmail API to call OpenLDAP functions. Firs

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-31 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-03-30, at 2124, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: http://qmail.jms1.net/vpopmaild.shtml shows a clearer example of how to run vpopmaild under daemontools, by the way. Nice page! Just a thought... if you are only using vpopmaild to verify user logins, you might want to use

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-01, at 0547, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: let me suggest an alternative- instead of "login user pass compact", how about "login/compact user pass"? this allows the password to be the last thing on the line, and therefore contain spaces, and

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-02, at 0809, Rick Widmer wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: So, a system only needing to validate credentials would just need to login and quit. Which is what slogin will do. You may not even have to quit. It could just return OK or ERROR, and exit. I'm not sure what John did, but he

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-02, at 0829, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: On 2006-04-01, at 0547, Rick Widmer wrote: I was planning if you would like a way to see if a user exists without returning anything else... that's certainly a possibility, easy enough to add... should that be availab

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 0727, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: > and since i now have two different patches for vpopmail, it's time to > create a new web page to hold them. both patches are available from > this page, which includes basic documentation for the new fea

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 0824, Robin Bowes wrote: Rick Widmer wrote: I was under the impression your interest is based on Robin Bowes suggestion about the validrcptto.cdb patch, so it is "does this mailbox exist." We may as well make it easy, it should be a popular function. Yes - having this

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 1159, Tom Collins wrote: On Apr 3, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: Rick Widmer wrote: I was under the impression your interest is based on Robin Bowes suggestion about the validrcptto.cdb patch, so it is "does this mailbox exist." We may as well make it easy, it shou

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 1609, Robin Bowes wrote: This is how I've implemented a plugin for qpsmtpd that auths against vpopmaild. It's extremely easy: # create socket my $vpopmaild_socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => vpopmaild_host, PeerPort =>

Re: [vchkpw] rblsmtpd with vchkpw

2006-04-03 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 1024, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is any rule to put in ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp for one user has been authenticated not be IP checked on rblsmtpd ? if by "authenticated" you mean that their IP address matches a certain line, yes. the example you include... 111.111

Re: [vchkpw] rblsmtpd with vchkpw

2006-04-04 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-05, at 0002, Fernando Milovich wrote: I mean bypass RBL is the client is authenticated. But it seems to be no possibly. This problem is because our customers use ISP connections like ADSL and Dial Up and these connections are blocked by CBL at spamhaus.org I think i´ll have to chan

Re: [vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-04 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-03, at 1442, John Simpson wrote: On 2006-04-03, at 0727, Rick Widmer wrote: In the patch, how do you separate password and real_name in add_user? I know the help doesn't mention it, but I think it requires a real name value to put into GECOS. It is at least an option.

[vchkpw] bug found in vdominfo

2006-04-07 Thread John Simpson
while trying to answer a question on the qmailrocks list about a problem with vchkpw, i noticed a problem with the "vdominfo -n" command... when listing domains, it doesn't list alias domains correctly. instead of "aliasdomain (alias of realdomain)" it's showing "realdomain (alias of realdo

Re: [vchkpw] How to bypass quota

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-14, at 0426, Olivier JUDITH wrote: I use qmail + vpopmail + courrier-imap ... and i have activated quota for each users to 100M . It work fine fine but, some users would like to be prevent when their Maildir box size is greater than quota and continue to receive their mail. Can i d

Re: [vchkpw] Force Auth from all but localhost

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-14, at 0338, Sascha Ebach wrote: how can I enforce that everybody (except localhost) has to authenticate via smtp auth. my combined patch, version 6 or newer, includes this functionality. http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/combined.shtml you can export a REQUIRE_AUTH=1 enviro

Re: [vchkpw] Force Auth from all but localhost

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-15, at 1003, Remo Mattei wrote: John Simpson wrote: On 2006-04-14, at 0338, Sascha Ebach wrote: how can I enforce that everybody (except localhost) has to authenticate via smtp auth. my combined patch, version 6 or newer, includes this functionality. http://qmail.jms1.net

Re: [vchkpw] ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
e domain ONLY do the activities needed to create a domain in whatever external system you are updating, and have the one for the mailbox ONLY do the activities needed for creating a new mailbox. i'm all about maintaining as much flexibility as possible. my recommendation is to

Re: [vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-15, at 1917, Rick Widmer wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: I must admit I've not actually looked at John's code. However, my thoughts (based on your comments) are as follows: add_user should be called as well as add_domain when a new domain is created - these are separate actions that happen

Re: [vchkpw] ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-15, at 2152, Rick Widmer wrote: Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: (1) please include the URL http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/ vpopmail.shtml in the file, so that poeple can easily find the documentation i have written (and will be maintaining) for it. i'll be watching

Re: [vchkpw] ONCHANGE in CVS

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-16, at 0050, Rick Widmer wrote: I've just committed John Simpson's onchange patch. I've added the ability to enable it with --enable-onchange-script, and a file README.onchange. cool... except that i've updated the patch twice today, and i'm in the process of building anothe

Re: [vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-15 Thread John Simpson
(re-arranging things so the sequence of my answers makes sense...) On 2006-04-15, at 2237, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: if the "onchange" script needs to know whether the user's request affected a real or alias domain, simply look to see if there IS anothe

Re: [vchkpw] ONCHANGE in CVS

2006-04-16 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-16, at 0334, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: On 2006-04-16, at 0050, Rick Widmer wrote: I've just committed John Simpson's onchange patch. I've added the ability to enable it with --enable-onchange-script, and a file README.onchange. cool... e

Re: [vchkpw] ONCHANGE in CVS

2006-04-16 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-16, at 0822, Rick Widmer wrote: John Simpson wrote: i just had a thought- is there a "vchkpw-devel" mailing list that this conversation should be moved to? i suspect that most people on the list aren't interested in these kinds of low-level details- or mayb

Re: [vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-04-16, at 0639, Robin Bowes wrote: If you look at qpsmtpd (which is where I believe the idea of onchange hooks came from) not really... it's something i've wished that vpopmail had for several years, but never had the time to write. It also calls different "scripts" for each hook

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