Re: One last time: smail problem
Ooooh! Only a guess -- but make a crontab entry that runs every five minutes that runs runq. Probably it should run as 'mail', but I can't be sure. See what this does. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:39:27AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically. This is more an inconvenience than anything else---my system isn't broken. But what can I do to remedy this? Some info: When installing Netscape, the configuration script said that smail may have to be restarted, and so it was. Also, when reconfiguring smail last night (smailconfig), a message that There is no crontab came up. My smail daemon is run via a inet.d. Should I bag smail and use another MTA? Thanks all, Dave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
One last time: smail problem
I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically. This is more an inconvenience than anything else---my system isn't broken. But what can I do to remedy this? Some info: When installing Netscape, the configuration script said that smail may have to be restarted, and so it was. Also, when reconfiguring smail last night (smailconfig), a message that There is no crontab came up. My smail daemon is run via a inet.d. Should I bag smail and use another MTA? Thanks all, Dave
Re: One last time: smail problem
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:39:27AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: [Please keep your lines udner 80 characters] I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically. Some info: When installing Netscape, the configuration script said that smail may have to be restarted, and so it was. Also, when reconfiguring smail last night (smailconfig), a message that There is no crontab came up. My smail daemon is run via a inet.d. This Shouldn't Happen and is probably a bug somewhere. It is possible that you've edited your smail configuration in the past to turn off instantaneous delivery attempts and the restart picked this up. Either that or you somehow lost your crontab and the delivery attempts were just happening regularly rather than instantaneously. You could create a new crontab which runs runq every 15 minutes or so - this is probably what the standard one does. Should I bag smail and use another MTA? Probably. Exim is now the Debian standard and is designed to resemble smail. I imagine it would be much easier to get help with exim. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp5yEnaxocIl.pgp Description: PGP signature
smail problem
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted . So I let smail restart. However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the mail fetchmail received and get it to register with Mutt. (Before, I would just run fetchmail and my mail would magically appear in Mutt when I started it.) What has happened, and what can I do to fix this inconvenience? -Dave
smail problem
I've a linux server with debian 1.3 and smail 3.2-3, when I'm trying to put in smail config the parameter: smtp_remote_allow=[IP range] the server respond that the comand smtp_remote_allow is unknown. Help Me!!!
Re: smail problem
SZ == Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How SZ do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified SZ smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. First make sure you don't deliver mail directly to the destination, but use your ISP's mailhost. This will save you some trouble. If you have a smart_host entry in /etc/smail/routers, then this is set up this way, otherwise rerun smail-config. Then, make sure masquerade your host on smtp handshaking. In /etc/smail/config you should use visible_name=cia.com.au or such some. You may also want to rewrite your Sender: header if it contains an internal hostname (can't check this, I read the list through a local mail2news gateway). See http://www.debian.org/fom/137.html If hostname --fqdn doesn't show a hostname in the form of host.net for your box, then you should fix this as well. Refer to this list about it. Ciao, Martin
smail problem
Hi, Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: smail problem
You'll have to find docs to make your email headers be rewritten with yoour qualified domain name -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Mail List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 7 May 1999 11:41 Subject: smail problem Hi, Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. Thanks. Shao. -- ___ _ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ ___ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
smail problem
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days, some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to the same people. I had a look into /var/spool/smail/msglog there were messages concerning the messages who have been delivered multiple times. The messages start with several lines of Xsucceed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] parent: user Xsucceed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] parent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xsucceed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] parent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xsucceed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] parent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and end with a line saying: Xdefer: nonworking email address parent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: ... The nonworking e-mail address is alway a hotmail.com address. One reason was: (ERR172) transport smtp: no connection to remote SMTP server: 499 read error from remote SMTP process another reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect: Connection refused So it seems, that there is a bug in smail: When there is a problem with an address in a list, and it has to resend the message, it sends the message to the whole list again instead of just to the erroneous address? Does anybody know about that problem? Stef
smail problem P.S.
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days, some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to the same people. P.S. I use Smail-3.2 (#2 1996-Nov-26) Stef
Very serious smail problem!
Hi! First of all, let me please inform you that due to the nature of this problem, you'll have to e-mail cc's of any answers to me directly :-/// on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the inconvenience. On with the query. I am running debian hamm, and all went fine for abouta month. Then, of a sudden (I know, it's not a good explanation :D), external e-mail service was interrupted. I am connected to the internet through my university's connection, and I had sendmail configured as part of inetd. So, I set up to find out what was wrong with it. It seemed that /etc/inetd.conf had entries for smtp (usual stuff, with the in.smtpd link), /etc/services had port 25 defined as it should be. So, I set up to telnet to localhost smtp. Fine, I got the message and I could initiate negotiations with the smail program. Local mail gets delivered OK. I sent an e-mail to one of my other accounts, and mail got there withouta flaw. I tried sending some e-mail from that account to the orignal one, and it never came through. So I tried telnetting to port 25 from that remote machine, and... surprise surprise, the telnet just timed out. Having a look through the logs of my machine, I found a number of queries lying around in /var/log/syslog. Many of them were from machines that I know well, and had an in.smtpd entries. So it seems inetd is working fine detecting these requests, but the mail doesn't get anywhere. Certainly not to my rightful mbox :))) If anyou could possible help, please, answer me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers! Jose
Re: exim (was smail) problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Problem is that exim doesn't know that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is user here. Had to set that up for fetchmail, and it
works great. But when I send mail, my ISP thinks I'm unauthorized
(obviously, I am) and kicks my mail back. How do I get exim to rewrite my
header from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I just get exim to read
Let me check I've understood the problem correctly; your ISP sends you
email at the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], and only accepts email from the
user [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you login as user ?
If so, try this at the bottom of your exim.conf:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${if match {$header_from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
PROTECTED] fail } EFf
This is off the top of my head, but should be in the right direction.
Be sure to check out www.exim.org .
Paul Slootman
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Smail problem.
I'm having a confusing problem with the latest smail package in hamm. One of my users is trying to send mail using Netscape 3.02 under windows 3.11. Every time she tries to send a message Netscape returns with an error from my mailserver informing her that 'HELO or EHLO' must be issued before using the Mail from: command. Now I figured all mailers would send a HELO before sending the mail, but I guess I'm wrong : This problem only appeared after moving our mailserver (which had been up for 236 days running bo BTW :) to a new motherboard and the latest version of hamm. Any insight on this problem would be appreciated. TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
more on that smail problem
hmm, I now also noticed that there is a file @ in my home directory, which is a symbolic link to the current message in exmh. I don't think this used to be the case. and after a reboot, the smail daemon had to be manually started again. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail problem
I have two things I want to do with smail : Spool remote , but not local mail for later delivery , and passing remote mail through a filter that changes some headers. How to do this ? Currently , I have written a small inetd-running ESMTP-speaking script that translates the headers in outgoing mail and feeds them to /usr/sbin/sendmail , with -Q if needed. However , pine does not use it always , even if told so , but uses port 25 anyway. ( Sorry if this has happened to mail to debian-user. ) And , it doesn't look like The Right Thing (TM). I have rtman , but not figured out really yet , and most HOWTOs are just about sendmail. TIA Per Eric // - adresser - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noreens väg 15 +46-708-462900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 752 63 Uppsala +46-18-462686 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
procmail / smail problem
It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid local local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) smtp: uux:pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? TIA! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . This computer is RUNNING Linux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: procmail / smail problem
Wieboldt, David wrote: It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid local local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) smtp: uux:pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? Just a guess, but instead of local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) how about local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=$user$, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) otherwise will procmail really know whose recipie to run? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail problem
I have just noticed that I have got a message in the Q that has been waiting to be delivered for 2 months (Trying every 20 mins).The reason for failure is that the host is responding connection refused. Does anyone know why this is still in the Q, and hasn't been bounced back to the sender? How can I make it do this? I've tried setting 'retry_duration 5', but this doesn't seem to do anything. Any suggestions gratefully recieved Stephen.
smail-problem: smtp not doing its work
Hallo, I have a dialup-connection (ppp) to an ISP. I developed a problem this week after trying out a customized kernel (which I removed again). The problem is that mail in the queue are not sent automatically when the connection with the ISP is estblished. I tried reconfiguring smail and even reinstalling smail, but without success. I have read the smail manpage without really understanding how to use those options. In the past I never needed them. This message was sent while connected to the ISP. There are still messages in the queue and they are not sent. Can somebody help, please? The following part of my /var/spool/smail/logfile might provide a clue: --- 02/20/97 10:09:35: [m0vxTZP-XyC] received |from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |host: localhost |protocol: smtp | program: sendmail | orig-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |size: 1602 bytes 02/20/97 10:09:36: [m0vxTZP-XyC] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... deferred: (ERR_164) router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection to BIND server failed: Connection refused 02/20/97 10:10:10: [m0vxTZx-bWC] received |from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |host: localhost |protocol: smtp | program: sendmail | orig-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |size: 5718 bytes 02/20/97 10:10:10: [m0vxTZx-bWC] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... deferred: (ERR_164) router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection to BIND server failed: Connection refused 02/20/97 10:13:07: [m0vxTcp-bZC] received |from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |host: localhost |protocol: smtp | program: sendmail | orig-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |size: 643 bytes 02/20/97 10:13:09: [m0vxTcp-bZC] delivered | via: alpha.futurenet.co.za | to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | orig-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | router: inet_hosts | transport: smtp 02/20/97 10:13:09: [m0vxTcp-bZC] Completed. This last message [m0vxTcp-bZC] was send while I was connected to the ISP. Can somebody help, please Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail-problem: smtp not doing its work
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have a dialup-connection (ppp) to an ISP. I developed a problem this week after trying out a customized kernel (which I removed again). The problem is that mail in the queue are not sent automatically when the connection with the ISP is estblished. After then PPP-Line is established run the runq command. It is a link of smail an smail now will try to deliver the mail to the net. I've pushed the runq command in the /etc/ppp/ip-ip file. Stefan Walder *---* Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik) Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werkstofftechnik IA 2/47 Tel.: (0)49(0)234-700-5952 D-44780 Bochum Fax:(0)49(0)234-7094-104 *---* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail-problem: smtp not doing its work
Thanks. I did not know about runq. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have a dialup-connection (ppp) to an ISP. I developed a problem this week after trying out a customized kernel (which I removed again). The problem is that mail in the queue are not sent automatically when the connection with the ISP is estblished. After then PPP-Line is established run the runq command. It is a link of smail an smail now will try to deliver the mail to the net. I've pushed the runq command in the /etc/ppp/ip-ip file. Stefan Walder *---* Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik) Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werkstofftechnik IA 2/47 Tel.: (0)49(0)234-700-5952 D-44780 Bochum Fax:(0)49(0)234-7094-104 *---* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail problem: file table overflow
At 5 in the morning, my system sends out some 300 email messages.. I think smail ran out of file handles or something. i've had a related problem with smail. i have a perl script that generates 1400 or so messages, which it sends by piping them through `/usr/lib/sendmail -t' (a link to smail). the script was working along fairly well, gradually getting the messages out, being naturally buffered by my PPP connection. however, once my PPP connection went down, smail suddenly couldn't resolve any hostnames, and suddenly flooded the mail queue with all the remaining messages, going so fast that it eventually ran out of process table entries (i think!). my solution was to change my invocation of smail to include the `-Q' flag, which tells smail to simply queue the message and not deliver it immediately. this seemed to work fine -- smail happily queued the messages and started delivering them at the next queue interval. john -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail problem: file table overflow
however, once my PPP connection went down, smail suddenly couldn't
resolve any hostnames, and suddenly flooded the mail queue with all
the remaining messages, going so fast that it eventually ran out of
process table entries (i think!).
my solution was to change my invocation of smail to include the `-Q'
flag, which tells smail to simply queue the message and not deliver it
immediately. this seemed to work fine -- smail happily queued the
messages and started delivering them at the next queue interval.
I guess I'll try that. This makes me even more concerned about smail's
suitability for medium-to-heavy email traffic, though.
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smail problem: file table overflow
From /var/log/smail/paniclog:
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/logfile:
File table overflow
09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog:
File table overflow
From /var/log/messages:
Sep 29 05:09:30 kite kernel: Unable to load interpreter
Sep 29 05:09:33 kite last message repeated 2 times
At 5 in the morning, my system sends out some 300 email messages.. I think
smail ran out of file handles or something. I believe another casulty of
this was the cron daemon, which died at about the same time. I'm running
debian 1.1.9, linux 2.0.21.
Is smail suited to handling the load I'm subjecting it to? Maybe I should
change MTA's..
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smail problem
I have some computers that don't have IP addresses, and am using IP
masqerading to connect them to the internet. I want to set up smail so all
outgoing mail from these computers looks likes it came from
kite.preferred.com, so people can reply to it. I set up a
/etc/smail/routers like this:
smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
path=kite.preferred.com
But that doesn't seem to do the job.. I don't know much about smail
configuration. I had this working in sendmail at one point, but I'd prefer
to use smail. How can I get it to work?
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