qmail Digest 23 Nov 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1192
Topics (messages 52699 through 52748):
Problems starting qmail
52699 by: Phil_Hedley.Mitel.COM
52717 by: Dave Sill
Re: Help with open relay questions
52700 by: Charles Cazabon
Re: qmail enhancements
52701 by: Robert Varga
Re: Postgres
52702 by: tong
Re: Command + Delivery?
52703 by: Charles Cazabon
Re: How insall qmail relay server in an DMZ
52704 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
Re: secrets and lies
52705 by: zone
52731 by: Raul Miller
52736 by: David L. Nicol
52742 by: Al
Has anyone created a Web Admin module for qmail ?
52706 by: �rjan V�llestad
52719 by: Robin S. Socha
Re: ezmlm...
52707 by: David Dyer-Bennet
52740 by: Marc-Adrian Napoli
Re: Starting qmail: problem with svscan
52708 by: Joao Costa
52709 by: Joao Costa
52713 by: Dave Sill
52720 by: Joao Costa
52721 by: Dave Sill
52725 by: Joao Costa
Hostname Lookup
52710 by: Warren Small
52715 by: Andy Bradford
52723 by: Warren Small
lot of problems
52711 by: Jesus Arnaiz
52714 by: Dave Sill
missing tcp.smtp.cdb
52712 by: Mate Wierdl
Re: Adding CR to bare LFs
52716 by: andrew.tic.ch
Re: Quicky mail list
52718 by: Robin S. Socha
52729 by: Tim Burden
Problem with "make setup check" in Aix 4.3
52722 by: Fernando Barreto
Re: IMAP and Maildir
52724 by: tim.hunter.cimx.com
52728 by: Kris Kelley
Need a pointer on unsubscribing
52726 by: Stephen Smith
How do I unsubscib to this list?
52727 by: Stephen Smith
Proper way to start qmail-pop3d
52730 by: Michael French
mail.info file size
52732 by: Chris Olson
52741 by: Peter Green
Qmail and RedHat7
52733 by: m
52737 by: Sean Reifschneider
52738 by: m
52739 by: Romeyn Prescott
Re: Courier or qmail
52734 by: Matt Brown
Sqwebmail password problems
52735 by: Roberto Samarone Araujo \(RSA\)
Help! Emergency
52743 by: James Moore
Announce: Automatic mail archiving
52744 by: Sean Reifschneider
52746 by: Piotr Kasztelowicz
problems with the spamcontrol patch
52745 by: Charles Warwick
some strange logs.
52747 by: Eric Yu
52748 by: Jagadish.N
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Hi all, I've just re-installed qmail following the procedures in 'Life with qmail'. When I use the command /usr/local/sbin/qmail start I get :- Starting qmail: svscan. :No such file or directory :No such file or directory :No such file or directory :No such file or directory ...recursively Can someone give me a hint as to what is happening ? Something I was not sure of during the install procedure is the setting up of maildir and users. I believe I need to do this as I intend to use qmail-pop3d I have used the approach as detailed in the installation and set up var/qmail/rc as :- exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" in /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery I have :- ./Maildir/ Do I need to use maildirmake for each user ? or is this done automatically if a mail is recieved for a valid username ? Thanks, Phil hedley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've just re-installed qmail following the procedures in 'Life with qmail'. >When I use the command /usr/local/sbin/qmail start I get :- > >Starting qmail: svscan. >:No such file or directory >:No such file or directory >:No such file or directory >:No such file or directory >...recursively What platform is this? What is the output of this: ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise >Do I need to use maildirmake for each user ? or is this done >automatically if a mail is recieved for a valid username ? You need to do the maildirmake for each existing user *as that user*. For new users, you might be able to do a maildirmake in the skeleton (template) directory used by your system's adduser/useradd utility, q.v. -Dave
Eric Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an qmail server setup and running, but am having difficulty getting > it to selectively relay. > > I have a server setup so that it is using virtualdomains. The users of the > mail system connect to it from the Internet to send and receive email. > Therefore I need it to allow people to send messages from a local user to a > remote user. It seems to be allowing all email to pass through. You've probably got no /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file, and are therefore an open relay. This is Very Bad (tm). The file should contain lines for each domain you are willing to accept email for -- this should be 'localhost', any proper names for the box and its local domains (contents of /var/qmail/control/locals) and the domains in virtualdomains. Then, to allow your virtualdomain users on the net at large to send mail through you, install a POP-before-SMTP solution which allows people to relay from any IP address _if_ they successfully check their mail with POP3 first. The best POP-before-SMTP package (IMO) is Bruce Guenter's excellent relay-ctrl. See http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/ for more info. As an alternative, your virtualdomain users really should be relaying their mail through the SMTP server of their ISP -- this is what the ISP's SMTP servers are for. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Johan Van Gompel wrote: > (1) check if a FQDN exists for the sender's IP (if not: no go); If tcpserver has the -h option then it looks up FQDN and puts it in TCPREMOTEHOST. If you use -p option as well, then it even verifies it, and unsets TCPREMOTEHOST if it cannot be matched (no A or CNAME to the FQDN matches the remote ip-literal). You can write a wrapper before qmail-smtpd, which calls qmail-smtpd if TCPREMOTEHOST is set, or echoes the error message of your selection and terminates. It will do the trick I think. > (2) allow POP3 access via SSL only; Use stunnel (see my post in the stunnel list regarding this). > (3) extract any mail attachment and check it for various things; > (viruses, unallowed extensions, etc.) See the amavis website regarding this. > (4) support delivery to same users at different domains; Virtual domain feature in qmail. > (5) allow only a more rigid form of authentication; > (e.g. POP-before-SMTP) See www.qmail.org for a solution solving this (there is at least two solutions there), or the vpopmail package regarding this. Regards, Robert Varga
Try http://www.csusb.net/free/qmail/index.html wehre a simple script makes use of Postgres to implement a single-system-user-account POP3 scheme and can resolve [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Postgres On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:14:10PM -0200, Cleiton Luiz Siqueira wrote: > Does anyone know how I can set up qmail with postgres database? As far as I know, nobody has written up the necessary patches yet. If you could elaborate on your needs, we might be able to help you out. For example, I use qmail (no shit :) with tables generated from mySQL. I don't need any mySQL patches to qmail for that, just a way to get my data from mysql to my tables (http://www.dataloss.net/software/mysqlquery/ is what I use, homegrown tool :) Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm struggling to understand something in the dot-qmail files. If I want > to run something, and use the error code to determine if the mail should > be delivered, how do I do that? It's documented fairly well in the man page for qmail-command. > At the moment, I have a .qmail-test file that contains a call to an RBL > lookup utilityi that returns 100 if it's a blocked IP, and 0 otherwise. It > reads: > > |ck4spam > &nospam > > The problem is that the mail disappears into the bitbucket regardless of > the errorlevel returned. This looks like it should work -- except the second line should probably be a Maildir or mbox delivery line, rather than a forward line (forward could loop back to this .qmail file). Perhaps your script is broken. You didn't post it, so we can't tell. Plus, qmail never sends mail to the bitbucket without a trace. Your logs will say exactly what happens to mail that goes through this .qmail file. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Jose AP Celestino on Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:38:39 GMT: > > > Have you tried rtfm. There's plenty of stuff on this. > > Why don't you RTFM on your MUA so you don't send out duplicate emails > to the mailing list... sheesh. Triplicate. Eeek! Fix that damn MUA! RC -- +------------------- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis - Engenharia ISP / Rede T�cnica | P�. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7� E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 2 1010 0000 - Fax: +351 2 1010 4459
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> > The Artistic License was explicitly designed to be part of a > dual-licensing arrangement. It's not strong enough to stand > on its own; > the language hasn't been hammered out nearly well enough. > But the idea behind it seems to apply to what may be the desired result: retaining control. - "One of the best examples of pure democracy in action is the lynch mob" - AA4YU
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:07:00PM -0500, Al wrote: > Not a lawyer but when you put something onto a web page you have > conformed to a well known pattern that would expect an action to take > place. For example if I put a stack of leaflets on the counter of a > local store that said "Rumage sale next Week" and gave an address of > where to go I do not think that you would have much luck charging > someone who took a leaflet with stealing. Even though the leaflet does > not say "take one". Picking up a leaflet does not involve making a copy of it. Pulling something off of a web site involves creating a copy on your local machine. > Another thing that might make a difference would be some of the rulings that > came about when Sony was sued for the personal video recorder. What rights > do you have to record a broadcast program? Is the Internet (or part of the > Internet's functionality) a defacto agreement to allow the copying of > certain files (i.e. index.html /pub etc)? Are you suggesting only certain file names are legal to browse? -- Raul
> Instead, it poses the question: do you have the legal right to use the > web, in the absence of explicit copyright notices on every document > element you encounter? Laws are never about what is allowed. Laws are about what is prohibited.
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:07:00PM -0500, Al wrote: > > Not a lawyer but when you put something onto a web page you have > > conformed to a well known pattern that would expect an > action to take > > place. For example if I put a stack of leaflets on the counter of a > > local store that said "Rumage sale next Week" and gave an address of > > where to go I do not think that you would have much luck charging > > someone who took a leaflet with stealing. Even though the > leaflet does > > not say "take one". > > Picking up a leaflet does not involve making a copy of it. Right, taking something that is not yours would be stealing, which is what I said. The point is that when things are set up in well understood way there is an implied agreement or permission. If you put a file on a server and configure the http daemon to copy and transmit the file when requested you have granted permission. > > Pulling something off of a web site involves creating a copy on your > local machine. > No, reading a CD-ROM on my own drive and putting the contents on my hard disk would be _me_ making a copy. Your (their, his, her) server reading a file into memory and then sending the image across the network is a different thing: 1) The http and/or ftp daemon was configured to perform this task. The file must be in a location the server software can access. It required deliberate action. 2) There is no attempt to hide or protect the files, on the contrary. The files are placed in a location that by published standards can be be accessed 3) This is not the same thing as leaving a door open on my house. There are clear instructions on the web pages that show exactly where the software is located and how to make the copy. > > Are you suggesting only certain file names are legal to browse? > I am saying that there are well known standards that create an implied consent. If I ftp to a server and enter a user name of 'ftp' and it responds 'anonomyous logins permitted' then by convention I may access the /pub directory and have the server send me a copy of the files that it makes. By the same standards I may not use a defect in the ftp daemon and fetch /etc/shadow. If I connect to port 80 of a machine and its http daemon makes a copy of index.html I understand that this is happening with the consent of the server operator. - "One of the best examples of pure democracy in action is the lynch mob" - AA4YU
www.webadmin.com doesn't work... From. �rjan V�llestad, iTet AS Nettverkskonsulent/Linux Alkeveien 4, 9015 Troms� Postboks 2033, 9265 Troms� Tel: +47 77 67 91 00, Fax: +47 77 67 91 01 Dir: +47 77 64 78 22, GSM: +47 95 92 46 77 E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.iTet.no "The LinuX-Files - The source is out there"
* �rjan V�llestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > www.webadmin.com doesn't work... Great. How about exchaning the information (1) and signature (11) ratio? It sure works for me. -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
Marc-Adrian Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 22 November 2000 at 17:53:10 +1100 > hi, > > does anyone know how to set ezmlm up for a particular mailing list so only > people subscribed can send to it? > > (and then a way for me to close off the mailing list so no one can > subscribe, leaving new additions to be done by me from the command line of > the mail server?) Are you using ezmlm + idx, or bare ezmlm? If bare ezmlm, my first advice is to install the idx "patch" (VERY major enhancement). If running idx, then use the -u and -s switches to ezmlm-make to make it subscription-moderated and subscriber-only. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / [EMAIL PROTECTED] SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/
david, > Marc-Adrian Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 22 November 2000 at 17:53:10 +1100 > > hi, > > > > does anyone know how to set ezmlm up for a particular mailing list so only > > people subscribed can send to it? > > > > (and then a way for me to close off the mailing list so no one can > > subscribe, leaving new additions to be done by me from the command line of > > the mail server?) > > Are you using ezmlm + idx, or bare ezmlm? If bare ezmlm, my first > advice is to install the idx "patch" (VERY major enhancement). > > If running idx, then use the -u and -s switches to ezmlm-make to make > it subscription-moderated and subscriber-only. yup im running ezmlmidx and i've just installed (thanks to daniel dagneaux for this tip) the ezmlm-web interface to my mailing lists. its a great litte package if anyone else is thinking of using it, its located at: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/#ezmlm-web and its those -u and -s switches that i need! perfect! Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387
> >Should the service directory have any file? My service directory has > >none. > > /var/qmail/supervise should have qmail-send and qmail-smtpd > subdirectories. I have both subdirectories on /var/qmail/supervise. -- Joao Costa ========== DevWeb
> >I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides > >in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when > >I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: > > > >-n Starting qmail: svscan > >/etc/init.d/qmail: /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid: cannot create > > Hmm. What platform are you running on? The "-n" is an BSD vs. Sys V > thing, and is ugly, but won't prevent the script from working. I don't > know where you got /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid from, though, because the > script in LWQ uses /var/run/svscan.pid. But even that's not enough to > cause the following: I am running on SunOS 5.6. > >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access denied > >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied > >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access denied > >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied > > What does the following show: > > ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise /var/qmail/supervise: total 4 drwxr-xr-t 4 root other 512 Nov 14 17:25 qmail-send drwxr-xr-t 4 root other 512 Nov 14 17:26 qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send: total 6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Nov 14 17:26 log -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 29 Nov 14 17:00 run drwx------ 2 root other 512 Nov 15 12:13 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 88 Nov 14 17:01 run drwx------ 2 root other 512 Nov 15 12:13 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/supervise: total 2 prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 control -rw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 lock prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 17:26 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 18 Nov 15 12:13 status /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/supervise: total 2 prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 control -rw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 lock prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 17:25 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 18 Nov 15 12:13 status /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd: total 6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Nov 14 17:26 log -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 339 Nov 14 17:03 run drwx------ 2 root other 512 Nov 15 12:13 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 94 Nov 14 17:05 run drwx------ 2 root other 512 Nov 15 12:13 supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/supervise: total 2 prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 control -rw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 lock prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 17:26 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 18 Nov 15 12:13 status /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/supervise: total 2 prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 control -rw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 18:26 lock prw------- 1 root other 0 Nov 14 17:26 ok -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 18 Nov 15 12:13 status > ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/supervise drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 1024 Nov 14 16:02 / drwxrwxrwt 23 root sys 512 Oct 31 17:01 /var drwxr-xr-x 9 root qmail 512 Nov 14 17:56 /var/qmail drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Nov 14 16:58 /var/qmail/supervise > >What is svscan suppose to do? > > It monitors the service directory and runs "supervise" on services as > needed. > > >How can I get the parameters of svscan > >(read svscan's instructions)? > > LWQ has a section on daemontool which contains a link to the on-line > documentation: > > http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#daemontools -- Joao Costa ========== DevWeb
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I have installed qmail by following the steps that Dave Sill provides >> >in his web-site (http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html). Still, when >> >I try to start qmail I get the following error message continuously: >> > >> >-n Starting qmail: svscan >> >/etc/init.d/qmail: /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid: cannot create >> >> Hmm. What platform are you running on? The "-n" is an BSD vs. Sys V >> thing, and is ugly, but won't prevent the script from working. I don't >> know where you got /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid from, though, because the >> script in LWQ uses /var/run/svscan.pid. But even that's not enough to >> cause the following: > >I am running on SunOS 5.6. You can replace the echo -n "blah blah blah: " with echo "blah blah blah: \c" I'm still concerned about /var/qmail/run/svscan.pid vs. /var/run/svscan.pid. Was this something you changed intentionally? >> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access denied >> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied >> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access denied >> >supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied >> >> What does the following show: >> >> ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise > >[snipped] OK, that all looks good. These are the same symptoms you get if you run "qmail start" twice without a "qmail stop" in between. What does the following show: qmail stat ps -ef |grep qmail -Dave
> >> qmail stat > > > >qmail: command not found > > Make that: > > /usr/local/sbin/qmail stat /var/qmail/supervise: does not exist > >> ps -ef |grep qmail > > > >qmailr 2099 2096 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 qmail-rspawn > > qmaild 2087 2082 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x > >/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 1040 -g 107 0 smtp > > root 2710 2471 1 18:46:53 pts/0 0:00 grep qmail > > root 2080 1641 0 Nov 14 ? 0:01 supervise qmail-send > > qmaill 2085 2081 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t > >/var/log/qmail > > root 2082 1641 0 Nov 14 ? 0:01 supervise qmail-smtpd > > qmaill 2089 2083 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t > >/var/log/qmail/smtpd > > qmails 2096 2080 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 qmail-send > > root 2098 2096 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir > > qmailq 2100 2096 0 Nov 14 ? 0:00 qmail-clean > > That looks good, and shows that qamil has been running since Nov 14. > > So what's not working? -- Joao Costa ========== DevWeb
Joao Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /usr/local/sbin/qmail stat > >/var/qmail/supervise: does not exist But obviously is does, since (1) everything is working, and (2) you recently posted the output of "ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise". Sounds like your /usr/local/sbin/qmail script is corrupt. You might try re-downloading it from: http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script-dt61.exe -Dave
> >> /usr/local/sbin/qmail stat > > > >/var/qmail/supervise: does not exist > > But obviously is does, since (1) everything is working, and (2) you > recently posted the output of "ls -lR /var/qmail/supervise". Sounds > like your /usr/local/sbin/qmail script is corrupt. You might try > re-downloading it from: > > http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script-dt61.exe Thanks a lot Dave. I'll do it and I'll post you the result of it. -- Joao Costa ========== DevWeb
I installed qmail for the first time about a month ago and set it up as a test central mail hub for some of our servers. It was working fine until recently when I started seeing this: --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ HAA17817 73 Wed Nov 22 07:45 warren (Deferred: Name server: qmail.mainstream.net: host name looku) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes, this is a sendmail mailq...) I'm sure a lot of you will say that the problem is obviously a DNS lookup issue but I can lookup this server name successfully from the same server that is having problems talking to the qmail server. This problem is also not confined to one server and I can change the configuration to send the mail to our current mail hub and it will be delivered successfully. I have rebooted qmail.mainstream.net just so I could be sure the system was initializing properly. I can send mail from qmail.mainstream.net successfully. I have made no other changes to the server in the last month. Here's what I have running: 8603 p1- I 0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -l0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 6001 -g 601 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 8604 p1- I 0:00.04 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 200 co- S 1:04.99 qmail-send 206 co- I 0:36.87 splogger qmail 207 co- S 0:11.08 qmail-lspawn |preline procmail 208 co- S 0:57.81 qmail-rspawn 209 co- I 0:00.75 qmail-clean The logs on qmail don't seem to indicate that anything at all is getting to the server. I can connect to qmail via telnet qmail.mainstream.net 25 and get the expected response. I'm not sure what else to check so any help would be appreciated. Warren
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:21:10 EST, Warren Small wrote: > I'm sure a lot of you will say that the problem is obviously a DNS lookup > issue but I can lookup this server name successfully from the same server > that is having problems talking to the qmail server. This problem is also > not confined to one server and I can change the configuration to send the > mail to our current mail hub and it will be delivered successfully. I hate to state the obvious, but yes, it is obviously a problem with DNS. Sure, the hostname resolves fine, but your DNS does not return an MX for it. See results below: [andy@mail andy]$ dnsmx qmail.mainstream.net dnsmx: fatal: unable to find MX records for qmail.mainstream.net: temporary failure This should, in the very least return a preference of 0 for the server itself. Instead it is failing---something is misconfigured in your DNS. The same results can be found with dig: [andy@mail andy]$ dig qmail.mainstream.net mx ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> qmail.mainstream.net mx ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 40425 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; qmail.mainstream.net, type = MX, class = IN Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe it is a problem with DNS. :-) Andy
Well, it turns out that there _was_ a problem in DNS but it is not the MX record. The last time someone edited the zone file for mainstream.net, they tried to comment a line with a # which, just about everywhere else, is normal. In zone files, this is a big no-no and causes named to reject the entire file. Hence, the problems with sending mail to the qmail server. The thing that is weird is that I could send mail to our normal mail hub (which is running sendmail). Is there something in qmail that would cause this behavior? And why would nslookup resolve qmail.mainstream.net on the same server that had trouble sending the mail? Warren Andy Bradford wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:21:10 EST, Warren Small wrote: > > > I'm sure a lot of you will say that the problem is obviously a DNS lookup > > issue but I can lookup this server name successfully from the same server > > that is having problems talking to the qmail server. This problem is also > > not confined to one server and I can change the configuration to send the > > mail to our current mail hub and it will be delivered successfully. > > I hate to state the obvious, but yes, it is obviously a problem with > DNS. Sure, the hostname resolves fine, but your DNS does not return an > MX for it. See results below: > > [andy@mail andy]$ dnsmx qmail.mainstream.net > dnsmx: fatal: unable to find MX records for qmail.mainstream.net: temporary failure > > This should, in the very least return a preference of 0 for the server > itself. Instead it is failing---something is misconfigured in your > DNS. The same results can be found with dig: > > [andy@mail andy]$ dig qmail.mainstream.net mx > ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> qmail.mainstream.net mx > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch > ;; got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 40425 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > ;; QUERY SECTION: > ;; qmail.mainstream.net, type = MX, class = IN > > Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe it is a > problem with DNS. :-) > > Andy
Hi there! I installed qmail, tcpserver, vpopmail, but it do not deliver mail well, it put mails sended by the server well, but when you try to send something from any server outside it, it fails, it don't show something in the maillog. Anybody knows something about this?. Thanks in advance. Jes�s Arn�iz.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I installed qmail, tcpserver, vpopmail, but it do not deliver mail well, it >put mails sended by the server well, but when you try to send something from >any server outside it, it fails, it don't show something in the maillog. What does the following do: telnet 0 25 -Dave
Many people worry about its existence. While it is useful to have it, you can make your tcpserver line conditionally use it if you include the -X option: tcpserver -v -c40 -X -x/etc/smtp.cdb ... Mate
> bundle of other unix browsers I'm sure. Is there a way I can have qmail > automatically convert bare LFs to CRLFs? This would be *very* helpful. Hi, I'm not sure if someone replied to this already: Answer, use fixcrio from ucspi-tcp - see the cr.yp.to site for this. Search on 'fixcr' or 'fixcrio' on the archive of this list for more details. cheers, Andrew.
* Tim Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) message/external-body ^ What is this? > Using most recent versions of qmail and vpopmail on a RH6.0 thingy ...which is extremely insecure because it contains lots of software with security holes the size of Redmond... > I have a customer "hutch" on a virtual domain who wants to be able to > easily mail news on specials to his previous customers. http://www.ezmlm.org/, look for moderated lists. ezmlm has its own mailing list. -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
What 'it' are you referring to? -----Original Message----- From: Robin S. Socha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Quicky mail list >* Tim Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) message/external-body > ^ What is this? > >> Using most recent versions of qmail and vpopmail on a RH6.0 thingy > >...which is extremely insecure because it contains lots of software with >security holes the size of Redmond... > >> I have a customer "hutch" on a virtual domain who wants to be able to >> easily mail news on specials to his previous customers. > >http://www.ezmlm.org/, look for moderated lists. ezmlm has its own mailing list. >-- >Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/> >
Hi... I don't write english very well so, I'm sorry about any mistakes... I'm having a problem here to compile de qmail on Aix 4.3... when I did "make setup check", it generate this error after do some compilation: ---- ./compile dns.c dns.c:11: parse error before `int' make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. ---- This line is a "extern int h_errno;" What's the problem?? Anybody knowns? I have already created the users like in INSTALL.ids... Please... somebody can help me.... Bye
I use Courier-IMAP almost exclusively with Outlook and Outlook Express, seems to work with or without the workarounds enabled, just upgraded to 1.2.x but have been using successfully for over a year. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:01:55PM -0800, Nicholas Leonovich wrote: > > Courier-IMAP is working well with Maildir for me... > > http://www.inter7.com > > Does it play nice with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express? The last > time I checked this package, there was a statement to the effect that > it didn't. > > Alternatively, can anyone point me at some useful instructions for > getting UW-IMAP running with Maildir, since (in its default > configuration), it (mostly) works with Outlook... > > Cheers, > Roger. > > Tim Hunter CIMx [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cimx.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:01:55PM -0800, Nicholas Leonovich wrote: > > Courier-IMAP is working well with Maildir for me... > > http://www.inter7.com > > Does it play nice with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express? I'm running Courier IMAP 1.2.3 and accessing it with Outlook Express 5 on a Win2K system. So far, no complaints whatsoever. It's been a while since I looked closely at the documentation concerning client compatability, but the only real issue I remember reading about Outlook is its annoying tendency to sometimes flood the server with IMAP connections. Courier IMAP has a way to limit the number of connections per IP address, so this can be dealt with. ---Kris Kelley
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I wasn't sure what the best way to start qmail-pop3d, so this is how I did it: Created another directory under /var/qmail/supervise called qmail-pop3d/ Put a run file in there that starts pop3 service. Created a log directory under qmail-pop3d/ and put a run script for logging in. This seems to work just fine, I can pop in and get mail, BUT, my question is: it doesn't stop the service when I go into /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and type qmail stop. All of the other services stop except for the pop service. I have to manually kill them before I can restart qmail services. I look in my qmail script for stoping/starting services and it looks like it should kill everything out of /var/qmail/supervise, but it is not stopping pop. What have I missed? Here is my qmail script: #!/bin/sh # PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan" cd /var/qmail/supervise env - PATH="$PATH" svscan & echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping qmail: svscan" kill `cat /var/run/svscan.pid` echo -n " qmail" svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/* echo -n " logging" svc -dx /var/qmail/supervise/*/log echo "." ;; stat) cd /var/qmail/supervise svstat * */log ;; doqueue|alrm) echo "Sending ALRM signal to qmail-send." svc -a /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send ;; queue) qmail-qstat qmail-qread ;; reload|hup) echo "Sending HUP signal to qmail-send." svc -h /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send ;; pause) echo "Pausing qmail-send" svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send echo "Pausing qmail-smtpd" svc -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd ;; cont) echo "Continuing qmail-send" svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send echo "Continuing qmail-smtpd" svc -c /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd ;; restart) echo "Restarting qmail:" echo "* Stopping qmail-smtpd." svc -d /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd echo "* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting." svc -t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send echo "* Restarting qmail-smtpd." svc -u /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd ;; cdb) tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp* echo "Reloaded /etc/tcp.smtp." ;; help) cat <<HELP stop -- stops mail service (smtp connections refused, nothing goes out) start -- starts mail service (smtp connection accepted, mail can go out) pause -- temporarily stops mail service (connections accepted, nothing leaves) cont -- continues paused mail service stat -- displays status of mail service cdb -- rebuild the tcpserver cdb file for smtp restart -- stops and restarts smtp, sends qmail-send a TERM & restarts it doqueue -- sends qmail-send ALRM, scheduling queued messages for delivery reload -- sends qmail-send HUP, rereading locals and virtualdomains queue -- shows status of queue alrm -- same as doqueue hup -- same as reload HELP ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|doqueue|reload|stat|pause|cont|cdb|queue|help}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 Michael French Asheville Citizen-Times IT Dept.
Is there a way to limit the size of the /var/log/mail/mail.info file that qmail generates? -- Chris
* Chris Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001122 17:45]: > Is there a way to limit the size of the /var/log/mail/mail.info file > that qmail generates? That sounds like a syslog file; if it isn't, you'll have to specify what it is before we can help. Anyway, if it's syslog, I don't think there is a way to limit it. You can, however, save yourself this and many other headaches by using multilog, part of the daemontools package (also by djb). You'll be glad you did. :) /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says: 'You.' After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done. (Jack Handey)
I have installed Qmail before on earlier versions of RedHat and Mandrake. But this time I am getting the following error messages on the new RedHat7; Nov 22 15:42:44 digitalp2 svscan: svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send: file does not exist Nov 22 15:42:44 digitalp2 svscan: svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd: file does not exist Nov 22 15:42:44 digitalp2 svscan: svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log: file does not exist Nov 22 15:42:44 digitalp2 svscan: svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log: file does not exist I have checked and made sure that no Sendmail or other pop mail are running. Basically I follow the Adam D. McKenna qmail HOWTO. A search of Google and the mailing archives points to someone having problems with older daemontools, I am using 0.70. At this stage I am not sure where else to look, any help would be most welcome. (has anyone installed qmail on RedHat7 yet...it did seem to compile ok) Thanks Malcolm
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:46:44PM -0800, m wrote: >(has anyone installed qmail on RedHat7 yet...it did seem to compile ok) I've done 4 or 5 installs on KRUD 7, which is RedHat 7 + the errata. Are you using the RPMs from http://www.em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/ They worked fine for me. Too bad we can't just put up the pre-compiled binaries, eh? Sean -- Q: What kind of dog goes "BOFH! BOFH!"? A: A rootweiler Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
I did not use the RPM's. I compiled the source code from scratch. I guess I will give those a try. Sean Reifschneider wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:46:44PM -0800, m wrote: > >(has anyone installed qmail on RedHat7 yet...it did seem to compile ok) > > I've done 4 or 5 installs on KRUD 7, which is RedHat 7 + the errata. > Are you using the RPMs from http://www.em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/ > > They worked fine for me. Too bad we can't just put up the pre-compiled > binaries, eh? > > Sean > -- > Q: What kind of dog goes "BOFH! BOFH!"? > A: A rootweiler > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
At 4:54 PM -0700 11/22/00, Sean Reifschneider wrote: >On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:46:44PM -0800, m wrote: >>(has anyone installed qmail on RedHat7 yet...it did seem to compile ok) > >I've done 4 or 5 installs on KRUD 7, which is RedHat 7 + the errata. >Are you using the RPMs from http://www.em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/ > >They worked fine for me. Too bad we can't just put up the pre-compiled >binaries, eh? > I'm a complete qmail newbie, and I just (finally) successfully installed qmail on a brand-new RH7 installation. I had problems, but I can attribute all of them to my own impatience and failure to RTFM. ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm cubiclecam: http://digirom.potsdam.edu/~prescor/cubiclecam.html ^^^ <--- New and improved!
Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was kind of put off by the rejection of my message to the Courier > mailing list. I detailed what all I had done and what the failure > was. I wasn't interested in subscribing, sending the message, then > unsubscribing. Whatever. I don't think it's unreasonable for a mailing list to only accept mail from subscribers. Why you expect this is beyond me -- YOUR laziness is not their problem, especially when the reason mailing lists do this is to avoid transmitting spam. -Matt -- | Matthew J. Brown - Senior Network Administrator - NBCi Shopping | | 1983 W. 190th St, Suite 100, Torrance CA 90504 | | Phone: (310) 538-7122 | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell: (714) 457-1854 | Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
Hi, I set up sqwebmail and it is working fine with Qmail but, I have a problem. When I add an user to my system, he/she can use webmail using the his/her password from the password file of the system. If an user change this password, he/she need to change the password of the sqwebmail otherwise he/she will need to use the old password to access the webmail. Are there any way to keep the user webmail password up date from the password file of the system ?? Sorry to this question about sqwebmail. thanks, Roberto Samarone Araujo
I setup a list wrong and now people are responding to the list (was supposed to be a newsletter type list for an online store), so the responses are going to about 60,000 people. Not good. I have killed the box for now. I have deleted the list, how can I clean out the queue so these message will not go out to all these folks when I fire the box back up. V/r Jay
I've just put together a package for automaticly managing mailing list archives. The idea being that at times it's nice to save a copy of mail from a list for later review. This system uses QMail extensions, Python, MHonArc, and PHP (for dynamicly generating the archive indexes) to do this. Assuming you have the above (lengthy) list of requirements satisfied, autoarch can be set up in under a minute. Mail sent to "user-autoarch-listname" will then get archived, including web interface (if you have MHonArc and Apache or the like). The first message coming in creates a new archive. Available at ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/autoarch/ If anyone has any ideas on how to make it reasonably secure... ;-) If you keep the archives private, it should be fine. It would be nice to get Google to index them, but that means that your "secret" auto-archive address is available. I suppose I could set up some lock-downs so that the directory had to be created first, and/or the first message sent to it would limit where messages could come from in the future... Sean -- A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation... Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > I've just put together a package for automaticly managing mailing list > archives. The idea being that at times it's nice to save a copy of mail give this software a search funktion (Mhonarc don't support it)? Piotr --- Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
Title: problems with the spamcontrol patchHi,
I have installed the spamcontrol patch to a base install of Q-Mail and most things seem to work fine.
However, there is one problem. When I put in an invalid senders (MAIL FROM) address to a SMTP connection, it closes the connection and does not report any message either in the logs or to the client itself. However, if I use the SMTP connection to send a valid e-mail first, and then try to send one with an invalid senders address on the same connection, it logs correctly to both client and log. All other log messages (i.e. not allowed to relay) work fine. And if I include a 'nodnscheck' file with the sender's domain, the mail goes through fine.
Any ideas as to what might be going wrong? I have installed q-mail 1.03 several times with and without other patches to ensure no other patches were affecting it.
Regards,
Charles Warwick
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Dear all, I found the following qmail-qread message which the message number doesn't exist in the queue, does anyone know what it means?? "18 Nov 2000 17:44:56 GMT #54676 1214 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> local _error_5.7.1_denied,maximum.messages.reached,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 19 Nov 2000 07:57:02 GMT #54679 1229 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> local _error_5.7.1_denied,maximum.messages.reached,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (p.s. please reply to this email) thanks and regards, Eric
Hello guys, I want to generate mail statistics from my Qmail server. It should give me bytes of messages passed and number of smtp if possible pop connections attempted. I don't use multilog. Log messages are dumped to the screen and not to syslog. Can any one tell me howto generate statistics and enable logging in Qmail Bye . Jagga ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cr.yp.to log list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; qmail mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 3:24 PM Subject: some strange logs. > Dear all, > > I found the following qmail-qread message which the message number > doesn't exist in the queue, does anyone know what it means?? > > "18 Nov 2000 17:44:56 GMT #54676 1214 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > local > _error_5.7.1_denied,maximum.messages.reached,please.try.back.in.30.minutes.@ ws1.hk4.outblaze.com > > 19 Nov 2000 07:57:02 GMT #54679 1229 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > local > _error_5.7.1_denied,maximum.messages.reached,please.try.back.in.30.minutes.@ ws1.hk4.outblaze.com" > > (p.s. please reply to this email) > thanks and regards, > > Eric > > > >
