The qpopper list archive ending on 7 Dec 1999
Topics covered in this issue include:
1. Re: POP-before-SMTP
Garlic <garlic at garlic dot com>
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:13:57 -0800
2. Re: POP-before-SMTP
Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie dot com>
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 17:29:56 -0500
3. Qpopper 3.0b23 available
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:46:30 -0800
4. Re: reason for "-ERR POP EOF received"
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:56:51 -0800
5. Re: stats in SYSLOG
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:58:58 -0800
6. Re: Compile error with b21 and b22.
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:08:26 -0800
7. Re: More on canonical
Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:11:49 -0800
8. Re: Qpopper 3.0b22 and PAM patch?
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:09:09 -0800
9. Re: POP-before-SMTP
Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:18:05 +0100 (MET)
10. Re: POP-before-SMTP
Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie dot com>
Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:15:04 -0500
11. trouble with make and configure
hypnose at t-online dot de (guenter wessling)
Sat, 04 Dec 1999 18:35:47 +0100
12. Reinstall woes
"Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:06:07 -0500
13. Re: Reinstall woes
Mike Hendrix <mike at logical dot net>
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:25:32 -0500 (EST)
14. quota-problem
Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at bnbt dot de>
Sat, 04 Dec 1999 23:42:14 +0100
15. Re: Reinstall woes
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 01:07:11 +0000
16. Re: quota-problem
Randall Gellens <randy at pensive dot org>
Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:37:04 -0800
17. Re: quota-problem
Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:01:18 +0100 (MET)
18. Re: quota-problem
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 02:29:55 +1300 (NZDT)
19. Re: Reinstall woes
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 03:29:20 +1300 (NZDT)
20. Re: Reinstall woes
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 15:31:06 +0000
21. Re: quota-problem
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:40:50 +1300 (NZDT)
22. Re: quota-problem
Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:50:26 +0100 (MET)
23. Re: quota-problem
Wayne Heming <wheming at hemnet.com dot au>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 06:09:42 +1100
24. re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
hypnose at t-online dot de (guenter wessling)
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 21:22:11 +0100
25. re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:28:55 +0100 (MET)
26. re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:15:58 +1300 (NZDT)
27. can't configure
"Webmaster" <webmaster at rabun dot net>
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:57:46 -0500
28. Re: can't configure
Tom Zeltwanger <MailList at ename dot com>
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:05:03 -0500
29. an other session active ?
boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:22 +0000
30. Re: stats in SYSLOG
"Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:30:03 -0600
31. Re: stats in SYSLOG
Eric Luyten <eluyten at vub.ac dot be>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:06:41 +0100 (MET)
32. Upgrading QPopper from 2.2 to 2.53
Karyn McCambridge <karynm at afb dot net>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:11:05 -0500
33. Still having problems with .user.pop
"Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:20:11 -0500
34. Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
"Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:21:49 -0600
35. qpopper on larger systems...
robert rotman <rotman at inode dot at>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:59:19 +0100 (CET)
36. Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
"Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:48:37 -0500
37. logging
Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at bnbt dot de>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:08:53 +0100
38. Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
"Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:39:30 -0600
39. Re: qpopper on larger systems...
"Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:00:20 -0600
40. Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
"Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:49:38 -0500
41. Re: qpopper on larger systems...
"Phil Z." <philz at tisd dot net>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 15:43:56 -0600
42. Re: stats in SYSLOG
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:41:16 -0800
43. Re: qpopper on larger systems...
Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:46:13 -0800
44. qpopper3.0b23 RPM spec file available
"Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:29:48 -0800 (PST)
45. Duplication of messages in mailbox
Thomas Sit <tsit at study.ouhk.edu dot hk>
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:35:03 +0800 (HKT)
46. Re: Duplication of messages in mailbox
"Gary" <gary at ibms.ibms.sinica.edu dot tw>
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:59:19 +0800
47. qpopper and multi-part messages in MIME format
"Alexander Kozlov" <avk at ttk.jar dot ru>
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:36:49 +1000
48. Re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
"James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:26:01 -0600
49. Fwd: Re: an other session active ?
boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:15 +0000
50. i still have a prblem with .user.pop
boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:50 +0000
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:13:57 -0800
From: Garlic <garlic at garlic dot com>
Subject: Re: POP-before-SMTP
DRAC is certainly a much better way to go than scanning logs perioidcally. I
couldn't get it to work on my systems though :-(
I would like to see qpopper and imap output a simple UDP packet to a server
that can then update the database.
Tomasz Orzechowski wrote:
> Look ad DRAC, at http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/
> Perhaps this is what you want. And it looks promising from the
> pages, haven't tried it in a production environment, but will soon...
>
> Julien Nadeau wrote on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:04:15AM -0400:i
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been working on a simple POP-before-SMTP implementation for QPopper
> > 3.0b22,
> > it basically writes an 'ipaddress RELAY # user=username client=hostname'
> > line to
> > a file (can be specified with configure option). For those who don't
> > know what
> > POP-before-SMTP is about, it basically allows users who authenticated
> > via POP3
> > to use the mail server as a relay (= sending mail to an external address
> > using
> > the local mail exchanger) -- particularly for ISP's, this can be a good
> > help at
> > eliminating SPAM, and also the commented out section can help tracking
> > down local
> > spammers.
> >
> > A script can then take these entries and add them to whatever access
> > database the
> > MTA is using.
> >
> > Anyone here interested? Was this done before? (specifically for
> > QPopper, I know there
> > are other POP-before-SMTP implementations out there but they're not
> > flexible or secure
> > enough).
> >
> >
> > -- Julien Nadeau
> > POC Research, CubeSoft Communications
>
> --
> Tomasz Orzechowski tmo at apk dot net
> APK.net systems administration team TO630
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 17:29:56 -0500
From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie dot com>
Subject: Re: POP-before-SMTP
Perhaps we'd solve the DB access issue by going with another database method.
There are some good hacks to include mysql access to sendmail -- no reason
why that couldn't be accomplished (and it would offer more flexibility).
At 02:13 PM 12/3/99 -0800, Garlic wrote:
>DRAC is certainly a much better way to go than scanning logs perioidcally. I
>couldn't get it to work on my systems though :-(
>
>I would like to see qpopper and imap output a simple UDP packet to a server
>that can then update the database.
>
>
>Tomasz Orzechowski wrote:
>
> > Look ad DRAC, at http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/
> > Perhaps this is what you want. And it looks promising from the
> > pages, haven't tried it in a production environment, but will soon...
> >
> > Julien Nadeau wrote on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:04:15AM -0400:i
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been working on a simple POP-before-SMTP implementation for QPopper
> > > 3.0b22,
> > > it basically writes an 'ipaddress RELAY # user=username client=hostname'
> > > line to
> > > a file (can be specified with configure option). For those who don't
> > > know what
> > > POP-before-SMTP is about, it basically allows users who authenticated
> > > via POP3
> > > to use the mail server as a relay (= sending mail to an external address
> > > using
> > > the local mail exchanger) -- particularly for ISP's, this can be a good
> > > help at
> > > eliminating SPAM, and also the commented out section can help tracking
> > > down local
> > > spammers.
> > >
> > > A script can then take these entries and add them to whatever access
> > > database the
> > > MTA is using.
> > >
> > > Anyone here interested? Was this done before? (specifically for
> > > QPopper, I know there
> > > are other POP-before-SMTP implementations out there but they're not
> > > flexible or secure
> > > enough).
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Julien Nadeau
> > > POC Research, CubeSoft Communications
> >
> > --
> > Tomasz Orzechowski tmo at apk dot net
> > APK.net systems administration team TO630
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:46:30 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Qpopper 3.0b23 available
Qpopper 3.0b23 is available at
<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/popper/>.
Changes from 3.0b22 to 3.0b23
-----------------------------
1. Added DEBUGGING macro to avoid #ifdef DEBUG.
2. Added --enable-shy ./configure flag to hide qpopper's version number
in the banner and CAPA IMPLEMENTATION tag.
3. genpath() was only emitting certain trace calls when '-t file' command-line
switch used, not '-d'.
4. Added #ifndef SEEK_SET #define SEEK_SET 0 for systems where SEEK_SET is not
defined by usual includes.
5. mmangle/mime.c includes unistd.h if present.
6. Corrected/clarified some text in INSTALL and README.
7. Fixed typo in error message in popper/pop_apop.c.
8. 'UIDL x' no longer generates incorrect response when UID contains '%'.
10. Man pages renamed from *.8.in to *.8.
11. Added POP* parameter to tgets and myfgets.
12. Added logging for I/O errors and discarded input to myfgets.
13. Added errno to POP EOF -ERR message.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:56:51 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: reason for "-ERR POP EOF received"
At 8:25 PM +0100 12/1/99, Dominik Brettnacher wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> what is, in general, the reason for getting the "-ERR POP EOF received"
> message from qpopper?
This indicates that the client closed the connection without issuing
a QUIT and waiting for the response, or the connection was closed for
some other reason (such as a network error) or some other I/O error
occurred.
Qpopper3.0b23 includes extra diagnostics for this. Add the
'--enable-debugging' flag to './configure', and add '-t logfile' to
the inetd.conf line which invokes qpopper. The logfile will contain
details on what happened.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:58:58 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: stats in SYSLOG
At 11:57 AM -0800 12/1/99, Reese wrote:
> My SYSLOG file gets the following line every time someone checks their
> email. I don't really need this info. Any ideas on how to turn it off?
>
> Dec 1 11:53:15 5Q:servername popper[139462]: Stats: username 1 4486 0 0
>
> Reese
It's the '-s' flag in the inetd.conf line which invokes qpopper. See
the INSTALL file for information on the command-line flags.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:08:26 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Compile error with b21 and b22.
At 5:00 PM -0800 12/1/99, Garlic wrote:
> Tried both b21 and b22 today. Compile error shows as
>
> cc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -I../common -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DAIX -DUNIX pop_dropcopy.c -o pop_dropcopy.o
> "../common/maillock.h", line 40.7: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> "../common/maillock.h", line 41.10: 1506-030 (S) Identifier user cannot
> be redeclared.
> make: The error code from the last command is 1.
>
>
> System is AIX 4.3.2.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on what the syntax error could be?
Which compiler are you using? Lines 40 and 41 only get compiled if
__STDC__ is not defined, meaning k&r C should be used instead of ANSI
C. If your compiler supports ANSI C, try adding -D__STDC__ to the
CFLAGS and see if that solves the problem.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:11:49 -0800
From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: More on canonical
At 2:06 PM -0500 12/3/99, Steve Lincoln wrote:
> Greetings again,
>
> I implemented some of the changes suggested and made sure that the hosts
> file was correct which it was. Also, qpopper can indeed access the dns
> server since it is set to access the one outside our firewall. (two dns,
> one internal one external). However the error messages still occur,
> every minute and a half or so. Would it be worth my time to upgrade to
> the newest 3.0? Or is there something else to look for? I don't know if
> I follow this reverse dns lookup? anyone able to help.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
Qpopper 3.0 does include the IP address of the client in the error
message, which may help.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:09:09 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: Qpopper 3.0b22 and PAM patch?
At 1:07 PM +1100 12/2/99, Jonathan Benson wrote:
> Also can someone from the development team reply with why the PAM patch
> wasn't worked back in to the main distribution with b19? I was told
> some time ago that it would be.
It's on the to-do list.
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:18:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Carrer Yuri <yurj at dns.alfa dot it>
Subject: Re: POP-before-SMTP
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Perhaps we'd solve the DB access issue by going with another database method.
>
> There are some good hacks to include mysql access to sendmail -- no reason
> why that couldn't be accomplished (and it would offer more flexibility).
Why not ldap? :)
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:15:04 -0500
From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie dot com>
Subject: Re: POP-before-SMTP
I've never been able to figure out how to minimally USE ldap... it seems
way too overkill.
At 09:18 AM 12/4/99 +0100, Carrer Yuri wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we'd solve the DB access issue by going with another database
> method.
> >
> > There are some good hacks to include mysql access to sendmail -- no reason
> > why that couldn't be accomplished (and it would offer more flexibility).
>
> Why not ldap? :)
>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 18:35:47 +0100
Subject: trouble with make and configure
From: hypnose at t-online dot de (guenter wessling)
Hi.
Just in case this is of public interest -
mailed to develop-admin already.
--------------------
Thanks for the help.
You were absolutely right - better not unzip or untar on Winboxes.
But still problems with 30b23:
./configure from base dir (not/popper) with options
--enable-debug --enable-bulletin.... --enable-popauth...=
--enable-specialauth
ran almost allright;
first line of output was
./configure: error: command nor found
but then it went through the config procedure;
created Makefiles (several).
----
question: I don´t have to do ./configure in /popper directory, do I ?
----
I then changed the defs option in /popper/Makefile to
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DAUTH -DBULLDB -DBULLDIR=\"/var/spool/bulls\"
-DNONAUTHFILE=\"/etc/nonauthfile.popper\" -DAPOP=\"/etc/pop.auth\"
-DPOPUID=\"pop\" -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
(all in one line, of course).
Make (in base dir again) produced lots of action, and in the end it said
pop_bull.c: In function `pop_bull´:
pop:bull.c:172: `LOCK_EX´ undeclared (first use this function)
pop_bull.c:179: `LOCK_UN´ undeclared
make(1): *** (pop-bull.o) Error 1
make(1): leaving directory `/qpopper30b23/popper´
make: (popper_server) Error 2.
No popper created, no popauth created.
I had done some changes in configure.in:
as my system does symbolic link to "/usr/spool/mail" (which I wanted to get
around)
I deleted the search for this (configure.in, lines 227-232 deleted):
I wanted /var/spool/mail as being found and defined.
While configure, system YET said "found /usr/spool/mail"
--> then in Makefile DBULLDIR is defined as /var/spool/bulls.
Does this cause the trouble ? Should I just leave /usr/spool/mail as
default and
do defs -DBULDIR=\"/usr/spool/mail\" ?
Or do I have to define the defs "-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DAUTH -DBULLDB ........."
in all Makefiles of the different directories ?
Maybe both ?
Sorry for keeping you busy.
guenter
From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Subject: Reinstall woes
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:06:07 -0500
Hi Folks,,
I have a problem asnd I need to solve it fast. I'm running a Free BSD box
that is used for customer E-mail for my ISP. I encountered a serious problem
with the Perl on the system which eventually caused me to have to reinstall
the Free BSD. Afterwards I tried to get popper working again.
I couldn't, so I went into the ports /ports/mail/popper, did a make
distclean, then reFTP'ed in qpopper2.53 and did a ./configure and a make. It
still doesn't work. The error message I get in OutLook Express is:
There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
rejected. Account: 'jellico.net', Server: 'jellico.net', Protocol: POP3,
Server Response: '-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own
it?', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number:
0x800CCC92
That error message is repeated on the console that is attached to the FBSD
box along with another error message:
Unable to open temporary mail drop /var/mail/.lisa.pop Permission denied.
According to qpopper's home page, this means that the permissions on the
spool directory are incorrect, but I don't know what they should be. I've
changed the permissions on the /var/spool directory to give read, write and
execute permission to root, group and all. The owner of the directory is
root, the group is wheel. It still doesn't work and I have customers who
cannot access their mail.
Please help.
Lisa Casey
Interstate 2000, Inc.
lisa at jellico dot com
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:25:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Hendrix <mike at logical dot net>
Subject: Re: Reinstall woes
Try setting your permissions on /var/mail to be 1777. I ran into this
once and this solved it.
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi Folks,,
>
> I have a problem asnd I need to solve it fast. I'm running a Free BSD box
> that is used for customer E-mail for my ISP. I encountered a serious problem
> with the Perl on the system which eventually caused me to have to reinstall
> the Free BSD. Afterwards I tried to get popper working again.
>
> I couldn't, so I went into the ports /ports/mail/popper, did a make
> distclean, then reFTP'ed in qpopper2.53 and did a ./configure and a make. It
> still doesn't work. The error message I get in OutLook Express is:
>
> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
> rejected. Account: 'jellico.net', Server: 'jellico.net', Protocol: POP3,
> Server Response: '-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own
> it?', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number:
> 0x800CCC92
>
> That error message is repeated on the console that is attached to the FBSD
> box along with another error message:
>
> Unable to open temporary mail drop /var/mail/.lisa.pop Permission denied.
>
> According to qpopper's home page, this means that the permissions on the
> spool directory are incorrect, but I don't know what they should be. I've
> changed the permissions on the /var/spool directory to give read, write and
> execute permission to root, group and all. The owner of the directory is
> root, the group is wheel. It still doesn't work and I have customers who
> cannot access their mail.
>
> Please help.
>
> Lisa Casey
> Interstate 2000, Inc.
> lisa at jellico dot com
>
>
>
>
-----------------------------------------------
Michael Hendrix mike at logical dot net
Systems Engineer
Logical Net / Capital Net (518) 292-4509
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 23:42:14 +0100
From: Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at bnbt dot de>
Subject: quota-problem
Hallo,
I have this problem:
+OK QPOP (version 3.0b22) at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de starting.
<2121.944332409 at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
user ******
+OK Password required for tr1046.
pass ********
-ERR Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded (49)
+OK Pop server at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de signing off.
The user has a soft limit of 9 MB and a hard limit of 10 MB. What can I
do to solve this problem?
I have to give the users a quota because the other way our hard disk
would be too small ;-)
The mailfile in this specific problem was 6 MB.
thanks for all help in advance ;)
--
Ciao,
Gerhard
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that
would also stop you from doing clever things."
-Doug Gwyn
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 01:07:11 +0000
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: Reinstall woes
I think the correct solution is to change the group to mail and make sure
the permissions are 1775. Changing the permissions to 1777 means that any
user in the system is allowed to delete or create files in the spool
directory!
Of course there may be a particular significance to the wheel group under
FreeBSD and changing the group to something besides wheel might break
something else eg. delivery of mail into the spool files, but I don't know
diddly about BSD,
Fergal
At 16:25 04/12/99 -0500, Mike Hendrix wrote:
>Try setting your permissions on /var/mail to be 1777. I ran into this
>once and this solved it.
>
>On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Lisa Casey wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,,
>>
>> I have a problem asnd I need to solve it fast. I'm running a Free BSD box
>> that is used for customer E-mail for my ISP. I encountered a serious
problem
>> with the Perl on the system which eventually caused me to have to reinstall
>> the Free BSD. Afterwards I tried to get popper working again.
>>
>> I couldn't, so I went into the ports /ports/mail/popper, did a make
>> distclean, then reFTP'ed in qpopper2.53 and did a ./configure and a
make. It
>> still doesn't work. The error message I get in OutLook Express is:
>>
>> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
>> rejected. Account: 'jellico.net', Server: 'jellico.net', Protocol: POP3,
>> Server Response: '-ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own
>> it?', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number:
>> 0x800CCC92
>>
>> That error message is repeated on the console that is attached to the FBSD
>> box along with another error message:
>>
>> Unable to open temporary mail drop /var/mail/.lisa.pop Permission denied.
>>
>> According to qpopper's home page, this means that the permissions on the
>> spool directory are incorrect, but I don't know what they should be. I've
>> changed the permissions on the /var/spool directory to give read, write and
>> execute permission to root, group and all. The owner of the directory is
>> root, the group is wheel. It still doesn't work and I have customers who
>> cannot access their mail.
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Lisa Casey
>> Interstate 2000, Inc.
>> lisa at jellico dot com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>Michael Hendrix mike at logical dot net
>Systems Engineer
>Logical Net / Capital Net (518) 292-4509
>
>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:37:04 -0800
From: Randall Gellens <randy at pensive dot org>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
At 11:42 PM +0100 12/4/99, Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have this problem:
>
> +OK QPOP (version 3.0b22) at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de starting.
> <2121.944332409 at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
> user ******
> +OK Password required for tr1046.
> pass ********
> -ERR Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded (49)
> +OK Pop server at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de signing off.
>
> The user has a soft limit of 9 MB and a hard limit of 10 MB. What can I
> do to solve this problem?
> I have to give the users a quota because the other way our hard disk
> would be too small ;-)
> The mailfile in this specific problem was 6 MB.
If the spool is 6MB, the user needs a quota of 12MB.
If you use server mode, the spool file might not have to be copied at
all (if the user deletes everything, as many do, or leaves everything
on the server and nothing new has come in).
You could go in and delete old mail from the spool to get the file
size down to 5MB, which should get by the quota.
>
> thanks for all help in advance ;)
>
>
> --
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
>
> "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
> that
> would also stop you from doing clever things."
> -Doug Gwyn
I used to use an OS that stopped you from doing stupid things but
made it easy to do clever things.
--
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We cause accidents. --Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 11:01:18 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
Hallo,
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Randall Gellens wrote:
> > +OK QPOP (version 3.0b22) at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de starting.
> > <2121.944332409 at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
> > user ******
> > +OK Password required for tr1046.
> > pass ********
> > -ERR Unable to copy mail spool file, quota exceeded (49)
> > +OK Pop server at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet.de signing off.
> If the spool is 6MB, the user needs a quota of 12MB.
But how do I stop the user from getting a 10 MB mail then?
How do the big isps solve this?
There will always be users who get mail bigger than half of their quota.
Ciao,
Gerhard
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 02:29:55 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote:
> The user has a soft limit of 9 MB and a hard limit of 10 MB. What can I
> do to solve this problem?
Make the hard limit 20Mb.
> I have to give the users a quota because the other way our hard disk
> would be too small ;-)
I do the same thing for the same reason.
> The mailfile in this specific problem was 6 MB.
In server mode, if the user is leaving mail on the server, a temporary
dropfile is being created. This is the sme size as the existing mailbox
and should be deleted at the end of the session.
If you're not in server mode, the dropfile is created every time.
AB
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 03:29:20 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: Reinstall woes
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Fergal Daly wrote:
> I think the correct solution is to change the group to mail and make sure
> the permissions are 1775. Changing the permissions to 1777 means that any
> user in the system is allowed to delete or create files in the spool
> directory!
Not quite. 1777 is sticky bit. A user cannot delete files which don't
belong to them.
AB
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 15:31:06 +0000
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: Reinstall woes
At 03:29 06/12/99 +1300, Alan Brown wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Fergal Daly wrote:
>
>> I think the correct solution is to change the group to mail and make sure
>> the permissions are 1775. Changing the permissions to 1777 means that any
>> user in the system is allowed to delete or create files in the spool
>> directory!
>
>Not quite. 1777 is sticky bit. A user cannot delete files which don't
>belong to them.
oh yeah, sorry
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 04:40:50 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote:
> But how do I stop the user from getting a 10 MB mail then?
sendmail.cf
# maximum message size
O MaxMessageSize=10000000
Adjust to suit.
AB
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:50:26 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
Hallo,
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Alan Brown wrote:
> > But how do I stop the user from getting a 10 MB mail then?
>
> sendmail.cf
>
> # maximum message size
> O MaxMessageSize=10000000
>
> Adjust to suit.
Well, yes, thats right, but it was about the quota-problem. When the user
has 6 MB of mails, I can set his quota high. But settig the quota to 12MB
he might get 10 MB of mails, which results in setting the quota high to 20
MB and so on.
Ciao,
Gerhard
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 06:09:42 +1100
From: Wayne Heming <wheming at hemnet.com dot au>
Subject: Re: quota-problem
I solved this by having the temp mail file on a different partition than
the mail (answer came from this list)
/var/mail = mailbox directory quota 5mb
/usr/mail = temp mailbox directory quota 5mb
and all is well
Wayne
At 04:50 PM 05-12-99 +0100, Gerhard Pfeiffer wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Alan Brown wrote:
>
> > > But how do I stop the user from getting a 10 MB mail then?
> >
> > sendmail.cf
> >
> > # maximum message size
> > O MaxMessageSize=10000000
> >
> > Adjust to suit.
>
>Well, yes, thats right, but it was about the quota-problem. When the user
>has 6 MB of mails, I can set his quota high. But settig the quota to 12MB
>he might get 10 MB of mails, which results in setting the quota high to 20
>MB and so on.
>
>Ciao,
> Gerhard
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 21:22:11 +0100
Subject: re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
From: hypnose at t-online dot de (guenter wessling)
At 06:09 06.12.99 +1100, you wrote:
>I solved this by having the temp mail file on a different partition than
>the mail (answer came from this list)
>
>/var/mail = mailbox directory quota 5mb
>/usr/mail = temp mailbox directory quota 5mb
>
>and all is well
>
>Wayne
>
Hi.
This seems to be a good solution to the cat-bites-its-tail-quota-problem.
Hmmm. I have a symbolic link to /var/spool in /usr. Looks like "~spool".
Now: how can I possibly put /usr/spool to a different partition, when there
is only a symbolic link ?
As I discussed some time ago, popper seems not to care about the link.
While configuring, it works into /usr/spool.
But what is this link for ? Holding space free ?
And what happens if I create an explicit /usr/spool and kill the link ?
qpopper30 seems to give another solution to the quota problem. It allows to
create a different dir for the tmp.drops.
INSTALL says so, although I couldn´t really figure out how
- has anyone done this and can tell how ? Maybe I can leave the symbolic
link then.
guenter
:) have a nice day - alles Gute - :)
Guenter Wessling (hypnose at t-online dot de)
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- Westfaelische Gesellschaft fuer Hypnose -
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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:28:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at chlodomer.bayreuth.baynet dot de>
Subject: re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
Hallo,
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, guenter wessling wrote:
> qpopper30 seems to give another solution to the quota problem. It allows =
to
> create a different dir for the tmp.drops.
> INSTALL says so, although I couldn´t really figure out how
> - has anyone done this and can tell how ? Maybe I can leave the symbolic
> link then.
I did it right now ;)
I did it by editing config.h and changing the lines saying
#define POP_DROP "/dir/ec/tory/.%s.pop"
#define POP_TMPDROP "/dir/ec/tory/tmpXXXXXX"
#define POP_TMPXMIT "/dir/ec/tory/xmitXXXXXX"
Hope this helps...
Ciao,
Gerhard
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:15:58 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Brown <alan at manawatu.gen dot nz>
Subject: re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, guenter wessling wrote:
> This seems to be a good solution to the cat-bites-its-tail-quota-problem.
It works fairly well, but make sure there's enough space in the other
partition to handle the largest mailbox....
> qpopper30 seems to give another solution to the quota problem. It allows to
> create a different dir for the tmp.drops.
qpopper 2.x can do this too. You just need to edit config.h
It's a good idea to do this if there are more than 500 user accounts in
any case. The more files there are in /var/spool/mail/, the slower
qpopper will start up.
AB
From: "Webmaster" <webmaster at rabun dot net>
Subject: can't configure
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:57:46 -0500
I had Qpopper running on a machine before, and had to re-partition due to
lack of space.
After startting over, I get this response when I run ./configure:
creating cache ./configure.cache
checking whether make sets ${}MAKE)...no
checking for gcc...no
checking for cc...no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
any ideas on why this will not install and configure ?
Thanks,
Ken
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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:05:03 -0500
From: Tom Zeltwanger <MailList at ename dot com>
Subject: Re: can't configure
>
>creating cache ./configure.cache
>checking whether make sets ${}MAKE)...no
>checking for gcc...no
>checking for cc...no
>configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
>
This says that you have no "C" compiler on the machine (at least in the
directories currently in your $PATH setting)
You need to have a path to a C compiler
Tom
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Subject: an other session active ?
From: boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:22 +0000
Hi all
I get the following error message:
AUTHORIZATION,PASS failed:
"-ERR /usr/mail/.websystem.pop lock busy! Is another session active?
(11)"
Can anyone help me
thank you.
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From: "Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Subject: Re: stats in SYSLOG
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:30:03 -0600
I know, I am the one that enabled it! :) The thing is, I don't understand
exactly /what/ stats it is giving me, in this part of the log I have :
Dec 1 11:53:15 5Q:servername popper[139462]: Stats: username 1 4486 0 0
But do not understand what the numbers mean behind the username, like this
user have a
1 then 4486 or something then 0 of the next item and 0 of even the next
item.
Is this how many times he has logged in though qpopper, how many byes he
downloaded in this session, the total amount of failed logins?
Thanks,
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
To: Reese <reese at oneserv.onecolor dot com>; Subscribers of Qpopper
<qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Cc: <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: stats in SYSLOG
> At 11:57 AM -0800 12/1/99, Reese wrote:
>
> > My SYSLOG file gets the following line every time someone checks their
> > email. I don't really need this info. Any ideas on how to turn it off?
> >
> > Dec 1 11:53:15 5Q:servername popper[139462]: Stats: username 1 4486 0
0
> >
> > Reese
>
> It's the '-s' flag in the inetd.conf line which invokes qpopper. See
> the INSTALL file for information on the command-line flags.
>
Subject: Re: stats in SYSLOG
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:06:41 +0100 (MET)
From: Eric Luyten <eluyten at vub.ac dot be>
> I know, I am the one that enabled it! :) The thing is, I don't understand
> exactly /what/ stats it is giving me, in this part of the log I have :
>
> Dec 1 11:53:15 5Q:servername popper[139462]: Stats: username 1 4486 0 0
>
> But do not understand what the numbers mean behind the username, like this
> user have a
> 1 then 4486 or something then 0 of the next item and 0 of even the next
> item.
>
> Is this how many times he has logged in though qpopper, how many byes he
> downloaded in this session, the total amount of failed logins?
From doc/Release.Notes (Qpopper 2.53) :
Added a -s command line option to generate statistics messages in
the log. One message is issued for each session:
Stats: username aaa bbb ccc ddd
where:
aaa = number of messages deleted.
bbb = number of bytes deleted.
ccc = number of messages left on server.
ddd = number of bytes left on server.
Eric.
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:11:05 -0500
From: Karyn McCambridge <karynm at afb dot net>
Subject: Upgrading QPopper from 2.2 to 2.53
I have a SUN OS 5.6 Server with all of the Y2K Sun patches installed and am
about to upgrade my Qpopper to 2.5.3 from version 2.2. I am using shadow
passwords in addition to NIS Plus.
Can anybody give me any helpful information on what I may run into?
Thanks - Karyn
From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Subject: Still having problems with .user.pop
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:20:11 -0500
Hi Folks,
I posted to this list on Saturday about a problem I was having with qpopper
giving me the error message: Can't open temporary file, do you own it? the
answer I got was to chmod 1777 /var/mail
That worked, the problem was solved. However I think I may have screwed some
things up again,, it quit working and now gives me the same error message.
The permissions I currently have set are:
i2000# cd /var
i2000# ls -l
total 18
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 account
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 at
drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 4 02:00 backups
drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 crash
drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 cron
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 db
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root operator 512 Oct 5 15:59 ftp
drwxrwxr-x 5 root games 512 Sep 28 11:42 games
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Dec 6 13:00 log
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 6 13:08 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 512 May 17 1999 msgs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 preserve
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 6 11:55 run
drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 512 May 17 1999 rwho
drwxr-xr-x 10 root bin 512 May 17 1999 spool
drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Dec 4 12:55 tmp
drwx------ 2 root bin 512 Dec 1 13:15 webmin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 yp
i2000# cd mail
i2000# ls -l
total 419
-rwx-----T 1 agibson mail 0 Nov 30 21:35 .agibson.pop
-rwx-----T 1 dave mail 0 Nov 30 22:26 .carolaj.pop
-rwx-----T 1 bubbie mail 0 Dec 2 09:06 .dar.pop
-rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
-rwx-----T 1 steve mail 0 Dec 4 18:59 .steve.pop
-rwx-----T 1 webmaster mail 0 Nov 30 17:27 .tony.pop
-rwx-----T 1 bubbie 1014 476 Nov 30 18:26 bubbie
-rwx-----T 1 dave dave 0 Nov 30 22:26 carolaj
-rwx-----T 1 dar dar 405142 Dec 6 13:08 dar
-rwx-----T 1 dave dave 3379 Oct 25 18:25 dave
-rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
-rwx-----T 1 1008 1008 488 Nov 30 17:22 mandy
-rwx-----T 1 root wheel 0 Oct 25 13:36 root
-rwx-----T 1 steve mail 922 Dec 6 11:26 steve
-rwx-----T 1 webmaster webmaster 0 Nov 30 17:27 tony
-rwx-----T 1 webmaster webmaster 464 Nov 30 16:16 webmaster
One quick question: what is the T for on the files in /var/mail? I thought
the sticky bit was only for directories?
I need to get this working again (and then I promise not to mess with
anything again!) :)
Please help...
Lisa Casey
From: "Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Subject: Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:21:49 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Casey <lisa at jellico dot com>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:20 AM
Subject: Still having problems with .user.pop
> Hi Folks,
>
> I posted to this list on Saturday about a problem I was having with
qpopper
> giving me the error message: Can't open temporary file, do you own it? the
> answer I got was to chmod 1777 /var/mail
> That worked, the problem was solved. However I think I may have screwed
some
> things up again,, it quit working and now gives me the same error message.
> The permissions I currently have set are:
>
> i2000# cd /var
> i2000# ls -l
> total 18
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 account
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 at
> drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 4 02:00 backups
> drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 crash
> drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 cron
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 db
> dr-xr-xr-x 6 root operator 512 Oct 5 15:59 ftp
> drwxrwxr-x 5 root games 512 Sep 28 11:42 games
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Dec 6 13:00 log
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 6 13:08 mail
> drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 512 May 17 1999 msgs
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 17 1999 preserve
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 6 11:55 run
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 512 May 17 1999 rwho
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root bin 512 May 17 1999 spool
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Dec 4 12:55 tmp
> drwx------ 2 root bin 512 Dec 1 13:15 webmin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 3 14:18 yp
>
>
> i2000# cd mail
> i2000# ls -l
> total 419
> -rwx-----T 1 agibson mail 0 Nov 30 21:35 .agibson.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 dave mail 0 Nov 30 22:26 .carolaj.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 bubbie mail 0 Dec 2 09:06 .dar.pop
> -rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 steve mail 0 Dec 4 18:59 .steve.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 webmaster mail 0 Nov 30 17:27 .tony.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 bubbie 1014 476 Nov 30 18:26 bubbie
> -rwx-----T 1 dave dave 0 Nov 30 22:26 carolaj
> -rwx-----T 1 dar dar 405142 Dec 6 13:08 dar
> -rwx-----T 1 dave dave 3379 Oct 25 18:25 dave
> -rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
> -rwx-----T 1 1008 1008 488 Nov 30 17:22 mandy
> -rwx-----T 1 root wheel 0 Oct 25 13:36 root
> -rwx-----T 1 steve mail 922 Dec 6 11:26 steve
> -rwx-----T 1 webmaster webmaster 0 Nov 30 17:27 tony
> -rwx-----T 1 webmaster webmaster 464 Nov 30 16:16 webmaster
>
>
> One quick question: what is the T for on the files in /var/mail? I thought
> the sticky bit was only for directories?
>
> I need to get this working again (and then I promise not to mess with
> anything again!) :)
>
> Please help...
>
> Lisa Casey
>
>
>
>
>
Lisa,
"T the 1000 bit is turned on, and execution
off (undefined bit-state)"
-- chmod man pages
To fix permissions on your mail files run the commands:
`su root`
`chmod 1777 /var/mail`
`chmod 0600 /var/mail/*`
The permissions /should/ be correct now on the mail directory and mail file.
Do you have any special seutp on your site where you are mounting the mail
directory from NFS or is it on a vfat (win32) drive that is being locally
(dual booting Linux users do this sometime, mount vfat drives is, they don't
ussually run mail off of em though..) My point is, that maybe it is mounted
read / write by root and read only for all the other users. Try this
commands when you are loged into your account and don't have rootly powers
`touch /var/mail/test.file`
`rm /var/mail/test.file`
If it works fine, the directory is properly setup, if it gives en error like
"Permission denied" or "Can not write to file" or any error message in
general the directory has either wrong premissions or is mounted wrong.
If you can run the commands without errors, then it is not a permission
problem, but an error somewhere else.
Check you quota to make sure that isn't the problem.
`quota -v username`
where username is your uid. It will output something like this
/export/home 0 2000 3000 0 0 0
/u1 608 5000 6000 1 10 15
basically make sure you have the right most value below (0 on /export/home
and 608 on /u1) is lower than the value to the left of it (2000 for
/export/home and 5000 /u1), if the value on the left is greater, then what
you have is a quota problem, write back to the list if that is the case.
(man quota)
If that is not the case do a
`ls -al | grep username`
where username is uid. If there is a ".username.pop" or a "username.lock"
file, delete both of them, do NOT delete the "username" file though, give
the mail server some time to "catch it's breath" then try again.
If that doesn't work, write back to the list with the complete error message
from qpopper.
Jack
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:59:19 +0100 (CET)
From: robert rotman <rotman at inode dot at>
Subject: qpopper on larger systems...
hy all,
i've installed qpopper3.018 on my server with approx. 20.000 connections
/day.
i've the message "pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated"
very often and so i installed xinetd.
now the xinetd blocks this connection an tis message did not apaer any
more.
but the connection of our users are rejected wicht is not the goal because
it is planned increase the number of users on this server.
As i read in the doc's multiple servers which are NFS mounted - are not
recomanded.
so what should i do?
robert
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From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Subject: Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:48:37 -0500
Hi Jack,
>To fix permissions on your mail files run the commands:
>
>`su root`
>
>`chmod 1777 /var/mail`
>
>`chmod 0600 /var/mail/*`
>
I've done that. These permissions currently look like:
(For /var/mail):
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 6 14:42 mail
(For /var/mail/*):
-rwx-----T 1 agibson mail 0 Nov 30 21:35 .agibson.pop
-rwx-----T 1 dave mail 0 Nov 30 22:26 .carolaj.pop
-rwx-----T 1 bubbie mail 0 Dec 2 09:06 .dar.pop
-rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
-rwx-----T 1 steve mail 0 Dec 4 18:59 .steve.pop
-rwx-----T 1 webmaster mail 0 Nov 30 17:27 .tony.pop
-rw------- 1 bubbie bubbie 476 Nov 30 18:26 bubbie
-rw------- 1 dave dave 0 Nov 30 22:26 carolaj
-rw------- 1 dar dar 410282 Dec 6 14:42 dar
-rw------- 1 dave dave 3379 Oct 25 18:25 dave
-rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
-rw------- 1 1008 1008 488 Nov 30 17:22 mandy
-rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 25 13:36 root
-rw------- 1 steve mail 922 Dec 6 11:26 steve
-rw------- 1 webmaster webmaster 0 Nov 30 17:27 tony
-rw------- 1 webmaster webmaster 464 Nov 30 16:16 webmaster
(I wonder why it retained the "T" for some files but not all)?
>Do you have any special seutp on your site where you are mounting the mail
>directory from NFS or is it on a vfat (win32) drive that is being locally
>(dual booting Linux users do this sometime, mount vfat drives is, they
don't
>ussually run mail off of em though..) My point is, that maybe it is
mounted
>read / write by root and read only for all the other users. Try this
>commands when you are loged into your account and don't have rootly powers
>
>`touch /var/mail/test.file`
>`rm /var/mail/test.file`
$ touch /var/mail/testf.file
touch: /var/mail/testf.file: Permission denied
Hmmm doesn't work. This is a Free BSD box, no other OS on it. Perhaps my
fstab file will help you understand how the drives are mounted. Wouldn't
this be the same as how the directories on the drive are mounted? (I'm
fairly new to FBSD).
i2000# more fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/wd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/wd0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
>
>If it works fine, the directory is properly setup, if it gives en error
like
>"Permission denied" or "Can not write to file" or any error message in
>general the directory has either wrong premissions or is mounted wrong.
>
>Check you quota to make sure that isn't the problem.
>
>`quota -v username`
>
It's not quota's, I haven't gotten as far as to set up quotas yet:
i2000# quota -v lisa
Disk quotas for user lisa (uid 1001): none
>If that is not the case do a
>
>`ls -al | grep username`
>
>where username is uid. If there is a ".username.pop" or a "username.lock"
>file, delete both of them, do NOT delete the "username" file though, give
>the mail server some time to "catch it's breath" then try again.
I've deleted the .lisa.pop file once, but I'll try it again:
i2000# ls -al | grep lisa
-rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
-rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
i2000# rm /var/mail/.lisa.pop
i2000# ls -al | grep lisa
-rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
After giving it awhile, still no luck.
>
>If that doesn't work, write back to the list with the complete error
message
>from qpopper.
OK, In Outlook Express I get:
There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your password was
rejected. Account: 'jellico.net', Server 'jellico.net', Protocol: POP3,
Server Response: '-ERR System Error: 'Can't open temporary file do you own
it?' Port 110, Secure (SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Nimber:
0x800CCC92
On the console which is hooked up to the FBSD box I get:
Dec 6 15:46:43 i2000 popper [601]: Unable to open temporary maildrop
'/var/mail/.lisa.pop' Permission Denied (13)
And also:
i2000 popper [602]: (V2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:08:53 +0100
From: Gerhard Pfeiffer <gp at bnbt dot de>
Subject: logging
Hallo,
Since some time ago, I had logs of qpopper in /var/log/syslog.
It was fine, every time a user logged into popper I saw the stats.
But since I installed qpopper 3.0b22 I don´t see these stats anymore.
Before I used qpopper 3.0b18 and it worked just fine.
The os is SunOS 5.7 on Sparc.
--
Ciao,
Gerhard
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that
would also stop you from doing clever things."
-Doug Gwyn
From: "Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Subject: Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:39:30 -0600
Lisa,
The /var slice is mounted with read / write premissions, that shouldn't be a
problem, quota's isn't the problem.
The thing that looks strange to me though, is that a normal user should be
able to `touch /var/mail/test.file` since /var/mail should have read and
write permissions by /ALL/ the users. Hrm, strange... run the command
`df -ak`
or if that doesn't work try
`df`
Basically what this does, it outputs disk information, what is mounted
where, how much is in use, how much is free, etc, etc.
It will say something like "avalib" or "free" for free space, go down a
little ways and line the "avalib" colums up with the "/var" row and that
will show you how much free space is left on the device, if it is %100
completely full, ever single byte in use, than that would be causeing the
touch error and the pop3 error. I don't think this is the case, but it is
worth checking since this isn't the typical problem :)
Does sending email to your users work fine or do you get an error that is
simplair to the pop3 error, like "premission denied" when you send?
Are you running qpopper from inetd or stand alone?
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Casey <lisa at jellico dot com>
To: Jack Barnett <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Cc: <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
> Hi Jack,
>
>
>
> >To fix permissions on your mail files run the commands:
> >
> >`su root`
> >
> >`chmod 1777 /var/mail`
> >
> >`chmod 0600 /var/mail/*`
> >
>
>
> I've done that. These permissions currently look like:
>
> (For /var/mail):
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 512 Dec 6 14:42 mail
>
> (For /var/mail/*):
>
> -rwx-----T 1 agibson mail 0 Nov 30 21:35 .agibson.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 dave mail 0 Nov 30 22:26 .carolaj.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 bubbie mail 0 Dec 2 09:06 .dar.pop
> -rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 steve mail 0 Dec 4 18:59 .steve.pop
> -rwx-----T 1 webmaster mail 0 Nov 30 17:27 .tony.pop
> -rw------- 1 bubbie bubbie 476 Nov 30 18:26 bubbie
> -rw------- 1 dave dave 0 Nov 30 22:26 carolaj
> -rw------- 1 dar dar 410282 Dec 6 14:42 dar
> -rw------- 1 dave dave 3379 Oct 25 18:25 dave
> -rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
> -rw------- 1 1008 1008 488 Nov 30 17:22 mandy
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 25 13:36 root
> -rw------- 1 steve mail 922 Dec 6 11:26 steve
> -rw------- 1 webmaster webmaster 0 Nov 30 17:27 tony
> -rw------- 1 webmaster webmaster 464 Nov 30 16:16 webmaster
>
> (I wonder why it retained the "T" for some files but not all)?
>
>
> >Do you have any special seutp on your site where you are mounting the
mail
> >directory from NFS or is it on a vfat (win32) drive that is being locally
> >(dual booting Linux users do this sometime, mount vfat drives is, they
> don't
> >ussually run mail off of em though..) My point is, that maybe it is
> mounted
> >read / write by root and read only for all the other users. Try this
> >commands when you are loged into your account and don't have rootly
powers
> >
> >`touch /var/mail/test.file`
> >`rm /var/mail/test.file`
>
>
> $ touch /var/mail/testf.file
> touch: /var/mail/testf.file: Permission denied
>
> Hmmm doesn't work. This is a Free BSD box, no other OS on it. Perhaps my
> fstab file will help you understand how the drives are mounted. Wouldn't
> this be the same as how the directories on the drive are mounted? (I'm
> fairly new to FBSD).
>
> i2000# more fstab
> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/wd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/wd0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
> /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
> proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
>
>
>
> >
> >If it works fine, the directory is properly setup, if it gives en error
> like
> >"Permission denied" or "Can not write to file" or any error message in
> >general the directory has either wrong premissions or is mounted wrong.
> >
> >Check you quota to make sure that isn't the problem.
> >
> >`quota -v username`
> >
>
>
> It's not quota's, I haven't gotten as far as to set up quotas yet:
>
> i2000# quota -v lisa
> Disk quotas for user lisa (uid 1001): none
>
> >If that is not the case do a
> >
> >`ls -al | grep username`
> >
> >where username is uid. If there is a ".username.pop" or a
"username.lock"
> >file, delete both of them, do NOT delete the "username" file though, give
> >the mail server some time to "catch it's breath" then try again.
>
>
> I've deleted the .lisa.pop file once, but I'll try it again:
>
> i2000# ls -al | grep lisa
> -rw------- 1 lisa mail 0 Dec 6 12:47 .lisa.pop
> -rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
>
> i2000# rm /var/mail/.lisa.pop
> i2000# ls -al | grep lisa
> -rw------- 1 lisa lisa 2838 Dec 6 02:11 lisa
>
> After giving it awhile, still no luck.
>
> >
> >If that doesn't work, write back to the list with the complete error
> message
> >from qpopper.
>
>
> OK, In Outlook Express I get:
>
> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your password was
> rejected. Account: 'jellico.net', Server 'jellico.net', Protocol: POP3,
> Server Response: '-ERR System Error: 'Can't open temporary file do you own
> it?' Port 110, Secure (SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Nimber:
> 0x800CCC92
>
> On the console which is hooked up to the FBSD box I get:
>
> Dec 6 15:46:43 i2000 popper [601]: Unable to open temporary maildrop
> '/var/mail/.lisa.pop' Permission Denied (13)
>
> And also:
>
> i2000 popper [602]: (V2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client, err =
0
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa Casey
>
>
>
>
>
From: "Jack Barnett" <jbarnett at axil.netmate dot com>
Subject: Re: qpopper on larger systems...
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:00:20 -0600
Would there be any way to 'split' your mail servers up? Have like 3-4 mail
servers, and 'split' up your users in some logical manner, have say the
class of 99 on server x.domain.org and the class of 00 on the y.domain.org
and the class of 01 on z.domain.org.
Then if a student from the class of 99 want to download his email, he would
point his pop3 server address to x.domain.org, etc, etc..
I bet you could play with Bind and Sendmail and get every mail sent to
user at domain.org forwarded to the correct user at x dot domain dot org (or where ever
his mail might live). If you couldn't do it on the DNS and SMTP level you
could always write a quick Perl script that would add the line
user at domain.org:user at x dot domain dot org
to your /etc/alaises file on the domain.org machine (provided you are
running Sendmail). In fact you could add the script to be called on the
backend of your add user script for your system..
I see 2 problems with this though.
1) you have to get manegment to allocate money for extra hardware (which can
be tough to impossiable depending on where you work :)
2) The sysadmin at the company (probably you) would have to maintain 3-4
more times the hardware, 3-4 times more times the software, take 3-4 times
longer to do security audits, then there is patch upgrades, etc, etc...
This way would and could work, but I am not saying it is the best way...
Jack
"There is more than one way to do things"
-- Larry Way (??)
----- Original Message -----
From: robert rotman <rotman at inode dot at>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:59 PM
Subject: qpopper on larger systems...
> hy all,
>
> i've installed qpopper3.018 on my server with approx. 20.000 connections
> /day.
> i've the message "pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated"
> very often and so i installed xinetd.
>
> now the xinetd blocks this connection an tis message did not apaer any
> more.
>
> but the connection of our users are rejected wicht is not the goal because
> it is planned increase the number of users on this server.
>
> As i read in the doc's multiple servers which are NFS mounted - are not
> recomanded.
>
>
> so what should i do?
>
>
> robert
>
>
> ---
> di. robert rotman inode.graz
> phone -> ++43-(0)316 811451 ++43-(0)316 811451 <- fax
> rotman at inode.at http://www.graz.inode dot at/
> --
> this letter was written on recycled bytes used by deleted mail.
>
>
>
From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa at jellico dot com>
Subject: Re: Still having problems with .user.pop
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:49:38 -0500
Hi Jack,
I agree, this is peculiar...
>The /var slice is mounted with read / write premissions, that shouldn't be
a
>problem, quota's isn't the problem.
>
>The thing that looks strange to me though, is that a normal user should be
>able to `touch /var/mail/test.file` since /var/mail should have read and
>write permissions by /ALL/ the users. Hrm, strange... run the command
>
>`df -ak`
>
>or if that doesn't work try
>
>`df`
i2000# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a 39647 26579 9897 73% /
/dev/wd0s1f 1427527 745677 567648 57% /usr
/dev/wd0s1e 19815 3398 14832 19% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
>
>Basically what this does, it outputs disk information, what is mounted
>where, how much is in use, how much is free, etc, etc.
>
>It will say something like "avalib" or "free" for free space, go down a
>little ways and line the "avalib" colums up with the "/var" row and that
>will show you how much free space is left on the device, if it is %100
>completely full, ever single byte in use, than that would be causeing the
>touch error and the pop3 error. I don't think this is the case, but it is
>worth checking since this isn't the typical problem :)
looks to me like the var slice is only at 19% of capacity, if I am reading
this right.
>
>Does sending email to your users work fine or do you get an error that is
>simplair to the pop3 error, like "premission denied" when you send?
I can send E-mail to users fine. I sent a test message to my manager and saw
the size of his /var/mail/username file increase accordingly. But I can't
retrieve the mail using Outlook Express with his account info set up, I get
the same errors as I do when I try to access my E-mail account on the Free
BSD box. And according to the error messages on the console, all users are
getting these errors.
>Are you running qpopper from inetd or stand alone?
It's run from inetd:
# example entry for the optional pop3 server
#
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/popper
popper
#
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 15:43:56 -0600
From: "Phil Z." <philz at tisd dot net>
Subject: Re: qpopper on larger systems...
In your inetd try something like this:
pop3 stream tcp nowait.200 <snip>
do a man of inetd for more info.
Best Regards
Phil Z.
robert rotman wrote:
>
> hy all,
>
> i've installed qpopper3.018 on my server with approx. 20.000 connections
> /day.
> i've the message "pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated"
> very often and so i installed xinetd.
>
> now the xinetd blocks this connection an tis message did not apaer any
> more.
>
> but the connection of our users are rejected wicht is not the goal because
> it is planned increase the number of users on this server.
>
> As i read in the doc's multiple servers which are NFS mounted - are not
> recomanded.
>
> so what should i do?
>
> robert
>
> ---
> di. robert rotman inode.graz
> phone -> ++43-(0)316 811451 ++43-(0)316 811451 <- fax
> rotman at inode.at http://www.graz.inode dot at/
> --
> this letter was written on recycled bytes used by deleted mail.
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:41:16 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: stats in SYSLOG
At 7:30 AM -0600 12/6/99, Jack Barnett wrote:
> Dec 1 11:53:15 5Q:servername popper[139462]: Stats: username 1 4486 0 0
>
> But do not understand what the numbers mean behind the username,
The numbers are per session. After the username are four numbers:
1: the number of messages which were deleted;
2: the number of bytes in those deleted messages;
3: the number of messages left on the server (number not deleted);
4: the size of the spool left on the server (the size of the
undeleted messages).
After the numbers there are two strings: the name and IP address of
the client system.
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:46:13 -0800
From: Qpopper Support <qpopper at qualcomm dot com>
Subject: Re: qpopper on larger systems...
At 7:59 PM +0100 12/6/99, robert rotman wrote:
> i've installed qpopper3.018 on my server with approx. 20.000 connections
> /day.
> i've the message "pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated"
See the Qpopper FAQ: What does the message "pop3/tcp server failing
(looping), service terminated" mean?
<http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop_faq.html#looping>
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at well dot com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:29:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: qpopper3.0b23 RPM spec file available
I've uploaded an RPM spec file and a source package for qpopper 3.0b23
to
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/qpopper2.99.23.spec
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/qpopper-2.99.23-1.src.rpm
Changes:
- Fixed --with_popuid typo (found by Elgin Lee).
- Remove .in from manual pages.
- Added new --enable-shy option to hide version number.
If you've already downloaded the tarball from Qualcomm, you just need
the spec file.
If you use this, please let me know of any successes or failures.
Ken
mailto:shiva at well dot com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
http://www.215Now.com/
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:35:03 +0800 (HKT)
From: Thomas Sit <tsit at study.ouhk.edu dot hk>
Subject: Duplication of messages in mailbox
Dear all,
We've found that the mails in our user mailbox are duplicated
after checking or deleting messages in some occassions. We are
using qpopper 2.53 (server-mode) in Solaris 2.5.1. Is there any
tunnings or methods to avoid this from happening ?
Regards,
Tom Sit
From: "Gary" <gary at ibms.ibms.sinica.edu dot tw>
Subject: Re: Duplication of messages in mailbox
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:59:19 +0800
I have the same problem before.
But this is not the qpopper's problem.
That can be:
1. sendmail's configuration problem:
eliminate the local mailer's flag "m" & change "A=mail.local ..."
to "A=mail ..."
2.some version of Pmail donot work fine.(Bug?)Just upgrade the Pmail or
using other MUA!
Hope this help!
Gary
> Dear all,
>
> We've found that the mails in our user mailbox are duplicated
> after checking or deleting messages in some occassions. We are
> using qpopper 2.53 (server-mode) in Solaris 2.5.1. Is there any
> tunnings or methods to avoid this from happening ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom Sit
>
>
>
>
>
From: "Alexander Kozlov" <avk at ttk.jar dot ru>
Subject: qpopper and multi-part messages in MIME format
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:36:49 +1000
Hi!
I have serious problem: couldn't get a messages from mailspool.
qpopper 3.0b23.
Anybody help me? Thanks.
--
Alexander Kozlov
[root@ttk data]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version ?) at ttk.jar.ru starting. <5138.944540536 at ttk.jar dot ru>
user avk
+OK Password required for avk.
pass **********
+OK avk has 4 messages (31017 octets).
retr 2
+OK Message follows
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From: "James Nelson" <james at digit.bloomnet dot com>
Subject: Re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 00:26:01 -0600
The single largest problem seen by any pop server is that the server
will become I/O bound on the disk under high load. Why not address
the quota issue and the performance issue all at the same time?
For improved performance, I would suggest having the two partitions on
separate drives entirely. Many folks are using RAID these days....
I would suggest keeping the important stuff on a mirrored disk, and
stuff like temp directories is on a single drive-- the faster the
better.
+ $.02
--James
-----Original Message-----
From: guenter wessling <hypnose at t-online dot de>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Date: Sunday, December 05, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: re: quota problem - here: symbolic link to /usr/spool
|At 06:09 06.12.99 +1100, you wrote:
|>I solved this by having the temp mail file on a different partition
than
|>the mail (answer came from this list)
|>
|>/var/mail = mailbox directory quota 5mb
|>/usr/mail = temp mailbox directory quota 5mb
|>
|>and all is well
|>
|>Wayne
|>
|
|Hi.
|
|This seems to be a good solution to the
cat-bites-its-tail-quota-problem.
|Hmmm. I have a symbolic link to /var/spool in /usr. Looks like
"~spool".
|Now: how can I possibly put /usr/spool to a different partition, when
there
|is only a symbolic link ?
|As I discussed some time ago, popper seems not to care about the
link.
|While configuring, it works into /usr/spool.
|But what is this link for ? Holding space free ?
|And what happens if I create an explicit /usr/spool and kill the link
?
|
|qpopper30 seems to give another solution to the quota problem. It
allows to
|create a different dir for the tmp.drops.
|INSTALL says so, although I couldn¥t really figure out how
|- has anyone done this and can tell how ? Maybe I can leave the
symbolic
|link then.
|
|guenter
|
|
|:) have a nice day - alles Gute - :)
|Guenter Wessling (hypnose at t-online dot de)
|
| - Westfalian Society of Hypnosis -
| - Westfaelische Gesellschaft fuer Hypnose -
| 48165 Muenster, Germany
| fax: 0049 (0)2501 27273
|
|http://home.t-online.de/home/hypnose
|
Subject: Fwd: Re: an other session active ?
From: boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:15 +0000
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Dear all
but i can't delete this file every time for all users.
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At 02:22 PM 12/6/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all
> I get the following error message:
>AUTHORIZATION,PASS failed:
> "-ERR /usr/mail/.websystem.pop lock busy! Is another session active?
>(11)"
>
>Can anyone help me
>
>thank you.
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Subject: i still have a prblem with .user.pop
From: boudina at mail.wissal dot dz
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:50 +0000
Dear all,
I notice that this problem occurs as the mailbox of the user
reach a certain number of message.
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