Re: RELAYCLIENT

Am 27.07.2001 um 14:35:17 schrieb Michele Schiavo: Hi Michele, Who i can set up qmail to accept e-mail from a secific client? depends on how you have setup qmail. I have RedHat 7.0 and qmail. I try to use the file /etc/hosts.allow for insert the list of my client you can specify a group

Re: Where's a good place to put a script to filter every mail

Am 26.07.2001 um 14:17:22 schrieb Noel Mistula: Hi, http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2001/03/msg01041.html wouldn't this script just spread a virus as the one that we now all know very good over a mailinglist? If so, how could one avoid this? tia /ch -- Contrary to

who should get postmaster mails?

Hi, Who should get mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Is it someone in the organization that owns the domain e.g. postmaster could be an alias to webmaster? Or should the postmaster of every hosted domain point to the administrator of the mailsever? tia /ch

mini-qmail with smtp

Hi, in a small network I want to have one qmail machine where all the clients can send their mails via smtp. This machine then will forward the mails via smtp to the smarthost of my provider. If I got it rigt, much of a normal qmail installation is not needed because no local delivery is

Re: Using fetchmail with qmail

Am 20.05.2001 um 12:31:16 schrieb Alexandre Goncalves Jacaranda: Hi everybody, How can I use fetchmail program with qmail ? To fetch mail from a qmail server via pop3/imap fetchmail works right out of the box. To fetch mail and deliver it local into maildirs getmail might be the right approach.

Re: authenticate Roaming Users

Am 15.05.2001 um 13:06:16 schrieb Tony Vickers: Hi Tony, What is the most practical way to allow users to rely mail after they authenticate? either one of the smtp-auth patches from qmail.org or without patching smtp-after-pop (I recommend relay-ctrl from Bruce Guenter). /ch

Re: HELP - newbie

Am 12.05.2001 um 08:14:41 schrieb Pavel Sorejs: Hi Pavel, I Using qmail with MySQL I did everything in LifeWithQMAIL afaik LWQ does not talk about MySQL, does it? As it seems that you do not have long-time experience with qmail it might make sense to follow LWQ *EXACTLY* to get a plain

Re: smtp auth. question through vmailmgr

Am 08.05.2001 um 10:24:54 schrieb Evgeni Dobrev: Hi Evgeni, Is there a posibility to enable smtp authentication through the vmailmgr? not with the standard setup. The problem is that vmailmgr stores the user-database in different home-directories, so you must have root-access to read them.

delete old mails

Hi, quite a while ago I read about a script that checks a maildir and deletes any mail that is older than a specified time (e.g. 30 days). I can not find it anymore :-(. any hints tia /ch

sender Domain

HI, is there a way to only accept Mails that have one of my local/virtual Domains either as sender or as recepient? I do not want to make relaying based on this because I use smtp-auth and there it is possible to send mails to otherdomain1.tld as sender otherdomain2.tld. I just want to prevent

Re: open BSD

Am 03.05.2001 um 14:27:02 schrieb Essy Ren: Hi, Can I use qmail in open BSD ? yes. Afaik it is the system Dan uses himself. /ch

qmail PAM

Hi, at the moment I am using the standard unix authentication (/etc/passwd). One system-user for each Domain (vmailmgr). Now I plan to switch to pam but I did not find anything about how I could integrate qmail. I would prefer it to have the mail-users in a special file/database. Sow do I have

synchronize two maildirs

Hi, is there a common way to synchronize two maildirs? These are two qmail-servers that both only offer imap to the outside. One is a dialin proxy. I had a look at Michael Elkins' isync but if I got it right it only works if you use mutt as direct client and it might not work if the mails are

Re: Migrating from sendmail to qmail... help

Am 04.02.2001 um 16:31:12 schrieb Ross Burton: Hi Ross, I have installed qmail alongside sendmail and have tested it according to the install documents. However, I do not know how to stop it sending mails to remote addresses every time it gets a message. How can I make qmail replicate the

Re: Qmail on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

Am 04.02.2001 um 18:07:15 schrieb Bruce Dang: Hi Bruce What is wrong with qmail on FreeBSD 4.2? I don't know. I installed it from the ports. Before that I patched it with the smtp-auth patch. After installation I made some adjustments to have it run LWQ-like. I did not run into any

bind qmail-smtp to one IP-adress

Hi I have a machine with several IP-adresses assigned to it. I installed qmail with LWQ. Now I want qmail to "listen" just on one IP. At the moment I can connect on any IP. What about pop3d? Here I would like to achive the same thing. Thanks in advance. /ch

qmail license

Hi, this might seem like a stupid question but I really *did* bother quite a while with the subject before asking here. Someone else asked me what exactly the qmail license ist about. So I was looking for "the license". I searched LWQ and google but everything I found is a statement about

Re: qmail license

Am 26.01.2001 um 08:39:04 schrieb Charles Cazabon: Hi Charles, this might seem like a stupid question but I really *did* bother quite a while with the subject before asking here. Except that this has been discussed to death many times in the past on the list. perhaps it might be an

alias domain

Hi, I want to have an alias domain for an existing domain. I have several mail users for my existiung domain and want to use the same users on my new domain. E.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] shold automatically be accessible via [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I do this by just adding the new domain to

qlogtools compile - error

Hi, while trying to compile Bruce's qlogtools-package on my FreeBSD-Box I get the error-message: gcc -g -o -multitail gcc: No input files specified *** Error code 1 gmake is installed. any hints? /ch

Re: qlogtools compile - error

Am 20.01.2001 um 12:01:10 schrieb Clemens Hermann: Hi, sorry, I used the wrong make but now it does not work anyway: gmake: *** No rules to make target 'qlogselect', needed by 'all'. Stop. what is wrong? on my Debian it compiles perfect but not under FreeBSD /ch

Re: qmail problem ?

Am 20.01.2001 um 23:41:01 schrieb NDSoftware: Hi Nicolas What is qmail concurrency ? it is a non-standard control file introduced in LifeWithQmail. It is used in the tcpserver call. It specifies the maximum numbers of the qmail-smtpd processes that can run simultaniously. If not specified

Re: qmail-queue

Am 20.01.2001 um 22:05:42 schrieb NDSoftware: Hi, Hi Nicolas, Can you send me a qmail-queue patched for use with qmail-scanner, why don't we try to get it to run on your computer? It might not be a good idea to take a program from someone you do not know, sent to you per mail. You can

Re: qmail problem ?

Am 21.01.2001 um 00:19:14 schrieb Henning Brauer: Hi Henning, What is qmail concurrency ? it is a non-standard control file wrong. there are concurrencylocal and concurrencyremote, both standard control files. sorry, I mixed up concurrency and concurrencyincomming. Taken this, at

Re: who rotates the logs?

Am 18.01.2001 um 14:31:26 schrieb Dave Sill: Hi Dave, yes I have and it is *exactly* what I need, but if I did not misread the docu, isoqlog uses syslog and I really would like to keep this away from syslog. Argh. You're right. I assumed it was based on multilog since syslog sucks so

LWQ - Which log contains what?

Hi, I want to evaluate the logs that are generated within ma LWQ-Setup. I am not really sure which log directory contains what. /var/loq/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd As one might guess the smtpd directory might contain any message that enters or leaves the mailserver via smtp, right? But what is

who rotates the logs?

Hi, who rotates the logs when using multilog? I did not find a manpage for multilog. I want to avoid the automatic rotation and rotate the logs my own. qmail is installed as described in LWQ. thanks /ch

Re: who rotates the logs?

Am 18.01.2001 um 05:04:35 schrieb tc lewis: Hi Tc, not much reason to use multilog if you're not going to use its rotation features, I just use it because I want to stay as close as possible with LWQ. unless you're using other features it possesses, like pattern matching or something. i

Re: who rotates the logs?

Am 18.01.2001 um 09:02:52 schrieb Dave Sill: Hi Dave, I just use [multilog] because I want to stay as close as possible with LWQ. I think it's more important to use a configuration that does what you want than to use any particular "standard" configuration. so far it did what I wanted

Re: who rotates the logs?

Am 18.01.2001 um 11:29:44 schrieb Matthew Patterson: Hi Matthew, THE REASON THAT WE USE OPEN SYSTEMS IS BECAUSE IT MEANS WE ARE NOT RESTRICTED BY SOMEONE ELSE'S DECISIONS. You are perfectly right. But qmail and its relatives are a rather complex building if you really try to understand every

LWQ and timestamp

Hi, I installed qmail as described in LWQ. As I try to evaluate the logs with qmail analog I run into trouble because multilog does not have the timestamps needed by qmailanalog. Can I just replace any multilog entry with splogger or is this no good idea? Can I create the timestamps in multilog

qmailanalog scripts

Hi, did anyone make the attemt to get the output of qmailanalog in a webpage. I think of kind of report-page where you get a short monthly summary for each local/virtual domain (how many messages, how many Megs, etc.) If there is nothing like this around, would anyone else be interested in such

synchronize 2 Maildirs

Hi, I have two computers (qmail, vmailmgr) which should synchronize their Maildirectories once one hour. One of the computers (The authorative Mailserver) has a permanent Internet connection and the other one (office) has a dialin ISDN connection. The users shall be able to poll mails from the

Re: smtp-auth problem

Am 19.12.2000 um 10:08:05 schrieb Clemens Hermann: Hi, Problem solved, /bin/true is /usr/bin/true in FreeBSD ;-) thanks for the help /clemens

accept only mails from or for local domain

Hi, my config is: FreeBSD 4.2, qmail 1.03, smtp-auth. my problem: I do not want my users to use a different "From-domain". Some people use their businnes-account for (heavy-traffic) private mail exchange. They simply replace their "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in their private

smtp-auth problem

Hi, I am having some trouble setting up Krzysztof Dabrowski's SMTP-AUTH patch with qmail. I applied the smtp-auth patch and it run through without errors. I compiled qmail out of the ports collection af FreeBSD 4.2 and according to LWQ. qmail itsself seems to run o.k. (I tested it with telnet

necessary patches?

Hi, now I have been using qmail for several months and I am quite satisfied. I change my server HW and for this and some other reasons I reinstall my System from scratch (FreeBSD 4.2). I have been digging around in the qmail.org page to find out which patches are needed for me. I was really

html log evaluation

Hi, is there a package out there which produces qmail HTML-statistics from the logfiles? I have had a look at qmailmrtg but it does not semm to be what I am looking for. I have several virtual mail-domains and the most importent number I need is the complete traffic per virtual domain per month

Re: error compiling qmail Suse 6.4

Hi Hans-Jürgen, wrong with it? Do you got any ideas? no I don't. I am running qmail under SuSE 6.4. I installed it according to LWQ. If you want I can send you my compiled qmail via e-mail which hopefully runs on your SuSE. Furthermore you might have a look on Erwin Hoffmanns website for more

Re: SPAM - Help!

Hi Tim, Well if he was denying the spammers ip it would stop any incoming mail, as I understood this is not a problem at all. The spamer uses a different smtp server (perhaps his own serer ;-) but fakes the FROM: tag so that bounces are directed to Ari's mailserver. For short there is no way

Re: Qmail Basics

Hi Daniel I was faced the same problem two months ago and I was provided with great help from the list. My big problems were problems in the config files. Especially your tcp-server problems seem to occur for this reason. So I sent you my startup script for tcpserver. I have the same

roaming user

Hi, my probem is a bit hard to describe, I hope I will make it :) 2 Mailservers, both qmail. One ist the "official" mailserver for the domain, always online, official IP-adress. The other server is an inhouse Mail-Proxy with dial on demand net-access. At the moment the official mailserver

Re: roaming user

Hi Petr, I thought of a setup similar to what you described. It is no problem when there is some delay in mail delivery and it is also no problem when there gets mail downloaded for another 10 minutes after the user has "gone home". Well, I would solve the problem differently. I'd start up

comparison vmailmgr - inter7

Hi, there are two packages on the net fulfilling my needs - vmailmgr and the inter7 suite. Could one say that one of the two is "better"? So fare I use the "Bruce Guenther way" for virtual mailusers but not his package (only "natural" qmail) and I am really satisfied. Now I need to choose one of

several patches

Hello again, first of all, thanks once again to all of you who provided me with a large variety of very helpful information yestarday. At the moment I am looking at quite a hand full of qmail patches I would like to use. May there occur problems combinig different patches which run great if

best combination

Hi, I am running qmail without any problems. No I want to install it on a second server and need some more features. The features do exist all and can be found on qmail.org but some tools seem not to work together with others, etc. It would be great if someone who in running a qmail-server

log database

Hi now I have been running qmail fore a while. The logs keep on growing, the mail-traffic increases. It now becomes necessary to evaluate the logs to know who produced how much traffic. There will be some thousand pop users and so I guess it might be a really good idea to put all the logs in a

Re: log database

? Thanks for any hint. Clemens Sean - Original Message - From: Bill Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Clemens Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: qmail mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: Re: log database On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Clemens Hermann

Re: assign multiple users

Hello again, I really would appreciate it if someone could give me a short hint conderning my problem because I should continue adding some mail users. If there is no solution to the problem the way I want it it would also help me to know that it is impossible. In this case I really would

assign multiple users

Hi, I do all my qmail mailadress-configuration via the /users/assign file. Is it possible to get all mails to a specified adresse delivered to two mailboxes? I know there are possibilities e.g. .qmail files but I really would love it to be able to configure it in my assign file. The only thing I

Re: Pop3 for qmail

Hi, Any startup script that is guaranteed to start when your system starts Most people will stick it in the /etc/rc.d file should qmail be started first or tcp server? tanks Clemens

mail size - mailbox quota

Hi, I am using qmail with virtual users. Now I have two questions: 1. what is the best way to set a quota on the boxes? I would appreciate it if there was a "centralized" way so that I would not be forced to put a .quata file in any mailbox. 2. how can I set a maximum limit for incomming

costumizing messages

Hi, is there a way to customize the messages qmail sends? For emample to add some lines in the language the recipients are most like expected to speak? I think of messages like this: *** Hi. This is the qmail-send program at

Re: mail size - mailbox quota

Hi Charles, No, the system can't enforce it per-user if they aren't system users. Are you using a virtual domain manager package, like vmailmgr? It has recently added quota-checking on a per-user basis. no, I simply set it up as Paul gregg described it in his howto. How can I solve the

Re: password database

Hi, Gjermund Thanks for your offer to help me, Chris led me in his postiong to an existing package which fits exactly my needs. Today, my server has roughly one million mail accounts and my current password authentication scheme is a bit more sophisticated, but that's another story. If you

Thanks to all of you

Hi, thanks to anybody who helped me this time. Finally I chose Chris' suggestion because it was exactly what I needed and what ran out of the box with my existing setup By the way, I think now it is time to point out that I am really thankful for the great help I received from many of you

Re: assign problem supplemental

Hi, Hi, Your virtualdomains shouldn't be in your ./control/local file ... it isn't ;-) thanks for the hint ...Ken Clemens P.S. the problem is solved ;-)

password database

Hi, how can I use a password database instead of a textfile to authenticate pop-users in qmail? There are some solutions I have seen, but I am using the singel-user-id way described by Paul Gregg. Therefore I am using his suggested version of checkpoppasswd

Re: assign problem

Clemens, Hi Andrew, I think the answer to your problem is to change the line in your users/assign, +domain-com:username:uid:gid:userhomedir::: to, +domain-com:username:uid:gid:userhomedir:-:: hmmm, the "+domain-com:username:uid:gid:userhomedir:::" version works fine. the

assign problem supplemental

Hi, seems as If my description did not get the point of my problem. Give me a second try: My /var/qmail/users/assign is this +allesrabe-de:popuser:500:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/allesrabe-de/helmut::: =haribeau:popuser:500:100:/var/qmail/popboxes/linuxlupe-de/haribeau:::

Re: assign problem supplemental

Hi Andrew, checking again and again the issues mentioned in your great and detailled help instructions now the problem is solved. I even do not know what finally caused the problem ;-). Everything seems to work now as I wanted it to. Thanks again for your effort Clemens

assign problem

Hi, I have been working on a strange qmail-assign Problem the whole night and hope someone can help me ;-) qmail runs and works fine all lines in qmail/control/virtualdomains are like this: domain1.com:domain1-com domain2.com:domain2-com domain3.com:domain3-com ... my problem is located in

relay-ctrl

Hi, after having successfully set up qmail I really start loving it ;-). The only way to get it secure for my purpose seemed to be a smtp after Pop implementation. So I downloaded the relay-ctrl-2.0.tar.gz package and installed it as described. I changed the following lines in defines.h:

alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

Hi Does anyone have an Idea where the message in the Subject could result from? I am working on getting up qmail on a SuSE system for 2 weeks now and this one last problem seems to kill my effort. I asked for help in comp.mail.misc, the SuSE groups and here some days ago but nobody could help

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

Hello Clemens, Hi Erwin thanks for your help Show us your process table: ps -aux | grep qmail before qmail start the output is as follows: username 767 0.0 0.3 1264 504 pts/0 S 14:18 0:00 grep qmail after the qmail start root 775 0.0 0.1 1012 308 pts/0S14:21 0:00

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

Hi, the error is up again. I rebooted, rebooted without starting qmail before, nothing works. Whenever i start qmail (qmail start) it seems to start o.k srvscan and loging and 2 seconds later the well nown error message (see subject) is repeated over and over. There still is no qmail-send

Re: alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

Hi Petr thanks for assisting me solving the problem. What command exactly do you use to spawn qmail? (I mean, you're obviously using svscan and supervise; yes, I made everything 100% as described in Dave Sills Life with qmail. There it is described that way ;-) what does the DIR/run file

starting smail-send

Hi, I installed qmail as described in Dave Sills LWQ from the tarball on a SuSE Linux 6.4 machine. After playing around quite a while qmail almost runs but I have one last problem: when qmail starts I still get the following message: Starting qmail: svscan. 2 seconds later there comes the

Re: starting qmail-send

Hi, What does your startup script look like? My guess is that it has an '' at the end of it. If it does, take it out. That is my script: #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from