Re: Stuck at bootup solved
Ah.. I may have figured out my problem.. when I cut and paste the scripts from either qmail howto web site, some of the commands are returned to the next line, which screws everything up. I've removed my loop problem, and I think it's fixed now. james At 11:41 PM 9/6/99 +0100, you wrote: I was able to narrow down part of my last problem, and it seems like I am only one step away from having qmail run properly. When I start qmail, I get this: Starting mail-transfer agent: qmail[1] 775 936686709.312775 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 tcpserver: usage: tcpserver [ -1pPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localname ] [ -t timeout ] host port program It seems if I can figure out where this tcpserver command is being issued, I might be able to narrow down this looping problem. Does anyone know where this tcpserver command is coming from? Thanks for any help. james
limiting the file size of bounces ?
How do I limit the filesize in bounces? Too often, a customer sent a huge mail mail through our mail relay which could not be delivered to the destination because of the size. It could not be returned to the sender either, because it is too large. And the whole message ends up in my postmaster mailbox as a double bounce :-( Then, I lowered databytes to 1Mb, because it had to be lower than on our customers mail servers to solve the problem above. A customer suggests that I instead just bounce the mail headers and the error messages back to the sender. (and discard the content of the original letter). How is that done? -- Med venlig hilsen / Regards Netdriftgruppen / Network Management Group UNI-C Tlf./Phone +45 35 87 89 41Mail: UNI-C Fax. +45 35 87 89 90 Bygning 304 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-2800 Lyngby
RE: limiting the file size of bounces ?
their is a patch available for limitting bounce sizes. Maybe it is still on the qmail pages, otherwise search in the mailarchives (someone recently posted it again). Franky -- From: torben fjerdingstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: limiting the file size of bounces ? How do I limit the filesize in bounces? Too often, a customer sent a huge mail mail through our mail relay which could not be delivered to the destination because of the size. It could not be returned to the sender either, because it is too large. And the whole message ends up in my postmaster mailbox as a double bounce :-( Then, I lowered databytes to 1Mb, because it had to be lower than on our customers mail servers to solve the problem above. A customer suggests that I instead just bounce the mail headers and the error messages back to the sender. (and discard the content of the original letter). How is that done? -- Med venlig hilsen / Regards Netdriftgruppen / Network Management Group UNI-C Tlf./Phone +45 35 87 89 41Mail: UNI-C Fax. +45 35 87 89 90 Bygning 304 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-2800 Lyngby
.qmail - deliveries and bounces
I'm still using qmail-1.01 on that machine. Today I noticed something did (no longer) work, what I thought already did (and I have a few of the emails in my folder dated later than the last modification date of the .qmail file) I want to create a bounce message for accounts of ppl that no longer work here, but I also want to drop the mail into a valid users mailbox. ~alias/.qmail-joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) (which I thought already worked, doesn't any longer) only a bounce message is delivered. However if I use ~alias/.qmail-joe: |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) it works as expected. WHY? :-)) and are the few messages I had in my box "an accident" ? \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Security Issue on qmail
Hello, I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really amazing. I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, please give me some advice. Thanks. (1) Anti-relay Issue Any security risk about Mail Relaying? If I really want to get rid of relay, which module or file is required to be modified? According to Mr. Peter Samuel's qmail tutorial at the recent SAGE-AU '99 conference, he states that qmail can be configured to prevent mail relaying by specifying valid incoming domains in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Is it the case? (2) EXPN and VRFY Issue Any security risk about EXPN and VRFY? I can't find any information about them on qmail released notes. Is that mean I can ignore these issues? Is it enabled as default on qmail? Discussion is welcomed. Thank you. Jackie Chow Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail Digest 7 Sep 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 752
qmail Digest 7 Sep 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 752 Topics (messages 29874 through 29937): Check the RCPT TO: against 29874 by: "Einar Bordewich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29885 by: Balazs Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29891 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29914 by: "Einar Bordewich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] patch wanted: add maildir to elm 29875 by: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setting qmail to be a local server and a gateway 29876 by: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Error message in mail.log 29877 by: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Header Rewriting in Qmail 29878 by: Farooq Ashraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starting qmail for maildir 29879 by: "Jean-Pierre H. Dumas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail and 4,000 users ? 29880 by: Chris McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29881 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29882 by: Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29883 by: Balazs Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29884 by: "Markus Storm" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29886 by: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29887 by: Krzysztof Dabrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29888 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29893 by: "Robin Bowes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29896 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29906 by: "Robin Bowes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] maildir subfolders? 29889 by: Jukka Zitting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29890 by: "David Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29892 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29894 by: Robert Varga [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29907 by: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29908 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29912 by: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] spawn connection 29895 by: Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29909 by: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] testing for an open relay 29897 by: "Ben Beuchler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29911 by: "Ben Beuchler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29913 by: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29930 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Levine) Problems getting started 29898 by: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29899 by: "Adam D . McKenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29920 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RAID 5 and queue restore 29900 by: 29903 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29910 by: Daemeon Reiydelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems with qmail and dns 29901 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29904 by: Brad Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29905 by: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] fastforward: wildcards 29902 by: Kush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Started! 29915 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29921 by: Dustin Marquess [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29929 by: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] checking email 29916 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29917 by: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29918 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29919 by: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMAP/Maildir 29922 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29923 by: "David Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29924 by: Tim Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29925 by: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stuck at bootup 29926 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29927 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29932 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maildir and Pine-4.10 29928 by: Josh Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailanalog scripts 29931 by: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stuck at bootup solved 29933 by: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] limiting the file size of bounces ? 29934 by: torben fjerdingstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29935 by: Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED] .qmail - deliveries and bounces 29936 by: Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Security Issue on qmail 29937 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I must confess that I'm a little unsure what I really want.. My problem is that 95% of bounced mail, is typical doublebounce, where a user that don't exist anymore (at my servers) has received mail and that bounce at my side. A spamer don't use a correct address, so I then get the doublebounce back. Another problem I then get, is the overview of "correct" bounces where there is a misspellings of some sort, that I then could correct. Today I don't do this a 100%, since most of the "correct" bounce mail drowns with the rest. I can't see that I'm helping anybody with ignoring mail to non-existing (known) users. I think I would be more help to my customers by getting the bounces down. Then again, I can concentrate more on the issue about open relays, by have my users (that exist) to report back to us about SPAM mail they have received. Here I can use some more energy to block SPAM. I'm not to found of
Re: limiting the file size of bounces ?
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: their is a patch available for limitting bounce sizes. Maybe it is still on the qmail pages, otherwise search in the mailarchives (someone recently posted it again). I upchucked the patch at the following URL : http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-bounce.patch Anyway, it would be kewl if it was added to the Qmail home page (as a local copy because that URL will soon disappear) . Best regards, -- Frank DENIS aka Jedi/Sector One aka DJ Chrysalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Software : http://www.jedi.claranet.fr - - Music : http://www.mp3.com/chrysalis -
queue problem
Hello guys!! I have a Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.0.34, qmail 1.03, serialmail 0.75, ucspi_tcp 0.84 and mutt 0.95. I think i have a problem with serialmail. I created the maildir pppdir with maildirmake in /var/qmail/alias/ and my script to send emails is this: #!/bin/sh DIR=/var/qmail/alias/pppdir PREFIX=alias-ppp- IP=mail.iol.it HELOHOST=`hostname --fqdn` /usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp $DIR $PREFIX $IP $HELOHOST So, when i write a message with mutt and i send it, the message doesn't queue up the pppdir directory so that i pratically can't send it with my script. __ Thank you in advance, Enrico Mangano.
Re: .qmail - deliveries and bounces
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: ~alias/.qmail-joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) (which I thought already worked, doesn't any longer) only a bounce message is delivered. However if I use ~alias/.qmail-joe: |forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100) it works as expected. WHY? :-)) and are the few messages I had in my box "an accident" ? Because forward deliveries () are always processed at last, and exit code 100 means permanent failure which prevents all not processed deliveries, which includes all forwards, because the failing delivery was a program delivery, so all forwards were to be processed. If you use 99, then it will process all previous delivery instructions in file order, so even if they were forwards, but no deliveries of the unread part of the .qmail file. This imitates the mentioned behaviour most closely, but this does not give an error message. Or of course you can use exit 0. See more at the end of the manpage of dot-qmail. Robert Varga
Re: Security Issue on qmail
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:39:15PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really amazing. I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, please give me some advice. Thanks. (1) Anti-relay Issue Any security risk about Mail Relaying? If I really want to get rid of relay, which module or file is required to be modified? According to Mr. Peter Samuel's qmail tutorial at the recent SAGE-AU '99 conference, he states that qmail can be configured to prevent mail relaying by specifying valid incoming domains in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Is it the case? Yes. man qmail-smtpd for more info. (2) EXPN and VRFY Issue Any security risk about EXPN and VRFY? I can't find any information about them on qmail released notes. Is that mean I can ignore these issues? Is it enabled as default on qmail? qmail-smtpd does not support EXPN, and always gives a positive response to VRFY. You can quit worrying about them. -- See complete headers for more info
Re: restarting qmail
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Stephen Berg wrote: I just added a new virtual domain to a qmail server and am curious as to the best/easiest way to restart qmail so it will see the changes in the rcpthosts and virtualdomains file under /var/qmail/control. For information on which program reads which control file, try "man qmail-control". This will tell you that qmail-smtpd reads rcpthosts. As it's a transient daemon, the next invocation will read a fresh copy; no problem. Virtualhosts is read by qmail-send. As the man-page for qmail-send says, send it a HUP and it will re-read virtualhosts (and locals). So far a kill -ALRM does not seem to get qmail-send to reread the virtualdomains file. Stephen Berg //-USAF Instructor -/- Reluctant NT User -/- Web Designer-// //- Home = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -// //- Work = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -// //- http://iceberg.3c0x1.com/ -/- http://www.3c0x1.com -// -- "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." Thomas Erskine[EMAIL PROTECTED](613) 998-2836
a bug again?
Hi, I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use aliases in user's home directories (e.g. /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). The second is that qmail's pop3d server doesn't use aliases (in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*) when downloading mails... : user john.doe pass blurp it end's with error (but there is a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-john:doe file!). Is that normal? I really need both of these things... Greetings, Marcin Jaskowiak
Re: a bug again?
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Jaskowiak wrote: I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use aliases in user's home directories (e.g. /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). that's not in the user's homedir, that's a subdir "alias" that you invented. if you create ~john/.qmail-john:doe you will be able to de\irect messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the file. the ~/alias/ directory is not an option, I donno why you tried it. The second is that qmail's pop3d server doesn't use aliases (in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*) when downloading mails... : why would it use an alias as a user? how would it authenticate it anyway? RTFM... this is basic Email stuff, not even Qmail specific. -- Ira Abramov | Internet Zahav | Linux Guru and T-Shirt collector Ixnay on the IcrosoftMay | please write to me only in English! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | it's hard to read Hebrew left to right
Re: a bug again?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two problems with qmail... first it seems that it doesn't use aliases in user's home directories (e.g. /home/john/alias/.qmail-john:doe). You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-john:doe should come in THAT directory. The "aliases" in home directories would only control the part after the dash, like "john-sumething" is controlled by /home/john/.qmail-something (notice no alias subdirectory) The second is that qmail's pop3d server doesn't use aliases (in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-*) when downloading mails... : user john.doe pass blurp it end's with error (but there is a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-john:doe file!). And what do you think is john.doe's password? You should supply your own checkpassword if you want it to know aliases - or look for vchkpw(?) package (URL anyone?). Is that normal? I really need both of these things... First try to understand how it is supposed to work. And yes, everything works as documented in qmail, you're not too likely to find new bugs in basic setups. :-) [I used to be a novice too.] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN9UQgVMwP8g7qbw/EQKdiQCgnhWLbNagb745Dohku8bnp/dvH+cAoN4i hH4dHJk+ujm2EWG+mRxfgNZ+ =vDHH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: a bug again?
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Petr Novotny wrote: You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-john:doe should come in THAT directory. i got that, but if you want for example to make the aliases automatically by a program you'll need the rights to write to /var/qmail/alias. The "aliases" in home directories would only control the part after the dash, like "john-sumething" is controlled by /home/john/.qmail-something (notice no alias subdirectory) if i put .qmail-john:doe in homedir of john with content 'john@somehost' it will not work (of course it works well when put in /var/qmail/alias). And what do you think is john.doe's password? You should supply your own checkpassword if you want it to know aliases - or look for vchkpw(?) package (URL anyone?). yes, that is what i wanted to know ;) just wondering if there is other way than modyfying checkpassword code. thanks, Marcin Jaskowiak
Re: a bug again?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-john:doe should come in THAT directory. i got that, but if you want for example to make the aliases automatically by a program you'll need the rights to write to /var/qmail/alias. Exactly. That's for security's for. If you want new aliases with sendmail, you need to write /etc directory. Simply, noone should be able to change aliases other than a privileged used. If you need automatic change, make a script that reads users' demands, analyzes them (resolves conflicts) and created aliases. Run this script from cron as root or alias, and be sure you haven't left in some security hole. The "aliases" in home directories would only control the part after the dash, like "john-sumething" is controlled by /home/john/.qmail-something (notice no alias subdirectory) if i put .qmail-john:doe in homedir of john with content 'john@somehost' it will not work (of course it works well when put in /var/qmail/alias). It will. Just send e-mail to john-john.doe@somehost. That's the address your .qmail file controls. Got it? yes, that is what i wanted to know ;) just wondering if there is other way than modyfying checkpassword code. Downloading a ready-made package :-) Have a look around www.qmail.org. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN9UUS1MwP8g7qbw/EQJ20QCaA3Z6pS8nGqbHCP+meGVkvZ/b0JYAoKzv 6xiBvOtvLIyRlUPJMGmeK32u =ru87 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Try this problem...
I'm running qmail 1.03 on RH6.0 on a single dial-up ppp machine. I have had no problems for weeks and now when I try to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the following in the mail log: Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.009694 starting delivery 77: msg 159 827 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.009932 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.010049 starting delivery 78: msg 159 826 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.009932 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.010049 starting delivery 78: msg 159 826 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 7 07:44:29 cherrycoke qmail: 936704669.010150 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20 Sep 7 07:44:30 cherrycoke qmail: 936704670.413031 delivery 77: deferral: Connected_to_131.193.178.181_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ Sep 7 07:44:30 cherrycoke qmail: 936704670.413264 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Sep 7 07:44:30 cherrycoke qmail: 936704670.503024 delivery 78: deferral: Connected_to_131.193.178.181_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ Sep 7 07:44:30 cherrycoke qmail: 936704670.503209 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread : 7 Sep 1999 11:38:19 GMT #159827 389 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6 Sep 1999 22:09:08 GMT #159826 414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas?? Kurt I could not even post to the list this question...argh!! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Any ideas?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 12:09:14AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Dave Sill writes: : The qmail logs show remote concurrency over any given time period. Not directly, as far as I can tell. Anyone have a script that'll parse a log and chart concurrency? No, but you could do it pretty easily with my mrtg scripts and configuration. http://www.crynwr.com/mrtg/ . The two scripts are in qmail-mrtg and qmail-mrtg1 in that directory. I have to point out that at least in MY unpatched qmail setup, the qmail logs quite clearly point out both the local and remote concurrency which qmail is reaching: 936506732.264512 starting delivery 780: msg 179819 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936506732.264626 status: local 1/5 remote 0/50 ^ I'm wondering how "directly" they need to be showed. :) Well, for starters, qmail 1.01 should log that concurrency logging wouldn't happen until qmail 1.03. I've still got a 1.01 system that's working fine, so I haven't bothered upgrading it. It's now on my to-do list. :-) -Dave
qmail won't start
Hi, I am trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.0/2.2.10 box and I have followed the life with qmail directions up to the Section 2.8 where you are supposed to first try and start qmail, and RedHat won't even recognize the qmail binary as a binary? When I try to start it with the script or by manually, it just says, no such file or directory. I have read through the documentation but only found troubleshooting information on once it is installed and you can run it. Can someone help? Thanks in advance. Scott
Re: qmail won't start
"Scott MacDonald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.0/2.2.10 box and I have followed the life with qmail directions up to the Section 2.8 where you are supposed to first try and start qmail, and RedHat won't even recognize the qmail binary as a binary? When I try to start it with the script or by manually, it just says, "no such file or directory". Exactly what command are you entering, and what is the exact error message? -Dave
Re: Problems getting started
I'd add 2 as a runlevel qmail should run at. Mate
Re: fastforward: wildcards
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Kush wrote: I have a mail gateway and it forwards email to specific mail hosts in my network. I have a few mailing lists on these mail hosts, but the mail gateway (with fastforward) is unable to forward any email destined to the ezmlm list email addresses. I have `noc:@shell.blah.com` in my aliases file why do you use fastforward to forward the Emails then? if the servers inside the firewall are of the format YYY.blah.com and the mail is infact destined for [EMAIL PROTECTED] then use smtproutes. if it is a single domain that you split to departmental mail servers, I sugest using a fastforward file for the flat aliases, and a .qmail-aliasname-default for aliases that may have extensions. This doesn't happen because noc-subscribe@ isnt in the alias file. Is there anyway I can specify a wildcard in the alias files? perhaps: noc::@shell.blah.com? (I heard ":" could be a wildcard in qmail?) you heard wrong. : is used in .qmail filenames to replace dots (some security reason, forgot right now) also, I don't believe "@hostname" as the right parameter is a legal format. what you want: cd ~alias echo "| forward $[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-noc ln -s .qmail-noc .qmail-noc-default -- Ira Abramov | Internet Zahav | Linux Guru and T-Shirt collector Ixnay on the IcrosoftMay | please write to me only in English! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | it's hard to read Hebrew left to right
Re: qmail won't start
Here is the part from the "Life with Qmail" I got hung up on. #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" accustamp Use your editor to create the above /var/qmail/rc, then execute these commands: chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc mkdir /var/log/qmail When I did this, it just hung there. It tried to execute it, and wouldn't give me a prompt back untill I ctrl-c 'd it. I even got up and left it there for over 5 min, and it was still hung. Then I downloaded the script in the next section and tried to start the other part of qmail. I got the script from the webpage link at: http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script.txt. I made it excecutible, and tried to run it. It gave me an error, "Cannot find file or directory". But the script was there? It was the weirdest thing. So then I went for the heck of it to the /var/qmail/bin/ and tried the qmail-start, and that gave the same, "cannot find file or directory" error." Is there anything I need to do differently that you know of to make this run on a RedHat 6.0 box? Thanks again for the response. Scott -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 9:40 AM Subject: Re: qmail won't start "Scott MacDonald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.0/2.2.10 box and I have followed the life with qmail directions up to the Section 2.8 where you are supposed to first try and start qmail, and RedHat won't even recognize the qmail binary as a binary? When I try to start it with the script or by manually, it just says, "no such file or directory". Exactly what command are you entering, and what is the exact error message? -Dave
Re: qmail and 4,000 users ?
Actually, there are about 9k of them in the default domain, and virtual domain support was done via alias/fastforward (leftover from an old sun setup qmail by another admin). So 9k in one vpasswd right now. I'm pushing them out into individual vpasswd files one at a time as each customer has to change settings on their end to access mail after converted.. It runs fine with 9k users in a single file so far. Regards, Steve Robin Bowes wrote: Vchkpw handles 10k users just fine in it's current version. I'm running 200 virtual domains totaling about 10k pop accounts on a p2/300 with 256mb ram, I'm speculating here (I know, I know... :o) but if you have 200 virtual domains with 10k users total, that's an average of 50 users per vpasswd file. If there is only 1 virtual domain (as in the example) then there would be 10k users in vpasswd. a couple scsi-2 drives, Apache 1.3.4, SQWebmail 0.20 on FreeBSD 3.1 and it runs like a top. No complaints in the slightest from here as far as performance goes. I was thinking of looking at hacking vchkpw to handle a cdb style password file instead of flat text however. While I'm doing fine now, the business is growing and I want to be sure I can continue when I hit 15k+. Sounds like this may be a useful patch to have. R. Steve Robin Bowes writes: This isn't an answer to the original question - just some thoughts... How would vchkpw perform in this situation? (http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/) Presumably, the vpasswd file would be the bottleneck? Is it possible to use vchkpw with a DB of some sort, eg CDB? Presumably, this would involve hacking vchkpw appropriately? R. Chris McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... My company wants to provide users on the internet with a free email service ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). We'll be starting off with about 3,000 users, potentially growing up to 10,000 in the next 12 months. How feasible is it to create a passwd/shadow entry for each user, providing them with POP/IMAP access ? (or maybe just pop if imap puts too much load on the server). With the passwd and shadow files containing so many entries, will the password lookups take forever ? Our current server spec is a PIII 400, 256M, but we'll replace it with a high spec server if/when needed. Does this sound OK, or should we look at buying (or developing) hotmail style software instead ? Any ideas/comments appreciated, .Chris. -- Stephen Comoletti Systems Administrator Delanet, Inc. http://www.delanet.com ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802
Virtual Domains
I have read and read and read the man pages, online resources, and anything else i could get my hands on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I turn to the masses for assistance. my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com I have all my local mail running just fine. I created a new user like this: useradd brian userpasswd brian * * su brian -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir' In /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I added the line: laiken.com:brian In /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts I added the line: laiken.com I then did: killall -1 qmail-send to restart qmail. When I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces back to me with this: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.cbssolutions.com.I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) When I send the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not understand.. Thank you in advance for all of your help. Keith From
Re: Virtual Domains
Does Brian have a .qmail-default file in his homedir? --Adam On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Keith From wrote: I have read and read and read the man pages, online resources, and anything else i could get my hands on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I turn to the masses for assistance. my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com I have all my local mail running just fine. I created a new user like this: useradd brian userpasswd brian * * su brian -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir' In /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I added the line: laiken.com:brian In /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts I added the line: laiken.com I then did: killall -1 qmail-send to restart qmail. When I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces back to me with this: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.cbssolutions.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) When I send the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not understand.. Thank you in advance for all of your help. Keith From
Re: Virtual Domains
Keith From writes: I have read and read and read the man pages, online resources, and anything else i could get my hands on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I turn to the masses for assistance. my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com I have all my local mail running just fine. I created a new user like this: useradd brian userpasswd brian * * su brian -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir' In /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I added the line: laiken.com:brian In /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts I added the line: laiken.com I then did: killall -1 qmail-send to restart qmail. When I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces back to me with this: Your configuration rewrites '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Therefore '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' gets rewritten as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. It follows that in order for this address to be deliverable, you must create ~brian/.qmail-brian containing your delivery instructions. -- Sam
Re: Virtual Domains
GOT IT. thanks for everyones help. Keith - Original Message - From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Virtual Domains Keith From writes: I have read and read and read the man pages, online resources, and anything else i could get my hands on to try and resolve this problem on my own. Now I turn to the masses for assistance. my mail server is: mail.cbssol.com I have all my local mail running just fine. I created a new user like this: useradd brian userpasswd brian * * su brian -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir' In /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I added the line: laiken.com:brian In /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts I added the line: laiken.com I then did: killall -1 qmail-send to restart qmail. When I send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces back to me with this: Your configuration rewrites '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Therefore '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' gets rewritten as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. It follows that in order for this address to be deliverable, you must create ~brian/.qmail-brian containing your delivery instructions. -- Sam
tcprules for qmail-pop3d
Can someone tell me what the correct syntax for the qmail-pop3d.cdb is, or where to look to find the syntax and possible commands. I can't get the pop3d to run through anything other than inetd, when I try to run it through the tcp wrapper I get a 'hard-error.' The only thing I can figure is that my pop3d rules are incorrect somehow. Damon Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.siliconsys.com voice 512.478.1669 data/fax 512.478.1627 mobile 512.750.9793
Re: tcprules for qmail-pop3d
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Sep 99, at 11:41, Damon Parker wrote: Can someone tell me what the correct syntax for the qmail-pop3d.cdb is, or where to look to find the syntax and possible commands. What is qmail-pop3d.cdb? You mean the database for tcpserver, or something else I'm not aware of? I can't get the pop3d to run through anything other than inetd, when I try to run it through the tcp wrapper I get a 'hard-error.' The only thing I can figure is that my pop3d rules are incorrect somehow. What line did you exactly use to invoke pop3d through - as you say - tcp wrapper (do you mean tcpserver?)? FYI, my "rules" file for pop3 contains these lines: 195.250.137.225-238:allow :deny (ie. I am allowing pop3 access only for a few known hosts and noone else). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBN9VPo1MwP8g7qbw/EQIPhgCgkH7WrtAVocc+5pibrvxnXhViTKcAn1IL tbTeuM9v+gNbsdJ3rF68o2oq =ur/U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
single-UID setup problem
hello, I have installed qmail some months ago deciding to configure it to work with a system user per mailbox; now I'm trying to configure a single UID setup for a virtual domain we have. I followed stricly the "Single-UID based POP3 box HOWTO" by Paul Gregg but I wasn't able to get it working. It seems that qmail-lspawn doesn't read the users/assign file. this is the users/assign file: arredonet-com-giordi:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/arredonet-com/giord i::: . this is a maillog excerpt: Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.574492 new msg 1571562 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.574978 info msg 1571562: bytes 533 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 1933 uid 82 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.674622 starting delivery 210: msg 1571562 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.675368 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.682072 delivery 210: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.727420 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.848955 bounce msg 1571562 qp 1936 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.873658 end msg 1571562 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.936704 new msg 1571563 Sep 7 18:50:23 srv1 qmail: 936723023.937121 info msg 1571563: bytes 1069 from qp 1936 uid 87 Sep 7 18:50:24 srv1 qmail: 936723024.032461 starting delivery 211: msg 1571563 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 7 18:50:24 srv1 qmail: 936723024.033151 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Sep 7 18:50:24 srv1 qmail: 936723024.148640 delivery 211: success: did_0+1+0/qp_1939/ Currently I have setup several other virtual domains all with mails to system users and they work fine. I double checked file owners and priviligies, all seem correct. I certenly missed something, can anyone help me? thank you Ciao, Giorgio
Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10
Text written by Josh Pennell at 08:53 PM 9/6/99 -0700: I downloaded the patched pine src from http://3.am/pine4.10.maildir.tar.gz and built it on an Intel Solaris 2.6 box. This is eerily reminiscent of my troubles with the same version of Pine, building on a Red Hat Linux 5.1 (Intel) box. What I have tried to get pine to read Maildir: // edits to the ~/.pinerc file inbox-path=~/Maildir (didn't work) inbox-path=$HOME/Maildir (didn't work) inbox-path=~/Maildir/ (didn't work) inbox-path="inbox" (didn't work) It just always reads 0 messages in inbox :( I tried a few other variations on this and always got "can't open /home/kmactane/Maildir: not a selectable folder". I checked in with James Smallacombe about it, too, but he didn't have any ideas aside from making sure the .qmail file has a trailing slash (which it does). In case it will help, here are a few more details on my system (don't laugh; it serves stuff): Intel Pentium 75 MHz 32 MB RAM 1 IDE HD running RHL 5.1 (2.0.34 kernel) shadow passwords qmail 1.03 daemontools 0.53 Let me know if any other details would help. - Kai MacTane System Administrator Online Partners.com, Inc. - From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996) examining the entrails /n./ The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal. Compare runes, incantation, black art, desk check.
Re: qmail and 4,000 users ?
Actually, there are about 9k of them in the default domain, and virtual domain support was done via alias/fastforward (leftover from an old sun setup qmail by another admin). So 9k in one vpasswd right now. I'm pushing them out into individual vpasswd files one at a time as each customer has to change settings on their end to access mail after converted.. It runs fine with 9k users in a single file so far. Ah, that answers my questions. R.
Pine 4.10 and Qmail 1.03
Hello, I downloaded the patched for Maildir version of pine-4.10 and built it on a Solaris 2.6 intel box. I have tried the following to try to get pine to read my Maildir inbox // edits to the ~/.pinerc file inbox-path="inbox" inbox-path=~/Maildir inbox-path=~/Maildir/ inbox-path=$HOME/Maildir inbox-path=/export/home/joshp/Maildir Any other ideas to get this beast working? Pine seems to think it can open the folder when I set inbox-path to "inbox" but there are no messages to be viewed. I telneted to port 110 and did a STAT on my account and I had 75 msg's available. Thanks for your time and help, Josh
Re: qmail won't start
"Scott MacDonald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the part from the "Life with Qmail" I got hung up on. #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" accustamp Use your editor to create the above /var/qmail/rc, then execute these commands: chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc mkdir /var/log/qmail When I did this, it just hung there. When you did what? Created the /var/qmail/rc script? Chmod'd it? Mkdir'd /var/log/qmail? It tried to execute it, and wouldn't give me a prompt back untill I ctrl-c 'd it. I even got up and left it there for over 5 min, and it was still hung. When a command seems to hang: 1) Open another window and run top. Is it using lots of CPU? If so, skip to step 3. 2) Hit Control-D. Did anything happen? If so, the command was waiting for input. Figure out why (script typo or usage error). 3) Hit Control-C. Run the command again using trace/strace/truss/par. The resulting system call trace should provide useful debugging information. Then I downloaded the script in the next section and tried to start the other part of qmail. I got the script from the webpage link at: http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script.txt. I made it excecutible, and tried to run it. It gave me an error, "Cannot find file or directory". But the script was there? It was the weirdest thing. 1) Always provide exact copies of error messages. Paraphrases are usually useless. 2) When a script provides such an error, the cause is usually due to a ``shebang'' error, i.e., the first line of the script points to a command that's supposed to run the script. If that command doesn't exist, well, the script can't run. Look at the first line of your qmail script. It should say "#!/bin/sh", your system should have a file named /bin/sh, and it should be executable. So then I went for the heck of it to the /var/qmail/bin/ and tried the qmail-start, and that gave the same, "cannot find file or directory" error." Did you do "qmail-start" or "./qmail-start"? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE cut and paste your commands and error messages! Or use the "script" command if you aren't using X. -Dave
Can I allow relaying for a single _user_?
Hello, all. I'm running qmail 1.03 on Red Hat 5.2 with a slightly modified (for use with cucipop) version of smtp-poplock to allow for relaying after a successful POP authentication. All users are using Mailbox and not Maildir. There is one user who insists that checking for email before sending it would be too much trouble and would like to have relaying set unconditionally for him. I don't know if he has a static IP address, so I don't know if I can allow relaying for a certain IP address (if I can, I know how to do that). So my question is: Is there any way to allow relaying for a certain user? In other words, is there any way to enable relaying based upon the SMTP envelope From header? I don't know much about all this, but it seems to me that this is not a trivial thing (not to mention prudent). Can I insert a custom-built program in the smtp 'chain of programs' that looks for the SMTP header? This is my smtp entry in inetd.conf (without the \returns): smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd \ /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env \ /usr/src/smtp-poplock/relaylock \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd [relaylock sets the RELAYCLIENT env var for authorized IP addresses] I'd appreciate any help you can give me. I tried looking in the FAQ and list archives but couldn't find an answer. Thanks in advance, Aijaz A. Ansari.
Re: queue problem
Enrico Mangano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.0.34, qmail 1.03, serialmail 0.75, ucspi_tcp 0.84 and mutt 0.95. I think i have a problem with serialmail. I created the maildir pppdir with maildirmake in /var/qmail/alias/ and my script to send emails is this: #!/bin/sh DIR=/var/qmail/alias/pppdir PREFIX=alias-ppp- IP=mail.iol.it HELOHOST=`hostname --fqdn` /usr/local/bin/maildirsmtp $DIR $PREFIX $IP $HELOHOST So, when i write a message with mutt and i send it, the message doesn't queue up the pppdir directory so that i pratically can't send it with my script. What are you doing to cause messages to go to /var/qmail/alias/pppdir? -Dave
Re: REQUEST: Correct /var/qmail/rc for IRIX (binm?+df)?
"Jay D. Dyson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up everything find, but the rc script to use has me befuddled. I want the mail to be written to /var/spool/mail and all, but when I try most every invocation as supplied, I get large errors and the mail isn't delivered. What invocations have you tried? What "large" errors resulted? Be precise. -Dave
Re: Any ideas?
Matthew Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, these two cases are similiar machines but the first has one processor and the second two. That's probably the difference you're seeing here. They are running the same kernel revision except one is compiled for SMP. That doesn't explain why the vmstat output was so different. I don't seem to have iostat on my machine. What's a good replacement? I couldn't find one under Red Hat 6. /proc/scsi/somethingorother shows cumulative stats. Don't know about IDE. Don't know if there's a command that front-ends this. This isn't a qmail question. -Dave
bare line feed?
Greetings, I log smtp connects to a file and at certain times one user will seem to be getting pounded with mail from a particular IP. When I check the maildir there is nothing new there. There are no errors going to the syslog. Could this be the bare linefeed issue? Would that cause the chatter between my server and the sender's? If this is a linefeed issue, would adding the fixcr program to the tcpserver line for smtp program handle that without putting undo strain on the box to deal with just a few hosts that send out garbage? Thanks, mike. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: Security Issue on qmail
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a rookie on using qmail, but I can feel the power of it, really amazing. I have several questions about the implementation of qmail. If possible, please give me some advice. Thanks. (1) Anti-relay Issue Any security risk about Mail Relaying? If I really want to get rid of relay, which module or file is required to be modified? According to Mr. Peter Samuel's qmail tutorial at the recent SAGE-AU '99 conference, he states that qmail can be configured to prevent mail relaying by specifying valid incoming domains in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. Is it the case? It certainly is :) If you are using qmail-smtpd and you wish to avoid being an open relay, create the file /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts This file contains the list of mail domains for which you are happy to RECEIVE mail. I'll repeat that as it seems to be a common error amongst new qmail admins. The list of domains in rcpthosts are the domains for which you will RECEIVE mail, they are NOT the list of domains to which you want to SEND mail. Now, if someone sends you mail and the envelope RCPT TO: component is does NOT contain a mail domain listed in your rcpthosts file, then qmail-smtpd will reject that address. Voila, you have now closed relaying. Read the qmail-smtpd man page, also see Dave Sill's excellent "Life with qmail" pages. PS This section was covered quite well during the tutorial session itself - however the notes by themselves don't always convey the complete discussions. That's why people pay to go to those conferences :) PPS Even though I'm now approaching 40 I still can't get used to being called Mr :) (2) EXPN and VRFY Issue Any security risk about EXPN and VRFY? I can't find any information about them on qmail released notes. Is that mean I can ignore these issues? Is it enabled as default on qmail? As Annand has already stated, VRFY and EXPN are not supported by qmail-smtpd, so there are NO security issues with these SMTP commands. Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Consultantor at present: eServ. Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 9206 3410 Fax: +61 2 9281 1301 "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Re: Maildir and Pine-4.10
I was a little curious about this, so I went and downloaded the very same file (to make sure I didn't tar the wrong source tree or something) and built the thing agoin on my Solaris 2.5 (sparc) box and it works fine. It also works fine on the box I'm typing this from (FreeBSD 3.2). I use $HOME/Maildir (without the trailing slash) as my pine inbox-path, I have ./Maildir/ in my .qmail file, and my env is: [richard2 james james]$ echo $MAIL /usr/home/james/Maildir Kai speculated that it might have something to do with the Linux shadow support but I have no idea what the deal is with the Solaris box, except that it's Intel, and I don't see any mention of Intel Solaris in the pine-ports file (not that it should have to...). Anybody else have any success with it? Platform? On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Kai MacTane wrote: Text written by Josh Pennell at 08:53 PM 9/6/99 -0700: I downloaded the patched pine src from http://3.am/pine4.10.maildir.tar.gz and built it on an Intel Solaris 2.6 box. This is eerily reminiscent of my troubles with the same version of Pine, building on a Red Hat Linux 5.1 (Intel) box. What I have tried to get pine to read Maildir: // edits to the ~/.pinerc file inbox-path=~/Maildir (didn't work) inbox-path=$HOME/Maildir (didn't work) inbox-path=~/Maildir/(didn't work) inbox-path="inbox" (didn't work) It just always reads 0 messages in inbox :( I tried a few other variations on this and always got "can't open /home/kmactane/Maildir: not a selectable folder". I checked in with James Smallacombe about it, too, but he didn't have any ideas aside from making sure the .qmail file has a trailing slash (which it does). In case it will help, here are a few more details on my system (don't laugh; it serves stuff): Intel Pentium 75 MHz 32 MB RAM 1 IDE HD running RHL 5.1 (2.0.34 kernel) shadow passwords qmail 1.03 daemontools 0.53 Let me know if any other details would help. - Kai MacTane System Administrator Online Partners.com, Inc. - From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996) examining the entrails /n./ The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down. The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal. Compare runes, incantation, black art, desk check.
Re: RAID 5 and queue restore
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:22:08PM -0500, wrote: Suppose I was running a DPT RAID 5 controller and the mail queue was stored on this RAID array. What will happen to the inode structure of the queue if one of the disks fails, I replace it and the controller rebuilds it? Nothing. You're covered at the inode level. But that doesn't mean the RAID 5 is good to use. Use 1+0 instead. -- John White johnjohn at triceratops.com PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp
Re: .qmail - deliveries and bounces
Markus Stumpf writes:
I want to create a bounce message for accounts of ppl that no longer
work here, but I also want to drop the mail into a valid users mailbox.
~alias/.qmail-joe:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100)
(which I thought already worked, doesn't any longer) only a bounce
message is delivered.
No, it never worked.
However if I use
~alias/.qmail-joe:
|forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| (cat /var/qmail/alias/NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100)
it works as expected.
Right. That's because program deliveries are handled in order, while
forwards ('' deliveries) are done all at once at the end. Actually,
what you're doing in the second version is unreliable in the general
case. What if the second program delivery sometimes succeeded,
sometimes exited 100 and sometimes 111 (depending on the contents of
the email message, say). Well, every time it exited 111, the |forward
delivery would be re-executed and you'd get mail duplication.
The reliable way to do two program deliveries is to do one of them in
one .qmail file, and the other in another. Like this:
cat ~alias/.qmail-joe EOF
|forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
joe-bounce
EOF
cat ~alias/.qmail-joe-bounce EOF
|cat NO-WORKER.TXT; exit 100
EOF
BTW, you don't need to put those commands in parens -- those two
commands don't need to be executed by the same shell invocation.
Also, the current directory for a program delivery in a .qmail is the
controlling user's home directory.
--
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Maildirmake
Hey everyone- I am just ready to put my Qmail server running under FreeBSD 3.2-Stable on line, but I'm having one minor problem. I created an account for myself and used "maildirmake" to created my home directory's maildir- but now I am trying to add the rest of my users, but I get an error when trying to use "maildirmake" the following is what I entered and what the error was: $/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /usr/home/boudin/Maildir/. maildirmake: fatal: unable to mkdir /usr/home/boudin/Maildir/.: file does not exist what could be the problem here...my director is still working fine... please help!! Thanks in advance, Bernie Courtney Bernard Courtney Z100 New York Radio Engineering mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maildirmake
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone- I am just ready to put my Qmail server running under FreeBSD 3.2-Stable on line, but I'm having one minor problem. I created an account for myself and used "maildirmake" to created my home directory's maildir- but now I am trying to add the rest of my users, but I get an error when trying to use "maildirmake" the following is what I entered and what the error was: $/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /usr/home/boudin/Maildir/. maildirmake: fatal: unable to mkdir /usr/home/boudin/Maildir/.: file does ^ Take out that dot.
maildirsmtp won't send procmailed messages
I use a dial-up (offline) mail server qmail-1.0.3 + serialmail-0.75+safecat on RedHat Linux It works great. The offline mailser just stores the outgoing mail into a maildir and maildirsmtp sends it when invoked. But when I filter the outgoing mail through procmail+safecat, maildirsmtp just ignores it. The only difference I noticed about filtered messages is the name. The original ones are #.#.digital.altex.ro while the procmailed ones are #.##.digital.altex.ro why is that ? (and how can I solve it ?) Claudiu here's my .procmailrc --- .procmailrc - PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/pppdir DEFAULT=$HOME/$USER LOGFILE=$HOME/MAILLOG LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=no LOCKTIMEOUT=1 SHELL=/bin/sh UMASK=022 ORGMAIL=$HOME COMSAT=no EXITCODE=99 :0 * !^From:.*mail-supervisor@altex\.ro ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] #| formail -k -X From: -X Sender: -X Return-Path: | qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] EXITCODE=99 :0w | safecat $HOME/pppdir/tmp $HOME/pppdir/new -
Potential hole?
Hello! Yesterday I found that any user are able to start any program at server with .qmail file. This could be potentially dangerous, AFAIU. As an example: I denied TELNET access (disabled the service in inetd.conf), but any user can put "|in.telnetd" in their .qmail file (ofcourse, there should be not only in.telnetd to work correctly). Also, any user are able to get our /etc/passwd file. It is not dengerous because there is no passwords, but it is possible to a) find out where user homedir is, and b) get total list of the users which can be later used for, lets say, spamming. Your imagination is the only limit for this. Is there any suggestions about how to avoid all the potential problems? Regards, Dmitry Niqiforoff [tel. +7 8462 427427] Kraft-S, Ltd. Samara, Russia
Re: Potential hole?
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:24:45AM +0500, Dmitry Niqiforoff wrote: Is there any suggestions about how to avoid all the potential problems? Yes. 1) Hack qmail-local to deny | usage for your users (check the gid?). 2) Prevent the users from creating .qmail files. Our users homedirs are owned by someone else. We give them subdirectories to use. Any dot file that we allow them to use are a symbolic link to a normal file in a sub directory. That way we don't have to worry about all other possible dot files that might give them the right to run something. We use a simple web page that let them configure forwarding, instead of letting them modify the files. 3) Hack qmail-local to chroot to the users' homedirs before running any commands. That way you can limit the damage the user may do and still let them run some programs. We do this for our users cgi programs. Don't forget resource limits if you follow this path... /Sebastian
