qmail Digest 5 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 811

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qmail Digest 5 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 811

Topics (messages 32444 through 32524):

Strange alias problem
        32444 by: Piotr Wanat

virus scanner
        32445 by: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr .
        32483 by: Marco Leeflang
        32484 by: Jason Haar
        32512 by: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr .
        32513 by: Jason Haar

Re: Can't get mail.
        32446 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
        32448 by: Lars Brandi Jensen

Forward to virtual domain and forward everything to a different domain
        32447 by: Thomas Foerster
        32452 by: Magnus Bodin

Strange fastforward alias problem
        32449 by: Piotr Wanat
        32453 by: Magnus Bodin
        32454 by: Piotr Wanat
        32455 by: Magnus Bodin
        32456 by: Chris Johnson

tcpserver
        32450 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32451 by: Petr Novotny
        32457 by: Andr�s M�ndez

Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
        32458 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32459 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32462 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
        32463 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32468 by: Dave Sill
        32471 by: Andr�s M�ndez

Re: spambait?
        32460 by: Russell Nelson
        32465 by: Eric Dahnke
        32467 by: John R. Levine

Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
        32461 by: Dave Sill
        32470 by: Mike
        32472 by: Dave Sill

qmail-start alert
        32464 by: Stephan Pfeiffer

Re: qmail-lint 0.54 question
        32466 by: Russell Nelson

Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
        32469 by: Dave Sill
        32479 by: Scott Burkhalter
        32480 by: Scott Burkhalter
        32481 by: James Smallacombe
        32486 by: Scott Burkhalter

Re: QMail an MySQL or similar
        32473 by: Russell Nelson

Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)
        32474 by: Russell Nelson
        32476 by: Barry Dwyer
        32477 by: Barry Dwyer
        32478 by: Eric Dahnke

Re: Virtual domain setup
        32475 by: Magnus Bodin

Concurrency, and your average mail server
        32482 by: Eric Dahnke

Web Interface.
        32485 by: eric
        32487 by: Ken Jones

qmail-pop3d and qpopper
        32488 by: Andr�s M�ndez

Command-line mailer
        32489 by: Giancarlo Bonansea
        32490 by: Eric Dahnke
        32491 by: Jason Haar
        32509 by: Fabrice Scemama
        32511 by: Roger Merchberger

Finally it works (except for root)- add this to a FAQ or whatever
        32492 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32519 by: Nuno Cruz

extracting passwords from NTMail?
        32493 by: Theodore Cekan

E-mail that loops
        32494 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32495 by: Vince Vielhaber
        32496 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32497 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32498 by: Vince Vielhaber
        32499 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32500 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32501 by: Vince Vielhaber
        32502 by: Vince Vielhaber
        32503 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32504 by: Vince Vielhaber
        32505 by: Markus Stumpf
        32506 by: Markus Stumpf
        32510 by: Fabrice Scemama

Perplexing Pine Problems
        32507 by: Barry Dwyer
        32508 by: Sam

Qmail POP3 & SMTP problem
        32514 by: john
        32518 by: Andr�s M�ndez
        32521 by: Michael Boman

ezmlm problem
        32515 by: john

The qmail problem that wasn't
        32516 by: Patrick Berry

qmail rc script does not work
        32517 by: john
        32523 by: dd

Local User Handling
        32520 by: Michael Schr�der

running ucspi-tcp does not work
        32522 by: john
        32524 by: dd

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        Hello!
I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases
(used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining
existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with
reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like:
user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases
work fine for me.
        Any clue? 

Piotr Wanat

Hello,

Is there a program or Qmail add-on which scans incoming/outgoing mails for 
viruses?


_Bench

try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html
works for me

marco leeflang

"Benjamin de los Angeles Jr ." wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a program or Qmail add-on which scans incoming/outgoing mails for
> viruses?
>
> _Bench

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Marco Leeflang wrote:
> try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html

I think we could do a much better job (more in terms of integration into
qmail).

I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that
replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without
dicking with qmail's code I think...

I'm _really_ getting to like some of Dan's design decisions... :-)

[BTW: don't ask me for code yet - I'll have to see if I can convince my
employer to release it under GPL first...]

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417

How fast is the scan?  What's the algorithm?  Does it scan attachments
only?  Does it scan the whole attachment, or part(s) of an attachment?
If not a pattern matching algorithm will be implemented, and I doubt,
if it would be fast enough given the number of virus signatures.
Hmmm.. maybe those prominent ones should only be included so as not to
impact performance.

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jason Haar wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Marco Leeflang wrote:
> > try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html
> 
> I think we could do a much better job (more in terms of integration into
> qmail).
> 
> I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that
> replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without
> dicking with qmail's code I think...
> 
> I'm _really_ getting to like some of Dan's design decisions... :-)
> 
> [BTW: don't ask me for code yet - I'll have to see if I can convince my
> employer to release it under GPL first...]
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> 
> Jason Haar
> 
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
>      
> 
>

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:47:54AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that
> replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without
> dicking with qmail's code I think...

Hmmm - I've been getting Email about this...

When I said "qmail-based virus scanner" - I meant "qmail-based virus scanner
wrapper" for some product like NAI's uvscan - available for
Linux/Solaris/etc. 

i.e a qmail wrapper that receives Email, unpacks it and runs SOMEONE ELSE'S
SCANNER on it - just like AMAVIS does.

Writing a virus scanner is a different kettle of fish altogether...

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417

        You forgot to mention one thing... which POP3 daemon are you using? And does 
it support maildirs?

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Lars Brandi Jensen wrote:
> I have installed qmail, and i can't get my mail from it. Short
> description of my network :
> 
> 1. The server is internal behind a router with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> 2. I edited the files in /var/qmail/control/ to www.foo.com/foo.com
> respectivly.
> 3. Running tcpserver
> 4. Using Maildir and edited qmail.init according to this.
> 5. The server is not ( yet ) connected to the outside througt the
> router. So it is fully internal on my intranet.
> 6. I connect to qmail let's say from IP 10.yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. As POP3
> server i use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> 7. Starting qmail.
> 
> The server behave in this way :
> 
> If I send a mail to user1 it is recieved in user1/Maildir/new/.
> 
> Let's say i log on as user1, i can't get the mail.
> I tried to add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /var/qmail/control/locals, but without
> 
> success.
> 
> Can anybody help me out.
> 
> Lars Brandi Jensen

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Ooops. It's qmail-pop3d

Lars

Ricardo Cerqueira wrote:

>         You forgot to mention one thing... which POP3 daemon are you using? And does 
>it support maildirs?
>
> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Lars Brandi Jensen wrote:
> > I have installed qmail, and i can't get my mail from it. Short
> > description of my network :
> >
> > 1. The server is internal behind a router with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> > 2. I edited the files in /var/qmail/control/ to www.foo.com/foo.com
> > respectivly.
> > 3. Running tcpserver
> > 4. Using Maildir and edited qmail.init according to this.
> > 5. The server is not ( yet ) connected to the outside througt the
> > router. So it is fully internal on my intranet.
> > 6. I connect to qmail let's say from IP 10.yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. As POP3
> > server i use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
> > 7. Starting qmail.
> >
> > The server behave in this way :
> >
> > If I send a mail to user1 it is recieved in user1/Maildir/new/.
> >
> > Let's say i log on as user1, i can't get the mail.
> > I tried to add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /var/qmail/control/locals, but without
> >
> > success.
> >
> > Can anybody help me out.
> >
> > Lars Brandi Jensen
>
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Hi Folks,

i have 2 questions :

1.) assume this as 2 virtual domains : 
      rehalink.de
      timecraft.de

    When Mail arrives for [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail should be stored
AND forwarded
    to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both domains are on the same server.
    When i put " &[EMAIL PROTECTED] " into ~rehalink/.qmail-default,
qmail stops
    with "already has my delivered-to line". This is ok, i know, but how
can i solve
    my problem ?

2.) virtualhost ha-schra.de
 
    when mail arrives for *@ha-schra.de, qmail should send this mail
"as-it-is" to
    a specified mail-server. 
    How is this done  ?

Thanx a lot, 
   Thomas

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:55:53PM +0100, Thomas Foerster wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> i have 2 questions :
> 
> 1.) assume this as 2 virtual domains : 
>       rehalink.de
>       timecraft.de
> 
>     When Mail arrives for [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail should be stored
> AND forwarded
>     to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both domains are on the same server.
>     When i put " &[EMAIL PROTECTED] " into ~rehalink/.qmail-default,
> qmail stops
>     with "already has my delivered-to line". This is ok, i know, but how
> can i solve
>     my problem ?

Take out the domains from your locals-file, since it seems like you have put
one or two domains both in locals and in virtualdomains. 

And if both are local, then the admin user of the "two domains" is actually
the same user and therefore the mail has already been delivered to the final
destination when it tries to do a forward.

> 2.) virtualhost ha-schra.de
>  
>     when mail arrives for *@ha-schra.de, qmail should send this mail
> "as-it-is" to
>     a specified mail-server. 
>     How is this done  ?

What does "as-it-is" mean? 

Are you primary or secondaty mail sever for "ha-schra.de"? If you just are
secondary, you just have to put "ha-schra.de" into rcpthosts. 

Otherwise the following might help:
(repeating from a former mail)

The forward-all-to-another-domain-alternative
=============================================
This is when you want to forward <anything>@nowhere.mil to
<anything>@elsewhere.co.za, i.e. when every forward goes to 
the same "otherhost".

Put "nowhere.mil:alias-nowhere" into virtualdomains.

Then put this line into ~alias/.qmail-nowhere-default

| forward ${DEFAULT}@elsewhere.co.za

Now will all mail be forwarded to the domain elsewhere.co.za.
Every username will however be intact. 
If you want to override this for just some user, then create an own
.qmail-file for just that alias, e.g. .qmail-nowhere-support, and put
your own forward in there.

/magnus

--
MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/

        Hello!
I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases
(used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining
existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with
reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like:
user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases
work fine for me.
        Any clue? 

Piotr Wanat

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:24:53PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote:
>       Hello!
> I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases
> (used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining
> existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with
> reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like:
> user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases
> work fine for me.
>         Any clue? 

Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward?
I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to
fastforward?

Quick sanity check: 

Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line:

| fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb


?


/magnus

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Magnus Bodin wrote:

> Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward?
> I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to
> fastforward?
> 
> Quick sanity check:
> 
> Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line:
> 
> | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> 

        Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the
ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or
alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be
fastforward or qmail bug?

Piotr Wanat

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:54:46PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote:
> Magnus Bodin wrote:
> 
> > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward?
> > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to
> > fastforward?
> > 
> > Quick sanity check:
> > 
> > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line:
> > 
> > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> > 
> 
>       Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the
> ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or
> alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be
> fastforward or qmail bug?

OK. then I misunderstood you. 

If a local user is named peter, and you send a mail to peter-testalias, then
that mail will be sent to 

 1. ~peter/.qmail-testalias

 or if that doesn't work:

 2. ~peter/.qmail-default

SO! Aliases with dashes that starts with a username, then it will superseed
an alias. 

/magnus

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On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:54:46PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote:
> Magnus Bodin wrote:
> 
> > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward?
> > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to
> > fastforward?
> > 
> > Quick sanity check:
> > 
> > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line:
> > 
> > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> > 
> 
>       Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the
> ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or
> alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be
> fastforward or qmail bug?

It's neither--things are working as designed and documented. From
/var/qmail/doc/PIC.local2ext:

qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
                   
     |          Look at mailbox name, fred-sos.
     |          Is fred-sos listed in qmail-users? No.
     |          Is there a fred-sos account? No.
     |          Is there a fred account? Yes.
     |          Is fred's uid nonzero? Yes.
     |          Is ~fred visible to the qmailp user? Yes.
     |          Is ~fred owned by fred? Yes.
     |          Give control of the message to fred.
     |          Run qmail-local.
     V          
                   
qmail-local fred ~fred fred-sos - sos heaven.af.mil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Mailbox
                   
                Does ~fred/.qmail-sos exist? Yes: "./Extramail".
                Write message to ./Extramail in mbox format.

So user-whatever will be controlled by user. alias (and thus fastforward)
doesn't get a chance to handle it if user doesn't choose to. You'll need to use
qmail-users if you'd like fastforward to handle user-whatever when user exists.

Chris

Hello.

Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for example,
start a pop server:

tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \

tcpserver send me to a command line like this:
>

so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port).

What is worng?

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On 4 Nov 99, at 13:26, Andrés Méndez wrote:

> Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for
> example, start a pop server:
>
> tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \
>
> tcpserver send me to a command line like this:
> >
>
> so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port).
>
> What is worng?

The backslash at the end of the line says "this command shall
continue on the next line" and shell is waiting for you to type in the
second part of the command. You know, that part with
checkpassword and qmail-pop3d...

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You're true.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: Petr Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: tcpserver


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> On 4 Nov 99, at 13:26, Andrés Méndez wrote:
>
> > Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for
> > example, start a pop server:
> >
> > tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \
> >
> > tcpserver send me to a command line like this:
> > >
> >
> > so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port).
> >
> > What is worng?
>
> The backslash at the end of the line says "this command shall
> continue on the next line" and shell is waiting for you to type in the
> second part of the command. You know, that part with
> checkpassword and qmail-pop3d...
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Hello.

I've setup POP3 using tcpserver.

I can send messages to users (previously I created their Maildir). The problem is that inside their Maildir there are three empty directories.

Even if I send a message to a user their Maildir subdirs are empty, strange. So I can't receive their e-mails using POP.

I don't have them in /var/spool/mail as I thought qmail used another type of mail delivering. I've read of making a link to their Maildir in /var/spool/mail, and my questions are:

- where are the e-mails stored (I have the default installation)?

- do I have to create the symlinks in /var/spool/mail?

- what haven't I done right?

Another question: is there a way to create a new user ./Maildir when I execute "adduser ...."?

Could you send me your adduser script please? Any new idea is wellcome :-)

I created their mail dir logging as them and executing:
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail

If I don't do this and send them an e-mail the file Mailbox appears in their
home directory with their e-mails, but when they try to receive them using
POP, the server don't accept their password and answers:
'-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir'

I use qmail-pop3d

Thanks.



----- Original Message -----
From: Cyril Bitterich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s M�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir


> Hi Andr�es,
>
> > I've setup POP3 using tcpserver.
> >
> > I can send messages to users (previously I created their Maildir). The
problem is that inside their Maildir there are three empty directories.
>
> > Even if I send a message to a user their Maildir subdirs are empty,
strange. So I can't receive their e-mails using POP.
>
> What does your log-file for the mails say.
> Something like wrong permissions?
>
> How did you create the Maildir.
>
> Does the user you're trying to send mail to beginn with a capital letter?
>
> > I don't have them in /var/spool/mail as I thought qmail used another
type of mail delivering. I've read of making a link to their Maildir in
/var/spool/mail, and my questions are:
>
>
> > - where are the e-mails stored (I have the default installation)?
>
> ~/Mailbox. if you didn't say qmail to send it to ~/Maildir in
/var/qmail/rc
>
> > - do I have to create the symlinks in /var/spool/mail?
>
> no.
>
> > - what haven't I done right?
>
> Did you read the Life with qmail document?
>
>
> > Another question: is there a way to create a new user ./Maildir when I
execute "adduser ...."?
>
> shell-script. You can have mine if you need one. It's not the best but it
works
> with my distribution.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Cyril
>

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 03:27:23PM +0100, Andr�s M�ndez wrote:
> Could you send me your adduser script please? Any new idea is wellcome :-)
> 
> I created their mail dir logging as them and executing:
> /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
> echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail
       ^^^^^^^^^

        This is what's wrong... if you don't add a slash in the end, it assumes the 
deliver is to be made to a file (in this case, a file named Maildir). It should be 
 echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
        As far as I remember, this is explained in the documentation. Next time, RTFM 
:-)

                                                Regards;
                                                        Ricardo

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That fix doesn't work :-(

----- Original Message -----
From: Mikko H�nninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s M�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir


> Andr�s M�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 04 Nov 1999:
> > echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail
>
> Shouldn't that be:
>
>   echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
>
>
> Mikko
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>

Andr�s M�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>That fix doesn't work :-(

What do your logs say?

-Dave

How do I log POP3 connections?

I'm using tcpserver.

I have logs in /var/log/qmail and /var/log/qmail-smtpd.

Inside /var/log/qmail one of the logs has one of the e-mails that I tried to
send from another machine using the POP3 in my linux:

"
[numbres omitted] status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
bounce msg 184495 qp 674
end msg 184495
new msg 184497
info msg 184497: bytes 2475 from <> qp 674 uid 107
starting delivery 3: msg 184497 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
delivery 3: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
"

Ummmm, it says there's no mailbox, but I created it!

Maybe it doesn't know that the users' home directory is inside
/home/users/*?

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 6:45 PM
Subject: RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir

> Andr�s M�ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >That fix doesn't work :-(
>
> What do your logs say?
>
> -Dave
>

[ I've been in India for the past twelve days, helping rediff.com get
rid of sendmail.  Catching up on old mail. ]

Edward S. Marshall writes:
 > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > Is this of interest to anyone?  Is anyone doing it already?  It's not
 > > a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver
 > > would be.
 > 
 > There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from
 > maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of
 > authentication included in the message to the list?

It would be membership based.  Probably comparing the envelope sender
and site would be sufficiently safe.

 > It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of
 > trust.

The trust could be developed.

 > You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of
 > the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the
 > recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several
 > times.

Yes, probably.

 > Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information
 > more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to
 > an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system
 > (which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and
 > storage/expiration would be centralized.

Supposedly RSS is already doing that.

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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!


Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found
it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking
about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it
may give this development some ideas.

www.brightmail.com

Adelante!!! - Eric


Russell Nelson escribi�:
> 
> [ I've been in India for the past twelve days, helping rediff.com get
> rid of sendmail.  Catching up on old mail. ]
> 
> Edward S. Marshall writes:
>  > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
>  > > Is this of interest to anyone?  Is anyone doing it already?  It's not
>  > > a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver
>  > > would be.
>  >
>  > There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from
>  > maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of
>  > authentication included in the message to the list?
> 
> It would be membership based.  Probably comparing the envelope sender
> and site would be sufficiently safe.
> 
>  > It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of
>  > trust.
> 
> The trust could be developed.
> 
>  > You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of
>  > the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the
>  > recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several
>  > times.
> 
> Yes, probably.
> 
>  > Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information
>  > more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to
>  > an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system
>  > (which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and
>  > storage/expiration would be centralized.
> 
> Supposedly RSS is already doing that.
> 
> --
> -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!

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>Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found
>it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking
>about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it
>may give this development some ideas.

Nope.  Brightmail uses live geeks 24/7 who look at digested mail from
spamtraps and manually update filters.  It's incredibly labor intensive.

The closest automated thing is the MAPS RSS which lists open relays
that send spam.  Many spam traps (including mine) autoforward stuff
for testing and listing.  To prevent spoofing, people who the manager
knows get passwords to put in the submissions that let them bypass his
manual scrutiny.

It works pretty well, blocks a lot of spam for me.




-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, 
Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Can I make mailsubj use a different mail server?

Yes, mailsubj calls qmail-inject, so if you have multiple qmail's
installed, the mailsubj for each will inject into its respective
installation.

-Dave

Does this also mean I can use both to go over 100 Thread limit?

Thank you so much for your help!!!!
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..


> "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >Can I make mailsubj use a different mail server?
> 
> Yes, mailsubj calls qmail-inject, so if you have multiple qmail's
> installed, the mailsubj for each will inject into its respective
> installation.
> 
> -Dave
>

"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Does this also mean I can use both to go over 100 Thread limit?

Sure. Actually, the limit is 125, and you can exceed it by recompiling
after changing the conf-spawn file in the build directory.

>Thank you so much for your help!!!!

You're welcome.

-Dave

Hello list,

I am a newbie, and I musst install qmail as releying. Now, I've read all
install files and the howto (www.qmail.org), but if I start qmail, I get
following message:

alert: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?


I have look with strace, what are the problem, but I haven't any idea.
output of strace:

...
open("control/percenthack", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("control/virtualdomains", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
chdir("queue")                          = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8048b20, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8048b40, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8048b60, [], 0x4000000}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
umask(077)                              = 077
open("lock/sendmutex", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 7
flock(7, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB)               = 0
read(2, "", 1)                          = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Der Kind-Proze� ist beendet) ---
write(0, "alert: cannot start: hath the da"..., 52alert: cannot start:
hath the daemon spawn no fire?
) = 52
_exit(111)                              = ?
...

Can everybody help me? Second question is: is there an german
qmail-list?

Thanks for help...


mfg     stephan
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > 
 > upon running this today, it gave me the followign error:
 > Warning: users/assign checking not implemented.
 > 
 > problem is that I don't know what it means - using the -v flag was no help.

It's just a warning that users/assign overrides /etc/passwd email
delivery, but that qmail-lint doesn't take it into account.  Yet.

-- 
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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!

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my
>qmail 1.03 server.  Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet
>Email agent in Outlook.
>
>...
>
>As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.

Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail
problem.

-Dave

I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used.

"ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running

the inetd.conf file has the following lines...

#
# Pop and imap mail services et al
#
pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop2d
pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop
requests come in.

I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under
supervise instead.

Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping!

Scott Burkhalter

-----Original Message-----
From:   Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my
>qmail 1.03 server.  Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet
>Email agent in Outlook.
>
>...
>
>As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.

Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail
problem.

-Dave

By the way - it's happening right now to my mailbox - I keep getting the
same messages everytime outlook checks for new mail on the server.

If there's any thing I can send along to help troubleshoot just say the word

- Scott

-----Original Message-----
From:   Scott Burkhalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:17 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages

I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used.

"ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running

the inetd.conf file has the following lines...

#
# Pop and imap mail services et al
#
pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop2d
pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop
requests come in.

I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under
supervise instead.

Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping!

Scott Burkhalter

-----Original Message-----
From:   Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my
>qmail 1.03 server.  Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet
>Email agent in Outlook.
>
>...
>
>As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.

Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail
problem.

-Dave

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Scott Burkhalter wrote:

> I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used.
> 
> "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running

It wouldn't, unless you were running the pop3d in standalone mode.

> the inetd.conf file has the following lines...
> 
> #
> # Pop and imap mail services et al
> #
> pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop2d
> pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
> imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd
> 
> which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop
> requests come in.

It leads me to believe that you should check out your tcpwappers config.

> I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under
> supervise instead.
> 
> Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping!

Well, if you're running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver, it'll show up if you

ps ax | grep tcpserv

Or just telnet to port 110. qmail-pop3d looks like this:

Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

qpopper, something like this:

Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.53)

I'm not sure what you have:

Connected to mailserv.entyre.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 mailserv.entyre.com v6.50 server ready
quit
+OK Sayonara

> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
> 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my
> >qmail 1.03 server.  Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet
> >Email agent in Outlook.
> >
> >...
> >
> >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.
> 
> Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail
> problem.
> 
> -Dave
> 
>

Thanks for all your comments.

Once I realized that I was running the ipop3d daemon I realized the error in
my ways.  I never finished converting my system over to qmail when I had set
it up this summer.  I had intended to come back and switch over to maildirs,
but I never did it.

I just converted over to the Maildir format and setup qmail-pop3d under
supervise to provide access for my users.  I'm sure that will eliminate the
problem

Thanks again!

Scott Burkhalter

-----Original Message-----
From:   James Smallacombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:43 PM
To:     Scott Burkhalter
Cc:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Scott Burkhalter wrote:

> I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used.
>
> "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running

It wouldn't, unless you were running the pop3d in standalone mode.

> the inetd.conf file has the following lines...
>
> #
> # Pop and imap mail services et al
> #
> pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop2d
> pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  ipop3d
> imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd
>
> which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop
> requests come in.

It leads me to believe that you should check out your tcpwappers config.

> I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under
> supervise instead.
>
> Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping!

Well, if you're running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver, it'll show up if you

ps ax | grep tcpserv

Or just telnet to port 110. qmail-pop3d looks like this:

Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

qpopper, something like this:

Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 2.53)

I'm not sure what you have:

Connected to mailserv.entyre.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 mailserv.entyre.com v6.50 server ready
quit
+OK Sayonara

> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from
my
> >qmail 1.03 server.  Their Outlook clients access qmail through the
Internet
> >Email agent in Outlook.
> >
> >...
> >
> >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.
>
> Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail
> problem.
>
> -Dave
>
>

Michael Boman writes:
 > Oh, sorry. The correct URL is
 > http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail.en.html
 > Can someone notify the maintainer of www.qmail.org and ask him to include
 > the page? You can found this link on the mySQL.com homepage.

Done.

-- 
-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!

Eric Dahnke writes:
 > 
 > Hello.
 > 
 > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related
 > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > maildir'd version of Pine.

Hehe.  Good choice.  :)

While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a
scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt.  The
"departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted.
They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS
messages, from all the way across the room.  One was still booting, so
I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver.
Cheap thrills ensured.

-- 
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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!

Thanks for the input on this question. I know that Pine needs to be patched to
work with Maildir; how does one do this to the DOS variety of PINE?
BD

Russell Nelson wrote:

> Eric Dahnke writes:
>  >
>  > Hello.
>  >
>  > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related
>  > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  > maildir'd version of Pine.
>
> Hehe.  Good choice.  :)
>
> While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a
> scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt.  The
> "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted.
> They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS
> messages, from all the way across the room.  One was still booting, so
> I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver.
> Cheap thrills ensured.
>
> --
> -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!

>>packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a
 > maildir'd version of Pine.

Previous-post brainlock time: Eric, just to be clear on this, you're telnetting
to the qmail host and running PINE from there, right? (As opposed to running a
DOS version of PINE on the PC).
Barry

Russell Nelson wrote:

> Eric Dahnke writes:
>  >
>  > Hello.
>  >
>  > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related
>  > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  > maildir'd version of Pine.
>
> Hehe.  Good choice.  :)
>
> While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a
> scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt.  The
> "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted.
> They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS
> messages, from all the way across the room.  One was still booting, so
> I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver.
> Cheap thrills ensured.
>
> --
> -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,

The pine software runs on the server, you just install a packet driver
(see www.Crynwr.com) and IP telnet client (find NCSA Telnet) on the DOS
machines. No mail software runs on them under this scenario. You run the
mail software remotely, via telnet.

I don't remember where I got it, but the following rpm, will instantly
update your version of pine to maildir. Do a search for it.

    pine-4_02-maildir-glibc_i386.rpm


Tah, eric



Barry Dwyer escribi�:
> 
> Thanks for the input on this question. I know that Pine needs to be patched to
> work with Maildir; how does one do this to the DOS variety of PINE?
> BD
> 
> Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Eric Dahnke writes:
> >  >
> >  > Hello.
> >  >
> >  > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related
> >  > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a
> >                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >  > maildir'd version of Pine.
> >
> > Hehe.  Good choice.  :)
> >
> > While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a
> > scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt.  The
> > "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted.
> > They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS
> > messages, from all the way across the room.  One was still booting, so
> > I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver.
> > Cheap thrills ensured.
> >
> > --
> > -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!

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:53:42AM +0800, Michael Boman wrote:
> I am using QMail 1.03 with the mySQL patch and I have following question
> about relaying:
> 
> 1) I want that everyone who is sending e-mail thru our SMTP server with the
> 'FROM:' set to <anything>.foo.bar where <anything> is what it says:
> anything.

What? 

You MAY find your answer here:

http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
 
> 2) I want enable everyone on the internal network send mail freely, eg use
> any 'FROM:' they like (so everyone who is accessing the server from example
> 192.168.5.x network is allowed to send mail thru out SMTP gateway).

take a look at ucspi-rcp:

http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#ucspi-tcp
 
> 3) Is it possible to make QMail look into the blackhole list over known
> spammers? (I know that sendmail let you do this) I'd like to keep the server
> as spamfree as possible.

take a look at rblsmtpd:

http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#rblsmtpd

/magnus

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Hello List,

A default qmail/tcpserver installation can do incoming and outgoing
concurrency of about 255 each, no?

How does this compare to the default configs of the best (or better)
known e-mail servers like sendmail, Post.Office, Postfix, NTmail,
Exchange, Netscape's mail server, etc...


Anyone?

Not to drag a topic on - but I have a few questions about engineering
a Hotmail type of mail solution: I've looked into sqwebmail by Inter7,
but would like to get more input on the following issues:

1. Is anyone using such as system with Vpop users and NOT system accounts?
   I can't imagine giving out 100,000 system accounts.  Does your solution 
   implement Ldap to point to various servers?
2. What types of subscription methods do you implement for automated sign-up?
   Just cgi type wrappers around the commands?
3. How does each user administer their own mailing lists (if they are offered)?
   For instance, specific users will be able to setup open list-servs - and
   that looks like a bit more work unless we direct them to the qmailadmin 
   package, correct?

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

eric wrote:
> 
> Not to drag a topic on - but I have a few questions about engineering
> a Hotmail type of mail solution: I've looked into sqwebmail by Inter7,
> but would like to get more input on the following issues:
> 
> 1. Is anyone using such as system with Vpop users and NOT system accounts?
>    I can't imagine giving out 100,000 system accounts.  Does your solution
>    implement Ldap to point to various servers?
> 2. What types of subscription methods do you implement for automated sign-up?
>    Just cgi type wrappers around the commands?
> 3. How does each user administer their own mailing lists (if they are offered)?
>    For instance, specific users will be able to setup open list-servs - and
>    that looks like a bit more work unless we direct them to the qmailadmin
>    package, correct?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.

1) We have modified vpopmail to work with mysql and support large
numbers
   of accounts, at least 500,000. We haven't integrated it into
sqwebmail,
   but it's next on the list.

2) There is a vadduser command line that can be called from perl or
   c program. We have a sample in c.

3) no idea

Ken Jones
Inter7

PS: the web interface is written by Sam Varshavchik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Inter7 just hosts his software.

Does qmail-pop3d allow the use of ./Mailbox instead of ./Maildir/ ?

If it only supports ./Maildir/, is there another POP3 daemon better than qpopper?

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a 
scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't 
find yet. What do you people recommend ?

Thanks in advance,

Giancarlo


Mailsubj


man mailsubj


- Saludos

Giancarlo Bonansea escribi�:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a 
>scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't 
>find yet. What do you people recommend ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Giancarlo

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Sending an attachment as you do requires something more sophisticated than
mailsubj. I'd use mutt - darn near the best mailer money can't buy!!!

http://www.mutt.org/


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sendmail, with MIME::Base64, is a good choice, too.

Fabrice

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jason Haar wrote:

> Sending an attachment as you do requires something more sophisticated than
> mailsubj. I'd use mutt - darn near the best mailer money can't buy!!!
> 
> http://www.mutt.org/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> 
> Jason Haar
> 
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
>      
> 
> 
>

(Dang Eudora... CTRL-E means "send it now"... Anyone know how to disable
this "feature" ??? :-/   Sorry, Giancarlo for the noise...)

Rumor has it that Giancarlo Bonansea may have mentioned these words:

>I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file
on a scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for
one but I didn't find yet. What do you people recommend ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you want to send an automated attachment every
X hours or days, right? 

If you don't want any text in the message (just the attachment), just set
up a small perl/shell program with something like this in it:

system "uuencode filetosend filetosend | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
[EMAIL PROTECTED]";

(of course, if it's a shell script or directly in the crontab, get rid of
the system"..."; stuff. :-)

Most everything I know of understands uuencoding... That is, of course, if
I understand the question correctly.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

OK, finally it seems to work.

Finally I learned that qmail-pop3d only works with Maildir.

I had to change /var/qmail/rc to Maildir.

Now I can send and receive e-mails, and which was my main fault?

********** WU-FTPD **********

My /etc/passwd file had the user's directory hacked to contain a /./ to make wu-ftpd chroot that directory, and qmail didn't like it.

Now I don't know if I have to fix qmail to accept that /./ or fix wu-ftpd to use another passwd file :-?

PD: sending an e-mail to root doesn't work yet, really strange because it thinks that root's e-mail is in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir. Why?

qmail doesn't deliver mail to root to prevend suid running code...

----- Original Message -----
From: Andr�s
To: QMail
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 11:49 PM
Subject: Finally it works (except for root)- add this to a FAQ or whatever

OK, finally it seems to work.

Finally I learned that qmail-pop3d only works with Maildir.

I had to change /var/qmail/rc to Maildir.

Now I can send and receive e-mails, and which was my main fault?

********** WU-FTPD **********

My /etc/passwd file had the user's directory hacked to contain a /./ to make
wu-ftpd chroot that directory, and qmail didn't like it.

Now I don't know if I have to fix qmail to accept that /./ or fix wu-ftpd to
use another passwd file :-?

PD: sending an e-mail to root doesn't work yet, really strange because it
thinks that root's e-mail is in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir. Why?

I will be converting our NTMail installation to qmail.  Does anyone know if
there is a way to extract passwords in plain text from NTMail?

Thanks,

Ted

I've done

>echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root

When I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it answers:

from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: failure notice
data: This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line (#5.4.6)



Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:05 AM
Subject: RE: Finally it works (except for root)- add this to a FAQ or
whatever


> On 11/5/99 at 12:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr�s) had the thought:
>
> > Nothing, it has 0 bytes.
> >
> >
> > > > PD: sending an e-mail to root doesn't work yet, really strange
because
> > it thinks
> > > > that root's e-mail is in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir. Why?
> > >
> > > what does /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root say?
> >
>
> qmail doesn't do root delivery.  You need to put who you want to get root
mail in the .qmail-root
> file.  Generally it's the regular user who is the admin.  But you can put
it in ~alias/Maildir if
> your put &alias in the .qmail-root file.  I would suggest putting your own
user name in the file.
>
> echo &amendez > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
>
> Pat
> --
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>
>
>


On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> I've done
> 
>>echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
> 
> When I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it answers:
> 
> from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> subject: failure notice
> data: This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line (#5.4.6)

qmail doesn't deliver to root, it delivers to whatever .qmail-root tells it
to.  You're telling it to deliver to itself which will loop.  Get &root out
of .qmail-root and put a valid delivery instruction in it - either a different
user or a mailbox/maildir.

> Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail.

Been working for me on a number of systems for years.  What doesn't work?

Vince.
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Sorry, I must sound stupid but this really doesn't work.

If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root,
so I put &root inside .qmail-root.

But qmail sends it to root, so first checks the config and sees that
.qmail-root oblies it to be send to &root, and so on -> loop

Is it possible that root, someday, will receive a mail? Because it doesn't
accept &[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-(

I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail",
why?

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: E-mail that loops


> On 11/5/99 at 1:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr�s) had the thought:
>
> > I've done
> >
> > >echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
>
> Hey man,
>
> qmail will not deliver to root.  All mail to root must go to someone else.
>
> If you want it delivered to /var/qmail/alias/Maildir do this:
>     echo &alias > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
> If you want it delivered to a regular user such as you do this:
>     echo &amendez > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
>
> Who ever you put in the .qmail-root file must be a user on the system or
else you will have to use a
> the whole email address like this:
>     echo &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
>
> Sound okay?
>
> Pat
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>
>
>

If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a
chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory

----- Original Message -----
From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:36 AM
Subject: RE: E-mail that loops


> > Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail.
>
> Been working for me on a number of systems for years.  What doesn't work?
>
> Vince.
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>
>


On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> Sorry, I must sound stupid but this really doesn't work.
> 
> If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root,
> so I put &root inside .qmail-root.
> 
> But qmail sends it to root, so first checks the config and sees that
> .qmail-root oblies it to be send to &root, and so on -> loop
> 
> Is it possible that root, someday, will receive a mail? Because it doesn't
> accept &[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-(
> 
> I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail",
> why?

For security reasons nothing in qmail runs as UID 0.  In order to deliver
to root, qmail would have to suid root.  It'll take time, but you'll get
used to not working as root. 

Vince.
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Really paranoid.

So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in
/var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir).

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:57 AM
Subject: RE: E-mail that loops


> On 11/5/99 at 1:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr�s) had the thought:
>
>
> >
> > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives
mail",
> > why?
> >
>
> I belive that the delivery system is designed such that it can't become
root.  When it delivers mail
> to the user, it does so as that user.  Programs that can become root are a
security risk.
>
> Pat
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>
>
>

Now I understand why qmail is so secure :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 2:00 AM
Subject: RE: E-mail that loops


> For security reasons nothing in qmail runs as UID 0.  In order to deliver
> to root, qmail would have to suid root.  It'll take time, but you'll get
> used to not working as root.
>
> Vince.

On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a
> chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory

Where in the user's directory are you putting the /./ ?

BTW, I don't know if ProFTPd has its bugs fixed (haven't been following
it) but it will get you past the /./ and the need for a bin dir for ls.
If you want you can even chroot the users to their public_html directory.

Vince.
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On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> Really paranoid.
> 
> So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in
> /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir).

You still can if you create a maildir for ~alias.

Vince.
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user:*:500:500:/home/users/user/./:::/bin/ftponly
                                                """"

wu-ftp has cookies to show the amount of quota used by the user, does
ProFtpd has it too?

----- Original Message -----
From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 2:10 AM
Subject: RE: E-mail that loops


>
> On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> > If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a
> > chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory
>
> Where in the user's directory are you putting the /./ ?
>
> BTW, I don't know if ProFTPd has its bugs fixed (haven't been following
> it) but it will get you past the /./ and the need for a bin dir for ls.
> If you want you can even chroot the users to their public_html directory.
>
> Vince.
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>


On 05-Nov-99 Andr�s wrote:
> user:*:500:500:/home/users/user/./:::/bin/ftponly
>                                                 """"
> 
> wu-ftp has cookies to show the amount of quota used by the user, does
> ProFtpd has it too?

Dunno that much about it.  But I also didn't know that wu-ftpd did that.

Vince.
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On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:52:02AM +0100, Andr�s wrote:
> If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root,
> so I put &root inside .qmail-root.

&root tells qmail to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is handled by ~alias/.qmail-root.
So it is obvious that you have a loop.

echo '&user_who_acts_as_root' > ~alias/.qmail-root

If you have more than one user who acts as root simply do

echo '&user1' > ~alias/.qmail-root
echo '&user2' >> ~alias/.qmail-root
echo '&user3' >> ~alias/.qmail-root
echo '&user4' >> ~alias/.qmail-root

and mail will be delivered to all of them.

> I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail",
> why?

For security reasons. Local delivery is never done with root permission.

        \Maex

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On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:11:44PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On 05-Nov-99 Andr?s wrote:
> > Really paranoid.
> > 
> > So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in
> > /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir).
> 
> You still can if you create a maildir for ~alias.

And this is not paranoid, because it is delivered as user "alias"
and not "root".

Unix is not WindowsXX. You don't have to work as "root" to get work
done - even some sysadmin tasks. I almost never login as root - besides
from the console for upgrades - and I surely never read mails as root.

        \Maex

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If receiving emails as root is so important to you, do
chgrp qmail /root/Mailbox
chmod g+w /root/Mailbox

Fabrice

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Andr�s wrote:

> Really paranoid.
> 
> So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in
> /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir).
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andr�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:57 AM
> Subject: RE: E-mail that loops
> 
> 
> > On 11/5/99 at 1:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr�s) had the thought:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives
> mail",
> > > why?
> > >
> >
> > I belive that the delivery system is designed such that it can't become
> root.  When it delivers mail
> > to the user, it does so as that user.  Programs that can become root are a
> security risk.
> >
> > Pat
> > --
> > Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>

OK, now it's Pine time. I need to run Pine with qmail.But: Pine 3.96
won't compile on Caldera 2.2 (col 2.2.5), exiting with a ton of various
compiler errors. That means I can't get the patch referenced in the
qmail HOWTO (c-client.maildir.module.tar.gz) to work (it is written for
3.96).

The qmail-patched rpm (pine-4.04-1.i386.rpm) won't install, grumbling
about a missing dependancy (libtermcap.so.2). I've searched
unsuccessfully for this libtermcap but, even if I could find it, I
suspect (given the age of pine 3.96) that it would be older than the
current termcap libs installed with the 2.25 kernel.

Finally, I can't find the Pine patch suggested by ED earlier:
pine-4.02-maildir-glibc.i386.rpm

I thought only Microsoft make vaporware :) Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Barry

Barry Dwyer writes:

> Finally, I can't find the Pine patch suggested by ED earlier:
> pine-4.02-maildir-glibc.i386.rpm
> 
> I thought only Microsoft make vaporware :) Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.

Try my IMAP client -- http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/.  No need to patch
Pine.

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I have setup qmail 1-03 on Red Hat 6.0 and I have done all the additional needs. Now I can receive mails to the mailbox and also send. But now in my client (outlook or netscape) I need to receive the mail. So I add the POP3 server and the SMTP server but I do not receive the mail at my client side.

I have put up the start up script for SMTP in the /etc/inetd.conf file but I have a line called POP-3 in the same script. Even after I removed the remark statement it seems that my client is unable to receive the mail. What settings should I setup in the server.

I am also using uucspi-tcp and I have installed uucsp-tcp also in my qmail server. But now I need to know why I am unable to receive my mails at the client end pulling it out from the mail server.

my client side set up is

POP3 - pop3.xxx.com.sg (pop3 is my hostname of the qmail server)

SMTP - pop3. xxx.com.sg (SMTP)

so could u kindly let me know where I could have gone wrong.

Thanks & Regards

John Francis

Check if your machine has the ports 25 and 110 opened, with a port-scanner, to be sure that the daemons are listening.

----- Original Message -----

From: john

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 5:49 AM

Subject: Qmail POP3 & SMTP problem

I have setup qmail 1-03 on Red Hat 6.0 and I have done all the additional needs. Now I can receive mails to the mailbox and also send. But now in my client (outlook or netscape) I need to receive the mail. So I add the POP3 server and the SMTP server but I do not receive the mail at my client side.

I have put up the start up script for SMTP in the /etc/inetd.conf file but I have a line called POP-3 in the same script. Even after I removed the remark statement it seems that my client is unable to receive the mail. What settings should I setup in the server.

I am also using uucspi-tcp and I have installed uucsp-tcp also in my qmail server. But now I need to know why I am unable to receive my mails at the client end pulling it out from the mail server.

my client side set up is

POP3 - pop3.xxx.com.sg (pop3 is my hostname of the qmail server)

SMTP - pop3. xxx.com.sg (SMTP)

so could u kindly let me know where I could have gone wrong.

Thanks & Regards

John Francis

I would prefer using `netstat -an | grep LISTEN` instead...

Regards

Michael Boman

-----Original Message-----
From: Andr�s M�ndez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 05 November, 1999 5:23 PM
To: QMail
Subject: RE: Qmail POP3 & SMTP problem

Check if your machine has the ports 25 and 110 opened, with a port-scanner, to be sure that the daemons are listening.

----- Original Message -----

From: john

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 5:49 AM

Subject: Qmail POP3 & SMTP problem

I have setup qmail 1-03 on Red Hat 6.0 and I have done all the additional needs. Now I can receive mails to the mailbox and also send. But now in my client (outlook or netscape) I need to receive the mail. So I add the POP3 server and the SMTP server but I do not receive the mail at my client side.

I have put up the start up script for SMTP in the /etc/inetd.conf file but I have a line called POP-3 in the same script. Even after I removed the remark statement it seems that my client is unable to receive the mail. What settings should I setup in the server.

I am also using uucspi-tcp and I have installed uucsp-tcp also in my qmail server. But now I need to know why I am unable to receive my mails at the client end pulling it out from the mail server.

my client side set up is

POP3 - pop3.xxx.com.sg (pop3 is my hostname of the qmail server)

SMTP - pop3. xxx.com.sg (SMTP)

so could u kindly let me know where I could have gone wrong.

Thanks & Regards

John Francis

I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found.

Could anyone let me know what could have gone wrong

Thanks & Regards

John

Hi.

I was about to email the list in a panic about a problem that I though was qmail 
related.  I've been
subjected to a lack of sleep as of late so my powers of observation seem to be a 
little below
average right now.  I couldn't figure out why qmail stopped relaying mail.  I check 
everything.  I
restarted everything.  I searched the archive up and down.  I check the Programming 
Internet Email
book desperate for clues.  

Then I actually took 2 seconds to look at the response I was getting from smtp...and 
it was
sendmail.  Shivers start to go down my spine.  What the hell was going on here?

Turns out someone had restarted the box and before they did modified the 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
file to start up again.  A handy exit 0 had been placed there before...

Anyway, killed sendmail (and fixed it's start up script again), started up qmail again 
and every
thing was fixed.

I'm alone at the office, it's late, I'm seeing things and I just had to tell someone...

Sorry about that...

Pat
--
Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610

Hi,

I downloaded the qmail start up script from the http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script.txt site and I did accordingly to the steps given by Life with Qmail by Dave Sill. But my qmail does not seem to start automatically. It has problem starting and I used to start qmail manually using the command

csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' command

Last time this command used to work fine but even now it starts the PID but the next line immediately I get an error message saying File not found.

I need to start the qmail automatically.

Also I need more information on how to setup web based email with qmail. Anyone who has done this kindly let me know.

Thanks & Regards

John



> I downloaded the qmail start up script from the 
>http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script.txt site and I did accordingly to the 
>steps given by Life with Qmail by Dave Sill. But my qmail does not seem to start 
>automatically. It has problem starting and I used to start qmail manually using the 
>command
> 
> csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' command
> 
> Last time this command used to work fine but even now it starts the PID but the next 
>line immediately I get an error message saying File not found.

i think the above line should be:

csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc command &'

thus, csh will run the rc script in the backlground with the parameter 
"command".

the command You wrote executes the rc script in csh and the command called
"command" separately.

> Also I need more information on how to setup web based email with qmail. Anyone who 
>has done this kindly let me know.

dunno but this was discussed in the list before. maybe You can check the
archive of the list...


good luck and love, peace and the other good stuff
dd


PS: Blair Witch Project really rulez <;]

Hi all,

I've got a domain.de with subdomains, virtual users etc.
Everything works fine with qmail-1.03.

Now I need a helping hand. I want to treat "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
only
locally, so that he can get receive mail from all of @domain.de as well
as the rest of the universe, but sending should be only be possible into

@domain.de but to the rest. Is that possible in principle or not, I
could not
find any hint in faq's or man-pages.

Tnx in reply

Michael

Hi,

I installed ucspi-tcp and i tried replacing smtp with tcpserver

so I added tcpserver -v -u 500 -g 500 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>$1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &

i saved the file and rebooted

now I don't seem to be receiving any mails with tcpserver.

Help pls

John


> 
> I installed ucspi-tcp and i tried replacing smtp with tcpserver
> 
> so I added tcpserver -v -u 500 -g 500 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 2>$1 | 
>/var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> 
> i saved the file and rebooted 
> 
> now I don't seem to be receiving any mails with tcpserver.

You don't need to use the backslash there. and if You do, You should write
the rest of the command to the second line. this may be the problem

and, You also don't need to reboot. just HUP the process, ie. do a 

kill -HUP <pid_of_the_process>

in order to find out the PID You can use the "pidof" command...


love and peace and stuff,
dd

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