qmail Digest 15 Oct 1999 10:00:02 -0000 Issue 790
Topics (messages 31593 through 31668):
tcpserver log failed connections?
31593 by: Fred Backman
31598 by: Mads E Eilertsen
31603 by: Dave Sill
How to share adressbooks for LAN
31594 by: Jon Lur�s
31597 by: Magnus Bodin
31599 by: Eric Dahnke
31600 by: Greg Owen
31648 by: Jim Gilliver
31649 by: Matthew Kaing
Query relating to qmail- installation
31595 by: vkt
31596 by: Magnus Bodin
Re: control/{locals,rcpthosts,virtualdomains}
31601 by: Tyler Frederick
31623 by: Jack O'Toole
Re: MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
31602 by: Balazs Nagy
31634 by: Einar Bordewich
31667 by: torben fjerdingstad
duplicate logs?
31604 by: Fred Backman
31611 by: Dave Sill
31613 by: Fred Backman
qmail-pop3d/LDAP auth err after all is done?
31605 by: Infinite Knowledge
31608 by: Andre Oppermann
Bouncing message
31606 by: martin.sintesoft.net
31609 by: Dave Sill
31616 by: Russell Nelson
Re: Problem while sending email to some website
31607 by: Dave Sill
memphis rpm
31610 by: Mate Wierdl
31651 by: Peter Samuel
Re: Inbound Routing Problem
31612 by: Dave Sill
Re: Queue stalls
31614 by: Dave Sill
pop3d auth error after auth ok? LDAP patchs,whoops
31615 by: Infinite Knowledge
Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one)
31617 by: Dave Sill
31620 by: Russell Nelson
31622 by: Dave Sill
31628 by: Wallace Nicoll
Re: alias header mods causing problems
31618 by: Dave Sill
Re: qmail fail when start with supervise?
31619 by: Dave Sill
Re: supervise/qmail shutdown tasks?
31621 by: Dave Sill
QMail installation
31624 by: Antonio Navarro Navarro
Re: pop3d auth error after auth ok? LDAP patchs,whoops #2
31625 by: Bill Rogers
31626 by: Van Liedekerke Franky
Re: Slow Authentication (solved)
31627 by: Jose de Leon
Using Maildir
31629 by: Keith Lee
31630 by: Dave Sill
31633 by: Mirko Zeibig
31635 by: Russell Nelson
Re: Setup HotMail by Qmail ?
31631 by: F7596
31637 by: Matthew Kaing
31647 by: Farmer Tien
smtp 550 error
31632 by: Ted Lin
fetchmail problems after upgrade
31636 by: Dave Sill
31640 by: Russell Nelson
31641 by: Dave Sill
31643 by: Russell Nelson
31645 by: Eric Dahnke
31646 by: Sam
Client problems retrieving large emails
31638 by: Brian Schwarz
Delivery problem
31639 by: Delanet Administration
31644 by: Delanet Administration
More odd problems (pop3)
31642 by: Delanet Administration
TCPwrappers and relaying
31650 by: James
qmail log (from field)
31652 by: Edward Castillo-Jakosalem
31653 by: Eric Dahnke
Understanding virtual addresses
31654 by: Todd A. Jacobs
31657 by: Magnus Bodin
31662 by: Todd A. Jacobs
31663 by: Magnus Bodin
Selective relaying on e-mail address?
31655 by: Michael J. Maravillo
masquerading against remote majordomo services don't work.
31656 by: randyboy
31658 by: James J. Lippard
31659 by: randyboy
31660 by: James J. Lippard
31661 by: randyboy
Directory permissions on /var/qmail?
31664 by: Todd A. Jacobs
Directory permissions changed on mount
31665 by: Todd A. Jacobs
unwanted emails
31666 by: Marlon Anthony Abao
31668 by: Anand Buddhdev
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I couldn't find it in the man pages, so is there a way to log failed connections with tcpserver? (ie. connections which are defined as illegal in the tcprules data file) TIA, Fred
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Fred Backman wrote: > I couldn't find it in the man pages, so is there a way to log failed > connections with tcpserver? (ie. connections which are defined as > illegal in the tcprules data file) tcpserver logs 'ok' if it accepts a connection, and 'deny' if it rejects it. Just try it and watch the log. Mads E. Eilertsen
"Mads E Eilertsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Fred Backman wrote: > >> I couldn't find it in the man pages, so is there a way to log failed >> connections with tcpserver? (ie. connections which are defined as >> illegal in the tcprules data file) > >tcpserver logs 'ok' if it accepts a connection, and 'deny' if it rejects it. If you use the "-v" option. -Dave
Hello! I got some LAN's with qmail and POP3. The users have different mail programs on PC. What is the best solution for distributing common adressboks? Vennlig hilsen Jon Lur�s Lur data Mob: 91 60 69 62
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:46:45PM +0100, Jon Lur�s wrote: > > I got some LAN's with qmail and POP3. The users have different > mail programs on PC. What is the best solution for distributing > common adressboks? This is not a qmail issue. It depends on which email clients you use. Please either refer to the documentation of these or the list of 3rd party programs for these. Lykke till. -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Although it may not be completely related I think it wouldn't kill anyone to watch a thread like this go by. I would be particularly interested in seeing some comments about this. My 2 cents. Eric Magnus Bodin escribi�: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:46:45PM +0100, Jon Lur�s wrote: > > > > I got some LAN's with qmail and POP3. The users have different > > mail programs on PC. What is the best solution for distributing > > common adressboks? > > This is not a qmail issue. It depends on which email clients you use. > Please either refer to the documentation of these or the list of 3rd > party programs for these. > > Lykke till. > > -- > magnus > -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
> Although it may not be completely related I think it wouldn't kill > anyone to watch a thread like this go by. I would be particularly > interested in seeing some comments about this. LDAP directories is one way. The plus is that many clients grok LDAP. The minus is that figuring out how to get the two systems working together is half black magic. ObQmail: is anyone using Qmail LDAP patches also using that LDAP server for address books for clients? -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Although it may not be completely related I think it wouldn't kill >> anyone to watch a thread like this go by. I would be particularly >> interested in seeing some comments about this. > > LDAP directories is one way. The plus is that many clients grok >LDAP. The minus is that figuring out how to get the two systems working >together is half black magic. > > ObQmail: is anyone using Qmail LDAP patches also using that LDAP >server for address books for clients? Yes, I am... it works really well, except that Outlook Express: (a) Doesn't complete the name if you do a "check names". In other words, if you type in "John S" and hit ctrl-k to check the name, and the LDAP server only returns one possible match, Outlook underlines it without completing the name. (b) Always takes email addresses from the windows address book over the LDAP server. Meaning if you type in John S and there's a John Smith in the address book and three John Sink's on the LDAP server, Outlook will just fill it in as John Smith. A bit annoying, and is basically the reason I want to remove the windows address book and provide a way for everyone to add their contact to the LDAP server.
Hi, where is the Qmail LDAP server patch? Please send me the URL. Thanks, Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Jim Gilliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:32 PM To: qmail list Subject: Re: How to share adressbooks for LAN >> Although it may not be completely related I think it wouldn't kill >> anyone to watch a thread like this go by. I would be particularly >> interested in seeing some comments about this. > > LDAP directories is one way. The plus is that many clients grok >LDAP. The minus is that figuring out how to get the two systems working >together is half black magic. > > ObQmail: is anyone using Qmail LDAP patches also using that LDAP >server for address books for clients? Yes, I am... it works really well, except that Outlook Express: (a) Doesn't complete the name if you do a "check names". In other words, if you type in "John S" and hit ctrl-k to check the name, and the LDAP server only returns one possible match, Outlook underlines it without completing the name. (b) Always takes email addresses from the windows address book over the LDAP server. Meaning if you type in John S and there's a John Smith in the address book and three John Sink's on the LDAP server, Outlook will just fill it in as John Smith. A bit annoying, and is basically the reason I want to remove the windows address book and provide a way for everyone to add their contact to the LDAP server.
my name is nathan from India. I had installed linux and our company have decided to implement Qmail as our primary email application. Kindly let me know about where I can download the software, and necessary documentation to install and configure the qmail. Kindly give me the feedback immediatley. If possible if you have documents relating to installation and configuration please give me an attachment. With rgds/vmn
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:20:18PM +0530, vkt wrote: > my name is nathan from India. I had installed linux and our company > have decided to implement Qmail as our primary email application. > Kindly let me know about > where I can download the software, and necessary documentation to > install and configure the qmail. > > Kindly give me the feedback immediatley. > > If possible if you have documents relating to installation and > configuration please give me an attachment. Read "Life with qmail" immediately. Everything is in there. Almost. URL attached: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Well, lets look at a couple of things. Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still receiving mail from other folks normally at that address? It sounds to me that you want to have 2 seperate mail servers for the same domain. (Your own qmail box, as well as your ISP's SMTP/POP server) The MX record for mycompany.pf needs to point to one of them, and have that one handle the decision making as to which receives who's mail. There was a msg back a few days regarding this (Someone had 2 mailservers for the same domain with diff users on each.) Check it out.. - T --- Tyler J. Frederick Senior Systems Engineer fc.com, Inc. On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Franck PORCHER wrote: > I'm back with my (unsolved) problem. It's clear from the answers I got > that I have failed in making myself understood. Mea culpa.
Have your ISP forward the the mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your qmail-smtp server.Franck PORCHER wrote:
I'm back with my (unsolved) problem. It's clear from the answers I got
that I have failed in making myself understood. Mea culpa.I will (re)state the context :
- My (very little) company has its own domain name, say "mycompany.pf"
(polynésie française)
- My company receives its inbound mail (from the Internet) thru 2
ISP-based POP mailboxes :
One is set-up to receive mail ONLY to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (single
drop POP mailbox),
while the other one (the company's mailbox) is set up to receive all
the other mail to "mycompany.pf", such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the like (multi drop POP mailbox).
- When jean wants to read his mail,
he simply dials the ISP, connects to the ISP pop server and
retrieves whatever message is in
his mailbox.
- When I want to retrieve my company's mail, I do exactly the same, but
with the second POP mailbox.
- When jean or I want to send mail, we simply use our MUA (such as
Netscape messenger) which is set up
to deliver outbound mail to our ISP mail relay, so jean and I can
exchange mail thru those ISP-based mailboxes
by using one anothers email address (Jean and I belong to the same
company, but work from different
locations)
- So far, so good ...
- Now, things have evolved on my side. I have setup a qmail server on my
LAN, and the
different computers on the LAN are now set up to have their MUA talk to
the qmail server (no longer the ISP mail server),
both to lookup their imap mailbox
and to deliver outbound messages. The current qmail configuration (
relay-agent + "mycompany.pf" in locals) allows
my local co-workers to exchange mail and to send mail to the Internet.
But we can NO LONGER send mail to jean' ISP-based Pop
mailbox using the address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Indeed, since
"mycompany.pf" is in "locals", qmail wants to deliver it
locally. THAT IS MY PROBLEM. You would say "well, open another account
with your ISP and get an address for jean
that would be outside the domain "mycompany.pf". THATS MY SECOND PROBLEM
: Jean wants to keep "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Indeed, he has lots of customers and friends who are already using this
address, so he does not want to change nor to use a second one!!!
(you can see : Jean is being very difficult and does not care much that
I have tried to set up
something new for the sake of my company's health. He says "it used to
work, so make it
work with your new setup..." well thats easy to say!).So, how do I do it ? (so the coworkers on my LAN and I will still use
the address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to drop messages in jean remote
ISP-based
pop mailbox)I hope I have been more clear this time.
Franck
-- John J. "Jack" O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Quality Web Service Inc. www.qwsi.net
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:> Einar Bordewich writes: > > Has anyone made som MX/A/PTR checking on MAIL FROM: in qmail-smtpd? > > Yes, there's a patch for it on www.qmail.org. Well, actually it doesn't work. Please use qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch instead (URL: http://lsc.kva.hu/dl/qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch ). Oh, by the way, Russ, could you update this patch's URL and local copy at www.qmail.org please? -- Regards: Kevin (Balazs)
Tnx, I worked perfectly...... BTW: no need to Cc: me, since I'm already on the list.... ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich System Manager Phone: +47 2205 3034 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Balazs Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Einar Bordewich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:39 PM Subject: Re: MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Einar Bordewich writes: > > > Has anyone made som MX/A/PTR checking on MAIL FROM: in qmail-smtpd? > > > > Yes, there's a patch for it on www.qmail.org. > > Well, actually it doesn't work. Please use qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch > instead (URL: http://lsc.kva.hu/dl/qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch ). Oh, by the > way, Russ, could you update this patch's URL and local copy at www.qmail.org > please? > -- > Regards: Kevin (Balazs) > >
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 03:39:56PM +0200, Balazs Nagy wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Einar Bordewich writes: > > > Has anyone made som MX/A/PTR checking on MAIL FROM: in qmail-smtpd? > > > > Yes, there's a patch for it on www.qmail.org. > > Well, actually it doesn't work. Please use qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch > instead (URL: http://lsc.kva.hu/dl/qmail-1.03-mfcheck.3.patch ). Oh, by the > way, Russ, could you update this patch's URL and local copy at www.qmail.org > please? I use rblsmtpd. So patching qmail-smtpd won't work? What can I do? /usr/local/bin/supervise /usr/local/qmail/supervise/tcpserver env - \ PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" TZ=MET-1METDST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0 \ tcpserver -x /usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -v -p -t 5 -c 400 -b 40 -u 203 -g 200 0 \ smtp /usr/local/bin/smtplog \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrelays.orbs.org \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rrbl.maps.vix.com \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -rdul.maps.vix.com \ /usr/local/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 \ | /usr/local/bin/accustamp \ | /usr/local/bin/cyclog -s100004000 -n2 /var/adm/smtpd smtpd 3 & -- Med venlig hilsen / Regards Netdriftgruppen / Network Management Group UNI-C Tlf./Phone +45 35 87 89 41 Mail: UNI-C Fax. +45 35 87 89 90 Bygning 304 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-2800 Lyngby
I know I've read this sometime in the past but I forgot where and how to sort it out. The problem is that for each delivery, qmail generates duplicate logs and when I say duplicate logs I mean everything is duplicated: Oct 14 14:48:32 xxx.com qmail: 939908912.777288 info msg 295394: bytes 559 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 23317 uid 1152 Oct 14 14:48:32 xxx.com qmail: 939908912.777288 info msg 295394: bytes 559 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 23317 uid 1152 Oct 14 14:48:32 xxx.com qmail: 939908912.857675 starting delivery 103: msg 295394 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 14 14:48:32 xxx.com qmail: 939908912.857675 starting delivery 103: msg 295394 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 14 14:48:33 xxx.com qmail: 939908913.040227 delivery 103: success: did_0+0+0/ Oct 14 14:48:33 xxx.com qmail: 939908913.040227 delivery 103: success: did_0+0+0/ Oct 14 14:48:33 xxx.com qmail: 939908913.057360 end msg 295394 Oct 14 14:48:33 xxx.com qmail: 939908913.057360 end msg 295394 Using qmail v1.00 on a Solaris 7. I am using tcpserver but that has nothing to do with it as I get double logs even if I qmail-inject the message. How do I solve this? (Please don't suggest I upgrade to qmail v1.03 as I cannot do this for certain reasons.) Thanks Fred
Fred Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem is that for each delivery, qmail generates duplicate logs >and when I say duplicate logs I mean everything is duplicated: > >How do I solve this? Have you always had this problem? How are you running qmail-start and handling the logging? What platform is this? What's in your /etc/syslog.conf? -Dave
Dave Sill wrote: > Fred Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The problem is that for each delivery, qmail generates duplicate logs > >and when I say duplicate logs I mean everything is duplicated: > > > >How do I solve this? > [snip] > What's in your > /etc/syslog.conf? mail.debug ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost) mail.info /var/log/syslog That was it - Doh! I should've noticed that one! After uncomment the mail.debug line it now works. Thanks a lot, Dave!
Running qmail-pop3d with LDAP patchs and have just gotten things working, sort of. Authorization and denials are working , however, after authorizing and delivering, getting an error, thusly: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user barfo +OK pass whatever +OK
Infinite Knowledge wrote: > > Running qmail-pop3d with LDAP patchs and have just gotten > things working, sort of. > > Authorization and denials are working , however, after authorizing > and delivering, getting an error, thusly: > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > user barfo > +OK > pass whatever > +OK Where is the problem? -- Andre
Hi everyone, I'm going to customize the bouncing messages to spanish. Is there any way to do it in qmail/control or anything like that?. Many thanks, Greetz, Martin Paulucci SysAdmin Sintesoft.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm going to customize the bouncing messages to spanish. Is there any way >to do it in qmail/control or anything like that?. No, there's no way to do that other than modifying the source code. In general, it's not a good idea to simply translate error messages. qmail's bounces are in a format called QSBMF, which requires that the text start with "Hi. This is the ". See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/qsbmf.txt for complete details. I suggest adding Spanish translations after the English version so the bounce messages remain in QSBMF. -Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm going to customize the bouncing messages to spanish. Is there any way > to do it in qmail/control or anything like that?. No, you'll have to patch the source, and read http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/qsbmf.txt first. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
"Hong Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi. This is the qmail-send program at qiji.com. >I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. >This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >202.96.44.17 failed after I sent the message. >Remote host said: 552 message is not welcome to our host,maybe too big (#5.3.4) >[...] > >OK.I have 2 question. >1.the verify is less than 1K,why got 552 message?I'd check it w/ my >own account there and my mailbox is empty there so its not really >exceed the box size. You'd have to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] that. We can't tell why his MTA rejected your message. Note that it says "maybe too big": that means size might not be problem. >2.weird problem is that,when I resend this email via my own account >in my server,via hmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to that [EMAIL PROTECTED],its >OK!.why? I suspect--but I'm just guessing--that 263.net's MTA is doing some kind of "clever" spam filtering that your web mail triggers but your test mail doesn't. E.g., maybe they reject mail with an envelop sender of "anonymous@.*". -Dave
I have no idea how the vacation package work. But: the installation of the memphis rpm has changed. In particular, you also need qmail-run. Is qmail working properly, otherwise? Mate -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote: > I have no idea how the vacation package work. > > But: the installation of the memphis rpm has changed. In > particular, you also need qmail-run. Is qmail working properly, > otherwise? The problem isn't vacation per se (Jon and I have already debugged thru that poart). The problem is that if you have a .qmail file of the form | some_program and "some_program" calls qmail-inject (or one of its cousins such as datemail etc), qmail-inject dies. I've asked Jon to triple check permissions of files in /var/qmail/control to ensure they are readable by all. Regards Peter ---------- Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Consultant or at present: eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301 "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Stirling Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, the mail server is on the inside of a firewall. That said, sendmail >was working fine before so I don't think it is a firewall issue. > >Why can't I receive email from outside my LAN? BTW, folks are getting the >following in a "bounced" email: > ><<< 421 loki.iport.com Sorry, you are not authorized to make this >connection. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection reset by mail.foraker.com. That "Sorry, you are not authorized to make this connection." message didn't come from qmail or tcpserver. Sure that firewall isn't getting in the way? -Dave
Kevin Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, I'm finally on to something. I'm seeing this in my logs: > >warning: trouble opening local/xx/xxxxx; will try again later >warning: trouble opening remote/xx/xxxxx; will try again later > >So, I went into /var/qmail/queue/mess/xx and looked at the files. They look >fine. They are owned qmailq.qmail with mode 0644. Great, but qmail isn't complaining about queue/mess/xx, it's complaining about queue/local/xx or queue/remote/xx. If you look at qmail-send.c, you'll see there are only two things that will cause that error: 1) an attempt to open the file for reading failed, or 2) the contents of the file aren't in the right format. >After a few days of not >restarting qmail, there are hundreds of messages like this and there is no >rhyme or reason as to the directory/inode where they live. If I restart >qmail, they disappear without further error. Refresh my memory, please. What platform is this? Did you build qmail yourself? Have you run "make check"? -Dave
Try #2, Damn rented fingers. Running qmail-pop3d with LDAP patchs and have just gotten things working, sort of. Authorization and denials are working , however, after authorizing and delivering, getting an error, thusly: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user barfo +OK pass whatever +OK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >As part of the Webshield virus scanner, a version of qmail appears to >have been installed. Anyone ever heard of Webshield? Are they really bundling qmail? >The question is, can I delete these messages from the queue directory >structure? Yes and no. If a message in really queued, you can stop qmail, delete *all* files associated with that message number from the queue, then restart qmail. However, if the message isn't completely queued, this might not work. >I've tried deleting the files manually, but while I can temporarilly >remove them from the mess/nn subdirectory, they re-appear sometime >later. The only other reference to these files is in the intd directory. If there's an intd file associated with these messages, chances are good that you're trying to delete them before they're completely queued, so the sender is seeing the failure and resending the message. >I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess >subdirs. Wait until the message is queued (there's a "todo" file for it) or preprocessed (there's an "info" file for it), then "touch" the "mess" file into the future a couple weeks. It'll bounce on the next delivery attempt. >Does anyone have any other suggestions. I note from all the >other questions relating to message deletions, that the intd directory >rarely gets a mention. Is this something uniqe to the fact we're running >Webshield? No. If you're curious, grab the qmail tarball and read the INTERNALS file. >Thanks for any assistance you can give. Good luck. Hope this helps. -Dave
Dave Sill writes: > >I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess > >subdirs. > > Wait until the message is queued (there's a "todo" file for it) or > preprocessed (there's an "info" file for it), then "touch" the "mess" > file into the future a couple weeks. It'll bounce on the next delivery > attempt. Future?? Past! I've lobbied djb to special-case any date in the 1980's so that qmail-send simply discards the message instead of bouncing it. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill writes: > > >I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess > > >subdirs. > > > > Wait until the message is queued (there's a "todo" file for it) or > > preprocessed (there's an "info" file for it), then "touch" the "mess" > > file into the future a couple weeks. It'll bounce on the next delivery > > attempt. > >Future?? Past! Oops. Thanks, Russ. >I've lobbied djb to special-case any date in the 1980's so that >qmail-send simply discards the message instead of bouncing it. Good idea. -Dave
Dave Sill wrote: > Anyone ever heard of Webshield? Are they really bundling qmail? > The product is Networks Associates Webshield for SMTP. We have a site licence for all NAI products, and as I was being forced into a quick fix for virus checking all Internet email I had this included as part of a major system upgrade. Only after a while did I discover an installation of qmail, and nothing in the NAI documentation about qmail. At least they included the qmail man and bin directories. NAI are not currently shipping Webshield SMTP - but it's still on their ftp site and distributed product CD. My assumption (and I haven't done much investigation) is that when the mail server receives mail it passes it to qmail which passes it through the virus checker and then on to a separate mail service (sendmail) for final delivery (or the other way round). One of the configuration files for qmail references the Virus scanning (/var/qmail/control/virusscan). There never seems to be anything in the queue itself (qread) presumably since qmail passes everything on to sendmail to actually send, but there are a whole lot of file references in the intd directory (mainly the same external sender/internal recipient combination) and the corresponding entries in the mess subdirs are definitely of the "WIN A MILLION" category. qstat reports about 250 entries, but 0 in the second line. We did have a problem with the reappearance of a 4Mb file that wasn't being cleared, and having about a dozen copies of it in the mess/ subdir structure, made the disk fill up quite quickly (especially when someone then tried to send 168Mb attachment). However, the 4Mb file seems to have gone from the queue - after about a week, but the 2Mb file, and the hundreds of 4k files are still there and they've certainly been around for a week or two now. Am I right in thinking that the retry table (40 attempts at increasing periods) would continue for about ten weeks before giving up? Hope this gives you some more info to the problem. I've had some communication from one of the other list members but offline. If anything is successful, I/we'll post the findings. I ran queue-fix which removed about a dozen entries from intd. I have a sneaking suspicion that the problem will eventually time itself out, and no real solution will be found. For some reason there must be a clean up operation as the mess subdirs never have any files in them older than a couple of days. Thanks for advice. I shall persevere ... Wallace -- ====================================================================== Wallace Nicoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] City of Edinburgh Council IT Services, Chesser House, 500 Gorgie Road, Phone : 0131 469 5343 Edinburgh, EH11 3YJ, Scotland Fax : 0131 469 5335 [From overseas [P]+441314695343 [F]+441314695335 ] ======================================================================
James Smallacombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a fairly simple way to modify the outgoing header of an >alias to preserve the To: address of the recipient? Headers aren't changed by going through simple aliases. Maybe the problem is that the header *isn't* changed. I.e., the pager service looks for it's address in the To: field and ignores messages that don't have it. If that's the case, have your alias construct a new message with the appropriate header. -Dave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I seems to have problem running qmail with supervise. when I start >qmail using supervise, it start off working fine, but after a while it >would >begin to fail. mail are not delivered and preprocessed. At this point, what qmail-related processes are running? What do the qmail-send logs say? -Dave
A Curtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What's the best way to kill supervise/tcpserver/qmail processes for >system shutdown? "svc -dx" is the way to go. >Do the supervise lock directories need clearing up manually, or what? No, daemontools should take care of them. -Dave
Hi all ! I have installed a Linux machine with two 9 Gbytes SCSI disks with RedHat Linux 6.1. I want to install QMail as the mail serer in this machine, and I have a couple of questions. 1.- Is possible to maintain a database in MySQL, Oracle or similar with usernames/passwords and aliases ? I don't want to create a user account in the Linux machine for each e-mail user. 2.- Wich directories are involved with the mail processing ? I want to make several aprtitions in the hard disks and want to know where will be stored the queue files (I suppose that in /var/qmail) the mainboxes of the users (Maybe /home/user ?), and so on... 3.- From where could I download the latests rpm files for installing the QMail Server in RH 6.1 ? Wich files do I need ? Best regards, Antonio Navarro Navarro BemarNet Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bemarnet.es
The "free" email was swallowing 1/2 my message. Running qmail-pop3d with LDAP patchs and have just gotten things working, sort of. Authorization and denials are working , however, after authorizing and delivering, getting an error, thusly: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user barfo +OK pass whatever +OK . list +OK . quit +OK -ERR authorization failed Connection closed by foreign host. I've searched the archives, but I didn't know how to search for something that worked. Still worried, Bill ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
This is a small bug from the ldap patch. Andre has already a solution for this. Andre, could you post the solution on the qmail-ldap list? Franky > ---------- > From: Bill Rogers[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pop3d auth error after auth ok? LDAP patchs,whoops #2 > > The "free" email was swallowing 1/2 my message. > > Running qmail-pop3d with LDAP patchs and have just gotten > things working, sort of. > > Authorization and denials are working , however, after authorizing > and delivering, getting an error, thusly: > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > user barfo > +OK > pass whatever > +OK > . > list > +OK > . > quit > +OK > -ERR authorization failed > Connection closed by foreign host. > > I've searched the archives, but I didn't know how to search for > something that worked. > > Still worried, > Bill > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com. >
Thank you to all for the helpful information! -H and -R did the trick and solved what appeared to be slow authentication but was really DNS related. This gave the added benifit of taking a huge load off our primary DNS server and now web pages appear to serve snappier! Obviously, we may want to consider upgrading our DNS server which is only running on a 486 right now... :-) Thank You, Jose de Leon ----- Original Message ----- From: Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jose de Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 7:27 PM Subject: Re: Slow Authentication (need help) On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 04:33:27PM -0700, Jose de Leon wrote: > I'm using QMail 1.03, and using tcpserver instead of inetd. Linux 2.0.xx. > Some POP3 account users are complaining of slow POP3 authentication. About > 50% of the time, authentication times out. I have noticed the problem too, > but once authenticated, download of email is quite fast. This may also be a result of slow DNS and/or IDENT lookups: - you may use the -R switch to disable IDENT lookups (very much recommended, as most systems do not provide reliable info anyway). - you may use the -H switch to disable remote host name lookups. This speeds up connections if DNS is slow or broken for the IPs your customers come from. It also is useless if the IPs do not have PTR records. Please note that these settings may also be useful if you start qmail-smtpd via tcpserver. > Are there not enough connections allocated for tcpserver? How can I check > if maximum connections are being used? start your tcpserver with -v switch and direct its output to a logfile. There you should see messages like tcpserver: status: 2/150 That means that currently 2 out of 150 max tcpservers are active. The max limit can be increased with -c<num>, default is 40. > Or are there settings in QMail itself I need to change? No. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Greetings, I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? --Keith Lee
Keith Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get >Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use >Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? man qmail-start -Dave
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:30:15PM -0500, Keith Lee wrote: > I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get > Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use > Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? Hello Keith, - first make sure your startscript specifies ./Maildir/ as delivery target. - I am afraid you need to create a Maildir for every user as well, so echo .qmail should be no problem as well, sth like: - assume your users all have GID 5?? (like on RedHat) cd /home for i in $(awk -F: '$3~/5[0-9][0-]/{print $1}'}); do su $i -c 'maildirmake '$i'/Maildir && echo "./Maildir/" > '$i'/.qmail done Regards Mirko
Keith Lee writes: > Greetings, > > I've just installed the latest version of qmail and am trying to get > Maildirs working. Is there anyway to globally tell qmail to use > Maildirs for all my users with out creating a .qmail file for each one? The general answer to your question is "yes". Go into /var/qmail/boot and you'll find that all the files there differ only by the default delivery instructions. Whatever you want to do for each user (for example, check their quota before delivering mail) should be inserted in that file. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Hi, Now Let me try to configure a small one HotMail by up to down with scale of 1,000,000 mail accounts. Please help me to finish this issue. 1. Choose OS as Linux (or FreeBSD, Solaris ? PC or SUN ? I am not sure which one is better?) 2. Prepare 10 PC as qmail mail server which store real mail (define as ms1.hotmail.com - ms10.hotmail.com, each server store 100,000 users' mail, each server also handle pop3 service ) 3. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-ldap server (define as ldap.hotmail.com) 4. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-smtp server, (define as smtp.hotmail.com) which process incoming mail to dispatch each mail to accurate mail server (ms1 - ms10) And DNS Setting: hotmail.com MX 0 smtp.hotmail.com Operation flow: User with E-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , store in ms1.hotmail.com When anybody sendemail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which mail will be send to smtp.hotmail.com,and smtp.hotmail.com will quere ldap.hotmail.com with real mail serverwhich store the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then relay mail to ms1.hotmail.com Is there anything wrong in my configuration and understanding with QMail ? Do I miss anything ? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Farmer Tien __________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-Mail at http://www.ToMail.com.tw
Hi John, For your web-based client, what are you using? I am trying to setup a similar service. Thanks, Matthew -----Original Message----- From: F7596 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setup HotMail by Qmail ? Hi, Now Let me try to configure a small one HotMail by up to down with scale of 1,000,000 mail accounts. Please help me to finish this issue. 1. Choose OS as Linux (or FreeBSD, Solaris ? PC or SUN ? I am not sure which one is better?) 2. Prepare 10 PC as qmail mail server which store real mail (define as ms1.hotmail.com - ms10.hotmail.com, each server store 100,000 users' mail, each server also handle pop3 service ) 3. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-ldap server (define as ldap.hotmail.com) 4. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-smtp server, (define as smtp.hotmail.com) which process incoming mail to dispatch each mail to accurate mail server (ms1 - ms10) And DNS Setting: hotmail.com MX 0 smtp.hotmail.com Operation flow: User with E-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , store in ms1.hotmail.com When anybody sendemail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which mail will be send to smtp.hotmail.com,and smtp.hotmail.com will quere ldap.hotmail.com with real mail serverwhich store the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then relay mail to ms1.hotmail.com Is there anything wrong in my configuration and understanding with QMail ? Do I miss anything ? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Farmer Tien __________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-Mail at http://www.ToMail.com.tw
Hi, Now Let me try to configure a small one HotMail by up to down with scale of 1,000,000 mail accounts. Please help me to finish this issue. 1. Choose OS as Linux (or FreeBSD, Solaris ? PC or SUN ? I am not sure which one is better?) 2. Prepare 10 PC as qmail mail server which store real mail (define as ms1.hotmail.com - ms10.hotmail.com, each server store 100,000 users' mail, each server also handle pop3 service ) 3. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-ldap server (define as ldap.hotmail.com) 4. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-smtp server, (define as smtp.hotmail.com) which process incoming mail to dispatch each mail to accurate mail server (ms1 - ms10) And DNS Setting: hotmail.com MX 0 smtp.hotmail.com Operation flow: User with E-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , store in ms1.hotmail.com When anybody sendemail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which mail will be send to smtp.hotmail.com,and smtp.hotmail.com will quere ldap.hotmail.com with real mail serverwhich store the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then relay mail to ms1.hotmail.com Is there anything wrong in my configuration and understanding with QMail ? Do I miss anything ? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Farmer Tien
I've got what is probably a problem with a simple solution, but I'm stuck... I'm running vchkpw with two virtual domains, say A.com, and B.com on a linux box at home. When I send mail via the smtp server of my employer (using Eudora or telnet directly), I can send to B.com, but not A.com. Any user at A.com immediately results in a 550 User Unknown error. If I use the web interface (we have MS Exchange Server) for work, I can send to A.com. I can send from my pacbell account or any other domain (using their smtp server) to A.com. Can you help? thanks, -ted
I upgraded my home system from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.0, and even though I have forcecr set in my .fetchmailrc, qmail is now seeing stray LF's. Fetchmail tries to inject a bounce message when the first attempt fails, but the bounce fails, too, and fetchmail happily deletes the message from the POP server, and the message is lost. :-( Anyone else seen this? I'll try upgrading to the latest fetchmail, but if that doesn't work, I'll have to try to find an old fetchmail or do the fixcr hack. Yuck. Sure wish someone would publish a simple, reliable POP client. -Dave
Dave Sill writes: > I upgraded my home system from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.0, and even though I > have forcecr set in my .fetchmailrc, qmail is now seeing stray > LF's. Fetchmail tries to inject a bounce message when the first > attempt fails, but the bounce fails, too, and fetchmail happily > deletes the message from the POP server, and the message is lost. :-( > > Anyone else seen this? > > I'll try upgrading to the latest fetchmail, but if that doesn't work, > I'll have to try to find an old fetchmail or do the fixcr hack. Yuck. > > Sure wish someone would publish a simple, reliable POP client. What do you want it to do? Store mail in a mailbox? A Maildir? Inject it into the local smtp daemon? Run /usr/lib/sendmail? For the latter two, how do you set the local recipient? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dave Sill writes: > > > > Sure wish someone would publish a simple, reliable POP client. > >What do you want it to do? Store mail in a mailbox? A Maildir? >Inject it into the local smtp daemon? Re-inject via SMTP to specified user@localhost. >Run /usr/lib/sendmail? For the >latter two, how do you set the local recipient? Config parameter a la .fetchmailrc. -Dave
Dave Sill writes: > >Run /usr/lib/sendmail? For the > >latter two, how do you set the local recipient? > > Config parameter a la .fetchmailrc. What other parameters are there? What are they named? How do you set the envelope sender? From the return-path header? Where do the username and password come from? -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Hello Dave, The following fetchmailrc format has worked for me with qmail and the latest versions of fetchmail: set syslog poll mail.spark.com.ar proto pop3 user xxx pass xxx forcecr smtpaddress client.com.ar The last time I upgraded fetchmail, I lost a lot of a clients mail. Fetchmail flushed everything and qmail accepted nothing. What fixed that problem was magically re-aranging the order of the elements in the above mentioned fetchmailrc, but not changing the elements themselves. Typical Fetchmail fix. Saludos - eric Russell Nelson escribi�: > > Dave Sill writes: > > >Run /usr/lib/sendmail? For the > > >latter two, how do you set the local recipient? > > > > Config parameter a la .fetchmailrc. > > What other parameters are there? What are they named? How do you set > the envelope sender? From the return-path header? Where do the > username and password come from? > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool! -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Dave Sill wrote: > Sure wish someone would publish a simple, reliable POP client. I have some very old, cranky, but reliable code at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/getpop3.README.html Worked for me for the last four years. -- Sam
I have several users complaining that their client software (Netscape
Communicator) times out when they try to retrieve large emails (2-3 meg).
Am I correct in assuming that this is a client side setting? They keep
telling me "this never happened when we used the email server provided by
our old ISP." (I don't provide their dial-up, just a few email addresses
associated with a web page that I host for them).
Is there a setting in QMail that would affect this? If not, does anybody
know of a way to set the clients to wait longer before timing out? I've
looked through the Netscape knowledge base documentation and poked through
the menus but I couldn't find any settings for timeout values.
I searched through the mailing list archives and did some web searches and I
found a few references to similar problems but no solutions. Any help (or
pointers to appropriate FAQ files) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
I'm having an odd problem mail delivery on a new server I'm building. Server is running FreeBSD 3.3s, qmail 1.03, big-todo patch, netscape patch, aol patch, rbl patch from flame.org, and vchkpw 3.4.9 for virtual domains. I am using maildirs nfs mounted from an external raid array. I mirrored the virtdomains/rcpthosts and user/assign files from my existing production server. Maildirs from the raid are the same ones used by the current production server which is functioning correctly. Error is below. It only is affecting this one user that I have found..mail deliveries to other users in the same domain (normal accounts, aliases from fast-forward, and .qmail- entries all work correctly). This user can receive mail correctly to the same directories off the production server. Oct 14 10:51:25 mail-20 qmail-smtpd[6685]: Received: from unknown (HELO delanet.com) Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 smtpd: 939898286.038688 tcpserver: end 6685 status 0 Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 smtpd: 939898286.039126 tcpserver: status: 0/900 Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.046347 new msg 5357 Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.047130 info msg 5357: bytes 1135 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 6686 uid 82 Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.121583 starting delivery 13: msg 5357 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.122582 status: local 1/120 remote 0/120 Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.347484 delivery 13: deferral: tsaville:delanet.com:delanet.com/Can't_create_tempfile_(#4.3.0)/Yikes!_Could_create_but_can't_delete_temporary_file!!/ENOENT:_pa th_doesn't_exist/ Any help is appreciated. -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802
Please disregard the request below..popbull killed me. User had viewed mail from sqwebmail, had a symlink to a popbull message in the cur directory which pointed to a bulletin that existed on the production server, not the new server. Steve Delanet Administration wrote: > I'm having an odd problem mail delivery on a new server I'm building. > Server is running FreeBSD 3.3s, qmail 1.03, big-todo patch, netscape > patch, aol patch, rbl patch from flame.org, and vchkpw 3.4.9 for virtual > domains. I am using maildirs nfs mounted from an external raid array. I > mirrored the virtdomains/rcpthosts and user/assign files from my > existing production server. Maildirs from the raid are the same ones > used by the current production server which is functioning correctly. > Error is below. It only is affecting this one user that I have > found..mail deliveries to other users in the same domain (normal > accounts, aliases from fast-forward, and .qmail- entries all work > correctly). This user can receive mail correctly to the same directories > off the production server. > > Oct 14 10:51:25 mail-20 qmail-smtpd[6685]: Received: from unknown (HELO > delanet.com) > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 smtpd: 939898286.038688 tcpserver: end 6685 > status 0 > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 smtpd: 939898286.039126 tcpserver: status: 0/900 > > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.046347 new msg 5357 > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.047130 info msg 5357: bytes > 1135 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 6686 uid 82 > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.121583 starting delivery 13: > msg 5357 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.122582 status: local 1/120 > remote 0/120 > Oct 14 10:51:26 mail-20 qmail: 939898286.347484 delivery 13: deferral: > >tsaville:delanet.com:delanet.com/Can't_create_tempfile_(#4.3.0)/Yikes!_Could_create_but_can't_delete_temporary_file!!/ENOENT:_pa > > th_doesn't_exist/ > > Any help is appreciated. > > -- > Stephen Comoletti > Systems Administrator > Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com > ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802
Another problem. Same setup as the last message concerning delivery. One user ID is unable to see contents of it's maildir during pop3 check on the new server. 9 messages can be seen in the new directory, and a pop3 check from the production server can list them, and moves them to cur, but the new server simply shows nothing. It authenticates correctly (vchkpw 3.4.9) however there are no messages output when trying to list off the new server. This user can receive mail from the new server perfectly fine, just cant see whats sitting there. No errors logged or anything. As before, any help (pointers, faq's, etc etc) is appreciated. -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802
I am trying to allow relaying for a couple of users through qmail. I have gone through the steps suggested at: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html But I am not sure I have done the initial steop of "downloading and installing" the ucspi-tcp package.. where do I need to install that package? I've installed it in a personal directory, and when I need to use the tcprules command, I just address the command to the directory tcprules is located. Maybe this is the wrong spot to have it? Also, once I get down to the step: tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u503 -g502 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & (given in one line), I get this error: "tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used" What am I doing wrong? I am using Mandrake version 6.0. Thanks for any help. james
Hi again to all! I have a question about the log file. Please look at an entry below. info msg 205083: bytes 379 from <> qp xxx uid xxxx As we can see, the from field is empty. Is there a way that we can deny mails that don't contain 'from' from being relayed? Also is there a way that we can restrict the sender by the 'from' field? Say if the sender's domain is not xxx.com, then his mail is denied. Thanks in advance! -- Edward Castillo-Jakosalem
This has been discussed previously, and it is considered a bad idea to deny messages from <>, because that is the format used in many bounce messages. Something like that. - eric Edward Castillo-Jakosalem escribi�: > > Hi again to all! > I have a question about the log file. Please look at an entry below. > > info msg 205083: bytes 379 from <> qp xxx uid xxxx > > As we can see, the from field is empty. Is there a way that we can deny > mails that don't contain 'from' from being relayed? Also is there a way > that we can restrict the sender by the 'from' field? Say if the sender's > domain is not xxx.com, then his mail is denied. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Edward Castillo-Jakosalem
I understand the .qmail forward files, for the most part, but I'm not entirely sure I understand how to make use of virtual addresses. My forways into playing with /var/qmail/users was highly unsuccessful. Can someone point me to some reasources on how to effectively set this sort of thing up? While I could set up everything with an ~/alias/.qmail-foo forward, I would really prefer not to have to do so. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:49:23PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I understand the .qmail forward files, for the most part, but I'm not > entirely sure I understand how to make use of virtual addresses. My > forways into playing with /var/qmail/users was highly unsuccessful. Can > someone point me to some reasources on how to effectively set this sort of > thing up? > > While I could set up everything with an ~/alias/.qmail-foo forward, I > would really prefer not to have to do so. What do you need to do? There are several uses for virtualdomains and "virtual addresses", and every week there are new obscure uses that folks bring up here, so please enlighten us and we will probably be of great help. Have you looked into the fastforward package? /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 --> http://x42.com/
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: > What do you need to do? I'm trying to set up aliases that are directly delivered rather than forwarded. In other words, I'd like them to be true aliases. For example, I'd like to set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go directly to a user without adding the forward line that creating ~alias/.qmail-contract would add. Is that possible, or is what I'm trying to do outside the realm of what qmail does? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:57:34PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote: > > > What do you need to do? > > I'm trying to set up aliases that are directly delivered rather than > forwarded. In other words, I'd like them to be true aliases. For example, > I'd like to set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go directly to a user > without adding the forward line that creating ~alias/.qmail-contract would > add. > > Is that possible, or is what I'm trying to do outside the realm of what > qmail does? You should probably find what you need in the fastforward package, which uses /etc/aliases and a compiled database of that. It works pretty much like sendmails /etc/alias handling but is faster. Whether you will call this "true alias" or not I don't know, but it it works, and is fast, and you don't need a ~alias/.qmail-file for every alias. http://www.qmail.org/koobera/www/fastforward.html -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
I've already setup qmail to do selective relaying based on network/IP address using RELAYCLIENT. Is there a way such that I can have additional selective relaying based on the e-mail address? I'd like to restrict some local users from sending and receiving e-mail messages to and from the Internet. TIA, Mike
Hi, I've been trying to track down this issue for a while but I still don't know what is wrong. Essentially, when I subscribe to majordomo mailing lists elsewhere, my masqueraded email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't recognized. If I send majordomo 'subscribe list-name' [EMAIL PROTECTED] is automatically subscribed. If I explicity send majordomo 'subscribe list-name [EMAIL PROTECTED]' the response is that the request will be forwarded to the owner. The response also tells me that the reason for the delay is either 1) the list subscription is closed or 2) the address I'm trying to subscribe is different from that of the ones in the header. I've sent myself mail and check the headers. Both From: and Reply-To: are set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see why the headers would be causing a problem. On the other hand I've tried multiple majordomo lists and all of open subscriptions. So what is causing this discrepancy between remote majordomo programs and what I'm seeing in my own headers? I'm running Qmail-1.03 on FreeBSD 3.2. Here are my control files: {prompt} grep '' * defaultdomain:blackmist.org defaulthost:blackmist.org locals:whispers.blackmist.org locals:blackmist.org me:whispers.blackmist.org rcpthosts:blackmist.org rcpthosts:whispers.blackmist.org Almost all mail is sent to a script qmail-cyrus to be forwarded to the imap server. I'm running tcpserver to relay stuff from the LAN. {prompt} cat /usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp #.#.#.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" and invoked with /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & The mail client is on a different machine using whispers as the smtp server. Any thoughts? r.
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:40:04 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "randyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to track down this issue for a while but I still don't > know what is wrong. Essentially, when I subscribe to majordomo mailing > lists elsewhere, my masqueraded email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't > recognized. If I send majordomo > > 'subscribe list-name' > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is automatically subscribed. If I explicity send > majordomo > > 'subscribe list-name [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > the response is that the request will be forwarded to the owner. The > response also tells me that the reason for the delay is either 1) the list > subscription is closed or 2) the address I'm trying to subscribe is > different from that of the ones in the header. > > I've sent myself mail and check the headers. Both From: and Reply-To: are > set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see why the headers would be causing a > problem. On the other hand I've tried multiple majordomo lists and all of > open subscriptions. > > So what is causing this discrepancy between remote majordomo programs and > what I'm seeing in my own headers? Most likely majordomo is looking at the envelope sender (what is sent in the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command). It can be set with the appropriate arguments to qmail-inject; I've written a little script that I use to send messages to mailing lists with different local email addresses which I'd be happy to send you. Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.discord.org/ Unsolicited bulk email charge: $500/message. Don't send me any. PGP Fingerprint: 0C1F FE18 D311 1792 5EA8 43C8 7AD2 B485 DE75 841C
Oh, am I using qmail-inject? I though that since I'm using tcpserver to call qmail-smtpd this is what happens. tcpserver -> qmail-smtpd -> qmail-queue -> qmail-send -> qmail-rspawn -> qmail-remote Well, if I am using qmail-inject then I'd very much like a copy of your script. That'd be very useful. Does the envelope header get stripped out before delivered to a mailbox? r. -----Original Message----- From: James J. Lippard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: masquerading against remote majordomo services don't work. Most likely majordomo is looking at the envelope sender (what is sent in the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command). It can be set with the appropriate arguments to qmail-inject; I've written a little script that I use to send messages to mailing lists with different local email addresses which I'd be happy to send you.
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:23:38 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "randyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, am I using qmail-inject? If you're sending mail from the local host running qmail, then your MUA is passing the outgoing mail to qmail-inject, possibly through the qmail "sendmail" wrapper. If your qmail is on a separate machine than the one from which you're sending the mail, then I may be mistaken in my diagnosis. > I though that since I'm using tcpserver to call qmail-smtpd this is what > happens. > > tcpserver -> qmail-smtpd -> qmail-queue -> qmail-send -> qmail-rspawn -> > qmail-remote That's true for sending mail from a remote host. > Well, if I am using qmail-inject then I'd very much like a copy of your > script. That'd be very useful. Does the envelope header get stripped out > before delivered to a mailbox? The envelope "header" isn't really a header on the message; in a Unix mailbox the envelope from field appears in the "From " header that's the first line of the message. Some MTAs put the envelope recipient into the "Received:" fields (e.g. "received for <user@host>"). The envelope from field for qmail-inject can be set with the environmental variables QMAILUSER and QMAILHOST, which you'll see in the Perl script I'll send you. Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.discord.org/ Unsolicited bulk email charge: $500/message. Don't send me any. PGP Fingerprint: 0C1F FE18 D311 1792 5EA8 43C8 7AD2 B485 DE75 841C
>If you're sending mail from the local host running qmail, then your >MUA is passing the outgoing mail to qmail-inject, possibly through >the qmail "sendmail" wrapper. If your qmail is on a separate machine >than the one from which you're sending the mail, then I may be mistaken >in my diagnosis. Yup, the MUA is on a completely different machine than the machine with qmail. >> I though that since I'm using tcpserver to call qmail-smtpd this is what >> happens. >> >> tcpserver -> qmail-smtpd -> qmail-queue -> qmail-send -> qmail-rspawn -> >> qmail-remote >That's true for sending mail from a remote host. Yup, my machine and the mail server are different nodes on the network. Sorry I didn't make this clear the first time around. So why would majordomo on remote hosts don't recognized my masqueraded addresses? r. ps. thanx james
I made a small goof when setting a new mount point for /var/qmail. Can anyone tell me what the default permissions of /var/qmail are? The subdirectories are unchanged; it;s just /var/qmail that might have been modified. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
I made a small goof when setting a new mount point for /var/qmail. Can anyone tell me what the default permissions of /var/qmail are? The subdirectories are unchanged; it;s just /var/qmail that might have been modified. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
hello, i have been using qmail for sometime and basically just forgot about it since it already works. now some of our users are requesting if we can ban certain ppl from sending them email based on header information. i don't want to do this on the global level since this is already being provided for by 'badmailfrom' but configurable on the user level. each user has his own ban list. has anyone done this and want to share his code? or do i have to write something from scratch? would it be a good idea just to throw the mail to the bit bucket or have it returned to sender? any comment is welcome :) -marlon
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:05:36PM +0800, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote: qmail-smtpd doesn't do header checks at all. Your best solution would be to write procmail/maildrop filter files for these users, and either bounce the message, or throw it away, after it is accepted into your system. If you're feeling brave, you might want to investigate Sam Varshavchik's qmail-UCE patches, where he has added filtering abilities to qmail-smtpd. However, this is not a trivial patch, so use it at your own risk. Find the patch on www.qmail.org > hello, > > i have been using qmail for sometime and basically just forgot about it > since it already works. now some of our users are requesting if we can ban > certain ppl from sending them email based on header information. i don't > want to do this on the global level since this is already being provided > for by > 'badmailfrom' but configurable on the user level. each user has his own > ban list. > > has anyone done this and want to share his code? or do i have to write > something from scratch? would it be a good idea just to throw the mail to > the bit bucket or have it returned to sender? > > any comment is welcome :) > > -marlon -- See complete headers for more info
