With a similar thing that happened to me I found a little programme on the
qmail.org site called queue-fix-1.4
Download and run this little guy and all your worries will be gone! If not
take 2 asprin and call me in the morning ;-)
Slider
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-
A user on my system is subscribed to a large volume mailing list. When mail
is sent to the user on my system, it never gets delivered because qmail
bounces it due to an error 553, the server is not in my list of rcpthosts.
I previously passed this off as being a problem on the other end, but it
Jon Rust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 August 2000 at 10:35:18 -0700
Odd that this issue has been so quiet. Are there really so few people
using rblsmtpd?
Nothing to say. I need to apply the patch and update my config lines,
but haven't yet.
--
Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/
on 8/10/00 2:31 PM, Michael T. Babcock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you're describing, if it is indeed happening, sounds more like an
unintentional result of open relays and strange mailing list server logic.
To justify my opinion; how could this reduce Internet traffic unless the
This should be relatively easy with something like vpopmail/qmailadmin.
www.inter7.com
just have forwards instead of real addresses, even a (fairly) simple web
based admin for you or the site.
-- Tim
-Original Message-
From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10,
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 August 2000 at 09:43:09 -0400
Say you're having a problem with qmail, and you want to request help
from some people who might be able to help, and--at the same time--you
want to annoy the hell out of them. Here are a few tips:
Thanks, Dave, for this
on 8/10/00 2:25 PM, David Dyer-Bennet at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
qmail denies it because it denies all relaying that's not expressly
permitted. The scheme you describe is vulnerable to spamming simply by
including a local address at the beginning of the list of recipients.
The interesting
What you're describing, if it is indeed happening, sounds more like an
unintentional result of open relays and strange mailing list server logic.
To justify my opinion; how could this reduce Internet traffic unless the
mailing list server chose E-mails _purposely_ (not just "20 or so") for a
Eric Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. The mailserver then contacts teh first server on teh list, says "here's
an e-mail message", along with a list of addresses (usually 20 or so).
Sometimes all those addresses are on that server, somtimes not.
4. To stop spam, the receiver then checks the
"David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The interesting thing about this scheme, I think, is that servers that
supported it might not test as open to ORBS / RSS. Maybe that's why
somebody is trying to push the idea?
Perhaps, but, of course, if the idea catches on, spammers will catch
onto
I'm a little confused what this patch is for? Did something
change with mail-abuse.org? Did this affect just relays.mail-abuse.org
or the RBL list too?
Thanks,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 6:35 PM
To:
First time I've used a newsgroup - not too sure of etiquette apologies
in advance
I am transferring in dns to our dns/mailserver from our ISP.
Over the next few weeks I shall be transferring in the mail accounts
as well - but in the mean time I am pointing the MX record to remote
mail
Hey all,
I created a cool little powered
by qmail logo in B/W so it should match just about any page.
Cheers
Sean Truman[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.prodigysolutions.com/
pbqmail.JPG
hi,
i like it. and i am going to use it...
;) a
-Original Message-
From: Sean C Truman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:18 PM
To: Nagy Balázs
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cool powered by qmail logo.
Revised: Thanks
Sean
- Original
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, I've defined a user, Jim.Morley. When I send test
msgs to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", the Qmail Mailer-
Daemon returns "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name."
qmail doesn't deliver mail to users whose usernames contain uppercase
letters. See:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:55:57PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
I've been reading more of the archives about this
rblsmtpd issue lately and I think what has happened
is that the relays.mail-abuse.org DNS no longer
has the TXT entries in it that rblsmtpd looks for.
Did this spam that got
I would just like to say to everyone that helped me with my qmail problems,
"Thank you!".
Everything seems to be working as needed. :-)
All the best,
Kevin Smith
This was brought up yesterday and I know what to do next time. I am one of
the people that forcibly removed a message from the queue without properly
stopping qmail.
When I run Russ' qsanity it tells me:
message has no entry in info: 256004
message is neither local nor remote: 256004
message has
Eric Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 August 2000 at 14:17:11 -0500
This system, in the overall scheme of things, is designed to reduce traffic
across the internet, because if your network happens to hose 3 of the
domains onteh list, it's able to take a lot of traffic off the internet
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 August 2000 at 15:23:23 -0400
Eric Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. The mailserver then contacts teh first server on teh list, says "here's
an e-mail message", along with a list of addresses (usually 20 or so).
Sometimes all those addresses are
Hi,
I noticed that the load on my qmail server was running higher than I
expected to, although I don't know should be normal for a qmail mail
server. Perhaps someone here can tell me if this is normal, or if I
should look at fixing something? I haven't yet applied the Russ
Nelson's big-todo
So RedHat finally migrated her mailinglist server to postfix (they now
use mailman).
Mate
Eric Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still agree that it is a bizarre theory, but why does qmail deny the
delivery of mail from this server to the legit user on my system?
What evidence do you have that it does? I just did a quick test:
$ telnet 0 25
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:29:10AM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dave Sill wrote:
There are others, but these are easiest, most common, and most
effective techniques. I suggest printing off a copy and taping it next
to your screen.
It says my print error occurred.
Dave:
Thanks for the heads up on qmail's upper case user "gotcha". I
stopped getting the "no mailbox here by that name" msgs when I
adhered to lower case users.
Still no success however, but logs did shed a bit of light. Delivery
errors for my tests have changed from "no mailbox here by
Brett Randall wrote:
Set up an automatic revenge flood? Maybe not... :
It depends if it is mailing lists or spam. First start by unsubscribing from
REAL mailing lists.
Then the mailing-list admins will never learn to use authenticating managers.
Slider:
Mailing lists, I say bounce
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote:
So RedHat finally migrated her mailinglist server to postfix (they now
use mailman).
That the same redhat/mailman combo I read about on bugtraq a week or two
ago?
Vince.
--
==
Another couple of ideas;
1) Is the user a)dialling up and gets a ramdom ip address or b)are you
hosting him and has a constant ip address?
2) If (a) then get his Caller ID and ban him from dial up or filter his
connection to a slower mail service!
3) If (b) ban his IP from smtp connections to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still no success however, but logs did shed a bit of light. Delivery
errors for my tests have changed from "no mailbox here by that
name" to "delvery deferred:_dot-forward:_command_not_found".
Is the "dot-forward" a package that I've failed to install, or is my
Say you're having a problem with qmail, and you want to request help
from some people who might be able to help, and--at the same time--you
want to annoy the hell out of them. Here are a few tips:
1) Post the message multiple times. To be even more annoying, change
the subject each time--or
Apparently, I was mistaken. As far as the user knows, he was still
receiving mail while the error messages were received on the mailserver of
the mailing list. But he doesn't know for sure as the admin removed him
from the mailing list because of the "problems on my end."
This appears to be a
3. The mailserver then contacts teh first server on teh list,
says "here's an e-mail message", along with a list of addresses (usually 20 or so).
Sometimes all those addresses are on that server, somtimes not.
I've never seen I mailing list do this,
it not only sounds stupid - it is stupid.
I am looking for qmail developers and operation specialists
to work in Lakewood, NJ. Alternative site is Newark, NJ.
Please send resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any one who knows how to install qmail on AIX 4.3 , i have
installed it on RedHat 6.1,
but in case of AIX i dont know how to remove sendmail and creation of the
links /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail etc
please help me ASAP , else i have to switch
Revised with smaller q. Thanks for the input.
Sean
- Original Message -
From: Henrik Öhman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Cool powered by qmail logo.
But you've got it wrong. It should be a small q in qmail. I think you
Revised: Thanks
Sean
- Original Message -
From: Nagy Balázs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sean C Truman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Cool powered by qmail logo.
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
Revised with smaller
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly, could anybody tell me if this is possible using qmail under RH 6.2
and secondly how to configure qmail mail to do this.
Dan's fastforward package will do this via /etc/aliases. See:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/fastforward.html
-Dave
You still have the logo with big Q letter @ http://www.prodigysolutions.com/
maybe u forgot it ? :)
mgm
- Original Message -
From: "Sean C Truman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Henrik Öhman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Cool
I've been reading more of the archives about this
rblsmtpd issue lately and I think what has happened
is that the relays.mail-abuse.org DNS no longer
has the TXT entries in it that rblsmtpd looks for.
Did this spam that got through your server come
from a host in the open-relays database or the
While checking out a spam I received this morning I noticed that
rblcheck finds it in the RSS. Hrmf. I run rblsmtpd so I'm not clear on
how it got through:
snip /usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -t10\
-r rbl.maps.vix.com \
-r dul.maps.vix.com \
-r
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dave Sill wrote:
There are others, but these are easiest, most common, and most
effective techniques. I suggest printing off a copy and taping it next
to your screen.
It says my print error occurred. How to fix?
Scott
hi,
1. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/users works fine
2. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com doesn't work ;(
if I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i get the following
error in the mail.log
--- from /var/log/mail.log ---
Aug 9 10:15:20 joshua qmail:
Hi All,
I have a config file in /etc/tcp.smtp which contains the following:
24.26.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
212.159.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
216.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
206.154.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
195.8.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow
I then use the following to turn it into a
Great stuff - I needed to comment out entries in control/virtualdomains
and
control/rcpthosts . AND do the HUP.
I'd have more hair left if I'd joined the newsgroup yesterday.
Many thanks
Petr Novotny wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On 10 Aug 00, at 13:41, Keith
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote:
Revised with smaller q. Thanks for the input.
Could you pull up that q to the top? It looks a bit funny with that inverse
thing. Nothing informal at the bottom and the same is true at the left
upper corner.
--
Regards: Kevin (Balazs) @ synergon
I'd love to filter by "Mailing-List" or by "To:" but hotmail only allows to
filter by "Subject" and "From", thus my petition to attach a "qmail" to the
subject or something.
Somebody told me to use another mail service... maybe I will do, but I still
think that a "qmail-ish" subject would be OK
hello friends
is there any one who is running qmail-1.03 on AIX 4.3 ?
thanks
Prashant Desai
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:18:53AM +0100, James R Grinter wrote:
[snip]
(What they have receiving emails does not appear to be qmail, any
longer. Their sending systems do seem to be running qmail still, witness:
The receiving system has never been running qmail, at least not in the last
12
I am hoping to use qmail a a redirection and POP3 mailbox service.
I work for an internet company which serves mail to the employees on an
internal network and redirects for the customers, eg.:
*@customerscompany.com redirects to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We currently achieve this using other operating
"Kevin Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I can't relay any email, the error I got when the email was returned
is.
and my ISDN dial IP address is 212.159.51.38, so it should go through.
mail returned
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at merlins.force9.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to
But you've got it wrong. It should be a small q in qmail. I think you
should redo it
before you advertise it further, and I think the majority of the qmail
community
agrees with me. :)
Henrik.
At 10:49 AM 8/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
Hey all,
I created a cool little powered by qmail logo
Hi all!
I am trying to refuse mail from any address that starts with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The TO: address is fine although the FROM addresses are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not want to ban the WHOLE domain.com (in
BADMAILFROM) as there are legitimate users there mailing to my users! I just
want to
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:30:47AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
Motonori seems to have thought that the "smtp" service entry in
master.cf controlled outgoing concurrency, when, in fact, it controls
incoming concurrency.
I think still this is not correct. Actually there are two 'smtp', one
for
what entries are there in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts?
Or more precisely is test.co.uk in the rcpthosts file?
First time I've used a newsgroup - not too sure of etiquette apologies
in advance
I am transferring in dns to our dns/mailserver from our ISP.
Over the next few weeks I shall be
is there any one who knows how to install qmail on AIX 4.3 , i have
installed it on RedHat 6.1,
but in case of AIX i dont know how to remove sendmail and creation of the
links /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail etc
please help me ASAP , else i have to switch over to sendmail
1) Is the user a)dialling up and gets a ramdom ip address or b)are you
hosting him and has a constant ip address?
He's one of our dialup customers (random ip)
2) If (a) then get his Caller ID and ban him from dial up or filter his
connection to a slower mail service!
3) If (b) ban his IP
Charles Cazabon wrote:
Hi, all,
I think someone has recently subscribed an email harvester to the qmail list.
Two messages I've sent today have both resulted in almost immediate spam
with subject "Have a GREAT day on me.". The mail appears to be forged to
look like it was relayed
I need some help with a new problem with courier-imap
Is there a developers list for that I can join?
Problem is There is a rpm build problem in the new Redhat 7.0 Beta that
didn't exist in RedHat 6.2
I am on the redhat rpm-devel-list, and got around the problem for builds as
root, but the
- Original Message -
From: "David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Qmail-mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: rcpt to|cc|bcc and To:|Cc:|Bcc: limitations
If he sets up a mailing list using ezmlm, the obvious thing to use
with qmail,
Hello Managers...
I need change my sendmail MTA to QMAIL,
Do you have the information step by step?
Please
I'm looking www.es.qmail.org and www.qmail.org... but it confusion me
I don't understand
Please... Somebody have the step
I need install it on a Digital-Alpha with Tru64 4.0F
I must configure a number of domains statically through smtproutes.
It would be nice if I could specify more than one possible relay-to address,
in case an address is down. For instance:
test.com:mail1.test.com
test.com:mail2.test.com
test.com:mail3.test.com
Would relay only to mail3 if mail1
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:30:51PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote:
I need some help with a new problem with courier-imap Is there a
developers list for that I can join?
There is a courier-users list monitored by the sole developer. It is
linked to from the courier home page.
Ben
--
Ben
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:49:56PM +0200, Einar Bordewich wrote:
Well, on a mailing list server where 1000+ mails is going out you will
occupy all remote resources (?) and keep the server bussy for a while. But
on a dedicated mailinglist server you don't have (well, at least not me)
single
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:17:11PM -0500, Eric Long wrote:
1. Mail list server has 500 identical e-mails to send.
2. It gives that list of addresses to the mailserver, along with the e-mail
message.
3. The mailserver then contacts teh first server on teh list, says "here's
an e-mail
- Original Message -
From: "John White" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "qmail mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: rcpt to|cc|bcc and To:|Cc:|Bcc: limitations
I'm getting the impression that you use separate hardware or queues
for your mailing list
I'm trying to set up my system to that all mail goes through an SMTP
relay or forwarder. This is because the firewall I'm behind only allows
email out through this forwarder.
Ok, so I put the FQDN in the /var/qmail/control/bouncehost. No joy; I
suspect it's still trying direct. I change it to
martin langhoff writes:
and, for the next time, is there a 'proper way' of performing the above
mentioned deed cleanly?
Yes. You could also have run this program except that it didn't exist
earlier today. It will cause the email to be bounced. This is
appropriate in the situation you
Hubbard, David writes:
I'm a little confused what this patch is for? Did something
change with mail-abuse.org? Did this affect just relays.mail-abuse.org
or the RBL list too?
Just relays.mail-abuse.org. It's a huge zone. They're trying to make
it smaller by eliminating the "redundant"
Slider writes:
I am trying to refuse mail from any address that starts with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The TO: address is fine although the FROM addresses are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not want to ban the WHOLE domain.com (in
BADMAILFROM) as there are legitimate users there mailing to my users! I
Keith Warno \(@HaggleWare.com\) writes:
Whatever happened to the qmail shirt idea? Last I knew most people agreed
"don't queue mail with sendmail; send mail with qmail" was the slogan of
choice, but where'd it go from there?
Remember this posting?
Russ Nelson writes:
Vern Hart writes:
If anyone is interested in printing up a bunch of these, my friend works for
a place here in Minneapolis called Signature Concepts and he gets a hefty
discount (they do all of the University of MN stuff). We printed up some
shirts for the DSM Racing club (http://www.dsm.org) and it cost us
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:01:54AM -0500, Raul Beltran wrote:
Somebody told me to use another mail service... maybe I will do, but I still
think that a "qmail-ish" subject would be OK :), even helpful for some
people and woludn't hurt anyone...
Just imagine the number of subscribers who'd get
Hi,
I don't know the best way to explain my problem, but here it goes. :)
Dev machine is a RedHat 6.2 install. Apache 1.3.12 with PHP 4.0.1pl2 and stock
sendmail.
Server is Redhat 6.2 apache 1.3.12 PHP 4.0.1pl2 with qmail (and vpopmail)
I got a php script that I developed on the dev
- Original Message -
From: Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Connection refused?
I see two places you might inquire further. First, if you have lsof,
you can use it to double-check
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