For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail users (qmails,
qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to /bin/false ?
Thanks
Massimo Quintini
Astronomical Observatory Collurania Teramo (Italy)
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:29AM -0200, MassimoQuintini wrote:
For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail users (qmails,
qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to /bin/false ?
/bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better.
Greetz, Peter.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:47:14AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:29AM -0200, MassimoQuintini wrote:
For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail
users (qmails, qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to /bin/false ?
yes
/bin/false is a very
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:05:25AM +0100, Jrgen Persson wrote:
[snip]
/bin/false is a very silly idea. /nonexistent is much better.
interesting -- why??
Because depending on your /bin/false and /bin/sh implementation, it's
behaviour can be modified by toying with environment variables such
Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup f=FCr the MAIL FROM: address.=20
If you have reliable DNS services - I've been on the other end of
that, a site permanently rejecting each mail (a 5xx code) because they
were having problems resolving the sending
if you are looking for a solution with only one entry in /etc/passwd you can
use vpopmail (http://www.vpopmail.cx)
- 1 entry in /etc/passwd - everything runs under a single UID/GID
- Support for Oracle, Sybase, Mysql, LDAP, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and
default cdb authentication storage
etc.
for
Hi,
At 09:49 7.3.2001 +, James R Grinter wrote:
Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, it makes sense to do DNS lookup f=FCr the MAIL FROM: address.=20
If you have reliable DNS services - I've been on the other end of
that, a site permanently rejecting each mail (a 5xx code)
Hi,
I got qmail to work (thanks Peter) and installed qmail-pop3d with a single
UID according to Paul Gregg's instructions. However I must have made a dumb
mistake along the way (probably in inetd.conf) :
when trying to retrieve mail I get a
-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
On the local
qmail Digest 7 Mar 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1296
Topics (messages 58454 through 58526):
Re: Problem with qmail-inject and .qmail files
58454 by: Scotte Zinn
Re: Qmail and time zone
58455 by: Rod... Whitworth
58467 by: Stefaan A Eeckels
Connection Problem
I have problem like this:
There's "qmail" binded to IP1 port 25
And there's "qmail2" binded to IP2 port 25
IP1 is on eth0
IP2 is an alias - eth0:0
My problem is that I want to pass some of mail's to "qmail2" using smtproutes,
but qmail'a seems to treat this mail as a local delivery and gives
So, in my request for opinions, pls., some/most/many admins would like
to refuse messages from non-local machines that do not have a valid
RDNS for the HELO FQDN, but feel such a policy is inappropriate from
the user's POV.
I have a lot of users that have a common ~/.procmailrc, (mostly spam,
Hi all,
We have got right now an iPlanet Messaging Server 4.15 Patch 2 that manages
around
50.000 users, and would like to migrate to QMail 1.03. Our main problem
right now
is the migration of the mailboxes of the users. Does anybody have any
experience in this kind of migration?
I would
maybe you could try qmail-ldap.
migrating the maiboxes is just a matter of
writing some shell scripts and using getmail
for instance. a few weeks ago we migrated isocor
to qmail-ldap.
regards,
Lucio
: -Original Message-
: From: Juan de Castro Paredes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent:
Hi,
Thanks for the answer.
The *problem* I see with that procedure is that it is not transparent for
the user because the mails will not be kept the same, they will all appear
"From: theuser" and "To: theuser". Is this right?
Thanks again,
Juan
-Mensaje original-
De: Jankok,
it will remain tranparent for the user.
: -Original Message-
: From: Juan de Castro Paredes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:13 PM
: To: Jankok, Lucio; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: RE: Mailbox migration from iPlanet
:
:
: Hi,
:
: Thanks for the answer.
Sean Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I am using qmail-1.03+patches.tar.gz, ...
qmail + patches qmail
This kind of confusion and the resulting support nightmare is exactly
what Dan is trying to avoid with his distribute-unmodified-source-only
distribution terms. I'm sure this
richard morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is anyone familiar with the use of the ETRN command?
Yeah, familiar enough to know that qmail doesn't implement it.
-Dave
"Chrisanthy Carlane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Return-Path:
#How come there is no return path?
Because it's a bounce message. This is normal.
Received: (qmail 25396 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 02:18:21 -
Received: from unknown (HELO sales) (10.10.10.127)
#I think the HELO should
Benjamin Collar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I rewrite a domain name on some incoming mail before passing it on?
Better question is why would you want to?
For instance, the company I'm working for used to receive its mail at
mail.aaa.com. Now it only wants aaa.com. This is not a virtual
"Kirti S. Bajwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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:
Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thx for the info. What I was curious about was also how qmail
scales. For example, it requires patches sometimes.
Rarely. IMHO, people are way to eager to install unnecessary patches.
Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed.
At 06:41 AM 3/7/2001, MassimoQuintini wrote:
yeppers - use vipw on most linux systems...or just use pico and edit the
passwd file - change the shell tp /bin/false
~kurth
For security reason, can I disable shell in /etc/passwd for qmail users
(qmails, qmaill, ...ect,) setting the shell to
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
qmail doesn't do any of this. Your logging program or logrotate
Thanks for your reply. I am now more confused. So let's have each question
defined clearly:
1. POP3 script
You said to include it with /var/qmail/rc. Then you said that you used the
same switch statement to start ... What is the SWITCH statement. Please show
me what changes you will make to
Hi,
Several people asked this on the list before, but I have not found any
reply. I hope to have better luck... :-)
Every time the mailbox is checked with POP3, syslog reports:
Mar 7 15:40:48 net1 inetd[26701]: pid 26937: exit status 1
Other than the annoying message, everything seems
Hello!
I see strange problem with qmail:
it tries to deliver mail to the first MX only.
I've looked at FAQ, and RTFM on qmail-remote; nothing cleared.
Before I'll dig myself into sources, tell me, is it a bug or a
feature?
Alex.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:31:30PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
Hello!
I see strange problem with qmail:
it tries to deliver mail to the first MX only.
I've looked at FAQ, and RTFM on qmail-remote; nothing cleared.
Before I'll dig myself into sources, tell me, is it a bug or a
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I am now more confused. So let's have each question
defined clearly:
1. POP3 script
You said to include it with /var/qmail/rc. Then you said that you used the
same switch statement to start ... What is the SWITCH statement.
/var/qmail/rc
#!/bin/sh
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/
Are you certain you're getting past this point and executing the
lines below?
I tried it and I don't think so
Any suggestion??? Remember I am using "qmail-HOWTO" to
You are right, I am not. Can you suggest where I should place the pop3
script?
Kirti
-Original Message-
From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:05 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Yet another weird POP3 problem
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:02:53PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
it tries to deliver mail to the first MX only.
How about you show us an example? I never see this behaviour.
SNIP OK MX records etc.
And now:
[19:00]
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
/var/qmail/rc
#!/bin/sh
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/
Are you certain you're getting past this point and executing the
lines below?
I tried it and I don't think so
Any
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:36:58AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
[snip]
It seems to me that qmail will only try the other MXs if it cannot
_connect_ to the MX it tries -- an opened but failed connection means
that it will continue to try the best-preference MX (similar to multiple
DNS servers in
Salutations to all:
What extra functionality and/or versatility is provided by fastforward
compared to virtualdomains?
If a hosted-domain client wants mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED], this is handled by locals.
But if we want [EMAIL PROTECTED] to land in user1's mailbox and
Erwin Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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,
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:36:58AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
It seems to me that qmail will only try the other MXs if it cannot
_connect_ to the MX it tries -- an opened but failed connection means
that it will continue to try the best-preference MX (similar to multiple
DNS servers in
Hi all
is therea way to notify me that i've received
an e-mail for the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] into
my other account [EMAIL PROTECTED] , without
forwardinga copy of the e-mail?
Thank You
Nicola
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:01:29PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:36:58AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
It seems to me that qmail will only try the other MXs if it cannot
_connect_ to the MX it tries -- an opened but failed connection means
that it will continue to try
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Dave Sill wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your answer. According to the mail people here, if mail
that's to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets forwarded to the internal Exchange servers,
they'll explode (or at least return the mail).
Putting mail.aaa.com in rcpthosts and local would just
In my case this approach will not work. I am starting qmail at boot from
/service directory using under svscan. I am not using the script as you have
suggested. In may case qmail is running fine, I can receive messages in
user's directories.
Thanks.
Kirti
-Original Message-
From:
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 17:19:39 PST, "info" wrote:
is there a way to notify me that i've received an e-mail for the account
[EMAIL PROTECTED] into my other account [EMAIL PROTECTED] , without forwarding a copy of the
e-mail?
Something like:
| sed -n -f $HOME/headers.sed | qmail-inject
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 17:19:39 PST, "info" wrote:
is there a way to notify me that i've received an e-mail for the account
[EMAIL PROTECTED] into my other account [EMAIL PROTECTED] , without forwarding a copy of the
e-mail?
Oops, forgot one thing... Don't forget to put the normal delivery
Ok I am still having
problems with the same emails getting delivered multiple times. And am baffled
by what to do. The higher ups are pushing REAL hard to switch to Microsoft
Exchange so I need at least some ideas on what to try next.
History,
Certain
email messages, sent from outside our
I just finished this kind of installation. Here's what I've setup:
qmail running as gateway out on internet as mail.aaa.com .
Exchange 4.0 internal running pullmail known as aaa.com.
Setup qmail as a virtual domain for @aaa.com per Ch 11 of Running qmail
Setup qmail-pop3 per LWQ and various
Benjamin Collar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Putting mail.aaa.com in rcpthosts and local would just tell qmail that
it's okay to move the mail along, right? That, then, wouldn't solve the
explosion problem.
No, that would try to deliver the mail locally.
If it's impossible then the client won't
"Kirti S. Bajwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my case this approach will not work. I am starting qmail at boot from
/service directory using under svscan. I am not using the script as you have
suggested. In may case qmail is running fine, I can receive messages in
user's directories.
Look as
Hi,
We are moving away from Microsoft Exchange Server to Linux/Qmail/IMAP
and
was wondering if there is any migration tool-sets available. Or
ideas/roadmaps.
Any tips?
--
===
Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0800, Greg White wrote:
[snip]
I may have to take back what I said about the MX records -- I cannot get
any ns for mail.ru to tell me anything but mx.port.ru for the MX record
for mail.ru. It appears they're trying to load-balance based on
round-robin DNS
i am having the *exact* same problem. it only happens with mails
originating outside our domain, and tehre's no rhyme or reason to it.
our logs do show
seems to happen more often with hotmail and yahoo. it's also happend with
this list! the only constant i can see between the three is
Put the following in your .forward (or equiv ) in email1
\medi, "| egrep -e '^From:|Subject:' | Mail -s YouGotMail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Which basically says,
keep a copy for medi, then only send the From and Subject to a new email
address.
info wrote:
Hi allis there a way to notify me that
Well, I'm in the process of going the same route. So far, Outlook can
support importing information out of MAPI based systems into IMAP/LDAP
systems. I am planning on replacing Exchange 4.0 with TradeServer from
bynari. So far it looks to be a good fit!
HTH
.mark
-BEGIN GEEK CODE
Hello,
When i want sent a mail, i got an error message from recipient:
The recipient runs qmail 1.03 with qmail-scanner-queue.pl (0.96)
(sendmail: stat=Deferred: 451 qq crashed(#4.3.0)) or
(qmail: deferral:
192.168.1.1_failed_after_I_sent_the_message./Remote_host_said:_451_qq_crashed_(#4.3.0)
Assuming you mean Exchange "EXPORTING", then what format do you
ask it to export.
Also, where does the LDAP come in the picture...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm in the process of going the same route.
So far, Outlook can
support importing information out of MAPI based systems into IMAP/LDAP
I haven't played with this a great deal, so you're going to have to bite
the bullet and give it a test yourself. From what I've seen there is a
way to export messages out of a MAPI based system and put them into an
LDAP/IMAP system. In other words you'll probably end up with two email
systems -
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:03:20PM -0500, Daniel Kelley wrote:
i am having the *exact* same problem. it only happens with mails
originating outside our domain, and tehre's no rhyme or reason to it.
our logs do show
seems to happen more often with hotmail and yahoo. it's also happend
Hi,
today a virus warning was launched concerning E-Mails including a
NAKEDWIFE.EXE attachment.
The virus is virulent under MS Outlook and deletes COM, EXE, DLL, and INI
files. See announcement of the major Anti-Virus vendors.
I made a shortcut filter for those attachements.
Feel free to apply
aha! we use cucipop as well. there's only one 'error locking' message in
the logs, but there are plenty of these:
cucipop[20914]: Invalid command capa - -
i've tried to figure out what this means, but i have no clue. could this
be indicative of what you're talking about?
if outlook clients
I have reciently inherited a system with qmail and I am not totally
familiar with every aspect message delivery. I would like to stop the
delivery of email to a single user. Is there a way to do this? I
thought I could put /dev/null in the users .forward but all messages get
delivered to
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Daniel Kelley wrote:
aha! we use cucipop as well. there's only one 'error locking' message in
the logs, but there are plenty of these:
cucipop[20914]: Invalid command capa - -
i've tried to figure out what this means, but i have no clue.
Andy $ wrote:
I would like to stop the
delivery of email to a single user. Is there a way to do this?
I'll take a polite RTFM if you can show me explictly where.
man dot-qmail
man bouncesaying
Perhaps a .qmail file for this user that reads:
| bouncesaying 'This address does not accept
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:28:13PM -0500, Andy Doller wrote:
I have reciently inherited a system with qmail and I am not totally
familiar with every aspect message delivery. I would like to stop the
delivery of email to a single user. Is there a way to do this? I
thought I could put
For my site it is not a pop issue.
The progress for a message is as follows. (taking mail from our co-lo as an
example but it happens from multiple external systems)
Process on App Server attempts to send an email in house using a mail server
at our co-lo.
External Email Server
Co-lo
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Daniel Kelley wrote:
aha! we use cucipop as well. there's only one 'error locking' message in
the logs, but there are plenty of these:
cucipop[20914]: Invalid command capa - -
i've tried
Awesome! Thanks so much!!!
Jesse
- Original Message -
From: "Erwin Hoffmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:11 PM
Subject: NAKEDWIFE.EXE Virus - Filter available
: Hi,
:
: today a virus warning was launched concerning
For the last two days I have done nothing else but to setup "pop3" to run
under qmail. I installed qmail by following "qmail-HOWTO"
(http://www.flunder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html) procedure. "svscan" is
starting qmail from "/service" directory. I have two directories
Okay, I admit it, I'm stumped. I have logs in /var/log/qmail/send that
are filling up with this message:
@40003aa683a12a69c3e4 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address
already used
@40003aa683a23441f7c4 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address
already used
@40003aa683a23444c29c
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:18:33PM -0500, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
RESULT:
pop3 does not start.
What am I doing wrong? What can I do to remedy this problem?
What do the logs say?
--Adam
--
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No matter how much it changes,
http://flounder.net/publickey.html
What's the rights on the pop3d run file?? The qmail-pop3d directory
under supervise?? In my run file, I end it with splogger pop3d 21...
What happens when you try running the run file from the command line??
.mark
--
From: Kirti S. Bajwa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March
I think I'm having a problem (unless I just don't understand how this
works) ...
I sent a few outgoing emails, and watched /var/log/mail/info as they went out.
Three of them got errors from the remote SMTP server about invalid users,
or a user was over the quota.
I never received a bounce
Wednesday March 07 2001 21:11, Erwin Hoffmann wrote to All:
EH I made a shortcut filter for those attachements.
EH Feel free to apply it.
EH http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/filter.html
Neat! I installed them as instructed, but 'checkattach' gives 'file not
found'. The other two seem to be ok.
You have inetd already binding the port (25). Check your
/etc/inetd.conf file (don't forget to hup the server) or to see if
sendmail is running. You can check to see if there's something
already binding on port 25 by using 'netstat' or 'netstat -na'. -sc
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at
I did it, .. I blew everything away, and went step
by step carefuly with Life with qmail!!
but when I had to test the telnet localhost 25
it connects, and gave me this:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to firegate.hahlabs.com
Escape character is '^]'.
and that is it..
if I typed anything it
hi,
I am just wondering , if I am using splogger then
the file to look at is :/var/log/syslog
now if I am using multilog, then which file to look
at?
thanks. is it /var/log/mail.log?
I recently installed RH 6.2 LINUX on two machines, I will call them:
ns1.mydomain.com ns2.mydomain.com.
The first server (ns1.mydomain.com, is purely used for DNS inquiries. I am
using "djbdns". DNS is working fine. On the second machine
(ns2.mydomain.com), I have installed Apache, SSL, mySQL,
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:18:33PM -0500, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
For the last two days I have done nothing else but to setup "pop3" to run
under qmail. I installed qmail by following "qmail-HOWTO"
(http://www.flunder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html) procedure. "svscan" is
starting qmail from
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:13:24PM -0500, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
[snip]
I am having problem connecting to qmail. Each time I try to make a
connection from MS Outlook, I get a response that the connection is refused
because of an invalid userid or password.
How did you install qmail? Did you
Hi,
If I have a mail server behind a firewall, I know I can use the SMART_HOST
feature in Sendmail to send all non-local outgoing mail to a predetermined
relay somewhere beyond the firewall who will take care of sending mail out
onto the Internet.
Now in qmail, how do I achieve the same
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:07:12PM -0500, Martin Gignac wrote:
If I have a mail server behind a firewall, I know I can use the SMART_HOST
feature in Sendmail to send all non-local outgoing mail to a predetermined
relay somewhere beyond the firewall who will take care of sending mail out
onto
Is there anyone familiar with the above
error?
I got it from the log file after I attempt to
use
#echo to: me |
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
!!
your help is appreciated!
thanks.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:24:10PM -0800, Hatem wrote:
Is there anyone familiar with the above error?
I got it from the log file after I attempt to use
#echo to: me | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
Search any search engine or qmail archive with the exact text of your
subject line. This is a FAQ.
Hello :)
I seem to be coming into this conversation a little late, and I don't
know who has had what fixed. But there seems to be 3 different questions
for this thread. Please correct any of these questions as I have defined
them below, and perhaps it may be easier for other people to
hi.
the problem i am experiencing is as follows:-
if our mail server is receiving mail from our isp via etrn, local client
connections to the server are slow (connected,waiting,
waiting,waiting, then it finally connects - the send receive is really
fast); when the server is not
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