long running cron script, sendmail question
I have a long running script running out of cron. Most of the time is spent sleeping, but takes a few hours overall. userx 31929 0.0 2.4 9116 12156 ?? S 5:39AM0:09.27 /usr/bin/perl /home/userx/LWP/LWP_ref.pl _postgresql 29990 0.0 1.4 3892 7328 ?? Ss 5:39AM0:00.33 postgres: dbuser db 127.0.0.1(39434) idle (postgres) userx 11830 0.0 0.5 1164 2524 ?? I 5:40AM0:00.03 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t Shows up during whole process. I've seen some odd behavior sometimes while this is running, but not always. I can't be sure if it is script related or ISP related. Does having sendmail open for a few hours cause any problems? I was thinking that if it does, I could easily rewrite to print out details only at very end of script. Thanks, Chris Bennett
Re: Sendmail question
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:20:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an OpenBSD machine that will handle outbound mail using Sendmail. I'd like Sendmail to scan the messages, and any messages with a certain word in the subject will be sent to a specific server instead of the Internet. I've figured out how to *block* messages based on the subject using LOCAL_RULESETS, but not how to re-route them. I'd rather not rewrite the From: address, but I can if I must. Can someone give me a pointer on how to do this? Thanks. You may need a milter. There is one which fits in ports (milter-regex). Scanning email bodies will impact performances. -- Olivier Cherrier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail question
Olivier Cherrier wrote: You may need a milter. There is one which fits in ports (milter-regex). Scanning email bodies will impact performances. Thanks for the reply. I wound up using milter-regex to quarantine the messages that match my criteria, use qtool.pl to move the quarantined messages to a different queue, un-quarantine the messages, then run sendmail with a different config file (with a smarthost) to feed all the messages to the specified host. Perhaps not elegant, but functional.
Sendmail question
I have an OpenBSD machine that will handle outbound mail using Sendmail. I'd like Sendmail to scan the messages, and any messages with a certain word in the subject will be sent to a specific server instead of the Internet. I've figured out how to *block* messages based on the subject using LOCAL_RULESETS, but not how to re-route them. I'd rather not rewrite the From: address, but I can if I must. Can someone give me a pointer on how to do this? Thanks.
Re: sendmail question
Hi, On Sat, 01.12.2007 at 14:48:40 -0700, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I have no personal need to claim superiority, so if your current setup using qmail or postfix works, feel free to keep using it. thank you for your investigations, but in fact, I hoped to be able to do away with that extra stuff I'm doing... Best, --Toni++
Re: sendmail question
On Nov 30, 2007 10:25 AM, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have a box that serves as a VPN gateway: N1 --- box in question -- Internet --- other gateway --- N2 N1 = 192.168.2.0/24 N2 = 192.168.1.0/24 ... Now, I'd like to send mail, eg. the usual daily reports, via the tunnel to a mail server in N2. There is also no other way to reach that mail server except via the tunnel, and of course, I want the information transferred be protected from prying eyes. In the various sendmail configuration files, I've placed statements similar to O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=192.168.2.5 and DS [192.168.1.10] Unfortunately, sending mail that way fails because Sendmail insists in using the IP address of the interface going out to the Internet. Not only that, but something is broken in your MUA that resulted in the log entries you included that showed the above being cut off and lost. As is, your sendmail setup looks right to me. Are you able to telnet from that machine with those source and destination address? telnet -b 192.168.2.5 192.168.1.10 25 If that doesn't go through, then the problem is your network level setup (routing, filtering, etc) and not your sendmail setup at all. If that telnet does work, well, you _did_ remember to restart sendmail after changing the sendmail.cf, right? Philip Guenther
Re: sendmail question
Hi, On Sat, 01.12.2007 at 01:32:07 -0700, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only that, but something is broken in your MUA that resulted in the log entries you included that showed the above being cut off and lost. I'm not sure what you mean, exactly, but I broke the quote out of the thread wrt. replacing sendmail with qmail, but didn't want to hijack a thread. Therefore I deleted header like Refecences: . As is, your sendmail setup looks right to me. Are you able to telnet from that machine with those source and destination address? telnet -b 192.168.2.5 192.168.1.10 25 Yes, that works very nicely. If that telnet does work, well, you _did_ remember to restart sendmail after changing the sendmail.cf, right? Yes. I've first tried to configure this a few years ago, and done some upgrades in the meantime. As the problem persists, I worked around it by not using sendmail, but this is not an ideal solution, and I thought the sendmail fans on the list could simply show off their superiority. ;-) Best, --Toni++
Re: sendmail question
On Dec 1, 2007 4:52 AM, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 01.12.2007 at 01:32:07 -0700, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only that, but something is broken in your MUA that resulted in the log entries you included that showed the above being cut off and lost. I'm not sure what you mean, exactly, ... Sorry, I was being obtuse: in order to actually debug your previous attempt, log entries from that attempt would have been necessary. As is, your sendmail setup looks right to me. Are you able to telnet from that machine with those source and destination address? telnet -b 192.168.2.5 192.168.1.10 25 Yes, that works very nicely. Cool. If that telnet does work, well, you _did_ remember to restart sendmail after changing the sendmail.cf, right? Yes. I've first tried to configure this a few years ago, and done some upgrades in the meantime. As the problem persists, I worked around it by not using sendmail, but this is not an ideal solution, and I thought the sendmail fans on the list could simply show off their superiority. I just verified that ClientPortOptions works as expected on my laptop, running OpenBSD 4.2, by making the submit.cf bind to 127.0.0.2 (an alias on lo0) when forwarding to the normal daemon. Note that the 'b' modifier on DaemonPortOptions overrides ClientPortOptions bind settings. Anyway, I have no personal need to claim superiority, so if your current setup using qmail or postfix works, feel free to keep using it. Philip Guenther
sendmail question
Hi, On Fri, 30.11.2007 at 15:27:15 +0100, Pete Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case it's needed (which I doubt), I'll voice my VERY strongly preference for sendmail instead of all these other pretenders. I take your plug for sendmail as an invitation to ask a sendmail question: I have a box that serves as a VPN gateway: N1 --- box in question -- Internet --- other gateway --- N2 N1 = 192.168.2.0/24 N2 = 192.168.1.0/24 Of course, on the Internet side of it, it has an official IP address. Now, I'd like to send mail, eg. the usual daily reports, via the tunnel to a mail server in N2. There is also no other way to reach that mail server except via the tunnel, and of course, I want the information transferred be protected from prying eyes. In the various sendmail configuration files, I've placed statements similar to O ClientPortOptions=Family=inet, Address=192.168.2.5 and DS [192.168.1.10] Unfortunately, sending mail that way fails because Sendmail insists in using the IP address of the interface going out to the Internet. What gives? TIA! Best, --Toni++
Re: sendmail question
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:39:28PM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: Here is what I stuck in my sendmail .mc file: define(`confMESSAGEID_HEADER', `[EMAIL PROTECTED]')dnl Put that in submit.mc and recreate submit.cf. Sendmail doesn't allow the rewriting of message-id, that rule is used when one needs to be created. Thanks! That worked like a charm. -peter
sendmail question
Hi, I'm trying to modify my outgoing Message-Id, with my mailer MUA (mutt) I can configure this. However when I try to use mail(1) it does not update the Message-Id, I read a bit in the source and it doesn't seem to be set in mail(1), and a ktrace shows that it pipes everything to sendmail directly. Here is what I stuck in my sendmail .mc file: define(`confMESSAGEID_HEADER', `[EMAIL PROTECTED]')dnl That's how I'd like it to look here is how it looks in the H config in the .cf file: H?M?Resent-Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] H?M?Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read up what the ?M? means.. it means that if the flags M are set, Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D=$z:/, Msmtp, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP, E=\r\n, L=990, Mesmtp, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXa, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP, E=\r\n, L=990, Msmtp8, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX8, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP, E=\r\n, L=990, Mdsmtp, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXa%, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP, E=\r\n, L=990, Mrelay, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuXa8, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=MasqSMTP, E=\r\n, L=2040, ... and so they are. But it still doesn't overwrite the Message-Id: to how I want it. What am I missing? Thanks for any useful replies, -peter
Re: sendmail question
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:22:28PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to modify my outgoing Message-Id, with my mailer MUA (mutt) I can configure this. However when I try to use mail(1) it does not update the Message-Id, I read a bit in the source and it doesn't seem to be set in mail(1), and a ktrace shows that it pipes everything to sendmail directly. Here is what I stuck in my sendmail .mc file: define(`confMESSAGEID_HEADER', `[EMAIL PROTECTED]')dnl Put that in submit.mc and recreate submit.cf. Sendmail doesn't allow the rewriting of message-id, that rule is used when one needs to be created. -- Hugo Villeneuve [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://EINTR.net/
