what first..install checkpasword with mysql, or checkpassword first..
then after success, install again checkpassword but now with mysql.
Re: ipme.c patch
"James" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was recently some talk on this list about about patching ipme.c to add 0.0.0.0 to qmail's list of known local addresses.. and the original poster supplied a patch. However, the patch was only _part_ of a bigger patch.. leaving those of us that aren't familiar with qmail's code in the dark. So.. my question is, could someone please post a complete patch to work around this issue? Or at least a URL to their patch? Thanks. I have put a copy of the 0.0.0.0 patch (the same one I posted to this mailing list a week or three ago) in: http://www.tir.com/~sgifford/qmail/ at http://www.tir.com/~sgifford/qmail/qmail-0.0.0.0.patch That will be its permanent home, so feel free to link to it. --ScottG.
Re: RBL and ORBS
"Andrew Wafula" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I was at the ORBS site the other day and I saw that as from 1st Feb 2001 relays.orbs.org would be deleted. This may seem dumb but here goes :). Now, does it mean that we can no longer use it to check for open relays No, they just split it up, to make it easier to pick and choose the parts of ORBS that you want to use. From the same part of the page that says that relays.orbs.org is going away (http://www.orbs.org/usingindex.html): * relays.orbs.org is going away and will be deleted by 1 February 2001. * Manual entries and netblock entries have already been removed from relays.orbs.org. * Use inputs.orbs.org for single stage relay filtering * Use outputs.orbs.org for immediate filtering of multihop relays. * Use delayed-outputs.orbs.org for multihop relay filtering using a 3-5 day grace period. and also the experimental zones: * manual.orbs.org - open relays tested manually and believed to be blocking the tester. Return code is 127.0.0.5. Updated: hourly * spamsources.orbs.org - direct spam sources. Returns 127.0.0.6. Updated: hourly * untestable-netblocks.orbs.org - netblocks known to contain open relays and which have been proven to be blocking the ORBS tester or who have demanded that ORBS not test. Returns 127.0.0.7. Updated: hourly * spamsource-netblocks.orbs.org - spam source and support netblocks. - Returns 127.0.0.8. Updated: hourly What this means is that you can configure your rblsmtpd to use: -routputs.orbs.org to get only use the actual, verified SPAM relays that ORBS does a good job of finding, and avoid all of their political bullshit. And you can use -rinputs.orbs.org on your customers to make sure you don't allow them to send spam through you as a third-party relay. On the whole, it should be a good thing, even if you hate ORBS. Makes it easier to pick and choose which parts of ORBS you agree with, and just filter based on them. And it makes it harder for people to drop mail that is blocked by the somewhat more biased parts of ORBS (like spamsource and untestable-netblocks) without realizing that's what they're doing. and if so what replacement do we have? Although ORBS isn't going anywhere, the RBL (www.mail-abuse.org) does similar things. --ScottG.
Detail logging of POP3D
With sendmail/postfix + ipop3d I can log pop3d activities like (via syslogd): Feb 9 11:50:48 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: port 7110 service init from 195.168.1.77 Feb 9 11:50:52 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Login user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0/0 Feb 9 11:50:55 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Logout user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0 ndele=0 Can be same output reported with qmail' pop3d? -- TPS more? http://tps.sk
Re: qpop3 keeps alive!
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:15:25AM -0200, Ari Arantes Filho mumbled: env - PATH="$PATH" svscan echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid You are getting the pid of the env program. You must start svscan without a wrapper like env in order to get echo $! to work. /Martin
Re: RBL and ORBS
On 9 Feb 2001, Scott Gifford wrote: No, they just split it up, to make it easier to pick and choose the parts of ORBS that you want to use. Also I must add to my blacklist the new ORBS addresses to avoid to scan smtp of my servers Thanks for info Piotr --- Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
please help me - newbie questions
Hi folks, I'm new to this list and as well to qmail. I'm supposed to set up a mail-server for our company and I'm totally confused. My situation is as follows: We have am inernal net here with a Redhat Linux 6.2 Server. This server is our DNS, firewall and fileserver, all in one. The Server has two network cards, one with an internal address, say 192.168.1.3, and one with an official address say 24.3.19.73 - this is my birthday ;-) The server is connected to our ISP via DSL and the connection is always open. Now I have to set up qmail on this server and I just can't figure out how this should work. I have followed all the instructions in the source distribution to install and do the minmal configuration. The server shoud be named smtp.uscreen.de for smtp and mail, or pop3.uscreen.de for pop - or should I use IMAP - I don't know. All I know is that the server needs to be up and running on next monday. Can anyone direct me to a poit where there is a good description on how to set up qmail from scratch??? The information on http://qmail.mirrors.Space.Net/top.html weren't too helpfull. All I want to know is - where do I have to set up the mail servers forwarding the mails to other networks - for example if I'd want to send mail to this list from my workstation over our own mailserver; where can I configure the pop-accounts for incoming mail and so on. PLEEEAASEE help me out, thankx in advance, chris +-+ |chris Gnther| | | | Web Database Developer | | Unix Administrator | | | | --- | | uscreen | | Gesellschaft fr Internet | | und Multimedia mbH | | | | --- | | Hofaue 51 | | 42103 Wuppertal | | | | eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Fon (02 02) 979020 - 23 | | Fax (02 02) 979020 - 11 | +-+
Re: RBL and ORBS
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:47:06AM +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: Hello This may seem dumb but here goes :). Now, does it mean that we can no longer use it to check for open relays and if so what replacement do we have? I had said about the mor free time!!! But is this really true, that ORBS has been closed permanently? Not at all. In fact, they are enhancing their service and making it more clear to users by getting rid of relays.orbs.org and serving a couple of other zones. Greetz, Peter.
Re: RBL and ORBS
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:55:07PM +0100, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: On 9 Feb 2001, Scott Gifford wrote: No, they just split it up, to make it easier to pick and choose the parts of ORBS that you want to use. Also I must add to my blacklist the new ORBS addresses to avoid to scan smtp of my servers How do you know what the addresses of the ORBS testers are? Greetz, Peter.
Re: Detail logging of POP3D
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:51:10AM +0100, Tomas TPS Ulej wrote: With sendmail/postfix + ipop3d I can log pop3d activities like (via syslogd): Feb 9 11:50:48 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: port 7110 service init from 195.168.1.77 Feb 9 11:50:52 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Login user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0/0 Feb 9 11:50:55 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Logout user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0 ndele=0 Can be same output reported with qmail' pop3d? No, not easily. Greetz, Peter.
Re: please help me - newbie questions
Start here and follow it step by step. This is the best qmail document around: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html - Original Message - From: "chris Gnther" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: please help me - newbie questions Hi folks, I'm new to this list and as well to qmail. I'm supposed to set up a mail-server for our company and I'm totally confused. My situation is as follows: We have am inernal net here with a Redhat Linux 6.2 Server. This server is our DNS, firewall and fileserver, all in one. The Server has two network cards, one with an internal address, say 192.168.1.3, and one with an official address say 24.3.19.73 - this is my birthday ;-) The server is connected to our ISP via DSL and the connection is always open. Now I have to set up qmail on this server and I just can't figure out how this should work. I have followed all the instructions in the source distribution to install and do the minmal configuration. The server shoud be named smtp.uscreen.de for smtp and mail, or pop3.uscreen.de for pop - or should I use IMAP - I don't know. All I know is that the server needs to be up and running on next monday. Can anyone direct me to a poit where there is a good description on how to set up qmail from scratch??? The information on http://qmail.mirrors.Space.Net/top.html weren't too helpfull. All I want to know is - where do I have to set up the mail servers forwarding the mails to other networks - for example if I'd want to send mail to this list from my workstation over our own mailserver; where can I configure the pop-accounts for incoming mail and so on. PLEEEAASEE help me out, thankx in advance, chris +-+ |chris Gnther| | | | Web Database Developer | | Unix Administrator | | | | --- | | uscreen | | Gesellschaft fr Internet | | und Multimedia mbH | | | | --- | | Hofaue 51 | | 42103 Wuppertal | | | | eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Fon (02 02) 979020 - 23 | | Fax (02 02) 979020 - 11 | +-+
sly spamers feed up !!!!
Hi ! can anybody help to me ? I use rcpthost file and record 192.168.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" for smtp rules This rules work OK ! But If spamers try send message to my network from anywhere I can not block them (only via badmailfrom), but spammer change often mail from: record How I can allow relay only for particular IP addresses except letters to my network ?? Thanks Regards. Kornyakov Yevgeniy ICQ 84686284 TexaKaBank Tel +7 3272 349954
Re: Detail logging of POP3D
I'm using 2 patchs to details the log: qmail-pop3d.1.03-bench.patch -- it logs the POP access and size of the messages on syslog checkpassword-0.81-bench.patch -- it logs authencation errors on syslog If you want I can send you the patchs. I don't remember the original URL!!! Ari On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:51:10AM +0100, Tomas TPS Ulej wrote: With sendmail/postfix + ipop3d I can log pop3d activities like (via syslogd): Feb 9 11:50:48 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: port 7110 service init from 195.168.1.77 Feb 9 11:50:52 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Login user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0/0 Feb 9 11:50:55 gh0st ipop3d[49838]: Logout user=tps host=gh0st.tps.sk [195.168.1.77] nmsgs=0 ndele=0 Can be same output reported with qmail' pop3d?
Re: sly spamers feed up !!!!
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:25:40PM +0600, Kornyakov Yevgeniy wrote: [snip] How I can allow relay only for particular IP addresses except letters to my network ?? You already do so. Greetz, Peter.
Re: Detail logging of POP3D
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:43:50AM -0200, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: I'm using 2 patchs to details the log: qmail-pop3d.1.03-bench.patch -- it logs the POP access and size of the messages on syslog checkpassword-0.81-bench.patch -- it logs authencation errors on syslog Syslog is unreliable. Greetz, Peter.
defaultdomain and defaulthost
we sometimes receive external mails with malformed addresses based on client-sided addressbook entries like Name; Firstname [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something like that). qmail notifies the sender that Name;@webseek.de (which is our domain) does not exist. i would like to prevent that completion to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but i am want to ensure that mails sent locally (by scripts for example) to "username" will still be delivered correctly. also i have lots of aliases like u.sername: username and want those to keep working too. so, is there a way to only disable that completion for mails received via smtp (if thats what is needed) or some other way to solve the problem on our side? thanks wolfgang
ETRN with qmail-ldap
hello friends i am using qmail with qmail-ldap-2601.patch , i have downloaded serialmail package which adds ETRN functionality to qmail ,but all the docs through which i have gone through explains how to use it with qmail (which uses files which resides on the disks for authentication) , is there anyone who knows or using ETRN support with qmail-ldap, please point me towards some links which explains this "ETRN with qmail-ldap" or guide me "how can i implement ETRN fuctionality with qmail-ldap" Thanks Regards Prashant Desai
Re: New Relayhost
Jan Tietjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the future we are forced to use another additional MTA for outgoing mails, wich will relay our outgoing mails for us. How can i configure my existing Qmail that outgoing mails will be relayed on the new MTA, and that my Qmail workstation only sends outgoing mails over this new additional host ? echo ":a.b.c.d" /var/qmail/control/smtproutes where a.b.c.d is the IP address of the new relay host. `man qmail-remote` for details. 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. ---
qmail-smtpd-auth
Hi, I've installed the patch of qmail-smtpd-auth-0.26 and it not working. I'm running smtp with tcpserver: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=20 exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \ /bin/checkpassword /bin/true /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true 21 How can I test it like checkpassword and POP: # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah /bin/checkpassword pwd +OK ...@blah user Frodo +OK pass Friend -ERR authorization failed ???
RE: High MEM Usage??
ps aux will display all the processes and the % of memory in use. Greg James -Original Message- From: Kurth Bemis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:37 PM To: Sumith Ail; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: High MEM Usage?? At 09:34 AM 2/4/2001, Sumith Ail wrote: try free -m -t... don't freak out about buffers.its just buffers that can be overwritten.. ~kurth Hello, We have just received our server which is a Dual PIII with 512 MB RAM , RH Linux 6.2 Box. I have installed qmail on this with tcpserver, Now the meminfo shows cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529530880 364380160 165150720 72847360 300982272 24657920 Swap: 10485514240 1048551424 MemTotal:517120 kB MemFree: 161280 kB MemShared:71140 kB Buffers: 293928 kB Cached: 24080 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1023976 kB SwapFree: 1023976 kB There is hardly anybody using this server...please let me know how can I find out which process is using so much of memory. Kind Regards Sumith
a question
I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03 I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88 when I type "top" I see as following; root 152 3.7 0.5 852 440 con- S 4:17PM 1:38.41 /usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmailqmaild 153 0.0 0.6 892 540 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.root 154 0.0 0.3 860 312 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3root 155 0.0 0.5 876 416 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmqmaill 52761 0.0 0.5 872 504 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 splogger qmailqmailq 52764 0.0 0.5 852 416 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-cleanroot 52766 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmailroot 52767 0.0 0.1 228 112 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/qmailr 52768 0.0 0.1 260 132 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-rspawnqmailq 52769 0.0 0.1 220 104 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-cleanqmails 52770 0.0 0.4 892 372 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 qmail-sendroot 52771 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmailroot 52772 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmailroot 52773 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmailroot 52774 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following; ###qmailsh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail ' ###smtpd/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 pop3d/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir butI couldn't see qmail-smtpd, qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services What shoul I do ?
qmail-pop3d and daemontools
Hi all, I have set up a qmail server following the instructions in LWQ. It works now. I have also added vpopmail for virtual domain support. pop3d runs, but it is the testing stage. I would like to have a comfortable start-up and logging like qmail with svc. My questions as follows: Has anybody included the startup of the pop3d in the qmail startup-skript (the one with start, stop, stat...) of LWQ? How to run the qmail-po3d with the supervise/svcscan of daemontools? Has anybody set this up, so that I don't have to fight with the options? Under which user is it recommended to run the pop3d? Thats all! Thx for every answer! Regards, Marcus -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: a question
At 10:08 AM 2/9/2001, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Yavuz_Ma=FElak?= wrote: well i see that your running tcpserver - and the line seem to be trundacated so its hard to tell what's running. however you included your start up scripts so that helps a lot. :-) did you try telneting to ports 25 and 110 on the machine. those are the standard smtp and pop3 ports. try typing ps -aux for a more detailed report. ~kurth I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03 I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88 when I type "top" I see as following; root 152 3.7 0.5 852 440 con- S 4:17PM 1:38.41 /usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail qmaild 153 0.0 0.6 892 540 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp. root 154 0.0 0.3 860 312 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 root 155 0.0 0.5 876 416 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qm qmaill 52761 0.0 0.5 872 504 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 splogger qmail qmailq 52764 0.0 0.5 852 416 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean root 52766 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52767 0.0 0.1 228 112 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 52768 0.0 0.1 260 132 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 52769 0.0 0.1 220 104 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean qmails 52770 0.0 0.4 892 372 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 qmail-send root 52771 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52772 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52773 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52774 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following; ###qmail sh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail ' ###smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 pop3d /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir but I couldn't see qmail-smtpd , qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services What shoul I do ?
Re: Detail logging of POP3D
Unreliable is better than nothing ;) Please Ari send me patch(es) sources or patched sources... Thanx! -- TPS more? http://tps.sk Friday, February 09, 2001, 1:55:47 PM, you wrote: PvD On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:43:50AM -0200, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: I'm using 2 patchs to details the log: qmail-pop3d.1.03-bench.patch -- it logs the POP access and size of the messages on syslog checkpassword-0.81-bench.patch -- it logs authencation errors on syslog PvD Syslog is unreliable. PvD Greetz, Peter.
Re: a question
yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type as "ps aux | grep qmail" - Original Message - From: "Kurth Bemis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Yavuz Malak" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: Re: a question At 10:08 AM 2/9/2001, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Yavuz_Ma=FElak?= wrote: well i see that your running tcpserver - and the line seem to be trundacated so its hard to tell what's running. however you included your start up scripts so that helps a lot. :-) did you try telneting to ports 25 and 110 on the machine. those are the standard smtp and pop3 ports. try typing ps -aux for a more detailed report. ~kurth I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03 I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88 when I type "top" I see as following; root 152 3.7 0.5 852 440 con- S 4:17PM 1:38.41 /usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail qmaild 153 0.0 0.6 892 540 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp. root 154 0.0 0.3 860 312 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 root 155 0.0 0.5 876 416 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qm qmaill 52761 0.0 0.5 872 504 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 splogger qmail qmailq 52764 0.0 0.5 852 416 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean root 52766 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52767 0.0 0.1 228 112 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 52768 0.0 0.1 260 132 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 52769 0.0 0.1 220 104 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean qmails 52770 0.0 0.4 892 372 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 qmail-send root 52771 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52772 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52773 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52774 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following; ###qmail sh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail ' ###smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 pop3d /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir but I couldn't see qmail-smtpd , qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services What shoul I do ?
Re: a question
At 10:29 AM 2/9/2001, Yavuz Maslak wrote: hrm - some versions of ps i guess don't show extended information. exactly what information are you looking for? heres my ps aux | grep qmail output trinity:/home/admin# ps aux | grep qmail root 187 0.0 0.2 1316 552 ?SFeb06 0:01 tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trinity.usaexpress.net /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir root 188 0.0 0.1 1012 420 ?SFeb06 0:02 /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d root 193 0.0 0.1 988 308 ?SFeb06 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 196 0.0 0.1 988 308 ?SFeb06 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd qmaill 202 0.0 0.1 1004 352 ?SFeb06 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail qmaill 204 0.0 0.1 1004 352 ?SFeb06 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd qmails 10803 0.0 0.1 1044 396 ?SFeb06 0:06 qmail-send qmaild 10805 0.0 0.2 1316 560 ?SFeb06 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 1002 -g 1001 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd root 10810 0.0 0.1 1000 328 ?SFeb06 0:01 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 10811 0.0 0.1 1000 332 ?SFeb06 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 10812 0.0 0.1 992 340 ?SFeb06 0:00 qmail-clean trinity:/home/admin# send me your output and i'll try to narrow it down for ya. ~kurth yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type as "ps aux | grep qmail" - Original Message - From: "Kurth Bemis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Yavuz Malak" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: Re: a question At 10:08 AM 2/9/2001, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Yavuz_Ma=FElak?= wrote: well i see that your running tcpserver - and the line seem to be trundacated so its hard to tell what's running. however you included your start up scripts so that helps a lot. :-) did you try telneting to ports 25 and 110 on the machine. those are the standard smtp and pop3 ports. try typing ps -aux for a more detailed report. ~kurth I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03 I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88 when I type "top" I see as following; root 152 3.7 0.5 852 440 con- S 4:17PM 1:38.41 /usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail qmaild 153 0.0 0.6 892 540 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp. root 154 0.0 0.3 860 312 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 root 155 0.0 0.5 876 416 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qm qmaill 52761 0.0 0.5 872 504 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 splogger qmail qmailq 52764 0.0 0.5 852 416 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean root 52766 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52767 0.0 0.1 228 112 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 52768 0.0 0.1 260 132 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 52769 0.0 0.1 220 104 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean qmails 52770 0.0 0.4 892 372 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 qmail-send root 52771 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52772 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52773 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52774 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following; ###qmail sh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail ' ###smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 pop3d /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir but I couldn't see qmail-smtpd , qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services What shoul I do ?
Re: Detail logging of POP3D
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:23:47PM +0100, Tomas TPS Ulej wrote: Unreliable is better than nothing ;) Not if you're talking about your spouse. --a -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare Laboratories [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a question
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Yavuz Maslak wrote: yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type as "ps aux | grep qmail" How about "ps auxww | grep qmail" in case it's off the edge? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
how to apply psql-patch to qmail source???
Hi folks - its me again. I found the document very usefull so far, but now I wonder how and when I should apply the patches to the sourcetree. I need the qmail-pgsql-latest.patch and the checkpassword-pgsql-latest.patch in my environment and as well I think I gonna use Mail2DB for my qmail installation. I'd like to know if I should try a normal install first or if I should apply all the patches and enhance- ments at once and the do a complete install. Has anyone a tip for me??? Second: I tried to apply the qmail-pgsql-latest.patch to the qmail- sources but I seem to do something wrong because when I do: patch qmail-pgsql-latest.patch nothing happens. In the patch the first line tells sopmething like: diff -ruN qmail-1.03/Makefile qmail-pgsql/Makefile this I don't nderstand because all I have is the patchfile and the qmail- source. Please help again... chris Gnther +-+ |chris Gnther| | | | Web Database Developer | | Unix Administrator | | | | --- | | uscreen | | Gesellschaft fr Internet | | und Multimedia mbH | | | | --- | | Hofaue 51 | | 42103 Wuppertal | | | | eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Fon (02 02) 979020 - 23 | | Fax (02 02) 979020 - 11 | +-+
Strange qmail-smtpd hang with sympatico.ca clients
I have a running qmail-1.03 system (on FreeBSD) and I'm getting a very strange problem receiving mail from users on sympatico.ca I see a qmail-smtpd process and a qmail-queue process for each incoming connection, but these just sit there, not doing anything. I presume they're timing out after a really long time. I used to be running rblsmtpd under tcpserver, and I've taken out both and am now running a (known good) configuration under inetd. Mail receiving works from ALL other domains, but I have never successfully received mail from sympatico under my qmail. Now, at work, the qmail server (which is behind a cisco pix firewall) has no trouble with sympatico things, and I'm thinking that the difference there is that the pix prevents an EHLO handshake. I've recorded a session on the problem server with recordio, and here is the result: 737 220 xyzzy.orange-carb.org ESMTP^M 737 EHLO tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net^M 737 250-xyzzy.orange-carb.org^M 737 250-PIPELINING^M 737 250 8BITMIME^M 737 MAIL FROM:^M 737 250 ok^M 737 RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]^M 737 250 ok^M 737 DATA^M 737 354 go ahead^M After this point, the session does nothing, seemingly forever or for a long time. The socket is still open... netstat reports: tcp0 0 xyzzy.smtptomts7.bellnexxi.6443 ESTABLISHED The question is, why doesn't sympatico start sending data? It has the go ahead... Has anyone else out there noticed problems receiving from sympatico? That server claims to be running InterMail (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) for receiving anyway... Are there problems with InterMail? Any hints? If you want to test yourself it works even with bounces. Just mail to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if you get a bounce back. Colin -- || when we're little kids maybe we need stories Colin Henein || to help us go to sleep. but sooner or later we || need stories to help us wake up... -- Utah Phillips
Re: qpop3 keeps alive!
Ari Arantes Filho wrote: env - PATH="$PATH" svscan echo $! /var/run/svscan.pid Martin Akesson wrote: You are getting the pid of the env program. You must start svscan without a wrapper like env in order to get echo $! to work. His script is based on Dave Sill's LWQ start-up script. Assuming I'm understanding it correctly, recording the PID of the env program is not a problem, since it morphs into svscan. In other words, killing env will in turn kill svscan. Ari Arantes Filho also wrote: # begin -- /var/qmail/supervise/pop3d/run -- #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup myserver.domain.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Here's the real problem. Coincidentally, I ran into this same pitfall myself just yesterday. Put "exec" in front of the tcpserver command in this script. My understanding is that supervise is actually only supervising the run script. The "exec" command tells the script to turn itself into a tcpserver process. Without the "exec", the script creates a separate tcpserver process, which supervise cannot control. ---Kris Kelley
Re: qmail-pop3d and daemontools
Marcus Korte wrote: Has anybody included the startup of the pop3d in the qmail startup-skript (the one with start, stop, stat...) of LWQ? I created a new directory under /var/qmail/supervise, called qmail-pop3d. This directory, and the scripts within, are very similar to /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd. The qmail-pop3d/run script invokes tcpserver using Dave Sill's pop3d script in LWQ. The qmail-pop3d/log/run script invokes multilog which stores its log files in /var/log/qmail/pop3d. Don't forget to set the sticky bit on /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d, and also don't forget to "exec" commands in your scripts (see my last message). Once I set up these directories, I was finished. The standard LWQ start-up script will start and stop qmail-pop3d at the same time as qmail-smtpd and qmail proper, thanks to the wonder that is svscan. ---Kris Kelley
Re: a question
Yavuz Maslak wrote: yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type as "ps aux | grep qmail" Looks like you're running two instances of tcpserver, so this is normal. Keep in mind that it's actually tcpserver that is the resident daemon process; tcpserver will create instances of qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d as needed, when requests come in. For kicks, try making a connection to port 25 or port 110 and then do a process list. You should see an instance of qmail-smtpd or qmail-pop3d running then. ---Kris Kelley
Re: Strange qmail-smtpd hang with sympatico.ca clients
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:47:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else out there noticed problems receiving from sympatico? I have two qmail servers which have no troubles receiving mail from sympatico. -- ./mk
Re: ETRN with qmail-ldap
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:55:26PM +0530, Prashant Desai wrote: i am using qmail with qmail-ldap-2601.patch , i have downloaded serialmail package which adds ETRN functionality to qmail It claims to do no such thing. Read http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html
RE: a question
Look at those lines that start with tcpserver (thats the program you are actually running) tcpserver runs the qmail processes. Looks for the process as you have a port 25 or 110 session open and you will see. -Original Message- From: Yavuz Maslak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kurth Bemis Subject: Re: a question yes I can telnet ports 25 and 110 on the machine but I can't see some daemons which qmail-smtpd,qmail-pop3d, etc, when I type as "ps aux | grep qmail" - Original Message - From: "Kurth Bemis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Yavuz Malak" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: Re: a question At 10:08 AM 2/9/2001, =?iso-8859-9?Q?Yavuz_Ma=FElak?= wrote: well i see that your running tcpserver - and the line seem to be trundacated so its hard to tell what's running. however you included your start up scripts so that helps a lot. :-) did you try telneting to ports 25 and 110 on the machine. those are the standard smtp and pop3 ports. try typing ps -aux for a more detailed report. ~kurth I use Freebsd4.2 and I have installed qmail-1.03 I ' ve installed daemontools-0.70 , checkpassword-0.90, ucspi-tcp-0.88 when I type "top" I see as following; root 152 3.7 0.5 852 440 con- S 4:17PM 1:38.41 /usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail qmaild 153 0.0 0.6 892 540 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp. root 154 0.0 0.3 860 312 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 root 155 0.0 0.5 876 416 con- I 4:17PM 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qm qmaill 52761 0.0 0.5 872 504 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 splogger qmail qmailq 52764 0.0 0.5 852 416 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean root 52766 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52767 0.0 0.1 228 112 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 52768 0.0 0.1 260 132 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 52769 0.0 0.1 220 104 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-clean qmails 52770 0.0 0.4 892 372 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.01 qmail-send root 52771 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52772 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52773 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail root 52774 0.0 0.4 840 356 ?? R 4:47PM 0:00.00 qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail and I typed bootscripts in qmail.sh as following; ###qmail sh -cf '/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail ' ###smtpd /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 pop3d /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup trial.qwe.com \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir but I couldn't see qmail-smtpd , qmail-pop3d and qmail-remote services What shoul I do ?
Re: how to apply psql-patch to qmail source???
chris Gnther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know if I should try a normal install first or if I should apply all the patches and enhance- ments at once and the do a complete install. I would strongly recommend you try a vanilla qmail install first. Something like what Dave Sill has documented in "Life with qmail" at www.lifewithqmail.org would probably be ideal. Once you are familiar with running an MTA (in general) and how to go about managing qmail (in particular), then you may want to consider adding extra functionality in the form of source patches. Second: I tried to apply the qmail-pgsql-latest.patch to the qmail- sources but I seem to do something wrong because when I do: patch qmail-pgsql-latest.patch nothing happens. This isn't how you use `patch`. Read the documentation for patch for more details. However, if you don't know how to use `patch`, you may be in over your head for a qmail/Postgres installation. 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. ---
per domain concurrency limits
Hi all, first off, yes, I'm quite aware that this subject has been discussed at various times during the last couple of years. I am also aware of the existence of Richard's domain-concurrency-patch and of its drawbacks - and its removal from his website... ;( Having spent numerous hours looking through this list's archives and the qmail.org site, I still haven't found any mention of other productive implementations that would effectively limit qmail-remote concurrency on a per domain (or per MX or per IP - either would do just as well) basis for the running qmail-send instance. Is there such an implementation apart from Richard's patch? If there isn't: Is there at least a consensus among developers about the strategy? I've got a couple of ideas of my own and I've come across a couple on the list, but I haven't found a summation article or something of that type on the subject. On his current website, Richard writes that the patch is "not available, better options on www.qmail.org" I can't seem to find those better options - at least not ones that would have the effect I'm trying to achieve. Could you please give me a pointer if I'm missing something here? Cheers, Michael -- Michael H. Ionescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PIKS GmbH, Abt. ITB2, CC-Unix phone:+49-(0)711-911-4236 Porschestrasse, D-71287 Weissach fax:+49-(0)711-911-3188 PIKS - The Porsche IT-Company - UNIX-Systems Competence Center
Re: COmpiling qmail-1.03 under NCR sysr4 (mpras 4.2)
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Jocelyn Clement ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anybody has any luck or experience with this OS. What kind of question is this? Sounds reasonble to me. Why don't you just try and see if it works? Maybe he's got better things to than build/install/configure/test qmail on a platform that might not work well or at all with qmail. Some failure modes are subtle and wouldn't show up in normal testing. ARGH! Indeed. Would it not have been easier to just ignore his question if you didn't know the answer? -Dave
Re: generating bounce list
Brandon Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sending out a bunch of emails and would like to generate a list usernames whose mail bounces. Does Qmail have any feature to accomplish this? Or is there another way to accomplish this? Sure, use VERP's, and in the VERP .qmail file, append the offending address to the list of bouncing addresses. -Dave
Re: Load Balancing
I have a server called MLM and 4 servers called
MLM1,2,3,4
.
MLM is a central server with Qmail and EZMLM, and the other servers are
the RELAY
Run this to start your load balancing:
perl -e'chdir"/var/control/";while(1){sleep(1);system "echo :MLM${\(++$n%4 + 1)}sr_";
rename "sr_","smtproutes"}'
you might want to change the sleep interval to something higher.
Or change your relays to MLM0,1,2,3 so you can leave out the +1
Multi-level marketing sucks though
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Tools to link qsend log with qsmtp log ?
Hi, (btw I have the daemontools installed) Are there any tools or scripts out there that do the following: - let you type in an email address (from: field) of a spammer - parse through the qmail qsend logs to find the email address, then parse through the qsmtp logs to retrieve the IP address of the person who used this from: field ? -Filip
Re: Tools to link qsend log with qsmtp log ?
Filip Sneppe (Yucom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any tools or scripts out there that do the following: - let you type in an email address (from: field) of a spammer - parse through the qmail qsend logs to find the email address, then parse through the qsmtp logs to retrieve the IP address of the person who used this from: field ? This information is recorded in the Received: header which qmail inserts in every message it handles. You don't need to parse any logs to retrieve it. 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. ---
Getting the most out of Qmail?
Hello; I recently installed Qmail on a dedicated server I want to use qmail to send out email to my double optin list (no spam here) I compiled qmail with 200 concurrent connections and also created the nessecary control files... But it still took 3-4 hours to email my 48,000 members Is this normal, or is there any tricks to push out more??? Thank you! -Rick Findaroo.com
Re: Getting the most out of Qmail?
Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled qmail with 200 concurrent connections and also created the nessecary control files... But it still took 3-4 hours to email my 48,000 members Is this normal, or is there any tricks to push out more??? Insufficient info. Read www.qmail.org -- there's a section on large servers. Then tell us exactly what hardware you have, what kind of I/O subsystem and disk /var/qmail/queue is on, what disk you're logging to, how you're logging (splogger, multilog, etc). 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. ---
Clustering qmail servers
I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct server? Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to server1 and m-z to server2? I've searched the archives and can't find anything conclusive. I do have a perl script wrapping qmail-queue which does some basic mail filtering. I suppose I could alter the envelope "to" address appropriately to send it to the correct machine but I am wondering if there is any more elegant way to accomplish this. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
Re: Clustering qmail servers
Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. Or am I misunderstanding the question. Herbi On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tracy R Reed wrote: I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct server? Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to server1 and m-z to server2? I've searched the archives and can't find anything conclusive. I do have a perl script wrapping qmail-queue which does some basic mail filtering. I suppose I could alter the envelope "to" address appropriately to send it to the correct machine but I am wondering if there is any more elegant way to accomplish this. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
maildirs not at home
Hello. I have been reading over Richard Blum's book Running Qmail and all the docs that distribute as well as the FAQs on the qmail.org and DJB's site and I doubt this is incredibly difficult but I can't find a straight answer anywhwere so perhaps you gurus can tell me... I want to use maildir format for everyone's mailboxes but I don't want to put them under /home ... i want to put them under /mail which is physically on the mailserver (/home is not) and is faster and emptier than /home. is there a system-wide way to specify a default path to a maildir? I suppose I could put a symbolic link in everyone's home directory to /mail/$USER but that seems sloppy and breakable. ideas? thank you for your input. --gill -- This is my ~/.signature file. It is the digital equivalent of a bumpersticker.
Re: maildirs not at home
Hello. I have been reading over Richard Blum's book Running Qmail and all the docs that distribute as well as the FAQs on the qmail.org and DJB's site and I doubt this is incredibly difficult but I can't find a straight answer anywhwere so perhaps you gurus can tell me... I want to use maildir format for everyone's mailboxes but I don't want to put them under /home ... i want to put them under /mail which is physically on the mailserver (/home is not) and is faster and emptier than /home. is there a system-wide way to specify a default path to a maildir? I suppose I could put a symbolic link in everyone's home directory to /mail/$USER but that seems sloppy and breakable. ideas? thank you for your input. --gill Well, since the .qmail file specifies where to deliver mail, and in the default setup contains "./Maildir/", why not just have it contain "/mail/joe_user/" Of course, yor useradd script or whatever would have to 1) create the .qmail file, and 2) call maildirmake with the proper path. And if you have problems, remember how particular qmail is about Maildir permissions and ownership. Also, putting the maildir in a non-standard location may confuse mail clients like Pine as well as POP3 servers that don't read the .qmail file --Pete
Re: maildirs not at home
[gill] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use maildir format for everyone's mailboxes but I don't want to put them under /home ... i want to put them under /mail which is physically on the mailserver (/home is not) and is faster and emptier than /home. is there a system-wide way to specify a default path to a maildir? I suppose I could put a symbolic link in everyone's home directory to /mail/$USER but that seems sloppy and breakable. You could configure your default delivery target (first argument to qmail-start) to be procmail, and have the default system procmailrc deliver to /mail/$USER/ Maildirs, I believe. I don't use procmail, though, so I'm not an expert at that. 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: Newbie: Which Dist Linux, Best?
On 8 Feb 2001, at 12:46, Sean Reifschneider wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:17PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: First off, trying to use a .0 release of any Redhat release is,at the very least, foolish. Are you saying that RedHat 7.0 is worse than RedHat 6.1? If so, you either haven't used RedHat 7.0, or haven't used RedHat 6.1... We have a RedHat-based release (KRUD -- http://www.tummy.com/krud/) and it was on the order of 6 months before 6.1+errata was up to a quality where we started basing our distro on it. With 7.0, it was the month after it was released. No matter what the press is saying about it... I find that most people who are bad-mouthing 7.0 have never even used it... What distribution is the best for a newbie? I certainly wouldn't wave you off RedHat 7.0. My recommendation is that you use the distribution that most of your friends or most of the experienced people in your local LUG use. You *WILL* need help, better to not have any reason for your friends not to help you. Well, I'm the president of our local LUG (http://www.leap-cf.org) and I surely do waive newbies off of Redhat 7.0. Today, we steer beginners to Mandrake 7.2 for desktops. If you are going to put up a server and you are a newbie, we suggest Redhat 6.2 only because the hardening scripts from Bastille work on it but the Bastille scripts do not yet work correctly on RH7.0. Also, it takes quite some updating on RH7.0 to get it so it can compile a lot of things. Something a newbie is probably not going to relish. My suggestions are from experience, not guessing. If you are not a newbie, then it's a whole different game. -- Phil Barnett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ FTP Site ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net
SMTP-after-POP3 AUTH
Is it possible to have users send email only after they've been POP3-authenticated. For example, if I want to send an email, I would have to check my mail first..then for a duration for like 2 or 3 minutes, I can send my email. The reason I want this is because I do not want to have an open relay and my users want to send/check their mail from home. I looked at Mr.Guenter's relay-ctl, but it seems to lack directions. I do not understand how to set it up. I installed qmail according to Dr. Bernstein's INSTALL direction, so I did not use tcpserver (daemontools). Can someone help me out? Regards, Bruce _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
