qmail Digest 28 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1046

Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:58:23 -0700 


qmail Digest 28 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1046

Topics (messages 43716 through 43801):

tcpserver missing
        43716 by: Fat Toolz

imap
        43717 by: Kimberly Vher
        43762 by: Dave Sill

qmail-ldap
        43718 by: Nguyen Hong Son
        43720 by: Fat Toolz
        43784 by: Nguyen Hong Son
        43788 by: Ricardo Cerqueira

multilog
        43719 by: Yuliy Minchev
        43723 by: Steffan Hoeke

an error compiling checkpassword-0.81
        43721 by: yair linux

Is identd required ? [ possibly off topic ]
        43722 by: Greg Cope
        43724 by: Rogue Eagle

Qmail on HP
        43725 by: Balaji Hare Ram Balaji
        43728 by: Giles Lean

Not an unfortunate confluence of interfaces
        43726 by: Russell Nelson
        43751 by: clemensF

Very long mail queue.... help a newbie !!!
        43727 by: Devinder
        43745 by: Russell Nelson
        43785 by: Marc-Adrian Napoli

qmail-lspawn to qmail-local strangeness
        43729 by: Ben Giddings
        43763 by: Dave Sill
        43790 by: clemensF
        43791 by: Ben Giddings
        43794 by: Adam McKenna

SqWebMail
        43730 by: Sylwester S. Biernacki

ezmlm no creating mailing lists
        43731 by: Kathleen Farber

netscape
        43732 by: steffen.ramyam.net
        43734 by: steffen.ramyam.net

parse msg-log
        43733 by: Jonathan Fortin

starting qmail w errors
        43735 by: Fat Toolz
        43736 by: Fat Toolz

cyclog and multilog
        43737 by: Clifford Thurber
        43765 by: Dave Sill

Planning an Install and need Help.
        43738 by: Tony Campisi
        43761 by: Dave Sill
        43770 by: Tony Campisi
        43775 by: Dave Sill

bouncing unknown addresses
        43739 by: Eric Long
        43740 by: Bruno Wolff III
        43741 by: Eric Long
        43743 by: Bruno Wolff III
        43744 by: Eric Long
        43746 by: Hubbard, David

mail relaying client
        43742 by: John Steniger
        43759 by: Dave Sill

Perhaps one of the silliest questions....
        43747 by: Fat Toolz

Re: Perhaps and even sillier silliest questions....
        43748 by: John van V.
        43749 by: Fat Toolz

Re: alert: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?
        43750 by: Chris Garrigues

Messages in Queue, but not sent
        43752 by: Fat Toolz
        43754 by: Dave Sill
        43768 by: clemensF

authentication with vchkpw
        43753 by: Alexey Bolfaine
        43781 by: Sylwester S. Biernacki

vchkpw:  No user found error
        43755 by: Kathleen Farber
        43756 by: Kathleen Farber
        43780 by: Sylwester S. Biernacki

vchkpw:  No user found
        43757 by: Kathleen Farber

autoresponder problems
        43758 by: Kathleen Farber

Problems with my email address???
        43760 by: terius

limit to RCPT TO
        43764 by: Marcilio Jorgensen Cassella

Re: Mail Server for ISP
        43766 by: Dave Sill

Re: Email logging
        43767 by: Dave Sill

Re: ? ? ? confused trying to use pop3d
        43769 by: Dave Sill

Problems with my email address and the list...
        43771 by: terius
        43772 by: Steffan Hoeke

Re: End-user controllable fastforward style aliasing?
        43773 by: Dave Sill

defaulthost, but not defaulthost...
        43774 by: Ben Beuchler
        43776 by: Mark Mentovai

ETRN and M$-exchange
        43777 by: Alexander Jernejcic

NetApp-like-device for $3000??
        43778 by: Andrew Richards

Re: Return-Path header set by qmail?
        43779 by: wolfgang zeikat

[NEWBIE] user/assign case insensitivity
        43782 by: Jeremy Stanley

nmh and qmail
        43783 by: Courtney Eckhardt

sub domains
        43786 by: kevin.oceania.net
        43789 by: Magnus Bodin

Re: large batch mailings with qmail
        43787 by: Thomas Duterme
        43800 by: Greg Cope

Suggestion...
        43792 by: Snowcrash
        43795 by: Steffan Hoeke

Building very large Qmail instalations...
        43793 by: Greg Moeller

qmail-smtp and relaying
        43796 by: kevin.oceania.net

virtusertable
        43797 by: Kimberly Vher
        43798 by: Magnus Bodin

qmail loses my users
        43799 by: Sean Craig

blocking aliases
        43801 by: RajKumar S.

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I just tried to reinstall my complete qmail to get a better overview about how things get done. So I just took the rpms as described in europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/Qmail-VmailMgr-Courier-imap-HOWTO.php3
 
I'm using RH 6.2. After compiling the qmail-1.03+patches-14.src.rpm the installation gives a
 
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.11052: tcprules: command not found
'Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-rmp.11052 (%install)'
 
 
Can you please tell me where to find the tcpserver?
 
Thanks.
 
Stef
 

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Stefan R�der
Junior System Analyst
 
 




i already have pop-3 in qmail
how can i setup imap in qmail?


thanks




Kimberly Vher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>i already have pop-3 in qmail
>how can i setup imap in qmail?

Install an IMAP daemon. If you're using Maildir mailboxes, try
courier-imap. (See www.qmail.org.)

-Dave



Hi all
I send many messages to qmail-ldap mailing list but I've got answer, so I 
have to post to qmail mailing list for helping. My question is :
I used qmail-1.03, spWebMail, OpenLdap and they work well together, but I 
've just add qmail-ldap and recompile and reinstall qmail, after  that when 
use MUA to connect qmail-pop3, I 've got notice : user doesn't have 
$HOME/Maildir
I thank very much for every feedback


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Hi,

just log in as [user] and type
./maildirmake $HOME/Maildir

That should fit.

regards

Stef
----- Original Message -----
From: Nguyen Hong Son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:41 PM
Subject: qmail-ldap


> Hi all
> I send many messages to qmail-ldap mailing list but I've got answer, so I
> have to post to qmail mailing list for helping. My question is :
> I used qmail-1.03, spWebMail, OpenLdap and they work well together, but I
> 've just add qmail-ldap and recompile and reinstall qmail, after  that
when
> use MUA to connect qmail-pop3, I 've got notice : user doesn't have
> $HOME/Maildir
> I thank very much for every feedback
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
>




Hi all
First I thank Stef for helping me, but following that , I couldn't figure 
out my problem, before patching qmail-ldap, $HOME/Maildir were created by 
that user (su user, maildirmake ~/Maildir) after patching qmail-ldap :
_qmail_smtpd reject delivering to $HOME/Maildir (unable to open 
$HOME/Maildir)
_ qmail-pop3d reject receiving from $HOME/Maildir : this username doesn't 
have $HOME/Maildir

I used qmail with tcpserver, daemontool (supervise), and openLdap

messageStore = $HOME/Maildir/
May be i create #HOME/Maildir again ?

Thanks a lot


>just log in as [user] and type
>./maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
>
>That should fit.
>
>regards
>
>Stef



>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nguyen Hong Son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:41 PM
>Subject: qmail-ldap
>
> > Hi all
> > I send many messages to qmail-ldap mailing list but I've got answer, so 
>I
> > have to post to qmail mailing list for helping. My question is :
> > I used qmail-1.03, spWebMail, OpenLdap and they work well together, but 
>I
> > 've just add qmail-ldap and recompile and reinstall qmail, after  that
>when
> > use MUA to connect qmail-pop3, I 've got notice : user doesn't have
> > $HOME/Maildir
> > I thank very much for every feedback
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> >
>

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:13:41AM +0000, Nguyen Hong Son wrote:
> Hi all
> First I thank Stef for helping me, but following that , I couldn't figure 
> out my problem, before patching qmail-ldap, $HOME/Maildir were created by 
> that user (su user, maildirmake ~/Maildir) after patching qmail-ldap :
> _qmail_smtpd reject delivering to $HOME/Maildir (unable to open 
> $HOME/Maildir)
> _ qmail-pop3d reject receiving from $HOME/Maildir : this username doesn't 
> have $HOME/Maildir
> 
> I used qmail with tcpserver, daemontool (supervise), and openLdap
> 
> messageStore = $HOME/Maildir/
> May be i create #HOME/Maildir again ?
> 
> Thanks a lot

You're actually putting "$HOME" into the mailMessageStore attribute? Drop it.
You've got three choices:

        - if you define homeDirectory, 
                1 - mailMessageStore must be relative to that.
        - else, 
                2 - mailMessageStore must be a full path, 
           or 
                3 - relative to qmail's "control/ldapmessagestore"

        RC

> 
> 
> >just log in as [user] and type
> >./maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
> >
> >That should fit.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Stef
> 
> 
> 
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Nguyen Hong Son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:41 PM
> >Subject: qmail-ldap
> >
> > > Hi all
> > > I send many messages to qmail-ldap mailing list but I've got answer, so 
> >I
> > > have to post to qmail mailing list for helping. My question is :
> > > I used qmail-1.03, spWebMail, OpenLdap and they work well together, but 
> >I
> > > 've just add qmail-ldap and recompile and reinstall qmail, after  that
> >when
> > > use MUA to connect qmail-pop3, I 've got notice : user doesn't have
> > > $HOME/Maildir
> > > I thank very much for every feedback
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________________________________________________
> > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> > >
> >
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> 

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hi

Can someone help or point some URL, on how to setup and use
multilog with qmail?

TIA

yuliy

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:42:26PM +0200, Yuliy Minchev wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> Can someone help or point some URL, on how to setup and use
> multilog with qmail?
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
 
> TIA
> 
> yuliy
HTH,
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Hello
The compilation stops at instcheck.c it returns an error 
do you have an idea ? or an alternative ?

another thing : my qmail server works with Maildir
how do I use maildir2mbox ? is there a place to read about it 
more detailed than the regular documentation ? 

Thanks Yair





Dear All

This may be offtopic but here goes ...

I've an old box resurected as a qmail server for a small office.  It
only has 16 meg of ram, but seems to cope quite well.  Until this
morning! (log entries below):

The machine appears to have been flood via Ident requests - This smells
of a DOS via Identd to me ....

Is not running identd (its run as a daemon from /etc/rc.d/) for a smtp
box going to cause problems ?

Has anyone else seen such issues on a low memory qmail server / redhat
6.2 box ?

I have no other problems with other redhat / qmail boxes of different
vintages (although they all have more ram). 

Any clues greatfully recieved.

Greg Cope


### log entries ###


Jun 27 08:24:04 mailgate identd[10709]: request_thread: read(11, ...,
1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
Jun 27 08:24:10 mailgate identd[10719]: request_thread: read(11, ...,
1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
Jun 27 08:24:32 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Jun 27 08:25:18 mailgate last message repeated 6 times
Jun 27 08:26:40 mailgate last message repeated 9 times
Jun 27 08:27:25 mailgate last message repeated 9 times
Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: accept (for telnet): No buffer
space available
Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate last message repeated 559 times
Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Jun 27 08:28:01 mailgate last message repeated 4 times
Jun 27 08:29:26 mailgate last message repeated 6 times
Jun 27 08:30:47 mailgate last message repeated 5 times
Jun 27 08:31:55 mailgate last message repeated 4 times

Jun 27 08:33:57 mailgate syslogd 1.3-3: restart.     <--- machine
unresponsive so "bounced"



Greg,
   I have never run identd on my qmail server, and
I've never had any problems.  We're using a P75 with
32MB.  

I don't think it's anything to worry about.  In fact,
I drop any packets coming in on port 113 (identd).

Just my .02.
Steve

--- Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> This may be offtopic but here goes ...
> 
> I've an old box resurected as a qmail server for a
> small office.  It
> only has 16 meg of ram, but seems to cope quite
> well.  Until this
> morning! (log entries below):
> 
> The machine appears to have been flood via Ident
> requests - This smells
> of a DOS via Identd to me ....
> 
> Is not running identd (its run as a daemon from
> /etc/rc.d/) for a smtp
> box going to cause problems ?
> 
> Has anyone else seen such issues on a low memory
> qmail server / redhat
> 6.2 box ?
> 
> I have no other problems with other redhat / qmail
> boxes of different
> vintages (although they all have more ram). 
> 
> Any clues greatfully recieved.
> 
> Greg Cope
> 
> 
> ### log entries ###
> 
> 
> Jun 27 08:24:04 mailgate identd[10709]:
> request_thread: read(11, ...,
> 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
> Jun 27 08:24:10 mailgate identd[10719]:
> request_thread: read(11, ...,
> 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer
> Jun 27 08:24:32 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot
> allocate memory
> Jun 27 08:25:18 mailgate last message repeated 6
> times
> Jun 27 08:26:40 mailgate last message repeated 9
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:25 mailgate last message repeated 9
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: accept (for
> telnet): No buffer
> space available
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate last message repeated 559
> times
> Jun 27 08:27:27 mailgate inetd[325]: fork: Cannot
> allocate memory
> Jun 27 08:28:01 mailgate last message repeated 4
> times
> Jun 27 08:29:26 mailgate last message repeated 6
> times
> Jun 27 08:30:47 mailgate last message repeated 5
> times
> Jun 27 08:31:55 mailgate last message repeated 4
> times
> 
> Jun 27 08:33:57 mailgate syslogd 1.3-3: restart.    
> <--- machine
> unresponsive so "bounced"


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hi all

is there any body know how to install on HP UX 11.0
if any body here please send some docs
thanks







> is there any body know how to install on HP UX 11.0
> if any body here please send some docs

What's the problem?  Where do the standard installation instructions
fail to work?

Regards,

Giles





Mike Batchelor writes:
 > I don't see anywhere on Dan's website where it mentions the home directory
 > in /etc/passwd of the tinydns user account.  It doesn't matter where the
 > home directory is.

No, I realized that afterwards.  I latched onto the concept of making
the /etc/tinydns service directory double as the home directory, for
no good reason other than not wanting to multiply entities
needlessly.  And yet, there actually *is* a need.

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> Russell Nelson:

> No, I realized that afterwards.  I latched onto the concept of making
> the /etc/tinydns service directory double as the home directory, for
> no good reason other than not wanting to multiply entities

that's a very good reason and this thought prooves sound informational
instincts, if i may put it that way.

clemens


Hi !!
 
I have a very long mail queue of about 3,00,000 messages .. is there a way I can save these messages somewhere and deliver them later using some script or something and clean up the queue now.
 
Please suggest.
 
Thanx in advance.
 
Devinder


Devinder writes:
 > Hi !!
 > 
 > I have a very long mail queue of about 3,00,000 messages .. is
 > there a way I can save these messages somewhere and deliver them
 > later using some script or something and clean up the queue now.

3 lakh messages isn't that much, even if your conf-split is still at
23.  If you're routinely going to have that many messages in your
queue, you should increase conf-split.  The easiest way to do that is
like this:

Assumption: you're running qmail under daemontools 0.70, and you're
using /var/qmail as the service directory.

  o move your existing copy of qmail to a different location.
  o the rest of these instructions assume /var/qmail2.
  o make two copies of the source tree, one for qmail and the other
    for qmail2.
  o Go to the qmail2 source tree (currently they're both the same).
  o modifying the first line of conf-qmail to read: /var/qmail2.
  o recompile qmail.
  o stop qmail, smtpd, pop3, and any other service that accesses qmail.
  o remove the symlink in /service that points to qmail
  o mv /var/qmail to /var/qmail2
  o make a symlink from /var/qmail2 to /service/qmail2
  o don't start qmail2 yet (it's supervise is still running, but is down.)
  o Now go to the source tree for qmail.
  o Edit conf-split to have a largeish prime number like 521 (close to 
    a square root of your expected queue size).
  o mkdir /var/qmail
  o make setup check
  o restore the symlink in /service that points to qmail
  o start all the services again.
  o In a week, after all the mail messages in the queue have been
    delivered or bounced, you can stop and remove /var/qmail2.

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Hi,

Yesterday i was called into work early ebacuse we had 41000 messages in our
outgoing remote queue. (As opposed to an average of a couple of hundred).

Luckily, there were 39,000 mails in there to the one address. How to fix?

Grep /var/qmail/queue/info/* for that email address. Get a whole list of
message numbers. Stop qmail-send and delete any files with this message
number in /info, /mess and /remote.

ie.

rm /var/qmail/queue/info/0/10345
rm /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/10345
rm /var/qmail/queue/mess/0/10345

after removing all the files from these three directories our queue was back
to normal. as far as i know, there is no script that anyone has written to
this, so i had to make a little one up myself.

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Administrator
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 9281 1750




Hey Everyone,

I've  been  trying  to  get qmail to work for a few days, and have had
almost no luck.  Local delivery just doesn't work.

When  I  do the local to local test the message bounces and eventually
goes to the ~alias/Mailbox (postmaster) location.

I've  been  trying to trace the problem for a while and I think I know
what it is.  It looks like qmail-lspawn is starting qmail-local with a
dash  as the "dash" argument.  Because of this it is never even trying
to  put  the mail in "Mailbox" in my home directory, instead it's just
checking  the  .qmail-XXXXX  files  and  when  they're  not found it's
bouncing the mail.

Now  the  local  to local picture shows qmail-local being started with
the  dash and ext being both unset.  The only time that doesn't appear
to   be  the  case  is when there's a dash in the username part of the
email address.  Since this isn't the case, what's going on?

(As  an  aside, qmail looks like a great, highly flexible program, but
man   the   source  needs  work.   Virtually  no  comments  anywhere,
meaningless  variable  and  function names.  Not a fun thing to search
through when you're trying to figure something out.)

Ben





Ben Giddings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I've  been  trying  to  get qmail to work for a few days, and have had
>almost no luck.  Local delivery just doesn't work.
>
>When  I  do the local to local test the message bounces and eventually
>goes to the ~alias/Mailbox (postmaster) location.

>From http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#qmail-list:

  When you ask questions, please try to include sufficient details to
  make it possible for people to respond:

    What did you do? What's your configuration? Include qmail-showctl
      output if you're not sure what's important. What action did you
      take?
    What did you expect to happen? What was the outcome you were
      trying to achieve? Don't assume the reader can guess. 
    What did happen? Describe the actual result. Include log file
      clippings and copies of messages, with headers.

-Dave



> Ben Giddings:

> (As  an  aside, qmail looks like a great, highly flexible program, but
> man   the   source  needs  work.   Virtually  no  comments  anywhere,
> meaningless  variable  and  function names.  Not a fun thing to search
> through when you're trying to figure something out.)

i give stags a few seconds and then browse through the sources without problems.
i think they are a delight to read!

clemens



Hey Dave,

Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 2:38:07 PM, you wrote:
DS>   When you ask questions, please try to include sufficient details to
DS>   make it possible for people to respond:

Sorry, I thought I had given enough information.  Here's more:

I test local delivery using my username:

[Merc@linxsvr qmail]$ echo To: Merc | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject


Nothing arrives in my mailbox, the logs show:

Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.298731 new msg 20095
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.300780 info msg 20095: bytes 263 from 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 781 uid 500
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.357168 starting delivery 12: msg 20095 to 
local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.358931 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.398168 delivery 12: failure: 
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.401041 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.440118 bounce msg 20095 qp 784
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.441476 end msg 20095
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.506854 new msg 20096
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.509020 info msg 20096: bytes 896 from <> qp 
784 uid 508
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.566720 starting delivery 13: msg 20096 to 
local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.568202 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.607263 delivery 13: failure: 
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.610170 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.648454 bounce msg 20096 qp 787
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.649828 end msg 20096
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.651847 new msg 20095
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.653327 info msg 20095: bytes 1427 from <#@[]> 
qp 787 uid 508
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.707588 starting delivery 14: msg 20095 to 
local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.708518 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.746751 delivery 14: deferral: 
Unable_to_open_./Mailbox:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/
Jun 28 01:33:05 linxsvr qmail: 962170385.747755 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20

control/defaultdomain is XXXXX.com
control/locals contains YYY.XXXXX.com (among others)
control/me is YYY.XXXXX.com
control/plusdomain is XXXXX.com
control/rcpthosts is empty

And ~alias looks like:

[root@linxsvr qmail]# ls -la alias
drwxr-sr-x    4 alias    qmail        1024 Jun 27 08:31 .
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     qmail        1024 Jun 28 01:38 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     501             0 Jun 25 23:53 .qmail-mailer-daemon
-rw-r--r--    1 root     501             0 Jun 25 23:53 .qmail-postmaster
-rw-r--r--    1 root     501             0 Jun 25 23:53 .qmail-root
-rw-------    1 103      501         20517 Jun 27 00:58 Mailbox

Again,   the  problem  seems  to  be  that  qmail_lspawn  is  starting
qmail_local with the dash parameter set to a dash, and because of that
it's  not  even  checking  whether  or not Merc is a valid local user.
Instead  it's  just looking for the .qmailXXX files, not finding them,
and dying.

Ben





On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:43:08AM +0200, clemensF wrote:
> > Ben Giddings:
> 
> > (As  an  aside, qmail looks like a great, highly flexible program, but
> > man   the   source  needs  work.   Virtually  no  comments  anywhere,
> > meaningless  variable  and  function names.  Not a fun thing to search
> > through when you're trying to figure something out.)
> 
> i give stags a few seconds and then browse through the sources without problems.
> i think they are a delight to read!

I agree, I am not even a programmer (unless you count bash) and I am 
generally able to easily read through the source and find the part I need.

--Adam



Hi all qmailers :))

I know that it's not question for qmail-list but I don't know what to
do with this.
I have Qmail with vpopmail with MySQL.
I wish to make SqWebMail working, but it seems to not do so properly.
When I put username@domain where username is account in Linux
passwd/shadow it works fine. But when I put i.e.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and correct password (checked via pop3) it
doesn't work.

I compiled SqWebMail with this options:
./configure  --without-authpam --without-authuserdb --enable-webpass=no 
--without-authpwd --withou
t-authshadow --enable-cgibindir=/home/www/webmail/cgi-bin --enable-webpass=vpopmail 
--with-db=gdbm -
-with-userdb=/etc/userdb 
--with-makedatprog='${exec_prefix}/libexec/sqwebmail/makedatprog' --with-fo
rmdata --without-authlib-man --with-authdaemonvar=${datadir}/sqwebmail/authdaemon 
--sysconfdir=${dat
adir}/sqwebmail

Can you tell me what is wrong ?

-- 
pozdrawiam,
Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


We have installed qmail fine but when trying to use the ezmlm we are having this problem...
 
go into ezmlm create a mailing list
setup the options we want
add mailing list
 
....here's the problem...
it returns a blank page
then when we re-enter qmailadmin there is no mailing list added...
Any idea's?
 
Kathleen



Hello !

qmail is working !
now i want send mail with "netscape-mail"
but there is an error-msg :

An error accurred while mail: SMTP server error
The server responded:
(null)
bla bla bla


there is no entry in the log file ....
what can i do ??

thx steffen



hello !

 -> 1) no i donot have a SOCKS proxy
 -> 2) the netscape settings are : outgoingmailserver -> localhost & username 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        must i set my local mail directory to : Maildir/ ? - i dont believe
 -> 3) all my routes are correct ..

i can only send mail ala ... mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 
i dont now what i can still set im my netscape-preference

bye steffen





Greetings,



Anyhow Know of a Tool so I can parse msg-log,

so say I just wanna see which emails were sent from and to jdoe, it would
parse it and output it to a file called jdoe.mail.



thank you.


Sincerely,

Jonathan


I wanted to start qmail after having typed and analyzed the scripts written in 'life with qmail', but I am receiving hard errors that multilog is not able to access
 
/var/log/qmail/
/var/log/qmail/smtp
 
Anybody got an idea to solve that problem? It would be great to make qmail running that day! I'm quite tired and sick of that because I had to install it once more from scratch within the last two days
 
Thanks a lot.
 
Stef
 
 

--------------------------------------
Stefan Roeder
Junior System Analyst
 
 


Sorry. It was a long day till now. I got it. Thanks anyway. :)
 
Stef.
----- Original Message -----
From: Fat Toolz
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: starting qmail w errors

I wanted to start qmail after having typed and analyzed the scripts written in 'life with qmail', but I am receiving hard errors that multilog is not able to access
 
/var/log/qmail/
/var/log/qmail/smtp
 
Anybody got an idea to solve that problem? It would be great to make qmail running that day! I'm quite tired and sick of that because I had to install it once more from scratch within the last two days
 
Thanks a lot.
 
Stef
 
 

--------------------------------------
Stefan Roeder
Junior System Analyst
 
 


Hello,
Could anyone give me some feedback on what the pros and cons of using
cyclog or multilog vs. splogger. I have just installed multilog and at
first glance it appears a little odd but maybe I am just not that familiar
with it yet. Thanks in advance.
Clifford Thurber
Web Systems Administrator
LiveUniverse.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
565 5th Ave. 29th Fl.
New York, NY 10017
Ph:212 883 6940  (131)
Fax:212 856 9134



Clifford Thurber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Could anyone give me some feedback on what the pros and cons of using
>cyclog or multilog vs. splogger. I have just installed multilog and at
>first glance it appears a little odd but maybe I am just not that familiar
>with it yet. Thanks in advance.

splogger uses syslog, and syslog/syslogd have several security,
performance, and reliability concerns. Syslogd can consume vast
amounts of CPU, is an unsecured network service, will log until the
log partition is full, and can simply drop log messages if it's too
busy.

-Dave



My email needs are small time in comparison to some of the installs out there. I have 
approx. 300
 users on my network (LAN no dialups). All of my users are checking their mail with 
Outlook
Express from MS. We are currently using Sendmail on a Linux 5.2 install. The users 
email settings 
have them checking both POP3 and SMTP on the IP address of the mail server, which is 
192.168.*.*. Each of the users have an account on the Linux machine 
under /home/firstname.lastname. An example of an email address is 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] A few of my users have aliases set up in /etc/aliases 
so that 
their companyname email is sent to a mindspring address so they can check it on their 
laptops on 
the road. 
I don't want to make this any harder than it has to be! Can someone/anyone please give 
me some 
insight as to what I will need to make this configuration work for me? 

>From what I have read on the mailing list, Maildir delivery seems to be the way to 
>go. Is pop3d 
something I will need? Is syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one 
should I use? 
I'm pretty sure I will need the fastforward, uscpi-tcp(tcpserver), 
daemontools(supervise), qmailanalog and rblsmtpd
packages. 
Honestly, I really appreciate any advice you can give me about this. I tried to do it 
on my own,
and it's not working out at all. 
Thank you very much,
tony.campisi




"Tony Campisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>My email needs are small time in comparison to some of the installs
>out there. I have approx. 300 users on my network (LAN no
>dialups). All of my users are checking their mail with Outlook 
>Express from MS. We are currently using Sendmail on a Linux 5.2
>install. The users email settings have them checking both POP3 and
>SMTP on the IP address of the mail server, which is 192.168.*.*.

OK, so currently you're serving SMTP with sendmail and POP3 with some
POP daemon such as qpopper. The SMTP daemon accepts remote mail for
delivery to your users and delivers mail sent by your local users. The 
POP3 daemon allows your local users to retrieve their mail from the
server using Outlook Express.

>Each of the users have an account on the Linux machine 
>under /home/firstname.lastname. An example of an email address is 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] A few of my users have aliases set up
>in /etc/aliases so that their companyname email is sent to a
>mindspring address so they can check it on their laptops on the road.

With qmail, users can redirect their mail using their .qmail
file. E.g., ~courtney.love/.qmail could contain:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>I don't want to make this any harder than it has to be! Can
>someone/anyone please give me some insight as to what I will need to
>make this configuration work for me?

You'll need qmail (to replace sendmail) and qmail-pop3d+checkpassword
(to replace your current POP3 daemon). You'll need to convert your
/etc/alias redirections into .qmail files.

>From what I have read on the mailing list, Maildir delivery seems to
>be the way to go.

It has certain advantages, including the fact that it's required with
qmail-pop3d.

>Is pop3d something I will need?

You need *some* POP3 daemon. You can configure qmail to work with
your existing daemon, or you can migrate to another one like
qmail-pop3d.

>Is syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should
>I use?

They're different solutions to the same problem. Multilog also fixes
several of syslog's security and reliability problems.

>I'm pretty sure I will need the fastforward, uscpi-tcp(tcpserver),
>daemontools(supervise), qmailanalog and rblsmtpd packages.

I (obviously) recommend installing using the "Life with qmail"
directions, which will get you qmail+ucspi-tcp+daemontools. From
there, you can add fastforward, rblsmtpd, and qmailanalog.

-Dave



Dave, thank you so much for the information! I will follow your
"Life with qmail" to the letter. I have to clarify a few things though.
You mentioned in your reply,
"With qmail, users can redirect their mail using their .qmail
file. E.g., ~courtney.love/.qmail could contain:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll need to convert your
/etc/alias redirections into .qmail files."

Q - Would doing this be the same as using the fastforward package? 

I misspoke when I asked this question.
"Are syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should I use?"

I meant to ask about splogger/multilog. When I follow the LWQ, which logging
tool will be used? I can build a house with all these logs. :-D

thanks again,
tony.campisi




"Tony Campisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>You mentioned in your reply,
>"With qmail, users can redirect their mail using their .qmail
>file. E.g., ~courtney.love/.qmail could contain:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>You'll need to convert your
>/etc/alias redirections into .qmail files."
>
>Q - Would doing this be the same as using the fastforward package?

No. Fastforward is run from ~alias/.qmail-default, so it won't preempt 
users. E.g., if courtney.love is a user, a courtney.love entry in
/etc/aliases won't be used.

>I misspoke when I asked this question.
>"Are syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should I use?"
>
>I meant to ask about splogger/multilog.

Yeah, splogger uses syslog.

>When I follow the LWQ, which logging tool will be used?

multilog.

-Dave



I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by another
company.  It appears that their users have no regard for how to correctly
type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up sending
mail to a nonexistant user on my system.  I would like to bounce any
misdirected messages back to them instead of having them all land in the
postmaster account.

Any help would be appreciated.

-Eric




On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:35:41AM -0500,
  Eric Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by another
> company.  It appears that their users have no regard for how to correctly
> type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up sending
> mail to a nonexistant user on my system.  I would like to bounce any
> misdirected messages back to them instead of having them all land in the
> postmaster account.

This should be happenning already (bounce message sent back to sender). Are
you sure these aren't double bounces (where the sender used a bogus address)?



>> I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by another
>> company.  It appears that their users have no regard for how to correctly
>> type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up sending
>> mail to a nonexistant user on my system.  I would like to bounce any
>> misdirected messages back to them instead of having them all land in the
>> postmaster account.
> 
> This should be happenning already (bounce message sent back to sender). Are
> you sure these aren't double bounces (where the sender used a bogus address)?

Positive it's not happening.  People sending from legit addresses don't get
a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user on
my system.  It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person that
wrote the message hasn't a clue that it wasn't delivered.

Also, how can I turn off the feature to have the message be sent to the
postmaster account as well.  I'd like it to be bounced and deleted.

-Eric




On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:49:54AM -0500,
> Positive it's not happening.  People sending from legit addresses don't get
> a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user on
> my system.  It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person that
> wrote the message hasn't a clue that it wasn't delivered.
> 
> Also, how can I turn off the feature to have the message be sent to the
> postmaster account as well.  I'd like it to be bounced and deleted.

Perhaps you have set up a default address that forwards to the postmaster
account. If so, you should be able to just remove it.



on 6/27/00 10:06 AM, Bruno Wolff III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Positive it's not happening.  People sending from legit addresses don't get
>> a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user on
>> my system.  It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person that
>> wrote the message hasn't a clue that it wasn't delivered.
>> 
>> Also, how can I turn off the feature to have the message be sent to the
>> postmaster account as well.  I'd like it to be bounced and deleted.
> 
> Perhaps you have set up a default address that forwards to the postmaster
> account. If so, you should be able to just remove it.

Bingo, that was it.

Thanks!

-Eric




Without knowing what exact config you're running, I'm
guessing that you have a .qmail-default in your ~alias
directory that points to the same account as your
.qmail-postmaster does, the postmaster account.  If
you don't have a need to receive all mail sent to
invalid users at your own domain, you could just remove
that .qmail-default file causing all mail sent to bogus
users at your domain, and mis-addressed from the other
domain, to bounce correctly.  On the other hand, if you
do want to continue receiving incorrectly addressed mail
to your domain, don't touch that file, and you probably
don't have any means of solving the problem.  The reason
is the other domain email looks like email for your domain.
The only thing you could really do is try to learn the
incorrect other-domain usernames that people commonly send
to and create rules for those specifically...

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Long
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 6/27/00 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: bouncing unknown addresses

>> I have a domain name similar to another domain name registered by
another
>> company.  It appears that their users have no regard for how to
correctly
>> type their own domain name, so they forget one letter and end up
sending
>> mail to a nonexistant user on my system.  I would like to bounce any
>> misdirected messages back to them instead of having them all land in
the
>> postmaster account.
> 
> This should be happenning already (bounce message sent back to
sender). Are
> you sure these aren't double bounces (where the sender used a bogus
address)?

Positive it's not happening.  People sending from legit addresses don't
get
a bounced message saying the message could not be delivered to xyz user
on
my system.  It just delivers to the postmaster account and the person
that
wrote the message hasn't a clue that it wasn't delivered.

Also, how can I turn off the feature to have the message be sent to the
postmaster account as well.  I'd like it to be bounced and deleted.

-Eric



Hello,

My situation is this: I have a web server, and I want to set up a box which
will basically relay mail for it.  It currently sends out and recieves its
own external mail.  I have set up qmail on an OpenBSD 2.6 box and am able to
send messages and receive them locally.  However, I'm unfamiliar with mail
relaying in general and am trying to establish proof of concept by simply
relaying a message to an external ISP through this qmail box from another
linux box.  I've read through numerous FAQ's and searched this discussion
list, and I'm still a bit in the dark.  Can anyone point me in the right
direction regarding how to get this done?  Please forgive me if I'm being
vague, its not done on purpose.  

Thanks for any help.




John Steniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>My situation is this: I have a web server, and I want to set up a box which
>will basically relay mail for it.  It currently sends out and recieves its
>own external mail.  I have set up qmail on an OpenBSD 2.6 box and am able to
>send messages and receive them locally.  However, I'm unfamiliar with mail
>relaying in general and am trying to establish proof of concept by simply
>relaying a message to an external ISP through this qmail box from another
>linux box.  I've read through numerous FAQ's and searched this discussion
>list, and I'm still a bit in the dark.  Can anyone point me in the right
>direction regarding how to get this done?  Please forgive me if I'm being
>vague, its not done on purpose.  

OK, so you want your qmail system to relay for the web server (and
maybe other systems in your domain) but not for everyone on the
net. By default, qmail doesn't relay: it delivers mail from or to
local addresses, but rejects attempts by remote hosts to submit mail
for other remote hosts.

Using tcpserver to set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable for
qmail-smtpd *only* for connections from hosts designated as relay
clients (like your web server) will cause qmail-smtpd to ignore the
control/rcphosts file and, therefore, act as a relay.

For more details, see:

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

-Dave


Hi,
 
which one of this thousand szslogs is the right one where I can see that qmail is really working (I try to send mails but they disappear and I don't know where they go to. I don't receive any errors, qmail is running silent all the time. Maybe I have to login as qmail and su before riunning qmail?
 
Thanks.
 
Stef
 
 

--------------------------------------
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Junior System Analyst
 



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 ???

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----- Original Message -----
From: Fat Toolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Perhaps and even sillier silliest questions....


> Yeah. That's right. I just made some errors concerning reservating
domains.
> But you can also write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I don't mind.
> ;-)

regards

Stef
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John van V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Fat Toolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Qmail Mailing List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Perhaps and even sillier silliest questions....
>
>
> >
> > Isn't Fat spelt Phatt
> >  ???
> >
> > I'll check out your site, mine is http://puny.vm.com
> >
> >
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>




> From:  "Chris Garrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:  Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:45:49 -0500
>
> I just tried to bring up a merging of bruceg's qmail RPM and the qmail-ldap
>  
> patch on a test machine and it fills the log with the message:
> 
>       alert: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?
> 
> I'm sure this was something dumb I did in the merge, but since I see the 
> message is in the unpatched sources, I was wondering what it means.

Never mind.  If I'd searched the archives I would have learned that this 
happens if you have the qmail-ldap patch and don't have a qmail/control/
ldapserver file.

Chris

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Hi,
 
I just managed getting along with qmail. Svscan is running and seems to work, even if I can't connect to it via Outlook Express (the time before I installed qmail I could see the connection drawn on the LINUX-Machine <tcpserver+some log file message>, now I can't; I wonder why....)
 
I just sent several emails as described in TEST.deliver to check out my qmail-version, but none of them arrived. Now I found all of them hanging around in the queue. Does anybody know why qmail just does not send them?
 
Thanks in advance....
 
Stef
 
 

--------------------------------------
Stefan Roeder
Junior System Analyst


"Fat Toolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I just sent several emails as described in TEST.deliver to check out
>my qmail-version, but none of them arrived. Now I found all of them
>hanging around in the queue. Does anybody know why qmail just does
>not send them? 

The logs know...

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

-Dave



> Fat Toolz:

> before I installed qmail I could see the connection drawn on the
> LINUX-Machine <tcpserver+some log file message>, now I can't; I wonder
> why....)
>
> I just sent several emails as described in TEST.deliver to check out
> my qmail-version, but none of them arrived. Now I found all of them
> hanging around in the queue. Does anybody know why qmail just does not
> send them?

the two probs are connected, in that the queue can't be worked without
connection, but you should at least try "svc -a <qmail-send>" to alert
qmail to do the q

clemens



Hi...

    I'm having a problem with the vchkpw authentication, i already
installed again, review all confs, copy conf from others server ( work
in same conf ) but nothing seems to workk, here's is the log error on
maillog:


Jun 27 17:31:08 web vpopmail[6647]: vchkpw: chdir() failed

anynone have any idea?.... please reply soon!


[]'s Alexey Bolfaine




2000-06-27, at 19:39:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :

> Hi...

>     I'm having a problem with the vchkpw authentication, i already
> installed again, review all confs, copy conf from others server ( work
> in same conf ) but nothing seems to workk, here's is the log error on
> maillog:


> Jun 27 17:31:08 web vpopmail[6647]: vchkpw: chdir() failed

> anynone have any idea?.... please reply soon!

Try to make this:
chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw /home/vpopmail

of course if you put different path for vpopmail during instalation
process change /home/vpopmail to correct path.

It should work..
if not: try to look at database and check if all users have they own
directories.

-- 
cheers,
Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Having a problem with /var/log/maillog
I am getting this ...
 
vchkpw:  No user found [info@]
 
any ideas?


Having a problem with /var/log/maillog
I am getting this ...
 
vchkpw:  No user found [info@]
 
any ideas?


2000-06-27, at 19:46:53, Kathleen Farber wrote:

> Having a problem with /var/log/maillog
> I am getting this ...

> vchkpw:  No user found [info@]

> any ideas?


yes. use user@domain as account name in your mail client.

-- 
cheers,
Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Having a problem with /var/log/maillog
I am getting this ...
 
vchkpw:  No user found [info@]
 
any ideas?


Looking for a autoresponder patch I saw on one of these mailing lists.
 
If I add a pop3 it works fine but once I add a autoresponder the mail bounces back to the send but the sender also receives the autorespond message. 
 
If there's a patch could u repost please!



Is there a problem with my email address... I have not received email from
the list since last friday... I have another address at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot
Guillermo



Hi,

        How do i limit number of RCPT TO in my SMTP server ?


Thanks,


Marcilio Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AlterNex S/A
Brazil



"Andi Permadi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'm a newbie in Linux, I want to install Mail Server in our ISP (our
>subscriber is 25.000 subscribers), can you gives me suggestions what
>Mail Software can I use, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix or CommunigatePro ?
>Please gives me technical comparasions for that.

Any of those will do the job given the proper hardware, network, and
configuration.

For more information, see:

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

-Dave



"Jonathan Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>How Do I log users email, say i got jdoe
>
>
>all the emails sent or reiceved from joe to store into a directory.
>
>
>or How Do i get qmail to store a copy of emails users or somewhat.

Use QUEUE_EXTRA to cause a copy to go to a special alias called "log", 
then populate ~alias/.qmail-log with a script that checks for "jdoe"
in the From/To/CC and log accordingly.

-Dave



"Fat Toolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I have 
>
>\var\qmail\supervise\qmail-smtpd 
>\var\qmail\supervise\qmail-send
>
>but not \.\...\...qmail-pop3d.

(Watch the / vs. \...)

OK, so you haven't installed/configured qmail-pop3d.

>instead I have \usr\sbin\qmail-pop3d but there I'm not able to read
>anything.....

That's an odd place for it, but that's the binary, not a supervise
directory.

>What did I miss during the installation?

Nothing. Installing qmail doesn't install/configure qmail-pop3d.

See:

  http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#qmail-pop3d

-Dave




So...  I got the email from Clifford Thurber, Steffan Hoeke, David Sill and
Adrian Urquhart... Thanks guys... but I didn't get any mail from the list
not even the one I sent... what can be happening?





Hi,

One possibility is that you've been automagically unsubscribed ...
try re-subscribing with the same email address and check the ezmlm reply.
This will tell you if you're still subscribed.

HTH,
 Steffan
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:28:44PM +0000, terius wrote:
> 
> So...  I got the email from Clifford Thurber, Steffan Hoeke, David Sill and
> Adrian Urquhart... Thanks guys... but I didn't get any mail from the list
> not even the one I sent... what can be happening?
> 
> 

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"Hubbard, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>For example, I can set virtualdomains so all email for the domain
>"Joe" purchased goes to his account for him to manage:
>domain.com:joe
>And then he can make as many .qmail-username files as he
>wants to, to define people getting email forwarding service
>from his domain.  But for real mail service, aka pop and imap,
>I don't think there's a way to define that the mail go to a local
>user's maildir by that point, is there?  It would need to be
>taken care of at a higher level, like my catching it from the
>assign file and prefixing it differently?

No, just put "&username" in the appropriate .qmail file to forward to
a local user.

-Dave



There are a couple of users that are used to being able to use email
addresses consisting solely of a user name.  Some MUAs munge this up by
adding a default host name.  Eudora for MacOS apparently doesn't.  So,
when they senda message just to 'user', qmail appends the contents of 'me'
(amazhan.bitstream.net) to the name and delivers it locally.  If I telnet
to the box on 25 and use 'rcpt to:user' it also appends
'amazhan.bitstream.net'.  The problem is that I'm using vpopmail and
fastforward, which don't accept "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as being the
same as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".

defaulthost and defaultdomain are both set to 'bitstream.net', so if I run
'mail user' from the command line, it does deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Ben


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actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite
and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is
naturally alarming to people who don't.
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Ben Beuchler wrote:
>There are a couple of users that are used to being able to use email
>addresses consisting solely of a user name.  Some MUAs munge this up by
>adding a default host name.  Eudora for MacOS apparently doesn't.  So,
>when they senda message just to 'user', qmail appends the contents of 'me'
>(amazhan.bitstream.net) to the name and delivers it locally.  If I telnet
>to the box on 25 and use 'rcpt to:user' it also appends
>'amazhan.bitstream.net'.  The problem is that I'm using vpopmail and
>fastforward, which don't accept "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as being the
>same as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
>
>defaulthost and defaultdomain are both set to 'bitstream.net', so if I run
>'mail user' from the command line, it does deliver to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Is there anything else I can try?

qmail-send uses the not-all-that-well-documented-in-FAQ-lists envnoathost
control file for the domain name of addresses that don't come with a domain
already attached.  If envnoathost doesn't exist, it will use the me control
file, which is not the behavior you want.  It probably should check
defaulthost before falling back to me, but it doesn't.

defaulthost is only used by qmail-inject, which is what the mail program
winds up feeding messages to.

qmail-smtpd won't add a domain to addresses that don't have any.  There's a
comment in the source about RFC noncompliance, but it's allowed to slide
through.

(To address the noncompliance issue, Eudora can and should be told what
domain name to use for unqualified addresses.)

The man page for qmail-send and the other programs may help.

Mark

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UNIX Engineer
Gillette Global Network




hi folks,
i am having troubles with my (excelet running) qmail and a (not so excelent running) 
m$-exchange server of my customer. Mails stay
in the queue for as long as 3 days befor they are delivered. i have doublechecked the 
permissions and the setup and the file
/var/qmail/control/etrn shows the right ip-adress, but it seems, that mails are 
delivered by random. for all i can see is, that the
qmail ETRN-patch does not realice the tcp-ok and that qmail-send does not start to 
send mails immediatly.

and by the way: yes, iv'e digged through the mailing-list archive
and last but not least: yes, its my first and only customer with ETRN

any pointers or sugestions?

;) a




Hi,

I've just got back from a trade show, where I came across what
seems to be a poor-man's NetApp: A RAID-5 box (4 drives)
offering NFS connectivity (10/100 Ethernet) for $3000.
This seems ideal for the SME wanting a NetApp style back-end.
It's called a Quantum Snap Server 4000. Even for places that
need a NetApp, this could be an ideal lab machine to (almost)
simulate its function.

the URL is,
http://www.quantum.com/products/ss/snap_server/snap_server_features.htm

cheers,

Andrew.

(Bcc'ed to a few other people who may be interested)




i wrote:
>our redhat linux machine mira's sendmail is using our redhat linux qmail
>server luzifer as smarthost

>when users on that mira send mails, the mails contain a return-path
>containing the full hostname mira.webseek.de which is not fully qualified
>(just for internal LAN use) and thus causing problems.

in case someone is interested:
in sendmail.cf i have now added:
Djwebseek.de
that inserts @webseek.de in sendmail's automated Return-Path entries.

wolfgang




If this is in an FAQ/man/doc, feel free to flame--I didn't see it but I'm
not running on enough caffiene today...

I just inherited a qMail/Cyrus IMAP toaster.  The users are all added in
users/assign as equivalents for the "cyrus" account.  Since they don't
exist as real .qmail aliases, I presume, I'm getting bounces to mixed case
local elements (Cyrus usernames are user/assign'd in lowercase).  Has
anyone experienced this before, and how did you resolve it?  I suppose I
can just pipe all the messages through sed if I have to, but I'd rather
not kludge it if there's a more elegant solution.  Thanks in advance.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeremy Stanley, System Administrator                    Foveon Corporation
--------------------------------------------------------------------------




Hello all,

I seareched the mailing list archinves and documentation, and couldn't
figure out what was going wrong here.  I hope this isn't a silly question
that people hae asked before; if I've missed something obvious, you have
my sincerest apologies in advance.

I recently installed qmail on my home machine.  All seemed to go well, but
when when I try to inc my mail from /var/spool/mail, it thinks for a long
time, and then returns this error message:

[cme@panzer ~]$ inc
inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/cme

Interestingly enough, it only does this when I actually have mail- when I
don't, it jsut says "No mail for cme".

And the plot thickens... I can inc mail if I'm logged in remotely, but not
if I'm logged in locally.  It doesn't matter if I'm on X or a tty.  But I
can  ssh to localhost and have it work.  When I try mail as a starndard
for comparison, it works merrily no matter how I'm logged in.

I'm running a Red Hat 6.2 box with nmh 1.0 and qmail 1.03.

Thank you,
Courtney Eckhardt




We have several domains hosted and all work OK
but when we try to add a sub domain eg, sub.domain.com
the mail bounces with an error message

Sorry, no mailbox here by that name

If a mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it works
but [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not

in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains is

sub.domain.com:username

What is wrong here

Kind regards
Kevin



On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:42:43AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We have several domains hosted and all work OK
> but when we try to add a sub domain eg, sub.domain.com
> the mail bounces with an error message
> 
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name
> 
> If a mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it works
> but [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not
> 
> in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains is
> 
> sub.domain.com:username
> 
> What is wrong here

How is "domain.com" (I don't think this is the real name) set up? 
Is it in locals? 

For a couple of examples of virtual domains set-ups, please look here:

http://x42.com/qmail/cookbook/domains/

/magnus

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A quick (well, perhaps vast) question about doing large batch mailings with
qmail.  I'm administering a qmail box currently and need to prepare to do
mailings for our current user base (which has now grown to 300K)  Actually,
we are planning on doing weekly mailings based after filtering our
database, so realistically, I may need to mail 50-60K users per shot.  I
have never administered this large of a mailing and my previous experience
is simply limited to writing a python script for flat txt files of emails
(at that time, they never exceeded 10,000)  

My qmail server sits on a DELL 4300, PIII, 512K box with a 10Mb/s dedicated
connection.  Because of my inexperience in these matters, I'm concerned on
how to approach this task.  How have other people done this?  How much of a
load can qmail take at a time when sending out batches? (ie. I'm worried
about buffering and potential problems caused with long quenes) What's a
good way to calculate the rate of spawning?  (ie the time it will take the
server to send out 100K messages)  Also, what are the methods that most
people use to actually do the mailouts? (ie. my python script)?  Are there
any good resources out there regarding batch mailing procedures?  Any
advice will be very appreciated.

Thank you,
Thomas 

Thomas Duterme - IT manager
Madeforchina.com 
___________________________ 
Direct Line - (8610) 6417 2665 (ext) 224
Fax - (8610) 6415 1086 
Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Company URL: www.madeforchina.com
Get a life at www.51go.com




Thomas Duterme wrote:
> 
> A quick (well, perhaps vast) question about doing large batch mailings with
> qmail.  I'm administering a qmail box currently and need to prepare to do
> mailings for our current user baseee (which has now grown to 300K)  Actually,
> we are planning on doing weekly mailings based after filtering our
> database, so realistically, I may need to mail 50-60K users per shot.  I
> have never administered this large of a mailing and my previous experience
> is simply limited to writing a python script for flat txt files of emails
> (at that time, they never exceeded 10,000)
> 
> My qmail server sits on a DELL 4300, PIII, 512K box with a 10Mb/s dedicated
> connection.  Because of my inexperience in these matters, I'm concerned on
> how to approach this task.  How have other people done this?  How much of a
> load can qmail take at a time when sending out batches? (ie. I'm worried
> about buffering and potential problems caused with long quenes) What's a
> good way to calculate the rate of spawning?  (ie the time it will take the
> server to send out 100K messages)  Also, what are the methods that most
> people use to actually do the mailouts? (ie. my python script)?  Are there
> any good resources out there regarding batch mailing procedures?  Any
> advice will be very appreciated.

I'm doing the same thing - but on Sendmail at the mo!

I've found the perl module Mail::Bulkmail - you give it a message, and a
file of emails and it will inject it into the queue PDQ.

As for tweaking qmail - I've only a few obviuos ideas - like increasing
concurrency remote.

I would be very interesting from other more experience list members on
the advantage of using qmail and what needs to be done to tweak outbound
mailing.

Also is tweaking would be a factor of machine load, process type, memory
and outbound bandwidth - has any any cluse on what a PIII 600 with 256
meg Ram and a U2W scsi drive will do ?

Any ideas gratefully recieved.

Greg Cope
> 
> Thank you,
> Thomas
> 
> Thomas Duterme - IT manager
> Madeforchina.com
> ___________________________
> Direct Line - (8610) 6417 2665 (ext) 224
> Fax - (8610) 6415 1086
> Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Company URL: www.madeforchina.com
> Get a life at www.51go.com




    This one may be in the works already.. but has there been any thought
into adding folder capabilities?  I have some users that owuld like to be
able to create custom folders for mail sorting.

    Daniel Daley
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Daniel,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:43:45AM -0500, Snowcrash wrote:
> 
>     This one may be in the works already.. but has there been any thought
> into adding folder capabilities?  I have some users that owuld like to be
> able to create custom folders for mail sorting.
IMHO this is *not* something qmail should be able to do.
It's more a MUA thing.
Most MUA's i know support creating your own folders to save mail in.
If you want to automate it you could use something like procmail.

>     Daniel Daley
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetz,
 Steffan 

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I'm one of the admins of a largish Qmail installation (~60,000 mailboxes)
and the hardware we're running it on it near the limit.
(Sun Ultra 450, dual processor, A1000 storage array)
The system is very IO bound, sometimes with a load average of 20-25.
(although usually between 3-8)

Now, we called Sun, asking about a high capacity disk solution, one that might 
help with the IO problems.  (cache on the disk array to take care of all the 
fsyncs Qmail does)
They told us that around 50k-60k mailboxes is about the limit of Qmail.

Now, my question to all of you is how expandable is Qmail, and what's the best 
way to do it?

We're looking to expand the system to 150,000-200,000 mailboxes.

How does Qmail deal with a single storage array linked to multiple load 
balenced servers?

Greg





I have followed the relaying guide and
have all working well, however I needed to start
tcpserver with

tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u80 -g80 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &

Now, if I reboot will qmail-smtpd start with different options
or will this now be the default?

Kind regards
Kevin




dear users,

what is the equivalent of sendmail /etc/virtusertable in qmail to forward
some mails virtually?

thanks! 




On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:14:19PM +0800, Kimberly Vher wrote:
> 
> dear users,
> 
> what is the equivalent of sendmail /etc/virtusertable in qmail to forward
> some mails virtually?

take a look at the fastforward package:

http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html

And my examples of virtualdomain configurations:

http://x42.com/qmail/cookbook/domains/

/magnus

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Hi all

Hope you're having a better time than me.

I'm using a qmail-cyrus implementation that works.  I've set up qmail
1.03 from rpm and cyrus 1.6.20 also from rpm.
I've followed the instructions for both cyrus and qmail, dug up a
qmail_deliver_wrapper to shuttle mail from qmail to cyrus, and all
works......almost.

Periodically, and I haven't been able to narrow this down to any
specific event, qmail overwrites my ~/users/assign file, and rebuilds
the cdb.

I also find a huge mail log 'cause qmail tries to deliver a copy of
every message to a non-existent [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any ideas would really be appreciated.

Regards

Sean Craig





hello all,

I have qmail server as my external server which receives my external mail
and fwds it to my internal (in the local network) sendmail which
distributes to the users who are in the private local network.

i have setup some aliases in the internal server like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which when activated will send the mail to all the users. obviously i have
not activated it till i find a way to disable all external mails to the
aliased accounts.

ie i do not want any one outside to mail to the aliased mails address. 

any help will be much appreciated.

raj

PS: if you mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] now the mail will be accepted but it
will go to the inbox of the user all which is not used.

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