Russell Steffen writes:
Is there any way to set set qmail up so that it will accept all mail for
somedomain.com, deliver mail for local accounts and then forward all the
rest of the mail to another server?
Oh, sorry, one other thing you'll have to do:
Insert an entry into
anoah writes:
why do smtp mails re-write the hostname?
See http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/im/cname.html. That's one of the effects
of CNAME records.
---Dan
Keith Burdis writes:
Jan 11 02:57:05 rucus qmail2: 916016225.587557 delivery 264461: failure:
Unable_to_run_qmail-remote./
Your OS provides monitoring tools to explain what's going on. Start by
tracing qmail-rspawn and figuring out what trouble it's having.
Also, according to the list
Hitesh Patel writes:
I'm trying to get checkpassword working on my UnixWare 7.x box
There's a separate mailing list for checkpassword. Subscribe to that
list, and send a copy of the UnixWare shadow password documentation, and
perhaps someone will be able to help you.
---Dan
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Hitesh Patel wrote:
By the way... the system does use shadow passwords and I
think this has something to do with my problem.. i've tried including
-lshadow but that wont work because there is no -lshadow on my unixware
boxes...
Maybe this one is included with the
Ed,
I have tried to complie Webmail but I could do it well.
I have sent e-mail to auther and ml with no luck.
On the other hand, IMP seems to be promising but
I wonder if you or someone know that it will recongize attachment file.
And it is possible to send the attachment file?
If so, it would
Hi,
I have written a PAM module which can be used for Open-SMTP type of
treatment instead of patching checkpassword. I have mailed it to
Russell Nelson and I hope it would appear soon on www.qmail.org.
Meanwhile, I can send it to you by e-mail if you ask me (privately!).
--
Petr Novotny, ANTEK
Hi,
Is there any underlying technical reason for upgrading to 1.03 from 1.01?
Ie. has anything in the core qmail functionality which makes it worthwhile
to do so?
I'm trying to decide whether its really worth porting patches etc., or
simply waiting for qmail 2.0 to come out. The peripheral
Hi,
Could anyone point me to any docs helpful in setting up e-mail using qmail
and uucp?
TIA
Andrzej
On Tue 1999-01-12 (07:47), D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Keith Burdis writes:
Jan 11 02:57:05 rucus qmail2: 916016225.587557 delivery 264461: failure:
Unable_to_run_qmail-remote./
Your OS provides monitoring tools to explain what's going on. Start by
tracing qmail-rspawn and figuring out what
Russell Nelson:
Joerg Lenneis writes:
We do something similar which is to set $MAIL="~/Mailbox-$USER" in the
appropriate startup files. But we do delivery into Maildirs and the
command elm is a shell script that converts the Maildir into
"~/Mailbox-$USER" and then invokes the real elm.
qmail-send translates all sequences of N LFs in the bounce message to
one LFs and N-1 slashes in order to comply with QSBMF.
Unfortunately, the result is quite ugly:
the following text
Description of the problem...
more text...
If you need help, contact...
will be
What if he does
1) MX for somedomain.com pointing at his machine
2) Put
somedomain.com:joe-local
in virtualdomains
3)For each local user bob, create
cat ~joe/.qmail-local-bob
bob
4) create ~joe/.qmail-local-default
|forward $DEFAULT@ME
(and disregard my previous silly suggestion)
Mate
Mate Wierdl writes:
Ps: this is ridiculous.
The real problem is that /usr/lib/sendmail is serving double duty as an
operating system binary and as an MTA selection switch. A solution to
this problem appears in http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/etc-mta.html.
Well, the above doc says:
Hi,
I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
Typically, the time I've seen will running my server has been 0 sec
(i.e. the log entries for the "pid" and "ok" have the same time stamp)
At the time of the occurrences, the
Hi,
Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases? I tried
to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and ".qmail-test" and the one with
the capital had a bounce. Is this correct or do I have something wrong in
my setup?
--
Matthew Harrell
Matthew Harrell writes:
Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases? I tried
to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and ".qmail-test" and the one with
the capital had a bounce. Is this correct or do I have something wrong in
my setup?
qmail preserves case
- James DeMong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
| 10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
That could be the time taken by tcpserver to do various DNS lookups
and possibly also an ident lookup against the client. Perfectly
normal.
- Matthew Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases?
| I tried to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and
| ".qmail-test" and the one with the capital had a bounce. Is this
| correct or do I have something wrong in my setup?
Harald Hanche-Olsen writes:
It is more correct to say that qmail preserves case in the local part
of remote addresses, but converts to lower case for local addresses.
This is what I mean by "qmail preserves case in the local part, but
ignores case when matching against usernames or
Why does this keep coming up? I thought email addresses were not supposed
to be case sensitive, isn't that in an RFC or something?
--Adam
-Original Message-
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject:
Thanks for the suggestions. I now have at least 3 ways to get qmail to do
what I want (and one was in the FAQ, should have read more carefully).
Russ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 09:46:36AM -0800, Mahlon Smith wrote:
On both machines, qmail-smtp is launched the same way:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 60 -x /usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.rules.cdb -g 1002
-u \
1007 -l [hostname] -t 15 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger
On 12 Jan 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
Adam D. McKenna writes:
Why does this keep coming up? I thought email addresses were not supposed
to be case sensitive, isn't that in an RFC or something?
The hostname is case-insensitive. The local part *can* be
case-sensitive, although it's a
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 09:35:48PM -0500, J.P. Racine wrote:
tcp6 0 dns2:smtp www.zone.com:1219 CLOSE
tcp6 0 dns2:smtp www.zone.com:3030 CLOSE
tcp6 0 dns2:smtp www.zone.com:1260 CLOSE
tcp
Adam D. McKenna writes:
Why does this keep coming up? I thought email addresses were not supposed
to be case sensitive, isn't that in an RFC or something?
The hostname is case-insensitive. The local part *can* be
case-sensitive, although it's a bad idea since, as you demonstrated,
many
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:45:15 +
From: Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dax Kelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron Tiensivu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Qmail for Vger campaign :)
Reality check folks.
Firstly this is
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:58:09AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
Firstly this is all academic, VGER doesn't run sendmail at all. Its
mailing list performance is extraordinarily good considering the hardware
base and other load on the system.
Yep. Vger runs zmailer, which bogs down like all
Hi everyone,
After struggling with rewriting which I eventually got working through the
mess822 package and used three ports to do rewrites when sending to
certain domains (port 25 adds on the RELAYCLIENT="@rewrite" variable
thanks to tcpserver which gets smtprouted to port 26 then port 26
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Hello everyone.
I think I just did a Really Stupid Thing! (tm) but I don't know how stupid yet.
We had all these messages in the queue and we decided to flush them all.
We got rid of the /var/qmail/queue/info/[0-22]/*, mess/[0-22]/* and
remote/[0-22]/* files
Hmmm, don't you mean '/var/qmail/queue/lock' ?
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Frederic Woodbridge wrote:
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Hello everyone.
I think I just did a Really Stupid Thing! (tm) but I don't know how stupid yet.
We had all these messages in the queue and we decided to
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Hash: SHA1
At 01:36 PM 1/12/99 , you wrote:
Hmmm, don't you mean '/var/qmail/queue/lock' ?
Yuppers, I do. Sorry.
Fred
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At 01:34 PM 1/12/99 , you wrote:
Stop qmail-send. "make setup check". Run qmail-start. -- Jeff
Say, that did it!
Thanks for the information, Jeff. You're a life-saver!!
Fred.
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Then get queue-fix from the qmail homepage.
It should sort out your woes.
Cya,
John.
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Frederic Woodbridge wrote:
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At 01:36 PM 1/12/99 , you wrote:
Hmmm, don't you mean '/var/qmail/queue/lock' ?
Yuppers, I do. Sorry.
Russell Nelson wrote:
James DeMong writes:
I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
Typically that's a DNS or indentd timeout. Can't be the latter since
you're using the -R switch. If you're concerned that it
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: 12 Jan 1999 11:32:50 -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mysql: mysqlbug sends 2 copies when using qmail as delivery agent
Description:
When qmail is installed on the server where mysqladmin is run from
- "Peter C. Norton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:58:09AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
No, he didn't.
He just forwarded a piece of email from Nigel Metheringham.
Tricky to get those attributions right sometimes, isn't it?
- Harald
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 08:31:39PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
- "Peter C. Norton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:58:09AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
No, he didn't.
He just forwarded a piece of email from Nigel Metheringham.
Tricky to get those attributions right
We have a qmail cluster of machines that handles all mail for both our
"main" dialup domain (cnmnetwork.com) as well as our virtual domains.
Because the main domain is so big, we've broken it out into a multilevel
structure, so that mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to:
Okay, I decided to go with the qmail-users scheme anyway.
Maybe Dan should consider NFS automount functionality, although yeah it
does sound scary *thinks of the consequences*
Anyway, seeing as I have a fastforward database there are times when I
don't want users to receive mail locally i.e.
Hello All,
I have finally installed tcpserver pop3d. Thank you for all for all of the
help along the way. Since you have helped me, I hope that my webpage can be
used to help others, who share the same concerns as I do. My webpage is
strictly for installing tcpserver with pop3d. It may need
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Here's another example solution. I subscribe to many mailing lists,
and think .qmail-ext is more elegant than procmail. I always subscribe
with the address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Here's
how filtering is done:
In .qmail-lists:
|exit 100
James DeMong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I've found that on occasion tcpserver/qmail-smtpd takes
| 10 seconds to give an "ok" to an smtpd connection attempt.
Make sure you invoke it with the "-R" option, to tell it not to bother
wasting time on ``ident'' lookups.
James,
(I am trying to build a business case for my boss that qmail (on
Linux/PC) is _better_ than sendmail (on HP/PA) and I would like to have
every possible eveidence to back it up.)
I find these 2 URLs very convincing regarding sendmail security,
- Samuel Dries-Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| 12 Jan 1999 12:58:40 GMT #9268 909 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| 9 Jan 1999 02:49:13 GMT #8716 946 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Are the msg #'s for the above two #9268 and #8716
Peter C. Norton writes:
This strikes me as false, or at least incomplete. Qmail has
additional capabilities that make remote list explosion pretty easy.
With serialmail and smtproutes a vger-like hub-exploder setup should
be doable with some work. Probably less time would have gone into
Russell Nelson wrote:
: Is it possible to have capitals in the user-defined mailing aliases? I tried
: to create a couple of aliases ".qmail-Test" and ".qmail-test" and the one with
: the capital had a bounce. Is this correct or do I have something wrong in
: my setup?
:
: qmail preserves
I've posted messages to linux-smp that have taken over 12 hours to get
posted (or at least to be returned to me..)
The qmail mailing list, on the other hand, usually has a 1-2 second
turnaround.
--Adam
Before answering the thread - I've got an qmailanalog question myself.
What is considered good, bad and normal for the zoverall statistics?
At 18:25 1999-01-12 -0500, "Adam D. McKenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There isn't much documentation available on qmailanalog.
That's true and
There isn't much documentation available on qmailanalog. Does anyone have
any stock scripts available that they could send me which would allow me to
analyze my logs quickly and easily? I really don't feel like spending three
hours on this..
--Adam
Ok, I added the -v. Still no go.
My rc.local line now looks like this...
usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -c 60 -x /usr/local/etc/tcp.smtp.rules.cdb -g 1002 \
-u 1007 -l [hostname] -t 15 0 25 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
This is what I am going for in the
Mahlon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| As far as I can tell... I am not getting *any* logging from qmail-smtpd.
Right: qmail-smtpd doesn't *do* any logging. (Dan thinks this is a
feature, go figure.) Perhaps you installed patches in your other
system? Most people do.
On 05-Jan-99 06:04:01, Russell Nelson wrote something about "Re: wanted: patch to
reject mail if envelope sender isn't valid domain". I just couldn't help replying to
it, thus:
Yes (nods to johnl), but I'm trying to convince Dan that it's a good
idea. I think the increase in reliability
On 04-Jan-99 17:12:52, Dave Sill wrote something about "Re: Why Red Hat is not
distributing qmail". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In some situations Qmail is less efficient than sendmail, and its
performance is sorely lacking.
Every complex system has
On 09-Jan-99 06:05:33, anoah wrote something about "host name re-writing?". I just
couldn't help replying to it, thus:
i made jfh.pfeiffer.edu a cname to ares.pfeiffer.edu, and
added jfh.pfeiffer.edu to rcpthosts.
when i send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via qmail-inject
or via sendmail
On 12-Jan-99 23:04:27, Matthew Harrell wrote something about "Re: Capitals in user
mailing lists?". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
Okay, I guess that makes sense and it really doesn't matter in my case since
I can fix the script that's sending out mail to lowercase all the names.
On 11-Jan-99 06:26:52, Graphic Rezidew wrote something about "Qmail as a secondary
MX". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
I have a domain (rezidew.net) with a dedicated 24/hr connection. I have
a friend with a machine not on my domain (friend.someother.net). My
question is this:
On 10-Jan-99 04:21:59, sammon wrote something about "problem with local-local test". I
just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
I've done most of the installation and now I'm working my way through
the TEST.deliver instructions. When I try to do
"echo to: brian |
On 04-Jan-99 18:19:13, Brian S. Craigie wrote something about "one email with cc
creates multiple messages - oh dear.". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus:
Please Please tell me there's an easy way to tell qmail not to create
separate messages in this case? Else, we're going to be
I have to agree with John. I like using the RBL, I find it to be somewhat
effective in blocking some spam, but I do *not* think it should be hard-coded
into the MTA. What if for some reason in the future I decide I do not want
RBL anymore? Right now I can just delete part of my tcpserver line
At 09:03 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
Mahlon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| As far as I can tell... I am not getting *any* logging from qmail-smtpd.
Right: qmail-smtpd doesn't *do* any logging. (Dan thinks this is a
feature, go figure.) Perhaps you installed patches in your other
system?
I would like to thank everyone who replied to my "install problem post". I have
decided to reinstall with a source distributution of
qmail 1.03 and read all the install docs.
Thanks again
Bob
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