qmailadmin

/bin/bash: aclocal-1.15: command not found

Gabriel Torres May 24, 2020 19:57

In order to solve:

/bin/bash: aclocal-1.15: command not found

I had to run:

autoreconf -f -i

Before running the ./configure line.

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malformed patch?

Richard Chen October 31, 2019 01:50

I got this output:

root@avcs7-ks12:/usr/local/src/qmailadmin-1.2.16# patch -p1 < ../qmailadmin-1.2.16-pwd-strenght.2019.09.13.patch
patching file Makefile.am
patching file Makefile.in
patching file html/add_user.html
patching file html/change_password.html
patching file html/header.html
patching file html/mod_user.html
patching file html/pwd_strenght_chk.js
patch: **** malformed patch at line 170:

This is on a centos 7.7 host. Can you confirm if the patch file is corrupted or not?

Thanks

Richard

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malformed patch?

Roberto Puzzanghera Richard Chen October 31, 2019 08:41

thanks for the advise. Corrected

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Autoresponder not working with patch for the password strenght

jmecherie September 13, 2019 18:46

With patch for password strenght applied autoresponse can't be set the error is: "The password must be at least 8 caracthers long!"

The password box is indeed empty because i don't want to change password I want to sent vacation auto response.

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Autoresponder not working with patch for the password strenght

Roberto Puzzanghera jmecherie September 13, 2019 18:53

Yes you are right, I will improve that patch when I'll find the time.

I created that patch to solve the big problem of the pwd strenght and didn't pay attention to autoresponder because I use sieve for the purpose and don't let users manage the account via qmailadmin.

In the meantime you can reverse the patch or type the pwd when setting autoresponse

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Autoresponder not working with patch for the password strenght

jmecherie Roberto Puzzanghera September 13, 2019 19:37

To bypas I added a new line to check if password is 0 lenght. 

var key = (change==0) ? 'password1' : 'newpass1';
 if (eval(key).value.length=0) return true;}
 if (eval(key).value.length<8) {alert(alertTooShort); eval(key).focus(); return false;}

And thank you very much for your site.
Very helpful !

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Autoresponder not working with patch for the password strenght

Roberto Puzzanghera jmecherie September 13, 2019 21:40

you missed a double == here

if (eval(key).value.length=0) return true;}

btw I think that in this way you could set a blank pwd if you submit the form without setting the vacation.

Take a look at this new version of the patch

This what I changed with respect to the previous

+ // disable check if setting the autoresponder provided that the pwd remains intact
+ if (
+ (document.getElementById("cforward").checked==false || document.getElementById("vacation").checked==true)
+ && eval(key).value.length==0
+ ) return true;

There is a modification in mod_user.html as well

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compiler error 1.2.16

Loz January 7, 2019 12:48

I get compiler errors if I try to compile 1.2.16 with or without your patches - 

user.c:173:11: error: unknown type name ‘storage_t’; did you mean ‘stack_t’?

Is there a working version of 1.2.16?   I can manually fix this by copying over missing files from 1.12.15, but surely 1.2.16 should compile without errors out the box?

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compiler error 1.2.16

Roberto Puzzanghera Loz January 7, 2019 16:36

the compilation is ok with gcc-8.2 as well here

(the problem is qmail-tls, which is not compatible with openssl-1.1 :-(

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compiler error 1.2.16

Roberto Puzzanghera Loz January 7, 2019 16:13

which version of gcc? both versions work here (gcc-5.5)

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Blank screen after login to Qmailadmin

Lodex March 29, 2017 17:35

I have followed your guide and I am at the point of logging into Qmailadmin.

The page comes up perfectly but after entering postmaster, domain and password, it gives a blank screen.

I checked all the error logs and there are no entries pointing to a reason for this behaviour.

Using the following versions:

qmailadmin 1.2.16
vpopmail 5.4.33

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Blank screen after login to Qmailadmin

jmecherie Lodex September 13, 2019 18:17

When there is a blank screen after you put password on qmailadmin page, check permision for qm-auth.log file
It should be the permission of webserver. On debian/ubuntu usualy  is www-data (not apache as in Roberto guide)

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did you check the syslog to

roberto puzzanghera Lodex March 31, 2017 09:20

did you check the syslog to look for a segfault? Anyway.. I would try to recompile qmailadmin

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Ezmlm-idx patch for qmailadmin

John August 5, 2016 21:10

The qmailadmin-1.2.16 with ezmlm-idx-7.2.2  needs a patch in order to manage the mailing lists.  I had had to add this patch to my src directory then re-compile.  

patch < ../mailinglist.c.ezmlm7.patch

I also use your qmailadmin-1.2.16-pwd-strenght.patch-2015.04.25 and qmailadmin-1.2.16-log.patch with this patch.

I am not sure if this is in your patch list Roberto.  There are a few sources and I am not sure which one to post. 

Thanks,

John D. Trolinger

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Thanks for the advise, John.

roberto puzzanghera John August 5, 2016 22:29

Thanks for the advise, John. I was not aware of this patch, but I found it in the qmailrocks site. Tomorrow I'm going to study the idea behind it and eventually I'll add it to my qmailadmin. 

Can you report what kind of error you get when the patch is not applyed?

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Ezmlm-idx patch for qmailadmin

John Trolinger roberto puzzanghera August 6, 2016 02:15

Before the patch I had to use the command line to add moderators.  Also I could not change settings for the various mailing lists.  

This may not be typical; I had migrated from another server  running older versions of qmailadmin and ezmlm.

Best Regards

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I added mailinglist.c.ezmlm7

roberto puzzanghera John Trolinger August 6, 2016 14:05

I added mailinglist.c.ezmlm7.patch to the patch list

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Password patch

nic January 31, 2016 11:30

Hi,

The password qmailadmin-1.2.16-pwd-strenght.patch-2015.04.25 patch does not work for me. I am able to use simple password like 1234.

Anyone also encounter this?

thanks

nic

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and you can open the js file

roberto puzzanghera nic January 31, 2016 11:47

and you can open the js file with your browser?

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Hi Roberto,

nic roberto puzzanghera January 31, 2016 12:46

Hi Roberto,

Sadly to say, i dont know the path to it even.
 

Sorry and thanks

nic

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Probably you installed the

roberto puzzanghera nic January 31, 2016 14:04

Probably you installed the pwd_strenght_chk.js file in the wrong path. Just navigate to the "add new user" page, right click to look at the html code and click over the javascript file. The file must be accessible by your web server.

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Hello,

nic roberto puzzanghera January 31, 2016 14:46

Hello,

The absolute path of add user

/usr/local/share/qmailadmin/html/add_user.html

The path of the javascript

/usr/local/share/qmailadmin/html/pwd_strenght_chk.js

Cgi-bin path

/var/www/cgi-bin/qmailadmin

Configuration

./configure --enable-help \
--enable-domain-autofill \
--enable-htmldir=/var/www/html \
--enable-imagedir=/var/www/html/images/qmailadmin \
--enable-imageurl=http://domain.com/images/qmailadmin \
--enable-cgibindir=/var/www/cgi-bin \
--disable-ezmlm-mysql \
--enable-modify-quota \
--disable-trivial-password

Can you help me to spot any mistake.

Many thanks again

nic

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It depends on your web server

roberto puzzanghera nic January 31, 2016 16:15

It depends on your web server configuration as well. Try to check if the webserver can access that file as suggested in my previous post

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Hi,

nic roberto puzzanghera January 31, 2016 19:30

Hi,

I can see the source.

<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/qmailadmin/html/pwd_strenght_chk.js"></script>
        </head>
        <body bgcolor="#ffffff" onload="init();">

But if i goto http://domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/html/pwd_strenght_chk.js i will just be directed to http://domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/

regards

nic

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Nic, your web server looks

roberto puzzanghera nic January 31, 2016 19:43

Nic, your web server looks for the script in this path http://domain.com/qmailadmin/html/pwd_strenght_chk.js. Note that the dir is different. Try again and if it fails double check your web server config as far the qmailadmin virtual domain is concerned and also that apache can actually access that file

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Thanks Roberto.

nic roberto puzzanghera January 31, 2016 20:15

Thanks Roberto.

All the functions in /html folder are working. I even edited the footer.html and it is also reflected in qmailadmin pages. I just don't know why the js file is not called.

sigh

nic

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perhaps you have javascript

roberto puzzanghera nic January 31, 2016 20:23

perhaps you have javascript disabled in your browser?

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Hello,

nic roberto puzzanghera January 31, 2016 20:43

Hello,

I had checked. javascript.enabled is true and i did a "Do i have java" on Java.com

Thanks for leading me this far. I think its up to myself to look for the broken link.

regards

nic

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Hi,

nic nic January 31, 2016 21:50

Hi,

I cannot find where is the broken link, or how it is broken. But i copy the js file into a public folder and edit the path of add_user.html, change_password.html and mod_user.html to URL of the new js file location.

All working now.

Thanks

nic

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I guess you have

roberto puzzanghera nic February 1, 2016 11:31

I guess you have some apache permissions problems.. try to browse to that js file with your browser and look at the error you get

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qmailadmin auth log

Tony May 27, 2015 07:47

Hi,

Thanks for your great works on this guide.  I would like to share the patch for qmailadmin (1.2.16) in order to have auth logging.  The patch shall log the failed login in qmailadmin login page.  The patch as underneath:

--- qmailadmin.c 2011-02-22 22:45:48.000000000 +0800
+++ qmailadmin.c.new 2015-05-11 12:06:58.984316573 +0800
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
@@ -109,6 +110,33 @@
 char RealDir[156];
 char Lang[40];
 
+static void
+log_auth(char *msg)
+{
+    FILE *fp = NULL;
+    if ((fp = fopen("/var/log/qma-auth.log", "a")) == NULL) {
+ exit(-1);
+    }
+
+    const char *ip_addr = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
+    if (!ip_addr)
+        ip_addr = "127.0.0.1";
+
+    time_t tv;
+    struct tm tm;
+    char time_buf[64];
+
+    time(&tv);
+    localtime_r(&tv, &tm);
+    strftime(time_buf, sizeof(time_buf) - 2, "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S", &tm);
+
+    fprintf(fp, "%s user:%s@%s ip:%s auth:%s\n", time_buf, Username, Domain, ip_addr, msg);
+
+    if (fclose(fp) != 0) {
+        exit(-1);
+    }
+}
+
 void qmailadmin_suid (gid_t Gid, uid_t Uid)
 {
   if ( geteuid() == 0 ) {
@@ -195,6 +223,11 @@
     if (*Username && (*Password == '\0') && (*Password1 || *Password2)) {
       /* username entered, but no password */
       snprintf (StatusMessage, sizeof(StatusMessage), "%s", html_text[198]);
+
+      char log_buf[3 * MAX_BUFF];
+      memset(log_buf, 0x0, sizeof(log_buf));
+      snprintf(log_buf, sizeof(log_buf) - 2, "failed [%s@%s]", Newu, Domain);
+      log_auth(log_buf);
     } else if (*Username && *Password) {
       /* attempt to authenticate user */
       vget_assign (Domain, RealDir, sizeof(RealDir), &Uid, &Gid);
@@ -208,6 +241,11 @@
 
       if ( *Domain == '\0' ) {
         snprintf (StatusMessage, sizeof(StatusMessage), "%s", html_text[198]);
+
+        char log_buf[3 * MAX_BUFF];
+        memset(log_buf, 0x0, sizeof(log_buf));
+        snprintf(log_buf, sizeof(log_buf) - 2, "failed [%s@%s]", Newu, Domain);
+        log_auth(log_buf);
       } else {
         chdir(RealDir);
         load_limits();
@@ -215,6 +253,11 @@
         pw = vauth_user( User, Domain, Password, "" );
         if ( pw == NULL ) {
           snprintf (StatusMessage, sizeof(StatusMessage), "%s", html_text[198]);
+
+          char log_buf[3 * MAX_BUFF];
+          memset(log_buf, 0x0, sizeof(log_buf));
+          snprintf(log_buf, sizeof(log_buf) - 2, "failed [%s@%s]", Newu, Domain);
+          log_auth(log_buf);
         } else if (pw->pw_flags & NO_PASSWD_CHNG) {
           strcpy (StatusMessage, "You don't have permission to change your password.");
         } else if (strcmp (Password1, Password2) != 0) {
@@ -264,6 +307,12 @@
          pw = vauth_user( Username, Domain, Password, "" );
          if ( pw == NULL ) {
            snprintf (StatusMessage, sizeof(StatusMessage), "%s\n", html_text[198]);
+
+           char log_buf[3 * MAX_BUFF];
+           memset(log_buf, 0x0, sizeof(log_buf));
+           snprintf(log_buf, sizeof(log_buf) - 2, "failed [%s@%s]", Newu, Domain);
+           log_auth(log_buf);
+
            show_login();
            vclose();
            exit(0);

It is required to created the log file /var/log/qma-auth.log initially.  Then we can use the log in fail2ban with the underneath filter:

[Definition]
failregex = ip:<HOST> auth:failed

ignoreregex =

Hope the patch is helpful.

Tony

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Tony, I added your patch to

roberto puzzanghera Tony May 27, 2015 15:42

Tony, I added your patch to the present guide. Thanks a lot

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verrry much apreciated, as

roberto puzzanghera Tony May 27, 2015 13:21

verrry much appreciated, as this is one thing I was looking for. At the moment I have an apache authentication before the web page is displayed, just to record the failures in the apache log.

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Warning of using the login picture from qmailadmin

Marc February 25, 2015 10:20

Hello Roberto,

i want to warn you about the risks of using the login picture from qmailadmin. Seriously this is no joke and i couldn't believe it the first time but using qmailadmin with this picture (middleleft1.png ) had cost me a fine of several hundreds Euro. This has happened: A few weeks ago i've got a letter from the company Getty Images, that i'm using illegal the picture provided in the login form from qmailadmin. Getty Images says that they has the legal rights of this image an i didn't have a license to use the picture and i have to pay this amount of money as an compensation for violating the copy right of this picture and of course i have to remove the picture immediatelly. I googled this thing and found out that this is true and even the guys from inter7 are aware of this thing, that happend to other qmailadmin users too (see the full thread of this post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.qmail.admin/4804). I contacted a lawyer and he said that under german and EU copyright laws this is true and i violated the copy right because i have to make sure that when i publish on a website a picture i'm responsible to make sure that i don't violate any copyright rules, even when the picture is part of an open source software. Another lawyer told me that i can try to go against it but the uncertain of succes and the costs of an lawyer for this put me to the decision to pay the fine.

So be warned when using the picture and check the copyright laws of your country.

Cheers

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Thanks for the hint Mark. I'm

roberto puzzanghera Marc February 25, 2015 12:26

Thanks for the hint Mark. I'm going to write a note asap

I suppose that this is the reason why that image is not shown anymore in the latest version. I thought that it was a bug, but I think this is an explanation.

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qmailadmin set catchall blank screen

george September 19, 2014 18:08

Hi Roberto,

I'm trying to setup email server based on your blog on Centos 6.5 x64

I manage to get everything to work until Qmailadmin part, when i test the menu "Set catchall email deleted" "Set catchall bounced" and "Set remote catch all account" , the page just show blank screen, even when i refresh (F5) , other menu seems ok.

Do you have any hint about this problem ?

Thanks.

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qmailadmin-catchall fix

roberto puzzanghera george December 2, 2016 21:27

this issue is fixed (thanks to Luca Franceschini). Patch

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downgrading vpopmail solved qmailadmin's catch-all account break

roberto puzzanghera george October 3, 2014 18:42

Dear all,

after some testing I found out that it works when downgrading vpopmail to v. 5.4.32 and qmailadmin to 1.2.15.

I also noticed that the compilation of qmailadmin breaks when compiling 1.2.16 over vpopmail 5.4.32, or 1.2.15 over vpopmail 5.4.33.

Summarizing:

• qmailadmin 1.2.16 goes with vpopmail-5.4.33, but this option seems to have the catch-all accounts functionality broken
• qmailadmin 1.2.15 only goes with vpopmail-5.4.32

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Hi George, I have the same

roberto puzzanghera george September 19, 2014 18:17

Hi George,

I have the same issue here. It worked in the past. I think it could be a bug... let me know if you solve

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same issue: qmailadmin set catchall blank screen

Anonymous roberto puzzanghera October 3, 2014 08:14

it was working before, must be some upgrade to apache, php, bash(?), or who knows what broke this.

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surely it does not depend on

roberto puzzanghera Anonymous October 3, 2014 11:20

surely it does not depend on php because it's not written in php. 

I would try to downgrade qmailadmin to see if it's broken only in the latest version

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Qmailadmin logging Invalid attempts

Boatner roberto puzzanghera February 18, 2015 00:53

Hi Roberto,

I cannot find where qmailadmin logs failed login attempts or failed change password attempts. I'd like to work with fail2ban to ban those who attempt too many logins.

Thank you,

Boatner

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Hi Boatner, I know. This is a

roberto puzzanghera Boatner February 18, 2015 13:02

Hi Boatner, I know. This is a problem. It doesn't log anything nor to /var/log/maillog nor to mysql

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