HOWTO: qmail vpopmail qmail-scanner courier squirrelmail

petterg · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 500 Location: Oslo, Norway

Ok, so tried the howto at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml on a 3rd server. There I got spam checking and smtp-auth working. At least that is what it looks like in the log. This server does not put mails in the mailboxes! (I have no idea of where they go!)
While the two servers I put up using the howto in this thread are sending and recieving mail, but does not do any spam-check nor smtp-auth.
It's time to compare config files.

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There is still a couple of things I need some help to figure out:
My server often get virus infected mails sent to [some unknown user]@mydomain.com. Is there any way to just drop these mails? It is really pointless that the server stores a new infected mail every 10 minuttes when it wasn't even adressed to any of my users! It is also wasted resources that it responds to the sender saying that it found a virus in these cases. Just as pointless to fill the postmaster mailbox with this.

And I also need a spamfilter that totally drops all mails from postmaster@[whatever] or mailer-deamon@[whatever] addressed to [some unknown user]@mydomain.com, without wasting resources on checking for further spam or viruses. Nor sending any reply to the fake-sender nor postmaster@pgdom.com about it.
My server receives between 14.000 and 36.000 of these mails everyday, wich is quite a lot for a server serving only 5 users! Storing them takes up a lot of space - sending replys is killing my 768kbit upload capacity!

Once again, thanks for these two great howtos.
-pg

blubbi · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

blubbi · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

blubbi · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

petterg · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 500 Location: Oslo, Norway

Those who have trouble with smtp-auth may have forgotten to do this:
chmod 4711 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw

petterg · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 500 Location: Oslo, Norway

Does anyone else have trouble with spamc spending upto 60 seconds checking each mail?

Any clues why it is so slow? I haven't changed any settings relevant to spamassassin other than those mentioned in this howto.

Sull · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 25

i got some problem with mysql and vpopmail

igot this error when i try to add a domain

Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

Further update on this-
At 3am a my daily cron job ran this script: /etc/cron.daily/qmail-scanner

It's contents were:
#!/bin/bash
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue -z

This reset the permissions on /var/spool/qmailscan and mail stopped being accepted/delivered.
qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt was getting reset to qscand.root with 600 permissions. I tried mutiliple owner/group's but they were always reset.

I ultimately added this line to /etc/cron.daily/qmail-scanner:

chmod +r /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt

Now everything works perfectly.

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Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

skh · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 35

beat me if this has been answered yet but shouldnt this whole thing work so that all users have a .maildir dir in their homedir to wich all mail is delivered and which is used by courier-imap?
i got all that working and i encountered no probs with auth and stuff (at least none i couldnt figure out yet) the only thing is that courier-imap reads from /var/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.bleh/mailman/.maildir instead of /home/mailman/.maildir.
however qmail and all the other progs seem to work right since i never get any mail to that dir but to .maildir in the homedir (which is exactly what i want).
please somebody enlighten me.

any hints really really much appreciated
thanks in advance

Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

The setup following the 3 howto's in this thread (my setup is a hybrid of them all), will put mail in /var/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/skywacker/.maildir/

If you want things in /home/skywacker/.maildir, just make a link one way or the other.

ln -s /var/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/skywacker/ /home/skywacker/

If you have tons of accounts/domains and your /home is your large partition, just move the entire /var/vpopmail/domains over there and create a link.

-Skywacker

skh · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 35

thats what i had in mind as some kind of 'last option'
perhaps there is a way thats a bit more elegant?
i bet its possible to config all the stuff to use home maildirs isnt there?
i already searched through the forum and googled around but i somehow couldnt find anything on this

edit:
btw mail *is* delivered to /home/mailman/.maildir and not to the vpop domain dir
the only thing that doesnt work right is imap

petterg · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 500 Location: Oslo, Norway

Have anyone figured out why smtp-auth works with the howto at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml
and not with the howto in this thread?

I've done 2 installs using the linked howto, and smtp-auth works in both. I've also done 2 installs using the howto in this thread, and smtp-auth does not work in any of them. Then, fianlly I made a install mixing them where I followed the linked howto with everything I can imagine beeing relevant to smtp-auth, but still smtp-auth didn't work!

One thing I figured out while using the linked howto... This happened to me on all 2+1 installs using that howto: It didn't store any mails. According to the log, mails got in, passed the clamav and spam scanning, and disapared. No logs gave any clues what went wrong.
The solution turned out to be deleting the domain using vdeldomain (and all domain aliases) and recreate them using vadddomain.

blubbi · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

well, the script run by cron.daily called qmail-scanner changed my permissions and ownership of my /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt file.

Is this true for you?

I found no matter what perms/owner I had on this file it didnt matter because they got reset daily.

chmod +r on the file solved it for me. Is this what you are saying didn't work for you?

-Sky

blubbi · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

blubbi · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject:

Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

I didn't. It was put there by one of the emerges. Check your /etc/cron.daily/ directory, I bet you have one too.

-Sky

Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qss/

I could not get this to have working graphics until I re-emerged mod_php with gd built in.

See this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=143464&highlight=gd

Pretty cool I think. Now I need something similar for SPAM graphing.

-Skywacker

ARC2300 · Apprentice Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 265

Okay. . .so I finally got at least squirrelmail working with the modified vpopmail.conf someone posted.

However, I can't login with remote clients such as thunderbird from another computer. . .

In the log file, it just says "LOGIN FAILED". It happens when I use both pop3 and imap.

Any clues?
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Skywacker · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Missouri

You could turning on debugging mode logging of imap and pop3 to see the full extent of what is happening in the login process. When you do, paste the actual log excerpts into this thread.

My quick suggestion without more info:
make sure you are trying to log in with your full email address as your username.

username= skywacker@domain.com
pass= password

If not, post those actual logs.

-Sky

biex · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

When i run this "command"

nianderson · Guru Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 369 Location: Lawrence, KS

dang
well i used the doc from gentoo documentation and got a successful install.
was working fine for several days
added some accounts with qmailadmin today and now all email i send gets bounced back saying the user is over quota.

but no quotas are set.

need soem help please

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

skywacker,

perhaps you could explain something to me...

My mail is being sent to /var/vpopmail/domains/blah/.maildir

so far so good.

Yet nothing lands in my /home/user/.maildir

You addressed a similiar question already by skh.

Yet you suggest linking(ln-s) the .maildir under /var/blah/blah/bla to /home/user/

This sounds good. But mutt simply barfs-of course the permissions are wrong.

/var/blah/blah/blah/.maildir has
vpopmail:vpopmail

whereas /home/user/.maildir has
user:users

simply linking isn't going to work-unless of course one can change the permissions of /var/blah/blah/blah to user:users.....

Is such ok to do ? is it safe ? would it even work?
(by the way I had run maildirmake in my home directory prior to running mutt-I tried sending some email, the mail was sent-I could read it in horde, but it only made it into the /home/user/.maidir-sent/tmp directory, I don't know if this is significant or not--*blindly* stumbling where angels dare to tread.....)

and while we are on this topic-I wonder how one configures any other email reader
mozilla or evolution or slypheed or balsa etc. to show the incomming mail-I am using courier-imap-ssl w/ qmail/vpopmail/horde
-I've tried to get it working but no luck so far....

blubbi · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject:

I thing you are missunderstanding a thing.

Everybody who install vpopmail wants to supply mailaccounts which are not systemaccounts.
If you just want to provide mail to users who have an systemaccount, install qmail without vpopmail.
Than you mail will end up in /home/user/.maildir or something similar ...