Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:44:20 -0400 (EDT) From: matt <matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET> To: Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org> Cc: Scott Benjamin <SBenjamin@quest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail VS Qmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906170829570.1180-100000@aic-gw.mlink.net> In-Reply-To: <19990617151526.C3177@africaonline.co.ke>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
[....]
: Some people find qmail difficult to work with, because they claim it is too
: different. Others complain about the fact that we must add new users to the
: system to use it. In my opinion, those are just silly excuses not to use
: qmail. Best thing is: try it for yourself, and see what you think. I use it
: on my personal workstation, and my ISPs mail server. It is small, fast,
: secure and easy to work with.
Well, I have a nice sh script that does things automatically, that i've
patched to adduser/rmuser... and am including in this email for those
whom are lazy yet would like to give Qmail a shot, I adore qmail to
death.. update.sh should go in /var/qmail/users. BTW, I still make
symlinks to /var/mail because some programs are stupid, or something
isn't setup right, better safe then sorry is my general view on life.
: --
: Anand
/* start update.sh */
#!/bin/sh
#
# credit to Michael <explorer@flame.org> for this script from when
# I was a total clueless Qmail newbie running Linux =)
#
cd /var/qmail/users
rm -f assign.sma
cp assign assign.sma
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pw2u < /etc/passwd > assign
echo diffs:
diff -u assign.sma assign
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu
/* end update.sh */
/* start adduser.patch */
--- adduser.perl Fri Jan 15 05:26:59 1999
+++ /usr/sbin/adduser Thu Jun 17 04:25:24 1999
@@ -545,7 +545,26 @@
exit($? >> 8);
}
}
+# qmail
+sub qmail_update {
+ print "Updating qmail database...\n";
+ system("/var/qmail/users/update.sh");
+}
+# safety, cause i'm paranoid.
+sub saftey_blah {
+
+ print "\nDoing chmod 700 $home/$name for security...\n";
+ system("chmod 700 $home/$name");
+ print "Creating $home/$name/Mailbox...\n";
+ system("touch $home/$name/Mailbox");
+ print "Doing chown $name:$name $home/$name/Mailbox...\n";
+ system("chown $name:$name $home/$name/Mailbox");
+ print "Doing chmod 600 $home/$name/Mailbox for security...\n";
+ system("chmod 600 $home/$name/Mailbox");
+ print "Linking $home/$name/Mailbox to /var/mail/$name...\n\n";
+ system("ln -s $home/$name/Mailbox /var/mail/$name");
+}
# update group database
sub new_users_group_update {
local($e, @a);
@@ -598,7 +617,6 @@
print eval "\"$e\"";
}
print "\n";
-
local(@message_buffer_append) = ();
if (!&confirm_yn("Add anything to default message", "no")) {
print "Use ``.'' or ^D alone on a line to finish your message.\n";
@@ -711,9 +729,11 @@
&new_users_pwdmkdb("$new_entry");
&new_users_group_update;
&new_users_passwd_update; print "Added user ``$name''\n";
- &new_users_sendmessage;
&adduser_log("$name:*:$u_id:$g_id($group_login):$fullname");
&home_create($userhome, $name, $group_login);
+ &saftey_blah;
+ &qmail_update;
+ &new_users_sendmessage;
} else {
$new_users_ok = 0;
}
/* end adduser.patch */
/* start rmuser.patch */
--- rmuser.perl Wed Apr 2 09:34:57 1997
+++ /usr/sbin/rmuser Thu Jun 17 04:25:30 1999
@@ -371,7 +371,8 @@
print STDERR " updating databases,";
system('/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb', '-p', ${new_passwd_file});
print STDERR " done.\n";
-
+ print STDERR " \nUpdating qmail database...\n";
+ system('/var/qmail/users/update.sh');
close(MASTER_PW); # Not useful anymore
}
/* end rmuser.patch */
NOTICE/DISCLAIMER: these are my *personal* settings, if you don't like
them, don't use them. I just thought they might help
someone out.
Matt
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matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET
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