The qpopper list archive ending on 10 Mar 2000


Topics covered in this issue include:

  1. Re: How to temp suspend mail account
       Georg Schwarz <schwarz at physik.tu-berlin dot de>
       Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:46:22 +0100 (MET)
  2. Re: How to temp suspend mail account
       Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
       Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:13:49 +1300 (NZDT)
  3. Re: How to temp suspend mail account
       Marcus Becker <marcus at d2r dot de>
       Fri, 03 Mar 2000 13:24:43 +0100
  4. Re: How to temp suspend mail account
       Phil V Savoie <Phil.Savoie at learnix dot ca>
       Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:39:19 -0500
  5. qpopper newbee question
       "Dan.Scoggins" <dscoggin at cne-odin.gsfc.nasa dot gov>
       Fri, 3 Mar 100 08:28:44 -0500 (EST)
  6. Re: qpopper newbee question
       "Keith Warno" <keith at HaggleWare dot com>
       Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:07:36 -0500
  7. server mode question
       plendon at microcenter dot com
       Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:53:24 -0500
  8. Please help... Newbie question
       "manitu" <manitu at manitu dot net>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:15:11 +0100
  9. Re: Please help... Newbie question
       "M. Edward Wilborne III" <wilborne at gamewood dot net>
       Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:35:21 -0500
 10. Re: Please help... Newbie question
       "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
       Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:12:43 -0800 (PST)
 11. Re: Please help... Newbie question
       Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:24:49 +1300 (NZDT)
 12. Re: Please help... Newbie question
       Richard J Palmer <richard at merula dot net>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:43:16 GMT
 13. Re: Please help... Newbie question
       Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:00:40 +1300 (NZDT)
 14. Help needed on qpopper
       nilesh patil <nilesh_pp at usa dot net>
        7 Mar 00 06:01:55 MST
 15. New Version Announcements to this List?
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:57:27 -0800
 16. Re: server mode question
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:59:15 -0800
 17. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:09:16 -0500
 18. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 09:37:35 -0800
 19. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Theresa M Peter <theresa at email.uc dot edu>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:07:49 -0500
 20. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Vince Vielhaber <vev at michvhf dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:24:09 -0500 (EST)
 21. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:35:15 -0800
 22. qpoper vulnerability
       Khalid El-Allam --- SAIC <dw2celak at toaster.dii.osfl.disa dot mil>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:36:57 -0500
 23. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:33:04 -0800
 24. Re: Help needed on qpopper
       gdmalet at ist.uwaterloo dot ca (Giles D. Malet - IST)
       07 Mar 2000 13:56:34 -0500
 25. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Drew Schatt <schatt at schatt dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:07:53 -0800
 26. Re: qpoper vulnerability
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:52:48 -0800
 27. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:51:31 -0800
 28. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Theresa M Peter <theresa at email.uc dot edu>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:53:47 -0500
 29. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Vince Vielhaber <vev at michvhf dot com>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:01:04 -0500 (EST)
 30. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:40:41 -0500
 31. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
       Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:59:26 -0800
 32. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       Leonard Hermens <Leonard.Hermens at rcity dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:02:46 -0800
 33. Request for patch
       Paulo Santos <psantos at gol.com dot br>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:24:15 -0300
 34. Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
       "James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
       Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:13:26 -0600
 35. qpopper & passwords
       Leigh Willard <leigh at canopus.pence.ualberta dot ca>
       Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:08:32 -0700 (MST)
 36. Re: qpopper & passwords
       Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh dot com>
       Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:22:42 -0500 (EST)
 37. 3.0b35 on HP-UX
       Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
       Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:43:47 -0500
 38. Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:50:55 -0800
 39. Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX
       Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
       Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:03:12 -0500
 40. Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX
       Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
       Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:03:47 -0500
 41. HP-UX + 3.0b35 + statistics
       Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
       Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:05:20 -0500
 42. 30b35 errors with wu-kludge
       Chris <chrisj at ctel dot net>
       Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:47:41 -0500
 43. deny/allow?
       "Renato R. Santana" <renato at contacto.com dot br>
       Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:08:32 -0300
 44. Re: deny/allow? <- Solved
       "Renato R. Santana" <renato at contacto.com dot br>
       Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:44:44 -0300
 45. Re: deny/allow?
       "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
       Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:51:22 -0800 (PST)
 46. Re: deny/allow?
       Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
       Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:44:56 -0500
 47. corrupted emails
       "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
       Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:26:26 -0800 (PST)
 48. Request for comments:  POP server disk layout.
       "John Kozubik" <john_kozubik at hotmail dot com>
       Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:00:07 PST
 49. Re: 30b35 errors with wu-kludge
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:18:13 -0800
 50. Re: corrupted emails
       Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
       Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:38:21 -0800

Subject: Re: How to temp suspend mail account
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:46:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Georg Schwarz <schwarz at physik.tu-berlin dot de>

Yes, this is a good solution. I don't think changing the shell in /etc/pass=
wd, as has been suggested in other mail, has any effect on a user's ability=
 to pick up mail (but it will obviously stop them telnetting into your mach=
ine). You have to actually st=
op a user from being authenticated.

Check out CHECK_SHELL in the 3.0beta docs.
-- 
Georg Schwarz                             schwarz at physik.tu-berlin dot de
Institut für Theoretische Physik    Tel. +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
Technische Universität Berlin          http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
Sekr. PN 7-1, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin            IRC: kuroi

Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:13:49 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: How to temp suspend mail account

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Marcus Becker wrote:

> The command "passwd -l username" will exchange the passwordstring in
> /etc/passwd with a value known as "locked" . On SGI IRIX this is an
> asterisk (*), I think it's about the same on other UNIXes/LINUX.
> Drawback: the old password is erased! (Should'nt be a problem for root
> to set it again though ;-))

On more modern *nixes, passwd -l just puts a ! at the front of the crypt.

This has the same effect and is reversable.

AB


Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 13:24:43 +0100
From: Marcus Becker <marcus at d2r dot de>
Subject: Re: How to temp suspend mail account

Alan,
you're right. Just checked on one of our LINUX machines in the meantime
and found the same result.

Thanks

--
Marcus Becker
Digital Renaissance URL: http://www.d2r.de
  (ex HDO Technologiezentrum GmbH)
Systemadministration




Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:39:19 -0500
From: Phil V Savoie <Phil.Savoie at learnix dot ca>
Subject: Re: How to temp suspend mail account

At 10:51 03/03/2000 +0200, Catalin BOIE wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I want to know if I have a chance to block, temporaly, a pop3 account (by
>setting something in shell, or something else).
>
>Thanks!
>---
>Catalin(ux) BOIE
>catab at deuroconsult dot ro
>http://www2.deuroconsult.ro/~catab
>Fax: (561) 760-6212
>ICQ: 45443500


Hi Caitlin,

I would have to agree with John Mihigo about the shell change.  This does 
*not* lock out the users password but still does not allow the user to log 
in very far as the bogus shell when read by the system causes the system to 
punt the user back out to the login without the user being able to do 
anything to the system.

HTH ,

Phil

e.g. in /etc/passswd for the shell entry a simple /usr/bin/nosuchshell 
should do the trick,  Works good on my solaris platform


From: "Dan.Scoggins" <dscoggin at cne-odin.gsfc.nasa dot gov>
Subject: qpopper newbee question
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 100 08:28:44 -0500 (EST)

Hi All,

I am new to the list and have few questions.
1. is there amemory leak in qpopper 2.53.  I compiled it in server mode with authpop on.

2. is there a way to limit the number of qpopper processes that are spawned?  we get over 300 running at one time - just before the server dies.

Thanx,

DanS
--

From: "Keith Warno" <keith at HaggleWare dot com>
Subject: Re: qpopper newbee question
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:07:36 -0500

If you are running qpopper via inetd you can limit the # of instances
"spawned within an interval of 60 seconds"

From the inetd man (on Linux, anyway):

     The wait/nowait entry is applicable to datagram sockets only (other
sock‚
     ets should have a ``nowait'' entry in this space).  If a datagram
server
     connects to its peer, freeing the socket so inetd can received further
     messages on the socket, it is said to be a ``multi-threaded'' server,
and
     should use the ``nowait'' entry.  For datagram servers which process
all
     incoming datagrams on a socket and eventually time out, the server is
     said to be ``single-threaded'' and should use a ``wait'' entry.  Com‚
     sat(8) (biff(1))  and talkd(8) are both examples of the latter type of
     datagram server.  Tftpd(8) is an exception; it is a datagram server
that
     establishes pseudo-connections.  It must be listed as ``wait'' in order
     to avoid a race; the server reads the first packet, creates a new
socket,
     and then forks and exits to allow inetd to check for new service
requests
     to spawn new servers.  The optional ``max'' suffix (separated from
     ``wait'' or ``nowait'' by a dot) specifies the maximum number of server
     instances that may be spawned from inetd within an interval of 60 sec‚
     onds. When omitted, ``max'' defaults to 40.

If this doesn't help, maybe you'll want to take a look into tcpserver,
written by djb (the qmail guy), http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html .  You can
limit the number of simultaneous connections using tcpserver.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan.Scoggins" <dscoggin at cne-odin.gsfc.nasa dot gov>
To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: 03 March 2000, Friday 08:42
Subject: qpopper newbee question


| Hi All,
|
| I am new to the list and have few questions.
| 1. is there amemory leak in qpopper 2.53.  I compiled it in server mode
with authpop on.
|
| 2. is there a way to limit the number of qpopper processes that are
spawned?  we get over 300 running at one time - just before the server dies.
|
| Thanx,
|
| DanS
| --
|


From: plendon at microcenter dot com
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:53:24 -0500
Subject: server mode question

Hi,

I have Qpopper 2.53 compiled in server_mode.  I was thinking of 
trying this with NO_STATUS.  I'm not sure what the specific 
purpose of the MD5 hash and if there are any disadvantages to 
compiling Qpopper with no_status. 

Thank you in advance for any help on this.

From: "manitu" <manitu at manitu dot net>
Subject: Please help... Newbie question
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:15:11 +0100

Hello all,

 I am new to this list and I really need some help. I have qpopper installed
on my server, a cobalt RaQ2. This qpopper was delivered to me by a pkg file.

So far the qpopper program worked fine but today a customer of mine report
the following problem. He could do what he want, he could use any email
program, but he could not get te qpopper system to relay emails from him
that are not for a local address on the server.

Here's an excerpt from /var/log/maillog

Mar  6 23:07:50 ns1 in.qpopper[11859]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb" at
(pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
Mar  6 23:07:56 ns1 in.qpopper[11860]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb" at
(pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
Mar  6 23:09:41 ns1 in.qpopper[11900]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb" at
(pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
Mar  6 23:09:44 ns1 in.qpopper[11908]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb" at
(pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
Mar  6 23:10:31 ns1 sendmail[11929]: XAA11929: ruleset=check_rcpt,
arg1=<HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>, relay=pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net
[193.159.85.11], reject=550 <HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>... Relaying denied.
Please POP before sending.
Mar  6 23:10:32 ns1 sendmail[11929]: XAA11929: from=<mail at radke-sieb dot com>,
size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
relay=pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net [193.159.85.11]

As you can see the customter (user "radke-sieb") did login some times
successfully, but however, his mail going to "HRadke-Sieb@.." (he tried to
send an email via my smtp server to his email adress at this provier
@t-online.de) get rejected.

If anybody has any ideas, please help me! Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Manuel




From: "M. Edward Wilborne III" <wilborne at gamewood dot net>
Subject: Re: Please help... Newbie question
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 19:35:21 -0500

Qpopper is for retrieving e-mail from a server.

Relaying policies are controlled by your sendmail server, and appropriate
configuration will result in the ability to relay e-mail.  The configuration
varies based on the sendmail program you're using and version.

As you can see from your log below, sendmail is complaining about the
relaying, not qpopper.

Your e-mail relaying allow file may be in /etc/mail/relay_allow

or if it's a newer version of sendmail, it may be in /etc/mail/access.

Good luck!

Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "manitu" <manitu at manitu dot net>
To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: Please help... Newbie question


> Hello all,
>
>  I am new to this list and I really need some help. I have qpopper
installed
> on my server, a cobalt RaQ2. This qpopper was delivered to me by a pkg
file.
>
> So far the qpopper program worked fine but today a customer of mine report
> the following problem. He could do what he want, he could use any email
> program, but he could not get te qpopper system to relay emails from him
> that are not for a local address on the server.
>
> Here's an excerpt from /var/log/maillog
>
> Mar  6 23:07:50 ns1 in.qpopper[11859]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb"
at
> (pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
> Mar  6 23:07:56 ns1 in.qpopper[11860]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb"
at
> (pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
> Mar  6 23:09:41 ns1 in.qpopper[11900]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb"
at
> (pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
> Mar  6 23:09:44 ns1 in.qpopper[11908]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb"
at
> (pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
> Mar  6 23:10:31 ns1 sendmail[11929]: XAA11929: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> arg1=<HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>, relay=pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net
> [193.159.85.11], reject=550 <HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>... Relaying denied.
> Please POP before sending.
> Mar  6 23:10:32 ns1 sendmail[11929]: XAA11929: from=<mail at radke-sieb dot com>,
> size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP,
> relay=pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net [193.159.85.11]
>
> As you can see the customter (user "radke-sieb") did login some times
> successfully, but however, his mail going to "HRadke-Sieb@.." (he tried to
> send an email via my smtp server to his email adress at this provier
> @t-online.de) get rejected.
>
> If anybody has any ideas, please help me! Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank you!
>
> Manuel
>
>
>


Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:12:43 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
Subject: Re: Please help... Newbie question

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, manitu wrote:
> Mar  6 23:09:44 ns1 in.qpopper[11908]: (v2.53) POP login for "radke-sieb" at
> (pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net) 193.159.85.11
> Mar  6 23:10:31 ns1 sendmail[11929]: XAA11929: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> arg1=<HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>, relay=pc19f550b.dip.t-dialin.net
> [193.159.85.11], reject=550 <HRadke-Sieb at t-online dot de>... Relaying denied.
> Please POP before sending.

This is a sendmail issue. If you want relaying to be allowed after
someone logs in via POP, then check out the links from:

 http://bsd.reedmedia.net/Software/Servers/SMTP_Mail/POP3_Authenticated_Relaying/

  Jeremy C. Reed
  http://www.reedmedia.net
  http://bsd.reedmedia.net


Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:24:49 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Please help... Newbie question

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> This is a sendmail issue. If you want relaying to be allowed after
> someone logs in via POP, then check out the links from:
> 
>  http://bsd.reedmedia.net/Software/Servers/SMTP_Mail/POP3_Authenticated_Relaying/
> 

Tweaking _any_ software on a Cobalt box invalidates the warranty. :-(

And the things are still shipping with sendmail 8.8, complete with
relaying holes which had patches posted at sendmail.org fixed over 18
months ago.

AB


Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:43:16 GMT
From: Richard J Palmer <richard at merula dot net>
Subject: Re: Please help... Newbie question

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:24:49 +1300 (NZDT)
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz> wrote:
> And the things are still shipping with sendmail 8.8, complete with
> relaying holes which had patches posted at sendmail.org fixed over 18
> months ago.
The RaQ3's actually have 8.9.3

-- 
Richard Palmer
Merula Limited
http://www.merula.net

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:00:40 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Please help... Newbie question

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Richard J Palmer wrote:

> The RaQ3's actually have 8.9.3

Tell that to all the Cobalt owners with machines in ORBS and RSS thanks
to spammer attacks.

AB


Date:  7 Mar 00 06:01:55 MST
From: nilesh patil <nilesh_pp at usa dot net>
Subject: Help needed on qpopper

I am using Qpopper 3.0 on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and I have configured it. But=
 the
demon does not start.
I have compiled it and all is ready.
Can somebody please send me the check list.
The log is as below....
Mar  7 12:56:49  popper[741]: Unable to obtain socket and address of clie=
nt:
Socket operation on non-socket (88) [pop_init.c:360]
Mar  7 12:57:11  popper[743]: Unable to obtain socket and address of clie=
nt:
Socket operation on non-socket (88) [pop_init.c:360]
Mar  7 12:57:18  popper[744]: Unable to obtain socket and address of clie=
nt:
Socket operation on non-socket (88) [pop_init.c:360]

Please help.
And tahnk u in advance.
nilesh


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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:57:27 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: New Version Announcements to this List?

I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to this 
list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who 
subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as 
well.  Does anyone object?

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:59:15 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: server mode question

At 5:53 PM -0500 3/6/00, plendon at microcenter dot com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have Qpopper 2.53 compiled in server_mode.  I was thinking of
>trying this with NO_STATUS.  I'm not sure what the specific
>purpose of the MD5 hash and if there are any disadvantages to
>compiling Qpopper with no_status.
>
>Thank you in advance for any help on this.

If you set NO_STATUS, the UIDs of messages are recalculated for each 
session.  This introduces extra overhead if users leave mail on the 
server.  (The hash is used to generate the UID).

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:09:16 -0500
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:57:27AM -0800, Qpopper Support wrote:
> I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to this 
> list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who 
> subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as 
> well.  Does anyone object?

Are you going to send anything else to the announce list?  If so, I
will stay subscribed to both lists, and grumble each time I have to
delete a duplicate list about lazy folks who can't subscribe to two
lists ... while they can grumble about lazy folks who can't hit 'd'.
;-)

If you are going to send the entire content of *-announce to this
mailing list as well, then why bother to subscribe to both?

-- 
Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support					EMT-B
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This message is not an official statement of COSPO policies.

From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 09:37:35 -0800
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:57:27 -0800, Qpopper Support wrote:

>I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to this 
>list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who 
>subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as 
>well.  Does anyone object?

Does everyone find this list through the web page? If so, I'd say put
the announce list info next to this list's info on the web page and
make it clear that announcements will only go to the announce list.

Ken
mailto:shiva at well dot com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/



Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:07:49 -0500
From: Theresa M Peter <theresa at email.uc dot edu>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

I would like to get the announcements and all the problems and questions 
from the same list.  I know other individuals who like to keep on top of 
new versions and bugs does not want to receive everyone's problems.

There is a definite need for two lists, one that receives everything and 
one that only receives announcements.  This way no matter what you want you 
can get it without having to subscribe to more than one list.

The solution posed by Mr. Porter is not a viable solution for 
everyone.  Personally I do not access this list through the web page, I 
have it sent directly to my email account.  Honestly I do not believe I 
have visited the web page since I originally signed up for the listserv and 
did a search for a problem we were experiencing.

At 08:57 AM 3/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to this 
>list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who 
>subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as 
>well.  Does anyone object?


Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:24:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Vince Vielhaber <vev at michvhf dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Theresa M Peter wrote:

> I would like to get the announcements and all the problems and questions 
> from the same list.  I know other individuals who like to keep on top of 
> new versions and bugs does not want to receive everyone's problems.
> 
> There is a definite need for two lists, one that receives everything and 
> one that only receives announcements.  This way no matter what you want you 
> can get it without having to subscribe to more than one list.

I'm sure I've gotta be missing something here.  What's the difficulty in
subscribing to an additional list?  It only took a couple of seconds to
accomplish.  And if it's because people aren't aware of the announcement
list that's easy to fix too - add mention of it into the list's welcome
message (if it's not already there).

Vince.
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From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:35:15 -0800
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:07:49 -0500, Theresa M Peter wrote:

>The solution posed by Mr. Porter is not a viable solution for 
>everyone.  Personally I do not access this list through the web page, I 
>have it sent directly to my email account.  Honestly I do not believe I 
>have visited the web page since I originally signed up for the listserv and 
>did a search for a problem we were experiencing.

I don't "access" the list through the web page, either. I *signed up*
for it through the web page. Anyone who signs up for this list should
see the availability of the announce-only list at the same time, and
can sign up for both. 

I'm just being a Devil's Advocate, though. I don't have strong feelings
either way. I'm just wondering how one would get on the discussion list
without knowing about the announcement list. If you know both lists
exist, why not sign up for both?

Ken
mailto:shiva at well dot com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/



Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:36:57 -0500
From: Khalid El-Allam --- SAIC <dw2celak at toaster.dii.osfl.disa dot mil>
Subject: qpoper vulnerability

To: All

HI

Is there a vulnerability in qpopper 2.53 (i.e. buffer overflow?) , if
so,  is it fixed in the newer
version?  (beta 3.?)

Thanks.

Kelallam


Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:33:04 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

At 1:07 PM -0500 3/7/00, Theresa M Peter wrote:

>There is a definite need for two lists, one that receives everything 
>and one that only receives announcements.  This way no matter what 
>you want you can get it without having to subscribe to more than one 
>list.

That's the suggestion that was made.  It makes sense to me, so I'll 
start sending all announcements to both lists.  Discussion continues 
to take place only on this list.

Subject: Re: Help needed on qpopper
From: gdmalet at ist.uwaterloo dot ca (Giles D. Malet - IST)
Date: 07 Mar 2000 13:56:34 -0500

nilesh patil <nilesh_pp at usa dot net> writes:

> Socket operation on non-socket (88) [pop_init.c:360]

I can't offer you much in the way of advice, except to say that that
message indicates a programming error. The program tried to do
something on a file descriptor which supposedly pointed to a socket
(because of a socket() call), but in fact that is not true.

How it came to be in that state is another story. Perhaps your
configuration did something silly?

gdm


Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:07:53 -0800
From: Drew Schatt <schatt at schatt dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

I know for sure that I didn't sign up through a web page.  I found 
the information about this list in the readme included with qpopper, 
and it didn't mention a web address for the list to sign up, nor did 
it mention an announcements list.  Just FYI, not everyone on this 
list signed up via the list.
	-Drew
At 10:35 AM -0800 3/7/00, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:07:49 -0500, Theresa M Peter wrote:
>
> >The solution posed by Mr. Porter is not a viable solution for
> >everyone.  Personally I do not access this list through the web page, I
> >have it sent directly to my email account.  Honestly I do not believe I
> >have visited the web page since I originally signed up for the listserv and
> >did a search for a problem we were experiencing.
>
>I don't "access" the list through the web page, either. I *signed up*
>for it through the web page. Anyone who signs up for this list should
>see the availability of the announce-only list at the same time, and
>can sign up for both.
>
>I'm just being a Devil's Advocate, though. I don't have strong feelings
>either way. I'm just wondering how one would get on the discussion list
>without knowing about the announcement list. If you know both lists
>exist, why not sign up for both?
>
>Ken
>mailto:shiva at well dot com
>http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/


Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:52:48 -0800
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: qpoper vulnerability

At 1:36 PM -0500 3/7/00, Khalid El-Allam --- SAIC wrote:

>To: All
>
>HI
>
>Is there a vulnerability in qpopper 2.53 (i.e. buffer overflow?) , if
>so,  is it fixed in the newer
>version?  (beta 3.?)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Kelallam

Both 2.53 and current 3.0 are fine.  See the FAQ at

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:51:31 -0800
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

At 1:24 PM -0500 3/7/00, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

>I'm sure I've gotta be missing something here.  What's the difficulty in
>subscribing to an additional list?

No difficulty, it's just that some people prefer to minimize the 
number of lists they subscribe to, to make things easier when they 
change email addresses.  It also keeps filters simpler.
-- 
Randall Gellens
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-------------- Randomly-selected tag: ---------------
Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:53:47 -0500
From: Theresa M Peter <theresa at email.uc dot edu>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

The same people that are subscribed to this list are also going to be 
subscribing to the other list.  What is the point?  Why should ~200 
(guessing the number of individuals subscribing to the list) make changes 
to their email clients, and subscribe to a second list when a simple change 
can be made by one person and accomplish the same thing?

Yes, it is a pain to subscribe to a second list. Though it may only take a 
couple of seconds to subscribe to the list, it take a lot longer to make 
sure all filters still work correctly.

At 01:24 PM 3/7/00 -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Theresa M Peter wrote:
>
> > I would like to get the announcements and all the problems and questions
> > from the same list.  I know other individuals who like to keep on top of
> > new versions and bugs does not want to receive everyone's problems.
> >
> > There is a definite need for two lists, one that receives everything and
> > one that only receives announcements.  This way no matter what you want 
> you
> > can get it without having to subscribe to more than one list.
>
>I'm sure I've gotta be missing something here.  What's the difficulty in
>subscribing to an additional list?  It only took a couple of seconds to
>accomplish.  And if it's because people aren't aware of the announcement
>list that's easy to fix too - add mention of it into the list's welcome
>message (if it's not already there).
>
>Vince.
>--
>==========================================================================
>Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH    email: vev at michvhf.com    http://www.pop4 dot net
>    128K ISDN: $24.95/mo or less - 56K Dialup: $17.95/mo or less at Pop4
>         Online Campground Directory    http://www.camping-usa.com
>        Online Giftshop Superstore    http://www.cloudninegifts.com
>==========================================================================
>


Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:01:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Vince Vielhaber <vev at michvhf dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On 07-Mar-00 Theresa M Peter wrote:
> The same people that are subscribed to this list are also going to be 
> subscribing to the other list.  What is the point?  Why should ~200 
> (guessing the number of individuals subscribing to the list) make changes 
> to their email clients, and subscribe to a second list when a simple change 
> can be made by one person and accomplish the same thing?
> 
> Yes, it is a pain to subscribe to a second list. Though it may only take a 
> couple of seconds to subscribe to the list, it take a lot longer to make 
> sure all filters still work correctly.

I understand now.  You wouldn't like my conclusions, but I understand.
You do realize that if you ever were to leave this list and still wanted
to keep up on qpopper announcements you'd still have to join the dreaded
announcement list and "make sure all filters still work correctly."

Vince.
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:40:41 -0500
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:37:35AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:57:27 -0800, Qpopper Support wrote:
> 
> >I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to this 
> >list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who 
> >subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as 
> >well.  Does anyone object?
> 
> Does everyone find this list through the web page? If so, I'd say put
> the announce list info next to this list's info on the web page and
> make it clear that announcements will only go to the announce list.
> 
> Ken
> mailto:shiva at well dot com
> http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/

What web page???

[Does that answer your question?]

The world does NOT begin and end with Web.  Most of the rest of it is
pretty silkless, too.

PS: if you mean the one at pensive.org, don't bother replying.  I can
use all the tools.  But Web is so clunky compared to text e-mail.  Even
if the link at this end is relatively high speed.

-- 
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COSPO/OSIS Computer Support					EMT-B
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:59:26 -0800
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:40:41 -0500, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

>What web page???

The Qpopper home page, which has information on the discussion mailing
list. (Just checked and it does NOT have info on the announce list.)

http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.html

Ken
mailto:shiva at well dot com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/



Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:02:46 -0800
From: Leonard Hermens <Leonard.Hermens at rcity dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?

This thread has so little to do with qpopper. Can we start talking 
about the qpopper again?

(I must be really cranky and tired today...)   :-(

-- Leonard

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:24:15 -0300
From: Paulo Santos <psantos at gol.com dot br>
Subject: Request for patch

Ola 

There are any news about 3.0b35 patch Qpopper and MySQL ???

Thanks In Advance

Paulo



From: "James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
Subject: Re: New Version Announcements to this List?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:13:26 -0600

There is an announce list now??

There was rumor that someone was going to create such a list, but I
don't recall seeing a confirmation that the list had been
created.......

Good to know I guess but correct me if I am wrong that it was not ever
announced to this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Qpopper Support" <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Cc: <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: New Version Announcements to this List?


| I've received a request to send announcements of new versions to
this
| list, as well as to the qpopper-announce list.  This was people who
| subscribe to this list wouldn't have to subscribe to that one as
| well.  Does anyone object?
|


Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:08:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Leigh Willard <leigh at canopus.pence.ualberta dot ca>
Subject: qpopper & passwords

I can't find any talk of this in any of the qpopper literature.

My users use primarily eudora with qpopper.  There is an option
under eudora to allow users to change their password.  Does
qpopper support this?  

Thanks for any info...

	Leigh

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     ph:  1-780-492-9284                    Department of Biochemistry 
                                               University of Alberta
     email:  leigh.willard at ualberta dot ca
     WWW:    http://www.pence.ca/~leigh
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:22:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh dot com>
Subject: Re: qpopper & passwords

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Leigh Willard wrote:
> My users use primarily eudora with qpopper.  There is an option
> under eudora to allow users to change their password.  Does
> qpopper support this?  

 <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/password/>

You have to roll your own if these don't work for you. You should also
be familiar with how to setup a new service under inetd.

Steve

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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:43:47 -0500
From: Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
Subject: 3.0b35 on HP-UX

1. popper 3.0b35 compiles almost clean on HP-UX 10.20 withHP's ANSI-C
compiler.
Here is list of "warnings" issued during compile [I am using only
--enable-servermode option]:
cc: "mime.c", line 779: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
cc: "mime.c", line 780: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
cc: "mime.c", line 786: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
cc: "mime.c", line 787: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.

cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 604: Pointers are not
assignment-compatible.
cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 563: Argument #2 is not the correct
type.


2. While using this version of popper I keep getting following "trace"
   entries written to the popper log, BUT I am not getting statistics
   which I should have got ... Any idea why ???

This is my inetd.conf entry for popper :

pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper -s -R -t
/var/adm/syslog/popper.log -T 120

and these are messages logged into popper.log [for every mail!] :

Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
/usr/mail/tadeusz
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (5) for user tadeusz returning
/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (2) for user tadeusz returning
/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
/usr/mail/tadeusz
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] successfully opened (exclusive) lock
/usr/mail/tadeusz.lock

Tadeusz Wiewiorowski

CBC Toronto
twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca




Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:50:55 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX

At 5:43 PM -0500 3/8/00, Tadeusz Wiewiorowski wrote:

>1. popper 3.0b35 compiles almost clean on HP-UX 10.20 withHP's ANSI-C
>compiler.
>Here is list of "warnings" issued during compile [I am using only
>--enable-servermode option]:
>cc: "mime.c", line 779: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 780: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 786: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 787: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 604: Pointers are not
>assignment-compatible.
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 563: Argument #2 is not the correct
>type.

I think these are unsigned char vs char issues.

>
>
>2. While using this version of popper I keep getting following "trace"
>    entries written to the popper log, BUT I am not getting statistics
>    which I should have got ... Any idea why ???
>
>This is my inetd.conf entry for popper :
>
>pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper -s -R -t
>/var/adm/syslog/popper.log -T 120
>
>and these are messages logged into popper.log [for every mail!] :
>
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (5) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (2) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] successfully opened (exclusive) lock
>/usr/mail/tadeusz.lock

The code did emit these traces if -t was used (which it was in your 
case).  I've fixed it so that DEBUG has to be defined as well.

I am unable to reproduce the lack of a stats record, however.

>


Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:03:12 -0500
From: Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
Subject: Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX

At 5:43 PM -0500 3/8/00, Tadeusz Wiewiorowski wrote:

>1. popper 3.0b35 compiles almost clean on HP-UX 10.20 withHP's ANSI-C
>compiler.
>Here is list of "warnings" issued during compile [I am using only
>--enable-servermode option]:
>cc: "mime.c", line 779: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 780: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 786: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 787: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 604: Pointers are not
>assignment-compatible.
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 563: Argument #2 is not the correct
>type.

I think these are unsigned char vs char issues.

>
>
>2. While using this version of popper I keep getting following "trace"
>    entries written to the popper log, BUT I am not getting statistics
>    which I should have got ... Any idea why ???
>
>This is my inetd.conf entry for popper :
>
>pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper -s -R -t
>/var/adm/syslog/popper.log -T 120
>
>and these are messages logged into popper.log [for every mail!] :
>
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (5) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (2) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] successfully opened (exclusive) lock
>/usr/mail/tadeusz.lock

The code did emit these traces if -t was used (which it was in your 
case).  I've fixed it so that DEBUG has to be defined as well.

I am unable to reproduce the lack of a stats record, however.

>




Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:03:47 -0500
From: Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
Subject: Re: 3.0b35 on HP-UX

At 5:43 PM -0500 3/8/00, Tadeusz Wiewiorowski wrote:

>1. popper 3.0b35 compiles almost clean on HP-UX 10.20 withHP's ANSI-C
>compiler.
>Here is list of "warnings" issued during compile [I am using only
>--enable-servermode option]:
>cc: "mime.c", line 779: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 780: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 786: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>cc: "mime.c", line 787: warning 604: Pointers are not assignment-compatible.
>
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 604: Pointers are not
>assignment-compatible.
>cc: "charmangle.c", line 328: warning 563: Argument #2 is not the correct
>type.

I think these are unsigned char vs char issues.

>
>
>2. While using this version of popper I keep getting following "trace"
>    entries written to the popper log, BUT I am not getting statistics
>    which I should have got ... Any idea why ???
>
>This is my inetd.conf entry for popper :
>
>pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper -s -R -t
>/var/adm/syslog/popper.log -T 120
>
>and these are messages logged into popper.log [for every mail!] :
>
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (5) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (2) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/.tadeusz.pop
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] genpath  (1) for user tadeusz returning
>/usr/mail/tadeusz
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000
>Wed Mar  8 17:16:42 2000 [28963] successfully opened (exclusive) lock
>/usr/mail/tadeusz.lock

The code did emit these traces if -t was used (which it was in your 
case).  I've fixed it so that DEBUG has to be defined as well.

I am unable to reproduce the lack of a stats record, however.

>




Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:05:20 -0500
From: Tadeusz Wiewiorowski <twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca>
Subject: HP-UX + 3.0b35 + statistics

Solution to that problem was quite simple ...
correction of the inetd.conf entry for pop3 .

It was :
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper -s -R -T 120

instead of :
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper popper -s -R -T 120
                                                  ^^^^^^

Tadeusz Wiewiorowski
twiewior at toronto.cbc dot ca


Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:47:41 -0500
From: Chris <chrisj at ctel dot net>
Subject: 30b35 errors with wu-kludge

I've setup qpopper30b35 to replace ipop3d from the WU-IMAP package, now
that it should co-exists with wu-imap and it's "don't delete this
message" place holder message. However, some clients are getting errors
something like - "Message 3 does not exist" and logging the errors
gives:
"Thu Mar  9 14:51:36 2000 [28613] jcap at [209.222.74 dot 85]: -ERR Message 3
does not exist."

The funny thing is the worst effected is the latest Eudora Lite. Has
anyone else had this problem?
I've been looking at traces and logs, but I can't see where the client
finds out that there are 3 messages (including wu-imap message) instead
of 2. STAT returns 2, LIST returns a list with 2 items, etc...

I've tried quite a view test cases with mixing imap and qpopper, as soon
as the imap message is created, the client can't count right...

Any reports of this configuration working would be a help...

Chris J.

Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:08:32 -0300
From: "Renato R. Santana" <renato at contacto.com dot br>
Subject: deny/allow?

Hi all,

Is there such way to deny or allow a
certain host/network to access Qpopper?

I want to do just like Wietse Venema did
on /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny,
but those are for conections using TCD...

Thanks for any help,



================================
= Renato R. Santana
= SysAdmin
= Contato Internet Provider
= http://www.contacto.com.br
=================================

Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:44:44 -0300
From: "Renato R. Santana" <renato at contacto.com dot br>
Subject: Re: deny/allow? <- Solved

>
>Apenas.. ooopssss.. Just conf. the  /etc/hosts.deny  and (if the case)
/etc/hosts.allow
>

Alright. I've tried that before, but when I
installed Qpopper it has put itself under
/usr/local/lib/, and as it is not in the path
I should have done:
... nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd usr/local/lib/popper  -s
instead of:
... nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd popper  -s

Thanks a million,



================================
= Renato R. Santana
= SysAdmin
= Contato Internet Provider
= http://www.contacto.com.br
=================================

Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:51:22 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
Subject: Re: deny/allow?

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Renato R. Santana wrote:

> Is there such way to deny or allow a
> certain host/network to access Qpopper?
> 
> I want to do just like Wietse Venema did
> on /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny,
> but those are for conections using TCD...

I am not sure what you mean. We do use Wietse's tcp wrappers with popper.

/etc/inetd.conf -
pop     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/tcpd       popper -S

/etc/hosts.deny -
popper:         ALL

/etc/hosts.allow -
popper:         ALL

This will let everything in.
Read the manpages: hosts_access(5) hosts_options(5)
                   tcpd(8) tcpdchk(8) tcpdmatch(8)

You could set /etc/hosts.allow to
popper:		192.168.1.
to only allow that network.

  Jeremy C. Reed
....................................................
     BSD software, documentation, resources, news...
     http://bsd.reedmedia.net


Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:44:56 -0500
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov>
Subject: Re: deny/allow?

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:08:32PM -0300, Renato R. Santana wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there such way to deny or allow a
> certain host/network to access Qpopper?
> 
> I want to do just like Wietse Venema did
> on /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny,
> but those are for conections using TCD...
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> ================================
> = Renato R. Santana
> = SysAdmin
> = Contato Internet Provider
> = http://www.contacto.com.br
> =================================

Why not just use Venema's tcp_wrappers?  Popper uses TCP!

-- 
Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis dot gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support					EMT-B
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This message is not an official statement of COSPO policies.

Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:26:26 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at wcug.wwu dot edu>
Subject: corrupted emails

I have a user who has some corrupted emails. It may have been corrupted
prior to popper or maybe corrupted by the client. 

One corrupted email contained:

X-UIDL: 1beb6b21354081bd125e5ede9a22ee9f
X-UIDL: 1beb6b21354081bd125e5ede9a22ee9f
X-UIDL: d136d991ac50d417395ae2a72610f9d3
X-UIDL: d136d991ac50d417395ae2a72610f9d3
X-UIDL: c9ee8e642b14d11e3ca21cff2850f575
>From root Thu Mar  9 18:52:44 2000
Return-Path: <gmuir at dlux dot net>
Received: from mail05.rapidsite.net (mail05.rapidsite.net
[207.158.192.42])
[headers continue]


Then a second message had: (notice the line with X-UIDL:)


U.S. MARKET NEWS
from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.

LGe4HCR0FQI1PT79+v/EFyI6tJcXE61KMP91jkxAWv8gwv
X-UIDL: 3628541257fcfc0187941929f2905082
SL4yJGNegP7IPXp3+S4JmufTiECHinHetR8J6MaV+7jgJtR4uxSrAH7bKK1PhUHB1p5luoGH
pQQepsRLOhdV9+B5cyP8vkv+Tg2TzTDeqF1FbnVqKFC3EoSJWB/3XAi8An+Sy4a2nmIkKyxz
W0UW0SLKrRj/ACB6gqP2dvgX4clHl2e71C6X6r68kz7NW5t4Ryf7XI1Jj/m5hGzsXljTfKmn
[encoded junk continues]

Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas?

  Jeremy C. Reed
....................................................
     BSD software, documentation, resources, news...
     http://bsd.reedmedia.net


From: "John Kozubik" <john_kozubik at hotmail dot com>
Subject: Request for comments:  POP server disk layout.
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:00:07 PST

I have successfully installed qpopper as a POP-3 server a few times now, and 
have gotten to the point that I want to optimize disk performance.

Now, this is easy if you have a RAID controller and a bunch of disks, but I 
am dealing at this time with a client who can afford only a single disk.  
Therefore, I have proposed the following disk layout to maximize 
performance:

slice0, 100 megs, /
slice1, 128 megs, SWAP
slice2, 100 megs, /usr
slice3, 7000 megs, /var

(this is as opposed to just making one large / partition for everything)

Here is my reasoning:  random access reads will occur in '/' and SWAP, so I 
want these slices to be very thin, at the outside of the circular disk and 
thus reducing disk head movement.

All mail will be stored in /var, so I want that partition large, and if 
people get a fair amount of mail, these will be sequential reads of some 
sort after the head seeks...

I realize this is not much of an improvement at all over just simply having 
one large '/' partition, but every bit counts...

the only real question is (unless you have comments on my partitioning login 
in general):

--> Will any actions on the part of qpopper cause data to build up on either 
'/', or '/usr' and thus fill up these very small file systems I have made 
for them ?

Any comments are appreciated.

-john
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com


Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:18:13 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: 30b35 errors with wu-kludge

At 3:47 PM -0500 3/9/00, Chris wrote:

>However, some clients are getting errors
>something like - "Message 3 does not exist" and logging the errors
>gives:
>"Thu Mar  9 14:51:36 2000 [28613] jcap at [209.222.74 dot 85]: -ERR Message 3
>does not exist."

Sorry about that.  There's a bug in the UIDL command in b35 with 
--enable-uw-kludge; this is fixed in b36, which should be available 
later today (Friday).

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:38:21 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: corrupted emails

At 10:26 PM -0800 3/9/00, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>I have a user who has some corrupted emails. It may have been corrupted
>prior to popper or maybe corrupted by the client.
>
>One corrupted email contained:
>
>X-UIDL: 1beb6b21354081bd125e5ede9a22ee9f
>X-UIDL: 1beb6b21354081bd125e5ede9a22ee9f
>X-UIDL: d136d991ac50d417395ae2a72610f9d3
>X-UIDL: d136d991ac50d417395ae2a72610f9d3
>X-UIDL: c9ee8e642b14d11e3ca21cff2850f575
>>From root Thu Mar  9 18:52:44 2000
>Return-Path: <gmuir at dlux dot net>
>Received: from mail05.rapidsite.net (mail05.rapidsite.net
>[207.158.192.42])
>[headers continue]
>
>
>Then a second message had: (notice the line with X-UIDL:)
>
>
>U.S. MARKET NEWS
>from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.
>
>LGe4HCR0FQI1PT79+v/EFyI6tJcXE61KMP91jkxAWv8gwv
>X-UIDL: 3628541257fcfc0187941929f2905082
>SL4yJGNegP7IPXp3+S4JmufTiECHinHetR8J6MaV+7jgJtR4uxSrAH7bKK1PhUHB1p5luoGH
>pQQepsRLOhdV9+B5cyP8vkv+Tg2TzTDeqF1FbnVqKFC3EoSJWB/3XAi8An+Sy4a2nmIkKyxz
>W0UW0SLKrRj/ACB6gqP2dvgX4clHl2e71C6X6r68kz7NW5t4Ryf7XI1Jj/m5hGzsXljTfKmn
>[encoded junk continues]
>
>Has anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas?

You need to upgrade to 3.0 -- I'd suggest 3.0b36 (available later 
today), but any recent version will do.  See the FAQ at 
<http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#from.lines>.