Patching qmail

August 25, 2018 Roberto Puzzanghera 175 comments

• Latest stable combined patch for netqmail-1.06 v. 2018.08.25 (MD5)

Changelog

The complete changelog and patch info are inside the README.PATCH file.

• 2018.08.25
  -DKIM patch updated to v. 1.23
  * fixed a bug where including round brackets in the From: field ouside the double quotes (From: "Name Surname (My Company)" <name.surname@company.com>) results in a DKIMContext structure invalid error (tx Mirko Buffoni).
  * qmail-dkim and dkim were issuing a failure for emails which had multiple signature with at least one good signature. Now qmail-dkim and dkim will issue a success if at least one good signature is found.
• 2018.08.23
  -logging patch updated to v. 5
  * fixed a bug in logit and logit2 functions where a RSET command and a subsequent brutal quit of the smtp conversation ^] by the client cause a segfault (tx Mirko Buffoni, more info here)
  -patch info moved to README.PATCH file
• 2018.04.03
  -DKIM patch updated to v. 1.22
  * openssl 1.1.0 port
  * various improvements, bug fixes
• 2018.01.10
  -maildir++
  * fixed a bug where the filesize part of the S=<filesize> component of the Maildir++ compatible filename is wrong (tx MG). More info here.
  -qmail-queue-extra
  * removed, because it was causing more problems than advantages, as the domain of the log@yourdomain.tld had to match the system's domain inside control/me and can't be a virtual domain at the same time.
• 2017-10-11 (tx Luca Franceschini)
  -qlogfix (diff here)
  * log strings should terminate with \n to avoid trailing ^M using splogger
  * bug reporting custom errors from qmail-queue in qlog
  -added dnscname patch
  -added rcptcheck patch
• 2017-08-18
  -qmail-smtpd now retains authentication upon rset (tx to Andreas)
• 2017-05-14
  -DKIM patch updated to v. 1.20
  It now manages long TXT records, avoiding the rejection of some hotmail.com messages.
• 2016-12-19
  -Several new patches and improvements added (thanks to Luca Franceschini)
  More info here http://notes.sagredo.eu/varie-190/merry-xmas-and-happy-new-patch-178.html
  -qregex patch
  -brtlimit patch
  -validrcptto patch
  -rbl patch (updates qmail-dnsbl patch)
  -reject-relay-test patch
  -added DISABLETLS environment variable, useful if you want to disable TLS on a desired port
  -added FORCEAUTHMAILFROM environment variable to REQUIRE that authenticated user and 'mail from' are identical
  -fixed little bug in 'mail from' address handling (patch by Andre Opperman at http://qmail.cr.yp.narkive.com/kBry6GJl/bug-in-qmail-smtpd-c-addrparse-function)
  -added SMTPAUTHMETHOD, SMTPAUTHUSER and SMTP_AUTH_USER env variables for external plugins
  -qlog patch
  -reject null senders patch
  -qmail-taps-extended (updates qmail-tap)
• 2016-12-02
  -fixed BUG in qmail-remote.c: in case of remote servers not allowing EHLO the response for an alternative HELO was checked twice, making the connection to die. (Thanks to Luca Franceschini)
  Patch applied here
• 2016-09-18
  -qmail-tls patch updated to v. 20160918
    * bug: qmail-remote accepting any dNSName, without checking that is matched (E. Surovegin)
    * bug: documentation regarding RSA and DH keys (K. Peter, G. A. Bofill)

Installing a Let's Encrypt certificate for your qmail and dovecot servers

March 21, 2018 Roberto Puzzanghera 12 comments

More info:

• https://certbot.eff.org/docs/
• https://letsencrypt.org/ 

Here is how to install and configure a valid certificate from Let's Encrypt for your qmail and dovecot servers. The installation will be done by certbot.

Certbot is part of EFF’s effort to encrypt the entire Internet. Secure communication over the Web relies on HTTPS, which requires the use of a digital certificate that lets browsers verify the identity of web servers (e.g., is that really google.com?). Web servers obtain their certificates from trusted third parties called certificate authorities (CAs). Certbot is an easy-to-use client that fetches a certificate from Let’s Encrypt—an open certificate authority launched by the EFF, Mozilla, and others—and deploys it to a web server.

Installing Dovecot and sieve on a vpopmail + qmail server

March 21, 2018 Roberto Puzzanghera 46 comments

• Overview
• Installing
• Configuring
• Download my dovecot's config files
• dovecot.conf
• 10-auth.conf
• auth-sql.conf.ext
• 10-director.conf
• 10-logging.conf
• Logrotate
• 10-mail.conf
• 10-master.conf
• 10-ssl.conf
• 15-lda.conf
• 15-mailboxes.conf
• 20-imap.conf
• 20-lmtp.conf
• 20-pop3.conf
• 90-plugin.conf
• 90-quota.conf

Overview

• Info: http://www.dovecot.org/
• Documentation: http://wiki2.dovecot.org
• Mail Server overview: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview
• Download: http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/
• Version: dovecot-2.3.1

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.

Sieve interpreter & Dovecot ManageSieve

January 10, 2018 Roberto Puzzanghera 31 comments

The Pigeonhole project provides Sieve support as a plugin for Dovecot's Local Delivery Agent (LDA) and also for its LMTP service. The plugin implements a Sieve interpreter, which filters incoming messages using a script specified in the Sieve language. The Sieve script is provided by the user and, using that Sieve script, the user can customize how incoming messages are handled. Messages can be delivered to specific folders, forwarded, rejected, discarded, etc.

Dovecot Managesieve Server is a service used to manage a user's Sieve script collection.

• Info: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/ http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/
• Version: 0.5.1
• Download: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/download.html

Limiting the number of emails sent by a given auth-user/domain/IP

October 24, 2017 Roberto Puzzanghera 0 comments

If you want to avoid the risk of compromising your server because of accounts who are sending messages indiscriminately to the world, because their password was violated in some way, then you can take advantage of Luca Franceschini's rcptcheck-overlimit.sh script, which has to be used in conjunction with the rcptcheck patch (a patch derived by Luca himself from an original work of Jay Soffian).

Since in 2016 Luca has decided to merge his combo with my big patch, he is giving his personal contribution to it fixing bugs, adding new important patches and functionalities, often writing himself the code. The script shared here is just the last one and it's quite surprising (at least for me) to observe how many things are performed putting together just 20 lines.

• thanks to Luca Franceschini (Digitalmind)
• version 2017-08-23
• rcptcheck patch
• rcptcheck-overlimit.sh

smtp-auth + qmail-tls + forcetls patch for qmail

August 18, 2017 Roberto Puzzanghera 73 comments

• Download (MD5)
• Version: 2017.08.18

Changelog

• 2017-08-18
  -qmail-smtpd now retains authentication upon rset (tx to Andreas)
• 2016-09-19
  -qmail-tls patch updated to v. 20160918
    * bug: qmail-remote accepting any dNSName, without checking that is matches (E. Surovegin)
    * bug: documentation regarding RSA and DH keys (K. Peter, G. A. Bofill)
• 2016-05-15 force-tls patch improved (a big thanks to Marcel Telka). Now qmail-smtpd avoid to write the auth verb if the STARTTLS command was not sent by the client
• 2015-12-26 qmail-tls: updated to v. 20151215
  * typo in #if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER for 2015-12-08 patch release (V. Smith)
  * add ECDH to qmail-smtpd
  * increase size of RSA and DH pregenerated keys to 2048 bits
  * qmail-smtpd sets RELAYCLIENT if relaying allowed by cert
• 2015-10-05 qmail-authentication: updated to v. 0.8.3
• 2015.08-24 fixed a bug on qmail-smtpd.c causing a double 250-STARTTLS, thanks to Andreas
• 2015.08.08 fixed a bug on qmail-remote.c that was causing the sending of an additional ehlo greeting, thanks to Cristoph Grover

I have put into a package the latest version of the following patches for netqmail-1.06. You may be interested to the combined patch I have put together here.

Bye bye Drupal

August 12, 2017 Roberto Puzzanghera 0 comments

Finally I managed to get rid of the old Drupal platform that I used for this site. I found the time to migrate  the Drupal's database and to rewrite the old style.

On the other hand, over the last 15 years I've been carrying on the development of a CMS of mine (based on php/mariadb), which was not originally used for this site because of the lack of the time needed to build a new theme.

Now this site lives in a code that I have written by myself at 99%, even though tons of free classes and jQuery plug-ins are still embedded. This makes future upgrades much simpler and especially less time consuming than the nightmare Drupal's upgrades. In addition we now have a Mobile Responsive theme.

The part of the code concerning the "comments" was not fully tested and I would be glad if you guys will give me some feedback, so don't hesitate to drop me a note on the purpose.

Have fun!

Slackware guest on Linux-Vserver

July 5, 2016 Roberto Puzzanghera 4 comments

• Info: http://linux-vserver.org/
• What Linux-Vserver does (from wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer
• Download only my patch: /files/linux-vserver/linux-vserver_slackware-14.2.patch
• Download my patch and installer script: /files/linux-vserver/slack_vserver.tar.gz

Linux-Vserver is an open source software which acts as a virtual private server implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization capabilities to the Linux kernel.