RE: A firestorm of protest?
Peter Cavender writes: Laurence Brockman writes: I'm going to jump into the discussion here and ask why we don't do something like perl has done with cpan? They don't call them patches, or upgrades, or anything else. They call them Modules and have a central repository that users can go and search from. I think this would be ideal for qmail.org site... He's done *just that*. That's what program delivery in a .qmail file is for. That's what qmail-getpw is for. That's what users/assign is for. That's what qmail-queue is for. Nobody patches the source of perl -- they just go to the published APIs and add things. So why are we patching qmail instead of writing replacements? What do you mean by "writing replacements"? That people should write their own mail servers, rather than try to enhance qmail? No. I think that people who want qmail-smtpd to have a badrcptto file as well as a badmailfrom (for example) should make a Makefile, change qmail-smtpd.c, include the necessary files, and package it up. There's no reason why they couldn't include the patch file as well. My point being that most things which are called patches could just as easily be stand-alone pieces of software. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com | Government is the Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | fictitious entity by which 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | everyone seeks to live at Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | everyone else's expense.
Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
I've got a perl script (albeit crude and unsightly) which parses qmail logs to determine the distribution of MTAs based on the SMTP 250 response. The script uses standard perlre to identify a particular MTA. What I'm doing with this post is to solicit your help in creating a list of definitive patterns that identify particular MTAs. If you respond, I have a particular format I'd like to see, namely: MTA version pattern Here's a sample to give you an idea: qmail all _250_ok_\d+_qp_\d+ sendmail 8.11 _250_2\.0\.0_\w+_Message_accepted_for_delivery sendmail all _250_[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]\d+_Message_accepted_for_delivery hotmail any _250_Requested_mail_action_okay,_completed unknown any .* Thus all versions of qmail are identified by a pattern that matches _250_ok_\d+_qp_\d+ and version 8.11 of sendmail is identified primarily by the 2.0.0 response. So, for those of you familiar enough with perlre and who have access to an identifiable MTA, can you post the MTA name and version, the 250 response and ideally a pattern that uniquely matches it? Even if you don't know perlre, just the definitive 250 response and the associated MTA is very welcome. In all cases, please include the real IP address so that I can probe it if necessary. Ultimately I'll make the script and patterns public so that anyone can analyze their logs and hopefully make the results generally available. Regards. PS. I'm a perl weenie, so be gentle...
Re: virus in list
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Keith, Yeung Wai Kin wrote: don't open attachment emanuel.exe from "funky gao" Why not? *clickclick* Did I miss something? Scott
RE: A firestorm of protest?
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: Nobody patches the source of perl -- they just go to the published APIs and add things. So why are we patching qmail instead of writing replacements? Nice comparison...of pines and apples. Adding badrcptto (btw: this is a very useful thing) or big-todo patches to qmail is like changing the semantics of hashes in Perl. Unlike Perl, qmail has no built-in hooks for such drastic changes (well, badrcptto can be "implemented" with a front-end SMTP daemon but this is as absurd as using recordio to make qmail-smtpd log some diagnostic messages...this is not modularity but onion-style bloat). --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
qmail Digest 17 Jan 2001 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 1247
qmail Digest 17 Jan 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1247 Topics (messages 55275 through 55390): Re: Authenticate for default domain 55275 by: Marlon_Abao.support.trendmicro.com 55312 by: qmailu 55313 by: qmailu Re: Bogus popularity claims for Sendmail 55276 by: Gjermund Sorseth 55372 by: Mark Delany Re: QMTP MX-question 55277 by: Peter van Dijk 55381 by: Russell Nelson Re: qmail list reply-to 55278 by: funky gao 55290 by: funky gao 55291 by: funky gao 55300 by: Dean Mumby 55310 by: IT Andrew Bold 55374 by: George Patterson Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch? 55279 by: funky gao Re: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server... 55280 by: funky gao Re: concurrencyremote 55281 by: funky gao Incomming message filter 55282 by: funky gao 55301 by: keng heng Re: VMailMGR hostname based access 55283 by: funky gao Re: Logging with checkvpw and qmail-pop3d problems? 55284 by: funky gao Re: [OT] iso-8859-1 charset problems 55285 by: funky gao Re: A bug or am I being daft? 55286 by: funky gao Re: (OT) Vmailmgr and Vpopmail 55287 by: funky gao Re: 2 QUESTIONS 55288 by: funky gao 55298 by: Hubbard, David Re: [vmailmgr] Some question 55289 by: funky gao virus in list 55292 by: Keith, Yeung Wai Kin 55305 by: Jose AP Celestino 55375 by: George Patterson 55389 by: Scott D. Yelich hmmm 55293 by: Deslions Nicolas Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch 55294 by: Johan Almqvist 55324 by: Ian Lance Taylor 55341 by: Ian Lance Taylor Why? 55295 by: Rod... Whitworth Viruses on the list 55296 by: Ertan Payci Please stop sending me your virus infected files! 55297 by: OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg Virus-ridden emails from 'funky gao'? 55299 by: Hubbard, David 55345 by: Andy Bradford 55376 by: George Patterson 55378 by: funky gao Re: AVP found infected object 55302 by: Michail A.Baikov qmail smtp daemon takes long to display banner 55303 by: Gonçalo Gomes 55311 by: Charles Cazabon 55326 by: Henning Brauer 55335 by: Ricardo Cerqueira Re: TWO INSTANCES OF QMAIL 55304 by: Rob Hines Jr. VIRUS IN LAST 28 MESSAGES FROM FUNKY GAO ON LIST 55306 by: Robert Mudryk Mail with content qmailscan - infected - 55307 by: Ruprecht Helms Re: tcpserver 55308 by: Charles Cazabon 55317 by: Dave Sill Re: smtp to 371.net 55309 by: Charles Cazabon 55327 by: Henning Brauer 55331 by: Charles Cazabon 55334 by: Henning Brauer ENOUGH WITH THE FRIGGIN VIRII WARNINGS! 55314 by: Brett Randall 55328 by: OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg 55366 by: Grant Re: looking for mua 55315 by: Paul Jarc Re: A firestorm of protest? 55316 by: Laurence Brockman 55338 by: Jerry Lynde 55339 by: Jurjen Oskam 55343 by: Dave Sill 55346 by: Tony Campisi 55348 by: Robin S. Socha 55349 by: Robin S. Socha 55353 by: Michael Boyiazis 55354 by: Jonathan J. Smith 55357 by: Dave Sill 55363 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen 55367 by: Aaron Carr 55368 by: Stanton Fields 55371 by: Andy Bradford 55380 by: Russell Nelson 55383 by: Peter Cavender 55387 by: Russell Nelson 55390 by: Pavel Kankovsky tcpserver/smtp 55318 by: Dale Herring 55321 by: Charles Cazabon 55322 by: Johan Almqvist 55350 by: Dale Herring 55351 by: Mark Delany 55359 by: Dale Herring 55373 by: Mark Delany How I block some adresses ? 55319 by: -= Ana Paula =- 55323 by: Johan Almqvist 55385 by: Piotr Kasztelowicz unable to bind: address already used 55320 by: Matthew Patterson 55333 by: Marco Leeflang forwarding mail 55325 by: Travis Turner 55329 by: Alex Kramarov 55330 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Installing mini-qmail seems to require qmail ids contrary to documentation 55332 by: Tetsu Ushijima Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 55336 by: Scott Gifford 55344 by: Charles Cazabon 55347 by: Charles Cazabon Re: Dot in email adress 55337 by: David L. Nicol Header rewriting ... 55340 by: Alex Kramarov Re: qmailanalog scripts 55342 by: Ismail YENIGUL 55365 by: Grant Re: Life With Qmail 55352 by: Dave Sill @home.com mail servers... 55355 by: Marc Knoop 55358 by: joshua stein 55360 by: Jesse Sunday Re: qmail help quick! 55356 by: Dave Sill 55379 by: David Talkington 55384 by: Dan Phoenix bounce mail allways double bounces because the 'to' in the envelope is
Tcpserver+QMAIL start:
Hi all, Trying to install Q-mail please name the script file, where I should place the following directives: /usr/local/ucspi-tcp-0.88/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 3002 -g 2501 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 /usr/local/ucspi-tcp-0.88/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup YOURHOST \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' Thank you in advance, Vadik
TCPSERVER logs :
I was thinking , why do alot of people here mention running tcpserver with multilog and storing it's logs apart from qmail logs : This is what I use for the startup string for tcpserver /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/sbin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/log/qmail/current 21 This works fine, And I can see in the qmail log all mail action along with the ip information (where the mail came from). Is there a problem with that i didn't stumble upon (yet) ? Also, I would really apriciate if some answered my prevous question, repeated below : I know that this question is being askedfrom time to time here, but I have never seen a descriptive answer to it. I have to rewrite the FROM field frommessages I recieve through smtp.The only rewriting I have to do is if FROM = alex@a.b then i rewrite to FROM = [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The username stays the same, only rewrite the domail name. I have tried to use the Fixup part from qmail faq, created virtual domain, got Mess822, starting to use new-inject in /alias/.qmail-catchall-default, but I am unable to reach a satisfiing set of parameters for it. Somehow I get the feeling that the virtdomail idea is not designed for tis situation, or am I wrong ??? Help will be apriciated. Alex. __IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
* Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010116 19:36]: Now I see it. You can't call connect twice on the same socket. This patch, on top of Russ's patch, fixes it. This patch very much fixes it for my patch, too. Thanks a bunch, Ian! This leads me to the next thing (concerning my patch): If someone specifies QMTP to a certain port in control/mailroutes, and that fails - what'd I do? Try SMTP to port 25, give up temporarily (which would happen if it were an SMTP route) of give up permanently (don't think so...) At the moment, SMTP to port 25 will be attempted. If that fails, there'll be a tempoary error. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
New version of my qmail-remote patch
Hi! I've just put out a new version of my patch to qmail-remote. It now includes Ian's patch that allows qmail-remote to try SMTP if the QMTP connection fails. There's nothing left that I'm really unhappy about right now. http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/qmail-qmtpc.html I'd like to thank Russell, Peter and Ian for their "kicking me in gear" and help, respectively. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
virus scanning
Does anyone else use the linavx scanning software from AVP? I did find a way to update the definitions with it and It don't pick up the snow white, kak vB or navidad. It did catch a pretty park but that was it. Are there any other scanners that will scan mail already on the system for these? Or which one seems to work the best in conjunction with Qmail?
RE: A firestorm of protest?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for updating qmail, I would be all for a new version of qmail with some of the more useful (nearly mandatory) plugins already added. A couple I can think of is the oversize DNS packet patch for qmail, Nowhere near mandatory. and possibly qmail-scanner ( with the option to disable it if not needed). After last nights virus fiasco on this list, is there anyone who doesn't think it might be a welcome addition to a standard qmail install? : ) Yep: me. Which is worse, 20 messages sent to a list with the same virus, or 20 messages sent to a list with the same virus followed by 20*N warning messages from N friendly virus scanners around the world? As for who would decide what is useful and what isn't? I would assume DJB or perhaps a small panel of qmail experts appointed by DJB could vote on additions to the mail install. DJB has already decided which he considers useful enough to warrant a new release: none of them. -Dave
LWQ and timestamp
Hi, I installed qmail as described in LWQ. As I try to evaluate the logs with qmail analog I run into trouble because multilog does not have the timestamps needed by qmailanalog. Can I just replace any multilog entry with splogger or is this no good idea? Can I create the timestamps in multilog in any way? Is there any information available about the log tools used with qmail and qmailanalog? Comaprison multilog/splogger etc. The docu provided with the package is not that much ;-) Thanks /ch
Re: Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:57:49AM +, Mark Delany wrote: What I'm doing with this post is to solicit your help in creating a list of definitive patterns that identify particular MTAs. Dan has _lots_ of pattern from his internet mail surveys - check http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware5.txt -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:44:26PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:57:49AM +, Mark Delany wrote: What I'm doing with this post is to solicit your help in creating a list of definitive patterns that identify particular MTAs. Dan has _lots_ of pattern from his internet mail surveys - check http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware5.txt Right. But they are mostly responses to HELO. I'm looking for the response to a successfully accepted message. Ie, what qmail-remote sends back to the logs. Regards.
Re: Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
Henning Brauer writes: What I'm doing with this post is to solicit your help in creating a list of definitive patterns that identify particular MTAs. Dan has _lots_ of pattern from his internet mail surveys - check http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware5.txt Those are patterns that describe the greeting that a server sends to the client when it connects. What is wanted here are patterns that describe what the server sends to the client after it has received a message. The client puts this text in its log, which makes it possible to generate statistics by reading the logs rather than connecting to a lot of servers. -- Gjermund Sorseth
Re: A firestorm of protest?
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:48:05PM -0500, Aaron Carr wrote: As for updating qmail, I would be all for a new version of qmail with some of the more useful (nearly mandatory) plugins already added. A couple I can think of is the oversize DNS packet patch for qmail, and possibly qmail-scanner ( with the option to disable it if not needed). After last nights virus fiasco on this list, is there anyone who doesn't think it might be a welcome addition to a standard qmail install? : ) yes. Don't bloat qmail. One of the greatest things about qmail is its size. You may want to discuss the uselessness of virii scanners with Felix ;-)) As for who would decide what is useful and what isn't? I would assume DJB or perhaps a small panel of qmail experts appointed by DJB could vote on additions to the mail install. I see exactly two patches which could be part of stock qmail: the AOL dns patch and Russels qmtp/mxps-patch for qmail-remote. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
Ian Lance Taylor writes: Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think there may be a problem with the patches to qmail-remote that make it speak QMTP based on MXPS. If the QMTP connection fails (because the remote host doesn't have a qmtpd running) this failure will be logged as deferral: Connected_to_194.47.249.19_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ which means that the message will not be retried at the next best MX but go back to the queue. I don't see it. Now I see it. You can't call connect twice on the same socket. This patch, on top of Russ's patch, fixes it. Thanks for catching and fixing this bug. I'm glad *you* knew that you can't call connect twice on the same socket. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com | Government is the Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | fictitious entity by which 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | everyone seeks to live at Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | everyone else's expense.
Re: LWQ and timestamp
Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed qmail as described in LWQ. As I try to evaluate the logs with qmail analog I run into trouble because multilog does not have the timestamps needed by qmailanalog. Can I just replace any multilog entry with splogger or is this no good idea? Splogger is no longer maintained or distributed. LWQ contains a pointer to a utility to convert multilog's timestamps to the format qmailanalog expects. See: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#qmailanalog Can I create the timestamps in multilog in any way? Not that I know of. Is there any information available about the log tools used with qmail and qmailanalog? Comaprison multilog/splogger etc. The docu provided with the package is not that much ;-) The online documentation for daemontools is pretty complete, including specification of the time stamp format. I haven't documented qmailanalog in LWQ because I keep hoping that DJB will update it for the new timestamp format or release a new qmail that will make qmailanalog completely obsolete. -Dave
Re: A firestorm of protest?
Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see exactly two patches which could be part of stock qmail: the AOL dns patch and Russels qmtp/mxps-patch for qmail-remote. Forget about the DNS mods, DJB has very clearly expressed disdain for them. I'd vote for the MXPS and bigconcurrency mods. -Dave
Re: Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:54:56PM +, Mark Delany wrote: Right. But they are mostly responses to HELO. I'm looking for the response to a successfully accepted message. Ie, what qmail-remote sends back to the logs. I should have read more carefully ;-) Two responses for you: _250_Message_accepted_for_delivery - Lotus Domino 5, any platform _250_OK_id=142c3k-0005H8-00 - Exim Regards. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Auto Responder
I'm interested in autoresponders too. I found some programs: http://MeepZor.Com/packages/autoresponder/ http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail-autoresponder/current/qmail-autoresponder-0.93.tar.gz http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/qmail/qmail-vacation-1.3.tar.gz http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/autorespond.tar.gz Are you using any autoresponder? what is your opinion? Which is the best autoresponder to be used with qmail and any suggestions as to how to inject the message with an attachment using qmail-inject
Re: virus in list
How many people here on this list actually open up an executable that was sent to you via email before scanning it anyways??? --JT - Original Message - From: "Scott D. Yelich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Keith, Yeung Wai Kin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:56 AM Subject: Re: virus in list On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Keith, Yeung Wai Kin wrote: don't open attachment emanuel.exe from "funky gao" Why not? *clickclick* Did I miss something? Scott
autoresponders
Hi everybody what's the best way to send a greeting to someone that register through Vqsignup? Thanks
autoresponders
Hi everybody what's the best way to send a greeting to someone that register through Vqsignup? Thanks
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carriage returns with qmail-inject
Hi, I came across a strange problem with qmail-inject. If I have a message with headers with CRLF's for line feeds, and try and send it through qmail-inject, when it rewrites the headers qmail-inject uses LF's only. So what you end up with is a message with some CRLF's, and some LF's in the headers, and some mail clients can't parse that properly (noteably Outlook). =) Shouldn't qmail-inject use the same headers found in the message? Since CRLF's are required when sending via SMTP, it makes sense that qmail-inject should support that. Or am I missing something? Cheers, Alex
Re: Bogus popularity claims for Sendmail
Russell Nelson writes: arrange with some Internet provider to put a traffic analyzer somewhere on their backbone, There's a huge amount of mail that doesn't cross any backbones. There's also a huge amount of mail that isn't sent by ISP mail servers: for example, deliveries from dedicated ezmlm machines. Furthermore, every ISP is different. An ISP with more experienced users will have more communications with UNIX machines. ---Dan
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Re: TCPSERVER logs :
"Alex Kramarov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking , why do alot of people here mention running tcpserver with multilog and storing it's logs apart from qmail logs: Because things work that way. This is what I use for the startup string for tcpserver /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /usr/sbin/relaylock /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /var/log/qmail/current 21 This makes tcpserver always log to the same file. After it has run for a while, multilog will have renamed that file from "current" to "@4000..." and created a new "current" file, but tcpserver won't use the new current file unless you kill it and restart it. Eventually, if tcpserver runs long enough, multilog will rotate the original "current" out of existence, and you won't be able to see new tcpserver log entries. I have to rewrite the FROM field from messages I recieve through smtp. The header field, or the envelope sender? paul
Re: A firestorm of protest?
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:02:38AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: and possibly qmail-scanner ( with the option to disable it if not needed). After last nights virus fiasco on this list, is there anyone who doesn't think it might be a welcome addition to a standard qmail install? : ) Yep: me. Which is worse, 20 messages sent to a list with the same virus, or 20 messages sent to a list with the same virus followed by 20*N warning messages from N friendly virus scanners around the world? I'd just like to point out that you can't blame Qmail-Scanner for that. Qmail-Scanner *NEVER* sends "your message was infected" messages to mailing-lists. It explicitly looks for signs that the message is from a list (-owner|-return|Precedence: junk, etc) and if found only Email's the Qmail-Scanner administrator. Others (esp. commercial) bore us silly with their alerts... -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
Help for the new guy.
Hi ya'll. Glad I found somewhere for help for qmail =) I just got my first computer and got freebsd 4.4 setup on it. When trying to recieve messages through 110 I get: -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir I have checked the archives for this error, and all I could find was the procedure maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir/ /usr/home/chandler/.qmail which I have done, but I still see the error. I'm not entirely sure what additional information you need, but please let me know. I'm pretty pleased with myself that I've gotten this far, but I'm not sure what could be the problem. I can send mail with no errors. I'm using inetd instead of tcpwrapper, because I don't understand what tcp wrapper does. I hope that doesn't make too much of a difference. time to change classes. Thank you for your help, Chandler PS - I've already heard, from a million people, that I should try an OS that's not unix for my first computer. I don't need anymore suggestions like that. =)
Re: Re: TCPSERVER logs :
After it has run for a while, multilog will have renamed that file from "current" to"@4000..." and created a new "current" file, but tcpserver won't usethe new current file unless you kill it and restart it. Eventually,if tcpserver runs long enough, multilog will rotate the original"current" out of existence, and you won't be able to see new tcpserverlog entries. Thanks for the multilog tip - when the log rotates the logging really stops. I was using 10 MB files, so didn't pick it up fast. I have to rewrite the FROM field from messages I recieve through smtp.The header field, or the envelope sender? I believe it's the header field - the recipient has to recieve the mail with a rewritten header. Alex __IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
qmail-print-queue
I have created a small script to print the qmail queue contents - it runs on all messages and displayes the from:, to: and date: headers; can also dump the full header of the message if ran with "-h" switch (if mess822 is properly installed). It seems kind of useful in conjunction with monitoring tools like qmail-mrtg and others, considering that i didn't find such script in other places. http://192.117.170.66/qpq.tar Comments and suggestions are welcome. Alex. __IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: Help for the new guy.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chandler wrote: I just got my first computer and got freebsd 4.4 setup on it. HUH? You a time traveler or something? FreeBSD-stable is currently 4.2. I wouldn't run a development or beta OS on a production server. I'm going to assume this is a typo. -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir From my expereience, this indicates that the homedir and/or Maildir directories either do not exist, or have improper permissions/ownership. It could also mean that the qpop3d is not running as the user in question. - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Re: @home.com mail servers...
Howdy, I am having the same trouble and working with the folks at Excite on this. They have some anti-spam software which appears to have been triggered and so it is blocking connectivity to all their MX hosts from the "offending" IP address. Other IP addresses on the network are fine. I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation of this as of yet. The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. I'll let you know what I find out. Bill
Mail server madness (with regards to domain names)
Hello, lately, outside (non-local) SMTP servers have begun to go crazy. For example, I have a standard entry in my qmail virtualdomains file for all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it goes to the user scode. But if I attempt to send an E-Mail from an outside source (a few have been tried) to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the SMTP server making the final delivery suddently goes mad and does an RCTP [EMAIL PROTECTED]! What might cause this? I even changed "scode" back from being a CNAME to being an A record in the DNS configuration, in case that was the cause. Note, my main address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" works fine. mail.infidyne.com is the MX for the domain. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The strange part is that we didn't have this problem earlier. Thank you, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://scode.infidyne.com
Re: Help for the new guy.
ah, ok. Mah bad for not supplying enough information. And it was my typo.. freebsd 4.2 is what I installed, although the time machine is in the works. This is what I have in inetd.conf: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup solidst8.org/usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir results of 'cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail' su-2.03# cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail ./Maildir/ ps reuslts for qmail qmails60989 0.0 0.3 880 436 p3- ISun03PM 0:00.20 qmail-send qmaill60990 0.0 0.3 836 392 p3- ISun03PM 0:00.03 splogger qmail root 60991 0.0 0.3 836 360 p3- ISun03PM 0:00.02 qmail-lspawn |preline procmail qmailr60992 0.0 0.3 836 408 p3- ISun03PM 0:00.01 qmail-rspawn qmailq60993 0.0 0.3 824 372 p3- ISun03PM 0:00.02 qmail-clean I also just noticed that I failed to set up an mx record for mail... I'm sure that causes some issue.. but it wouldn't be the reason for the error would it? thanks Chandler
Re: Help for the new guy.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chandler wrote: ah, ok. Mah bad for not supplying enough information. And it was my typo.. freebsd 4.2 is what I installed, although the time machine is in the works. Ah, well let us know when it is working then. :) This is what I have in inetd.conf: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup solidst8.org/usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Looks OK to me, although we use tcpserver here and I've never tried to use qpop3d from inetd. permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir What are the perms on the homedir itself, and what about the subdirectories of Maildir? results of 'cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail' su-2.03# cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail ./Maildir/ Why have a .qmail file? Or do you not have Maildir as your default delivery mechanism? I also just noticed that I failed to set up an mx record for mail... I'm sure that causes some issue.. but it wouldn't be the reason for the error would it? Doubtful. Jamin - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Re: Mail server madness (with regards to domain names)
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:47:34PM -0500, Peter Schuller wrote: What might cause this? I even changed "scode" back from being a CNAME to being an A record in the DNS configuration, in case that was the cause. Try creating an MX for scode.infidyne.com. RC -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis Telecom - Engenharia ISP / Rede Tcnica | P. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7 E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 2 1010 - Fax: +351 2 1010 4459 PGP signature
Re: Mail server madness (with regards to domain names)
CNAMEs are a bad thing for email. Check the discussion in THOUGHTS. Change your DNS so that scode is an A rather than a CNAME and the remote MTAs won't bother doing the re-writing. Regards. On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:47:34PM -0500, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, lately, outside (non-local) SMTP servers have begun to go crazy. For example, I have a standard entry in my qmail virtualdomains file for all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it goes to the user scode. But if I attempt to send an E-Mail from an outside source (a few have been tried) to, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], the SMTP server making the final delivery suddently goes mad and does an RCTP [EMAIL PROTECTED]! What might cause this? I even changed "scode" back from being a CNAME to being an A record in the DNS configuration, in case that was the cause. Note, my main address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" works fine. mail.infidyne.com is the MX for the domain. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The strange part is that we didn't have this problem earlier. Thank you, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://scode.infidyne.com
Re: Help for the new guy.
This is what I have in inetd.conf: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd pop3stream tcp nowait root/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup solidst8.org/usr/local/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Looks OK to me, although we use tcpserver here and I've never tried to use qpop3d from inetd. Hrmm... ok, does anyone use inetd for it? I use inetd for a lot of other stuff, so I chose to stick with it. permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir What are the perms on the homedir itself, and what about the subdirectories of Maildir? /usr/home/chandler drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 chandler /usr/home/chandler/Maildir drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 .. -rw--- 1 root chandler 537 Jan 17 11:22 chandler drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 cur drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 new drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 tmp results of 'cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail' su-2.03# cat /usr/home/chandler/.qmail ./Maildir/ Why have a .qmail file? Or do you not have Maildir as your default delivery mechanism? Eh, my install and config of qmail went somehting like this... I downloaded all the binaries I found that I neededuntarred them, and started with INSTALL from the qmail docs. I don't recall wether or not I set Maildir to be default or not. Mostly, I assumed that as long as I changed as little as I could, I'd be ok... That doesn't appear to be the case anymore. I also just noticed that I failed to set up an mx record for mail... I'm sure that causes some issue.. but it wouldn't be the reason for the error would it? Doubtful. Didn't think so. Chandler
Re: Mail server madness (with regards to domain names)
* Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 21:59]: CNAMEs are a bad thing for email. Check the discussion in THOUGHTS. Change your DNS so that scode is an A rather than a CNAME and the remote MTAs won't bother doing the re-writing. ...and don't test it again until the CNAME is gone (it's time to live expired) as tests from remote machines will find the CNAMES for another while after you update your DNS. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Help for the new guy.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chandler wrote: Hrmm... ok, does anyone use inetd for it? I use inetd for a lot of other stuff, so I chose to stick with it. I don't think inetd is your problem, after all, the connetion is being opened. permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir What are the perms on the homedir itself, and what about the subdirectories of Maildir? /usr/home/chandler drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 chandler /usr/home/chandler/Maildir drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 .. -rw--- 1 root chandler 537 Jan 17 11:22 chandler drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 cur drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 new drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 tmp Hmmm, you do realize that qpop3d runs as the user, not root? Look at the ownership of the new, cur and tmp directories. Change them to chandler, not root. This should fix the problem. Also, what's the chandler dir for? Eh, my install and config of qmail went somehting like this... I downloaded all the binaries I found that I neededuntarred them, and started with INSTALL from the qmail docs. I don't recall wether or not I set Maildir to be default or not. Mostly, I assumed that as long as I changed as little as I could, I'd be ok... That doesn't appear to be the case anymore. Was just curious. It seemed like it might be redundant. Jamin - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Re: Help for the new guy.
* Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 22:06]: permissions of Maildir: drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 Maildir What are the perms on the homedir itself, and what about the subdirectories of Maildir? /usr/home/chandler drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 chandler /usr/home/chandler/Maildir drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 .. -rw--- 1 root chandler 537 Jan 17 11:22 chandler drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 cur drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 new drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 tmp There you go... do chown -R chandler.chandler ~chandler/Maildir chmod -R 700 ~chandler/Maildir -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
mailing list
I have been having trouble when trying to send out emails to mailing lists in qmail. The local users get teh email fine but the mailing list gets the error I show below. I have all of the permissions correct (as you can see below) and I have recompiled qmail several times. Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions! Local users actually get the mail and the .qmail's are in the same directory as the mailing lists .qmails Thanks, James Clark - Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.882956 info msg 361545: bytes 684 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 16680 uid 1005 Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.892269 starting delivery 94: msg 361545 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.892562 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.964965 delivery 94: deferral: ezmlm-send:_fatal:_temporary_qmail-queue_error:_qq_trouble_in_home_directory _(#4.3.0)/ Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.965300 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 --- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9152 Jan 16 22:06 bouncesaying -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15244 Jan 16 22:06 condredirect -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 128 Jan 16 22:06 datemail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 115 Jan 16 22:06 elq -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9088 Jan 16 22:06 except -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 14220 Jan 16 22:06 forward -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 17 13:14 jic -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 18988 Jan 16 22:06 maildir2mbox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 8764 Jan 16 22:06 maildirmake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 17128 Jan 16 22:06 maildirwatch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 180 Jan 16 22:06 mailsubj -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 116 Jan 16 22:06 pinq -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 12860 Jan 16 22:06 predate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 13048 Jan 16 22:06 preline -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 116 Jan 16 22:06 qail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11716 Jan 16 22:06 qbiff -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 10132 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-clean -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 5760 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-getpw -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 34396 Jan 16 22:06 qmail- inject -rws--x--x 1 qmailq qmail 12612 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-queue -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 24808 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-remote -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 13348 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-rspawn -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 39204 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-send -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 15796 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-showctl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 25820 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-smtpd -rwx-- 1 root qmail 5524 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-start -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9152 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-tcpok -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 10260 Jan 16 22:06 qmail-tcpto -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 21468 Jan 16 22:06 qreceipt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 11216 Jan 16 22:06 qsmhook -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 9460 Jan 16 22:06 sendmail -rwx--x--x 1 root qmail 6416 Jan 16 22:06 splogger -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 17016 Jan 16 22:06 tcp-env
Re: @home.com mail servers... ~ FIX...
An entry into 'smtproutes' will take care of that (or at least it did for me) home.com:[24.2.2.194] That's it... Jesse : Howdy, : : I am having the same trouble and working with the folks at Excite on : this. They have some anti-spam software which appears to have been : triggered and so it is blocking connectivity to all their MX hosts : from the "offending" IP address. Other IP addresses on the network : are fine. : : I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is : triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation : of this as of yet. : : The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. : : I'll let you know what I find out. : : Bill :
Re: Looking for definitive 250 ok response identifiers
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:57:49AM +, Mark Delany wrote: I've got a perl script (albeit crude and unsightly) which parses qmail logs to determine the distribution of MTAs based on the SMTP 250 response. One sample point. I just analyzes the last day of a large list (a junky one): 47.8% of the target domains are running sendmail, but only 15.8% of the messages were sent there. This is consistent with the suggestion that sendmail may be installed on a lot of systems, but that it's not necessarily installed on systems that handle a lot of mail. What does it show? That making measurements to determine which MTA "handles" how much email is hard. But we knew that already, right : By MTACount Percent PostOffice 16270.7% hotmail 81604 35.6% Exchange 61056 26.6% Microsoft-SMTP 26121.1% GroupWise 11330.5% InterScan810.0% exim 40421.8% Netscape-messaging 27031.2% Mail-Max 370.0% Postfix20770.9% Lotus_Domino4360.2% Maillennium 2160.1% Obtuse 310.0% Imail 19300.8% Mercury 1620.1% sendmail 36176 15.8% cmap 22071.0% WindowsNT-SMTP 2010.1% mmdf1370.1% InterMail 78773.4% unknown 104234.5% qmail 77093.4% Eudora 11070.5% Communigate-Pro 3170.1% usa.net34411.5% By Domain Count Percent Communigate-Pro 1030.5% Eudora 5272.6% Exchange 12976.4% GroupWise 5082.5% Imail 8434.2% InterMail 1921.0% InterScan580.3% Lotus_Domino1680.8% Mail-Max 280.1% Maillennium 80.0% Mercury 1210.6% Microsoft-SMTP 1050.5% Netscape-messaging 2381.2% Obtuse 230.1% PostOffice 4862.4% Postfix 4582.3% WindowsNT-SMTP 1010.5% cmap2921.4% exim 15487.7% hotmail 630.3% mmdf1330.7% qmail 14557.2% sendmail 9632 47.8% unknown17478.7% usa.net 70.0% Regards.
Re: @home.com mail servers... ~ FIX...
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:20:43PM -0500, Jesse Sunday wrote: An entry into 'smtproutes' will take care of that (or at least it did for me) home.com:[24.2.2.194] Unless that's an @home machine that differs from the others, then it's only going to make matters worse as the connections are going to be concentrated on that single server rather than spread acros the MX list. Regards. That's it... Jesse : Howdy, : : I am having the same trouble and working with the folks at Excite on : this. They have some anti-spam software which appears to have been : triggered and so it is blocking connectivity to all their MX hosts : from the "offending" IP address. Other IP addresses on the network : are fine. : : I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is : triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation : of this as of yet. : : The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. : : I'll let you know what I find out. : : Bill :
Re: Help for the new guy.
/usr/home/chandler drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 chandler /usr/home/chandler/Maildir drwxr-x--- 5 chandler chandler 512 Jan 17 11:22 . drwxr-xr-x 41 chandler chandler 3072 Jan 17 10:41 .. -rw--- 1 root chandler 537 Jan 17 11:22 chandler drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 cur drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 new drwx-- 2 root chandler 512 Jan 17 01:23 tmp Hmmm, you do realize that qpop3d runs as the user, not root? Look at the ownership of the new, cur and tmp directories. Change them to chandler, not root. This should fix the problem. Also, what's the chandler dir for? Wow. It never occuered to me. It's working now, sorta. I need to sort out host information. Like, I can send to hades.solidst8.org, but not just 'solidst8.org' I get to learn more about bind now I suppose. Thank you trmendously for the help. I'll try to be more prepared next time there's a problem. Thanks again. Eh, my install and config of qmail went somehting like this... I downloaded all the binaries I found that I neededuntarred them, and started with INSTALL from the qmail docs. I don't recall wether or not I set Maildir to be default or not. Mostly, I assumed that as long as I changed as little as I could, I'd be ok... That doesn't appear to be the case anymore. Was just curious. It seemed like it might be redundant. I doubt I'll have a correctly setup computer for a while now. But I'm glad I know it's kinda redundant, I should fix that too. Chandler
Re: mailing list
* "James R. Clark II" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010117 22:09]: I have been having trouble when trying to send out emails to mailing lists in qmail. The local users get teh email fine but the mailing list gets the error I show below. I have all of the permissions correct (as you can see below) and I have recompiled qmail several times. Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions! Local users actually get the mail and the .qmail's are in the same directory as the mailing lists .qmails As I already asked you on irc, what are the permissions on /var/qmail (and a new question: what are the permissions on ezmlm-send) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: Help for the new guy.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chandler wrote: Wow. It never occuered to me. It's working now, sorta. I need to sort out host information. Like, I can send to hades.solidst8.org, but not just 'solidst8.org' I get to learn more about bind now I suppose. Thank you trmendously for the help. I'll try to be more prepared next time there's a problem. Thanks again. This has to do with both MX records (getting the mail to the server) and the Qmail configuration (letting the mail server know what to do with mail for that domain). The Qmail part is sovered in the docs. Jamin - Jamin A. Brown Systems Operations Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Great Works Internet * 207.286.8686 x142 RSA PGP Key: http://www.gwi.net/~jamin/pgp/jamin.asc
Re: mailing list
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:09:19PM -0500, James R. Clark II wrote: I have been having trouble when trying to send out emails to mailing lists in qmail. The local users get teh email fine but the mailing list gets the error I show below. I have all of the permissions correct (as you can see below) and I have recompiled qmail several times. Did you actually change anything between compiles, or do you believe compilers do their stuff randomly every time they're run? Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions! Nope, if you want the list for help, use it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 16680 uid 1005 Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.892269 starting delivery 94: msg 361545 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.892562 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.964965 delivery 94: deferral: ezmlm-send:_fatal:_temporary_qmail-queue_error:_qq_trouble_in_home_directory _(#4.3.0)/ Jan 17 13:11:54 leat qmail: 979755114.965300 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 I'd say your mlist alias is pointing to a non-existant dir, or a dir with wrong perms. Check ~alias/.qmail-mlist, or users/assign (depending on how you configured things) to check out which dir it's trying to use, and then make sure the dir exists and has the right perms. I'm no ezmlm wizard by any means, but another option is ezmlm's own dir, which may have wrong perms or ownership. RC -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis Telecom - Engenharia ISP / Rede Tcnica | P. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7 E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 2 1010 - Fax: +351 2 1010 4459 PGP signature
Re: @home.com mail servers... ~ FIX...
I tried that one yesterday and it was blocking but today it is. Wonder how long this will work? Since this is one of the listed MX records why isn't qmail trying it? Thanks, Bill On Wednesday, Jan 17 2001 at 16:20:43, "Jesse Sunday" wrote: An entry into 'smtproutes' will take care of that (or at least it did for me) home.com:[24.2.2.194] That's it... Jesse : Howdy, : : I am having the same trouble and working with the folks at Excite on : this. They have some anti-spam software which appears to have been : triggered and so it is blocking connectivity to all their MX hosts : from the "offending" IP address. Other IP addresses on the network : are fine. : : I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is : triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation : of this as of yet. : : The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. : : I'll let you know what I find out. : : Bill :
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Hi. I've written some scripts to start apache, proftpd, qmail and vpopmail under supervise using tcpserver for SUSE 7.0. I'm sending them if its interest for some of you. []s Davi
Help the qmail novice, receive free good karma --
Hey there guys; I have posed to this list before, and I think it got lost amidst much more interesting problems. Below is the problem I am facing: Using: qmail-1.03+patches-18 ucspi-tcp-0.88-1 ucspi-unix-0.34-1 daemontools-0.70-2 autorespond-1.0.0 vmailmgr-0.96.9-1 supervise-scripts-3.3-1 omail-admin-0.96pre10 Here is my problem, I have one existing /etc/passwd (local) user that can check mail via POP3. I have 3 virtual users created from vmailmgr that can receive mail from external sources, but can not check and receive that mail via POP3. My thoughts are that pop-3 - qmail-popup is simply not looking in the correct directory and finding the appropriate passwd.cdb file and users folder. However, SMTP is getting those messages into the correct area, as when I look in the respective virtual accounts 'new' and 'cur' folders, mail is there. Below is what the qmail-lint grabs, I don't care about those users, as they are not to receive mail anyway: Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): brandon Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): phorum Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): wedding Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): dtlog Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): qmaillog Attached is the output from /usr/bin/qmail-showctl, maillog, and the vmailmgr current log. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them! Cheers, Sean maillog.txt Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.388722 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.393061 tcpserver: pid 6887 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.399613 tcpserver: ok 6887 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50092 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.519014 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.523837 tcpserver: pid 6888 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.529281 tcpserver: ok 6888 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50093 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.561424 tcpserver: status: 3/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.564439 tcpserver: pid 6889 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.571434 tcpserver: ok 6889 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50094 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.787282 tcpserver: end 6889 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.789960 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.819340 tcpserver: end 6888 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.820346 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.886436 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.891359 tcpserver: pid 6894 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.896758 tcpserver: ok 6894 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50095 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.940682 tcpserver: end 6887 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.943408 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:23 www pop-3: 979768523.995205 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768523.52 tcpserver: pid 6895 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.005312 tcpserver: ok 6895 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50096 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.019776 tcpserver: end 6894 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.020795 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.203927 tcpserver: end 6895 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.206656 tcpserver: status: 0/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.247062 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.251885 tcpserver: pid 6896 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.258552 tcpserver: ok 6896 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50097 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.284910 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.287931 tcpserver: pid 6897 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.293305 tcpserver: ok 6897 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50098 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.378845 tcpserver: end 6896 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.382067 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.449629 tcpserver: end 6897 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:24 www pop-3: 979768524.452553 tcpserver: status: 0/20 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.027461 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.032246 tcpserver: pid 6912 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.037548 tcpserver: ok 6912 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50101 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.125441 tcpserver: status: 2/20 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.132936 tcpserver: pid 6913 from 24.113.51.254 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.138795 tcpserver: ok 6913 :64.69.78.221:110 :24.113.51.254::50102 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.295274 tcpserver: end 6913 status 256 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.298127 tcpserver: status: 1/20 Jan 17 13:55:52 www pop-3: 979768552.421925
Re: smtp to 371.net
Quoting Henning Brauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:33:06AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dnsmx 371.net gives mx.371.net, so this one is reachable from outside. I meant that "smtp.371.net" might be an internal-only mail relay. Any host named "mx\d" is probably a publically-reachable MX. This is speculation. As mx.371.net is a MX for this domain it must be reachable from outside. For the others we don't have any information. I could have sworn that's what he said, in essence, especially as he qualified his statement with "might." Why quibble over semantics? There's high-enough SNR as it is, and you relatively recent subscribers need to stop arguing all the damn time, please. Aaron
Open relay access based on domain
Hi, I need to allow open relay on my mail server for a certain domain eg: *.somedomain.com. tcpserver does not seem to support domain names is there some other way that I can do this? cheers, Bjorn -- Bjorn Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manux Solutions Ltd Ph +64 3 343 2031 Fax +64 3 343 3064 Level 1, 39 Leslie Hills Drive, Riccarton PO Box 3074 Christchurch
Re: @home.com mail servers...
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:39:09PM -0500, Bill Nugent wrote: I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation of this as of yet. The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. I'll let you know what I find out. Please do keep us informed! The mail we send out is legit and they certainly have the option to opt out. Jesse: very sneaky! :) -- ./mk
Re: need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail installed..
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:02:53PM -, Gonalo Gomes wrote: need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail installed.. Is there something wrong with the step-by-step instructions in the "INSTALL" file which is included with the Qmail source? I've found them to be quite useful. Sean -- "I'll thrash you like a Netscape process on a machine with 640K." -- John Shipman, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous [EMAIL PROTECTED] tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Re: Open relay access based on domain
Bjorn Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to allow open relay on my mail server for a certain domain eg: *.somedomain.com. tcpserver does not seem to support domain names is there some other way that I can do this? You should be able to use =.somedomain.com:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" with the latest version of tcpserver. Earlier versions didn't support this without a patch. -ScottG.
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:21:53AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: [snip] Thanks for catching and fixing this bug. I'm glad *you* knew that you can't call connect twice on the same socket. Actually you can, but only under specific circumstances, being: the first connect being done nonblocked and not having reached a final state (either connected or failed), and the second connect being to the exact same host and port. So much for educational value. Glad it got fixed. Greetz, Peter.
Re: Help the qmail novice, receive free good karma --
remember, whichever password checker you use has to be passed the folder for qmail-pop3d to look in. so, if you are using djb's checkpassword program, it will not be able to auth the virtual users. I have very little experience with vmailmgr, but if there is a pop password checker in that package, make sure that you use that. otherwise, code one out similar to vpopmail that will pass the correct directory and uid/gid numbers. qmail-pop3d will try to look in whatever folder it is told as the user it is told by the password checker, so you may want to verify your permissions. -- *** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Administrator National Support Center, LLC Naperville, Illinois, USA *** On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sean Coyle wrote: Hey there guys; I have posed to this list before, and I think it got lost amidst much more interesting problems. Below is the problem I am facing: Using: qmail-1.03+patches-18 ucspi-tcp-0.88-1 ucspi-unix-0.34-1 daemontools-0.70-2 autorespond-1.0.0 vmailmgr-0.96.9-1 supervise-scripts-3.3-1 omail-admin-0.96pre10 Here is my problem, I have one existing /etc/passwd (local) user that can check mail via POP3. I have 3 virtual users created from vmailmgr that can receive mail from external sources, but can not check and receive that mail via POP3. My thoughts are that pop-3 - qmail-popup is simply not looking in the correct directory and finding the appropriate passwd.cdb file and users folder. However, SMTP is getting those messages into the correct area, as when I look in the respective virtual accounts 'new' and 'cur' folders, mail is there. Below is what the qmail-lint grabs, I don't care about those users, as they are not to receive mail anyway: Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): brandon Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): phorum Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): wedding Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): dtlog Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): qmaillog Attached is the output from /usr/bin/qmail-showctl, maillog, and the vmailmgr current log. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them! Cheers, Sean Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
New version of vmailadmin
Hi guys, I have released a new version of vmailadmin. Vmailadmin is a qmailadmin like application, but is more "usable" by now. It's getting quite stable and might be worth a look. Now there also german templates. Future improvements will be done. You can check it at http://vmailadmin.sourceforge.net Thanks, []s Davi
Help diagnosing problem
I've got a DOS command-line mailer in use throughout my network. I set up qmail to run as an smtp relay for the email being produced from this mailer, qmail-smtpd was barfing with status 256 whenever it received an email. After a little research/help from the list I included fixcrio in my qmail-smtpd command line, and that partly fixed the problem. This mailer can either parse header information from a text file, using a command line option, or you can use command line options to set all of the header information. Here's the rub: when I parse the information from a text file, all is well; when I use the command line options, all the recipient gets is a completely empty email, no From:, no Subject:, etc. Can anyone help me with a little direction on diagnosing exactly what's going on here, and how to resolve it? I appreciate any help you can provide.
How to remove a email from a mailbox
Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
pop3 question!
Is it the pop3 will remove all the emails from the mailbox after all emails were downloaded to the local mailbox or pop3 daemon will delete email by email after each email was downloaded? thanks
Re: Help diagnosing problem
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:58:42PM -0800, Boz Crowther wrote: Can anyone help me with a little direction on diagnosing exactly what's going on here, and how to resolve it? I appreciate any help you can provide. The ucspi-tcp package contains a program "recordio". You may want to plug it in before the invocation of qmail-smtpd (just like fixcrio). recordio will write everything that passes through it to the logfile, so you can see whats beeing received and sent. \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.
Fw: @home.com mail servers... ~ FIX...
Thanks, that worked.. ;) Earthlink.net is another one doing the same thing. I also added them to smtproutes which resolved the problem.. earthlink.net:[207.217.120.28] --JT - Original Message - From: "Jesse Sunday" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Bill Nugent" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:20 PM Subject: Re: @home.com mail servers... ~ FIX... An entry into 'smtproutes' will take care of that (or at least it did for me) home.com:[24.2.2.194] That's it... Jesse : Howdy, : : I am having the same trouble and working with the folks at Excite on : this. They have some anti-spam software which appears to have been : triggered and so it is blocking connectivity to all their MX hosts : from the "offending" IP address. Other IP addresses on the network : are fine. : : I am guessing that qmail's habit of opening multiple SMTP sessions is : triggering their anti-spam software but I have not received confirmation : of this as of yet. : : The problem started either Jan 10th or 11th for me. : : I'll let you know what I find out. : : Bill :
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
1) use an editor to see how many of the lines at the top of the file you want to keep, say for example 30 2) # head -n 30 mail_file_name foo 3) # mv -f foo mail_file_name --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: pop3 question!
The POP daemon will only remove messages when told to do so by the user's email client software. Eudora, for example, tells the server to delete each message after it has been downloaded. The client software can opt to not delete the messages at all. --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it the pop3 will remove all the emails from the mailbox after all emails were downloaded to the local mailbox or pop3 daemon will delete email by email after each email was downloaded? thanks
Re: pop3 question!
At 10:18 PM 1/17/2001, Peter Cavender wrote: look into imap. imap holds all the mail boxes and messages on the server. this makes it easy for me to check my mail on different computers then come home and POP it all to my machine. :-) for qmail you'd want courier-imap. get it at inner7.com ~kurth The POP daemon will only remove messages when told to do so by the user's email client software. Eudora, for example, tells the server to delete each message after it has been downloaded. The client software can opt to not delete the messages at all. --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it the pop3 will remove all the emails from the mailbox after all emails were downloaded to the local mailbox or pop3 daemon will delete email by email after each email was downloaded? thanks
relay-ctrl
Are there any good instructions on setting up relay-ctrl? I'm having some problems with getting it to work. Thanks for any type of information that may help me, - Lucas Lukasz Gogolewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] SupremeDesigns - Tel: (347) 452-6837 http://www.supremedesigns.com
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
That's good. Or keep the lines at the top and type 9 dd Deletes 9 lines in vi On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter Cavender wrote: 1) use an editor to see how many of the lines at the top of the file you want to keep, say for example 30 2) # head -n 30 mail_file_name foo 3) # mv -f foo mail_file_name --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
????Security Warning : Group Unowned files found :
Hi, Can anybody explain to me what these warnings mean and why do the files(e-mails) with no group appear in a first place and are being deleted??? Tx Peter Jan 17 04:45:14 ebox : Security Warning : Group Unowned files found : Jan 17 04:45:15 ebox : ( theses files now have group "nogroup" as their group owner. )
qmail-remote Address
How can one determine and specify the IP address used by qmail-remote for remote mail delivery? It used the default IP for the host instead of the address for its FQDN. -K "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Another mystery #@[]
Hi I have quite a few of these in my mail.log file. Did anybody see this before Jan 14 06:55:33 ebox qmail: 97947.338776 info msg 8037: bytes 5264 from #@[] qp 15913 uid 508 Tx Peter
Re: Help the qmail novice, receive free good karma --
Matthew and anyone else reading; Below are the processes currently running on my box right now that are directly related to qmail, another thing I am trying to figure out, is if 'qread' and 'qstat' are actually necessary. Also below, you will see the line stating "tcpserver -dHRvX -c 20 -x /etc/tcpcontrol/pop-3.cdb 0 pop-3 qmail-popup www.worldvibe.org checkvpw qmail" this points to checkvpw and is using that for qmail-pop authentication. Also the checkpassword file in /var/qmail/control/checkpassword contatins the line "checkvpw" And the file enclosed is 'run' from /service/pop3d/run this file is used to start up the pop-3 service. root 136 0.0 1.4 1220 448 ? S14:07 0:00 svscan /service root 142 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise vmailmgrd root 143 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise log root 144 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise pop3d root 145 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise log root 146 0.0 1.5 1180 468 ? S14:07 0:00 unixserver -v -- /var/service/vmailmgrd/socket vmailmgrd -D -V root 147 0.0 2.0 1344 600 ? S14:07 0:00 tcpserver -dHRvX -c 20 -x /etc/tcpcontrol/pop-3.cdb 0 pop-3 qmail-popup www.worldvibe.org checkvpw qmail root 148 0.0 1.4 1196 432 ? S14:07 0:00 multilog t /var/log/vmailmgrd qmaillog 150 0.0 1.7 1204 532 ? S14:07 0:00 splogger pop-3 root 473 0.0 1.4 1220 448 ? S14:07 0:00 svscan root 478 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise qmail root 479 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise log root 480 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise qread root 483 0.0 1.4 1184 432 ? S14:07 0:00 supervise qstat qmails 485 0.0 1.4 1176 436 ? S14:07 0:00 unixserver -U -q /tmp/.qmail-qread /usr/bin/qmail-qread qmails 487 0.0 1.4 1176 436 ? S14:07 0:00 unixserver -U -q /tmp/.qmail-qstat /usr/bin/qmail-qstat qmails 488 0.0 1.7 1248 516 ? S14:07 0:00 qmail-send qmaillog 489 0.0 1.7 1204 532 ? S14:07 0:00 splogger qmail root 506 0.0 1.8 1252 568 ? S14:07 0:00 gpm -t Busmouse root 519 0.0 1.5 1212 468 ? S14:07 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 520 0.0 1.5 1208 456 ? S14:07 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 521 0.0 1.5 1188 456 ? S14:07 0:00 qmail-clean Matthew Patterson wrote: remember, whichever password checker you use has to be passed the folder for qmail-pop3d to look in. so, if you are using djb's checkpassword program, it will not be able to auth the virtual users. I have very little experience with vmailmgr, but if there is a pop password checker in that package, make sure that you use that. otherwise, code one out similar to vpopmail that will pass the correct directory and uid/gid numbers. qmail-pop3d will try to look in whatever folder it is told as the user it is told by the password checker, so you may want to verify your permissions. -- *** Matthew H Patterson Unix Systems Administrator National Support Center, LLC Naperville, Illinois, USA *** On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sean Coyle wrote: Hey there guys; I have posed to this list before, and I think it got lost amidst much more interesting problems. Below is the problem I am facing: Using: qmail-1.03+patches-18 ucspi-tcp-0.88-1 ucspi-unix-0.34-1 daemontools-0.70-2 autorespond-1.0.0 vmailmgr-0.96.9-1 supervise-scripts-3.3-1 omail-admin-0.96pre10 Here is my problem, I have one existing /etc/passwd (local) user that can check mail via POP3. I have 3 virtual users created from vmailmgr that can receive mail from external sources, but can not check and receive that mail via POP3. My thoughts are that pop-3 - qmail-popup is simply not looking in the correct directory and finding the appropriate passwd.cdb file and users folder. However, SMTP is getting those messages into the correct area, as when I look in the respective virtual accounts 'new' and 'cur' folders, mail is there. Below is what the qmail-lint grabs, I don't care about those users, as they are not to receive mail anyway: Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): brandon Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): phorum Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): wedding Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): dtlog Warning: cannot receive mail (does not own home directory): qmaillog Attached is the output from /usr/bin/qmail-showctl, maillog, and the vmailmgr current log. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful to hear them! Cheers, Sean Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:
Re: ????Security Warning : Group Unowned files found :
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:02:21PM -0500, Peter Drahos wrote: Hi, Can anybody explain to me what these warnings mean and why do the files(e-mails) with no group appear in a first place and are being deleted??? Tx Peter Jan 17 04:45:14 ebox : Security Warning : Group Unowned files found : Jan 17 04:45:15 ebox : ( theses files now have group "nogroup" as their group owner. ) Those aren't messages generated by qmail.
Re: ????Security Warning : Group Unowned files found :
So I guess the question is why is qmail depositing e-mails without the groupid??? At 12:02 AM 1/18/01 -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:02:21PM -0500, Peter Drahos wrote: Hi, Can anybody explain to me what these warnings mean and why do the files(e-mails) with no group appear in a first place and are being deleted??? Tx Peter Jan 17 04:45:14 ebox : Security Warning : Group Unowned files found : Jan 17 04:45:15 ebox : ( theses files now have group "nogroup" as their group owner. ) Those aren't messages generated by qmail.
Re: Another mystery #@[]
I get them, I think it's user: anonymous when crontab emails the output from a cronjob... I think, something close to that maybe. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter Drahos wrote: Hi I have quite a few of these in my mail.log file. Did anybody see this before Jan 14 06:55:33 ebox qmail: 97947.338776 info msg 8037: bytes 5264 from #@[] qp 15913 uid 508 Tx Peter
Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
it will delete the rest of the emails after the attachemetn, if the attachement is in some part between the mailbox? - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Peter Cavender" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:47 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox That's good. Or keep the lines at the top and type 9 dd Deletes 9 lines in vi On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter Cavender wrote: 1) use an editor to see how many of the lines at the top of the file you want to keep, say for example 30 2) # head -n 30 mail_file_name foo 3) # mv -f foo mail_file_name --Pete On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi, since the attachement has thousands of lines. - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the Mailrdir/new Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox ckh :) - Original Message - From: "Grant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "kh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox cd /home/user/Maildir/new Delete the file that is 12 MB On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote: Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have a email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox. thanks ckh :)
Re: ????Security Warning : Group Unowned files found :
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:15:33AM -0500, Peter Drahos wrote: At 12:02 AM 1/18/01 -0500, Alex Pennace wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:02:21PM -0500, Peter Drahos wrote: Jan 17 04:45:14 ebox : Security Warning : Group Unowned files found : Jan 17 04:45:15 ebox : ( theses files now have group "nogroup" as their group owner. ) Those aren't messages generated by qmail. So I guess the question is why is qmail depositing e-mails without the groupid??? The logs indicate no such thing is occuring. Find out which program is generating those entries and work from there.
remote mail server
Hi, I have two mail servers, the one is located in the same office as my isp data line and is my main mail server, the other is a remote mail server in another part of the country. The remote server needs to be a pop server, all mail arriving at the main mail server gets forwarded to the remote mail server and the clients read their mail off the remote server. The remote server also needs to be an smtp server so that the remote users can connect to that server and send their mail. How do I set the remote server up to forward all smtp traffic to the main mail server? Thank you Raymond
