This argument about not being able to monitor aliases.db is
interesting: just because rpm cannot monitor certain files, does not
mean it should give up monitoring *all* the files.
And indeed, RH (Linux, in general), puts all the sys files it cannot
monitor are put under /etc (config files) and
Hello,
what is the easier package of initscripts to install for tcpserver?
the rpm package of the tar.gz package? Please let me know.
What rpm package are you talking about: tcpserver-initscripts? That
does not contain the qmail initscripts; only a script to start
rlogind,
You can use formail of the procmail package or reformail of the
maildrop package for removing duplicates. Use the -D option. Let me
know if you need more help
Mate
I think Dan said about 800. I do not think there were 2000
messages today though...
Mate
I made a binary package for Lignux; it is the ..i386.tar.gz file in
ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail/var-qmail
There is also a var-qmail-create.tar file, which was used to make the
binary distribution.
There are READMEs in each tarball.
There is one difference between this var-qmail
Have you seen FAQ 8.2? Or you just want to have copies of a single
user's mail?
Mate
Simply add the rewriting code to qmail-smtpd and check for NOREWRITE.
Is not this aginst rfc821 to do any rewriting during an smtp
connection? Like:
mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but the envelope sender gets transformed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The install should prequalify the system's user/group name space AND
alternate UID/GID space. How can it be otherwise? My goal here is
to install binaries which can be MD5 checksum'd, so idedit isn't an
option.
I don't have a clue of that
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:30:51PM -0500, Reid Sutherland wrote:
The exact line in my inetd.conf is from the INSTALL file in qmail 1.03
tarball.
I've got Linux 2.2.1.
I got a connection closed from a telnet.
I have things setup in hosts.allow and deny but I allow localhost.
I ran config to
, bypassing normal
name-resolution mechanisms.
See also 6.2.3 DOMAIN TERMS.
Mate
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Adam D McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As an administrator, getting to know ezmlm took around an hour. As a
user, it took about five minutes.
Do you have shell access to the ezmlm directories for all of the lists
that you manage? ezmlm is very easy to work with if you
Generally, having the machine plugged into the network while you're
upgrading is a big no-no anyway. You either unplug the coax, or deactivate
the eth0 interface doing the upgrade.
When you rebuild a box that way, you better isolate it from the outside
world. Otherwise,
At 13:57 11/01/99 -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
It installs sendmail even if you do NOT tell it to install sendmail in an
INSTALL process. It does this for outbound mail, but doesn't actually set
the daemon for running after boot. Whoever is maintaining the Sendmail RPM
should
\
qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir
Are you possibly missing a backslash "\" up there?
/dev/null 21
still logs to the console.
Just set VERBOSE to "". The only those events of tcpserver will be logged
which you do want to see...
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What if he does
1) MX for somedomain.com pointing at his machine
2) Put
somedomain.com:joe-local
in virtualdomains
3)For each local user bob, create
cat ~joe/.qmail-local-bob
bob
4) create ~joe/.qmail-local-default
|forward $DEFAULT@ME
(and disregard my previous silly suggestion)
Mate
Mate Wierdl writes:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
The real problem is that /usr/lib/sendmail is serving double duty as an
operating system binary and as an MTA selection switch. A solution to
this problem appears in http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/etc-mta.html.
Well, the above doc says
on one line!)
|condredirect $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LAST2=$(echo $HOST|awk -F"." '{print $(NF-1)"."$NF}');
[ "$LAST2" = = "somedom.com" ]
Here is what this does: Take the host part of the recipient address, test
the last two component, if it is somedom.com, forward t
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:22:24AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
I never suggested this. The part starting with LAST2 is the *program* part
of condredirect. The full .qmail line looks like (all on one line!)
|condredirect $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LAST2=$(echo $HOST|awk -F"." '{print $(N
/qmail/
If you are using Redhat, the best bet is to forget the source packages and pick up
Mate
Wierdl's RPMs at
If you're using RedHat, the best bet is to forget the advice to
look at RPMs, and go back to the src package.
Because
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again: you need to restart qmail-send. Also, the syntax you are using
in virtualdomains is completely forbidden, like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mate
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). The
home directory must not be world writable, or (depending on how qmail
was configured during compilation) group writable.
This is not a correct advice, I think: just recompile qmail with changing
conf-patrn to 000, and you are in business.
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On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:06:08AM +, Chris Bond wrote:
qmail-local will refuse to run as root, and hence you can NEVER
deliver to root under the qmail system. You must alias root to an
ordinary user, usually the administator of the machine.
The original poster did
It is usually /etc/skel. It is *not* a qmail specific concept.
Mate
Hi!
Why doesn't Qmail mailing list set the
Reply To: field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
It is very anoying that I must type the
mailing list address for every message
I respond to.
What if a poster is not a subscriber? he would set the reply-to field
to his personal
I couldn't find a manual entry for it,
but provided it works that doesn't bother
me.
FAQ/4.6
Mate
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mark Delany wrote:
At 02:26 AM 2/17/99 -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
I seem to recall the inode numbers biting people who were copying
filesystems (backups, changing disks). If your assertions are
correct, wouln't it make some sense to come up with some
Yeah well.. what will you do with several messages per second? Even with usec
precision, there is a (very) small chance that you'll generate the same name
twice, which is unacceptable.
Hmm.. timestamp.qmail-queue pid.qmail-queue internal counter perhaps?
Greetz, Peter.
This was for the message with
Subject: New Dual Mount Copy Holder by Rubbermaid
Mate
--- Forwarded Message
Dear Internet User,
Thank you for contacting the Prodigy Postmaster regarding unsolicited
commercial email (UCE) you have received.
The Prodigy account listed in the UCE, [EMAIL
smart (and friendly) MUAs to their customers. If these do not exist
yet---sponsor projects that would make them.
-- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of
Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:32:03PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
it fails with 'failed dependencies: sendmail conflicts with qmail-1.03-6'
Why is this ??
Because qmail conflicts with sendmail. You need to remove sendmail
first with
rpm -e sendmail
Mate
Perhaps
the emails as "not delivarable, cause of no such user" which
definitly wasn't true, just the homedir was missing...
Any solutions?
FAQ 4.9.
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e.internal as in the
host part.
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s lis" [ "$SENDER"="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ]
as the first line in the .qmail file, and then list the names you want the
messages sent to.
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MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the
header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are
pretty useless these days for filtering.
The From line *is* the envelope sender, which is coming
Is there anyway to have qmail use badmailfrom on the from line in the
header? The spammers are forging the envelopes so the envelopes are
pretty useless these days for filtering.
Nope. qmail-smtpd doesn't look at the address headers.
For this task you'll probably
01:54 EST." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:10:09 -0600
From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-UIDL: f0eb5a8c99d61bf6379a3a2ffba98dac
Our existing mail server user /var/spool/mail/username for mail storage. I
just installed qmail and use Maildir for de
how
qmail did this by default.thanks again!
Need to read the docs; man dot-qmail, in particular.
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-tcp-0.84.
When i do /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start, all the exe seems
to start (ps -auxf).
Does /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail have a command in it to start qmail-smtpd? What
is that command?
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Dan said that the best defense against spam is to create appropriate
laws against it.
But what is the reality of this in a country where it is legal to air
ads in every five minutes (with increased volume so even if you dare
to go to the bathroom, you will hear it) in the middle of a TV show?
This means that upon execution of the init file,
DEFAULT_DELIVERY will be the string
"# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. ./Mailbox"
all on one line, which is incorrect.
(It's a feature of backquoting in sh, that it removes newlines)
$
I have been wondering why is not there a simple support in qmail to
filter incoming mail and then forward it to a file.
1) How about condredirect would understand that if an address starts
with / or "." then it has to forward to a maildir or mbox? Like
|condredirect ./fakesinceheisnotaround/
would like to
annoy them, so they keep kicking their provider.
Thanks,
Franz.
I wonder what the RBLSMTPD env var is for.
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
If you know the IP numbers, you can set RBLSMTPD to "", and then mail
is not blocked. (I wonder how antirbl could be used for similar
purpose; am I supposed to run antirbl for each not-to-be-blocked domain?).
Mate
I'm setting RBLSMTPD to "" and the whole rest of setup works as expected.
My problem is that I cannot check for RBLSMTPD or any other environment
variable set by tcpserver in a .qmail file.
I see, what you are saying is true.
What is the extra functionality you cannot achieve by
So my options are:
- parse the Received: header (anyone has a working regexp for that?) for
the IP address and do rblsmtpd again
You can use 822field for that (from the mess822 package by djb).
Mate
I created an account called newsmaster ... and I want this account to
receive messages ONLY from people that are on a list ... is it possible?
(using Qmail 1.03)
Put, in ~newsmaster/.qmail, (on one line!)
|boncesaying "You cannot send messages here"
[ "`grep -i $SENDER list`" != ""
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:37:34PM +, Martijn Koster wrote:
My questions are:
- what methods are other people using to check up on supervise?
- is it worth including this functionality in the base distribution,
using esvc or some other mechanism?
From daemontools-2.0:
man supervise
?
Date:Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:55:08 CST
To: "Martin Green" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From:Mate Wierdl mw
Subject: Re: Filtering outgoing mail
In-Reply-To: Message from "Martin Green" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of "Wed,
On 3 Mar 1999, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Also: is it possible to rewrite the Return-Path header
and not touch the From header?
No. Why would a user want that?
Well, for one, a user that's subscribed to an ezmlm mailing list that has
posts restricted to subscribers
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 08:42:02PM -0500, James Smallacombe wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
On 3 Mar 1999, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Also: is it possible to rewrite the Return-Path header
and not touch the From header?
No. Why would a user want
?
Please read the INSTALL* docs, look at the PIC* files, read the FAQ, and if
you still have questions, let us know.
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Hello,
Is it true that the only way to deliver messages to usernames that
contain dashes is to recompile qmail telling it to use a different
escape character than -
cheers - eric
Not true. But: you should not have both
eric-van-der-laan
and
eric. Indeed, then
qmail has slowed to processing local mail in 10-20 minutes since I
restored the backup files to a new drive (after the old one crashed).
The restore seemed to go along okay, and everything else on the system
seems to be working as it was.
I've tried sending local mail normally
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
It is possible to have users with dashes in their names. I've got a bunch of
those, and all works well (no user-spoofing like the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" vs.
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] with .qmail-something" mentioned before seems to be
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:39:48PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
- Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| Suppose I have a box running qmail on a home network without DNS.
| How can I route all remote messages to another box on the home
| network?
|
| Would putting
|
| :[1.2.3.4
to put ip there.
If what you suggest is supposed to work, then I am confused: having
:remote.host
in smtproutes does not require a DNS lookup of remote.host?
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On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 10:47:01PM +, Sam wrote:
Mate Wierdl writes:
So with stock qmail, I *must* have DNS?
Correct. If you don't have DNS running, your network must be so small that
putting a few lines into control/smtproutes shouldn't be much of a hassle.
This is exzactly my
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 03:01:40PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
Mate Wierdl wrote:
What was wrong with using reformail like
|reformail -i"Date: $(date) -0300 (server time)"|forward .
I didn't know this thing existed. Where can I find it?
It is par
In fact, it's identical. The only difference is that overall my options
are slightly better organized.
There is just one thing which I miss in reformail: capitalization of
header fields matter:
Run
echo Date: okidoki| formail -f -Idate
echo Date: okidoki| reformail -Idate
Mate
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 06:21:53PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
- Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| In any case, he can always use supervise from djb's daemontools
| package.
That won't detect a process which got stuck in some black hole, which
was the problem provoking this thread
What mean things can happen if a user pipes the message to a command?
They can always do it using the shell anyways. The shell started in
.qmail is run by the user...
Mate
But if the users do not have shell access, how do they create .qmail files?
Mate
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:57:41PM +0100, Joel Eriksson wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
What mean things can happen if a user pipes the message to a command?
They can always do it using
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 09:27:38PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
On 15-Mar-99 Mate Wierdl wrote:
But if the users do not have shell access, how do they create .qmail files?
ftp it from their local machine. They'll be able to at least forward mail
and maybe do some simple lists, but I
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Mirko Zeibig wrote:
And speaking of qmtp, the FAQ says to run it you do:
tcpserver -u 7770 -g 2108 0 qmtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmtpd
But doesn't that open you up as a relay? Or does qmtp have something
built in that keeps unwanted
What I do not get is why RH does not have an "unusual" section where
they would distribute software that does not fit their distribution
policies---similarly to debian's "nonfree" section.
Then they could distribute a qmail src rpm.
Mate
In his home directory, he would (well, okay, \fBdid\fP) create a
\fI.qmail-eric\fP which delivers his mail into a Maildir, a
\fI.qmail-cherie\fP which delivers her mail into a Maildir, and a
\fI.qmail-lizzie\fP which forwards her mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]fP because Lizzie is too
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mate
With bouncesaying, you do send back a real bounce, and you specify the
text of the bounce anyway you want.
Like
| bouncesaying "$RECIPIENT does not exist on this server" [ "$SENDER" = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
|]
Mate
nds a mail it does include the contents of the file
Any ideas?
Kind regards
Kevin
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The qmail initscripts are in the qmail rpm. They will be put in
/etc/rc.d/init.d
The tcprules files are also set up by the qmail rpm.
ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/qmail
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BTW: Think about DJB, I seem to remember seeing many a message
from him saying NOT to reply to him AND the list - which seems to
be EXACTLY what you are saying to do
Must have been long ago. You can try using Mail-Followup-To...
FAQ 1.3
Mate
check the command in inetd ( a qmail-popup is
missing)
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]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:38:28 -0600
From: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Seek3r [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail-pop3 installation
References: 001501be3753$8e643e20$05010a0a@kuykendall98
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us
I have a Maildir
[Seek3r@L1 Seek3r]$ tree
.
|-- Maildir
| |-- cur
| |-- new
| `-- tmp
and a .qmail file in my homedir that looks like this
[Seek3r@L1 Seek3r]$ less .qmail
./Maildir/
.qmail (END)
Anyone know what Im missing?
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hey *ought* to be?
--Ken
type2.com webmaster Greasy Fingers Smearing Shabby Clothes
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is created. I had to create one
myself manually.
Thanks for your help
What command are you using to create the assign file?
(BTWY, did you fix the rcpthosts problem?)
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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 04:49:20PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
- Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| In any case, what is interesting is that qmail-queue exits with 143:
Hmmm... no, I don't think so:
; grep SIGTERM /usr/include/sys/signal.h
#define SIGTERM 15 /* software
/418325
:
Not exactly, on an RH 5.1:
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq mw 0 Jan 4 07:23 179552
On an RH 4.2:
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailq mw 0 Jan 4 08:11 51126
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But does qmail-queue have to be executable by o? If a user cannot
execute qmail-queue directly, the identification problem disappear,
does not it?
That would require qmail-inject and qmail-smtpd, among others, to be suid
or sgid to some uid/gid that will allow them to
3) Why not write the uid into a Received: line automatically?
If you do
echo |qmail-queue
you see
cat /var/qmail/queue/mess/16/179646
Received: (qmail 32431 invoked by uid 500); 4 Jan 1999 17:32:36 -
so I guess the same should happen just by doing
qmail-queue
But
you do not know in advance the sender's bad address).
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
I don't
see a compelling reason that users be denied use of qmail-queue.
Is not it too easy to do stupid stuff like
cat some huge files | qmail-queue
(BTWY, does qmail have a control file that would prevent local users
to send too big files?).
In any case, is it difficult to patch
From: Samuel Dries-Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:/var/qmail/rc -- no such
mal:(
If /var/qmail/rc doesn't exist, then you didn't follow the instructions correctly
for installing qmail.
Read INSTALL.
No, he probably has an older qmail running.
Mate
/usr/mail? It is also possible you made the
links in the wrong direction. You need to have links
/usr/mail/joe - ~joe/Mailbox
not the other way around.
Mate
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So, what is even more wierd to me is that only some users are getting
deleted, and I can't find a pattern of why, as some seem to be using BSD,
some PINE and others POP clients like Eudora...
I would check those users' ~/.qmail files. They might have procmail
or
I have check the .qmail file and all are as such;
/var/mail/bronwen
/var/mail/amach
/var/mail/hannaht
And nothing more?
The link from /var/mail to /usr/mail looks like this (and is delivering
for about one thousand other people correctly :)
ella 58# ls -la
book on spam
is to filer out all mail the subject of which contains all capital letters.
Thanks,
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OK, so it is not like my pine binary got altered by some intruder...
Thx
mate
files, standard Unix
functions, no problems with binary installs.
And a potential network access on start to do NIS lookups.
If the above remark is not ironic: should not the qmail users/groups be
locally specified? Is NIS secure?
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know I could write an install script that would
That is my man:how do you use idedit? How do you use nm and friends to
supply the appropriate 40 arguments to idedit?
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Now, I ran some tests indicating that at least one mail
client (mailx) on an IRIX 6.2 box I have available, and it appears to
use dotlocking and to ignore flock-style locks.
Is not it a problem too that he is delivering to symlinks?
If course, with vanilla qmail, this strategy
Add this to control/virtualdomains:
vdomain.com:user
And add vdomain.com to rcpthosts.
Mate
- Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| Now, I ran some tests indicating that at least one mail
|client (mailx) on an IRIX 6.2 box I have available, and it appears to
|use dotlocking and to ignore flock-style locks.
|
| Is not it a problem too that he is delivering
-inject -n | 822field envelope-recipients | awk '...'
)
Then put the following in ~alias/.qmail-postmaster:
| if [ "`localaddrs`" != "" ]; then new-inject -a `localaddrs`; else exit 99; fi
(or exit 0 if you want the rest of the .qmail-postmaster file
processeed).
Mate
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Mate Wi
ups -Xto
-Xrefernces -Xmessage-id -Xmime-version -Xcontent-type -Xreply-to -Xsubject
-Xcc -Xbcc | rpost localhost -M
This is, IMO, indeed better because it is foolproof, and requires no pattern
matching---or thinking at all.
BTWY, it would be nice if one could do the same thing with reformail.
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Mirko Zeibig writes:
Hello,
I now use this alias-definition to post every mail to a list to a
newsgroup as well. Any ideas to do this more efficient?
Thanx
Mirko
** /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-all **
| { echo "Newsgroups: local.announce"; cat - } |
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 10:08:14PM -, Russell Nelson wrote:
[snip - what are you doing, writing a qmail book? ;-)]
Caution: Once you create a users/assign file, and build the users/cdb
database using qmail-newu, it stops deliveries based on /etc/passwd.
When you add
It does not press on at all. I just tested it. It is also
"documented" in the FAQ/4.9, last sentence.
I now see that it is not what is documented in the FAQ; it is about
the effect of qmail-pw2u.
Mate
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