Regarding catchall
Hi , I have Installed Qmail On RH 6.2 with Vpopmail 4.8.5 in Maidir format. Also Courier Imap 0.36 is installed and it working fine. Now we have the following requirement. Any mails sent to invalid or nonexistent user should go to a catchall mailbox instead of bouncing back. How to do it for Maildir? I tried using .qmail-default with | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail \'\' /home/vpopmail/domains/foo.com/user But its not working. Can u help me in fixing this. Regards, kamesh - This mail sent through http://www.sify.com
How ?
How do you guys support Outlook's Calendar for your windows users ? Dennis
Re: How ?
* Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010123 04:01]: How do you guys support Outlook's Calendar for your windows users ? In a couple of ways. Usually, rebooting helps. If not, the other three R-Principles(tm) of Mircosoft Support Wankers Inc. apply: * Restart * Reinstall * Reformat If by any chance you are instead looking for native calendar support for Outofluck, try this: http://www.openmail.com/ - no it's not qmail. Other tools are available at: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=outlook as per usual.
Patches
Dear AllWe are planning to install Qmail on a production server which will have around 500+ virtual domains. I am aware that some patches need to beapplied to qmail before it can be used on a production server.Can someone please let me know on what are the necessary patches to be applied. I am using the latest memphis RPM's of Qmail, daemontools and ucspi-tcp package. So I would like to know on which are the most required patches to these RPM'sThanks in advance.RegardsSumith
Re: 502 unimplemented
helo sos.ethz.ch 250 QMAIL HOST mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok rcpt to:QMAIL ADDRESS 250 ok 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) After that I said: quit and got a 451 timeout (#4.4.2) some minutes later... Stef -- IT freelancer President SOS-ETH ETH Zurich [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://hoes.li
Re: Rewriting Headers
I have already asked this question here twice without a definitive
answer. I ended up applying the qmail-queue patch and using qmail-scanner
to do what I needed with incoming e-mail. I have disabled most of the
scanning features of qmail-scanner and put a few :
if (/^header-name/i)
{
$_=~s/old-header/newheader/i; }
in the working_copy function , where is reads stdin.
you can find all related info on qmail-scanner and qmail-queue patch
on www.qmail.org
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Subject: Rewriting
Headers
How qmail can rewrite _any_ header of outgoing mail? Is
there some rulessystem to do this?thanksDavid
Gómez"The question of whether computers can think is just like the
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qmail-popup process not starting successfully at boot
Still trying with this one - but maybe it's obvious to someone . When our SUN box reboots pop3d does not start. The when you check mail you get "An error occurred while sending your username to the mail server ..." All other qmail services appear to start - and when you re-run /etc/init.d/qmaild stop/start qmail-popup starts OK. I think that this is an environment/path problem In /nohup.out is the line 'env: No such file or directory' caused by the 'nohup /var/qmail/start-pop3d' command. Any pointers as to the possible cause of this problem would be appreciated. Many thanks The following 4 diagnostics represent two outputs of ps -ef and the two files that 'do the work'. = 1). Here are the processes running after reboot: i.e no qmail-popup process ps -ef|grep qmail qmails 179 1 0 08:36:06 ?0:00 qmail-send root 187 1 0 08:36:07 ?0:00 /usr/local/bin/supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/v qmaill 188 1 0 08:36:07 ?0:00 accustamp qmaill 189 1 0 08:36:07 ?0:00 cyclog -s50 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd qmaill 181 179 0 08:36:06 ?0:00 splogger qmail root 182 179 0 08:36:06 ?0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr 183 179 0 08:36:06 ?0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 184 179 0 08:36:06 ?0:00 qmail-clean qmaild 191 187 0 08:36:07 ?0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/var/qmail/etc/tcprules.cdb -uNNN -gNNN 0 25 csh = 2). Here are the process running after re-starting qmal ps -ef|grep qmail qmaill 344 1 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 cyclog -s50 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd vpopmail 347 1 0 08:41:13 pts/00:00 tcpserver -uNNN -gNNN 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.mailserver.com /hom root 339 1 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 /usr/local/bin/supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/v qmailq 343 335 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 qmail-clean qmaill 342 1 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 accustamp qmailr 341 335 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 qmail-rspawn qmaild 340 339 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/var/qmail/etc/tcprules.cdb -u110 -g103 0 25 csh root 338 335 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmaill 336 335 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 splogger qmail qmails 335 1 0 08:41:10 pts/00:00 qmail-send = 3). #!/bin/sh # # /etc/init.d/qmaild # START BIT ONLY OF Script for starting and stopping mail service # PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin USERID=NNN GROUPID=NNN case "$1" in 'start') echo "Starting qmail local delivery agent..." nohup /var/qmail/start-qmaild /dev/null 21 echo "Starting qmail SMTP daemon..." nohup /var/qmail/start-smtpd /dev/null 21 echo "Starting qmail POP3 daemon..." nohup /var/qmail/start-pop3d echo "Starting qmail IMAP4 daemon..." nohup /var/qmail/start-imapd /dev/null 21 sleep 2 echo "Mail Server started." ;; = 4). Here is the script that is called #!/bin/sh # # /var/qmail/start-pop3d # Startup script for pop3d using tcpserver and vchkpw # exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH" \ tcpserver -uNNN -gNNN 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ my.mailserver.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir =
qmail Digest 23 Jan 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1253
qmail Digest 23 Jan 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1253 Topics (messages 55720 through 55785): Re: failure notice 55720 by: M. Yu 55721 by: Henning Brauer Re: bandwidth monitoring/analysis 55722 by: Michael Maier QMail DOS 55723 by: Andy Abshagen 55725 by: Greg Cope 55727 by: Dave Sill 55728 by: Michael Maier 55730 by: Dave Sill 55732 by: Andy Abshagen 55733 by: Dave Sill 55757 by: Andrew Richards 55762 by: Markus Stumpf 55765 by: Dave Sill 55766 by: Jose AP Celestino 55767 by: Mark Delany 55768 by: Markus Stumpf 55771 by: Chin Fang 55774 by: Russell Nelson 55775 by: Dan Peterson Re: mail loop problem 55724 by: Chris Johnson 55735 by: Charles Boening Re: Problem 55726 by: Chris Johnson Re: POP Toaster 55729 by: Dave Sill 55759 by: Sean Reifschneider Re: qlogtools compile - error 55731 by: Bruce Guenter 502 unimplemented 55734 by: Stef Hoesli Wiederwald 55764 by: Markus Stumpf 55780 by: Stef Hoesli Wiederwald 55782 by: Stef Hoesli Wiederwald listening of defined IPs only 55736 by: Mailing List Address 55737 by: Johan Almqvist 55740 by: Mailing List Address 55751 by: Henning Brauer RFC822 55738 by: Marcio Sa 55739 by: Timo Geusch 55741 by: Marcio Sa 55742 by: Timo Geusch 55744 by: Alex Pennace 55745 by: Marcio Sa 55749 by: Johan Almqvist 55750 by: Henning Brauer 55760 by: Marcio Sa slow connection init 55743 by: Steve Woolley 55755 by: Tim Hunter 55756 by: Steve Woolley 55758 by: Andrew Richards tcp.smtp 55746 by: Joanne Pons 55748 by: Chris Johnson 55752 by: Greg Cope 55753 by: Henning Brauer Load Balancing 55747 by: Federico Edelman Anaya 55754 by: Henning Brauer Rewriting Headers 55761 by: huma.roku.redroom.com 55783 by: Alex Kramarov 55784 by: OK 2 NET - André Paulsberg Re: Pine/qmail/sqwebmail 55763 by: Robin S. Socha Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1) 55769 by: Scott Gifford 55770 by: Keary Suska 55773 by: Scott Gifford Delivering to Courier imap userdb maildirs 55772 by: Chris Regarding catchall 55776 by: kamesh How ? 55777 by: Dennis 55778 by: Robin S. Socha Patches 55779 by: Sumith Ail Special Routing setup 55781 by: Lieven Van Acker qmail-popup process not starting successfully at boot 55785 by: Keith Edwards 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] -- qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail Isn't this supposed to be ./Maildir/ (a slash after Maildir)? On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:13:16AM +0800, Ah Sang wrote: qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail ^ you missed the / here. -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany OK Thanks but i haven't two ip on my server ! Give it an internal IP, and let it map with your Firewall =) -- Ciao, Michael.. We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst Young. They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. If so what needs to be done to take care of the problem. Thanks Andy Andy Abshagen wrote: We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst Young. They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. If so what needs to be done to take care of the problem. Thanks Andy Did they give any concrete evidence ? Greg "Andy Abshagen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst Young. They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. If so what needs to be done to take care of the problem. If you're not running qmail-smtpd under some kind of memory limit (e.g., via ulimit or softlimit) it can be made to consume all available memory. The "Life with qmail" installation uses softlimit. See also: http://cr.yp.to/docs/resources.html For more background. -Dave We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst Young. They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to find out is
what does this mean?
Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.020311 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.032344 delivery 29: deferral: Unable_to_find_alias_user!/ Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.032445 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 what does Unable_to_find_alias_user!/ means?? what can i do to fix this?? thanks// e m ` s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) U r l : http://ems.ath.cx
Re: what does this mean?
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:05:05PM +0800, em`s wrote: Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.020311 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.032344 delivery 29: deferral: Unable_to_find_alias_user!/ Jan 23 19:03:30 server qmail: 980247810.032445 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 what does Unable_to_find_alias_user!/ means?? You haven't properly installed qmail. what can i do to fix this?? Properly install qmail. Also, "server" is a poor choice for a host name. See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt.
Re: Patches
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0530, Sumith Ail wrote: We are planning to install Qmail on a production server which will have around 500+ virtual domains. I am aware that some patches need to be applied to qmail before it can be used on a production server. This is wrong. Can someone please let me know on what are the necessary patches to be applied. I am using the latest memphis RPM's of Qmail, daemontools and ucspi-tcp package. So I would like to know on which are the most required patches to these RPM's You don't need any patches. If you like modifications of some sort see http://www.qmail.org/ and pick what you like. \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.
Re: 502 unimplemented
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:56:29AM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: After that I said: quit and got a 451 timeout (#4.4.2) some minutes later... First I thought it is your keyboard, now I tend to think it's either your telnet of your terminal device driver thats broken. Or maybe it's the TCP/IP Stack on that machine? How is qmail started on that host, what do the logfiles say, what version of qmail are you using, did you apply any modifications, what OS is the machine running, ... As long as you're hiding information we cannot even test the qmail smtpd server. If you want help, provide information. \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.
spell check
Any spel check modules which can be incorporated in web based email system using qmail...
Re: Patches
Hi You mean that the memphis RPM's without any patches are fine to be run on production servers. Regards -Sumith - Original Message - From: Markus Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sumith Ail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Patches On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0530, Sumith Ail wrote: We are planning to install Qmail on a production server which will have around 500+ virtual domains. I am aware that some patches need to be applied to qmail before it can be used on a production server. This is wrong. Can someone please let me know on what are the necessary patches to be applied. I am using the latest memphis RPM's of Qmail, daemontools and ucspi-tcp package. So I would like to know on which are the most required patches to these RPM's You don't need any patches. If you like modifications of some sort see http://www.qmail.org/ and pick what you like. \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.
Re: 502 unimplemented
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:20:56PM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: We use qmail on one of our systems (How do I find out what version it is? Did not install it myself...). Version: 1.03 has /var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 1.02 qmail-send logs "status:" lines. 1.01 supports control/recipientmap. grep qmail-send for it. No other version has that. everything else means 1.00 or an even older release. Regards, Uwe
Maildir in /etc/skel ?
Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir) so whenever I add a user it is added with its Maildir ? (I'm working with OpenBSD 2.7). -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pupeno.com.ar
Re: slow connection init
I added both the -R and -H options and the initial connection lag does not seem to have reoccurred. I will be trying the -R and the -H individually to isolate the problem. However, later in your note, you mentioned identd. I have removed this service from my exposed email and web servers because I heard they were security holes. I also thought identd was only for other hosts trying to id processes on my box and thus figured it was not needed. Could this be the problem? Steve - Original Message - From: "Andrew Richards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "'Steve Woolley'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: RE: slow connection init flys (very fast). After aprox one day, any connection into this server (sshd, telnet , pop, smtp, etc) takes a while to initiate. Sometimes more than 60 seconds -- which of course times out most POP connections. Once connected, everything seems to act normal (connections initiated quickly). Steve, Also take a look at the -R, -H and -l options to tcpserver - these relate to DNS and identd lookups - try using all three (see the man page) and see if the behaviour of the box changes. If so, investigate why - then either leave these options in, or address the issues these options work around. cheers, Andrew.
Re: Maildir in /etc/skel ?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:48:45AM +, Pupeno wrote: Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir) so whenever I add a user it is added with its Maildir ? (I'm working with OpenBSD 2.7). Yes. (But it's an OS question you're asking, not a qmail question). Regards.
Secondary MX
Does qmail use the default queuelife and backoff algorithm for delivering mail to a primary MX when it is acting as secondary? Or does it do something special? Thanks, Travis Leuthauser Technical Support Broadband IP
Re: slow connection init
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:05:10AM -0500, Steve Woolley wrote: I added both the -R and -H options and the initial connection lag does not seem to have reoccurred. I will be trying the -R and the -H individually to isolate the problem. However, later in your note, you mentioned identd. I have removed this service from my exposed email and web servers because I heard they were security holes. I also thought identd was only for other hosts trying to id processes on my box and thus figured it was not needed. Could this be the problem? No. This is how it works: Scenario 1: When your system establishes an SMTP session with a remote system, the remote system may try and contact an ident server on your system. Scenario 2: When a remote system establishes an SMTP session with your system, your tcpserver will try and contact the ident server on the remote system. If the remote system is not running an ident server, tcpserver has to wait for the timeout before proceeding. This is what was happening to you. By using the -R option on your tcpserver, you stop it trying to contact the remote ident server. You do not need to run an ident server, and indeed many people don't. The impact applies to Scenario 1. Remote systems will be trying to contact your ident server when you send mail out. Because you are not running an ident server, they will timeout on that connection prior to proceeding with the SMTP transaction. This is no big deal, but it does add delay to some of your outgoing emails. Regards. Steve - Original Message - From: "Andrew Richards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "'Steve Woolley'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: RE: slow connection init flys (very fast). After aprox one day, any connection into this server (sshd, telnet , pop, smtp, etc) takes a while to initiate. Sometimes more than 60 seconds -- which of course times out most POP connections. Once connected, everything seems to act normal (connections initiated quickly). Steve, Also take a look at the -R, -H and -l options to tcpserver - these relate to DNS and identd lookups - try using all three (see the man page) and see if the behaviour of the box changes. If so, investigate why - then either leave these options in, or address the issues these options work around. cheers, Andrew.
RE: Secondary MX
Does qmail use the default queuelife and backoff algorithm for delivering mail to a primary MX when it is acting as secondary? Or does it do something special? It uses the default queuelifetime and backoff. Note that having a concurrencyremote higher than the primary MX is willing to handle can result in undue delays, because it'll start backing off when the Primary says "No more!". If concurrencyremote is less than the Primary will stop at, then it will run smoother. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SoftLock.com is now DigitalGoods!
Re: Secondary MX
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:20:01AM -0600, Travis Leuthauser wrote: Does qmail use the default queuelife and backoff algorithm for delivering mail to a primary MX when it is acting as secondary? Or does it do something special? All remote mail is treated the same. In fact qmail doesn't really know of the distinction you are making. It's simple a remote mail in the queue that needs to be delivered. If you want to make a distinction, you'll need to set up a separate instance of qmail with a different queuelifetime parameter. There is no mechanism to change the retry algorithm. Regards.
Re: Secondary MX
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:20:01AM -0600, Travis Leuthauser wrote: Does qmail use the default queuelife and backoff algorithm for delivering mail to a primary MX when it is acting as secondary? Or does it do something special? It doesn't do anything special. It doesn't know it's a secodary MX; it just knows it has a message it needs to deliver to a remote host, just like any other message it needs to deliver to a remote host. Chris
Re: qmail-popup process not starting successfully at boot
Keith Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When our SUN box reboots pop3d does not start. [...] In /nohup.out is the line 'env: No such file or directory' caused by the 'nohup /var/qmail/start-pop3d' command. [...] = 4). Here is the script that is called #!/bin/sh # # /var/qmail/start-pop3d # Startup script for pop3d using tcpserver and vchkpw # exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH" \ tcpserver -uNNN -gNNN 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ my.mailserver.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Change the start of that script to "exec /usr/bin/env - PATH=..." or whatever the proper path is for you. That's what the error above means. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: 502 unimplemented
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:49:33AM +0100, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: # sos:~ telnet QMAIL HOST 25 # Trying QMAIL HOST IP... You must have a much better version of telnet than I Here is what I get telnet QMAIL HOST IP Usage: telnet [-8] [-E] [-L] [-S tos] [-a] [-c] [-d] [-e char] [-l user] [-n tracefile] [-b hostalias ][-r] [host-name [port]] -- Justin Bell
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)
Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keary Suska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would definitely be a bug of concern--even sendmail (yoiks!) knows how to handle 0.0.0.0. But shouldn't qmail bounce the message as a possible MX loop? It should, but does not. Putting it into ipme would cause it to. This has been a feature of recent spam, which is probably why it's now an issue. Several spam senders are now having sender addresses of spammer@spamdomain, where spamdomain resolves via DNS to '0.0.0.0'. Eventually qmail rejects the message because it recognises that it's looped around too much, of course. -Matt -- | Matthew J. Brown - Senior Network Administrator - NBCi Shopping | | 1983 W. 190th St, Suite 100, Torrance CA 90504 | | Phone: (310) 538-7122| Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell: (714) 457-1854| Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
Re: slow connection init
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:22:24PM +, Mark Delany wrote: You do not need to run an ident server, and indeed many people don't. The impact applies to Scenario 1. Remote systems will be trying to contact your ident server when you send mail out. Because you are not running an ident server, they will timeout on that connection prior to proceeding with the SMTP transaction. This is no big deal, but it does add delay to some of your outgoing emails. This could easily avoided in your firewall: for every incoming ident-lookup reset the connection immediately. In ipfilter this would be something like: block return-rst in quick on [interface] from any to any port=ident -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: slow connection init
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:05:38PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:22:24PM +, Mark Delany wrote: You do not need to run an ident server, and indeed many people don't. The impact applies to Scenario 1. Remote systems will be trying to contact your ident server when you send mail out. Because you are not running an ident server, they will timeout on that connection prior to proceeding with the SMTP transaction. This is no big deal, but it does add delay to some of your outgoing emails. This could easily avoided in your firewall: for every incoming ident-lookup reset the connection immediately. In ipfilter this would be something like: block return-rst in quick on [interface] from any to any port=ident Or more simply have a tcpserver process listen on the ident port and run "/bin/true" for each connection. tcpserver -HRl0 0 113 /bin/true Regards.
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)
Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been a feature of recent spam, which is probably why it's now an issue. Several spam senders are now having sender addresses of spammer@spamdomain, where spamdomain resolves via DNS to '0.0.0.0'. Eventually qmail rejects the message because it recognises that it's looped around too much, of course. Here's a possible fix. In control/virtualdomains: [0.0.0.0]:alias-devnull And in ~alias/.qmail-devnull-default # Which should throw away all mail to MX's resolving to 0.0.0.0. -Dave
Delete bad messages in queue
Hello. I got a small problem i hope you can help me. A couple of days ago I have recompiled qmail with some patch/third party enchancement/whatever_yuo_want_to_call_it, and the morning after I saw alot of qmail-smtpd and qmail-queue processes running for 2,3,4 hours. I thought that the patch did this, killed all of these processes and kept on, thinking of reverting to prevous configuration in the evening. during the day I have discovered, that I was getting alot of these processed, but only when a certain server was trying to connect to me. I have blocked that server in tcp.smtp and everything went on fine. i only later I have discovered that is was some music lover that was trying to sent 5 mp3 files in the same time over and over again, and his server was sitting on a wery slow link, so I was fooled to think that theer was a problem with my server since I didn't see any traffic to corespond to 5 qmail-smtpd processes. Now I see, that these messages are still sitting in my queue, they are already past queuelifetime, and they are not being flushed with "kill -ALRM `pidof qmail-send`" shoud I do something about them ? __IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
virtual question?
hi i have a question about sending virtually, whatever u call that.. here's the scenario.. I have a server which i got from some free dns hosting like dyndns.org and i want to receive mail on that host like host : hate.merseine.nu i point it out to hate.merseine.nu 123.456.78.910 and now, i installed qmail to 123.456.78.910. btw? 123.456.78.910 is not my primary mail srvr. i just want qmail to pass it on to another server. is this possible? like i want to have a email like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i want to pass it on virtually to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my own email. is this possible? thanks =) curious kid =) e m ` s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) U r l : http://ems.ath.cx
smtp-auth supervise problem?
Hi I have qmail 1.03 running with vpopmail. I patched qmail-smtpd with esmtp-tls and smtp-auth. When I run it "stand-alone" (not supervised) it works perfectly, authentification via vpopmail-passwdfiles etc. when I want to run it via svscan / supervise, I can't authenticate myself. My username/password is always rejected. Any ideas why? it works when I start qmail-smtpd by: #/usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 2000 -u qmaild -g nofiles 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true 21 run-file for svscan (note: the command executed is exactly the same as above) #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true 21 Thanx Joe
Problems with inject and qmail-smtpd
Hi everybody, I set qmail up regarding to LWQ. The initial testing with injeting messages to qmail-inject gives the follwing output and it does not work. qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble in home directory (#4.3.0) In the log file: 2001-01-23 17:03:20.131989500 tcpserver: status: 1/20 2001-01-23 17:03:20.132080500 tcpserver: pid 4044 from ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134806500 tcpserver: ok 4044 ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134811500 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run /var/mail/bin/qmail-smtpd: access denied 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134860500 tcpserver: end 4044 status 28416 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134873500 tcpserver: status: 0/20 Has anybody an idea, what this messages mean? Which owner:group/protection does qmail-smtpd need? Every help is welcome. Marcus -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: Problems with inject and qmail-smtpd
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:37:41PM +0100, Marcus Korte wrote: I set qmail up regarding to LWQ. The initial testing with injeting messages to qmail-inject gives the follwing output and it does not work. qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble in home directory (#4.3.0) In the log file: 2001-01-23 17:03:20.131989500 tcpserver: status: 1/20 2001-01-23 17:03:20.132080500 tcpserver: pid 4044 from ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134806500 tcpserver: ok 4044 ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134811500 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run /var/mail/bin/qmail-smtpd: access denied 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134860500 tcpserver: end 4044 status 28416 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134873500 tcpserver: status: 0/20 Has anybody an idea, what this messages mean? The permissions on your qmail setup are messed up. Run make check in the qmail source directory.
Re: QMail DOS
I was just reading that IBM is porting Linux apps to AIX. Maybe DOS is next... - Original Message - From: "Russell Nelson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Qmail Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:20 PM Subject: Re: QMail DOS QMail doesn't run under DOS. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "This is Unix... 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | Stop acting so helpless." Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | --Daniel J. Bernstein
Re: Special Routing setup
Lieven Van Acker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mail from cust.mailserv MR - dest-mx | ^ | | V | MAILPROCESSOR mail to cust.domain MR -- cust.postoffice | ^ | | V | MAILPROCESSOR So all mail to and from a couple of mail-domains has to be routed via MR to MAILPROCESSOR (Virusscanning, other processing) I can't really tell what you're trying to accomplish. How about describing in words the paths you want incoming and outgoing messages for the various classes of domains to take? -Dave
Re: slow connection init
"Mark Delany" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scenario 2: When a remote system establishes an SMTP session with your system, your tcpserver will try and contact the ident server on the remote system. If the remote system is not running an ident server, tcpserver has to wait for the timeout before proceeding. This is what was happening to you. Not running an identd server need not lead to a noticeable timeout. The remote system should refuse the connection attempt immediately, tcpserver will get a RST packet and an ECONNREFUSED error, and will continue immediately without waiting for the timeout period. The timeout occurs because of firewalls. Firewalls drop the packets intended for the identd server, so the tcpserver never gets the RST packet and has to wait for the full timeout (default 26 seconds, controllable by the -t option). If the firewall is configured to pass through packets with a destination port of 113, then remote servers won't time out. Alternatively, a good feature to have on firewalls would be ``immediately refuse TCP connections to these port numbers.'' I don't know if firewalls typically have that sort of feature. Ian
Re: LOAD-BALANCING WITH QMAIL.
Unfortunately no one did reply to me, so I found some resource on the web and will try to investigate it. Good luck. qmailu writes: Hi Ian, Have you got this working ?? Noticed none had replied to this. Thought I'll get help from you. If you have , can you pls lemme know how you did this. Raghu - Original Message - From: Ian Matyssik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: Re: LOAD-BALANCING WITH QMAIL. Hello, I am writing to this message again. Just to confirm that the qmqp supports round-robin natively. I was reading all about it and did not understand. What I understood is if we keep mini-qmail on the clients and have 4 servers for relaying, we just need to list all servers in /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers and it will load balance them in round-robin manner. If that is true what about if one of the relay servers goes down, will it spoil something from the client side. Please confirm that or give some advice, Regards, Ian Matyssik. Ian Matyssik writes: Hello, I am new on this list but have bin using qmail for 2 years. Now my company desided to expand mail relaying and my task is to find good sollution how to load-balance "qmqp" relays with nullmailer or qmail. I tried to look in the archive and found one thread on that topic but did not understand exactly if there is a patch for that or native capability of qmail allow that. Please help me on that. I just want to round-robin 4 servers for now. Thank you, Ian Matyssik. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Setup of the big relay system.
Hello All, I have a project of setting up 6 qmail servers just for relaying mail to the Internet. Servers are Netra T1 Solaris boxes. And I will have to servers which will generate actual mail. I need an advice from you people on how to design it. I have an ideas but some things like loadbalancing and staff like that is still in a gray area for me. Could some one share their experience on that and on how to make this thing to be fast and productive + redundant. Thank you. Ian Matyssik.
/.qmail files
Greetings, I've just started the process of transferring servers. Not really using the old data persay, but rather just moving from a sendmail system to a qmail system. One thing I have to have is the ability to pipe incoming email for a specified user to a CGI script. I originally did this with the .procmailrc files. Aswell it was possible with .forward files. I've read and am aware that qmail *can* support the use of sendmail .forward files aswell as use .procmailrc files through the .forward files - but personally I'd just assume avoid it in it's entirity if at all possible. So, basically what I am asking is if anyone is aware of a way to pipe incoming email for a specified user to a location on the server. In this case, a CGI-script. Best Regards, Kelly E. Prophet GCN Tech S3
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or127.0.0.1)
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Here's a possible fix. In control/virtualdomains: [0.0.0.0]:alias-devnull And in ~alias/.qmail-devnull-default # Which should throw away all mail to MX's resolving to 0.0.0.0. Are you sure that will work? The envelope details won't mention 0.0.0.0, so how will qmail-send know to use that entry in virtualdomains. (I haven't tested it yet, but I'm about to). -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or127.0.0.1)
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Here's a possible fix. In control/virtualdomains: [0.0.0.0]:alias-devnull And in ~alias/.qmail-devnull-default # Which should throw away all mail to MX's resolving to 0.0.0.0. Are you sure that will work? Nope. That's why it's a "possible fix". I didn't have a handy "resolves to 0.0.0.0" domain name to test. The envelope details won't mention 0.0.0.0, so how will qmail-send know to use that entry in virtualdomains. Beats me. :-) (I haven't tested it yet, but I'm about to). Let us know... -Dave
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RE: smtp-auth supervise problem?
Resolved the problem myself (finally ...): Was a startup-skrip problem: problematic: QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` (-- returns a number on my box) NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" -u "$QMAILDUID " -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true 21 working solution: QMAILDUID=qmaild NOFILESGID=nofiles exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 1 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" -u "$QMAILDUID " -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true 21 Later Joe
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or127.0.0.1)
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Here's a possible fix. In control/virtualdomains: [0.0.0.0]:alias-devnull And in ~alias/.qmail-devnull-default # Which should throw away all mail to MX's resolving to 0.0.0.0. My tests show that that won't work: echo "[0.0.0.0]:alias-devnull" /tmp/vd cat /tmp/vd /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains /tmp/nvd cp /tmp/nvd /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains chmod 644 /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo # ~alias/.qmail-devnull chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail-devnull killall -HUP qmail-send /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote \[0.0.0.0\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOF From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: testing hello EOF qmail-remote returns with rK0.0.0.0 accepted message. Remote host said: 250 Message accepted for delivery and the qmail log shows 980273407.745867 new msg 1112229 980273407.746179 info msg 1112229: bytes 366 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 8502 uid 8 980273407.751043 starting delivery 62: msg 1112229 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 980273407.751057 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 980273467.837834 delivery 62: success: 209.217.125.238_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_980273466_qp_26250/ 980273467.837854 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 980273467.837860 end msg 1112229 Because 0.0.0.0 is not mentioned in the envelope RCPT TO header, the virtualdomain rule does not apply. -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Re: Problems with inject and qmail-smtpd
Marcus Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the log file: 2001-01-23 17:03:20.131989500 tcpserver: status: 1/20 2001-01-23 17:03:20.132080500 tcpserver: pid 4044 from ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134806500 tcpserver: ok 4044 ... 2001-01-23 17:03:20.134811500 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run /var/mail/bin/qmail-smtpd: access denied That should be "qmail", no? Looks like a typo in your /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run script. I *strongly* recommend cutting and pasting the scripts... -Dave
Re: /.qmail files
"Kelly Prophet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically what I am asking is if anyone is aware of a way to pipe incoming email for a specified user to a location on the server. In this case, a CGI-script. How about, in the appropriate .qmail file: |/path/to/cgi-script -Dave
Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)
Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has been a feature of recent spam, which is probably why it's now an issue. Several spam senders are now having sender addresses of spammer@spamdomain, where spamdomain resolves via DNS to '0.0.0.0'. Eventually qmail rejects the message because it recognises that it's looped around too much, of course. Right, but it's a very effective (perhaps inadvertant) DOS tool. If you can generate a stream of 10 messages/sec of these, it's the equivalent of generating about 300 messages/sec --- a great way of turning a puny dial-up connection into a mail server crushing machine. We had a spammer sending a huge number of messages to users at this address (sigh their fake bounce addresses are now getting on each others' list...), which was causing our not-processed queues to hover around 100, which was causing regular messages to be processed very slowly. Since qmail works around this simple mail loop for other address referring to the local machine, it should do so for 0.0.0.0 as well. --ScottG.
Re: Maildir in /etc/skel ?
--- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir) so whenever I add a user it is added with its Maildir ? (I'm working with OpenBSD 2.7). -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pupeno.com.ar I don't know. You could easily experiment and see if it works. However, an alternative would be to modify the machines adduser script (I think bsd uses a text shell script for adduser or its equivalent) and add the maildirmake command to it. === Al __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Special Routing setup
Dave Sill wrote: I can't really tell what you're trying to accomplish. How about describing in words the paths you want incoming and outgoing messages for the various classes of domains to take? -Dave OK, so here I go: There are a number of customers, whose incoming and outgoing e-mail must be rerouted via a central service that provides virus-scanning. As these customers are connected each to various ISP's, and we want to provide the virus-scanning service (and eventually other mail processing services), all mail should be routed through one relay host (MYRELAY), the one I have to setup. The virus-scanning is provided by a third party relay host (PROCRELAY) who will accept smtp-connections from our relay host, process the mail and route it back to the final destination. Incoming mail: 1.any sender: mail sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.mail is relayed to MYRELAY (MX record for customer.net) 3.(after checking that the message is not coming from PROCRELAY and thus has to be processed before forwarded) mail is relayed to PROCRELAY 4.(after being processed) mail is sent to MYRELAY (MX record for customer.net) 5.(message comes from PROCRELAY so can be safely forwarded to customers postoffice/private relay) Outgoing mail: 1.mail is sent from customers private mail-gateway to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.mail is relayed to MYRELAY 3.(after checking that the message is not coming from PROCRELAY and thus has to be processed before forwarded) mail is relayed to PROCRELAY 4.(after being processed) mail is sent out to MX for somewhere.net I hope this clarifies the situation. Because I have to route the mail on MYRELAY depending on where the previous mail-hop was, I think I have to run 2 different mailprocesses, and use portforwarding based on the smtp conversations client host. (there seems no -inexpensive- way to let qmail-smtpd conversate with qmail-send) This way I can use two different routing setups. Lieven
RE: Maildir in /etc/skel ?
Using FreeBSD, you can put a Maildir in your skel directory. I'm not certain with OpenBSD though. -Travis Is it posible to create Maildir in /etc/skel/ (maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir) so whenever I add a user it is added with its Maildir ? (I'm working with OpenBSD 2.7). -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.pupeno.com.ar I don't know. You could easily experiment and see if it works. However, an alternative would be to modify the machines adduser script (I think bsd uses a text shell script for adduser or its equivalent) and add the maildirmake command to it. === Al
qmail-users confusion
Does users/cdb supplement regular users or is it an alternative to them? In other words, if I have a users/assign and users/cdb with a set of entries that doesn't include all valid local users, will mail to one of the non-cdb users bounce? The qmail-spawn man page says it won't: For each recipient address, qmail-lspawn finds out which local user controls that address. It first checks the qmail-users mechanism; if the address is not listed there, it invokes qmail-getpw. The /var/qmail/docs/PIC*2local files say it won't: | Is fred listed in qmail-users? No. | Is there a fred account? Yes. The qmail-lspawn.c code is kind of dense, but appears to follow the documentation. But when I added a dummy user (not in users/assign) to the one system where I use qmail-users, mail to that user bounced. When I ran qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu, mail to the dummy was delivered locally. And when I removed the dummy entries from users/assign and re-ran qmail-newu, mail again bounced: 2001-01-23 15:35:45.521585500 new msg 119332 2001-01-23 15:35:45.522563500 info msg 119332: bytes 931 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 27993 uid 49491 2001-01-23 15:35:45.850046500 starting delivery 2824054: msg 119332 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-01-23 15:35:45.850046500 status: local 1/60 remote 1/500 2001-01-23 15:35:45.874485500 delivery 2824054: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ 2001-01-23 15:35:46.200668500 status: local 0/60 remote 1/500 2001-01-23 15:35:46.824052500 bounce msg 119332 qp 19805 2001-01-23 15:35:46.866002500 end msg 119332 What am I missing? -Dave
Re: qmail-users confusion
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Does users/cdb supplement regular users or is it an alternative to them? In other words, if I have a users/assign and users/cdb with a set of entries that doesn't include all valid local users, will mail to one of the non-cdb users bounce? My experience is that if a match can't be found in users/cdb, then qmail-getpw is called. Does your assign/cdb file have a catchall entry? +:alias:... -- Regards Peter -- Peter Samuel[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development)http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left"
Re: qmail-users confusion
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Dave Sill wrote: Does users/cdb supplement regular users or is it an alternative to them? In other words, if I have a users/assign and users/cdb with a set of entries that doesn't include all valid local users, will mail to one of the non-cdb users bounce? My experience is that if a match can't be found in users/cdb, then qmail-getpw is called. Does your assign/cdb file have a catchall entry? +:alias:... Argh. Yes. I looked for one--I expected it to be at the end of the file. I also missed the part in the qmail-pw2u that says it does this: A catch-all user, alias, controls all other addresses. Sigh. Thanks, Peter. -Dave
Re: unsubscribe rkirby@mylineup.com
I would think someone skilled enough to run a SMTP server would know how to unsubscribe from a mailing list. With ezmlm-style lists, you send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case, that would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sam unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible problem with qmail-qmtpc patch
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:25:44 +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:39:01 -0500 (EST), Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a misconfiguration. I'd rather that the email bounced than it got delivered via SMTP silently. It could be that someone unaware of ... delivered via qmtpd but it is failing to run for some reason. If we fall back to smtp, they'll never know that it's failing unless they're watching their qmail logs carefully. But isn't that a bit in contradiction with the concept of backup MX'es? If the goal is to deliver E-mail securely and quickly, falling back to (a presumed functional) SMTP server fits the bill. If the goal is to use QMTP "just because its there", then Russ' comments make more sense. -- Michael T. Babcock (PGP: 0xBE6C1895) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
Re: Queue
Find the message in /var/qmail/queue/mess, the find for the message id under
queue: find /var/qmail/queue -name 'MSG_ID*' -exec rm -f {} \; or something
similar.
-K
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good with ketchup."
From: "NDSoftware" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:08:09 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Queue
Hi,
How i can delete a message in the queue because my qmail is crashed and my
queue is not cleaned and my customer receveid this message by 120 !
Thanks
Nicolas DEFFAYET, NDSoftware
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Needing to inject ALOT of queued Email back into system.
We got hit by spam bigtime and our server got Very backlogged. In order to get it alive in some form or another, we moved the mess dir of the queue directory to a safe place,(and yes, I now know I should've moved the todo/local/remote dirs too) ran queue-fix to tidy up the mess and restarted qmail. So, the backlog of the server being down for hours is cleared up and I want to put back the backlogged Email in chunks to it can process it without horridly bogging down. Now, how do I do it? I had assumed queuefix would've made it all better, but it just cleans out files from todo and friends not puts anything back. (back to that lesson thing I learned earlier :) So, I'd like to shove the old mess directory a number at a time back into the system and get it processed. There's around 300,000 Email to be processed. (hence why I want to do it in pieces :) Thanks in advance! Greg
Re: Needing to inject ALOT of queued Email back into system.
I'm just realizing what a insert favorite nasty words thing I've done by just moving the mess dir. I eliminated all the envelope information. siigh Guess that's what an 18 hour day trying to deal with 8 mail servers overloaded with some idiot's urge to sell us a Diploma will do to one's brain. (oh, and yes, we've called the RCMP on the idiot, let's hope he can be tracked) (and I've only messed up one of the 8 servers, the others are running exim and are dealing with their overload in their own chugging fashion, one of the servers having around 8 gig of email in it's queue to process) Anyway, I really hope there'll be some way to save some of the Email (try to pull the To: info out? ) Greg
linking /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail ?
I read in a howto that you should link the old sendmail scripts in /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, but i havent got any sendmail scripts under /var/qmail/bin/... Is this right? I cant get qmail to listen to port 25, even if qmail is running.. Port 110 is listening but it closed connection after about 5 secs. All the packages are installed and the scripts are running.. Is /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject the script that takes over sendmails old jobs? Vennlig hilsen Vegard Hansen Systems developer LOGIQ AS Box 268 N-1752 Halden Norway Phone : 69190725 Fax : 69177019 Mobile : 41303033 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
