Re: About processes
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:46:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ps ax | grep qmail-remote > > shows the running processes that are currently sending message, each process > is a message been sent, ok? Right. > ps ax | grep qmail-smtpd > > show the running processes that are currently arriving, right? But it > shows: > > 1016 ?S 4:30 > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -uQMAILDUID -gNOFILESGID 0 smtp > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > 15498 ?S 0:44 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > 19168 ?S 0:00 > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -uQMAILDUID -gNOFILESGID 0 smtp > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > How many messages are arriving? 1, 2 or 3? One, but whatever script you're using to start qmail-smtpd is screwed up. To fix it, you probably need to change "-uQMAILDUID -gNOFILESGID" to "-u$QMAILDUID -g$NOFILESGID". And when you get things straightened out, you should never have two invocations of tcpserver running on the same port at the same time (like you do above), though you can have many qmail-smtpds running at the same time (one for each incoming SMTP connection). Chris PGP signature
Re: Removing Headers with qmail
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:47:44PM +0800, Paul Tan wrote: > I am looking for a solution to remove most of the headers in a message, so > that the recepient cannot see any info of my internal network. If you're using tcpserver (and if you're not, you should be), see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=98678523400345&w=2 for a painless solution to your problem. Chris PGP signature
Re: Again Local Deliveries not working - I'm LOST, really...
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:15:38PM -0230, Martin Marconcini wrote: > > > > Try talking proper SMTP instead: > > > > 220 megadeth.dnsalias.com ESMTP > > helo megadeth.dnsalias.com > > 250 megadeth.dnsalias.com > > mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 250 ok > > rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 250 ok > > data > > 354 go ahead > > Subject: Whatever > > > > Whatever > > . > > 250 ok 997364882 qp 23545 > > This way it worked... however the mail program will say > > from: > to: > Subject: whatever > And the msg body indeed has: > Whatever > IF I try mail from: martin rcpt to: martin > > It will happen the same... why it may not be working the other way? If you don't put From and To headers in your message, there won't be any From and To headers in your message. What appears in these headers has nothing to do with the SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands. > > > /var/log/maillog (when using PHP function mail() points to > > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) > > > > > Aug 9 10:44:09 jupiter sendmail[20485]: f79Dgso06217: to=Martin > > > > See all that stuff that says "sendmail"? qmail doesn't seem to be involved > > here. > > It's qmail-inject (which is linked to sendmail binary)I mean I deleted > sendmail binady from the OpenBSD box and added a sendmail linking to qmail's > sendmail. The reason for this? It's in www.lifewithqmail.org. Those log entries come from sendmail, *not* from any qmail program. I promise. Chris
Re: Again Local Deliveries not working - I'm LOST, really...
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:34:06PM -0230, Martin Marconcini wrote: > Hi list: I am experiencing the same trouble a few days ago... > My Qmail will accept inbound and deliver to Maildir but not from > LOCALHOST... > Box is openbsd 2.9. > Mails for accounts in my box arrive smooth. But if I try to send FROM > localhost to local ... will not. > > > Here is the log/long version: > > bash-2.05# telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 megadeth.dnsalias.com ESMTP > helo megadeth.dnsalias.com > 250 megadeth.dnsalias.com > mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > rcpt to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 250 ok > data > 354 go ahead > . > 250 ok 997364882 qp 23545 > Mail will never arrive... Try talking proper SMTP instead: 220 megadeth.dnsalias.com ESMTP helo megadeth.dnsalias.com 250 megadeth.dnsalias.com mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok data 354 go ahead Subject: Whatever Whatever . 250 ok 997364882 qp 23545 > /var/log/maillog (when using PHP function mail() points to > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) > > Aug 9 10:42:54 jupiter sendmail[6217]: gethostbyaddr(209.99.238.152) > failed: 2 > Aug 9 10:42:54 jupiter sendmail[6217]: f79Dgso06217: from=www, > size=276, class=0, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > relay=www@localhost > Aug 9 10:44:09 jupiter sendmail[20485]: f79Dgso06217: to=Martin > Marconcini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ctladdr=www (67/67), > delay=00:01:15, xdelay=00:01:15, mailer=esmtp, pri=30276, > relay=megadeth.dnsalias.com. [209.99.238.152], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: > Connection timed out with megadeth.dnsalias.com. See all that stuff that says "sendmail"? qmail doesn't seem to be involved here. Chris
Re: done qmail installation but can't telnet to port 25
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:10:34PM +, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >case, tail -f /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current and start qmail. > > @40003b728c052b1e1bdc tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for O Fix your run file: you've got the letter O in there where you should have the number 0. > I'm thinking that the reason qmail is unahppy is that my machine is not on > the Internet yet. So the name the machine has will not resolve properly. That has nothing to do with it. Just change the O to 0 and you should be in business. Chris
Re: Dan, how do we solve this problem?
After reading some initial responses to this, I thought it was worth asking for clarification: (4) and (5) together would indicate that the user wants to use his "ownership" of the slow connection's IP address as a source for the mail, but wants to deliver it via tha fast DUL-listed connection. Is that the problem we're addressing? If not, please disregard the babble below. If so, it seems that any solution allowing this will cause problems (in this particular case, anyway) at the point his upstream ISP (on the fast side) checks that the packets coming down the pipe are from a valid IP address (i.e. one that is supposed to be located on that side of that pipe). Anything less secure would seem to encourage IP spoofing. On a less technical note, it seems that addressing the state of being listed in a DUL by patching/modifying/changing software won't ever scale well. The purpose of blocking lists and their use by ISPs is to actively and immediately discourage mail abuse AND to make end-users aware of what their ISPs are facilitating. Without knowing all the circumstances involved, I think the user should take (1) a little farther; just because he/she doesn't have a fixed IP doesn't mean that he/she can't pursue the issue with the ISP. It's true that they may be unable to respond adequately, but making some noise about the issue seems like a lower risk than, well, asking Dan to add a feature to qmail. :) Chris On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Russell Nelson wrote: > A user on this mailing list has a problem. He has a fast non-static > IP ADSL connection, which is listed on the DUL. The non-default route > was a slow second internet connection with a static IP and which was > not listed on the DUL. He has several choices that I can see: > > 1) Try to get his fast connection removed from the DUL. That's not > acceptable since he doesn't have a fixed IP address. > > 2) Let his SMTP client connections go out from the IP address on the > DUL. This isn't acceptable because anybody subscribing to the DUL > will reject his email. > > 3) Use a wildcard smtproutes entry to redirect his email to his ISP's > email relay. This isn't acceptable because he doesn't want to have to > trust his ISP. He wants to be able to look in his log files and know > that the email has been accepted by the recipient's SMTP server. > > 4) He could change the default route to point to the slow connection. > Obviously unacceptable. > > 5) He simply MUST convince qmail-remote to bind to the IP address of > the slow non-DUL interface. Unfortunately, there is no way to do that > short of patching qmail. Why should he have to patch qmail in order > to add a feature he needs? As you've said yourself, the problem with > people offering patches is that you don't get an indication of how > many people are using the patch. > > 6) His only acceptable alternative to patching qmail is to try to > convince you to add this as a feature to qmail. Other people have > tried to get this feature added, and you've called their desire > "frivolous". He doesn't hold out much hope for success. > > What should he do? Give up on convincing you and patch qmail? > > -- Chris Hardie - - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.summersault.com/chris/ --
Re: Nothing at Port 25?
Depending on what you meant by "OS manipulation", the following troubleshooting steps might be valid: -See what's in your /etc/tcp.smtp file - make sure you're allowing connections and that the tcprules database has been rebuilt properly. -You say you can't telnet, but that you do get some sign of connection. You should clarify what is actually happening here. If the packets are being rejected at the network level, you've got a non-qmail configuration issue. -See what's in your mail logs. If qmail-smtpd is getting the connection, but something is going wrong, it will log an error telling you about it. -If there is something wrong with qmail, a "make setup check" from the source tree will usually do wonders, especially after an OS upgrade with strange manipulation. Hope this helps, Chris On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Alex Le Fevre wrote: > Hello all, > > This weekend I attempted to upgrade my system from > OpenBSD 2.8 -> 2.9. I had a bit of trouble doing so, > and as such had to do some strange OS manipulation > that does not bear description here. > > In any case, after getting to what I thought was a > fully restored point, my inbound mail is not working. > This despite the fact that I have qmail running under > tcpserver, as revealed by ps: > > qmaild3828 0.0 0.360 444 C0- S 10:36PM >0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -u 1012 -g 1011 > -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > I also have qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and > qmail-clean running. > > I can't even telnet to port 25 on the system; it tells > me it's connected, then immediately dumps me out. I've > posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if it could possibly > be the OS shutting down the port, but I suspect > something is wrong with the qmail daemon. > > Does anyone here know if I've got things right from > the Qmail end? Thanks. > > Alex Le Fevre > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > -- Chris Hardie - - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.summersault.com/chris/ --
Re: rblsmtpd and mail-abuse.org's DNS servers
I list some alternatives to MAPS's RBLs, along with some other spam-prevention techniques, here: http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html#resources Chris On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Derek Callaway wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Chin Fang wrote: > > Right, I guess I should have said that I already read those pages before I > posted this message. I'm looking for a _free_ workaround to this problem. > > TIA > > > You will need to pay MAPS to use one of its three RBLs, or the combined > > RBL+. > > > > Please see http://www.mail-abuse.org/subscription.html and > >http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html > > > > even you are with an educational institution. > > > > Dr. Dan Bernstein himself has given up on MAPS's RBLs: > > > > Please see: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html > > > > Regards, > > > > Chin Fang > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Hi, I'm having a problem with my qmail smtpd server becoming unresponsive > > > when rblsmtpd cannot communiate with the RBL nameservers. Has anyone else > > > had this problem? I'd like to blindy accept e-mail if the RBL nameservers > > > cannot be contacted. Here's how I'm starting the SMTP server: > > > > > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 7791 -g 2108 -v 0 smtp fixcrio >/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r dialups.mail-abuse.org >/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -t 7 -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see >http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?%IP%>' /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 >| /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s100 >/var/log/smtp & > > > > > > -- > > > //Derek Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Programmer: CISC, LLC - S@IRC > > > char *sites[]={"http://www.freezersearch.com/index.cfm?aff=dhc";, > > > "http://www.ciscllc.com","http://www.freezemail.com",0}; /*KDR AB 249*/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Chris Hardie - - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.summersault.com/chris/ --
Re: Qmail relaying by bouncing to reply-to
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:39:45PM +0200, Erik Lindahl wrote: > We've had qmail working splendid for a while, but > just got a new problem when the free RBL services were > discontinued and there are less sites we refuse based on ip: > > Apparently, spammers send mails to nonexistent users and > rely on qmail bouncing this to the reply-to adress. By setting > the reply-to to a suitable adress you get relaying, albeit > wrapped in a qmail bounce-message. qmail will not bounce anything to a reply-to address; it bounces to the envelope sender. It's not likely that spammers are doing what you say. It's more likely that they think that the address to which they think they're sending spam is valid, but it isn't. I don't know where they get a hold of these bogus addresses. There's a whole slew of spam-only addresses I get mail for; these addresses have never been valid. It really makes no sense to relay mail this way, since a spammer would have to send one message for each spam recipient. If he does this, he might as well just send the mail directly to his victims. Chris PGP signature
Re: qmail security or email virus?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:04:24PM -0400, Jeff Palmer wrote: > Or make relaying DENIED by default? It is denied by default, if you follow the installation instructions. You have to delete the rcpthosts file intentionally to make your server an open relay. Chris PGP signature
Re: smtp problem
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:37:48PM +0700, J4cks wrote: > yes it contain all of our domain > ip 192.168.1.90 > > now user from whatevercan use my smtp Can you show us an instance of this, an example of someone not in the range of allowed IP addresses being able to relay mail through your server? How *exactly* are you starting qmail-smtpd? Did you use tcprules to build your tcp.smtp.cdb file? You've obviously done something wrong, but if you don't tell us exactly what you've done there's no way for anyone to figure out what it is. Chris PGP signature
Re: smtp problem
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:59:35PM +0700, J4cks wrote: > i have a problem again > my problem is someone from different domain can use my smtp server. > i have see tha FAQ and set tcp.smtp but it doesn't work > setting on my tcp.smtp > 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 192.168.2.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 192.168.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > 192.168.4.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" > :allow Do you have a rcpthosts file? What's in it? What's the IP address of your server? Chris
Re: Single UID mailboxes - mail getting lost
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:55:44AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > I agree regarding the understanding, I don't agree regarding the security. A > setup containing of tons of .qmail-anything files and custom checkpassword; > where the checkpassword input file and the .qmail-files must be in sync is a > bit complicated and a hell to manage, no? You don't need tons of .qmail-* files. In fact, you don't need any at all. You need some entries in users/assign and in users/poppasswd, and that's it. When I create a new user, I make an entry in assign, another in poppasswd, and I create a Maildir. It's very simple and clean. Chris PGP signature
Re: SSH with Qmail
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:02:31AM -0400, Dave Lewis wrote: > Does anyone have documentation on how to setup Qmail to work with SSH ??? > I'm currently using Qmail+vpopmail What do you mean by "work with"? In what way would you like qmail and SSH to interact? Chris PGP signature
Re: mail relay server
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:46:28PM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote: > Put all of the domains that ServerA hosts in ServerB's rcpthosts file (but not > in locals or virtualdomains!). Then, for each domain that you just put in > rcpthosts, make an entry in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes like this: > > domain.dom:a.b.c.d > > where domain.dom is the domain and a.b.c.d is the IP address of ServerA. This > is all you have to do on ServerB, and you don't even have to restart any of the > qmail programs. I forgot one thing: you have to configure ServerB to allow relaying from ServerA. See http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html Chris PGP signature
Re: mail relay server
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:38:07AM +0800, Ami Shamril wrote: > This server (ServerA) is in our internal network. Now we want to install > qmail to act only as mail relay server (ServerB) to put in our DMZ. So all > incoming email will go to ServerB first & ServerB will forward to ServerA. > Same goes to outgoing email. All outgoing email from ServerA will go to > ServerB first & ServerB will send it out. > > My questions are > 1. How to configure qmail to act as mail relay server (ServerB) & how to > confiruge it to forward all incoming email to ServerA.? Put all of the domains that ServerA hosts in ServerB's rcpthosts file (but not in locals or virtualdomains!). Then, for each domain that you just put in rcpthosts, make an entry in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes like this: domain.dom:a.b.c.d where domain.dom is the domain and a.b.c.d is the IP address of ServerA. This is all you have to do on ServerB, and you don't even have to restart any of the qmail programs. > 2. In ServerA, how I want to configure qmail to forward all outgoing email > go to ServerB? Put: :e.f.g.h in /var/qmail/control/smtproutes, where e.f.g.h is the IP address of ServerB. This is a wildcard entry that tells qmail-remote on ServerA to skip DNS lookups and send everything to ServerB. It's just that easy! Chris PGP signature
Re: Single UID mailboxes - mail getting lost
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:55:10PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > Singe UID setups, usually called Virtual User Setups, are requiring a > virtual user manager. That's not true. I've been using a roll-my-own single UID setup for ages, with no vpopmail or vmailmgr or anything but a custom checkpassword. It works beautifully and I don't have to worry about the security of non-DJB code (except for the cdb-enabled checkpassword, which I wrote myself). For someone with a small set of domains and a user base that doesn't change that often, I'd recommend a single-UID setup. It'll be more secure, and it'll give him a better understanding of how all the pieces of qmail work. Chris PGP signature
Re: Single UID mailboxes - mail getting lost
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:30:20PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > /var/qmail/control/users/assign: > =jay-tarsk-com:popuser:101:101:/var/qmail/popboxes/tarsk-com/tarsk-jay::: > > /var/qmail/control/users/poppasswd: (the password in this case is tarsk) > tarsk-jay:W.I8jJCHbKvBQ:popuser:/var/qmail/popboxes/tarsk-com/tarsk-jay > > /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains: > tarsk.com:tarsk-com Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is delivered locally to tarsk-com-jay, not jay-tarsk-com. Fix your assign file and you should be in business. Chris PGP signature
Use rblsmtpd to tag messages rather than blackholing?
I'm started using rblsmtp to blackhole messages from sites listed in a variety of open-relay and other anti-spam DNS services. In "run": /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -u 82 -g 65534 0 smtp \ /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ -r inputs.orbz.org \ -r outputs.orbs.org \ -r or.orbl.org \ -r relays.ordb.org \ -r dev.null.dk \ -r orbs.dorkslayers.com \ -r orbs.gst-group.co.uk \ -r relays.osirusoft.com \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail-smtpd 2 I've noticed some legitimate list mail disappearing and see some notes in the logs about other rejections, but I can't get a sense of what's being rejected. Is there a way to use rblsmtpd, or some other tool, to mark a message as potential spam, along with a message like the one it logs like: rblsmtpd: 24.0.95.144 pid 11121: 451 IP address 24.0.95.144 is an open mail relay or part of a multistage open relay - See http://www.orbl.org If it could instead of /dev/nulling these messages simply add an "X-header" I could have my MUA file them to a "suspicious" mailbox and see what I'm missing -- at least until I get comfortable enough for it to blackhole this stuff, sight unseen. Thanks.
Re: SMTP help...
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:25:07PM -0400, Peter wrote: > However, when I telnet in from my desktop machine (192.168.1.2) it accepts > my connection, and -nothing- appears. The server will not give any > acknowledgements. I'll bet it will appear eventually. Give it a minute or so. If it appears after a minute, then your question is the number one FAQ on this list. Search for "slow SMTP" or "slow POP" in the list archives. Chris PGP signature
Re: Sublist (Was: Virus-infected listmembers)
> From: "Virginia Chism" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:32:05 -0500 > > I also find it entertaining to watch all the traffic the spammers inspire. > 25+ copies of the virus on this list alone, nearly 80 virus reports from 2 > broken reporting entities (yes, I kept track just for fun), and maybe 150 > email griping about same! Not to mention the myriad email requests for > information on the best antivirus software to use. I'm glad someone tracked this. I'd been kinda curious about the statistics on the stuff that I was massively deleting. Do you also track the number of messages Robin sends telling other people how clueless they are and now many messages those people post back defending themselves? 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: slow SMTP...cjk
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:58:26AM +0300, Constantine Koulis wrote: > I have a qmail,courier-imap,vmailmgr email server and works fine.My small > problem is that when i send an email it takes around 20 second for the SMTP > to send the email.Anybody knows why?I install the qmail from the LWQ > document and so i install the smtp program that it is mentioned over > there... Check the mailing list archives. This is by far the most frequently asked question on this list, and it's been answered many, many times. Chris PGP signature
Re: pop3d
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:18:34PM +1000, Vivian Doherty wrote: > exec tcpserver -v -R -H -l -c "$concurrency" \ ^^ -l needs an argument. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html. Chris PGP signature
RE: Entire domain forward to a single catch all account on diffrent domain
> I have qmail installed, with vpopmail etc, and wish to have > all email sent to domain1.com, forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can this be done? $ echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ~vpopmail/domains/domain1.com/.qmail-default $
Re: RES: RES: Block Users!
> From: Daniel Abad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:57:04 -0300 > > Ops! Sorry about that... > Yeah! I put the address and still can send mail Should work. Does for me. Are you sure you're typing the bad address in as an envelop sender, not as a header sender? 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: RES: Block Users!
> From: Daniel Abad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:40:32 -0300 > > Yes... It's done but not working I can telnet at 110 with the user and > send the message... 110? Do you mean 25? badmailfrom blocks smtp, not pop. 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: Manage queue
> Hi, > > Can you say me how can I remove a message in the qmail queue ? > > I want to delete the msg 245957, so, I've deleted this file : ... > But now, I've got this message in the logfile : > > @40003b5ec127122940fc warning: trouble opening > local/18/245957; will try again later > > I've forget something ??? Restart qmail-send and don't touch the queue while qmail is running.
RE: Error Number: 451
> My client recently upgraded the kernel to 2.4.7 , before that > qmail+vpopmail+squirrel mail were working fine.now after upgrading we get > this error message > > ERROR > >Error Number: 451 > Reason: Requested action aborted: error in processing > Server Response: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. > > MAIL NOT SENT ... > What r the things i need to check to solve this problem ?? > can anyone give pointer's,suggestions or the cause of this error The cause of the error is explained quite clearly on the page that the error message includes. Did you bother checking it? The solution can be found in the archives, at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=98200215118820&w=2
Re: scan-4-virus & NAI not stopping SirCam
> From: "John McCoy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:54:10 -0700 > > Anybody else got this issue? I'm using .95 and latest DAT (7/22) qmail-scanner-0.90 and uvscan-v4.1.40/v4149 are stopping it just fine. 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: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!
The vast majority of the qmail-queue processes look to have a parent pid of '1' Maybe 1% of the queue processes have other parent pids, so I'm not too worried about them. The server is still delivering some mail, so I'm making an educated guess that queue processes not attached to init are doing "The Right Thing". Thanks, Chris McDaniel -Original Message- From: Alex Pennace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 Jul, 2001 2:51 PM To: Chris McDaniel Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: help! thousands of qmail-queue processes! On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0600, Chris McDaniel wrote: > I'm having trouble with qmail - I have about 500 messages in the queue > (usually this number hovers between 50 and 80) and between 1000 and 2000 > qmail-queue processes hanging around depending on when I sample. What are the parents of those qmail-queue processes, and what are they doing?
help! thousands of qmail-queue processes!
Hi, I'm having trouble with qmail - I have about 500 messages in the queue (usually this number hovers between 50 and 80) and between 1000 and 2000 qmail-queue processes hanging around depending on when I sample. All the other qmail programs appear to be running in reasonable numbers. There were some tcpserver errors in the log (of the could not fork variety) but I found no other obvious errors. Can anyone help? Thanks, Chris McDaniel
RE: Why
> Hi,I install qmail-1.03 in RedHat 7.1, > and i start qmail such as '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ./Maildir > splogger qmail Add a trailing slash to Maildir /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail Without the trailing slash, qmail thinks it's a Mailbox, not a Maildir.
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) antispam for qmail?
With ORBS recent demise and the commercialization of MAPS, I started looking for other antispam measures. The most promising I've found is the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse: http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/ If I'm reading it correctly, the code computes a variety of checksums on portions of messages coming through your MTA, and sends these to a DCC server which keeps running counts of each reported checksum; spam sent to a wide audience would increment the same sums so you could detect it. Clients can query this and decide what to do with any incoming message. It has whitelists so that large list mail (e.g. inet-access) would be excluded from spam consideration. Seems to be built for integration with sendmail. Anyone using it now with qmail? I haven't found anything useful searching google for "dcc qmail".
Re: fastforward problem
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:42:59AM -0400, Selcuk Ozturk wrote: > since I installed fastforward, my server doesn't generate a bounce > message even if the user doesn't exist and there is no alias either. > > If a message arrives for a bogus user/alias, the message silently > disappears. If I take out the fastforward from .qmail-default > everything works again. Is there a fix for this? How are you calling fastforward? Make sure you're not using -p. Chris PGP signature
Re: Qmail - SMTP
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:57:00PM +0200, Webmaster Sports-wear.de wrote: > I have running Qmail for 2 weeks without problems, but last Friday I get > errors. > Here is my Log. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 62.157.196.171 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by > administrator Giving up on 62.157.196.171. Did this really come from a log file, or is this from a bounce message? 62.157.196.171 was listed as an MX for gfg.de, but was not configured to receive mail for gfg.de. There's nothing you can do about that, assuming 62.157.196.171 is not your mail server. (Strangely, 62.157.196.171 was not running qmail at the time this bounce was created, but it appears to be running qmail now.) Chris PGP signature
Re: blocking from-addresses (badmailfrom)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:41:54AM -0500, Q wrote: > We have been getting some e-mails sent from a virus some people have. I am > trying to block them out using the badmailfrom file, but it doesn't seem to > be working the way I need it to. The e-mail has a: > > From: Hahaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > in the header, so I put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the badmailfrom file. qmail-smtpd doesn't look at the header. It looks at the envelope sender, and the envelope sender on these messages is empty. > Whenever I try to send a test message with the from address of > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it gets blocked like it should. However when the > actual mail gets sent from someone that has the virus, it does not get > blocked. I checked the logs and this seems to be because qmail is saying > that it is from <> because there is a: > > Return-Path: <> > > in the header too. Is there any way I can block messages that have a null > Return-Path or a way to have qmail check the badmailfrom against the From: > header instead of the Return-Path one? You must not block messages with a null envelope sender; this is the way bounces are delivered. And qmail-smtpd will not check the From: header under any circumstances. If you want to block this kind of mail, you'll probably want to look at one of the various anti-virus packages. See http://www.qmail.org. Chris PGP signature
RE: how can I unsubscri...
alternatively, head to: http://www.ezmlm.org and learn how it works. Compile it on your own server, and you'll know instantly how to subscribe and unsubscribe from any ezmlm list in the world. -Original Message- From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how can I unsubscri... Juan Garabana Barro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? >From the archives: From: Lukasz Gogolewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hi,how to unsubcribe? Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sigh. This has become such a FAQ that I'm reposting the detailed instructions: First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron unsubscriber will be dispensed through the slot immediately underneath. When you have fastened the adhesive lip, attach connection marked by the large "X" outlet hose. Twist the silver- coloured ring one inch below the connection point until you feel it lock. The kit is now ready for use. The Cin-Eliminator is activated by the small switch on the lip. When securing, twist the ring back to its initial condition, so that the two orange lines meet. Disconnect. Place the dalkron unsubscriber in the vacuum receptacle to the rear. Activate by pressing the blue button. The controls for System B are located on the opposite side. The red release switch places the Cin-Eliminator into position; it can be adjusted manually up or down by pressing the blue manual release button. The opening is self- adjusting. To secure after use, press the green button, which simultaneously activates the evaporator and returns the Cin-Eliminator to its storage position. You may log off if the green exit light is on over the evaporator . If the red light is illuminated, one of the Cin-Eliminator requirements has not been properly implemented. Press the "List Guy" call button on the right of the evaporator . He will secure all facilities from his control panel. To use the Auto-Unsub, first undress and place all your clothes in the clothes rack. Put on the velcro slippers located in the cabinet immediately below. Enter the shower, taking the entire kit with you. On the control panel to your upper right upon entering you will see a "Shower seal" button. Press to activate. A green light will then be illuminated immediately below. On the intensity knob, select the desired setting. Now depress the Auto-Unsub activation lever. Bathe normally. The Auto-Unsub will automatically go off after three minutes unless you activate the "Manual off" override switch by flipping it up. When you are ready to leave, press the blue "Shower seal" release button. The door will open and you may leave. Please remove the velcro slippers and place them in their container. If you prefer the ultrasonic log-off mode, press the indicated blue button. When the twin panels open, pull forward by rings A & B. The knob to the left, just below the blue light, has three settings, low, medium or high. For normal use, the medium setting is suggested. After these settings have been made, you can activate the device by switching to the "ON" position the clearly marked red switch. If during the unsubscribing operation, you wish to change the settings, place the "manual off" override switch in the "OFF" position. You may now make the change and repeat the cycle. When the green exit light goes on, you may log off and have lunch. Please close the door behind you. - Lucas Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ---
RE: please remove me
If you like, I'll unsubscribe you for a once-only offer of US$.99... let the bidding wars begin! -Original Message- From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:05 To: Qmail Mailing List Subject: Re: please remove me On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:35:51AM -0400, Webmaster wrote: [nothing] All you guys were able to subscribe to this list. All you guys got the welcome message where the usubcribe procedure was described, aside the hint to keep this message for further reference. It's really easy to unsuibscribe, and using your brain you will succeed in doing so. If not, i'll do that for you. Only US$ 1 per unsubscription. If you order until tomorrow only, of course. -- * 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, Maildir, IMAP, and MS Outlook
We use O2k & courier-imap sitting on top of vpopmail - works fine. Allows webmail to plug in nicely too. -Original Message- From: Ricardo SIGNES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2001 23:04 To: David Talkington Cc: Sam Carleton; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail, Maildir, IMAP, and MS Outlook In a message dated Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:33:13AM -0500, David Talkington wrote: > Sam Carleton wrote: > >Does anyone know of a IMAP server that get along with Outlook 2000 and that > >works with Maildir/? > We have no trouble with Outlook Express and Courier, and I believe > Outlook uses the same mail subsystem as Outlook Express IF the former > is in "internet mail" mode, and not MAPI (I think they call that > "corporate/workgroup mode"). MAPI is an abomination anyway. > At least that was true of Outlook when last I dealt with it, which I'm > happy to say was about 18 months ago. That's true for Outlook 2000, yes. Outlook 2002 is happy to run IMAP -and- MAPI, so I've switched to that at work. Sadly, we use the abomination. -- rjbs
Re: Request for advice (qmail-remote) Part II
> From: Greg Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:58:33 +0930 > > The problem I am trying to resolve is where mails at the > address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I do not want the mail to be sent back to the central mail server and then > returned to the address > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > Instead I would like the branch mail server to realise that is a > local user and just deliver the mail to 's > local mail store. I suspect the easiest thing to do would be to get the qmail-ldap patches and install ldap. Keep the master LDAP database on the central server and run replica databases on each on the branch servers. Each server would then be able to use LDAP to determine where the mail really belongs. I haven't used all the functionality that this would require, but I'm fairly certain that qmail-ldap has everything you'd need. 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
timestamp wrong
Hi, the timestamp on mailmessages processed by my mail server is wrong - it's 20 hours fast. The time on the server is fine, time on the workstation is fine. A test message from me to me via the aforementioned server will result in a message delivered tomorrow sometime (well, it tells me that it's arrived tomorrow!). I saw a comment in one of the pages on cr.yp.to/??? that mentioned adding: TZ=CST6CDT to the line: env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ in the services qmail-pop3d, qmail-smtpd etc. I've done so, but the messages still have strange time stamps. Any ideas what the variable TZ means, if & how I should use it here, and if not, how to get the delivery of messages reporting the correct time? I'm GMT+10. Thanks, Chris Herrmann Far Edge Technology p. 02 99553640 f. 02 99547994 m. 0403 393309 http://www.faredge.com.au
RE: Begging for a control/spamlovers patch
Perhaps you could use http://www.qmail.org/qqrbl Then users who don't want spam can filter based on the X-RBL: header. > I want to convert one more sendmail MX to qmail with rblsmtpd. > > But there is a show stopper: A handful of users demand to > receive all email, even when it comes from blacklisted IPs.
defaultdelivery is severly unhappy...
Many thanks to Ondøej Surý - you hit the nail on the head in one go! >- exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH"\ >+ exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ >qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" > >-- >Ondøej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Globe Internet s.r.o. >http://globe.cz/ >Tel: +420235365000 Fax: +420235365009 Plánièkova 1, 162 00 Praha >6 >GPG fingerprint: CC91 8F02 8CDE 911A 933F AE52 F4E6 6A7C C20D >F273 --- ie. i had to remove the first line, substitute it with the next line, and all was happy. This was because the exec env line needs a space before the backslash. Cheers all, Chris _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
defaultdelivery is severly unhappy...
Hi all, I've managed to break qmail-send, and for the life of me, I can't work out a rhyme or reason. I know why at a superficial level it's broken, but not **why** the damn thing suddenly decided to be unhappy now. I'm using qmail 1.03, vpopmail 4.9.8, rh7.1, daemontools 0.70. Has been working fine until this evening, when I restarted the services after making changes to the run files ( to add a fix for wrong timestamps - adding TZ=CST6CDT to the env statement). Tried sending an email, and it didn't work. No errors - just didn't work. Had a little bit of a dig, and discovered that the server was saying: env: "./Maildir/: No such file or directory" which had me a little perplexed. I eventually worked out that the service starting it wants a Maildir directory in /service/qmail-send/ , but then returns an error: env: "./Maildir/: Permission denied" The service is started with: exec /var/qmail/rc which in turn is: #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH"\ qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" I played with giving qmailx (where x is vpopmail, l,r,s etc) permission to read/write/destroy the Maildir in question, to no avail. Have tried running the rc file, and the qmail-start command by hand without joy. So here is my conundrum: I don't need a default delivery because I'm using vpopmail, yet I can't start qmail-send without it. The Maildir in question doesn't exist, and when I create it doesn't appear to satiate the beast. Obviously I've changed something else between when qmail-send was last started and now (umm... how many months?) so I have absolutely no idea what has changed. user directories don't have Maildirs in them. Vpopmail users do, in ~vpopmail/domains//Maildir Help! A very tired, confused and cranky Chris. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Help, I broke my mail server
I broke my qmail server. I tried to erase the mail queue. It was crapped up with a bunch of messages that couldn't be sent, and they had been there for several weeks. So I went in to the /var/qmail/queue/mess and the other directories that had the files in them and did an `rm -rf *`. Anyway, now I get a: qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) message when I try to send mail. What did I erase, and how can I fix it. I'm sure its related to erasing the queue because it just started after I did that. Heres what an `ls -al` on that dir looks like, I already tried chmod 777 to see if may I screwed permissions up: drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail 512 Jun 30 20:03 . drwxr-xr-x 12 rootqmail 512 Jul 3 02:54 .. drwx-- 2 qmails qmail 512 Jul 9 20:32 bounce drwx-- 2 qmails qmail 3072 Jul 9 20:32 info drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Jul 9 20:32 intd drwx-- 2 qmails qmail 3072 Jul 9 20:33 local drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Jun 30 20:03 lock drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail 3072 Jul 9 20:35 mess drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Jul 9 20:42 pid drwx-- 2 qmails qmail 3072 Jul 9 20:35 remote drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail 512 Jul 9 20:32 todo
Re: Intranet qmail server and totally exposed sendmail server
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Carlo Borelli wrote: > Boss's company asked me to realize this scenario: > an internal qmail server to serving co-workers on port 25 (smtp) and 110 > (pop3); > trhough a FW1 the qmail server must talks on port 24 with a sendmail server echo ':sendmail.server.name:24' > /var/qmail/control/smtproutes This will cause all non-local mail on your qmail server to be forwarded to your sendmail server via SMTP on port 24. (Replace sendmail.server.name with the name or IP address of your sendmail server.) > that can be sacrified because totally exposed; > the sendmail mta server does at this point some relaying for the intranet > qmail mta server on the same port (24) with smtp service; > I've not problem to configure sendmail on this rules, but I've some problem > to do the same with qmail. > I tried to add another service like /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run > changing the port from smtp to 24. I've no clue how can I do to add another > listener smtp on the 24 port. That's exactly how you do it. Did it not work? Chris PGP signature
easy one
I have installed qmail and everything is working. Now I need to get POP3 working. In the 'Life with Qmail' book it talks about editing the 'qmailctl' file to control qmail. However I have 'svscan' running. Can these run in parallel? Will having both installed cause any problems? TIA chris.
easy one
I am following the life with qmail page and I am confused regarding the installation of qmail-pop3d in relation to startup files. I have svscan running and I was wondering do I also need to have qmailctl script running. Thanks. Chris.
RE: qmail processes and POP3
sorry for the bad attachment this looks better: I have installed qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running I am getting the following: Can someone help me with this. Thanks. Chris. -- cwoods@vader:/home/cwoods# ps auxww | grep qmailroot 1902 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2 S 13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 1909 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2 S 13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 1911 1.7 0.2 988 308 pts/2 S 13:23 1:31 supervise qmail-pop3d qmaill 1922 0.1 0.2 1004 352 pts/2 S 13:23 0:10 multilog t ./main qmails 5424 0.0 0.3 1044 380 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 qmail-send root 5425 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward? ./Maildir/ qmailr 5426 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 5427 0.0 0.2 992 336 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 qmail-clean qmaild 5428 0.0 0.4 1316 560 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1024 -g 1023 0 smtp rblsmtpd rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmaill 5432 0.2 0.2 1004 352 pts/2 S 13:48 0:10 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d qmaill 5433 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send qmaill 5434 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2 S 13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd root 31707 0.0 0.3 1112 448 pts/3 S 14:49 0:00 grep qmail root 31741 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2 S 14:49 0:00 sh -c ? case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac? case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac? exec \? softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \? /usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \? /bin/checkpassword \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d "${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"? root 31742 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2 R 14:49 0:00 sh -c ? case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac? case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac? exec \? softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \? /usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \? /bin/checkpassword \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d "${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"? root 31743 0.0 0.2 1016 332 pts/2 R 14:49 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup pop.charterwest-mortgage.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir cwoods@vader:/home/cwoods# ---Original Message-From: Chris Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: qmail processes and POP3 I have installed qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running I am getting the following: Can someone help me with this. Thanks. Chris.
Re: FYI: Windows is better
> From: Medi Montaseri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 05:46:42 -0700 > > Microsoft is like a little convertable sexy car, good for running to the > store to > buy a pack of cigarette. But if you decide to haul 18 tons of lumber, it > is not the > right vehicle. > > As such, how many average people use 18 ton trucks? And as such how > much work is done by the trucking (or transportation) industry? As a Miata driver, I'd like to point out that far too many people drive things which have more in common with the 18 ton truck than they do with my car. I don't like your analogy because it inaccurately puts me (as a Miata driver) in the same category as Windows users, but I think in the real world the Windows users are more like the SUV drivers who have something that feels powerful and safe, but isn't. 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
qmail processes and POP3
I have installed qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d. But when I go look at the processes running I am getting the following: Can someone help me with this. Thanks. Chris. root 1902 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 1909 0.0 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 1911 1.7 0.2 988 308 pts/2S13:23 1:16 supervise qmail-pop3d qmaill1922 0.1 0.2 1004 352 pts/2S13:23 0:08 multilog t ./main qmails5424 0.0 0.3 1044 380 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-send root 5425 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-lspawn |dot-forward .forward? ./Maildir/ qmailr5426 0.0 0.2 1000 320 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq5427 0.0 0.2 992 336 pts/2S13:48 0:00 qmail-clean qmaild5428 0.0 0.4 1316 560 pts/2S13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 1024 -g 1023 0 smtp rblsmtpd rblsmtpd -rrelays.mail-abuse.org /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd qmaill5432 0.2 0.2 1004 352 pts/2S13:48 0:07 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/pop3d qmaill5433 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2S13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-send qmaill5434 0.0 0.2 1000 304 pts/2S13:48 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t s250 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd root 19442 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2S14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \? /bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d "${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"? root 19445 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2S14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \? /bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d "${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"? root 19446 0.0 0.6 1724 800 pts/2R14:35 0:00 sh -c ?case "$REMOTENAME" in h) H=;; p) H=p;; *) H=H;; esac?case "$REMOTEINFO" in r) R=;; [0-9]*) R="t$REMOTEINFO";; *) R=R;; esac?exec \?softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \?/usr/local/bin/tcpserver \??-vD"$H$R" \??${LOCALNAME+"-l$LOCALNAME"} \??${BACKLOG+"-b$BACKLOG"} \??${CONCURRENCY+"-c$CONCURRENCY"} \??-xtcp.cdb \??-- "${IP-0}" "${PORT-110}" \? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup "${POPUPHOST-`sed 1q /var/qmail/control/me`}" \? /bin/checkpassword \?/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d "${MAILDIRNAME-Maildir}"?
popping and qmail
Do I need to install a popper inorder to pop mail from a windows machine on/outside the local network? If so is qpopper a good one? Thanks. Chris
Re: HELP with Aliases and Forwarding
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:41:05AM -0700, Sherry Work wrote: > We have just moved to a Windows2000 server, and I set up all of our aliases > and then when I set up the forwards for the aliases, the aliases names moved > out of the aliases page. Uhhh... say what? You're going to need to come up with something a lot more coherent and containing a lot more information if you want to get help. Chris
Re: qmail logging
I found my problem sorry for troubling anyone, turned out to be a typo. Thanks for the help and ideas Chris. On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:12:57PM -0500, Chris Woods wrote: > And if that didn't return anything.... > > Chris. > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:41:59PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Chris Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have finished my qmail install follow a HOWTO from Adam McKenna but I > > > can't find any logs when testing. > > > > This depends entirely on how you configured qmail. If you don't know how you > > configured qmail to log, do: > > > > find /var/log -type f | xargs grep "starting delivery" > > > > That should give you a likely list of places to look for qmail-send's logs. > > > > Charles > > -- > > --- > > Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ > > ---
Re: qmail logging
And if that didn't return anything.... Chris. On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:41:59PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Chris Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have finished my qmail install follow a HOWTO from Adam McKenna but I > > can't find any logs when testing. > > This depends entirely on how you configured qmail. If you don't know how you > configured qmail to log, do: > > find /var/log -type f | xargs grep "starting delivery" > > That should give you a likely list of places to look for qmail-send's logs. > > Charles > -- > --- > Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ > ---
qmail logging
Hello all, I have finished my qmail install follow a HOWTO from Adam McKenna but I can't find any logs when testing. I am using the TEST.deliver file as a guide, which states that the logging should be in the syslog file but nothing is there. I run the tests and I have email arriving to local mailboxes but I can't find the logging information. Thanks. Chris.
Re: FYI: Windows is better
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:36:54PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > MSDN is a better development environment than GNU, > Better software tools create better software. And yet every piece of software ever produced by Microsoft is garbage. Please troll elsewhere. Chris
Re: tcpserver / queue cleaning
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Moritz Schmitt wrote: > 2. I'm using tcpserver to start qmail and it seems to work. But there is a > little thing I don't understand. On my FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE machine I added > the follwing configuration file into /etc/rc: That's not the right place to start services, but that's beyond the scope of this list. > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 smtp \ > /var/qmail/bin/smtpd > > After I added this line I rebooted the machine and it stopped right at the > point where it was supposed to excute the line above. It didn't crash and I > was able to talk to my server on port 25 it just didn't proccess the rest of > the startup scripts. Because it looked the way that > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd was waiting on stdin I added an ampersand at the > and of the line so /bin/sh would start it as a background process. It seems > to work that way but I'm confused because I read twice in two different docs > that no ampersand is needed. At least it wasn't printed there. Can anyone > enlighten me? In this case you do need the ampersand, but again this is not a qmail question, but a general Unix question. I'd suggest you read http://www.lifewithqmail.org. Set things up as outlined there, and start svscan from a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Chris PGP signature
Re: Relaying problem
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:37:31PM +, qmail wrote: > A typical bounce message looks like this... > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mms-research3.marketingms.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following > addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 64.75.34.135 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Relay > access denied > Giving up on 64.75.34.135. This is not your problem. The DNS says that 64.75.34.135 is a mail exchanger for quest.net, and yet when you try to deliver quest.net mail to 64.75.34.135, that host claims that it doesn't receive mail from that domain, so as far as it's concerned you're trying to relay mail to quest.net through it. Either 64.75.34.135 is misconfigured, or quest.net's DNS is misconfigured. There's nothing you can do about that. Chris PGP signature
Re: Home directory is sticky ??
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Arno Slatius wrote: > I'm trying to get an email server up using qmail (using ./Maildir/) and it > seems to work quite well so far but now what is going wrong: > > Whenever I send an email to an unknown user the log states: defferal: > Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file. > > This is quite strange to me, the user does not excist so he/she is certainly > not editing his/her .qmail file. I would expect the message to be sent to > the postmaster (alias) or the default (alias). > > Can anybody suggest what is going wrong? Is ~alias sticky? Chris PGP signature
qmail error
I have just installed qmail on a Debian box following a HOW-TO by Adam Mckenna and I am having problems starting it. Here is the message I am getting when starting qmail: -- root@vader:/etc/init.d# ./qmail start Starting mail-transport-agent:svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send: supervise not running svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd: supervise not running qmailsvc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log: supervise not running svc: warning: unable to control /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log: supervise not running logging. -- Thanks Chris.
RE: Peter from the Dike and Security
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RE: Higher number of deliveries
> qmail config > -- > concurrencyremote = 400 What do your logs say? Did you apply the big-concurrency patch? Did you change conf-spawn before compiling? Because if you didn't, your concurrency is automatically limited to 120.
Re: SMTP Error !
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:09:41AM +0530, Qmail wrote: > Server Response: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed > rcpthosts (#5.7.1)' See http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#relaying Chris
Re: Odd error
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:59:38AM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote: > I just changed over my maildirs and virtual domains from one server to > another, and all seems to be working well. Until now that is. > While watching a log tail -f of my qmail-send logs as logged via > daemontools piped thru tai64nlocal. > > 2001-06-24 11:39:57.372243500 warning: trouble opening local/15/755082; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:40:40.231316500 warning: trouble opening local/16/755083; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:41:16.231304500 warning: trouble opening local/17/755084; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:39:57.372243500 warning: trouble opening local/15/755082; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:42:01.231287500 warning: trouble opening local/15/755082; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:42:44.231286500 warning: trouble opening local/16/755083; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:43:20.231255500 warning: trouble opening local/17/755084; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:44:05.231240500 warning: trouble opening local/15/755082; will try >again later > 2001-06-24 11:44:48.231239500 warning: trouble opening local/16/755083; will try >again later > > What does this mean exactly, and is this a large problem or a minor > error? Did you move your queue from one machine to the other? If so, your queue needs to be fixed. Look for "queue-fix" at http://www.qmail.org/top.html Chris
Re: anti-virus program for Qmail
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:52:25AM -0700, Alex Tsang wrote: > Is there any anti-virus program for qmail? Check http://www.qmail.org/top.html#microsoft Chris PGP signature
Re: How to block specific user from other domain to deliver message to mydomain
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:41:37AM +0530, Rupak wrote: > My domainname is myname.com and I don't want to deliver any message from > someuser of other domain say [EMAIL PROTECTED] to myname.com domain at all. > How can I stop that pls suggest me. Put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom Chris PGP signature
Re: I'm not root, can I use qmail?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:42:52AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tanuj Shah wrote: > > > I would have thought, just install qmail somewhere in your home and use > > tcpserver for the listening on port 2525. > > Thanks; you solved part of the puzzle for me. On a test system where I > have root access, I was able to run qmail as a send-only SMTP server on > port 2525 using tcpserver. What is a "send-only SMTP server"? qmail-smtpd receives mail from the Internet and queues it; it doesn't send mail anywhere. > I can't get it to run on the system where I need it (and don't have root), > though. qMail is hardwired to install into /var/qmail, and there seems to > be no clean way of changing that. Edit conf-qmail. > I managed to hack the Makefile so that when I did "make setup check", it went > into $HOME/var/qmail instead, but I think I did something wrong, because when > I execute this command: > > csh -cf '$HOME/var/qmail/rc &' > > it does not start up the qmail-send, qmail-lspawn etc. processes. If I had > root and qmail refused to start, I could read /var/log/messages, but as a > normal user I can't read that file to see what the problem is. You'll never be able to install and run qmail without root access because it requires installing qmail-queue setuid, and it requires running various other programs as users other than yourself. As a regular, non-root user, you can't create a setuid program and you can't run programs as other users. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Chris PGP signature
Re: Secondary MX - worth it?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:13:06AM +0100, John P wrote: > Our qmail system is situated on a particularly unreliable (at the moment) > ADSL line, and we've had an outage for about 24 hours. I have set up a > mailkeep.com account, and ensured it will collect mail for the relevant > domains. > > Can I just specify their machine as a secondary MX in my DNS config? No, not unless you've arranged with them to be a secondary mail exchanger for your domains. (Is that what mailkeep.com does? I'm not familiar with them.) > How can we then get our qmail system to pull in all the mail from the > secondary account? There were all sorts of methods mentioned on that system > eg. pop, smtp, etrn and others. Should I set up a cron job to check every 15 > minutes or so? What program do I use to pull in the mails? Is it transparent > to the user? Got a bit confused really :) If everything is configured correctly, when your connection comes back up you don't have to do anything but sit back and wait for the mail to start coming in. A secondary mail exchanger accepts your mail from the outside world and, finding that there's a better-preference mail exchanger (i.e. yours) than it itself, queues the mail for eventual delivery to that mail exchanger; it doesn't deliver the mail locally and then expect you to come get it. It'll just keep trying to deliver the queued mail to your mail server (until it times out, at which point it'll bounce it). If you don't have a secondary mail exchanger at all, the situation is not much different, except that all the mail that's undeliverable because your line is down will be queued on various mail servers around the Internet, instead of on your secondary mail exchanger. Chris PGP signature
Re: "Send Copy to" in mail header for preventing mail loops
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:59PM +0200, Jankok, Lucio wrote: > I have the following (weird) situation; > a user receives email and wants to save a local copy > in her mailbox and have the mail forwarded to her private > account on a different mailserver. from the private account > she want here e-mails forwarded to her work account. > with the former "isocor" mailserver she used before switching > to qmail it was possible to have by means of forwarding to > synchronize both mailboxes by means of forwarding to each > other without the risk of looping. > can the same thing be accomplished with Qmail ?. Instead of forwarding from her private account to [EMAIL PROTECTED], she could forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then she just needs to touch .qmail-forwardfromhome in her home directory, so that the .qmail file that forwards back to her private account isn't consulted. Chris PGP signature
Re: Conditionally capture all outgoing mail
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:30:07AM +0800, Martin Kong wrote: > BUT how can I do it conditionally, i.e. forward the email to different > addresses based on different conditions, or even forget about the > forwarding if a certain condition is met. man condredirect Chris PGP signature
Re: Spam IP master list?
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Kindof an offtopic question, but is there a "Master List" of IP's that send > spam regularly, with which I could use to update my tcprules deny list? > > I really don't want to patch & reinstall qmail with the RBL... (and it > seems ORBS went away...) Besides, I'm really only looking to stop "the big > chunks" with something I can personally manage. There's no patching and reinstalling to do (unless you want to use relays.mail-abuse.org, which requires a small patch only to rblsmtpd). Just change the script you run your SMTP service with to use rblsmtpd, and you're done. It's certainly a lot less work than constantly updating your tcprules list. Chris PGP signature
Re: Constantly recurring error and newbie needs help urgently please
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:01:02PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:56:28AM +1000, arnie wrote: > > Trying again for the 3rd time to send this email to the Qmail list > > and we received it 3 times. the message you are getting is from a broken > subsribers mailserver sending a bounce to the address in From: instead of > the envelope sender. And now some idiotic "out of the office" auto-responder is sending me a message every time I post to the list. I've written [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. Chris PGP signature
Re: tcprules & is this list having trouble
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:53:25AM +1000, arnie wrote: > Sorry about the intrusion but is the Qmail list having Mailer-Daemon trouble ? > I have been trying to send an important email to the list at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > and I keep getting: > > Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: > > test test (Mailbox or Conference is full.) > > from the Mailer-Daemon Yes, we all get that. It doesn't come from the list but from the horribly misconfigured mail server of a list subscriber. See the list archives; this has been discussed before. Chris PGP signature
Re: mail routing & and sanity
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:50:40AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >put in $QMAILDIR/control/smtproutes > > > >myhost.com:notes.myhost.com > > > >make sure for the rest it is only in control/rcpthosts > > > >and SIGHUP qmail-send. > > No, smtproutes is a qmail-remote control file. HUP'ing qmail-send > won't help. He'll need to completely restart qmail. Actually, he won't need to do anything. smtproutes is read by every invocation of qmail-remote. Chris PGP signature
Re: error
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:38:21PM -0700, Nick wrote: > 2001-06-18 12:38:27.274620500 delivery 22712: deferral: > Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/alias:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ > 2001-06-18 12:38:27.274635500 status: local 0/10 remote 1/60 > > I checked the permission on the alias dir > and the alias files. And they were... Chris
Re: restart without rebooting
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:24:23PM -0500, Virginia Chism wrote: > I need to learn how to restart qmail on my BSDi system. I have not been able > to locate a qmail-restart in any of the qmail directories. > > Whenever I make changes in qmail, I have had to resort to `shutdown -r now` > thus rebooting the entire system. I don't like doing this. > > Someone told me to try 'killall -SIGHUP qmail', but someone else said this > might kill everything running - that the machine would not read to the > 'qmail' at the end of the line. HUPing only makes qmail reread locals and virtualdomains. (And there is no process called "qmail," so "killall -HUP qmail" won't do anything on any system.) Some changes require you to restart qmail--not just HUP it--and some don't require any restart at all. Do you use svscan/supervise to start qmail? If so, all you need to do to restart qmail is "svc -t /service/qmail" (assuming your qmail service directory is called /service/qmail). To HUP it, use svc -h instead of svc -t. If you don't supervise qmail, you'll need to find qmail-send's pid, kill it, and rerun the script you started it with. If killall on your system is not of the variety that kills all running processes, you can "killall qmail-send" and then restart it. What you really need to do is to read a book on basic Unix administration. This question really has nothing to do with qmail at all. Chris PGP signature
Re: qmail Multiple MX Problem
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:03:20AM -0700, mjt mjt wrote: > I have mail being sent to some user at server A and > server B. Server A and B have 3 MX entries in their > lookup. The first two entries in these are higher in > preference but are unavailable to the net traffic (for > some reason ). What i think is happening is that > qmail is trying to connect to the first MX entry and > for some reason the server sends SMTP serrvice not > available to qmail at my end. So the mail is put in > queue and then qmail retries the first server in MX > entry. If a connection to the SMTP port is made but the transaction cannot be completed, qmail won't try lower preference mail exchangers. It'll only try them if it can't connect at all. Chris PGP signature
Re: need to log in a database.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:55:06PM +0200, Federico wrote: > I now it is not too legal and a right thing, but I must register in a > Database, possibly MySQL or PostgreSQL, every single incoming/outgoing mail > with: > > + sender > + receiver > + body of the mail > + possibly also any attachment Use the method in FAQ 8.2, and in ~alias/.qmail-log you can pipe the message into a program or script that puts it in the database. Chris PGP signature
Re: tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:32:51AM +0800, Alex Tsang wrote: > When I start the qmail-pop3d service, the log files log ¡¥tcpserver: fatal: > unable to bind: address already used¡¦ errors but I can still use the pop3 > server. So what¡¦s this error mean? It means that something is already bound to your POP3 port. Since your POP service works, it's likely that you already started your POP3 service once and now you're trying to start it again. Chris PGP signature
Re: Patch to log badmailfrom hits
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:53:35PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: > I wonder if anyone has made a patch to log badmailfrom "hits" from > qmail-smtpd? This should work: --- Makefile.orig Sun Jun 17 10:25:23 2001 +++ MakefileSun Jun 17 10:23:24 2001 @@ -1535,13 +1535,13 @@ load qmail-smtpd.o rcpthosts.o commands.o timeoutread.o \ timeoutwrite.o ip.o ipme.o ipalloc.o control.o constmap.o received.o \ date822fmt.o now.o qmail.o cdb.a fd.a wait.a datetime.a getln.a \ -open.a sig.a case.a env.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a \ +open.a sig.a case.a env.a stralloc.a alloc.a strerr.a substdio.a error.a str.a \ fs.a auto_qmail.o socket.lib ./load qmail-smtpd rcpthosts.o commands.o timeoutread.o \ timeoutwrite.o ip.o ipme.o ipalloc.o control.o constmap.o \ received.o date822fmt.o now.o qmail.o cdb.a fd.a wait.a \ datetime.a getln.a open.a sig.a case.a env.a stralloc.a \ - alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o `cat \ + alloc.a strerr.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o `cat \ socket.lib` qmail-smtpd.0: \ --- qmail-smtpd.c.orig Sun Jun 17 10:25:36 2001 +++ qmail-smtpd.c Sun Jun 17 10:28:47 2001 @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include "timeoutread.h" #include "timeoutwrite.h" #include "commands.h" +#include "strerr.h" #define MAXHOPS 100 unsigned int databytes = 0; @@ -250,7 +251,11 @@ void smtp_rcpt(arg) char *arg; { if (!seenmail) { err_wantmail(); return; } if (!addrparse(arg)) { err_syntax(); return; } - if (flagbarf) { err_bmf(); return; } + if (flagbarf) { +strerr_warn4("qmail-smtpd: badmailfrom: ",mailfrom.s," at ",remoteip,0); +err_bmf(); +return; + } if (relayclient) { --addr.len; if (!stralloc_cats(&addr,relayclient)) die_nomem(); PGP signature
Re: rss spam filtering problems
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:17:24PM -0400, Brent B. Powers wrote: > > I don't seem to be filtering out relay sites via > relays.mail-abuse.org. The address that gets through is on the relay > list, www.loscabos.gob.mx, or 148.235.5.210, as it is pingable at > 210.5.235.148.relays.mail-abuse.org > > My qmail setup is reasonably similar to that within life with qmail, > and, hence, my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run is: > > > #!/bin/sh > > QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` > NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` > MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` > > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ > -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" \ > 0 smtp \ > /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd \ > -rblackholes.mail-abuse.org \ > -rdialups.mail-abuse.org \ > -rrelays.mail-abuse.org \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > > Note that the rbl and dul portions are indeed working. I have applied > the patch to allow rblsmtpd to work with A records. Change: -rrelays.mail-abuse.org to: -r 'relays.mail-abuse.org:Open relay problem - see http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?query=%IP%>' Chris PGP signature
Re: Qmail server error
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:51:21PM -0700, Bob Ross wrote: > I just added a second T1 to our service. Every time we try to send mail > while connected to the new server we get the following error. This only > happens to outbound email. > > I put the class "C" in the /etc/hosts.allow Which qmail will happily ignore. > What do I need to do to fix this? Read the stuff about relaying at http://www.lifewithqmail.org Chris PGP signature
Re: Warning: message 15AXo4-0005W6-00 delayed 60 minutes
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:23:55PM -0700, Harry wrote: > I got this message from one of our clients. Please help if anybody has any > idea on this. > From: Mail Delivery System [mailto:Mailer-Daemon@ > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:10 AM > > To: > > Subject: Warning: message 15AXo4-0005W6-00 delayed 60 minutes Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with qmail. Chris PGP signature
Re: Log Entry question
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:56:48AM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: > My run script is: > > exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward > |preline /usr/bin/procmail' That's not it. What script are you using to start qmail-smtpd? What I'm getting at: are you putting tcpserver in the background in your run script? Chris
missing syncdir lib??
I know someone is going to think this is a stupid question, but I am having problems rebuilding qmail-1.03+patches. The 'make setup check' fails with the following: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsyncdir collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: ***[auto-str] Error 1 It appears I don't have 'libsyncdir.a' ?? What package includes this? I just wanted to patch and upgrade my working qmail system, which installed perfectly originally. Thanks! ... Chris
Re: Log Entry question
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:47:13PM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: > Sendmail is not running. When I "ps-aux | grep tcpserver" I get: > > qmaild 612 0.0 0.0 11520 ?SW 09:23 0:00 [tcpserver] What does your run script look like? Chris PGP signature
Re: Log Entry question
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:21:34PM -0700, Drew Hawn wrote: > @40003b262932196daa9c tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already > used It means that something is already listening on your SMTP port. This might be sendmail, something you have configured in inetd.conf, or another instance of tcpserver you've already started on port 25. It's also possible that your SMTP run script puts tcpserver in the background, causing supervise to continually restart it. Chris PGP signature
RE: Scanning POP3-traffic for viruses
http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ > Hi again! > > Is there a way to scan POP3-traffic for viruses with a Linux box? > I'm thinking something like Norton's POP-proxy which ships with > Norton Anti-Virus. It works like a proxy server for > POP3-protocol, and scans all e-mail attachments for viruses. I > would like to do the same on my Linux firewall.
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
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
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: mail routing question
Add a line like this to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes: virtualdomain.tld:newserver.tld See also http://www.qmail.org/man/man8/qmail-remote.html > We use Qmail+Vpopmail. we are planning to move a virtual domain to another > server. but i'm afraid the new incoming email will still store in the old > server after we change the MX dns record to the new server. > > anyone know how to configure the old server's qmail route the email to new > server? many many thanks
mail routing question
We use Qmail+Vpopmail. we are planning to move a virtual domain to another server. but i'm afraid the new incoming email will still store in the old server after we change the MX dns record to the new server. anyone know how to configure the old server's qmail route the email to new server? many many thanks ---- Chris Chan
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: 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: 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: 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 > > -- 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: 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.
> 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