Re: mail flood
Hi! Do a web search on "tiergrubing" (Something like that anyway - the german term for "tar pit"). I've never done it before but it involves slightly slowing down the connection the more messages that are sent, thereby tieing up the spammer. I think I remember reading some people talking about doing this with qmail... Eric KUDLAC Tomas wrote: Hello, is there any way how to prevent mail floods with qmail? I can imagine that it's impossible to implement such protection that would function in all cases (maybe some expert system ;-)), however I need to protect our server against cases when somebody decides to send let's say 10 mails to some internal address. Is there any way how to tell qmail to send alarm (or perform some action) when number of mails per time interval from one address (or domain) grows more than certain limit? note: I am using qmail at the gateway, it's forwarding mails between internet and our internal mail system. Thanx, -- Tomas Kudlac
problem with qmailadmin
Dear all, I've installed qmailadmin on OSF1 4.0F and it was successfully, but I've got problem "Out of memory" if I try to add user virtual pop3 account via browser. anybody know what the problem is ? Best regards, wars mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:12:42PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Claudinei Luis Bianchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had applied the patch for this and work very well with BIND. recently, I changed to DNScache and this message came back. where's the problem ?? Exactly. What makes you think this message indicates a problem on your end? That exactly was my question about one week ago. How do I know where the problem is? Greetings -- Robert Sander Epigenomics AG www.epigenomics.de Kastanienallee 24 +493024345330 10435 Berlin
Muchos warning: trouble opening remote/local...
Hello! Would you please give me advice for some questions? - 1. Now I'm confused with following message in the maillog. "qmail: 962478354.405231 warning: trouble opening local/22/1105816; will try again later" Many massage like this are appearing in the log forever What is occurring and how to eliminate them? (Mail of id "1105816" is of when testing and should have been dead..) - 2. What means (#x.x.x) number in the maillog? I encounter it sometimes like.. "delivery 10: deferral: connected_to_aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/" What means "(#4.4.2)" and where can I look up them? - 3. About IDENT processing from smtp I can see following header in a testing mail from my qmail server to another my account. "from host.mydoman (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [a.b.c.d]) by host.destination (8.9.3/8.7.1) with SMTP id BAA for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 01:44:01 -0600" As shown above, I allow IDENT access to the server now, but I suspect it. because I don't see the header with IDENT in another mail not from my server. Essentially, qmail smtp daemon is necessary (mandatory) for IDENT connection? And if I prohibit it, what would happen? Thank you in advance. Jaime (^o^) -- Hajime Lucky Okada
Large todo slows down qmail-send
FreeBSD machine with the queue on a softupdate filesystem Hi, I have a todo directory which has approx 200K messages in it. This leads to congestion in qmail-send since todo processing takes up far too much time. It's a bit too late to install the big-todo patch (since I don't want to blow up the queue). Are there any other techniques to help speed up qmail-send. I have temporarily shutdown incoming mail to let the queue drain Is there a way to put a secondary installation of qmail to help process messages faster Regards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .qmail
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 05:13:20PM -0700, Eddie Greer wrote: I need a little help, I got finally got qmail installed and everything appears to working fine. The problem is when I telnet to localhost 25 and follow the direction from the TEST.deliver, I connect to the port and run all the commands but the mail does not get delivered. I took a look at the log and it states the following: deferral: uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is blank._(#4.2.1)/ I running Solaris 2.7 with deamontool, checkpassword, tcpserver and qmail 1.03. Has anyone ever seen this before and know how to fix it. I did a search for .qmail but did not find anything. Have you tried looking in /var/qmail/alias/ ? If the user you're sending to is a system user it could also have a .qmail-* file in $HOME Also can someone tell me the proper way to add Maildir to every new user I add. Change to the skeleton directory which is used as a basis for each new user and do a maildirmake in that directory Thanks, Eddie Greer HTH, Steffan -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
Help plz, How to delete messages??
Hi everybody, One of our user has tried to send more than 3 mail (outlook autoreplay forth and back!!) to an external account on "SomeDomain.com" , his account is now locked out on the remote domain, worse is that they do'nt accept any mail from our mailserver at all and there is more than 25000 mail left on our mail queque, how can i remove them (only for one spec. user), there is some important mail (from other users) among them. best regards /David
Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:19:37PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Gerrit Pape writes: If there is interest in having qmail in the debian-distribution, perhaps I get Dan J. Bernstein's approval sometime. Produce two packages: qmail, which is a 100% debian-compatible binary package which puts files in the locations required by Debian. qmail-compat, which is required by qmail, and which uses symlinks to ensure that all files are found in the locations Dan has mandated. Those two packages satisfy Dan's requirements for qmail distributors, and satisfies Debian's requirements for locations of binaries, man pages, and configuration files. This does my single qmail package (man pages are not linked to /var/qmail/man). I do not see the benefit in having two packages: a user who installs the package named 'qmail' without qmail-compat, breaking dependencies manually, could be left in a nearly not usable qmail installation (the debian-compatible one) without a /var/qmail tree. This may produce confusion. Installing the debian package 'qmail', I did, it will be fully usable for experts, even if fastforward, dot-forward and qmail-run is not installed. Getting the packages into debian is the easier part, I think, that is what lintian reports as errors by now: I thought Debian was foolishly talking about removing non-free? They did, but there is no decision yet, non-free will surely be in woody. about Debian compatibility. You may as well produce a 100% djb-compatible vanilla qmail .deb. Having two qmail debs is not good. So if there is a chance to create a djb- _and_ debian-compatible package, let's do this one. If not, I will do a unofficial djb-compatible vanilla dot-deb. Gerrit. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/gpa
qmail Digest 6 Jul 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1054
qmail Digest 6 Jul 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1054 Topics (messages 44191 through 44268): Converting mbox to maildir. 44191 by: Morten Liebach 44198 by: Ronny Haryanto Re: spam and well known smtp servers 44192 by: Cerberus - the Guardian of Hades 44205 by: Rogerio Brito 44221 by: Paul Jarc 44234 by: clemensF 44235 by: clemensF 44239 by: clemensF 44256 by: David Benfell qmail-start 44193 by: Dennis Robertson 44222 by: Paul Jarc Re: URGENT!!! HELP!!! HP-UX fault 44194 by: Dave Kitabjian 44195 by: Eldar Imangulov 44197 by: Dave Kitabjian 44202 by: Dave Sill 44211 by: Kvazimodo Re: tcpserver alpha linux problems 44196 by: Hubbard, David Re: Error message - Again 44199 by: Dave Sill Clearing "dead" mail from queues 44200 by: Barry Dwyer 44232 by: Dave Sill security issue 44201 by: John Steniger 44207 by: Aaron L. Meehan 44209 by: Scott Gifford Re: qmail and dial-on-demand 44203 by: Paul Jarc Re: qmailq problem 44204 by: Dave Sill 44208 by: Steffan Hoeke 44212 by: Dave Sill Re: The most secure POP server 44206 by: Scott Gifford 44257 by: clemensF qmail on Digital UNIX 4.0D -- syslog problems 44210 by: Bjørn Nordbø Trying to get QMTP protocol to work 44213 by: Igor CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3) 44214 by: Claudinei Luis Bianchini 44215 by: Dave Sill 44263 by: Robert Sander Re: does qmail+ezmlm divid subscribers in "chunks" by domain? 44216 by: Magnus Bodin Mails vanished when remote2local via fetchmail 44217 by: Karl Voit 44224 by: Karl Voit 44226 by: Dave Sill 44236 by: Karl Voit 44240 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Bounce questions 44218 by: Dave Sill Re: tcprules, rcpthost, ip address problem 44219 by: Tetsu Ushijima 44238 by: Barry Dwyer Re: Masquerading while sending remote mail over ISP 44220 by: Tetsu Ushijima 44244 by: bbrade.arco.de Changing bounce message 44223 by: Ben Beuchler 44227 by: Magnus Bodin 44229 by: Chad Day 44231 by: Ben Beuchler 44233 by: Dave Sill Re: qmail install question 44225 by: Dave Sill Re: QMAIL delivery delay problem 44228 by: Dave Sill Re: Moving vpopmail users 44230 by: Dave Sill 44243 by: Charles Boening Re: email error from outlook express 44237 by: Einar Bordewich rejecting subscribe/unsubscribe requests 44241 by: Hand, Brian C. 44242 by: Paul Jarc .qmail 44245 by: Eddie Greer 44266 by: Steffan Hoeke no more splogger 44246 by: M.B. 44247 by: Adam McKenna 44248 by: Mark Mentovai 44249 by: Adam McKenna 44250 by: M.B. 44251 by: Mark Mentovai 44252 by: Mark Mentovai 44253 by: Adam McKenna 44254 by: M.B. 44255 by: Mark Mentovai 44258 by: clemensF 44259 by: Adam McKenna 44260 by: clemensF Re: mail flood 44261 by: Eric Cox problem with qmailadmin 44262 by: wars.telkom.net Muchos "warning: trouble opening remote/local"... 44264 by: Hajime Lucky Okada Large todo slows down qmail-send 44265 by: Yusuf Goolamabbas Help plz, How to delete messages?? 44267 by: david.heydari.sl.se Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail 44268 by: Gerrit Pape Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi I have used procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/* for a long time. There's a lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20 mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like: $ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir or something like that. I couldn't find any programs/scripts for that anywherei, any ideas? (I've looked at mbox2maildir, but as far as I could tell it didn't work like that, but I'm not really sure). Also; someone on this list told me that procmail can do maildirs, and I've now upgraded to v3.15pre, but can't find any references to maildir in the docs ($MAILDIR, yes, but not maildir-format), is it really just to append a '/' to the folders i sort my mail into, remove locking, and run procmail from ~/.qmail? Thank you very much for your time. Regards Morten -- Morten Liebach [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)" On 05-Jul-2000, Morten Liebach wrote: lot of mail in mbox-format that I would
Re: qmail on Digital UNIX 4.0D -- syslog problems
On 5 Jul 2000, Bjørn Nordbø wrote: According to TEST.delivery qmail should syslog a line whenever it starts. [...] Note that qmail logs to STDOUT. If you followed step 8 of INSTALL, you'll realize that it is splogger who feeds syslog. Since you apparently have daemontools installed I suggest you forget about syslog, and use multilog to do the logging. On our 4.0D boxes /service/qmail/run contains #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Mailbox and /service/qmail/log/run contains #!/bin/sh exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t s50 n20 /var/log/qmail which means that log entries end up in /var/log/qmail/current. We have a similar approach for the SMTP service using tcpserver, and it's all working very well. Mads
Re[2]: rejecting subscribe/unsubscribe requests
2000-07-06, at 00:03:09, Paul Jarc wrote: Hand, Brian C. writes: How does one setup qmail and ezmlm to allow subscribes and unsubscribes to be done ONLY by command line. If you remove listdir/public, ezmlm-manage will stop responding to all administrative requests, including -subscribe, -unsubscribe, and -get. If you want -get to keep working, you can intercept delivery of the subscription messages. The foo-subscribe and foo-unsubscribe addresses are handled by the list's .qmail-default file - you can create .qmail-[un]subscribe[-default] files to handle any messages sent to those addresses. bouncesaying ought to be useful. If instead you want to drop these messages silently, remember that the .qmail files shouldn't be empty (that indicates that the system's default delivery method should be used - ./Mailbox, or whatever), and the first line can't be blank - `#' is the smallest no-op. I apologize if this is documented somewhere but I only found out how to prevent posts to the mailing lists itself. Hm - how do you do that? Or you can make file called i.e. subscribe.pl and put this code inside: #!/usr/bin/perl $to = "test-subscribe\@test.com"; $subject = ""; $from = "test-user\@test2.com"; $sendmail = "sendmail -f $from -t -oi"; open(MAIL, "| $sendmail"); $subject = $config[5]; print MAIL "Reply-to: $from\n"; print MAIL "Errors-to: $from\n"; print MAIL "Sender: $from\n"; print MAIL "To: $to\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n"; print MAIL "\n"; close MAIL; You can rebuild this source to ask for $to and $from. If you do this from machine which is listserver it should subscribe without any problems. -- pozdrawiam, Sylwester S. Biernacki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .qmail
Eddie Greer writes: The problem is when I telnet to localhost 25 and follow the direction from the TEST.deliver, I connect to the port and run all the commands but the mail does not get delivered. I took a look at the log and it states the following: deferral: uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is blank._(#4.2.1)/ It's pretty self-explanatory - the first line of your .qmail file is blank, and it's not allowed to be. "But", you may say, "I don't have a .qmail file." In that case, I'd say your default delivery is blank, which amounts to the same problem in a different place. What does your /var/qmail/rc look like? What's the first argument to qmail-start? It probably ought to be ./Mailbox, or ./Maildir/, or |procmail - it's up to you, but it can't be blank. (It can be #, if you want to silently drop mail by default.) paul
Strange Problem with qmail config
Dear Users, I m new user to this list and am having this strange problem with qmail, if ne one can help me out i would be obliged. I have installed qmail on to my server readin alll the necessay documention., My problem is when i send all the users message frm the console mode thru pine the messages get transferred to the users ./Maildir/ directory but if i send the same thru my pop box using my isp as my relay server the mail gets stored in the ./Mailbox of the users.. also i have virtually hosted domain for which have configuration workin all right... Now the second part of the problem is I m using qmail-pop3d on the pop end.. but i m getting this error message cant find $HOME/Maildir for the user so the pollin is not happening for the users.. i checked out the enviromental variable $Mail which says the users homedirectory/Maildir/ i m really stuck with this please help me.. Anticipating your prompt reply, Regards, -Mitul Limbani (mitul 2 mitul.com
Re: manpages for ucspi-tcp
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:34:01PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two things: Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere? None are in the package. Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to make this easier? I did manpages from the contents of the html-pages some time ago. You find them in: ftp://innominate.org/pub/pape/djb/ . Did you make them manually or would you share the knowledge of reverse-html-ify djbs mans? I did it all manually. Saved the html files and manually converted them to manpages. Wasn't too hard... a little time consuming, that's all. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 10 days 14 hrs and 26 mins.
Re: ucspi-tcp man pages
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from: ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2 These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and converted into manpages. Great, so work is done twice. Searching the archiv really helps. There was an announce with Subject: man-pages daemontools-0.70 ucspi-tcp-0.88 . Hmmm... I new about daemontools, but I didn't think there was anything for ucspi-tcp... Next time I'll have to search the archive then. =) Oh well. I didn't know anything about man pages before so I'll just chock it up to a learning experience. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 10 days 14 hrs and 27 mins.
Re: qmail-start
Dennis Robertson writes:
Paul Jarc wrote:
/var/qmail/rc should be run as part of *system* startup, not user
login.
Thanks. I'm going to uninstall qmail and try again. Where should
the command be?
You probably don't need to reinstall. Just remove that command from
your .bashrc, and add it to your system startup scripts. The details
of this will vary depending on how your system is set up. On my
RedHat 6 box, I have /etc/rc.d/rc[235].d/S40qmail symlinked to
../init.d/qmail, which contains:
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: "
/var/qmail/rc
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: "
killall qmail-send
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail
;;
restart|reload)
killall -HUP qmail-send
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
paul
OT: can't unsubscribe
hi i worte at least two messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but i recieve messages again and again. how can i unsubscribe the list? Mirko Koenig -- Fuer die einen ist es SuSe, fuer die anderen das laengste init-script der Welt. homepage : http://stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de/~koenig e-amil : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 11181751
Virus scanning question
Greetings all, I was wondering if anyone can help. I have a Qmail system all up and running with SMTP and POP3. It sends and received mail correctly. What I have been asked to do is forward any mail to a Trend Micro SMTP email virus scanning server first before it is delivered. This means that even if I have USER-A and USER-B with POP3 accounts on the qmail server and they send mail to each other, the powers that be want that mail to first hit the Scan Mail server then relay to the Qmail server. I already know that I could reconfigure their SMTP/POP3 mail clients to use different addresses for sending and downloading mail (ie enter the IP of the Scan Mail server for SMTP and then the IP of the Qmail server for POP3). I was hoping that there was a server level setting (as apposed to something in each users .qmail file) that would forward the mail correctly. Exchange seems to have this function and they call it "Forward All Messages to host: hostname" instead of "Message Delivery Uses DNS" Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Larry Henshaw }:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
temporary failure in qmail-lspawn
I am new to linux / qmail, etc. so please forgive the lack of knowledge. I recently changed IP addresses on all of our Linux boxex. I also had to change the 2 Nameserver Names and IP addresses. Ever since then, I have been getting the following error in /var/log/maillog: 962594383.506605 starting delivery 3503: msg 55319 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]962594383.506837 status: local 4/10 remote 0/20962594387.568616 delivery 3503: deferral: Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./ The server is running qmail with mysql database, and seems to process non-virtual domain mail ok. Also, users in the virtual domains cannot log in to their POP accounts, the just keep getting a password request. No password seems to work. Any suggestions? All help is greatly appreciated! DH
Release: assign-lint
Hi,
I've written a little bit of perl to examine our users/assign file
and check for errors/inconsistencies. It might be of use to others.
It's attached.
Regards,
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster
IE Domain Registry - www.domainregistry.ie - (+353 1) 706 2375
"Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like
herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# assign-lint. Reports obvious problems in assignments in a
# users/assign file as used by qmail-lspawn and created by
# qmail-newu.
#
# 6th July 2000, James Raftery [EMAIL PROTECTED],
# IE Domain Registry, University College Dublin Computing Services.
#
# Usage:assign-lint file
# file is a path to a users/assign file.
#
# Example: assign-lint /var/qmail/users/assign
#
# Comments, suggestions, improvements, bug-reports, patches, etc are
# welcomed.
# History:
# 6th July 2000: First release.
while () {
chomp;
if (/^\.$/) {
warn "Syntax error: Dot appears more than once.\n" if $dot;
$dot = 1;
next;
}
unless (/^(.)(\S*):(\S+):(\d+):(\d+):(\S+):(\S*):(\S*):$/) {
warn "Syntax error, line $.: $_\n";
next;
}
$assign_char = $1;
$address = $2;
$user = $3;
$uid = $4;
$gid = $5;
$homedir = $6;
$dash = ($7 ? $7 : "");
$ext = ($8 ? $8 : "");
if ($dot !$warned_about_the_dot) {
warn "Syntax error: Assignments found after the dot.\n";
$warned_about_the_dot = 1;
}
if ($assign_char eq "=") {
$assign_type = "simple";
} elsif ($assign_char eq "+") {
$assign_type = "wildcard";
} else {
warn "Bad assignment type in assignment '$address': $assign_char is
invalid.\n";
}
@pwd_ent = getpwnam($user);
if (@pwd_ent) {
if ($uid != $pwd_ent[2]) {
warn "Bad uid in $assign_type assignment '$address' for user
$user: $uid should be ", $pwd_ent[2], ".\n";
}
if ($gid != $pwd_ent[3]) {
warn "Bad gid in $assign_type assignment '$address' for user
$user: $gid should be ", $pwd_ent[3], ".\n";
}
if (!-e $homedir) {
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir does not exist.\n";
} elsif (!-d _) {
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir is not a directory.\n";
} else {
@dir_stat = stat(_);
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir is not owned by $user.\n" if ($uid != $dir_stat[4]);
if (($assign_type eq "simple") $dash $ext) {
$qmail_file = "${homedir}/.qmail${dash}${ext}";
warn "Bad .qmail file in $assign_type assignment
'$address' for user $user: $qmail_file not valid.\n" if (!-f $qmail_file);
}
}
} else {
warn "Bad user in $assign_type assignment '$address': user $user does
not exist.\n";
}
}
exit;
Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?)
I have coldfusion 4.51 on Windows NT with Apache. The Mail tag in coldfusion is pointing at my qmail smtp server. It seems that qmail is rejecting mail from the coldfusion application server because it does not have line feeds in the email. Has anyone heard of this problem? I have not been able to find anything on allaire's web site. Thanx, Jay
Mail Server Sizing
Hi! I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big leagues on QMail. The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have 8000 users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages a week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]" capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc. We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc. This is not the point of this message. My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat 6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer. A Couple of newbie questions: Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in the scenario I outlined above? If Not, waht would you recommend? Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail Servers? Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for other projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know. Thank you very, very much for your help. Regards, Alexis. Alexis Castañares Director de Tecnología MVS Telecom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?)
-Original Message- From: James Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:28 AM Subject: Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?) I have coldfusion 4.51 on Windows NT with Apache. The Mail tag in coldfusion is pointing at my qmail smtp server. It seems that qmail is rejecting mail from the coldfusion application server because it does not have line feeds in the email. Has anyone heard of this problem? I have not been able to find anything on allaire's web site. We have Oracle servers sending reports that do (did) the same thing. If nobody can change the formatting of the message, try changing the tcpserver line of your outbound smtp server(s) to include fixcr (from the tcpserver tarball). After I did that, the DBA came and asked if something changed because he all of a sudden started getting his reports. /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 550 -x /etc/security/tcprules/rules.cdb \ -u 25414 -g 104 0 smtp sh -c 'fixcr | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd' Mike. NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___
Re: Mail Server Sizing
Alexis Castanares Lopez wrote: Hi! I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big leagues on QMail. The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have 8000 users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages a week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]" capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc. We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc. This is not the point of this message. My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat 6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer. A Couple of newbie questions: Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in the scenario I outlined above? If Not, waht would you recommend? Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail Servers? Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for other projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know. Thank you very, very much for your help. Alexis, I'd suggest qmail-ldap as it lets you use your current user database almost without modification. qmail-ldap started as a compatible re- placement for a Netscrape Messaging server. It is used in numerous large email sites and of production qualitiy. In fact even MP3.com uses it on their mail servers. Have a look at http://www.nrg4u.com -- Andre
Qmail with Oracle
Hi All, Ihave Qmail installed in Red Hat 6.2 and it works fine, but we need to authenticate users with Oracle. I have downloaded vpopmail package v4.8.4 but it does not seem to compile, because I think this package has Oracle support. Does anybody know how to compile vpopmail and then authenticate users with it? Where can I find some documentation or some patch in order to fix this problem? Have anybody made Oracle 8.1.6 work with Qmail? Thanks, Alexandre Biancalana
Re: Strange Problem with qmail config
"Mitul Limbani" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is when i send all the users message frm the console mode thru pine the messages get transferred to the users ./Maildir/ directory but if i send the same thru my pop box using my isp as my relay server the mail gets stored in the ./Mailbox of the users.. qmail doesn't treat local and remote injection differently: the same recipient's mail will be delivered the same way regardless of where it comes from. What's your default delivery method? Does the user in question have a .qmail file? What's in it? Post log entries for both deliveries. Now the second part of the problem is I m using qmail-pop3d on the pop end.. but i m getting this error message cant find $HOME/Maildir for the user so the pollin is not happening for the users.. i checked out the enviromental variable $Mail which says the users homedirectory/Maildir/ The MAIL environment variable is irrelevant. Does $HOME/Maildir exist? Is it owned by the user? Is it really a maildir (e.g., created using maildirmake)? -Dave
Re: temporary failure in qmail-lspawn
"Darren Hudson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently changed IP addresses on all of our Linux boxex. I also had to change the 2 Nameserver Names and IP addresses. That doesn't sound like something that would the problems you're seeing. 962594383.506605 starting delivery 3503: msg 55319 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 962594383.506837 status: local 4/10 remote 0/20 962594387.568616 delivery 3503: deferral: Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./ That's usually due to a shortage of some system resource such as memory or file descriptors. Also, users in the virtual domains cannot log in to their POP accounts, the just keep getting a password request. No password seems to work. Has this ever worked, or are you in the process of setting it up? -Dave
Re: Muchos warning: trouble opening remote/local...
Hajime Lucky Okada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "qmail: 962478354.405231 warning: trouble opening local/22/1105816; will try again later" Many massage like this are appearing in the log forever What is occurring and how to eliminate them? Sounds like your queue is corrupt. Try running qmail-qsanity or queuefix from www.qmail.org. - 2. What means (#x.x.x) number in the maillog? I encounter it sometimes like.. "delivery 10: deferral: connected_to_aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/" What means "(#4.4.2)" and where can I look up them? From RFC 1893, Enhanced mail system status codes. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1893.txt: 4.X.X Persistent Transient Failure X.4.X Network and Routing Status X.4.2 Bad connection - 3. About IDENT processing from smtp Essentially, qmail smtp daemon is necessary (mandatory) for IDENT connection? And if I prohibit it, what would happen? No, IDENT isn't mandatory. If you don't run a daemon, that information will be left out of the Received fields of messages that pass through your system. -Dave
Re: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)
Robert Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:12:42PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: Claudinei Luis Bianchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had applied the patch for this and work very well with BIND. recently, I changed to DNScache and this message came back. where's the problem ?? Exactly. What makes you think this message indicates a problem on your end? That exactly was my question about one week ago. How do I know where the problem is? It's a DNS problem. qmail couldn't resolve a host name, and the resolver said the problem was temporary. Normally, you don't have to do anything except wait for the name server problem to be fixed. If you know for a fact that the name is resolvable, then you might have a problem that demands your attention. But it's not specifically a qmail problem. -Dave
qmail won't compile on AIX 4.3
I'm not able to get qmail-1.03 to compile on my AIX 4.3 server. I've tried both xlc (AIX C compiler) and GCC-2.95.2 without success. Here is far as I get with "make setup check". Any ideas? Please CC: me on followups. Thanks. With GCC: auto-str.c: In function `main': auto-str.c:15: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__main ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8. With XLC: ./compile dns.c "dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text 'int' encountered. "dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ')' encountered. "dns.c", line 11.19: 1506-276 (S) Syntax error: possible missing ')'? "dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of h_errno_which differs from previous declaration on line 55 of "/usr/include/netdb.h". "dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-050 (I) Return type "int**" in redeclaration is not compatible with the previous return type "void*". "ipalloc.h", line 6.23: 1506-007 (S) "struct ip_address" is undefined. "dns.c", line 31.15: 1506-007 (S) "struct ip_address" is undefined. "dns.c", line 229.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union. "dns.c", line 231.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union. "dns.c", line 233.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union. "dns.c", line 235.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a pointer to an incomplete struct or union. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: Mail Server Sizing
I am going to say that machine is overkill. I think 1 CPU (700 MZH+) with about 512 megs of RAM is more than enough. You have to remember qmail runs really fast, much faster than sendmail, and does not take much RAM. The only problem I ever see with qmail, from working with it and reading this list are IO Bounding problems (The Disks/Controllers can't move fast enought for qmail). -- Jason Murphy Web Developer and Systems and Database Administrator E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.lawinfo.com -- Lawinfo.com - Legal Industry Marketing for the 21st Century Phone: 800-397-3743 Fax: 800-220-4546 -- - Original Message - From: "Alexis Castanares Lopez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:20 AM Subject: Mail Server Sizing Hi! I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big leagues on QMail. The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have 8000 users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages a week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]" capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc. We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc. This is not the point of this message. My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat 6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer. A Couple of newbie questions: Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in the scenario I outlined above? If Not, waht would you recommend? Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail Servers? Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for other projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know. Thank you very, very much for your help. Regards, Alexis. Alexis Castañares Director de Tecnología MVS Telecom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
supervise lock problem on startup/install
Hello all, Still having the service lock problem -- thanks Dave, I've followed your suggestions here: The general approach to fixing this problem is: 1) Stop all qmail-related processes including svscan, supervises, anything running as a "qmail" user, qmail-send, multilogs, etc. *Everything*. ps -a shows no qmail related services running prior to sending the start command. If I let the error loop in one term window I see svscan and TWO service entries (with one or both defunct depending on how quickly I run ps). I looked for clues as to the origin of the two instances, but couldn't find anything obvious. 2) Double check directory names/owners/groups/modes and the contents of "run" scripts against LWQ. Check for extraneous ampersands () at the ends of lines. I have probably messed this up from standard... I recursively set ownership of /var/qmail/supervise and its subdirectories to qmaill.nofiles. The directories I opened up to 777. I reran the chmod commands in LWQ on the run files in those directories setting them to 755. I have no idea whether these changes would make my problem worse, but the results have not changed... 3) Restart svscan via "qmail start". If the problem doesn't go away, repeat 1 2, and re-run 3 with "sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start". Cut and paste the output and post it to the list. [root@samurai supervise]# sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start + PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin + export PATH + echo -n Starting qmail: svscan Starting qmail: svscan+ cd /var/qmail/supervise + env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan + echo 20793 + echo . . + exit 0 [root@samurai supervise]# supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure - Thanks for looking at this, qmail is the last piece in the puzzle before I can make this server live. J!M
qmail book coming?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 02-4056617-0867210 anyone notice the above? mike. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: Converting mbox to maildir.
Morten Liebach: I have used procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/* for a long time. There's a lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20 mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like: $ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir there's a program called "formail" in the progmail-suit, it'll do what you want. clemens
Re: qmail and dial-on-demand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will an unpatched qmail bring up the connection when it has mail to send if I have dial on demand set up right? yes. clemens
Re: spam and well known smtp servers
David Benfell: As I recall, the argument is that by responding, you confirm that the e-mail address is valid. I can't say I've dealt with enough spam to have relevant experience. i've had spamming for just surfing around the 'net, and it grew worse occasionally when i tried to avoid it by mailing abuse@... or postmaster@... clemens
Re: qmail book coming?
At 03:44 PM 7/6/00 -0700, you wrote: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 02-4056617-0867210 I dunno, we have been hearing about the qmail book coming out for a while now, so I would reserve judgement until it actually hits the shelf...I've always said everyone on this list could use a good qmail reference with lots of step by step stuff, and what to do when bad things happen to your qmail system...comments anyone? -Bill
Re: qmail book coming?
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, M.B. wrote: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 02-4056617-0867210 anyone notice the above? Yeah, it was talked about a month or so ago. Judging by a book that same author wrote for Motorola about C, I wouldn't take it if it were free. The ones from Motorola were free and we all threw them in the trash. It was some of the dryest reading imaginable. I think I'd rather read the bat book!! Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: qmail book coming?
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Bill Parker wrote: At 03:44 PM 7/6/00 -0700, you wrote: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 02-4056617-0867210 I dunno, we have been hearing about the qmail book coming out for a while now, so I would reserve judgement until it actually hits the shelf...I've always said everyone on this list could use a good qmail reference with lots of step by step stuff, and what to do when bad things happen to your qmail system...comments anyone? This one isn't the long awaited one tho. The one we're all waiting for is by Russ Nelson and (I think) John Levine and is waiting on O'Reilly. At least I think that's right. Russ? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
vpopmail 4.8a Upgrade
I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to ./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found. Thing is, I don't think I needed to specify this when I installed vpopmail 3.4, and can't find tcprules anywhere on my system. Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing? TIA, -- Andrew Hill
Courier IMAP / Autoresponders / SQWebMail
Anything I should be aware of for installing Courier IMAP with vpop and vchkpw We would like to install sqwebmail but worried about screwing things up since it took a month to get it running the right way with no error messages ::whew:: Red Hat Linux 6.2 Current Qmail, QmailAdmin, EzMLM, vpop, vchkpw Also, if anyone knows why when using autoresponders why the mail bounces but yet the autoresponder goes out would be much appreciated! Kathleen
Re: vpopmail 4.8a Upgrade
also sprach list: I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to ./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found. You need to specify it with --enable-tcprules-prog=/path/to/tcprules Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing? (pcg@micah) ~ rpm -qf `which tcprules` ucspi-tcp-0.88-1 ^ /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I've discovered that using VMS is a lot like driving a nail with your head: sure, you eventually get something practical done, but it usually results in a headache and some blood loss. (submitted by Sean A. Simpson)
aol mail bouncing
Helo, I have just recently switched from sendmail to qmail for our ISP and got everything working using qm 1.03 memphis, tcprules, vpopmail, big-dns.patch, bind.patch. Sending, Recieving, POPing Mail all seemed to be working ok. Then I found all mail from AOL and certain other asp's was bouncing most mail recieves fine and all mail sends ok but mail from aol is recieved then bounced usually for no such mail account at my mail server however obviously this mail account does exist and recieves mail fine from all other locations. And the second twist is if I send a mail to an aol member and they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol Matt Taft Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
unable to exec qq and Cobalt RAQs
Hey there. I've just been fighting w/ qmail on my RAQ3i. I've been trying to replace sendmail with qmail, but it just hasn't been working (bounce messages weren't working; neither was smtp). I sought through the archives for an answer, but found none. The general consensus seemed to be that the permissions were wrong. Turned out that was true. Though through no fault of the installing party (I was doing a virgin installation and it still bombed). It also turns out that the RAQs have an interesting quirk that causes qmail not to work. They ship with /var set to mount with the 'nosuid' flag set. This causes the suid bit on qmail-queue not to work as expected, leading to the rest of the problems. Anyway, to fix this problem, edit /etc/fstab and remove the nosuid flag from the /var line and run 'mount /var -o remount' to remount it without. Voila. It works. Good luck and thank goodness for the archives. seth
Re: Virus scanning question
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0600, Larry Henshaw wrote: I have a Qmail system all up and running with SMTP and POP3. It sends and received mail correctly. What I have been asked to do is forward any mail to a Trend Micro SMTP email virus scanning server first before it is delivered. See http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/ for one implementation of server-based virus scanning for Qmail. -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
Re: aol mail bouncing
Is there anything about AOL or any of AOL's IP addresses in your tcpserver setup (especially the database that tcpserver uses to block connections and set environment variables)? And do you see anything in your logs about these messages? -ScottG. "Matt Taft" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Helo, I have just recently switched from sendmail to qmail for our ISP and got everything working using qm 1.03 memphis, tcprules, vpopmail, big-dns.patch, bind.patch. Sending, Recieving, POPing Mail all seemed to be working ok. Then I found all mail from AOL and certain other asp's was bouncing most mail recieves fine and all mail sends ok but mail from aol is recieved then bounced usually for no such mail account at my mail server however obviously this mail account does exist and recieves mail fine from all other locations. And the second twist is if I send a mail to an aol member and they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol Matt Taft Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
