Jason Radford wrote:
Recently switching from sendmail to qmail I have observed the difference in
architecture between the two. The modularization of qmail appeals to me
in both simplicity and elegance, and it's superiority was evident in my
smtp benchmarking between the two MTAs. The
Hi all,
We just bought one fax machine (Brothers MFC8600).
By default users just can send fax by send email to this fax machine.
Email address for the fax machine is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But the format to fax is to send email to fax@mycompany(fax#1234567) (This
format worked with MS Exchange
* Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 03:19]:
cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
At 03:47 AM 21-02-2001 -0500, Robin S. Socha wrote:
* Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 03:19]:
cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
Off topic but I still prefer using cat even for single files because a typo
has less
Michael Handler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Someone wrote:
Wishlist: a djb replacement for Vixie cron.
Posit: he already has.
user@hypothetical$ cat /service/logrotate/run
#!/bin/sh
logrotation commands
exec /bin/sleep 86400
Nothing hypothetical about it. I have been running a
Hi all,
I have installed qmail and dotforward on a Solaris8. Works fine
except for one user. He uses Mailbox delivery and his home is
mounted via NFS (not a good thing, I know). His .forward contains
two lines:
phoenix
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The remote delivery works, but the qmail-local process
qmail Digest 21 Feb 2001 11:00:01 - Issue 1282
Topics (messages 57606 through 57675):
Re: Mail delivery problems.
57606 by: Anurag Jalan
Re: Virtual Domains
57607 by: Charrua
modifying script?
57608 by: Bill Parker
Re: rcphosts?
57609 by: Frank Tegtmeyer
"Robin S. Socha" wrote:
* Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 03:19]:
cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
This is off-topic for this list, but since you mentioned it: This is not
useless usage of cat. There has to be
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:32:17PM +0200, Mike Jackson wrote:
"Robin S. Socha" wrote:
* Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 03:19]:
cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
This is off-topic for this list, but
Hi,
How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface.
for example,
eth0="203.122.222.222"
eth0:0="203.122.222.223"
How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ??
Thank You
Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:57:43PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
Hi,
How to tell qmail only listen to one sigle interface.
for example,
eth0="203.122.222.222"
eth0:0="203.122.222.223"
How to tell qmail to use eth0 only for incoming and outgoing connections ??
I answered. If
just replace defaultdelivery with "/Maildir/ and dont forget trailing "/" ,
also check the owner and permission of users home directory as well as Maildir
hope this helps
Prashant Desai
Anurag Jalan wrote:
Hi all,
I recently removed Sendmail 8.9.3 from my Redhat 6.2 system
and installed
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:48:46PM +0200, Mike Jackson wrote:
Carl wrote:
I don't have any logs to try it on but I imagine something like this would
work fine:
tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail/current | less
--Carl--
Yep, that works. Thanks..
Heh, cool. Just a guess.
I should loudly proclaim that I am NOT a software developer, nor do I play
one on TV or any mailing list. The things I think are my ideas which are
subject to change. Healthy, constructive discussions which may change
them are strongly encouraged. That said, these are some of my thoughts
Carl wrote:
I don't have any logs to try it on but I imagine something like this would
work fine:
tai64nlocal /var/log/qmail/current | less
--Carl--
Yep, that works. Thanks..
Mike
Hello
I've tested my qmail system with the following two
perl scripts, downloaded from www.qmail.org
perl qmail-qsanity-0_52
did not display anything does that mean..that my
Qmail Queue system is set right. or what does it really mean.
perl qmail-lint-0_55Warning: users/assign
checking
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:10:52AM -0500, [gill] wrote:
Is there a better list to discuss this than the qmail list?
Perhaps misc? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--Carl--
http://slackerbsd.org
PGP signature
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:38:20AM -0500, Carl wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:10:52AM -0500, [gill] wrote:
Is there a better list to discuss this than the qmail list?
Perhaps misc? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps slashpackage? http://cr.yp.to/lists.html .
--
Joost
Hi,
I have already done so.
my script is following life with qmail, I replace 0 with my smtp server
ip address. It seems only bind qmail to use that specific IP address for
incoming connection only. But for outgoing connections, qmail uses all the
interface randomly that I have on my
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:20:00PM +0800, Mark Lo wrote:
Hi,
I have already done so.
my script is following life with qmail, I replace 0 with my smtp server
ip address. It seems only bind qmail to use that specific IP address for
incoming connection only.
Of course. As I've
* Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 14:47]:
But for outgoing connections, qmail uses all the
interface randomly that I have on my machine.
That depends on your routing and has nothing to do with qmail. You cannot
specifiy an ip to bound to for qmail-remote as i have written.
And
flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today,I saw there were many messages like this in the maillog:
982653149.920320 warning: trouble opening remote/4/r
Your queue is corrupt. Did you manually remove any messages from the queue?
Get qmail-queuefix from www.qmail.org to fix this.
Thank
Why I get one remote process for each address in a
CC, if they are in the
same domain ?
Ex:
TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I get this message delivered 4 times to the same
host, x.com. Any suggestions ?
Nilo
Hello Carl
On 21-Feb-01, you wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:10:52AM -0500, [gill] wrote:
Is there a better list to discuss this than the qmail list?
Perhaps misc? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--Carl--
http://slackerbsd.org
Yes, I mentioned this to DJB as well. I think I said advocacy but a
That would be extremely dangerous, spam from anywhere would be relayed
just by forging sender's address.
The best solution for roamers' smtp is SMTP-after-POP, trust me, what
i have done is to modify the source i found on the net (Bruce Guenter's)
and i have customized it so my smtp server is
Hi all,
Is there another procedure to enable Selective SMTP relaying which is not
SMTP-after-POP?. The great problem posed by this solution is that the users
do not want to perform the manual checking of the mailbox first and send
after.
Isn't there a method to enable it by domain? That is to
* Nilo Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 16:06]:
Why I get one remote process for each address in a CC, if they are in the
same domain ?
Because that's the way qmail works.
-Johan
--
Johan Almqvist
http://www.almqvist.net/johan/qmail/
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Tim Hunter wrote:
What problems do you have using Courier with Eudora? I use it daily with
zero problems.
- Original Message -
From: "Herbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Qmail Users" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: New
Charrua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there another procedure to enable Selective SMTP relaying which is not
SMTP-after-POP?. The great problem posed by this solution is that the users
do not want to perform the manual checking of the mailbox first and send
after. Isn't there a method to
Michael Handler writes:
What's really needed in this instance is a program that, given an
execution schedule on the command line, figures out how long until the
next scheduled execution, and sleeps that long (sleepuntil).
Potential problem: clock shift (NTP resync, DST transitions)
Like Mike said, if you have a lot of client side filters Eudora will
thrash you Courier IMAP server bad.
If you want to see why switch on debugging in Courier IMAP, it seems that
Eudora pulls all messages that match the filter, and it goes through each
filter in turn, it also does some wierd UID
Robin S. Socha writes:
* Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010221 03:19]:
cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
It's not useless. It serves as a mental place-holder. It's where you
would put the grep if you needed to
Fixed.
someone had forwarded postmaster to /dev/null
and it didn't work so hundreds of snow white virus files were being dumped
in the queue a day. They weren't expiring and were causing a vicious cycle
of send, requeue, resend.
So i redirected postmaster to an email address and all the stupid
James R Grinter wrote
The list is based on .qmail with all recipients names. I was thinking to
block people from sending to his list, read a little ezmlm-idx, but
couldn't
find a satisfactory solution with it.
in .qmail-whatever:
|(validate-mail || exit 100)
#real list of stuff from
Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fixed.
someone had forwarded postmaster to /dev/null
Nasty. If you did want to do this (not that it's a good idea), the proper
way is `echo "#" ~alias/.qmail-postmaster`.
There is still a 3 minute delay in qmail when send a message to when you
receive it.
Hey All,
I've installed the qmail-qfilter and cannot get it to work. After I add the
"QMAILQUEUE" lines to my tcp.smtp and rebuild it, I send an email and get an
email back immediately saying, "No transport provider was available for
delivery to this recipient" message. There is nothing
Alex Kramarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The list is based on .qmail with all recipients names. I was thinking to
block people from sending to his list, read a little ezmlm-idx, but couldn't
find a satisfactory solution with it.
in .qmail-whatever:
|(validate-mail || exit 100)
#real list of
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:27:24 -0500 (EST)
Michael Handler writes:
What's really needed in this instance is a program that, given an
execution schedule on the command line, figures out how long until the
next scheduled execution, and sleeps
What problems do you have using Courier with Eudora? I use it daily with
zero problems.
- Original Message -
From: "Herbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Qmail Users" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: New Patch for Latest UW IMAP server
How I can configure sendmail to deliver remote
messages ?
The way remote is doing is impossible to
me.
The same message to a single host, but with carbon
copies is
sent many times.
In a 64K a 3MB message to 10 people is sent like a
30MB
message.
Nilo Menezes
read the man pages and install notes. When you compiled qmailadmin you
included flaggs to support autoresponder and ezmlm as for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
your stuck like chuck there unless you do not want to support virtual hosts.
-Original Message-
From: Yee Siew Chin [mailto:[EMAIL
Manvendra Bhangui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have already run the make check, etc and checked the permissions as per
the LWQ.
Excellent. Looks like you've done (most of) your homework.
1. When the incoming rate increases, qmail-send is unable to cope up.
The todo increases at an
In article 001001c09bc6$2f6434a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hi,
I am having a tough time migrating to qmail. I have applied the concurrency
patch and set the concurrency limit to 250. Inspite of that I do not see the
qmail-lspawn forking more than 2 or 3 processes at any given point of
Nilo Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How I can configure sendmail to deliver remote messages ?
The way remote is doing is impossible to me. The same message to a single
host, but with carbon copies is sent many times. In a 64K a 3MB message to
10 people is sent like a 30MB message.
I have already run the make check, etc and checked the permissions as per
the LWQ. I have been observing this problem on my system for more than few
days.
Following are the observations.
1. When the incoming rate increases, qmail-send is unable to cope up.
The todo increases at an alarming
I want multiple-RCPTs.
I want to configure sendmail to make
remote deliveries. How can I do that ?
Nilo Menezes
Sorry this is long, I felt it was important for me to give all these
details.
We currently have our main mx record for careercast.com pointing to
mail.careercast.com (216.39.101.230). This is our old sendmail server
which is basically a redirect box which forwards messages to ISP
accounts for
Nilo Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want multiple-RCPTs. I want to configure sendmail to make remote
deliveries. How can I do that ?
The way I read this question is you are running qmail, but are unhappy about
qmail-remote's single-RCPT delivery methods. You therefore want to
continue
qmail-smtpd doesn't log it, but qmail records it in a Received: header,
like
any other MTA does. Is this not sufficient? You could create a wrapper
around qmail-smtpd which logs this information to stdout if you like.
Actually sendmail does record this as "relay=host.domain [1.2.3.4]" in
I've tried getting qmail-scanner to work and don't seem to have much
luck as the suidperl binary won't allow the perl qmail scanner script to
run under suid root. Anyone written a suitable wrapper that the
qmail-scanner docos describe that I could pilfer?
Cheers
Chris
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:19:28AM +1300, Chris Hellberg wrote:
I've tried getting qmail-scanner to work and don't seem to have much
luck as the suidperl binary won't allow the perl qmail scanner script to
run under suid root. Anyone written a suitable wrapper that the
qmail-scanner docos
Yes. I asked, but in different ways, in different situations in my problem
solving path. I don't remember any reply from you...
The fact is that I don't have bandwidth to support 30MB transfers.
It's huge. All I want is to use qmail to receive local and internet
messages,
but deliver only local
Hi,
I have modified all the patches David Harris had to create an
uber-patch for the latest UW IMAP server.
This means you can have a secure IMAP and POP server that does only
Maildirs, without some of the problems I have been experiencing using
Courier with clients like Eudora.
link
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Russell Nelson mumbled:
Your anti-useless-use-of-cat crusade is a waste of people's time. It
comes from the old days where machine time was more important than
people time. We left those days at least five years ago.
So, just because we have
Peter Cavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I volunteered to talk about and "defend" qmail at a Linux Users' Group
meeting where there will be people speaking on 3 or 4 of the main MTAs.
I am competent in setting up and maintaining qmail, but I must say that I
am unable to respond properly to a lot
First time on this list and a qmail newbie. Please excuse my ignorance.
I have a Linux 6.2 box with qmail, bind8 and apache on it. It was installed
by a Linux consultant. It is currently in pre-production stage with very
low traffic; 30 send/receive per hour at most. My beta-testers on lan
When running the qmail script with the test flag:
ns1:/usr/src/qmail-scanner-0.95# ./qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g
Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl
ns1:/usr/src/qmail-scanner-0.95#
Cool, I've seen a solution for this in the FAQ:
snipped from FAQ
Can't do suid some perl distributions
have
Charrua escribi:
Is there another procedure to enable Selective SMTP relaying which is
not
SMTP-after-POP?.
Enrique Vadillo wrote:
The best solution for roamers' smtp is SMTP-after-POP, trust me
I believe authenticated SMTP works best. The majority of email clients
support it now, and
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:49:06PM -0800, JK wrote:
I have a Linux 6.2 box with qmail, bind8 and apache on it. It was installed
by a Linux consultant. It is currently in pre-production stage with very
low traffic; 30 send/receive per hour at most. My beta-testers on lan
complain of two
I encountered this problem not long ago and it was fixed by implementing a
split DNS. I would recommend you look into split DNS and see how it would
help your mail system resolve the name of the clients.
-Original Message-
From: Kris Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:46:26AM -0800, Rick Updegrove wrote:
Since I do not have a init.d directory in OpenBSD and it seems everything is
started from rc.conf and rc.local in OpenBSD how am I to follow LWQ?
I recently set up an openbsd 2.8 box LWQ-style. The 'qmail' script that
is
Hi.
I'm not sure if this helps but if you have another qmail server on the other
end of the link you could set up an alias on the other server that is simply
a distribution list. That way only one copy of the mail goes across the link
and the qmail server on the other side can then deliver
Dear Charles Cazabon
You can either use queue-fix to replace/fix the (non-existent?) queue, or
restore from your backups and THEN use queue-fix to fix the queue.
You can't just restore from tape; files in the queue are named based on the
inodes they reside on. Restoring from tape will
"Davi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/22/01 12:02p.m.
On Wednesday 21 February 2001 19:19, you wrote:
I've tried getting qmail-scanner to work and don't seem to have much
luck as the suidperl binary won't allow the perl qmail scanner script
to
run under suid root. Anyone written a suitable wrapper
Dear qmail
I have fix the queue using queue-fix. It unlinked some file under
/var/qmail/queue/remote,
but now I still can see the Warning messages in the maillog? Is there something wrong?
Another question(that is also why I removed the queue), I have noticed for days,now
it becomes
Hi all,
Thanks to many on the list , most of my questions have been answered !
My office Lan has a fictitious domain, adventus.cxm . Qmail runs on
server.adventus.cxm ( IP = 192.168.1.254 ) . The firewall / gateway machine
( IP= 192.168.32.1 ) is connected to the Net over ISDN dialup.
We wish
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:22:06PM -0400, Nilo Menezes wrote:
I want multiple-RCPTs.
I want to configure sendmail to make
remote deliveries. How can I do that ?
This is a qmail list, not a sendmail list. If you want help configuring
sendmail, you're in the wrong place.
Chris
This has to be something simple but I've been banging my
head against it for a couple of hours and can't get
anywhere. If this is covered in the FAQ, INSTALL or man
files, I either can't find it or am misunderstanding it.
The situation:
I have a small home network. I have a designated
Enrique, which is the change you have made to the code? I suppose that
what you do is that if the IP from which the user connects itself belongs
to users which do not move you do not use SMTP after POP, if it is a
different IP you use SMTP after POP. Is this so?
Thanks
Andres
It is using tcpserver. Could be ident queries. The firewall is wide-open
for outbound, but inbound, only smtp dns are allowed. I'll play with the
firewall setting to see if it makes a diff! Thanks for the input.
jean
-Original Message-
From: Kris Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
JK wrote:
1. From the time Send is clicked in Netscape 4.75 on NT, and the
completion takes 15-20 seconds...
2. Some of the Netscape users complain that they frequently get error
message indicating that there may be network problem or server may have
closed the connection.
Can someone
Hi All,
I have a new LINUX mechine. It will dedicated to used for email
server. The Old Email-Server is M$-Exchange. Is there any solutions
to migrate all the mailboxes and email-accounts from MS-Exchange to
Qmail and it will not impact to "user-site". So the users does't have
to modify anything
Thanks for the suggestion, Chris. Yes, I am running tcpserver. DNS-wise,
the box has very basic DNS records, just enough to know itself. The
forwarder is set to isp's name server which is one hop away. This is a lone
Linux in a predominantly NT environment and I am trying to tansition some
sorry for this question,
how to log rblsmtpd conversation in to /var/log/qmail or other place?
I have two tcpserver processes running, one with -v -p -x switches and the
other with -H -R. I don't see -l.
jean
-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 3:56 PM
To: JK
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Slow connection on
Split DNS refers to internal external? Currently, only internal addresses
have been entered. Is split DNS complicated?
thanks,
jean
-Original Message-
From: Campos Mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:05 PM
To: 'Kris Kelley'; QMail Mailing List
Hello
I've tested my qmail system with the following two
perl scripts, downloaded from www.qmail.org
perl qmail-qsanity-0_52
did not display anything does that mean..that my
Qmail Queue system is set right. or what does it really mean.
perl qmail-lint-0_55Warning: users/assign
checking
Andy Meuse wrote
I've installed the qmail-qfilter and cannot get it to work. After I add
the
"QMAILQUEUE" lines to my tcp.smtp and rebuild it, I send an email and get
an
email back immediately saying, "No transport provider was available for
delivery to this recipient" message.
1. I suspect
This has to be something simple but I've been banging my
head against it for a couple of hours and can't get
anywhere. If this is covered in the FAQ, INSTALL or man
files, I either can't find it or am misunderstanding it.
The situation:
I have a small home network. I have a designated server,
* Kris Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rick Updegrove wrote:
Since I do not have a init.d directory in OpenBSD and it seems
everything is started from rc.conf and rc.local in OpenBSD how am I
to follow LWQ?
I may be way off base here, having never used OpenBSD, but couldn't
you create
From: Martin Akesson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:00:40 +0100
So, just because we have faster computers we should make programs that
are not as efficient as they "used" to be? Your filosofy is pretty much
what Microsoft is working on and I for one do not like it. If you
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