Re: [vchkpw] Back up and disastor recovery

2002-08-15 Thread Robin Bowes
l docs are just fine! -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com "I can't keep lookin' at loneliness, and tryin' to call it freedom."

Re: [vchkpw] Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

2002-08-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Ron Parker said: > Linux 7.2 > vpopmail 5.2 > qmail 1.04 Do you know something I don't? R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com "I can't keep lookin' at loneliness, and tryin' to call it freedom."

[vchkpw] Filtering with maildrop

2003-01-07 Thread Robin Bowes
imple filtering setup? All I'm really interested in at this stage is to automatically filter messages from mailing lists into folders. I currently do this using squirrelmail's mail filtering but this is getting pretty slow as it is client-side. Cheers, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail from an old to a new mailserver

2003-01-11 Thread Robin Bowes
> > Webagentur web4.hm > Pyrmonter Str. 42 > D-31789 Hameln, Germany > > Tel.: +49-5151 - 60 99 70-0 > Fax: +49-5151 - 60 99 70-1 > > EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: http://web4.hm > _ > > > > -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

RE: [vchkpw] Authdaemond--mysql?

2003-01-16 Thread Robin Bowes
boxes with identical installs > running RedHat 6.2 and RedHat 7.3. I'm considering doing a third build on > a Solaris box to see if the problem show up there as well. > > Can anyone suggest what could cause such a problem and what a fix might > be? The fix is to not use authdaemon. Set

[vchkpw] mysql - anything I should look out for?

2003-02-12 Thread Robin Bowes
TED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Is this supposed to happen? I've deleted these additional entries from the vpopmail table without any apparent side effects, i.e. I can still login as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

[vchkpw] mysql - anything I should look out for?

2003-02-12 Thread Robin Bowes
TED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Is this supposed to happen? I've deleted these additional entries from the vpopmail table without any apparent side effects, i.e. I can still login as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] Converting mbox to Maildir (in virtual domain)

2003-02-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Zafar, On Mon, February 17, 2003 6:10 am, zafar rizvi said: > hi sir > i am using qmail and i have existing users on IMAIL server. > and i want to convert that users email to qmail and also convert into > Maildir structure..and i have create a one virtual domain for it...but i > can't get any con

Re: [vchkpw] Converting mbox to Maildir (in virtual domain)

2003-02-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Zafar, On Mon, February 17, 2003 7:26 am, zafar rizvi said: > hi > i think its not working fine...plz give me some detail.. Can *you* please let *us* have more details? What steps are you taking to try this? What is happening? Do you see an error messages? R. -- Robin Bowes

Re: [vchkpw] List ettiquite (was Re: [vchkpw] Moving qmail queue)

2003-02-18 Thread Robin Bowes
; Or, alternatively: "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks." :o) R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

[vchkpw] Configure options for MySQL support?

2003-02-25 Thread Robin Bowes
ot present. I'd hack this myself, but I'm afraid I know little about writing configure scripts. Thanks, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] Configure options for MySQL support?

2003-02-25 Thread Robin Bowes
est from the vpopmail > team in having this idea go a particular direction (into config/make or > external perl)? Is this even the appropriate venue to ask??? Let's wait and see... R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

[vchkpw] Using maildrop with vpopmail

2003-03-12 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Can anyone point me at any documentation describing how to use maildrop with vpopmail / courier-imap / qmail ? Thanks, R. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 26/02/2003

Re: [vchkpw] more weirdness with vdelivermail and maildrop

2003-03-14 Thread Robin Bowes
o this would be better as a separate tool, or possibly integrated with qmailadmin. Would it be possible to hack some code from courier into qmailadmin to manage the maildrop filters? R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] About to release new devel version 5.3.20

2003-03-25 Thread Robin Bowes
Ken, - Original Message - From: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: [vchkpw] About to release new devel version 5.3.20 > I'm about to release a new 5.3.20 devel version. > > Does anyone have any patches they would like

[vchkpw] Trying to get to bottom of courier-imap / vpopmail issue

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Bowes
the login id, and does not null-terminate the string. Therefore, if > the second login request uses a shorter loginid than the first loginid, the > loginid gets garbled. Is this something that we can track down and resolve? Or is it not a vpopmail issue? R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] Trying to get to bottom of courier-imap / vpopmail issue

2003-03-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Jesse, On Wed, March 26, 2003 3:01 pm, "Jesse Guardiani" said: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 07:30, Robin Bowes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Someone on the courier-imap list had posted an issue about problems >> using >> >> courier-imap with vpopmail

[vchkpw] bogofilter with vpopmail?

2003-03-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Has anyone got much experience using bogofilter with vpopmail? I'm looking into implementing it but not having much look. Here's what I've got so far: In /home/vpopmail/domains/robinbowes.com/robin/.qmail: |condredirect robin-bogo-spam /usr/bin/bogofilter ./Maildir/ In /home/vpopmail/doma

Re: [vchkpw] bogofilter with vpopmail?

2003-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi Justin, On Mon, March 31, 2003 12:54 pm, "Justin Heesemann" said: > On Monday 31 March 2003 09:01, Robin Bowes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone got much experience using bogofilter with vpopmail? >> >> I'm looking into implementing it but not hav

Re: [vchkpw] bogofilter with vpopmail?

2003-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
hen again, I've not got a tested working set up yet!) Cheers, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

Re: [vchkpw] bogofilter with vpopmail?

2003-04-02 Thread Robin Bowes
OTECTED] (mail to this adress won't be processed by > the > robin/.qmail file) I've done this and it works. However, this is rather awkward to use for several users. I guess a more centralised way to do this would be to run bogofilter from qmail-queue and to use maildrop to filte

[vchkpw] [Fwd: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem]

2003-07-23 Thread Robin Bowes
ings instead of counted strings, it's crap; crap, crap, crap. I understand that not everybody can afford a custom-crafted solution from Crynwr Software, but sometimes you only get what you pay for in the open source world. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

RE: [vchkpw] Valias and maildrop/vdelivermail, and valias bug?

2003-10-02 Thread Robin Bowes
Jonathan Viney wrote on 01 October 2003 13:43: > I am still wondering about the catchall stuff though. If I can check > valias as well then I could use something like: > > VPOP="| ~vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox" > VHOME=`~vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d [EMAIL

Re: [vchkpw] HELP! Upgrading to Mysql 4.1 problem

2004-10-01 Thread Robin Bowes
On Fri, October 1, 2004 14:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've just upgraded to mysql 4.1. Now vpopmail can't find the > libmysqlclient.so.12 library. When accessing the db I get the error: > > "error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.12: cannot open > shared object file: No such fi

Re: [vchkpw] Vpopmail 5.4.8 released

2004-11-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ Released 12-Nov-2004. Can I suggest that you tidy up the Files page on SourceForge? I just came to install vpopmail on a new system and thought 5.4.2 was the latest version as it appears at the top in the Devel section (Stable version will be older than

[vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-23 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I use bincimap with vpopmail and use the IMAPDir structure which looks like this: domains | +-domain | +-user | +-IMAPDir | | | +-INBOX -> ../Maildir | +-Maildir | +-new | +-cur

Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Jeremy Eder wrote: I know of a patch currently under development (very near done, must be translated to English) for this exact function. Coder calls it "/etc/skel functionality for vpopmail". If anyone else knows of another patch/method, please post. I will post a link to the patch when it's compl

Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: There is a patch on SourceForge to add skel directory support to vpopmail, but we decided not to include it since it uses a system call to 'cp' to copy the files -- it would be better to do the copying within vpopmail itself. Tom, Can you you point me to a link to this patch -

Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: On Nov 28, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: Can you you point me to a link to this patch - I can't seem to find it on vpopmail.sf.net. I guess I was mistaken -- the patch never made it to SourceForge. Here it is. I declined to add it because it runs cp via a s

Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: On Nov 29, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: So, basically all that's required is a copy_directory function to replace the system call the "cp"? And you'll accept the patch? Yes. Absolutely. Maybe a configuration option for the location of the directo

Re: [vchkpw] Custom Maildir Structure

2004-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: Also, I envisage allowing different skel dirs per domain, i.e. look in /etc/skel first, then /etc/skel, then create the default Maildir structure. Consider /@skel/ as the source. Using /etc/skel causes problems if someone

[vchkpw] Trying out vhostadmin

2005-04-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, After some years using qmailadmin (admittedly, not in a mission critical environment) I'm checking out vhostadmin. What I'm ultimately aiming to do is create a mambo module that can administer domains, e.g. users, mailing lists, etc. I've downloaded vpopmail-5.5.3 and installed it using my

[vchkpw] vpopmail version confusion

2005-08-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Can someone please summarise the current status of the various versions of vpopmail? From SourceForge, 5.4.12 seems to be the latest dev version However, I see a v5.5.3 is available from inter7.com and on 29th July, Ken Jones said in a post [1] to the vchkpw list: "Excellent. I'll upda

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail version confusion

2005-08-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: Hi, Can someone please summarise the current status of the various versions of vpopmail? I'm managing the 5.4 branch, Ken Jones, Rick Widmer and others are managing the 5.5 branch. Hmmm, are these indepe

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail version confusion

2005-08-23 Thread Robin Bowes
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 checks RCPT TO arguments against the cdb file. John

[vchkpw] vpopmail skel dir (again!)

2005-11-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Almost a year ago I was looking at adding skel dir capability to vpopmail (check the archives - 23/11/04 !). For one reason or another I never quite got round to it. However, tonight I've started putting something together. The thing is, I've not done much programming in C before. Pascal, s

[vchkpw] vpopmail skel dir (again!)

2005-11-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Almost a year ago I was looking at adding skel dir capability to vpopmail (check the archives - 23/11/04 !). For one reason or another I never quite got round to it. However, tonight I've started putting something together. The thing is, I've not done much programming in C before. Pascal, s

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmaild and php

2005-11-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Ken Jones said the following on 07/11/2005 15:43: > 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 vpopmai

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmaild and php

2005-11-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes said the following on 24/11/2005 11:06: > Ken Jones said the following on 07/11/2005 15:43: > >>Cristiano Deana wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>is 'vpopmaild' project still open? >>>I have seen from cvs vpopmaild.c fil

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmaild

2005-11-28 Thread Robin Bowes
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 ".qmail- mailbox" file in > the domain's directory, or the domain

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmaild

2005-11-29 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson said the following on 29/11/2005 01:21: > googling for "qpsmtpd vpopmaild" only brings back two archived posts > from this mailing list- and i think you wrote both of them. is there a > URL where i can look at the code? i won't be able to directly copy it > (my patch will be in C ra

[vchkpw] Re: Feature for vdelivermail

2006-01-03 Thread Robin Bowes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 03/01/2006 15:28: > Hi, > > after the resultless search for a filter for emails tagged by > spamassassin I now want to add some small code to vdelivermail. The > plan: When the mail is tagged by spamassassin vdelivermail should not > deliver to $DOMAIN/$USER

[vchkpw] Re: Vpopmaild backport to 5.4.13

2006-01-12 Thread Robin Bowes
Joshua Megerman said the following on 12/01/2006 15:20: > However, this morning I took another gander at it and started by > commenting out everything that cause compile errors of vpopmaild.c against > 5.4.13, and then worked (almost) everything back in. So here's my patch > to bring vpopmaild int

[vchkpw] Re: SMTP after POP

2006-02-14 Thread Robin Bowes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 02/14/2006 09:30 PM: > I have installed vpopmail -5.4.2. I am having a problem with smtp. The > open-smtp file does not exist. I have tried re-installing it is still not > created. When I create it manually smtp after pop still does not work. > SHould I also

[vchkpw] 5.4.14 - any news?

2006-02-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I'm just doing a new install for a client. Any news on whether v5.4.14 is ready yet? R.

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.14 - any news?

2006-02-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Jeremy Kister said the following on 02/21/2006 01:34 AM: > On 2/20/2006 8:10 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: > >> I'm just doing a new install for a client. Any news on whether v5.4.14 >> is ready yet? > > > > Don't think so, but here's an important patch

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.14 - any news?

2006-02-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins said the following on 02/21/2006 02:04 AM: > On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: > >> I actually found 5.4.14 on sourceforge - not listed in the file list but >> if you click on 5.4.13 and change '13' to '14' in the download link

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.14 - any news?

2006-02-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Billy Huddleston said the following on 02/21/2006 02:05 AM: > what's new with 1.2.10 ? > http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=395211&group_id=6691 R.

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
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 downloaded, and simple directions found, at the bot

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Charles J. Boening wrote: > Why not use the .qmail-default to process your skeleton directories? > Have it call a script that can test for the existence of the directory > and then copy the skeleton as appropriate. Because that would add overhead to every mail delivery for something that is a one-

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: > The reason > I mention this is that I'm having a bugger of a job getting > my code that implements skel dirs to work with vqadmin - it > works fine from the command line (as root) but I get a > permission denied error when executing from vqadmin. > > H

[vchkpw] Patch to create IMAPdir

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi all, After struggling for sometime to get skeldir functionality to work, I've given up for now. The primary reason for wanting skeldirs was so that new accounts could be created with IMAPdir support for use with bincimap. The following patch modifies vpopmail to create an IMAPdir directory.

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: > It is indeed possible to use wrappers as you do, but this adds overhead > to every invocation of [insert progran here] which I'd rather avoid. > > How much overhead do you think executing a shell script and an internal > call to test implements? How often do you t

[vchkpw] Re: Patch to create IMAPdir

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Krieger wrote: > Did you see my post last night about the same issue and wrapping a shell > script and exec call around bincimap? It means you don't have to deal > with this problem for pop/smtp uses, but only imap. > > Why modify vpopmail to do something specific to another program? For

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: > On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: > >> However, I see that doing "stuff" when you create users logically >> belongs with the program that creates users - vpopmail in this case. So >> to my "perfectionist" mind, I

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-03-30 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > On 2006-03-27, at 1304, Robin Bowes wrote: >> John, >> >> Can this be modified to pass parameters to the program/script? For >> example, the action that has just occurred, plus any data associated >> with that action? e.g. "onchange user

[vchkpw] Re: Global addressbook support

2006-03-31 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > > if by "the hook support" you are referring to the "oncall" patch i sent > to the list a few days ago, that would be me- and i think robin bowes > is playing with it, although i think he's focusing more on using an > oncall sc

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-02 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > 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 >

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread Robin Bowes
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 functionality wou

[vchkpw] Re: 5.4.15 onchange patch

2006-04-03 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > > (2) have qmail-smtpd open a socket to a vpopmaild service, or a > courierauthd service (i wrote a simple widget which handles the > "login", "help", and "quit" commands, but uses courier-authlib instead > of libvpopmail) and uses that to verify the ID and password which

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > John Simpson & Robin Bowes > > Do you really want the onchange function to be called three times on an > add_domain operation, and two times on an add_user operation? I find it > problematic that you are notified of the mod_user before the add_user, >

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > > I see no problem with that. You will get: > > add-domain example.com - when they run vadddomain > > add-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] - when they run vadduser > > mod-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] - when they run vmoduser > > del-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] - when they run vdeluser >

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: >> What is the problem you are trying to solve? > > No real problem, just something I consider wasteful of resources. For > example, if all you are doing is rebuilding a validrcptto database > currently you are doing it three times

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > On 2006-04-15, at 1917, Rick Widmer wrote: >> Robin Bowes wrote: >>> What is the problem you are trying to solve? >> >> No real problem, just something I consider wasteful of resources. For >> example, if all you are doing is rebuilding

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > I don't see any value in reporting a delete operation after the fact, > other than to log it. On the other hand it might be a good idea to move > the script before the delete. That would give you a chance to take a > snapshot of the resource usage right before delete, or may

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > (re-arranging things so the sequence of my answers makes sense...) > > On 2006-04-15, at 2237, Rick Widmer wrote: >> John Simpson wrote: >>> for me, the trick is dealing with the fact that input may arrive on >>> the pipe at any time- including three notifications within the

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: >> Having thought about this some more, I think that a better approach >> would be to have both pre- and post- hooks for each action and to call a >> separate script for each hook. > > This has some possibilities. There would be

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-16 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > On 2006-04-16, at 0639, Robin Bowes wrote: > >> It also calls different "scripts" for each hook rather than having one >> monolithic "something's changed" script. Would that be a better approach >> for vpopmail? > > i d

[vchkpw] Re: ONCHANGE behavior

2006-04-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: > On Apr 16, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: >> >> Throwing in add-user and mod-user is arbitrarily picking _some_ of the >> internal functionality of the add-domain operation. If you want them >> why don't we throw in: > > I think I agree with Robin on this. > > If I've

[vchkpw] Re: Segfaulting in vadddomain

2006-06-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Manuzhai wrote: > What trips up vpopmail: the localhost line. I'm not sure whether this > *should* be valid or not, but the extract_domain() function in > vpopmail.c sure doesn't like it. I hit this problem too: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9950580&forum_id=34827 R.

[vchkpw] Re: Segfaulting in vadddomain

2006-06-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Widmer wrote: > Rick Widmer wrote: > >> The fix is in head, and a die is enclosed. > > s/die/diff/ Heh, I was wondering ... R.

[vchkpw] Re: QMail Forward

2006-08-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Austin Jorden wrote: > and what's the syntax? > man qmail-control ... shows you that the control file "smtproutes" is used by the program "qmail-remote". man qmail-remote ... tells you all you need to know. Alternatively, I'm sure many folk on this list are available on a professional consult

[vchkpw] List of all domains?

2006-08-25 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, Just wondering what the canonical way is to get a list of all domains on a server? I've come up with this: vdominfo | \ perl -ne 'if ((/^domain: /) && !(/alias of/)) \ { s/^domain: //; print; }' For clarity, the perl code is equivalent to: while (<>) { if ( (/^domain: /

[vchkpw] Mail to all users?

2006-09-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, In an ISP situation, i.e. with many domains, each with many users, what's the easiest/best way to send a mail to all users? Here's my thoughts so far: vpopbull - would need to loop over all domains and run vpopbull once for each domain - not a major issue - Seems to write directly to the M

[vchkpw] Re: Mail to all users?

2006-09-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: > > Or, set up an ezmlm mailing list that doesn't allow users to subscribe > or unsubscribe. Before sending an announcement, delete all subscribers > and re-subscribe them by piping the output of vpopbull -n to ezmlm-sub. Thought of that. All very well unless some users want

[vchkpw] Re: List to send email for everybody for domain.

2006-09-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Krzysiek Włodarczak wrote: > Juliano Souza - Tecnologia napisał(a): >> How I can build an list [EMAIL PROTECTED] to send emails for everyone for >> domain? > > Try ezalm: http://www.ezmlm.org/ I've had the same issue. A client (ISP) wants to send mail to all users in all domains hosted on a parti

[vchkpw] Re: auth error help please - RESOLVED

2006-10-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Dave Richardson wrote: > Hmmm. Strange. softlimit raised from 400 to 800 seems to fix it. > > However I'm running softlimit at 400 on a Fedora box without issue. > I support RH EL4 has "bigger" libraries or more of them? The RHEL4 box is not 64-bit, by any chance is it? R.

[vchkpw] Re: [toaster] filtering outgoing emails

2006-10-26 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > you are aware that there are other patches out there which do the same > thing that "chkuser" does, which do work with AUTH, TLS, and SSL, and > which don't rely specifically on vpopmail (i.e. when you upgrade > vpopmail you don't have to re-compile qmail)? > > i mention this

[vchkpw] Re: vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-15 Thread Robin Bowes
Darrel O'Pry wrote: > I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. > > I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and > what their experiences were. > > I'd like to make the mail server change without changing my user > management tool set. I've got too muc

[vchkpw] Re: spamd vpopmail qmail

2007-02-13 Thread Robin Bowes
kalin mintchev wrote: >> I was wondering whether it is plain (a) stupidity, (b) ignorance, (c) >> arrogance, or any combination of these, that made you mail _three_ mailing >> lists with the same question, none of them being the qmail-scanner mailing >> list. >> >> Don't do that again. Ever. > > o

[vchkpw] Re: Dead aliases and EZMLM lists

2007-04-20 Thread Robin Bowes
Max Esquivel wrote: > I recently installed the magicmail-smtpd drop in replacement for the > standard qmail-smtpd, which adds a significant number of spam control > possibilities. Actually, spam traffic on my server, dropped to about > half after the installation. Nonetheless, after installing, q

[vchkpw] Re: segfault vdeluser 5.4.21

2007-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
John Simpson wrote: > On 2007-09-20, at 1236, mlist wrote: >> >> Now when I try to delete a user I get a segfault: >> >> mail:/home/vpopmail/bin # vdeluser [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Segmentation fault > > first, why would you want to delete a domain's "postmaster" mailbox? > > second, i would have tho

[vchkpw] Re: Mysql table

2007-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: > On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: >> If I remember right, speed was the reason for separate tables, but >> testing showed it was not faster. I think the single table works >> better because all your mail users are accessing the same table, and >> its indexes so

[vchkpw] Re: Mysql table

2007-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Macdougall wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: >> Tom Collins wrote: >> >> I understand what you're proposing, but I would suggest that it would >> add complexity for little gain. Of course, that would need benchmarking >> to establish which is the faster method

[vchkpw] Re: Mysql table

2007-09-21 Thread Robin Bowes
Rick Macdougall wrote: > Robin Bowes wrote: >> What sort of size of database are folk using in the real world? How many >> users? >> >> What's the most common no. of users? >> >> R. >> > > I'm guessing 200 - 2000 but that's based

[vchkpw] Re: [OT] VPS recommendations to offload spam/virus scanning?

2007-10-25 Thread Robin Bowes
Adam Cantwell wrote: >> My plan is to do a full Shupp Toaster install, but leave out apache >> and SquirrelMail. I'll use rsync from my main server to sync >> ~vpopmail/domains (minus Maildir directories) so chkuser will work. >> I'll sync the appropriate files from /var/qmail/control, and add a

[vchkpw] Re: Qmail rejection of overquota messages instead of bouncing

2007-12-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Tom Collins wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007, at 6:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm using John Simpsons last combined patch... I'm trying to know if I >> could any way... cause qmail to reject messages at smtp dialogue if users >> we're trying to deliver is overquota instead of bouncing it... black >>

[vchkpw] Re: Qmail Tap tap only incoming mail

2008-04-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote: Is it possible to make Qmail tap only tap the incoming mail? My problem is that I am trying to get mail to deliver to two places to ease the transition to a new mail server. Qmail tap allows that functionality but breaks down on inter-domain email. The person who se

[vchkpw] Re: vhostadmin problem (KMM6374095I87L0KM)

2008-06-17 Thread Robin Bowes
Wouter van der Schagt wrote: Just ignore it and delete it. - Original Message - From: "f m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vhostadmin problem (KMM6374095I87L0KM) Can someone/anyone explain what this email to the list is, and how it