This is becoming a long story and the longer the uglier...
We have qmail crossposting with dnews (news server). Three messages
went into a loop today. I stopped qmail and removed everything from
queue (/var/qmail/queue/mess). A while later I saw the same messages
coming back. I checked the
Where can I find error logs that might help me figure out why qmail
stopped working today at around 11:00? I have checked the /var/log/qmail
and went through the various files there, but none seem to help me find
out why I suddenly can't send or receive email. I have been using qmail
There's always an exception. For example, legacy systems with strange
(but conformant) IP stacks - some VMS systems for example. I would
love to be able to do set per-host concurrency for such systems where
I know *exactly* what the upper limit on concurrent connections it
can handle is, cause
qmail Digest 21 Oct 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 796
Topics (messages 31871 through 31920):
qmail logs
31871 by: shajain
31873 by: Magnus Bodin
31874 by: Dave Sill
31875 by: Einar Bordewich
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
31872 by: Markus Stumpf
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
I've got two more questions for everyone-
1.) I want to write a pearl script to use as the back-end of a web page
form, now normally I would reference the location of sendmail (eg.
"/usr/lib/sendmail -t") but now that I'm
Hi there,
following config :
virtual-domains :
n-online.net
hirscher.de
Handled by my qmail-server.
I now have to forward messages going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail now tells me, that the message has already been processed by qmail
and the messages
Hi,
Four of my sites are connected on VSAT network and I am using
qmail-Linux m/c at all sites, one of those four is a central relay server. Now
the problem is I want to configure foo.com domain which should work like this :
for locally configured users it should route locally and for the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 21 Oct 99, at 8:42, Dave Sill wrote:
2.) I am getting a message that prints on the screen of my FreeBSD based
Qmail box saying something about a problem with the SMTPD something along
the line of a loop or something...ring any bells with
Tony Gale writes:
There's always an exception. For example, legacy systems with strange
(but conformant) IP stacks - some VMS systems for example. I would
love to be able to do set per-host concurrency for such systems where
I know *exactly* what the upper limit on concurrent
Is there such a solution? Is there a solution to have qmail detect
viruses in incoming email messages?
--
Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare, Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hye qmail users,
we're about to migrate to a qmail server.
We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with
IP2.
We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1
We cant switch IPs of the machine.
The problem is that : we modify the MX entry to redirects mail
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Manuel de Ferran wrote:
Hye qmail users,
we're about to migrate to a qmail server.
We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with
IP2.
We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1
We cant switch IPs of
Hi all,
I would like to know if there is a way one could change the responce's from
the Mailer Daemon.
I had a user mail back to mailer daemon with the following.
*grin*
what do you mean you have given up. shall i change my service provider?
Client.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:28:54PM +0200, Tony Wade wrote:
You'd have to edit source code, in particular, qmail-send.c. However,
note that qmail's bounce is in a specific format, QSBMF, and so it must
begin with the text "Hi. This is the ". Other than that, you can modify
it, and even add
Hi,
How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ?
REgards,
Emmanuel
--
Emmanuel PIERRE
A P R - J o b
l'Emploi
Sur Internet
32, rue Pierret, 92200 Neuilly
Tel LD: 01 41 92 91 50 - Mob: 06 57 60 42 17 - Fax: 01 41 91 92
This was just sent to a couple of FreeBSD mailing lists.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:32:16 +0400
From: Alex Povolotsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SIOCGIFCONF (or qmail?) problem?
Hello!
I've just found, that
I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb
from the command line?
I tried
bash-2.02$ cdbget \!fishbone /var/qmail/users/cdb echo ""
bash-2.02$ cdbget \!fishbone\x000 /var/qmail/users/cdb echo ""
I'm not able to retrieve the record.
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Sam wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Balazs NAGY wrote:
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iam sorry. This joke didn't work, but I had to pass explicite address when
I subscribed. The From:-change didn't help.
--
Regards: Kevin
Sven Veckes wrote:
Hi,
I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he
stops working.
Sysmtoms:
no pop
no smtp
telnet really slow
netstat hangs up
We have a lot of customers on this server.
I couldn't figure out where the
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:30:41AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
If you know that you have an ongoing need to talk to hosts like this,
install another instance of qmail with the desired concurrencyremote,
and use a virtualdomain on your main qmail to redirect the mail
through that qmail.
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Mirko Zeibig wrote:
I guess you have to recompile qmail, then and have two sets of binaries etc?
So this would only be an approach for a handful of hosts.
Yes, but Do you have a lot of hosts, then dedicate some of them to have high
concurrency and
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's it.
Are you sure? He has had two Delivered-To lines...
In any case, I think Dan might want to start using the verh patch. Of
course, people should also save their subscription acknowledgment...
Mate
I have set my rc.qmail file as is written in LWQ. I'm trying to find some
more info on qmail-smtpd-wrapper. Especially what exactly it does, and what
ouput it gives.
Can anyone point me towards some more documentation?
Thanks
John
+ Peeter Pirn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb
| from the command line?
I usually just ask qmail-getpw.
qmail-getpw fishbone | tr '\000' :; echo
qmail-getpw fishbone-something | tr '\000' :; echo
The problem with that, of course,
I just had a friend test a change I made on my smtp, by telnetting to port
25 and manually sending a message.
Obviously he mistyped something and here is what showed up in my log:
940509236.293636 new msg 162004
940509236.293661 info msg 162004: bytes 194 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 22308
uid 501
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Tim Hunter wrote:
I just had a friend test a change I made on my smtp, by telnetting to port
25 and manually sending a message.
Obviously he mistyped something and here is what showed up in my log:
940509236.293636 new msg 162004
940509236.293661 info msg 162004: bytes
I deleted my old mail on how to get off of the list. I need to remove
myself for a couple of weeks.
Where does the remove request get mailed to?
Thanks,
MarkT.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have set my rc.qmail file as is written in LWQ. I'm trying to find some
more info on qmail-smtpd-wrapper. Especially what exactly it does, and what
ouput it gives.
Can anyone point me towards some more documentation?
The qmail-smtpd-wrapper is included in LWQ:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Mark Thomas wrote:
I deleted my old mail on how to get off of the list. I need to remove
myself for a couple of weeks.
Where does the remove request get mailed to?
Thanks,
MarkT.
-
Timothy L. Mayo
+ Harald Hanche-Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| + Peeter Pirn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
|
| | I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb
| | from the command line?
|
| I usually just ask qmail-getpw.
How dumb. qmail-getpw never looks in users/cdb; it is qmail-lspawn
which
Mirko Zeibig writes:
I guess you have to recompile qmail, then and have two sets of binaries etc?
I would recommend that you have a whole separate source tree.
So this would only be an approach for a handful of hosts.
Right, those specific hosts which are consistently giving you trouble.
Harald Hanche-Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+ Peeter Pirn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb
| from the command line?
I usually just ask qmail-getpw.
qmail-getpw fishbone | tr '\000' :; echo
qmail-getpw fishbone-something
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Sven Veckes wrote:
Hi,
I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he
stops working.
Sysmtoms:
no pop
no smtp
telnet really slow
netstat hangs up
Does netstat -n also hang up? If not,
What is a red herring?
- Eric
This could be a red herring.
Chris
No, this is Linux 2.0.36 on Intel.
--
Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare, Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Dahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is a red herring?
Misleading evidence. See also:
http://www.redherring.com/about/lore.html
-Dave
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
Right, those specific hosts which are consistently giving you trouble.
Hopefully you told the sysadmin that his system is broken, because if
it's giving you trouble, it's probably giving everyone else trouble as
well.
Well, not
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:14:29PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote:
What is a red herring?
Main Entry: red herring
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : a herring cured by salting and slow smoking to a dark brown color
2 [from the practice of drawing a red herring across a trail to confuse hunting
Well, it looks like all I needed to do was go to bed and get some sleep..
because when I woke up this morning, qmail was back to working fine again.
I had a ton of test emails show up in another mailbox at another location.
I have no idea what could have help qmail up. Thanks, Russell, for the
I was wondering if anyone could give me feed back on qmail vs sendmail.. Is
it faster, more stable, less problematic ?? etc...
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could give me feed back on qmail vs sendmail.. Is
it faster, more stable, less problematic ?? etc...
Mr. Neil, i think that qmail is the best open source MTA.
It's very fast. Much more than the old sendmail.
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:10:49 + Emmanuel PIERRE wrote:
How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ?
Either deliver it to the local mail system via SMTP, or specify a mail
delivery agent (mda line in .fetchmailrc) that writes mail to a
maildir.
Such a MDA is
Hey everyone,
the message that I am getting is "smtp/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated." Can anyone shed a bit of light on this?? Now I will
say that we were running a contest on our WWW page with all the entries
(40,000+ e-mails) being handled by the Qmail server...could that
Hi,
has anyone got an implementation of
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt
It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm.
for qmail maildirs?
- guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM.
thanks
peter
--
peter at
What kind of beliefs are held on mounting /var/qmail/queue on a seperate
partition? Are any problems out there with this?
I'm thinking of this statement from the FAQ --
"Do not use async (or softupdates) filesystems; if you do, and if your
system crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose mail.
Looks to me a lot like UUCP, ETRN. I'd say it is a wrongly directed
initiative as any business worth a damn will have some type of permanent
access in the near future.
- Eric
Peter Gradwell escribió:
Hi,
has anyone got an implementation of
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt
The is an inetd error message. Switch to tcpserver for qmail. inetd has
a "feature" of disabling services that it thinks are being spawned too
quickly. This is in the FAQ!
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey everyone,
the message that I am getting is "smtp/tcp server
Good Day.
We have outer mail server with qmail installed and local mail server
behind
the first one.
I'd like to cut or masquerade name of local mail-server from Received
and other headers names.
How can I do it ?
Thanks
--
Pashinin:OL
I posted a message yesterday but haven't heard anything back.
Our news server feeds posts to mailing list (qmail / ezmlml). Here is
an error received from qmail:
20 13:25:02: Opening /var/spool/dnews/work/netdynamicslists.send
20 13:25:02: Sending this to
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
20 13:25:02:
Lidia Marchioni writes:
Our news server feeds posts to mailing list (qmail / ezmlml). Here is
an error received from qmail:
Why are you getting an SMTP error? I'm sorry, I mean why are you
getting an *SMTP* error?
20 13:45:04: DATA body: Expecting 250, got 451 timeout (#4.4.2)
20
I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use
qmail on our system and thus so does the php.
However, as of late, users of this script have been getting multiple
emails being sent out when using it.
Does anyone know what's going on here?
Well, Mr Vice President,
your PHP3 script might be badly designed ;-)
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Scott A. Cole wrote:
I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use
qmail on our system and thus so does the php.
However, as of late, users of this script have been
FYI, this announcement fell in my mailbox.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I am pleased to announce the first public release of GNU SAUCE,
version 0.5.0 ALPHA.
SAUCE (Software Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) is an SMTP
server that sits between the Internet and your actual mail
hi all:
now I use maildir mode of qmail ,
do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually.
and can it automatically be produced
when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail.
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:33:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all:
now I use maildir mode of qmail ,
do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually.
and can it automatically be produced
when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail.
Yow can add
As it turns out, the Novell system running GroupWise 5.2 had crashed the
day before. Apparently something was stuck in the queue. By the time a
tech got to it, there were over 60,000 copies in the queue.
I suppose the problem was not really qmail related and did not belong on
the list. I
It's pretty simple code, but if you have any productive in sights, I would
enjoy hearing them.
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Fabrice Scemama wrote:
Well, Mr Vice President,
your PHP3 script might be badly designed ;-)
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Scott A. Cole wrote:
I have a script written in php3
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:18:44PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote:
I think that is only one advantage on usign sendmail: you can
program it to play the old 'X' or 'O' game... ( somebody can tell me how
can i say this game name in english? )
This sounds like a great idea. I would be willing to try it.
On Oct 21 1999, Tim Hunter wrote:
my smtp is working, but that's not my question. Where exactly was
@cimx.com successfully delivered to?
It was successfully delivered to the bit bucket (it had an
empty local part, AFAICS).
[]s, Roger...
--
Yes - too bad there is a plethora of UN*X "admins" out there who don't know the
-m -k /etc/skel options exist... there is no substitute for experience, but
(insert your man page viewer here) is a good start.
:) Lyndon
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Peter Gradwell wrote:
See http://www.qmail.org/turnmail
Hi,
has anyone got an implementation of
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt
It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm.
for
I want to do selective smarthosting for some extreme dumb reason.
I.e. I host a virtual domain for x users. A handful of them needs to be
smarthosted (i.e. SMTP:ed to another host).
I really don't want to use serialmail, but a solution similiar forward or
qmail-inject, where the REMOTE HOST
Hi,
Yesterday morning I noticed that every qmail service was down. There was an
xs4all guy who tried the host's ports (many telnet, ftp etc. connections),
including pop3 and smtp ports (these are served by tcpserver/qmail). When I
tried the listening ports, it came to light that inetd's
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:49:13PM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
and sets ifc.ifc_len to 1024. I am not kernel-hacker enough to understand
what's happening in /sys/net/if.c between lines 820 and 877, and, people,
Well... I've made quick workaround for it. Patch for ipme.c applied:
57a58,62
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