On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Robert Holder wrote:
> OK. I downloaded and installed qmail, ucspi-tcp and daemontools. I've read
> through about 70% of the documentation, and search the web for tips and
> help. qmail appears to be running, and it appears to be queuing messages
> but it won't deliver them. I've tried to figure it out, but I'm stuck. I
> appreciate that people with normal intelligence can figure this out, but I
> just can't seem to, and I was supposed to have this done a week ago, and I
> have a lot of other things that I'm supposed to be doing, and this is my
> third week on the job and etc. etc. etc.
There are actually alot more good docs than there used to be. See the
"user documentation" portion of the www.qmail.org site for some good links
> I wanted to use tcpserver, but I'm having trouble understanding how to use
> it. I can't figure out how to generate smtprules.cdb. I can't seem to find
> the smtprules(5) man page... We have another machine here that is running
Try "tcprules" instead :) In a nutshell, you create the text file
"/etc/tcp.smtp and convert it to cdb format like this:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < \
/etc/tcp.smtp && echo ".cdb file updated" || echo "WARNING: .cdb file \
not updated"
If you're running qmail under tcpserver, take it out of inetd. It's one
or the other, with the former being the better way to go.
Once you get that straightened out, look at your maillog/syslog and you'll
get some ideas about what's going on.
> qmail and is working happily, but qmail is not setup on that machine
> anything like the way it says to set it up in the docs I've read (it was
> setup by the unix guy before me). This machine is supposed to forward
> messages that come in to host xxxxx.net as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and send them
> on to his AOL account or whatever, using a big aliases file. I installed
> fastforward, and was able to get the newaliases to run after I cleaned out
> some badly formed addresses. I've tried sending mail to a test address in
> the aliases file that looks like:
>
> zzz123: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ...but it doesn't deliver the message. I can see the messages in the queue,
> but they just sit there. I've also tried just sending mail to
> root@localhost and rholder@localhost, but they just get added to the queue,
> and don't get delivered.
>
> i can telnet to port 25, send mail that way, but it just goes in the queue.
> I'm guessing that qmail-send isn't configured right, or smtprules.cdb (which
> i don't have) is causing the problem or... ugh... i'm just overwhelmed. i'm
> sure that i've just made some dumb mistakes, but my boss will be back
> tomorrow and... you know the rest.
>
> If anybody out there would take pity on a poor dumb unix guy who's just
> trying to pay off his credit cards, I would be SOOOOOO grateful!!! :) Any
> help at all would be appreciated!
>
> Robert Holder
>
> Here is some info:
>
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
> 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> 192.168.6.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> :allow
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# ./qmail restart
> Restarting qmail:
> * Stopping qmail-smtpd.
> * Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting.
> * Restarting qmail-smtpd.
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# qmail-qstat
> messages in queue: 8
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# ps -ef | grep qmail
> root 8761 8760 0 19:38 pts/1 00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> root 8763 8760 0 19:38 pts/1 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
> qmaill 8766 8764 0 19:38 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> /var/l
> qmaill 8768 8762 0 19:38 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t
> /var/l
> qmails 9581 8761 0 19:41 pts/1 00:00:00 qmail-send
> qmaill 9584 9581 0 19:41 pts/1 00:00:00 splogger qmail
> root 9585 9581 0 19:41 pts/1 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward
> .forwa
> qmailr 9586 9581 0 19:41 pts/1 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> qmailq 9587 9581 0 19:41 pts/1 00:00:00 qmail-clean
> root 9706 3816 0 19:42 pts/1 00:00:00 grep qmail
>
>
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# grep smtp /etc/inetd.conf
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
>
> [root@xxxxxmail init.d]# qmail-showctl
> qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
> user-ext delimiter: -.
> paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> silent concurrency limit: 120.
> subdirectory split: 23.
> user ids: 510, 511, 512, 0, 513, 514, 515, 516.
> group ids: 501, 502.
>
> badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
>
> bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
>
> bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
>
> concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
>
> databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
>
> defaultdomain: Default domain name is xxxxx.net.
>
> defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
>
> envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> locals:
> Messages for xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net are delivered locally.
> Messages for xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net are delivered locally.
>
> me: My name is xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
>
> plusdomain: Plus domain name is xxxxx.net.
>
> qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
>
> queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
>
> rcpthosts:
> SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
> SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
>
> morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
>
> smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 xxxxxmail.xxxxx.net.
>
> smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
>
> timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.
>
> defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.
>
>
>
>
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am
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