RE: Qmail-remote stopped up?
Absolutely nothing in the logs. Hardware is fine, all other processes are working flawlessly. This box is well worked, but not even close to loaded (load avg stays around 0.25 to 0.30) except when restarting qmail. I just can't think of any reasonable explanation why qmail-remote would just sit there like that and not honor it's timeout. Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention. Top shows all these processes in a sbwait state. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 ** -Original Message- ** From: Jörgen Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ** Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:56 AM ** To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Subject: Re: Qmail-remote stopped up? ** ** ** On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:15:30PM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: ** For the last several months, I've been having some severe problems with ** qmail-remote. I've rebuilt from fresh sources and updated my system ** (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE) several times. Nothing seems to help. ** You can see ** what I'm seeing at http://home.psknet.com/troy/qmail-remote.txt. ** ** ** I've never seen anything like it... ** ** What does the logs say? ** Have you checked your hardware?? ** ** Jörgen ** **
RE: SSL
Sean, I'm using stunnel for this. Works very well. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 -Original Message-From: SeanW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: SSL Can qmail handle passing pop password via SSL ? Sean Weissensee
Re: Qmail-remote stopped up?
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:20:40AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: Absolutely nothing in the logs. Then either you didn't understand the question, or your logging is broken. To help us diagnose your hung qmail-remote problem, include all relevant log entries for remote deliveries, including the starting delivery lines.
Aliases
Hi, I'm using qmail aliases to create simple mailing lists. Does anyone know how to stop qmail from sending you a copy of your own message whenyou post to an alias that has your addressincluded in the alias? Cheers, -mic
softdnserror problem
Today I noticed an unusual delay when sending mail between two of my computers, along with something I'd never seen before in one of the Received headers. Quoted here is the relevant header: Received: from scylla.ellipsis.cx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by softdnserror with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 06:15:47 - This would seem to indicate some sort of a DNS problem, I gather. Charybdis, the machine receiving the mail, is also my DNS server, which is working fine, as far as I can tell. Just now, when I tried to generate another example of the problem, I noticed that it seems to have fixed itself, at least for mail being sent from scylla to charybdis. The Received header I got this time is just like the ones I was getting before the problem started: Received: from scylla.ellipsis.cx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 192.168.254.101 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 06:54:31 - But I still get the softdnserror header when sending mail from charybdis to scylla, and I know this wasn't happening yesterday. Any ideas about what's going on here? I'm stumped. -- J.
RE: Qmail-remote stopped up?
Very well, here's the log entry for the last message: 2001-06-04 21:04:21.325080500 new msg 7513010 2001-06-04 21:04:21.325300500 info msg 7513010: bytes 3585 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 46253 uid 82 2001-06-04 21:04:21.399088500 starting delivery 95298: msg 7513010 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-04 21:04:21.399269500 status: local 0/10 remote 13/30 There is no other reference to this message since, but there have been other messages from this user successfully sent to the same destination without problem: 2001-06-05 17:19:07.461645500 new msg 7512978 2001-06-05 17:19:07.461858500 info msg 7512978: bytes 4139 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 73680 uid 82 2001-06-05 17:19:07.534486500 starting delivery 104112: msg 7512978 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-06-05 17:19:07.534665500 status: local 0/10 remote 18/30 2001-06-05 17:19:09.393097500 delivery 104112: success: 208.11.16.8_accepted_message./ Remote_host_said:_250_Ok:_queued_as_E206B64C83/ 2001-06-05 17:19:09.399108500 status: local 0/10 remote 17/30 2001-06-05 17:19:09.399599500 end msg 7512978 Log entries for the other 'stuck' messages are the same: new, info, starting, status, then nothing. I have checked the entire log file and subsequent logs. Logging is working fine, qmail-remote is not. One question though... is there an identifier that links each log entry for a specific message? This has been one thing that bugs the hell out of me with qmail. Thanks, -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 ** -Original Message- ** From: Alex Pennace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ** Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:35 AM ** To: Troy Settle ** Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Subject: Re: Qmail-remote stopped up? ** ** ** On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:20:40AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: ** ** Absolutely nothing in the logs. ** ** Then either you didn't understand the question, or your logging is ** broken. ** ** To help us diagnose your hung qmail-remote problem, include all ** relevant log entries for remote deliveries, including the starting ** delivery lines. ** **
Re: mailquotacheck program exit code meaning?
In article 9fjudv$dss$[EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hello all: I has read mailquotacheck.sh .but I can't understand some exit code ,example ,exit 111,exit 100,Would you can explain ? where can found these code define ? and I want to specify some return to sender message how to do? Thank you. man qmail-command EXIT CODES command's exit codes are interpreted as follows: 0 means that the delivery was successful; 99 means that the deliv- ery was successful, but that qmail-local should ignore all further delivery instructions; 100 means that the delivery failed permanently (hard error); 111 means that the deliv- ery failed but should be tried again in a little while (soft error). Paul. -- | Paul Gregg|T: +44 (0) 28 90424190 | Technical Director|F: +44 (0) 28 90424709 | The Internet Business Ltd |W: http://www.tibus.com | Holywood House, Innis Court |E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Holywood, Co Down, BT18 9HF |P: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: softdnserror problem
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:05:54AM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: [snip] But I still get the softdnserror header when sending mail from charybdis to scylla, and I know this wasn't happening yesterday. Any ideas about what's going on here? I'm stumped. My wildest guess is that the resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is broken. Greetz, Peter.
Re: AntiVirus
The best antivirus for qmail is AVP www.avp.ru D. Riera GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail (scan incomming and outgoing messages)? thanks --yapedu
pop3 login
Hi I'm having a cluster of two pop3 servers using vpopmail+qmail. My monitoring program is mon, because I've a LVS solution. Sometimes, I have mon reporting false alarms about pop3 login on just one server: with false alarm I mean an alarm about the pop3 server at first attempt and an ok situation at second one. Controls are done every minute. The monitoring program (written in perl) is doing: telnet server port HELO monhost quit My logs about the pop3 program show no problems even when I've got the error (i'm sure about the event because all machines are syncronized with ntp): 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759320500 tcpserver: status: 1/50 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759856500 tcpserver: pid 20437 from monitor 2001-06-06 10:53:14.759990500 tcpserver: ok 20437 servername:serverip:port :monitormachienip::port 2001-06-06 10:53:14.768756500 tcpserver: end 20437 status 256 2001-06-06 10:53:14.768840500 tcpserver: status: 0/50 I tried to sets timeout to 5 seconds but (1) doesn't solve the problem, (2) makes no sense cause the telnet from the monitor machine is 1 sec. What can be the problem? TCPSERVER isn't spawn a qmail-pop3 well or there can be other problems? --- Cordiali saluti / Best regards Andrea Cerrito ^^ Net.Admin @ Centro MultiMediale di Terni S.p.A. P.zzale Bosco 3A 05100 Terni IT Tel. +39 744 5441330 Fax. +39 744 5441372
about omail web based email
HI, I know this is not the right mailling list, but anybody here knows if omail-webmail is possible to run as sudo and in mod_perl? if yes how can i configure it? thank you!
Using Qmail as an exchange server ??
Hi ALL, I have been asked a question - and I have no idea on how to answer. Maybe you-all can help : Can a qmail server be used as a replacement for an MS Exchange server ?? What the idea is - MS EXchange does not work that good :) - and we need to replace it - but the exchange server does a poll to another Primary server at a ISP. This hold the mail spool - and when the exchange server dials in - gets the mail and the distributes it locallly . Can this be done with qmail ??? Many thanks Tonino
How to make a qmail hub relay ?
I search in archive's list but I didn't find how to make a qmail hub relay. Anybody can elp me how to makea hub. I want my qmail server to receive mail for a lot domain (know domain :) ) and to redirect to different mail server (foreign mail server). Thx for your help.
Re: Using Qmail as an exchange server ??
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:20:47PM +0200, Tonino Greco wrote: Hi ALL, I have been asked a question - and I have no idea on how to answer. Maybe you-all can help : Can a qmail server be used as a replacement for an MS Exchange server ?? What the idea is - MS EXchange does not work that good :) - and we need to replace it - but the exchange server does a poll to another Primary server at a ISP. This hold the mail spool - and when the exchange server dials in - gets the mail and the distributes it locallly . Can this be done with qmail ??? Probably. How does it poll? Greetz, Peter.
How I can analysis address in all incoming mail.
I want drop one my domain name (I can't use one my old domain name). I want make some temporary change in my configuration. If qmail receive (via SMTP) mail with address having this old domain name send automaticly to sender mail-info (eg. You use old name of our domain (), Your mail was delivered correctly, but next time send mail using domain ). But I want delivery all mail to user. I can't add to all aliasses .qmail-* some line (commands). I want make some preprocessing every mail (send or not bounce) and next make standard delivery. Robert Skup [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. Maybe temporary changing qmail-smptd (add some linie) is not stiupid ?
Re: How to make a qmail hub relay ?
* NICOLAS Jean-Michel (@ HoME) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:25]: I search in archive's list but I didn't find how to make a qmail hub relay. Anybody can elp me how to make a hub. I want my qmail server to receive mail for a lot domain (know domain :) ) and to redirect to different mail server (foreign mail server). This is very simple in qmail. Install qmail, put all of the domains you will be a hub for in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts (and NOT in locals or virtualdomains) and make one line for each domain in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes like this: the.do.main:[ip.of.real.server] man qmail-control is your friend. For advanced users: use morerctphosts -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
Re: How to make a qmail hub relay ?
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:25:36PM +0200, NICOLAS Jean-Michel (@ HoME) wrote: I search in archive's list but I didn't find how to make a qmail hub relay. Anybody can elp me how to make a hub. I want my qmail server to receive mail for a lot domain (know domain :) ) and to redirect to different mail server (foreign mail server). The archives might not explain it but the FAQ[1] does. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html
Multiple Location
Hi, I can't really think of a good subject, so i just name it that way. I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic Johnny
TCP Server Question
I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there will be people here that can answer this question. I have a box that runs QMail TCPServer. The box has multiple external addresses that are used to route various port connections to internal network addresses using redir. My problem is that I now find that I need to route a port 25 connection into the network. The problem I am having is that TCPServer is binding to all the interface addresses and as such redir can not bind to the address and port I need. My question is how do I limit TCPServer to a specific address when it starts listening on ports 25 and 110. Thanks Duncan
Re: qmail is slow
Charles: Hi ..Thanks for the reply! Charles Cazabon wrote: Federico Edelman Anaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: You might also want to set up a second qmail installation on the central server to do nothing but handle messages injected via SMTP. That will allow the qmail-send sending the ezmlm messages to go full speed by offloading bounce messages delivery to another qmail-send process. Ummmh.. I don't understand how can I install 2 qmail in the same server?? Unpack the qmail source in a separate place. Change conf-qmail to /var/qmail2. Do make setup check. Start qmail-smtpd from the second instance to receive bounces. Ok ... but, what do I need with the /var/qmail/queue? Must be the same or linked? How can I do for the connection two Qmails? Thanks! 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: TCP Server Question
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Duncan MacMillan wrote: I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there will be people here that can answer this question. I have a box that runs QMail TCPServer. The box has multiple external addresses that are used to route various port connections to internal network addresses using redir. My problem is that I now find that I need to route a port 25 connection into the network. The problem I am having is that TCPServer is binding to all the interface addresses and as such redir can not bind to the address and port I need. My question is how do I limit TCPServer to a specific address when it starts listening on ports 25 and 110. Somewhere in the tcpserver line, there is a '0'. Change that to the IP you want it to bind to. Greetz, Peter.
Re: TCP Server Question
Duncan MacMillan([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.06 15:27:49 +: I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there will be people here that can answer this question. I have a box that runs QMail TCPServer. The box has multiple external addresses that are used to route various port connections to internal network addresses using redir. My problem is that I now find that I need to route a port 25 connection into the network. The problem I am having is that TCPServer is binding to all the interface addresses and as such redir can not bind to the address and port I need. My question is how do I limit TCPServer to a specific address when it starts listening on ports 25 and 110. yes, read the docs to tcpserver replace the 0 witht he ip and everything will be fine. of course you will have to start a supervise with tcpserver for every single address you are binding to on every prot you are binding to. /k Thanks Duncan -- Things can only really be scientifically true if they could also be false with different data. --Karl Popper KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karstenrohrbach.de -- alphangenn.net -- alphascene.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 PGP signature
pop server
is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? --yapedu
RE: TCP Server Question
I'm assuming you're calling tcpserver in a similar manner: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -u -g 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ^ change the 0 to the address that you want tcpserver to bind to. Hope this helps, Travis L. Leuthauser Network Administrator Broadband IP, Inc. -Original Message- From: Duncan MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TCP Server Question I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there will be people here that can answer this question. I have a box that runs QMail TCPServer. The box has multiple external addresses that are used to route various port connections to internal network addresses using redir. My problem is that I now find that I need to route a port 25 connection into the network. The problem I am having is that TCPServer is binding to all the interface addresses and as such redir can not bind to the address and port I need. My question is how do I limit TCPServer to a specific address when it starts listening on ports 25 and 110. Thanks Duncan
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Re: TCP Server Question
Peter van Dijk writes: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Duncan MacMillan wrote: I'm sorry if this is off topic for this list, but I'm assuming that there will be people here that can answer this question. I have a box that runs QMail TCPServer. The box has multiple external addresses that are used to route various port connections to internal network addresses using redir. My problem is that I now find that I need to route a port 25 connection into the network. The problem I am having is that TCPServer is binding to all the interface addresses and as such redir can not bind to the address and port I need. My question is how do I limit TCPServer to a specific address when it starts listening on ports 25 and 110. Somewhere in the tcpserver line, there is a '0'. Change that to the IP you want it to bind to. Yep. In fact, I strongly recommend that an ISP always run two instances of qmail-smtpd. One should be bound to the IP address whose hostname is published in MX records. The other should be bound to an IP address bound to a name like smtp.example.com, which users configure into their email clients for outgoing relaying. This is not to solve the problem of open relays, but instead to solve the problem of external denial of service attacks. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | John Hartford, RIP Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
RE: about omail web based email
* There are currently 2 mailing lists : - omail-news : read-only announce mailing list (for new release announces) http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/omail-news - omail-devel : public mailing list for devel support. http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/omail-devel -Original Message- From: KIM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: about omail web based email HI, I know this is not the right mailling list, but anybody here knows if omail-webmail is possible to run as sudo and in mod_perl? if yes how can i configure it? thank you!
Re: pop server
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail-pop3d, ofcourse. Greetz, Peter.
QmailLDAP/Control Patch
The faq for qmail-ldap (see below) provides a link to download the qmail-ldap-control patch, but the directory on the server is empty. I checked google's cached copy and it had files dating 2001050n. Are there any official mirrors? The FAQ: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/#The qmail-ldap-control patch The link is: http://qmail.bayour.com/patches_ldap/ Thanks, Mike
Re: Multiple Location
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic You can either have a central server that knows where everyone is, and the 10 local servers simply relay non-local mail to it, or replicate that knowledge amongst the 10 local servers. Either way: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures/PIC.local2alias -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple Location
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Adrian Ho wrote: You can either have a central server that knows where everyone is, and the 10 local servers simply relay non-local mail to it, or replicate that knowledge amongst the 10 local servers. Either way: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures/PIC.local2alias And for the central routing server: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/incominguser.html#luser-relay -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail is slow
Federico Edelman Anaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Cazabon wrote: Federico Edelman Anaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: You might also want to set up a second qmail installation on the central server to do nothing but handle messages injected via SMTP. That will allow the qmail-send sending the ezmlm messages to go full speed by offloading bounce messages delivery to another qmail-send process. Ummmh.. I don't understand how can I install 2 qmail in the same server?? Unpack the qmail source in a separate place. Change conf-qmail to /var/qmail2. Do make setup check. Start qmail-smtpd from the second instance to receive bounces. Ok ... but, what do I need with the /var/qmail/queue? Must be the same or linked? No, no, no -- that would break lots of things. Your first instance of qmail lives in /var/qmail/ and handles all your outgoing list mail. It's mail queue is in /var/qmail/queue/, the binaries are in /var/qmail/bin/, control files in /var/qmail/control, etc. You don't run qmail-smtpd for this instance. The second instance of qmail lives in /var/qmail2/ . The queue is in /var/qmail2/queue/ . Binaries are in /var/qmail2/bin/ . Control files are in /var/qmail2/control/ . You run /var/qmail2/bin/qmail-smtpd (through tcpserver) on port 25 to accept bounces from the outgoing list mails from the other qmail instance. That way, bounces are injected into /var/qmail2/queue/ instead of /var/qmail/queue/ -- and you don't run into the problem where qmail-send from the first instance of qmail has to pause processing of outgoing messages to handle incoming ones. How can I do for the connection two Qmails? There is no connection, really. 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: qmail receiving mail from outside OK - please validate
Ashe Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks VERY much to those who responded to my call for help regarding qmail: qmail ONLY selectively receiving mail from outside I've modified the hosts.allow as follows. This, I think, should do what I wish -- allow relaying for our local Lan (204.48.149.x) users while, for all other users, allow receiving mail while preventing relaying. === Start /etc/hosts.allow excerpt = tcp-env : 204.48.149.: setenv RELAYCLIENT tcp-env : ALL === End /etc/hosts.allow excerpt= I would appreciate anyone confirming that I've now got it set up correctly for my needs (I have read all your tcpserver suggetions and may try this next). It looks right. Is that what you wanted to hear? 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. ---
[OT] qmail php
When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
Re: Aliases
Please don't post a new question by replying to a previous message -- it really messes up the threading in our MUAs and in the mailing list archives. Post a new message instead. Michael Cartmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using qmail aliases to create simple mailing lists. Does anyone know how to stop qmail from sending you a copy of your own message when you post to an alias that has your address included in the alias? qmail doesn't do this; it's a broken sendmail-ism. If you don't want to see messages in your inbox that come from you, you can filter them out with a simple shellscript in your .qmail file. 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: Using Qmail as an exchange server ??
Tonino Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] What the idea is - MS EXchange does not work that good :) - and we need to replace it - but the exchange server does a poll to another Primary server at a ISP. This hold the mail spool - and when the exchange server dials in - gets the mail and the distributes it locallly . Can this be done with qmail ??? You could probably do this with a combination of qmail and fetchmail. Fetchmail is at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ -ScottG.
Re: Multiple Location
Lye On Siong Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic One typical way to handle this would be to have separate subdomains for each of the ten offices. For instance, if you operate foo.com, and you have offices in Sydney, Istanbul, Toronto, Atlanta, and Milan, you might have separate mail servers in each of those locations. You create subdomains like sydney.foo.com, milan.foo.com, etc. Joe Smith is [EMAIL PROTECTED] while Mary Black is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. You could probably also do this all transparently with qmail-ldap, but I've never used it. See (I think) lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ or find a pointer from qmail.org. 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: pop server
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail includes qmail-pop3d, which does everything I need it to. What is your criteria for better? 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: pop server
qmail-pop3d? comes with qmail, only works for ./Maildir/ what could be better? -Original Message- From: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:44 AM To: qmail list Subject: pop server is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? --yapedu
Re: pop server
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? A pop3d daemon comes with qmail. The FAQ[1] describes how to install it. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html
RE: Qmail-remote stopped up?
Jorgen, Thanks for the input. Out of 10k+ messages per day, only 5-6 qmail-remote processes get stuck per week. To date, I've not been able to identify any consistancy among message size, composition, or remote mail server. It appears to be fairly random. Network connectivity is fine, the vast majority of mail comes and goes as quickly as you please, I'm also doing backup MX for a couple other networks without problem. Internet connectivity is good as well, I'm multihomed between Sprint and ATT and utilize 100MB Ethernet between the mail server and router (fxp 2924 3640 world). RAM is also fine. Out of 256MB, I generally have 20-30mb free (this box is also doing DNS, Radius, and some light-weight web serving). Anything else worth looking at? -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 ** -Original Message- ** From: Jörgen Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ** Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:37 AM ** To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Subject: Re: Qmail-remote stopped up? ** ** ** On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:06:57AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: ** ** Very well, here's the log entry for the last message: ** ** 2001-06-04 21:04:21.325080500 **new msg 7513010 ** 2001-06-04 21:04:21.325300500 **info msg 7513010: bytes 3585 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 46253 uid 82 ** 2001-06-04 21:04:21.399088500 **starting delivery 95298: msg 7513010 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 2001-06-04 21:04:21.399269500 **status: local 0/10 remote 13/30 ** ** There is no other reference to this message since, but there ** have been other ** messages from this user successfully sent to the same ** destination without ** problem: ** [snip] ** ** ** I do not think qmail is failing, something else is... ** ** The stuck messages is not delivered, ie they ought to be in the queue. ** can you read them the CLI way?? If you can -- check your internet ** connection (DNS, load balancer, NIC and whatever might be between you ** and the rest of the world). By the way, don't forget to check your RAM. ** ** Jörgen ** **
Re: Multiple Location
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:19:24PM +0800, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: Hi, I can't really think of a good subject, so i just name it that way. I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic Yes it is possible and the FAQ[1] describes how to do it. Jörgen [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html
RE: pop server
How does vpopmail compare? -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:08 AM To: qmail list Subject: Re: pop server On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:43:55AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail-pop3d, ofcourse. Greetz, Peter.
vpopmail authentication
I'm trying to use vpopmail with qmail on a Suse Linux PC, but I'm having a problem in retrieving the emails with the POP client. In vpopmail I created a new domain test.it, with a new user utente and password testutente. After setting the right stuff into my DNS server, I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email has been delivered correctly to vpopmail/domain/test.it/utente/new directory and the logfile reports no errors, but when I try to connect to the mailserver with a POP client (outlook express) configured for this account, I get an authentication failure error message from the server.
Re: Multiple Location
Adrian, DISCLAIMER I've only been playing with qmail for a few months and it's only installed on one server, but here's what I would suggest. /DISCLAIMER Setup qmail/ldap at all of your pops. Enable clustering (in qmail) and have the local (remote POPs) mail servers replicate the core/primary ldap server (see FAQ for OpenLDAP (slurpd i think). You can then define mailhost (I think that's the attribute name--somebody correct me if I'm wrong) for each user in LDAP to the the mail server at their primary POP. This seems like the cleanest way to approach the problem. You could then setup caching dns server as the remote POPs and use bind 9 views (not very familiar with this) for each POP so that mail.yourdomain.tld == local mail server. This really isn't necessary, but it would make life a little easier for your support people. Anyone want to correct/critique this generalization? Thanks, Mike Adrian Ho wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic You can either have a central server that knows where everyone is, and the 10 local servers simply relay non-local mail to it, or replicate that knowledge amongst the 10 local servers. Either way: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures/PIC.local2alias -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Local Delivery failure
Thanks for all the good help. The problem was that there was no .qmail file in the user's home directory, and that it needs to be chmod'ed to 644. I also did a chmod -R 755 Maildir, and that did the trick. I sent two test messages, one using IP's and the other using DNS. Both of them worked. This is my first mail server, and this is really cool stuff! -Original Message- From: Daniel Bakken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:38 AM To: Qmail List Subject: Local Delivery failure I keep receiving the following error message in my log file when I send a test message to the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my mail server) @40003b1e30a20babb19c new msg 115977 @40003b1e30a20babc13c info msg 115977: bytes 2850 from qp 11027 uid 507 @40003b1e30a20d805e14 starting delivery 5: msg 115977 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003b1e30a20d809c94 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40003b1e30a20e6d0bec delivery 5: deferral: dot-forward:_fatal:_unable_to_read_./Maildir/:_is_a_directory/ @40003b1e30a20e6d5624 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Below is my rc file. #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' Any way you can make sense out of this mess? I am using maildir delivery as you can see, which I assume should dump the mail into the subdir /home/mailtest/Maildir/new (right?). From there pop3 should be able to deliver to local MUA's like Outlook with no problems. What am I missing here? Sincerely, Daniel Bakken, Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Encore Trading West | www.encoretrading.com 254.771.3508 phone 254.771.3786 fax
Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. sendmail would send the sender a warning after 2 hours (actually, this time was configurable) if it has been unable to send the message. Can qmail do this? Currently, if our support staff sends a customer an email, they may not find out for 5 days that the email never reached the customer for whatever reason (badly typed email address, etc.). I have looked through the man pages and done several searches through the archives to no avail. The fact that I did not find a discussion of why qmail does not do this (especially when someone posted a long list of sendmail 'features' that qmail was missing, but did not list this one) gives me hope that it is actually in there somewhere. I also found nothing on the web site or in the FAQ, so now I am tackling source code 8-(. -- There is no parameter that makes it impossibleJack McKinney for you to perform still more excellently. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mario Cuomo, on the lack of a clock in baseballhttp://www.lorentz.com 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch tohomedir error
Hi, I've probably missed something embarassingly obvious, but please be patient as I've never used Qmail before. Anyway, here is my tale: I've just installed qmail 1.03 on a new linuxppc box (essentially RH linux on mac hardware). I've set up locals, rcpthosts and me; and I've created some users and set them up for mail with qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. The problem: Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual SMTP), it is queued but never delivered. For each delivery attempt, the log shows: ...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx--). However, even if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does not go away. It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home dir. Delivery to ~alias/Mailbox works fine, but that is the only location to which mail is delivered. If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated. If so, please cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks! Bob Hobbs
Re: [OT] qmail php
I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
Re: AntiVirus
Hi, RAV AntiVirus can help you: http://www.ravantivirus.com regards, Mihai GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. Where can I find information about antivirus for qmail (scan incomming and outgoing messages)? thanks --yapedu -- Software Developer - GeCAD The Software Company Tel./Fax: +40-1-321.78.03; Hotline: +40-1-321.78.59; Please visit http://www.gecadsoftware.com; http://www.ravantivirus.com
RE: Using Qmail as an exchange server ??
It depends on which version of Exchange you are talking about I run this exact same setup with Exchange 4.0 and qmail running outside the firewall. Exchange 4.0 does not support pop3, so there is a program freely available called pullmail that can be run on the NT Exchange server to pop email from qmail and shove it into Exchange SMTP This setup isn't the best, but it's working pretty good right now... In the mean time, I am planning on replacing Exchange with InsightServer from Bynari. Looks to be a pretty good drop in replacement for Exchange that runs on *NIX, and supports Outlook, as well as many other MUAs You can find it here: http://www.bynari.com . I don't work for Bynari, I'm just interested in their software. Good Luck! .mark -- From: Scott Gifford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 7:30 AM To:Tonino Greco Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using Qmail as an exchange server ?? Tonino Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] What the idea is - MS EXchange does not work that good :) - and we need to replace it - but the exchange server does a poll to another Primary server at a ISP. This hold the mail spool - and when the exchange server dials in - gets the mail and the distributes it locallly . Can this be done with qmail ??? You could probably do this with a combination of qmail and fetchmail. Fetchmail is at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ -ScottG.
Re: vpopmail authentication
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:24:38PM +0200, Franco Vecchiato wrote: In vpopmail I created a new domain test.it, with a new user utente and password testutente. After setting the right stuff into my DNS server, I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email has been delivered correctly to vpopmail/domain/test.it/utente/new directory and the logfile reports no errors, but when I try to connect to the mailserver with a POP client (outlook express) configured for this account, I get an authentication failure error message from the server. What does the maillog say when you try to check your email? -- Erich Zigler One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
Re: pop server
Virginia Chism [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any pop server for qmail better than qpopper 4.0? qmail-pop3d, ofcourse. How does vpopmail compare? Not positive on this, but I belive vpopmail uses qmail-pop3d to provide POP3 access, just like vmailmgr does. The only part that changes between a single domain qmail-pop3d setup and a multiple virtual domains setup is the checkpassword used to do authentication. 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: pop server
qmail includes qmail-pop3d, which does everything I need it to. What is your criteria for better? I said better in terms of performance. I was using sendmail/qpopper from several years ago and last month I switch to qmail and (thanks god ;-) it's working ok. I'd read in the list several messages talking about pop servers but nobody named qpopper, so I was asking for a good reason to change qpopper. do you think qmail-pop3d is a good choice? PD: I'm not using Maildir PD2: Sorry for my english! --yapedu/xgnu
Re: Multiple Location
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:26:06AM -0400, Mike Cathey wrote: Setup qmail/ldap at all of your pops. Enable clustering (in qmail) and have the local (remote POPs) mail servers replicate the core/primary ldap server (see FAQ for OpenLDAP (slurpd i think). You can then define mailhost (I think that's the attribute name--somebody correct me if I'm wrong) for each user in LDAP to the the mail server at their primary POP. This seems like the cleanest way to approach the problem. ACK. You could then setup caching dns server as the remote POPs and use bind 9 views (not very familiar with this) for each POP so that mail.yourdomain.tld == local mail server. This really isn't necessary, but it would make life a little easier for your support people. I'd use djbdns and its location codes... -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
mail.local problems
I am runnign FreeBSD 4.3. I just installed qmail and am loving it. Everything is great except one problem. I can get mail delivered using Maildirs. I can get mail delivered using Mailboxes. I cannot get mail delivered to my /var/mail/user directories. I read the INSTALL.vsm document and know I need to use /var/qmail/boot/binm1. But for some reason /usr/libexec/mail.local fails to deliver mail. The maillog complains about: Jun 5 23:38:23 tanuki mail.local: lockmailbox /var/mail/mhr failed; error code 75 Jun 5 23:38:23 tanuki qmail: 991809503.505219 delivery 2: deferral: mail.local:_lockmailbox_/var/mail/mhr_failed;_error_code_75_/ Anyone know what error_code 75 is? Or how I could find out for myself in the future? Thanks in advance. mhr
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. See qmail.org. The answer is there. 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: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
* Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:54]: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. (Hint: try searching the archives on ``notify''.) sendmail would send the sender a warning after 2 hours (actually, this time was configurable) if it has been unable to send the message. Can qmail do this? Currently, if our support staff sends a customer an email, they may not find out for 5 days that the email never reached the customer for whatever reason (badly typed email address, etc.). [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch tohomedir error
Bob, Ok all the home directories are 700 bout what does the permissions on the /home read? Sean - Original Message - From: Bob Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch tohomedir error Hi, I've probably missed something embarassingly obvious, but please be patient as I've never used Qmail before. Anyway, here is my tale: I've just installed qmail 1.03 on a new linuxppc box (essentially RH linux on mac hardware). I've set up locals, rcpthosts and me; and I've created some users and set them up for mail with qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. The problem: Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual SMTP), it is queued but never delivered. For each delivery attempt, the log shows: ...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx--). However, even if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does not go away. It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home dir. Delivery to ~alias/Mailbox works fine, but that is the only location to which mail is delivered. If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated. If so, please cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks! Bob Hobbs
RE: [OT] qmail php
Did you setup the symbolic link to the qmail-sendmail wrapper? qmail has a sendmail wrapper so other programs will think sendmail is installed: (from life with qmail) ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin or wherever your sendmail is supposed to reside, but these are common defaults. Should make php think sendmail is installed. It worked for me. Hank -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:50 AM To: Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
Auto-responders
I'm more than willing to search out the answer, I just can't find the archives. Where are the qmail archives kept? I would like to find a simple email auto-responder. Something that doesn't require me to install a ton of extra's. I only have one person that needs this functionality. - Gary
RE: [OT] qmail php
you must install php pre-qmail. PHP compiles with the sendmail executables and libraries. so: install os (w/sendmail) install php install qmail follow the qmail faq for linking to qmail executables change sendmail_path to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject in php.ini This is how I did it and it works great on a machine with big.concurrency patch and 400 remote processes. -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:50 AM To: Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains [root@austin-jump network-scripts]# more /etc/qmail/control/locals austin-jump.vircio.com jump-austin.vircio.com ns1.vircio.com plywood.hayslumber.com [root@austin-jump network-scripts]# more /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts asistacorp.com aus.ucrrealty.com austin-jump.vircio.com avails.com beecavecontract.com bonner-carrington.com bonnercarrington.com borderent.com breakfastbuzz.com coastaltechcorp.com communityinvestment.com cordesign.com deepeddy.com fontaine.org hayslumber.com hearthstonehealth.com hillcountry.com jcevans.com jump-austin.vircio.com mailhost.asistacorp.com mailhost.aus.ucrrealty.com mailhost.bonner-carrington.com mailhost.bonnercarrington.com mailhost.borderent.com mailhost.breakfastbuzz.com mailhost.communityinvestment.com mailhost.cordesign.com mailhost.deepeddy.com mailhost.hayslumber.com mailhost.parkbendhealth.com mailhost.sagebrookhealth.com mailhost.sat.ucrrealty.com mailhost.smart-cycle.com mailhost.stonebridgehealth.com mailhost.tx.com mailhost.ucr-sa.com mailhost.vircio.com mailhost.warrencordes.com mailhost.yakuh.com nevmg.com ns1.vircio.com nursinghomealliance.org parkbendhealth.com plywood.hayslumber.com quannah.com quannahracing.com sagebrookhealth.com sat.ucrrealty.com scicomp.com scicomp.net scicomp.org stonebridgehealth.com thevanco.com tx.com ucr-aus.com ucr-sa.com usandp.com vercio.com vircio.com vistaoaksal.com vistaoakshealth.com warrencordes.com weaver.net yakuh.com my smtp.cdb contains: 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :allow Looking at the guts of the message in the queue, I find: [root@austin-jump network-scripts]# more /var/qmail/queue/*/*/48256|more :: /var/qmail/queue/info/2/48256 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:: /var/qmail/queue/mess/2/48256 :: Received: (qmail 2993 invoked by uid 104); 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 - Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by austin-jump.vircio.com with qmail-scanner- 0.90 (uvscan: v4.1.20/v4127. . Clean. Processed in 3.919065 secs); 05/06/2001 09 :44:13 Received: from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net (HELO oemcomputer???1 02.74.4.25???by?mtiwmhc08.worldnet.att.net??InterMail?v03.02.07.07?118-134??with ?SMTP?id??2116195506.ZOOK28505@oemcomputer??from?worldnet.att.net???12.77.19 4.15???by?mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.netmindspring??user-3qt5hn.dialup.mindspring.co m?99.174.150.55???by?smtp6.mindspring.com??8.9.3/8.8.5??with?SMTP?id?OAA06398??f rom?110140321worldnet.att.net???102.70.21.32???by?mtiwmhc98.worldnet.att.net??In terMail?v03.02.07.07?118-134??with?SMTP?id?20090116195452.ZOMX28505@110940321wor ldnet.att.net?myrop??ew6.southwind.net??216.53.98.70???by?onyx.southwind.net?fro m?homepage.com??114.230.197.216??by?newmail.spectraweb.ch?from?default??m202.2-2 5.warwick.net??218.242.202.80???byhost.warwick.net??8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10? ?with?SMTP?id?e9GKEKk19201mcpeely.concentric.net??mcfeely.concentric.net??217.15 .198.83??by?darius.concentric.net??8.9.1a/?98/12/15?5.12???id?PAA04003from?defau lt??m202.2-25.warwick.net??218.242.202.80???byhost.warwick.net??8.10.0.Beta10/8. 10.0.Beta10??with?SMTP?id?e0GKEKk19201taffar??pool-209-138-205-92-dlls.grid.net? ?219.138.205.92???by?smtp7.atl.mindspring.net??ts029d25.nil-ny.concentric.net??2 16.173.24.181??) ([4.45.125.13]) (envelope-sender [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 216.30.106.234 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 5 Jun 2001 14:44:12 - Message-ID: 43dd503b$74cb$57aa@oemcomputer ([102.74.4.25]) by mtiwm hc08.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id 2116195 506.ZOOK28505@oemcomputer from worldnet.att.net ([12.77.194.15]) by mtiwmhc03.w orldnet.att.netmindspring (user-3qt5hn.dialup.mindspring.com[99.174.150.55]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06398 from 110140321worldnet .att.net ([102.70.21.32]) by mtiwmhc98.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07.07 118-134) with SMTP id[EMAIL PROTECTED]myrop ( ew6.southwind.net [216.53.98.70]) by onyx.southwind.net from homepage.com (114.2 30.197.216) by newmail.spectraweb.ch from default (m202.2-25.warwick.net [218.24 2.202.80]) byhost.warwick.net (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) with SMTP id e9GKEKk 19201mcpeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [217.15.198.83])by darius.co ncentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id PAA04003from default (m202.2-25.warwick .net [218.242.202.80]) byhost.warwick.net
Re: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch to homedir error
Bob Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem: Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual SMTP), it is queued but never delivered. For each delivery attempt, the log shows: ...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx--). However, even if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does not go away. qmail switches UIDs to the user account before trying to deliver to it. Therefore, if the message is for local user bob, qmail (well, qmail-local actually) becomes user bob before trying the delivery. This message means that user bob was denied access to /home/bob (if you didn't change anything to obscure info -- a nono, by the way). What is the output of the following command: ls -ld / /home /home/bob ? It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home dir. It won't, becuase qmail isn't getting that far before it fails. If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated. If so, please cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. You really should subscribe to the list if you want help from the list. I generally send the reply only to the list, but I'll make an exception this time. 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: pop server
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using sendmail/qpopper from several years ago and last month I switch to qmail and (thanks god ;-) it's working ok. I'd read in the list several messages talking about pop servers but nobody named qpopper, so I was asking for a good reason to change qpopper. do you think qmail-pop3d is a good choice? For me, yes. For you, no -- qmail-pop3d supports _only_ Maildir. PD2: Sorry for my english! Your English is fine, except I think you mean P.S. instead of PD. 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: softdnserror problem
Quoth Peter van Dijk: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:05:54AM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: [snip] But I still get the softdnserror header when sending mail from charybdis to scylla, and I know this wasn't happening yesterday. Any ideas about what's going on here? I'm stumped. My wildest guess is that the resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is broken. Greetz, Peter. [Sorry, Peter, I'd meant to send this to the list, not just you.] Hmmm. That seems weird, since the only nameserver I have listed is mine, and it appears to be working. If it is broken, it must be something rather subtle, since I've had no trouble doing all sorts of DNS-heavy things like web surfing, and the few hundred messages my mail server handles daily all seem to be getting through. Furthermore, the IP that shows up in the header when it's working is a local IP---192.168.254.101---which it should find in /etc/hosts without needing to resort to DNS. The lookup order in /etc/host.conf has hosts before dns, so it should be looking there first. Does this give anyone an idea about what, specifically, is broken w/r/t the resolver? -- J.
Qmail-Inject syntax
I would like to send a message from an account named admin, but with the name CareerCast in the sender field instead of just [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is possible that my terminology here is slightly off, but I hope what I want to do is somewhat clear. I read in the man page that I could set the variables QMAILNAME and QMAILUSER as below, but it doesn't seem to be working when I send test messages to myself. They still say [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any tips? Thanks! Matt Here's my command sequence-- [admin@email admin]$ QMAILUSER=CareerCast [admin@email admin]$ QMAILNAME=CareerCast [admin@email admin]$ echo test | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [admin@email admin]$ echo test | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] qmail php
I have a machine with apache_mod_ssl+php4+mod_jk and the MTA is qmail and i have yet to have any problems using php scripts on it. I am using a FreeBSD 4.1.1 Box and for the sendmail mailwrapper i used this If the system undergoes a 'make world', its going to replace the sendmail link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, qmail and break the package. Dj-vapor kindly pointed out that linking to the qmail's sendmail binary at/var/qmail/bin/sendmail is a not the best solution, there's an even more fun way of doing it. He suggests using mailwrapper to link to qmail's sendmail binary. First we'll link the old sendmail binary to mailwrapper. Lastly, we'll edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf and replace the old sendmail binary locations with qmail's sendmail binary. # ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/mailwrapper # pico -w /etc/mail/mailer.conf Replace the following lines: sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail With: sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail # send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -bp # mailq /var/qmail/bin/sendmail # newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases If you want more information on mailwrapper, then type the line below on your FreeBSD machine.: # man mailwrapper If you don't want to use mailwrapper, then you can simply link the old sendmail binary to qmail's sendmail binary using one of the methods below Good Luck Jps -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:50 AM To: Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
qmail-inject error
I ocassionally (once a week) am getting: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) I found this list of possible problems: -out of disk space 3.1G free. -out of inodes I don't see how. There are 56800 files in 1365 dirs on that partition. That partition is ReiserFS. -permissions on the queue directories are wrong -ownership of the queue directories are wrong Those are fine. Like I said it is only once in week of sending 1 emails. Seems like I would see a more cronic problem if this were true. I can tell you that this does happen while we are doing a large mailing of individual messages (not spam) to our readers. It is not a newsletter, but unique information for each user so we are issuing say 700-1600 mail() commands from PHP over a period of time. For those not familiar with PHP, this would be one call to the sendmail alias in qmail for each call to mail(). Perhaps I need to change PHP to use qmail-inject directly? I do know from the logs that no more than 20-30 messages are ever in the queue at a time. concurrencyremote is 120 and is never approached by this mailing. Anyone have any ideas? Brian Moon -- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 13:44:56 -0500 For the record, I've added that envelope to my badmailfrom and deleted a bunch of stuff by hand, but I'd still like to know how they managed to use me as a relay. My configuration hasn't changed. It also seems to me that this list is running very slow right now. Is it possible that some spammer found an exploit and is also hitting muncher.math.uic.edu in the same way I was being hit? Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: [OT] qmail php
On Wed, Jun 06 2001, Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). 'ts not just a PHP issue but a sendmail-compatibility issue either. It's safe to link /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to /var/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail (other crack-brained place could be /etc/sendmail) which helps sendmail-aware software (like php and mailx) to run. ---jul
RE: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
like volume wise what is the space for / what is the space for /boot what is the space for /home what is the space for /usr what is the space for /var what is the space for /swap what is the space for /tmp thanks for the help in advance If you use Red Hat, it will try to set up appropriate server partitions for you, but it will fail: /usr will be WAY too big /home will probably be too big /var will be WAY too small to accommodate any serious volume of qmail traffic I can say this with some confidence, because my server (using the 'standard' partition sizes) has quite a bit of software installed on /usr, and is 90% free, but after one week of qmail use, /var filled up (from both queue and logs). --joshua.
RE: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch tohomedir error
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And what is the ownership of those dirs Willy De la Court Quint NS NV On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 20:17, Sean C Truman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Bob, Ok all the home directories are 700 bout what does the permissions on the /home read? Sean - Original Message - From: Bob Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable to switch tohomedir error Hi, I've probably missed something embarassingly obvious, but please be patient as I've never used Qmail before. Anyway, here is my tale: I've just installed qmail 1.03 on a new linuxppc box (essentially RH linux on mac hardware). I've set up locals, rcpthosts and me; and I've created some users and set them up for mail with qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. The problem: Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual SMTP), it is queued but never delivered. For each delivery attempt, the log shows: ...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx--). However, even if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does not go away. It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home dir. Delivery to ~alias/Mailbox works fine, but that is the only location to which mail is delivered. If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated. If so, please cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks! Bob Hobbs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOx6Hj/4IaGw3x6aJEQIU4ACeJrhC1RqpzQhysn0y0fRyao5P46sAniZy +alufCnFBV/CvRTrzOfUzucz =cDrZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that Charles Cazabon wrote: Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. See qmail.org. The answer is there. As I indicated, I did search there. I found nothing. Could you be more specific? PGP signature
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that peter green wrote: * Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:54]: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. (Hint: try searching the archives on ``notify''.) [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] Thank you. I'll check this out. PGP signature
ANNOUNCE: qmail now works with the diet libc
I recently did a few updates to my diet libc (http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/) and it can now compile and link qmail. Since the diet libc can also compile and link openssl, the STARTTLS patch also works. What's the difference, you ask? This ps listing is on a box with qmail dynamically linked against the glibc: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND qmaill 29527 0.0 0.1 1228 224 ? S N Mar 12 0:16 splogger qmail qmailq 29543 0.0 0.0 1208 104 ? S N Mar 12 0:03 qmail-clean qmailr 29529 0.0 0.1 1216 176 ? S N Mar 12 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmails 29521 0.0 0.1 1260 172 ? S N Mar 12 0:22 qmail-send root 29528 0.0 0.0 121680 ? S N Mar 12 0:08 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ And this ps listing is from my home box, statically linked against the diet libc: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND qmails 103 0.0 0.064 56 ?S18:55 0:00 qmail-send qmaill 109 0.0 0.044 20 ?S18:55 0:00 splogger qmail root 110 0.0 0.036 24 ?S18:55 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 111 0.0 0.036 24 ?S18:55 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 112 0.0 0.024 16 ?S18:55 0:00 qmail-clean root 11747 1.0 0.056 40 ?S22:46 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -u qmaild -g nofiles 0 smtp /var/qmail/b Please note the drastically reduced memory requirements. As you can see, the process are running for many days on the first box, so unused memory is already swapped out. Not so on the second box. Why is this significant? Because it allows a much larger concurrency on the same hardware. More POP3 users, more concurrent local and remote deliveries, more incoming SMTP connections. How to reproduce. 1. get the current diet libc from CVS, compile and install the diet wrapper program in your $PATH. 2. get qmail, extract and possibly apply your favourite patches. 3. set up conf-cc and conf-ld $ echo diet gcc -pipe -Os -fomit-frame-pointer conf-cc $ echo diet gcc -static -s conf-ld 4. make and make setup qmail as usual. That's it. Good luck! Felix
Re: Auto-responders
Gary MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm more than willing to search out the answer, I just can't find the archives. Where are the qmail archives kept? There are pointers to the archives at qmail.org and in Life with qmail (lifewithqmail.org). I would like to find a simple email auto-responder. Something that doesn't require me to install a ton of extra's. I only have one person that needs this functionality. I recommend Bruce Guenter's implementation. His software is all available at untroubled.org . 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: softdnserror problem
From: Joel Uckelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:15:11 -0500 Furthermore, the IP that shows up in the header when it's working is a local IP---192.168.254.101---which it should find in /etc/hosts without needing to resort to DNS. The lookup order in /etc/host.conf has hosts before dns, so it should be looking there first. Red Herring. qmail (and most MTAs, I believe) only use the DNS and never look in /etc/hosts. Is it possible that this is your issue? Try checking things out with dig or nslookup. Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains Okay so far. [root@austin-jump network-scripts]# more /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts [no mindless.com] my smtp.cdb contains: 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :allow Looking at the guts of the message in the queue, I find: [...] Received: (qmail 2993 invoked by uid 104); 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 - Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by austin-jump.vircio.com with qmail-scanner- 0.90 (uvscan: v4.1.20/v4127. . Clean. Processed in 3.919065 secs); 05/06/2001 09 :44:13 Received: from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net (HELO oemcomputer???1 02.74.4.25???by?mtiwmhc08.worldnet.att.net??InterMail?v03.02.07.07?118-134??with ?SMTP?id??2116195506.ZOOK28505@oemcomputer??from?worldnet.att.net???12.77.19 4.15???by?mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.netmindspring??user-3qt5hn.dialup.mindspring.co m?99.174.150.55???by?smtp6.mindspring.com??8.9.3/8.8.5??with?SMTP?id?OAA06398??f rom?110140321worldnet.att.net???102.70.21.32???by?mtiwmhc98.worldnet.att.net??In terMail?v03.02.07.07?118-134??with?SMTP?id?20090116195452.ZOMX28505@110940321wor [...] That's a lot of garbage. It's either the world's worst attempt at forging Received: headers, or perhaps qmail-scanner is broken in this instance? Any other rewriting going on? so it appears that the message arrived from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net at 4.45.125.13. I didn't get that far in the headers; there appeared to be a lot more garbage, so I'm not sure I agree with you. I don't know why this wasn't rejected by tcpcontrol. You aren't rejecting anything with tcpserver; you're accepting all connections. How it got relayed is another matter. To trace this, you need to find the qmail qid in this message, then go through your qmail-send logs to find out where this message originated and how. Based on the timestamp you find there for new msg ..., look in your qmail-smtpd logs. That will tell you exactly where the message originated. Perhaps you have a CGI script which sends mail, and contains a security hole? Or something else is letting people into your 10. address space? 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: Qmail-Inject syntax
Matt Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [admin@email admin]$ QMAILUSER=CareerCast [admin@email admin]$ QMAILNAME=CareerCast [admin@email admin]$ echo test | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [admin@email admin]$ echo test | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Export those variables so they're visiable in the child's (qmail-inject) environment. 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: [OT] qmail php
OK, I hate to go back on list with this, but since I got about 30 replies, it's easier to go back to the list then to reply to each of you. THANKS for all the replies though. Almost all the replies were did you set up links to qmail's sendmail wrapper... Yes! I've had qmail running for 6 months without any problems. Followed LWQ to the letter and have since re-verified the links are in place... [bill@mail bill]$ cd /usr/lib [bill@mail lib]$ ls -l sendmail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Jun 3 11:25 sendmail - /var/qmail/b in/sendmail [bill@mail lib]$ cd /usr/sbin [bill@mail sbin]$ ls -l sendmail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Jun 3 11:25 sendmail - /var/qmail/b in/sendmail I even did the following: 1) Stopped qmail and removed the symlinks 2) Installed sendmail (from RPM) 3) Did a complete install (./configure blah blah, make, make install) for both PHP and Apache (per their instructions) 4) Uninstalled sendmail using RPM 5) Re-create the symlinks to qmail's sendmail 6) Restarted qmail (actually restared the machine, qmail's working) STILL, get the error: mail() is not supported in the PHP build The only thing I haven't tried is the suggestion from Michael Geier below. Nothing personal Michael, but Hell, I don't want to have to start from scratch... surely I don't need to re-install Linux! Anybody else? Bill (OK, back to off list mode!) -Original Message- From: Michael Geier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:47 PM To: Gordon McDowall; Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] qmail php you must install php pre-qmail. PHP compiles with the sendmail executables and libraries. so: install os (w/sendmail) install php install qmail follow the qmail faq for linking to qmail executables change sendmail_path to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject in php.ini This is how I did it and it works great on a machine with big.concurrency patch and 400 remote processes.
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
Actually, it looks like they tried to send to those users but you don't have them and they bounced. If they forged the sender then the bounce can't go through and you'll eventually get a double bounce to postmaster. That's happened to me a couple of times. Check the logs to see what they say. According to your tcp.smtp.cdb file you're not an open relay. Regards. At 01:44 PM 6/6/2001 -0500, you wrote: I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains snipped - Kourosh Ghassemieh MindWare Information Systems Technologies 9255 Sunset Blvd, Penthouse West Hollywood CA 90069 (310) 729-1784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking Solutions for Your Business
RE: [OT] qmail php
Jeremy, I got this two or three times, so I don't know if the list sent it more than once, or whether you just thought you hadn't sent it and decided to send it again. In any event, I'm not ignoring your reply, just thinking it through. I'm not using FreeBSD, so I've got to find time to look into mailwrapper (if it's even available on RH Linux). I'm not at my Linux machine right now... Don't worry, I did get it... :) Thanks. Bill -Original Message- From: Jeremy Suo-Anttila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:49 PM To: Gordon McDowall; Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with apache_mod_ssl+php4+mod_jk and the MTA is qmail and i have yet to have any problems using php scripts on it. I am using a FreeBSD 4.1.1 Box and for the sendmail mailwrapper i used this If the system undergoes a 'make world', its going to replace the sendmail link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, qmail and break the package. Dj-vapor kindly pointed out that linking to the qmail's sendmail binary at/var/qmail/bin/sendmail is a not the best solution, there's an even more fun way of doing it. He suggests using mailwrapper to link to qmail's sendmail binary. First we'll link the old sendmail binary to mailwrapper. Lastly, we'll edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf and replace the old sendmail binary locations with qmail's sendmail binary. # ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/mailwrapper # pico -w /etc/mail/mailer.conf Replace the following lines: sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail With: sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail # send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -bp # mailq /var/qmail/bin/sendmail # newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases If you want more information on mailwrapper, then type the line below on your FreeBSD machine.: # man mailwrapper If you don't want to use mailwrapper, then you can simply link the old sendmail binary to qmail's sendmail binary using one of the methods below Good Luck Jps -Original Message- From: Gordon McDowall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:50 AM To: Bill Andersen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] qmail php I have a machine with php and qmail on it, but I can't remember which I installed first ;o( I will put a php form script on if you like to test it - Original Message - From: Bill Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [OT] qmail php When I installed qmail, I obviously removed sendmail. Now when I build php(4) and try to use the the mail() function, I get mail() not supported in this PHP build because sendmail was not found during the configure (I assume). The only reference I could find in the php archives was to put sendmail_path=path to qmail-inject, but it didn't work. Has anyone had any luck using php with qmail? Please reply off-list as I realize this is really a php issue. The php mailing list is down per their web site, but I figure someone on this list is bound to be running php... (Sorry!) ./bill BTW: RH7, php4-apache
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:36:59 -0700 Actually, it looks like they tried to send to those users but you don't have them and they bounced. If they forged the sender then the bounce can't go through and you'll eventually get a double bounce to postmaster. That's happened to me a couple of times. Check the logs to see what they say. According to your tcp.smtp.cdb file you're not an open relay. But my point is that mindless.com isn't even my domain. The ones that say 'done' were relayed and shouldn't have been. The attempt to send to mindless.com should have been rejected by tcpserver because it's not in my control/locals. Chris At 01:44 PM 6/6/2001 -0500, you wrote: I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains snipped -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:40:03 -0500 From: Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:36:59 -0700 Actually, it looks like they tried to send to those users but you don't have them and they bounced. If they forged the sender then the bounce can't go through and you'll eventually get a double bounce to postmaster. That's happened to me a couple of times. Check the logs to see what they say. According to your tcp.smtp.cdb file you're not an open relay. But my point is that mindless.com isn't even my domain. The ones that say 'done' were relayed and shouldn't have been. The attempt to send to mindless.com should have been rejected by tcpserver because it's not in my ^ I meant 'qmail-smtpd'. control/locals. Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: qmail-inject error
Brian Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ocassionally (once a week) am getting: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) I found this list of possible problems: -out of disk space 3.1G free. Likely not disk space then. -out of inodes I don't see how. There are 56800 files in 1365 dirs on that partition. `df -i` should tell you if you're running out of inodes. That partition is ReiserFS. Ah -- perhaps the culprit. qmail requires a small patch to run on ReiserFS (it's buried somewhere on Hans' site; I found it through Google at one point, although I haven't used it). qmail does not work correctly on ReiserFS (or, more accurately, ReiserFS doesn't work correctly enough to run a qmail queue on it) without this patch. Isn't there a mention of this on qmail.org? -permissions on the queue directories are wrong -ownership of the queue directories are wrong This would be an always thing, instead of an occasional thing. 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: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that peter green wrote: [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] OK. I installed this and am running it from a cron job, with an expiration of 15 minutes. It seems to work fine. I note two things, though. Firstly, it appears that there might be a race condition in the time checking/saving code that could cause a message to slip through the cracks and not generate a notification. Secondly, there is only one notification timestamp file to record when the last run is. It would be nice to be able to specify it on the command line, that way I can run multiple versions in order to generate, for example, a 15m warning, a 4h warning, and a 3d warning. Before I get too far into proving a race condition and writing around this, has this issue come up before? PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, I've added that envelope to my badmailfrom and deleted a bunch of stuff by hand, but I'd still like to know how they managed to use me as a relay. You still haven't shown the log entries that would prove this is what happened. I asked for those in my last message. My configuration hasn't changed. If you were used as a relay, then your configuration was broken to begin with, but nobody was exploiting it. Don't take this as an insult; it's just a fact. It also seems to me that this list is running very slow right now. Is it possible that some spammer found an exploit and is also hitting muncher.math.uic.edu in the same way I was being hit? No. UIC (where list.cr.yp.to is located) is running out of network bandwidth during peak times, and the various lists there get bitten as a result. 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: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
Your question is more geared toward disk partitions than qmail. There are several books available which may help you. Send me a private email if you need some anmes. However, here is some answers: If you install qmail, /home directory is mainly you concern because that's where email are store. You can make a quick calculation by number of users to megabyte per user. For example if you have 1000 users and each user is estimated to be allocated 6 MB of disk space, then /home directory should be at least 6GB (1000 X 6MB). As far as http goes, again it all depends how many web sites you are going to service and what is the estimated allocation for each site. For example if you are going to service 1000 web sites and each is allocated 10MB then you need 10GB for web sites ( 1000 X 10MB ). Please remember another thing, there is no /http directory. Web pages are stored in directories as defind in your apache.conf file. I normally create a /www directory to store web pages, however you may decide to use andother name. I am not an expert, but I use the following setting: / 2-3GB - I have different books tell differently /boot 32MB /home at least (Number of users) X (space per user) /usr 3GB - You need enough room to install lots of software if you so desire /var 1-2GB - You want enough room for log files make sure this directory has its own mounts or your system will hand if the log files use up all the space /swap twice the size of RAM. Lots of discussion about it.. /tmp I normally do not create any partion for this directory but use /usr I waited to answer this posting because this is really not a qmail issue and I did not want to affend anybody. I also thought of sending a private message but then changed my mind because I am not an expert (by background is 30 years in large IBM systems) in LINUX and somebody else might correct me or add their own expertize. Kirti -Original Message- From: Tom Beer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:07 AM To: hari_bhr; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0) The best way is to start reading lwq. take a look at www.qmail.org where's a link. I don't understand what you mean with httpd applications , but I'm sure I'm not a guru... Tom - Original Message - From: hari_bhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:59 PM Subject: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0) hi all i have quick question for the all the gurus of linux and qmail experts. iam newnie for qmail and cpopmail i would like to know what is the best installation linux for only mail and http applications. like volume wise what is the space for / what is the space for /boot what is the space for /home what is the space for /usr what is the space for /var what is the space for /swap what is the space for /tmp thanks for the help in advance _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: SSL
Yes, you can use 'stunnel'. http://www.stunnel.org. Works like a champ for me. Enjoy, David SeanW wrote: Can qmail handle passing pop password via SSL ? Sean Weissensee
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
Well, what do the logs say? It's possible that a spammer sent mail to random addresses in one of your hosted domains and had them listed in the BCC: field. The return address being forged as to be from mindless.com. Since the users in your domain are non-existent the messages are trying to bounce to the sender, which is refusing some of them as being non-existent as well. You'll see them double-bounce once they time out. I'm not that experienced at reading headers so I'm not 100% certain but sounds logical. Again, what do the logs say? They can help quite a bit in diagnosing problems. You should be able to find when they came in and from where and why they are being refused, if they are. What do the logs say? At 04:40 PM 6/6/2001 -0500, you wrote: From: Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:36:59 -0700 Actually, it looks like they tried to send to those users but you don't have them and they bounced. If they forged the sender then the bounce can't go through and you'll eventually get a double bounce to postmaster. That's happened to me a couple of times. Check the logs to see what they say. According to your tcp.smtp.cdb file you're not an open relay. But my point is that mindless.com isn't even my domain. The ones that say 'done' were relayed and shouldn't have been. The attempt to send to mindless.com should have been rejected by tcpserver because it's not in my control/locals. Chris At 01:44 PM 6/6/2001 -0500, you wrote: I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains snipped -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. - Kourosh Ghassemieh MindWare Information Systems Technologies 9255 Sunset Blvd, Penthouse West Hollywood CA 90069 (310) 729-1784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking Solutions for Your Business
Re: Install problem: local mail undelivered with unable toswitch to homedir error
Thanks to everyone who replied so quickly! The permissions on /home were indeed the problem-- it was owned by root and had the search/execute bits for 'group' and 'other' turned off. Fixing this seems to have completely solved the problem. Thanks again! -Bob
Re: pop server
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:17:33PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: [snip] PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Greetz, Peter.
Re: softdnserror problem
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:15:49PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote: From: Joel Uckelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:15:11 -0500 Furthermore, the IP that shows up in the header when it's working is a local IP---192.168.254.101---which it should find in /etc/hosts without needing to resort to DNS. The lookup order in /etc/host.conf has hosts before dns, so it should be looking there first. Red Herring. qmail (and most MTAs, I believe) only use the DNS and never look in /etc/hosts. Is this true for tcpserver? Greetz, Peter.
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Kourosh Ghassemieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:30:15 -0700 Well, what do the logs say? It's possible that a spammer sent mail to random addresses in one of your hosted domains and had them listed in the BCC: field. The return address being forged as to be from mindless.com. Since the users in your domain are non-existent the messages are trying to bounce to the sender, which is refusing some of them as being non-existent as well. You'll see them double-bounce once they time out. I'm not that experienced at reading headers so I'm not 100% certain but sounds logical. When an email message is composed, addresses are extracted from the To, CC, and BCC headers and placed in the envelope. They are never again consulted. The envelope addresses determine where the message gets sent. When qmail gets a message, it looks at the envelope and puts the contents in queue/remote and/or queue/local. The contents of those files are what is displayed by qmail-qread, so we know that the envelope contained a bunch of mindless.com addresses and did not include any addresses from my domains. Again, what do the logs say? They can help quite a bit in diagnosing problems. You should be able to find when they came in and from where and why they are being refused, if they are. What do the logs say? They're being refused because some of the addreseses were bogus and the real mail server for mindless.com rejected them. Actually, I lost the logs because before I discovered this problem, I blew them away due to their having filled my file system to 100%. In hind sight, I realize this is almost certainly because I was relaying spam at the time. Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:19:21 -0600 Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this in my queue: 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 GMT #48256 5651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither mail.com nor mindless.com are my domains Okay so far. [root@austin-jump network-scripts]# more /etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts [no mindless.com] my smtp.cdb contains: 10.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= :allow Looking at the guts of the message in the queue, I find: [...] Received: (qmail 2993 invoked by uid 104); 5 Jun 2001 14:44:17 - Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by austin-jump.vircio.com with qmail-scanner- 0.90 (uvscan: v4.1.20/v4127. . Clean. Processed in 3.91906 5 secs); 05/06/2001 09 :44:13 Received: from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net (HELO oemcomputer???1 02.74.4.25???by?mtiwmhc08.worldnet.att.net??InterMail?v03.02.07.07?118-13 4??with ?SMTP?id??2116195506.ZOOK28505@oemcomputer??from?worldnet.att.net???1 2.77.19 4.15???by?mtiwmhc03.worldnet.att.netmindspring??user-3qt5hn.dialup.mindsp ring.co m?99.174.150.55???by?smtp6.mindspring.com??8.9.3/8.8.5??with?SMTP?id?OAA0 6398??f rom?110140321worldnet.att.net???102.70.21.32???by?mtiwmhc98.worldnet.att. net??In terMail?v03.02.07.07?118-134??with?SMTP?id?20090116195452.ZOMX28505@11094 0321wor [...] That's a lot of garbage. It's either the world's worst attempt at forging Received: headers, or perhaps qmail-scanner is broken in this instance? Any other rewriting going on? No. so it appears that the message arrived from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net at 4.45.125.13. I didn't get that far in the headers; there appeared to be a lot more garbage, so I'm not sure I agree with you. If you look at the line with all the garbage, and remove the stuff in the first parenthesis, you get: Received: from pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net () ([4.45.125.13]) (envelope-sender [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 216.30.106.234 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 5 Jun 2001 14:44:12 - which was written by qmail. I did a reverse lookup of pppa16-resaleeasternmab1-3r7830.dialinx.net myself getting 4.45.125.13 just like qmail. I don't know why this wasn't rejected by tcpcontrol. You aren't rejecting anything with tcpserver; you're accepting all connections. How it got relayed is another matter. Er, yeah. I meant qmail-smtpd. To trace this, you need to find the qmail qid in this message, then go through your qmail-send logs to find out where this message originated and how. Based on the timestamp you find there for new msg ..., look in your qmail-smtpd logs. That will tell you exactly where the message originated. Unfortunately, I blew away my qmail log recently because it filled my /var to 100%. :-( In hindsight I think this happened because I was relaying SPAM. Perhaps you have a CGI script which sends mail, and contains a security hole? Not on this box. Or something else is letting people into your 10. address space? Maybe. -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: [OT] qmail php
Quoth Bill Andersen: OK, I hate to go back on list with this, but since I got about 30 replies, it's easier to go back to the list then to reply to each of you. THANKS for all the replies though. Almost all the replies were did you set up links to qmail's sendmail wrapper... Yes! I've had qmail running for 6 months without any problems. Followed LWQ to the letter and have since re-verified the links are in place... [bill@mail bill]$ cd /usr/lib [bill@mail lib]$ ls -l sendmail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Jun 3 11:25 sendmail - /var/qmail/b in/sendmail [bill@mail lib]$ cd /usr/sbin [bill@mail sbin]$ ls -l sendmail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 23 Jun 3 11:25 sendmail - /var/qmail/b in/sendmail I even did the following: 1) Stopped qmail and removed the symlinks 2) Installed sendmail (from RPM) 3) Did a complete install (./configure blah blah, make, make install) for both PHP and Apache (per their instructions) 4) Uninstalled sendmail using RPM 5) Re-create the symlinks to qmail's sendmail 6) Restarted qmail (actually restared the machine, qmail's working) STILL, get the error: mail() is not supported in the PHP build The only thing I haven't tried is the suggestion from Michael Geier below. Nothing personal Michael, but Hell, I don't want to have to start from scratch... surely I don't need to re-install Linux! Anybody else? Bill (OK, back to off list mode!) Hi, I've been using a PHP build from the source RPM on my box for a while without any problems, though admittedly I haven't been doing anything that would use the mail() function, so I might actually have the same problem you do, I just don't know. Of course, my telling you that helps you not at all, so here's my suggestion: (1) Test to see if the mail() function works with sendmail installed. I know that involves some work, but maybe it's just broken in the version of PHP you have. (2) If you've done (1) and found that mail() works, leave sendmail installed, but just delete all of the sendmail binaries (so nothing can be run) and put the symlinks back, etc. That way, all of the sendmail libraries are still there and hopefully PHP will stop complaining. Admittedly, this is an ugly solution, but it *might* work if you can't fix it any other way. -- J.
Re: softdnserror problem
Quoth Chris Garrigues: --==_Exmh_841381948P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Joel Uckelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:15:11 -0500 Furthermore, the IP that shows up in the header when it's working is a local IP---192.168.254.101---which it should find in /etc/hosts without needing to resort to DNS. The lookup order in /etc/host.conf has hosts before dns, so it should be looking there first. Red Herring. qmail (and most MTAs, I believe) only use the DNS and never loo k in /etc/hosts. Is it possible that this is your issue? Try checking things out with dig or nslookup. Chris That's good to know; I'm glad it's now documented (heh!) on the net. I'd be willing to bet having this list archived on the web answers 90% of people's questions, actually. (I know I find answers to most of mine that way!) Anyhow, what you and Mr. van Dijk mentioned suggested to me how I might fix the problem. I spent a few minutes reading the manual for BIND 9 (which I switched to from 8 last week), and discovered a rather neat feature called view. I set up two different views, one for my local network and my static IPs, and one for the rest of the world, and then put a zone file for 254.168.192.in-addr.arpa in the former but not the latter. That way, qmail can resolve my local IPs to real domain names, and anything else that does reverse lookups on my domain names will get my world-recognized static IPs. Problem sovled. What still perplexes me is why qmail sometimes gave me the softdnserror header and other times gave me one with a local IP address when using my old DNS configuraiton. Based on what I know now, I don't see why I ever got anything but softdnserror headers, actually! Of course, I don't *need* an explanation for this now, but I'm still curious. Chalk another one up to the vagaries of networking, I guess. Thanks, guys. :) -- J.
backup server
G'day all, I have looked through the archives for info about setting up a secondary mail server. I have followed the steps in the replies I found but I am confused about one point. I have tcpserver running on the secondary and it accepts mail coming into it. I can see the message in the queue. What I don't get is how it sends that message to the primary server once the primary comes back up? I figure it has to be qmail-send but am not sure how/where to start this on the secondary. What have I missed? Many thanks, Dave.
Re: [OT] qmail php
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:43:03PM -0500, Joel Uckelman wrote: Quoth Bill Andersen: OK, I hate to go back on list with this, but since I got about 30 replies, it's easier to go back to the list then to reply to each of you. THANKS for all the replies though. Almost all the replies were did you set up links to qmail's sendmail wrapper... Yes! I've had qmail running for 6 months without any problems. Followed LWQ to the letter and have since re-verified the links are in place... ... 1) Stopped qmail and removed the symlinks 2) Installed sendmail (from RPM) 3) Did a complete install (./configure blah blah, make, make install) for both PHP and Apache (per their instructions) 4) Uninstalled sendmail using RPM 5) Re-create the symlinks to qmail's sendmail 6) Restarted qmail (actually restared the machine, qmail's working) STILL, get the error: mail() is not supported in the PHP build The only thing I haven't tried is the suggestion from Michael Geier below. Nothing personal Michael, but Hell, I don't want to have to start from scratch... surely I don't need to re-install Linux! Anybody else? Yeah, look at the source. yeesh. -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content management, electronic commerce, internet integration, Debian linux
