The qpopper list archive ending on 11 May 2001


Topics covered in this issue include:

  1. Re: DON'T DELETE ....
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Fri, 4 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700
  2. i/o error: operation not permitted
       "Francesco Baldi" <francesco at baldi dot net>
       Sun, 6 May 2001 23:50:56 +0200
  3. ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
       Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
  4. Qpopper 4.0.2 available
       Qpopper Bugs <qpopper-bugs at qualcomm dot com>
       Sun, 6 May 2001 18:24:08 -0700
  5. Re: For help on PAM using samba authentication
       Valter Nordh <valter at che.chalmers dot se>
       Mon, 07 May 2001 09:14:39 +0200
  6. Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Peter Rose <peter at cyberscreen dot com>
       Mon, 7 May 2001 10:32:31 +0100
  7. Duplicate messages
       "Angela D. Chow" <achow at ibw.com dot ni>
       Mon, 7 May 2001 08:19:51 -0600 (CST)
  8. Re: Duplicate messages
       "Angela D. Chow" <achow at ibw.com dot ni>
       Mon, 7 May 2001 08:35:31 -0600 (CST)
  9. Chunky write 
       Roy <garlic at garlic dot com>
       Mon, 07 May 2001 08:15:36 -0700
 10. Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port
       Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
       Mon, 07 May 2001 14:22:57 -0400
 11. SSL insights?
       Derek Balling <dredd at megacity dot org>
       Mon, 7 May 2001 16:30:04 -0700
 12. Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
       Mon, 07 May 2001 19:55:11 -0400
 13. <no subject>
       "editor_in_chief@powermacuser dot com" <editor_in_chief at powermacuser dot com>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 01:21:59 -0400
 14. Re: SSL insights?
       Peter Seuffert <seuffert at gmd dot de>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 10:16:28 +0200
 15. Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port
       "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 06:12:49 -0700
 16. Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port
       Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 12:43:27 -0400
 17. ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 16:05:09 -0300
 18. Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 16:09:24 -0300
 19. Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Roy <garlic at garlic dot com>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 17:00:28 -0700
 20. Re: i/o error: operation not permitted
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 17:36:51 -0700
 21. Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 17:42:31 -0700
 22. Re: SSL insights?
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 17:55:51 -0700
 23. Re: SSL insights?
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 17:57:51 -0700
 24. Re: Duplicate messages
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 17:52:04 -0700
 25. Re: <no subject>
       Robert Brandtjen <rob at prometheusmedia dot com>
       Tue, 08 May 2001 20:43:39 -0500
 26. Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Tue, 8 May 2001 18:00:12 -0700
 27. Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port
       Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
       Wed, 09 May 2001 07:27:57 -0400
 28. SSL/No process listening on port 995
       Frederic Faure <frederic.faure at vigilante dot com>
       Wed, 09 May 2001 06:48:32 -0700
 29. APOP/Eudora OK, but O/OExpress NOK
       Frederic Faure <frederic.faure at vigilante dot com>
       Wed, 09 May 2001 05:53:33 -0700
 30. Re: SSL insights?
       Scott McDermott <mcdermot at questra dot com>
       Wed, 9 May 2001 13:05:17 -0400
 31. leaving mail on server gives mmdf errors
       Chris Loelke <chris at okanagan dot net>
       Wed, 09 May 2001 12:04:47 -0700
 32. Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
       Wed, 09 May 2001 15:26:43 -0400
 33. Re: leaving mail on server gives mmdf errors
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Wed, 9 May 2001 12:43:45 -0700
 34. Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Wed, 9 May 2001 12:45:13 -0700
 35. Re: Duplicate messages
       Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 13:34:27 +1200 (NZST)
 36. Re: Duplicate messages
       Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 13:32:47 +1200 (NZST)
 37. Spool Quota
       Jun Arlante <jarlante at codewan dot com>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 09:55:54 +0800
 38. Re: Duplicate messages
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Wed, 9 May 2001 19:08:36 -0700
 39. hashed directories
       James Eastwood <JamesEastwood at businessserve.co dot uk>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 15:01:18 +0100
 40. Error message in log file
       "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 10:56:25 -0400
 41. "Insufficient room to generate path"
       Bryce Newall <data at dreamhaven dot org>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
 42. Re: Duplicate messages
       John Hardly <jhon at iav.ac dot ma>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 20:48:37 +0000
 43. Unable to process From lines (envelope), change recognition
       Steve Sullivan <Steve.Sullivan at ucop dot edu>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 14:44:52 -0700
 44. Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 20:34:25 -0400
 45. Re: Unable to process From lines (envelope), change
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 17:48:51 -0700
 46. Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
       Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
       Thu, 10 May 2001 22:41:29 -0700
 47. Qpopper 4.02/OpenSSL 0.9.6a - TLS/Alt port error
       Mathew Hudson <m.hudson at hlc.unimelb.edu dot au>
       Fri, 11 May 2001 15:56:01 +1000
 48. connection refuse
       "Fabio Tonti" <hostmaster at guest dot net>
       Fri, 11 May 2001 09:41:05 +0200
 49. qpopper + db
       "Philipp Gimm" <philipp at problemchen dot de>
       Fri, 11 May 2001 12:21:32 +0200
 50. Re: Unable to process From lines (envelope), change recognition   modes
       "Matt Garretson" <mattg at assembly.state.ny dot us>
       Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:35 -0400

Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 14:53:06 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: DON'T DELETE ....

At 10:18 PM -0500 5/3/01, Genghis Rios Kruger wrote:

>  Hello !
>
>  Is there any way to use Qpopper in conjuction with WU's IMAP and NOT get the
>  "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA" message.
>  This message is generated for the pine program on the mail server.  I get
>  these all of the time on a RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 Linux server.

You can tell Qpopper to ignore these messages, either at 
compile-time or run-time.

 From the Administrator's Guide:

Either use '--enable-uw-kludge' with ./configure (after a 'make 
clean'), or add 'set uw-kluge' to a configuration file.

From: "Francesco Baldi" <francesco at baldi dot net>
Subject: i/o error: operation not permitted
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 23:50:56 +0200

Hello,
I've just installed qpopper 4.0.1, everything works fine but in some cases I
get lots of messages like this:
I/O error flushing output to client ... : Operation not permitted (1)
I already checked permissions on my spool directory.
Can someone help me?

Thanks and regards
Francesco Baldi


Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to using Qpopper 
4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using Qpopper 2.5.3 (on FreeBSD 
2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no modem, computer, or settings problems 
(who were able to receive mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can not receive 
mail.  The e-mail clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook Express, 
Netscape).  So far, nobody using Eudora has had a problem.  Folks who are 
having the problem, who then install and try Eudora work fine while using 
Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail client it continues to 
fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The most common single error is...

<USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Some less frequent errors are...

I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: 
Operation not permitted (1)

(null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

We have set the following options...

set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
set log-facility = local0
set chunky-writes = tls
set server-mode
set downcase-user
set statistics
set trim-domain
set timeout = 600

Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please reply to the 
list.  Thanks in advance.

-Bob



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Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:24:08 -0700
From: Qpopper Bugs <qpopper-bugs at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 4.0.2 available

Qpopper 4.0.2 is available at 
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.

Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2:
----------------------------
  1.  Added fix for XTND XMIT (sent in by Jacques Distler and
          others).
  2.  Fixed makefile problems with poppassd compile and install
      (sent in by Steven Champeon).
  3.  Increased maximum spool path length from 64 to 256.
  4.  Added more debug code when genpath() runs out of room.
  5.  Changed C++ style comments to C style in poppassd.c
  6.  Changed poppassd's UID check to be the same as Qpopper's
      (which is that if BLOCK_UID is defined we use that value,
      otherwise it defaults to 10).
  7.  Added poppassd expect strings for DEC True 64 (sent in by
      Andres Henckens).

Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:14:39 +0200
From: Valter Nordh <valter at che.chalmers dot se>
Subject: Re: For help on PAM using samba authentication

At 07:44 2001-05-04, Rogerwoo wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Our company have migrate from NT 4.0 to Linux, We are now using samba 
service to provide share and domain login authentication to windows 
wokstation users.
So that is natural to  replace Exchange Server5.5 to sendmail to provide 
mail service to users, we found Qpopper is a good pop3 service and planed 
to use Qpopper 4.0 and pam-smb PAM authentication to use samba password 
information. But I tried more than twice all failed following pam-smb 
README . When I tried from window 98 workstation error message said 
module  not found but the pam-smb module in the directory.

Any help will be appreciated.


I've never done it myself, but have a look at:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-02/agents_01.html
thay had an artickel on getting samba to use windows password.
Might help?

/Valter


Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:32:31 +0100
From: Peter Rose <peter at cyberscreen dot com>
Subject: Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Hello - 

Yes, I started noticing these messages too, but so far it doesn't seem
to stop mail being delivered - I've tested with Netscape, Turnpike (the
UK mail client for the large Demon ISP) and the Mailman webmail package
we're also running.

I'll wait for screams from clients using Outlook Express.

Running on RH6.1 linux,

Would be very pleased to find out what this means and is there a patch?

Peter Rose



In message <911758951276702617906 at lists.pensive dot org>, Bob
<ohbobva at rocketmail dot com> writes
>Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to using Qpopper 
>4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using Qpopper 2.5.3 (on FreeBSD 
>2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no modem, computer, or settings problems 
>(who were able to receive mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can not receive 
>mail.  The e-mail clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook Express, 
>Netscape).  So far, nobody using Eudora has had a problem.  Folks who are 
>having the problem, who then install and try Eudora work fine while using 
>Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail client it continues to 
>fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The most common single error is...
>
><USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>Some less frequent errors are...
>
>I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: 
>Operation not permitted (1)
>
>(null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>We have set the following options...
>
>set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set log-facility = local0
>set chunky-writes = tls
>set server-mode
>set downcase-user
>set statistics
>set trim-domain
>set timeout = 600
>
>Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please reply to the 
>list.  Thanks in advance.
>
>-Bob
>
>
>
Cyberscreen Internet Services.
25, Oak Hill,
Woodford Green,
Essex IG8 9NS
UK

Tel/Fax: +44 (0)208 504 6316
Mobile: +44 (0)7771 987452
www.cyberscreen.com

Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:19:51 -0600 (CST)
From: "Angela D. Chow" <achow at ibw.com dot ni>
Subject: Duplicate messages

Whenever I upgrade the version of my qpopper, users begin to receive the
old emails they had already downloaded.

I can't activate auto-delete and I cannot go to 1000 computers to delete
lmos.dat under eudora. (some of them are using outlook, outlook express,
internet mail, etc)

Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new,
whenever qpopper is upgraded ?

one of my options used when configuring is

--enable-old-uidl

Angela




Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:35:31 -0600 (CST)
From: "Angela D. Chow" <achow at ibw.com dot ni>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

The inconvenience with that is, most of the users check their emails from
not only one computer.

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Gene Ponce wrote:

> How about having your users not leave their messages on the server when they
> check mail to start with?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angela D. Chow" <achow at ibw.com dot ni>
> To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:19 AM
> Subject: Duplicate messages
>
>
> > Whenever I upgrade the version of my qpopper, users begin to receive the
> > old emails they had already downloaded.
> >
> > I can't activate auto-delete and I cannot go to 1000 computers to delete
> > lmos.dat under eudora. (some of them are using outlook, outlook express,
> > internet mail, etc)
> >
> > Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new,
> > whenever qpopper is upgraded ?
> >
> > one of my options used when configuring is
> >
> > --enable-old-uidl
> >
> > Angela
> >
> >
> >
>
>


Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 08:15:36 -0700
From: Roy <garlic at garlic dot com>
Subject: Chunky write

When trying to switch to Qpopper 4, I had numerous glitches where some
people couldn't read their mail, others hung up, etc.  I finally turned off
chunky-writes and everybody seems happier now!

Roy


Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:22:57 -0400
From: Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
Subject: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port

Trying to set the latest release of qpopper so that I can use both the stls 
port (110) and the alternate port (995).  We have a mixed user base of 
clients, Eudora, Outlook, and Netscape.  Eudora uses port 110 just fine 
with stls, but Outlook croaks using 110.  I've tried to set up the 
alternate port, and the stls port like the book says, but it doesn't make a 
lot of sense.  Here's the "destructions" from the admin manual:

"If you want to enable both alternate-port and STLS, you can do this with 
three configuration files.  One file contains the set tls-support = stls 
command, and a second file contains the set tls-support = alternate-port 
command.  Both files also contain one other command, which instructs 
qpopper to read the third configuration file, for example, set config-file 
= /etc/mail/pop/qpopper-tls.config.  Set all other options in this third 
file.  The use the -f run-time option to cause Qpopper to read either of 
the first two files."

If it only reads either of the first two files, howinell you gonna get both 
stls _and_ alternate-port going at the same time?  Also, I would assume, 
(this is a Solaris 8 box I'm using for test purposes) that I'd have to 
modify /etc/services to list the alternate port of 995.  What service do I 
call the port?  Pop3 is already bound to port 110.

Thanks,
Mark Wendt 


Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 16:30:04 -0700
From: Derek Balling <dredd at megacity dot org>
Subject: SSL insights?

Anyone have any insights as to why SSL is taking a crap on me? It 
SEEMS as though it "can't see" /etc/mail/certs/cert.pm except that it 
IS there:

# ls -la /etc/mail/certs
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     mail         4096 May  7 16:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         4096 May  7 16:05 ..
-rw-------   1 root     root          891 May  7 16:10 cert.pem
-rw-------   1 root     root          696 May  7 16:10 req.pem

(I had the certs directory set to 0700 as I would expect it to be, 
but relaxed the security on it hoping it was a permissions issue)

Debug output below....

May  7 16:27:06.275 2001 [31015] Trace and Debug destination is file 
"/var/log/qpopper.debug" [pop_init.c:855]
May  7 16:27:06.275 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] tls-support=0 (-l) [pop_init.c:781]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] Processing config file 
'/etc/mail/qpopper.config'; CallTime=1 [pop_config.c:12
75]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] ...read line 1 (22): set tls-support 
= stls [pop_config.c:1311]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] Set tls-support to STLS (2) 
[pop_config.c:1191]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] ...read line 2 (51): set 
tls-server-cert-file = /etc/mail/certs/cert.pem [pop_
config.c:1311]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] Set tls-server-cert-file to 
"/etc/mail/certs/cert.pem" [pop_config.c:1207]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001 [31015] Finished processing config file 
'/etc/mail/qpopper.config'; rslt=1 [pop_config
.c:1459]
May  7 16:27:06.276 2001
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001 [31015] (v4.0.2) Servicing request from 
"localhost" at 127.0.0.1 [pop_init.c:1153]
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001 [31015] before TLS; tls_support==2 [popper.c:168]
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001 [31015] ...Initializing OpenSSL library 
[pop_tls_openssl.c:220]
May  7 16:27:06.277 2001
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001 [31015] ...have /dev/urandom; skipping PRNG 
seeding [pop_tls_openssl.c:278]
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001 [31015] ...setting method to 
SSLv23_server_method [pop_tls_openssl.c:302]
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001 [31015] ...allocating OpenSSL context 
[pop_tls_openssl.c:332]
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001 [31015] ...setting certificate file 
/etc/mail/certs/cert.pem [pop_tls_openssl.c:343]
May  7 16:27:06.280 2001
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] Error setting certificate PEM file 
/etc/mail/certs/cert.pem [pop_tls_openssl.c
:348]
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] ...SSL error: error:0906D06C:PEM 
routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line [pop_tls_
openssl.c:348]
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] ...SSL error: error:140AD009:SSL 
routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:missing
  asn1 eos [pop_tls_openssl.c:348]
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001
May  7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] Failed initializing TLS/SSL [popper.c:186]



-- 
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
| dredd at megacity dot org  | "Conan! What is best in life?"          |
|  Derek J. Balling   | "To crush your enemies, see them        |
|                     |    driven before you, and to hear the   |
|                     |    lamentation of their women!"         |
+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+

Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:55:11 -0400
From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
Subject: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Additional information:

For two of our users (so far) the following solution seems to have 
worked.  Don't know why.  Could the e-mail clients be remembering something 
from using the Qpopper 2.5.3, that causes the client (or Qpopper 4.0.1) to 
give this error and not receive e-mail?

Possible solution:
I had 1 Outlook and 1 Outlook Express user remove the "account" from the 
settings, reboot and re-add the "account" to their e-mail settings.  The 
error stopped and they received their e-mail.

I would prefer to know why this happens to avoid additional helpdesk calls 
from upgrading to 4.0.1.  Any ideas, anyone?  Thanks in advance.

-Bob


>Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
>To: qpopper at lists.pensive dot org
>From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
>Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to using Qpopper 
>4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using Qpopper 2.5.3 (on FreeBSD 
>2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no modem, computer, or settings problems 
>(who were able to receive mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can not receive 
>mail.  The e-mail clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook Express, 
>Netscape).  So far, nobody using Eudora has had a problem.  Folks who are 
>having the problem, who then install and try Eudora work fine while using 
>Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail client it continues to 
>fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The most common single error is...
>
><USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>Some less frequent errors are...
>
>I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: 
>Operation not permitted (1)
>
>(null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>We have set the following options...
>
>set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set log-facility = local0
>set chunky-writes = tls
>set server-mode
>set downcase-user
>set statistics
>set trim-domain
>set timeout = 600
>
>Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please reply to the 
>list.  Thanks in advance.
>
>-Bob



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Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 01:21:59 -0400
Subject: <no subject>
From: "editor_in_chief@powermacuser dot com" <editor_in_chief at powermacuser dot com>

I am using Mac OS X server 1.2 v3.

I was able to send and receive mail with OS X server using Mail viewer ,but
only using imap.

After shutting down the machine for a few months and trying to restart my
mail server , I have had not luck.


At this point , my machine settings have not changed and I can not figure
this out.

1. I am using a single static IP

2. I am able to access the net with Mac OS X server

3.  I can do a remote log in

4. I can run Apache Web server

5. I can FTP into the server.

6.

I get the error with trying to send mail to the server , like no mailbox at
myhost.com  error # 5.1.1


I tried to keep it easy with using Mailviewer which shipped with OS X
server.

Now , I have tired to un archive q popper and I can not find it and I am not
sure if its opening....

I am totally frustrated....

Has anyone had success with Q POPPER  using it with Mac OS X server 1.2 v3
with a cable modem connection ,behind a firewall ?

Anthony


Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:16:28 +0200
From: Peter Seuffert <seuffert at gmd dot de>
Subject: Re: SSL insights?

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Derek Balling wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any insights as to why SSL is taking a crap on me? It
> SEEMS as though it "can't see" /etc/mail/certs/cert.pm except that it
> IS there:
>
> ....Deleted stuff ....

I am trying to get the SSL-support of qpopper4.0.2 running on Solaris8.
No success so far.
I use Netscape Messenger V4.77 as a client (it should support SSL
connections to a POP server).

My qpopper log file looks good; SSL-certs are recognized by qpopper;
connection to netscape on host "bacdelac" starts ... BUT no encryption
of the network packets takes place. All data is transmitted in clear
text. 
[I've attached the session log file].

Any ideas? Any hints whats going wrong here? 

Regards,
Peter



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May  8 09:54:31.990 2001 [8784] (v4.0.2) Servicing request from "bacdelac" at 129.26.160.67 [pop_init.c:1153]
May  8 09:54:31.990 2001
May  8 09:54:31.990 2001 [8784] before TLS; tls_support==2 [popper.c:168]
May  8 09:54:31.990 2001
May  8 09:54:31.990 2001 [8784] ...Initializing OpenSSL library [pop_tls_openssl.c:220]
May  8 09:54:31.990 2001
May  8 09:54:31.994 2001 [8784] ...have /dev/urandom; skipping PRNG seeding [pop_tls_openssl.c:278]
May  8 09:54:31.994 2001
May  8 09:54:31.995 2001 [8784] ...setting method to SSLv23_server_method [pop_tls_openssl.c:302]
May  8 09:54:31.995 2001
May  8 09:54:31.995 2001 [8784] ...allocating OpenSSL context [pop_tls_openssl.c:332]
May  8 09:54:31.995 2001
May  8 09:54:31.996 2001 [8784] ...setting certificate file /etc/opt/apache/ssl/sslhost.crt [pop_tls_openssl.c:343]
May  8 09:54:31.996 2001
May  8 09:54:31.998 2001 [8784] ...setting private key file /etc/opt/apache/ssl/sslhost.key [pop_tls_openssl.c:364]
May  8 09:54:31.998 2001
May  8 09:54:31.998 2001 [8784] ...verifying private key against certificate [pop_tls_openssl.c:377]
May  8 09:54:31.998 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] ...(tls_cipher_list not specified) [pop_tls_openssl.c:404]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] ...allocating OpenSSL connection [pop_tls_openssl.c:415]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] ...setting input (0) and output (0) file descriptors [pop_tls_openssl.c:426]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] ...successfully completed OpenSSL initialization [pop_tls_openssl.c:445]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] TLS Init [popper.c:189]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] (v4.0.2) Intro [popper.c:234]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001 [8784] +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.2) at tarifa starting.   [popper.c:247]
May  8 09:54:31.999 2001
May  8 09:54:31.1000 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from (null) at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:31.1000 2001
May  8 09:54:32.005 2001 [8784] Received (9): "USER hops" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.005 2001
May  8 09:54:32.005 2001 [8784] home (10): '/home/hops' [pop_user.c:209]
May  8 09:54:32.005 2001
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001 [8784] +OK Password required for hops. [pop_user.c:420]
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001 [8784] user returned 1; CurrentState now auth2 [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.006 2001
May  8 09:54:32.009 2001 [8784] Received: "pass xxxxxxxxx" [pop_get_command.c:96]
May  8 09:54:32.009 2001
May  8 09:54:32.009 2001 [8784] ...checknonauthfile didn't match user hops in file /etc/mail/pop.nonauth [pop_pass.c:170]
May  8 09:54:32.009 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] ...built: (20) '/var/mail/' [genpath.c:158]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] genpath Spool (1) [hash: 0; home: NULL] for user hops returning /var/mail/hops [genpath.c:233]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] ...built: (20) '/var/mail/' [genpath.c:158]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] genpath .pop (2) [hash: 0; home: NULL] for user hops returning /var/mail/.hops.pop [genpath.c:233]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] Temporary maildrop name: '/var/mail/.hops.pop' [pop_dropcopy.c:1255]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001 [8784] uid = 129, gid = 6, euid = 129, egid = 6 [pop_dropcopy.c:1485]
May  8 09:54:32.018 2001
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001 [8784] Opened temp drop /var/mail/.hops.pop (8) [pop_dropcopy.c:1501]
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001 [8784] Set p->drop to stream for 8 [pop_dropcopy.c:1585]
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001 [8784] Getting mail lock [pop_dropcopy.c:1625]
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001 [8784] successfully opened (exclusive) lock /var/mail/hops.lock [maillock.c:477]
May  8 09:54:32.019 2001
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001 [8784] maillock() on file /var/mail/hops (/var/mail/hops.lock) [pop_dropcopy.c:1631] returning 0 (1 attempt(s)) [maillock.c:549]
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001 [8784] Opened spool /var/mail/hops (9) [pop_dropcopy.c:1663]
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001 [8784] DROPCOPY: Reading the mail drop (p->msg_count = 0). [pop_dropcopy.c:795]
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001 [8784] Msg 1 being added to list. [pop_dropcopy.c:979]
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001 [8784] Found UIDL header: X-UIDL: <<0"!5m~"!W$-!!cLj"!
 [pop_dropcopy.c:1088]
May  8 09:54:32.020 2001
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001 [8784] Msg 1 (1) uidl '<<0"!5m~"!W$-!!cLj"!
' at offset 0 is 340 octets long and has 19 lines. [pop_dropcopy.c:1156]
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001 [8784] Mail copied to temp drop; zeroing spool [pop_dropcopy.c:1690]
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001 [8784] Temp drop contains 1 (1 visible) messages in 376 octets [pop_dropcopy.c:1791]
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001 [8784] Msg 1 (1) uidl '<<0"!5m~"!W$-!!cLj"!
' at offset 0 is 340 octets long and has 19 lines. [pop_dropcopy.c:1798]
May  8 09:54:32.021 2001
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001 [8784] mailunlock() called [pop_dropcopy.c:1807] for /var/mail/hops.lock [maillock.c:579]
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001 [8784] (v4.0.2) POP login by user "hops" at (bacdelac) 129.26.160.67 [pop_log.c:244]
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001 [8784] +OK hops has 1 visible message (0 hidden) in 340 octets. [pop_pass.c:1442]
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001 [8784] pass returned 1; CurrentState now trans [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.022 2001
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001 [8784] Received (4): "STAT" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001 [8784] 1 visible message(s) (340 octets). [pop_stat.c:39]
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001 [8784] +OK 1 340 [pop_stat.c:41]
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001 [8784] stat returned 1; CurrentState now trans [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.055 2001
May  8 09:54:32.061 2001 [8784] Received (4): "LIST" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.061 2001
May  8 09:54:32.061 2001 [8784] +OK 1 visible messages (340 octets) [pop_list.c:164]
May  8 09:54:32.061 2001
May  8 09:54:32.062 2001 [8784] list returned 1; CurrentState now trans [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.062 2001
May  8 09:54:32.062 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.062 2001
May  8 09:54:32.158 2001 [8784] Received (4): "UIDL" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.158 2001
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001 [8784] +OK uidl command accepted. [pop_uidl.c:109]
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001 [8784] uidl returned 1; CurrentState now trans [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.159 2001
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001 [8784] Received (6): "DELE 1" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001 [8784] Deleting message 1 at offset 0 of length 340 [pop_dele.c:80]
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001 [8784] msgs_deleted now 1; bytes_deleted now 340 [pop_dele.c:88]
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001 [8784] +OK Message 1 has been deleted. [pop_dele.c:59]
May  8 09:54:32.256 2001
May  8 09:54:32.257 2001 [8784] dele returned 1; CurrentState now trans [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.257 2001
May  8 09:54:32.257 2001 [8784] Qpopper ready for input from hops at bacdelac [129.26.160.67] [popper.c:281]
May  8 09:54:32.257 2001
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001 [8784] Received (4): "QUIT" [pop_get_command.c:105]
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001 [8784] Performing maildrop update... [pop_updt.c:292]
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001 [8784] Checking to see if all messages were deleted [pop_updt.c:293]
May  8 09:54:32.269 2001
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001 [8784] ...built: (20) '/var/mail/' [genpath.c:158]
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001 [8784] genpath .cache (6) [hash: 0; home: NULL] for user hops returning /var/mail/.hops.cache [genpath.c:233]
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001 [8784] Unlinked cache file /var/mail/.hops.cache [pop_cache.c:453]
May  8 09:54:32.270 2001
May  8 09:54:32.271 2001 [8784] Truncated [pop_updt.c:332] temp drop (8) [pop_updt.c:160]
May  8 09:54:32.271 2001
May  8 09:54:32.271 2001 [8784] Non-server mode and all msgs deleted; truncated temp drop (8) [pop_updt.c:334]
May  8 09:54:32.271 2001
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001 [8784] Unlinked [pop_updt.c:335] temp drop (/var/mail/.hops.pop) [pop_updt.c:146]
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001 [8784] quit returned 1; CurrentState now halt [popper.c:325]
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001 [8784] +OK Pop server at tarifa signing off. [popper.c:347]
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001 [8784] tls shutdown returned -1 [pop_tls_openssl.c:758]
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001 [8784] SSL_get_error says SSL_ERROR_SSL (1) [pop_tls_openssl.c:762]
May  8 09:54:32.272 2001
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001 [8784] OpenSSL Error during shutdown [pop_tls_openssl.c:790]
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001 [8784] ...SSL error: error:140E0114:SSL routines:SSL_shutdown:uninitialized [pop_tls_openssl.c:790]
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001 [8784] freeing m_OpenSSLconn [pop_tls_openssl.c:803]
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001 [8784] freeing m_OpenSSLctx [pop_tls_openssl.c:809]
May  8 09:54:32.273 2001
May  8 09:54:32.274 2001 [8784] openssl_shutdown returning -1 [pop_tls_openssl.c:814]
May  8 09:54:32.274 2001
May  8 09:54:32.274 2001 [8784] (v4.0.2) Ending request from "hops" at (bacdelac) 129.26.160.67 [popper.c:365]
May  8 09:54:32.274 2001

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From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 06:12:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port

On Mon, 07 May 2001 14:22:57 -0400, Mark Wendt wrote:

>Also, I would assume, 
>(this is a Solaris 8 box I'm using for test purposes) that I'd have to 
>modify /etc/services to list the alternate port of 995.  What service do I 
>call the port?  Pop3 is already bound to port 110.

The new service is spop3 (secure POP3). There should also be simap
(secure IMAP) at 993.

Ken
mailto:shiva at well dot com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
[If answering a mailing list posting, please don't cc me your reply. I'll take my answer on the list.]



Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:43:27 -0400
From: Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port

Ken,

         Thanks for the info.  That did it!  Working just dandy now.

Mark


At 06:12 AM 5/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 07 May 2001 14:22:57 -0400, Mark Wendt wrote:
>
> >Also, I would assume,
> >(this is a Solaris 8 box I'm using for test purposes) that I'd have to
> >modify /etc/services to list the alternate port of 995.  What service do I
> >call the port?  Pop3 is already bound to port 110.
>
>The new service is spop3 (secure POP3). There should also be simap
>(secure IMAP) at 993.
>
>Ken
>mailto:shiva at well dot com
>http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
>[If answering a mailing list posting, please don't cc me your reply. I'll 
>take my answer on the list.]


Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:05:09 -0300
From: Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

We were using qpopper 3.1.2 and we didn´t have any type of problem with
 it. 
After we upgraded to 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 therefore, we receive a lot of 
messages "ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" on syslog and our pop clients can´t 
download their e-mails. I think there is a bug here.


[]´s


_________________________________________________________________
Eng° Rodrigo Luiz Anami                   rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
Administrador de Sistemas    Voz:(19) 3736 3721 Cel:(19) 9123 9995
Best Way Internet Provider               (19) 3736 3700 (Campinas)
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Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:09:24 -0300
From: Rodrigo Luiz Anami <rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br>
Subject: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error


Some debug information:

May  8 15:51:36 xxx popper[13021]: I/O error flushing output to client 
juliocia at 200.212.20.14 [200.212.20.14]: Operation not permitted (1)
May  8 15:51:36 xxx popper[13021]: I/O error flushing output to client 
juliocia at 200.212.20.14 [200.212.20.14]: Operation not permitted (1)
May  8 15:51:49 xxx popper[12642]: I/O error flushing output to client 
advjbroquejr at 200.246.27.34 [200.246.27.34]: Operation not permitted (1)
May  8 15:51:49 xxx popper[12642]: I/O error flushing output to client 
advjbroquejr at 200.246.27.34 [200.246.27.34]: Operation not permitted (1)
May  8 15:51:49 xxx popper[12642]: I/O error flushing output to client 
advjbroquejr at 200.246.27.34 [200.246.27.34]: Operation not permitted (1)
May  8 15:51:49 xxx popper[12642]: I/O error flushing output to client 
advjbroquejr at 200.246.27.34 [200.246.27.34]: Operation not permitted (1)

[]´s

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>We were using qpopper 3.1.2 and we didn´t have any type of problem with
 
>it. After we upgraded to 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 therefore, we receive a lot of 
>messages "ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" on syslog and our pop clients can´t
 
>download their e-mails. I think there is a bug here.
>
>
>[]´s
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Eng° Rodrigo Luiz Anami                   rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
>Administrador de Sistemas    Voz:(19) 3736 3721 Cel:(19) 9123 9995
>Best Way Internet Provider               (19) 3736 3700 (Campinas)
>http://www.bestway.com.br                     (19) 3736 3727 (FAX)
>webmaster at bestway.com dot br          0800 112262 (Outras Localidades)

_________________________________________________________________
Eng° Rodrigo Luiz Anami                   rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
Administrador de Sistemas    Voz:(19) 3736 3721 Cel:(19) 9123 9995
Best Way Internet Provider               (19) 3736 3700 (Campinas)
http://www.bestway.com.br                     (19) 3736 3727 (FAX)
webmaster at bestway.com dot br          0800 112262 (Outras Localidades)


Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:00:28 -0700
From: Roy <garlic at garlic dot com>
Subject: Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Try turning off chunky-write.  That seemed to work for me.

Rodrigo Luiz Anami wrote:

> We were using qpopper 3.1.2 and we didn´t have any type of problem with it.
> After we upgraded to 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 therefore, we receive a lot of
> messages "ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" on syslog and our pop clients can´t
> download their e-mails. I think there is a bug here.
>
> []´s
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Eng° Rodrigo Luiz Anami                   rodrigoa at bestway.com dot br
> Administrador de Sistemas    Voz:(19) 3736 3721 Cel:(19) 9123 9995
> Best Way Internet Provider               (19) 3736 3700 (Campinas)
> http://www.bestway.com.br                     (19) 3736 3727 (FAX)
> webmaster at bestway.com dot br          0800 112262 (Outras Localidades)


Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:36:51 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: i/o error: operation not permitted

At 11:50 PM +0200 5/6/01, Francesco Baldi wrote:

>  Hello,
>  I've just installed qpopper 4.0.1, everything works fine but in some cases I
>  get lots of messages like this:
>  I/O error flushing output to client ... : Operation not permitted (1)
>  I already checked permissions on my spool directory.
>  Can someone help me?
>
>  Thanks and regards
>  Francesco Baldi

The message "I/O error flushing output to client" almost always 
means the client shut down without waiting for the response to the 
QUIT.   Don't worry about it.

Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:42:31 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

At 4:05 PM -0300 5/8/01, Rodrigo Luiz Anami wrote:

>  We were using qpopper 3.1.2 and we didn´t have any type of 
> problem with it. After we upgraded to 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 therefore, 
> we receive a lot of messages "ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" on syslog 
> and our pop clients can´t download their e-mails. I think there 
> is a bug here.
>
>
>  []´s

"ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" is different than "I/O error flushing 
output to client".

"I/O error flushing output to client" usually means that Qpopper 
got an error shutting down the connection.  This is usually because 
the client didn't wait for the response to QUIT.

"ERR POP EOF or I/O Error" means the client disconnected without 
even sending QUIT.

You can try adjusting the chunky-writes option.  I've seen this 
cause problems when the network path between Qpopper and the client 
is congested.  The larger packets get dropped, and the client 
(almost always Outlook or OE) has a too-short timeout and 
disconnects.

If possible, try increasing the client timeout.  Also check for 
excessive packet loss during the time of the error.

Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:55:51 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: SSL insights?

At 4:30 PM -0700 5/7/01, Derek Balling wrote:

>  May  7 16:27:06.281 2001 [31015] ...SSL error: error:0906D06C:PEM 
> routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line [pop_tls_
>  openssl.c:348]

It looks to me like this is the key error.  It sounds like the cert 
file isn't in the right format (no "start" line).

Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:57:51 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: SSL insights?

At 10:16 AM +0200 5/8/01, Peter Seuffert wrote:

>  I use Netscape Messenger V4.77 as a client (it should support SSL
>  connections to a POP server).
>
>  My qpopper log file looks good; SSL-certs are recognized by qpopper;
>  connection to netscape on host "bacdelac" starts ... BUT no encryption
>  of the network packets takes place. All data is transmitted in clear
>  text.
>  [I've attached the session log file].
>
>  Any ideas? Any hints whats going wrong here?

I don't see Netscape requesting SSL.  Perhaps it only supports 
alternate-port.  If so, set up a second Qpopper on port spop3 and 
configure it for alternate-port, and tell Netscape to use it.

Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:52:04 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

At 8:19 AM -0600 5/7/01, Angela D. Chow wrote:

>  Whenever I upgrade the version of my qpopper, users begin to receive the
>  old emails they had already downloaded.
>
>  I can't activate auto-delete and I cannot go to 1000 computers to delete
>  lmos.dat under eudora. (some of them are using outlook, outlook express,
>  internet mail, etc)
>
>  Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new,
>  whenever qpopper is upgraded ?
>
>  one of my options used when configuring is
>
>  --enable-old-uidl
>
>  Angela

My guess is that your previous version of Qpopper was compiled with 
NO_STATUS, which prevented it from writing X-UIDL headers into the 
spool.

My suggestion is to use Qpopper 4.0.2 and add 'set old-style-uid' 
(and also 'set update-status-headers' just to be sure) to a 
configuration file.  The next time each user checks mail, old-style 
UIDs are written to the spool.  From then on, the UID of those 
messages won't change (since it's in the spool).

If you really want to run with the equivalent of NO_STATUS, you can 
add 'reset old-style-uid' and 'reset update-status-headers' to the 
configuration file after all users with non-empty spools have 
checked mail at least once.

(You can also set these per-user if you prefer.)

Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 20:43:39 -0500
Subject: Re: <no subject>
From: Robert Brandtjen <rob at prometheusmedia dot com>

on 5/8/01 12:21 AM, editor_in_chief at powermacuser dot com at
editor_in_chief at powermacuser dot com wrote:

> 
> Has anyone had success with Q POPPER  using it with Mac OS X server 1.2 v3
> with a cable modem connection ,behind a firewall ?

I'm using it on OSXS 1.2 - it runs fine. I used the q-popper osx distro - I
have not upgraded to 4.0 as yet.

Are you using sendmail as the MTA ?

 Robert Brandtjen
 --------------------------------------
 Web Site Creation and Hosting Services
 Hostmaster at prometheusmedia dot com
 www.prometheusmedia.com


Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:00:12 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port

At 2:22 PM -0400 5/7/01, Mark Wendt wrote:

>  If it only reads either of the first two files, howinell you 
> gonna get both stls _and_ alternate-port going at the same time?

The Qpopper that is servicing port pop3 uses the configuration file 
that tells it to support sstls.  The Qpopper that is servicing port 
spop3 uses the configuration file that tells it to support 
alternate-port ssl.

Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:27:57 -0400
From: Mark Wendt <wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy dot mil>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 4.0.2 with STLS and alternate port

Randall,

         Yup, finally got that through my foggy brain yesterday.  Didn't 
think to have it run out of inetd as two seperate processes.  Doh!


Mark


At 06:00 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At 2:22 PM -0400 5/7/01, Mark Wendt wrote:
>
>>  If it only reads either of the first two files, howinell you gonna get 
>> both stls _and_ alternate-port going at the same time?
>
>The Qpopper that is servicing port pop3 uses the configuration file that 
>tells it to support sstls.  The Qpopper that is servicing port spop3 uses 
>the configuration file that tells it to support alternate-port ssl.


Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:48:32 -0700
From: Frederic Faure <frederic.faure at vigilante dot com>
Subject: SSL/No process listening on port 995

Hello,

	I've spent the past few days learning about securing popper, and I'd like 
to use qpopper 4's SSL support to connect with Outlook, Outlook Express, or 
Netscape.

I followed the instructions in the FAQ and qpopper.pdf on how to create a 
dummy test CA + key pair and certificate for the server + have that CA 
certify the server's certificate. When launching popper in stand-alone 
mode, no process listens on port 995.

1. Compile OpenSSL, create a dummy CA, create a pair of keys and a 
certificate for the server, and certify its certificate:

//Where to save files
mkdir -p -m665 /etc/mail/pop/certs
chown root:mail /etc/mail/pop/certs
chmod 660 /etc/mail/pop/certs

//Create public/private keys for server
openssl req -new -nodes -out /etc/mail/pop/certs/req.pem -keyout 
/etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem
chmod 600 /etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem
chown root:0 /etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem

//Create dummy CA, and certify server's certificate
openssl genrsa -des3 -out /etc/mail/pop/certs/ca.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key /etc/mail/pop/certs/ca.key -out 
/etc/mail/pop/certs/ca.crt
openssl x509 -req -CA /etc/mail/pop/certs/ca.crt -CAkey 
/etc/mail/pop/certs/ca.key -days 365 -in /etc/mail/pop/certs/req.pem -out 
/etc/mail/pop/certs/signed-req.pem -CAcreateserial
cat /etc/mail/pop/certs/signed-req.pem >> /etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem

------------------------ STAND-ALONE MODE
2. Compile qpopper for SSL + APOP + stand-alone mode
./configure --enable-shy --enable-specialauth --enable-apop 
--enable-standalone --with-openssl --with-gdbm

3. Launch qpopper in stand-alone mode with a basic configuration file:
set tls-support = stls
set tls-server-cert-file = /etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem
./popper -f ./qpopper.config

=> No process listening on port 995!

------------------------ XINETD MODE
Just to check if this was due to popper running in stand-alone mode, I left 
/etc/services as is (pop3s already included by RH), 
copy/pasted/etc/xinetd.d/pop3 as pop3s, and killall -HUP xinetd:

1. ./configure --enable-shy --enable-specialauth --enable-apop 
--enable-standalone --with-openssl --with-gdbm

2. service pop3s
{
         socket_type     = stream
         protocol        = tcp
         wait            = no
         user            = root
         server          = /usr/sbin/popper
         server_args     = qpopper -l 1
         port            = 995
}
... where -l 1 is supposed to allow SSL. netstat -tuplan sez still nothing 
on port 995.

3. Create a dummy user account in /etc/passwd + shadow (ie. no APOP 
account), and connect with OExpress 5 (Log on using SPA is off, POP3/This 
server requires a secure connection is on):

Linux
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6022]: Error setting certificate PEM file
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6022]: ...SSL error: error:0200100E:system 
library:fopen:Bad address
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6022]: ...SSL error: error:20074002:BIO 
routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6022]: ...SSL error: error:140AD002:SSL 
routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:system lib
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6022]: Failed initializing TLS/SSL
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6023]: Error setting certificate PEM file
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6023]: ...SSL error: error:0200100E:system 
library:fopen:Bad address
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6023]: ...SSL error: error:20074002:BIO 
routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6023]: ...SSL error: error:140AD002:SSL 
routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file:system lib
May  9 14:41:55 linuxff popper[6023]: Failed initializing TLS/SSL


OE
"Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection."

4. Moved /etc/mail/pop/certs/cert.pem to /usr/local/ssl/certs, just in 
case, with no change.

Any kind soul could explain where I'm wrong?

Thx for any tip
FF.


Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:53:33 -0700
From: Frederic Faure <frederic.faure at vigilante dot com>
Subject: APOP/Eudora OK, but O/OExpress NOK

Hello,

I'm running RH Linux 7.1, and while APOP works OK with Eudora, I fail 
connecting with OExpress 5 or Outlook 2K. Here's what it says in the log 
file when that happens:

./popper[18246]: (null) at par-frf.internal.vigilante.com 
(192.168.204.130): -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Besides checking "Logon using Secure Password/Authentication", is there 
sthing special that needs to be done?

Thx
FF.


Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:05:17 -0400
From: Scott McDermott <mcdermot at questra dot com>
Subject: Re: SSL insights?

Randall Gellens on Tue  8/05 17:57 -0700:
> I don't see Netscape requesting SSL.  Perhaps it only supports
> alternate-port.  If so, set up a second Qpopper on port spop3 and
> configure it for alternate-port, and tell Netscape to use it.

I believe Netscape 4.x clients only do simap, not spop3.  Outlook does
both, however.

Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:04:47 -0700
From: Chris Loelke <chris at okanagan dot net>
Subject: leaving mail on server gives mmdf errors

Some users leave their mail on the server, as of 4.0.2 i see this error
in the syslog file, never seen this with version 3.x

Can't write cache file for chris; spool is in mmdf format

Anyone have any ideas?



Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 15:26:43 -0400
From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
Subject: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

Randy,  I saw your response to a similar message, so I am reposting this 
one.  I have tried turning on the chunky writes option.

In some cases, a poor modem connection with a lot of packet loss has been 
the problem.  However, in most of our cases, the connection is fine with a 
solid ping during the mail checks.  This was a non issue with 2.5.3.  Any 
other possibilities here?  Any suggestions?  Thanks for your time.  Any 
help would be much appreciated.  -Bob


>Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
>To: qpopper at lists.pensive dot org
>From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
>Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to using Qpopper 
>4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using Qpopper 2.5.3 (on FreeBSD 
>2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no modem, computer, or settings problems 
>(who were able to receive mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can not receive 
>mail.  The e-mail clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook Express, 
>Netscape).  So far, nobody using Eudora has had a problem.  Folks who are 
>having the problem, who then install and try Eudora work fine while using 
>Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail client it continues to 
>fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The most common single error is...
>
><USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>Some less frequent errors are...
>
>I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: 
>Operation not permitted (1)
>
>(null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>We have set the following options...
>
>set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>set log-facility = local0
>set chunky-writes = tls
>set server-mode
>set downcase-user
>set statistics
>set trim-domain
>set timeout = 600
>
>Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please reply to the 
>list.  Thanks in advance.
>
>-Bob



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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:43:45 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: leaving mail on server gives mmdf errors

At 12:04 PM -0700 5/9/01, Chris Loelke wrote:

>  Some users leave their mail on the server, as of 4.0.2 i see this error
>  in the syslog file, never seen this with version 3.x
>
>  Can't write cache file for chris; spool is in mmdf format
>
>  Anyone have any ideas?

This warns you that because your spool is in mmdf format Qpopper 
can't generate the cache file, which is a major speed-up in Qpopper 
4.0.  The mmdf format means messages in your spool have a 
terminator line (usually 0x01010101) following each message, 
instead of a 'From ' line preceding each message.  Qpopper handles 
this, except for cache files.

Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:45:13 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

At 3:26 PM -0400 5/9/01, Bob wrote:

>  Randy,  I saw your response to a similar message, so I am 
> reposting this one.  I have tried turning on the chunky writes 
> option.

Try setting chunky-writes to never.

>
>  In some cases, a poor modem connection with a lot of packet loss 
> has been the problem.  However, in most of our cases, the 
> connection is fine with a solid ping during the mail checks. 
> This was a non issue with 2.5.3.  Any other possibilities here? 
> Any suggestions?  Thanks for your time.  Any help would be much 
> appreciated.  -Bob
>
>>  Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
>>  To: qpopper at lists.pensive dot org
>>  From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
>>  Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>
>>  Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to 
>> using Qpopper 4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using 
>> Qpopper 2.5.3 (on FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no 
>> modem, computer, or settings problems (who were able to receive 
>> mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can not receive mail.  The e-mail 
>> clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape). 
>> So far, nobody using Eudora has had a problem.  Folks who are 
>> having the problem, who then install and try Eudora work fine 
>> while using Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail client it 
>> continues to fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The 
>> most common single error is...
>>
>>  <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>
>>  Some less frequent errors are...
>>
>>  I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP 
>> ADDRESS>: Operation not permitted (1)
>>
>>  (null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>
>>  We have set the following options...
>>
>>  set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>>  set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>>  set log-facility = local0
>>  set chunky-writes = tls
>>  set server-mode
>>  set downcase-user
>>  set statistics
>>  set trim-domain
>>  set timeout = 600
>>
>>  Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please 
>> reply to the list.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>  -Bob
>
>
>
>  _________________________________________________________
>
>  Do You Yahoo!?
>
>  Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:34:27 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Angela D. Chow wrote:

> The inconvenience with that is, most of the users check their emails from
> not only one computer.

It only takes one of the machines they check from to delete-after-read
and the problem doesn't occur.

Most often people want to be able to check from home overnight, but the
work machine is canonical. For ISPs, sometimes this is reversed.

AB


Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:32:47 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Angela D. Chow wrote:

> Whenever I upgrade the version of my qpopper, users begin to receive the
> old emails they had already downloaded.

Surely this is a good reason to encourage them to not leave mail on the
server?

> I can't activate auto-delete

Why not?

And why can't you activate mail spool quotas so that if they leave lots
of mail on the server, they'll eventually be shut down automatically?

> Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new,
> whenever qpopper is upgraded ?

Yes, don't leave mail on the server :-)

AB


Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:55:54 +0800
From: Jun Arlante <jarlante at codewan dot com>
Subject: Spool Quota

Guys!

How do i activate spool quota? Am using sendmail switch on solaris and 
Qpopper version 3.02

TIA,

jun


Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:08:36 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

At 1:32 PM +1200 5/10/01, Alan Brown wrote:

>   > Have anyone found a solution of old messages being treated as new,
>>  whenever qpopper is upgraded ?
>
>  Yes, don't leave mail on the server :-)

You may be joking, but it's worth pointing out that normally 
upgrading Qpopper is invisible to end users (except for speed 
improvements).

The only time there is a risk of old messages being downloaded 
again is if the previous version of Qpopper was pre-3.x and 
compiled with NO_STATUS.  Even then, there is a way to upgrade 
without problems, as I've described in an earlier email.

From: James Eastwood <JamesEastwood at businessserve.co dot uk>
Subject: hashed directories
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:01:18 +0100

Hi all 

I am using popper 4
I have altered genpath.c to hash the directories 3 times

        return hash_buf;
    } /* hash_spool == 1 */
    else
    if ( iMethod == 2 ) {
        hash_buf [ 0 ] = *pszUser;
        hash_buf [ 1 ] = '/';
        hash_buf [ 2 ] = ( *(pszUser + 1) ? *(pszUser + 1) : *pszUser);
        hash_buf [ 3 ] = '/';
        hash_buf [ 4 ] = ( *(pszUser + 2) ? *(pszUser + 2) : *pszUser);
        hash_buf [ 5 ] = '/';
        hash_buf [ 6 ] = '\0';
        return hash_buf;
    } /* hash_spool == 2 */
    else
        return NULL;


eg maida will use /var/mail/m/a/i/maida

I am wanting the .user.pop files to be in /var/mail/popfiles

eg /var/mail/popfiles/.maida.pop

At the moment the .user.pop files are being created in
/var/mail/popfiles/m/a/i/.maida.pop


I have configured popper with temp-dir = /var/mail/popfiles but it is still
hashing the .user.pop file


Does anybody have any ideas how to do this??

From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Subject: Error message in log file
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:56:25 -0400

Hi,

Can someone help me out with this one please? I'm still on the learning end
of the curve here  :)

(Qpopper 4.0 on FreeBSD 3.2):

May 10 06:20:32 i2000 -sR[65525]: noop has null function

Thanks,

Lisa Casey, Webmaster
Interstate 2000, Inc.
lisa at jellico dot com
webmaster at jellico dot com







Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:20:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bryce Newall <data at dreamhaven dot org>
Subject: "Insufficient room to generate path"

Hi all,

I just installed Qpopper 4.0.2 on a FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE system.  I'm
getting the following error messages in the log any time someone tries to
download their mail, though:

May 10 12:13:08 cosmos popper[11031]: Insufficient room to generate path
for user cgray; need more than 919; have only 256
May 10 12:13:08 cosmos popper[11031]: cgray at 10.0.0.13 (10.0.0.13): -ERR
[SYS/TEMP] Unable to get spool name

Any thoughts on that?  I've reverted back to 3.1.2 for now.

Also, on a side note, I saw that the compilation problem with poppassd was
fixed, but there is still one minor problem.  I don't know if it affects
all systems, but it does at least affect FreeBSD, since there is no "root"
group.  In the "install:" target in password/Makefile, the following
command gets executed:

install:
        ${INSTALL} -m 4755 -o root -g root poppassd ${installdir}/poppassd; \
        echo "Installed poppassd as ${installdir}/poppassd"

Forcing the group to root with the "-g root" switch will cause the install
to fail under FreeBSD, since there is no "root" group.  I saw that in
popper/Makefile, there is no -g parameter.  Removing it altogether would
probably work on any platform; changing it to "wheel" would work with
FreeBSD and probably other BSD platforms, but might break under Linux or
other OS's.

*********************************************************
*    Bryce Newall    *    Email: data at dreamhaven dot org    *
*               www.dreamhaven.org/~data                *
*  "Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes."  *
*********************************************************


Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:48:37 +0000
From: John Hardly <jhon at iav.ac dot ma>
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages

 Hi all,
How to force qpopper delete messages from the spool directory even if the
user choose the "leave mail on the server" option on his  client ?
Thanks a lot.
-- 
John Hardly
E-mail : john (at) iav (dot) ac (dot) ma

Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:44:52 -0700
From: Steve Sullivan <Steve.Sullivan at ucop dot edu>
Subject: Unable to process From lines (envelope), change recognition

We're running qpopper 3.1.2 on an AIX 4.3.3 system.  Recently, we have 
started getting reports of the From line message error from Eudora users (a 
ratio of about 1 out of every 2500 mails received).  We found that a CTRL-@ 
(unprintable) was the first character of the users mail file.

Eventually, we found some one character mail files containing CTRL-@.  By 
looking at the popper logs and mail logs, I found that the time of the file 
corresponded to the time sendmail was delivering mail to that user.  The 
mail (from both internal and external sources) was not delivered to the 
user.  popper logs don't show activity for that user at that time.

Since we use the sendmail supplied by IBM, we decided to talk to 
them.  After two days of explaining the symptoms, IBM still says the 
problem is popper, not bellmail (which actually writes the file).  They 
suggest that popper and bellmail may handle file locking in different and 
incompatible ways.  Their only suggestion is to run the IBM popper, but the 
performance hit makes me wary of this suggestion.

Has this type of problem been reported before?  I found the message in the 
FAQ, but it deals with procmail, which we're not using.

Can you tell me how popper handles file locking, and do you know if it's 
compatible with the way bellmail handles file locking?  Do you have any 
suggestions on solving this problem?

Steve

Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:34:25 -0400
From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

The chunky-writes (never) option seems to make no difference.  I did turn 
on the following option:

         set log-login = "v%0 POP login by user %1 at (%2) %3"

I noticed that the error occurs before the POP login.  For users with the 
POP EOF or I/O error problem no POP login line is generated.  However, the 
username is included on the POP EOF error line.

Also, one client's screen (Outlook Express) displays authorizing until they 
get a message stating that the POP server hasn't responded (prompting STOP 
or WAIT).  The user pressed WAIT several times then was prompted (again) 
for their password (no invalid password lines were generated in the 
log).  It then downloaded messages.

I had one user (with the POP EOF error) set their POP server back to a 
machine running 2.5.3.  Copied their mail file over to the 2.5.3 machine 
and had them check their mail.    They received their mail fine.  Set the 
POP server back to the machine running 4.0.1 (same mail file still there), 
checked the mail just fine with no error.

This is very frustrating.  Any other suggestions?  Is anyone else 
continuing to have this trouble?  Any bug reports been filed?  Are any of 
the older versions safe to use?

Any help would be much appreciated.  -Bob

At 12:45 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, Randall Gellens wrote:
>At 3:26 PM -0400 5/9/01, Bob wrote:
>
>>  Randy,  I saw your response to a similar message, so I am reposting 
>> this one.  I have tried turning on the chunky writes option.
>
>Try setting chunky-writes to never.
>
>>
>>  In some cases, a poor modem connection with a lot of packet loss has 
>> been the problem.  However, in most of our cases, the connection is fine 
>> with a solid ping during the mail checks. This was a non issue with 
>> 2.5.3.  Any other possibilities here? Any suggestions?  Thanks for your 
>> time.  Any help would be much appreciated.  -Bob
>>
>>>  Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:52:52 -0400
>>>  To: qpopper at lists.pensive dot org
>>>  From: Bob <ohbobva at rocketmail dot com>
>>>  Subject: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>>
>>>  Hello folks.  We've been having trouble since we upgraded to using 
>>> Qpopper 4.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).  We were using Qpopper 2.5.3 (on 
>>> FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE).  Some users with no modem, computer, or 
>>> settings problems (who were able to receive mail via Qpopper 2.5.3) can 
>>> not receive mail.  The e-mail clients being used very (Outlook, Outlook 
>>> Express, Netscape). So far, nobody using Eudora has had a 
>>> problem.  Folks who are having the problem, who then install and try 
>>> Eudora work fine while using Eudora.  If they try their other e-mail 
>>> client it continues to fail.  Example of errors are listed below.  The 
>>> most common single error is...
>>>
>>>  <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>>
>>>  Some less frequent errors are...
>>>
>>>  I/O error flushing output to client <USERNAME> at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: 
>>> Operation not permitted (1)
>>>
>>>  (null) at <DNS & IP ADDRESS>: -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>>>
>>>  We have set the following options...
>>>
>>>  set cache-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>>>  set temp-dir = /var/spool/poptemp
>>>  set log-facility = local0
>>>  set chunky-writes = tls
>>>  set server-mode
>>>  set downcase-user
>>>  set statistics
>>>  set trim-domain
>>>  set timeout = 600
>>>
>>>  Any ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.  Please reply to 
>>> the list.  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>  -Bob
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:48:51 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Unable to process From lines (envelope), change

At 2:44 PM -0700 5/10/01, Steve Sullivan wrote:

>  Can you tell me how popper handles file locking, and do you know if 
> it's compatible with the way bellmail handles file locking?

Qpopper uses dot-locking as well as flock() or fcntl().  What does 
IBM's delivery agent use?


>  We're running qpopper 3.1.2

Try upgrading to Qpopper 4.0.2, as I believe there was one locking 
issue which was fixed.

Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 22:41:29 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: ERR POP EOF or I/O Error

At 8:34 PM -0400 5/10/01, Bob wrote:

>  The chunky-writes (never) option seems to make no difference.  I 
> did turn on the following option:
>
>          set log-login = "v%0 POP login by user %1 at (%2) %3"
>
>  I noticed that the error occurs before the POP login.  For users 
> with the POP EOF or I/O error problem no POP login line is 
> generated.  However, the username is included on the POP EOF error 
> line.

That indicates the client had sent the USER command, but timed out 
before it sent the PASS command.  Are all these clients Outlook or 
Outlook Express?

>
>  Also, one client's screen (Outlook Express) displays authorizing 
> until they get a message stating that the POP server hasn't 
> responded (prompting STOP or WAIT).  The user pressed WAIT several 
> times then was prompted (again) for their password (no invalid 
> password lines were generated in the log).  It then downloaded 
> messages.

So it's very intermittent.

>
>  I had one user (with the POP EOF error) set their POP server back 
> to a machine running 2.5.3.  Copied their mail file over to the 
> 2.5.3 machine and had them check their mail.    They received their 
> mail fine.  Set the POP server back to the machine running 4.0.1 
> (same mail file still there), checked the mail just fine with no 
> error.

More evidence of it being intermittent.

>
>  This is very frustrating.  Any other suggestions?  Is anyone else 
> continuing to have this trouble?  Any bug reports been filed?  Are 
> any of the older versions safe to use?
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated.  -Bob

If you can, have the users either try a different client (such as 
Eudora or Netscape), or at least increase the network timeout.

Try turning on debug tracing in Qpopper, perhaps for only those users 
who have problems.  You can also try capturing packet traces.

To enable tracing in Qpopper:

1.  Do a 'make clean'
2.  Re-run ./configure, adding '--enable-debugging'.
3.  Edit the inetd.conf line for Qpopper, adding '-d' or '-t tracefile'.
4.  Send inetd a HUP signal.

This causes detailed tracing to be written to the syslog (if you used 
'-d') or to the file specified as 'tracefile'.

Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:56:01 +1000
From: Mathew Hudson <m.hudson at hlc.unimelb.edu dot au>
Subject: Qpopper 4.02/OpenSSL 0.9.6a - TLS/Alt port error

Hi there,

With any luck this will be a no brainer for someone out there..

I have an Alpha running DUnix 4 which works and has been working fine 
for a number of years with the various versions of Qpopper without a 
problem. We have been concerned with some security issues and so 
Qpopper 4 supporting SSL was a great idea for us, nice integration 
with Eudora 5.1 etc.

The problem is (on the 5.1r client side):
(All works fine when things are set to SSL for POP: none)

Error while checking mail for <<Dominant>>
I said: STLS
And then the POP server said: SSL negotiation failed.

The problem (from the server side):

May 11 15:10:38 <host> -f [24170]: (null) at <address> (IP): -ERR POP 
EOF or I/O Error
May 11 15:10:38 <host> -f[24170]: I/O error flushing output to client 
at <address> [IP]: Broken pipe
(32)

Setup was:

./configure --enable-shy --enable-specialauth --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl/


/etc/services
pop3            110/tcp
spop3           995/tcp

/etc/inetd.conf
pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/lib/popper402 -f 
/etc/mail/pop/qpopper-stls.config   popper402
spop3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/lib/popper402 -f 
/etc/mail/pop/qpopper-alp.config   popper402

/etc/mail/pop-% more qpopper-stls.config
set tls-support = stls
set config-file = /etc/mail/certs/qpopper.config

/etc/mail/pop-% more qpopper-alp.config
set tls-support = alternate-port
set config-file = /etc/mail/pop/qpopper.config

/etc/mail/pop-% more qpopper.config
set tls-server-cert-file = /etc/mail/pop/cert.pem
set clear-text-passwords = never
set chunky-writes = tls

OpenSSL 0.9.6a was installed (for usage with OpenSSH) it compiled, 
tested and installed fine.

I am at a loss for getting STLS going with Qpopper working and would 
gladly accept others advice..


Cheers,

Mathew.



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From: "Fabio Tonti" <hostmaster at guest dot net>
Subject: connection refuse
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:41:05 +0200

Hi,
I successfully installed qpopper 4.1.

If I try with telnet host pop3 always is right.

If I try with eudora to read mail, qpopper or the system refuse the
connection?

Any idea?

Thanks

------------------------
Fabio Tonti
Network Admin GUEST srl


From: "Philipp Gimm" <philipp at problemchen dot de>
Subject: qpopper + db
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:21:32 +0200

Hi all!

is there actually already a patch for qpopper to make it use a database as
authentication source?

thanks all!

-p


From: "Matt Garretson" <mattg at assembly.state.ny dot us>
Subject: Re: Unable to process From lines (envelope), change recognition   modes
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:35 -0400

This problem happened to us once last week with 4.0.1.  Some non-ASCII
character must have been left in the maildrop since grep kept saying
it was a binary file.   This had never happened  before over the last 
7 years with earlier Qpoppers.  Our setup is AIX 4.3.3 + procmail 3.15
+ sendmail 8.11.3 (built from source).

This week we moved to 4.0.2 and so far so good....


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