Hi there;
I'm setting up qmail on a machine to forward mail for my kcsu.org.uk
domain. It's intended to provide vanity addresses / mailing lists / other
email facilities to members of my college. The people hosting the domain
forward all the mail for the domain to a single POP3 mailbox which gets
collected every few minutes by fetchmail in multidrop mode.
Inside my /var/qmail/alias folder is the master list of aliases (because
99% of people will only want their mail forwarding). For a test case I
set up a file called .qmail-the:wonderful:wizard:of:oz containing the
single line `&[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (i.e. me at an
obviously traceable address).
What happens is that I send the mail to the @kcsu.org.uk address, it gets
sent to the ISP hosting my domain, the box in college picks it up, and
then I receive it maybe 0.5-2 hours later. The full headers of my test
email are printed below, with the curious delay marked in square brackets:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- (start)
Received: (qmail 4988 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 19:30:07 -0000
Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
by localhost with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 19:30:07 -0000
Received: from pop3.demon.co.uk
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.1)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (multi-drop); Thu,
24 Feb 2000 19:30:07 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] id
951420104:10:28033:5;
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:21:44 GMT
Received: from puce.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.40]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net
id aa1120002; 24 Feb 2000 19:21 GMT
Received: from kcsu.kings.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.198.161] ident=qmailr)
by puce.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #1)
id 12O3nl-00057d-00
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:19:53 +0000
[ --- why the delay here? --- ]
Received: (qmail 990 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2000 18:54:52 -0000
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: (qmail 932 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 18:40:06 -0000
Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
by localhost with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 18:40:06 -0000
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from mail.ukservers.net
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.2.3)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (multi-drop); Thu,
24 Feb 2000 18:40:06 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from pringle.oaktree.co.uk (pringle.oaktree.co.uk [193.82.129.28])
by mail.ukservers.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAADD754
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu,
24 Feb 2000 18:36:55 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
[131.111.198.242])
by pringle.oaktree.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA00714
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:32:56 GMT
Received: (qmail 4670 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 2000 18:35:58 -0000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:35:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matthew Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Testing number 2
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
X-UIDL: !Ye!!;YFe9(9+!!5V$e9
at 1835ish
--------------------------------------- (end)
Surely there should be no delay in simply forwarding a message on once
fetchmail has delivered it? To add to the mystery, during this delay, I
can see the bodies of the delayed test messages (however many there are)
inside queue/mess but no control information anywhere else. qmail-qread
shows up that nothing is queued, but the messages still get forwarded
after the mysterious delay.
NB to people who might suggest it: receiving the mail directly on my box
in college is pretty much impossible-- our college computer authorities
have a list of machines to which incoming SMTP connections are allowed,
and it'll be a cold day in hell before a student-run box gets onto the
list. Hence I have to have an ISP receive mail for me.
I've set up qmail on my home machine manually without such troubles,
though the setup on the kcsu.org.uk box was done using the Debian
qmail-build program (or whatever it's called). I assume it's trustworthy
etc. and I've compared its configuration to my (roughly similar) box at
home but in such odd circumstances I'd suspect everything.
Has anyone got any idea, then?
--
Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
