Title: customizing quota messages
I'm new to the list, however I've searched the archives and couldn't find an answer to this, nor could I find it in the docs, so I think I'm not duplicating a previous question.
I run a site where I have users in a dozen or so domains, and need to customize
ael.
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From: "Nick Harring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:38 AM
Subject: [vchkpw] customizing quota messages
> I'm new to the list, however I've searched the archives and couldn't
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Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 7:49 AM
To: 'Michael Bowe'; [
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!
We currently run our hosted systems requiring reverse DNS and haven't really had any complaints about mail not being received. While there's no rule requiring reverse DNS, systems without it are much more likely to be spam origin
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System Administrator
Webley Systems, Inc
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From: Ron Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:02 AM
To: vpopmail
Subject: RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:55, Nick Harring w
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Inter7 mail server doesn't have reverse DNS!
As the only other person on this apparently doing this, I thought I'd just weigh in briefly (again) with regards to why we do it. For those folks who're worried about the sanctity of my users email, don't be. My users understand
om Collins
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:28
AMTo: vpopmail listSubject: Re: [vchkpw] Strange
problem?
On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Nick Harring wrote:
Is there a way around this limitation by modifying permissions
on the affected files in /var/qmail/c
Title: RE: [vchkpw] Strange problem?
Is there a way around this limitation by modifying permissions on the affected files in /var/qmail/control and /var/qmail/users? The setup I run doesn't allow root access to the vpopmail/domains directory, and so I'd like to be able to add domains as vpopma
I personally would love to see the MySQL data moved out of the library and
into a config file. The thought of recompiling vpopmail if/when my database
info changes is disconcerting. Configuration data belongs in configuration
files, not shared libraries.
The only concern of course is that apps w
Rudi-
If the servers are not geographically separated, then you can do this
fairly easily by simply placing them behind some sort of
load-balancing/fail-over device (Foundry, Cisco Local Director, Linux
LVS director) and either load balance them or do active/passive
failover.
For the vpopmail datab
performance is more than acceptable (its a pretty darn fast cluster
imho). The master read/write mysql database is running on a semi-ancient
Sun E250, however there's not a lot of writing going on as I turned off
mysql logging in vpopmail.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Rodrigo Pinheiro wrote:
x27;ll end up using linux-ha and some
perl scripts to dynamically reconfigure a pair of servers as
Master/Slave (when the master crashes, the slave becomes the master,
and when the previous master comes back up it automagically knows to
become the new slave).
Let me know if there's any thing else I can answer.
Hope this helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
two way replication, and their replication speed is amazing.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
System Administrator
Webley Systems, Inc.
Doug Clements wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:31:39PM -0500, Nick Harring wrote:
I'm about to tackle this same problem myself, since I'm about to ditch a
pair of Solaris boxes for my NFS mounted mail spools and instead move to
filers. My plan is to instead use Linux
developement
model. Right now that would tend to be Tom, but Ken has only just begun
the dialogue, so many he'll be able to settle all of this with what he
has to say.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
projects developement
seems to die out, a new person should be able to pickup the slack and
keep things moving. (iii) If Ken has an issue with that, it'd probably
behoove him to let us know why he waited, and where he'd see things
going from now," Nick Harring.
i. Inter7 has been
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
At 09:54 AM 9/11/2003, Tom Collins wrote:
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 08:59 AM, Paul Theodoropoulos
wrote:
i also run a *third* smtpd for customers who are on networks that
block outbound port 25, i also run one called smtpd-2525, which is
the alternate por
oubt
there's a correlation.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Tim Hasson wrote:
This is a followup for the problem discussed last week.
Is there anyone even running maildir on nfs with maildir++ quotas enabled??
- Forwarded message from Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Mon,
the following logic:
If x.com exists and y.com doesn't, y.com becomes an alias for x.com.
If y.com exists and x.com doesn't, x.com becomes an alias for y.com.
If neither or both exist, vaddaliasdomain exits with an error.
That wasn't so hard now was it?
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Paul L. Allen wrote:
Erik Bourget writes:
You know, intense as this whole argument is, the fact remains that DWIM
is no substitute for proper documentation.
Let's see, the documentation says vaddaliasdomain original alias.
If you do what the documentation says, it works. If you reverse t
gging
verbosity of qmail-smtpd when auth'ing because I had some similar
problems that I had a devil of a time tracking down.
HtH,
Nick Harring
David Benson wrote:
Eric, thanks for the suggestion, but that was not the solution... I will be
reviewing the site you recommended to see if I can find a
AN do it all with vadduser.
Wrong, and sometimes also wrong. There may be very legitimate reasons,
technical or political, for not allowing scripts to execute shell
commands on a mail system. There may be integration reasons why only DB
queries can be performed, instead of invoking a cgi or do
ise
its DES.
You can also do
perl -e 'print crypt("password", "$1$salt");' The same rules apply to
the string being used as a salt.
For more info see the MySQL manual available at www.mysql.com, or for
the perl function see perldoc -f crypt.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harr
ou need to send the base64
encoded [EMAIL PROTECTED], then it'll send back a base64 encoded
string that says "Password:", to which you reply with the base64 encoded
password. Simply reading the smtp auth spec would tell you how each auth
method is expected to work.
Hope that h
nable-logging=v this will set verbose with errors logging.
if i try to auth with evolution i get the password dialog again and
again without any error messages in smtp/log/main/current
so i try to debug my problem
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
n the emotional
highs you get from tearing into people.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
does vchkpw allow for MD5 auth logins?
X
Recent versions of vpopmail support md5 auth. I think I've actually
tested it and it worked as well.
Hope that Helps
Nick Harring
st wrapping the srandom seeding in #ifdef's and adding a
check in configure would work, and I'm working up a patch to do the
first bit, though I know zero about configure/autoconf and thus can't
help there. I'll submit via sourceforge once I get it working and non-ugly.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
Paul L. Allen wrote:
I'm going to try to answer both you and Tom at the same time. One of
the few times I didn't bother checking mail at least once after finishing
on Friday night and I have over 300 waiting for me on Monday morning.
Nick Harring writes:
Better than wha
Nick Harring wrote:
This is the Right Thing imho. It might be easier though to move the
srandom()/random() and new reads from /dev/urandom into a function of
its own, rather than replacing them whereever they're sprinkled
through the code. I realize that's even more work, but it
Raboo Treed wrote:
Congratulations. You've been here longer than I have. The only thing
is that, even with my notoriously-poor memory, I remember seeing MANY
announcements from him. At least more than one a month.
Well lets make it a rule of tumb, only put out releases every 3 months or
so
Tom Collins wrote:
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 05:40 AM, Nick Harring wrote:
Actually, this is already a right place to put this, which is in
randltr. Oddly that's what's used for generating the salt, but not
what's used for generating the password. Instead the passwor
bove
message when trying to send a mail before i have logged in via pop3.
hanez
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
utely right about requiring more than the
current patch supplies.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
dont see a need for this. It would only add more
confusion. Unless its a compile time configurable argument, in which
case it would be okay.
X
Notice the --enable-feature part of the description of the patch? By
default this would suck, as an option its perfect.
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
load.
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
o the user mailbox remains
EXACTLY the same on the new box.
You'll also want to dump the dir_control table entry for this domain so
that vadduser and whatnot create people in the right place.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
internal IDE and external scsi interfaces (I bought a 1.2TB
raw unit for under $7K USD recently). You can build an LVS load
balanced cluster with pretty low end hardware that'll keep up with full
100Mbs line speed.
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:18, Doug Clements wrote:
> Ken Jones wrote:
> > I was wondering where the best place to put a
> > domain wide enable/disable flag for spamassassin would be.
> > What do you folks think?
> >
> > The idea would be to have a file checked by vdelivermail.
> > If spam assassin i
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:26, Jeff Koch wrote:
> We're setting up a smart-host mail router to just handle qmail scanning.
> The mail will then go to the appropriate mailserver where spam filtering
> will be done and the mail dropped into vpopmail accounts.
>
> We get about 50-60K spam emails per
can't to convert..
> > anybody help me ??
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Rodrigo Pinheiro
> >
> >
Nick Harring
--
Nicholas harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Webley Systems, Inc.
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:24, Tom Collins wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:37 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > First, for Tom, what are you recommending for a good devel version?
> > 5.3.30 seems to have some lingering bugs (looking at subsequent 5.4.x
> > release notes).
>
> I recommend the final 5.
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:47, Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using vpopmail with cdb authentication system on many servers
> about 2 years and I don't have any complains about it.
> Looking the README.mysql from vpopmail 5.4.0 it says:
>
> "Using vpopmail with My
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:55, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:47, Eduardo M. Bragatto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been using vpopmail with cdb authentication system on many servers
> > about 2 years and I don't have any complains about it.
> > Looking the README.mysql from
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:25, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:01, Nick Harring wrote:
> > > except for the segfaults adding domains and users when using mysql
> > > replication along with it :)
> > Which segfaults would those be? I use mysql replicatio
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:13, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:07, Nick Harring wrote:
>
> > Well, I'll not flame, but I will correct. Stripping removes debugging
> > symbols only which only get loaded, iirc, when you load the binary in a
> > debugger
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:45, Tom Collins wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Nick Harring wrote:
> > In most setups, i.e. less than 1k users, I'd probably agree. For larger
> > sites though I'd be interested in trying to benchmark, maybe with
> > somethin
ou must run autoconf then aclocal
then automake.
Please let me know if people have issues with it, however I'm not the
worlds greatest autoconf/automake person, so its very possible I won't
be able to help.
Hope folks enjoy it,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
mail/courier/my
proprietary stuff of roughly 2 hours for each new version of vpopmail. I
lose 0 productivity for that 1500 seconds of "lost" cpu time. I lose 2
hours of productivity having to upgrade all of these components on all
of these servers.
Obviously everyone will need to make their o
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:21, Rick Romero wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:08, Jeff Koch wrote:
The replication works like a charm. I have found the occasional problem
if the vlog table is replicated, for some reason its very prone to
duplicate records. I myself just stopped using this table and m
retrieval, I can measure a bit more easily...
Thanks,
Charles
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
instead of a mass migration and upgrade as i'd originally
contemplated, i've simply added a new disk array to my systems to add
more space. i've moved many existing domains from the original filer
to the new one, simply dropping a symlink in place at the original
loc
o unless we start
running separate smtpd instances, with their own configs, separate IPs
we cannot present a certificate to each client that'd match what their
mail client expects.
>(note: even Your soft, courier-imap seems to have an option for
>spamass, would be nice to see Dspam(.org) instead)
>
>
I think this'd be a "show us the code" request. There are quite a few
ways to use spamassassin where its not a ridiculous memory hog
(spamc/spamd for one).
Cheers,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
lqueue, You have something to worry about. Each e-mail
> triggers the scripts, first qmail-scanner, secondly spamm-ass.
I don't use qmail-queue-scanner.pl, I think its a bloated piece of crap.
I am unwilling to accept its overhead on my server at home that delivers
~100 emails a day, let alone my production environment delivering
~600K/day.
This doesn't mean I can't/don't use spamassassin. For those mailboxes
electing for spam filtering I use spamc to connect to spamd. Its fast,
low overhead, and very easy to maintain.
>
> NH> Cheers,
> NH> Nick Harring
> NH> Webley Systems
>
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
ields server a
legitimate purpose, just like doing the same in the To field can (think
BCC mailing lists with "Undisclosed Recipients" in the To). Yes,
spammers abuse this, as do virus writers.
I definitely recommend this "functionality" be made optional, hard to
turn on, and as unadvertised as possible. Those few people who know
they'd benefit and not suffer can then find it, and those people who
think they'd benefit but wouldn't realize the consequences wouldn't
clobber their users.
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
box
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 11:38, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> I've checked the archives, but searching on "archive" or "log" is
> fruitless.
>
> Generic qmail offers a way to archive all emails to a specific
th on one server, so not bad
at all), the ability to execute "load data from master; start slave;" is
very, very worth while.
Overall though the architecture you're suggesting, and Jeremy and I have
both setup, is absolutely the best for a setup like yours.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
devices around, however
their reliability, performance and support are pretty much unmatched.
I've had zero hiccups since deploying in production, and the performance
absolutely clobbers the previous Solaris/SCSI based solution I was
using.
I've got about a dozen domains, 85K mailboxes and about 600K
messages/day that's only putting about 20% load on my netapps.
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems
Title: Re: [vchkpw] NFS / Disk Access / Load Concerns on Vpopmail cluster
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:21, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 04:41 pm, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm... Good suggestion, is there anything similar t
Title: Re: [vchkpw] [semi-OT] which is more portable?
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:31 -0500, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | awk -F ":" '{print $6}'
>
> or
>
> grep vpopmail /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f6
>
I'd go with awk, personally. Poking around my network a bit I'm findi
> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 1:55 pm, Casey Zacek wrote:
> >
> > I do *NOT*, under any circumstances, recommend reiserfs on a
> > production machine. One good system crash/power outage and
> you can kiss
> > your data good-bye. I know from personal experience. Reiserfs
pmail+mysql
based install on linux it uses MD5 password crypts in the database. My
understanding of vpopmail was that it stored the output of the crypt()
function, so whatever your system crypt() does by default is what gets used.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
>
> Tom Collins wrote:
>
> > Try renaming the assign and cdb files, make a copy of the renamed
> assign file as 'assign' and set the correct
> > ownership/permissions on it, and then try adding the domain.
> >
>
> I renamed the assign and cdb files, copied them back to their original
> names, se
> > Can you try running strace and paste the output? That error could be
> coming from several different places within
> update_file().
>
> Thanks for the reply Nick. Below is the strace of running the
> vadddomain
> command.
>
>
> execve("/home/vpopmail/bin/vadddomain",
> ["/home/vpopmail/bi
viously a lot of people are worried about the
supposed overhead of launching procmail and having to generate
procmailrc files.
Thanks,
Nick Harring
Sr System Administrator
Webley Systems
>
> Guilty, I have thousands of accounts, mostly commercial, and mail
comes
> constantly 24 hours a day. While there are some nice programs out
there
> to replace qmail-queue or to drop inside a dot qmail file, I really
want
> to avoid running the perl interpreter (once sometimes twice) for each
>
> On Mar 1, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote:
> > Is that a good idea ? Say a spam slips through that forges the SA
> > headers ?
> >
> > (Yes, I'm playing devil's advocate here, since SA already checks for
> > just that type of thing and ignores them/strips them out, but what
> > happens w
>
> > How about making it an environment variable that could be set via
> > tcpserver?
>
> I don't think that would work, since the environment variables only
> flow through to qmail-smtpd. I don't think there's a way for the
> variables to flow through to qmail-local.
>
Correct, they cannot pr
eamlined also by first looking for any differences in
prefs, and if none are found then simply doing one pass and applying it
globally.
Or am I not aware of something in simscan that makes the above not
feasible?
Nick Harring
Parus Interactive
eally like to be able to use this solution, but using server
defaults or the first users preferences are just flat out wrong ways of
handling email. They're not only wrong conceptually, but are a huge
breach of the users trust. They setup custom settings with the
understanding those settings would be used.
Nick Harring
Sr. System Administrator
Parus Interactive
ssion which ended with the abrupt declaration from you that it
couldn't be done. Perhaps you could point me at a thread where there's
real discussion of this?
Also, would it be more effective if I simply submitted a simscan patch
which implemented the functionality I'm talking about, to show it can be
done (or to learn it can't) rather than discussing how it could?
Nick Harring
Sr. System Administrator
Parus Interactive
RHEL4 AS on Intel Xeons, following configure statement and compile error:
./configure --prefix=/var/vpopmail --enable-auth-module=mysql
--enable-qmail-ext=y --enable-sql-logging=n --enable-incdir=/usr/include
--enable-clear-passwd=y --enable-file-locking=y --enable-libs=/usr/lib/
--enable-mysql-
>
> The other odd thing is that vqadmin and qmailadmin still seem to be
> using the mysql database after recompiling vpopmail for use with
postgres.
>
You need to recompile them both, as they are statically linked to the
vpopmail libraries from your previous version.
Hope that
>Now I just have to figure out why vpopmail is not working with postgres like
>it should. I found the install guild at
>>http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/vpopmail-postgresql.htm. However,
>this did not seem to help. Am I correct >in assuming that the connection info
>for postgres
In vpopmail.h MAX_PW_NAME is defined as 32, and the mysql
column for pw_name is a varchar(32). This would lead me to believe it was
intended to support up to 32 character usernames. However vadduser in
vpopmail.c does:
If( strlen(username) >= MAX_PW_NAME ) rather than if(
strlen(username)
Nevermind, just noticed this is fixed in
5.4.7.
Nick
From: Nick Harring
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 3:51
PM
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Subject: [vchkpw] Max username
length
In vpopmail.h MAX_PW_NAME is defined as 32, and the mysql
column for
>I'm trying to bring up courier-imap, which requires courier-authlib,
however i am unable to compile courier-authlib. >it complains about
vpopmail. says i should recompile it with -fPIC.
>my configure flags are as followed:
>for vpopmail:
>./configure CFLAGS=-fPIC --enable-roaming-users=y --ena
>
> any idea how to use it then?
>
>
> so would you not use it within the ./configure "flags" ? thats what
i
> was thinking ... however that was my best guess
>
>
> --marco
>
>
>
Marco -
Run it the way I showed. You put CFLAGS=-fPIC BEFORE the ./configure.
This makes it an environme
>
> this is a little off the main topic, but i was wondering ..
>
>
> what does the -fPIC do? what causes this "issue" ? good buddy of mine
> wrote & updates a QMAIL Install script ... does it all for you,
> including courier-IMAP or Bincc ... and he was wondering whether or
not
> he shoudl incl
>
> The ideal scene for me would be if vpopmail could provide a means for
> doing
> this. To set the internal-only account I'd like to end up going to
> Qmailadmin, editing the properties of some user account, and just
checking
> the new check-box: "( ) Internal-only account";
Look at how vpopmai
> Regards
> Patrick
Reinstalling qmail and moving stuff around like you did may have caused
locals to not contain what you think it contains.
Hope that helps,
Nick Harring
System Administrator
Parus Interactive
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Nick Harring wrote:
> >> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at 213.239.219.168.
> >> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> >> addresses.
> >> This is a permanent error; I've give
> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:22 pm, Nick Harring wrote:
> > > If it's a local domain (users in /etc/passwd), it should appear in
> > > /var/qmail/control/locals.
> > >
> > > If it's a vpopmail domain, it should appear in
> > > /va
ing/deleting/modifying user
accounts. BTW, we also use this same scheme for things like
spamassassin thresholds and white/black lists. If people are interested
I can check with our legal department about whether I can share the
code, however its really pretty trivial to implement in
perl/php/python/etc.
Nick Harring
System Administrator
Parus Interactive
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