[xmail] Choosing XMail's group and umask
Hi Davide and list, a couple of weeks ago there was a little discussion on the list about the file permissions and creation masks. I was the one who answered: If you chmod your MailRoot 700, you don't have to care about these things. But now I ran into a problem: I want to grant some read access to a unix-group (e.g. mail) that can do support things like checking the logs and mailboxes and so on. No problem so far for configs and logs, make MailRoot group owner to mail and chmod g+r, g+x. But in the domains/ dir, XMail creates the directories root.root and 700. So my question is, would it be possible to add some feature to XMail to choose a) the gid b) the umask which are used to create new files and directories? Any hints, thoughts or other ideas on this topic? Thx, soenke. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Disable mail loop eventlog entries
Hello, | Can I suggest to be warning, not 'error' nor 'information' | .. I think it's more appropriate ... according to Windows architecture, the recommended meaning of events is that: Error is a critical failure, which disrupts (or most likely will disrupt) normal operation of server. Administrator's attention is required as soon as possible. Warning is a non-critical failure, which did not caused any widespread problems, but still requires administrator's attention. Information is a notification about certain event, which is part of normal operation. Situation was resolved the expected way and no administrator's attention is required. IMHO, what's most important is the factor of administrator's attention. Mail loops (when resolved) are semi-normal part of mail server operation and mail server is expected to deal with them. I, as administrator, can do virtually nothing to solve the situation - especially at time when the message is written to log. I agree that this event should be logged somewhere, to help diagnostics, but I would prefer it to be information only. -- Michal A. Valasek - Altair Communications | Microsoft ASP.NET MVP PGP 0xC4F3579D | www.altaircom.net | www.rider.cz | www.aspnet.cz Keeping freedom safe from democracy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: Disable mail loop eventlog entries
-Message d'origine- De : Michal Altair Valasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoy=E9 : mardi 31 mai 2005 12:19 A : xmail@xmailserver.org Objet : [xmail] Disable mail loop eventlog entries =20 =20 give it a Error status. =20 Davide, may you please change the status to something less=20 important, like information? Or allow user to stop emiting such messages at all? =20 Can I suggest to be warning, not 'error' nor 'information' .. I think = it's more appropriate ... And Yes, an option to not log at all and/or to specify eventlog to use = (as on =3D w2k you can create your now eventlog files so admin could = create a xmail specific eventlog and set xmail to use it) Francis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: XMail Manager 1.0 Final - TOTAL FAILURE
Tony Shiffer wrote: Mike; With the luck I normally have, it will be just me with the problem. ... ... Does anyone have the previous version installer for this program? Please help out if you do. Tony I´ve have that version, patch included. Total zip size is 3.7 Mb. If you need it, send me an email address to deliver the file. Sergio ___ A tu celular ¿no le falta algo? Usá Yahoo! Messenger y Correo Yahoo! en tu teléfono celular. Más información en http://movil.yahoo.com.ar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: RDNS and RBLsquestion
Using a rbl (and spamhaus is a good one) and others tools like RDNS, = GLST, AV, anti-spam, ... is not a problem IF you take care to advertise your = users (if possible before effective deployment date) and explain them = advantages and possible problems (and how to explain problem to their contacts ... = a reference page in your site can help ...). So educated users will not ask you for this type of problems ... (or = only a few 'irreducible' ..) At this time I don't use RDNS nor Checkmailer domain due to too many = badly configured domains, especially domains hosted on access providers in = their packages, sheep hosting providers, reducing cost to minimum so = discarding any no absolutely necessary configurations like PTR, since they are not 'forced' by smtp related rfc's to do them to function (not mandatory). I think Internet have to change definitively to a new safe mail = protocol ... In the hope SMTP that 'Simple Mail Transport Protocol' becomes 'Safe = Mail Transport Protocol' (smtp + mandatory thinks like spf, ... for example) = ;-) But problem is 'backward compatibility' and until you accept old smtp, = you don't resolve the problem definitively. Or all Internet need to switch at the same time to new protocol with no = more backward compatibility. (option is to allow mixed environment for some months, 2 years ? seems = to me good enough, then only accept new protocol) Francis -Message d'origine- De : Javier Navarro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoy=E9 : jeudi 19 mai 2005 09:44 =C0 : xmail@xmailserver.org Objet : [xmail] RDNS and RBLsquestion =20 =20 Hi Last days I've been using RDNS and RBL=20 (sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org) ckecks and many of my customers had=20 problems. Some because they couldn't receive e-mail from=20 other ISPs that didn't configure RDNS and others because they=20 couldn't receive mail from blacklisted IPs. =20 I'm having RDNS problems even with important companies here=20 in Spain and it's dificult to explain my customers that this=20 is caused by other's bad configuration. My customers say:=20 Yesterday I could recive from and now I can't. What did=20 you changed?. And some of these important companies say they=20 can't set a RDNS record since they host several services per IP. =20 I write to ask you about your experience with RDNS and=20 RBLs. What configuration do you use? What RBL servers do you use? =20 Thanks, =20 Javier Navarro =20 =20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Disable mail loop eventlog entries
Hello, every time Xmail detects a mail loop problem (which happens pretty often) it emits message to application event log, marked as Error. This is annoying me, because my system monitoring alerts me on failures. Discovered mail loop is normal working condition - not something which needs my personal immediate reaction. Therefore I think that's not a good idea to give it a Error status. Davide, may you please change the status to something less important, like information? Or allow user to stop emiting such messages at all? Regards, -- Michal A. Valasek - Altair Communications | Microsoft ASP.NET MVP PGP 0xC4F3579D | www.altaircom.net | www.rider.cz | www.aspnet.cz Keeping freedom safe from democracy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] UHHHHHHH STOP IT ! - RE: Choosing XMail's group and umask
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:41 AM: [...] LOL - someone could assume that this is my personal PITA mailserver for Davide that sends out the mails every 2 weeks ;-)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: UHHHHHHH STOP IT !
At 11.29 15/06/05 +0200, you wrote: LOL - someone could assume that this is my personal PITA mailserver for If I remember well, this is the very same guy (or machine) who reinjected messages in the list a couple of weeks ago. From the header: Received: from mail pickup service by arsenet-princip.ArSeNet-LasRozas.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: delivery delaying
I started xmail with -Qn 512 and now the delivery is working fast. Thank you very much, Francis. Em Sex 10 Jun 2005 12:21, CLEMENT Francis escreveu: - First change -Qn parameter that define max number of threads used by smail module of xmail (smail is responsible to deliver local and outgoing mails). Default value is 256. - See also if filters don't take too time to execute If you can, use preferably natively compiled filters (written in C, C++, ) faster than interpreted (or 'pseudo'-compiled) languages ... Verify if filters, especially when using 'shared' files like logs, databases, don't wait too much for the shared ressource to be available. - See also if real memory is able to take the job without swapping (no swap activity is allways the best). - Does you mail server used for others tasks ? See if they don't take too much system ressources ... (a dedicated mail server is the best. Put Webmail/web/ftp/... on another server) You will need to use analysers to examine performance counters for best results in finding best ram/swap/cpu/os/software configuration. Francis -Message d'origine- De : Helio Cavichiolo Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 10 juin 2005 15:37 À : xmail@xmailserver.org Objet : [xmail] delivery delaying Hi ALL, I have a xmail server with 180 domains and 3000 accounts (total). The problem is that it receive the messages but expends too much time to deliver the messages to the account. Anyone have a solutions for this? Thanks -- Helio Cavichiolo Jr Analista de Sistemas Altecnet Informatica Ltda +55 19 8137-6822 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Helio Cavichiolo Jr Analista de Sistemas Altecnet Informatica Ltda +55 19 8137-6822 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] mail loop back to myself
hi, i had set up a linux server (suse 9.1) with xmail. everything works fine, my mails sended by an external mailer come in and a mail localy sended (to an external mailadress or another then the sended-domain) finds the way out :-) BUT if i send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did not get the mail ... so i looked under /var/mail/root and i had a big mail-file with all my lost mails ... in this file is written Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail for domain_1 loops back to myself how can i solve my problem? greetz regards lars This is the Postfix program at host webboy.mabi.de. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xmail] Re: mail loop back to myself
Lars wrote: hi, i had set up a linux server (suse 9.1) with xmail. everything works fine, my mails sended by an external mailer come in and a mail localy sended (to an external mailadress or another then the sended-domain) finds the way out :-) BUT if i send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did not get the mail ... so i looked under /var/mail/root and i had a big mail-file with all my lost mails ... in this file is written Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail for domain_1 loops back to myself how can i solve my problem? It seems that postfix is installed and started. Look at the SMTP greeting line (telnet host 25) if XMail or Postfix answers ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line help in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
