Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? There is an (earlier) alternate implementation in Perl called 'qmail_bounce'. I used it for years without problems (after some small changes to notify only senders from our domains). On qmail.org: * Brian T. Wightman has written a delayed-mail notifier. * Another delayed-mail notifier is available from Matt Ranney. I use the one from Brian. Regards, Frank
best patches to be apply for QMAIL
hi i have installed qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.2 i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply thanks advance _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ??
Hello : I can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory. Example: defaultdomain, locals, me, Any different? if I want to add domain ,how to do? Thank you.
Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ??
Hello : I can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory. Example: defaultdomain, locals, me, Any different? if I want to add domain ,how to do? Thank you.
Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ??
Hello : I can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory. Example: defaultdomain, locals, me, Any different? if I want to add domain ,how to do? Thank you.
Re: best patches to be apply for QMAIL
there is no need to patch qmail 1.03 to make it more secure, cos it already is very secure. Nobody found any hole up 'till now. check http://www.qmail.org to see if you would patch it for extra features. Grtz, Arjen. On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, hari_bhr wrote: hi i have installed qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.2 i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply thanks advance _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ??
George, there is a lot of qmail documentation out there, that will give you perfect explanation of many many qmail aspects. On http://qmail.3va.net for example, you will find the online manpages, and on http://qmail.3va.net/man/man5/qmail-control.html is the answer to your question. also read http://qmail.3va.net/qmailfaq.html and http://www.lifewithqmail.org Grtz, Arjen. On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, george wrote: Hello : I can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory. Example: defaultdomain, locals, me, Any different? if I want to add domain ,how to do? Thank you.
RE: best patches to be apply for QMAIL
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you are installing on RH 6.2 just install the RPM made by Bruce, I'v Added some patches to daemontools etc you can find the src rpm's here with a little howto http://www.quint.be/projects/ Willy De la Court Quint NS NV On Thursday, June 07, 2001 14:54, hari_bhr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: hi i have installed qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.2 i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply thanks advance _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOx8xzf4IaGw3x6aJEQJnWQCguGgAeeKcpBshm40iTwJdKQxvrPgAoNoZ zFWD1PMaOGS/dAd82ToK5y4C =FIVY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Newbie question-CJK
Hello all. I am niebie to qmail but untill now i am happy. I have some questions : I can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email. When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be : /home/username. Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is? Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the domains that i want to send email? Thats impossible.I have to put all the domains in the world?LIke hotmail.com,yahoo.com.. Thanks in advance _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
R: vpopmail authentication
Did you use the form user@domain as login? I mean telnet server 110 +OK user utente@domain +OK pass password Remember, when using vpopmail you have to use user@domain as login, instead of user. --- 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 -Messaggio originale- Da: Erich Zigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: mercoledi 6 giugno 2001 19.15 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: 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: Newbie question-CJK
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Constantine Koulis wrote: I can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email. When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be : /home/username. Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is? Yes it is. I think you should first tell us if local deliveries fail or succeed. If they succeed, where is the mail put? What popdaemon do you use? Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the domains that i want to send email? Of course not. rcpthosts stands for ReCiPienThosts; hosts you want qmail to accept mail for. You put allowed IP's/hostnames into the config files for tcpserver, which you should use with qmail. http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html Thats impossible.I have to put all the domains in the world?LIke hotmail.com,yahoo.com.. If you should have (and you must not) then I bet there was a wildcard for it ;) Grtz, Arjen.
Re: Newbie question-CJK
Hi, I can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email. When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be : /home/username. Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is? this depends on your configuration, in most cases it is hint: link /var/spool/mail/user + maildir / mailbox see lwq Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the domains that i want to send email? all the domains which allowed to _send_ mails Start reading the man pages and lwq and www.qmail.org Tom
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
* Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 20:44]: I've got this in my queue: Your patched qmail-smtpd seems to have a buffer overflow problem. Vis: --- snip --- $ telnet 216.30.106.234 25 Trying 216.30.106.234... Connected to 216.30.106.234. Escape character is '^]'. 220 austin-jump.vircio.com ESMTP HELO fdskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhfoidhgfoisdoigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flghohg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshgtfoihdsalfjäpgjöfadh odifh gfdijgodfgöodhgföldgöofhgafdjödflkngvlödfhgpifdjgkljdcäjgädszjgofdijglöfjbgoaskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvorfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhfoidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flghohg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsnfid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdhgöldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdh gofdh gouf oghfdoghfoi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv df oövhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodsnfvldshskfnhosdhfdsnfcdlsncvdsndnfisndfondskivndsn fid fhiorhf oidhgfoisd oigfdsfhgpofdhgofdh gouf oghfdogh foi hgoifh glfdh göldfhgoirhg ojd flgho hg odf hglodfg ofdnv dfoö vhnfdlngvoifngvo rfiuvnfodvofdhoghfdshvlkzcjgflkfhdgohdfoighfdlkjgöldhglfhdglkfdshglkfdglkjdrigfdohjgldfksglkdfhglfdhgldfhglöfjgfapoijpqeiwjfkldsnglcöngfoihgöodnfvldsh 250 austin-jump.vircio.com MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead Subject: Hejhej Dadaa , . 250 ok 991911255 qp 1264 QUIT 221 austin-jump.vircio.com Connection closed by foreign host. --- snap --- -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/ PGP signature
Re: Newbie question-CJK
I would like to know why i can receive emails from the internet using pine with the user X and from the OUtlook Express lets say using again user X dont receive anything.. From: Tom Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Constantine Koulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie question-CJK Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:14:23 +0200 Hi, I can connect POP3 to the unix users but i cannot receive any email. When i open the unix-user i made his home directory to be : /home/username. Is this the correct one for qmail?If not which is? this depends on your configuration, in most cases it is hint: link /var/spool/mail/user + maildir / mailbox see lwq Another thing Do i need to put in the /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts all the domains that i want to send email? all the domains which allowed to _send_ mails Start reading the man pages and lwq and www.qmail.org Tom _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Newbie question-CJK
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Constantine Koulis wrote: Dear sir. About local delivery i can send from root to local users but from local users to root nothing.As well i can send from local users and root to outside world. Where is mail for your local users stored? Do you check ~alias/ for root mail? I cannot receive to root from anywhere. I can receive from outside world to local users USING PINE.Not outlook express or IMAP. Where is the mail stored? I am using Courier-IMAP and i believe also POP3 You believe? Better make sure... and i tried to install vmailmgr but i have some small problems with it.Cant compile vmailmgr and from the rpms the vmailmgr-daemon deon start. PLz send to the list and not to me personally... Grtz, Arjen.
Virtual domain
I set up Qmail and It's ok. When i'm setting up vpopmail i haven't Virtual domain and assign. I've created an empty assign file. When I try to addthe user postmaster it tells that the domain doesn't exist(using vadduser) when i try to add the domain(using vadddomain) it tells that the domain already exist. What's wrong? Thanks
Re: best patches to be apply for QMAIL
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:24:16PM +0530, hari_bhr wrote: i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply Not a single one. -- * 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)
Re: Qmail-remote stopped up?
Troy Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Do you have any qmail patches installed? -Dave
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
* Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 12:59]: * Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 20:44]: I've got this in my queue: Your patched qmail-smtpd seems to have a buffer overflow problem. Vis: And attached is the confirmation. -Johan -- Johan Almqvist http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/ PGP signature
RE: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
Joshua Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 How 20th century... 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 Disk space is cheaper than dirt these days. I recommend: /boot20MB /var 300MB min, 800MB better, more for servers /2GB or more (include /usr and /tmp) /homewhatever you need swap 500MB or more On some systems I go with /boot, /, and swap only. I *hate* running out of space in, say, /var, when /home has gigabytes free... -Dave
Re: [OT] qmail php
do a phpinfo() from your browser, and see what is sendmail_path configured to if it is sendmail -t -i that is your problem. the sendmail wrapper of qmail does not take all options that sendmail takes. remove all options and then it should work. shashi joshi --- Joel Uckelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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... [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. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: best patches to be apply for QMAIL
hari_bhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply Any patches you apply are more likely to decrease security than improve it. (No offense intended to patch authors, but DJB's record speaks for itself.) -Dave
Re: ANNOUNCE: qmail now works with the diet libc
Thus spake Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Er, what's the chance of have a ps which compares qmail-popd, qmail-smtp and qmail-remote then? Kinda relevant doncha think? You are right. This is a diet libc pop3: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND leitner 3232 0.4 0.05648 3 T15:30 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir root 3229 0.0 0.06848 3 T15:29 0:00 tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup felix.convergence.de /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir root 3231 0.1 0.02020 3 T15:29 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup felix.convergence.de /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir This is after I logged in and retrieved one message from a Maildir of 151. And this is a diet libc smtpd (without openssl and STARTTLS): USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 3313 0.1 0.03636 3 S15:34 0:00 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd This is after I connected and dumped a test email of three lines. Compare for yourself. Felix
qmail-remote hangs
Hello, I encountered very veird problem with qmail-remote hanging indefinitelly (for over 2 weeks). Here are the details: qmail-remote stays in ESTABLESHED state forever. strace show that qmail-remote hangs doing: 'read(3,' Most of hanged qmail remote are trying to deliver to outblaze.com (or to domains using outblaze.com mail servers, s.a. mail.com) There were couple posts to the list (http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html, and http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01333.html) outlining similar problem (also with outblaze). However, I had 2 qmail-remotes get stuck on different domains. I observed this behaviour on 2 mail servers (OS and setup is the same). OS is Rhat 6.2 I'm at complete loss and have no idea how qmail-remote can get stuck trying to read from fd3. After looking at qmail-remote.c, it's apparent that qmail-remote calls timeoutread to perform network reads. Timeoutread does select() syscall before doing read. So, the only way we can get to read is when selected returned w/out timeout indicating that there is data available. Then, how can 'read(3' can get stuck??? Furthermore, when I kill one of the stuck qmail-remotes, qmail tries to redeliver the message, and either succedes or times out on remote host w/out problem. ANY suggestions on what can be done to troubleshoot this problem are very much appreciated. -- Eugene Miretskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] InVision.com, INC. (631) 543-1000 www.invision.net / www.longisland.com
Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
On Thursday 07 June 2001 16:00, Dave Sill wrote: /boot20MB /var 300MB min, 800MB better, more for servers /2GB or more (include /usr and /tmp) /homewhatever you need swap 500MB or more In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. -- Kalle KivimaaWork: +358 (0) 201 500 761 Senior Software Designer Fax: +358 (0) 201 500 799 Akumiitti Telematics Ltd.http://www.akumiitti.fi Salomonkatu 17 B 3.krs, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland
Re: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
I've got a slightly old set of qmail-ldap patches. I guess I'd better upgrade! Thanks. Chris From: Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:43:04 +0200 * Johan Almqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 12:59]: * Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 20:44 = ]: I've got this in my queue: Your patched qmail-smtpd seems to have a buffer overflow problem. Vis: And attached is the confirmation. -- 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: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. You really have users sending multigigabyte messages? Yow. -Dave
Re: Qmail-remote stopped up?
Sorry for the delay (family occasion). On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:46:11AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: RAM is also fine. Out of 256MB, I generally have 20-30mb free Aaah...not the amount but the quality. Have you _tested_ the RAM? Anything else worth looking at? I assume you managed to read the stucked messages in the queue since you didn't mention it... I've seen weird problems with firewalls using a ''SMTP proxy'' instead of filtering the packets. Maybe you or the recipients are using one of those?? You can easily check it by connecting manually. Jörgen
Line Feed
I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see below], though I am unsure of how to do this. Also, can anyone confirm that there is an RFC stating that a CR is a LF? TIA, ../mk -Original Message- Subject:Mail server config Could your mail relay/server be configured so that LF is allowed as a line terminator? RFC requires CR LF as the terminator and the server by default would enforce the rule, which causes problem for our legacy codes. Almost all servers allow this type of configuration. - End forwarded message -
SMTP-AUTH using TLS
Hello, I have been playing with qmail for a while now, I have been using a pop before smtp (ugg) solution for remote users I noticed in ports, a qmail-tls package (FreeBSD 4.3 system) Last night, I installed this package on a mock-up server but have been unable to get it working with client certificates, to allow relay. I have searched mailing lists, and I seem to find conflicting setups, so I ask the list: Can anyone point me to GOOD (as in reliable) documentation on how to configure the server and cleint for SMTP Authentication via TLS? Thanks in advance, Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
* Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 10:28]: /var 300MB min, 800MB better, more for servers In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. If your users are filling a /var partition of 4GB, you (a) handle an extraordinary amount of high-latency e-mail, (b) are mismanaging your mail server (hint: databytes), and/or (c) you have extremely rude lusers sending MP3s and whatnot through the system (in which case they need to be beaten). YMMV, /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. (By Stephan Zielinski)
Acl
I'm using Qmail + Vpomail + Courier-Imap and would like to enable Acl on mailboxes. I nedd to enable tree different users(accounts) to gain access toa single mailbox. How can i do that? Thanks, Marco
Problem with me and hostname
Hi, An user is trying to send an email and I see this in log: 2001-06-07 09:13:34.292253500 delivery 21640: deferral: Connected_to_200.251.234.142_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501 _dd002.domain.com,_ why_do_you_say_you_are_mail.domain.com?/ The hostname is dd002.domain.com, but I don't say this name in me, every machine has a different name, so I can very easy change the qmail or ftp or other service to other machine. My mail server: dd002.domain.com (200.1.1.2) eth0 mail.domain.com -- me (200.1.1.21) eth0:0 pop3.domain.com and smtp.domain.com alias to mail.domain.com My web server: dd001.domain.com (200.1.1.1) eth0 www.domain.com (200.1.1.10) eth0:0 www2.domain.com (200.1.1.11) eth0:1 -- virtual server (customers' domains) ftp.domain.com (200.1.1.12) eth0:2 Let's say I want to change www.domain.com to other machine, I don't need to change it IP. How to fix this? What is localiphost Thanks, Ari
Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
But qmail doesn't deliver to /var/spool/mail. It delivers to users home directory as Mailbox or Maildir/new/TIMESTAMP.PID.HOSTNAME ... I thought? David Kalle Kivimaa wrote: On Thursday 07 June 2001 16:00, Dave Sill wrote: /boot20MB /var 300MB min, 800MB better, more for servers /2GB or more (include /usr and /tmp) /homewhatever you need swap 500MB or more In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. -- Kalle KivimaaWork: +358 (0) 201 500 761 Senior Software Designer Fax: +358 (0) 201 500 799 Akumiitti Telematics Ltd.http://www.akumiitti.fi Salomonkatu 17 B 3.krs, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland
Re: best patches to be apply for QMAIL
Unless the network is lying to me again, Henning Brauer said: On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:24:16PM +0530, hari_bhr wrote: i would like to know , what are the patches to be patch with this. for more secure and with out any holes could some one guide me what are the patches to be apply Not a single one. Speaking of qmail, that is. Be *SURE* that you apply all patches to the redhat O/S, as they seem to have much more difficulty getting it right than qmail did. ;-) AlanC
Re: I think I'm being relayed...
Does anyone know what happened to the qmail-ldap-control patches on bayour.com? The directory linked to in the faq is empty. And bayour.com/qmail/patches_ldap appears to be empty as well. Were the patches mirrored anywhere? If not, I'd be glad to provide one (as well as a mirror for qmail.org). Thanks, Mike Chris Garrigues wrote: I've got a slightly old set of qmail-ldap patches. I guess I'd better upgrade! Thanks. Chris
Re: qmail-remote hangs
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:38:50AM -0400, Yevgeniy Miretskiy wrote: Hello, I encountered very veird problem with qmail-remote hanging indefinitelly (for over 2 weeks). Here are the details: qmail-remote stays in ESTABLESHED state forever. strace show that qmail-remote hangs doing: 'read(3,' There is an ongoing thread on the subject... You might be able to help each other. Most of hanged qmail remote are trying to deliver to outblaze.com (or to domains using outblaze.com mail servers, s.a. mail.com) I tried to connect to mail.com manually but didn't succeed... Jörgen
Re: qmail-inject error
The qmail/Reiser patch is installed. Besides from reading the text with that patch it seemed to only be an issue with crash recovery. More on this today. We modified qmail.c to give separate error messages in the switch statement for each error condition. Luckily or not we got the error again today. There error is occuring when link is called at the end of main() trying to link the file in intd to todo. There are two lines that raise that error so we are trying to capture strerror() after each and see which it is and what the error is. I will report back to the list with anything I get. Brian Moon -- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: 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. ---
Its impossible....CJK
Hello. I have a running REDHAT linux 7.0 with QMAIL and COURIER on it.I can send email from my UNIX-USERS but i can receive only using PINE.I mean to POP3 i dont receive anything using OUTLOOK EXPRESS and by IMAP using squirrelmail nothing. Can somebody help me. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Line Feed
Marc Knoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see below], though I am unsure of how to do this. You could patch qmail to do this, but it's a bad idea. See further info below. Also, can anyone confirm that there is an RFC stating that a CR is a LF? The relevant RFC is RFC2821 -- but it specifically forbids treating a bare LF as a line separator. The requirement is indeed CR+LF. I've never seen anyone quote anything claiming CR is a LF and am not sure what you mean by it. To fix this for broken clients, you can use fixcrio, or djb's @fixme/fixup solution which feeds to new-inject or qmail-inject to rewrite the message. See djb's FAQs and many discussions in the list archives for details. But of course the best solution is fix the broken clients. 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)
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. Dave Sill wrote: You really have users sending multigigabyte messages? Yow. I first thought the same thing, but then remembered seeing a graphics designer friend of mine email a complete corporate brochure to his printer. Sent 8 emails with attachments of just under 125MB EACH. He had 768DSL, they had T-1. Started the send and went to eat dinner. We got back a couple of hours later and they were done! I asked him why he didn't FTP them and he said, why email is easy! Get many people doing that on your mail server and you are right, Yow is about the only thing you can say! Bill
Re: Line Feed
Marc Knoop writes: I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see below], though I am unsure of how to do this. Probably the best thing to do, to minimize the possible corruption of email, is to add a /service/smtpdlf, bind to another IP address or port number, and patch the copy of qmail-smtpd that's running on that service so it accepts LF as a line terminator. Then tell the people who can't fix their broken code that they can use smtpdlf at the different port or IP address. -russ -Original Message- Subject: Mail server config Could your mail relay/server be configured so that LF is allowed as a line terminator? RFC requires CR LF as the terminator and the server by default would enforce the rule, which causes problem for our legacy codes. Almost all servers allow this type of configuration. - End forwarded message - -- -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: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:57:54AM -0400, peter green wrote: If your users are filling a /var partition of 4GB, you (a) handle an extraordinary amount of high-latency e-mail, (b) are mismanaging your mail server (hint: databytes), and/or (c) you have extremely rude lusers sending MP3s and whatnot through the system (in which case they need to be beaten). or (d) you are on a busy webserver which logs to /var. I have /var slices (eh, partitions in linux-speak) of 30 GB on some machines. A webserver of this kind shouldn't act as mailserver, though. For partition sizing I'm usually taking 100-200MB for /, 1-2G for swap, 200m for /tmp, 2-4G for /usr, /home dependant of server usage 100m up to 10G an at least 10G for /var (or 1G for /var and at least 10G for /var/log). Greetings Henning -- * 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)
ACL
I'm using Qmail + Vpomail + Courier-Imap and would like to enable Acl on mailboxes. I nedd to enable tree different users(accounts) to gain access toa single mailbox. How can i do that? Thanks, Marco
RE: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
Hey guys! Actually, it only takes a few msaccess databases to get to the gigabyte range, or in my case a couple of sales people travelling and not picking up mail. I'm moving to a 5X36gig system for mail from an e450, once I get the server in. Disk is cheap, why put artifical limits on the server? Go for it killer. You will not regret more disk... the opposite is not! true. -Mike -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0) Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. You really have users sending multigigabyte messages? Yow. -Dave
Re: Problem with me and hostname
Ari Arantes Filho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An user is trying to send an email and I see this in log: 2001-06-07 09:13:34.292253500 delivery 21640: deferral: Connected_to_200.251.234.142_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501 _dd002.domain.com,_ why_do_you_say_you_are_mail.domain.com?/ The hostname is dd002.domain.com, but I don't say this name in me, every machine has a different name, so I can very easy change the qmail or ftp or other service to other machine. You can arbitrarily set the string used in the HELO greeting with /var/qmail/control/helohost . However, rejecting mail based on the contents of the HELO command is forbidden by RFC2821. The server you're trying to send this to is rejecting (in djb's words) a huge amount of legitimate mail, and a moderate amount of spam. How to fix this? What is localiphost localiphost is used when someone connects to your SMTP port and does RCPT TO: user@[1.2.3.4] where 1.2.3.4 is one of your IP addresses. 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: ANNOUNCE: qmail now works with the diet libc
Just wondering if this is the complete truth. I think most of the time memory isn't a problem but CPU is, and I don't see/know if this diet libc is decreasing CPU load. More concurrency leads to more memory usage but also to more CPU susage. Of course I could be wrong here :) Greets, Franky -Original Message- From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: woensdag 6 juni 2001 22:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANNOUNCE: qmail now works with the diet libc 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.
suddenly cannot receive email
Until I get this mess fixed, please cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, but it is the only way I can receive email right now. I seem to have done something to break my qmail. Yesterday afternoon, I added a virtual user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and put his forwarding address in alias/.qmail-garnette-monte and added his domain to rcpthosts then restarted. I did not notice at the time (because I left work right after that), but I have not received ANY email since I did that. We have a UNIX box running BSDi 4.0, QMail, Apache and FP. This morning I did a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and found tons of bounce messages going out and the following messages about incoming mail: Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.483380 starting delivery 434: msg 2 77962 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.490779 status: local 0/10 remote 1/ 20 Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.510962 delivery 434: failure: Sorry ._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_i n_my _control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ I cehecked control/locals and found my main server, 'midnightsun.chismtrail.com' so I added just plain 'chismtrail.com' in case that might be the problem, even though it has been working like that just fine in the past. It did not help. Now I am getting the following messages: Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.296843 starting delivery 35: msg 27 7963 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.306096 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.338870 delivery 35: deferral: Unabl e_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ and Jun 7 10:16:35 midnightsun qmail: 991926995.777267 delivery 38: failure: This_m essage_is_looping:_it_already_has_my_Delivered-To_line._(#5.4.6)/ and Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.945873 starting delivery 70: msg 27 7962 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.955071 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.987598 delivery 70: failure: Sorry, _no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ There is a [EMAIL PROTECTED], in /usr/var/vpopmail/users .qmail-default .qmail-igy .qmail-walter .qmail-wvchism9 postmaster .qmail-gin .qmail-root .qmail-wdchism abc walt .qmail-iggy .qmail-swap .qmail-wlat guest webmaster Where else can I look to find the problem?
Re: Line Feed
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Marc Knoop wrote: I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see below], though I am unsure of how to do this. Search the archives for 'fixcrio' -- it's intended for just such broken clients. Also, can anyone confirm that there is an RFC stating that a CR is a LF? I think that your word choices here are poor. No RFC that I am aware of states that a CR is a LF, however, RFC821/2821 defines a line as a string of characters terminated by CR and LF. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html HTH, -- Greg White
Re: Line Feed
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Marc Knoop wrote: I have been requested to make a change to one of my qmail servers [see below], though I am unsure of how to do this. Use fixcrio. Not sure which package it is in. Also, can anyone confirm that there is an RFC stating that a CR is a LF? There is not. Also, applying the requested fix opens up your mailserver to all kinds of message corruption. There is a reason qmail doesn't accept these broken messages by default, and that reason is that rejecting those messages prevents corruption. Messages with incorrect line-endings could get severely corrupted in the transmission. Basically, my advice is to tell them to fix their software. That's what we do, and everybody has done that, so far. Greetz, Peter.
Re: Problem with me and hostname
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:58:08AM -0300, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: Hi, An user is trying to send an email and I see this in log: 2001-06-07 09:13:34.292253500 delivery 21640: deferral: Connected_to_200.251.234.142_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501 _dd002.domain.com,_ why_do_you_say_you_are_mail.domain.com?/ The hostname is dd002.domain.com, but I don't say this name in me, every machine has a different name, so I can very easy change the qmail or ftp or other service to other machine. The hostname is not dd002.domain.com: gregw@frodo:~$ dnsqr a dd002.domain.com 1 dd002.domain.com: 34 bytes, 1+0+0+0 records, response, authoritative, nxdomain query: 1 dd002.domain.com Or perhaps this is the cause of your problem? (Yes, I am aware that you made this name up. If you must use made up names, at least clearly state this, and try to use 'example.com', 'example.net' or 'example.org'* in your munged data. In this particular instance, the real domain names would be extremely helpful, as this appears to be at least partially a question of public DNS records... Knowing the recieving server may also be helpful). *See RFC 2606 for more examples of acceptable bogus domain names. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html -- Greg White
Re: pop server
-Original Message- From: PUB: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Miércoles 6 de Junio de 2001 20:09 To: qmail list Subject: Re: pop server [snip] PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Which are the advantages to use Maildir instead of Mailbox? What about mail clients mail readers (mutt, elm pine, etc) using Maildir? --yapedu/xgnu
Lyris performance and article
SysAdmin has an article online by some of the top technical people at Lyris (remember Lyris?): Title: Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications? http://www.sysadminmag.com/newsletters/feature/ They use their MTA as a comparison tool, and crank it up to the equvalent of a concurrencyremote of 3000, though they don't seem to get much of a performance boost past 1000 on the hardware they're using. One of their conclusions is that their asynch multi-threaded software model outperforms the process based model which qmail uses. Is their methodology convincing? Well... However, and interesting read. John White
Re: Line Feed
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:28:45AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: [snip] To fix this for broken clients, you can use fixcrio, or djb's @fixme/fixup solution which feeds to new-inject or qmail-inject to rewrite the message. @fixme/fixup is not gonna help, because the message is rejected at the SMTP level already, unless you use fixcrio, at which point @fixme/fixup becomes obsolete. Greetz, Peter.
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) [...] 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. The qmail/Reiser patch is installed. Besides from reading the text with that patch it seemed to only be an issue with crash recovery. More on this today. We modified qmail.c to give separate error messages in the switch statement for each error condition. Luckily or not we got the error again today. There error is occuring when link is called at the end of main() trying to link the file in intd to todo. There are two lines that raise that error so we are trying to capture strerror() after each and see which it is and what the error is. I strongly suspect that you've hit a bug in ReiserFS -- are you running with all of Han's latest patches? We've been running qmail on various Linux systems for years, nd have never had a problem like this one on ext2. You may want to get Hans' people in on this discussion; they may have a ReiserFS debugging patch to help them track down the problem. 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. ---
suddenly cannot receive email
Until I get this mess fixed, please cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, but it is the only way I can receive email right now. I seem to have done something to break my qmail. Yesterday afternoon, I added a virtual user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and put his forwarding address in alias/.qmail-garnette-monte and added his domain to rcpthosts then restarted. I did not notice at the time (because I left work right after that), but I have not received ANY email since I did that. We have a UNIX box running BSDi 4.0, QMail, Apache and FP. This morning I did a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and found tons of bounce messages going out and the following messages about incoming mail: Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.483380 starting delivery 434: msg 2 77962 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.490779 status: local 0/10 remote 1/ 20 Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.510962 delivery 434: failure: Sorry _Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_my _control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ I cehecked control/locals and found my main server, 'midnightsun.chismtrail.com' so I added just plain 'chismtrail.com' in case that might be the problem, even though it has been working like that just fine in the past. It did not help. Now I am getting the following messages: Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.296843 starting delivery 35: msg 27 7963 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.306096 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.338870 delivery 35: deferral: Unabl e_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ and Jun 7 10:16:35 midnightsun qmail: 991926995.777267 delivery 38: failure: This_m essage_is_looping:_it_already_has_my_Delivered-To_line._(#5.4.6)/ and Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.945873 starting delivery 70: msg 27 7962 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.955071 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.987598 delivery 70: failure: Sorry, _no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ There is a [EMAIL PROTECTED], in /usr/var/vpopmail/users qmail-default .qmail-igy .qmail-walter .qmail-wvchism9 postmaster qmail-gin .qmail-root .qmail-wdchism abc walt qmail-iggy .qmail-swap .qmail-wlat guest webmaster Where else can I look to find the problem?
Re: Line Feed
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0700, Greg White wrote: Search the archives for 'fixcrio' -- it's intended for just such broken clients. Ahh. Excellent. Also, can anyone confirm that there is an RFC stating that a CR is a LF? I think that your word choices here are poor. No RFC that I am aware of states that a CR is a LF, however, RFC821/2821 defines a line as a string of characters terminated by CR and LF. It was indeed a bad choice of words. Reading RFC2821 cleared it all up for me and aided me in a reply to the person who requested the 'feature' change. Thanks to all for the swift responses, including Charles and Russell. -- ../mk
RE: ACL
I would think the easiest way to do this would be: a) make a group that the three accounts are part of (if this isn't already in place) b) chgrp the mailbox so that all accounts have access to it c) set the MAIL environment variable for all the accounts to point to that mailbox voila, finished. However, I haven't done this before and it's just a guess. Can anyone on the list confirm this? Or have a better way? Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time! -Original Message-From: marco1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:49To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: ACL I'm using Qmail + Vpomail + Courier-Imap and would like to enable Acl on mailboxes. I nedd to enable tree different users(accounts) to gain access toa single mailbox. How can i do that? Thanks, Marco
qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
Sorry, but I'm not all comfortable with this... There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly to this list during the last month. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00283.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00426.html We still haven't been able to help any of them... This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. Any other thoughts about this? Jörgen
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:00:35AM -0500, Virginia Chism wrote: Until I get this mess fixed, please cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, but it is the only way I can receive email right now. I seem to have done something to break my qmail. Yesterday afternoon, I added a virtual user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and put his forwarding address in alias/.qmail-garnette-monte and added his domain to rcpthosts then restarted. I did not notice at the time (because I left work right after that), but I have not received ANY email since I did that. We have a UNIX box running BSDi 4.0, QMail, Apache and FP. This morning I did a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and found tons of bounce messages going out and the following messages about incoming mail: Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.483380 starting delivery 434: msg 2 77962 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.490779 status: local 0/10 remote 1/ 20 Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.510962 delivery 434: failure: Sorry ._Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_i n_my _control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ From this information, and the information you've provided below, it looks to me that you probably did something like this: echo example.com:example.com /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I doubt that this is what you wanted... see below. I cehecked control/locals and found my main server, 'midnightsun.chismtrail.com' so I added just plain 'chismtrail.com' in case that might be the problem, even though it has been working like that just fine in the past. It did not help. Now I am getting the following messages: SNIP logs... There is a [EMAIL PROTECTED], in /usr/var/vpopmail/users SNIP listing. From this alone, it appears that chismtrail.com was a virtual domain, and should never have been in 'locals'. Add it back to virtualdomains, and put 'locals' back the way it was. Please let us know if I nailed it first try...;) -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, peter green wrote: If your users are filling a /var partition of 4GB, you (a) handle an extraordinary amount of high-latency e-mail, (b) are mismanaging your mail server (hint: databytes), and/or (c) you have extremely rude lusers sending MP3s and whatnot through the system (in which case they need to be beaten). All it takes is for someone to send a 300MB attachment to an internal list having about 60 people on it. That's already 18 gigs. Been there, seen that. And the user was a well educated computer professional. With the current disk prices I would _never_ put less than 4 gigs on /var and would try my best to have at least that much free space on /home. Fortunately I'm not currently administering anything more complex than two low-traffic pass-through systems :)
Re: pop server
* GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010607 14:05]: PD: I'm not using Maildir You should! Which are the advantages to use Maildir instead of Mailbox? [http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html] What about mail clients mail readers (mutt, elm pine, etc) using Maildir? mutt == yes, natively elm == who knows?! (does anyone actually use elm anymore?! ;-) pine == yes, with specific patches Another excellent bet is to use IMAP (Courier-IMAP, e.g.) and automatically allow all IMAP-aware clients to work. /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness? (Jack Handey)
RE: suddenly cannot receive email
Make sure you check in /var/qmail/users/assign and make sure that is pointing to the correct place for your virtual domains and check that the uid/gid is correct. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: suddenly cannot receive email Until I get this mess fixed, please cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, but it is the only way I can receive email right now. I seem to have done something to break my qmail. Yesterday afternoon, I added a virtual user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains and put his forwarding address in alias/.qmail-garnette-monte and added his domain to rcpthosts then restarted. I did not notice at the time (because I left work right after that), but I have not received ANY email since I did that. We have a UNIX box running BSDi 4.0, QMail, Apache and FP. This morning I did a 'tail -f /var/log/maillog' and found tons of bounce messages going out and the following messages about incoming mail: Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.483380 starting delivery 434: msg 2 77962 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.490779 status: local 0/10 remote 1/ 20 Jun 7 09:57:54 midnightsun qmail: 991925874.510962 delivery 434: failure: Sorry _Although_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in _my _control/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ I cehecked control/locals and found my main server, 'midnightsun.chismtrail.com' so I added just plain 'chismtrail.com' in case that might be the problem, even though it has been working like that just fine in the past. It did not help. Now I am getting the following messages: Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.296843 starting delivery 35: msg 27 7963 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.306096 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:14:54 midnightsun qmail: 991926894.338870 delivery 35: deferral: Unabl e_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ and Jun 7 10:16:35 midnightsun qmail: 991926995.777267 delivery 38: failure: This_m essage_is_looping:_it_already_has_my_Delivered-To_line._(#5.4.6)/ and Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.945873 starting delivery 70: msg 27 7962 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.955071 status: local 1/10 remote 0/ 20 Jun 7 10:35:46 midnightsun qmail: 991928146.987598 delivery 70: failure: Sorry, _no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ There is a [EMAIL PROTECTED], in /usr/var/vpopmail/users qmail-default .qmail-igy .qmail-walter .qmail-wvchism9 postmaster qmail-gin .qmail-root .qmail-wdchism abc walt qmail-iggy .qmail-swap .qmail-wlat guest webmaster Where else can I look to find the problem?
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
In a message dated 6/7/01 12:55:37 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From this information, and the information you've provided below, it looks to me that you probably did something like this: echo example.com:example.com /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains What I actually did was: echo www.garnette.com:alias-garnette /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~alias/.qmail-garnette-monte echo garnette.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts it appears that chismtrail.com was a virtual domain, and should never have been in 'locals'. Add it back to virtualdomains, and put 'locals' back the way it was. midnightsun.chismtrail.com is our server. chismtrail.com was in rcpthosts. I have taken it back out of locals and left it in rcpthosts. I did another test. It is no longer giving the 'looping message, but is still not getting through. Here is the error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
In a message dated 6/7/01 1:30:31 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make sure you check in /var/qmail/users/assign and make sure that is pointing to the correct place for your virtual domains and check that the uid/gid is correct. This is in /var/qmail/users/assign (and I am such a newbie that I have no idea if that is right!): +cmarc.com-:cmarc.com:142:142:/var/vpopmail/domains/cmarc.com:-:: +chismtrail.com-:chismtrail.com:142:142:/var/vpopmail/users:-::
RE: Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ??
George: /var/qmail/control directory contains control files. That is the best explanation. They control the operation and behavior of qmail. defaultdomain control file is used to argument any email address in the message that are not recognized as being proper [EMAIL PROTECTED] format. defaultdomain is most often used when sending mail messages to local users on the same mail server. local The local control file is used to specify mail addresses that qmail should consider to be local addresses to the mail server. me This control file is the most important control file in qmail. Qmail will not run if the me control file is not present. The value defined in me control file is used as the default value for many of the other control files if they are not present. Most of the above description is from Running Qmail by Richard Blum. If you are just getting started, I suggest that you read this book. I hope it helps. Kirti -Original Message- From: george [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory ?? Hello : I can't understand some files in /var/qmail/control directory. E xample: defaultdomain, locals, me, Any different? if I want to add domain ,how to do? Thank you.
Re: ACL
what about three accounts, with a three way forward? seems easier to do, or? tom - Original Message - From: marco1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:48 PM Subject: ACL I'm using Qmail + Vpomail + Courier-Imap and would like to enable Acl on mailboxes. I nedd to enable tree different users(accounts) to gain access to a single mailbox. How can i do that? Thanks, Marco
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Jörgen Persson allegedly wrote: Sorry, but I'm not all comfortable with this... There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly to this list during the last month. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00283.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00426.html We still haven't been able to help any of them... This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. Any other thoughts about this? If it's an unpatched qmail-remote, then remain suspicious of some OS bug. I spent a long time looking at qmail-remote when a similar problem occured on a Solaris 2.5 system (or maybe 2.6, I forget now). Here are the two lines of code: if (select(fd + 1,rfds,(fd_set *) 0,(fd_set *) 0,tv) == -1) return -1; if (FD_ISSET(fd,rfds)) return read(fd,buf,len); That's about as simple as you can get! I don't see any way that the read() call will occur without select() returning the fdset bit. So, if select() says that a read can occur, then the only reason that the read() can then block is if the OS is lying... So, it's kinda hard to see a problem with qmail-remote here. Do OSes ever get it wrong? Sure. If this is a relatively widespread problem, then you might want to put an alarm() handler into qmail-remote, but if you can't rely on the OS, all bets are really off, right? Regards.
RE: pop server
What about mail clients mail readers (mutt, elm pine, etc) using Maildir? --yapedu/xgnu Mutt plays well with Maildirs. Good mutt. --joshua.
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
In a message dated 6/7/01 3:27:10 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thought so -- you overwrote virtualdomains, and chismtrail.com was in there. ;) Got a copy of the original (backups, etc.)? That was it! Thank you so much. I don't have a copy, but think I can rebuild now that I know what I did!
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
What are the probabilities of the Sendmail server being the one causing the problems? What if the mail admin of mg.hk5.outblaze.com has used some sort of patch that is causing qmail-remote's to hang? Has anyone communicated with outblaze.com's postmaster? There is nothing a remote system can do that will hang qmail-remote on a correctly functioning OS. If the local TCP stack has accepted data and indicated available via the select() return, then the remote system has no further say as the read() only fetches the data previously received. I'll bet it's an OS bug - most likely in the TCP stack. Eg, it may be that the local TCP stack - in some circumstance - discards unread data, *then* marks the local socket as unreadable, rather than around the other way. That sort of window would wedge the select/read sequence in qmail-remote. Regards.
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html rethat 6.2, outblaze.com http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.html rethat 6.2, outblaze.com http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00283.html FreeBSD 4.something, not outblaze.com. Some of the host are just unreachable. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00426.html rethat 6.2, outblaze.com We still haven't been able to help any of them... Somebody with rh-6.2 / linux-2.2.14 might want to look into this, though i'd recommend a kernel upgrade. There have been a number of networking problems in the linux kernel, and some of them were quite awful and hard to trigger. I remember that i downgraded my home server to 2.2.13 after 2.2.14 broke my rsync-over-ssh or network tar. Regards, Uwe
RE: suddenly cannot receive email
And now, just to add fat to the fire, my boss cannot access his email. I'll deal with that tomorrow. -- Scarlett O'Hara
Re: qmail-inject error
Brian Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do know that all the emails are getting sent. We count how many mails we should be sending and the numbers match up with the logs. Does qmail-inject retry qmail-queue if it fails? I don't think so; I'd have to check the source to be sure. I can't see a reason to; djb's software is reliable, and the rest of his stuff tends to know it. If it hits an error that shouldn't happen the most logical step is to treat it as fatal. As for Reiser, we know we are a bit behind on it. We are still on 2.2.16 kernel and running the last reiser we can for that kernel. If the mail is getting sent, that is most important. We will send you guys and the Reiser guys any errors we get out of strerror. Should be interesting. 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: suddenly cannot receive email
None of my alias addresses work. I guess I need to put all the domains back in virtual. I know I can do it through the 'echo eachdomain.com:domain.com \ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains' route. Would it be equally effective just to go into virtualdomains and edit the file? Doesn't chismtrail.com need to go back in virtualdomains? echo chismtrail.com:chismtrail.com \ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I'll try that. I guess I need to restart qmail after the change? ISTR that a restart is required for virtualdomains, yes. I would have done it anyway, unless it's one that I know is read every time, like badmailfrom, etc. -- Greg White
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:40:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/7/01 12:55:37 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From this information, and the information you've provided below, it looks to me that you probably did something like this: echo example.com:example.com /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains What I actually did was: echo www.garnette.com:alias-garnette /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~alias/.qmail-garnette-monte echo garnette.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts It sounds like you didn't send qmail-send a SIGHUP. You need to do that to get it to reread virtualdomains. Chris
qmailqueue patch
How do I know/find out if my system has the qmailqueue patch that is required to enable qmail to call a different qmail-queue program than the one compiled in by default? Where would I find this information? Joy Hundley Internet Services Service Transport 800-528-1616 ext. 240 Visit us on the Web at www.service-transport.com
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
Should I chown the top four to alias? Three of them have worked in the past, but garnette has not worked at all. And, should I do anything about the -rw-r--r--? -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 11 Apr 20 14:01 .qmail-evergreenequikits-info -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 19 May 22 13:49 .qmail-fiskrri-info -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 18 Jun 6 16:21 .qmail-garnette-monte -rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 26 Apr 24 11:16 .qmail-lechapeauonline-info -rw--- 1 alias qmail 11 May 25 1999 .qmail-mailer-daemon -rw--- 1 alias qmail 11 May 25 1999 .qmail-postmaster -rw--- 1 alias qmail 11 May 25 1999 .qmail-root -rw--- 1 alias qmail 26 Sep 29 2000 .qmail-webmaster drwx-- 5 alias qmail 512 May 25 1999 Maildir This is how they are listed in /var/vpopmail/users -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 71 May 26 1999 .qmail-default -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 26 Jun 30 1999 .qmail-gin -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 26 Jun 30 1999 .qmail-iggy -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 26 Jun 30 1999 .qmail-igy -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 26 Sep 29 2000 .qmail-root -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 26 May 26 1999 .qmail-swap -rw-r--r-- 1 root vpopmail 21 May 9 09:31 .qmail-walter -rw-r--r-- 1 root vpopmail 21 May 9 09:32 .qmail-wdchism -rw-r--r-- 1 root vpopmail 21 May 9 09:30 .qmail-wlat -rw--- 1 vpopmail vpopmail 21 May 26 1999 .qmail-wvchism9 drwx-- 3 vpopmail vpopmail 512 May 26 1999 abc drwx-- 3 vpopmail vpopmail 512 Aug 26 1999 guest drwx-- 3 vpopmail vpopmail 512 May 26 1999 postmaster drwx-- 3 vpopmail vpopmail 512 May 26 1999 walt drwx-- 3 vpopmail vpopmail 512 May 26 1999 webmaster
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:28:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/7/01 3:18:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't chismtrail.com need to go back in virtualdomains? echo chismtrail.com:chismtrail.com \ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I'll try that. I guess I need to restart qmail after the change? ISTR that a restart is required for virtualdomains, yes. I would have done it anyway, unless it's one that I know is read every time, like badmailfrom, etc. -- Greg White
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:41:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/7/01 1:30:31 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Make sure you check in /var/qmail/users/assign and make sure that is pointing to the correct place for your virtual domains and check that the uid/gid is correct. This is in /var/qmail/users/assign (and I am such a newbie that I have no idea if that is right!): +cmarc.com-:cmarc.com:142:142:/var/vpopmail/domains/cmarc.com:-:: +chismtrail.com-:chismtrail.com:142:142:/var/vpopmail/users:-:: Doesn't chismtrail.com need to go back in virtualdomains? echo chismtrail.com:chismtrail.com \ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
bounce handling
Hey all-- I have ezmlm installed, and really like it's bounce detection, but for certain reasons I must use a different mailing list manager. I'd like to take advantage of it's bounce handling though. Is there a way to have qmail watch for a certain header, and then implement bounce tracking on a non-ezmlm message? That is, let's say I send out a message to the list nicholsfamily. If I put a header in the message that says X-List-Message: yes-nicholsfamily I'd like qmail to treat it like an outgoing ezmlm message, so that if it bounces, it's tracked in the ezmlm manner. At the last minute though, when ezmlm would unsubscribe the user, I'd like it to do something else, like add the user to a text file, or send an email to a specific address--probably ideal would be to just run a script, that way the script could do any combination of the above as the admin saw fit. Does anybody have or know of anything that aproximates this kind of behavior in qmail? I think it would be a very useful feature for many users of qmail who run other mailing list managers for whatever reason. thanks, --joshua.
Re: qmail-inject error
We do know that all the emails are getting sent. We count how many mails we should be sending and the numbers match up with the logs. Does qmail-inject retry qmail-queue if it fails? As for Reiser, we know we are a bit behind on it. We are still on 2.2.16 kernel and running the last reiser we can for that kernel. If the mail is getting sent, that is most important. We will send you guys and the Reiser guys any errors we get out of strerror. Thanks, Brian Moon -- dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ - Original Message - From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: 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) [...] 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. The qmail/Reiser patch is installed. Besides from reading the text with that patch it seemed to only be an issue with crash recovery. More on this today. We modified qmail.c to give separate error messages in the switch statement for each error condition. Luckily or not we got the error again today. There error is occuring when link is called at the end of main() trying to link the file in intd to todo. There are two lines that raise that error so we are trying to capture strerror() after each and see which it is and what the error is. I strongly suspect that you've hit a bug in ReiserFS -- are you running with all of Han's latest patches? We've been running qmail on various Linux systems for years, nd have never had a problem like this one on ext2. You may want to get Hans' people in on this discussion; they may have a ReiserFS debugging patch to help them track down the problem. 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: suddenly cannot receive email
In a message dated 6/7/01 3:18:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't chismtrail.com need to go back in virtualdomains? echo chismtrail.com:chismtrail.com \ /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains I'll try that. I guess I need to restart qmail after the change?
Re: suddenly cannot receive email
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:52:41PM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:40:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/7/01 12:55:37 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From this information, and the information you've provided below, it looks to me that you probably did something like this: echo example.com:example.com /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains What I actually did was: echo www.garnette.com:alias-garnette /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~alias/.qmail-garnette-monte echo garnette.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts It sounds like you didn't send qmail-send a SIGHUP. You need to do that to get it to reread virtualdomains. Just to be clear, for the sake of the archives, problem was that the 'main' domain for the box, chismtrail.com, was _already in virtualdomains_ when then above single redirection was issued. IMHO everyone should get in the habit of triple-checking single redirects, or change their mental default to append, a double redirect. You only need to get burned by this type of thing once to be paranoid for life. Speaking as a man with some very old scars of this variety, -- Greg White
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
J=F6rgen Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly t= o this list during the last month.=20 http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.= html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.= html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00283.= html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00426.= html We still haven't been able to help any of them... This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. Any other thoughts about this=3F Three of the four are running Red Hat 6.2. That could simply be because 75% of qmail systems are running RH 6.2, though. :-) No word on which qmail patches, if any, were installed on these systems. -Dave
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Jörgen Persson wrote: Sorry, but I'm not all comfortable with this... There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly to this list during the last month. http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg00558.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/05/msg01332.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00283.html http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/06/msg00426.html We still haven't been able to help any of them... Could Neil Kandalgaonkar, Eric Wang, Troy Settle, and Yevgeniy Miretskiy perhaps get together and compare notes? Do you all share an OS (I noticed that two posters appeared to mention RH6.2 -- is this the case for all? Is there another factor that you all share? (I do note that geography does not appear to be a factor)... This information could allow us to get somewhere. If needed, I'm willing to create a mini-list ala .qmail-something to address all four of the OPs This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. It's really tough to even know what to look at at this point... As soon as I saw that outblaze was in HK, I thought of geographical/routing issues, but none of the posters seems to share common geography. Hmmm... -- Greg White
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
Jörgen Persson wrote: Sorry, but I'm not all comfortable with this... There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly to this list during the last month. We still haven't been able to help any of them... This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. Any other thoughts about this? Jörgen Hi, Just a little investigation. $ nslookup set type=mx outblaze.com outblaze.compreference = 20, mail exchanger = mg.hk5.outblaze.com outblaze.compreference = 10, mail exchanger = spf1.hq.outblaze.com I was curious if they both ran the same MTA, so I checked it out. $ telnet spf1.hq.outblaze.com 25 Trying 202.77.223.28... Connected to spf1.hq.outblaze.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 spf1.hq.outblaze.com ESMTP Postfix $ telnet mg.hk5.outblaze.com 25 Trying 202.123.209.152... Connected to mg.hk5.outblaze.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mg.hk5.outblaze.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:26:17 GMT What are the probabilities of the Sendmail server being the one causing the problems? What if the mail admin of mg.hk5.outblaze.com has used some sort of patch that is causing qmail-remote's to hang? Has anyone communicated with outblaze.com's postmaster? -- Mike
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
Mark et. al. - It *is* possible, though, for qmail-remote to move slowly enough that it appears to hang (yes, even for hours or days). timeoutremote applies to every read() and write() - in the very worst case, each of these system calls might move only a single byte. Consider a 5000 byte message and a timeoutremote set to 1200 seconds (the default). The worst case just for sending the data alone - not including smtp overhead and reading responses from the remote server - is almost 70 days (1200 * 5000 / 60 / 60 / 24 ~= 69.44). Granted, this is extremely unlikely, but you get the idea - some scenarios can cause qmail-remote to move extraordinarily slowly, while still functioning correctly - that is, within the limits imposed by timeoutremote. IMO, the best thing to look at from the people having this problem would be the output from whatever your system call tracing software is (ktrace for FreeBSD, truss for Solaris, strace for Linux...), run on the offending qmail-remote process. If there is no output for over 'timeoutremote' seconds, there's almost certainly a TCP stack bug; otherwise, I'd tend to blame the problem described above. Thanks, David Lowe On 7 Jun 2001, Mark wrote: What are the probabilities of the Sendmail server being the one causing the problems? What if the mail admin of mg.hk5.outblaze.com has used some sort of patch that is causing qmail-remote's to hang? Has anyone communicated with outblaze.com's postmaster? There is nothing a remote system can do that will hang qmail-remote on a correctly functioning OS. If the local TCP stack has accepted data and indicated available via the select() return, then the remote system has no further say as the read() only fetches the data previously received. I'll bet it's an OS bug - most likely in the TCP stack. Eg, it may be that the local TCP stack - in some circumstance - discards unread data, *then* marks the local socket as unreadable, rather than around the other way. That sort of window would wedge the select/read sequence in qmail-remote. Regards.
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:39:25PM -0700, David Lowe allegedly wrote: Mark et. al. - It *is* possible, though, for qmail-remote to move slowly enough that it appears to hang (yes, even for hours or days). timeoutremote applies to every read() and write() - in the very worst case, each of these system calls might move only a single byte. Consider a 5000 byte message and a timeoutremote set to 1200 seconds (the default). The worst case just for sending the data alone - not including smtp overhead and reading responses from the remote server - is almost 70 days (1200 * 5000 / 60 / 60 / 24 ~= 69.44). Granted, this is extremely unlikely, but you get the idea - some scenarios can cause qmail-remote to move extraordinarily slowly, while still functioning correctly - that is, within the limits imposed by timeoutremote. Right. But in that case, the syscall trace would show qmail-remote blocked on the select() not the read(). The read() only gets executed if select() says there is data in which case the read does not block and the code immediately loops back on the select() again. As I recall, the original syscal trace showed qmail-remote blocked on the read(). Regards.
Broadcast Message??
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Re: Not able to connect through outlook express
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:02:46PM -0700, Harry wrote: hi all, I have qmail running on linux, i am able to receive and send emails through SQWEB mail, but i am not able to get my emails through outlook express. I get error there was problem logging onto your mail server. Your passowrd was rejected. Protocol:POP3, Server Response:-ERR Bad login, Port:110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92 Please help. Regards, har You've very likely misconfigured your POP3 daemon. Please post either the line in inetd.conf or the 'run' script from supervise that you use to start your POP3 daemon, and maybe the list can help... -- Greg White
RE: Not able to connect through outlook express
A little more information would be helpful... here's a few areas to look. In responding back to the list, please include any error messages where appropriate. What POP daemon/inetd process are you running on the mail server? Does it show up in the process list if its a daemon? From the local machine, if you try to telnet to port 110 what happens? Are you using vpopmail? If so, you'll need to have a username of [EMAIL PROTECTED] normally. Since sqwebmail uses imap, its ability to send and receive is much different than lookOut running POP. The above questions should trouble shoot a little farther what might be the issue. Hopefully, this helps. Hank Information Logistics www.GoInfoLogistics.com mailto:info.at.GoInfoLogistics.com -Original Message- From: Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Not able to connect through outlook express hi all, I have qmail running on linux, i am able to receive and send emails through SQWEB mail, but i am not able to get my emails through outlook express. I get error there was problem logging onto your mail server. Your passowrd was rejected. Protocol:POP3, Server Response:-ERR Bad login, Port:110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92 Please help. Regards, har
Re: qmailqueue patch
Joy Hundley writes: How do I know/find out if my system has the qmailqueue patch that is required to enable qmail to call a different qmail-queue program than the one compiled in by default? Where would I find this information? strings /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd | grep QMAILQUEUE Or look at the source code. -- -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: I think I'm being relayed through, but I don't know how.
From: Chris Garrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:38:56 -0500 I've got a slightly old set of qmail-ldap patches. I guess I'd better upgrade! For those who made an attempt to help me out, I'd like to report that it was all due to my own stupidity. my smtp.cdb file didn't have what I thought it had in it and I was relaying with or without a buffer overflow. I'm feeling pretty stupid today. 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
Not able to connect through outlook express
hi all, I have qmail running on linux, i am able to receive and send emails through SQWEB mail, but i am not able to get my emails through outlook express. I get error " there was problem logging onto your mail server. Your passowrd was rejected. Protocol:POP3, Server Response:-ERR Bad login, Port:110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92" Please help. Regards, har
Environment Variables vs POP-before-SMTP
Hi there, I'm using POP-before-SMTP function in vpopmail. Everything was working fine if to relay successfully authenticated users since I started trying to set the environment variable DATABYTES on my tcp.smtp.cdb file, but POP-before-SMTP don't set it on the new roaming user. Like: original tcp.smtp.cdb 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=,DATABYTES=1024 new created on the fly tcp.smtp.cdb (I guess) ro.am.ip.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= Any tips to resolve this? vpopmail-4.9.10 - qmail-1.03 Best Regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga - Analista de Suporte - #179653 Blumenau - Santa Catarina. Tel. (47) 9102-3303 http://www.netron.com.br/~eduardo -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
