rblsmtpd

2001-02-12 Thread Raymond Orchison

Hi,

I'm running vpopmail on qmail using ucspi-tcp and daemon tools. I want to
implement the rblsmtpd, I've looked at the links from qmail.org but I'm not
sure how or where I am supposed to implement it?

Thank you
Raymond




Re: MAILGATEWAY

2001-02-12 Thread vinces

Linux writes:

 Hi. 
 
 On my network i have now installed a new server with qmail acting as a
 mailgateway for external mail.
 My real server (with qmail again) was behind the mailgateway, and was used by
 my users for normal SMTP and POP3.
 I have a question:
 1)There is a parameter or a method with qmail for redirecting all the
 mail (but not local domain mails) received from the internal mailserver to
 the mailgateway?

Use control/smtproutes on your internal mail host (the local domain mail 
will be delivered locally if you put the the local domains in 
control/locals). 

 2)And then what is the method to redirect all the mail received from the
 mailgateway and directed to local domain to the internal server?
 There is a RELAYHOST parameter that can help me or not?

On the gateway, Put the domain names you want to receive mail for in 
control/rcpthosts. Put the same names in control/smtproutes with an entry 
pointing to your internal mail server. Your internal mail server will need 
to be able to relay through your gateway. 


Vince.



Fw: WARNING Snowhite (COPY)

2001-02-12 Thread Rembrandt Lensink




- Original Message - 
From: Rembrandt 
Lensink 
To: Tim Hunter 
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: WARNING Snowhite

Dear Tim, Sorry again for the 
inconvenience. It was some wild shooting into the dark, an impulsive reaction of 
somebody new on the NET.` I have found some sites on this matter via 
Yahoo and they literally say; "Dear Friends this is serious shit do not open the 
"hahahasnowhite exe-file" , my bad experience don`t even read the message. A 
reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
is useless.(Has nothing to do with sex).  I receive every day 3 
e-mails of this scat. Best wishes from Holland!

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Tim Hunter 
  
  To: Rembrandt 
  Lensink 
  Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 6:21 
  AM
  Subject: Re: WARNING
  
  You do realize you sent this to a highly 
  populated mailing list and not just an individual dont you?
  Not too intellegent.
  
- Original Message - 
From: 
Rembrandt Lensink 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:37 
PM
Subject: WARNING

Stop sending us your hahaha Snowhite and the 7 Dwarfs E-mail virus 
or we will chase you and attack your 
  system!!!


Re: Selective relaying with tcpserver

2001-02-12 Thread vinces

Abdul Elhati writes:

 hi
 I'm using RedHat 6.2 + qmail + vpopmail
 I'm using 10.0 schema for my local network.
 I want all my local users to relay mail EXCEPT a specific IP address " e.g.
 10.0.0.10 "

10.0.0.10:allow
10.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 

URL:http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcprules.html
  tcpserver uses the first rule it finds. 

Vince. 



Re: Selective relaying with xinetd

2001-02-12 Thread Erwin Hoffmann

Hi,


At 18:19 11.2.2001 -0500, Kari Suomela wrote:
I am still having a problem getting selective relaying to work. Here is 
my smtp file:

service smtp
{
  disable  = no
  socket_type = stream
  protocol= tcp
  wait = no
  user = qmaild
  server  = /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
  server_args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
  env  = RELAYCLIENT=
}


Acutally, this is not your SMTP file rather the section "SMTP" in
/etc/xinetd.conf.

The problem is that this creates a wide open relay. "only_from" doesn't 
seem the right alternative, since it blocks incoming mail from other 
addresses.

Sure ist does in your configuration. Unlike TCPSERVER, XINETD doesnt give
you the possibility to dynamically assign IP-Addresses to the
Environment-Variable "RELAYCLIENT".

How would I properly allow relaying from our local net, and block 
others?

3 possible solutions:
1. Provide those IP-Adresses (to allow relay for) statically by XINETD
mechanisms (man xinetd.conf).
2. Keep your xinetd.conf settings (except for the RELAYCLIENT variable and
use Chris Johnson's RELAYCLIENT patch or my SPAMCONTROL patch.
3. Use XINETD for all Services/Daemons EXCEPT SMTP. Move to tcpserver instead.
Coexisting of XINETD and TCPSERVER is guarantueed.

For more detail see my QMAIL web page: 

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail_en.html


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eh.

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MAILGATEWAY

2001-02-12 Thread Linux

Hi.

On my network i have now installed a new server with qmail acting as a
mailgateway for external mail.
My real server (with qmail again) was behind the mailgateway, and was used by
my users for normal SMTP and POP3.
I have a question:
1)There is a parameter or a method with qmail for redirecting all the
mail (but not local domain mails) received from the internal mailserver to
the mailgateway?
2)And then what is the method to redirect all the mail received from the
mailgateway and directed to local domain to the internal server?
There is a RELAYHOST parameter that can help me or not?

Bye.





client is blocking my mail server...

2001-02-12 Thread Daniellek

On of my clients two times a week sends his "info" letter which is about 300KB
and adressed to ~2000 accounts...

I had concurrencyremote set to 40, but with this setting it blocked my queue
for several hours! (some of receipments are very far from me), so i switched 
to 120 and it's better because queue is blocked for 30 minutes at most, but
i takes all my bandwith...

I'm searching for some solution which could make "private queue" for this
client...
I read something about serialmail, but as far as i read it takes all traffic
from server.

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qmail Digest 12 Feb 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 1273

2001-02-12 Thread qmail-digest-help


qmail Digest 12 Feb 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1273

Topics (messages 56987 through 57028):

Re: Mayor problems with .qmail!
56987 by: Halfdan Mouritzen
56989 by: Vince Vielhaber
56993 by: Sean C Truman
56994 by: Vince Vielhaber
56995 by: Sean C Truman
56996 by: Halfdan Mouritzen
56998 by: Sean C Truman
56999 by: Halfdan Mouritzen
57018 by: Johan Almqvist

Small problem with graphics and qmailadmin
56988 by: Roger Arnold

Re: SMTP-after-POP3 AUTH
56990 by: Steve Kapinos
57002 by: Tim Hunter

What am I doing wrong??? FreeBSD 4.0, LWQ
56991 by: SF
56992 by: Charles Cazabon
57000 by: Chris Johnson

Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts
56997 by: Alex Le Fevre
57001 by: Charles Cazabon
57006 by: Alex Le Fevre
57012 by: Charles Cazabon

Re: sendmail migration
57003 by: Tim Hunter

WARNING
57004 by: Rembrandt Lensink
57005 by: Frank Precissi

Selective relaying with xinetd
57007 by: Kari Suomela
57013 by: Charles Cazabon
57015 by: Jason Radford
57016 by: Kari Suomela
57026 by: Erwin Hoffmann

Re: Clustering qmail servers
57008 by: Henning Brauer

Logfile Turnover
57009 by: Alex Le Fevre
57010 by: Greg White
57011 by: Alex Le Fevre

.qmail-default files and virtual hosts
57014 by: Bruce Dang

Selective relaying with tcpserver
57017 by: Abdul Elhati
57025 by: vinces.xs4all.nl

Re: SMTP authentication
57019 by: Michail A.Baikov

domain blocking
57020 by: Raymond Orchison
57021 by: Ruprecht Helms

rblsmtpd
57022 by: Raymond Orchison

Re: MAILGATEWAY
57023 by: vinces.xs4all.nl
57027 by: Linux

Re: WARNING Snowhite (COPY)
57024 by: Rembrandt Lensink

client is blocking my mail server...
57028 by: Daniellek

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Vince Vielhaber wrote:
 
 On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Chris Johnson wrote:
 
  On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:57:14AM +0100, Halfdan Mouritzen wrote:
   In the .qmail-robot file I've written
  
   |usr/hotel/topdog/WWW/temp/qmailtest.php
 
  Can you just go piping things into a php script and expect your PHP interpreter
  to spring into action to interpret the script for you? Isn't there supposed to
  be a web server involved somewhere? (Maybe you can do this, but it would come
  as a surprise to me.) What happens if you pipe the data into the script
  directly, without involving qmail?

Since PHP is built as an Apache module I recon that it gets
invoked even when I call the script from commend line.
(I can do it anyway)

 
 You can build PHP for command line use, but even from the command line
 the first thing it does is prints some html headers.  I never found a
 way to shut that off, but I also didn't try that hard.  I guess you can
 grep them out but the end result is why bother?
 
The first line of the file reads
# !/usr/local/bin/php -q

This ofcourse tells the server where to find the PHP
interpreter and the '-q' tells it to shut up, 
that it shouldn't output anything to stdout.

Anyway a PHP doesn't output anything if you don't use any
output functions (echo, print, header functions)

// Halfdan


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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Halfdan Mouritzen wrote:



 Vince Vielhaber wrote:
  You can build PHP for command line use, but even from the command line
  the first thing it does is prints some html headers.  I never found a
  way to shut that off, but I also didn't try that hard.  I guess you can
  grep them out but the end result is why bother?
 
 The first line of the file reads
 # !/usr/local/bin/php -q

 This ofcourse tells the server where to find the PHP
 interpreter and the '-q' tells it to shut up,
 that it shouldn't output anything to stdout.

 Anyway a PHP doesn't output anything if you don't use any
 output functions (echo, print, header functions)

Interesting.  And useful.  Learn something new, etc.  I just tried
this out and not only does it work as described, I think I just found
a replacement for straight perl (I'm much more comfortable with PHP
than perl).

I also just tried some simple stdin stuff with it 

qmail-scanner + qmail-rewrite

2001-02-12 Thread Michel Boucey


Hi !

I've installed qmail-scanner, and I want it now to forward email to
qmail-rewrite. How I've to set correctly QMAILQUEUE variable to do this.

Thanks ... 

Cordialement,

Michel Boucey   Administrateur Systme
 Socit Norm@net +33 2 31 27 13 45 





Problem with qmail+vpopmail and suggested fix

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Povolotsky

Hello!

Imagine the following situation: there are 2 qmail+vpopmail servers; say,
mail1 and mail2. user@mail1 have a mailbox and also copies all his mail to
user@mail2, via some forwarding script. Eventually, user@mail2 goes over
quota; the  next message forwarded from user@mail1 gets bounced. Imagine
that user@mail1 is over quota too; than, the bounce will bounce AFTER SOME
TIME, WITH BRAND NEW MESSAGE. Not recognising that bounce as a bounce, mail2
will bounce that bounce again. 

And two servers will pingpong, generating huge amount of traffic (actually,
this amount is channel-bounded).

The suggested fix is to create a new control file for qmail, badtcptto,
consisting of pairs of values:

user@mail1"User is over quota"

and so on.

So some messages will bounce early, reducing load and preventing bounce
generation.

Or there is some other solution?

Alex.
 



Qmail not processing queue.

2001-02-12 Thread Joe




I have a qmail installation on Redhat 6.2. I am 
using takeshi's MySQL+Qmail patches to allow authent. from MySql. However, my 
queue is not being processed untill i reboot the server. Seems like qmail-send 
is dying on me somehow. Logs show mail from local server and remote servers are 
getting to the queue. Does anyone have a fix for this? I'm kind of new to 
qmail...

JOe


Re: Selective relaying with xinetd

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Kari Suomela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  CC Switch to tcpserver.
 
 I have looked at it and it seems overkill for a small server. As I also 
 have pretty well everything else working ok under xinetd, I'd like to 
 solve this last issue.

It's not overkill.  tcpserver is particularly well suited to small servers;
it's less resource intensive than any of the alternatives.

To allow SMTP-after-POP3, you'll have to selectively set the RELAYCLIENT
environment variable only for a continuously changing set of IP addresses.
I don't think xientd lets you do that (I could be wrong), so I don't think
it's going to work.

Charles
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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 As a side note, the MX for threeacesolutions.com
 seems to be
 inbound.threeacesolutions.com.criticalpath.net --
 that's correct, is it?
 Just an odd hostname.

That's definitely the wrong MX name -- it should be
www.schnarff.com. It's probably just that my DNS
provider hasn't updated it yet (which is potentially
another issue here).

 Indeed.  As the next thing, how about the output of
 the following commands:
 `ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias
 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*`

bash-2.04# 'ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail*'
ls: /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*: No such file or
directory
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   wheel  512 Feb  6 14:10 /
drwxr-xr-x  25 root   wheel  512 Jan 16 12:49 /var
drwxr-xr-x  10 root   qmail  512 Feb 10 14:38
/var/qmail
drwxr-sr-x   3 alias  qmail  512 Feb 11 13:34
/var/qmail/alias

The reason that I have no .qmail in /var/qmail/alias
is because when I put my .qmail-postmaster file there,
it had no effect on [EMAIL PROTECTED] messages;
it took a .qmail-postmaster file in /home/alias to
make messages work correctly. Thus, I would assume
Qmail is looking not in /var/qmail/alias but in
/home/alias.
 `cat
 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info`

Thus, here is alternate output on this request:

bash-2.04# 'cat
/home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 `ls -ld ~alias`
Our output here seems to back up my thought process:

bash-2.04# ls -ld ~alias
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 11 13:40
/home/alias

 On the contrary; I get the satisfaction of seeing
 someone actually putting
 the effort into running qmail, and being polite
 about it at the same time.

Glad to hear I'm not just leeching off of your brains.

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Please help me out....

2001-02-12 Thread Rick



Ok, first I'd like to say I pretty much know jack about 
Qmail But wait, I am not hopeless!

I installed Qmail on a 650Mhz PIII, 9GB SCSI, 128 RAM, 
running Linux 6.2, the server is located at dialtoneinternet.com
I followed the instuctions, and installed qmail in the 
standard /var/qmail directory... This partition is only 1gig, I 
guess
the stock Linux setup...

My problem is I sent out over 48,000 individual emails to my 
optin list (no spam, spam is bad!) and it took about 6 hours
to finish up... The emails where no more than 3KB in length 
each. The server is pretty much dedicated to just sending
out emails, there are no other users on this machine, and the 
only web traffic is very very light duty

I've looked throught the Qmail.org site but its all greek to 
me... no real good information for me there Can some one
please tell me what do I am adding 2000+ optins a day, and 
in another month I will more than double me current
subscriber base I know Qmail can do what I need it to do, 
I just need to know how to do it :)

Thank you,
-Rick



Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 The reason that I have no .qmail in /var/qmail/alias is because when I put my
 .qmail-postmaster file there, it had no effect on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 messages; it took a .qmail-postmaster file in /home/alias to make messages
 work correctly. Thus, I would assume Qmail is looking not in /var/qmail/alias
 but in /home/alias.

That's the case, alright.  It's because alias's home directory isn't where
I thought it would be.

How about the output of `ls -ld / /home /home/alias /home/alias/.qmail*` ?
My thinking at this point is this has to be an ownership/permissions issue.

Charles
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Re: Please help me out....

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 My problem is I sent out over 48,000 individual emails to my optin list (no
 spam, spam is bad!) and it took about 6 hours to finish up... The emails
 where no more than 3KB in length each.  The server is pretty much dedicated
 to just sending out emails, there are no other users on this machine, and the
 only web traffic is very very light duty

Did you disable qmail while injecting all those messages into the queue?
That seems to speed it up for a lot of people.

Are you using big-todo?  48000 messages pumping into the queue in short
order would seem to indicate this would be a good idea.

Are you logging with multilog?  Logging through splogger/syslog can choke
a busy qmail server, reducing the mail throughput by an order of magnitude.

Are logs and the mail queue on separate physical disks?  That can seriously
help qmail's performance if the server is extremely busy.

 I've looked throught the Qmail.org site but its all greek to me... no real
 good information for me there

On the contrary, excellent information is there.  There's a whole section on
large servers.  Re-read it all, and follow all its links.  Repeat until you
are enlightened.

 Can some one please tell me what do I am adding 2000+ optins a day, and
 in another month I will more than double me current subscriber base I
 know Qmail can do what I need it to do, I just need to know how to do it :)

If you want to become a qmail expert in under a month, you have your work
cut out for you.  Consider the possibility of hiring a qmail consultant to
configure and tune your setup, and teach you the basics.  Commercial qmail
consultants are listed at www.qmail.org as well.

Charles
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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 How about the output of `ls -ld / /home /home/alias
 /home/alias/.qmail*` ?
 My thinking at this point is this has to be an
 ownership/permissions issue.
 
bash-2.04# ls -ld / /home /home/alias
/home/alias/.qmail*
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Feb  6 14:10 /
drwxr-xr-x  26 root  wheel  512 Feb 10 09:29 /home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Feb 11 13:40
/home/alias
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:38
/home/alias/.qmail-info-threeacesol
utions
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:35
/home/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:32
/home/alias/.qmail-postmaster
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:35
/home/alias/.qmail-root
-rw-r--r--   1 root  qmail   19 Feb 10 18:24
/home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info

Looks like I should probably chown popuser:popuser
.qmail-threeacesolutions-info, right?

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Dailly log files

2001-02-12 Thread Ari Arantes Filho



Hi,

 I'm using multilog and 
tcpserver, like lwq. Is there a way to patch multilog to create dailly log 
files. I mean in /var/qmail/log/send/ should be:

20010201.log
20010202.log
...

Thanks,

Ari



Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  My thinking at this point is this has to be an
  ownership/permissions issue.

 bash-2.04# ls -ld / /home /home/alias /home/alias/.qmail*
 drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Feb  6 14:10 /
 drwxr-xr-x  26 root  wheel  512 Feb 10 09:29 /home
 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Feb 11 13:40 /home/alias
 -rw-r--r--   1 root  qmail   19 Feb 10 18:24
   /home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info

There's the problem. alias doesn't own his home directory; therefore
qmail consider that user to exist.  `chown alias:users /home/alias` should
fix it.

 Looks like I should probably chown popuser:popuser
 .qmail-threeacesolutions-info, right?

No, chown it to alias.  In fact, make that `chown -R alias:users /home/alias`
to make it right.  You can change the group to whatever your proper default
is under your OS.

Charles
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HTML Emails Garbled when sent with qmail+ezmlm

2001-02-12 Thread Jeremy Suo-Anttila



I have been having a problem with HTML based emails 
getting garlbled when i send them out via qmail+ezmlm-idx most of the messages 
go out fine and have 0 problems while some will go out to random users on my 
list and they will be completely garlbled and most likely unreadable to the end 
user. I have attached the copies of the HTMLI used.Tthe first link 
is the version that turned out fine with no problems when sent and the second is 
the exact same code as the first but was forwarded to me by a client who 
recieved it all garbled.


http://dev.funeralwire.com/today.htm

http://dev.funeralwire.com/today-bad.htm

I am composing this message in Dreamweaver 4.0 and 
then Sending it out with Netscape 6.0 i have also been telling it not to embed 
the images into the emails and to pull them of remote www servers 
instead.

This problem does not happen everytime i send out a 
mailand it also does not affect the sameusers everytime. I can send 
a user who received the email all garbled directly from my client and it will 
come through with out a hitch. and i have all tried setting up a test list on 
the same server with some of the users who recieved it garbled and i sent out 
the same email and it came through ok. 

I am really stumped here and i would appreciate any 
input. There was one small problem i having with the NIC on the server itself 
but i do not think it is the cause of the problem. When ever i send out the mail 
via ezmlm i get this error sometimes in my log files and dmesg

Jan 31 19:02:23 ns1 /kernel: file: table is 
fullJan 31 19:02:23 ns1 last message repeated 112 timesJan 31 19:02:28 
ns1 /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeoutJan 31 19:02:37 ns1 /kernel: dc0: watchdog 
timeoutJan 31 19:02:38 ns1 /kernel: dc0: no memory for tx listJan 31 
19:02:38 ns1 /kernel: dc0: no memory for tx listJan 31 19:13:21 ns1 syslogd: 
exiting on signal 15

I am replacing the server right now and i am 
transfering it to a more power full machine with a better nic ( no more dc0 
)


thanks 


Jeremy Suo-Anttila
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Bill Carlson

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:


 Syslog is unreliable.


We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?

Is it an implementation problem or just the way syslog works, period?

I for one am not liking having my logs spread all over machines and in
multiple directories to boot. Makes things like a log host and log
checking very tedious to setup.

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#multilog complains that syslog drops
entries under high load, but no specifics.

So, what are the real complaints about syslog? Or are they ancient
history and legend?

Flames welcome, it's cold in Iowa today.


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SMTP Server does not support the RETURN RECEIPT

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Penda

Hi,

My mail client is Nescape and Qmail-1.03 is running in my SMTP Server.
Here the Message error i got when i set up my mail client (Netsacape) to
have a RETURN RECEIPT  when sendind e-mail ::

SMTP Server does not support the "RETRURN RECEIPT" .

How to  resolve this problem ?

Paul



Re: WARNING

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Egli



Dude,

The person sending the virus likely has no idea he 
(or she) is sending it. The virus infects your winsock32.dll file, so anyone who 
sends mail using a win32 client (like me for example) is vulnerable. The virus 
is sent automatically. They don't see it. Chill out, and warn people you are 
getting it and ask them to scan their systems for the virus. The latest versions 
of Mcafee and/or Norton Anti-Virus will find and kill the virus.
-- Dan

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Rembrandt 
  Lensink 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 3:37 
  PM
  Subject: WARNING
  
  Stop 
  sending us your hahaha Snowhite and the 7 Dwarfs E-mail virus or we will chase 
  you and attack your system!!!


Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Greg White

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
 On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
 
 
  Syslog is unreliable.
 
 
 We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?

I've seen syslog dropping entries on a centralized logging host that we
use for remote boxen, about forty of them, under what I would have
considered medium load, but apparently syslog considers high. It's also
the only process on the box I've ever had go runaway on me, and hog all
processor time until stopped/restarted... See below.
 
 Is it an implementation problem or just the way syslog works, period?

IMHO it's a design decision. It has no guaranteed delivery method, due
to the use of UDP and no internal delivery control.
 
 I for one am not liking having my logs spread all over machines and in
 multiple directories to boot. Makes things like a log host and log
 checking very tedious to setup.

Centralized logging hosts have their uses, but I prefer in general to
have the logs per-box. Log checking could be a tiny process on the
individual boxes -- it would probably take less CPU overhead than using
syslog in the first place.
 
 http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#multilog complains that syslog drops
 entries under high load, but no specifics.
 
 So, what are the real complaints about syslog? Or are they ancient
 history and legend?
My largest complaint, oft heard on this list and others, is CPU
overhead. On a mail hub, before switching to multilog, the process with
the most CPU time was usually syslog. This is obviously unacceptable.


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Qmail-Scanner

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Egli

Ok. 2 Questions. I've seen a lot of people mention Qmail-scanner, so

1) What is Qmail-scanner?
2) How does one enable it (I'm assuming it's some kind of virus scan system)

Thanks!
-- Dan




Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Adam McKenna

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
 
  Syslog is unreliable.
 
 
 We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?

I've seen the syslog daemon simply die.  With no explanation.  Several times
on different boxes.  I think this qualifies as being unreliable.

--Adam



Re: HTML Emails Garbled when sent with qmail+ezmlm

2001-02-12 Thread Andrew Bold

On Monday 12 February 2001  4:05 pm, Jeremy Suo-Anttila wrote:

  I have been having a problem with HTML based emails getting garlbled when 
i
 send them out via qmail+ezmlm-idx 

Neither qmail nor ezmlm will be touching the content of your message.  The 
problem is more likely to be with the end user's mail client.

However, looking at some of the error messages you quoted, you really need to 
get moved across to the new server.  There is a *very small* possibility that 
system problems are messing with the mail files in memory as they are being 
processed.

The main problem, though, is that you are sending HTML mail.  E-mail is a 
medium used for transmitting textual information, and you are using it as a 
layout medium.  E-mail isn't print.  If you want to send out a formatted 
newsletter, hire a print bureaux...

Why don't you consider sending the mail as a plain text summary, with a link 
to the web page detailed within it?  Most modern GUI based web clients will 
grep http references out of a text based mail and convert them to a clickable 
link to make it easy for the end users...  (I'm guessing that the majority 
use Outlook/Outlook Express, and they need all the help they can get ;^)  I 
think this may be a better long term solution.

Just my 0.02.

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Re: Qmail-Scanner

2001-02-12 Thread Olivier M.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:44:13AM -0700, Dan Egli wrote:
 Ok. 2 Questions. I've seen a lot of people mention Qmail-scanner, so
 1) What is Qmail-scanner?

a great interface to use antiviruses with qmail. 
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net

 2) How does one enable it (I'm assuming it's some kind of virus scan system)
rtfm :)  (it's very well explained).

good luck,
Olivier
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smtplf

2001-02-12 Thread Ari Arantes Filho

Hi,

I'm using a qmail box (redhat 6.2) to send messages from a dedicaded
server running cold fusion (windows NT), but some messages are refused
because of: http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html. This messages are FORM
filled (TEXTAREA) and something are refused.

How can I patch qmail to avoid this error, I want these message to be
sent.

Thanks,

Ari





Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Farber

djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in
the new daemontools package.



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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Adam McKenna wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:15:24AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
  
   Syslog is unreliable.
  
  
  We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
 
 I've seen the syslog daemon simply die.  With no explanation.  Several times
 on different boxes.  I think this qualifies as being unreliable.
 
 --Adam
 




Re: Problem with qmail+vpopmail and suggested fix

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Pennace

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:54:07PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
 Hello!
 
 Imagine the following situation: there are 2 qmail+vpopmail servers; say,
 mail1 and mail2. user@mail1 have a mailbox and also copies all his mail to
 user@mail2, via some forwarding script. Eventually, user@mail2 goes over
 quota; the  next message forwarded from user@mail1 gets bounced. Imagine
 that user@mail1 is over quota too; than, the bounce will bounce AFTER SOME
 TIME, WITH BRAND NEW MESSAGE. Not recognising that bounce as a bounce, mail2
 will bounce that bounce again. 
 
 And two servers will pingpong, generating huge amount of traffic (actually,
 this amount is channel-bounded).

That won't happen; user@mail1, if he forwards bounces (which he
shouldn't) will forward the bounce to user@mail2. When that user is
over quota, qmail generates a double bounce that goes directly to the
postmaster.



Re: SMTP Server does not support the RETURN RECEIPT

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Paul Penda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 My mail client is Nescape and Qmail-1.03 is running in my SMTP Server.
 Here the Message error i got when i set up my mail client (Netsacape) to
 have a RETURN RECEIPT  when sendind e-mail ::
 
 SMTP Server does not support the "RETRURN RECEIPT" .
 
 How to  resolve this problem ?

Stop expecting MTAs to implement features which are more appropriate for MUAs.
qmail support NRUDT (Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To) with the optional
qreceipt package, but you're better off using an MUA-to-MUA receipt mechanism
(they exist, I don't use them and so can't recall their names) which doesn't
rely on every MTA in the middle supporting it.

Besides, email is an inherently unreliable protocol.  If you really want to
verify that someone gets your information, pick up the phone.

Charles
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Re: smtplf

2001-02-12 Thread Jamin A. Brown

Ari,

1.) You *shouldn't* have to patch Qmail for this behavior. Qmail is
following the RFCs and denying your mail because it has bare linefeeds.

2.) If you must "fix" Qmail, use the fixcrio program. This program comes
as part of the ucspi-tcp-0.88 package.

Jamin

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ari Arantes Filho wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm using a qmail box (redhat 6.2) to send messages from a dedicaded
 server running cold fusion (windows NT), but some messages are refused
 because of: http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html. This messages are FORM
 filled (TEXTAREA) and something are refused.

 How can I patch qmail to avoid this error, I want these message to be
 sent.

 Thanks,

 Ari




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rpms

2001-02-12 Thread Mate Wierdl

I made some new djbdns and qmail related rpms; they are in 

ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/run/

  The main change is that you can now easily change the installation
prefix by changing the (second) line

%global myhome /usr/local

in the spec file.  Of course, the binary and noarch rpms are compiled
with the above line.  It seems many people (including in our
department) have /usr/local mounted to the mail or DNS server via
nfs. 

In the runlevelconf and dt-run packages, I made a portability change
so that bash2 has no problems with the function names (thx to Peter
Norton for pointing this out to me).

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Re: smtplf

2001-02-12 Thread vinces

Ari Arantes Filho writes:

 Hi, 
 
 I'm using a qmail box (redhat 6.2) to send messages from a dedicaded
 server running cold fusion (windows NT), but some messages are refused
 because of: http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html. This messages are FORM
 filled (TEXTAREA) and something are refused. 
 
 How can I patch qmail to avoid this error, I want these message to be
 sent.

This is a frequently asked question. From URL:http://www.qmail.org: 

Daniel J. Bernstein suggests that if you have buggy clients that send bare
LFs, and you want to treat their messages the same way sendmail does, you
can simply run his fixcrio program instead of qmail-smtpd for your outgoing
mail relay. fixcrio then takes qmail-smtpd as argument. fixcrio is part of
the ucspi-tcp package. 

Vince.



Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Mark Delany

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
 djb has several logging options... lately I believe it is multilog(?) in
 the new daemontools package.

Indeed. And it's pretty triv to use too. The simplest is to replace
your 'splogger qmai' with something like:

multilog t n10 s500 /var/log/qmail

Make sure you have a /var/log/qmail directory and that's about it.

Of course if you want to go the whole hog and use svscan/supervise,
then it's a little different as you create a log/run script etc, but
the above is the simple way.

   We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
  
  I've seen the syslog daemon simply die.  With no explanation.  Several times
  on different boxes.  I think this qualifies as being unreliable.

Indeed syslogd notoriously dies on Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 especially when
hit with multiple HUPqs at around the same time (which of course
happens quite a lot if you use multiple log rolling scripts as one is
almost forced to do on Solaris with that /usr/lib/newsyslog
abomination).


Regards.



tcpserver error

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Brezny



I know logging is working for the smtp end of things, because when there was
a conflict, that's where the message showed up, but when i send a message
from a client with a virtual mailbox to an external user, no entries appear
in the /var/log/smtp/current logfile.  something does appear in the
/var/log/mail/send/current file.  So what is qmail-smtp being used for?

i also don't really understand how multilog knows to pull information for
smtp as opposed to send since the run scripts are practically identical,
just in different locations (/var/qmail/supervise/(smtp or send)/log/run,
and point to different directories to store the log.  I'm guessing either
multilog or supervise knows that since it's in the ../smtp or ../send
directory to gather information from the process started in there?

my scripts for the log start up are identical except for the destination
directory of the log files.

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t s100 n20 /var/log/mail/smtp 21

Thanks again for all your help.


Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc.


-Original Message-
From: kbo [mailto:kbo]On Behalf Of Ken Jones
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tcpserver error


Peter Brezny wrote:

 I've got some problems with tcpserver.  Here's the error i get.

 I'm using qmail 1.03/vpopmail/sqwebmail

 40003a83497834e2bc04 tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already
 used

 my /var/qmail/supervise/smtp script is below.

 Any ideas?

 Thanks in advance.

 Peter Brezny
 SysAdmin Services Inc.

 #!/bin/sh
 # config for tcpserver to enable roaming users
 PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
 export PATH
 exec softlimit -m 200 tcpserver -H -R -x
/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
 \
 -c20 -u81 -g81 0 smtp rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21

 virtual2# grep 81 /etc/passwd
 alias:*:81:81:User :/var/qmail/alias:/nonexistent
 qmaill:*:83:81:User :/var/qmail:/nonexistent
 qmaild:*:82:81:User :/var/qmail:/nonexistent
 qmailp:*:84:81:User :/var/qmail:/nonexistent

Yes. It means there is already a process on your machine
that is listening to the smtp port, port 25. This could
be sendmail still running, or inetd or you already have
a copy of tcpserver running, probably under supervise.

Try that.

Ken Jones
inter7




Re: Problem with qmail+vpopmail and suggested fix

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Povolotsky

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
  user@mail2, via some forwarding script. Eventually, user@mail2 goes over
  quota; the  next message forwarded from user@mail1 gets bounced. Imagine
  that user@mail1 is over quota too; than, the bounce will bounce AFTER SOME
  TIME, WITH BRAND NEW MESSAGE. Not recognising that bounce as a bounce, mail2
  will bounce that bounce again. 
  
  And two servers will pingpong, generating huge amount of traffic (actually,
  this amount is channel-bounded).
 That won't happen; user@mail1, if he forwards bounces (which he
 shouldn't) will forward the bounce to user@mail2. When that user is
 over quota, qmail generates a double bounce that goes directly to the
This DO happens. I can try to investigate; mail2 may use some different MTA
and be beyond my control; but this deadly pingpong happens for the second
time in two weeks :-(((

Alex.



relaying problem, please help

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Brezny

I have virtual domains configured using vpopmail and sqwebmail, they are
able to send mail to other domains hosted on the bsd 4.2 system i am using
to run these mail programs, however they are not allowed to send mail out to
other domains on the internet.

I _thought_ i configured the system with roaming users enabled.

I'm using supervise to start qmail.

here's my scripts.

/var/qmail/supervise/send/run

#!/bin/sh

# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir by default.
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
exec qmail-start ./Maildir
#exec qmail-start '|maildrop'
#splogger qmail

/var/qmail/supervise/smtp/run

#!/bin/sh
# config for tcpserver to enable roaming users
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH
exec softlimit -m 200 tcpserver -H -R -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
\
-c20 -u81 -g81 0 smtp rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21

this is where i think the problem is.  for as long as i have had this system
running, i've never seen anything show up in the log file for smtp, (except
when i had things misconfigured and supervise couldn't start qmail-smtpd.
But since then, NOTHING shows up in this log file.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc.




Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread Bill Carlson

On 12 Feb 2001, Mark Delany wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:

We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?
  
   I've seen the syslog daemon simply die.  With no explanation.  Several times
   on different boxes.  I think this qualifies as being unreliable.

 Indeed syslogd notoriously dies on Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 especially when
 hit with multiple HUPqs at around the same time (which of course
 happens quite a lot if you use multiple log rolling scripts as one is
 almost forced to do on Solaris with that /usr/lib/newsyslog
 abomination).


Ok, finally a mention of WHICH syslog. Is that most people's experience, a
problem with syslog on Solaris 2.x? I've run mostly Linux boxen over the
years and have had little trouble with sysklogd, the daemon included with
Redhat installations. But then, I tend to use a log host that is on an
isolated, private LAN; UDP doesn't really bother me.

I guess I'll include looking at syslog as part of my performance research
when that time comes.

Later,

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 No, chown it to alias.  In fact, make that `chown -R
 alias:users /home/alias`
 to make it right.  You can change the group to
 whatever your proper default
 is under your OS.

Ummm...would that be wheel? I'm running OBSD 2.8.

Sadly enough, after doing `chown -R alias:users
/home/alias`, I still can't get mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (thankfully,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] still works). Is that just
because I've got the wrong group set up?

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rbl

2001-02-12 Thread Kurth Bemis

hrm..i seem to be having problems with ORBS and RBL.  i have followed the 
instructions from 
http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html and 
modified my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file from

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
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 
21


to this

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
 tcpserver -p -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
 -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 25 \
 rblsmtpd -rinputs.orbs.org -rblackholes.mail-abuse.org \
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21

i test the filter using - http://www.orbs.org/testingfilters.html

and i get both mails back...am i overlooking something?  after i tackle 
this i'd also like to see if anyone has any usage statastics on usage or qmtp.

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RE: relaying problem, please help

2001-02-12 Thread Alexander Jernejcic

hi,

Peter Brezny wrote:

 I have virtual domains configured using vpopmail and sqwebmail, they are
 able to send mail to other domains hosted on the bsd 4.2 system i am
using
 to run these mail programs, however they are not allowed to send mail out
to
 other domains on the internet.
...snip...
 exec softlimit -m 200 tcpserver -H -R -x
 /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
 \
 -c20 -u81 -g81 0 smtp rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21
i am using neither vpopmail nor sqwebmail, so from my general point of
understanding
(i hope i did), the content of /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb is crucial
here.
since mail to your local domains is accepted, your control-files
seem to be well done. you have to put hosts and/or networks you trust into
tcp.smtp and
generate the tcp.smtp.cdb file. in commandline-world you would do that with
vi (or something else - pls do not flame) and with tcprules. i don't know,
if vpopmail and/or sqwebmail provide some interfaces for that.

hope that helps
alexander




Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  No, chown it to alias.  In fact, make that `chown -R alias:users
  /home/alias` to make it right.  You can change the group to whatever your
  proper default is under your OS.
 
 Ummm...would that be wheel? I'm running OBSD 2.8.

I don't think so.  wheel is a privileged group, isn't it?  You want something
with no elevated privileges.

 Sadly enough, after doing `chown -R alias:users /home/alias`, I still can't
 get mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thankfully, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 still works). Is that just because I've got the wrong group set up?

Maybe, but I doubt it.  Are the qmail log messages explaining the failure
the same as before?  And of course you HUP'ed qmail-send...

Charles
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Fw: WARNING (Reply )

2001-02-12 Thread Rembrandt Lensink




- Original Message - 
From: Dan Egli 
To: Rembrandt Lensink ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: WARNING

Dude,

The person sending the virus likely has no idea he 
(or she) is sending it. The virus infects your winsock32.dll file, so anyone who 
sends mail using a win32 client (like me for example) is vulnerable. The virus 
is sent automatically. They don't see it. Chill out, and warn people you are 
getting it and ask them to scan their systems for the virus. The latest versions 
of Mcafee and/or Norton Anti-Virus will find and kill the virus.
-- Dan
Thank you Dan for your kind 
reaction, I was somehow overheated because of the 8 attempts of Snowhite 
on my data-system. I`m fully armed now with the latest anti-virus 
software. Kaspersky Lab has information over "snowhite" and issued a warning 
over this highly dangerous Hybris worm. (http://www.kaspersky.com) 
So what do you see in your mailbox 
wenn it comes; A message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (has nothing to do 
with sex, doesn`t even exist) but it starts with "Today, Snowhite was turning 
18." all the rest you can imagine. The Dwarfs had a *huge* surprise. 
Snowhite was anxious etc etc. The real danger has the attachment! So I was 
really pissed off. Reply to sender is useless (of course) but... if you go to, 
for example Yahoo USA, and you type [EMAIL PROTECTED] then you will see 
how many warnings there already are, like Be Careful guys - www.ezboard.com about Snowhite attacks or 
Columbia Law School Virus Information. Well this was serious shit and I thought 
it came from the nearfield. (The source is probably in 
Latin-America). 
Best wishes from Rembrandt L , Netherlands


VBS.SST@mm ~ Shit...

2001-02-12 Thread Jesse Sunday




Just got hit with VBS.SST@mm ...


Will someone please let me know how to filter attachments, (*.vbs)   ~
Thanks!!!

Jesse Sunday







550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Herbie

Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? 

As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see
if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether
the user actually exists on the system or not. 

Is that part handled by qmail-send?

Herbie (not a C guru but interested)




Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 I don't think so.  wheel is a privileged group,
 isn't it?  You want something
 with no elevated privileges.

OK then, say, popuser?

 Maybe, but I doubt it.  Are the qmail log messages
 explaining the failure
 the same as before?  And of course you HUP'ed
 qmail-send...

The log messages don't say a damn thing. I think,
however, that this is an issue with my DNS provider
(www.namesecure.com); I've had a nearly identical
issue before. I'm going to call them and see if my MX
records are right (like they said a week ago they
would be), and if not, bitch them out like crazy.

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Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:29:27PM -0600, Herbie wrote:
 Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? 

Yes.

 As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see
 if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether
 the user actually exists on the system or not. 

Yes.

Greetz, Peter.



Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sill

Alex Le Fevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Sadly enough, after doing `chown -R alias:users
/home/alias`, I still can't get mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (thankfully,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] still works). Is that just
because I've got the wrong group set up?

What does:

  grep alias /etc/passwd

show?

-Dave



adding new users; pop3 email

2001-02-12 Thread SF

I have a few questions regarding adding new users and pop3 access.

I think I finally have a real working version of qmail on my server...
(after 2 months ;) )  Anyway, I followed an install HOWTO for FreeBSD users
(http://www.pofo.de/HOWTO/qmail/DE-qmail-HOWTO-2.html), made a few minor
adjustments (like making sure I had the most current versions of ucspi-tcp
and daemontools) and have the following running:

qmail 1.03
VmailMgr (0.96.9)
ucspi-tcp (0.88)
daemontools (0.70)
relay-ctrl (2.5)

in the /service directory, there are links to /var/qmail/service/pop3d,
/var/qmail/service/smtpd, and /var/qmail/service/qmail.  Within each of
those directories, there are run files that start up those respective
services.  They look like:

for pop3d:

#!/bin/sh
exec 21 \
envdir ./env \
sh -c '
case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac
case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac
exec \
softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \
-vD"$H$R" \
${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \
${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \
${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \
-xtcp.cdb \
-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}"
\
/usr/local/bin/checkvpw \
/usr/local/sbin/relay-ctrl-allow \/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d
"${MAILDIRN
AME-Maildir}"
'

for smtpd:

#!/bin/sh
exec 21 \
envdir ./env \
sh -c '
case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac
case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac
exec \
envuidgid qmaild \
softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \
-vDU"$H$R" \
${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \
${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \
${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \
-xtcp.cdb \
-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-25}" \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -r "relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay
problem - se
e http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%" \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
#/usr/local/bin/checkvpw \
#/usr/bin/true \
#/usr/local/bin/cmd5checkpw \
#/usr/bin/true'

for qmail:

#!/bin/sh
exec /var/qmail/rc

which is:

#\!/bin/sh
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail qmaill

Right now, I only have two users besides root.  They are newuser and
newuser2.  (I am currently only working with newuser.)  The problem is that
when I try to use a client like MS Outlook to pick up mail in newuser's
Maildir, I can't get past the authentication.  I don't know which of these
parameters could be causes for my problem - or if I'm even trying to
authenticate correctly.

in the /var/qmail/control:

virtualdomains:
.mydomain.net:newuser

locals:
.mydomain.net
mail.mydomain.net
servername.mydomain.net

rcpthosts:
.mydomain.net

me:
mail.mydomain.net

Firstly, should I be authenticating as username: username (not
[EMAIL PROTECTED])?

Secondly, with the scripts above EXACTLY like they are, am I making a
mistake in some of the parameters?

Thirdly, what is the best way to add users who are only to be mail users -
using vmailmgr?  I have tried to understand the faqs on vmailmgr.org's page,
but I'm confused as to what one is supposed to do.  I followed the
directions in the VMailMGR HOWTO and created a new user "bogus" with the
vadduser program, restarted the services, no avail - I cannot log into that
account.  I noticed that "bogus" was also not added to virtualdomains in
/var/qmail/control.

This box is to be the mail server for multiple domains (I haven't exactly
figured out how you associate a given user with a given domain, though) and
all the users - that's all this box will be for, email - will access their
accounts through pop3 or IMAP4 clients.  If I am going about this the wrong
way, please warn me...  I know this may not be the ultimate setup, but I'm
simply happy that I finally have a working server!

Thanks,
SF




Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? 

Yes.  However, it should be noted that servers which do return this error
are revealing valuable information -- spammers can use this technique to
build a list of valid email addresses, simply by connecting to port 25
and throwing a dictionary at it.

Charles
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Re: client is blocking my mail server...

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sill

Daniellek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I had concurrencyremote set to 40, but with this setting it blocked my queue
for several hours! (some of receipments are very far from me), so i switched 
to 120 and it's better because queue is blocked for 30 minutes at most, but
i takes all my bandwith...

I'm searching for some solution which could make "private queue" for this
client...

You can install qmail again, e.g. under /var/qmail2, and use this
second installation for your problem client. The trick will be
diverting his messages to that qmail installation.

If his ~2000 user list is handled by a list manager (such as ezmlm) on
the qmail server, you can just reconfigure his list to use
/var/qmail2/bin/qmail-inject. Same deal if injects the messages from a
login account.

If he injects them via SMTP, it's a bit trickier. You could run
/var/qmail2/bin/qmail-smtpd on a non-standard port, e.g., 2500, and
tell him to configure his mail client to use port 2500.

You could also configure your main tcpserver to listen to port 25 on
the existing IP address (and 127.0.0.1) and set up another tcpserver
on an aliased IP address dedicated to that client. Then you'd have to
tell him to configure his mailer to that IP alias.

If all this just flew over your head, you can ask for clarification
or consider hiring a qmail expert to do it for you.

-Dave



Re: Qmail not processing queue.

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sill

"Joe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have a qmail installation on Redhat 6.2. I am using takeshi's
MySQL+Qmail patches to allow authent. from MySql. However, my queue
is not being processed untill i reboot the server. Seems like
qmail-send is dying on me somehow.

What Do The Logs Say? (tm) What happens if you manually restart it?

Logs show mail from local server
and remote servers are getting to the queue. Does anyone have a fix
for this? I'm kind of new to qmail... 

If you run qmail under supervise, it'll be restarted automatically if
it dies. Of course, it shouldn't be dying in the first place...

-Dave



Re: tcpserver error

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sill

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

So what is qmail-smtp being used for?

Assuming you mean /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current, it's used by tcpserver
to log connections to port 25.

i also don't really understand how multilog knows to pull information for
smtp as opposed to send since the run scripts are practically identical,
just in different locations (/var/qmail/supervise/(smtp or send)/log/run,
and point to different directories to store the log.  I'm guessing either
multilog or supervise knows that since it's in the ../smtp or ../send
directory to gather information from the process started in there?

Multilog doesn't decide where messages go. It just reads messages from
standard input and writes them to the appropriate file in the
configured directory. Typically, qmail-send writes to one place (e.g.,
/var/log/qmail, and tcpserver writes to another
(/var/log/qmail/smtpd). This is usually configured in log/run script
(e.g., /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run or
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run).

-Dave



Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 What does:
 
   grep alias /etc/passwd
 
 show?

alias:*:1009:10::/home/alias:/bin/csh

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SMTP-AUTH with /etc/shadow

2001-02-12 Thread Herbie

Is it possible to run smtp-auth using the system password databse and
files?

As I read it you have to be running 'virtual users' with a separate
passwd file, I have done this on other boxes (not running smtp-auth) but
this system has real users with real shells and they just happen to travel
occasionally. Literature on this is sparse to say the least, all help
gratefully received.

Herbie





Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Jesse Sunday



I've already asked, but no one has responded, so I'll ask again...
Please help...


I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
really appreciate it...


Our system was hit earlier today (thankfully few users run Outlook) and I am
trying to curb any future outbreaks...

Here's info if you haven't heard about it...

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]






Re: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

Jesse Sunday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
 anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
 really appreciate it...

Everything you need is referenced at www.qmail.org.

Charles
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Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
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Re: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Matthew Patterson

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jesse Sunday wrote:
I've already asked, but no one has responded, so I'll ask again...
Please help...


I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
really appreciate it...


Our system was hit earlier today (thankfully few users run Outlook) and I am
trying to curb any future outbreaks...

Here's info if you haven't heard about it...

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

look into qmail-scanner (http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net)

-- 
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Unix Systems Administrator
National Support Center, LLC
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Re: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:46:32PM -0500, Jesse Sunday wrote:
 
 I've already asked, but no one has responded, so I'll ask again...
 Please help...

How long ago did you ask?

Greetz, Peter.



Re: adding new users; pop3 email

2001-02-12 Thread SNFettig Listserv

One other thing I realized after writing this and also probing some more.  If I try to 
create a user using vadduser and then switch to that user (either by logging in as 
"him" or su'ing to "him"), the response is "unknown login". - so going through and 
adding the Systemuser account (which is another thing I didn't know whether I needed 
for those users already set up to use qmail) is not possible, thus I don't have a home 
directory set up for the virtualdomain...  Now I'm really confused...

Thanks for any help in advance...
SF

-- Original Message --
From: "SF" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:44:16 -0600

I have a few questions regarding adding new users and pop3 access.

I think I finally have a real working version of qmail on my server...
(after 2 months ;) )  Anyway, I followed an install HOWTO for FreeBSD users
(http://www.pofo.de/HOWTO/qmail/DE-qmail-HOWTO-2.html), made a few minor
adjustments (like making sure I had the most current versions of ucspi-tcp
and daemontools) and have the following running:

qmail 1.03
VmailMgr (0.96.9)
ucspi-tcp (0.88)
daemontools (0.70)
relay-ctrl (2.5)

in the /service directory, there are links to /var/qmail/service/pop3d,
/var/qmail/service/smtpd, and /var/qmail/service/qmail.  Within each of
snip



Re: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Jerry Lynde

At 03:11 PM 2/12/2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Jesse Sunday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
  anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
  really appreciate it...

Everything you need is referenced at www.qmail.org.

Charles
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Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
---

The exact tool you're looking for is called qmail-scanner and it can be found
at http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/

I've used it for a while now...it works perfectly! Although I'm surprised that
I only caught two of today's worms with it. And those were from the same
infected source. I guess we're just not popular. Dubious benefit that is.

If you use it and decide that there are someone your network who can be
trusted with attachments (like yourself), let me know and I'll get you the
patch I made to add an exclude list.

Jer




RE: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...

2001-02-12 Thread Tim Hunter

It would be best to look at www.qmail.org first before asking but...*sigh*

take a look at the qmail scanner packages there or for a more lightwieght
version get qmail-qfilter by Bruce Guenter.

-Original Message-
From: Jesse Sunday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:47 PM
To: Qmail mailing list
Subject: Anna Kournikova ~ VBS.SST@MM ~ Please Help...




I've already asked, but no one has responded, so I'll ask again...
Please help...


I just cleared the queue of a lot of mails spawned by the 'virus'  ~  If
anyone can point me to how to filter certain types of  attachments I would
really appreciate it...


Our system was hit earlier today (thankfully few users run Outlook) and I am
trying to curb any future outbreaks...

Here's info if you haven't heard about it...

http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]







Re: Could someone just tell me the reason for this message

2001-02-12 Thread Keary Suska

Look in /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com. There should be a .qmail-default
file in that location that calls vdelivermail. If that exists, check to make
sure you have a directory for "user" in the domain directory as well.

I also use qmail+vpopmail, so I can help further if the above doesn't reveal
anything.

-K

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger."


 From: Roger Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:24:54 +1100
 To: Qmail Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Could someone just tell me the reason for this message
 
 Roger Arnold wrote:
 
 Could someone just tell me the reason for this message so I can start
 over, sorting it out please?
 I think I am brain dead because I am just going around in circles.
 Email client message:
 
 An error occurred while sending mail.
 The mail server responded:
 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown
 Please check the message recipients and try again.
 
 What I need to know is:
 Is this error caused by a problem in RELAYCLIENT or
 An error in Qmails control files or
 Something else
 
 I have been reading and reading until I don't know arthur from martha,
 and am now totaly confused.
 Yes I am a newbie
 
 One last thing, can you have 2 startup lines for tcpserver (one for pop3
 and one for smtp)
 Eg.
 /usr/bin/tcpserver -u vpopmail -g vchkpw -H -R 0 pop-3
 /usr/bin/qmail-popup jupiter.webways-hosting.net
 /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 
 
 /usr/bin/tcpserver -x/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u101 -g16 0 smtp
 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 
 
 Many thanks in advance for any and all help
 Regards
 Roger
 
 




qmail-ldap and courier-imap authentication ?

2001-02-12 Thread dennis

Hi all..

Can anyone suggest an authentication scheme for courier-imap when using
qmail-ldap ?

How should I compile authentication into ciourier if qmail-ldap is going to
handle authentication via ldap ?

Dennis




Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread richard

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:
 On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
  Syslog is unreliable.
 We've heard this again and again. Any specifics?

over the network the transport is UDP, and these are not acknowldged so if
they are kost who knows?

the same really applies to messages logged locally: if syslogd isn't
running what happens to the messages? (They disappear into the aether) if
it is running then things slow down whilst te data is properly written.

 Is it an implementation problem or just the way syslog works, period?
the protocol.

 I for one am not liking having my logs spread all over machines and in
 multiple directories to boot. Makes things like a log host and log
 checking very tedious to setup.
threr is nothig stopping you from setting up multilog to log into
subdirectories on the machine in one location (here they all end up in
/var/log/service-name/files)

 http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/admin.html#multilog complains that syslog
 drops entries under high load, but no specifics.
unless there are vendor extensions each message gets flushed to the disk,
which pauses the syslogd process whilst both metadata and real data are
synced to disk... it's really horrible on system performance, sapping upto
90% of the system resources...

okay, so multlog doesn't make the same guaranteed write-to disk
performance that syslogd does but something just are not that critical.

RjL
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you talk to a monkey you have to  ||  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grunt and wave your arms  -ck ||




Suggestions please

2001-02-12 Thread dennis

Hi all...

I was hoping to ask for assistance with a "very simple" plan of attack on
setting up my new qmail server.

My requirements.

qmail
qmail-ldap (authentication)
courier-imap
courier-pop3
sqwebmail

Can anyone outline a suggested plan. eg.

patch qmail with qmail-ldap
install openldap
install openssl
install qmail
install courier-imap ...

I'm confused about the way these systems will be interacting e.g..
If I use courier-imap, what auth scheme will i need seeing as though I want
qmail-ldap to handle authentication and maildir creation ?

What auth screme with the pop3 server use ?

Am I making any sense ?


Cheers
Dennis




Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Scott Gifford

Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? 

Yes.

 As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see
 if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether
 the user actually exists on the system or not. 
 
 Is that part handled by qmail-send?

Yes.

qmail-send will generate a bounce message if the user ends up not
existing.  qmail-smtpd just checks the domain, and then sticks it in
the queue.

--ScottG.



Re: Suggestions please

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon

dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I'm confused about the way these systems will be interacting e.g..
 If I use courier-imap, what auth scheme will i need seeing as though I want
 qmail-ldap to handle authentication and maildir creation ?

qmail-ldap apparently has a mailing list of its own.  I suspect you will
find more experienced qmail-ldap users there than on the qmail list.
qmail-ldap isn't (to the best of my knowledge) as widely used by the members
of this list as, say, big-todo.

Charles
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Client email won't download

2001-02-12 Thread Virginia Chism

I am running Qmail on a Unix box with BSDI 4.0 and Apache.  My client has
been trying to get his email, but the first message is so big his receiving
program locks up.  I went into /usr/var/vpopmail/users/hisname/Maildir/new
and deleted the message with the lowest number, assuming that was the first
and hoping it was the culprit.  No such luck.

My questions to you:  Is there a command to show the size of the various
emails in his box without opening each one individually?  OR, did I go into
the wrong list?  Maybe /cur instead of /new?  Which one actually delivers
the mail?




Re: Client email won't download

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Pennace

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:19:35PM -0600, Virginia Chism wrote:
 Is there a command to show the size of the various
 emails in his box without opening each one individually?

ls -l




RE: Suggestions please

2001-02-12 Thread dennis

Hi Pete...

qmail-ldap has the ability to make Maildir's when missing if the user
authenticates via ldap (if approprate ldap entries are present for that
user)

My mistake re courier-pop3, I ment qmail-pop3

I've successfully set up courier-imap on my qmail test box that has been
running flawlessly for months, no big deal.

As a matter of fact, it was running...

qmail
qmail-pop3d
courier-imapd
sqwebmail


My confusion lies with the authentication system setup with ldap.





-Original Message-
From: Peter Cavender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 February 2001 2:10 PM
To: dennis
Subject: Re: Suggestions please


 Hi all...

 I was hoping to ask for assistance with a "very simple" plan of attack on
 setting up my new qmail server.

 My requirements.

 qmail
 qmail-ldap (authentication)
 courier-imap
 courier-pop3
 sqwebmail

 Can anyone outline a suggested plan. eg.

 patch qmail with qmail-ldap
 install openldap
 install openssl
 install qmail
 install courier-imap ...

 I'm confused about the way these systems will be interacting e.g..
 If I use courier-imap, what auth scheme will i need seeing as though I
want
 qmail-ldap to handle authentication and maildir creation ?

Why would qmail-ldap make maildirs?  Isn't that part of making new user
accounts?

 What auth screme with the pop3 server use ?

Why are you using the courier POP server rather than qmail-pop3d?  It hase
served me well so far...

 Am I making any sense ?

Well, yes, as a newbie :-)  I have been running qmail for 2 years but am
not just venturing into IMAP, so I both want to be of assistance, and
learn what you figure out... Folks on the list can be a bit short and
snarky, but with persistance you will find aid and info.

Pleased to meet you,

--Pete





RE: Client email won't download

2001-02-12 Thread Virginia Chism


Thank you one and all.  I am slowly getting to the bottom of this - and
learning a lot, too.




unable to establish an SMTP connection

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Hoover

I've been having an ongoing problem with mail delivery, and I'm stumped.  I've
searched the list archives, and haven't been able to find an answer...hopefully
one of you can point me in the right direction.

My home network is setup with a machine, ariel.hisword.net, that acts as a
firewall and mailhost for my internal private network.  My "main" desktop
machine is ezekiel.hisword.net, but it has no direct connection to the Internet
(it connects to the Internet thru ariel).  All mail is received by ariel, and
then mail addressed to thoover is forwarded to ezekiel.

The problem is this...every few days, ariel cannot connect to ezekiel.  Here's
a snippet from my mail.log when this happens:

Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.075740 starting delivery 744: msg 55634 to 
remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.077265 status: local 1/10 remote 2/20 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.117424 delivery 744: deferral: 
Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.118819 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.256362 new msg 55632 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.259617 info msg 55632: bytes 1588 from 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4617 uid 64010 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.477456 starting delivery 745: msg 55632 to 
local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.479578 status: local 2/10 remote 1/20 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.481258 delivery 743: success: 
did_0+1+0/qp_4617/ 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.483973 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.487246 end msg 55641 
Feb 12 20:56:41 ariel qmail: 982032998.872603 new msg 55637 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032998.874282 info msg 55637: bytes 1699 from 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4621 uid 1000 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.123494 delivery 745: success: 
did_0+1+0/qp_4621/ 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.124884 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.126232 starting delivery 746: msg 55637 to 
remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.127009 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.127716 end msg 55632 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.187387 delivery 746: deferral: 
Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ 
Feb 12 20:56:42 ariel qmail: 982032999.188806 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 

As you can see above, ariel is unable to establish an SMTP connection with
ezekiel, but continues to receive mail from the Internet.  I've tried
restarting both qmail and bind on both machines when this happens, but it
doesn't help.  If I just leave things alone, it will eventually start working
again (it may be 4-5 hrs, it may be 8-10 hrs, it may be 24 hrs, but it always
will start working again by itself).

When the problem is occuring, "telnet ezekiel 25" from ariel results in a
timeout, so it's apparent that they really cannot communicate during this time.
I assumed at this point that there was something happening on ezekiel that
caused it to fail to accept an SMTP connection, but a total reboot of ezekiel
made no difference.  

Now here's the weird thing... I found that a reboot of ariel fixes things right
up.  So, whatever is happening is a problem on ariel, which prevents it from
_connecting_ to the SMTP port on ezekiel (neither qmail nor telnet can
connect).  Whatever it is will eventually "cure" itself, but then will occur
again a day or two later.  A reboot "cures" the problem immediately.

I've been running Debian potato on both machines for several months.  When I
was running potato on ezekiel, and RH 5.2 on ariel, the problem never occured.
It started sometime after installing potato on ariel.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thanks!

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Re: Syslog? [was Re: Detail logging of POP3D]

2001-02-12 Thread richard

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bill Carlson wrote:

 Ok, finally a mention of WHICH syslog. Is that most people's
 experience, a problem with syslog on Solaris 2.x? I've run mostly
 Linux boxen over the years and have had little trouble with sysklogd,
 the daemon included with Redhat installations. But then, I tend to use
 a log host that is on an isolated, private LAN; UDP doesn't really
 bother me.

the version which ships with solaris (and SUNos) doesn't have the ability
to disable sync-to-disk on every log write (that i could find). I also
looked into ssylogd and nsyslogd: although they ran fine for UDP-logging
they didn't work properly for system logging and I didn't have a spare
solaris box to run one on really long term for serious debugging.

The LINUX syslogd has the same problems that the solaris one has with
respect to performance when writing to the logfiles (namely the fsync()
after every write) but this can be disabled by putting a '-' in front of
the filename like this:

mail.*  -/var/log/maillog

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RE: Client email won't download

2001-02-12 Thread Virginia Chism

Thanks for all your help.  I deleted the largest from both /cur and /new.
That did not help.  Since the client is also my husband, I felt safe in
reading the email to see if it were important, then deleted all the junk
from both directories.  Don't know which specific email was the problem, but
got rid of the hangup.  Looking back at the directories after the email was
delivered, I found that /cur is the actual delivering directory in this
situation.

Again, thanks.




vpopmail

2001-02-12 Thread alex

Hello,

 It might be stupid question, but I have no clue where should I put startup
line for qmail-pop3d and vchkpw? I tried in /var/qmail/rc but it didn't
work. Please help me!

aleks




Re: Client email won't download

2001-02-12 Thread Kurth Bemis

At 10:19 PM 2/12/2001, Virginia Chism wrote:

hrmsounds like a ownership problem...check ownerships on the files and 
dirs. they should be the user and group

~kurth

I am running Qmail on a Unix box with BSDI 4.0 and Apache.  My client has
been trying to get his email, but the first message is so big his receiving
program locks up.  I went into /usr/var/vpopmail/users/hisname/Maildir/new
and deleted the message with the lowest number, assuming that was the first
and hoping it was the culprit.  No such luck.

My questions to you:  Is there a command to show the size of the various
emails in his box without opening each one individually?  OR, did I go into
the wrong list?  Maybe /cur instead of /new?  Which one actually delivers
the mail?




ucspi-tcp man pages?

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Cavender

I just installed the latest ucspi-tcp from the tarball on cr.yp.to, and
there are no man pages.  My previous install almost 2 years ago included
them, and I am wondering if they are no longer included or if I missed
something.

Thanks,

Peter




Re: ucspi-tcp man pages?

2001-02-12 Thread cfm

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:47:38PM -0500, Peter Cavender wrote:
 I just installed the latest ucspi-tcp from the tarball on cr.yp.to, and
 there are no man pages.  My previous install almost 2 years ago included
 them, and I am wondering if they are no longer included or if I missed
 something.

Yeah, I have that problem too.  The qmail environment is so reliable 
I forget how it goes together and where are the sources. :-)

Thank you to everyone that made that possible.

cfm

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Compile error Courier-imap

2001-02-12 Thread The Afif

Dear Miliser,

I have some probelm when I compile courier-imap, the error message
when I compile is like this
[afif@dodol courier-imap-1.3.3]$ ./configure

checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot cre
ate executables.
configure: error: ./configure failed for bdbobj

need your solution pls

Tks   regards,
The Afif
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Re: Compile error Courier-imap

2001-02-12 Thread keng heng

your OS is solaris ?

- Original Message -
From: "The Afif" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:08 PM
Subject: Compile error Courier-imap


 Dear Miliser,

 I have some probelm when I compile courier-imap, the error message
 when I compile is like this
 [afif@dodol courier-imap-1.3.3]$ ./configure

 checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc  ) works... no
 configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot cre
 ate executables.
 configure: error: ./configure failed for bdbobj

 need your solution pls

 Tks   regards,
 The Afif
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]