qmail Digest 16 Apr 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 612
Topics (messages 24301 through 24337):
Looping Problem for Newbie!
24301 by: "yompy.k4azl.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24302 by: Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
faster autoturn?
24303 by: Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FW: Web Interface to Qmail on Linux
24304 by: "Rick McMillin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24314 by: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24324 by: Tom Hukins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24325 by: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Something a little interesting...
24305 by: "Reid Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24306 by: "Richard Shetron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24307 by: "Gary D. Margiotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24308 by: "Adam D. McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24332 by: "Scott D. Yelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fastforward?
24309 by: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24310 by: "Adam D. McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24317 by: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24318 by: Justin Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24321 by: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24337 by: Logics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Army 1, qmail 0
24311 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24312 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24313 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SOLVED: My virtualdomains problem
24315 by: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Foreign language and qmail bounces
24316 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
24336 by: "Frank Tegtmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Suggestions for Mailing Lists
24319 by: "Subba Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24320 by: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24322 by: "Richard Shetron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Netscape return receipts. (refused by qmail)
24323 by: Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
messages stuck in queue
24326 by: Dinesh Punjabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24333 by: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
users/assign file format
24327 by: Jim Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24330 by: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24334 by: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24335 by: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
another dumb question...
24328 by: Jim Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
24329 by: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
www.qmail.com appears to have nothing to do with qmail
24331 by: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello!
I'm sure the answer to this is grievously transparent, but I've been at it
quite a while and thought maybe someone could provide the instacure.
Heaps of thanks if you can lend a hand!
I'm running Linux 2.2.2 on a Pentium PC. Using qmail version 1.03.
Still in "test" mode, sendmail is still living! (csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc'&)
This question regards delivery to localhost.
user "bart" has a shell account. But "bart" likes to check his mail via
POP. Of course, POP login/passwords are transported in cleartext. So Bart
has another account just for POP, "bartpop" which has a shell /bin/false.
I'm trying to get any mail delivered to localuser "bart" to forward to
localuser "bartpop".
/home/bart/.qmail has conents: &bartpop
when I run "echo to: bart | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"
I get a looping error and the message is delivered to Postmaster as
non-deliverable.
I'm sure there is a simple solution.
Thank you.
Os Tyler
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 12:03:22PM +0200, yompy.k4azl.net wrote:
> user "bart" has a shell account. But "bart" likes to check his mail via
> POP. Of course, POP login/passwords are transported in cleartext. So Bart
> has another account just for POP, "bartpop" which has a shell /bin/false.
>
> I'm trying to get any mail delivered to localuser "bart" to forward to
> localuser "bartpop".
>
> /home/bart/.qmail has conents: &bartpop
>
> when I run "echo to: bart | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"
>
> I get a looping error and the message is delivered to Postmaster as
> non-deliverable.
Your description of the config looks right, so I can't see an obvious
problem. If you can include the contents of control/locals,
~bart/.qmail and ~bartpop/.qmail and the section of the log which shows the
messages being injected and then bounced, it would help.
--
System Administrator
See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers
Hi qmailers,
Is there any other intelligent way of wrapping autoturn after qmail-smtpd
than the one described in serialmail-0.75/AUTOTURN:
3. Replace
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
with
sh -c '
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
cd /var/qmail/autoturn
exec setlock -nx $TCPREMOTEIP/seriallock \
maildirsmtp $TCPREMOTEIP autoturn-$TCPREMOTEIP- $TCPREMOTEIP AutoTURN
'
in the tcpserver invocation in your boot scripts. Reports from
maildirsmtp will be sent to the same place as reports from tcpserver.
Aaaargh, I don't want to spawn a shell (even lightweight) in such
an execution path..
A small C wrapper would be nice, anyone already written such a thing?
Or even spawn a kind of maildir2smtp from within qmail-smtpd
upon ETRN command request?
TIA, regards.
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> >Not only that, but overall in my experience, it pretty much sucks. It
> >screwed up quite a bit corrupted mail files and ran quite slowly. After
> >using it for a month, they sent us an invoice. We promptly deleted it and
> >now use dmailweb from netwinsite.com. Works like a charm, very fast and
> >good support.
>
> We use Sam's sqwebmail. Everybody loves it. Zero admin.
Is it finished yet, or is it still in beta?
Rick McMillin
Network Operations Center
I-Land Internet Services
Rick McMillin writes:
> > >Not only that, but overall in my experience, it pretty much sucks. It
> > >screwed up quite a bit corrupted mail files and ran quite slowly. After
> > >using it for a month, they sent us an invoice. We promptly deleted it and
> > >now use dmailweb from netwinsite.com. Works like a charm, very fast and
> > >good support.
> >
> > We use Sam's sqwebmail. Everybody loves it. Zero admin.
>
> Is it finished yet, or is it still in beta?
It's usable. www.inter7.com/sqwebmail has a sample demo account (with
sending disabled) you can log into. The demo account accepts one login at
a time, though. If someone logs in after you, you'll be bumped off.
--
Sam
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:12:10PM +0000, Sam wrote:
> Rick McMillin writes:
>
> > > We use Sam's sqwebmail. Everybody loves it. Zero admin.
> >
> > Is it finished yet, or is it still in beta?
>
> It's usable. www.inter7.com/sqwebmail has a sample demo account (with
> sending disabled) you can log into. The demo account accepts one login at
> a time, though. If someone logs in after you, you'll be bumped off.
Sqwebmail also refuses logins through proxy farms and proxy
hierarchies. Given the prevalence of such proxies, Sqwebmail is not
suitable for anyone whose users might connect from anywhere on the
Internet.
Sqwebmail's security model clashes with the promotion of Web
caching. I have explained the issues on the Sqwebmail list, but I
got the impression that Sam and others didn't think this was
important.
Regards,
Tom
Tom Hukins writes:
> Sqwebmail also refuses logins through proxy farms and proxy
> hierarchies.
Only broken proxies. I have no problems logging in from behind my
company's proxy/firewall.
--
Sam
http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
Not really related to email, but, I found it interesting how this company
makes a claim that has been proven wrong millions of times, NT is NOT faster
then Linux.
I think the report is bogus.
Reid Sutherland
Network Administrator
ISYS Technology Inc.
http://www.isys.ca
Fingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5
THere is a rebuttal of the test at:
http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric/mindcraft.html
NOTE: We've been doing for years one of the things they couldn't,
using a raid controller with SMP.
> http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
>
> Not really related to email, but, I found it interesting how this company
> makes a claim that has been proven wrong millions of times, NT is NOT faster
> then Linux.
>
> I think the report is bogus.
>
>
> Reid Sutherland
> Network Administrator
> ISYS Technology Inc.
> http://www.isys.ca
> Fingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5
>
>
>
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Richard Shetron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the Meaning of Life?
There is no meaning,
It's just a consequence of complex carbon based chemistry; don't worry about it
The Super 76, "Free Aspirin and Tender Sympathy", Las Vegas Strip.
> http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
>
> Not really related to email, but, I found it interesting how this company
> makes a claim that has been proven wrong millions of times, NT is NOT faster
> then Linux.
>
> I think the report is bogus.
Mindcraft, Inc. conducted the performance tests described in this report
between March 10 and March 13, 1999.
Microsoft Corporation sponsored the testing reported herein.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gee, I wonder why NT won.......
-Gary
From: Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
:
: Not really related to email, but, I found it interesting how this company
: makes a claim that has been proven wrong millions of times, NT is NOT
faster
: then Linux.
:
: I think the report is bogus.
No offense, but this isn't really the place for this discussion. There is
already a discussion happening on linux-smp, and I would assume a great many
other linux mailing lists as well.
--Adam
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Richard Shetron wrote:
> THere is a rebuttal of the test at:
> http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric/mindcraft.html
> > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
etc, yadda yadda yadda ...
http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=/news/19990415/2242246.inp
Scott
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I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
looked like:
root: andy
postmaster: andy
webmaster: andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
in please? Thanks, andy
From: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
: looked like:
:
: root: andy
: postmaster: andy
: webmaster: andy
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
:
: typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
: course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
: in please? Thanks, andy
Is there a file in /etc called aliases.cdb?
Did you put
| fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
in ~alias/.qmail-default?
--Adam
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> From: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> : I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
> : looked like:
> :
> : root: andy
> : postmaster: andy
> : webmaster: andy
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
> :
> : typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
> : course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
> : in please? Thanks, andy
>
> Is there a file in /etc called aliases.cdb?
>
> Did you put
>
> | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
>
> in ~alias/.qmail-default?
>
> --Adam
I didn't orginally (as it wasn't in the documentation), but I have now and
it still doesn't work. The mail log just reads there is a problem writing
the postmaster Maildir. If you have anymore ideas, they would be
appreciated.
-andy
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:52:01PM -0500, Andy Walden wrote:
# On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
#
# > From: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# >
# > : I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
# > : looked like:
# > :
# > : root: andy
# > : postmaster: andy
# > : webmaster: andy
# > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
# > :
# > : typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
# > : course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
# > : in please? Thanks, andy
# >
# > Is there a file in /etc called aliases.cdb?
# >
# > Did you put
# >
# > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
# >
# > in ~alias/.qmail-default?
# >
# > --Adam
#
# I didn't orginally (as it wasn't in the documentation), but I have now and
# it still doesn't work. The mail log just reads there is a problem writing
# the postmaster Maildir. If you have anymore ideas, they would be
# appreciated.
>From the ALIASES file included with fastforward
--- Configuring qmail to use /etc/aliases
To activate /etc/aliases, put this line into ~alias/.qmail-default:
| fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
If qmail is already running, make sure to chmod +t ~alias before you
edit .qmail files in ~alias, and chmod -t ~alias after.
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:52:01PM -0500, Andy Walden wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
>
> > From: Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > : I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
> > : looked like:
> > :
> > : root: andy
> > : postmaster: andy
> > : webmaster: andy
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
> > :
> > : typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
> > : course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
> > : in please? Thanks, andy
> >
> > Is there a file in /etc called aliases.cdb?
> >
> > Did you put
> >
> > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> >
> > in ~alias/.qmail-default?
> >
> > --Adam
>
> I didn't orginally (as it wasn't in the documentation), but I have now and
> it still doesn't work. The mail log just reads there is a problem writing
> the postmaster Maildir. If you have anymore ideas, they would be
> appreciated.
If you want postmaster's mail handled by fastforward, make sure that
~alias/.qmail-postmaster does not exist. (If you followed the qmail
installation instructions, then this file will exist.)
Chris
I bet its down to /var/qmail/users/assign file - remove this file and it
will work fine!
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Andy Walden wrote:
>
> I installed fastforward per the instructions, built a /etc/aliases that
> looked like:
>
> root: andy
> postmaster: andy
> webmaster: andy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: andy
>
> typed /var/qmail/bin/newaliases, it went through without error. But of
> course I'm missing something here as it doesn't work. Can someone clue me
> in please? Thanks, andy
>
>
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ns.crynwr.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
ezmlm-return: fatal: I do not accept messages at this address (#5.1.1)
--- Below this line is the original bounce.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 24080 invoked by uid 0); 15 Apr 1999 15:28:57 -0000
Received: from terrapin.apgea.army.mil ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
by pdam.crynwr.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 1999 15:28:57 -0000
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by terrapin.apgea.army.mil (8.8.7/8.8.7) with internal id LAB27865;
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:30:46 -0400
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:30:46 -0400
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="LAB27865.924190246/terrapin.apgea.army.mil"
Subject: Returned mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
This is a MIME-encapsulated message
--LAB27865.924190246/terrapin.apgea.army.mil
The original message was received at Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:30:14 -0400
from in1.apgea.army.mil [131.92.9.80]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
<<< RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
421 terrapin.apgea.army.mil Lost input channel from in1.apgea.army.mil [131.92.9.80]
terrapin.apgea.army.mil Lost input channel from in1.apgea.army.mil [131.92.9.80]
--LAB27865.924190246/terrapin.apgea.army.mil
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; terrapin.apgea.army.mil
Received-From-MTA: DNS; in1.apgea.army.mil
Arrival-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:30:14 -0400
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:30:46 -0400
--LAB27865.924190246/terrapin.apgea.army.mil--
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-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
Um, shouldn't that be "Army 1, ezmlm 0"?
I fail to see a qmail issue in that double bounce.
- Harald
Harald Hanche-Olsen writes:
> Um, shouldn't that be "Army 1, ezmlm 0"?
> I fail to see a qmail issue in that double bounce.
Yes, you're right. How about US Government 1, Bernstein 1 [1]?
[1] referring, of course, to his efforts to distribute his crypto code.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | There is good evidence
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | that freedom is the
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | cause of world peace.
And the problem was... (sound of unfolding paper)
SLOW DNS UPDATES!!! (Roberto Benigni jumps over everybody). Duh!
Thanks to everyone who helped!
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Hi,
I am thinking about include failure description translations in qmail bounce messages,
without violate QSMBF nor HCMSSC specs. This change would help our users and user
support department.
I read the source code a little and the description labels are spreaded in many files
and some of them are composed with several hardcoded parts. Even more, there are
string comparisons between labels and failure buffers.
So, I'm worried about if this change could break the qmail behaviour.
Do you have any suggestion or solution?
Thanks,
David.
= = =
David Jorrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
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> Do you have any suggestion or solution?
I wouldn't do it. It would help your users but confuse more people around
the world that cannot understand your localized bounce messages. Bounces
typically go to outside users.
In any case your users still get bounce messages from mailers all over the
world in English.
Regards, Frank
I want to setup a mailing list. The current limitation I have is, I do not have a
dedicated
connection.
Are there any low cost services to setup a mailing list?
Thank you in advance.
Subba Rao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
==============================================================
Disclaimer - I question and speak for myself.
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:08:35PM -0400, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> I want to setup a mailing list. The current limitation I have is, I do not have a
>dedicated
> connection.
>
> Are there any low cost services to setup a mailing list?
Try:
http://www.listbot.com
http://www.egroups.com
Chris
Wizvax supports mailling lists via majordomo. price depends on volume
but is usually in the $5/100 subscribers/month range.
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information, not the list.
>
>
> I want to setup a mailing list. The current limitation I have is, I do not have a
>dedicated
> connection.
>
> Are there any low cost services to setup a mailing list?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Subba Rao
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ==============================================================
> Disclaimer - I question and speak for myself.
>
>
>
>
--
Richard Shetron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is the Meaning of Life?
There is no meaning,
It's just a consequence of complex carbon based chemistry; don't worry about it
The Super 76, "Free Aspirin and Tender Sympathy", Las Vegas Strip.
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 08:51:14AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> There is an ESMTP feature called DSN, Delivery Status notification. It
>...
>
> This has nothing to do with qmail, and you should read all the
> documentation on netscape for more info.
>
This has everything to do with qmail...
The most popular MUAs used in the world today (netscape, outlook) use DSN to
do delivery receipts. Qmail doesn't support DSN and therefore will cause
people to have hissy-fits.
It doesn't matter that DSN sux - it's what people want (and you know -
they're always right).
Really speaking, qmail doesn't support ESMTP at all - claiming 8BITMIME
support just because you're 8bit clean doesn't really make it an ESMTP
MTA... I still think SIZE and DSN are needed.
BTW: Postfix doesn't really do ESMTP at all too - probably means there's a
good reason not to ;-)
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Hello!
I can't get qmail to process messages. They seem
to pile up in the queue and niether qmail-tcpok
or kill -ALRM seems to help. Any ideas, help will
be appreciated.
Here is a ps of my processes:
qmails 4575 0.0 1.3 228 392 p1- I 1:32AM 0:00.21
qmail-send
qmaill 4576 0.0 1.2 164 348 p1- I 1:32AM 0:00.05
splogger qmail
root 4577 0.0 1.1 164 332 p1- I 1:32AM 0:00.03
qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
qmailr 4578 0.0 1.1 164 332 p1- I 1:32AM 0:00.03
qmail-rspawn
qmailq 4579 0.0 1.1 156 316 p1- I 1:32AM 0:00.03
qmail-clean
qmaild 4588 0.0 1.2 176 364 p1- I 1:35AM 0:00.04
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -Q -u 7791 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/
I sent two messages from yahoo to be delivered
for my local message mailbox, here is how maillog
looks:
Apr 15 19:04:55 solstice qmail: 924217495.410642 status: local 10/10
remote 7/20
Apr 15 20:17:00 solstice qmail: 924221820.473819 new msg 7811
Apr 15 20:17:00 solstice qmail: 924221820.475384 info msg 7811: bytes
681 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 5979 uid 7791
Apr 15 20:17:14 solstice qmail: 924221834.916814 new msg 7814
Apr 15 20:17:14 solstice qmail: 924221834.918398 info msg 7814: bytes
696 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 5980 uid 7791
Messages only get delivered (not all of them) when
rebooting the system and they remain in the queue. So
if I reboot a few times, I get the same messages
delivered over and over again. Here is qmail-qstat
output:
messages in queue: 24
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
Here is an ls -l of queue and its subdirs:
# cd queue
# ls -l
total 18
drwx------ 2 qmails qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 bounce
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 info
drwx------ 2 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 20:17 intd
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 local
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 lock
drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 mess
drwx------ 2 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 20:17 pid
drwx------ 25 qmails qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 remote
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 20:17 todo
# ls -ld lock
drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Apr 15 01:31 lock
# ls -l lock
total 2
-rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Apr 15 01:31 sendmutex
-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Apr 15 20:18 tcpto
prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Apr 15 20:17 trigger
#
Messages are simply piling up and nothing is moving along. I sent
another message again and
.qmail-qstat shows:
messages in queue: 25
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
I did a telnet host 25 from a remote machine, it accepted the message
for delivery on my machine, but
again, the messahe sits in the queue forever.
Thanks, Dinesh
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Dinesh Punjabi wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I can't get qmail to process messages. They seem
> to pile up in the queue and niether qmail-tcpok
> or kill -ALRM seems to help. Any ideas, help will
> be appreciated.
>
>
> messages in queue: 24
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
My first thought was the trigger file had bad permssions, but it
appears to be OK.
What does qmail-showctl say wrt concurrency? Mine says:
qmail-showctl | grep concurr
silent concurrency limit: 120.
concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
According to your mail log snippet, you seem to have the default
remote concurrency of 20
Apr 15 19:04:55 solstice qmail: 924217495.410642 status: local 10/10
remote 7/20
How long are the 7 running remote processes staying around? It could
be that you've got some very large messages being delivered which are
filling up the 20 available qmail-remote slots. Until these processes
finish, no more mail will be delivered?
What does qmail-qread say? Do you have some big messages going to lots
of users? Example
16 Apr 1999 00:14:26 GMT #76196 1369424 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
done remote abc@somewhereelse
done remote def@elsewhere
done remote ghi@overthere
remote jhk@upthere
done remote lmn@downthere
This 1.3Mb message has been delivered to 4 out of 5 recipients.
PS Just because qmail-smtpd accepts incoming mail does not mean it
will be delivered to remote recipients. These processes are completely
decoupled in qmail.
Regards
Peter
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"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Ok - I know this will probably sound silly, but can someone give me some
examples of the users/assign file format. I cannot for the life of me
figure out how the heck the format works.
Thanks in advance.
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:57:50PM -0500, Jim Beam wrote:
> Ok - I know this will probably sound silly, but can someone give me some
> examples of the users/assign file format. I cannot for the life of me
> figure out how the heck the format works.
Have you looked at the qmail-users man page? It's pretty much all covered
there.
Chris
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jim Beam wrote:
> Ok - I know this will probably sound silly, but can someone give me some
> examples of the users/assign file format. I cannot for the life of me
> figure out how the heck the format works.
=ftp:alias:29990:29998:/var/qmail/alias:-:ftp:
+ftp-:alias:29990:29998:/var/qmail/alias:-ftp-::
+ftp:peter:2052:100:/home/peter:-:ftp
.
Line 1: Mail addressed to ftp@domain will be handled by the alias user,
according to the instructions in ~alias/.qmail-ftp.
Line 2: Mail addressed to ftp-something@domain will be handled by the
alias user, according to the instructions in
~alias/.qmail-ftp-something.
Line 3: Mail addressed to ftpstuff@domain will be handed by peter,
according to the instructions in ~peter/.qmail-ftpstuff.
See man qmail-users and then experiment with a benign user - such as
ftp in my case.
Regards
Peter
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Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Uniq Professional Services, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a division of X-Direct Pty Ltd
Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Peter Samuel wrote:
Line 3 should have a trailing colon character
+ftp:peter:2052:100:/home/peter:-:ftp:
The assign file MUST not have NULL chars and it must end with a single
dot on a line by itself.
Don't forget to run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu after any change to the
assign file.
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jim Beam wrote:
>
> > Ok - I know this will probably sound silly, but can someone give me some
> > examples of the users/assign file format. I cannot for the life of me
> > figure out how the heck the format works.
>
> =ftp:alias:29990:29998:/var/qmail/alias:-:ftp:
> +ftp-:alias:29990:29998:/var/qmail/alias:-ftp-::
> +ftp:peter:2052:100:/home/peter:-:ftp
> .
>
> Line 1: Mail addressed to ftp@domain will be handled by the alias user,
> according to the instructions in ~alias/.qmail-ftp.
>
> Line 2: Mail addressed to ftp-something@domain will be handled by the
> alias user, according to the instructions in
> ~alias/.qmail-ftp-something.
>
> Line 3: Mail addressed to ftpstuff@domain will be handed by peter,
> according to the instructions in ~peter/.qmail-ftpstuff.
>
> See man qmail-users and then experiment with a benign user - such as
> ftp in my case.
Regards
Peter
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Uniq Professional Services, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
"If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Can anyone tell me what this means? - I am simply going through the
instructions in the INSTALL file, and I get to the TEST.deliver file,
follow the instructions, and this is all I get in my messages log.
Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.374738 starting delivery 3: msg
1214813 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.375244 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.390978 delivery 3: deferral:
Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.391482 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
Apr 15 20:59:15 smtp qmail: 924227955.394907 starting delivery 4: msg
1214813 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 15 20:59:15 smtp qmail: 924227955.395120 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Apr 15 20:59:19 smtp qmail: 924227959.405258 delivery 4: deferral:
Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
Apr 15 20:59:19 smtp qmail: 924227959.405460 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
What am I missing (I know it is probably something stupid).
Thanks again...
Qmail newbie
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:01:16PM -0500, Jim Beam wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what this means? - I am simply going through the
> instructions in the INSTALL file, and I get to the TEST.deliver file,
> follow the instructions, and this is all I get in my messages log.
>
> Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.374738 starting delivery 3: msg
> 1214813 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.375244 status: local 1/10 remote
> 0/20
> Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.390978 delivery 3: deferral:
> Unable_to_open_./Maildir:_is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)/
> Apr 15 20:50:55 smtp qmail: 924227455.391482 status: local 0/10 remote
> 0/20
> Apr 15 20:59:15 smtp qmail: 924227955.394907 starting delivery 4: msg
> 1214813 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Apr 15 20:59:15 smtp qmail: 924227955.395120 status: local 1/10 remote
> 0/20
> Apr 15 20:59:19 smtp qmail: 924227959.405258 delivery 4: deferral:
> Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/
> Apr 15 20:59:19 smtp qmail: 924227959.405460 status: local 0/10 remote
> 0/20
>
> What am I missing (I know it is probably something stupid).
You're missing a trailing slash after ./Maildir in your /var/qmail/rc script
(or whatever script you run qmail-start from).
Change ./Maildir to ./Maildir/ and you should be okay.
Chris
FYI
I attempted to go to www.qmail.org but fat fingers sent me to
www.qmail.com. This site is selling its mailing services under the
ForeverMail banner.
dnsip www.qmail.com
209.133.83.131
dnsip www.forevermail.com
209.133.83.131
dnsptr 209.133.83.131
www.forevermail.com
They've got a few MX records:
dnsmxip forevermail.com
209.133.83.130 10
209.133.83.132 15
dnsmxip qmail.com
209.133.83.130 10
206.191.131.250 15
206.191.131.242 20
but they don't seem to be running qmail:
telnet 209.133.83.130 25
Trying 209.133.83.130...
Connected to 209.133.83.130.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.forevermail.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Thu, 15 Apr
1999 20:31:53 -0700
help
214-This is Sendmail version 8.8.8
214-Topics:
214- HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA
214- RSET NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY
214- EXPN VERB ETRN DSN
214-For more info use "HELP <topic>".
214-To report bugs in the implementation send email to
214- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
214-For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
214 End of HELP info
Ditto for the other IPs.
Regards
Peter
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Uniq Professional Services, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301
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