Quick question
I'm fairly new to qmail. I was a sendmail fan forever till I got bored and decided to switch to qmail. So far I love it. I started readin the lifewithmail homepage and decided to try it out. I've got everything installed and running but 1 thing puzzles me, I know it's probably a goofy question and please no harsh comments ;) but why so many process running as root? Here's my process list. I understand all of it except the first 5 process all running as root. I know this is probably some easy thing but I'm the paranoid type and it makes me curious. Thanks for any info root 954 1.0 0.6 1244 380 ?S16:59 0:00 svscan /service root 955 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ?S16:59 0:00 supervise qmail-send root 956 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ?S16:59 0:00 supervise log root 957 0.0 0.5 1204 348 ?S16:59 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd root 958 0.5 0.5 1204 348 ?S16:59 0:00 supervise log qmaill 959 0.5 0.5 1216 348 ?S16:59 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail qmails 960 1.5 0.6 1264 424 ?S16:59 0:00 qmail-send qmaill 962 0.5 0.5 1216 348 ?S16:59 0:00 /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd root 963 0.5 0.5 1216 360 ?S16:59 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ qmailr 964 0.0 0.5 1216 360 ?S16:59 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq 965 0.0 0.6 1212 376 ?S16:59 0:00 qmail-clean qmaild 966 1.0 1.1 1768 712 ?S16:59 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp. root 970 0.0 1.3 2568 840 pts/0R16:59 0:00 ps aux
Re: qmail quota
Jonathan X Peers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. can I set mail quota per user or is it accress the bord (the same for all mailbox) For local users, use your OS's filesystem quota mechanism. See your regular OS support channels for help with that. For virtual domains, your virtual domain manager (if using one) may have this feature. Qmail with LDAP also has integrated support for this but you have to put all your users into an LDAP database. WWW site for this is at http://www.nrg4u.com/ Qmail works very well for me with this setup accept for the fact that there is no way to automatically notify users that they are over quota. It just rejects email for the user that is over the quota. -- Mike H.
Re: Slow pop3d
try running your pop3 daemon with tcpserver...ex: tcpserver -R -u0 -g0 0 pop3 /usr/sbin/ipop3d this took care of the problem for use. Dennis Pedersen wrote: Hi! I have installed Qmail 1.03 by following the 'Life With Qmail'. My problem is that sometimes the pop3d is very very slow (i can take up to a min before it 'wakes up' and askes for a user auth) this happens when i try telnetting localhost 110 and by using a mail client from my workstation :( Does anyone have an idea what i have missed? (the stranges thing is that sometimes it works fine(?!)) OS : FreeBSD 4.2 Regards Dennis -- Mike Maxwell System Manager--Green Mountain Access [EMAIL PROTECTED] 802.496.8542
Anti Virus Software Update
Hey again. Over the past few hours ive been configuring AmAViS-perl 11 for my qmail setup. After using a wrapper for suid (my suidperl complained, stinking thing) I was able to make it work without a hitch. Infact, this mail is being scanned on its way out. If anyone else is contemplating a virus scanner, Id reccommend this, and if you need any help with it, let me know. Ive gone through atleast 20 different individual problems on this install =) Mike -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ezmlm
i am having problems getting ezmlm to deliver messages. it installs fine, sets up the list okay, and then return the error 'no mailbox found'. the alises seems to be fine, we have alot of other aliases and they all deliver to where they are supposed to. i am trying to set it up on our primary domain, so that should not be the problem. any thoughts??? -- Mike Maxwell System Manager--Green Mountain Access [EMAIL PROTECTED] 802.496.8542
RE: Robin's observation
I strongly suggest filtering out people who don't use qmail too. Could someone forward my suggestion to Robin please? Just once will do it. -Mike
Virii and scanners
In light of recent events (ahem) I would like the opinion of list members on what is the better / more tested / more flexible email scanner. I plan to use NAI uvscan, as I've used their McAffee products before, and they seem to do the job decently. I've already got a cron script setup to daily download the latest dats and shove them in the uvscan dir. Now im considering AMaViS and qmail-scan. Which of these two requires the least modification to my current setup (stock qmail, no patches, with vpopmail/ezmlm-idx/qmailadmin) and which one seems to work best scanning viruses from many different locations? Thanks in advance. Mike -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IEEEEEEEEEEE STOP THE INSANITY (was Re: CDRD085)
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:01:12 -0300 Wilson[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! How are you=3F SHITTY THANK YOU VERY MUCH I send you this file in order to have your advice I ADVISE YOU TO GET A DECENT OS OR DIE TRYING See you later=2E Thanks DONT MENTION IT -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wilson...email...listserv admin please initiate filtering
Dan, or whomever maintains the mailinglist-serv. Please initiate filtering of any mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] . He is clogging the entire list, and I bet the listserv is racking up some major bytes transferred today. Regards, Mike -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IEEEEEEEEEEE STOP THE INSANITY (was Re: CDRD085)
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:58:00 -0700 David Chait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't we get a list admin to block this guy? This is getting way out of control. I couldn't agree more.. Someone. Anyone Set a filter Please. Mike -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Compiling on Solaris 8
I do have gcc Installed? And I am able to compile other programs with no errors. Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Keary Suska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 7:22 PM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Compiling on Solaris 8 Install gcc, and use it instead. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet From: Mike Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:14:10 -0700 To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Compiling on Solaris 8 When I try to compile I get this error what do I need to do to fix? Thanks bash-2.03# make setup check ( cat warn-auto.sh; \ echo CC=\'`head -1 conf-cc`\'; \ echo LD=\'`head -1 conf-ld`\' \ ) auto-ccld.sh cat auto-ccld.sh make-load.sh make-load chmod 755 make-load cat auto-ccld.sh find-systype.sh find-systype chmod 755 find-systype ./find-systype systype ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-load `cat systype` ) load chmod 755 load cat auto-ccld.sh make-compile.sh make-compile chmod 755 make-compile ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-compile `cat systype` ) \ compile chmod 755 compile ( ( ./compile tryvfork.c ./load tryvfork ) /dev/null \ 21 \ cat fork.h2 || cat fork.h1 ) fork.h rm -f tryvfork.o tryvfork ./compile qmail-local.c /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1 bash-2.03#
Re: fastforward setup
Hi all, Thanks to a recent thread between David Gartner and Johan Almqvist (re: Having problems with postmaster...) I was able to spot my error. All of the users/groups had been created but the home directory for user alias was /home/alias which is wrong! Changed the home dir to /var/qmail/alias and everything works like a charm. Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, I have two qmail setups. Their qmail/control directories are identical except for their individual hostnames. Their qmail/alias directories are identical. The only difference that I can find is that one is on RedHat6.1 and the other is on RedHat7.1.The goal is to have a forwarder with no local deliveries i.e. everything is a virtualdomain and everything is routed according to etc/aliases.cdb. The RH61 qmail works and forwards according to the rules in aliases.cdb but the RH7.1 qmail doesn't. The log shows that mail is being routed correctly up to a point. i.e through qmail-inject, qmail-queue and qmail-send but appears to fail within qmail-local. starting delivery 5: msg 112266 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 5: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1) status local 0/10 remote 0/20 bounce msg 112266 qp 5607 Another note: the RedHat6.1 setup was done many, many months ago. The RedHat7.1 setup is brand new. I've been trying to figure this out for 5 days. I can only guess that I've skipped a step somewhere but have been staring at the docs for so long that I couldn't see it if it were on my nose:( Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Wright
Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?
Is qmail mapi compliant?
RE: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant?
Sorry I was in a rush.. :) I'm testing using McAfee Netshield NT sending an alert message to qmail then qmail forwarding to exchange.. the Mapi compliancy was just a question I had.. no real big concern there.. I just wanna get qmail forwarding alerts to exchange. -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Is Qmail MAPI Compliant? On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Ramsey, Mike wrote: Is qmail mapi compliant? Probably not, since MAPI is a M$-standard as far as I know. However, you have provided no details of what you want or what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps MAPI is not even what you need? Greetz, Peter -- Against Free Sex! http://www.dataloss.nl/Megahard_en.html
fastforward setup
Hi all, I have two qmail setups. Their qmail/control directories are identical except for their individual hostnames. Their qmail/alias directories are identical. The only difference that I can find is that one is on RedHat6.1 and the other is on RedHat7.1.The goal is to have a forwarder with no local deliveries i.e. everything is a virtualdomain and everything is routed according to etc/aliases.cdb. The RH61 qmail works and forwards according to the rules in aliases.cdb but the RH7.1 qmail doesn't. The log shows that mail is being routed correctly up to a point. i.e through qmail-inject, qmail-queue and qmail-send but appears to fail within qmail-local. starting delivery 5: msg 112266 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 5: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1) status local 0/10 remote 0/20 bounce msg 112266 qp 5607 Another note: the RedHat6.1 setup was done many, many months ago. The RedHat7.1 setup is brand new. I've been trying to figure this out for 5 days. I can only guess that I've skipped a step somewhere but have been staring at the docs for so long that I couldn't see it if it were on my nose:( Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike Wright
Re: Stopping server relays
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:40:22 -0600 David J Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings --- How can I stop my server from being used to relay mail? I got an email from a admin somewhere claiming that emails were being sent from my server with virus attached? It's only me and one other person has access to this box? Related question could this be the source of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I set up an .qmail-52 aliases to try to catch these emails) This question is part of the Forged Emails post I sent eailer from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, David Jackson What i use, that works good as I'm hosting mail domains for a few friends who all have dynamic IP's, rather than allow the world to send, I use the vpopmail roaming users option. It implements a pop-before-smtp method of authing SMTP. As of yet, i havent gotten it to IMAP-before-smtp, however the only person who probably even knows IMAP exists, is myself, and I'm on the same lan as it is. very easy to add 192.168.100.* :) I reccommend you check that out. Plus there are other patches to qmail itself, not requiring vpopmail from inter7. The url for vpopmail is www.inter7.com. Mike -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling on Solaris 8
When I try to compile I get this error what do I need to do to fix? Thanks bash-2.03# make setup check ( cat warn-auto.sh; \ echo CC=\'`head -1 conf-cc`\'; \ echo LD=\'`head -1 conf-ld`\' \ ) auto-ccld.sh cat auto-ccld.sh make-load.sh make-load chmod 755 make-load cat auto-ccld.sh find-systype.sh find-systype chmod 755 find-systype ./find-systype systype ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-load `cat systype` ) load chmod 755 load cat auto-ccld.sh make-compile.sh make-compile chmod 755 make-compile ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-compile `cat systype` ) \ compile chmod 755 compile ( ( ./compile tryvfork.c ./load tryvfork ) /dev/null \ 21 \ cat fork.h2 || cat fork.h1 ) fork.h rm -f tryvfork.o tryvfork ./compile qmail-local.c /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1 bash-2.03#
Re: qmail reliance on passwd file
Al Sparks wrote: Is there a way to get qmail to deliver email to an account that's not in /etc/passwd (or its shadow equivalent)? In other words, can I set up a separate database (e.g. MySQL) that qmail can access for account information? I note that qmail has /var/qmail/users/assign, but it references both UID's and GID's, which are maintained by /etc/passwd. I am setting up 2 clustered systems that will use shared storage (non NFS) to maintain each user's Maildir, and would rather not have to worry about keeping 2 separate system's passwd files in sync. qmail-ldap does this, and it contains native clustering code. www.nrg4u.com for details. Mike
What does this mean?
Is this something I should be concerned about or is this normal Qmail activity? Thanks Mike qmailr 808 0.0 0.0 1172 468 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote china.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 809 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote mailstrom.virtumundo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 810 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote campaign.pointers.co.uk usera-168-s.gosling=binternet.c qmailr 811 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote WWWNode4.b7.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 815 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote WWWNode2.b7.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 819 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote WWWNode4.b7.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 824 0.0 0.0 1172 468 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote e-weekly.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 839 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote nms1.empowerhealth.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 840 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote nms1.empowerhealth.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 848 0.0 0.0 1172 472 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote WWWNode1.b7.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmailr 849 0.0 0.0 1172 468 ?S15:14 0:00 qmail-remote MYLISTMAILING.COM owner-al_alloydistlist@MYLISTMAILING.
Resolved: Alias Error
We worked through it off-list.
The problem was that his /etc/passwd was mode 600.
He changed it to 644, and the issue went away.
The qmail code was quite informative in solving the evidence of the
problem, which was clearly tied to a result code from qmail-getpw. After
looking for things like inconsistencies in his shadow system setup, file
mount issues, embedded control characters in hand-edited PW files, the
qmail IDs' component shells, and so forth, it still had to be related to
an inability to obtain the alias user (which was indeed set to alias)
information from the PW file. That left perms, the simplest thing to
check
-M
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Bob Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ownership is alias.qmail
Perhaps the directory isn't visible to qmail. Check the permissions and
ownership on /, /var, and /var/qmail as well.
Charles
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GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/
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Michael Brian Scher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr. Research Consultant
Attorney, Anthropologist, Part-Time Guru
Mailaise: n, ('mail-aze). See Outlook.
Re: Alias Error
Qmail makes the determination in qmail-getpw after determining the
local part:
pw = getpwnam(username);
What does:
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw alias
...return?
It should be something like:
alias1000102/var/qmail/alias
If it's not, you have some kind of problem there.
Is the alias user in shadow as well?
-M
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Bob Ross wrote:
Yes it's there.
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:
alias:x:1000:102::/var/qmail/alias:
qmaild:x:1001:102::/var/qmail:
qmaill:x:1002:102::/var/qmail:
qmailp:x:1003:102::/var/qmail:
qmailq:x:1004:103::/var/qmail:
qmailr:x:1005:103::/var/qmail:
Then under /var/qmail/alias
It has the .qmail-default
etc..
Thanks
Bob Ross
- Original Message -
From: Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: Alias Error
Bob Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
delivery 10: deferral: Unable_to_find_alias_user!/
qmail requires a system user account named alias. It's part of a
standard install. If you didn't install according to Life with qmail,
perhaps you should start over by following that.
Charles
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Michael Brian Scher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr. Research Consultant
Attorney, Anthropologist, Part-Time Guru
Mailaise: n, ('mail-aze). See Outlook.
Re: Request for advice (qmail-remote) Part II
Chris Garrigues wrote: From: Greg Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:58:33 +0930 The problem I am trying to resolve is where user3 mails user4 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 user4 is a local user and just deliver the mail to user4'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. I have a master LDAP server on it's own machine, because I use it for alot more than just email accounts. I have a replica LDAP server on all mail servers. LDAP replication is done real-time via SSL, only the master accepts modifications. Mail authentication is pointed to the local LDAP server on the mail server, so imap/pop passwords never fly in the clear. If you have failover LDAP and the local server dies for some reason, it will pick up a remote server and you will be in the clear unless you are on a vpn. I have asked Sam Varshavchik to implement SSL in Courier's authldap module. Each server would then be able to use LDAP to determine where the mail really belongs. The mail routing works very well to remote offices in US, Japan, and Germany. You also need Henning's dash-trick patch. This is required so that you can store aliases and pointers to ezmlm lists in LDAP, otherwise you have to use the same outgoing mail server for all offices and that is not too cool. I can provide details on how to do this if needed. I haven't used all the functionality that this would require, but I'm fairly certain that qmail-ldap has everything you'd need. And alot more. Join the qmail-ldap mailing list from www.nrg4u.com. Regards, Mike
Re: Netgear RP114 Router doesn't work well with Qmail POP daemon?
James Stevens wrote: I had a similar problem however my resolve to it was to take an *OLD* 286 I had laying around install a fairly bare installation of Linux on it and installed the DNS service. Then I put that online behind my firewall and added it's IP for port 53 to my NAT/Firewall and assigned it as the primary DNS server for my qmail machine. That resolved everything... However I don't know how many of ya out there have old 286 machines just laying around but you can use any machine you want you can even install bind on the qmail machine itself the only reason I didn't was I did not want the load of the DNS service on that machine. djbdns.
ip logging
This has been a modestly common subject, but after scouring the lists repeatedly, I have seen no complete answer. Actually getting the IPs logged is no problem...I am using the LWQ style multilog logging, getting info from tcpserver. The question I have yet to see answered is: What now? I have seen no discernable way to easily correlate the data found in the qmail-send logs and the tcpserver\qmail-smtpd logs. Is there a tool availble that I have missed? I wouldn't be opposed to writing one, but better to find out first. Thanks. Mike Culbertson
Re: smtp relay testing w/ abuse.net
i install qmail follow the lifewithqmail direction my server is running properly how can i make my qmail server can accept all relay test until relay test 17 what should i do with the configuration ? is my server secure ? As far as I know, you cannot make qmail get all the way to test 17. However, it really does not matter, because also as far as I know, a properly configured qmail system will pass all the tests in reality. As Lars pointed out, qmail /appears/ to accept the mail, but in fact it would never be delivered. This I know for a fact, and it is the same with several tests after that, which I have done manually. Lastly...Is your server secure? I don't know. If you did a proper install of qmail, that component should be fine. I recommend you try the tests manually and see what you find. Good luck. Mike Culbertson
RE: Question MX ..cjk
I want my emails to go to my both emails Servers.. for backup reasons MX1 and MX2. You cannot accomplish this with your MX records. If you add two or more machines as MX records, with the same priority, they will be treated like round-robin DNS entries and mail will flow to both servers...back and forth between the two, not each mail going to both. That is generally best used when you have mail relays or a similar setup where mail does not reside on the machines listed in the MX records. If one has a higher priority (lower number), it will be preferenced by outside mail systems, and will receive the majority of the mail for your domain. No matter what you do, however, there is no DNS entry that will cause an outside machine to send a message to more than one server instead of just one. Best bet for you most likely is to set up some kind of auto-forward system where each machine will send a copy to the other whenever it receives a mail. This may be a little tricky to do, but I would imagine it is possible. Or even better, maybe just use cron to automatically tar up the maildirs, or some other backup strategy. Mike Culbertson
RE: ip logging
Unfortunately, qmail-smtpd logs nothing itself, and tcpserver only logs connections and exit status of qmail-smtpd. There is therefore no surefire way to correlate entries in the qmail-smtpd log and the qmail-send logs. However, it is rarely critical -- qmail-analog can determine from the qmail-send log alone which messages arrived over the network. Yeah, I agree. I was really mostly hoping to find that there was something qmailanalog-esque that could read the qmail-smtpd(tcpserver) log and rank/show IP connection info. Various people have posted patches to qmail-smtpd to make it log more information. You could also do it by writing a wrapper around qmail-queue (used only by qmail-smtpd, not qmail-inject or forward, etc) which logs various info. I have seen these as well, they are fine if you are viewing the logs manually, but I'm shooting for totals and averages. Like I said, I'm not opposed to writing a log parser to handle that log, but I'm kind of surprised that there isn't one already. Is erybody using header info currently to track down spammer machine IPs? I'd would prefer to be able to see which IP connected how many times and when myself... Thanks for the info Charles. Mike Culbertson
Re: Why isn't qmail delivering anything?
Moritz Schmitt wrote: Hello again, at first: sorry to ask two big questions a day but I a little lost. With qmail. Only with qmail. Anymways here we go: I am supposed to set up a mail server for a little LAN which delivers local and remote messages via SMTP. For receiving messages I am going to use serialmail but that's not my problem. At least not yet. I'm using FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE and qmail 1.03 from the ports. qmail installed properly and I can talk to it via TCP/IP on port 25. My local DNS server is running Bind 8 and working fine without any problems. If I send a message from a client in the network to a local user on the server qmail accepts the message and everything looks fine until you start to wonder why qmail isn't delivering the message. qmail has delivery problems, the /var/log/maillog file says: (...) starting delivery 33: msg (...) to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) delivery 33: deferral CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._ (#4.4.3)\ You don't have your MX records for your domain in DNS. Mike
Re: Why isn't qmail delivering anything?
Moritz Schmitt wrote: Hello again, at first: sorry to ask two big questions a day but I a little lost. With qmail. Only with qmail. Anymways here we go: I am supposed to set up a mail server for a little LAN which delivers local and remote messages via SMTP. For receiving messages I am going to use serialmail but that's not my problem. At least not yet. I'm using FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE and qmail 1.03 from the ports. qmail installed properly and I can talk to it via TCP/IP on port 25. My local DNS server is running Bind 8 and working fine without any problems. If I send a message from a client in the network to a local user on the server qmail accepts the message and everything looks fine until you start to wonder why qmail isn't delivering the message. qmail has delivery problems, the /var/log/maillog file says: (...) starting delivery 33: msg (...) to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) delivery 33: deferral CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._ (#4.4.3)\ First of all: The delivery should be a local and not a remote delivery because my local domain is waagen-schmitt.de. And the second thing is that I don't understand why qmail has a DNS lookup failure because my DNS server is running fine. See, I'm pretty lost and confused right now so I'm posting my config files and I would appreciated if you could tell me where my problem Hi, It sounds like you might have made changes to the control files and not restarted the appropriate processes. Some control files only take effect after you have restartd qmail-send or qmail-smtpd. If you are using /service then svc -t /service/* should do it. Otherwise, the configuration looks fine. If this does not work, then post your smtproutes file. Mike
Re: Why isn't qmail delivering anything?
Moritz Schmitt wrote: I already restarted the server, which means that I restarted qmail. The hosts you found with dnsmx are not my servers but my providers DNS servers. The DNS I am running is just for my LAN and actually I only set it up for qmail. We are still using a dial up account. What I want to do is to collect all mail on the machine with qmail (ws1) and then using cron to send all mail to our ISP's mailserver every 30 minutes or so. Same on the way back: Using serialmail to receive every 30 minutes new email. The DNS servers in your /etc/resolv.conf file are probably those of your ISP, right? We have already seen that their MX records for your domain are not the same as what you have on your internal DNS server. Qmail is probably trying to find the MX records from your ISP, but the machine isn't dialed onto the net so it fails. That is why you are seeing DNS lookup failures. You will have to do some DNS trickery to get this working right. Qmail is meant for well connected machines. Mike
RE: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?
www.ezmlm.org/pub/patches/qmail-bigrem.patch The code and reason is there. You should check with the ezmlm group. -Original Message- From: MIS - Ben Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:30 AM To: Mailing List - Qmail (E-mail) Subject: RE: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?
filtering by sender
I have a question that has as of yet remained unanswered. Is it possible to filter or forward mail based on envelope sender and/or sender IP. things I know: 1. I know you can block sender IPs with tcpserver, but that rejects the connection, I need to set up an auto-response. 2. I know I can use my own rbl database w/ rblsmtpd, once again, that returns error codes, I need to collect some of this bad mail 3. I have seen several anti-spam patches. see the stuff about error codes -^ 4. this would be modestly easy with procmail or similar, but all mail would have to be delivered to procmail for processing, then back to qmail for remote sending. I don't want the extra load, these are not large machines. 5. qmail offers about 9 million features for filtering by recipient, all I need is one or two to filter by sender to make this work. 6. these are relay machines (PRIVATE, spam bad, duh) recipients are not local, this is handled in the smtproutes control file. 7. I can't figure out how to use aliases to direct mail based on anything about the sender, though it may be painfully simple. things I need: 1. the ability to not just smtp reject this bad mail, (based primarily on envelope sender, but perhaps also sender IP), but to essentially process it and dump it to a dummy account with an autoresponder. 2. I DON'T NEED AN AUTORESPONDER, thanks anyway WHY: We had been the victim of spammer abuse of our mailserver until I got here, because the last admin left it wide open. OK, I fixed the relaying. Now, we are constantly bombarded with spam destined to numerous legitimate internal accounts. RBL you say? No, My company services ~75000 active end-users. There are literally thousands of domains that queries/support mails come from. Most of us know that often the server that the mail comes from is often not the originator of the mail itself. As a company, we simply cannot arbitrarily block a quantity of mail servers that may end up being the source of legitimate mails from our customers (our services are EXTREMELY time dependant, and a single mail can be worth quite a bit of money to a user). So, I am left needing a method to block mail, but still offer an immediate, very clear method to tell a sender that their mail did not go through. I do not expect all of our users to decipher an smtp error message, I have to assume the lowest common denominator. Mega thanks in advance to all who read through this damn sob story ;) and thanks again to those who went through my last few, I love this list. Mike Culbertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery
D Rajesh wrote: Hi there, Firstly, sorry for a long mail. I have sent 30,000 mails to different domains like yahoo, hotmail, rediff etc... Before mentioning the problem the configuration that I have used in qmail is as follows:- qmail config -- 1.) Two qmails running at /var/qmail and /var/qmail1 with silent concurrency limit to 200 for both What was wrong with the answer I gave you on Tuesday? One more time, set up a box called slowmail and smtproute your slow moving deliveries to it. Mike
Re: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery
Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Try running a real MTA like Iplanet messaging server, Sendmail, Notes or Exchange server. Even Exchange 4.0 is more advanced than qmail. Qmail was an attractive option when we had less than 300 users, because it was free, but now that our company has over 1500, it is not robust enough. Hotmail is a modified attempt at fixing the qmail bugs. Hotmail is only using qmail today because a change in software will cause an interruption in service. They are stuck with it for the time being. Why do we have 10 trolls on this list all of a sudden? Go away! Peter, It's most likely the same person who started the 'Peter from the Dike' thread. At least he's using the same sneakemail service. If everybody just ignores anything sent from sneakemail.com then we will probably be a whole lot better off. Mike
RE: Qmail SMTP timing out.
I had a similar problem. Without going into the details, mine was caused by the proxy dropping the connection. Have you tried snoop to watch the packets spray to test for errors with netstat? Just a thought... -Mike -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qmail SMTP timing out.
RE: Peter from the Dike and Security
http://www.samag.com/articles/1997/9706/9706d/9706d.htm I'm glad this is a slow week. (Yahoo search keywords - caesar, encryption, unix) -Mike -Original Message- From: peter green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:47 AM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: Peter from the Dike and Security * Robin S. Socha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 09:42]: * peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010627 08:32]: (pcg@pcg2) ~ rot13 bash: rot13: command not found (robin@mail1):(~)$ man caesar | head -n4 (pcg@pcg2) ~ caesar bash: caesar: command not found Next? :-) /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Ooohh.. FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux over the wire. Film at 11. (Linus Torvalds)
custom bounce text
Hi, The qmail-ldap patch contains support for a control/custombouncetext. $ cat custombouncetext This is a test, your message bounced. SSH Communications Security This will produce bounces like so: - Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ssh.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. This is a test, your message bounced. SSH Communications Security [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) --- The patched file is qmail-send.c. I suppose you could pull the code from there, even if you don't use the rest of the ldap stuff. Regards, Mike
[OT] rackmount chassis?
I realize this is slightly off topic (relates to qmail indirectly), but I though some of the people on this list might be able help me a bit. I'm attempting to setup a failover nfs server with 2 machines. They will have a shared scsi bus between them with 2 raid controllers for redundancy. I'm just not sure where to look for a good rackmount chassis to put the raid controllers and disks in. I've seen a lot of 4U 8-bay drive chassis (with redundant power supplies) at fairly reasonable prices, but I'd like to hear from people who are using and happy with a specific vendor. I apologize for spamming the list with something somewhat off topic, but this is for a pop toaster--so it's not completely off topic. Thanks, Mike
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
Daniel Kelley wrote: Wrong. Ezmlm is what you need. It's a high speed mailing list manager, and with the qmail-verh patch you can have individual addressing. You can also take input from a text file of one address per line when subscribing the list members. does this hold true for one-time mailings? i'm sending a very dry email detailing the ownership change of a corportaion, so i can't forsee many responses (bounces are, of course, another story). It is not a difficult piece of software to set up, and doesn't take very much space. If you decide to install it, it will be there when you need it the next time for whatever reason. I can't imagine that a corporation wouldn't have something to manage even their internal mailing lists with, to keep archives, etc. the reason that i originally tried to do this with qmail-inject instead of elmlm was that i never saw a need to have list-like behavior (replies, postings,etc). that being tha case, is ezmlm still the best option? Hmm. You can set up an ezmlm list that is moderated, with no posting except moderators. The best option will be in your opinion, ultimately. Mike
Re: qmailanalog usage
Mark Douglas wrote: I'm trying to figure out how I should get the stats I want out of qmailanalog, along with some other things I'd like to do. My main issue is, if I wanted to do a daily log rotation, would it be feasible to do the following (using multilog): Set my logfile size to 100MB; at end of day, have a cron job run that copies the current file to another, dated file; echo /var/log/qmail/current to empty out the log file and start fresh. I realize it's not pretty, but the real issue is, would it cause problems? Thanks, Mark Douglas - Architecture Sympatico-Lycos Inc. All your base are belong to us! Make your time! There is a patch written by William Baxter for multilog that causes it to rotate logs ASAP upon receiving SIGHUP. You can find it at http://www.superscript.com/patches/multilog.c.hup Mike
Re: Higher number of deliveries
D Rajesh wrote: We have a database of 100,000 mails and we will be sending personalized mails to each user automatically. We use redhat 6.2 ( extfs, kernel 2.2.14 ) and qmail for mailing. This should take no longer than 4.5 to 5 hours to deliver to all reachable mail servers, with a low-end box running remoteconcurrency of 120. I have a low-end NetBSD box that delivers 1800 messages every 5 minutes with remoteconcurrency set to 120. The problem is that, when I tried sending 4700 mails ( to different domains . say like yahoo, hotmail, rediff, etc and not a single user in my domain ), it took one whole day to send all the mails.. qmail-inject placed mails in the queue at a speed of 70 - 90 mails in a second. But, if the logs are checked, it took one whole day to finish sending all the mails You didn't happen to get a line like this in /var/log/qmail/current or maybe a rotated log file, did you? @40003b1d11932a837604 delivery 41: deferral: qmail-spawn_unable_to_create_pipe._(#4.3.0)/ If so, then you need to adjust the ulimits of your system and up the max processes and max open files per process. Man ulimit. What should I do to send say a million mails in a day ? Set up a main qmail box running ezmlm, that has a list with 4 addresses subscribed: sublists. Set the sublists to each route to a seperate qmail box via smtproutes. Set up 4 more qmail boxes, each with ezmlm running the appropriate sublist. Subscribe one quarter of the subscribers to each box in the sublist. This should take between 8-9 hours to send out 1 million mails. BTW, these boxes don't need to be high end monsters like the one you described above. You could probably decrease your sending time to 6 hours or something if you use the large-concurrency patch. You probably also need to use the large to-do patch so the queues can handle more than 10,000 messages at a time. Regards, Mike
Re: Higher number of deliveries
Markus Stumpf wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:07:48PM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: The problem is that, when I tried sending 4700 mails ( to different domains . say like yahoo, hotmail, rediff, etc and not a single user in my domain ), it took one whole day to send all the mails.. qmail-inject placed mails in the queue at a speed of 70 - 90 mails in a second. But, if the logs are checked, it took one whole day to finish sending all the mails It sometimes takes me 2 or 3 days to get only one message delivered to yahoo. This is not a problem that you can fix with qmail configuration on your side. The problem is with yahoo and their mailservers and I can see it for more than one year. Hi, You can dedicate a box called slowmail.abc.com and smtproute all of these problematic domains to it; just add them as they appear. This way your queues don't stay jammed full of trash, thus slowing down everything else. Now, we are up to 6 low-end pentium boxes for a million mail per 8-9 hours list. lists.abc.com (front-end box) lists1.abc.com (sublist carrying 25% of subscribers) lists2.abc.com ( ) lists3.abc.com ( ) lists4.abc.com ( ) slowmail.abc.com (smtproutes from lists1-4 point here) Mike
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Andrew J Herbert wrote: I've now played with qmail_ldap, but fail to see that I can implement it in the same structure as everything else, as it seems primarily geared toward 'virtual users'. You want qmail-ldap. If these are mail servers, why do users need to have a system account? They aren't administrators. I run several qmail-ldap servers, with only system accounts for the IT staff. Even if they need a system account, you can store their mail in /var/qmail/maildirs owned and grouped to the qmail-ldap daemons, and make them use pine over IMAP or pop. UW-Imap is a resource HOG. You have to patch it twice to get it to work in your setup, and you have to recompile it when you make configuration changes. Low tech. Courier Imap has native support for ldap authentication and maildirs, has low memory requirements, and can be reconfigured without recompiling. Regards, Mike
Re: YALQ (Yet another LDAP Question)
Andrew J Herbert wrote: 1. We use Eudora as a mail client, it's not my choice unfortunately, and it thrashes Courier, whilst UW doesn't break a sweat, due to the odd way Eudora implements mail filters (using UID's). Yes, I have encountered this with 2-3 of my users who just refuse to leave Eudora. It's not a problem with this number, but if everybody used it then it would be. 2. We have to have people having logons in the system, this isn't just email we're talking about, hence why I said I want to use real users, and not virtual users. Also we run a web based front end to procmail for mail filtering that has to be 'grannied' in. Fine if people log on then, but they don't need to have their maildir stored in their home directory. Set your global pine configuration to use IMAP instead of accessing an mbox. This takes away fast text grepping, but provides alot of ease for administration. Qmail-LDAP will work in this environment. Regards, Mike
Re: qmail-injecting a message with 50K Bcc:
dan.kelley wrote: hi- i'm trying to send a message to a list of approx. 50K email addresses. i figured that the best way to do this was to use qmail-inject with the 50K addresses listed in one giant Bcc: line. Wrong. Ezmlm is what you need. It's a high speed mailing list manager, and with the qmail-verh patch you can have individual addressing. You can also take input from a text file of one address per line when subscribing the list members. Mike
Odd error
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? Also, this seems like a serious problem I got while trying to actually send this message via my own server: 220 thor.mystica.cx ESMTP EHLO ODIN 250-thor.mystica.cx 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME RSET 250 flushed MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead . 451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) QUIT 221 thor.mystica.cx -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail + LDAP + Solaris + Big number of mailboxes
Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi! We have about to five million mailboxes and we are wondering if there is any project that includes qmail under Solaris with LDAP authentication. We know it works, but we want to know about its performance. If someone have worked with a similar implementation please tell us how it work. Qmail-ldap home page is at www.nrg4u.com. Qmail-ldap mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use qmail-ldap on solaris 8 sparc and it works great, but I only support about 200 imap users. Regards, Mike
Re: Java and Qmail - building a large mailmerge server - plain text version
manav wrote: The objective is to build a high-volumer server capable of doing mail-merged email blasts to several lists with 10,000 to 1,000,000 users, provide detailed reports about the status of emails (sent, bounced, bad email addresses, opened, forwarded), list management (across multiple lists for each user) and of course, stability. Over the period of last 12 months, we explored several options - and finally settled on qmail (what else?). I am using a Pentium III with Linux Redhat 6.2 installed on it, with 512 MB of RAM, 20 GB HDD and JDK 1.2.2 connected to a 128 Kbps line. Before you go any further, get a real pipe. Why do people insist that their Volkswagen Beetle is capable of keeping up with a Ferrari on the autobahn? The volume of messages that you are trying to send is nothing short of ridiculous with a 128Kbps line. -- Mike
Re: Java and Qmail - building a large mailmerge server - plain text version
manav wrote: Hi Mike, Russ, Hi ! We are running the alpha phase right now (with whatever current implementations we have), and I have serious doubts about the stability and scalability of the system. The maximum load that I've put on my production boxes is 250,000 emails so far and I've had similar issues that I mentioned on my development boxes (the ones that are resemble a Beetle, to quote Mike :-) ). Just as an example of the speed of qmail and ezmlm: Machine: 1U rackmount cheapo 600Mhz Celeron, 128MB RAM, 18GB hard disk OS: NetBSD 1.5 MTA: Qmail 1.03 with only the verh patch List Manager: Ezmlm 0.53 with idx 0.40 remoteconcurrency: 120 Here are some stats from the first large mailing with this server. As you can see, within 15 minutes most of the deliveries were completed. The only kernel tuning I did was to raise the max processes to 256 and max open files per process to 512. The numbers look a little off since there are a few old messages still going through, mostly mail servers that were previously unreachable. 12.45.21message sent to 4773 addresses 12.50.001738 deliveries 1924 attempts 1761 successes 187 failures 12.55.001775 deliveries 1937 attempts 1779 successes 166 failures 13.00.00423 deliveries 455 attempts 433 successes 32 failures 13.05.0013 deliveries 14 attempts 13.10.002 deliveries 2 attempts --- Total 3951 deliveries 4332 attempts With the large concurrency patch, this throughput could be increased significantly. I will put it into use if I get a requirement to send to at least 10,000 addresses. Using qmail-ldap and qmqp with a frontend master server and several slave servers, you can distribute the load among several servers very easily. For example, if you have 4 slave servers then use a unique mailhost attribute for each quarter of your subscriber base. The scalability of qmail-ldap is almost limitless, I think. The master server will transfer the qmqp messages to the slave servers via qmqp faster than you can even dream of. For more info, www.nrg4u.com qmail-ldap homepage. Regards, Mike
spam/other custom bouncing
I am attempting to figure out the best way to set up an auto-response (bounce, in a manner of speaking) triggered by sender domain, in order to facilitate not just rejecting specific domains, but auto-answering mail from them. The situation is as follows: My company receives mail from vary large number of different domains, most legitimate, but some notorious spammers, and some a combo of both. The problem is that I am uncomfortable just adding a domain to badmailfrom, as I have to be really careful blocking out entire domains lest I block out some legitimate users. badmailfrom only provides an smtp rejection, and I cannot guarantee that an end-user could figure out what happened. Therefore, I would like to maintain a list of domains a la badmailfrom, but rather than doing an smtp reject, an autoreponse would result (your mail has been reject because blah, please contact blah etc. etc. ). This way, legitimate users on banned domains would have an opportunity to notify us and get unbanned. It seems simple on the surface, but most every filter I have found so far relies on RBLs (love em, but far too arbitrary for this task), or receiver address/domain (it's all coming to the same domain, I need to filter by sender domain). I am sure there must be a fairly simple way to complete this, but I'm not having a lot of luck so far. Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mike Culbertson sysadmin P.S. The qmail boxes in question are acting as relays only, I am trying to avoid using procmail to filter all deliveries, as 99.9% is sent onwards to another host, not locally. Don't want to double-process the mail if I don't have to, rather have qmail handle all the filtering alone if possible.
more spam bouncing
After some thought, perhaps I shoud clarify what I am trying to do. I have looked and looked, and seems most every feature for filtering relies on .qmail files, or something like procmail. I would like to determine if there is a way to avoid both of these. Since the machines in question with this problem are relays (private relays in case you are wondering), there are no home directories for me to add .qmail files to. Also, since they don't hold mail locally, with procmail, the path would be: sender qmail procmail qmail relay target host which would signifigantly increase the load required to send each piece of mail on to it's destination. I don't want to send every piece of mail through procmail (or similar) if I don't have to. What would be great would be to have qmail-smtpd catch the HELO or MAIL FROM address the sender gives (a la badmailfrom) and do something, like perhaps dump the mail to a local account for further processing, or initiate a bounce, anything other than just an smtp reject. This way, good mail would travel clean on through the relay without being subject to any additional filtering, and only mail matching a bad domain would get handled further. This may be entirely out of the realm of capability within the parameters I have described, I'm not sure. It just seems there must be some way to fanagle qmail itself into reacting to the sender domain. If this answer is painfully obvious, feel free to slap me, but I'd rather know regardless :) Mike Culbertson
Re: restart without rebooting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. That is not true, killall only kills the specified command with the specified signal. Oh yeah? Try using the killall command on Digital Unix OSF1 v4.0 and see what happens. It kills all processes for whatever user you are logged in as (try to image root). Mike
Qmail MIB?
Hi, Has anyone written a MIB for qmail, so that snmp can be used to gather stats+ Thanks, Mike
Re: backup mail server help
Sorry, I forgot to include the list in the to... Any comments would be greatly appreciated, esp. in regard to nfs locking... Jeff, You make a very valid point, however this can be overcome in many ways. I am currently researching this for my employer. Here's a general overview of how I'm planning on designing our network/servers. --- - external net | | director1director2 | | --- - internal net | | | qmail1qmail2qmail3 | | | \___ | __/ \|/ | --- - gigabit 'nfs' net with backup 100Mb net || NFS1 NFS2 I'm looking at using LVS (Linux Virtual Server) to handle the load balancing/clustering. We'll be using the cluster for www/pop3/dns/etc as well. LVS will allow us to add machines dynamically. We'll be using qmail/ldap/ldap-control and 2 (or more) LDAP servers for qmail configuration. I've also considered having the cluster servers boot off of CD and use a single disk for /tmp and the queue. I haven't fully researched the NFS servers yet, but here is my idea. The developer that made ReiserFS also wrote/is writing DRBD, which is capable of doing network mirroring. I am planning to use 2 e450s that I have with Samba (for Win servers), NFS (mirrored with DRBD), and heartbeat software to control the failover between the 2 servers. There are 2 obvious alternatives to the NFS solution that I mentioned though. NetAPP makes an appliance (Filer) that can handle 6TB (RAID5) storage which provides for (according to some friends of mine that use them in a 75+ e6000/45+ win2k env) 5 9s of reliability. I don't have prices, but I've heard that one Filer can run $80k. The other option is a software solution (clustering/replication/failover) from Veritas, which comes highly recommended. DISCLAIMER: I don't work for any of the above mentioned companies. Would anyone be interested in helping me develop a FAQ for this? Cheers, Mike Jeff Palmer wrote: And if your NFS server goes down, both servers are useless. In which case, what was the point of having a backup server again? Jeff Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 +0300, you wrote: Alternatively you can run two SMTP servers and one POP server. Do NAT for the two and export the partition with Maildirs(at the pop server) to the SMTP servers through NFS. The two servers seem to be one to the outside world. NFS can be insecure though. Joe. - Original Message - From: Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:15 AM Subject: Re: backup mail server help On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: What I'd like to accomplish is if Server A is unavailable, then mail goes to server B. Once A is back up, server B sends the mail back to server A. Does On server B, add all domains in question to rcpthosts, but NOT to local or virtualdomains. That's it ;-)) -- * 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: Long connect times
Try a stub resolver on the mailbox. In addition to your regular name server/cache you should get decent response times. The stub resolver needn't take much ram or cpu. If you didn't have a stub resolver already, you will notice a nice performance boost. Otherwise try playing with the cache. There are some nice tools to figure out what your resolver is doing on the djbdns site. Oh.. get djbdns too. Works here just fine. -Mike -Original Message- From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:00 AM To: Jon Booth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Long connect times Jon Booth writes: Hi all, I am using QMail with xinetd. It takes ages for a PC internally (allowed to relay) to connect to the server. Outside servers can connect instantly. Where should I look to diagnose this problem Reverse DNS for your internal hosts. It's not optional. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | #exclude windows.h Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |
sqwebmail
Im looking for some help with Sqwebmail. When I run make I get the following error. preauthvchkpw.c: In function `auth_vchkpw_pre': preauthvchkpw.c:70: warning: passing arg 2 of `make_user_dir' makes integer from pointer without a cast preauthvchkpw.c:70: too many arguments to function `make_user_dir' make[1]: *** [preauthvchkpw.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/sqwebmail-2.1.1/authlib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Thanks Mike
Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help
Using the new vpopmail vpopmail-4.9.10.tar and the Qmail Admin
qmailadmin-0.45.tar . I cannot get Qmail admin to compile?
Here is the error message I recieve.
What in the heck is going on ? I can compile qmailadmin-0.26.tar with no
errors but I dont want to use that.
Thanks
Mike
qmailadmin-0.45]#
./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin --
enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... i686-unknown-linux
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
checking for crypt in -lshadow... no
checking for floor in -lm... yes
checking for gethostbyaddr in -lnsl... yes
checking for getsockname in -lsocket... no
cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/inc_deps: No such file or directory
cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/lib_deps: No such file or directory
checking for ezmlm-idx... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for mkdir... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating config.h
qmailadmin-0.45]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c
qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory
qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
==
Mike Jimenez
System Administrator
Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net)
Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629
http://www.vpi.net
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RE: Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help
That was not the problem. But I found out how to fix on on the Qmail Admin list. Thanks for the help though. Mike cp -fp vauth.h vpopmail.h vpopmail_config.h /your/source/qmailadmin/directory LIBS=-L/home/vpopmail/lib -lvpopmail DEFS=/home/vpopmail/include ./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin -- enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/ -Original Message- From: Joshua Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:22 PM To: Mike Jimenez Subject: RE: Qmail ADMIN!!! Please Help Try removing the trailing slash from your --enable-vpopmail switch. Look at the error message in the middle. How often do you see // in a legitimate *NIX path? --joshua. qmailadmin-0.45]# ./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin -- enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/ creating cache ./config.cache . . . cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/inc_deps: No such file or directory cat: /home/vpopmail//etc/lib_deps: No such file or directory . . . make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 == Mike Jimenez System Administrator Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net) Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629 http://www.vpi.net ==
RE: Qmail Admin
Nope Vpopmail mail is installed and the location is the exact location? But the thing that does not make sense if I compile the previous version it installs fine no errors? But I want to use the new version not the old one. Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Kieran Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:52 AM To: 'Mike Jimenez'; Qmail Subject: RE: Qmail Admin It looks lilke you don't have vpopmail installed. Or it is installed in a funny location. Try --enable-vpopmaildir=/path/to/your/vpopmail in your ./configure line Regards, Kieran Barnes Signum 1226 Ltd Use our Web site at... http://www.1226.net Phone us on... 01772 622889 Fax us on... 01772 622558 -Original Message- From: Mike Jimenez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 00:42 To: Qmail Subject: Qmail Admin How come the admin tool does not compile? Here is the following: Also here is the ./configscript ./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin -- enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/ #make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 == Mike Jimenez System Administrator Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net) Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629 http://www.vpi.net ==
RE: Qmail Admin
This is the version of vpopmail that I have installed. vpopmail-4.9.6-1 also this is the version of Qmail Admin I'm trying to install. qmailadmin-0.45 The previous version Installs with no errors at all? Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: inter7 [mailto:inter7]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:41 AM To: Mike Jimenez Subject: Re: Qmail Admin Sounds like you need to upgrade your vpopmail. What version do you have installed? Ken Jones inter7 Mike Jimenez wrote: How come the admin tool does not compile? Here is the following: Also here is the ./configscript ./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin -- enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/ #make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 == Mike Jimenez System Administrator Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net) Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629 http://www.vpi.net ==
Qmail Admin
How come the admin tool does not compile? Here is the following: Also here is the ./configscript ./configure --enable-vpopuser=vpopmail --enable-cgibindir=/apache/cgi-bin -- enable-htmldir=/usr/local/share --enable-vpopmaildir=/home/vpopmail/ #make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[2]: Entering directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' gcc -I. -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c qmailadmin.c:30: vpopmail.h: No such file or directory qmailadmin.c:31: vauth.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [qmailadmin.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/installers/qmailadmin-0.45' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 == Mike Jimenez System Administrator Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net) Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629 http://www.vpi.net ==
Im not sure if this is normal?
Hello Is my mail que stuck or is this normal.Is there also a way to manage the que? /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 243 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 Thanks Mike == Mike Jimenez System Administrator Visual Perspectives Internet, Inc. (VPI.Net) Tel: (949) 595-8622 -- Fax: (949) 595-8629 http://www.vpi.net ==
Re: I think I'm being relayed...
Does anyone know what happened to the qmail-ldap-control patches on bayour.com? The directory linked to in the faq is empty. And bayour.com/qmail/patches_ldap appears to be empty as well. Were the patches mirrored anywhere? If not, I'd be glad to provide one (as well as a mirror for qmail.org). Thanks, Mike Chris Garrigues wrote: I've got a slightly old set of qmail-ldap patches. I guess I'd better upgrade! Thanks. Chris
RE: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0)
Hey guys! Actually, it only takes a few msaccess databases to get to the gigabyte range, or in my case a couple of sales people travelling and not picking up mail. I'm moving to a 5X36gig system for mail from an e450, once I get the server in. Disk is cheap, why put artifical limits on the server? Go for it killer. You will not regret more disk... the opposite is not! true. -Mike -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: better methods to install qmail on linux ( Redhat 6.2 or 7.0) Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a mail server this fails when you get a mail which is larger than the available size on /var. Thus, have AT LEAST 4GB for /var, then you SHOULD be safe. Same goes with /home if you deliver mail locally. You really have users sending multigigabyte messages? Yow. -Dave
Re: qmail-remote (cry wolf?)
Jörgen Persson wrote: Sorry, but I'm not all comfortable with this... There's been 4 similar reports of qmail-remote not behaving properly to this list during the last month. We still haven't been able to help any of them... This doesn't look like a coincidence to me since two of the reports concerned the same recipient server (outblaze.com). Unfortunately it seems related to network programming, which I know very little about. Any other thoughts about this? Jörgen Hi, Just a little investigation. $ nslookup set type=mx outblaze.com outblaze.compreference = 20, mail exchanger = mg.hk5.outblaze.com outblaze.compreference = 10, mail exchanger = spf1.hq.outblaze.com I was curious if they both ran the same MTA, so I checked it out. $ telnet spf1.hq.outblaze.com 25 Trying 202.77.223.28... Connected to spf1.hq.outblaze.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 spf1.hq.outblaze.com ESMTP Postfix $ telnet mg.hk5.outblaze.com 25 Trying 202.123.209.152... Connected to mg.hk5.outblaze.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mg.hk5.outblaze.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:26:17 GMT What are the probabilities of the Sendmail server being the one causing the problems? What if the mail admin of mg.hk5.outblaze.com has used some sort of patch that is causing qmail-remote's to hang? Has anyone communicated with outblaze.com's postmaster? -- Mike
QmailLDAP/Control Patch
The faq for qmail-ldap (see below) provides a link to download the qmail-ldap-control patch, but the directory on the server is empty. I checked google's cached copy and it had files dating 2001050n. Are there any official mirrors? The FAQ: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/#The qmail-ldap-control patch The link is: http://qmail.bayour.com/patches_ldap/ Thanks, Mike
Re: Multiple Location
Adrian, DISCLAIMER I've only been playing with qmail for a few months and it's only installed on one server, but here's what I would suggest. /DISCLAIMER Setup qmail/ldap at all of your pops. Enable clustering (in qmail) and have the local (remote POPs) mail servers replicate the core/primary ldap server (see FAQ for OpenLDAP (slurpd i think). You can then define mailhost (I think that's the attribute name--somebody correct me if I'm wrong) for each user in LDAP to the the mail server at their primary POP. This seems like the cleanest way to approach the problem. You could then setup caching dns server as the remote POPs and use bind 9 views (not very familiar with this) for each POP so that mail.yourdomain.tld == local mail server. This really isn't necessary, but it would make life a little easier for your support people. Anyone want to correct/critique this generalization? Thanks, Mike Adrian Ho wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: I have the follow scenario. Assuming my office is separate into 10 different locations, with about 50 staff in each location. Is that anyway whereby I can configure a mail server or something equivalent at each location such that the machine will know which are the local user, and send it to the local machine, and if not, they will send it out. This is to reduce the amount of out-going traffic You can either have a central server that knows where everyone is, and the 10 local servers simply relay non-local mail to it, or replicate that knowledge amongst the 10 local servers. Either way: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures/PIC.local2alias -- Adrian Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS failover?
I have 2 e450s (with very large hardware RAID5 arrays) that I want to setup in a replicated/failover environment. These boxes will primarily be a backend for smtp/pop3. Is there a clean way to do this without investing $40k in Veritas's clustering/replication software? Can NFS failover cleanly using some kind of heartbeat software? Thanks, Mike
Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS
On 23 May 2001, Mark Delany wrote:
I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an
Intel box, I strongly suggest one of the BSDs. I was in a situation
where I had to use Linux NFS servers - that was until they failed
miserabled. They were replaced with FreeBSD and the problems went
away.
Also, check how your OS supports turning UDP checksumming off, and make
sure it's off. It's of no great help on a local switched segment and
affects NFS performance. Are you using traditional NFS or TCP-based NFS?
If performance is the real desired goal, UDP-based NFS is going to be a
lot faster, if not as secure. But, hey, once you're in NFS-land, you're
going to want to keep it all on a tight, local segment if security's even
vaguely your issue.
Finally, you may want to put the server on a gig connection into the
switch, and the client servers on the same switch on 100Mbit FDX.
-M
Regards.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:13PM -0500, Duane Schaub allegedly wrote:
I want to set up multiple qmail machines to access an NFS backend. We have
about 10,000 users (running maildir) and an average of 5 emails/user/dat and
av. 10K in size. On average, there are 6 simultaneous pop sessions with
approx. 200 new sessions/min.
We have tried a Redhat6.1 backend on the NFS with Redhat 6.1 NFS clients.
The result was that the qmail machines were BARELY able to keep up. If
there were any pauses on the NFS server, the POP sessions would build to
50-60 very quickly with qmail crashing at about 300 sessions. Once qmail
exceeded about 70 sessions, it was beyond the point of return and would not
recover.
The NFS server was nothing special (P350/IDE 256Mb RAM). We also tried a
Dell 2300 (Dual 400/RAID5) NT server running Intergraph NFS But the
performance was abysmal! Performing an ls in a user/new directory took 21
seconds for a response.
I think NFS would work, but I don't really want a Netapp F5 ($50,000). What
NFS experiences are out there?
If you wish - respond privately [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Duane.
Michael Brian Scher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr. Research Consultant
Attorney, Anthropologist, Part-Time Guru
Mailaise: n, ('mail-aze). See Outlook.
Make multilog rotate according to time?
Hi, I would like to use qmailanalog to make a daily report that will get mailed to the local administrative staff. I would like to have the reports include exactly 24 hours of activity. I thought that the easiest way to do this is to have multilog start a new log file at 0.00 every day, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I have looked at the multilog source and man page, and it seems to only rotate logs based on size. How are you guys doing this? Please cc me also with your reply. Regards, Mike
Re: MASS mailing
Charles Cazabon wrote: There's other tricks as well, but with the above list you should easily be able to handle 1M deliveries a day on decent hardware. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the Netra you mention. Netra's are little 1U pizza box style 'servers'. They are meant for telecom operators, etc. I use one for a qmail/courier imap server for a few hundred users, and it's ok. I definitely would not consider it a 'high end' solution. Yes, Solaris is slow, but it's also stable. Sort of like an old John Deere tractor ;-). I wouldn't use one of these for a million message per day list, although a cluster of them might be ok. Mike
Re: SMTPAuth and mysql patch??
The question still exists, becase these list i amazing small, maybe we should hang in the qmail-linglist... if you /or my, have any info, i'm happy if we share until now, i cant use, i tryed to patch smtpd, but it acts without prompting for any informations, so im not sure, if the smtpd or the checkpassword fails. ok - I got it working - the qmail-mysql patch for checkpassword and qmail - I just added the patch for checkpassword-0.90 nd then added /bin/checkpassword /bin/true to the end of /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd in the smtp server startup script and BANG - works :) Where are you gettin stuck ?? Tonino - thats the problem, im not really sure.. perl -e 'printf tst\@mydomain.ch\0test\0' | /bin/checkpassword env 30 result my data in mysql, so checkpassword-90 is working with mysql my start file looks QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -v -p -x /etc/tcpcontrol/smtp.cdb \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /server/apps/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /bin/checkpassword /bin/true \ /server/apps/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd \ /server/apps/qmail/rc it tryed also to put my FQDN beetween qmail-smtp and checkpassword no affects, if i telnet my self on port 25, it connects me to Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 myFQDN ESMTP so, im not sure if qmail-smtpd patch failed to compile in... my used version are: checkpassword-0.90 checkpassword-0.90-mysql-0.6.6.patch qmail-smtpd-auth-0.30 Much thanks ahead for any ideas .
Re: Huge Maildirs?
List Monkey wrote: Does anyone have experience with HUGE Maildir's? I have an account that is subscribed to a lot of high traffic mailing lists (like this one), and I want to keep all the messages on my server. I have seen grumblings, but no concrete info, on what may happen when your Maildir contains 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 messages? I am running 2.2.* Linux Thanks. Hi, I have one account that has 248,881 messages in it's maildir/new directory, and receives many messages every day. Don't ask me what the account is for because IMHO it's useless, but I will say that nobody reads it with an email client. The OS is Solaris 8, platform is Sun Netra T105 (sparc), filesystem is UFS. I'm using Qmail-LDAP, which shouldn't really perform any differently in this respect than the stock Qmail, and there are no problems constantly delivering messages to this account. The thing you need to keep an eye on is your available inodes. I have a 36GB SCSI external disk mounted to /var/qmail/maildirs and this is how it looks now. By the looks of things below, I'll run out of disk space long before I run out of inodes. $ df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t15d0s5 4266304 728388 3537916 17% /var/qmail/maildirs $ df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t15d0s535292880 14155186 20784766 41% /var/qmail/maildirs Regards, Mike
Migrating qmail between hosts
Hello I am undertaking a project to migrate my domain (mystica.cx) between 2 servers. What are the recommended steps (aside from compilation / configuration of qmail/vpopmail/courier imap, on the second server)to preserve emails and not lose any in the process? I use imap almost exclusively, but other users use pop3 for email. The domain is a vpopmail virtual domain on the first server, so can I just tar/bz2 up the hosting dir, or should I load rsync for the next few days to keep any mail that shows up on the first server going to the second while DNS propagates? Any hints will be helpful Thanks -- Mike Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daemontools won't compile
Hi, Box is Mandrake 8.0 final, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. I get the following error when trying to compile daemontools. It also happened to me on a Redhat 7.1 box. I think it's something gcc version 2.96 2731 related. Somebody please help me patch this file so it will compile. This is the error I am receiving: ./compile tai64nlocal.c tai64nlocal.c: In function `main': tai64nlocal.c:58: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tai64nlocal.c:59: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:61: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:63: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:65: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:67: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type tai64nlocal.c:69: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make: *** [tai64nlocal.o] Error 1 Here are lines 59-69 from tai64nlocal.c --- out(num,fmt_ulong(num,(unsigned long) (1900 + t-tm_year))); out(-,1); out(num,fmt_uint0(num,(unsigned int) (1 + t-tm_mon),2)); out(-,1); out(num,fmt_uint0(num,(unsigned int) t-tm_mday,2)); out( ,1); out(num,fmt_uint0(num,(unsigned int) t-tm_hour,2)); out(:,1); out(num,fmt_uint0(num,(unsigned int) t-tm_min,2)); out(:,1); out(num,fmt_uint0(num,(unsigned int) t-tm_sec,2)); Thanks, Mike
Re: RFC 2821 and 2822
Matthew Patterson wrote: I'm not very good at reading RFCs, so I can't be sure myself. Can anyone confirm that qmail 1.3 with the BigDNS and queuevar patches will be compliant with whatever standards may come out of RFCs 2821 and 2822? It could literally take years for RFCs to become standards, if they ever do. You don't have to worry too soon, I think. I'm sure that there will be some schmuck member of management will hear about these and come to me pulling their hair out, wondering how we will ever survive moving to these new processes, and will end up suggesting moving to Exchange 2000 because 'Microsoft always follows standards'. Microsoft is the standard deviation from the norm. err the standards deviator from seattle. well, you get the point. mike
put a whole domain 'on hold'
Hi all, I did a search from the archive to find no info on this... I run a webhosting company. When a client doesn't pay, we simply move their public_html directory and put an ad for our services in its place. However, many times, I have noticed that for the month of 'on hold' status, these people continue to utilize their e-mail. We've got vpopmail running right now. My initial thoughts were to simply change the pop3 account passwords, but I honestly can't sit here changing 200 passwords. Plus, changing them back would be a b. would be not fun. Is there a way that I could set a whole domain to a 'hold' status, so all of the mail waits for them, until the hold is removed? If so, will this method also prevent people who have their mail simply forwarded to another address from getting their mail (it should)? Thanks for your time. -Mike
Re: aliases issue !!!
David Young wrote: Could he do something like use a .qmail file to pipe the message into a script that would examine headers and then only deliver if the message was from the local domain? I guess that the headers could be forged easily enough to get around this, but at least if could be a plausible attempt. Sure, it might reduce the number of unwanted messages, but there is no guarantee it will stop everything. It's not much more difficult to set up ezmlm and do it the right way. Aliases are low tech and should not be used for more than 2-3 recipients, imho. ;-) Mike
Re: aliases issue !!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all , I still didn't get an answer for my question about aliases defined in /etc/aliases regarding their vulnrabilty to outside world . I am not intersted in letting people use certain aliases in /etc/aliases from the outside and maby even restrict the access to these aliases to certain users only . How can I do cause now everyone can use these aliases like [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is a spam hole . Thanks , Nissim . You can't restrict who can use aliases. Anyone who can send mail to your system can send mail to all aliases that exist on the system. If you convert the aliases to Ezmlm lists, you can restrict posting to subscribers and even moderate lists. Mike
Re: How to re-direct mail based on target domain
David Means wrote: AOL will not accept mail from my server because I have a dynamic IP address. How do I configure qmail to send messages destined for AOL to my ISP? Thanks, David man qmail-remote. Set up an smtproute something like: aol.com:your-isps-smtp-server Mike
relay-ctrl ?
hello all, i'm trying installing relay-ctrl. - how the qmail start files for smtp should be modified ? - what are the the minimal cfg of relay-ctrl ? somone has a better instruction page than the script owner? ...thanks ..mike
Re: relay-ctrl ?
my qmail smtp start script looks
where (and how) i should putt them in line?
thanks4 passion..*
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
'start')
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /server/apps/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD"
\
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp
/server/apps/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | \
/server/apps/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd
/server/apps/qmail/rc
;;
'stop')
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0
- Original Message -
From: "Frank Tegtmeyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: relay-ctrl ?
"Mike A. Sauvain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
somone has a better instruction page than the script owner?
What's wrong with:
---
- Add the following line to a file in /etc/cron.d. This assumes a
recent version of vixie cron. Other versions of cron may use
different syntax, and you may need to edit root's crontab.
* * * * * /usr/sbin/relay-ctrl-age
How to use with qmail-pop3d:
- Insert the program "relay-ctrl-allow" between your checkpassword
program and qmail-pop3d in your invocation of tcpserver for the POP
service.
-
There is nothing more to say about it. Please read the man pages of the
included programs to understand how it all works togther.
Regards, Frank
Hide firewall ?
hyall, i need to hide the internal ip of my mailserver, it see them only in messages, where i send and recive on my host: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 2817 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2001 02:40:18 - Received: from 62.x.x.x (HELO client) () by 192.168.1.20 with SMTP; 9 Apr 2001 02:40:18 - ^ ^^ ^^^ how i can change them ? thanks for advice ..*
Re: Hide firewall ?
:allow,TCPLOCALHOST="62.2.200.59" ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ was the string i searched...*
SMTP Auth with MySQL ?
hello all, i use qmail with mysql support. yesterday my smal mailserver was used to spawn, now i need to implement one smtp auth, like pop before smtp (BUT WITH MYSQL), or any other advices for smtp auth and/or encryption that works with mysql ? thanks4 your passion mike
How to delete Queues?
hello all, i was used as spawn server, how i can delete the queues are waiting for sending ?... thanks4 your proposal mike..
Re: Syncing IMAP mailboxes
Gavin Cameron wrote: Hi, Anybody out there know of a tool that will allow me to sync an IMAP mailbox that contains about 25 additional IMAP folders apart from the INBOX??? I've tried isync but that will only do one folder at a time. I'd like a tool that I can point to my INBOX and from there let it sync everything. Thanks in advance, Gavin - Fetchmail, pay close attention to the switches to leave the mail on the server. - Netscape Messenger - Outlook Express - Eudora Mike
users/assign Problems! Please Help.
Hi, I am trying to sort the 2000 or so .qmail-* files that I have in /var/qmail/alias. I have created three subdirectories with the same alias:qmail ownership: /var/qmail/alias/system - will contain system aliases such as postmaster, root, toor, manager, etc /var/qmail/alias/ezmlm - will contain ezmlm aliases /var/qmail/alias/normal - will contain everything else I want to use the users/assign file to assign the new locations to these .qmail-* files. The benefits of organizing my aliases into different directories are quite large to me, since I want to write some web apps for users to list and possibly manipulate aliases. Only certain users could change system aliases, and certain other users could change normal aliases. You get the point... My first test of just the system aliases got me into really big trouble on my test system. It took me about an hour to repair the damage caused. Read below to see what I did, and if you can tell me where I am going wrong. - copied the system aliases into their new location and made sure the permissions were correct. - wrote a users/assign file and ran qmail-newu. uid=7790(alias) gid=2107(qmail) /var/qmail/users/assign --- =bin:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =daemon:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =decode:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =dumper:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =games:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =ingres:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =mailer-daemon:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =manager:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =news:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =nobody:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =operator:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =postmaster:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =root:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =system:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =toor:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =uucp:alias:7790:2107:/var/qmail/alias/system::: =uucp-default:alias:7790:2110:/var/qmail/alias/system::: . The result of this action what that file ownerships of my entire qmail install got changed to have an owner of alias, group of root. All of qmail/queue and qmail/bin were completely hosed. Qmail wouldn't even accept messages because it couldn't write to the queue. This took me about an hour of comparing between another functioning system to get all the file permissions and owners/groups correct again. How is qmail/bin/qmail-newu command changing the group/owner/permissions of my entire qmail installation? This is pretty unforgiving if a person new to this technique makes some mistake in the assign file, like I obviously have. I just couldn't believe that it could even do this. If somebody knows where I messed up, please reply to me and the list. Thanks, Mike
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Re: migrating from MS Exchange to q-mail
"Tuchyna, Roman" wrote: Hello, does anybody have any experience with migrating from MS-Exchange to q-mail on Linux ? Thank you in advance! Best regards, Roman Tuchyna _ Roman Tuchyna ST Slovakia, s.r.o. phone: +421769258111, +421769258109 Polianky 5 fax: +421769258212 844 04 Bratislava E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Slovakia http://www.snt.sk _ Subject: Finally a tool to convert Outlook to mbox Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:20:43 +0200 From: Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally there is a tool to convert outlook mailstores to unix format (mbox). One downside is that it only runs in windows (they get ya comin' and goin'). It could be modified to alternatively output to maildir, or the mbox2maildir script could just be ran afterwards as part of the mail server upgrade process. From the KDE Kmail pages at: http://kmail.kde.org/download.html out2unix --- http://www.active-com.de/out2unix/ Have Fun! Mike
Re: migrating from MS Exchange to q-mail
"Tuchyna, Roman" wrote: O.K., but how can that tool help it the mailboxes are on the MS-Exchange server and users are using just JAVA GUI of MS-Exchange ? Thank you again! Roman That is left as an exercise for the motivated administrator. Mike
Finally a tool to convert Outlook to mbox
Finally there is a tool to convert outlook mailstores to unix format (mbox). One downside is that it only runs in windows (they get ya comin' and goin'). It could be modified to alternatively output to maildir, or the mbox2maildir script could just be ran afterwards as part of the mail server upgrade process. From the KDE Kmail pages at: http://kmail.kde.org/download.html out2unix --- http://www.active-com.de/out2unix/ Have Fun! Mike
Edit error messages
any body know, where i should hack the source to manipulate bounce other messages text? ...thx.. mike
Edit error messages
hello all, it haves some possibilitis to change the error messages? would be great because my users ditn really understand gibberish informations ;=) ...thanks4all
Re: Scanning qmail LOGs ~ cronjob...
Jesse Sunday wrote: Sort of off topic, I know... Someone please enlighten me as to how I would have a cron job scan my /var/log/maillog for a sting (or more) /usr/local/sbin/postfix check; egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):' /var/log/maillog ^^ Is a cron job I have now... would it be similar??? grep /var/log/maillog (words) | mail -s "Yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? how would I do it??? Thanks!!! Jesse PS I am not asking how to install cron jobs, just what string would I use... Write a shell or perl script that does what you want, and run the script from cron. It would seem to make alot more sense... Mike
Force Queues?
hy all, i have some mails in my que #qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 8 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 how i can fore qmail, to resend them ?.. thanks for any ideas... mike
Re: Force Queues?
Thanks, Sean solved my quest with best ;) killall -ALRM qmail-send cu all..
cant recive mail
if i send from my host to my self domains it works, but if i try to send from another domain than my, to my virtual domains i recive follow message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Action: Failed; Status: 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address) Remote MTA clean-dress.ch: SMTP diagnostic: 550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED] what's ugly, on my main domain (edv-support.ch) i recive all from anybody my control files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Feb 26 02:24 concurrencyincoming -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Feb 26 02:24 defaultdelivery -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Mar 5 04:03 locals -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Mar 5 04:04 me -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Mar 5 04:03 rcpthosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Feb 26 02:24 sqlserver in locals /same on rcpthost: mail.edv-support.ch edv-support.ch mail.onesworld.ch onesworld.ch in me: mail.edv-support.ch -- This domain works !: mail:~ # dig mail.edv-support.ch ; DiG 8.2 mail.edv-support.ch ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; mail.edv-support.ch, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.edv-support.ch.1D IN A 62.2.200.59 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: edv-support.ch. 1D IN NS62.2.200.59.edv-support.ch. ;; Total query time: 2 msec ;; FROM: mail to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.61 ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 5 15:31:19 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 37 rcvd: 79 admin:~ # dig mx edv-support.ch ; DiG 8.3 mx edv-support.ch ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; edv-support.ch, type = MX, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: edv-support.ch. 1D IN SOA ns1.edv-support.ch. msauvain.edv-support.ch. ( 10844 ; serial 3H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ); minimum ;; Total query time: 2 msec ;; FROM: admin to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.61 ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 5 15:36:08 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 81 This domain dosent works: # dig mx onesworld.ch ; DiG 8.3 mx onesworld.ch ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; onesworld.ch, type = MX, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: onesworld.ch. 1D IN SOA ns1.EDV.Support.ch. one.onesworld.ch. ( 2001021435 ; serial 3H ; refresh 15M ; retry 1W ; expiry 1D ); minimum ;; Total query time: 2 msec ;; FROM: admin to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.61 ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 5 15:38:30 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 30 rcvd: 86 # dig mail.onesworld.ch ; DiG 8.3 mail.onesworld.ch ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; mail.onesworld.ch, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: mail.onesworld.ch. 1D IN A 62.2.200.59 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: onesworld.ch. 1D IN NS62.2.93.153.onesworld.ch. ;; Total query time: 3 msec ;; FROM: admin to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.61 ;; WHEN: Mon Mar 5 15:39:22 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 35 rcvd: 77 --- thanks again, for all solutions.. mike
cant recive mails
if i send from my host to my self it works, but if i try to send from another domain to my virtual domains i recive follow message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Action: Failed; Status: 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address) Remote MTA clean-dress.ch: SMTP diagnostic: 550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED] my control files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Feb 26 02:24 concurrencyincoming -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Feb 26 02:24 defaultdelivery -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Mar 5 04:03 locals -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Mar 5 04:04 me -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Feb 26 02:24 sqlserver in locals: mail.mynewdomain.ch mynewdomain.ch mail.virtualdomain.ch virtualdomain.ch in me: mail.mynewdomain.ch rcpt host i limit with tcpserver - has any one some idea? - could it be, because i use sql support ? thanks, for all solutions.. mike
Re: Need Arguments for qmail
Jason Radford wrote: Recently switching from sendmail to qmail I have observed the difference in architecture between the two. The modularization of qmail appeals to me in both simplicity and elegance, and it's superiority was evident in my smtp benchmarking between the two MTAs. The only thing I miss from an admin standpoint is the readability of sendmail's logs vs. qmail/multilog. While I fully understand the justification of qmail's logging structure because of it's modularization, I am still left somewhat longing for a more readable logfile. Possibly over time I will develop a better skill for reading these logs, but for now that's my only concern since switching. There may be tools to aid in this, however out of the box this doesnt seem to be the cause. Hi, One thing that makes the logfile a bit easier to read is to change the time to human readable format like this: tail -f /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal or this cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less If you've installed the daemontools? package, then you should have tai64nlocal in /usr/local/bin. It would be nice to have a script that you could look at log files with, that would put the delivery in subsequent lines and strip out some of the garbage. That shouldn't be too hard to write for a good perl coder... Regards, Mike
