At 01:52 AM 1/3/2004 -0500, Gene Smith wrote: [old stuff deleted]
Thanks for the info. Yes, I am NAT'ing behind the f/w.
I was sort of able to get qmail working but it uses a lot more of my ramdisk (only have 32Meg Ram) than I hoped.
Numbers would make this easier to comment on. Since mail gets queued at least briefly before sending, qmail will certainly use some RAMdisk ... possibly a lot if you handle a lot of outgoing mail or if connectivity to the ISP's smarthost is at all erratic.
Also, it seems to fill up my log file partition which evenutally gets full and renders the LEAF box unusable (must reboot with constant diskfull message on console).
qmail fIlls the logs with what sorts of messages?
[...]
However, every few minutes I see in /var/log/qmail/qmail that a internal message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It is a local message that is being sent to the isp smarthost and is accepted. (Never changed the default domain names since I don't really have one.) However, it appears that mydomain.com resolves to a real ip address and it appears that qmail is attempted to connect to its port 25 but for some reason shorewall is rejecting the connection attempt even though I allow connections from the f/w to remote port 25. (There is a lot I don't understand about this!)
Way too many uses of "it appears that" in this report. Provide examples of whatever you are seeing that causes you to make these judgments.
Yes, "mydomain.com" is a registered domain; here it resolves to 216.34.94.184 . It's also used a lot as a dummy, "example" name, something I hoped the registrant realized before choosing it. But neither mydomain.com nor mail.mydomain.com responds on port 25.
If these messages -- you might look at one and tell us what is in them -- are not going through, they could be what is filling up your RAMdisk. It sounds like some process -- a cron job, say -- using mail as STDOUT or STDERR and, if so, the thing to fix is the cron job, not qmail itself.
Modified /etc/init.d/qmail to not start the pop3d which I definitely don't need. That gets rid of a lot of processes. However, still seem to need qmail and smtpd started it appears.
Yeah, you need this because qmail needs to listen on port 25 to get mail from the LAN.
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