The qpopper list archive ending on 27 May 1999
Topics covered in this issue include:
1. Bulletin problem
"George P. Esperanza" <george at calamba.laguna dot net>
Tue, 18 May 1999 10:01:45 -0800 (GMT+8)
2. RE: bullentin Problem
"Richard Barnes" <rbarnes at blazenet dot net>
Tue, 18 May 1999 08:46:54 -0400
3. RE: bullentin Problem
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Tue, 18 May 1999 16:52:08 +0100
4. Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
"David B. Ward" <dward at uplink dot net>
Tue, 18 May 1999 15:06:00 -0400
5. Re: Using APOP on Linux(Slack3.6)
Takashi Obuse <obuse at venus.tms-px.co dot jp>
Wed, 19 May 1999 12:37:53 +0900
6. Re: Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Wed, 19 May 1999 15:36:59 +1200 (NZST)
7. pop lock's
"Mike T." <arakel at dig-net dot net>
Wed, 19 May 1999 07:50:45 -0700 (PDT)
8. Qpopper 3.0b16
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Wed, 19 May 1999 16:44:43 -0700
9. Qpopper 3.0b16 problem on solaris
Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Thu, 20 May 1999 10:09:53 -0100 (GMT)
10. Problem with Qpopper-3b16 Distribution
Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Thu, 20 May 1999 14:09:27 -0100 (GMT)
11. Qpopper 3.0b16 problem on solaris - Part 2
Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Thu, 20 May 1999 12:16:05 -0100 (GMT)
12. Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Thu, 20 May 1999 08:54:52 -0400
13. popper error messages
Netlink Software admin <sw at netlinkcom dot com>
Thu, 20 May 1999 08:57:50 -0500 (CDT)
14. Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Tim Patterson <tim at harborside dot com>
Thu, 20 May 1999 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT)
15. RE: Qpopper 3.0b16
"Brunette, Jason" <jbrunette at excel dot net>
Thu, 20 May 1999 14:53:29 -0500
16. Qpopper 3.0b17
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Thu, 20 May 1999 19:39:37 -0700
17. Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Kevin <kevin at midwest dot net>
Fri, 21 May 1999 11:24:05 -0500
18. PoP Servers
Arshad Saeed <arshad at super.net dot pk>
Fri, 21 May 1999 21:36:47 +0500
19. Re: PoP Servers
Sherwood Botsford <sherwood at Math.UAlberta dot CA>
Fri, 21 May 1999 11:19:48 -0600 (MDT)
20. Re: PoP Servers
Arshad Saeed <arshad at super.net dot pk>
Fri, 21 May 1999 22:43:05 +0500
21. Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 21 May 1999 12:18:09 -0700
22. popper error messages (fwd)
Netlink Software admin <sw at netlinkcom dot com>
Fri, 21 May 1999 16:25:58 -0500 (CDT)
23. Pop3 server for windows
info at edoc.co dot za
Sat, 22 May 1999 09:34:41 +0200
24. Re: Pop3 server for windows
Edwin Whitelaw <ewhitelaw at gdats dot com>
Sun, 23 May 1999 12:00:37 -0400
25. password incorrect
marco antonio cabazal <tambay at skyinet dot net>
Tue, 25 May 1999 04:26:08 +0000 ( )
26. Re: password incorrect
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Tue, 25 May 1999 09:48:55 +0100
27. Re: password incorrect
marco antonio cabazal <tambay at skyinet dot net>
Tue, 25 May 1999 09:01:15 +0000 ( )
28. popauth doens't work
"Gabriel P. Silva" <gabriel at lam.ufrj dot br>
Tue, 25 May 1999 10:35:17 -0300
29. Qpopper 3.0b18
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Tue, 25 May 1999 12:47:28 -0700
30. Re: Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Tue, 25 May 1999 12:49:41 -0700
31. Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Tue, 25 May 1999 12:48:45 -0700
32. Qpopper 3.b18
"Mike Walter" <mike at pcdnet dot net>
Tue, 25 May 1999 17:23:45 -0400
33. Re: Qpopper 3.b18
Tomasz Orzechowski <tmo at apk dot net>
Tue, 25 May 1999 17:31:48 -0400
34. Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Tue, 25 May 1999 17:39:27 -0400
35. Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Tue, 25 May 1999 15:37:27 -0700
36. Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Tue, 25 May 1999 18:58:22 -0400
37. Forcing mail deletion - questions
Jeff Halper <jeff at ihot dot com>
Wed, 26 May 1999 10:45:45 -0700
38. Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Laurent Pellissier <Laurent.Pellissier at ema dot fr>
Wed, 26 May 1999 20:16:52 +0200
39. Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Wed, 26 May 1999 11:47:01 -0700
40. Fw: Forcing mail deletion - questions
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Wed, 26 May 1999 15:05:27 -0400
41. RE: Forcing mail deletion - questions
"Brunette, Jason" <jbrunette at excel dot net>
Wed, 26 May 1999 14:29:23 -0500
42. RE: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Wed, 26 May 1999 14:17:15 -0700
43. unable to compile Qpopper 3.b17 on DU 4.0x
Leon Martin <Leon.Martin at med.monash.edu dot au>
Thu, 27 May 1999 10:31:12 +1000
44. Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Thu, 27 May 1999 12:59:04 +1200 (NZST)
45. APOP Authentication in Outlook Express?
<gart at starwolf dot org>
Wed, 26 May 1999 21:40:47 -0400 (EDT)
46. Re: Fw: Forcing mail deletion - questions
"Tony C. Wu" <tonywu at att.net dot tw>
Thu, 27 May 1999 09:41:49 +0800 (CST)
47. Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
Wang Chunnian <wolf at cherry.sxu.edu dot cn>
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:58:26 +0800 (CST)
48. Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Laurent.Pellissier at ema dot fr
Thu, 27 May 1999 12:02:44 +0200
49. APOP problem
Guilherme Assad <guica at latin.com dot br>
Thu, 27 May 1999 10:37:10 -0300
50. APOP authorization
"Yaroslav Gorodetsky" <y.gorodetsky at globalone dot ru>
Thu, 27 May 1999 18:25:58 +0400
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:01:45 -0800 (GMT+8)
From: "George P. Esperanza" <george at calamba.laguna dot net>
Subject: Bulletin problem
Hi!!
I running Linux 2.0.36 with qpopper 2.53. My problem is we have some
users that don't want to receive bulletin from qpopper. My qpopper is
using bulldb file to store last bulletin sent.
Is there a way to set qpopper not to send any bulletin for a specific
user?
Please help....
Thanks
George
From: "Richard Barnes" <rbarnes at blazenet dot net>
Subject: RE: bullentin Problem
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:46:54 -0400
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I haven't seen a reply to your problem, and I don't know how to fix it
myself. However, to get around the problem, I've written a shell script
that will email a list of address using sendmail.
I've attached the script. It's very simple and effective. If you have any
questions, please let me know.
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Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
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filename="mass.sh"
#!/bin/sh
# /scripts/address.txt is a listing of addresses - one per line
# /scripts/message.txt is the text message you want to send. The first =
line of message.txt
# should begin with "Subject: Subject of message" - without the quotes =
with a single blank line
# between that and the body of the message.
# make sure to modify the location of sendmail for your system. the -f =
option specifies
# the address the message is coming from, and any replies will be sent =
to.
cat /scripts/address.txt | \
while read line
do
ADDRESS=`echo $line | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
/usr/lib/sendmail -f support at blazenet dot net $ADDRESS</scripts/message.txt
done
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:52:08 +0100
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: RE: bullentin Problem
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here's a patch I sent to the list a while ago for what you want. It lets
you call an external program whenever qpopper thinks someone should be
getting a bulletin. The external program decides whether it should
really be delivered or not - this way you can use perl to manage the
database of who should get what. I got no feedback from my original
post, so I have no idea if it works for anyone else.
While playing about with this I found out that bulletins are fairly
dodgy in qpopper I noticed 2 things in particular. I'd like to know if
anyone has seen the following
1 if your bulletin does not have an extra blank line at the end and your
users don't delete it from the server after they get it then the next
email into their account will actually be joined onto the end of the
bulletin! This is easily patched, haven't actually done it yet.
2 if a user has more than one bulletin waiting for them then they will
only get one of them and their .pop_bull file will show that they got
them all
Fergal
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:08:54 +0000
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
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To: Qpopper list <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Subject: qpopper bulletins patch
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Hi,
I have a patch for qpopper to make bulletins more flexible. If the
option is defined at compile time, qpopper follow it's normal bulletin
procedure (ie checking the .pop_bull file against the bulletin numbers,
delivering bulletin and increasing .pop_bull file) but now if qpopper
decides a user hasn't received a bulletin it first calls an external
program (set at compile time) for confirmation that the user should get
it.
This allows you to use bulletins as an efficient list-serv for your pop
users. Say you have 3 bulletin lists - service, competitions and offers.
Some users have asked to be removed from some of the lists which makes
it impossible to handle with standard bulletins.
You write a program in perl (or whatever you want) which when given the
username and the bulletin filename is able to tell whether the user
should receive it. Then when qpopper is just about to deliver the
bulletin it calls the perl program which tells it whether to deliver or
not. If the perl program says don't deliver then qpopper counts this as
a successfully delivered bulletin and will never try to deliver it
again.
Any feedback appreciated,
Fergal
INSTRUCTIONS
POPPER
The instructions are a little more complicated than I'd like, I don't
know anything about autoconf - any help appreciated.
extract qpopper2.53 source code
save the attached patch file
cd into the qpopper2.53 directory
now do
patch < patch.wantbull
./configure --enable-bulletins
include any other options you want with configure
Now open the Makefile in an editor and find the line that begins with
"DEFS =" and add in the following
-DWANTBULL=\"/the/program/you/want/to/call\"
the \ before the quotes are essential
now do a make
PROGRAM
The program you specify gets called with the username as the first
argument and the bulletin as the second - like this
/usr/bin/wantbull fergal 00004.newsletter2
The exit code of the program should be 0 if the bulletin should be
delivered or 1 if it shouldn't.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="patch.wantbull"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="patch.wantbull"
--- pop_bull.c 1999/04/20 16:19:43 1.1.1.1
+++ pop_bull.c 1999/04/21 10:57:17 1.2
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@
#include <popper.h>
#include <flock.h>
+#ifdef WANTBULL
+int WantBull (char*, char*, char*, POP*);
+
+# include <errno.h>
+# include <unistd.h>
+# include <sys/wait.h>
+#endif
+
+
+
static int sequence = 0;
static time_t timestamp;
static char *errmesg = "Unable to copy Bulletin %s to pop dropbox %s (%d)";
@@ -289,6 +299,36 @@
char bullName[256];
MsgInfoList *mp; /* Pointer to message info list */
+#ifdef WANTBULL
+ #ifdef DEBUG
+ if(p->debug)
+ pop_log(p,POP_DEBUG,
+ "Calling '%s' with '%s', '%s'.",
+ WANTBULL, p->user, name);
+ #endif
+
+/*
+ this user hasn't had this bulletin yet so ask the WANTBULL program if we should
+ deliver it
+*/
+
+ if (WantBull(WANTBULL, p->user, name, p))
+ {
+ #ifdef DEBUG
+ if(p->debug)
+ pop_log(p,POP_DEBUG, "Bulletin not delivered");
+ #endif
+ return POP_SUCCESS;
+ }
+ #ifdef DEBUG
+ else
+ {
+ if(p->debug)
+ pop_log(p,POP_DEBUG, "Bulletin delivered");
+ }
+ #endif
+#endif
+
msg_num = p->msg_count;
p->msg_count = (((p->msg_count - 1) / ALLOC_MSGS) + 1) * ALLOC_MSGS;
@@ -410,12 +450,45 @@
return POP_SUCCESS;
}
-
-
-
-
-
+#ifdef WANTBULL
+/*
+this takes a program name, and runs it with 2 arguments:
+these should be the username and the bulletin
+*/
-
+int WantBull (char *program, char *uname, char* bulletin, POP *p)
+{
+ int pid, status;
+ char *args[4];
+ int result;
+
+ args[0] = program;
+ args[1] = uname;
+ args[2] = bulletin;
+ args[3] = NULL;
+
+ pid = fork();
+ if (pid == -1)
+ return -1;
+ if (pid == 0)
+ {
+ result = execv(program, args);
+ exit(127);
+ }
+ do
+ {
+ if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) == -1)
+ {
+ if (errno != EINTR)
+ return -1;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ return status;
+ }
+ }
+ while(1);
+}
+#endif
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:06:00 -0400
From: "David B. Ward" <dward at uplink dot net>
Subject: Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
I am running qpopper 2.53 on Solaris 2.6.
Things have run fine until recently. Load has apparently increased to the
point where we are beginning to see intermittant problems with qpopper.
Some popper sessions either hang or take an inordinant amount of time to
complete leaving subsequent popper sessions stacking up behind them.
It has been determined that at instances when this occurs there is at least
one popper session where the user has a large amount of mail and is leaving
mail on server. We are running Qpopper in Server Mode and are using a "-T
75" parameter. Some of these users have had up to 50MB of mail.
Is there a way in which to Disable the ability to "Leave mail on server"?
The majority of our customer base are using Eudora Light.
Are there other avenues dealing with performance that we should investigate.
Thank you,
Dave Ward
---------------------------------------------------
David B. Ward dward at uplink dot net
Senior Engineer (570)327-8000
Uplink, Inc. Fax: (570)327-0269
http://www.uplink.net Toll-Free: 1-800-488-9500
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:37:53 +0900
From: Takashi Obuse <obuse at venus.tms-px.co dot jp>
Subject: Re: Using APOP on Linux(Slack3.6)
On Sun, 16 May 1999 01:24:44 -0700
Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com> wrote:
> At 4:33 PM +0900 5/14/99, Takashi Obuse wrote:
>
> >When I send a mail to the USER account, the size of /var/spool/mail/USER
> >increases, and when I try to get the mail from the server, it makes a
> >/var/spool/mail/.USER.pop file and stops.
>
> Try configuring with --enable-debugging, and set the debug command line flag.
>
Thankyou for your reply.
I set it to debug it but I can't find the problem.
I get the log like this when I try to recieve mails. (popper -d -s -t /home/obuse/popper.log)
I would appreciate if someone could send me a debug mode log that uses apop and working fine.
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Trace and Debug destination is file "/home/obuse/popper.log"
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] (v3.0b15) Servicing request from "obuse.tokyo.co.jp" at 192.168.1.115
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] +OK QPOP (version 3.0b15) at linux.tokyo.co.jp starting. <2271.927084731 at linux.ginza-aster.co dot jp>
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Received: "APOP obuse 273f30f42b9b71110328e246a457569e"
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] apop "obuse"
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] AUTH KEYS : ■■■■■■ to 273f30f42b9b71110328e246a457569e
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] APOP authentication ok for "obuse"
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Creating temporary maildrop '/usr/spool/mail/.obuse.pop'
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] uid = 1000, gid = 12
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] DROPCOPY: Reading the Mail Drop box.
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Msg 1 being added to list.
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] UIDL -?SAe93?8!!1)*!!)AU!!
-
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Msg 1 uidl ?SAe93?8!!1)*!!)AU!! at offset 0 is 615 octets long and has 15 lines.
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] Msg 1 uidl ?SAe93?8!!1)*!!)AU!! at offset 0 is 615 octets long and has 15 lines.
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999 [2271] +OK obuse has 1 message(s) (615 octets).
Wed May 19 12:32:11 1999
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:36:59 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
On Tue, 18 May 1999, David B. Ward wrote:
> It has been determined that at instances when this occurs there is at least
> one popper session where the user has a large amount of mail and is leaving
> mail on server. We are running Qpopper in Server Mode and are using a "-T
> 75" parameter. Some of these users have had up to 50MB of mail.
This is a good argument for enforcing disk quotas. :-)
> Is there a way in which to Disable the ability to "Leave mail on server"?
> The majority of our customer base are using Eudora Light.
In 3.0 yes, in 2.*, yes, if you hack on it. :-)
AB
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 07:50:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mike T." <arakel at dig-net dot net>
Subject: pop lock's
does anyone know why these happen? my system is pretty idle not
adding/removing to many users, I -HUP'ed inetd and it work fine... any
suggestion?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:44:43 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b16
Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
Changes:
-Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
-Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist on FreeBSD.
-Added --enable-log-login configure option.
From: Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b16 problem on solaris
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:09:53 -0100 (GMT)
HI
I have a problem to compil qpopper 3.0 b16 in solaris.
before configure, I run make and he stop whis an error :
gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSOLARIS2 -DAUTH -DGNU_PASS -DNO_GETLINE -DCONTENT_LENGTH=1 -DUNIX pop_user.c -o pop_user.o
pop_user.c:30: gdbm.h: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `pop_user.o'
Current working directory /staff/romero/qpopper3.0/popper
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `popper_server'
Can you help me ?
--
Amicalement,
Marc
___________________________________________________________________
Marc ROMERO, CNRS - IFR 550, Administrateur Reseaux et Systemes
Institut Biologie en Physico-Chimie, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild
13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
Tel : +33 [0]1 43 25 26 09, Fax : +33 [0]1 40 46 83 31
E-Mail : Marc.Romero at ibpc.fr, WWW : http://www.ibpc dot fr/~romero
From: Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Subject: Problem with Qpopper-3b16 Distribution
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:09:27 -0100 (GMT)
HI
In the new distribution of qpopper3b16, he have OLD configuration file
to compile this distribution. In the qpopper3.0 directory remove
the file "config.cache" and remove the file popper/Makefile.
And run ./configure program to regenerate "config.cache" and
popper/Makefile
--
Best Regard,
Amicalement,
Marc
___________________________________________________________________
Marc ROMERO, CNRS - IFR 550, Administrateur Reseaux et Systemes
Institut Biologie en Physico-Chimie, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild
13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
Tel : +33 [0]1 43 25 26 09, Fax : +33 [0]1 40 46 83 31
E-Mail : Marc.Romero at ibpc.fr, WWW : http://www.ibpc dot fr/~romero
From: Marc.Romero at ibpc dot fr (Marc ROMERO)
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b16 problem on solaris - Part 2
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:16:05 -0100 (GMT)
HI
I've gnu gdbm-1.8.0 on my system, when I use telnet on port 110
qpopper say :
telnet pop 110
Trying 1.1.1.1...
Connected to pop.donain.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
ld.so.1: popper: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: can't open file: errno=2
Connection closed by foreign host.
Please can you help me !
--
Amicalement,
Marc
___________________________________________________________________
Marc ROMERO, CNRS - IFR 550, Administrateur Reseaux et Systemes
Institut Biologie en Physico-Chimie, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild
13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
Tel : +33 [0]1 43 25 26 09, Fax : +33 [0]1 40 46 83 31
E-Mail : Marc.Romero at ibpc.fr, WWW : http://www.ibpc dot fr/~romero
From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:54:52 -0400
Why never more appear the SCO OS_DEFS in configure shell script since =
2.53 ?
SCO*) OS_DEFS="$OS_DEFS -DPOPSCO -DAUTH"
LIBS="$LIBS -lsocket -lprot -lm -lx -lc -lndbm -ltinfo"
;;
Other things
On (pop_dropcopy.c) line 628 - 631
if (errno == EDQUOT)
return pop_msg (p,POP_FAILURE,
"Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded =
(%d)",
errno);
Please, use #ifdef ... present in 2.53
#ifdef EDQUOT
if (errno == EDQUOT)
return pop_msg (p,POP_FAILURE,
"Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded =
(%d)",
errno);
#endif
Something more :-) , please in future, when you distribute new vertions =
of Qpopper don't put in your Ftp Site compiled sources or Delete
- *.o
- Make files
- config.h
- config.cache
- config.log
- config.status
Thanks for Qpopper it's really nice
Asley
----- Original Message -----
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:44 PM
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b16
Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/.
Changes:
-Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
-Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist on FreeBSD.
-Added --enable-log-login configure option.
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:57:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Netlink Software admin <sw at netlinkcom dot com>
Subject: popper error messages
Dual PPRO system
RedHat Linux 5.1
BIND 4.9.7
QPOP (version 2.52)
In /etc/inetd.conf pop-3 is currently configured as:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait.100 root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.popper -s -T
480
I have been getting an increasing number of these error messages logged.
(the first being much more frequent).
May 20 08:44:14 hostname in.popper[6363]: Unable to obtain socket and
address of client, err = 107
May 20 08:48:15 hostname in.popper[6596]: (v2.52) Unable to get canonical
name of client, err = 0
What could be the cause of these errors?
Thanks,
Curt
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Patterson <tim at harborside dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Does the also fix the loss of mail caused by Internet Mail
clients?
Tim Patterson
Harborside Internet
541-469-8844 800-680-8855
FAX 541-469-9163
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Qpopper Support wrote:
> Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
> <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
>
> Changes:
>
> -Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
> -Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist on FreeBSD.
> -Added --enable-log-login configure option.
>
From: "Brunette, Jason" <jbrunette at excel dot net>
Subject: RE: Qpopper 3.0b16
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:53:29 -0500
No...
You can do it yourself, though. Change line 302 in
qpopper3.0/popper/pop_send.c from:
(void)fputs("\r\n.\r\n", p->output);
...to...
(void)fputs(".\r\n", p->output);
The extra blank line inserted before the end-of-message "." is what's
causing the problem for Internet Mail and multipart messages. However, I
can only imagine that it was inserted for a purpose (maybe to address
mailspools with no blank lines between messages or something).
I would think that could be addressed fairly easily, checking if the last
line sent out was a blank line. Leaving it this way knowing that Internet
Mail is broken is inexcusable. People DO use Internet Mail.
Not having any C experience, I can't say for sure...but I would think that
it would be a trivial addition to the code to check if the last line of the
message is a blank line.
In perl, I'd do something like:
if ($lastline =~ /^$/) {
print OUT ".\n";
}
else {
print OUT "\n.\n";
}
Must be political reasons. :-)
============================================================================
Jason Brunette Excel.Net, Inc. Phone: (920) 452-0455
jbrunett at excel dot net "Your excellent Internet provider" Fax: (920) 452-8118
http://www.excel.net/ Toll Free: (888) 489-9995
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Patterson [mailto:tim at harborside dot com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 1:07 PM
> To: Qpopper Support
> Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
> Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
>
>
> Does the also fix the loss of mail caused by Internet Mail
> clients?
>
> Tim Patterson
> Harborside Internet
> 541-469-8844 800-680-8855
> FAX 541-469-9163
>
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Qpopper Support wrote:
>
> > Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
> > <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
> >
> > Changes:
> >
> > -Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
> > -Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist
> on FreeBSD.
> > -Added --enable-log-login configure option.
> >
>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:39:37 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b17
Qpopper 3.0b17 is now available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
Changes:
-Fixed extraneous files erroneously left in distribution
- "make realclean" now removes more files
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:24:05 -0500
From: Kevin <kevin at midwest dot net>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
Regardless of the fact that Internet Mail is broken...
With a customer base of over 25,000+ , we cannot use a product which drops
mail because of someone else's (That's a big someone else (Microsoft))
error. Internet mail may be wrong, but it is still widely used, and our
mail server software must handle it, regardless of its flaw.
I saw the patch posted to correct this, so it's not the fact that it can
not be done... just that you won't do it.
We really would like to switch to 3.0b, which we did for a few days, until
our technical support staff went nuts with phone calls about lost mail. I
hope that you will change your mind to support Internet Mail. Until then,
we're stuck on 2.53.
Kevin Haldeman
Midwest Internet
At 11:06 AM 5/20/99, you wrote:
>Does the also fix the loss of mail caused by Internet Mail
>clients?
>
>Tim Patterson
>Harborside Internet
>541-469-8844 800-680-8855
>FAX 541-469-9163
>
>On Wed, 19 May 1999, Qpopper Support wrote:
>
> > Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
> > <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
> >
> > Changes:
> >
> > -Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
> > -Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist on FreeBSD.
> > -Added --enable-log-login configure option.
> >
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:36:47 +0500
From: Arshad Saeed <arshad at super.net dot pk>
Subject: PoP Servers
I m sorry for asking such an irrelevant question on this prestigious list.
I need to know how many POP Servers are required to host 50,000 users (
OS is linux) qpopper 2.53 . I need some information on Large Scale POP
Setup regarding Giant ISPs. Curiosity is how they manage them .
We have 20,000 customer having usual problems of " envelope errors " or
large emails have to be deleted. I can't apply quota I have only 4GB for
email disk space. So anybody can help me in making and optimizing my
linux box . I need to disable the reverse lookup of qpopper running it
in server mode. Do I can switch to 3.0 or not . I have a running
system..
Regards
Arshad
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:19:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sherwood Botsford <sherwood at Math.UAlberta dot CA>
Subject: Re: PoP Servers
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Arshad Saeed wrote:
= I m sorry for asking such an irrelevant question on this prestigious list.
= I need to know how many POP Servers are required to host 50,000 users (
= OS is linux) qpopper 2.53 . I need some information on Large Scale POP
= Setup regarding Giant ISPs. Curiosity is how they manage them .
=
= We have 20,000 customer having usual problems of " envelope errors " or
= large emails have to be deleted. I can't apply quota I have only 4GB for
= email disk space. So anybody can help me in making and optimizing my
= linux box . I need to disable the reverse lookup of qpopper running it
= in server mode. Do I can switch to 3.0 or not . I have a running
= system..
=
Put more disk on your system. Good Grief. IDE disk is only $25/GB
canadian. SCSI about twice that.
20,000 users for 4 GB is 20 users per 4 MB or about 200K each. This
is unrealistic. My mail spool averages a Meg/user, but a lot of those
actually forward to other machines. You wouldn't be unreal to allocate
5 MB/user, esp. for people who don't log in frequently.
Sherwood Botsford | email avatar at vega.math.ualberta dot ca
Sorcerers Apprentice | Office CAB 642B
System Administrator | Tel: 403 492 5728
Trouble shooter | Fax: 403 492 6826
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:43:05 +0500
From: Arshad Saeed <arshad at super.net dot pk>
Subject: Re: PoP Servers
Well thanks for your quick detailed response..
Now look we have such a system that we sale internet for just suppose
1$ per hour. No fee etc . With a pop account user at domain.com dot ca .Now it
depends upon customer to purchase how many accounts or he may go for
refreshing his previous accounts and we delete pop accounts on 3months
when there is no activity at that particular pop account. So in this
situation there is no need for quota and it will wastage of recourse.
Now I m going towards ( 4GB + 9 GB) Linux box (Compaq 5500). With
kernel 2.2.x.
Again thanks for response..
Arshad
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:18:09 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
At 11:24 AM -0500 5/21/99, Kevin wrote:
>Regardless of the fact that Internet Mail is broken...
>
>With a customer base of over 25,000+ , we cannot use a product which
>drops mail because of someone else's (That's a big someone else
>(Microsoft)) error. Internet mail may be wrong, but it is still
>widely used, and our mail server software must handle it, regardless
>of its flaw.
>
>I saw the patch posted to correct this, so it's not the fact that it
>can not be done... just that you won't do it.
>We really would like to switch to 3.0b, which we did for a few days,
>until our technical support staff went nuts with phone calls about
>lost mail. I hope that you will change your mind to support
>Internet Mail. Until then, we're stuck on 2.53.
We are looking into reports of problems with Internet Mail. When we
have been able to reproduce the problem and determine the root cause,
a fix will be released. We do appreciate the situation and will try
and resolve it as quickly as possible.
I don't want to assume that it is the blank line per se that is
causing the problem. I don't like putting in fixes without knowing
all the details.
>
>
>Kevin Haldeman
>Midwest Internet
>
>At 11:06 AM 5/20/99, you wrote:
>>Does the also fix the loss of mail caused by Internet Mail
>>clients?
>>
>>Tim Patterson
>>Harborside Internet
>>541-469-8844 800-680-8855
>>FAX 541-469-9163
>>
>>On Wed, 19 May 1999, Qpopper Support wrote:
>>
>>> Qpopper 3.0b16 is now available at
>>> <ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
>>>
>>> Changes:
>>>
>>> -Fixed syntax error in 3.0 betas 12-15 when not using GDBM.
>>> -Fixed syntax error involving sys.errlist and sys_siglist on FreeBSD.
>>> -Added --enable-log-login configure option.
>>>
>>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:25:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Netlink Software admin <sw at netlinkcom dot com>
Subject: popper error messages (fwd)
Problem solved.
I "cleaned" house on my DNS and fixed a few other minor things...this
seems to have eliminated the first error message.
As it turns out, the second message "Unable to get canonical name..." was
being caused by a number of users checking mail from their office, which
just got a new point to point.
I found after doing some digging (ha..pun...funny) into the DNS stuff
(mine and theirs) that they did not have an A or PTR record or for that
IP.
Now they do...now I don't get the error message any more...well, until
another missing A or PTR show up.
Thanks for your help,
Curt
<SNIP>
>I have been getting an increasing number of these error messages logged.
>(the first being much more frequent).
>
>May 20 08:44:14 hostname in.popper[6363]: Unable to obtain socket and
>address of client, err = 107
>
>May 20 08:48:15 hostname in.popper[6596]: (v2.52) Unable to get canonical
>name of client, err = 0
>
>
>What could be the cause of these errors?
<SNIP>
From: info at edoc.co dot za
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:34:41 +0200
Subject: Pop3 server for windows
Hi,
I need to install a small POP3 server on a Windows95 network.
Is there any free servers available?
Thanks
Nico
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:00:37 -0400
From: Edwin Whitelaw <ewhitelaw at gdats dot com>
Subject: Re: Pop3 server for windows
I know Eudora sells a POP3 server for NT and it may run under W9x but my
_*strong*_ recommendation would be to load an old 486/Pentium box with
Linux and run sendmail/popper/imap/procmail, etc. Depending on
configuration, you could easily handle 50-100 users with such a server.
How big is your network?
If you have a fairly nice box free (~P166 or better) add some disk and
RAM and run Linux. You can have all the above and a dandy file/print
server besides. Linux/Unix offers many other things as well that are
too numerous to mention here but feel free to contact me directly for
more info.
As you requested, all the above is free (Open Source) software
Edwin Whitelaw - Member Techanical Staff
General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems
info at edoc.co dot za wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to install a small POP3 server on a Windows95 network.
>
> Is there any free servers available?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nico
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 04:26:08 +0000 ( )
From: marco antonio cabazal <tambay at skyinet dot net>
Subject: password incorrect
greetings!
i'm able to telnet/ssh into my linux box (redhat6/2.2.9) with no problems
but when it comes to authenticating through port 110 (running qpopper of
course), it always give me a
-ERR Password supplied for "user" is incorrect.
i've been using qpopper on solaris and i didnt encounter this kind of
problem. can anyone please tell me what i'm missing here? if you need
more info, please tell me. thanks in advance! btw, i'm using qpopper3.0b17.
...
m a r c o a n t o n i o c a b a z a l
pgpkeyID 0x6b8a95ob pager +63-2-1277-35871
http://www.skyinet.net/~alapaap mobile +63-917-531-5243
+ take this wine and drink with me.. let's delay our misery..
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:48:55 +0100
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: password incorrect
marco antonio cabazal wrote:
>
> greetings!
>
> i'm able to telnet/ssh into my linux box (redhat6/2.2.9) with no problems
> but when it comes to authenticating through port 110 (running qpopper of
> course), it always give me a
>
> -ERR Password supplied for "user" is incorrect.
>
> i've been using qpopper on solaris and i didnt encounter this kind of
> problem. can anyone please tell me what i'm missing here? if you need
> more info, please tell me. thanks in advance! btw, i'm using qpopper3.0b17.
>
> ...
> m a r c o a n t o n i o c a b a z a l
> pgpkeyID 0x6b8a95ob pager +63-2-1277-35871
> http://www.skyinet.net/~alapaap mobile +63-917-531-5243
>
> + take this wine and drink with me.. let's delay our misery..
are you using shadow passwords in Linux but not in qpopper?
Fergal
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:01:15 +0000 ( )
From: marco antonio cabazal <tambay at skyinet dot net>
Subject: Re: password incorrect
on Tue, 25 May 1999, fergal at esatclear dot ie spoke about Re: password incorrect:
| > but when it comes to authenticating through port 110 (running qpopper of
| > course), it always give me a
| are you using shadow passwords in Linux but not in qpopper?
yes i am and apparently i forgot to put -DAUTH in my makefile to enable
the support for shadow passwords. thanks to you and to the others who had
helped me with this. *:)
...
m a r c o a n t o n i o c a b a z a l
pgpkeyID 0x6b8a95ob pager +63-2-1277-35871
http://www.skyinet.net/~alapaap mobile +63-917-531-5243
+ take this wine and drink with me.. let's delay our misery..
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:35:17 -0300
From: "Gabriel P. Silva" <gabriel at lam.ufrj dot br>
Subject: popauth doens't work
Hi all,
I'm having problems installing qpopper, either version
2.53 or 3.0 beta 17,
the popauth creates the initial database passwd file,
but when I try to
add the first user, it exits with segmentation fault.
I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.8 in a i586 box.
Has someone experienced (and fixed) it before?
Regards,
Gabriel P. Silva
gpsilva at geocities dot com
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:47:28 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b18
Qpopper 3.0b18 is now available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
Changes:
- Extra empty line no longer added to end of messages.
- Added --enable-auto-delete configure flag to automatically mark for
deletion all messages downloaded with RETR (normal POP download).
- Added -c command-line option to downcase user name.
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:49:41 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Leaving Mail on Server, DISABLE???
At 3:06 PM -0400 5/18/99, David B. Ward wrote:
>Is there a way in which to Disable the ability to "Leave mail on server"?
This is now available as a configure flag in 3.0b18. See the INSTALL
file for more information.
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:48:45 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b16
At 11:06 AM -0700 5/20/99, Tim Patterson wrote:
>Does the also fix the loss of mail caused by Internet Mail
>clients?
This should be fixed in 3.0b18, which is now available.
From: "Mike Walter" <mike at pcdnet dot net>
Subject: Qpopper 3.b18
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:23:45 -0400
How do I enable shadown password support? I can't seem to find any docs on
how. I have done it in the past, but this version doesn't seem to be the
same.
Thank you,
Mike
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:31:48 -0400
From: Tomasz Orzechowski <tmo at apk dot net>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.b18
> How do I enable shadown password support? I can't seem to find any docs on
> how. I have done it in the past, but this version doesn't seem to be the
> same.
-DAUTH in Makefile
or
--enable-special-auth (or similar) in ./configure
as far as I can remember
BTW, is PAM support going to be included in qpopper-3.0?
--
Tomasz Orzechowski tmo at apk dot net
APK.net systems administration team TO630
From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:39:27 -0400
Why never more appear the SCO OS_DEFS in configure shell script since =
2.53 ?
SCO*) OS_DEFS="$OS_DEFS -DPOPSCO -DAUTH"
LIBS="$LIBS -lsocket -lprot -lm -lx -lc -lndbm -ltinfo"
;;
Other things
On (pop_dropcopy.c) line 628 - 631
if (errno == EDQUOT)
return pop_msg (p,POP_FAILURE,
"Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded =
(%d)",
errno);
Please, use #ifdef ... present in 2.53
#ifdef EDQUOT
if (errno == EDQUOT)
return pop_msg (p,POP_FAILURE,
"Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded =
(%d)",
errno);
#endif
Something more :-) , please in future, when you distribute new vertions =
of Qpopper don't put in your Ftp Site compiled sources. Please, delete:
- *.o
- Make files
- config.h
- config.cache
- config.log
- config.status
Asley
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:37:27 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
At 5:39 PM -0400 5/25/99, Asley Lugo Avila wrote:
>Something more :-) , please in future, when you distribute new
>vertions of Qpopper don't put in your Ftp Site compiled sources.
>Please, delete:
>
>- *.o
>- Make files
>- config.h
>- config.cache
>- config.log
>- config.status
Did you find these in 3.0b18? I'm surprised. I do not see in the
.tar any of the files you list. Are you sure you are looking at
clean 3.0b18 files?
From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:58:22 -0400
>>Something more :-) , please in future, when you distribute new
>>vertions of Qpopper don't put in your Ftp Site compiled sources.
>>Please, delete:
>>
>>- *.o
>>- Make files
>>- config.h
>>- config.cache
>>- config.log
>>- config.status
>
>Did you find these in 3.0b18? I'm surprised. I do not see in the
>.tar any of the files you list. Are you sure you are looking at
>clean 3.0b18 files?
I'm really sorry about that , It was a mistake... :-(
I'm only interested in the first part of this email
I don't know why you don't include SCO in your OS DEFINE (configure =
script) ???
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:45:45 -0700
From: Jeff Halper <jeff at ihot dot com>
Subject: Forcing mail deletion - questions
If we use the forced delete mail from server option, I see the following
issues:
Some people want to view mail from work, then download it at home. Some
people use a web-based email program to do this, like Yahoo mail, or
others. Can we be selective - say "delete from the server, unless the
originating request comes from [some definition here]"
Any ideas on this?
--
.......................................................................
Jeff Halper mailto:jeff at ihot dot com
Internet Hotline - POB 5787 - San Jose CA 95150
Phone 408.881.1000 Fax 408.293.3456 Tech 408.293.6000
Local Dialup Access for most major cities in the USA
Visit our web site at http://www.ihot.com
.......................................................................
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:16:52 +0200
From: Laurent Pellissier <Laurent.Pellissier at ema dot fr>
Subject: Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 10:45:45AM -0700, Jeff Halper wrote:
> Some people want to view mail from work, then download it at home. Some
> people use a web-based email program to do this, like Yahoo mail, or
> others. Can we be selective - say "delete from the server, unless the
> originating request comes from [some definition here]"
>
> Any ideas on this?
Yep, I've done it differently, I've made a patch to qpopper 2.53 that
delete every mail read for more than n days (defaults to 40). It's very usefull
for people reading mail from home and office.
--
Laurent PELLISSIER @ Ecole des Mines d'Ales
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:47:01 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
At 10:45 AM -0700 5/26/99, Jeff Halper wrote:
>If we use the forced delete mail from server option, I see the following
>issues:
>
>Some people want to view mail from work, then download it at home. Some
>people use a web-based email program to do this, like Yahoo mail, or
>others. Can we be selective - say "delete from the server, unless the
>originating request comes from [some definition here]"
>
>Any ideas on this?
>
>--
>.......................................................................
>Jeff Halper mailto:jeff at ihot dot com
>Internet Hotline - POB 5787 - San Jose CA 95150
>Phone 408.881.1000 Fax 408.293.3456 Tech 408.293.6000
>Local Dialup Access for most major cities in the USA
>Visit our web site at http://www.ihot.com
>.......................................................................
The force-delete option is very crude, but a number of people have
requested it.
In your case (which is probably not uncommon), the right solution
IMHO would be a separate process that deletes downloaded mail after
some number of days. You could then use the -e command-line switch
to advertise the number of days to clients which use the CAPA command.
From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at co dot cu>
Subject: Fw: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:05:27 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
To: Jeff Halper <jeff at ihot dot com>; Qpopper List Server =
<qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>; Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
At 10:45 AM -0700 5/26/99, Jeff Halper wrote:
>If we use the forced delete mail from server option, I see the =
following
>issues:
>
>Some people want to view mail from work, then download it at home. Some
>people use a web-based email program to do this, like Yahoo mail, or
>others. Can we be selective - say "delete from the server, unless the
>originating request comes from [some definition here]"
>
>Any ideas on this?
>
>--
>.......................................................................
>Jeff Halper mailto:jeff at ihot dot com
>Internet Hotline - POB 5787 - San Jose CA 95150
>Phone 408.881.1000 Fax 408.293.3456 Tech 408.293.6000
>Local Dialup Access for most major cities in the USA
>Visit our web site at http://www.ihot.com
>.......................................................................
The force-delete option is very crude, but a number of people have
requested it.
In your case (which is probably not uncommon), the right solution
IMHO would be a separate process that deletes downloaded mail after
some number of days. You could then use the -e command-line switch
to advertise the number of days to clients which use the CAPA command.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
--------
Could you suggest some real tool or something like .. ?
From: "Brunette, Jason" <jbrunette at excel dot net>
Subject: RE: Forcing mail deletion - questions
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:29:23 -0500
Would you be willing to add the ability to have an exceptions db for the
force-delete feature, like a db file that contains usernames that is checked
when a user is successfully authenticated? If the force-delete option is
turned on and the user is authenticated but the user is found in the
exception db, don't force-delete messages retrieved? That would be a great
feature! We need to allow some users to leave their mail on the server.
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> The force-delete option is very crude, but a number of people have
> requested it.
>
> In your case (which is probably not uncommon), the right solution
> IMHO would be a separate process that deletes downloaded mail after
> some number of days. You could then use the -e command-line switch
> to advertise the number of days to clients which use the CAPA command.
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:17:15 -0700
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: RE: Forcing mail deletion - questions
At 2:29 PM -0500 5/26/99, Jason Brunette wrote:
>Would you be willing to add the ability to have an exceptions db for the
>force-delete feature, like a db file that contains usernames that is checked
>when a user is successfully authenticated? If the force-delete option is
>turned on and the user is authenticated but the user is found in the
>exception db, don't force-delete messages retrieved? That would be a great
>feature! We need to allow some users to leave their mail on the server.
Are you offering us a patch? If you're going to a user db for that,
you could also store the number of days each user is allowed to keep
downloaded mail on the server.
>
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>> The force-delete option is very crude, but a number of people have
>> requested it.
>>
>> In your case (which is probably not uncommon), the right solution
>> IMHO would be a separate process that deletes downloaded mail after
>> some number of days. You could then use the -e command-line switch
>> to advertise the number of days to clients which use the CAPA command.
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:31:12 +1000
From: Leon Martin <Leon.Martin at med.monash.edu dot au>
Subject: unable to compile Qpopper 3.b17 on DU 4.0x
I'm having trouble compiling Qpopper 3.b17 under Digital Unix 4.0D and
4.0E. 2.53 (which I'm using) compiles fine.
I'm using the standard DU cc. utils.c gives all the errors. I can supply
the compiler output if required.
Thanks, Leon.
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:59:04 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jeff Halper wrote:
> If we use the forced delete mail from server option, I see the following
> issues:
>
> Some people want to view mail from work, then download it at home. Some
> people use a web-based email program to do this, like Yahoo mail, or
> others. Can we be selective - say "delete from the server, unless the
> originating request comes from [some definition here]"
>
> Any ideas on this?
Being able to force a maximum number of days messages can be left on
the server would be the ideal compromise for this.
Just MHO of course. :-)
AB
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:40:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: <gart at starwolf dot org>
Subject: APOP Authentication in Outlook Express?
Any possible way to get OE to do the APOP auth?
Whenever I try to connect it tells me to user strong encryption
--Gart
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:41:49 +0800 (CST)
From: "Tony C. Wu" <tonywu at att.net dot tw>
Subject: Re: Fw: Forcing mail deletion - questions
There is an utility written in perl available at CPAN.
It can be configured to delete mails that are n days old, read or unread.
Check any CPAN site, in the mail catagory. I think.
Regards,
Tony Wu,
NSE, Taiwan
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Asley Lugo Avila wrote:
: ----- Original Message -----
:
: The force-delete option is very crude, but a number of people have
: requested it.
:
: In your case (which is probably not uncommon), the right solution
: IMHO would be a separate process that deletes downloaded mail after
: some number of days. You could then use the -e command-line switch
: to advertise the number of days to clients which use the CAPA command.
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:
: Could you suggest some real tool or something like .. ?
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:58:26 +0800 (CST)
From: Wang Chunnian <wolf at cherry.sxu.edu dot cn>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b18 (Again)
hello!
Please help me hurry. I can unsubscribe this maillist.
Beause I have more time to read it, I want to cancel it.
But I cannot.please help me.
Thank you!
wolf
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Asley Lugo Avila wrote:
> >>Something more :-) , please in future, when you distribute new
> >>vertions of Qpopper don't put in your Ftp Site compiled sources.
> >>Please, delete:
> >>
> >>- *.o
> >>- Make files
> >>- config.h
> >>- config.cache
> >>- config.log
> >>- config.status
> >
> >Did you find these in 3.0b18? I'm surprised. I do not see in the
> >.tar any of the files you list. Are you sure you are looking at
> >clean 3.0b18 files?
>
> I'm really sorry about that , It was a mistake... :-(
> I'm only interested in the first part of this email
> I don't know why you don't include SCO in your OS DEFINE (configure script) ???
>
>
>
From: Laurent.Pellissier at ema dot fr
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:02:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Forcing mail deletion - questions
À (At) 20:16 +0200 26/05/99, Laurent Pellissier écrivait (wrote) :
> Yep, I've done it differently, I've made a patch to qpopper 2.53 that
>delete every mail read for more than n days (defaults to 40). It's very
>usefull
>for people reading mail from home and office.
This is my patch for those who have requested it. It must be
applied on qpopper 2.52 to the file pop_updt.c. Then you have to define
AUTO_DELETE_OLD_MSG in the Makefile if you want to include this patch in
your binary. You can also define AUTO_DELETE_OLD_MSG_DEBUG to generate a
log of every deleted message (one line per message but I do not use
syslog() for that). Later I will include it in configure.in for a better
integration with autoconf.
This patch works fine with Linux, SunOS and Solaris with standard
mailboxes.
I've also made two other patches :
- log to qpopper with aliases/revaliases used by sendmail so you
can also login with long name like Laurent.Pellissier and the patch (as
sendmail do) converts it to your real login name. The database is the same
db file used by sendmail. So people that have only a POP account don't have
to remember their login name.
- return a custom made return receipt of message when they are read
by user. Works with any smtp/pop mailer (does not use DSN).
49,179d48
<
< #ifdef AUTO_DELETE_OLD_MSG
< #include <time.h>
<
< /* This function returns a pointer to the first character of the next fiel=
d.
< The parameter p must point to one character of the current field or a
separat
or
< between the current and the next field. */
< static char * pChampSuivant(char * p)
< {
< /* If the current char is a field we skip it */
< while (*p && *p != ' ')
< p++;
<
< /* skip white spaces between fields */
< while (*p && *p == ' ')
< p++;
<
< return p;
< }
<
<
< /* Added by Laurent.Pellissier at ema dot fr Jan 1 1999 */
< /* This function checks every message and mark those who are read and olde=
r
< than 40 days, pop_updt() will clean them.
<
< The format of the "From " line is as follow (ctime() format) :
< From kermit at ema dot fr Sat Jan 9 18:10:07 1999
< */
< static void AutoDeleteOldMsg(POP *p)
< {
< MsgInfoList *mp; /* Pointer to message info list */
< char szFrom[255], *pFrom;
< int i, j;
< /* array of the months as they appear in the From field, taken from
sendmail
< sendmail-8.9.1/src/collect.c */
< char *MonthList[] = {
< "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
< "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec",
< NULL
< };
< struct tm tmFrom;
< time_t tToday, tFrom;
< long lDiff;
<
< time(&tToday);
< bzero(&tmFrom, sizeof(tmFrom));
<
< /* Loop through the message information list. Skip deleted messages */
< for (i = p->msg_count, mp = p->mlp; i > 0; i--, mp++)
< {
< if (!mp->del_flag)
< {
< /* seek to the first line of the messahe mp */
< fseek(p->drop, mp->offset, SEEK_SET);
< szFrom[0] = '\0'; /* if fgets() fails */
< fgets(szFrom, sizeof(szFrom), p->drop); /* reads the line "From " *=
/
< if (!strncasecmp("From ", szFrom, 5))
< {
< int i = strlen(szFrom);
<
< if (szFrom[i-1] == '\n')
< szFrom[i-1] == '\0';
<
< pFrom = szFrom;
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips From field */
< if (!pFrom) return;
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips the sender */
< if (!pFrom) return;
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips the day of week *.
< if (!pFrom) return;
< /* searches the month */
< for (j = 0; MonthList[j] != NULL; j++)
< if (strncasecmp(pFrom, MonthList[j], 3) == 0)
< {
< tmFrom.tm_mon = j; /* [0..11] */
< break;
< }
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips the month */
< if (!pFrom) return;
< tmFrom.tm_mday = atoi(pFrom); /* [1..31] */
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips the day of month */
< if (!pFrom) return;
< pFrom = pChampSuivant(pFrom); /* skips the hour */
< if (!pFrom) return;
< tmFrom.tm_year = atoi(pFrom)-1900; /* [0..] */
<
< tFrom = mktime(&tmFrom);
< /* lDiff = difftime(tToday, tFrom); */
< lDiff = tToday - tFrom;
< if (lDiff > 60L*60L*24L*40L)
< {
< #ifdef AUTO_DELETE_OLD_MSG_DEBUG
< int fd = -1;
< char *szFilename = "/tmp/qpopper-auotodelteoldmsg";
<
< /* Warning : this part of the code is UID root but EUID is set t=
o
< the owner of the mailbox. The debug file created is owned by tha=
t
< user. So it must have right enought for other people can write
to it
< */
< fd = open(szFilename, O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_WRONLY);
<
< fchmod(fd, 0666); /* not usefull if the file already exists */
< if (fd != -1)
< {
< char szTmp[120];
<
< sprintf(szTmp, "%s %02d/%02d/%04d %ld bytes\n", p->user,
< tmFrom.tm_mday, tmFrom.tm_mon+1, tmFrom.tm_year+1900,
< mp->length);
< flock(fd, LOCK_EX);
< write(fd, szTmp, strlen(szTmp));
< flock(fd, LOCK_UN);
< close(fd);
< }
< /* fprintf(p->output, "%ld>>%s<<\n", lDiff, szFrom); */
< #endif
< /* Flag the message for deletion */
< mp->del_flag = TRUE;
<
< /* Update the messages_deleted and bytes_deleted counters */
< p->msgs_deleted++;
< p->bytes_deleted += mp->length;
< p->dirty = 1;
< }
< }
< }
< }
< }
< #endif
<
<
210,213d78
< #ifdef AUTO_DELETE_OLD_MSG
< AutoDeleteOldMsg(p);
< #endif
<
222c87,88
< pop_log(p,POP_PRIORITY,"Stats: %s %d %d %d %d",
---
> pop_log(p,POP_PRIORITY," %s Stats: %s %d %d %d %d",
> p->ipaddr,
--
Laurent PELLISSIER @ Ecole des Mines d'Ales
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:37:10 -0300
From: Guilherme Assad <guica at latin.com dot br>
Subject: APOP problem
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HI ALL,
I made a instalation of qpopper 2.53 in my server and configured it to
use the apop service, but I'm having a problem with it, my popauth can
initialize the pop.auth file but when I use popauth -user user and
after typing the password I'm getting a message like this:
popauth: /etc/pop.auth: unable to open POP authorization DB
My, popauth is setuid with user pop.
I run the configure with the parameters shown on INSTALL.
I tried in 2 machines and the problem was the same.
What can be wrong??
Thanks in advance!
Guilherme Cabral Assad
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:25:58 +0400
From: "Yaroslav Gorodetsky" <y.gorodetsky at globalone dot ru>
Subject: APOP authorization
Hi all,
What mail clients/versions support APOP authorization (Netscape, Outlook
etc.)? Could someone mail such info to me?
Thanks in Advance,
Yaroslav