qmail Digest 12 Nov 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1181
Topics (messages 52020 through 52036):
Re: Backups ??
52020 by: Alexander Jernejcic
Re: short msg when online
52021 by: Alexander Jernejcic
Re: re-smtp port
52022 by: Kiran
52025 by: Kiran
Maildir -- does it work with QPopper (Qualcomm POP3 server)
52023 by: Aleksander Rozman - Andy
52027 by: Nathan J. Mehl
Re: Setup Problem & Life With Qmail
52024 by: Timothy Legant
Re: relay-ctrl does not work
52026 by: Tetsu Ushijima
52028 by: Oliver Lehmann
Wanting to move the qmail queue.
52029 by: Mark Thomas (Tech14)
Re: Courier
52030 by: Matt Harrington
Script for sending mails to the owners of the accounts
52031 by: ravivr.hughes-ecomm.com
Concurrency of qmail-command
52032 by: Ellen Spertus
Re: very slow delivery
52033 by: Jesse Reynolds
52034 by: Timothy Legant
perl script acting funny
52035 by: Greg Kopp
52036 by: Russ Allbery
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hi,
Dennis wrote:
> How do you backup your users email ?
you could have a look at http://www.amanda.org . nice
network backup tool with features i do apreciate (backup multiple
clients cross networks, tape cycles, AFAIK no gui)
bye
Alexander
hi,
what about a little perl-script?
just a quick proposal:
open(QJT, "| /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f jakubski\@poczta.arena.pl")
or die ("oops error ...\n");
print QJT "To: Your\@Friend.dom\n";
print QJT "From: Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n",
"Subject: I am Online\n",
"\n",
"chat with me... ";
close QJT;
let sort of this run from the script that takes you online...
hope that helps
Alexander
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QBA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: short msg when online
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to send a short message to my friend's mail account
> whenever I'm online (I got dynamic access to net). I know how to
> send all my mail when pppd starts but have no idea how to
> mail everytime one and the same message without editing it in mutt
> earlier. I wanna do it 'cause my friend gets sms everytime he got
> new mail on his account. And when he will know that I'm online
> we'd be able to chat to each other without any problems.
> Thanks for all tips in advance,
>
> QBA
>
>
Hi,
Thanks for that info. I was able to telnet to the particular port after
adding the lines in inetd.conf.
After this i was able to place the scripts etc for starting qmail
automatically while booting. While installing the ucspi-tcp package i
reliased that scripts for starting this were not avaliable . Could u giude
as to where to get these?
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Kiran
----- Original Message -----
From: vasudeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: re-smtp port
> Hi,
> could u inserted line related to smtp in
> /etc/inetd.conf.. ? if not include the following line
> # Smtp setup for qmail
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
> tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
> and also check the file /etc/services the port 25
> shoulb be enabled.
>
> Ok try this and get back to me
>
> Vasu
> Systems Administrator
> Eximsoft Technologies Pvt ltd.
> Bangalore
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> =====
>
>
> __________________________________________________
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> http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Hi,
I was just looking into the logs. It gives an error message :
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used.
What could this mean?
Kiran
----- Original Message -----
From: Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Denis Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: re-smtp port
> Hi,
> Thanks for that info. I was able to telnet to the particular port after
> adding the lines in inetd.conf.
>
> After this i was able to place the scripts etc for starting qmail
> automatically while booting. While installing the ucspi-tcp package i
> reliased that scripts for starting this were not avaliable . Could u giude
> as to where to get these?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Regards
> Kiran
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: vasudeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:27 PM
> Subject: re-smtp port
>
>
> > Hi,
> > could u inserted line related to smtp in
> > /etc/inetd.conf.. ? if not include the following line
> > # Smtp setup for qmail
> > smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
> > tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> >
> > and also check the file /etc/services the port 25
> > shoulb be enabled.
> >
> > Ok try this and get back to me
> >
> > Vasu
> > Systems Administrator
> > Eximsoft Technologies Pvt ltd.
> > Bangalore
> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > =====
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place.
> > http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Hi !
I am trying to convert all my mbox files to maildir format. I am wondering
if anyone tried to use maildir with QPopper, QUALCOMM's POP3 server. I am
using it from beginning and I like how good it works (now I use 3.0
version), but now I am not sure if it will work with this maildir format.
Did anybody tried to use this two together?
Andy
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In the immortal words of Aleksander Rozman - Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I am trying to convert all my mbox files to maildir format. I am wondering
> if anyone tried to use maildir with QPopper, QUALCOMM's POP3 server. I am
> using it from beginning and I like how good it works (now I use 3.0
> version), but now I am not sure if it will work with this maildir format.
> Did anybody tried to use this two together?
Qpopper does not work with maildirs. Nor is it ever likely to.
You should take a look at qmail-pop3d, the pop3 daemon included in the
qmail distribution, or at http://www.vpopmail.cx/.
-n
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"When JFK was killed, America lost its innocence. Now, several Kennedy deaths
later, we've all learned to just laugh at it. Pretty soon we'll be killing
them for fun." (--The Onion)
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:36:47AM -0600, Jeff Lacy wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to qmail, so please forgive my ignorance. I tried to install qmail using
>life with qmail under RH7. When I run /etc/rd.d/init.d/qmail, it seems to start
>okay. Every 10 seconds something accesses the disk. I think it is multilog. I
>probably have a little typo in one of the /var/qmail/supervise run files. I looked,
>but I can't see it. Could someone please help me? Pleae reply to my email address,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.
>
> /var/log/qmail/current looks like: (I removed a zillion lines like these, though)
> @400000003a0cdf972be071dc alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf9736ead48c alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf98063ce6a4 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf981131061c alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf981c2ebab4 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf98271d7744 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf983237f30c alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf990406f7bc alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf990efc8664 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf9917857df4 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf992287b6cc alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf992d8fa494 alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
> @400000003a0cdf9a128b3eec alert: cannot start: unable to read controls
[snip qmail-showctl output...]
This usually means that qmail can't read the control/ directory.
Because, for security reasons, qmail doesn't run as root, the qmail user
needs access to control/.
On my installation, the control/ directory permissions/ownership look
like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail - 512 Aug 15 23:37 control/
and the contents of that directory is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 12 Jan 27 2000 defaultdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 12 Jan 27 2000 defaulthost
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 70 Jul 12 12:22 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 17 Jan 29 2000 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 12 Jan 27 2000 plusdomain
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 24 Aug 15 23:36 rcpthosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail - 26 Aug 15 23:35 virtualdomains
Note how everything is group-readable and owned by the qmail group.
Check your permissions, make necessary changes and let us know if that
works.
-thl
Oliver Lehmann writes:
> After the installation of relay-ctrl I changed the run script of pop3d
> from
[...]
> to
>
> [...]
> sh -c 'exec '\
> 'envuidgid qmaild '\
> 'softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} '\
> '/usr/local/bin/tcpserver '\
> ' -vUDRHl0 '\
Don't do that. The checkpassword program needs a root privilege.
relay-ctrl-allow was run as root just because it was run before
checkpassword.
> '/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow' \
This line should be:
'/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow '\
(a space before a quote, not after)
--
Tetsu Ushijima
Hi Tetsu,
> > '/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow' \
>
> This line should be:
> '/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow '\
Thanks for your help.. but:
olivleh1@sina> telnet ernie 110
Trying 192.168.168.100...
Connected to ernie.sesamestreet.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user olivleh1
+OK
pass *
Error: relay-ctrl-allow cannot be run as root-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
olivleh1@sina>
with this script:
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1 \
envdir ./env \
sh -c 'exec '\
'softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} '\
'/usr/local/bin/tcpserver '\
' -vDRHl0 '\
' ${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} '\
' ${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} '\
' -xtcp.cdb '\
' -- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" '\
'/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup `sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me` '\
'/usr/local/bin/checkpassword '\
'/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow '\
'/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir'
and:
olivleh1@sina> telnet ernie 110
Trying 192.168.168.100...
Connected to ernie.sesamestreet.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user olivleh1
+OK
pass *
+OK
quit
Connection closed by foreign host.
olivleh1@sina>
without the "relay-ctrl-allow" line....
any ideas?
Yours Olli
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Hello 'qmail list,
I have a problem with outbound smtp mail.
When I installed qmail, I ended up installing some of qmail in /var.
Any outbound mail goes to the qmail queue on:
/var/qmail/queue/mess. There are 200 subdirectories under mess
starting with 0 and working its way up to 199.
My /var is only 20mb in size. Big mistake!
I would like to move the queue to /usr/home/vpopmail/smtp,or
something under /usr. I went back through the installation
documents, and I don't see where I specified this location during the
install, so I'm figuring it was a default.
If this information is compiled during the install, how do you go
about changing this without affecting other operations.
If there is an easier something to do, I would be interested also.
One other:
How do most of you segment a hard drive of say 30gb or so?
I have:
/=50mb
/var=20mb
and
/usr= remainder of 30gb.
I am using QMAIL+ VPOPMAIL for FreeBSD Install document By Flattie
McGee (Very nice instructions, Thanks very much to Flattie McGeee).
It installs:
qmail-1.03.tar.gz : qmail!
daemontools-0.70.tar.gz : Useful tools
ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz : Inetd replacement
vpopmail-4.8a.tar.gz : Virtual Domain/POP module
ezmlm-0.53.tar.gz : Mailing List module
autorespond-1.0.0.tar.gz : Auto Responder module
gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz : Database routines
qmailadmin-0.30.tar.gz : Web Control Interface
I also followed up with sqwebmail-0.37a
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Quote of the Day:
"A lawyer is someone who writes an eighty-page document and calls it a brief!"
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:08:15PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> At the very least give maildrop a go. I was a die-hard procmail user for
> many years, but was beginning to have too many occassions of procmail
> swallowing all the RAM on my workstation to process a large mail message
> (procmail does all processing in RAM).
I agree that maildrop is definitely worth a try. I find the syntax of the
filter file much clearer than procmail's, and I imagine my users do as
well.
Built-in support for Maildirs in maildrop is a big win. I'm surprised
that maildrop doesn't have a bigger presence on http://www.qmail.org.
I have also used courier-imap with no problems. Again, built-in Maildir
support is great.
---Matt
Hi all,
Iam running Qmail for our Messaging system with Quota system is implemented
for for our POP users.I want to send my users an
Email notification (to the owner ) automatically when 80% of his/her quota
completes.Is there any script for doing this.
Any help will be gratly appreciated.
Rgds,
RAVI
I'm unable to figure out from the FAQ and man pages how much concurrency
there is in local delivery when users have commands in their .qmail-*
files. To be concrete, assume the following files are in ~ellen:
.qmail-foo
| foo
.qmail-bar
| bar
My questions are:
1. If a message arrives for ellen-foo, qmail-local will begin running foo.
If a second message to ellen-foo arrives while the first instance of foo is
running, will two foo processes run at once?
2. Same question, but about messages sent to ellen-foo and
ellen-bar. Could the foo and bar processes run concurrently?
3. Am I right to assume that mail to different users is completely
independent; i.e., my having a slow process won't delay other users from
having their messages processed?
Thank you.
Ellen Spertus
Hi
I am having the same problem, where it takes 20 minutes for mail to
be delivered, whether it's remote to local, local to remote, or local
to local.
It seems that indeed the permissions on the trigger file are wrong, mine is:
prw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Oct 23 02:27 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
Now, it has been taking 20 minutes to delever ever since I installed
it. So presumably my installation didn't work properly, or has bugs
in it. I'm using the FreeBSD ports collection to install qmail.
I am confused about Magnus's suggestion on how to fix it, ie do a
"make setup" from the qmail source. Would it not be enough to
manually fix the permissions with chmod?
If I cd to /usr/ports/mail/qmail and do "make setup" it response with
"don't know how to make setup".
Cheers
Jesse
PS, this would be an excellent thing to have in the FAQ! It seems
many people are having this problem.
>
>On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:09:47PM +0200, Mirko Koenig wrote:
>
> > now the delivery and sending of messages takes 20 min.
> > i write a message eg. in pine send it and then have to wait up to 20 min
> > till its delivered.
>
>check the permissions of "/var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger"
>
># ls -l /var/qmail/queue/lock/
>total 1
>-rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 2 1999 sendmutex
>-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Jul 1 19:58 tcpto
>prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 1 20:58 trigger
>^^^^^^^^^^
>
>If it doesn't is "prw--w--w-", then do a "make setup" from the qmail source
>library again.
>
>/magnus
>
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>
>
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Email: jesse (at) va.com.au - http://virtual.artists
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:13:16PM +1100, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am having the same problem, where it takes 20 minutes for mail to
> be delivered, whether it's remote to local, local to remote, or local
> to local.
>
> It seems that indeed the permissions on the trigger file are wrong, mine is:
>
> prw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Oct 23 02:27 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
>
> Now, it has been taking 20 minutes to delever ever since I installed
> it. So presumably my installation didn't work properly, or has bugs
> in it. I'm using the FreeBSD ports collection to install qmail.
I used the FreeBSD port on FreeBSD 3.3 and my perms were set correctly.
This might be a bug in a later version of the port. I'd send a note to
the ports mailing list and CC the maintainer of the qmail port.
> I am confused about Magnus's suggestion on how to fix it, ie do a
> "make setup" from the qmail source. Would it not be enough to
> manually fix the permissions with chmod?
I don't know about this, but I suspect you are correct.
> If I cd to /usr/ports/mail/qmail and do "make setup" it response with
> "don't know how to make setup".
You would have to run "make extract" in /usr/ports/mail/qmail, then cd
to work/qmail-1.03 and run the "make setup". The ports collection has
its own set of makefiles that create a subdirectory tree and run the
actual software's make. The ports make system doesn't understand the
setup or check targets.
> Cheers
>
> Jesse
>
> PS, this would be an excellent thing to have in the FAQ! It seems
> many people are having this problem.
True.
-thl
I have qmail and vpopmail installed on RH 6.2. I have a perl subroutine that
we use to send e-mail. Here is the code snipit:
sub mailto
{ $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail';
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");
my @args = @_;
print MAIL "To: $args[0]\n";
print MAIL "Bcc: $args[4]\n";
print MAIL "From: $args[1]\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $args[2]\n";
print MAIL "$args[3]\n";
close MAIL;
}
BUT when a mail message gets bounced, the message comes back to the user
that the web server is running as. Looking at the bounce, I see this:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ideastar.com.
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.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
128.11.69.53 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com
account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - mta129.mail.yahoo.com
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: (qmail 509 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Nov 2000 20:20:12 -0000
Date: 9 Nov 2000 20:20:12 -0000
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thank you
Any ideas what could be causing this and any possible solutions?
Thanks,
Greg
Greg Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have qmail and vpopmail installed on RH 6.2. I have a perl subroutine that
> we use to send e-mail. Here is the code snipit:
> sub mailto
> { $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail';
> open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");
> my @args = @_;
> print MAIL "To: $args[0]\n";
> print MAIL "Bcc: $args[4]\n";
> print MAIL "From: $args[1]\n";
> print MAIL "Subject: $args[2]\n";
> print MAIL "$args[3]\n";
> close MAIL;
> }
> BUT when a mail message gets bounced, the message comes back to the user
> that the web server is running as.
Bounces go back to the envelope sender. If you want to change the
envelope sender, pass the -f option to the sendmail emulation program, as
in:
/usr/lib/sendmail -t -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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