The Qpopper list archive ending on 5 Sep 1999
Topics covered in this issue include:
1. Re: popper hanging
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:19:44 +0100
2. Re: popper hanging
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:22:37 +1200 (NZST)
3. Re: popper hanging
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:45:35 +0200 (MET DST)
4. please help me!!!!!!!!!!
NightHawk <nighthawk at szonline dot net>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:50:39 +0800
5. Re: popper hanging
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:44:12 +0200 (MET DST)
6. Vacation agent in QPOPPER?
"K. Niranjan Kumar" <knk at infotech.stph dot net>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:04:54 +0530
7. popper hanging - update
Tom Zeltwanger <tomz at ename dot com>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:44:38 -0400
8. Re: popper hanging
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:37:43 +0200 (MET DST)
9. Re: popper hanging
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:34:27 +1200 (NZST)
10. Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:35:19 +0200 (MET DST)
11. Re: popper hanging
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:47:14 +1200 (NZST)
12. Re: Vacation agent in QPOPPER?
"K. Niranjan Kumar" <knk at infotech.stph dot net>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:15:02 +0530
13. Qpopper help
"H.White" <whiteh at wvlc.wvnet dot edu>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:27:45 +0000
14. Re: Qpopper help
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:04:27 +0200 (MET DST)
15. lock pop
"Listas Opengate" <listas at opengate.com dot br>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:59:30 -0300
16. Kerb5 and Mac with Qpopper?
debbie fligor <fligor at uiuc dot edu>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:51:30 -0500
17. Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
Randall Gellens <rg=public.1 at worldmail1.qualcomm dot com>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:30:49 -0700
18. Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
Madhavi -Deleted- <madhavi at unx.dec dot com>
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:25:51 -0400
19. Re: lock pop
Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:55:44 +0800
20. qpopper 3.0b18 loose the mailbox :(
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:37:53 +0200 (MET DST)
21. RE: security hole in 2.53.
Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:21:14 +0100
22. Drac
Plugue Internet <plugue at plugue.com dot br>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:46:52 -0300
23. Re: Drac
Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh dot com>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:17:23 -0400 (EDT)
24.
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at etecsa dot cu>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:46:30 -0400
25. Re: security hole in 2.53.
Madhavi -Deleted- <madhavi at unx.dec dot com>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:55:50 -0400
26. Re: security home in 2.53.
Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:21:01 +0100
27. any open maillist
Vincent Kwan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:00:55 -0700
28. Re: security hole in 2.53. or rather you're right and I"m wrong
LinuxBoy <linuxboy at jps dot net>
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:14:40 -0700
29. Vacation Agent
Jithender Tiwari <jtiwari at infotech.stph dot net>
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 09:55:29
30. qpopper and apop
Bert Beaudin <bert at spininart dot com>
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:00:20 -0700
31. Vacation Agent
Jithender Tiwari <jtiwari at infotech.stph dot net>
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:26:43
32. Qpopper
"Brent R. Scott" <brscott at scottworks dot net>
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
33. Re: Qpopper
"Brent R. Scott" <brscott at scottworks dot net>
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
34. Qpopper BULLDB support on bsdi 3.1
Nurah Muhammad <nurah at mimos dot my>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:02:29 +0800 (MYT)
35. RE: Qpopper
Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:17:33 +0100
36. unable to make qpopper3.0
Martin Waeger <waeger at irt dot de>
Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:03:49 +0200
37. Outlook Express and APOP
Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
38. RE: Outlook Express and APOP
"Paul McHale" <pmchale at doubleesolutions dot com>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:30:59 -0400
39. Re: Qpopper
"James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:32:25 -0500
40. RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:52:05 -0400 (EDT)
41. RE: Qpopper
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 06:48:59 +1200 (NZST)
42. RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm at nickellson dot com>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT)
43. qpopper and MYSQL
Gael MARTINEZ <mgc at mgc.spacestar dot net>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:16:23 -0500
44. Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode
Ben Heilman <office1 at enter dot net>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:28:07 -0400
45. RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Alexey Melnikov <Alexey.Melnikov at MessagingDirect dot com>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:08:03 -0600
46. qpopper won't start....
P O O P I E <poopie at jeeves.poopie dot net>
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 22:11:29 +0000 (GMT)
47. RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:12:26 -0400 (EDT)
48. Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode
Jesus Cea Avion <jcea at argo dot es>
Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:59:34 +0200
49. Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode (fwd)
Ben Heilman <recon at enter dot net>
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:59:07 -0400
50. Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode (fwd)
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Sun, 05 Sep 1999 15:20:15 +0100
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:19:44 +0100
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
At 11:00 30/08/99 +0200, Carrer Yuri wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Fergal Daly wrote:
>
>> At 21:06 29/08/99 -0400, Tom Zeltwanger wrote:
>> >I am using EUDORA on a WIN95 PC to access Qpopper on a LINUX box. It has
>> >worked fine for months. Suddenly it often hangs on checking the first
>> >account and gives a message "-ERR POP EOF recieved" in the logs on the
>> >server. I guess this has been discussed before but don't know how to find
>> >the discussion in the archives.
>>
>> I've seen this with happen with Outlook Express, I don't know if it affects
>> Eudora too. One common cause I have found is non-ascii characters in email
>> eg. e acute or o umlaut if you remove these then Outlook decides it's OK
>> again,
>
> How the user can remove this ?:)
They can't! There are other causes of this problem, have a look in the logs
and see what messages are sent before the EOF error. I noticed last week
that there are some situations where qpopper will send an ERR message AND
an OK message to the mail client. The client sees the error and disconnects
but qpopper is still waiting for the client to respond to the OK message.
I think this is a bug with qpopper and it is possible to patch it to stop
these messages going to the client (they still go into the logs though). As
I said, have a look at the logs to see what happened before the EOF and
then maybe send me a copy,
Fergal
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:22:37 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Carrer Yuri wrote:
> > How big is your mailbox?
> >
> > Eudora defaults to 60 seconds for initial connection, which is
> > everything from the time "check mail" is hit until the results of the
> > STAT request are in - including dialin, pop login, etc.
>
> Why you ask me how big is it? It is not a problem, It can be few
> kb or 30 MB. :)
Try telnetting into the pop3 port, logging in and issuing a STAT command.
If it takes too long, most mail clients don't like it.
AB
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:45:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Carrer Yuri wrote:
>
> > > How big is your mailbox?
> > >
> > > Eudora defaults to 60 seconds for initial connection, which is
> > > everything from the time "check mail" is hit until the results of the
> > > STAT request are in - including dialin, pop login, etc.
> >
> > Why you ask me how big is it? It is not a problem, It can be few
> > kb or 30 MB. :)
>
> Try telnetting into the pop3 port, logging in and issuing a STAT command.
>
> If it takes too long, most mail clients don't like it.
Mmmm It can be. What can I do on the server side to speed up it? And on
the clientr side to higher the timeout?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:50:39 +0800
From: NightHawk <nighthawk at szonline dot net>
Subject: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
A. I am running qpopper3.0b18 in the servermode with solaris7 and
solaris 2.6, but it will delete the user's all message from his/her
mbox sometimes when he/she hangups accidentally! I don't know what's
wrong! and don't know whether
it is bugs of qpopper3.0b18!!!
B. In the servermode qpopper3.0b18 will move his/her mbox into
.user.pop sometime. I found a few times!
My steps of compile and install the qpopper3.0b18 as follows:
1.compile and install
./configure --enable-servermode
make
cp popper/popper /usr/sbin/
2. my inetd.conf is:
pop3 stream tcp nowait.200 root /usr/sbin/popper popper -R -T
120
Thanks for any help!
Best Regards!
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:44:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
> >> I've seen this with happen with Outlook Express, I don't know if it affects
> >> Eudora too. One common cause I have found is non-ascii characters in email
> >> eg. e acute or o umlaut if you remove these then Outlook decides it's OK
> >> again,
> >
> > How the user can remove this ?:)
>
>
> They can't! There are other causes of this problem, have a look in the logs
> and see what messages are sent before the EOF error. I noticed last week
> that there are some situations where qpopper will send an ERR message AND
> an OK message to the mail client. The client sees the error and disconnects
> but qpopper is still waiting for the client to respond to the OK message.
>
> I think this is a bug with qpopper and it is possible to patch it to stop
Me too :-) Also, why it sends an ERR?
> these messages going to the client (they still go into the logs though). As
> I said, have a look at the logs to see what happened before the EOF and
> then maybe send me a copy,
Do I have to enable some debug?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:04:54 +0530
From: "K. Niranjan Kumar" <knk at infotech.stph dot net>
Subject: Vacation agent in QPOPPER?
Hello
We have a qpopper mail server on Linux and we would like to configure a
vacation agent.
So, is there anything that we need to do differently?
We followed instructions given in the elm FAQ, viz.
1. Create a .forward file in the $HOME directory that contains the line
-
-------------start of file
|/usr/bin/filter -vo /home/knk/.elm/filter-rules
-------------end of file
2. Create a filter-rules file in the $HOME/.elm directory that contains
the following.
-------------start of file
always executec "/home/knk/vac.script %s %r"
-------------end of file
3. We have a $HOME/vac.script that does the following :
-------------start of file
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin:/home/knk
export PATH
elm -s "Re: $1" $2 <<EOM
Hi.
Just testing this facility about "$1".
regards,
KNK
EOM
-------------end of file
In the end we get the following result.
-------------------------------------------start of
extract--------------------------
Subject:
Returned mail: /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - >
/home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"...
Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
Date:
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
From:
Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at infotech.stph dot net>
To:
knk at infotech.stph dot net
The original message was received at Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
from knk@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"
(expanded from: knk at infotech.stph dot net)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"... Address knk at infotech.stph dot net is unsafe for mailing to programs
550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"... Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
Reporting-MTA: dns; infotech.stph.net
Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
Final-Recipient: RFC822; knk at infotech.stph dot net
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"@infotech.stph.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Unsafe for mailing to programs
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
Subject:
(no subject)
Date:
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:53:19 +0530
From:
Hariharanath <hari at infotech.stph dot net>
Organization:
Infotech Enterprises Limited
To:
knk at infotech.stph dot net
dfasdfas
-------------------------------------------end of
extract--------------------------
We know that .forward works because a simple e-mail address forward
works. Finally we noticed that the above rule for the .forward file is
only for the sendmail daemon.
regards,
Niranjna
--
K. Niranjan Kumar E-mail : knk at infotech.stph dot net
Divisional Manager, Work : +91-40-335 4176
Net Services Division, Fax : +91-40-335 6320
InfoTech Enterprises Ltd., ICQ # : 36353440
42, Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082, India
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:44:38 -0400
From: Tom Zeltwanger <tomz at ename dot com>
Subject: popper hanging - update
OK, more information was requested so here it is:
the mailbox may have zero or more messages when this hang occurs
popper only hangs on the first attempt to read the mailbox. After I abort
that attempt, I can access it normally
Tom
*******************************************************
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Virtual Communication Services
Get your Net identity at http://www.eName.com
*******************************************************
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:37:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Carrer Yuri wrote:
>
> > > If it takes too long, most mail clients don't like it.
> >
> > Mmmm It can be. What can I do on the server side to speed up it?
>
> More ram, faster disks.
heh, don't you think that a modern computer can do a STAT in less
than 60 secs? I mean, even a 386 can do it on a several MB mailbox.
Also It can happen with a few KB (150 for example), so this is not
the problem.
>
> > And on
> > the clientr side to higher the timeout?
>
> Eudora can have the timeouts adjusted under the advancved network
> settings menu.
>
> Outlook Express has a timer buried under user preferences
> somewhere.
Thanxs, I'll suggest it :-)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:34:27 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Carrer Yuri wrote:
> > If it takes too long, most mail clients don't like it.
>
> Mmmm It can be. What can I do on the server side to speed up it?
More ram, faster disks.
> And on
> the clientr side to higher the timeout?
Eudora can have the timeouts adjusted under the advancved network
settings menu.
Outlook Express has a timer buried under user preferences
somewhere.
AB
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:35:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, NightHawk wrote:
> A. I am running qpopper3.0b18 in the servermode with solaris7 and
> solaris 2.6, but it will delete the user's all message from his/her
> mbox sometimes when he/she hangups accidentally! I don't know what's
> wrong! and don't know whether
> it is bugs of qpopper3.0b18!!!
Are you running it over nfs?
> B. In the servermode qpopper3.0b18 will move his/her mbox into
> .user.pop sometime. I found a few times!
No, in server mode the mailbox is never "moved". It is just locked.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:47:14 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: popper hanging
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Carrer Yuri wrote:
> > More ram, faster disks.
>
> heh, don't you think that a modern computer can do a STAT in less
> than 60 secs?
I've timed a 32Mb 486dx2/66 Linux server as taking 5-6 minutes to give
STAT results on a 12,000 item, 56Mb inbox. Once you run out of ram, no
machine is any faster than its hard drive, no matter what super-fast CPU
it may have.
> I mean, even a 386 can do it on a several MB mailbox.
> Also It can happen with a few KB (150 for example), so this is not
> the problem.
OK, however it's something to bear in mind, as it's the single most
common cause of complaints from my users - usually those with huge
mailboxes (20Mb+ or more than 1500 items).
AB
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:15:02 +0530
From: "K. Niranjan Kumar" <knk at infotech.stph dot net>
Subject: Re: Vacation agent in QPOPPER?
We do not have vacation installed on our machine. Is that the way to go
- get vacation, compile on Linux and try and again?
regards,
Niranjan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Vacation agent in QPOPPER?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:36:40 +0200
From: Luc Amouriaux <lamouriaux at atos-group dot com>
To: "K. Niranjan Kumar" <knk at infotech.stph dot net>
Did you try a .vacation file? (man vacation).
At 16:04 30/08/99 +0530, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>We have a qpopper mail server on Linux and we would like to configure a
>vacation agent.
>
>So, is there anything that we need to do differently?
>
>We followed instructions given in the elm FAQ, viz.
>1. Create a .forward file in the $HOME directory that contains the line
>-
>-------------start of file
>|/usr/bin/filter -vo /home/knk/.elm/filter-rules
>-------------end of file
>
>2. Create a filter-rules file in the $HOME/.elm directory that contains
>the following.
>-------------start of file
>always executec "/home/knk/vac.script %s %r"
>-------------end of file
>
>3. We have a $HOME/vac.script that does the following :
>-------------start of file
>#!/bin/sh
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin:/home/knk
>export PATH
>
>elm -s "Re: $1" $2 <<EOM
>
>Hi.
>
>Just testing this facility about "$1".
>
>regards,
>KNK
>
>EOM
>-------------end of file
>
>In the end we get the following result.
>
>-------------------------------------------start of
>extract--------------------------
>
>Subject:
> Returned mail: /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - >
>/home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"...
> Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
> Date:
> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
> From:
> Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at infotech.stph dot net>
> To:
> knk at infotech.stph dot net
>
>
>
>
>The original message was received at Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
>from knk@localhost
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>"|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"
> (expanded from: knk at infotech.stph dot net)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
>2>&1"... Address knk at infotech.stph dot net is unsafe for mailing to programs
>
>550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
>2>&1"... Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
>
>
>
>
>Reporting-MTA: dns; infotech.stph.net
>Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
>
>Final-Recipient: RFC822; knk at infotech.stph dot net
>X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
>2>&1"@infotech.stph.net
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.7.1
>Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Unsafe for mailing to programs
>Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
>
>
> Subject:
> (no subject)
> Date:
> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:53:19 +0530
> From:
> Hariharanath <hari at infotech.stph dot net>
> Organization:
> Infotech Enterprises Limited
> To:
> knk at infotech.stph dot net
>
>
>
>dfasdfas
>-------------------------------------------end of
>extract--------------------------
>We know that .forward works because a simple e-mail address forward
>works. Finally we noticed that the above rule for the .forward file is
>only for the sendmail daemon.
>
>regards,
>Niranjna
>
>--
>K. Niranjan Kumar E-mail : knk at infotech.stph dot net
>Divisional Manager, Work : +91-40-335 4176
>Net Services Division, Fax : +91-40-335 6320
>InfoTech Enterprises Ltd., ICQ # : 36353440
>42, Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082, India
>
>
>
__________________________________________________________
Luc Amouriaux tel. 01 46 25 52 21
ISR Services Intra/Internet Atos Infogerance Suresnes
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:27:45 +0000
From: "H.White" <whiteh at wvlc.wvnet dot edu>
Subject: Qpopper help
I just installed qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm today, and for the
first time since my initial RedHat6.0 Mandrake installation, have been
able to telnet to localhost 110. The problem now is, when I try to use
a pop3 client to check users mail, I get the following error:
-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
I installed the RPM using all defaults (with gnorpm) I also
installed Linux using the default of /home for the users directorys.
Any help would be much appreciated..I know mail works, because I can
send and rx mail (thru pine), just not using a pop3 client.
--
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WV Library Commission, The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd., East. Charleston, WV. 25305-0620
Office: 304 558 3978 Fax: 304 558 4066
E-mail: whiteh at wvlc.wvnet dot edu
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:04:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: Qpopper help
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, H.White wrote:
> I just installed qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm today, and for the
> first time since my initial RedHat6.0 Mandrake installation, have been
> able to telnet to localhost 110. The problem now is, when I try to use
> a pop3 client to check users mail, I get the following error:
>
> -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
>
> I installed the RPM using all defaults (with gnorpm) I also
> installed Linux using the default of /home for the users directorys.
have you /tmp writable?
From: "Listas Opengate" <listas at opengate.com dot br>
Subject: lock pop
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:59:30 -0300
Hi all,
I'm sorry if this question was answered before but I'm new here and the
archive have to be searched msg by msg.
When I run disk quota for my users the .user.pop starts to lock. This
happens when the user file reach half or more of the determined quota. I
believe I have to set qpopper to use some file (a temporary file perhaps) to
be 0 bytes. But unfortunelly I could not find any documentation to help me.
Is there something I can do?
Thank's
Gustavo Lima
Supervisor de Suporte
OPENGATE Internet
Tel.: 328-1990
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:51:30 -0500
From: debbie fligor <fligor at uiuc dot edu>
Subject: Kerb5 and Mac with Qpopper?
I'm stuck, and I don't know if it's a qpopper problem or a Mac
K5Client problem. I've posted this to the qpopper list figuring
there would be more K5 qpopper or Mac gurus here, than on the
kerberos list. If anyone has other sources for me to look into,
please just let me know.
I've got qpopper 2.5, on a solaris 7 sparc, with Von Welch's Kerb5
patches <ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/aces/kerberos/qpopper/> applied.
When I make it without the kerberos components, it does work just
fine.
I used the 2.4 patch, and then added the rejects by hand (although
they were mostly just version changes). It took a while (and a lot
of juggling the positions of the kerberos libraries on the LIB line
in the Makefile, but I did get it to compile without fatal errors
there were some complaints about typing though.
I'm using an older K5Client, who's readme claims to be just hacked
enough for Eudora to use a K5 KDC. Eudora seems to be getting
tickets (at least the KDC logs show them looking correct) but get's
an error from qpopper about having the wrong principal. NCSA has lots
of nice web pages on kerberos, but the Mac ones that look interesting
are beheind a required login page, that I don't have access to.
=46rom what little I know about kerberos, and from looking at packet
traces of a working K5 telnet session between the same two hosts, it
looks "okay" to me.
I'm down to three things I can think of right now:
1) qpopper wants to see "pop" instead of "host" in the principal
(based on comments on one of Von's documentation pages at ncsa's web
site). My krb5.keytab file only has a "host" entry.
2) I didn't patch qpopper quite right, and K5 is just not working.
3) the K5 hack for KClient isn't working right with Eudora, even
though it looks like it's talking to the KDC just fine.
Here's what Eudora sees during a failed session:
Mon Aug 30 14:32:38 1999
121 32:0.4.22 Reading TCP/IP preferences from the disk now.
121 16:0.2.7 Contacting sonne.cso.uiuc.edu (130.126.113.2)...
121 16:0.2.12 Getting ticket for "host.sonne@UIUC dot EDU"...
MAIN 32:0.7.6 Reading TCP/IP preferences from the disk now.
121 32:0.9.6 Sent:
"\000\000\000\023KRB5_SENDAUTH_V1.0\000\000\000\000\tjustjunk\000\000\
000\001ÅnÇ\001}0Ç\001yÝ\003\002\001\005°\003\002\001\016"
121 32:0.9.7 Sent:
"¢\007\003\005\000\000\000\000\000£Ç\001\005aÇ\001\0010ÅœÝ\003=
\002\001
\005°\n"
121 32:0.9.7 Sent:
"\033\010UIUC.EDU¢%0#Ý\003\002\001\003°\0340\032\033\004host\033\022so=
nne.cso.uiuc.edu£Åˆ0Å¿Ý\003\002\001\001°\003\002\001\001"
121 32:0.9.7 Sent:
"¢Å„\004Ń»_R’kpìù{ÿé)Wu%"NÔú§÷Â_¾uT=
ØÆWÙô>§\027K\002\035'\000ú\014
è t$CE¯\013–¸ýe¦(’•cz1‚úwÈoÉ-Z×zM¿ÈÖ\0=
16‡ç\003w‰¾~£s½u"
121 32:0.9.8 Sent:
"p¥ëc×Ð_Š\035|’±Ó\032|\026‚™ÿh`k~ƒ¼\025nn=
°C‚Ÿþ¸RêyQªË'ƒË\024¯.mÙ&|Z
þ\001n-ØãºN>/wîµ£GçÈ¢µmÝŸH\024:g0™PÚR§[0Y=
Ý\003\002\001"
121 32:0.9.8 Sent:
"\001¢R\004PãÐÅki\031ûó¬È0;èÞ"{Š]Ìfd…*Z¶"·\=
001P$—ábâ•á"h\035Æ\033ƇW£
7>Câb8y¡¢’\030Åd\036`\025È\037»¤a6[\Þ\007xb\007õ:O"S"
121 32:0.9.9 Rcvd: "\000"
121 32:0.9.10 Rcvd:
"\000\000\000~~|0zÝ\003\002\001\005°\003\002\001\036§\021\030\01719990=
830193235Z*\005\002\003\017\024d¶\003\002\001<©\n"
121 32:0.9.10 Rcvd:
"\033\010UIUC.EDU$0"Ý\003\002\001\003°\0330\031\033\003pop\033\022son=
ne.cso.uiuc.edu´\035\033\033Wrong principal in request"
121 32:0.9.11 Rcvd: "\000-ERR recvauth failed--Wrong principal in request\r\=
n"
121 16:0.9.11 ~~|0zÝ=03=02=01=05°=03=02=01=1E§=11=18=0F19990830193235Z=
*=05=02=03=0F=14d¶=03=02=01<©
121 16:0.9.14
=1B=08UIUC.EDU$0"Ý=03=02=01=03°=1B0=19=1B=03pop=1B=12sonne.cso.uiuc.e=
du´=1D=1B=1BWrong principal
in request-ERR recvauth failed--Wrong principal in request
121 8:0.9.17 TCP/IP Error.
121 8:0.9.17 -3162
121 8:0.9.17 The server is not responding.
121 8:0.9.18 {37:1330}
121 8:0.9.18 "TCP/IP Error. -3162; " "The server is not responding. {37:1330=
}"
121 16:0.9.20
and the one thing I know is that the KDC sees
"host/sonne.cso.uiuc.edu" not "host.sonne" when it tries to gets a
ticket. So I think that's just Eudora's display message, not what's
sent.
Any help getting this working, or pointers to working versions of a
K5 qpopper, K5 client for Eudora, etc. are greatly appreciated.
thanks!
---------
-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Designer/Engineer, CCSO, Univ. of Il
email: fligor at uiuc.edu <http://www.uiuc dot edu/ph/www/fligor>
"Every keystroke can be monitored. And the computers never forget."
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:30:49 -0700
From: Randall Gellens <rg=public.1 at worldmail1.qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
At 5:50 PM +0800 8/30/99, NightHawk wrote:
> but it will delete the user's all message from his/her mbox
>sometimes when he/she hangups accidentally!
User clients should not issue a DELE command until they are sure the
message has been successfully received and stored on disk (and the
buffers flushed). Eudora, for example, takes care that this is so.
With such a client, once a DELE command is issued, it should be
honored, even if the session aborts.
However, there may be some clients that are not so careful. To
ensure that DELE commands are ignored if the session aborts, you can
add this line to the config.h file:
#define NOUPDATEONABORT
This is documented in the INSTALL file, section 6(r).
--
Randall Gellens
rg=public.1 at worldmail1.qualcomm dot com
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:25:51 -0400
From: Madhavi -Deleted- <madhavi at unx.dec dot com>
Subject: Re: please help me!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, by defining NOUPDATEONABORT as a compile time option,
it takes care of the problem. If you use your own Makefile as I do, you can
define this option in your Makefile too -DNOUPDATEONABORT.
Madhavi -Deleted-
Randall Gellens wrote:
> At 5:50 PM +0800 8/30/99, NightHawk wrote:
>
> > but it will delete the user's all message from his/her mbox
> >sometimes when he/she hangups accidentally!
>
> User clients should not issue a DELE command until they are sure the
> message has been successfully received and stored on disk (and the
> buffers flushed). Eudora, for example, takes care that this is so.
> With such a client, once a DELE command is issued, it should be
> honored, even if the session aborts.
>
> However, there may be some clients that are not so careful. To
> ensure that DELE commands are ignored if the session aborts, you can
> add this line to the config.h file:
>
> #define NOUPDATEONABORT
>
> This is documented in the INSTALL file, section 6(r).
> --
> Randall Gellens
> rg=public.1 at worldmail1.qualcomm dot com
> Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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Yes, by defining NOUPDATEONABORT as a compile time option,
<BR>it takes care of the problem. If you use your own Makefile as I do,
you can define this option in your Makefile too -DNOUPDATEONABORT.
<BR>
;
Madhavi -Deleted-
<BR>
<BR>
<P>Randall Gellens wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>At 5:50 PM +0800 8/30/99, NightHawk wrote:
<P>> but it will delete the user's all message from his/her mbox
<BR>>sometimes when he/she hangups accidentally!
<P>User clients should not issue a DELE command until they are sure the
<BR>message has been successfully received and stored on disk (and the
<BR>buffers flushed). Eudora, for example, takes care that this is
so.
<BR>With such a client, once a DELE command is issued, it should be
<BR>honored, even if the session aborts.
<P>However, there may be some clients that are not so careful. To
<BR>ensure that DELE commands are ignored if the session aborts, you can
<BR>add this line to the config.h file:
<P> #define NOUPDATEONABORT
<P>This is documented in the INSTALL file, section 6(r).
<BR>--
<BR>Randall Gellens
<BR>rg=public.1 at worldmail1.qualcomm dot com
<BR>Opinions are personal; facts are suspect;
I speak for myself only</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:55:44 +0800
From: Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Subject: Re: lock pop
> When I run disk quota for my users the .user.pop starts to lock. This
>happens when the user file reach half or more of the determined quota. I
>believe I have to set qpopper to use some file (a temporary file perhaps) to
>be 0 bytes. But unfortunelly I could not find any documentation to help me.
yes. compile qpopper with servermode enabled.
by default qpopper copies the user's mail spool into the lock file, which
is what is causing your users to exceed their quota. in server mode this
copy isn't done, however a zero byte lock file is still created.
hmm.. something else for the faq?
-- byron jones ----------------------
systems administrator
vianet australia
http://www.vianet.net.au/~byron
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:37:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: qpopper 3.0b18 loose the mailbox :(
Sh*t.
My server (3.0b18) is compiled with server mode.
Here what happen: *a 14MB mailbox, lost now :(*
Aug 31 09:09:17 dns popper[30636]: bofix at xxxx.xxx dot xx: -ERR SIGHUP or
SIGPIPE flagged
*I killed the pop server, because the user stopped the pop downloading
(Netscape as client), but the pop server don't*
Aug 31 09:09:17 dns popper[30636]: bofix at xxxx.xxx dot xx: -ERR POP hangup
Aug 31 09:09:17 dns popper[30636]: Stats: bofix 0 0 4 14728571
xxxx.xxx.xx <his IP>
*then I rm .bofix.pop, which should be 0 lenght , and was so. But the rm
took about 2-3 seconds, which suspected me*
Aug 31 09:09:42 dns popper[30661]: Stats: bofix 0 0 0 0 xxxx.xxx.xx
<his IP>
Here the mail is lost.
Can someone explain me why? Now I've reverted to 2.53.
From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Subject: RE: security hole in 2.53.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:21:14 +0100
> Has this alrealdy been patched, or should I post a patch to this list?
In the words of Tim Allen: Urghh?
Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
USER root
+OK Password required for root.
PASS asdasd
-ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
+OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
bash# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
USER root
+OK Password required for root.
PASS <correct password>
-ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
+OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
This is the way our POP3 server has behaved since it was first installed, it
was one of the first things I double-checked, so now I'm a little confused
:-) ... does anyone know what's going on there, then?
Steven Fletcher
stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:46:52 -0300
From: Plugue Internet <plugue at plugue.com dot br>
Subject: Drac
Hi,
Is there anybody using qpopper with Drac?
Henrique Andrade
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:17:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh dot com>
Subject: Re: Drac
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Plugue Internet wrote:
> Is there anybody using qpopper with Drac?
Yes, I am. It works great w/2.53, and seems to also work fine with 3.0b18
under RedHat 4.2.
Be aware that using DRAC v1.8 and v1.9 on the same dbm file (which is hard
coded into the rpc.dracd server) without reinitializing can cause your
rpc.dracd server to drop core. Do NOT use these two versions together, or
at least have the foresight to assign each its own dbm file.
The only difference between the two versions is that the first uses host
byte order for the IP address, and the second uses network byte order:
[drac-1.8]schampeo% diff -bits rpc.dracd.c ../drac-1.9/rpc.dracd.c
39c39
< #define DBFILE "/etc/mail/dracd.db"
---
> #define DBFILE "/etc/mail/dracd-1.9.db"
255c255
< requ_ip.s_addr = argp->ip_addr; /* in network byte order */
---
> requ_ip.s_addr = htonl(argp->ip_addr); /* to network byte order */
The first difference is something I added, after spending a few hours
restarting my dracd server every four minutes on a production machine. :(
The bug doesn't reveal itself except on a get(), so stores will be
accomplished normally and your users will be able to send mail fine. But
when it comes time to expire the IPs, the server will dump core. I had
intended to document this more completely and inform DRAC's maintainer,
but what the hell. I'll do it now.
Problem:
using two versions of DRAC (1.8 and 1.9) concurrently, such as qpopper2.5*
with DRAC1.8 and qpopper3.0b18 with DRAC1.9, with the same dbm file, causes
the rpc.dracd server to drop core as a consequence (SEGV) of a malformed
get() request during the expire() phase, itself due to a minor difference
between the way that 1.8 and 1.9 store the IP address in the dbm file.
Here's the evidence:
wasabi# gdb /usr/local/sbin/rpc.dracd core.dracd
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.16 (i586-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
Core was generated by `/usr/local/sbin/rpc.dracd'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdb.so.2.0.0...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.3.12...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
#0 0x4004ea9c in memcpy ()
(gdb) up
#1 0x40001f8c in _dl_interpreter_exit ()
(gdb) up
#2 0x10 in ?? ()
(gdb) up
#3 0x62207463 in ?? ()
(gdb) up
Cannot access memory at address 0x656c6553.
I suspect the 0x10 is a kill char(?), mistakenly frobbed from the get() when
it returned garbage. Some sanity checking seems worthwhile here. Sendmail,
to its credit, doesn't seem to be bothered by malformed entries in the
db file - perhaps it does its own sanity checking.
Solution(s):
1. use one version of DRAC at a time.
-or-
2. hard-code a different dbm file name into rpc.dracd.c; use a separate
rpc.dracd server for your other application (don't forget to change
the program ID for the portmapper, in drac.x)
3. be sure to re-initialize the dbm file on dracd startup, with the -i
switch, to clear any corruption.
All in all, I'm very satisfied. But I was ready to throw the server out the
window after the first couple of hours of restarting the daemon every four
minutes. ;)
Steve
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From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at etecsa dot cu>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:46:30 -0400
Can i use Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS) V3.5 with OpenLdap ?
Does anybody have experience with this ?
Asley
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:55:50 -0400
From: Madhavi -Deleted- <madhavi at unx.dec dot com>
Subject: Re: security hole in 2.53.
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Steven Fletcher wrote:
> > Has this alrealdy been patched, or should I post a patch to this list?
>
> In the words of Tim Allen: Urghh?
>
> Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
> USER root
> +OK Password required for root.
> PASS asdasd
> -ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
> +OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> bash# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
> USER root
> +OK Password required for root.
> PASS <correct password>
> -ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
> +OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> This is the way our POP3 server has behaved since it was first installed, it
> was one of the first things I double-checked, so now I'm a little confused
> :-) ... does anyone know what's going on there, then?
This is a security feature . This is due to the compile time option defined in
config.h which prevents privilaged users, UIDs below 10 from reading POP3 MAIL
, This is not a bug
-madhavi
> Steven Fletcher
> stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
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<BR>
<P>Steven Fletcher wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>> Has this alrealdy been patched, or should I post
a patch to this list?
<P>In the words of Tim Allen: Urghh?
<P>Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
<BR>Escape character is '^]'.
<BR>+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
<BR>USER root
<BR>+OK Password required for root.
<BR>PASS asdasd
<BR>-ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
<BR>+OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
<BR>Connection closed by foreign host.
<BR>bash# telnet localhost 110
<BR>Trying 127.0.0.1...
<BR>Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
<BR>Escape character is '^]'.
<BR>+OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
<BR>USER root
<BR>+OK Password required for root.
<BR>PASS <correct password>
<BR>-ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
<BR>+OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
<BR>Connection closed by foreign host.
<P>This is the way our POP3 server has behaved since it was first installed,
it
<BR>was one of the first things I double-checked, so now I'm a little confused
<BR>:-) ... does anyone know what's going on there, then?</BLOCKQUOTE>
This is a security feature . This is due to the compile time option defined
in config.h which prevents privilaged users, UIDs below 10 from reading
POP3 MAIL , This is not a bug &nbs
p;
-madhavi
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>
<P>Steven Fletcher
<BR>stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk</BLOCKQUOTE>
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From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Subject: Re: security home in 2.53.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:21:01 +0100
/me bangs his head on the wall.
It seems that at least 3 people so far completely missed the point of my
last mail...
. <---- 2 500 000 AU ----> people
^ ... the point
It was not to point out that Qpopper disabled access for any UID below 10,
but that this morning's previous poster (linuxboy at jps dot net) was saying that
the password behaviour for such accounts was incorrect, and he supplied a
patch for that. My question (if anyone bothered to scroll down that far) was
that why has Qpopper behaved as per this patch for me all along?
Steven Fletcher
stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:00:55 -0700
From: Vincent Kwan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Subject: any open maillist
Hi,
I know this may not be the most appropriate place to ask this. I was
wondering if anyone know a good open mail list for sendmail?
Actually, I am having problem using sendmail 8.9.3 on my linux 6.0 box
to send mail to a non local domain.
Thanks in advance.
--- Vincent
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:14:40 -0700
From: LinuxBoy <linuxboy at jps dot net>
Subject: Re: security hole in 2.53. or rather you're right and I"m wrong
Steven Fletcher wrote:
> > Has this alrealdy been patched, or should I post a patch to this list?
>
> In the words of Tim Allen: Urghh?
>
> Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
> USER root
> +OK Password required for root.
> PASS asdasd
> -ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
> +OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> bash# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.shellnet.co.uk.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at smtp.shellnet.co.uk starting.
> USER root
> +OK Password required for root.
> PASS <correct password>
> -ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
> +OK Pop server at smtp.shellnet.co.uk signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> This is the way our POP3 server has behaved since it was first installed, it
> was one of the first things I double-checked, so now I'm a little confused
> :-) ... does anyone know what's going on there, then?
>
> Steven Fletcher
> stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
Hrmm... I just downloaded 2.53 (my old source was pretty much hacked to bits,
and the binary long ago deleted.) and compiled it. I was able to reproduce
the behavior that you described. I'm thinking I have the version wrong or
something. I don't have access to the box this problem was on right now (the
security admin shut down popper on it), so I wont be able to see what
version it has until tomarow morning. Thats the kinda messy programming I
have to watch for :) Anyways thanks for setting me straight, and I apologize
for posting carelessly.
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 09:55:29
From: Jithender Tiwari <jtiwari at infotech.stph dot net>
Subject: Vacation Agent
Dear All
We have a qpopper mail server on Linux RH6.0 and we would like to
configure a
vacation agent.
So, is there anything that we need to do differently?
We followed instructions given in the elm FAQ, viz.
1. Create a .forward file in the $HOME directory that contains the line
-
-------------start of file
<italic>|/usr/bin/filter -vo /home/knk/.elm/filter-rules
</italic>-------------end of file
2. Create a filter-rules file in the $HOME/.elm directory that contains
the following.
-------------start of file
<italic>always executec "/home/knk/vac.script %s %r"
</italic>-------------end of file
3. We have a $HOME/vac.script that does the following :
-------------start of file
<italic>#!/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin:/home/knk
export PATH
elm -s "Re: $1" $2 <<<<EOM
Hi.
Just testing this facility about "$1".
regards,
Jithender tiwari
EOM
</italic>-------------end of file
In the end we get the following result when we send the mail to some
address.
-------------------------------------------start of
extract--------------------------
<italic>Subject: Returned mail: /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat -
>
/home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"...
Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <<MAILER-DAEMON at infotech.stph dot net>
To: knk at infotech.stph dot net
The original message was received at Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
from knk@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test 2>&1"
(expanded from: knk at infotech.stph dot net)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"... Address knk at infotech.stph dot net is unsafe for mailing to
programs
550 /home/knk/.forward: line 1: "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"... Address knk is unsafe for mailing to programs
Reporting-MTA: dns; infotech.stph.net
Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:07 +0530
Final-Recipient: RFC822; knk at infotech.stph dot net
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; "|/bin/cat - > /home/knk/forward.test
2>&1"@infotech.stph.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Unsafe for mailing to programs
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:12:08 +0530
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:53:19 +0530
From: Hariharanath <<hari at infotech.stph dot net>
Organization:
dfasdfas
</italic>-------------------------------------------end of
extract--------------------------
We know that .forward works because a simple e-mail address forward
works. Finally we noticed that the above rule for the .forward file is
only for the sendmail daemon.
Thanks for your time and help in advance.
Jithender Tiwari
--
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:00:20 -0700
From: Bert Beaudin <bert at spininart dot com>
Subject: qpopper and apop
Hello
I trying to get qpopper built with apop support. I have taken the
following steps.
1) ./configure --enable-specialauth --enable-apop=/etc/pop.auth
--with-popuid=pop --enable-debugging
2.) Next make changes to the Makefile to support home directory delivery
since I use qmail and it puts mail in users home directories. In cflags
-DHOMEDIRMAIL
3) Next make changes to pop_dropcopy.c to support qmail. Changed
strncat(p->drop_name, "/.mailbox",sizeof(p->drop_name) -
strlen(p->drop_name) );
to strncat(p->drop_name, "/Mailbox",sizeof(p->drop_name) -
strlen(p->drop_name) );
4) Run make
5) Copy popauth to /usr/bin/popauth ; chown pop popauth ; chmod u+s popauth ;
ls -al /usr/bin/popauth
-rwsr-xr-x 1 pop root 20668 Sep 1 01:40 popauth*
ls -al /etc/pop.auth
-rw------- 1 pop users 1536 Sep 1 01:40 /etc/pop.auth
6) added to /etc/inetd.conf
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/popper popper -d
killed and restarted inetd
7) As root popauth -init
When a users tries to change or create a password I get
popauth: /etc/pop.auth: unable to open POP authorization DB
I can get the popper to work with out the apop stuff compiled in.
Any help would be great.
Bert Beaudin
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:26:43
From: Jithender Tiwari <jtiwari at infotech.stph dot net>
Subject: Vacation Agent
Dear Igor
Thank You for the response.
I downloaded the program from your site and configured it. But still it
gives error.
Can you please tell me how to configure it. I used the Install file given and
created all the links and copied according to the procedures. Is the
.forward file and filter-rules required?
I also downloaded libnet and configured it for net::SMTP
What is SMRSH and what does it do?
Thanks for the time and help
Jithender Tiwari
>Hi,
>
>Make sure that:
>
>a) Your .forward file is not group or world writable
>
>b) Your script is listed with SMRSH
>
>Also, you may wish to check out my vacation program
><http://ma.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/06/25/930339631.html
> which I think is a bit easier to use...
>
>Cheers, igor
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Brent R. Scott" <brscott at scottworks dot net>
Subject: Qpopper
Steven,
I went through the config.h file and found POP_DROP to be commented out. I
uncommented it, and recompiled with the line looking like this:
define POP_DROP "/var/spool/mail/.%s.pop"
I moved the new popper binary into the right place (and removed the old
one ;). I ran kill -HUP {inetd.pid.here} and am still getting the message:
-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
I noticed an incocistency in my ownerships inside /var/spool/mail as
listed:
drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 1024 Aug 29 22:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Aug 30 10:34 ..
-rw------- 1 almondjo mail 165382 Sep 2 11:05 almondjoy
-rw-r----- 1 bdscott mail 1775 Mar 27 23:27 bdscott
-rw-rw-r-- 1 brscott mail 330441 Sep 2 21:00 brscott
drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jul 18 1998 bulletins
-rw-r----- 1 carol mail 1237 Aug 28 15:55 carol
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 17:29 root
-rw-r----- 1 webmaste mail 2985 Jul 21 22:02 webmaster
Do you know the correct ownerships for these directories (they were
reinstalled from a backup). Also any other ideas why it is still giving
the error?
-Br-
---Old Message---
From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Subject: RE: qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:12:30 +0100
It's telling you that it can't open (or create) your .pop file, which is
usually /var/mail/.username.pop.
Check to make sure that your users have relevant permission to write to
this
directory, or create another temporary directory that can be used by
Qpopper - say, /usr/popdrop - and define this in config.h at the POP_DROP
option.... don't know if you can do this with the RPM's though.
Steven Fletcher
stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:13:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Brent R. Scott" <brscott at scottworks dot net>
Subject: Re: Qpopper
OK, sorry for the spam, but this mail help many people with the same
problem. The reason for this error:
-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
Is incorrect permissions for /var/spool/mail, or whatever you have as
designated mail directory. This directory seems to default to this:
drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 1024 Sep 2 23:07 mail
Notice that there is not writable option for groups in this directory.
Need to do a
chmod 775 /var/spool/mail (or whatever your mail directory is).
Also make sure that mail is the owner and group for this directory. Make
sure that each user owns his/her respective mail file within that
directory and that mail is the group for everyone. This should resolve the
problem.
-Br-
p.s. make sure you have the line in config.h as listed below when
compiling. Seems to default to being commented out.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brent R. Scott wrote:
> Steven,
>
> I went through the config.h file and found POP_DROP to be commented out. I
> uncommented it, and recompiled with the line looking like this:
>
> define POP_DROP "/var/spool/mail/.%s.pop"
>
> I moved the new popper binary into the right place (and removed the old
> one ;). I ran kill -HUP {inetd.pid.here} and am still getting the message:
>
> -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
>
> I noticed an incocistency in my ownerships inside /var/spool/mail as
> listed:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 1024 Aug 29 22:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Aug 30 10:34 ..
> -rw------- 1 almondjo mail 165382 Sep 2 11:05 almondjoy
> -rw-r----- 1 bdscott mail 1775 Mar 27 23:27 bdscott
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 brscott mail 330441 Sep 2 21:00 brscott
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jul 18 1998 bulletins
> -rw-r----- 1 carol mail 1237 Aug 28 15:55 carol
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 17:29 root
> -rw-r----- 1 webmaste mail 2985 Jul 21 22:02 webmaster
>
> Do you know the correct ownerships for these directories (they were
> reinstalled from a backup). Also any other ideas why it is still giving
> the error?
>
> -Br-
>
> ---Old Message---
>
> From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
> Subject: RE: qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:12:30 +0100
>
> It's telling you that it can't open (or create) your .pop file, which is
> usually /var/mail/.username.pop.
>
> Check to make sure that your users have relevant permission to write to
> this
> directory, or create another temporary directory that can be used by
> Qpopper - say, /usr/popdrop - and define this in config.h at the POP_DROP
> option.... don't know if you can do this with the RPM's though.
>
> Steven Fletcher
> stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
>
>
>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:02:29 +0800 (MYT)
From: Nurah Muhammad <nurah at mimos dot my>
Subject: Qpopper BULLDB support on bsdi 3.1
I've successfully installed qpopper with bulletin support on bsdi
version 3.1 and version 4.0.1. I'm using -DBULLDB to enable
database for tracking bulletins sent to pop users.
However, when I try to access mailbox on bsdi 3.1, I got below message:-
dbm_open failed : Inappropriate file type or format. The database file
exist but it was empty.
Anyway I have NO problem accessing bulletin on bsdi 4.0.1.
Anyone experienced this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Rgds,
-Nurah-
From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Subject: RE: Qpopper
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:17:33 +0100
> chmod 775 /var/spool/mail (or whatever your mail directory is).
This is correct. If yout change the ownership of /var/spool/mail to be
root:mail, and add all users that you want to be able to read mail to the
"mail" group, then you should have no problems in the future when people
need to write to their mailspools.
> p.s. make sure you have the line in config.h as listed below when
> compiling. Seems to default to being commented out.
lol :-)
A "#define" line is not a comment, as a # is not a comment symbol in C. In
this case, the #define meants that when POP_DROP is referenced in the popper
code, it us substituted with /var/spool/mail/.%s.pop, (where %s will be the
username).
You will more than likley be breaking popper if you try to use that...
depends if your C compiler can spot that you've made a typo, etc).
Steven Fletcher
stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:03:49 +0200
From: Martin Waeger <waeger at irt dot de>
Subject: unable to make qpopper3.0
Hi qpopper-world,
we are running qpopper2.53 on hp-ux 10.20.
Now I tried to install qpopper3.0 on the same mailserver but after running
configure I got the following error when I started make:
# make
cd ./popper && make all
cc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DHPUX
-DHPUX10 -DU
NIX pop_dele.c -o pop_dele.o
cc: "popper.h", line 282: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "*".
cc: "popper.h", line 284: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "FP".
cc: "popper.h", line 282: error 1506: Parameters allowed in function
definition
only.
cc: "popper.h", line 284: error 1573: Type of "Stack" is undefined due to
an ill
egal declaration.
cc: "popper.h", line 284: error 1578: Size of struct or union member is
unknown.
*** Error exit code 1
The part of code in popper.h is:
... ....
280 typedef struct _pop POP;
281 #define STACKSIZE 2 /* Chosen for
Implementa
tion */
282 typedef void *(*FP)(POP *);
283 typedef struct CallStack {
284 FP Stack[STACKSIZE]; /* Function
Pointers arr
ay */
285 int CurP;
... ....
I am not a C-programmer but I suggest the code was tested on some platforms.
The C-compiler is HP92453-01 G.10.32.05 HP C Compiler (ANSI-C)
Has anybody expirience with qpopper3.0 on hp-ux 10.20 ??
______________________________________________________________________
__ ___
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______________________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Subject: Outlook Express and APOP
Would anyone have directions or tips on how to make OE use APOP to access
the qpopper server?
-Gart
From: "Paul McHale" <pmchale at doubleesolutions dot com>
Subject: RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:30:59 -0400
I though Qpopper was a POP3 server. Can't you just set Outlook to POP3 ? I
am very curious because I was debating using qpopper.
paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gart Nixon [mailto:gart at starwolf dot org]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:23 PM
> To: Subscribers of Qpopper
> Subject: Outlook Express and APOP
>
>
> Would anyone have directions or tips on how to make OE use APOP to access
> the qpopper server?
>
> -Gart
>
>
>
From: "James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:32:25 -0500
Is poptemp defined and if so does the directory exist?
I've had your error before and it was caused by my inadvertently
forgetting to create the /var/poptemp directory defined in the source.
(config.h I believe)
Good luck!
--James
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent R. Scott <brscott at scottworks dot net>
To: stevenf at shellnet.co.uk <stevenf at shellnet dot co dot uk>
Cc: whiteh at wvlc.wvnet.edu <whiteh at wvlc dot wvnet dot edu>;
qpopper at lists.pensive.org <qpopper at lists dot pensive dot org>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Qpopper
|OK, sorry for the spam, but this mail help many people with the same
|problem. The reason for this error:
|
|-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
|
|Is incorrect permissions for /var/spool/mail, or whatever you have as
|designated mail directory. This directory seems to default to this:
|
|drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 1024 Sep 2 23:07 mail
|
|Notice that there is not writable option for groups in this
directory.
|Need to do a
|
|chmod 775 /var/spool/mail (or whatever your mail directory is).
|
|Also make sure that mail is the owner and group for this directory.
Make
|sure that each user owns his/her respective mail file within that
|directory and that mail is the group for everyone. This should
resolve the
|problem.
|
|-Br-
|
|p.s. make sure you have the line in config.h as listed below when
|compiling. Seems to default to being commented out.
|
| On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brent R. Scott wrote:
|
|> Steven,
|>
|> I went through the config.h file and found POP_DROP to be commented
out. I
|> uncommented it, and recompiled with the line looking like this:
|>
|> define POP_DROP "/var/spool/mail/.%s.pop"
|>
|> I moved the new popper binary into the right place (and removed the
old
|> one ;). I ran kill -HUP {inetd.pid.here} and am still getting the
message:
|>
|> -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it?
|>
|> I noticed an incocistency in my ownerships inside /var/spool/mail
as
|> listed:
|>
|> drwxr-xr-x 3 mail mail 1024 Aug 29 22:29 .
|> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Aug 30 10:34 ..
|> -rw------- 1 almondjo mail 165382 Sep 2 11:05 almondjoy
|> -rw-r----- 1 bdscott mail 1775 Mar 27 23:27 bdscott
|> -rw-rw-r-- 1 brscott mail 330441 Sep 2 21:00 brscott
|> drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jul 18 1998 bulletins
|> -rw-r----- 1 carol mail 1237 Aug 28 15:55 carol
|> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 17:29 root
|> -rw-r----- 1 webmaste mail 2985 Jul 21 22:02 webmaster
|>
|> Do you know the correct ownerships for these directories (they were
|> reinstalled from a backup). Also any other ideas why it is still
giving
|> the error?
|>
|> -Br-
|>
|> ---Old Message---
|>
|> From: Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
|> Subject: RE: qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
|> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:12:30 +0100
|>
|> It's telling you that it can't open (or create) your .pop file,
which is
|> usually /var/mail/.username.pop.
|>
|> Check to make sure that your users have relevant permission to
write to
|> this
|> directory, or create another temporary directory that can be used
by
|> Qpopper - say, /usr/popdrop - and define this in config.h at the
POP_DROP
|> option.... don't know if you can do this with the RPM's though.
|>
|> Steven Fletcher
|> stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk
|>
|>
|>
|
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:52:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Subject: RE: Outlook Express and APOP
Well QPopper is a POP3 server, but APOP is the secure authentication part
of the Pop3 RFC. It encrypts the password so that it's not plainly
visible over the network. At least that's my understanding ofit.
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
> I though Qpopper was a POP3 server. Can't you just set Outlook to POP3 ? I
> am very curious because I was debating using qpopper.
>
> paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gart Nixon [mailto:gart at starwolf dot org]
> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:23 PM
> > To: Subscribers of Qpopper
> > Subject: Outlook Express and APOP
> >
> >
> > Would anyone have directions or tips on how to make OE use APOP to access
> > the qpopper server?
> >
> > -Gart
> >
> >
> >
>
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 06:48:59 +1200 (NZST)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: RE: Qpopper
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Steven Fletcher wrote:
> > chmod 775 /var/spool/mail (or whatever your mail directory is).
>
> This is correct. If yout change the ownership of /var/spool/mail to be
> root:mail, and add all users that you want to be able to read mail to the
> "mail" group, then you should have no problems in the future when people
> need to write to their mailspools.
It's better to use chmod 1777
AB
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm at nickellson dot com>
Subject: RE: Outlook Express and APOP
I once asked Whistle Inc this question. They said that you select the
"authenticaion" box to get it to work with APOP however, it uses the name
and password of the windows login, NOT the login specified in the user
account for OE.. Real hookey, but I tested it and they seem to be right.
Makes it REAL tough if you have multiple accounts.
Anyway, that is what I had found out, any one else?
Nick
--
"Seek first to understand, then be understood."
Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm at nickellson dot com>
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Gart Nixon wrote:
> Well QPopper is a POP3 server, but APOP is the secure authentication part
> of the Pop3 RFC. It encrypts the password so that it's not plainly
> visible over the network. At least that's my understanding ofit.
>
> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
>
> > I though Qpopper was a POP3 server. Can't you just set Outlook to POP3 ? I
> > am very curious because I was debating using qpopper.
> >
> > paul
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gart Nixon [mailto:gart at starwolf dot org]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:23 PM
> > > To: Subscribers of Qpopper
> > > Subject: Outlook Express and APOP
> > >
> > >
> > > Would anyone have directions or tips on how to make OE use APOP to access
> > > the qpopper server?
> > >
> > > -Gart
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:16:23 -0500
From: Gael MARTINEZ <mgc at mgc.spacestar dot net>
Subject: qpopper and MYSQL
Hi,
I just subscribed to this list, I wanted know if any patch was existing
to authenticate users with a mysql base and for example no specific uid
for mail boxes.
Regards
Gael
--
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Spacestar Communications, Inc.
Dial-up to DS-3 Serving - MN WI ND MI IL
www.spacestar.net / Fax (612) 996-0123
From: Ben Heilman <office1 at enter dot net>
Subject: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:28:07 -0400
Hello all,
It appears to me that some bug exists in the code for qpopper v2.53,
involving have both server-mode and bulletins compiled in. The will crash
qpopper when the following conditions occur:
The user does not have a maildrop file yet. (i.e. /var/mail/user)
The user do not had a key in the bulldb.db file. (e.g. yet to use pop)
And there is a new bulletin.
The crash appear to be caused by an invalid memory pointer to "mp" in
the function "CopyOneBull" in "pop_bull.c". Access to mp at line 333 crashs
qpopper.
pop_bull.c line 333:
mp->number = msg_num;
I have tried to find some patch for this, in both list archives and
www, but have found nothing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
Enter.net - "The Road To The Internet Starts Here!"
Ben Heilman - Systems Administration office1 at enter dot net
From: Alexey Melnikov <Alexey.Melnikov at MessagingDirect dot com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:08:03 -0600
Subject: RE: Outlook Express and APOP
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Nickolas Ray Ellson
<grimm at nickellson dot com> wrote:
> I once asked Whistle Inc this question. They said that you select the
> "authenticaion" box to get it to work with APOP however, it uses the name
> and password of the windows login, NOT the login specified in the user
> account for OE.. Real hookey, but I tested it and they seem to be right.
> Makes it REAL tough if you have multiple accounts.
>
> Anyway, that is what I had found out, any one else?
Server that supports both USER/PASS (clear text password
authentication) and APOP commands may have different username/password
pairs for these commands.
To the best of my knowledge, Outlook Express doesn't support APOP.
http://www.demo.ru/homerus/mail/SASL_ClientRef.html
Let me know if it is not true (send me OE version number in this case).
Also See below
>
> Nick
>
> --
> "Seek first to understand, then be understood."
> Nickolas Ray Ellson <grimm at nickellson dot com>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Gart Nixon wrote:
>
> > Well QPopper is a POP3 server, but APOP is the secure authentication part
> > of the Pop3 RFC. It encrypts the password so that it's not plainly
> > visible over the network. At least that's my understanding ofit.
This is absolutely true. APOP is not a separate protocol, it is
authentication extension to POP3 protocol.
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
> >
> > > I though Qpopper was a POP3 server. Can't you just set Outlook to POP3 ? I
> > > am very curious because I was debating using qpopper.
> > >
> > > paul
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Gart Nixon [mailto:gart at starwolf dot org]
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:23 PM
> > > > To: Subscribers of Qpopper
> > > > Subject: Outlook Express and APOP
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Would anyone have directions or tips on how to make OE use APOP to access
> > > > the qpopper server?
> > > >
> > > > -Gart
-------------------
Alexey Melnikov
mel at messagingdirect dot com
* This e-mail message was sent with Execmail V5.0 *
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 22:11:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: P O O P I E <poopie at jeeves.poopie dot net>
Subject: qpopper won't start....
I just installed FreeBSD 3.2
I have sendmail running and working.
I compiled qpopper and ran it. When I run it from inet.conf, it won't run.
I can't telnet servername 110. Which usually will connect if it's running.
Knowing this I started it manyally /usr/local/libexec/popper popper
still nothing, but I do get an error in the /var/log/messages log file
Sep 3 21:51:23 jeeves /usr/local/libexec/popper[2897]: Unable to obtain
socket and address of client, err = 38
I went to /usr/ports/mail/popper and ran deinstall and reinstall...
Still nothing.
I even downloaded the binary and installed it, but still nothing....
can anyone help?
thanx in advance...
[P]
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:12:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gart Nixon <gart at starwolf dot org>
Subject: RE: Outlook Express and APOP
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Nickolas Ray Ellson wrote:
> I once asked Whistle Inc this question. They said that you select the
> "authenticaion" box to get it to work with APOP however, it uses the name
> and password of the windows login, NOT the login specified in the user
> account for OE.. Real hookey, but I tested it and they seem to be right.
> Makes it REAL tough if you have multiple accounts.
>
> Anyway, that is what I had found out, any one else?
>
> Nick
Can you tell me where that Authentication box is, I don't see one
except the SPA and that doesn't seem to work in any situation.
--Gart
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:59:34 +0200
From: Jesus Cea Avion <jcea at argo dot es>
Subject: Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode
> It appears to me that some bug exists in the code for qpopper v2.53,
> involving have both server-mode and bulletins compiled in. The will
> crash qpopper when the following conditions occur:
You are right. I found the very same problem a year ago.
Try http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/qpopper2.htm.
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From: Ben Heilman <recon at enter dot net>
Subject: Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode (fwd)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:59:07 -0400
> > It appears to me that some bug exists in the code for qpopper v2.53,
> > involving have both server-mode and bulletins compiled in. The will
> > crash qpopper when the following conditions occur:
>
> You are right. I found the very same problem a year ago.
>
> Try http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/qpopper2.htm.
Yes, I have viewed your patch. Unfortunately, it no longer works
with qpopper v2.53. However, I did use it as a guide for a new patch for
qpopper. This patch will create a zero length maildrop file for a user, if
that user does not have one already, and then proceed as normal. If there are
any flaws with this method, please let me know.
Also available at: http://www.enter.net/~recon/patches/server_bull.patch
*** pop_dropcopy.c.orig Sat Sep 4 14:10:38 1999
--- pop_dropcopy.c Sat Sep 4 17:08:33 1999
***************
*** 965,972 ****
dfd = mfd;
}
! }
!
/* Recalculate offset */
(void)fseek(p->drop, 0L, SEEK_END);
offset = ftell(p->drop);
--- 965,1007 ----
dfd = mfd;
}
! }
! #ifdef BULLDIR
! else if (p->server_mode) {
! /* Since Bulletins are appended to the real maildrop (mfd)
! a blank mail drop file will have very bad results, plus
! if the MailInfoList is not setup, pop_bull.c causes major
! problems */
! // create maildrop file (mfd)
! if ((mfd = open(p->drop_name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
! S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)) == -1) {
! // Creation failed, this is bad
! return pop_msg(p,POP_FAILURE, "open: '%s' : %s (%d)", p->drop_name,
! (errno < sys_nerr) ? sys_errlist[errno] : "", errno);
! goto bailout;
! } else { //everything cool so for
! /* Lock the maildrop */
! if (flock (mfd,LOCK_EX) == -1) {
! (void)close(mfd) ;
! MAILUNLOCK();
! return pop_msg(p,POP_FAILURE, "flock: '%s': %s (%d)", p->drop_name,
! (errno < sys_nerr) ? sys_errlist[errno] : "", errno);
! goto bailout;
! }
! /* Save the temporary drop FILE and fid values */
! p->hold = p->drop;
! if ((p->drop = fdopen(mfd,"r+")) == NULL) {
! pop_msg(p,POP_FAILURE,"Cannot assign stream for %s (%d)",
! p->drop_name, errno);
! goto bailout;
! }
! // get message info, even though there is nothing there
! if (init_dropinfo(p) != POP_SUCCESS)
! goto bailout;
! dfd = mfd;
! }
! }
! #endif
/* Recalculate offset */
(void)fseek(p->drop, 0L, SEEK_END);
offset = ftell(p->drop);
--
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 15:20:15 +0100
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: Qpopper v2.53 bulletins and server-mode (fwd)
At 16:59 04/09/99 -0400, Ben Heilman wrote:
>> > It appears to me that some bug exists in the code for qpopper v2.53,
>> > involving have both server-mode and bulletins compiled in. The will
>> > crash qpopper when the following conditions occur:
>>
>> You are right. I found the very same problem a year ago.
>>
>> Try http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/qpopper2.htm.
> Yes, I have viewed your patch. Unfortunately, it no longer works
>with qpopper v2.53. However, I did use it as a guide for a new patch for
>qpopper. This patch will create a zero length maildrop file for a user, if
>that user does not have one already, and then proceed as normal. If there
are
>any flaws with this method, please let me know.
Alternately just pass the O_CREAT flag to open when you try to open the
maildrop
*** qpopper/pop_dropcopy.c:1.1.1.1 Tue Apr 20 17:19:43 1999
--- qpopper/pop_dropcopy.c Tue Apr 20 17:30:16 1999
***************
*** 920,926 ****
#endif
/* Open the user's maildrop, If this fails, no harm in assuming
empty */
! if ((mfd = open(p->drop_name, O_RDWR)) > 0) {
/* Lock the maildrop */
if (flock (mfd,LOCK_EX) == -1)
{
--- 920,926 ----
#endif
/* Open the user's maildrop, If this fails, no harm in assuming
empty */
! if ((mfd = open(p->drop_name, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0600)) > 0) {
/* Lock the maildrop */
if (flock (mfd,LOCK_EX) == -1)
{