The qpopper list archive ending on 11 Aug 1999
Topics covered in this issue include:
1. Re: Questions about usage and performance of POP
"Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:07 -0400
2. Re: pop accounts vs shell accounts
"Jerry O'Brien" <jobrien at cuttingedge dot net>
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:02:50 -0500
3. Virtual Hosting
"Calvin Tse" <calvin at cowcowdaydream dot com>
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:04:15 +0800
4. Re: Questions about usage and performance of POP
James Sneeringer <jvs at ocslink dot com>
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:38:28 -0500 (CDT)
5. Virtual Email Domains?
"David Wasilka" <maddog at maddogsworld dot com>
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:09:57 -0700
6. RE: pop accounts vs shell accounts
Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:44:52 +0800
7. Re: Virtual Email Domains?
casey at seattle.gii dot net
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 02:41:45 -0700
8. Not working
Kole Dunn <kole at kolestudio dot com>
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:47:32 -0700
9. Re: Not working
German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo at ubiobio dot cl>
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:55:16 -0400 (AST)
10. Re: Not working
Phil Savoie <psavoie at bigfoot dot com>
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:18:04 -0400
11. qpopper & Kerberos V5
"RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:27:59 PDT
12. does qpopper need other program in the system?
Feng Qiu <fqiu at biochem.okstate dot edu>
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 14:00:37 -0500
13. Re: does qpopper need other program in the system?
"Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at etecsa dot cu>
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:45:42 -0400
14. Firewall problem..
"J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:56:17 -0400
15. Re: Firewall problem..
Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:55:27 +0100
16. RE: Firewall problem..
"J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:41:14 -0400
17. qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
"J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:38:03 -0400
18. Re: qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
"Christopher L. Davis" <cld at mail.prin dot edu>
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:29:17 -0500
19. Re: qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
"Matt D. Landry" <mattl at designtrust dot com>
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT)
20. popper.c error
"RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:59:59 PDT
21. unsubscribe
li <liyu at fjdcb.fj.cn dot net>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 7:52:39 +0800
22. unsubscrible
"JianYu Zhou" <zhoujianyu at hotmail dot com>
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:23:05 PDT
23. Unable to obtain socket and address of client, err = 88
Chris Muller <mullman at execpc dot com>
Mon, 04 Aug 1997 23:02:52 -0500
24. unsubscribe
"Matt D. Landry" <mattl at designtrust dot com>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:59:45 -0400 (EDT)
25. unsubscribe
Sean Wiese <SeanW at NDNA dot com>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:05:31 -0500
26. unsubscribe
Dr R L Oswald <R.L.Oswald at Cranfield.ac dot uk>
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:07:43 +0100
27. Unsuscribe
Otukile Kealeboga <OKealeboga at gov dot bw>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:28:03 +0200
28. unsubscribe
"Gonzalez, Jesus M" <Jesus.M.Gonzalez at USAHQ.UnitedSpaceAlliance dot com>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:00:16 -0500
29. Re: unsubscribe
Richard Palmer <richard at merula dot net>
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:24:07 +0100
30. Passwords
"James Smith" <james.smith at cwcom dot net>
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:28:01 +0100
31. qpopper and Kerberos V5
"RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:32:45 PDT
32. qpopper3.0b18, Kerberos V5 & linux rhs 6.0
"RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:40:08 PDT
33. changing default mailbox directory
Vincent <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:47:10 -0700
34. Re: changing default mailbox directory
Tomas Liljebergh <Tomas.Liljebergh at campus.oru dot se>
Fri, 06 Aug 1999 07:17:21 +0100
35. krb5 support to qpopper
"RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:07:54 PDT
36. Re: changing default mailbox directory
Ivan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:36:01 -0700
37. Authentication Problems
Ian <ian at gws2000 dot com>
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:04:18 -0600
38. Qpopper config that works
Kole Dunn <kd at arialnet dot net>
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:30:59 -0700
39. Re: Authentication Problems
Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 08:37:45 +0800
40. Re: unsubscribe
Listmaster <listmaster at lists.pensive dot org>
Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:24:37 -0700
41. qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
Harlan White <whiteh at wvlc.wvnet dot edu>
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:10:52 -0400
42. qpopper configuration issues
Vimaljit Kohli <vkohli at nortelnetworks dot com>
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:38 -0700
43. RE: qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
Steven Fletcher <stevenf at shellnet.co dot uk>
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:12:30 +0100
44. Re: changing default mailbox directory
"Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:38:16 -0400
45. problem with qpopper and redhat
Alan Mizrahi <alanml at cantv dot net>
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:42:40 -0400
46. Re: problem with qpopper and redhat
German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo at ubiobio dot cl>
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:13:41 -0400 (AST)
47. [Fwd: UNSUBSCRIBE]
angelo <angelo at telemar-mg.com dot br>
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:12:24 -0300
48. mailbox directory
"Kenneth Tan" <tktan at cyberway.com dot sg>
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:28:05 +0800
49. Re: mailbox directory
"Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:52:07 -0400
50. Re: mailbox directory
Ivan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:56:59 -0700
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:10:07 -0400
From: "Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Subject: Re: Questions about usage and performance of POP
At 11:52 AM 7/30/99 -0400, Madhavi -Deleted- wrote:
>1. Do you recommend using a sperate location for the spool for qpopper files
> which can be defined by the compile time option POP_DROP=/usr/spool/pop_drop ?
> Is there a considerable
That depends. If you are allowing shell accounts, and reading email via non-POP3
programs, putting the locks on a separate disk is a big win. If you can run server
mode with a hashed spool, the gain is less.
>3. How many simultaneous connections should the POP Server be able to handle for an ISP?
During the semester we handle about 350k to 400k a day. But, this only amounts
to about a dozen or two simultaneous connections. The vast majority of these are
polls for new mail, when there is no new mail.
>4. What is usual file size restriction to be placed on the /usr/spool/mail files of each qpopper
> user? If the file system is full have you noticed any data corruption? I think it is very
> essential to test for this.
We have none, yet. We do encourage those with large mail boxes to reduce them, pointing
out that their mail checks will go faster with a smaller mbox. We also remove all read
mail (Status: RO) after 21 days, and unread mail after 120 days. We would quickly run out
of space if we did not do this.
>5. Does definong SERVER_MODE improve performance?
Yes! Without servermode the mbox is copied to the poplock file, then copied
and merged back. In the bad old days of one large spool, shared spool and
lock directory and no server mode option, it could take 30 minutes to read
a 10 meg mailbox. (Seriously.) A faster disk system and server mode cut
that to about 10 seconds.
Mike
--
Michael D. Sofka sofkam at rpi dot edu
CIS/SSS Sr. Systems Programmer AFS/DFS, email, listproc, TeX, epistemology.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/
From: "Jerry O'Brien" <jobrien at cuttingedge dot net>
Subject: Re: pop accounts vs shell accounts
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:02:50 -0500
I have separate mail and auth servers. Mail-only accounts go only on the
mail server.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Webmaster <webmaster-pa at elogica.com dot br>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 1:34 PM
Subject: pop accounts vs shell accounts
> Hello again,
>
> Is there a way in qpopper to create pop accounts without creatin
> shell accounts?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
From: "Calvin Tse" <calvin at cowcowdaydream dot com>
Subject: Virtual Hosting
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:04:15 +0800
Is there a way to create pop account under the specific domain in qpopper ?
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:38:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Sneeringer <jvs at ocslink dot com>
Subject: Re: Questions about usage and performance of POP
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Madhavi -Deleted- wrote:
| 2. Right now I'm not using Bulletins. Do you think that this is useful
| to system adminstrators? Is'nt this the same as sending mail to an
| alias which is addressed to all the specified people?
The end result is the same, yes. The primary difference is that you only
keep one copy of the bulletin on the server, instead of dumping a copy in
everyone's mailbox. This is a big win if you have lots of users and are
concerned about excessive disk I/O.
We've been using it for over a year, and I'm quite happy with it. One
caveat, though. I suggest using the BULLDB feature, as we had some
problems with users' individual .popbull files being reset on occasion,
causing *all* bulletins to be resent to them. Rather annoying. :)
-James
From: "David Wasilka" <maddog at maddogsworld dot com>
Subject: Virtual Email Domains?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:09:57 -0700
Does qpopper support virtual email domains?
and if so... how do i enable it?
thanks
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:44:52 +0800
From: Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Subject: RE: pop accounts vs shell accounts
:: Is there a way in qpopper to create pop accounts without creatin
::shell accounts?
:
:Best way to do this is, under shell(while creating the account), put
:/bin/noshell. It won't let them telnet in.
and as a happy side effect if /bin/noshell *isn't* listed in /etc/shells,
they won't have ftp access either :)
-- Byron Jones -----------------------
Systems Administrator
Vianet Australia
http://www.vianet.net.au/~byron/
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 02:41:45 -0700
From: casey at seattle.gii dot net
Subject: Re: Virtual Email Domains?
> Does qpopper support virtual email domains?
> and if so... how do i enable it?
asfar as Ive been able to tell from the source qpopper always attempts to
lookup a user in /etc/passwd (using getpwent) although though it does provide
several alternatives to verify the password once the user was found in passwd.
Because I needed virtual domains with overlapping name spaces I have used
part of the source from sshd that authenticates users through authsrv from
TIS fwtk to authenticate user@virtualhost. Asfar as qpopper is concerned,
the username from that point on *is* user@virtualhost, so it will look for
a file by that name in /var/spool/mail
The sendmail part of this solution is almost trivial; sendmail is configured
with virtusertable support, @virtualdomain is mapped to domain_owner+%1
and procmail is used as local delivery agent; the domain owner's procmailrc
takes $1 (the %1 in virtusertable, ie. the username) appends the '@virtualdomain'
part and stores the message in the folder $1@virtualdomain
Advantages of this approach: the domain owner can create aliases, filters, etc
in his .procmailrc file, which means less work for the sysadmin.
Im still testing this setup, but if anyone's interested in trying this setup
I could make the patched as configuration hints available somewhere.
Case
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:47:32 -0700
From: Kole Dunn <kole at kolestudio dot com>
Subject: Not working
Hi,
I am running newly installed Red Hat 6.0., and have installed Qpopper as
per the INSTALL file. I have the proper lines added to my inetd.conf file
(with popper located in the /usr/local/lib/popper directory as recommended)
and services file. When telneting to "telnet mydomain.net pop3" I get the
second error saying "connection closed". The path in the inetd.conf is
correct, and when adding the -d flag to the line in inetd.conf as
indicated, I cannot find an error message in the logs. I have been trying
to retrieve email through Eudora and get my sendmail server working to
deliver mail since last Wednesday. Please help, desperate at this point.
K. Dunn
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:55:16 -0400 (AST)
From: German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo at ubiobio dot cl>
Subject: Re: Not working
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Kole Dunn wrote:
> directory as recommended) and services file. When telneting to "telnet
> mydomain.net pop3" I get the second error saying "connection closed".
May be /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.dey needs some change.
Are you put popper behind tcpwrapper?
--
German Poo Caaman~o
mailto:gpoo at ubiobio dot cl
http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/chilelindo.html
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:18:04 -0400
From: Phil Savoie <psavoie at bigfoot dot com>
Subject: Re: Not working
Hi Kole,
I too am running RH6.0 in my /etc/inetd.conf the line reads like this:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/popper popper -s
popper is of course located in /usr/local/bin
My /etc/services entry is as follows:
pop3 110/tcp # Post Office Popper Prog
Once this was done, I did a ps -aux | grep inetd to find the process ID for
inetd, then did a kill -HUP of inetd's PID.
It worked for me after that.
Hope this helps,
Phil
At 14:47 02/08/99 -0700, Kole Dunn wrote:
>Hi,
>I am running newly installed Red Hat 6.0., and have installed Qpopper as
>per the INSTALL file. I have the proper lines added to my inetd.conf file
>(with popper located in the /usr/local/lib/popper directory as recommended)
>and services file. When telneting to "telnet mydomain.net pop3" I get the
>second error saying "connection closed". The path in the inetd.conf is
>correct, and when adding the -d flag to the line in inetd.conf as
>indicated, I cannot find an error message in the logs. I have been trying
>to retrieve email through Eudora and get my sendmail server working to
>deliver mail since last Wednesday. Please help, desperate at this point.
>
>K. Dunn
>
From: "RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: qpopper & Kerberos V5
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 09:27:59 PDT
Hi!
I've downloaded qpopper3.0b18 and I'd like to enable kerberos support, what
I don't know is if this version supports Version 5-1.0.6 of Kerberos.
Comments are appreciated.
Thank you.
Raul
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 14:00:37 -0500
From: Feng Qiu <fqiu at biochem.okstate dot edu>
Subject: does qpopper need other program in the system?
Hello, all,
I try to install qpopper in Sun Ultra2 with solaris7.
Seems like no error for compilling. After complied qpopper, I copy
popper to /usr/local/lib and put the line:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/popper popper -s
in /etc/inetd.conf
the lines:
pop2 109/tcp pop-2 # Post Office Protocol -
V2
pop3 110/tcp # Post Office Protocol -
Version 3
are already in /etc/services, so I did not modify them.
reboot the ultra2.
The qpopper does not work, if I send message to it, get error message
back:
The following message could not be sent because the address
'Feng at nmrserv.chem.okstate dot edu' was rejected
by host 'nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu'.
550 <Feng at nmrserv.chem.okstate dot edu>... User unknown
Feng is the login userID in nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu which qpopper
installed in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Feng Qiu
From: "Asley Lugo Avila" <asley at etecsa dot cu>
Subject: Re: does qpopper need other program in the system?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:45:42 -0400
First of all, Qpopper is not a Mail Deliver Agent.
This error :
550 <Feng at nmrserv.chem.okstate dot edu>... User unknown
Is an acount (Feng) server (nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu) configuration =
error or user (Feng) do not exit on (nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu) or =
sendmail problem.
In order to test Qpopper just type this command on your Sun server:
$ telnet localhost 110
And you will see something like that :
+OK QPOP (version 3.0b18) at YourHostName starting.
Asley
----- Original Message -----
From: Feng Qiu <fqiu at bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate dot edu>
To: Subscribers of Qpopper <qpopper at lists.pensive dot org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: does qpopper need other program in the system?
Hello, all,
I try to install qpopper in Sun Ultra2 with solaris7.
Seems like no error for compilling. After complied qpopper, I copy
popper to /usr/local/lib and put the line:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/lib/popper popper -s
in /etc/inetd.conf
the lines:
pop2 109/tcp pop-2 # Post Office Protocol -
V2
pop3 110/tcp # Post Office Protocol -
Version 3
are already in /etc/services, so I did not modify them.
reboot the ultra2.
The qpopper does not work, if I send message to it, get error message
back:
The following message could not be sent because the address
'Feng at nmrserv.chem.okstate dot edu' was rejected
by host 'nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu'.
550 <Feng at nmrserv.chem.okstate dot edu>... User unknown
Feng is the login userID in nmrserv.chem.okstate.edu which qpopper
installed in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Feng Qiu
From: "J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Subject: Firewall problem..
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:56:17 -0400
Ok, I posted this a while ago and the best response I got was "replace the
firewall" the customer does not see this as a valid option. Currently I am
using cucipop as my pop3 server, however we REALLY need to have the bulletin
feature in qpopper and I cant seem to get the one in cucipop to work, so the
problem stated below needs to be resolved as we have three businesses who
are using the same firewall/proxy and have the same problems as described
below..
Thanks! =)
---------
Got a problem!
We have a customer who uses Eudora Pro 4.0 and they are behind a proxy
server, thus they have 'checking mail' set as follows:
Mail Server:
admin#pop.qtm.net at 192.168.1 dot 20
Login Name:
fbattista
This works when we have cucipop in place, however when we have qpopper in
place we get the following error in the messagelog:
Jun 17 17:04:55 garcon qpopper[9983]:
fbattista at fbattista at tc5-020 dot qtm dot net: -ERR Password supplied for
"fbattista@admin" is incorrect.
As you can see, the admin is the username for the proxy server, #pop.qtm.net
is our pop server and is passed to 192.168.1.20 which is their proxy server,
the proxy server then aparently is sending the pop3 username then @ and then
the proxy username.. for some reason cucipop doesnt care, but qpopper cares
and doesnt like it..
Any ideas? they have 30 or so people behind that proxy server so we are
forced to revert to cucipop so they can continue to retrieve their email..
Thanks!
Joe Peterson
System Administrator
Quantum Connections, LLC
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:55:27 +0100
From: Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear dot ie>
Subject: Re: Firewall problem..
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Attached is a tiny little patch to pop_user.c (version 2.53) you can
apply it by cd'ing into the popper src directory and type
patch < whereever_you_saved_it
Now, whenever someone logs on, popper looks for @ signs in the username
and if it finds one, it truncates the string. So
fbattista@admin
becomes
fbattista
I tested it once, so use it at your own risk, but it a tiny addition, so
I don't think there'll be a problem.
I don't know whether the patch works against the 3.0 versions but it
should be easy to adapt,
Fergal
"J Peterson [System Admin]" wrote:
>
> Ok, I posted this a while ago and the best response I got was "replace the
> firewall" the customer does not see this as a valid option. Currently I am
> using cucipop as my pop3 server, however we REALLY need to have the bulletin
> feature in qpopper and I cant seem to get the one in cucipop to work, so the
> problem stated below needs to be resolved as we have three businesses who
> are using the same firewall/proxy and have the same problems as described
> below..
> Thanks! =)
>
> ---------
>
> Got a problem!
> We have a customer who uses Eudora Pro 4.0 and they are behind a proxy
> server, thus they have 'checking mail' set as follows:
> Mail Server:
> admin#pop.qtm.net at 192.168.1 dot 20
> Login Name:
> fbattista
>
> This works when we have cucipop in place, however when we have qpopper in
> place we get the following error in the messagelog:
> Jun 17 17:04:55 garcon qpopper[9983]:
> fbattista at fbattista at tc5-020 dot qtm dot net: -ERR Password supplied for
> "fbattista@admin" is incorrect.
>
> As you can see, the admin is the username for the proxy server, #pop.qtm.net
> is our pop server and is passed to 192.168.1.20 which is their proxy server,
> the proxy server then aparently is sending the pop3 username then @ and then
> the proxy username.. for some reason cucipop doesnt care, but qpopper cares
> and doesnt like it..
> Any ideas? they have 30 or so people behind that proxy server so we are
> forced to revert to cucipop so they can continue to retrieve their email..
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="patch"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="patch"
--- pop_user.c~ Fri Apr 23 16:15:27 1999
+++ pop_user.c Wed Aug 4 14:44:52 1999
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
{
/* If there is an APOP database entry then don't allow a cleartext
password over the net */
+
+ char *at_sign;
# ifdef APOP
#ifdef GDBM
char apop_file[BUFSIZ];
@@ -87,6 +89,11 @@
/* Save the user name */
(void) strncpy (p->user, p->pop_parm[1], sizeof (p->user));
p->user[sizeof (p->user) - 1] = 0;
+
+ if(at_sign = index(p->user, '@'))
+ {
+ *at_sign = 0;
+ }
# ifdef APOP_ONLY
return (pop_auth_fail (p, POP_FAILURE,
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From: "J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Subject: RE: Firewall problem..
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:41:14 -0400
Thank you! that worked =)
Now my other question would be, our pop3 volume is huge, whats the best way
to run qpopper, as its own daemon or as an inetd called app?
we have between 7500 and 10k users on the system, at any one point we expect
10% of them to be online so maybe theres 50 to 100 simultaneous pop3
sessions..
thanks again =)
-----Original Message-----
From: fergal at esatclear dot ie [mailto:fergal at esatclear dot ie]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:55 AM
To: J Peterson [System Admin]
Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: Re: Firewall problem..
Attached is a tiny little patch to pop_user.c (version 2.53) you can
apply it by cd'ing into the popper src directory and type
patch < whereever_you_saved_it
Now, whenever someone logs on, popper looks for @ signs in the username
and if it finds one, it truncates the string. So
fbattista@admin
becomes
fbattista
I tested it once, so use it at your own risk, but it a tiny addition, so
I don't think there'll be a problem.
I don't know whether the patch works against the 3.0 versions but it
should be easy to adapt,
Fergal
"J Peterson [System Admin]" wrote:
>
> Ok, I posted this a while ago and the best response I got was "replace the
> firewall" the customer does not see this as a valid option. Currently I
am
> using cucipop as my pop3 server, however we REALLY need to have the
bulletin
> feature in qpopper and I cant seem to get the one in cucipop to work, so
the
> problem stated below needs to be resolved as we have three businesses who
> are using the same firewall/proxy and have the same problems as described
> below..
> Thanks! =)
>
> ---------
>
> Got a problem!
> We have a customer who uses Eudora Pro 4.0 and they are behind a proxy
> server, thus they have 'checking mail' set as follows:
> Mail Server:
> admin#pop.qtm.net at 192.168.1 dot 20
> Login Name:
> fbattista
>
> This works when we have cucipop in place, however when we have qpopper in
> place we get the following error in the messagelog:
> Jun 17 17:04:55 garcon qpopper[9983]:
> fbattista at fbattista at tc5-020 dot qtm dot net: -ERR Password supplied for
> "fbattista@admin" is incorrect.
>
> As you can see, the admin is the username for the proxy server,
#pop.qtm.net
> is our pop server and is passed to 192.168.1.20 which is their proxy
server,
> the proxy server then aparently is sending the pop3 username then @ and
then
> the proxy username.. for some reason cucipop doesnt care, but qpopper
cares
> and doesnt like it..
> Any ideas? they have 30 or so people behind that proxy server so we are
> forced to revert to cucipop so they can continue to retrieve their email..
From: "J Peterson [System Admin]" <jay at qtm dot net>
Subject: qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:38:03 -0400
Hmm help?
I'm getting some outrageous CPU usage by qpopper:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
COMMAND
1506 jimmiller 69 0 320K 764K biowai 0:03 25.52% 12.86%
qpopper
Heres the ls -l of the users mailfile, pretty big, but still..
-rw------- 1 jimmiller user 17006759 Aug 4 14:35 /var/mail/jimmiller
This is on a P233MMX w/128Meg RAM running FreeBSD 3
Any ideas how we can keep qpopper from bringing the other daemons to a
complete standstill?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:29:17 -0500
From: "Christopher L. Davis" <cld at mail.prin dot edu>
Subject: Re: qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
At 02:38 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hmm help?
>I'm getting some outrageous CPU usage by qpopper:
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
>COMMAND
> 1506 jimmiller 69 0 320K 764K biowai 0:03 25.52% 12.86%
>qpopper
>
>Heres the ls -l of the users mailfile, pretty big, but still..
>-rw------- 1 jimmiller user 17006759 Aug 4 14:35 /var/mail/jimmiller
>
>This is on a P233MMX w/128Meg RAM running FreeBSD 3
>Any ideas how we can keep qpopper from bringing the other daemons to a
>complete standstill?
Well, my first guess would be a 17Meg inbox. Qpopper has to read and
process the whole bloddy thing every time you check mail. It's no surprise
to me that you're using that much CPU. Must be slow as anything, too...
How many messages are in that inbox? Or are there just some huge attachments?
Chris
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Matt D. Landry" <mattl at designtrust dot com>
Subject: Re: qpopper taking aLOT of CPU
> At 02:38 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hmm help?
> >I'm getting some outrageous CPU usage by qpopper:
> >
> > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
> >COMMAND
> > 1506 jimmiller 69 0 320K 764K biowai 0:03 25.52% 12.86%
> >qpopper
> >
> >Heres the ls -l of the users mailfile, pretty big, but still..
> >-rw------- 1 jimmiller user 17006759 Aug 4 14:35 /var/mail/jimmiller
> >
> >This is on a P233MMX w/128Meg RAM running FreeBSD 3
> >Any ideas how we can keep qpopper from bringing the other daemons to a
> >complete standstill?
>
> Well, my first guess would be a 17Meg inbox. Qpopper has to read and
> process the whole bloddy thing every time you check mail. It's no surprise
> to me that you're using that much CPU. Must be slow as anything, too...
> How many messages are in that inbox? Or are there just some huge attachments?
>
I've noticed my P166 with 64 MB RAM start grinding if anybody has a
mailfile larger than 10 MB. my 2 cents
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From: "RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: popper.c error
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:59:59 PDT
Hi all!,
I am trying to enable Kerberos V5 support in qpopper3.0b18, configure was
fed with --enable-debugging and --enable-servermode parameters.
And then I got this ouput:
[root@delta qpopper3 dot 0]# make
cd ./popper && make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/qpopper3.0/popper'
gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DKERBEROS -DDEBUG -DLINUX -DUNIX
flock.c -o flock.o
gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DKERBEROS -DDEBUG -DLINUX -DUNIX
pop_dele.c -o pop_dele.o
In file included from pop_dele.c:11:
popper.h:388: parse error before `kdata'
popper.h:388: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[1]: *** [pop_dele.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/qpopper3.0/popper'
make: *** [popper_server] Error 2
[root@delta qpopper3 dot 0]# cd popper
[root@delta popper]#
Any hints??
Thanks.
Raul
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From: Chris Muller <mullman at execpc dot com>
Subject: Unable to obtain socket and address of client, err = 88
This is what I get in my messages file when I run
/usr/local/lib/qpopper/popper/popper -s -d
When I try to connect using telnet localhost 110 I get this:
Aug 4 20:49:01 linus inetd[404]: execv /usr/local/lib/qpopper/popper:
Permission denied
Please help me solve this problem. I looked through the archives and
found hints about making sure the services file had the same settings as
inetd but they are the same already.
I'm running RH Linux 5.2 with QPopper 2.52
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:24:07 +0100
From: Richard Palmer <richard at merula dot net>
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From: "James Smith" <james.smith at cwcom dot net>
Subject: Passwords
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:28:01 +0100
I can't get qpopper to authenticate anybody
the server responds, but no matter what user/pass combination i use, they
all
get refused
this is what i get as an error
There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
rejected. Account: 'test', Server: '192.168.193.111', Protocol: POP3, Server
Response: '-ERR Password supplied for "test" is incorrect.', Port: 110,
Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
i haven't used the apop option
any ideas ?
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From: "RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: qpopper and Kerberos V5
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:32:45 PDT
Hi all,
Thank you for your previous responses. Still the need to get qpopper with
Kerberos V5 support, up til now I haven't been successful. I've tried
qpopper2.2, qpopper2.3, qpopper2.4 with its respective patches
as well as qpopper3.0b18 and it wouldn't compile successfully. I am running
Kerberos V5-1.0.6 on a linuxbox with redhat 6.0 distribution.
Any guidance and comments are welcome.
Thank you all.
Raul
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From: "RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: qpopper3.0b18, Kerberos V5 & linux rhs 6.0
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:40:08 PDT
Hi all,
Here I am again trying to enable kerberos V5 support to qpopper3.0b18 on a
linux with redhat 6.0 and Kerberos V5-1.0.6 running.
These are the parameters I run configure with:
[root@delta qpopper3 dot 0]# ./configure --enable-specialauth
--enable-debugging --enable-servermode
The -DKERBEROS flag was added to the Makefile.
And this is the error output:
[root@delta qpopper3 dot 0]# make
cd ./popper && make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/qpopper3.0/popper'
gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DKERBEROS -DLINUX -DUNIX flock.c -o
flock.o gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. -I../mmangle -g -O2 -fstrength-reduce
-fpcc-struct-return -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DKERBEROS -DLINUX -DUNIX pop_dele.c
-o pop_dele.o
In file included from pop_dele.c:11:
popper.h:388: parse error before `kdata'
popper.h:388: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[1]: *** [pop_dele.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/qpopper3.0/popper'
make: *** [popper_server] Error 2
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Please, someone who can help me.
Thank you.
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 18:47:10 -0700
From: Vincent <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Subject: changing default mailbox directory
Hello all,
I have installed qpopper in a Linux 6.0 box. I have a user's mail residing in
a mailbox directory that is not of the default(var/spool/mail). With the
default qpopper setting, I cannot seem to retrieve mails for the user. I
believe that the mail client is looking for the mail in the default mailbox in
var/spool/mail/. How can I reconfig it so that mail clients will be able to
look for the mail in the NON-default mail directory instead?
Anyway suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
--- Ivan
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 07:17:21 +0100
From: Tomas Liljebergh <Tomas.Liljebergh at campus.oru dot se>
Subject: Re: changing default mailbox directory
At 06:47 PM 8/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello all,
Hello
There is an easy way to do this.
Make a symbolic link from your mail directory to /var/spool/mail
ln -s /your/mail/dir /var/spool/mail
That works fine on our system.
My regards Tomas
>I have installed qpopper in a Linux 6.0 box. I have a user's mail residing=
in
>a mailbox directory that is not of the default(var/spool/mail). With the
>default qpopper setting, I cannot seem to retrieve mails for the user. I
>believe that the mail client is looking for the mail in the default mailbox=
in
>var/spool/mail/. How can I reconfig it so that mail clients will be able to
>look for the mail in the NON-default mail directory instead?
>Anyway suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>--- Ivan
>
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From: "RAUL ALVAREZ" <colliman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: krb5 support to qpopper
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:07:54 PDT
Hello,
Has anyone been successful adding Kerberos V5 to qpopper in a linuxbox??
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:36:01 -0700
From: Ivan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Subject: Re: changing default mailbox directory
Hello all,
Thank you for all who replied to my question.
Regarding my original problem, if I were to complicate things a bit. If the
NON-default mail mailbox directory is not in the same structure as the default
directory as /var/spool/mail. If I have a user name Ivan, then his mailbox
will reside in a directory that has a structure as follows:
/new/mail/i/ivan/mailbox
It would be close to impossible to do sym linking in this case, and I can't
seem to change config.h or the makefile since the name of the user and
therefore the first character of the username is not known in config.h. Is
there any .c files that I can hack or some tricks that I can use? Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--- Ivan
RAUL ALVAREZ wrote:
> Mmmm, check in the Makefile for the default directory and change the path.
> The other approach would be to make a symbolic link to the directory where
> the user mails are.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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From: Ian <ian at gws2000 dot com>
Subject: Authentication Problems
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:04:18 -0600
After I installed qpopper2.53 on my red hat 6.0 box, I was able to make a
connection to port 110, but I cannot login to check mail. Is there a
different passwd file used for qpopper?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:30:59 -0700
From: Kole Dunn <kd at arialnet dot net>
Subject: Qpopper config that works
I have been trying to get qpopper to work with RH6.0 new E-Commerce Edition
for 1 week. After hiring an expert, here is the change that made the
difference:
In the inetd.conf file:
# Pop and imap mail services et al
pop-2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/local/lib/popper/popper
#pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd imapd
Just a LITTLE different than what the INSTALL doc suggests..
K. Dunn
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 08:37:45 +0800
From: Byron Jones <byron at vianet.net dot au>
Subject: Re: Authentication Problems
At 04:04 6/08/99 -0600, you wrote:
:After I installed qpopper2.53 on my red hat 6.0 box, I was able to make a
:connection to port 110, but I cannot login to check mail. Is there a
:different passwd file used for qpopper?
i guess you're using shadow passwords? you need to enable special auth
with configure.
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 18:10:52 -0400
From: Harlan White <whiteh at wvlc.wvnet dot edu>
Subject: qpopper-2_53-1_PAM_i386.rpm
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...JCRules
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From: Vimaljit Kohli <vkohli at nortelnetworks dot com>
Subject: qpopper configuration issues
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:38 -0700
HI all,
I just compiled and configured qpopper 2.53 and I'm getting following
message when i try telnet on poprt 110
Trying 208.176.5.18...
Connected to gtkeeper.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
Here are the configuration files
/etc/services:pop3 110/tcp # Post
Office
/etc/inetd.conf:pop3 stream tcp nowait root
/usr/local/lib/popper
popper -s
Pls help.
Thanks
Vimal Kohli
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
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>
> 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...JCRules
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:38:16 -0400
From: "Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Subject: Re: changing default mailbox directory
At 11:36 AM 8/6/99 -0700, Ivan wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Thank you for all who replied to my question.
>Regarding my original problem, if I were to complicate things a bit. If the
>NON-default mail mailbox directory is not in the same structure as the default
>directory as /var/spool/mail. If I have a user name Ivan, then his mailbox
>will reside in a directory that has a structure as follows:
>/new/mail/i/ivan/mailbox
>It would be close to impossible to do sym linking in this case, and I can't
It would also largely defeat the purpose of a hashed spool.
>seem to change config.h or the makefile since the name of the user and
>therefore the first character of the username is not known in config.h. Is
>there any .c files that I can hack or some tricks that I can use? Any help
>would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Define HASH_SPOOL=2 and recompile. This will change the default
mailbox to the <spool-base>/firstletter/secondletter/name format.
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From: Alan Mizrahi <alanml at cantv dot net>
Subject: problem with qpopper and redhat
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:42:40 -0400
I haven't been able to install qpopper correctly. I'm using linux redhat 6.0.
I tried first the qpopper 2.53, I found the binaries in a RPM, ready to
install, I installed it, it worked perfectly with my shadow passwords, but it
always think I have no mail, I have my mail in
/var/spool/mail/<username>
Then I created a symlinc: /usr/spool -> /var/spool/
It didn't work either.
Then I got the 3.0 beta 18 source, and compiled it.
This time it reads my mail, but it doesn't work with shadow passwords, I
already defined AUTH, what do I have to do for this to work?
Regards,
Alan Mizrahi
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:13:41 -0400 (AST)
From: German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo at ubiobio dot cl>
Subject: Re: problem with qpopper and redhat
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Alan Mizrahi wrote:
> Then I got the 3.0 beta 18 source, and compiled it.
> This time it reads my mail, but it doesn't work with shadow passwords, I
> already defined AUTH, what do I have to do for this to work?
I made an RPM package from qpopper3.0b18, if you want.
I did install it whithout problems.
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From: "Kenneth Tan" <tktan at cyberway.com dot sg>
Subject: mailbox directory
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:28:05 +0800
Hi ,
Presently my incoming mail is store in /var/spool/mail/kenneth
.Is there a way where I can store in /home/kenneth ?
Can someone advice me ? Thanks.
Kenneth
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:52:07 -0400
From: "Michael D. Sofka" <sofkam at rpi dot edu>
Subject: Re: mailbox directory
Edit config.h, change the definition of POP_MAILDIR.
At 12:28 AM 8/12/99 +0800, Kenneth Tan wrote:
>Hi ,
>
>Presently my incoming mail is store in /var/spool/mail/kenneth
>.Is there a way where I can store in /home/kenneth ?
>
>Can someone advice me ? Thanks.
>
>
>Kenneth
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CIS/SSS Sr. Systems Programmer AFS/DFS, email, listproc, TeX, epistemology.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:56:59 -0700
From: Ivan <vinkwan at aicompro dot com>
Subject: Re: mailbox directory
Hi,
Actually I have been working on a similar matter myself, although the
exact goal is different (earlier thread on Aug 05, 1999). There are some
very valuable responses to my questions which I am sure would help you.
I think there are some easiler and cleaner way of doing this. Michael D.
Sofka has suggested explicitly defining HASH_SPOOL to fit your need,
although I havent' been able to achieve that.
I have accomplished what I want by changing the source in
pop_dropcopy.c. What determines the structure of mailbox dir is the
method of HASH_SPOOL. I rewrote HOMEDIRMAIL so that the mailbox is not
/.mail. If your user's default directory in in /home then simply use
pwd->pw_dir. Hope this helps.
--- Ivan
Kenneth Tan wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Presently my incoming mail is store in /var/spool/mail/kenneth
> .Is there a way where I can store in /home/kenneth ?
>
> Can someone advice me ? Thanks.
>
> Kenneth