qmail Digest 31 Jan 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1261
Topics (messages 56334 through 56399):
how to delete messages from the queue?
56334 by: Peter Peltonen
56341 by: Dave Sill
56397 by: Peter Peltonen
Re: SOMEONE GET ME OFF THIS LIST
56335 by: Henning Brauer
Re: Sorry about the size of my prevous e-mail (I have beem flamed on this before).
56336 by: Henning Brauer
Re: qmail queue problems .. help
56337 by: Charles Cazabon
56340 by: Joel Gautschi
qstat
56338 by: Jacques <Frip'> WERNERT
Re: Secure IMAP server
56339 by: Felix von Leitner
56352 by: Andy Bradford
Relay and mail lists.
56342 by: Paco Martinez
56345 by: Charles Cazabon
56347 by: Paco Martinez
56350 by: Charles Cazabon
vhost user
56343 by: Emilis Trinskis
56344 by: Charles Cazabon
pop3 / vhosts
56346 by: Gon�alo Gomes
56386 by: Sam Trenholme
Re: doubts about re-compile
56348 by: J.J.Gallardo
pop3d logs
56349 by: Miles Scruggs
56361 by: Robin S. Socha
Re: Qmail and GFS
56351 by: Paul Jarc
56354 by: Charles Cazabon
Re: is there a filter to scan message header and reject accordingly
56353 by: Paul Jarc
Memphis RSS service will be cancelled
56355 by: Mate Wierdl
56356 by: Jamin A. Brown
56357 by: Mate Wierdl
56370 by: Chris Johnson
56373 by: Andy Dustman
Warning Message
56358 by: Antonio Ferri Charbone
56359 by: Charles Cazabon
Re: qmail or postfix for high volume mailing list?
56360 by: Robin S. Socha
Qmail with 'tcpserver'
56362 by: Roger Walker
56363 by: Mark Delany
56364 by: Robin S. Socha
56365 by: Roger Walker
56366 by: Mark Delany
56367 by: Peter van Dijk
56368 by: Mark Delany
56369 by: Roger Walker
QMail permission error
56371 by: Nitro
56372 by: Matthew Patterson
unable to acquire log/supervise/lock !!
56374 by: dennis
56375 by: Rahsheen Porter
Re: Moving qmail servers
56376 by: M. Yu
Qmail Error
56377 by: Gary Tremblay
56378 by: Chris Johnson
56379 by: Chris Johnson
56380 by: Gary Tremblay
56381 by: Charles Cazabon
vmailmgr to vpopmail
56382 by: Miles Scruggs
ucspi-rss.diff
56383 by: Mate Wierdl
56387 by: Vincent Schonau
56388 by: Mate Wierdl
pop domain issue
56384 by: kh
the rss patch to rblsmtpd
56385 by: Mate Wierdl
56394 by: Robert Sander
installation problem
56389 by: Daniel Yip
56392 by: Robin S. Socha
56393 by: Daniel Yip
56395 by: Robin S. Socha
qmail with mysql patch - solaris
56390 by: Rudel Sun-woo
Re: RAID & Qmail.
56391 by: John White
How sending log messages in absence of Qmail or Sendmail?
56396 by: Mohamed Ould
56398 by: Franco Galian
Clean out /var/qmail/queue/pid + send automatic reply
56399 by: Filip Sneppe \(Yucom\)
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Browsing through the FAQ and "Life with Qmail" I didn't see the answer for this question (problem) I have: I used to run qmail with one local domain fivetec.com. I switched to using vmailmgr and made the fivetec.com domain a virtual one. My switch from real domains to virtual domains was quite painful and I didn't get everything working right away. In the process there seem to be messages left in the queue, that are accepted for local delivery for domain fivetec.com: [root@mail config]# qmail-qread 26 Jan 2001 09:01:43 GMT #1975510 534 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> done local [EMAIL PROTECTED] local [EMAIL PROTECTED] As fivetec.com is no longer local qmail can't deliver the message. How do I delete the message from the queue? Or how do I deliver it to the virtual domain? Regards, Peter
Peter Peltonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I used to run qmail with one local domain fivetec.com. > >I switched to using vmailmgr and made the fivetec.com domain a virtual one. > >In the process there seem to be messages left in the queue, that are accepted >for local delivery for domain fivetec.com: Virtual domain deliveries *are* local. >[root@mail config]# qmail-qread >26 Jan 2001 09:01:43 GMT #1975510 534 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > done local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > local [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >As fivetec.com is no longer local qmail can't deliver the message. What Do The Logs Say? (tm) >How do I delete the message from the queue? 1) Stop qmail. 2) Delete the queue files associated with the message. See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1219/fid/286 There are also some queue management tools available from www.qmail.org. 3) Restart qmail. -Dave
Dave Sill wrote: > Virtual domain deliveries *are* local. Yes... I just tried to explain that I used to have non-virtual domains and virtual domains. And called the non-virtual domain as a local delivery. Sorry. > What Do The Logs Say? (tm) They complained that the home directory was writeable. As the complaints were for my non-virtual domain (which should receive no mail anymore) I started wondering and typed qmail-qread which gave me the information I listed in the previous message. > 1) Stop qmail. > 2) Delete the queue files associated with the message. See: > http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1219/fid/286 > There are also some queue management tools available from > www.qmail.org. > 3) Restart qmail. I used qmHandle-0.4.1 which worked very well. Got my messages deleted from the queue. Thanks for the tip. Though I did not stop / start qmail, I just used the tool. Could have I achieved some harm to my system by doing so? Thanks for your help, Peter
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:40:39PM -0800, Henry Ong wrote: > haha. i sent email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few times > but i'm still getting mail messages from the list server.... Then just use the correct envelope sender and don't forget to answer the following mail. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS | Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Your "great new multimedia MUA" is totally broken. To advise only the three things annoying me most (apart from the html nonsense): -missing reference headers -multiple "Re:"'s -lines not wrapped -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS | Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
José Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm wondering if exists some binaries or scripts to cleanup/fix > the qmail queue Read www.qmail.org. There's several links there that do precisely this. > i'm also receiving messages from foreign hosts about outgoing messages > bouncing from my server ... You'll need to be more descriptive for us to help you with this. Try actually posting the messages you're receiving, for a start. You should also tell us the hostname of your mailserver, as many common problems can be diagnosed with a simple DNS query and possibly telnetting to your SMTP port. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>i'm wondering if exists some binaries or scripts to cleanup/fix >the qmail queue >( /opt/qmail/queue/mess > /remote > /info > /bounce) Have a look at: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1217/fid/206 : -------------------------- How can I delete a lot of spam mail from the qmail queue? May 9th, 2000 06:35 Howard Jones, Nathan Wallace Magnus Bodin Take a look at qmhandle: http://www.io.com/~mick/soft/qmhandle.html Don't forget to stop qmail before you mess around in the queue. ---- An alternative that I've used successfully is to 1) Stop qmail, qmail-smtpd and anything else that might try to deliver messages - leave qmail-pop3d, then at least users can get their existing mail. 2) Delete the offending messages from the /var/qmail/queue/mess directories with something like: find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec grep "^Subject: Want a University Diploma" {} \; -print -exec rm {} \; 3) run queue-fix to clean up the appropriate related files in todo, intd etc. 4) restart qmail. qmhandle requires individual message numbers to delete messages. When you have 100,000 messages, this is impractical! queue-fix is written by Eric Huss, and is available at http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz It's also worth knowing that the find command will still potentially take hours to delete all that junk - be prepared for some phonecalls! -------------------------- cya Joel
Hello, is there any way to know how many messages in the queue are in "retry" mode (ie an attempt has already been made) Thanx in advance Frip'
Thus spake Andy Bradford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > While courier-imap isn't coded in the same style that DJB uses, I do > believe that it has been built with security in mind. That is not sufficient. Windows is also built with security in mind, according to Microsoft. I have not done a code audit of Courier. That said, I use the imapd myself. While I would not trust it as much as an imapd from djb, it seems to be the best alternative. Please note that IMAP is a large and complicated protocol. It is difficult to make it right because of the complexity. If you just want to retrieve email, use pop-3. Felix
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:32:13 +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: > That is not sufficient. That was my point. Not having seen a security audit, nor looked at the code myself, there is not solid claim to security. > That said, I use the imapd myself. We use it here as well on production systems. > While I would not trust it as much as an imapd from djb, it seems to be > the best alternative. Please note that IMAP is a large and complicated > protocol. It is difficult to make it right because of the complexity. My point exactly. Since there is no other alternative at this time then it wins out by default. Compared to the rest of the imapd that exist courier-imap works best with the our current needs. Andy
Paco Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suddenly, the problemm is that I can't send a mail users lists from > 192.168.1.3 -NT- using like SMTP server 192.168.1.3, indeed The program I use > worked on with sendmail but no with qmail. > > This program is complied is C++ using SMTP.h library and when I execute > SMTP.Connect from NT is there an error !!! What error? You haven't given us enough information to be sure about the problem. Post the _exact_ error message you get here, plus relevant log entries from the qmail server. As a wild guess, if it worked with sendmail but doesn't with qmail, it might be that your program is sending bare linefeeds. That's illegal, and qmail rejects the message. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Even another error message from EXE in NT *** ERROR *** SMTP.SendMessage(): Socket Error ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:25 PM Subject: Re: Relay and mail lists. > Paco Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Suddenly, the problemm is that I can't send a mail users lists from > > 192.168.1.3 -NT- using like SMTP server 192.168.1.3, indeed The program I use > > worked on with sendmail but no with qmail. > > > > This program is complied is C++ using SMTP.h library and when I execute > > SMTP.Connect from NT is there an error !!! > > What error? You haven't given us enough information to be sure about the > problem. Post the _exact_ error message you get here, plus relevant log > entries from the qmail server. > > As a wild guess, if it worked with sendmail but doesn't with qmail, it might > be that your program is sending bare linefeeds. That's illegal, and qmail > rejects the message. > > 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. > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Paco Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and in /var/log/qmail/smpt/current > > @400000003a6f0d180395ee3c tcpserver: pid 23042 from 192.168.1.3 > @400000003a6f0d180df426b4 tcpserver: ok 23042 machine.examples.com:192.168.1.10:25 >otros.examples.com:192.168.1.3 > @400000003a6f0d3c19116d54 tcpserver: end 23042 status 0 > > But nothin [...] > > As a wild guess, if it worked with sendmail but doesn't with qmail, it might > > be that your program is sending bare linefeeds. That's illegal, and qmail > > rejects the message. > Sorry but I don´t understand you aoubt "bare linefeeds"... What do you say > ??? All lines in an SMTP conversation must end with '\r\n'. Ending a line with '\n' is illegal. If qmail sees a bare linefeed (just '\n') ending a line, it will reject the message. Make sure your program uses '\r\n' for line endings, everywhere. If it just times out, you may be sending '\n.\n' for "end of message", but the RFC requires '\r\n.\r\n'. Some MTAs won't even detect the end of the message if you use the incorrect form. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi all, Question about qmail vhosts: I have a two domains: example1.com and example2.com And i have a user: john Now when i getting emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] those emails goes to user john. I need todo: if email goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's ok if email goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user Sorry my english is pure. Emilis
Emilis Trinskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question about qmail vhosts: > > I have a two domains: example1.com and example2.com > And i have a user: john > Now when i getting emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > those emails goes to user john. > I need todo: if email goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's ok > if email goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user Make one or both domains virtual. Virtual domains should be listed only in "virtualdomains" and "rcpthosts", and _not_ in "locals". If both domains are virtual, make sure they are handled by different local users. Read "Life with qmail" and djb's qmail FAQ for more details. Also the man page for qmail-send. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello, i got a problem, i'm trying to switch from sendmail to qmail, and been trying qmail for somedays.. but, i'm having a problem... i have defusion.org resolving to 213.22.7.252 , where i am trying qmail, i'm using ipop3d and qmail smtpd daemon with "Mailbox" mailbox format, i've added "defusion.org:goncalo" to virtualdomains and rcpthosts control file's now my problem is: i want create a pop3 accounts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and, [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a fetch-all whats the way i have to do it? thanks in advance, Gonçalo Gomes
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Gonçalo Gomes wrote: > "Mailbox" mailbox format, i've added "defusion.org:goncalo" to > virtualdomains and rcpthosts control file's Hopefully, the line in rcpthosts is: defusion.org > now my problem is: > i want create a pop3 accounts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a fetch-all * Create a local user named rik on your machine * ~goncalo/.qmail-rik needs to point to Rik's email address, e.g. give this the file the contents '&rik' (no quotes!) * Have a ~goncalo/.qmail-default which points mail to goncalo's mailbox ('&goncalo') - Sam
Jose AP Celestino escribió: > Yeah, right Alex. > > make > = stop qmail = > cp qmail-pop3d /var/qmail/bin > chown root:qmail /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d > = start qmail = Done. All succesfully. Thanks to Jose and Alex Kramarov (also Peter van Dijk)
When I have the pop3d initialized via inetd.conf with: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup post.3abn.org /bin/checkvpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Where is the logging taking place? I would like to use syslog only for the reason that I like the timestamps. My problem is that I can't authenticate via vmailmgrd which is running and I have authenticated with oMail web admin and added users etc. Is there any way to track down why I can't login either to pop3d or imap? Both are installed right and worked before I moved to vmailmgr. Miles Scruggs
* Miles Scruggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I have the pop3d initialized via inetd.conf with: > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup \ > post.3abn.org /bin/checkvpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > Where is the logging taking place? Nowhere? Have you tried using tcpserver instead of inetd (which, like syslog) is inherently evil? > I would like to use syslog only for the reason that I like the > timestamps. man tain64nlocal > My problem is that I can't authenticate via vmailmgrd which is running > and I have authenticated with oMail web admin and added users etc. ,---- | (robin@radioactive):(~)$ cat /service/pop3/run | #!/bin/sh | export PATH | PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH" | exec 2>&1 \ | softlimit -d250000 \ | tcpserver -u 0 -g 16 -c 20 -v -H -R -X -x tcp.cdb -- 0 110 \ | qmail-popup `sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me` \ | checkvpw \ | /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow \ | qmail-pop3d Maildir `---- This will give you nice, manageable logs in /service/pop3/log/main. Really ;-)
Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous > metadata (as I said above), But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so performance suffers. Do I have that right? paul
Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous > > metadata (as I said above), > > But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is > synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so > performance suffers. Do I have that right? Quite possibly. It's not a concern for me, as I use Bruce Guenter's SRPM, which includes an object file shim that automatically syncs the directory when you sync a file. Thanks to Bruce for pointing out that it is not technically a "patch". Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Wolfgang Zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the previous episode (29.01.2001), Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >>#!/bin/bash > >>#~/filter > >>cat > /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt > >>if [ "$(grep 'Subject: whatever' /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt)" = "Subject: whatever" ] > >>then > >> cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject devnul > >>else > >> cat "/tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt" | qmail-inject $USER-real > >>fi > >>rm -f /tmp/to$RECIPIENT.txt > >> > >> > >> > >>/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-devnul will delete every mail sent to devnul > > > >Why not just not re-inject it? > > i wasnt sure if i could use that "if" construction directly in a .qmail > file (can that be done?), Yes, but only the entire shell script is all on one line (with commands separated by semicolons instead of newlines). I'd rewrite the whole thing into a .qmail file like this: |exec > /dev/null 2>&1; 822field subject | grep 'whatever' && exit 99; exit 0 |forward other-address Also note that the original request was for scanning outgoing mail as well. .qmail files can't help there. paul
Yusuf just told me that one has to pay for zone transfers of the RSS zone. This means, I have to cancel the RSS RBL service of relays.msci.memphis.edu as of tomorrow, noon, US Central. It would be great if Dan would write an official version of rblsmtpd that supports A records. Does anybody have any other suggestion (like an available replacement of the RSS list I could exercise my rbldns on)? BTWY, they have about 300 subscribers to the service; that is at least $700 each nameserver/year >= $420,000/year. But you need to add $50 per 1000 users... Based on the listed participant ISPs, it looks like more than a million/year goes to support needy antispammers. Mate
Mate, There is a patch for rblsmtpd that allows it to block using A records (as opposed to TXT records). We've applied it in order to use mail-abuse.org's RSS list. I would point you directly to it, but I can't seem to get to www.qmail.org at the moment. Jamin On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Mate Wierdl wrote: > Yusuf just told me that one has to pay for zone transfers of the RSS > zone. This means, I have to cancel the RSS RBL service of > relays.msci.memphis.edu as of tomorrow, noon, US Central. > > It would be great if Dan would write an official version of rblsmtpd > that supports A records. > > Does anybody have any other suggestion (like an available replacement > of the RSS list I could exercise my rbldns on)? > > BTWY, they have about 300 subscribers to the service; that is at least > $700 each nameserver/year >= $420,000/year. But you need to add $50 > per 1000 users... Based on the listed participant ISPs, it looks like > more than a million/year goes to support needy antispammers. > > Mate > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:24:37PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > Mate, > > There is a patch for rblsmtpd that allows it to block using A records (as > opposed to TXT records). We've applied it in order to use mail-abuse.org's > RSS list. Thx, I know about the patch---but I am hoping for an official rblsmtpd, since now there is no workaround. Mate
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:17:41PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > Yusuf just told me that one has to pay for zone transfers of the RSS > zone. This means, I have to cancel the RSS RBL service of > relays.msci.memphis.edu as of tomorrow, noon, US Central. That's too bad. Thanks for providing this service; it's worked flawlessly for me. > It would be great if Dan would write an official version of rblsmtpd > that supports A records. It would also be nice if the RSS people ran their own service with rbldns. Fat chance of that, though--isn't mail-abuse.org an ISC operation? Chris
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:17:41PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > > It would be great if Dan would write an official version of rblsmtpd > > that supports A records. > > It would also be nice if the RSS people ran their own service with rbldns. Fat > chance of that, though--isn't mail-abuse.org an ISC operation? It's a Paul Vixie operation... Nearly the same thing... -- Andy Dustman PGP: 0xC72F3F1D @ .net http://dustman.net/andy "Normally with carbonara you use eggs, but I used lobster brains instead." -- Masahiko Kobe (Iron Chef Italian): 30-year-old Giant Lobster Battle
Hi, I need to know whay mean the following message: 980850635.808667 warning: trouble opening local/9/41501; will try again later Thanks and regards.begin:vcard n:Ferri Charbone;Antonio x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Telcel Celular C.A.;Gerencia de Operaciones adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Administrador de Sistemas x-mozilla-cpt:;-19088 fn:Antonio Ferri Charbone end:vcard
Antonio Ferri Charbone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to know whay mean the following message: > > 980850635.808667 warning: trouble opening local/9/41501; will try again > later Possibly your queue is corrupted. Did you modify or remove any files from under the /var/qmail/queue hierarchy? Look at www.qmail.org for a link to a program called "queue-fix". Using that program may be easier than trying to manually repair a corrupted queue. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Sam Trenholme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Philip Mak writes: >> Can someone tell me: Should I use qmail or postfix to run this >> discussion list? > Oh boy, since this is cross-posted to both the qmail and to the > Postfix list, this could become a holy war. Since noone's mentioned s*ndm**l yet, this seems avoidable. > I myself have never used Postfix, but have used Qmail. I've used both and would not mind using one over the other, but... > My general sense: > * Qmail apprently has slightly better performance for mailing list > stuff, Postfix has slightly more performance for indivudal > mailboxes. ezmlm(-idx) is the best MLM, full stop. All other MLMs pale in comparison. That's one hell of a good argument if you're looking into an MTA for mailing lists. ezmlm/qmail running under tcpserver under a softupdate'd *BSD... well... And since this is x-mailed to the postfix list, where not everyone might be familiar with this document: ,---- | Mailing list management is one of qmail's strengths. Notable features: | | * qmail lets each user handle his own mailing lists. The delivery | instructions for user-whatever go into ~user/.qmail-whatever. | | * qmail makes it really easy to set up mailing list owners. If the user | touches ~user/.qmail-whatever-owner, all bounces will come back to him. | | * qmail supports VERPs, which permit completely reliable automated | bounce handling for mailing lists of any size. | | * SPEED---qmail blasts through mailing lists an order of magnitude | faster than sendmail. For example, one message was successfully | delivered to 150 hosts around the world in just 70 seconds, with qmail's | out-of-the-box configuration. | | * qmail automatically prevents mailing list loops, even across hosts. | | * qmail allows inconceivably gigantic mailing lists. No random limits. | | * qmail handles aliasing and forwarding with the same simple mechanism. | For example, Postmaster is controlled by ~alias/.qmail-postmaster. This | means that cross-host loop detection also applies to aliases. | | * qmail supports the ezmlm mailing list manager, which easily and | automatically handles bounces, subscription requests, and archives. `---- I run a few mailing lists (4 of them would definitly count as "high volume") and where MajorDomo and MailMan were hitting really bad on the CPU with Sendmail, ezmlm-idx and qmail are hardly noticeable. On a reasonably fast machine. > * Postfix is more open-source than Qmail Arguable. > * Postfix is easier to configure than Qmail Highly arguable. > * Qmail is more flexible than Postfix Unfortunately, also arguable. > You will be happy with whatever choice you make. I'd say that heavily depends on the MLM chosen. > And oh, I would up your RAM to 128 megs. ... per slot. As per usual. -- Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/>
I thought I had this running once before on a since-overwritten test system, but in redoing things, I am having problems. I want to implement the ucspi-tcp package (with tcpserver) so that I can also implement the RBL (which requires ucspi-tcp). My setup is almost straight from the "running Qmail" book. The trailing ":allow" in my cdb file is from an example given to me by someone who said it was necessary in order to receive outside email. Anyway, download, compile, install - all very quick and easy. I have a single line in the boot script (within the qmail start script) that looks like this: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -p -x /etc/tcpserver/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 301 -g 300 \ 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd & 301 is the qmaild uid and 300 is the nofiles gid. The cdb file was created from what follows: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " 206.75.255.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " :allow My domain is "rope.net" and my class C is 206.75.255.0/24. I am also using some "class C" subnets from the 10. private address space that connect via VPN. I have a local host that periodically sends logging files to my mail server at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and works correctly when I am set up with inetd for smtp. However, when I try the same thing when set up for tcpserver with qmail, the mail.log file has an entry similar to this: starting delivery 1: msg 64822 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] delivery 1: failure: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_rope.net?._(#5.1.2)/ Evidently, qmail now thinks that the address domain has a trailing "_" (or is that a space?), which is replaced as a "?" in the second line. Any ideas as to what is happening? Thanks. -- Roger Walker <http://www.rat-hole.com> Voice/Fax 1-780-440-2685 <http://www.man-from-linux.com> "HIS Pain; YOUR Gain" <http://www.rope.net> <http://www.rope.net/signature.html>
> 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > 206.75.255.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > :allow qmail-smtpd appends whatever is in RELAYCLIENT to the recipient address. You have a space in RELAYCLIENT=" ". It should be RELAYCLIENT="" Don't forget to remake/rebuild the cdb file. Regards.
* Roger Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010130 15:48]: > I want to implement the ucspi-tcp package (with tcpserver) so that I > can also implement the RBL (which requires ucspi-tcp). Try this: http://www.din.or.jp/~ushijima/qmail-conf.html - you'll like it.
On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > 206.75.255.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > :allow > > qmail-smtpd appends whatever is in RELAYCLIENT to the recipient > address. You have a space in RELAYCLIENT=" ". > > It should be RELAYCLIENT="" I thought that looked fishy. Maybe the typeface from the book (?) that I don't have in front of me right now... Makes sense, now. Many thanks. -- Roger Walker <http://www.rat-hole.com> Voice/Fax 1-780-440-2685 <http://www.man-from-linux.com> "HIS Pain; YOUR Gain" <http://www.rope.net> <http://www.rope.net/signature.html>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:06:06PM -0700, Roger Walker wrote: > On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " Er. You can't have domains in here either. Assuming you're using a standard tcpserver. Check out cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for all the details plus how to check the rules. Regards.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:14:20PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:06:06PM -0700, Roger Walker wrote: > > On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > > > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > Er. You can't have domains in here either. Assuming you're using a > standard tcpserver. Check out cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for all the > details plus how to check the rules. Current tcpserver versions support domains just fine. Greetz, Peter.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:16:25PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:14:20PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:06:06PM -0700, Roger Walker wrote: > > > On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > > > > > > 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > > > > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > > > Er. You can't have domains in here either. Assuming you're using a > > standard tcpserver. Check out cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for all the > > details plus how to check the rules. > > Current tcpserver versions support domains just fine. Oops. With: =.rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" Right? Possibly using -P to avoid unauthorized relay usage by those who control their reverse lookups. Regards.
On 30 Jan 2001, Mark Delany wrote: > > > > > > .rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=" " > > > > > > Er. You can't have domains in here either. Assuming you're using a > > > standard tcpserver. Check out cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for all the > > > details plus how to check the rules. > > > > Current tcpserver versions support domains just fine. > > Oops. With: > > =.rope.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > > Right? Possibly using -P to avoid unauthorized relay usage by those > who control their reverse lookups. I control my class C reverse lookups, also :-) so I would just need to know the proper syntax in order to implement it. -- Roger Walker <http://www.rat-hole.com> Voice/Fax 1-780-440-2685 <http://www.man-from-linux.com> "HIS Pain; YOUR Gain" <http://www.rope.net> <http://www.rope.net/signature.html>
Aright, I’m getting a permission error when I try starting Qmail. I don’t know why though, followed INSTALL fine, and as a test I chmoded the whole qmail directory to 777 and still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Error message:
[root@www bin]# csh -cf '/www/qmail/bin &'
[1] 3320
/www/qmail/bin: Permission denied.
[1] Exit 1 /www/qmail/bin
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Nitro wrote: > >Aright, I�m getting a permission error when I try starting Qmail. I don�t >know why though, followed INSTALL fine, and as a test I chmoded the whole >qmail directory to 777 and still no luck. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. > >Error message: > >[root@www bin]# csh -cf '/www/qmail/bin &' >[1] 3320 >/www/qmail/bin: Permission denied. >[1] Exit 1 /www/qmail/bin > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- Assuming that /www/qmail is the base directory for your qmail installation, then the problem is that you are trying to execute a directory. Generally we want to execute programs. Try `csh -cf '/www/qmail/bin/qmail-start &'`. If that doesn't work, maybe you could give us some more information, such as an ls -l of /www/qmail/bin. -- *********************************** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Administrator National Support Center, LLC Naperville, Illinois, USA ***********************************
Hi all... I keep getting this error when trying to start my new qmail installation. supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure Anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be. Cheers Dennis
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:36AM +1100, dennis wrote: > Hi all... > > I keep getting this error when trying to start my new qmail installation. > > > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure > supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary > failure > > Anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be. > Uhm, that usually means supervise is already running in that directory.
What I did when I changed mail servers was this: 1. deny incoming connections to old-server from my LAN (to stop my users from sending mails) 2. allow qmail to process the queue (is there a way to force qmail to process the queue instead of waiting for it to finish?) 3. tar the users' Maildirs 4. move the tarball to new-server and untar 5. unplug cable to old-server and plug it into new-server That's it. Note that old-server and new-server have the same IP so I didn't have to do any DNS changes (make sure you unplug the old one first before plugging in the new one or there'd be an IP conflict). So far we haven't noticed any problems but I may have just been lucky. Do the filenames in the Maildirs also correspond to inode numbers? If so then I guess I really am just lucky :) My "technique" gave us a downtime of 1 hour but this was mostly taken up by waiting for the queue to be processed by qmail, otherwise it would just have been at most 10 minutes. M. Yu
My mail log file shows this error for 7 new users I thought I setup correctly: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) What did I do wrong? ******************************************************** Gary Tremblay, MCSC, CNE Network Manager World Fusion Software 2900 Bristol Street, Suite H-103 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Voice: 714-708-7400 FAX: 714-708-7401 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:38:06PM -0800, Gary Tremblay wrote: > My mail log file shows this error for 7 new users I thought I setup correctly: > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) How about some details? How are you starting qmail? Did you create a Maildir for each user (or cause one to be created by creating one in /etc/skel (or your system's equivalent)) before creating the user? Who owns these Maildirs? > What did I do wrong? Obviously something, but unless you tell us what you did do, we have no way of knowing. Chris
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:44:56PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:38:06PM -0800, Gary Tremblay wrote: > > My mail log file shows this error for 7 new users I thought I setup correctly: > > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) > > How about some details? How are you starting qmail? Did you create a Maildir > for each user (or cause one to be created by creating one in /etc/skel (or your > system's equivalent)) before creating the user? Who owns these Maildirs? Oops. That misplaced parenthesis could be confusing. Try this: Did you create a Maildir for each user (or cause one to be created by creating one in /etc/skel (or your system's equivalent) before creating the user)? Chris
At 08:47 PM 1/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:44:56PM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:38:06PM -0800, Gary Tremblay wrote:
> > My mail log file shows this error for 7 new users I thought I setup correctly:
> > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)
>
> How about some details? How are you starting qmail? Did you create a Maildir
> for each user (or cause one to be created by creating one in /etc/skel (or your
> system's equivalent)) before creating the user? Who owns these Maildirs?
Thanks for the quick response.
All I did was add 7 new users to a system that already had 10 users
setup and working correctly. (Setup by somebody else, by the way)
For a windows based guy, qmail is a little difficult to figure out. I
simply copied and renamed one of the existing users Maildir folders.
Then I copied and renamed one of the existing Alias folders and
edited the home directory name for each new user. I've checked
the permissions and owernship on the Maildir folder and sub-folders
and they are identical to the users who are working correctly.
I even traced the source of the error down in the qmail-local source
code, but not being a C programmer wasn't able to find the source
of the subroutine that causes case 2 to occur.
I've made the assumption that the error (chdir) refers to qmail's inability
to change (to the users) directory but I can't find any difference between
the working users directories from the ones I set up.
Does this help ...?
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Gary Tremblay, MCSC, CNE
Network Manager
World Fusion Software
2900 Bristol Street, Suite H-103
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Voice: 714-708-7400 FAX: 714-708-7401
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*********************************************************
Gary Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mail log file shows this error for 7 new users I thought I setup > correctly: > Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1) [...] > All I did was add 7 new users to a system that already had 10 users > setup and working correctly. (Setup by somebody else, by the way) > > For a windows based guy, qmail is a little difficult to figure out. I > simply copied and renamed one of the existing users Maildir folders. Copying it might result in wrong ownership of the Maildir and it's subdirectories. The command `maildirmake` will create a Maildir with its three subdirectories (tmp, new, and cur). They all have to be owned by the user to work. And what do you mean by renamed? In its simplest form, a Maildir is just named "Maildir" and is located in the user's home directory. Your default delivery instruction is then "./Maildir/". You shouldn't need to rename the Maildir. > Then I copied and renamed one of the existing Alias folders and > edited the home directory name for each new user. Again, not sure what you mean by an alias folder. Do you mean a .qmail-something file in the home directory of user "alias"? These aren't necessary for local users. > I've checked the permissions and owernship on the Maildir folder and > sub-folders and they are identical to the users who are working correctly. Well, there's obviously something different going on here. For starters, how about showing us the result of `ls -ld ~USER ~USER/Maildir ~USER/Maildir/*` for both a user that works, and one that doesn't? Also, post the output of `qmail-showctl`. And don't change any of the host/usernames for the sake of "security". We need the real information to find the problem. 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
How do I move a whole domain (only one) from vmailmgr to vpopmail. I would not like to have to enter all the users and passwords again. Miles Scruggs
Does this patch to rblsmtpd result in a dropin replacement to the original rblsmtpd? In other words, can I just use it as rblsmtpd -r rss.mail-abuse.org ? Thx Mate
Mate Wierdl writes: > Does this patch to rblsmtpd result in a dropin replacement to the > original rblsmtpd? In other words, can I just use it as > > rblsmtpd -r rss.mail-abuse.org No, you use rblsmtpd -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see <URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%>' This also answers your earlier question. Vince.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:58:37AM +0000, Vincent Schonau wrote: > No, you use > rblsmtpd -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see > <URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%>' > > This also answers your earlier question. Then there is an incorrect info at http://mail-abuse.org/rss/how.html: Alternatively, apply the ucspi-rss.diff patch to ucspi-0.88 and change -r relays.mail-abuse.org to -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see <URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%>' Thx, Mate
I've setting a pop domain using fastforward in virtualdomain file as below: abc.com: alias in /etc/aliases @abc.com: userabc then in the client site I use ftgate smartpop features to retrieve all the mails for @abc.com from the server, but found that when a mail contains several email addresses for same domain @abc.com, eg: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] then in the server mailbox for userabc, it will 3 times of the same email, when ftgate receive the email, it will generate again 3 times of the email to 3 person for each same email in the server, therefor there will be 3 x 3 times emails in ftgate and each user will receive 3 time of the same email...... any suggestiongs? ckh :)
When testing the patch with Russ's test, I get 220 rblsmtpd.local helo rrss.crynwr.com 250 rblsmtpd.local mail from:<> 250 rblsmtpd.local rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 451 Open relay problem - see? +<URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?192.203.178.70> Terminating conversation But the URL just gives me a form to enter an IP. Is that correct? Thx Mate -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
On 31 Jan 2001 06:59:09 +0100, Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When testing the patch with Russ's test, I get > >220 rblsmtpd.local >helo rrss.crynwr.com >250 rblsmtpd.local >mail from:<> >250 rblsmtpd.local >rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >451 Open relay problem - see? >+<URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?192.203.178.70> >Terminating conversation > >But the URL just gives me a form to enter an IP. Is that correct? They changed the script on the webserver, it now expects a query-var. So the full URL now should read like http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=192.203.178.70 I think everyone should change their qmail-start script... Greetings -- Robert Sander Computer Scientist Epigenomics AG Bioinformatics R&D www.epigenomics.com Kastanienallee 24 +493024345330 10435 Berlin
I was following every single steps from Life with qmail to install qmail on a Linux server. When I typed /usr/local/sbin/qmail start, it gave me an error message of "softlimit: fatal: unable to run : file does not exist
* Daniel Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010131 03:04]: > I was following every single steps from Life with qmail to install > qmail on a Linux server. When I typed /usr/local/sbin/qmail start, it > gave me an error message of "softlimit: fatal: unable to run : file > does not exist sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start
It gave me the same error. I had also check all the execute right and they look find. I am using "root" all along. Any other suggestions? -----Original Message----- From: Robin S. Socha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: installation problem * Daniel Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010131 03:04]: > I was following every single steps from Life with qmail to install > qmail on a Linux server. When I typed /usr/local/sbin/qmail start, it > gave me an error message of "softlimit: fatal: unable to run : file > does not exist sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start
* Daniel Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010131 03:54]: > Robin S. Socha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > * Daniel Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010131 03:04]: >>> I was following every single steps from Life with qmail to install >>> qmail on a Linux server. When I typed /usr/local/sbin/qmail start, it >>> gave me an error message of "softlimit: fatal: unable to run : file >>> does not exist >> sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start > It gave me the same error. I had also check all the execute right and > they look find. I am using "root" all along. Any other suggestions? softlimit is mentioned three times in the document. In two scripts. You've either got a typo there or installed the software in other places. Or the command is not in your path, or... Or you're using SuSE... It all boils down to this: if you're not even able to debug a shell script (or know how to enter debug information into an existing script), why on earth would you want to run a mail server? Furthermore: Message Editing and Quoting FAQ aka http://learn.to/edit_messages HowTo Use Reply-To aka http://learn.to/usereplyto And while your're at it: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/outlookexpress/ Last, I DO NOT WANT TO BE Cc:'d. I would set a reply-to if I wanted to.
i am trying to set up qmail under following conditions OS : solaris8 (SUN OS 5.8) Hardware : e3500 Compiler : gcc-2.95.2 MySQL Patches : - qmail-mysql-1.2.1-lain.patch (OR) - qmail-mysql-0.6.6.patch however, when i run qmail-getpw after compiling, i get this error message: Segmentation Fault (Memory Dump) Error please help! ---------------------------- Wizard Rudel ICQ : 61722029 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:59:33PM -0500, Steve Fulton wrote: > I've searched the archives extensively, and I've learned quite a lot, but > I'd like advice on this question: > > Assuming RAID 1+0 is not an option (due to the expense), what level of > RAID is best for storing /Maildir's on a file server (that will be > accessible to the SMTP & POP servers via NFS). Redudancy is the big > issue, otherwise I'd go for RAID 1. The suits are pushing for RAID 5 > because they don't know better - and won't listen. Why is RAID 5 and option if RAID 1+0 isn't? The latter only requires 4 drives in the minimum configuration. You can even do it with IDE drives using 3ware's IDE RAID controllers. John
Hello, On all my LAN , DMZ, ISP machine servers, I desintallating Sendmail (installed by default on RH6.2). I have a Qmail Relay machine in the DMZ and Qmail server in my LAN. Now, I have the problem to sent logs files, swatch, logcheck parsing, alerts,... from machines in the DMZ, LAN, ISP where Qmail is not installed. Some applications on the DMZ, ISP would be also able to send messages to me or user on the net . Somebody suggested me to install Sendmail but not as root or install Qmail on each machines. But, I don't need Sendmail on my machines due to security problems. My question is: how I can do this? how I can get messages from any machine in LAN, DMZ, ISP whitout installating Qmail on each? Thanks
Hi, once I needed to create new users on a freebsd box, this users were already created on a SuSE linux box, where a qmail server is running. What I used to notify those users of their new accounts is a program called nmh, on OpenBSD and FreeBSD is at the ports tree, and of course you can compile it on linux. You can set an external mailserver in nmh conf file. Hope that it helps Franco Galian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohamed Ould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 6:31 AM Subject: How sending log messages in absence of Qmail or Sendmail? > Hello, > > On all my LAN , DMZ, ISP machine servers, I desintallating Sendmail > (installed by default on RH6.2). > I have a Qmail Relay machine in the DMZ and Qmail server in my LAN. > Now, I have the problem to sent logs files, swatch, logcheck parsing, > alerts,... from machines in the DMZ, LAN, ISP where Qmail is not > installed. Some applications on the DMZ, ISP would be also able to send > messages to me or user on the net . > Somebody suggested me to install Sendmail but not as root or install > Qmail on each machines. But, I don't need Sendmail on my machines due > to security problems. > My question is: how I can do this? how I can get messages from any > machine in LAN, DMZ, ISP whitout installating Qmail on each? > > Thanks > >
Hi, I'm a newbie qmail admin getting more and more enthousiastic about this MTA, even though I've just spent some time troubleshooting my first qmail problem after someone accidentally deleted a qmail user account and changed permissions on some directories. My mail system was suffering from a "451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0)" message when receiving/trying to queue mail. I found a lot of people asking what this was all about all over the net, but no real solution to the problem. Well, I just want to add my own 0.02 $ by saying that it's all permissions and owner-related. I found the "make check" (which calls instcheck) from the build directory to be the most effective tool to find out where file ownerships and permissions have gone berserk. Note that usernames don't really matter for qmail, it's the userids that have to match ! Recreating a deleted account with a different userid doesn't solve things, you have to change the uid in /etc/passwd afterwards. I have two quick questions though: How can I clean out /var/qmail/queue/pid after an ungraceful shutduwn ? (you've guessed it, at some point I thought it would be useful to just kill -9 all qmail processes) I have no idea which files shouldn't be in that folder. [root@yuclnx1 queue-fix-1.4]# /var/qmail/bin/instcheck [root@yuclnx1 queue-fix-1.4]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-lint [root@yuclnx1 queue-fix-1.4]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qsanity [root@yuclnx1 queue-fix-1.4]# /var/qmail/bin/queue-fix -N /var/qmail/queue/ Running in test mode, no changes will be made. Found files in /var/qmail/queue/pid that shouldn't be there. I will not remove them. You should consider checking it out. queue-fix finished... How do I find out what files to delete ? There are 151 files in the folder. Also, due to a domain name change, I need to implement the following: all people sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should receive a reply saying that they should now use [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it shouldn't be too difficult to redirect mail from @subdomain.domain.com to @domain.com, but our management really wants to have automated replies to the senders... Regards, Filip
