qmail Digest 17 Aug 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1095
Topics (messages 46776 through 46849):
How to host a partial domain using fastforward
46776 by: Chris Harris
46777 by: Brett Randall
46793 by: Chris Harris
46827 by: Brett Randall
alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running
46778 by: Clemens Hermann
46779 by: Erwin Hoffmann
46781 by: Clemens Hermann
46783 by: Clemens Hermann
46785 by: Petr Novotny
46787 by: Clemens Hermann
46788 by: Petr Novotny
rblsmtpd emergency
46780 by: Mate Wierdl
46791 by: Ben Beuchler
46795 by: Mate Wierdl
forward
46782 by: Anton G. Popov
46784 by: Brett Randall
46786 by: Brett Randall
Re: Outlook choking on messages
46789 by: Albert Hopkins
qmailadmin passwords
46790 by: Iain Smith
MYSQL y QMAIL
46792 by: tigre21.gamma.qnet.com.pe
46807 by: Jack Barnett
46819 by: Michael T. Babcock
Re: Outlook choking on messages (update)
46794 by: Albert Hopkins
46796 by: Petr Novotny
mail sendmail
46797 by: sonam.escape.com
46799 by: Dave Sill
46802 by: OK 2 NET - Andr� Paulsberg
46805 by: Ihnen, David
write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
46798 by: sonam.escape.com
46800 by: Paul Guglielmino
46801 by: Paul Farber
46806 by: sonam.escape.com
46811 by: Vince Vielhaber
network solutions spam
46803 by: John White
Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client
46804 by: Ihnen, David
46818 by: Dale Miracle
46826 by: Ihnen, David
46836 by: Dale Miracle
Re: Relaying stopped. How to remove SPAMMER status?
46808 by: Aaron L. Meehan
Large volume tcpserver advice
46809 by: Tyler J. Frederick
Customizing default system responses??
46810 by: Kadre, Da
46812 by: Dave Sill
46816 by: Kadre, Da
46817 by: Ian Lance Taylor
fastforward and \accounts
46813 by: R. Benjamin Shapiro
46815 by: Ben Beuchler
auth/identd?
46814 by: John Conover
46837 by: Chris, the Young One
Re: qmail-pop3d problem: No mail delivery to Maildirs
46820 by: David Benfell
qmail and IP addresses.....
46821 by: Steve Wolfe
46822 by: Sean C Truman
46823 by: Sean C Truman
46824 by: Paul Jarc
46825 by: Vince Vielhaber
46828 by: Vince Vielhaber
46830 by: M.B.
Outbouns SPAM Control
46829 by: Ricardo Albano
Happy Meal ERROR
46831 by: Ricardo Albano
Is This Annoying Enough?
46832 by: Bruno Prior
46833 by: Peter Green
46848 by: Vince Vielhaber
qmail-default and bounce
46834 by: Marc-Adrian Napoli
46835 by: Chris, the Young One
46845 by: Marc-Adrian Napoli
46846 by: Brett Randall
46849 by: Chris, the Young One
Qmail Installation
46838 by: Ramzi S. Abdallah
46841 by: Dale Miracle
Converting entries from passwd to /var/qmail/users/assign
46839 by: Brett Randall
46840 by: Chris, the Young One
Fallback MX Host?
46842 by: Shane Wise
qmail prefered platform??
46843 by: TAG
46844 by: Eric Cox
Error: Deferred: Connection refused
46847 by: Dieter Wilhelm
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I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to leave some
users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward to another smtp
server to deal with.
In the qmail.faqts knowledge base, 'virtual domains and users', 'How can I host
a fraction of a domain', there is the comment, 'Another way to do this is using
the fastforward package. See link above". The link doesn't address this
particular issue.
I would be grateful for help on how to do this using fastforward.
Chris Harris
System Manager
STL Ltd.
ph. 01228 512512 ext. 2211
fax 01228 514949
> I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to
> leave some
> users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward
> to another smtp
> server to deal with.
OK, this is how I would attempt it (I host full virtual domains...never
tried this though).
Get fastforward and install it as per INSTALL. It uses sendmail-style
aliases with some extensions (ie use /etc/aliases). The following is the
format:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The domain is obviously listed in virtualdomains, and all e-mail forwarded
to the alias user. The .qmail-default file for the alias user will contain
the entry to use fastforward (all this is detailed with ff). AFAIK, you can
also use (in /etc/aliases):
@virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although I haven't tried this, I think it will work.
Hope this helps
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
It seems that the aliases line suggested below,
@virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tries to forward the mail literally to $[EMAIL PROTECTED], in
other words fastforward is not substituting for the environment variable $LOCAL.
How can I put a default forwarding rule like this in aliases?
Chris Harris
System Manager
STL Ltd.
ph. 01228 512512 ext. 2211
fax 01228 514949
> > I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to
> > leave some
> > users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward
> > to another smtp
> > server to deal with.
>
> OK, this is how I would attempt it (I host full virtual domains...never
> tried this though).
>
> Get fastforward and install it as per INSTALL. It uses sendmail-style
> aliases with some extensions (ie use /etc/aliases). The following is the
> format:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The domain is obviously listed in virtualdomains, and all e-mail forwarded
> to the alias user. The .qmail-default file for the alias user will contain
> the entry to use fastforward (all this is detailed with ff). AFAIK, you can
> also use (in /etc/aliases):
>
> @virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Although I haven't tried this, I think it will work.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> /BR
>
>
> Manager
> InterPlanetary Solutions
> http://ipsware.com/
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
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>
Ah ok... the $LOCAL environment variable works fine in the .qmail files but
obviously not aliases. I suggest either reading the fastforward docs to see
if there is some way of doing this, or trying:
@virtdomain.com: @remotemxhost.somedomain.com
OR, finding some way of using .qmail(-user;-default) files and the $LOCAL
variable to do the job for you. I just tried thinking of a way of doing this
but that would be my third mini system for the morning and my just brain
isn't quite there yet...!
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: How to host a partial domain using fastforward
>
>
> It seems that the aliases line suggested below,
> @virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tries to forward the mail literally to
> $[EMAIL PROTECTED], in
> other words fastforward is not substituting for the environment
> variable $LOCAL.
>
> How can I put a default forwarding rule like this in aliases?
>
> Chris Harris
> System Manager
> STL Ltd.
> ph. 01228 512512 ext. 2211
> fax 01228 514949
>
>
> > > I am using qmail and fastforward. For a given domain, I want to
> > > leave some
> > > users' email in local mailboxes, and the rest I want to forward
> > > to another smtp
> > > server to deal with.
> >
> > OK, this is how I would attempt it (I host full virtual domains...never
> > tried this though).
> >
> > Get fastforward and install it as per INSTALL. It uses sendmail-style
> > aliases with some extensions (ie use /etc/aliases). The following is the
> > format:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The domain is obviously listed in virtualdomains, and all
> e-mail forwarded
> > to the alias user. The .qmail-default file for the alias user
> will contain
> > the entry to use fastforward (all this is detailed with ff).
> AFAIK, you can
> > also use (in /etc/aliases):
> >
> > @virtdomain.com: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Although I haven't tried this, I think it will work.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > /BR
> >
> >
> > Manager
> > InterPlanetary Solutions
> > http://ipsware.com/
> >
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > This message has been checked for all known viruses by UUNET delivered
> > through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further
> information visit
> > http://www.uk.uu.net/products/security/virus/
> >
>
>
>
Hi
Does anyone have an Idea where the message in the Subject could result
from?
I am working on getting up qmail on a SuSE system for 2 weeks now and
this one last problem seems to kill my effort. I asked for help in
comp.mail.misc, the SuSE groups and here some days ago but nobody could
help me. I made eyerything as described in Dave Sill's Life with qmail
but whenever I start qmail (qmail start) this message gomes up
repeatedly although qmail seems to work.
I plan to make a website including a description on setting up qmail on
SuSE Linux because there are some differences in starting qmail at
boottime etc.. There I will offer some "automation scripts" to make it a
bit easier for SuSE people to install qmail from the tarball.
But before this I would have to get rid of this last error.
I really do not know where else I should look.
If anyone is willing to he even can have ssh access to my test
environment.
thanks in advance
Clemens
Hello Clemens,
At 12:58 16.8.2000 +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote:
>Hi
>
>Does anyone have an Idea where the message in the Subject could result
>from?
Show us your process table: ps -aux | grep qmail
>I am working on getting up qmail on a SuSE system for 2 weeks now and
>this one last problem seems to kill my effort. I asked for help in
>comp.mail.misc, the SuSE groups and here some days ago but nobody could
>help me. I made eyerything as described in Dave Sill's Life with qmail
>but whenever I start qmail (qmail start) this message gomes up
>repeatedly although qmail seems to work.
>I plan to make a website including a description on setting up qmail on
>SuSE Linux because there are some differences in starting qmail at
>boottime etc.. There I will offer some "automation scripts" to make it a
>bit easier for SuSE people to install qmail from the tarball.
You may have a look at my Website. It includes some hints how to run qmail
on SuSE linux. An article on qmail based on my presentation at the GUUG
will be published in the next issues of the GUUG-Nachrichten.
>But before this I would have to get rid of this last error.
>I really do not know where else I should look.
>If anyone is willing to he even can have ssh access to my test
>environment.
>
>thanks in advance
>
>Clemens
cheers.
eh.
>
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> Hello Clemens,
Hi Erwin
thanks for your help
> Show us your process table: ps -aux | grep qmail
before qmail start the output is as follows:
username 767 0.0 0.3 1264 504 pts/0 S 14:18 0:00 grep qmail
after the qmail start
root 775 0.0 0.1 1012 308 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00 supervise
qmail-send
root 777 0.0 0.1 1012 308 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00 supervise
qmail-smtpd
qmaild 781 0.0 0.3 1232 584 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 505 -g 101 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmails 782 0.1 0.2 1068 396 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-send
qmaill 786 0.0 0.1 1024 308 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
/usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
root 790 0.0 0.2 1024 324 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
qmailr 791 0.0 0.1 1024 320 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-rspawn
qmailq 792 0.0 0.2 1016 344 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-clean
qmails 1290 0.0 0.1 1056 316 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-send
root 1292 0.0 0.1 1024 320 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
qmailr 1293 0.0 0.1 1024 320 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-rspawn
qmailq 1294 0.0 0.2 1016 340 pts/0 S 14:21 0:00
qmail-clean
root 1354 0.0 0.3 1268 512 pts/0 S 14:26 0:00 grep
qmail
strange thing: now the error message does no longer come up but in the
meantimeI did definitely not touch qmail. There are some other messages
about delivery problems now (I will make it I suppose ;-) but the
message complainig that the qmail-send process was already running
disappeared. As I said - I definitely did not touch anything!
What I was wonderin is the fact, that qmail-send was not running eiter
at times the error message came up.
Seems the output to be o.k. now?
Is it o.k. that any process appears twice?
> You may have a look at my Website. It includes some hints how to run qmail
> on SuSE linux.
good hints. If allowed I will link to your page.
I plan to make my page a bit more expanded, include some "all in one"
scripts which manage the complete first installation.
> An article on qmail based on my presentation at the GUUG
> will be published in the next issues of the GUUG-Nachrichten.
I am looking forward to this.
> cheers.
thanks
Clemens
Hi,
the error is up again. I rebooted, rebooted without starting qmail
before, nothing works. Whenever i start qmail (qmail start) it seems to
start o.k srvscan and loging and 2 seconds later the well nown error
message (see subject) is repeated over and over.
There still is no qmail-send process up before and I did not change
anything in the meantime.
Clemens
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On 16 Aug 2000, at 14:51, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> the error is up again. I rebooted, rebooted without starting qmail
> before, nothing works. Whenever i start qmail (qmail start) it seems
> to start o.k srvscan and loging and 2 seconds later the well nown
> error message (see subject) is repeated over and over.
What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean,
you're obviously using svscan and supervise; what does the
DIR/run file look like? If it starts other file (like /var/qmail/rc), what
does _that_ file look like? Please make sure that you're not putting
anything into background ('&' at the end of the line) - supervise
thinks your program has died when it detaches and tries to
respawn it.
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[Tom Waits]
Hi Petr
thanks for assisting me solving the problem.
> What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean,
> you're obviously using svscan and supervise;
yes, I made everything 100% as described in Dave Sills Life with qmail.
There it is described that way ;-)
> what does the
> DIR/run file look like?
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run:
#!/bin/sh
exec /var/qmail/rc
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
/var/log/qmail
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run:
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 4000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
-u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
2>&1
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run file:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t
/var/log/qmail/smtpd
exactly as described in LWQ
the /var/qmail/rc file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
# Using stdout for logging
# Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by
default
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"
the /sbin/init.d/qmail start script is this one:
http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script-dt61.txt
> If it starts other file (like /var/qmail/rc), what
> does _that_ file look like?
I hope I included everything you wanted in this reply. If not I did
anything as describen in LWQ.
> Please make sure that you're not putting
> anything into background ('&' at the end of the line)
doesn't look like.
I took the files from LWQ by copy'n paste to make sure there is no
typing mistake
> - supervise
> thinks your program has died when it detaches and tries to
> respawn it.
thanks
Clemens
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On 16 Aug 2000, at 15:26, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> > What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean,
> > you're obviously using svscan and supervise;
>
> yes, I made everything 100% as described in Dave Sills Life with
> qmail. There it is described that way ;-)
Well, that's somewhat strange; the setup described in Lwq doesn't
behave the way you see.
You may want to try the following:
1. Kill svscan.
2. Stop or kill supervise processes
3. Stop or kill qmail-send and wait for it to die.
4. Do "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/".
If error start appearing in point #4, try to find out more; try to strace
the supervise process, try to put strace inside the "run" script
(around qmail-start).
Bottom line: What you describe should work, perfectly. Either your
description or your system is buggy. :-)
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[Tom Waits]
Thx for Chris J. for explaining why rblsmtpd stopped working with
relays.mail-abuse.org.
Such emergencies I think just really show the necessity to simplify
"rbl" lookups. Namely, I think rblsmtpd/rbldns should work in such a
way that any mail administrator should be able to set up a local
mirror of mail-abuse.org. This means, there should not be a need to
have a domain delegated to the rbldns server.
So what if there was a flag `R" to rblsmtpd so that
rblsmtpd -R a.b.c
would mean in essence "check the connecting IP at the server a.b.c running
rbldns".
BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups,
but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software
using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database
of IP numbers, and send an appropriate response? A client might be
similarly simple to implement using tcpclient.
Mate
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups,
> but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software
> using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database
> of IP numbers, and send an appropriate response? A client might be
> similarly simple to implement using tcpclient.
That would not allow for the rapid changes necessary in a blackhole
list. Imagine you are an ISP with several thousand customers. Through
an oversight, your mail server is blacklisted. Would you rather wait
for the tens or hundreds of thousands of sysadmins out there
administering mail servers to remove you from their blackhole list or
just submit it to the maintainer of the list and have it fixed in minute
or hours?
Ben
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:55:53AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>
> > BTWY, I know many people are attached to using DNS for rbl lookups,
> > but would not it be relatively simple to implement a server software
> > using tcpserver that would just lookup an IP number in a .cdb database
> > of IP numbers, and send an appropriate response? A client might be
> > similarly simple to implement using tcpclient.
>
> That would not allow for the rapid changes necessary in a blackhole
> list. Imagine you are an ISP with several thousand customers. Through
> an oversight, your mail server is blacklisted. Would you rather wait
> for the tens or hundreds of thousands of sysadmins out there
> administering mail servers to remove you from their blackhole list or
> just submit it to the maintainer of the list and have it fixed in minute
> or hours?
I do not understand this comment: it seems you are arguing against the
very existence of rbldns. And I was asking if rbldns could be
implemented in a less restrictive way---without the need for a domain
delegation. As a separate but related question, I was also asking if
DNS needs to be involved in the first place.
The fact is a few thousand mail servers running rblsmtpd cannot use
relays.mail-abuse.org. So now they all have to apply for a domain so
that they can use rbldns. Or they can start patching rblsmtpd to use
A records---until relays.mail-abuse.org will change the record
structure again.
To address your concern: a reasonable site running rbldns would
transfer the zone from relays.mail-abuse.org frequently, so a change
at relays.mail-abuse.org would propagate to the mirrors quite quickly.
Mate
Hi
I need to have qmail send a copy of the messages for a local e-mail
address to another email address.
How is this done?
10x
Anton G. Popov
> I need to have qmail send a copy of the messages for a local e-mail
> address to another email address.
This is one of those e-mails which shouldn't have to be answered...providing
you have read FAQ etc
man dot-forward
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
What am I saying? :>
man dot-qmail
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
No, there are no single dots in any of the messages I've checked. The
thing that a majority (all?) of the messages have in common is that they
contain MIME-attached Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This is not to say
that all emails with Excel attachments choke, but if a client does choke
on it there's a 90% or greater chance that it has an Excel spreadsheet.
It appears that Outlook does download some of the message, but dies in the
middle.
A significant number of people who are having this problem are dialing in
to our network, but it is not exclusive to dial-up users.
I myself have started using Outlook 2000. I've tried copying these files
to my Maildir as well as qmail-injecting the messages to my email account,
but I have yet to experience this problem myself. Even when using
fetchmail I have no problems.
But of course the users are getting tired of the "well it works for
me" line.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Cyril Bitterich wrote:
> Hi Albert.
>
> Albert Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > No the headers are fine.
>
> Have a look at the messages in the Maildir and check for s single dot in
> a line taht is follwed by a linefeed.
> Something like this:
> .
>
> You can search for it easily by executing the following command:
> grep "^[\.]" *
>
> Usually the dot followed by the newline is the sign for the pop-client
> that the end of the message is reached. But in some cases the message
> goes on and the mailer gets stuck.
> Usually every MUA sending such a line in the middle of a message should
> exchange it with a
> ..
> And the receiving Mailer should convert it back to
> .
> again.
>
> I know this to be a problem with certain Versions of Outlook. But I
> didn't find the mailer that sends the malformed lines.
>
> > > > Does anyone else experience this? We randomly and unpredictably have
> > > > an occurrance whereby Outlook (2000) is unable to POP a message from
> > > > our (qmail) pop server. When I look in the users Maildir I see that
> > > > it's always dying on the same message.
>
> I hope that this helpes you.
>
> Cyril Bitterich
>
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Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Laboratories
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
-Walter Winchell
Has anyone had a similar problem with qmailadmin & vpopmail? I am
unable to change the pop3 account passwords via the web interface. I get
the message 'Failed to change password'
All the permisions & ownerships on the qmailadmin cgi seem correct as
everything else works fine. I can change the passwords manually using
vpasswd, so I don't think the problem lies there.
Any ideas?
Iain Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello friend... I am from Peru
I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but
I would like use MYSQL as database of my users
because I need have username majors of 8 characters
and my system no could be.
Where is these information?
What is LDAP?
Mysql 3.22.32 is very good with QMAIL?
or need install other server database?
I am studying all about qmail MTA, but
need help for my change of sendmail ...
I Would like run to 100% Qmail...
What is the best Agent local od Qmail?.. The procmail?
JUAN ENCISO
> Hello friend... I am from Peru
> I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but
> I would like use MYSQL as database of my users
> because I need have username majors of 8 characters
> and my system no could be.
>
> Where is these information?
> What is LDAP?
http://www.openldap.org
http://www.nrg4u.com/
I am a big fan of ldap if you can't tell :) It is really nice, because not
only can you use it for email, you can use it for ftp, login or anything
that supports pam and don't have to maintain 2 or 3 separate files and
databases for users account.
I will warning you now, setuping up OpenLDAP to work with Qmail will take
some time, but IMHO I think it is worth it.
Jack
>
> Mysql 3.22.32 is very good with QMAIL?
> or need install other server database?
>
> I am studying all about qmail MTA, but
> need help for my change of sendmail ...
> I Would like run to 100% Qmail...
> What is the best Agent local od Qmail?.. The procmail?
>
>
> JUAN ENCISO
>
>
The most-frequently used way to do this is with LDAP or vpopmail (both
well-used, "non-standard" qmail modifications).
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hello friend... I am from Peru
> I need change of Sendmail to Qmail agent MTA, but
> I would like use MYSQL as database of my users
> because I need have username majors of 8 characters
> and my system no could be.
>
> Where is these information?
> What is LDAP?
>
> Mysql 3.22.32 is very good with QMAIL?
> or need install other server database?
One of my users today told me he was not using Outlook but Netscape, and
it would always stop on message #6 and then hang eventually saying there
was a problem with the server and to contact the sysadmin. So it appears
that this may not be just an Outlook issue.
As always, I copied message #6 to my Maildir and received it without
incident. The message contains an Excel spreadsheet
(Application/X-MSEXCEL). It's 683KB in size. I can't submit it as it
contains sensitive company data.
We run qmail-popup as follows:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.dynacare.com \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d-log Maildir \
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd &
--
Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Laboratories
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
-Dennis Green
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On 16 Aug 2000, at 10:22, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> One of my users today told me he was not using Outlook but Netscape,
> and it would always stop on message #6 and then hang eventually saying
> there was a problem with the server and to contact the sysadmin. So
> it appears that this may not be just an Outlook issue.
There has been this issue with Netscape: If you were downloading
a large e-mail by POP-3, it would still make new periodic POP-3
connections to check for new mail (like once a minute or so!).
According to RFC, when the second POP-3 connection is opened
to the same mailbox, the first should die with "Kiss of death" or so.
(I don't know if qmail-pop3d does that, though. I have seen lots of
"kiss of death" complaints with ipop3d.) I thought it was fixed with
recent-enough POP-3 clients...
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http://www.antek.cz
PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F
-- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk.
[Tom Waits]
i am running qmail on my system but i am getting sendmail messages in the
log
here's part of the log
***********************************************************************
Aug 15 09:51:46 mail2 sendmail[9327]: JAA09325: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:30, mailer=esmtp,
relay=smtp.digiweb.com. [216.205.129.200], stat=Sent (JAA11005 Message
accepted for delivery)
Aug 16 11:04:33 mail2 sendmail[9690]: LAA09690: from=root, size=12,
class=0, pri=30012, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=root@localhost
Aug 16 11:04:33 mail2 sendmail[9690]: LAA09690: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122], stat=Sent (LAA07785 Message
accepted for delivery)
Aug 16 11:05:18 mail2 sendmail[9693]: LAA09693: from=root, size=96,
class=0, pri=30096, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=root@localhost
Aug 16 11:05:19 mail2 sendmail[9695]: LAA09693: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122], stat=Sent (LAA07798 Message
accepted for delivery)
***********************************************************************
can someone help me, why sendmail is used to send mail although qmail is
running.
Sonam Wangchuk
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>can someone help me, why sendmail is used to send mail although qmail is
>running.
Because you didn't replace /usr/lib/sendmail and/or /usr/sbin/sendmail
with symlinks to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
-Dave
> I am running qmail on my system but i am getting sendmail messages in the log
>
> here's part of the log
[cut]
> Aug 16 11:05:19 mail2 sendmail[9695]: LAA09693: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
> relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122], stat=Sent (LAA07798 Message
> accepted for delivery)
> ***********************************************************************
>
> can someone help me,
> why sendmail is used to send mail although qmail is running.
This is the sendmail "client" who is sending mail OUT,
if you replaced *bin/sendmail with the QMAIL version of sendmail
this would not be happening.
You could also find out what program you are using that uses sendmail,
and perhaps make it use qmail-inject insted...
MVH Andr� Paulsberg
Maybe you didn't disable the sendmail binary, per the installation
instructions.
Maybe in combination you didn't remove sendmail from the init scripts, so it
started up on a reboot.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: mail sendmail
>
>
>
> i am running qmail on my system but i am getting sendmail
> messages in the
> log
>
> here's part of the log
>
> **************************************************************
> *********
> Aug 15 09:51:46 mail2 sendmail[9327]: JAA09325:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:30, mailer=esmtp,
> relay=smtp.digiweb.com. [216.205.129.200], stat=Sent (JAA11005 Message
> accepted for delivery)
> Aug 16 11:04:33 mail2 sendmail[9690]: LAA09690: from=root, size=12,
> class=0, pri=30012, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=root@localhost
> Aug 16 11:04:33 mail2 sendmail[9690]: LAA09690:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:07, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,
> relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122], stat=Sent
> (LAA07785 Message
> accepted for delivery)
> Aug 16 11:05:18 mail2 sendmail[9693]: LAA09693: from=root, size=96,
> class=0, pri=30096, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=root@localhost
> Aug 16 11:05:19 mail2 sendmail[9695]: LAA09693:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> ctladdr=root (0/1), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp,
> relay=mail.conde-dev.com. [206.136.72.122], stat=Sent
> (LAA07798 Message
> accepted for delivery)
> **************************************************************
> *********
>
> can someone help me, why sendmail is used to send mail
> although qmail is
> running.
>
>
> Sonam Wangchuk
> e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error
qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full
bash-2.03# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d8 144367 80870 49061 63% /
/dev/md/dsk/d4 962542 431212 473578 48% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/md/dsk/d3 1488463 975057 453868 69% /var
/dev/md/dsk/d7 914662 448508 411275 53% /home
/dev/md/dsk/d5 481263 13025 420112 4% /opt
/dev/md/dsk/d6 1488463 857436 571489 61% /usr/local
/dev/md/dsk/d9 3079006 358027 2659399 12% /logs
swap 2661984 54736 2607248 3% /tmp
Sonam Wangchuk
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check your inode usage. (df -i)
Same thing just happened to us...
Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error
> qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
>
> can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full
>
> bash-2.03# df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/md/dsk/d8 144367 80870 49061 63% /
> /dev/md/dsk/d4 962542 431212 473578 48% /usr
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/md/dsk/d3 1488463 975057 453868 69% /var
> /dev/md/dsk/d7 914662 448508 411275 53% /home
> /dev/md/dsk/d5 481263 13025 420112 4% /opt
> /dev/md/dsk/d6 1488463 857436 571489 61% /usr/local
> /dev/md/dsk/d9 3079006 358027 2659399 12% /logs
> swap 2661984 54736 2607248 3% /tmp
>
> Sonam Wangchuk
> e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Paul Guglielmino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Look into the 'write error' part.
Have you checked your array with fsck or whatever utility you have for
error checking?
Paul Farber
Farber Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph 570-628-5303
Fax 570-628-5545
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error
> qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
>
> can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full
>
> bash-2.03# df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/md/dsk/d8 144367 80870 49061 63% /
> /dev/md/dsk/d4 962542 431212 473578 48% /usr
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/md/dsk/d3 1488463 975057 453868 69% /var
> /dev/md/dsk/d7 914662 448508 411275 53% /home
> /dev/md/dsk/d5 481263 13025 420112 4% /opt
> /dev/md/dsk/d6 1488463 857436 571489 61% /usr/local
> /dev/md/dsk/d9 3079006 358027 2659399 12% /logs
> swap 2661984 54736 2607248 3% /tmp
>
>
> Sonam Wangchuk
> e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
actually the mail started working when i tried to compress /var/log/syslog
but now i am getting
Aug 16 13:28:37 mail1 qmail: 966446917.031032 alert: unable to append to
bounce message; HELP! sleeping...
any thoughts!!!
Sonam Wangchuk
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Paul Farber wrote:
> Look into the 'write error' part.
>
> Have you checked your array with fsck or whatever utility you have for
> error checking?
>
>
>
> Paul Farber
> Farber Technology
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ph 570-628-5303
> Fax 570-628-5545
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > While trying to send mail to a mailing list we get this error
> > qmail-inject: fatal: qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)
> >
> > can anyone help me why this is happening. the disk is not full
> >
> > bash-2.03# df -k
> > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/md/dsk/d8 144367 80870 49061 63% /
> > /dev/md/dsk/d4 962542 431212 473578 48% /usr
> > /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> > fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> > /dev/md/dsk/d3 1488463 975057 453868 69% /var
> > /dev/md/dsk/d7 914662 448508 411275 53% /home
> > /dev/md/dsk/d5 481263 13025 420112 4% /opt
> > /dev/md/dsk/d6 1488463 857436 571489 61% /usr/local
> > /dev/md/dsk/d9 3079006 358027 2659399 12% /logs
> > swap 2661984 54736 2607248 3% /tmp
> >
> >
> > Sonam Wangchuk
> > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> actually the mail started working when i tried to compress /var/log/syslog
> but now i am getting
>
> Aug 16 13:28:37 mail1 qmail: 966446917.031032 alert: unable to append to
> bounce message; HELP! sleeping...
>
> any thoughts!!!
I bet you have a HUGE piece of email in the queue. Go thru the queue
dirs looking for large files. Something like this may help find it:
# find /var/qmail/queue -type f -size +2048kc | xargs grep ls -l
Vince.
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128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking
Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com
Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com
==========================================================================
Anyone noticed a spike in the last month in spam from Network
Solutions?
I'm thinking about adding some of their domains to my badmailfrom
as neither orbs nor maps seems to be blocking this spam.
Anyone paying better attention than I to the source of this spam?
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Beuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> If you review the man page for qmail-smtpd, it will explain
> the usage of
> "concurrencyremote" which should solve your problem.
Ben, that doesn't make sense.
First of all, from man qmail-control
concurrencylocal 10 qmail-send
concurrencyremote 20 qmail-send
these files are controlled by qmail-send
Secondly, concurrency of qmail-smtpd is configured by
whatever-the-hay-starts-qmail-smtpd, in my system that's tcpserver. From
tcpserver's man page:
OPTIONS
-climit
Do not handle more than limit simultaneous connec�
tions. If there are limit simultaneous copies of
program running, defer acceptance of a new connec�
tion until one copy finishes. limit must be a pos�
itive integer. Default: 40.
So I try to look up the error code in netscape. From the source online I
found these POP3 codes, below. Dale - can you identify which error message
it is? From that we can track down when its generated, and see why it might
be generated.
David
473 /* #define MK_POP3_SERVER_ERROR -311 generic pop3 error code
*/
474 ResDef(MK_POP3_SERVER_ERROR, -311,
475 "An error occurred with the POP3 mail server.\n\
476 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
477 or try again later.")
478
479 /* #define MK_POP3_USERNAME_UNDEFINED -312 no username defined */
480 ResDef(MK_POP3_USERNAME_UNDEFINED, -312,
481 MOZ_NAME_BRAND" is unable to use the mail server because\n\
482 you have not provided a username. Please provide\n\
483 one in the preferences and try again")
484
485 /* #define MK_POP3_PASSWORD_UNDEFINED -313 no password defined */
486 ResDef(MK_POP3_PASSWORD_UNDEFINED, -313,
487 "Error getting mail password.")
488
489 /* #define MK_POP3_USERNAME_FAILURE -314 failure in USER step
*/
490 ResDef(MK_POP3_USERNAME_FAILURE, -314,
491 "An error occurred while sending your user name to the mail server.\n\
492 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
493 or try again later.")
494
495 /* #define MK_POP3_PASSWORD_FAILURE -315 failure in PASS step
*/
496 ResDef(MK_POP3_PASSWORD_FAILURE, -315,
497 "An error occurred while sending your password to the mail server.\n\
498 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
499 or try again later.")
500
501 /* #define MK_POP3_NO_MESSAGES -316 no mail messages on
pop server */
502 ResDef(MK_POP3_NO_MESSAGES, -316,
503 "There are no new messages on the server.")
504
505 /* #define MK_POP3_LIST_FAILURE -317 LIST command failed */
506 ResDef(MK_POP3_LIST_FAILURE, -317,
507 "An error occurred while listing messages on the POP3 mail server.\n\
508 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
509 or try again later.")
510
511 /* #define MK_POP3_LAST_FAILURE -318 LAST command failed */
512 ResDef(MK_POP3_LAST_FAILURE, -318,
513 "An error occurred while querying the POP3 mail server for\n\
514 the last processed message.\n\
515 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
516 or try again later.")
517
518
519 /* #define MK_POP3_RETR_FAILURE -319 RETR command failed,
continues */
520 ResDef(MK_POP3_RETR_FAILURE, -319,
521 "An error occurred while getting messages from the POP3 mail server.\n\
522 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
523 or try again later.")
524
525 /* #define MK_POP3_DELE_FAILURE -320 DELE command failed */
526 ResDef(MK_POP3_DELE_FAILURE, -320,
527 "An error occurred while removing messages from the POP3 mail server.\n\
528 You should contact the administrator for this server\n\
529 or try again later.")
530
531 /* #define MK_POP3_OUT_OF_DISK_SPACE -321 */
532 ResDef(MK_POP3_OUT_OF_DISK_SPACE, -321,
533 "There isn't enough room on the local disk to download\n\
534 your mail from the POP3 mail server. Please make room and\n\
535 try again. (The `Empty Trash' and `Compress This Folder'\n\
536 commands may recover some space.)")
537
538 /* #define MK_POP3_MESSAGE_WRITE_ERROR -322 */
539 ResDef(MK_POP3_MESSAGE_WRITE_ERROR, -322,
540 "An error occurred while saving mail messages.")
"Ihnen, David" wrote:
> Ben, that doesn't make sense.
>
> First of all, from man qmail-control
>
> concurrencylocal 10 qmail-send
> concurrencyremote 20 qmail-send
>
> these files are controlled by qmail-send
>
> Secondly, concurrency of qmail-smtpd is configured by
> whatever-the-hay-starts-qmail-smtpd, in my system that's tcpserver. From
> tcpserver's man page:
>
> OPTIONS
> -climit
> Do not handle more than limit simultaneous connec�
> tions. If there are limit simultaneous copies of
> program running, defer acceptance of a new connec�
> tion until one copy finishes. limit must be a pos�
> itive integer. Default: 40.
>
> So I try to look up the error code in netscape. From the source online I
> found these POP3 codes, below. Dale - can you identify which error message
> it is? From that we can track down when its generated, and see why it might
> be generated.
>
> David
>
> 473 /* #define MK_POP3_SERVER_ERROR -311 generic pop3 error code
> */
When the user is trying to send mail he gets this error in a regular
windows type dialog box in netscape "mail server responded 4.7.1 please
try again later. Please verify that your email address is correct in
your mail preferences and try again". He waits a little while and tries
again and it will go through fine. Could you post the smtp error
codes?
>From what I was able to gather is this. I have noticed that the
concurrencyremote in my log is at 20 quite a bit. You would see
deliveries like 20/20, 20/20, 20/20, 19/20, 20,20, 20,20 19,20 it seems
like when it delivers a message it gets another one to deliver.
Depending on the back log it could take a couple hours to get the count
below 20. I compared the times that he couldn't send and found that
Tcpserver is logging his ip and connection but qmail-smtpd deffers his
connection apparently because I never see a message injected at that
time/date. I also noticed that it has been in between times where there
is a heavy back log of mail (where the concurrency for remote was 20/20
for an extended period of time) which meant his mail wasn't accepted
because it was already at 20 connections. I have seen in the log where
the delivery numbers ( I made sure they were the same e-mail, saw that
qmail will reuse deliver numbers) are back quite a bit. For example
messages 504 to 517 are injected mean while delivery 483 was just
completed....so there is a back log of 30 some messages.
I am going to get qmail-mrtg and see what it says about my maillog
hopefully in more detail that I can do with grep and joe (wordstar like
editor for unix) vi just got to annoying to me but works in a pinch.
Thanks,
--
Dale Miracle
System Administrator
Teoi Virtual Web Hosting
Dale:
Although your remote concurrency DOES appear to be a problem, I do not
believe this is the problem encountered by the netscape user.
If you have extended periods of time during which you have 20/20 connections
used, by all means, raise the remote concurrency limit. I keep mine at 120,
and the only time its reached that was intermittently and very briefly while
clearing a 3 day mail backup.
So, I used what you said and looked at the source of netscape. That error
text is NS_SENDING_FROM_ERROR_COMMAND - and is only called when
A. MAIL From: command has been sent
and
B. a 250 response code is not returned
According to the qmail-smtpd source, when you send a mail command this is
run:
void smtp_mail(arg) char *arg;
{
if (!addrparse(arg)) { err_syntax(); return; }
flagbarf = bmfcheck();
seenmail = 1;
if (!stralloc_copys(&rcptto,"")) die_nomem();
if (!stralloc_copys(&mailfrom,addr.s)) die_nomem();
if (!stralloc_0(&mailfrom)) die_nomem();
out("250 ok\r\n");
}
I checked - of bmfcheck and addrparse and err_syntax, die_nomem only
err_syntax and die_nomem can return something to the user, and that is
void err_syntax() { out("555 syntax error (#5.5.4)\r\n"); }
and
void die_nomem() { out("421 out of memory (#4.3.0)\r\n"); flush(); _exit(1);
}
Neither of which have anything to do with 4.7.1 - which isn't a defined
error code in any of the qmail programs.
SO - My conclusion is that the system *MUST* be talking to some other
service, than qmail-smtpd, or it would say something more like "syntax error
(#5.5.4)" or "out of memory (#4.3.0)", rather than just "4.7.1".
Troubleshoot the client's settings and the IP path. Maybe its trading off
to different smtp servers? Maybe the dns or IP he's going to maps to more
than one server?
Of course, my source analysis may be flawed, and I invite all to look it
over.
Netscape source: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/search
David (who is having more fun that he probably is allowed to.)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Miracle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: Ihnen, David
> Cc: qmail list
> Subject: Re: 4.7.1 error reported to netscape mail client
>
>
> "Ihnen, David" wrote:
> > Ben, that doesn't make sense.
> >
> > First of all, from man qmail-control
> >
> > concurrencylocal 10 qmail-send
> > concurrencyremote 20 qmail-send
> >
> > these files are controlled by qmail-send
> >
> > Secondly, concurrency of qmail-smtpd is configured by
> > whatever-the-hay-starts-qmail-smtpd, in my system that's
> tcpserver. From
> > tcpserver's man page:
> >
> > OPTIONS
> > -climit
> > Do not handle more than limit simultaneous connec�
> > tions. If there are limit simultaneous copies of
> > program running, defer acceptance of a new connec�
> > tion until one copy finishes. limit must be a pos�
> > itive integer. Default: 40.
> >
> > So I try to look up the error code in netscape. From the
> source online I
> > found these POP3 codes, below. Dale - can you identify
> which error message
> > it is? From that we can track down when its generated, and
> see why it might
> > be generated.
> >
> > David
> >
> > 473 /* #define MK_POP3_SERVER_ERROR -311
> generic pop3 error code
> > */
>
> When the user is trying to send mail he gets this error in a regular
> windows type dialog box in netscape "mail server responded
> 4.7.1 please
> try again later. Please verify that your email address is correct in
> your mail preferences and try again". He waits a little
> while and tries
> again and it will go through fine. Could you post the smtp error
> codes?
> From what I was able to gather is this. I have noticed that the
> concurrencyremote in my log is at 20 quite a bit. You would see
> deliveries like 20/20, 20/20, 20/20, 19/20, 20,20, 20,20
> 19,20 it seems
> like when it delivers a message it gets another one to deliver.
> Depending on the back log it could take a couple hours to get
> the count
> below 20. I compared the times that he couldn't send and found that
> Tcpserver is logging his ip and connection but qmail-smtpd deffers his
> connection apparently because I never see a message injected at that
> time/date. I also noticed that it has been in between times
> where there
> is a heavy back log of mail (where the concurrency for remote
> was 20/20
> for an extended period of time) which meant his mail wasn't accepted
> because it was already at 20 connections. I have seen in the
> log where
> the delivery numbers ( I made sure they were the same e-mail, saw that
> qmail will reuse deliver numbers) are back quite a bit. For example
> messages 504 to 517 are injected mean while delivery 483 was just
> completed....so there is a back log of 30 some messages.
>
> I am going to get qmail-mrtg and see what it says about my maillog
> hopefully in more detail that I can do with grep and joe
> (wordstar like
> editor for unix) vi just got to annoying to me but works in a pinch.
> Thanks,
> --
>
> Dale Miracle
> System Administrator
> Teoi Virtual Web Hosting
>
"Ihnen, David" wrote:
>
> Dale:
>
> Although your remote concurrency DOES appear to be a problem, I do not
> believe this is the problem encountered by the netscape user.
>
> If you have extended periods of time during which you have 20/20 connections
> used, by all means, raise the remote concurrency limit. I keep mine at 120,
> and the only time its reached that was intermittently and very briefly while
> clearing a 3 day mail backup.
>
> So, I used what you said and looked at the source of netscape. That error
> text is NS_SENDING_FROM_ERROR_COMMAND - and is only called when
>
> A. MAIL From: command has been sent
> and
> B. a 250 response code is not returned
>
> According to the qmail-smtpd source, when you send a mail command this is
> run:
>
> void smtp_mail(arg) char *arg;
> {
> if (!addrparse(arg)) { err_syntax(); return; }
> flagbarf = bmfcheck();
> seenmail = 1;
> if (!stralloc_copys(&rcptto,"")) die_nomem();
> if (!stralloc_copys(&mailfrom,addr.s)) die_nomem();
> if (!stralloc_0(&mailfrom)) die_nomem();
> out("250 ok\r\n");
> }
>
> I checked - of bmfcheck and addrparse and err_syntax, die_nomem only
> err_syntax and die_nomem can return something to the user, and that is
>
> void err_syntax() { out("555 syntax error (#5.5.4)\r\n"); }
>
> and
>
> void die_nomem() { out("421 out of memory (#4.3.0)\r\n"); flush(); _exit(1);
> }
>
> Neither of which have anything to do with 4.7.1 - which isn't a defined
> error code in any of the qmail programs.
>
> SO - My conclusion is that the system *MUST* be talking to some other
> service, than qmail-smtpd, or it would say something more like "syntax error
> (#5.5.4)" or "out of memory (#4.3.0)", rather than just "4.7.1".
>
> Troubleshoot the client's settings and the IP path. Maybe its trading off
> to different smtp servers? Maybe the dns or IP he's going to maps to more
> than one server?
>
> Of course, my source analysis may be flawed, and I invite all to look it
> over.
>
> Netscape source: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/search
>
> David (who is having more fun that he probably is allowed to.)
Thanks for looking that up. I set my concurrency remote to 120 so that
should take care of the back log during busy periods. Hopefully that
will also get rid of this problem. I talked with the user and he ok
with it he just thought it was odd that it was doing that. I think what
could be happening is some sort of delay or routing problem between his
isp and my server. I am going to keep an eye on it and see what
happens. Netscape does do wierd things sometimes.
Too much fun never hurt anyone unless you are one of those darwin award
winners where you tried to make your car break the sound barrier and was
last seen passing mars. :)
--
Dale Miracle
System Administrator
Teoi Virtual Web Hosting
Quoting Tim Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> As I replied to Aaron out of band, I was not having a relay problem with
> QMail. The problem was an old sendmail installation. I spend a bit of time
Ahh, sendmaul. Gotta love it. Well, congrats and welcome to the
elite :)
Aaron
Hey all
What's the highest any of you have set your -c tcpserver option to. (-c
is the max amt of concurrent connections.) I have a machine that is
accepting a TON of mail and lot is being deferred and the machine is
thinking it's being SYN flooded as tcpserver isn't accepting the
connections (I had it at the default 40 which I've since found was a bad
idea.) I've preliminarily raised it to 250, but I'm curious what's the
highest I can set it to? This machine is a dual 450MHz PIII with 1024MB
of RAM.
Thanks in advance!
- T
--
Tyler J. Frederick
Systems Administrator
Sportsline.com, Inc.
Hello,
Can someone share with me how to customize the bounce messages and any other
default message wordings?
The system messages are thoughtful and all, but a little overly so for me.
:)
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yoda.worldevolution.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
Thanks,
> Da M. Kadre
> Sony Technology Center, ISSA
> Rancho Bernardo, Ca
> (858) 942-9999
>
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go
through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."
--Mildred W. Struven
"Kadre, Da" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone share with me how to customize the bounce messages and any other
>default message wordings?
The only way to do that is to modify the source code and rebuild. If
you do modify the bounce message, *please* make sure your modification
conforms to QSBMF, which is documented here:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/qsbmf.txt
Failure to do so will break various bounce handlers that understand
QSBMF.
-Dave
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: not a directory.
Cannot retrieve info, any other info?
Da
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Customizing default system responses??
"Kadre, Da" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone share with me how to customize the bounce messages and any
other
>default message wordings?
The only way to do that is to modify the source code and rebuild. If
you do modify the bounce message, *please* make sure your modification
conforms to QSBMF, which is documented here:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/qsbmf.txt
Failure to do so will break various bounce handlers that understand
QSBMF.
-Dave
From: "Kadre, Da" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:25:37 -0700
550 Sorry, I can't open that file: not a directory.
Cannot retrieve info, any other info?
Dave's suggestion works for me. However, you may have better luck with
http://cr.yp.to/proto/qsbmf.txt
Ian
Sorry if this question is in a FAQ somewhere, I couldn't find it
answered anywhere.
We are moving from sendmail to qmail and are quite happy with the
results except for one thing. Even with fastforward, we can't get all
our aliases to work properly. Basically, we have lots of entries in
/etc/aliases that are of the form
username: \username, support_manager
The support_manager account gets copies of all incoming mail to these
accounts. This isn't quite the intrusion that it might seem. Email
accounts for personal use are provided and not snooped on. This just
helps us make sure that customers problems are being resolved.
Anyway, because username is a valid login on the machine, fastforward is
never invoked. Is there any way to change make qmail do what I want?
Changing the actual login names would work (duh), but isn't an option at
our company. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:04:42PM -0700, R. Benjamin Shapiro wrote:
> The support_manager account gets copies of all incoming mail to these
> accounts. This isn't quite the intrusion that it might seem. Email
> accounts for personal use are provided and not snooped on. This just
> helps us make sure that customers problems are being resolved.
>
> Anyway, because username is a valid login on the machine, fastforward is
> never invoked. Is there any way to change make qmail do what I want?
>
> Changing the actual login names would work (duh), but isn't an option at
> our company. Any ideas?
I don't think this is possible with fastforward. However, you could add
.qmail files to each user's homedir with the correct instructions.
Ben
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Is it wise to run auth/identd on an email gateway?
Thanks,
John
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Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 http://www.johncon.com
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mail-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:55:22PM -0000, John Conover wrote:
> Is it wise to run auth/identd on an email gateway?
It's up to you. Since your gateway software probably always runs as the
same user, the ident conveys no additional information.
---Chris K.
--
Chris, the Young One |_ but what's a dropped message between friends?
Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H.
http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >For example, I've defined a user, Jim.Morley. When I send test
> >msgs to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the Qmail Mailer-
> >Daemon returns "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name."
>
> qmail doesn't deliver mail to users whose usernames contain uppercase
> letters. See:
>
> http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#uppercase-usernames
>
> -Dave
>
So would it work to create an alias in /var/qmail/alias/ with a lower
case version to forward it to the uppercase version? Or would this
still get caught by the lowercase conversion?
--
David Benfell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ 59438240 [e-mail first for access]
---
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard
[from fortune]
On a machine with multiple IP addresses bound to one NIC, is it possible
to control which IP address qmail will use for incoming and/or outgoing SMTP
connections? For POP3?
steve
replace the
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
with something like this
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
same with your pop3 startup file.
Sean Truman
www.prodigysolutions.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: qmail and IP addresses.....
>
>
> On a machine with multiple IP addresses bound to one NIC, is it
possible
> to control which IP address qmail will use for incoming and/or outgoing
SMTP
> connections? For POP3?
>
> steve
Please read up on your programs..
tcpserver opts host port prog
opts is a series of getopt-style options. host is one argument. port is one
argument. prog consists of one or more arguments.
tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it
runs prog, with descriptor 0 reading from the network and descriptor 1
writing to the network. It also sets up several environment variables.
The server's address is given by host and port. port may be a name from
/etc/services or a number; if it is 0, tcpserver will choose a free TCP
port. host may be 0, allowing connections to any local IP address; or a
dotted-decimal IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or a
host name, allowing connections to the first IP address for that host. Host
names are fed through qualification using dns_ip4_qualify.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sean C Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; qmail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: qmail and IP addresses.....
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
>
> > replace the
> > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> > with something like this
> > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> > same with your pop3 startup file.
>
> That will only allow hosts with the address 199.111.111.111 to connect,
> not connections to that address. To only allow connections to a
> particular address you'll have to play some games using TCPREMOTEHOST.
>
> Vince.
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>
Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
> > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
> That will only allow hosts with the address 199.111.111.111 to connect,
> not connections to that address.
You have that backwards. The command line will work as given above.
Controlling where connections can come from is done with tcprules.
paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
> Please read up on your programs..
>
> tcpserver opts host port prog
>
> opts is a series of getopt-style options. host is one argument. port is one
> argument. prog consists of one or more arguments.
> tcpserver waits for connections from TCP clients. For each connection, it
> runs prog, with descriptor 0 reading from the network and descriptor 1
> writing to the network. It also sets up several environment variables.
>
> The server's address is given by host and port. port may be a name from
> /etc/services or a number; if it is 0, tcpserver will choose a free TCP
> port. host may be 0, allowing connections to any local IP address; or a
> dotted-decimal IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or a
> host name, allowing connections to the first IP address for that host. Host
> names are fed through qualification using dns_ip4_qualify.
I must have a real old man page:
The server's address is given by host and port. host can
be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular
IP address...
Yours says "to", mine says "from". I just tried it and I stand corrected.
Vince.
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
> replace the
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> with something like this
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> same with your pop3 startup file.
That will only allow hosts with the address 199.111.111.111 to connect,
not connections to that address. To only allow connections to a
particular address you'll have to play some games using TCPREMOTEHOST.
Vince.
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Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com
Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com
==========================================================================
> > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
> >
> > > replace the
> > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> > > with something like this
> > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
could I then change this to the following?
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
for one instance of qmail and
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.112 smtp /var/qmail2/bin/qmail-smtpd
for a second instance on the same server running w/ 2 IPs?
(assuming i have a load balancer sending mail to both IPs)
currently i'm using the load balancer to redirect port 25 traffic to another
port
for the second instance. that causes some logistics headaches that it
appears
the above might fix if doable.
Thanks for any insight.
mike.
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Any know how can I limit the number of emails
that a user can send with the same subject in a determined period of time
?
RDA.-
|
|
Hello, I was installed a NETRA T1 Server with
RH6.2/sparc and QMAIL-1.03, When I put my new box in production I get tons of
errors in my console like this :
eth0: Link is up using external transceiver at
100Mb/s, Half Duplex.
eth0: Error interrupt for happy meal, status =
00000400
eth0: Happy Meal MAX Packet size error.
eth0:
Resetting...
Any know if this is a common problem
?
RDA.-
|
A short while before the self-righteous thread on How To Annoy People
Whose Help You Need, I posted a request for help with a problem I was
experiencing. Not a single one of the supposedly helpful people of
this list have bothered to reply. Having read the thread, it occurs to
me that perhaps the original message wasn't annoying enough to merit a
reply, so this is my next attempt. I am hoping that the combination of
a useless Subject line, the reposting of the complete message, and the
provocative tone will be sufficient incentive for someone to get off
their arse and reply, even if it's to tell me that you can't help with
the info I provided, or that you don't know the solution to the
problem.
Anyone got a clue? (and I'm not just referring to the specific
problem)
Cheers,
Bruno Prior
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: qmail refuses delivery from fetchmail despite forcecr option
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:09:07 +0100
From: Bruno Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am new at using qmail, so please forgive me if this is something
really obvious.
I am fetching my mail from my ISP using fetchmail and passing it to
the SMTP port (with qmail as mail server). I believe my ISP is using
qpopper, if that makes any difference. This mostly works fine, but
occasionally I get the following response, which I can't get past (I
get round it by using Netscape to download that message):
fetchmail: SMTP< 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery
I have read the suggested web-page, but I already had forcecr on in my
fetchmailrc (having RTFM) and I can't see any other relevant
suggestion of how to fix this. What other FM have I missed?
Incidentally, after a few failed download attempts because of this
problem, my mail spool at the ISP got corrupted. Could this be
connected?
Also incidentally, all the messages that cause this problem come from
this mailing list, which seems ironic.
fetchmail version: 4.4.4 release 2 (this is pretty recent, so
according to the web-page, it ought to be alright)
qmail version: 1.03 release 9
fetchmailrc:
poll mailgate.ftech.net with protocol POP3
user my_user_name there with password my_password is * here
options fetchall forcecr
I have tried playing around with the last line of the fetchmailrc,
taking out "options" and/or "fetchall", in case they confused things,
but it makes no difference.
I would appreciate any help.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
also sprach bgprior:
[diatribe snipped]
> Anyone got a clue? (and I'm not just referring to the specific
> problem)
Bruno,
Sorry about the lack of response. On a related issue, it seems your yearly
support contract to the mailing list has run out. Please send US$5,000 and
we'll get right on it. (Hint: no one owes you anything. Relax.)
> -------- Original Message --------
[...]
> I am fetching my mail from my ISP using fetchmail and passing it to
> the SMTP port (with qmail as mail server). I believe my ISP is using
> qpopper, if that makes any difference. This mostly works fine, but
> occasionally I get the following response, which I can't get past (I
> get round it by using Netscape to download that message):
>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
> fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery
>
> I have read the suggested web-page, but I already had forcecr on in my
> fetchmailrc (having RTFM) and I can't see any other relevant
> suggestion of how to fix this. What other FM have I missed?
I don't know of any other FM.
> Incidentally, after a few failed download attempts because of this
> problem, my mail spool at the ISP got corrupted. Could this be
> connected?
Who knows? It certainly doesn't sound like a qmail problem.
> fetchmail version: 4.4.4 release 2 (this is pretty recent, so
> according to the web-page, it ought to be alright)
I'll assume you mean *5*.4.4.
> qmail version: 1.03 release 9
I'll assume you mean Bruce Guenter's RPMs of qmail+patches, since there's no
``release 9'' of qmail. It's just qmail-1.03.
> fetchmailrc:
>
> poll mailgate.ftech.net with protocol POP3
> user my_user_name there with password my_password is * here
> options fetchall forcecr
My system is:
fetchmail-5.3.1-1
qmail-1.03+patches-12
qmail-smtpd-1.03+patches-12
My fetchmailrc is:
poll jericho.gospelcom.net proto pop3 user pcg password my_password
forcecr fetchall
All I can tell you is that it works for me.
You might try integrating one of the CRLF-fixing utilities (fixcrio from
ucspi-tcp, I think, or fixcr from Bruce Guenter's RPM) into your qmail
startup scripts. See the qmail home page.
/pg
--
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---
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picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
(Jack Handey)
1) 4.4.4 is not the current version.
2) Since fetchmail isn't working correctly, have you checked:
a) the fetchmail website http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ ?
b) the fetchmail mailing list?
c) the fetchmail FAQ?
Vince.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Bruno Prior wrote:
> A short while before the self-righteous thread on How To Annoy People
> Whose Help You Need, I posted a request for help with a problem I was
> experiencing. Not a single one of the supposedly helpful people of
> this list have bothered to reply. Having read the thread, it occurs to
> me that perhaps the original message wasn't annoying enough to merit a
> reply, so this is my next attempt. I am hoping that the combination of
> a useless Subject line, the reposting of the complete message, and the
> provocative tone will be sufficient incentive for someone to get off
> their arse and reply, even if it's to tell me that you can't help with
> the info I provided, or that you don't know the solution to the
> problem.
>
> Anyone got a clue? (and I'm not just referring to the specific
> problem)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno Prior
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: qmail refuses delivery from fetchmail despite forcecr option
> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:09:07 +0100
> From: Bruno Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I am new at using qmail, so please forgive me if this is something
> really obvious.
>
> I am fetching my mail from my ISP using fetchmail and passing it to
> the SMTP port (with qmail as mail server). I believe my ISP is using
> qpopper, if that makes any difference. This mostly works fine, but
> occasionally I get the following response, which I can't get past (I
> get round it by using Netscape to download that message):
>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
> fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery
>
> I have read the suggested web-page, but I already had forcecr on in my
> fetchmailrc (having RTFM) and I can't see any other relevant
> suggestion of how to fix this. What other FM have I missed?
>
> Incidentally, after a few failed download attempts because of this
> problem, my mail spool at the ISP got corrupted. Could this be
> connected?
>
> Also incidentally, all the messages that cause this problem come from
> this mailing list, which seems ironic.
>
> fetchmail version: 4.4.4 release 2 (this is pretty recent, so
> according to the web-page, it ought to be alright)
> qmail version: 1.03 release 9
>
> fetchmailrc:
>
> poll mailgate.ftech.net with protocol POP3
> user my_user_name there with password my_password is * here
> options fetchall forcecr
>
> I have tried playing around with the last line of the fetchmailrc,
> taking out "options" and/or "fetchall", in case they confused things,
> but it makes no difference.
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno Prior
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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hi all,
sure to be a question asked before, but i can't seem to find a working
solution.
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default cops all the bad addresses, but if i forward
that to a mailbox the people don't get a bounce.
At the moment the file contains:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
which is a mailbox i've setup as a catchall.
I tried adding:
|echo 'No such user'; exit100
in the first line which bounces the mail, but no mail is put into the
defaultalias mailbox.
Is there anyway to do both?
Regards,
Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Admin
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 9281 1750
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:20:08PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> |echo 'No such user'; exit100
This is same as using ``|bouncesaying "No such user"''.
> in the first line which bounces the mail, but no mail is put into the
> defaultalias mailbox.
>
> Is there anyway to do both?
Yes. Put your mailbox _before_ the bouncesaying line. e.g.,
./Maildir/
|bouncesaying "No such user"
---Chris K.
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Auckland, New Zealand |_ afford to have important data on your computer.
http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ ---Tracy R. Reed
Hi Chris,
> > |echo 'No such user'; exit100
>
> This is same as using ``|bouncesaying "No such user"''.
>
> > in the first line which bounces the mail, but no mail is put into the
> > defaultalias mailbox.
> >
> > Is there anyway to do both?
>
> Yes. Put your mailbox _before_ the bouncesaying line. e.g.,
>
> ./Maildir/
> |bouncesaying "No such user"
What about something like:
/maildirectories/d/defaultalias/Maildir/
|bouncesaying "No such user"
work? i would assume it should if the maildir is right, but i have the right
maildir there and it doesn't want to deliever to that directory!
Regards,
Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Admin
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 9281 1750
> work? i would assume it should if the maildir is right, but i
> have the right
> maildir there and it doesn't want to deliever to that directory!
Make sure that the mail directory you are trying to deliver to is owned by
the appt user and group (ie the one who is receiving the mail) and that they
have R&W privileges to that directory.
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 06:42:38PM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> What about something like:
>
> /maildirectories/d/defaultalias/Maildir/
> |bouncesaying "No such user"
>
> work? i would assume it should if the maildir is right, but i have the right
> maildir there and it doesn't want to deliever to that directory!
Like Brett said, probably some ownership problem. If delivery to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] worked (as your initial message seemed to
suggest), then why not:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|bouncesaying "No such user"
This should work without requiring tweaks to ownership.
---Chris K.
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Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H.
http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
Hi,
I am trying to migrate from sendmail to qmail. The compilation and tests
were successful however I can not seem to be able to run the qmail daemon.
When I telnet to port 25 I get "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host:
Connection refused"
I am using the shell proc file which is in /var/qmail/boot. Is there any
other way to do it? I also installed symbolic links from
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail and to /usr/lib/sendmail but
pine complained that there is too many symbolic links.
Any help on how to run qmail would be appreciated.
Ramzi
"Ramzi S. Abdallah" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to migrate from sendmail to qmail. The compilation and tests
> were successful however I can not seem to be able to run the qmail daemon.
> When I telnet to port 25 I get "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host:
> Connection refused"
>
> I am using the shell proc file which is in /var/qmail/boot. Is there any
> other way to do it? I also installed symbolic links from
> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail and to /usr/lib/sendmail but
> pine complained that there is too many symbolic links.
>
> Any help on how to run qmail would be appreciated.
>
> Ramzi
Make sure all the sym links are correct and pointing to the correct
binary. I had some problems when I went from slackware linux to
openbsd, they had a few sym links for sendmail that I had missed when I
first installed qmail.
To find all your entries for sendmail type this at the prompt (as root)
find / -name "sendmail" -ls
If that scrolls off the screen (of which it shouldn't) you can pipe it
to more by putting a |more after the -ls which will capture a screen
full at a time then use your up/down arrow keys to scroll through it and
q to exit. After you type in the above command it will print out a
standard ls -l listing of all references to sendmail.
When you do a ps -aux are the qmail daemon's running? You type this at
the prompt (as root)
ps -aux|grep 'qmail'
The listing should fit on the screen and should show about 6 processes
running. Maybe less if qmail-smtp and qmail-pop3 are not running.
Qmail the main program it's self should have about 4 processes listed.
You may also want to do
ps -aux|grep 'sendmail'
Just to make sure sendmail isn't running. If two programs try to use
the same tcp port no one wins and the port goes un-answered.
If they are not running type in at the prompt
csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
And put this in your /etc/inetd.conf
smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
Then kill -HUP your inetd daemon.
kill -HUP 'pid'
To find the pid use ps -aux|grep 'inetd' and use the number it prints
out. Or you can reboot the box.
Write back if you have any more questions.
Take Care,
--
Dale Miracle
System Administrator
Teoi Virtual Web Hosting
Hi there
It has recently come to our attention here that it is becoming more
necessary for mail to be held for non-system users (ie to be relayed at a
later stage for other users, but not necessarily users that will use this
particular POP/SMTP server). In this case, we would like to create an assign
file (we don't use this at the moment) containing the entries for every user
in the passwd file, and want it to work straight away without any problems.
We are using a combined system that implements NIS and NFS and at the moment
this works fine. If an NIS or NFS link goes down, mail is simply deferred
(not bounced) for a week, without an assign file (contrary to what the FAQ
says). It must still work this way after the change. Does anybody know of a
script, or can even tell me what needs to be done to copy the entries over
(automatically, not manual entry)? - I can make a script no probs.
Thanks for your time
/BR
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:30:02PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> Does anybody know of a
> script, or can even tell me what needs to be done to copy the entries over
> (automatically, not manual entry)? - I can make a script no probs.
What made qmail-pw2u unsuitable? You can use the -H option to not check
the ownership of home directories...
---Chris K.
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Auckland, New Zealand |_ afford to have important data on your computer.
http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ ---Tracy R. Reed
Is there any way to setup qmail with sendmail's Fallback MX host option? My
DSL line sometimes has problems with certain places and i would like to
route it out my ISDN as a backup automatically.
Thanks
Shane Wise
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Hi ALL,
What is the prefered platform for qmail to run on - say I have a 100 000
mailboxes that are VERY busy - what do I want to run this on .
Your advise is greatly appreciated...
Thanks
Tonino
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TAG wrote:
>
> Hi ALL,
>
> What is the prefered platform for qmail to run on - say I have a 100 000
> mailboxes that are VERY busy - what do I want to run this on .
>
> Your advise is greatly appreciated...
Unix.
Badoomboom-Crash! *roaring laughter*
But, seriously folks....
I've heard that Linux can have more of a tendency to fold-up-and-die
under extremely high loads, and that on *BSD this behavior is much less
pronounced - but I've personally never seen it, and use Linux exclusively.
You really should look through the archives - I've seen platform
specific problems on the list, but not many.
It really comes down to how much you're willing to spend on hardware,
then what OS supports your hardware the best, what you want in the
way of support, etc...
Eric
Hi,
I have a problem with qmail. A mail sent through the qmail-smtp to a local
user
is delivered properly, but when I send the same mail through another smtp
server
I get this error message:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection refused by mydomain.com.
Message could not be delivered for 5 days
Message will be deleted from queue
At the first step of the installation relaying was allowed and I was able to
send
the mails from every smtp-server. But that was only for testing. I have read
'Life
with QMail' and the FAQ, but I can't find what's wrong with my
configuration:
qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 50000, 50001, 50002, 0, 50003, 50005, 50006, 50007.
group ids: 50000, 50005.
badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is mail.mydomain.com.
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 mydomain.com.
defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is mail.mydomain.com.
doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: mail.mydomain.com.
doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is mail.mydomain.com.
helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is mail.mydomain.com.
idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is mail.mydomain.com.
localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes mail.mydomain.com.
locals:
Messages for mail.mydomain.com are delivered locally.
Messages for mydomain.com are delivered locally.
me: My name is mail.mydomain.com.
percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
plusdomain: Plus domain name is mydomain.com.
qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mail.mydomain.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at mydomain.com.
morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 mail.mydomain.com.
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.
I hope somebody could help me.
Dieter
