Re: Qmail - Startup and POP3 Problems
1º - The POP3 service is not initializing on startup, a have to go to the /etc/rc.d/init.d and manually start qmail-pop3d.init (./qmail-pop3d.init start) errm, are You sure You added the command starting qmail-pop3d in Your startup script? 2º - When I test the POP3 service, after I start it manually, telneting the POP3 port (telnet 192.168.100.1 110) this is what I receive: - [root@exion /root]# telnet 192.168.100.1 110 Trying 192.168.100.1... Connected to 192.168.100.1. Escape character is '^]'. +OK 1405.941834174@checkpassword user mike +OK pass 1234 -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir Connection closed by foreign host. has that user a maildir called Maildir and are all the rights ok? dd
Re: quick question re: starting with rblsmtpd
|here's the whole script...short answer is csh: | |#!/bin/sh | | That's the problem: you're using Bourne shell syntax in the C Shell. | My csh skills are rusty; I can't remember how to redirect stderr. In his case, I think he needs to replace: 21 | with: | i had the same question and had this answer: You can use this notation command file_name but this will stderr AND stdout to the same file. stderr comes to the beginning of the file and the rest is stdout. btw the operator mentioned above (|) didn't work in my tcsh and csh. maybe the versions are different, dunno... love, peace etc dd
silly question? maybe...
hi errm, why does qmail let EVERY user has his/her own mailing list (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing i mean). whatif every user creates a mailing list and floods the server with thousands of mail this way? is there a way to prevent this? thanks, love peace and stuff, dd
Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend.. Kindest, J=F8rgen
qmail Digest 7 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 813
qmail Digest 7 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 813 Topics (messages 32580 through 32597): Re: mailquotacheck and quota.patch 32580 by: Andres 32581 by: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. 32590 by: Andres Web Interface 32582 by: J. Adams Re: qmail in SCO 32583 by: Markus Wuebben Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign 32584 by: Todd A. Jacobs cdb owned by root? 32585 by: Todd A. Jacobs best way to handle postmaster 32586 by: David Harris 32588 by: Bruno Wolff III 32589 by: David Harris Qmail and Webmail 32587 by: Nik Gibson Re: ezmlm problems 32591 by: Frederik Lindberg Re: X-Face headers 32592 by: Russell Nelson A different kind of problem 32593 by: Wal Haidar Re: Qmail - Startup and POP3 Problems 32594 by: dd Re: quick question re: starting with rblsmtpd 32595 by: dd silly question? maybe... 32596 by: dd Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem 32597 by: Jørgen Skogstad 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 know how to use it, thanks, but I would know if there's any option to send back the messages that couldn't be delivered (using mailquotacheck). As there is no manual of quota.patch I don't know how to use it. mailquotacheck works fine without any quota patch for Qmail. Just put, "|/path/mailquotacheck.sh" (ignore the quotes) in your .qmail file. On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: Hello. I've installed mailquotacheck, but I would like that when a message can't be delivered (because exceeds the quota) it is sent back to the sender. I've seen that exists a patch, quota.patch, which is supposed to do this. Is there a manual or whatever on how to use it, select the quota... because I can only download the patch with no instructions. mailquotacheck does that, it bounces e-mails when the recipient exceeded his quota. aside from that, i don't see why you would want any special configuration. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Andres wrote: I know how to use it, thanks, but I would know if there's any option to send back the messages that couldn't be delivered (using mailquotacheck). As there is no manual of quota.patch I don't know how to use it. mailquotacheck works fine without any quota patch for Qmail. Just put, "|/path/mailquotacheck.sh" (ignore the quotes) in your .qmail file. On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: Hello. I've installed mailquotacheck, but I would like that when a message can't be delivered (because exceeds the quota) it is sent back to the sender. I've seen that exists a patch, quota.patch, which is supposed to do this. Is there a manual or whatever on how to use it, select the quota... because I can only download the patch with no instructions. It's true, sorry. I checked it using the same e-mail for RCPT and FROM. Mailquotacheck works OK. - Original Message - From: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andres [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: QMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: RE: mailquotacheck and quota.patch mailquotacheck does that, it bounces e-mails when the recipient exceeded his quota. aside from that, i don't see why you would want any special configuration. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Andres wrote: I know how to use it, thanks, but I would know if there's any option to send back the messages that couldn't be delivered (using mailquotacheck). As there is no manual of quota.patch I don't know how to use it. mailquotacheck works fine without any quota patch for Qmail. Just put, "|/path/mailquotacheck.sh" (ignore the quotes) in your .qmail file. On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote: Hello. I've installed mailquotacheck, but I would like that when a message can't be delivered (because exceeds the quota) it is sent back to the sender. I've seen that exists a patch, quota.patch, which is supposed to do this. Is there a manual or whatever on how to use it, select the quota... because I can only download the patch with no instructions. Has anyone seen a web POP3 client that WORKS with the original qmail pop3 daemon from QMail 1.2 ??? I have tried AtDot (www.atdot.org), It cant login to the server, I tried phpop, it cant log in to the server, and everything else is for IMAP. By the way, I am using the single UID virtual users configuration, and I have the latest PHP3 installed, I think its 3.1.12. I believe PHPLIB is not compatible with PHP4.02b which I had installed. Server is Apache
Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend.. Kindest, J=F8rgen
Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend.. Kindest, J=F8rgen
Can't access localmail
Hello, I am trying to access my mailbox on one of my Linux systems. I had installed Qmail on it and later decided to move back to Sendmail. At first, all qmail related material was deleted and later I went as far as reinstalling Linux. The /home is on a different partition so the user data was secure. I use ELM and MUTT. I have removed all references to Qmail from /home/users directories. I can't access any mail for the local user. The mailbox seems to get it, but when I use mail, elm or mutt, it system seems to be looking in ~/Maildir, which is a Qmail scheme of the mailbox. Please keep in mind this is a new installation. = System where Qmail was deleted == ---Mutt: (no mailbox) [Msgs:0]---(date/date)--(all)--- /root/Maildir: No such file or directory (errno = 2) Mailbox is '~/Maildir' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25] === This is a different system which is running sendmail. Qmail was not installed on this system. The output from MUTT and ELM go the /var/spool/mail/user. = Differenet System with Sendmail = ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/root [Msgs:0]---(date/date)--(all)--- Mailbox is '/var/spool/mail/root' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25] == Does anyone have an idea, why my 1st system is going back to ~/Maildir? Any help is appreciated. I want to be able to read my local mail. Thank you in advance. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Disclaimer - I question and speak for myself. http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ __
Re: silly question? maybe...
dd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : hi : errm, why does qmail let EVERY user has his/her own mailing list (the : [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing i mean). whatif every user creates a mailing : list and floods the server with thousands of mail this way? is there a way : to prevent this? What if the user decides to send thousands of messages and thousands of people decide to send him thousands of messages? This is not fundamentally different than running a mailing list. That aside, you can always disable extension addresses. man qmail-users. -harold
Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
What's in control/virtualdomains? Chris On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Jørgen Skogstad wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend..
Re: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign
Todd A Jacobs: I'm not 100% sure I understand the difference in intended usage between setting up a ~/alias/.qmail-whatever file and setting up a virtual user in /var/qmail/users/assign. As far as I can tell, the former uses forwarding, whereas the latter is acting like a true alias. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, what are the practical implications? They seem almost interchangeable to me. For the usage you describe, they really do the same thing except that with the ~/alias/.qmail-whatever mechanism delivery happens twice, once to the user alias and once to the address in ~/alias/.qmail-whatever. Using assign gives you additional options though, like running delivery using a specified user/group id in a directory and with a .qmail-xyz of your choice. This can be quite handy, I used it for instance to do deliveries for a Cyrus IMAP Server. One crucial difference would also be performance on a highly loaded mailserver with lots of aliases. Delivery using ~/alias/.qmail-whatever requires a scan of the ~/alias/ directory which can be costly depending on the file system implementation. The lookup for addresses in /var/qmail/users/assign is done via a hash table and therefore much faster. -- Joerg Lenneis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Hi there Chris.. Here's what I have in my control/virtualdomains file; enterprise:/var/qmail/control# more virtualdomains test.net:test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/control# .. not sure if the way I start qmail has anything to do with this?? Shouldn't be, but here is the content of that rc file; enterprise:/var/qmail# more rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail enterprise:/var/qmail# Have any idea as to what may be done to get this up and running??! Thanks alot ... ;) Kindest, Jørgen -Opprinnelig melding- Fra: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: Jørgen Skogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dato: 7. november 1999 14:06 Emne: Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem What's in control/virtualdomains? Chris On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Jørgen Skogstad wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend..
Qmail .qmail file.
I have a question and have never seen it asked or answered. I would like to set up a filter in the .qmail file that is in every user /home/userdir on my system. I use a badmailfrom filter for the spam that each user maintains, but I would like to setup a filter to only allow mail from certian domains or users in a allowfromfile. Should be the oposite of denyfrom but me not knowing programing for qmail have been hitting a lot of dead ends. any help would be great. Thanks in advance. Bob Ross
qmail remote delivery logic
Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? I just spotted it the other day and meant to go back and read it, and now I can't find it in the man pages, in the FAQ, on DJB's site, etc. etc Thanks much! Please CC replies to me directly as I'm no longer subscribed to the list. :) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Can't access localmail
are there .qmail files in the homedirs marco leeflang Subba Rao wrote: Hello, I am trying to access my mailbox on one of my Linux systems. I had installed Qmail on it and later decided to move back to Sendmail. At first, all qmail related material was deleted and later I went as far as reinstalling Linux. The /home is on a different partition so the user data was secure. I use ELM and MUTT. I have removed all references to Qmail from /home/users directories. I can't access any mail for the local user. The mailbox seems to get it, but when I use mail, elm or mutt, it system seems to be looking in ~/Maildir, which is a Qmail scheme of the mailbox. Please keep in mind this is a new installation. = System where Qmail was deleted == ---Mutt: (no mailbox) [Msgs:0]---(date/date)--(all)--- /root/Maildir: No such file or directory (errno = 2) Mailbox is '~/Maildir' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25] === This is a different system which is running sendmail. Qmail was not installed on this system. The output from MUTT and ELM go the /var/spool/mail/user. = Differenet System with Sendmail = ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/root [Msgs:0]---(date/date)--(all)--- Mailbox is '/var/spool/mail/root' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL25] == Does anyone have an idea, why my 1st system is going back to ~/Maildir? Any help is appreciated. I want to be able to read my local mail. Thank you in advance. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Disclaimer - I question and speak for myself. http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ __
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. Only under certain conditions. Try sending a 1 MB attachment to a dozen recipients.
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Because it's faster. For the average message... :-) -- Jeff
RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ Check also if the uid and gid of popuser is 888. Best regards, Ari Mensagem Original De : "J=F8rgen Skogstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto : SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem Hi there Chris.. Here's what I have in my control/virtualdomains file; enterprise:/var/qmail/control# more virtualdomains test.net:test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/control# .. not sure if the way I start qmail has anything to do with this?? Shouldn't be, but here is the content of that rc file; enterprise:/var/qmail# more rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail enterprise:/var/qmail# Have any idea as to what may be done to get this up and running??! Thanks alot ... ;) Kindest, Jørgen -Opprinnelig melding- Fra: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: Jørgen Skogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dato: 7. november 1999 14:06 Emne: Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem What's in control/virtualdomains? Chris On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Jørgen Skogstad wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend..
RE: RE: RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Sorry, /Maildir/ Mensagem Original De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto : RE: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ Check also if the uid and gid of popuser is 888. Best regards, Ari Mensagem Original De : "J=F8rgen Skogstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto : SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem Hi there Chris.. Here's what I have in my control/virtualdomains file; enterprise:/var/qmail/control# more virtualdomains test.net:test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/control# .. not sure if the way I start qmail has anything to do with this?? Shouldn't be, but here is the content of that rc file; enterprise:/var/qmail# more rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail enterprise:/var/qmail# Have any idea as to what may be done to get this up and running??! Thanks alot ... ;) Kindest, Jørgen -Opprinnelig melding- Fra: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: Jørgen Skogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dato: 7. november 1999 14:06 Emne: Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem What's in control/virtualdomains? Chris On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM +0100, Jørgen Skogstad wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without having to set up individual user accounts on this system. I have changed the domain name and user.. so test.net is not the correct domain.. however; all mail delivery worked fine before I begun to implement this.=20 Would apriciate any input! Have a real nice weekend..
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Could someone explain how qmail manages to be faster for average msgs. I can't see how it would be. - Eric Jeff Hayward escribió: On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Because it's faster. For the average message... :-) -- Jeff
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Sam writes: Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. Only under certain conditions. Try sending a 1 MB attachment to a dozen recipients. Have you? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Eric Dahnke writes: Could someone explain how qmail manages to be faster for average msgs. I can't see how it would be. The most-oft used MTA fiddles with hostnames while the DNS burns. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Ummm.. yeah thanks. But I want to know *why* it's faster. I know there's a doc that explains 3 different methods, this being one of them... and it shows situations why one may be preferable over the other. Do you know what doc I'm talking about? - Original Message - From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 2:10 PM Subject: Re: qmail remote delivery logic Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:41:39PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think the wrong is in the .qmail file, the correct is /Maildir/ not ./Maildir/ No, it's ./Maildir/ Chris
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Sam writes: Russell Nelson writes: Jim B writes: Can someone point me at the location of a document that explains why qmail would deliver, for example, a msg to 5 recipients at the same remote domain with 5 individual smtp connections instead of one smtp connection and multiple RCPT TOs? Because it's faster. Only under certain conditions. Try sending a 1 MB attachment to a dozen recipients. Have you? Yes. Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1 MB worth of traffic.
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Sam writes: Yes. Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1 MB worth of traffic. And?? Don't hold us in suspense. What was the difference in delivery times? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Allow only certian domains or emails
Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains listed in the file. |if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER badmailfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit 0; fi Thanks Bob Ross
date stamps
Hi all -- excuse me if this has been discussed before. New to the list and this is my first post! : My coworkers use IMAP (curse them!) for retrieving email from our qmail-1.03-based linux box via Outlook Express 5.something. The box is running imapd from the pine4.10 package. In any case, at least in Outlook Express, the "received" time (the time given in the "received" column) is in GMT. When using POP and Outlook Express 5.something the "received" time is in EST, the way I would expect it to be. In the IMAP case, do ya think it's Outlook's goof? Or IMAP's goof? I doubt it's qmail's goof, but is there a way to convince qmail to stamp incoming, locally-delivered mail with a time in EST rather than GMT? Try to refrain from flames -- if I were my choice, all the windoze boxes would be put to death w/ dynamite. : Cheers, kw /* ** Keith Warno ** Make Us An Offer, Inc. ** Real-time Online Haggling ** http://www.makeusanoffer.com/ */
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:21:20PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: Sam writes: Yes. Even off a T1, there's a measurable difference between ~10 MB and ~1 MB worth of traffic. And?? Don't hold us in suspense. What was the difference in delivery times? I was going to keep quiet but how about we all listen to someone in another country to has to deal with "real world" speeds the rest of the world has access to instead of all these impossible-to-believe speeds USA sites have (that means me ;-) We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively taking our Internet link offline for the next several hours. Qmail being the great bandwidth chewer it is suddenly has 20 concurrent qmail-remotes running all delivering the same Email message to 20 different people - some of who are on the same server (i.e. hotmail.com). I've actually upped our concurrency limit due to this "feature" of qmail. Of course another side-effect of this is that other users mail ends up being queued as the concurrency limit's been hit. Fact: Sendmail would have used less bandwidth in this _specific_ situation. In general - in our situation - sendmail and qmail are identical in performance. Fact: I don't care. Even with this issue - I still prefer qmail. This is a issue I (and therefore those I work for) am willing to live with... The reality is that I want some perfect mailer that can allow me to use features of sendmail and qmail. And of course it's so complicated that I screw it up at every turn. Oh yeah - that's right - I already use that - it's called MS Exchange! ;-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Thus said Jason Haar on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively taking our Internet link offline for the next several hours. Qmail being the great bandwidth chewer it is suddenly has 20 concurrent qmail-remotes running all delivering the same Email message to 20 different people - some of who are on the same server (i.e. hotmail.com). I've actually upped our concurrency limit due to this "feature" of qmail. Of course another side-effect of this is that other users mail ends up being queued as the concurrency limit's been hit. Sounds like you should educate your users. They shouldn't be using SMTP at all for sending MP3s. The standard protocol for transfering files is FTP, not SMTP. I believe you can setup qmail to reject emails than some specified size. Andy -- +== Andy == TiK: garbaglio ==+ |Linux is about freedom of choice| +== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
Qmail on a firewall?
Hi all. Parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't seen anybody describing quite this setup. I'm reconfiguring a network to have a dedicated firewall machine, on which I want to run qmail. But, I don't want the firewall machine reaching in to the rest of the network to do delivery; I want it to turn around and forward any incoming mail to the "real" mail server on the internal network. I'd also like the reverse path for outgoing mail; the internal mail server forwards to the one on the firewall, which takes care of getting it out into the rest of the net. ---+ +--+ +---+ | | Firewall | | Internal | Net|-| || Server | | | Qmail| | Qmail | |-| || | ---+ +--+ +---+ If anyone can shed light on how to set this up, or point me at some docs, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Queue details
Is there a document somewhere that describes the structure and functionality of the /var/qmail/queue directory? I have 3 messages in the queue according to qmail-qstat, but qmail-qread only returns info for one message. I'd like to find out why these other two emails aren't 'complete'. I've noticed that there are files in the info dir for the message that qmail-qread knows about, but not for the other two, so I assume something has cocked up somewhere along the line. Unfortunately, the logs say nothing is wrong except in the case of the first message (the user sending the mail typed one of the recipient addresses wrong). What I need is info on how the queue is structured, and to know if there are any nice tools for: (a) rejecting a message stuck in the queue when you know the address is wrong (it should time out soon, but in this case, my user wanted to know about it immediately) (b) cleaning out a message that's somehow gotten corrupted, or missing associated files in other directories (should an incoming message have a corresponding entry in the "info" subdirectory?) Please excuse this email if it sounds a little unstructured, but it's Monday morning ;) Jim
Re: Qmail on a firewall?
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:25:12PM -, John R. Dunning wrote: Hi all. Parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't seen anybody describing quite this setup. I'm reconfiguring a network to have a dedicated firewall machine, on which I want to run qmail. But, I don't want the firewall machine reaching in to the rest of the network to do delivery; I want it to turn around and forward any incoming mail to the "real" mail server on the internal network. I'd also like the reverse path for outgoing mail; the internal mail server forwards to the one on the firewall, which takes care of getting it out into the rest of the net. ---+ +--+ +---+ | | Firewall | | Internal | Net|-| || Server | | | Qmail| | Qmail | |-| || | ---+ +--+ +---+ If anyone can shed light on how to set this up, or point me at some docs, it would be greatly appreciated. On the firewall, you need to list the domains for which you'd like to receive mail in control/rcpthosts, but *not* in locals or virtualdomains. In control/smtproutes, put: example.com:[IP address of internal server] anotherexample.com:[IP address if internal server] etc, where the domains listed are the ones you listed in rcpthosts. You also need to implement selective relaying on the firewall (http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html) so that the internal server can relay through it. Set up everything normally on the internal server, and put in control/smtproutes: :[IP address of firewall] The internal server will forward to the firewall any mail not handled locally. Chris
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 15:11:29 -0700 in Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus said Jason Haar on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively taking our Internet link offline for the next several hours. Qmail being the great bandwidth chewer it is suddenly has 20 concurrent qmail-remotes running all delivering the same Email message to 20 different people - some of who are on the same server (i.e. hotmail.com). I've actually upped our concurrency limit due to this "feature" of qmail. Of course another side-effect of this is that other users mail ends up being queued as the concurrency limit's been hit. Sounds like you should educate your users. They shouldn't be using SMTP at all for sending MP3s. The standard protocol for transfering files is FTP, not SMTP. I believe you can setup qmail to reject emails than some specified size. Andy Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail, faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and designing the appropriate transport protocols will be. Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.discord.org/ Unsolicited bulk email charge:$500/message. Don't send me any. PGP Fingerprint: 0C1F FE18 D311 1792 5EA8 43C8 7AD2 B485 DE75 841C
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively [...] Fact: Sendmail would have used less bandwidth in this _specific_ situation. In general - in our situation - sendmail and qmail are identical in performance. Probably, but in reality the difference would be small, unless the friends are very clustered. Fact: I don't care. Even with this issue - I still prefer qmail. This is a issue I (and therefore those I work for) am willing to live with... You could purchase QMTP/QMQP service for a well-connected ISP. We do some mailing lists that way: The customer uses QMQP for the mailing list traffic, SMTP for everything else. Fast local delivery, while the central server shoves out list messages to 100,000 subscribers. It shoudn't be too hard to set up qmail to at the qmail-send level (or even qmail-queue) choose between delivery models, e.g. messages x bytes and/or y recipients are handled by a separate queue or by QMQP/QMTP to an external server. This way, your 3Mb file would be sent exactly once with a massive saving in [local] bandwidth over sendmail, whereas for small messages with few recipients you get qmail performance. I'm hoping for 2.0 to do this to be more friendly to narrow links ;-) You could also look into QMQP over your link. I found that the qmail-qmqpd write timeout of 60 s is too short in this situation. Any problem at that stage, and the server will have received the message, by the client won't know, so send it again. I know one setup where QMQP is used from Brasil to St. Louis, AFAIK still successfully. Local queuing would be nice. AFAIK, Bruce Guenter's nullmailer does this and can use QMTP to the smarthosts. -Sincerely, Fred (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Thus said "James J. Lippard" on 07 Nov 1999 17:12:54 MST: Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail, faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and designing the appropriate transport protocols will be. Yes, and tha appropriate protocol is already in place, it's called FTP. Andy -- +== Andy == TiK: garbaglio ==+ |Linux is about freedom of choice| +== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:22:43PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said "James J. Lippard" on 07 Nov 1999 17:12:54 MST: Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail, faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and designing the appropriate transport protocols will be. Yes, and tha appropriate protocol is already in place, it's called FTP. Andy Let's stop this thread now. I think it's a bit on the nose to tell users that they should think before they send. As far as I'm concerned, FTP is dead and the world is moving to nothing but HTTP and SMTP :-) Our users send 100Mb+ messages internally over our private WAN - why shouldn't they send that way to the Internet? [yes, yes, I know - others have quota limits/etc. But disk is cheap - quotas never work. Users just save everything over their quota into some other area - where it probably isn't backed up/etc]. Anyway, all this is business decisions individual sites make. Nothing of use for us to talk about here -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Re: ezmlm problem
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, john wrote: I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found. How about posting the error? My guess is that ezmlm's files aren't in your path. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
Re: Forwarding Root email
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, G. Ryan Fawcett wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to forward root email to an out side address. For echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ~alias/.qmail-root -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0600, Fred Lindberg wrote: You could also look into QMQP over your link. [...] AFAIK, Bruce Guenter's nullmailer does this and can use QMTP to the smarthosts. nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for local delivery. You could set up qmail and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a virtual domain that calls up nullmailer to transfer it. -- Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://em.ca/~bruceg/
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote: nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for local delivery. You could set up qmail and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a virtual domain that calls up nullmailer to transfer it. The problem would be that qmail would deliver one message per remote recipient, so there is little gain (except QMTP SMTP overhead). Would it be hard to put hooks into nullmailer to support local delivery via qmail-local? -Sincerely, Fred Fred Lindberg, Inf. Dis., WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 04:13:25AM +, Frederik Lindberg wrote: nullmailer can indeed use QMTP to smarthosts that support it, but it explicitly has no support for local delivery. You could set up qmail and nullmailer concurently and have qmail deliver all remote mail into a virtual domain that calls up nullmailer to transfer it. The problem would be that qmail would deliver one message per remote recipient, so there is little gain (except QMTP SMTP overhead). Uh, yeah. Missed that one. OK, bad idea. Would it be hard to put hooks into nullmailer to support local delivery via qmail-local? Hard, but not impossible. How would you envision such hooks? Certainly, I am not going to add support to nullmailer to actually do the delivery, but giving it a way to call an external program that could is a reasonable option. -- Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://em.ca/~bruceg/
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Bruce Guenter wrote: Hard, but not impossible. How would you envision such hooks? Certainly, I am not going to add support to nullmailer to actually do the delivery, but giving it a way to call an external program that could is a reasonable option. How about a simplified scheme: All mail with recipient host matching the local host is passed to an external program for delivery. The external program takes arguments as qmail-local (which is what I'd use). This should be of general use for nullmailer users, since it takes care of the needs of a small "dumb" mailhost. Default should still be to forward everything. Thus: 1. message queued. 2a. if -l: compare host name of envelope recipients. If same as local host name, deliver locally with qmail-local. 2b. deliver multi-recipient message remotely (concurrent with 2a). If -l: remove all recipients with host part matching the local host (me). 3. Generate one bounce message per local recipient. Generate pre-VERP bounce if one of more remote recipients are not accepted. -l controls local delivery. envelope recipients without host/domain are extended with defautlhost/domain before comparison. Thus, they will be delivered locally only if defautlhost/domain match the local host name. No DNS needed. Would work also for e.g. a local office host. -Sincerely, Fred Fred Lindberg, Inf. Dis., WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA
Re: Allow only certian domains or emails
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:24:52PM -0700, Bob ross wrote:
Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains
listed in the file.
|if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER badmailfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit
0; fi
At this stage, I'll go for a perl oneliner:
|perl -e '($u,$d)=$ENV{SENDER}=~/(.+)?\@(.+)/;if(`grep "$d" baddomainfrom`){print "Go
|Away";exit 99}else{exit 0}'
Remember that if ross.com is in baddomainfrom, then a grep on oss.com will
also get a hit here, so I rather go for this one:
|perl -e '($u,$d)=$ENV{SENDER}=~/(.+)?\@(.+)/;if(`grep "^$d\$" baddomainfrom`){print
|"Go Away";exit 99}else{exit 0}'
(NB! no trailing whitespace wanted in the baddomainfrom here!)
If you want to make it even simpler, don't print the "Go Away" message:
|perl -e '($u,$d)=$ENV{SENDER}=~/(.+)?\@(.+)/; exit(`grep "^$d\$"
|baddomainfrom`?99:0;)'
(Note that you can modify this solution to reject on users instead although
that would be more than silly.)
/magnus
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