Re: /var/qmail tree
On 14 Aug 2001, at 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELLO! I have installed qmail and have launched the 'instcheck' program. 'instcheck' printed the following messages: [root@timsat-srv2 qmail]# ./bin/instcheck instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/control has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/users has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/bin has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/boot has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/doc has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/man has wrong owner instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong owner On my system the owner of all these folders is 'qmaill': [root@timsat-srv2 /tmp]# cd /var/qmail/ [root@timsat-srv2 qmail]# ll total 15 drwxrwxrwx3 rootroot addons drwxr-sr-x2 qmaill qmail alias -- drwxr-xr-x2 qmaill qmail bin -- drwxr-xr-x2 qmaill qmail boot -- drwxr-xr-x2 qmaill qmail control -- drwxr-xr-x2 qmaill qmail doc -- drwxr-xr-x6 qmaill qmail man -- drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail queue -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot rc -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot rc~ -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot rc.bak -rwxr-xr-x1 qmaill rootrc.old drwxr-xr-x4 qmaill rootsupervise drwxr-xr-x2 qmaill qmail users -- Could someone who have a working installed qmail server tell me who should be the owner of these folders: [...] Here's the info from my qmail box. FYI, I didn't install qmail from scratch, it can pre-installed with my Linux Distro. (e-smith) Hope this helps. total 40 drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail4096 Jun 23 04:48 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jun 23 16:00 .. drwxr-sr-x2 aliasqmail4096 Aug 7 14:04 alias drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 23 05:39 bin drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 23 04:48 boot drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Aug 7 14:04 control drwxr-xr-x3 root qmail4096 Jun 23 04:48 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail4096 Jun 23 04:48 man drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail4096 Jun 23 04:48 queue drwxr-xr-x2 root qmail4096 Aug 7 14:04 users Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server
On 7 Aug 2001, at 1:09, MarkD wrote: 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. It's trivial. smtproutes is your friend. So true! I use it to do just this... We have redundant servers on mutliple net- links. if one link dies, mail is routed via MX entries to the secondary server, which then forwards it via out internal network to the final destination server. Works like a charm. The other nice thing is that if it's the primary server itself that died, then the seconary server will hold the mail until we bring the primary back on line. 2. If #1 is possible, could your generously provide some real world suggestions on how this can be done? It'd be helpful to know the real names of the domains and machines involved, then we could give you a real world config entry, but assuming the MX domain is example.com and the ultimate mail server running sendmail is sendmail.example.com, then: echo example.com:sendmail.example.com /var/qmail/control/smtproutes No restarts are needed. Just change your MX to point to the qmail machine and you're done. Of course you need to make sure that example.com isn't in locals and virtualdomains. Good point... If you have your Sendmail boxes domain listed in the secondary servers locals or virtualdomains files, you will end up delivering the mail locally to the secondary server. Just remember locals take priority over virtualdomains, and virtualdomains take proirity over smtproutes. It'll be interesting to know how you plan to catch Sircam with this though... Definately, please post! BTW, for the record, I switched all my primary Sendmail boxes to qmail for little or no cost. (I chose to pay to register 3 e-smith servers, but you can grab the iso for free from their ftp site) The other nice things is that I find qmail can handle running on lower end equipment and still give you the same if not better performance than a Sendmail box. Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
RE: send 15000 mails using qmail in one time
On 7 Aug 2001, at 10:18, KY Lui wrote: the value in the file concurrencyremote is 450.. is it good enough? do i need to recompile the qmail again after i changed the value? or just restart the qmail? thanks regards KY -Original Message- From: Dean Staff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:14 AM To: KY Lui Subject: Re: send 15000 mails using qmail in one time This should be fine. It is necessary to restart qmail after making the change. To find out if your changes are woking, you can check the qmail logs in /var/log/qmail. do a tail on the most current log file and look for an entry like this... 997149670.204567 status: local 0/10 remote 54/450 in the remote part, the 54 is the current number concurrent connections open and the 450 is the total allowed conncurrent connections. If you don't have a entry like this you may need to recompile. You may also want to look at Patches for high-volume servers at qmail.org. Cheers Dean
RE: send 15000 mails using qmail in one time
On 7 Aug 2001, at 10:47, KY Lui wrote: oh, i found the problem in the log file (/var/log/qmail) it said, Sorry, I want able to establish an SMTP connection could you pls advice? many thanks sorry for soo many questions since i am new in qmail regards KY Don't worry about the questions... I did the same thing when I first started too. It's that simple.. Your sever was not able to establish an SMTP connection with the destination server. Either it's not there. (bad domain name, the server is down, or their net connection is down.) If it's the latter two, your sever will try to resend for, (I believe this is the case) 7 days. The other issue may be your server's net connection may be down. But I presume your recieving my messages on this server so that not likely. If all is well at your end there's really not much you can do but wait. The one nice thing about qmail in this case is that unlike Sendmail, which just tries to deliver or re-deliver all messages at the same time. qmail keeps track of the messages in the queue, each time it fails to deliver it it waits longer to retry. This prevents you from eating up your conncurrent connections by constantly trying to redeliver the same failed messages. Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: badmailfrom didn't work
On 26 Jul 2001, at 8:35, Gary MacKay wrote: OK. I added this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' dude to my badmailfrom and still got this last message. What gives? If I telnet to the box and try to send in a message as him, it gets kicked out, why doesn't the real message get kicked out? I did the same and had the same problem... I think it's because qmail checks the Return-Path address with the badmailfrom list. And becasue these messages are going through the qmail-list the Return-Path address is modified for each member of the mailing list. for example, the Return-Path for message I receive is as follows. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if I put this in the badmailfrom I'd be blocking all mail from te list. If anyone comes up with another solution, please post... Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: off-topic
On 20 Jun 2001, at 9:45, Ing. Guillermo Villasana Card wrote: Hello guys... I know this is not a qmail question.. but can someone point me to a good linux mailing list? Thanks and sorry. Terius Hi, I'm not sure what sort of information you are looking for, but my local LUG is usually very helpful. You will have to subscibe to the list by visiting http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: shadow password support
On 12 Jun 2001, at 12:01, mick wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, mick wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, mick wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Sven Mueller wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:41:30 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: Is there, or is there going to be, support for shadow password systems? Huh? What has qmail (itself) got to do with passwords? Which program are you refering to? pop3d´s checkpasswd? There are numerous implementations for password checking, I´m sure there is at least one with shadow support. [...] cool, and yes I am using checkpassword. perhaps a recommendation of the numerous implementations would help out. This is the error message my mail client returns: this user has no $HOME/Maildir please enter a new password Before I get the obvious!!! Yes Maildir is present, and smtp does deliver messages into the new subdirectory. Hi Mick, I'd double check how you start pop3-d. In your previous post you showed your xinetd.conf (inetd ) line as the following... /sbin/tcpserver -c 200 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup cheech.mtco.com /bin/chechpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Mailbox Showing that you are using Mailbox for delivery, but in later messages you talk of Maildir delivery. These are two very different things. Mailbox appends each new message to the $HOME/Mailbox file, where as Maildir writes a single file for each new message to $HOME/Maildir/new. Try changing the xinetd.conf line to read Maildir instead of Mailbox. Just my two cents worth. Good Luck Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default vs virtualdomains
On 22 May 2001, at 10:55, Charles Cazabon wrote: Dean Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know if it's possible to edit the /var/qmail/alias/.qmail- default file, so instead of it having a username or email address to deliver messages for undefined users to, you have a defined path to a specific mailbox. ie: /home/bubba/Maildir/ [...] Perhaps you could try this: -make the domain virtual. For instance, dom.net:virtuser1 in virtualdomains. -have .qmail files in ~virtuser1 to handle the real users, if any: ~virtuser1/.qmail-joe contains /home/virtuser1/Mail/joe/ or similar. This could be a vmailmgr domain perhaps? -have ~virtuser1/.qmail-default to handle all the fax numbers. You can then refer to $DEFAULT in a script to get the original mail address (fax number). `man qmail-command` and `man dot-qmail` for details. Once again, Thanks Charles. I'm not a programmer so I'm a newbie when it comes to writing scripts. So I'll have to do some more research, but you've put me on the right path. Thanks. Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: Logging POP3
On 23 May 2001, at 8:33, David Gartner wrote:
Just switched to qmail and have a slight problem. We used to log pop3
traffic (logins/logouts) so that we could help people who claim they
couldn't get their mail. Basically, so we could verify they were even
reaching the server. I noticed with qmail (also using tcpserver)
doesn't log that by default. Anyone know how I can log attempts
similar to how sendmail did? In case anyone's confused about what I'm
talking about, here's a sample of the log sendmail keeps.
May 23 08:30:21 mail ipop3d[12955]: Login user=USERNAME host=HOST
[IPADDRESS] nmsgs=0/0 May 23 08:30:21 mail ipop3d[12955]: Logout
user=USERNAME host=HOST [IPADDRESS] nmsgs=0 ndele=0
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!
Hi David, Welcome to the list...
Before you get flamed by others on the list, just a piece of friendly
advice You should search the list archives before posting a
question, chances are it's been covered already.
I know this first hand because I asked the same question last week...
But to save you some time Here's my solution... (As posted to
this list)
Best of luck, I hope this helps.
Dean
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For anyone else who is interested, Here's the final results.
I modified my poplog script tp read as follows...
#! /bin/sh
newmail=`ls $HOME/Maildir/new/ | wc -l`
newmailbytes=`du -sb $HOME/Maildir/new/ | cut -f 1`
echo $TCPREMOTEIP $USER $newmail $newmailbytes |
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d 19
pop=$1; shift; exec $pop $@
I'm running a distor based on RedHat 7 so the pop3d daemon is called
from xinetd. So the /etc/xinetd.conf file has a pop3 section that
reads as follows
service pop-3
{
socket_type = stream
user= root
wait= no
server = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
server_args = localhost /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/poplog
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
}
Next, I edit the /etc/syslog.conf so the line for local3 reads...
local3.*
/var/log/popper.log
And finally with all this I get a /var/log/popper.log that has the
following...
May 17 11:54:01 testmail pop3d: 990114841.105074 dean 4 20480
May 17 12:01:42 testmail pop3d: 990115302.090064 dean 12 57344
I hope this helps someone else.
Again Thanks to Charles for his response.
Regards
Dean
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Dean Staff
Protus IP Solutions
210 - 2379 Holly Lane
Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada
613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553
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/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default vs virtualdomains
Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to edit the /var/qmail/alias/.qmail- default file, so instead of it having a username or email address to deliver messages for undefined users to, you have a defined path to a specific mailbox. ie: /home/bubba/Maildir/ The reason I ask is because we provide and internet fax service, and we recieve messages addressed to a-fax-number@domain.com Obviously I can setup a user account for every possible fax number, so we deliver anything undefined to 1 mailbox. THe problem is that in the default setup qmail changes the Delivered To: address to the user listed in the /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default file. And if I use the virtualdomain feature it prepends the username defined for that domain to the Delivered To: field. Niether option is particularly useful, as we need to see the fax number unmodified. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: The best way to setup...
On 20 May 2001, at 4:46, Pascal Nobus wrote: Someone with experience please advise. We want to change a mailserver from sendmail to qmail. -There will be a few hunderd virtual domains (all with the same IP) on that machine. -Some users must be able to control email-adresses for one or more domains: handled over http with PHP (I'll write the engine myself) -use of IMAP. -use of Majordomo -In the future we want to use LDAP for authentication (not for now) [...] I'll hope I'm not the first that will do such a thing... Thx in advance. Pascal, You are certainly not the first person to switch an existing Sendmail server to qmail. I did it myself just a short time ago. Mind you I did not have the number of virtual domains you do. Nor did I have many users, so I took the easy approach ... Start from scratch... However, that is obviously not the best advice for you. What I would suggest is to pick up the book by Richard Blum called Running qmail. It's published by Sams, and should be readily available at most reputable bookstores. There is an entire section of the book dedicated soley to migrating from Sendmail. And it explains how to convert your existing aliases file and virtusertable file so you can use them with qmail. I think you'll find it very useful... It will still take sometime on your part to get the files converted, but it will be quicker tham creating them from scratch, and you won't be sorry you switched to qmail. Good Luck Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: qmail-pop3d and /var/spool/mail or NO /HOME/$USER
On 20 May 2001, at 20:44, Charles Olds wrote: [...] Please recommend a POP3 server that will work with qmail and allow mail to be retrieved from /var/spool/mail. Try qpopper. http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/ It's actually mentioned in 'Life with qmail . Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: Another logging question (second Post)
On 16 May 2001, at 12:59, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Dean Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've managed to get qmail to log the pop connections using a poplog
script that contail s the following...
[...]
[...]
Either expand your little POP3-logging shim, or write an additional
one that comes just before qmail-pop3d in your run script. Since
you're serving your mail out of Maildirs in the user's home
directories, finding the number of messages and total bytes in new/old
mail is trivial:
oldmessages=`ls $USER/Maildir/old/ | wc -l`
newmessages=`ls $USER/Maildir/new/ | wc -l`
newmailbytes=`du -sb $USER/Maildir/new/ | cut -f 1`
Then print this as you do your current logging information.
Thanks Charles,
Your suggestion worked.
For anyone else who is interested, Here's the final results.
I modified my poplog script tp read as follows...
#! /bin/sh
newmail=`ls /home/$USER/Maildir/new/ | wc -l`
newmailbytes=`du -sb /home/$USER/Maildir/new/ | cut -f 1`
echo $TCPREMOTEIP $USER $newmail $newmailbytes |
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d 19
pop=$1; shift; exec $pop $@
I'm running a distor based on RedHat 7 so the pop3d daemon is called
from xinetd. So the /etc/xinetd.conf file has a pop3 section that
reads as follows
service pop-3
{
socket_type = stream
user= root
wait= no
server = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
server_args = localhost /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/poplog
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
}
Next, I edit the /etc/syslog.conf so the line for local3 reads...
local3.*
/var/log/popper.log
And finally with all this I get a /var/log/popper.log that has the
following...
May 17 11:54:01 testmail pop3d: 990114841.105074 dean 4 20480
May 17 12:01:42 testmail pop3d: 990115302.090064 dean 12 57344
I hope this helps someone else.
Again Thanks to Charles for his response.
Regards
Dean
Dean Staff
Protus IP Solutions
210 - 2379 Holly Lane
Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada
613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Re: Another logging question (second Post)
On 17 May 2001, at 10:48, Charles Cazabon wrote: Dean Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Charles, Your suggestion worked. You're welcome. newmail=`ls /home/$USER/Maildir/new/ | wc -l` newmailbytes=`du -sb /home/$USER/Maildir/new/ | cut -f 1` Hmmm. I actually meant to refer to $HOME in my example, not $USER. But either works, providing all your homedirs are in fact under /home/ . Thanks again! I tried $HOME as below and that also works. You did bring up a good point though. In my case all user homedirs are in the same path, but I have admin accounts in another path that would not have worked with the previous script. Using $HOME eliminates the hard coded path. newmail=`ls $HOME/Maildir/new/ | wc -l` newmailbytes=`du -sb $HOME/Maildir/new/ | cut -f 1` Cheers Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Another logging question (second Post)
Hi, I apologize for any double posting. I originally submitted this message before I had completed subscribing to the list. So I'm not sure if it made it or not. If it did, I'm sorry, and I'll just sit patiently while someone anwers me. begin original message I've managed to get qmail to log the pop connections using a poplog script that contail s the following... #! /bin/sh echo $TCPREMOTEIP $USER | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d 19 pop=$1; shift; exec $pop $@ and edited the server_arg line in xined.conf to read server_arg = localhost /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/poplog /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I get a log entry in /var/log/popper.log that looks like this... Apr 30 15:27:52 testmail pop3d: 988658872.496325 dean Apr 30 15:27:53 testmail pop3d: 988658873.529210 dean I need to be able to log the STAT output also. (how many unread message are in the user mailbox, and total size of all that users new mail files) I have been unsuccessful in trying to get this info added to the log. I'd to get it on the same line as as the userid if possible. Would you have any suggestions. Thanks Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
Another logging question
Hi, I've managed to get qmail to log the pop connections using a poplog script that contail s the following... #! /bin/sh echo $TCPREMOTEIP $USER | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d 19 pop=$1; shift; exec $pop $@ and edited the server_arg line in xined.conf to read server_arg = localhost /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/poplog /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir I get a log entry in /var/log/popper.log that looks like this... Apr 30 15:27:52 testmail pop3d: 988658872.496325 dean Apr 30 15:27:53 testmail pop3d: 988658873.529210 dean I need to be able to log the STAT output also. (how many unread message are in the user mailbox, and total size of all that users new mail files) I have been unsuccessful in trying to get this info added to the log. I'd to get it on the same line as as the userid if possible. Would you have any suggestions. Thanks Dean Dean Staff Protus IP Solutions 210 - 2379 Holly Lane Ottawa, ON K1V 7P2 Canada 613-733- ex 546 Fax 613-248-4553 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.protus.com
