Denying email by sender's "From" address
Hi all, I've tried searching through the qMail documentation as well as the databases here with no luck. What I'm trying to do is drop a message from an external sender before it reaches the email of a specific internal sender (also, if possible, I would like to modify the scope of this so that it includes the ability to block globally, but that's much less important). The use a .qmail file or a perl script to drop the messages before they reach their destination, but I would think that qMail would have something built into it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Nick Papageorge
Re: QMAIL E-MAIL BACKUP SYSTEM
On 2001.07.26 16:11 alexus wrote: > hello everyone > > I have 3 different servers at different locations on different > backbones. > ...now what I need to do is somehow implement some kind of redundancy > on > e-mail system ... each of domains that hosts on my servers has all of > those > servers as ns and mx records in dns ... the question is.. is it > possible > somehow to implement something that if 1 server is down at one time > person > still be able to retrive his/her email from another server and in > addition > to that person shouldn't know that one of the server is down ? (i.e. > he > wouldn't have to change any settings on his/her end in order to > retrive > e-mail) > > thank you in advance Not really. The closest you can really come to redundancy would be to put in MX records for all the servers with differing priorities (the one where mail is stored should be marked with the lowest number) and put the domain just into the control/rcpthosts file on the other two and not into the control/locals file. The reason you cannot have a seamless uptime over three different servers spread across the US is because clients would somehow have to be able to connect to a server where the mail is stored. Unless you can figure out a way to get the mail servers to synchronize the queue over the 'net, you're out of luck. BTW, tell your MUA to wrap your messages at 72 characters, it quotes better then. ^ ^ -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
Re: Selective relaying problem
On 2001.07.27 10:54 Michele Schiavo wrote: > Help me i use Xinetd and I'm not to be able to set RELAY client. Ah! Gross! Abort! Abort! Seriously, run tcpserver, you will like it alot better. I actually do remember I had xinetd working on one of our nameservers at one time; but it took be a good five hours crawling through archives (many in German :-P) to figure it out. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
virtualdomains
My question is about virtualdomains file test.com:peter this puts the .qmail-alias files in /home/peter say I want all qmail alias files to be in /home/peter/qmail directory. Is this possible ? - Regards Nick Wildthing Communications ICQ# 64851373 -
virtualdomains
My question is about virtualdomains file test.com:peter this puts the .qmail-alias files in /home/peter say I want all qmail alias files to be in /home/peter/qmail directory. Is this possible ? - Regards Nick Wildthing Communications ICQ# 64851373 -
Re: Man Pages
Stephen Froehlich wrote: > > After doing a Life with Qmail installation, I'd like to add all of the > appropriate entries to the default MANPATH. Where is the default MANPATH > set, and what should I add besides /var/qmail/man? > > Thanks, > Stephen Froehlich You probably would have been better off making a symlink from /var/qmail/man to /usr/local/man before doing `make setup check` on the source; but you can add additional parameters to your MANPATH by either placing them in ~/.bashrc (for a single user) or /etc/profile (for all users). -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Alter bounce messages?
Amanda wrote: > > Who can tell me how to alter the bounce messages in the qmail-send file without >blowing > it up? I tried hexeditor, but I musta not done a very good job. > > In particular I'd like to terminate with extreme prejudice the message that says > something to the effect of, "Hi. This is the qmail program at tux.auntminnie.net. > > =) > Amanda A hex editor? I never got those things. Ummm . . . try looking at about line 733 of the qmail-send.c file. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily
Henning Brauer wrote: > Use of dig is depreciated (sp? me too...). Use dnsq/dnsqr instead ;-)) > sorry, couldn't resist. I wasn't aware of this. Everyone rants "DIG! USE DIG!" on the BIND mailing lists. Anyone point me to some good reading I can toast them all with? :-) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily
"Ricardo D. Albano" wrote: > > Hello, I've noticed that all mails sent from my qmail box to any email in > hotmail.com ends with the error "CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily" after 25 > minutes that qmail-remote is lunched. (yes!, qmail-remote sleeps 25 minutes > before log the error). > > I do a nslookup from the qmail box and I resolve this : > Use of nslookup is deprecated . Use dig instead: $ dig +notcp hotmail.com. -t MX ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0a2 <<>> hotmail.com. -t MX ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64354 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 12, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 7 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;hotmail.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: hotmail.com.151 IN MX 10 mc1.law13.hotmail.com. [bla bla bla] ;; Query time: 4 msec ;; SERVER: 209.172.0.5#53(209.172.0.5) ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 21 21:55:56 2001 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 491 > I think is a problem with the bug "oversize DNS", but i'm not shure. Possibly. I get a MSG SIZE of 491 on this UDP query. When I do a TCP query, on the other hand, I get: $ dig +tcp hotmail.com. -t M [bla bla bla] ;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 209.172.0.5#53(209.172.0.5) ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 21 22:06:43 2001 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 651 Not being familiar enough with DNS protocols or qmail's inner DNS workings, all I can really say is that it works fine for me; but I have the big-dns patch applied. > Any here has the same problem with hotmail.com ? > > Bye. > RDA.- -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: smtp auth failures
Jost Krieger wrote: > > Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to > > support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our > > own web-based e-mailing service. You might try that: promoting a > > web-based e-mail service they can access FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! That > > always makes them giddy. :-) > > And which of these is the non-broken MUA? > > SCNR > > Jost Well, Outlook Express seems to behave pretty well in any circumstance (I've never had a problem with it). Messenger works alright as long as you don't make any changes to the Maildir it doesn't know about (seems as though it saves a "popstate" file which isn't very intuitive). Probably your best solution is to simply provide your customers with the web-based MUA. I've heard alot of people ranting about SquirrelMail lately. Check it out at http://www.squirrelmail.org/ . This gives you A.) access the source code which you can directly customize to any quirks your systems might express; B.) access to an entire community of developers devoted to making their creation better; and, C.) PHP4 which is executed server-side and thus very stable. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
Re: smtp auth failures
joc wrote: >There it is. any wise thoughts here? > > Thanks > John Encourage your customers to use non-broken MUA. Our company refuses to support anything other than Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, and our own web-based e-mailing service. You might try that: promoting a web-based e-mail service they can access FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! That always makes them giddy. :-) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: spam/other custom bouncing
Mike Culbertson wrote: > 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 , please contact etc. > etc. ). This way, legitimate users on "banned" domains would have an > opportunity to notify us and get unbanned. > Mike Culbertson > sysadmin Hmmm . . . Check out a qmail homepage mirror, search for "autoresponder". Try them, see which one you like best. Use qmail's alias files to sort through by domain and feed blocked domains to the autoresponder using qmail's environment variables to generate a message. That feasible? I've never tried it. :-) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: ReiserFs and qmail
Paco Gracia wrote: > > I have done some research and I found a "Qmail and ReiserFS integration and > optimization HOWTO" in http://www.jedi.claranet.fr > > How accurate is the information on that web? > > Anything else to take care of? > > Thanks in advance > === > Paco Gracia Looks good to me. I can't offer any technical advice on the suggest settings for ReiserFS since I haven't had a chance to play with it yet; but he seems to know what he is talking about. :-) I highly recommend against applying the patch he has at the top of the Qmail Tuning section, though. That is very unethical e-mail practice. I am not sure about the recommendation to lower the conf-split, since, again, I am not in any way familiar with ReiserFS's operation. Generally you want a large split since filesystems perform better with many directories with a couple of files than a few directories with lots of files. My advice, test it for yourself; just make sure you are using a prime number for the split. I'm not sure on the statement that qmail is unreliable under Linux due to its assumptiopn that "link is a synchronous operation". I've never read anything about it. Anyone else? Like it says, I wouldn't use ReiserSMTP in a production environment. Lastly, common recommendations: if you are going to be running a big server, run your queue and Maildirs (run Maildirs, not Mailboxes) on a 15k RPM SCSI disk with a good controller. Don't be afraid to spend some cash, here. You will have a lot less headaches if/when one of your customers decides to start spamming from your server or your own server comes under siege from UBE. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Connection difficulties
I've also noticed these sypmtoms with Oversize DNS packets. there is a few patches that address this issue : http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#patches Nick - Original Message - From: Thomas Rokamp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:20 AM Subject: Connection difficulties Hi! I'm using Qmail with vpopmail as pop3-server, but most of the time when clients connect to the server, it takes like forever before they are allowed to check for mail. Both external and internal. Internally I thought I had solved it, by putting my local hosts into the /etc/hosts file, but it doesn't seem to work that well. It still takes too long time to connect. Most of the times the connection gets a timeout... Any suggestions? (and yes, I think I have been through the faq 3 times... no luck) Thanks in advance! Thomas Rokamp
Re: Spam Removal
Ruprecht Helms wrote: > > Hi, > >... > >I am considering screening out ALL .cn and .kr mailservers. Is there > >an easy way to do that? > > how about the badmailfrom-file. I think append/inserting .cn and .kr to/in > that file and all mails from that top-level domains will be rejected. > > Regards, > Ruprecht That will only help if .cn/.kr appears as the envelope sender. You're better of using tcpserver's rules file to block by domain address, assuming they don't have false DNS entries to hide their origin, in which case you would need to block by IP address. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
error
2001-06-18 12:38:27.274620500 delivery 22712: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/var/qmail/alias:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ 2001-06-18 12:38:27.274635500 status: local 0/10 remote 1/60 I checked the permission on the alias dir and the alias files. I don't understand where it's failing. anyone have any idea's? Thanks in advance ~Nick
Re: Spam Removal
Jeremy Suo-Anttila wrote: > > I keep getting sent SPAM from this company based in CA trying to sell me a > MasterDisc 2000 which i know is a scam i have followed all there procedures > to remove my domains from there lists and they went and actaully added them > and more to there lists so i ave been getting flooded with there crap mails. > I have faxed in removal requests, emailed them, phoned them and they still > will not remove my domains. Any suggestions on what i can do ? I would like > to setup some sort of spam removal but i would also if possible like to take > some sort of legal action. Ahh . . . if only we could sue them, think of the money to be had there. In all seriousness, just throw their mail server's IP address/block into your tcpservers' rules with a deny parameter. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: qmail Size Problem
Eugene Teo wrote: > > The thing is: whenever i start qmail, my /usr which qmail is occuping > keeps on growing. And when I stop qmail, it halts. It grows up to > the point it says no space left where in fact it has 2.2gb space. Next, > i did a du -s /usr and the space is not the same as reported df. It's > big difference. one is 500mb and the other is 4.5gb? > > Eugene Sounds like a permissions problem. What does `ls -ls ~qmailq/queue` look like? Here's mine: 4 drwx-- 2 qmails qmail4096 Jun 14 21:15 bounce/ 4 drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Apr 26 20:49 info/ 4 drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail4096 Jun 16 14:01 intd/ 4 drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Apr 26 20:49 local/ 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 26 20:49 lock/ 4 drwxr-x--- 25 qmailq qmail4096 Apr 26 20:49 mess/ 4 drwx-- 2 qmailq qmail4096 Jun 16 14:01 pid/ 4 drwx-- 25 qmails qmail4096 Apr 26 20:49 remote/ 4 drwxr-x--- 2 qmailq qmail 4096 Jun 16 14:01 todo/ -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: beginner of qmail - creating of users cdb database
Martin Kubecek wrote: > > Hi Penguins > > > When I run qmail-pw2u, it newer finish. So, it doesn´t create /users/assign > file. I am guessing that you are simply running `qmail-pw2u` here, which sits and waits for input. In actuality, qmail-pw2u is a filter, so you need to send your passwd file through it with the command: `cat /etc/passwd | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pw2u > /var/qmail/users/assign` > When I create /users/assign file manually (for example > =martin:martin:1001:0:/home/martin:::), then I run qmail-newu to create cdb > database, I receive following error message: qmail-newu: fatal: bad format > in users/assign Like Arjen said, you prolly didn't end it with a dot on the last line. > Could you tell me plese, what is wrong? > > Thank sou very much for answers BTW, for future reference, include the actual commands you are entering into your shell and we won't all have to guess at what you are doing wrong. =) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Relay IP address ranges - NEWBIE
"Technology Strategic Planning, Inc." wrote: > > OK, so both xinetd and tcpserver are running. I get the feeling that I > should pull xinetd out of the startup scripts. How will this effect apache > and other services (most epically bind)? > > I assume the two don't coexist well? (A logical push-me-pull-you?) > > I have two instances of tcp server, both called with the command: > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 502 -g 501 0 > smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smptd > > xinetd is also running (one process). > > The other services can go; (I'd like the ability to run a web server in a > pinch, however, the Mac can actually take care of that on an emergency basis > (which is all I want locally).), however I need DNS on the mail box for the > internal (NAT) DNS configuration. Just remove any e-mail related protocols from xinetd's conf files and send it a reload signal (SIGUSR1 if I remember correctly from my darker experiences with it). -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: POP/IMAP server - more NEWBIE
Stephen Froehlich wrote: > > OK, I'd like to also gather some opinions on how best to implement POP > and/or IMAP. > > Here are my requirements: > > In the immediate present, I just need to allow the local network to access. > In the near future, I'll need to allow encrypted remote access. (Encrypted > only.) I have a few, relatively trusted users. How would you go about > meeting those requirements? Run two copies of tcpserver under supervise (well, four if you want both POP and IMAP), one not encrypted and available to your local network as specified in tcpserver's rules files, and the other encrypted and available to anyone. You could also bind them to separate interfaces; but I also recommend using tcpserver in more or less of the same manner, it's considered quite secure. As far as what packages to run for the encryption, I wouldn't be of any explicit help there considering I haven't ever attempted at doing so myself. =) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: vscan
Tim Rainier wrote: > > Okay, here's a better look at the problems we're having: > the vscan daemon is running, but it just sits there and does nothing, until > I touch the lock files, and then off she goes. Doesn't make sense to me. > Why would a touch fix something like this? > > Tim Rainier > Manufacturing Systems Analyst > Kalsec Inc. What environment are youu running svscan in? What does the structure of the files it is active upon look like? -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Using mail.local to put the mail in /var/mail/
benl wrote: > @40003b2866de266761fc delivery 12: deferral: > mail.local:_/var/spool/mail/benl:_Permission_denied/ > > Here's the permissions on /var/spool/mail > > drwxrwxr-x2 root qmail4096 Jun 14 17:04 mail > > > Thanks, > Ben > Qmail Wannabe The user should own that Mailbox, not root. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Log Entry question
Drew Hawn wrote: > > In my log file (/var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd) I have files named similarly to: > > "@40003b26027a37dfa084.s" > > These files contain thousands of entries similar to : > > @40003b262932196daa9c tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already > used > > I don't know what this is and I've got 25MB of log files with these entries. > What do they mean? They mean what they say: qmail is unable to start the SMTP service because something else is already running (probably SMTP) on port 25. Find out is running there. Places to look include inetd.conf or xinetd.conf. Most likely you forgot to kill the copy of sendmail you have running on your system is this is your first attempt at starting qmail or you have an old tcpserver process running qmail on that port which was never killed correctly. Do `ps aux | grep [tcpserver/sendmail]`, respectively. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
Re: qmail-ldap
> Rohit Gupta wrote: > > where do i find qmail-ldap to download > can anyone give me a hint http://www.nrg4u.com/ -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: qpop3-d: connects but doesn´t gives OK
> Pablo Martín wrote: > > Help! We have a system running bruce´s patched qmail and AVP. It has 400 > > accounts. > It has been running ok for 2 months, but now sometimes pop-3d doesn´t > work. > I can telnet localhost 110, it greets me but it doesn´t says OK. > Sometimes I restart it with the supervise scripts and all returns to > normallity, but sometimes it needs a reboot. > Any ideas? > Thanks from Argentina Whenever I hear sporadic behavior like this, my first instinct is to blame hardware; but I'm a die-hard *NIX fan so it's not always the case. Anyways, I would recommend checking through your system for descrepencies. Usually what I do to check for this is grab the latest stable release of GCC and compile away (with `make -j [number of CPUs] bootstrap`). If I get any SegFaults or the like, I dig into the matter more using the checklist at http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/ . Do it late at night, though, and you won't have as many angry customers in the event you do manage to crash your system. It's tedious; but it works. =) -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: newbie question (it's an easy one i'm sure, but it's not in theFAQ)
David Talkington wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > John Wolford wrote: > > >qmail is running. > > Nope, not quite ... > > >If i check the ps listing, i see, in part: > >[root@homer init.d]# ps -ef |grep qmail > >root 29806 29805 1 Jun01 ?02:43:31 supervise qmail-pop3d > >root 29808 29805 0 Jun01 ?00:00:00 supervise qmail-send > >root 29810 29805 1 Jun01 ?02:55:05 supervise qmail-smtpd > > That means svscan knows about it, but hasn't been told to start it. > I don't know Thing One about the Mandrake rpm, so you may have an init > script which does this, but what you specifically need to do is this > (assuming here for the sake of argument that svscan uses /service as > its working directory): > > # svc -u /service/qmail-* > > Then your ps should tell a very different story. > > Good luck -d > > - -- > David Talkington > http://www.spotnet.org In the case that you do already have an instance of tcpserver running under your supervise (`pstree` command could be very helpful in determining that =) ) instance, you probably do not have the appropriate IP addresses allowed within tcpserver's rules. Usually this is placed in /etc/tcp.smtp and then built into a binary database which can be used by tcpserver; but if its not (and I am also unfamiliar with the structure used by these RPMs) you will have to find the script that supervise is attempting to execute and give it a glance over to determine the location of this file. -- Nick (Keith) Fish Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Double Bounce Help
Alastair Rundlett wrote: > > Thnx Charles > > So where I could find these patches you talking about? > > Why don't you use them ? > > >> There are patches to change this if you like, but I don't use them. > > I had over 200 msg's bounced to postmaster this over weekend to invalid > mailboxes. What happens when this reaches thousands ? surely not delete > postmaster msg's all day !! > > Alastair *chuckles* Our postmaster Mailboxes grow at a rate of about one gigabyte per month. Here's a nice anti-spam FAQ for qmail: http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: xinetd
Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Hi all. > > I had installed qmail and it's running ok. > All the examples says to add a line in /etc/inetd.conf to run > qmail-smtpd, but I don't know how to configure it in xinetd. > Where can I find an xinetd example and what is tcp-env for? > > --xgnu powered by vi editor > :%s/Micros~1/GNU\/Linux/g^M > :wq!^M Don't use xinetd. Use tcpserver instead. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Netscape Messenger Configuration
Lye On Siong Johnny wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how do I configure netscape to talk to my qmail/vpopmail > server? > I can retrieve mail. But I cannot get it to authenticate to send out mail... > > many Thanks. > > Johnny There is also a patch for qmail that will make it require authentication from Netscape/Outlook clients available on one of the qmail mirrors. Just search for "Netscape" (Hint: It's in the "Yet More Qmail Addons" section.) Also note that this will be in addition to the rules set for tcpserver. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Requires domain address
Harry Chahal wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am new to the list, first I get the following message . Any suggestions > please. Is to do with the Host name? > "Connected to 24.234.0.85 but my name was rejected. > Remote host said: 501 HELO requires domain address > I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long" What do you have in your controls/me file? > Second I am not able to connect to qmail server through outlook express, any > idea. POP3 or SMTP or IMAP or . . . ? > hc -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Setting up a second server..........
Constantine Koulis wrote: > > Hello all.. > I am a newbie general in linux and especially to qmail.I have another server > running sendmail and i want to move everything to a new mail server running > qmail but untill now is impossible.My network is : > > a gateway with 2 local ips : 192.168.1.30 > 192.168.0.3 >and a routable ip 217.10.200.134 > The 192.168.0.3 is connected with the second server which has the qmail. > My first question is that should i change this to a routable ip address.I > mean the 192.168.0.3 to be changed to 217.10.220... and also the ip from the > second so i will see them from the net? > Now as i said i have non-routable ips.I can use my pop3 server and IMAP > which is the courier by the way if i only put the ip 192.168.0.2 of the I thought the qmail host was 192.168.0.3? > second computer.Why?In linux i gave an IP ALIASES FOR VIRTUAL HOSTS but i > cant see the server from the net. Alright, as I understand it, you have a local network hooked up to a router hooked up the Internet. You want clients inside the network to be able to connect to the qmail server (192.168.0.3) on SMTP, POP3, and IMAP ports. You want people on the 'net to be able to connect only to SMTP to send messages to your internal net. Is this what you are trying to do? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: problem with local mailboxes
Kelly Shutt wrote:
>
> for those of you that were asking, i'm running slackware 7.1 and i've installed
> seems to me that the problem is the zero length files.
>
> thanks,
> Kelly
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using binmail to deliver messages to /var/spool/mail/$USER by default.
> # Using BSD 4.4 binmail interface: /usr/libexec/mail.local -r
>
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start \
> '|preline -f /usr/libexec/mail.local -r "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}" -d "$USER"' \
> splogger qmail
Are you sure you have a mail.local program in /usr/libexec? I'm running
Slack 7.1 same as you and the only one I see on my system is in
/opt/kde/bin. Do a `locate mail.local` and see what it turns up.
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: cleaning mailbox
Martín Marqués wrote: > > No, thats not what I want. It a mailbox! > I would need to trace the mailbox, slit the different mails and see the date > line to decide if it should be deleted. > But that is not so trivial. :-( > > Saludos... .-) Hmmm . . . switch to Maildir. You could prolly write a simple shell script (or a C program if you're feeling up to it) to accomplish this; but I cringe to think of how long it would take. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: how to make pine works with maildir
andi wrote: > > i try to make pine works with maildir.. > and i use freebsd4.1.1 release , pine4.31 > and pine-4.31-maildir.patch . > i get the error below when my machine compile the command > ./build bsf > > cc: ../c-client/c-client.a: No such file or directory > > andi hari Did you run the configure script before applying the patch? Is pine4.31/c-client a symlink to pine4.31/imap/c-client? If you answered yes to both of these questions, try getting the source code for pine4.33 and the pine-4.33-maildir.patch (I have a copy of it up at http://unix-web.triton.net/~ennui/pine-maildir-4.33 ) and re-attempting with this version. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: alias documentation
Neil Grant wrote: > > maybe this is a stupidly easy question but I cant find where do I find out > about the format of .alias files, and other documentation on them? > > Neil `man dot-qmail` or if you didn't put qmail's man files in one of your MANPATH directories: `man -M /var/qmail/man dot-qmail` -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Case in email address
Matt Simonsen wrote: > > For additional information, I have read the man page for addresses. *SLAP* I > should have done this first, sorry. > > It says that case does matter in Qmail (as most of you know probably), yet > when I pipe mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both get > delivered to my real account, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I missing? By > default is case sensitivity disabled for interoperability? I get the > impression that case does matter, yet I can't get it to fail. > > Thanks- > > Matt Ahhh . . . nope, qmail ignores case in both the instance of domains and users except when . Read the section of whatever documentation you read on aliases. It should prattle on about mailer-daemon being equal to MAILER-DAEMON. That man page I had you read was just a recommendation on what you should do; but since a lot of people don't do that, qmail attempts to make up for their mistakes. =) -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: tcpserver blues
Chris Ochap wrote:
> start() {
> # Start daemons.
> echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
> daemon /var/qmail/rc
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u
> 51 -g 50 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> RETVAL=$?
> [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
> echo
> return $RETVAL
> }
Try adding "2>&1" to the end of the tcpserver line, so:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 51 -g 50 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
This should cause qmail-smtpd to run in the background instead of directly on
whatever tty you are attached to. To test rather it is running or not, tail it
the log file it outputs while telnetting into port 25 of your machine.
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: timeout downloading mail while connecting to the server using dial-up
Christian DRESSEND wrote: > The problem is not whn looking for the server or for the messages, but > during download. It stops responding in the middle of messages in case of > large messages >100kbyte using dial-up, when the connection speed is low > (MODEM) so the downloads last longer. > > Christian Ahh . .. I don't know about everyone else here; but I have never gotten big messages do download or upload via e-mail on a dial-up connection. I always assumed that the speed of the type of transfer used by POP1 (ASCII?) degraded over time. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Strange behavior in outgoing mail
>Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Except that it's actually a lowercase letter L. Actually, it is a one. :) >Are you using tcpserver for qmail-smtpd? If so, show us your rules file. >You may be setting the RELAYCLIENT environment variable to "1" or "l" >accidentally, for the IP address(es) you're testing from at least. Ahhh!!! That's it. Thanks. I was troubleshooting relay earlier, and like an idiot forgot that I'd changed RELAYCLIENT. I'd thought of that variable as a flag, and had no idea it was used to build relayed outgoing addresses. Much appreciated. Thanks for the tip about qmail-showctl as well... _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Strange behavior in outgoing mail
Greetings. I just did an install of qmail 1.03 following the instructions from Life With Qmail using all his recommended defaults, not using any patches or additional modules. I'm seeing a really strange problem that I'm sure must have a simple cause, but can't figure it out... Whenever outgoing mail is sent (relayed) through qmail, the number 1 is appended to the end of the recipient domain name at some point during the delivery, which of course causes it to bounce. I can telnet in to myserver.com:25 and give "rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and a few moments later a bounce message will go to the sender address saying that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" does not exist. That "1" at the end there is NOT a typo. If I examine the logs of the transaction, I see this: starting delivery 1: msg to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] So at some point betweent the client handing off the message to my Qmail install (or me typing it in myself) and when Qmail goes to deliver it, a "1" is tacked on. Note however that it sends bounces fine... the sender address is not garbled and the sender gets a bounce informing it of the invalid domain. Any help would be much appreciated. If more information would help, let me know and I'll dig it up. Thanks. -Nick _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: The Golden Monkey Has Arrived!! (OT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Friends & Future Millionaire: > ... more spam *chuckles* Off topic; but isn't it ironic that this guy decided to send spam to a list of e-mail admins? I know I'll be tracking him down and reporting it. -- Keith <-- still fighting in the holy war on spam Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Qmail internal domain routing?
Iain Morrison wrote: > > I was thinking that by assigning sub domains to the e.g. office1.domain.com > etc... This would enable this to happen via DNS MX records. I would propose > to have one system as the server that sends & receives all mail from the > internet acting as a gateway for our internal network, scanning for viruses > using qmail-scanner and mapping email for the few real e-mail address to > their internal ones. But I am not sure how to limit only certain users to > send mail outside whilst allowing unlimited e-mail internally i.e. across > our WAN! > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Iain Morrison How about settting tcpserver to set the RELAYLCLIENT="" variable only for IP addresses of the users that need to relay out to the net and having it not set that variable for those that don't? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: "an alias can never override a valid user's deliveries" ???
Adam Andrzej Jaworski wrote: > > for aliases I am using fastforward with /etc/aliases.cdb > and have problem with above rule when there exists aliases > with the same name in different domains _and_ if exists > real user with that name, say we have user "john" but > want have also aliases [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. for others, pointed to different real users, > and because of that rule all messages sent > to these aliases goes to one Maildir of user "john" however he has > his own domain and alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, how to override this? > > thanks for any help > > --Adam We alias all of our mail for our server with the domain first: (excerpt from /var/qmail/users/assign): =triton-net-ennui:virtual:1008:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/triton-net/ennui::: ... =1-800-all-cruises-com-info:virtual:1008:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/1-800-all-cruises-com/info::: (excerpt from /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains) triton.net:triton-net mail.triton.net:triton-net ... 1-800-all-cruises.com:1-800-all-cruises-com Is this not a viable option for you? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: clustering
Brett wrote: > > The search engine always says it's > broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there > somewhere. Thanks in advance. I always use this search engine for the archives: http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/ Make sure you are typing in queuries as just single words and not any +"bla" or boolean operations. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Fw: supervise scripts error
Carl Jeptha wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Carl Jeptha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:25 PM > Subject: superscripts error > > > Hi, > > Thanks for your help. But I cannot rebuild the supervise scripts. It ends > > with an error - cannot find the command: Patch. > > > > Could you please assist? Thank you. > > > > You have a good day now > > > > Carl A Jeptha > > Umm . . my guess is that this particular install of Linux doesn't have the patch binary installed. You can find the source for it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/patch/ -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Pine for Maildir
tc lewis wrote: > > i use that same patch for pine 4.33. it appears to work much better than > whatever i was using before. something with pine 4.10 i think. > > in pine's config i simply set inbox-path to the string: $MAIL > /etc/profile.d/qmail.sh exists to set $MAIL (and $MAILDROP) properly. > that profile file came with Bruce Guenter's qmail rpms > (http://em.ca/~bruceg/qmail+patches/). typically $MAIL would look like: > /home/user/Maildir/ (with the trailing slash). *chuckles* Sure enough, that worked. It even moves read messages from ~/Maildir/new to ~/Maildir/cur. Ah well. A little more info on this (for the archives if not for anyone presently dealing with it): - My $MAIL environment variable is not set because I did not use those particular RPMs for the install. To set it for your users, check out /etc/profile (just set the line with MAIL="/some/path/here" to MAIL="/home/$USER/Maildir"). NOTE: Apparently, you must set inbox-path as an absolute path (which means you can't set it to ~/Maildir because pine doesn't seem to recognize ~/ as /home/$USER/). This, obviously, will make root's Maildir inaccessible on 99% of Linux systems, to solve this, either make a symlink from /home/root to /root (or whatever root's home directory is) or make a /root/.pinerc file with the line inbox-path=/root/Maildir - You can set inbox-path for pine globally by editing /etc/pine.conf or you can force your users to use that inbox-path by editing /etc/pine.conf.fixed > i've never used pine with imap, so i'm not sure how that works. Well, I've been devoting a couple of hours to understanding courier-imap in all of its intracacies and I'd say that your method is loads simpler yet just as reliable. > -tcl. By the way, for those of you trying to obtain a copy of the file pine-maildir-4.33 to patch pine with, I realize Larrson's site is down so I have an alternate copy up at http://unix-web.triton.net/~ennui/pine-maildir-4.33 To apply the patch, just copy the file into the directory you extracted pine into and do `patch -p1 < pine-maildir-4.33' -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Pine for Maildir
Stefan Laudat wrote: > > there are patches for pine Maildir access, please rtfm at www.qmail.org > I've tested that and worked a couple of months ago. I am working on this issue right now. What it's boiled down to has been my installing the courier-imap package with the intent of having Pine access that. I've patched pine's source code with Mattias Larsson's pine-maildir-4.33 patch; but couldn't figure out how to configure Pine to access the Maildirs (namely due to lack of documentation on Larsson's patch, and his site seems to be down as well). I would be interested to hear of the patch you used and the configuration adjustments you made to Pine. By the way, I must say that I do not care for mutt. The interface is rather dirty (I don't mean its aesthetics) and the configuration rather cryptic. Maybe I just didn't devote enough time to it? Anyways, it's not a viable option. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: User Interface for Autoresponder
Bill Luckett wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just started using Bruce Guenter's autoresponder but I was wondering > if anyone had written a user interface for it. I'd like my users to be able > to set their own responses when they want it without bugging me but I don't > want them creating files on the mailserver--God forbid! > > I have some ideas (like an address they can send their request to and the > program sends them back a confrimation request ala ezmlm then once > confirmed, it sets up the files) and believe I could do it myself but hate > to re-invent the wheel... > > Anybody done this already and feel like sharing? Well, we haven't done it yet, but we are going to write a PHP page that will interface with a MySQL database to determine rather or not the user wishes to have an autoresponder message set in place based upon an entry in another field of the database. I'll be sure to post it when we get around to it, though. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Another newsletter question..
Peter van Dijk wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:24:54PM -0400, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote: > [snip] > > Sure. You could even run an entirely separate copy of qmail processes > > that interfaces with the same queue when you send out the newsletter. > > What do you mean by 'the same queue'? > > Greetz, Peter. I meant that it would interface with the same queue directory (and therefore messages) as the original qmail program. Does this not seem feasible? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Problem forwarding/keeping copies with .qmail
- Original Message - From: Rafael Angarita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The .qmail file looks like this (and the permissions are 644): > > /qspool/mydomain/n_s5/e6/raadvip/Maildir/ > &user2@otherdomain > > Any suggestions? > > BTW, I'm using qmailldap. Try: | forward user2@otherdomain on the second line. - Keith
Re: Some mail is getting to qmail, some others aren't
Steve Quezadas wrote: > > I have a weird problem. 90% of the people can email me fine to my qmail > > D:\>nslookup -q=mx pcrush.com > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.3: Non-existent domain > *** Can't find server name for address 206.111.47.4: Non-existent domain > *** Default servers are not available > Server: UnKnown > Address: 206.111.47.3 > > Non-authoritative answer: > pcrush.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = 63.204.40.234 > > pcrush.com nameserver = dns-1.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns4.tricreations.com > pcrush.com nameserver = ns5.tricreations.com > dns-1.tricreations.com internet address = 216.205.16.110 > > Is this a problem with the DNS server or is this a problem with qmail? > > - Steve Looks to be DNS. I'd recommend refreshing the domain on all of the aforementioned servers (make sure to get MX right) and throw in the reverse entries as well. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Qmail stoppages
Stewart Vardaman wrote: > > Really strange problem - qmail starts and runs fine, sending out our weekly > ... > stop. Don't see anything strange on the system logs either. Any ideas? Sounds like bad hardware to me. Possibly a bad spot on the RAM? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Another newsletter question..
John P wrote: > > Hi All > > I've been looking into the best way to send the occasional one-off > newsletter to 50-60,000 customers. > > Two questions: > - For max. delivery speed, can I just up the concurrency-remote to, say, 400 > (applying patch) - do I need to do anything else (Linux RedHat 7) eg. to do > with process limits etc? Sure. You could even run an entirely separate copy of qmail processes that interfaces with the same queue when you send out the newsletter. > - I need to track bounces, fails etc. is the best thing to call qmail-remote > directly, for each email, and then if it fails mark it in the database or > pass it to qmail-inject (if temporary)? Also I'm running qmail-scanner, so I > need to disable this for each e-mail. Could I potentially outweigh any speed > benefit by having to use MySQL update queries or by the fact I'm using PHP? You could probably alias anything that comes back to the MAILER-DAEMON user during the time you are sending out the newsletter to be passed through a program or script which would look at the ## line and see if the subject matches the newsletter's subject, and, if it does, pass off the user name to either a PHP function or otherwise marking the user as bouncing in the database. As far as using PHP, you might do better with a shell script; but my knowledge of PHP's speed limitations is nonexistant. > note: I would like to keep it in PHP as it's what i know ;) > > Cheers > John -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: as fast as possible
hantunes wrote: > > hi > is there a way to bypass the queue? > > i just want recive and validate emails using spam-control patch and then send it to >antivirus running > on localhost:port that then sends the emails to internal macines connected to big >fibre storage systemis. > > i am searching for 100 msgs second average using dual pIII system > i have put it to work on linux OS but qmail gets al the chrge and starts queueing > i know the internal machines are always there in fact there are a lot off machines >wating for this trafic but not qmails .. > > Any ideias > any help > > Thanks > hantunes Qmail is entirely based upon the queue system of messaging so I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to attempt to bypass that. Your other options here are: A.) Run another copy of qmail; or B.) Run qmail on a separate machine entirely dedicated to this operation. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: qmail-autoreponder-0.93
Sean Reifschneider wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:52:11PM -0300, Jairo Marciano Silva wrote: > >Im trying to install qmail-autoreponder-0.93 but when i run the "make" > >command I got the following error: > > > >qmail-autoresponder.c:4: getopt.h: No such file or directory > > You need to install the development headers -- on my Redhat/KRUD 7.0 box it > tells me that getopt.h is in the glibc-devel package. > > Sean Did you install the glibc-devel package? You might try just copying it into the directory you are trying to make qmail-autoresponder in. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: IMAP Server Problem
Anselmo Daniel Adams wrote: > > Hi, > > I use imap-4.7 on my server. Sometimes the server gives to me wrong > arrival dates for all messages. Anyone can help me? > > Anselmo Daniel Adams This is usually caused by system times set wrong on computers somewhere along the route of the e-mail. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Qmail attack
Renato wrote: > > Well, naturally somebody can connect to port 25 and send this mail with > these headers. But the attacker used a script and sent the same message > thousands of time !!! My queue grow to more than 10.000 messages in > minutes !! > > What can I do to avoid this type of attack ? > > Thanks > Renato - Brazil. Are you using inetd or xinetd? tcpwrapper or ucspi-tcp? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc. 1-800-837-4253
Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue
Peter van Dijk wrote: > > qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group > this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions > on the binary are relevant indeed. > > Greetz, Peter. Odd. Why do I have a set-root-bit on my qmail-queue binary with an owner of qmailq, then? I understand that it runs as user qmailq; but it runs with root's permissions, correct? I have not modified it from the installation put in place by the tarball. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Delivered Messages staying in queue
Bill Crowley wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that delivered messages as staying in the queue. 7 days later queue > mail is giving up "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the > queue too long." > > I know that 99% of these messages have been delivered successfully so I am > not sure why they are not purging from the queue. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > B Lemme think here. If I'm not mistaken, the user that modifies the queue is qmailq who owns the qmail-queue program. Now, on my installation of qmail (and so I assume everyone elses) the qmail-queue program's permissions are: -rws--x--x . So, bascially, the qmail-queue program executes as root to modify the queue, therefore, permissions on the queue directory shouldn't matter. What group is your qmailq user in? What is his home directory? What are the permissions on your qmail-queue binary? and what does your run file for qmail look like? My best guess (if you hadn't deduced here) at this point is that the permissions aren't right somewhere for the qmail system to make the necessary changes the the queue; but there are a plethora of other possibilities. =) -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: forward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi, > but isn't it possible to do it like in sendmail in the mailertable? > > if you take the smtproutes of qmail it is nearly the same than the > mailertable of sendmail but you cannot add a line like this > domain.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .is this true? > > i don't want that the server will act as a popserver and then forward > it. i want the smtp to forward directly. > > cu ycae > > Yves Caetano > Server Support Engineer I don't understand your meaning here. If, by your statement, you mean that you think your qmail server is using pop3 protocol to receive messages from a particular domain, you are mistaken. Servers never act as pop3 servers unless people are retrieving mail from their inbox via the pop3 protocol. The rest of the time, one server will initiate a SMTP connection with another. As far as simply setting the route up like that in your smtproutes file, it cannot be done. smtproutes only accepts hosts, never users. Use the alias method and your mail should route smoothly. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Qmail + pop3d
Bill Andersen wrote: > > I read the docs and found the nice little wrappers for "elq","pinq" and > "qail", > but I always get the following error when it calls the maildir2mbox > command... > > maildir2mbox: fatal: unable to move /home/bill/Mailtmp to > /var/spool/mail/bill: > cross-device link > > I'm a Linux newbie, so I just went to POP3 from my PC in order to get my > mail. > However, I would really like to run pine. (I did get Mutt working with > maildir, > so I'me not completely locked to my PC!!! Thank goodness) > > I'm sure it's obvious what I have wrong to someone who knows *nix... > > Help anyone? > > Bill Well, are those directories on separate devices (i.e. two different hard drives)? If so (and this is judging from the error message), that's probably your problem. Try copying the Maildir over to the var directory somewhere and then run the maildir2mbox command. BTW, if I was you, I would just stick with mutt and Maildir. Maildir is by far the best format for storing e-mail to date and mutt is an excellent and featureful MUA, although syntax can be a bitch. My second recommendation would be to download the patch to make Pine work with Maildir. What you're trying to do, I would call a distant third. Power to ya, though. --- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: qmail queue
> -Original Message- > From: Sumith > To: Qmail > Sent: 3/22/01 11:03 PM > Subject: qmail queue > How can I know how many concurrent qmail deliveries are taking place on > my qmail server, both qmail-local and qmail-remote > > Regards > Sumith Call me old fashioned, but when I want to see what my qmail server is doing I just do a: ps auxw | grep qmail or, if I just want to see outbound mail from external users: ps auxw | grep qmail-remote `qmail-qstat` is also a somewhat useful command to get a general idea on your mail server's current load. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: hey with Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
Dixon Canario wrote: > > Dear all, > > My qmail server works without any problem yesterday. But > Today, I found > my qmail server can't work anymore. This including all > email accounts > and all virtual domains, even I can't log into qmailadmin > The return message saying something like : > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at xx.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. > > : > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > > Can any one guide me to the right direction and tell me how > can I fix the problem? > > Thanks in advanced. > > Regards, > Dixon What rc file do you use to initialize qmail and what does it look like? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: qmail install troubles
on 3/21/01 9:39 AM, Dave Sill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He said he's following the HOWTO, which logs to /var/log/qmail using > multilog. Wow! You're right. Looks like I should have done 'ls /var/log' instead of 'rgrep qmail /var/log/*'. ;-) >>> Then I stumbled across the fact that I needed .qmail files in the home >>> directories of users that intended to get mail, so I added those. > > No, you don't need .qmail unless you want to override the system > default delivery method. All right. If I don't need .qmail files in users' directories, why is it that mail wasn't being delivered without them? >> I think thats wrong. The .qmail-files have to be placed under >> /var/qmail/alias. The must be named like .qmail-user for example > > No, these are real users, not aliases. OK, thanks for clearing that up -- I've already got some aliases in that dir (e.g. .qmail-postmaster). >>> *) I started qmail with qmail-start after shutting down svscan. (I tried to >>> start svscan after that, >> >> The qmailscanner have a bug. > > This has nothing whatsoever to do with qmail-scanner. Good. But how do I shut it down? (See my original message.) > -Dave Maybe what Shirish said is true: "If you follow LWQ steps you probably wouldn't have any problem." :-) Truth be told, I was going to use LWQ, but I didn't remember its name, and I found the qmail HOWTO first. *sigh* -- Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail install troubles
Hello, all. I have been trying to install qmail on a RedHat 6.2 box, but it doesn't quite work, and the documentation, FAQs and HOWTOs haven't cleared things up. I was using the qmail HOWTO to guide my installation. <http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html> Everything went fine, no errors. I chose Maildir over mbox. Then I got to step 11. While starting /etc/rc.d/init.d/svscan (where I put the script) did start all the qmail processes there were still two problems: 1. echo to: username | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject did nothing. 2. there was nothing in /var/log/maillog (the mail log specified in /etc/syslog.conf) Then I stumbled across the fact that I needed .qmail files in the home directories of users that intended to get mail, so I added those. They are properly chowned and each contains only "./Maildir/". I also tried a suggestion that I found in the archives of this list: I added /var/qmail/bin to my path, and I executed 'qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail &'. Now #1 above works just fine, and username receives the mail in ~username/Maildir/new/. However, I still don't have any messages at all about qmail in maillog (startup, mail sent, nothing), or in the rest of /var/log/* for that matter. A couple of other things: *) LWQ, in step 2.8.5, mentions that I should use '/usr/local/sbin/qmail start' to start qmail. But I don't have anything named qmail in /usr/local/sbin/. Is this something one would use instead of services? *) I started qmail with qmail-start after shutting down svscan. (I tried to start svscan after that, but all I got was an error in maillog -- the only thing printed in that file.) Before, I could stop the bevy of qmail processes by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/svscan stop'. However, there is no qmail-stop. How do I stop the processes properly? And if I'm not going to be using svscan, how should I set up qmail to start at boot time? Just a script w/ 'qmail-start' et al in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ with a corresponding link in rc3.d? Thanks for any suggestions you can provide! -- Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Autoresponder help!!
To put it in the words of a very happy person. WOO HOOO!! You were partially right. What I had to do was keep: | /usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick-vacation-message |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ as one entire line and then add: | /usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick-vacation-message |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ /home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/Maildir/ Boom, that's all it took! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Nick Papageorge At 01:33 PM 3/20/2001 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: >Nick Papageorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well, I'm having massive problems actually getting it working. >> >> I've tried creating a .qmail-nick:papageorge file and placing the >> following line: >> >> | /usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 >/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick-vacation-message >/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ > >I'm not sure which autoresponder you're using, or what arguments it takes. >But with qmail, if you create a .qmail file to deliver to a script, you have >to remember to add another line for deliveyr to a Maildir or mbox if the >script itself doesn't save the message for you. > >In this case, you might want the .qmail-nick:papageorge file to contain: >| /usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 >/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick-vacation-message >/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ > >i.e., one line to deliver to the autoresponder program, and a separate line >delivering into the appropriate Maildir. > >Charles >-- >--- >Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ >Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. >---
Autoresponder help!!
Hi all, I'm dealing with a bit of an issue here. Forgive me if I don't use the proper verbiage, I'm just starting out. We have qmail installed, I gather that the set-up is pretty standard. We have specific domains and within those folders, there are sub-folders for each user's email address. Mine is: /home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ We also have a great deal of aliases, which in turn point to our specific and personal mail directories. For example .qmail-nick has the following line in it: /home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/Maildir/ Again, forgive me if I'm giving redundant information. Anyway, my problem is that I need to do is set up an autoresponder that will do the following when an email is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Respond with a message created by yours truly - Drop the email into my maildir - Allow me to check my email and see the message in my inbox. This seems simple enough, right? Well, I'm having massive problems actually getting it working. I've tried creating a .qmail-nick:papageorge file and placing the following line: | /usr/local/bin/autorespond 1 5 |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick-vacation-message |/home/vpopmail/domains/marketingtips.com/nick.papageorge/ AND I've even tried the same with adding: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've also tried using the web interface to create an autoresponder, which creates a NICK.PAPAGEORGE/ directory and, guess what, it doesn't work.. I'm banging my head against a wall, and I need to get an autoresponder up and working for the owner of our company (see the importance and dire need to get this working?). Any help will be overwhelmingly appreciated. Nick Papageorge
Re: Alias not forwading to .qmail-foo-default
"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > Try .qmail-15dmziMUy-default instead. > > It doesn't work, regardless of whether I put it in ~alias or $HOME. I > still get "no mailbox." > > It works fine if I forward to a real user. The point is that I want to > forward it to another dot-qmail extension. > > -- > Todd A. Jacobs > CodeGnome Consulting, LTD Are your other aliases working properly (ie. root, postmaster, mailer-daemon, etc.)? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: virtual users without virtual domains?
"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > I realize this may sound like a silly question, but I'm trying to wrap my > head around the whole virtual users facility, and am trying to understand > whether I can set up virtual users without also setting up virtual > domains. > > In my current setup, all account are real users delivered to > codegnome.org. I'm also interested in setting up virtual users (i.e. users > without a login account) that are still part of the same domain as the > real users (e.g. codegnome.org). Is this possible, and if so, can the > virtual users and real users all get their pop mail from the same pop > daemon? > > -- > Todd A. Jacobs > CodeGnome Consulting, LTD You most certainly can. The question here is how to authenticate both users using the same pop server. To do that, just make a unique user and group for your virtual users. Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/checklocalpwd/ for a version of checkpassword that can authenticate in this manner. I also recommend setting up all of your real users on the same interface as your virtual users and then symbolically linking the mail directory to which the virtual account would normally point to the real user's mail directories. Keep inherent permissions in mind here or you'll have a big security hazard. If you can't find a secure way of doing that, you can always just write a shell script which will update the real users' e-mail directories off from their virtual accounts and either make it a command or throw it in your crontab. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Why does POP3 log "inetd ... exit status 1"
Milivoj Ivkovic wrote: > >Changing "pop3" to "pop-3" breaks it as well, with another error I don't > >understand: > > Mar 7 14:41:36 net1 inetd[418]: pop-3/tcp: bind: Address already in use > > > >The system is a redhat 6.2, in case it matters. Hmmm . . . tricky. Thinking back on my experience with RedHat (which, by the way, I must say I very much dislike. My rule of thumb: run Slackware on anything less than a P3, Mandrake on anything greater, and TurboLinux if you want to have fun. =) ) You are right trying to use pop-3 instead of pop3 (thanks to Red Hat's seeming ability to aim towards non-standards); but I wonder what is running there that the address is already in use for? Do these: cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep pop and cat /etc/services | grep pop and post the results. We'll go from there. > >Thank you, > > > >Milivoj > > BTW, you are telling inetd to re-read it's conf file with a SIGHUP after making changes, aren't you? -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: system-aliases not found
Eric Pretorious wrote:
>
> I've created the system-aliases (/var/qmail/alias/):
>
> -re-r--r-- 1 root root .qmail-root
> -re-r--r-- 1 root root .qmail-postmaster
> -re-r--r-- 1 root root .qmail-MAILER-DAEMON
>
> Each has the same contenets: the username 'eric' but qmail doesn't forward
> the messages to the $HOME/Mailbox in /home/eric.
>
> /var/log/maillog has the error message "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here... (#5.1.1)"
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Eric P.
> Los Gatos, CA
Well, a few of you got the correct answer; but I'm afraid you have to be
more specific:
Eric, just add these lines to your /var/qmail/users/assign file:
=alias:alias:1002:102:/var/qmail/alias:::
+alias-:alias:1002:102:/var/qmail/alias:-::
and make sure you end the assign file with a line that just has a dot on
it and there is no other line in the file with just a dot.
To process this new assign file, do:
qmail-newu
and you should be all set to go.
BTW, just keep those alias files as the username you're trying to
forward to ('eric') to reduce overhead resouce usage.
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: HELP SMTP problem
vikas sinha wrote: > > I just installed qmail1.03-i386.rpm on my RedHat6.0(kernel 2.2.9) > It seems SMTP is not working properly. When I try to send e-mail by pine. > It complained "SMTP greeting failure: 421 SMTP connection went away". I believe Pine uses sendmail for it's MTA interface. I'm not sure whether your RPM file replaced the default sendmail program in place or not, so you should double-check that this is so. Just move the current sendmail program (either in /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail or else try `locate sendmail`) to a backup file and then make a symbolic link from that location to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail (adjust according to where you installed qmail) by doing: ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail [location where you found sendmail such as `/usr/sbin/sendmail`] > IF I try to telnet localhost 25, here is the response > telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. I'm going to assume you're using tcpd here. First of all, make sure you have this line (all one one line) in your /etc/inetd.conf file: smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild [location of tcpd such as /usr/sbin/tcpd, again, if you're not sure: `locate tcpd`] /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and that you have the following in your /etc/hosts.allow file: tcp-env: 127.0.0.1: setenv = RELAYCLIENT tcp-env: (any other IP addresses you want to be able to relay) : setenv = RELAYCLIENT then send tcpd (inetd) a SIGHUP signal: ps auxw | grep inetd kill -SIGHUP [proccess number of inetd] > When i Checked the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd status > it showed > 220 hostname ESMTP > 502 unimplemenetd (#5.5.1) Doesn't look like you setup your control files, either, which isn't a big deal; but it's always nice: echo -n [your domain name/IP address here] > /var/qmail/control/me echo -n localhost > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts echo -n postmaster > /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto Judging by these problems you're having, I might guess that you didn't read much of any manual on qmail. Try reading Life with Qmail (http://www.lifewithqmail.org/), it's a world of help. -- Keith Network Engineer Triton Technologies, Inc.
Re: Qmail on FreebSD 4.2-STABLE
Now, if I had a $1 every time I have heard that one, then i'd be rich enough to hire someone to set it up for you. :) Regards Nick - Original Message - From: Bruce Dang To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:27 PM Subject: RE: Qmail on FreebSD 4.2-STABLE Thanks everyone for helping out...I think it is going to work now :>... Regards, Bruce
re : user Masq
Ok someone in English please. Where do i set in environment. ? what file I'm lost 1.2. How do I set up user masquerading? I'd like my own From lines to show [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Answer: Add MAILHOST=af.mil and MAILUSER=boss to your environment. To override From lines supplied by your MUA, add QMAILINJECT=f to your environment. Regards Nick
Site down?
It seems that http://cr.yp.to site is down. Anyone knows where I can download qmail, uscpi-tcp and daemontools from? Thanks Nick
Secondary Mail Server
Hi, Can someone help me understand secondary mail servers? What do i do to configure qmail to be a secondary server. I understand the DNS stuff (server preference and stuff) and i have a two qmail servers (one configured and working as a primary mail server for a domain. Thanks. Nick. -- Nick Davies
Syslog
Hi,
I'm running qmail on two machines (one slack 7.0 and one rh 6). They
are both setup identically buy on the rh machine qmail's status doesn't
goto messages. How do i get it to?
Thanks.
Nick
--
Nick Davies
Technical Director
Magnitude Ltd
www.magnitude.co.uk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP
Can qmail be used on a office server without a permanent connection? To pull mail say every hour.. Thanks. Nick -- Nick Davies
Test, please disregard
@HOME e-mail system went down few days ago and e-mail from this list just stopped flowing in. Now they are back up but still nothing Nick
Virtual domains
Help :) I've been trying to get virtualdomains working, but whenever i put a virtualdomains file in control qmail refuses to start up. I don't get any errors or anything, it just doesn't show in ps. It all works fine without a virtualdomains file. Any ideas? Thanks. Nick -- Nick Davies Technical Director Magnitude www.magnitude.co.uk t : 01423 529 700
Re: Mass virtual hosting with qmail
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, clemensF wrote: > > Nick Kew: > > > deal with it). I don't want to have to add anything to rcpthosts > > (or morercpthosts), locals or virtualdomains for every domain. > > you don't? but then people might try to use your setup to base spamming > on. That had occurred to me. However, I'm only planning to match rcpthosts that conform to a specific pattern ( valet.* ), which considerably reduces the potential usefulness to a spammer (or am I missing something)? If there is a problem I can incorporate an automatic DNS-based check. -- Nick Kew
forwars. pop accounts dissappearing!!! help me..
OK.. i have a mail server running qmail 1.03 vpopmail qmailadmin and sqwebmail this 1 user had some problems with his account on a virtualdomain. when i created it i set is up as a forward. to forward this mail. i also already had about 12 other forwards setup on this virtualdomain. those all work fine but this one user does not. i recreated it over and over (yes the correct .qmail files are being made by qmailadmin in the virtual-domain dir) and if i send e-mail to this address it vanishes (no errors in maillog) but all the other foewards work great i added another forward to test it with a different account name and it works.. so then i said screw it and made it a POP account on this virtualdomian same thing.. all outide mail vanishes.. all internal mail works.. yet a new different pop account works fine 100% so its this one prefix "user"@domain.com that seems to be throwing the external mail away.. can anyone help me get this figured out? i dont understand what is happening.. its like there is something hiding somewhere saying "delete all e-mail to ever be delivered to this address" i doubt that is the case. thanks alot Refards ~NIck
Mass virtual hosting with qmail
I'm looking for a mass-virtual-hosting patch for qmail: (1) Has anyone written such a thing? (2) If not, does anyone else think it would be useful for me to write one? In more detail, my requirement is for mass hosting at valet.webthing.com (see http://valet.webthing.com/ for a preview). I propose to offer a co-branding scheme, under which resellers set up valet.some-domain.com as a CNAME for my server, and offer the Site Valet service at their own domain. Hence I want qmail to accept mail for users @valet.[anything] and deliver deliver locally to valet-hostname-username (where my own program will deal with it). I don't want to have to add anything to rcpthosts (or morercpthosts), locals or virtualdomains for every domain. -- Nick Kew
Test message. Please disregard
Test only
i-love-you-letter - Claus Farber.
Can we make it so the list wont accept his messages? i have gotten 4 i-love-you-letter.vbs atachments from this guy "Claus Farber" and im sure hes posting them to the whole list Thanks ~Nick
ETRN
Hello, we are having problems getting Exchange to work with our qmail etrn setup. Seems that exchange reads the headers, and not from the TO field. The customer logs in, sends the trigger, and DOES recieve all the mail, but the exchange server is denying it because of unknown reciepient. (the user where ALL the mail for that domain goes to be picked up must bebeing used.) On another note, if their server is dialed into us at the time mail is sent, it goes to the proper users inbox! Anyone have ideas or answers?? Thank you.
Re: AOL e-mail protocol (slightly off top)
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:07:25AM -0500, Julian L.C. Brown wrote: > > >Anyone know what protocol AOL uses for e-mail or where I could find > >out more information? I'd like to grab those users e-mail who have > >AOL accounts and feed into my system. > > Yes, I know where to find the information you are looking for. It > is in RFC-AOLISCRAP. You will find all sorts of useful information > in that RFC, you will be thanking me! > > Friday's are always weird days for me, so I apologize for myself in > advance. Perhaps you could blame the following header on "Friday"? X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Every so often I go through my "trash" folder and find that someone has posted to a mutt list using Eudora. Fortunately I have mutt put the trash folder at the end of the inbox search path. Life is much easier when you don't need to read mail from Windows users. AOL users end up in /dev/null. I don't even bother. -- "The software is intended to be as unobtrusive, unintrusive and unconstraining as possible. In software as elsewhere, good engineering is whatever gets the job done without calling attention to itself." -- Cynbe ru Taren, on Citadel (http://zork.net/cit/citadel.txt)
