Re: large queue and delivery problems -- yahoo.com down

2001-03-06 Thread Paulus Hendarwan
I think you can make another qmail instance on the same machine at another port and use the new qmail instance as your active mail server until mails on original qmail instance runs out. May it helps. Paulus Hendarwan -- "Simon K. Grabowski" wrote: Yahoo mail

Re: Quota qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Kittiwat Manosuthi
First, stop sending HTML email to this mailing list or you'll get kicked by 'someone' else. Second, I don't think qmail has any quota mechanism in it. Easy way to do this is to use something else, like vpopmail from inter7.com (check out their web site, and read the manual--please). Or you may

Re: cant receive mail

2001-03-06 Thread Sean Coyle
Mike, I have a few questions regarding your post. Depending on your user level, you may know some or most of this, so I apologize now if I am covering anything you already know, or not giving enough information to you. If you need more, just ask. :) What virtual domain e-mail

Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other thanMaillog

2001-03-06 Thread Sean Coyle
Hey there guys, Got a question for ya this morning. Qmail traditionally logs all pop3 transactions in /var/log/maillog using syslog or whatever it is. I want to have multilog handle all logfile entries for qmail-pop3d, and have all output recorded to /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d/ in maillog

Re: running qmail from /supervise

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Peltonen
Gerrit Pape wrote: I have svscan /service started from inittab. I have the links for the services in /service and normally do not remove them. Services are started at boot time, no need for init scripts. If I want a service to be down temporary, I use svc -d /service/service. Thats what I

reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread John Conover
As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Good idea? Fascist idea? Opinions pls. John -- John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733

RE: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-06 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote: Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye. The - is in the MTA generated Received: lines. AFAIK, it's the standard way to indicate "no offset from UTC". Stefaan --

qmail Digest 6 Mar 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1295

2001-03-06 Thread qmail-digest-help
qmail Digest 6 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1295 Topics (messages 58401 through 58453): running qmail from /supervise 58401 by: Neil Grant 58402 by: Jankok, Lucio 58404 by: Dave Sill 58406 by: Gerrit Pape 58408 by: Dave Sill 58411 by: Gerrit

RE: Problem with qmail-inject and .qmail files

2001-03-06 Thread Scotte Zinn
The same problem occurs. I believe it is finding mail fine because qmail-inject is reporting the read error. -- Scotte -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with

RE: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-06 Thread Rod... Whitworth
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +0100 (MET), Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote: Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye. The - is in the MTA generated Received: lines. AFAIK,

Connection Problem

2001-03-06 Thread Ariel Levien
Hi My qmail server is having a problem sending mail via SMTP to a specific domain. When I tried to see what was going on, the logs show deferral: Connected_to_xxx.xxx.xx.xx_but_connection_died._ When I telnet to the remote server on port 25, I get the response below: 220

Re: Quota qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Jason Kawaja
In case your intention is to restrict the size of individual messages handled by smtpd, you would want to set /var/qmail/control/databytes to a positive non-zero integer...do a `man qmail-smtpd`; let the OS handle user quotas -- Regards, Jason Kawaja, UF-ECE Sys Admin

forward and groups

2001-03-06 Thread richard morris
hi all. how does one create groups / distribution lists and forward mail to another local user in qmail? thanx richard.

SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

2001-03-06 Thread Hatem
I have no problems sending messages using my qmail server as SMTP and it works fine! but.. when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address to it (POP3D service) it gives me this error: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients

sqlfile problems

2001-03-06 Thread Hugo Antunes
hi i am having a problem qhile conecting to mysql server using de qmail-mysql= =20 port from freebsd. my sqlfile is lik ethis: root@server:/var/qmail/controlmore sqlserver mysql_use yes server 127.0.0.1 login user password xx db sqlmailauth table users check_host yes quota yes ignore_validity

RE: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

2001-03-06 Thread Jankok, Lucio
try this on your pop host; telnet 0 110 user yourusername pass yourpassword list if this doesn't work you might look if you have the relevant account(s) created. if you have, than you might consider posting your configuration to the list. regards, Lucio Jankok -Original

RE: Connection Problem

2001-03-06 Thread Jankok, Lucio
you must get a greeting from the server. the 220 response is valid, have you try to greet it and continue a smtp session ? regards, Lucio Jankok : -Original Message- : From: Ariel Levien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] : Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:56 PM : To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' :

Open Relay

2001-03-06 Thread Marcilio Jorgensen Cassella
Hello, My SMTP server is in mail-abuse.org. Follow the Faq I did: #cat .qmail-fixup-default | [ "@$HOST" = "@fixme" ] || ( echo Permission denied; exit 100 ) | qmail-inject -f "$SENDER" -- "$EXT2" #cat virtualdomains fixme:fixup #cat smtp.rules 200.18.178.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="@fixme"

logging problems

2001-03-06 Thread Thomas Beer
Hi, I'm facing some problems getting qmail up. And the log files for smtpd-send et. al are empty (that's correct, because there isn't something to log). But how can I get logs from the start and stop error messages written to a file? Thanks Tom

RE: Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other than Maillog

2001-03-06 Thread Kitabjian, Dave
Qmail traditionally logs all pop3 transactions in /var/log/maillog using syslog or whatever it is. Really? I didn't think it logged anything. Are you sure you're not using a patched version? Dave

ERROR MSG

2001-03-06 Thread qmailu
Hi, I get the an error stating Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_bestpreference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals _file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ while trying to send a mail to a domain hosted in my server. What could be the problem ? Raghu

RE: Qmail and time zone

2001-03-06 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 06-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +0100 (MET), Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On 04-Mar-2001 Rod... Whitworth wrote: Does this have any bearing on his problem? I don't know as I have not been following it in detail. The - just hit my eye. The

Re: ERROR MSG

2001-03-06 Thread japc
Read on: "it_isn't_in_my_control/locals_file" echo "domain.com" /var/qmail/control/locals . On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:55:39PM +0530, qmailu wrote: Hi, I get the an error stating Sorry._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_bestpreference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my_control/locals

RE: ERROR MSG

2001-03-06 Thread Jankok, Lucio
ok... try this; grep theparticulardomain /var/qmail/control/locals p.s. you are askinga *very* basic question here, which isvery well treated in qmail's documentation.. hope you consider that. regards, Lucio Jankok -Original Message-From: qmailu [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:21:46AM -0800, Hatem wrote: I have no problems sending messages using my qmail server as SMTP and it works fine! but.. when I try to send an e-mail to any of the address to it (POP3D service) it gives me this error: This really makes no sense at all. Your POP3

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Very political question. As long as you don't reject envelope senders of and #@[], you won't be violating any RFCs. However, you

Re: pop3 acct name

2001-03-06 Thread Dean Browett
Hi, How do you explain these then ? @40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20 @40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

user quota

2001-03-06 Thread M. Yu
I've been thinking about this for quite a while now. I still can't come up with a solution so maybe someone here can help. Short version: we're looking for a way to make several e-mail addresses share the same mailbox. Long version: some of our clients want to have additional e-mail addresses

Re: user quota

2001-03-06 Thread Jason Kawaja
Perhaps I am missing something here You could create the first mail account (mailbox) giving ownership to username "joebob", each additional mailbox is given ownership to "joebob" ...set a quota for "joebob"all files/directories (mailboxes, whatever) owned by "joebob" are enforced to the

Re: user quota

2001-03-06 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 10:11 AM 3/6/2001, M. Yu wrote: try using group quotas. put all the people that you want to limit in one group and then set that groups quota to 4 megs or so... ~kurth I've been thinking about this for quite a while now. I still can't come up with a solution so maybe someone here can

Re: user quota

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
M. Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short version: we're looking for a way to make several e-mail addresses share the same mailbox. `man qmail-users` and friends, plus Dan's FAQ. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon

RAV AntiVirus for Qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Mihai Serban
Dear Linux users, We are happy to announce that we have just issued a RAV AntiVirus version for Qmail. This beta version is now available on our site http://www.ravantivirus.com - free download, and we would really appreciate your feedback if you would take a time to install and run it! Thank

Re: pop3 acct name

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:35:03PM -, Dean Browett wrote: How do you explain these then ? @40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20 @40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873:

MailMan/qmail - missing headers

2001-03-06 Thread Graham Guttocks
Greetings, I've just installed the MailMan MLM on my qmail server with fastforward support for /etc/aliases. Everything seems to work fine except that the messages that MailMan sends out are missing some headers such as "Date:" and "Message-ID:". The result is that the destination MTA has to

Re: pop3 acct name

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:35:03PM -, Dean Browett wrote: How do you explain these then ? @40003aa4f3a023278cc4 starting delivery 2957873: msg 591883 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003aa4f3a02327ea84 status: local 1/10 remote 20/20 @40003aa4f3a02b24c2fc delivery 2957873:

Re: MailMan/qmail - missing headers

2001-03-06 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:11:52AM +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: I've just installed the MailMan MLM on my qmail server with fastforward support for /etc/aliases. Everything seems to work fine except that the messages that MailMan sends out are missing some headers such as "Date:" and

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:07:46AM -, John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? I don't think this buys you much in the way of spam protection and can block legitimate

Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_message Error.

2001-03-06 Thread schoon
What I want to do is add the X-Envelope-To: to every email sent to my virtual domain. Then I can have pullmail just look at the X-Envelope-To: field and fix receiving mail sent to mailing lists. This is what I've done to my .qmail files: In .qmail-default |(echo "X-Envelope-To:

letter rip pro and qmail

2001-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone on the list had any problems getting qmail to accept mail deliveries from someone using letter rip pro? I have a user who is using letter rip, but his session is "unexpectedly closed" every time when trying to send mail to my server. The domain he is trying to send to is hosted on my

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
John Conover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Good idea? Fascist idea? Opinions pls. Do you relay for users running POP clients who send their outbound through you via

RE: letter rip pro and qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Tim Hunter
Not familer with the software but it sounds like it might be the bare line feeds issue. There is info in the archives and I think on qmail.org on how to work around this without fixing the software. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Serialmail algorithm? (leftover mails)

2001-03-06 Thread Paulo Jan
Hi all: I have a customer with a Linux server that connects to us through a dialup account, and sends us their queued mail using serialmail. The problem they are having is that, from time to time, they have some leftover mails that don't get sent, even if I kill all the running instances

ETRN / SLOW

2001-03-06 Thread richard morris
howzit. is anyone familiar with the use of the ETRN command? if i telnet into the isp mail server on port 25 and issue EHLO mailserver.co.za it replies with:- 250-..xx.xx Hello .xxx.xx.xx [xxx.x.xx.x6] 250-SIZE 15728640 250-ETRN 250-PIPELINING 250 HELP is the size the size of

QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

2001-03-06 Thread Paul Farber
hello all, trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq). What's the trick? Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas??? Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the only thing I've been able to do is cause 4.5.1's all day (unable to exec qq). What's the trick? Searched the archives and nothing came close... ANY ideas??? There were several people running

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

2001-03-06 Thread Paul Farber
I have softlimit -m 400 at the start of the qmail-smtpd script Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to implement the the qmail-qfilter patch and the

POP user auth

2001-03-06 Thread Chad Cranston
Forgive me for being a beginner .. I installed qmail about 2 months ago to use as an SMTP server for home ...and have tried to get pop working on it .. I am using Maildir ... i origionally installed qmail using mailbox ... and switched to maildir following lifewithqmail.org's instructions

Re: QMAILQUEUE patch error 4.5.1

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have softlimit -m 400 at the start of the qmail-smtpd script I seem to recall the others had to raise it to at least 6MB to get it to work. This should be in the archives in the last month; I believe the subject had something to do with Amavis,

IP_MASQ Error

2001-03-06 Thread Bill Andersen
I have installed Qmail on a Linux box at may home. I have DSL and a 4 port router using NAT to direct all SMTP and POP3 traffic to the Linux box. I set up qmail and pop3 without any problem (or at least is all seems to work), but I keep getting the following error on the console... IP_MASQ:

Re: POP user auth

2001-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 8:54 am, Chad Cranston wrote: Forgive me for being a beginner .. Never! I was *born* knowing 'vi', shouldn't everyone? *smile* I installed qmail about 2 months ago to use as an SMTP server for home and have tried to get pop working on it .. I am using

Re: POP user auth

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ken Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things: 1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 2) the authdaemond.ldap was running, but I had no ldap daemon. Neither of those files has anything to do with a stock qmail. In particular,

Re: POP user auth

2001-03-06 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:43:47PM +, Ken Corey wrote: I installed the pop that comes with qmail, and found two things: you didn't. authdaemond is part of courier imap and you surely have installed the pop3 daemon coming with courier imap. 1) the authdaemond.plain wasn't running, or 2)

domain rewrites

2001-03-06 Thread Benjamin Collar
Greetings I have checked through lwq and qmail-howto and tried to search the archives for the answer to this question. Searching the archives didn't work for me because of a blasted firewall...so, my apologies if this has been asked a billion times before: How do I rewrite a domain name on some

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-06 Thread Mate Wierdl
Thx for the info. What I was curious about was also how qmail scales. For example, it requires patches sometimes. Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed. Or it apparently needs the dns patch. In other words, qmail does not seem be uptodate as new requirements come

Re: Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_messageError.

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Samuel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do is add the X-Envelope-To: to every email sent to my virtual domain. Then I can have pullmail just look at the X-Envelope-To: field and fix receiving mail sent to mailing lists. This is what I've done to my .qmail files: In

POP3 Question

2001-03-06 Thread Kirti S. Bajwa
My question is too fundamental for all you qmail experts, but please reply anyway. I am a newbie. I installed qmail on a RH 6.2 LINUX system by following step-by-step guidelines of QMAIL-HOWTO ( I have also consulted Life with Qmail). Two questions: 1) Where do I install qmail-pop3 script (the

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Russell Nelson
John Conover writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? No. Neither is it reasonable to reject messages from a host whose reverse DNS hostname lacks an MX record. Neither is it reasonable to reject

RE: Editing .qmail Files Creates qmail-spawn_unable_to_open_messageError.

2001-03-06 Thread schoon
Peter, Ok I think I got it!! The sticky point was realizing that when messages are forwarded via user-finaldelivery, that it needed to be treated as a local user. In my control/locals file, all I had was localhost, but once I added the server.domain.com, it start inserting and forwarding

Qmail logs.

2001-03-06 Thread Grant
I changed directory to /var/log/qmail and noticed it has only kept logs since the 2nd of March. Is it possible to rotate the logs monthly and stop qmail from creating new log files twice per day? Thankyou.

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Chin Fang
John Conover writes: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? No. Indeed. Nevertheless, I think some elaboration will make the following answers easier to understand to less experienced mail managers.

IsoQlog 1.5 released (multilog support has been added )

2001-03-06 Thread Ismail YENIGUL
hi i released isoqlog version 1.5 what is isoqlog : Isoqlog is an qmail log analysis program written in perl . it designed to scan qmail logfile and produce usage statistics in HTML format. for viewing through a browser. It produces Top domains output according to Incoming , Outgoing , total

Re: SMTP OK, but POP isn't!!

2001-03-06 Thread Sean Coyle
Hatem, I sent a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note the lack of the mail. Prefix). I got back two different errors: Recipient: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason:To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM

Re: Getting POP3d to record logging information in places other than Maillog

2001-03-06 Thread Sean Coyle
Well, I am using qmail-1.03+patches.tar.gz, downloaded from a reliable source of course. Qmail-send and qmail-smtp log their information using multilog, in the correct place of course (/var/log/qmail/(service-name). What I am trying to do, is just move the log output of qmail-pop3d to the same

mbox w/o home

2001-03-06 Thread Rodolfo Sampaio
Hi! Im migrating from sendmail to qmail 1.03+fastfoward using mbox format /var/spool/mail. The problem is that almost all of my users uses /tmp as home and /dev/null as a fake shell and qmail is refusing to distribute these mails... it wont give an error... it justs drop

qmail to set reply to: for non local users?

2001-03-06 Thread Bevan Broun
Our qmail server receives all it's mail from a relay that does virus scanning etc. It then sends mail out to to various hosts. No MUA will speak directly to qmail. We want qmail to rewrite the "reply to:" field for our users - from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list archives

Re: qmail to set reply to: for non local users?

2001-03-06 Thread Alex Pennace
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:25:06PM +1100, Bevan Broun wrote: Our qmail server receives all it's mail from a relay that does virus scanning etc. It then sends mail out to to various hosts. No MUA will speak directly to qmail. We want qmail to rewrite the "reply to:" field for our users -

What are these messages mean?

2001-03-06 Thread Chrisanthy Carlane
Greetings everybody! I received a bounce message like this, there are some things that I don't understand, can anyone help me? I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named yahoogroups.com=20.

Re: mbox w/o home

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Cavender
Hi- qmail needs a non-world-writable location to place a user's email. If all your users have /tmp as home, who owns /tmp/mbox??? You need to setup your user accounts properly with individual, non-world-writabele home directories, or use some other tool to locally deliver the mail. --Pete On

perl scripts

2001-03-06 Thread Paul Farber
anyone have any short perl scripts they youwlid liek to forward to show interaction with qmail envirmonment variable, logging to a file etc Everything works file (scripts) when echo-ing a string to the script... but when trying to get them 'inline' for qmail to use... I get nothing.

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS servers are

Re: What are these messages mean?

2001-03-06 Thread Ken Jones
Chrisanthy Carlane wrote: Greetings everybody! I received a bounce message like this, there are some things that I don't understand, can anyone help me? I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20: The line above shows you the

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Cavender
At 10:07 AM 06-03-2001 -, John Conover wrote: As a matter of policy, is it reasonable to reject messages that fail a reverse DNS lookup on HELO's FQDN/authentication? Well two of our service providers haven't arranged reverse DNS lookups for our Internet visible subnets. Our DNS

Re: reverse DNS?

2001-03-06 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, I dont know, whether the HELO/EHLO from the MTA-Client means anything and whether it can be used for a reverse DNS lookup. However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup fr the MAIL FROM: address. This is alrady feasable by some qmail patches, including my SPAMCONTROL. Have a look at: