Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?

2000-05-17 Thread Dave Sill
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) to work using roaming users. One of the suggestions in the FAQ (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) suggests this:

Re: qmail-queue, URGENT!

2000-05-16 Thread Dave Sill
Jorge Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May 16 16:21:05 lx1 qmail: 958504865.479739 delivery 38: deferral: Connected_to_200.246.122.250_but_connection_died._Possible_duplicate!_(#4.4.2)/ After 3 days the message is bounced, but i already checked the remote server and there are no error!

Re: Backup

2000-05-16 Thread Dave Sill
Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Newbie, this is my first time to use qmail server, So that I don't know what do I have to backup for qmail. Please point me out what do I have to backup for qmail in a daily backup operations. (also running pop and smtp at the same box) Back up

Re: Usage for Maildrop or Promcmail

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know the usage of Maildrop?? It's a Message Delivery Agent (MDA) that takes a message from the Message Transfer Agent (MTA), qmail in our case, and delivers it according to the user's instructions. Maildrop, like procmail, has powerful tools for

Re: What is wrong, then?

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I've opened the inetd.conf and found this at the bottom: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd All of that line is on one line. Is this how it should be for Qmail? No, you need a space after the last

Re: MailDrop or Procamail

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know whether i should use procmail or maildrop for qmail, actuallly, which one comes with more support and documentation. and most importantly, easier to use. Ease of use and quantity of documentation are comparable, but procmail is far more

Re: spool vs individual files

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
"Michael Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're currently looking at mail solutions for our online email system, and we've hit against an interesting conundrum. We were wondering what the advantages are to listing mail messages as individual files over a spool file? The choice is

Re: tcpserver error message in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following error message repeated every minute. I've checked and rechecked my D. Sill bible and all "seems" to be correct. I can send and receive email fine. Allow relay for remote hosts works properly also. tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure

Re: Auto Resolve sender's domain

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
Mark Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will qmail automatically resolve sender's domain for valid DNS?? You mean reject mail if the sender's domain doesn't resolve? No, but I think there's a patch to do that. -Dave

Re: running qmail smtpd at a different port

2000-05-12 Thread Dave Sill
"Chester Chee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to run qmail smtpd at a different port. I have used the setup method specified in Dave Sill (Live with Qmail). And I am not sure how to tell qmail-smtpd to listen to a different port... Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Re: What does this mean? unable to parse

2000-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lopera wrote: :Follow the intructions contents in the qmail-howto.html to compile the :rules file: /etc/tcp.stmp. :tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp When I go to the directory "/usr/local/bin" and type your suggestion: ./tcprules

Re: Virtual Domain Error

2000-05-11 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am tring to develop an email virtual domain. So, I follow the example from lwq. I have put a new domain which is called "3dsources.com" in /control/rphosts and /control/vitualdomains. and in the virtualdomains file I put a line like that "3dsources.com:local"

RE: qmail cdb problem

2000-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, when I try to enter the second line(/usr/local/sbin/qmail) I get this message: "bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory." See: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1200/fid/223/lang/en Which almost certainly contains the fix

Re: FW: Help with overwhelmed system

2000-05-10 Thread Dave Sill
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:02:39PM -0400, Brad Johnson wrote: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/wd0s1e396895 121201 24394333% 99832 6 100% /var 4) Fix the filesystem

Re: Manual for Qmail.

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed qmail successfully. But when i use the command "man qmail", it just show up a little details about qmail. Where can i download the official and fully explained function about man page. Oh...I have read a mail regarding the man page of qmail, that

Re: qmail cdb problem

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In one of the steps on "Life With Qmail" it suggests this: "Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP: echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' /etc/tcp.smtp /usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb" The first line (starting with echo) worked.. but the second line (starting with

Re: Manage QMail Queue manually

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My purpose is send mail not immediately, but I would that the messages stay in the queue for a few time. I would that when a ISDN router comes up, the "E-Mail start". In actual scenario, every time that I send a message the router comes up!!! Déjà vu...

Re: Manage QMail Queue manually

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, but my problem is on the serialmail... Can you be more specific? The method I proposed *does* work if properly configured. -Dave

Re: How do i unsubscribe

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
First, ask your Internet Provider to mail you an Unsubscribing Kit. Then follow these directions. The kit will most likely be the standard no-fault type. Depending on requirements, System A and/or System B can be used. When operating System A, depress lever and a plastic dalkron unsubscriber

Re: need qmail setup help

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
John Stile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: delivery 82: deferral: Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 I created ~username/Maildir/ I created a link from /var/spool/mail/jstile to ~jstile/Maildir/ (I assumed Maildir is a directory based on it's name, but it

Re: Denying mail for a specific user

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
Jerry Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am receiving alot of spam to an account which has since been disabled on my machine, how do i reject mail sent to this address without causing it to bounce to postmaster? You can't reject it during the SMTP dialogue, so your best bet is to throw it in the

Re: How do you do it?

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: I have a full "real life", which is why I don't always respond quickly to list questions. Does it perchance involve empty beer bottles : See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/beer.html Or, for

Re: I get this message when I telnet in

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following message when I telnet in grep: /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc: No such file or directory I thought I followed Dave Sill's instructions carefully in Life with Qmail and the Install instructions in the source package. Obviously, I missed

Re: I get the following message when I telnet in

2000-05-09 Thread Dave Sill
Eric Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following message when I telnet in grep: /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc: No such file or directory Wait a minute...you get that when you telnet to port 25? That's not good... No, just telnet in on port 23. The message is displayed as if it were

Re: .qmail questions

2000-05-08 Thread Dave Sill
Jonathan McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:20:25PM -0700, Chris Hanlon wrote: Is there anyway to restrict which users/groups can execute commands via the | option in there .qmail file? I realise that the problem could be solved by not giving users access to the

Re: QMail Performance Question Miscellaneous Issues

2000-05-08 Thread Dave Sill
"Bryan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any feel for how to evaluate what is an optimum number of remotes? Measure the delivery rate at various settings of concurrencyremote. Choose the setting that yields the highest delivery rate. At 400 remotes I still have 80% CPU idle time.

Re: More than 120 concurrencyremote

2000-05-08 Thread Dave Sill
"Ricardo D. Albano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm tunning a high volume smtp server, I'm trying to get more than 120 remote delivery simultaneos, I touched the control file "concurrencyremote " with the value 300, but remote procs. don't go more than 120. there is a "hardcoded" limit

Re: Alias file

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
Mario Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi :), I have several questions I have an /var/spool/mail/alias file that is getting bigger and bigger each moment, what it's is purpose?, It's the user "alias"'s mailbox. It's sometimes where root/postmaster mail ends up. I have taken a lookt

Re: qmail abuse...

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Luke Chiam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect someone is sending bulk mail using our qmail server, as we are getting a lot of rebounced mail and delivery failure notice. A spammer might be sending stuff out with your domain in the envelope return path. That would cause bounces to come to you

Re: Global filtering

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
Bennett Samowich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does qmail have the ability to implement global filters. I know that I can put procmail lines in each users .qmail file, but that seems like alot of work. qmail doesn't have a filtering mechanism built in, but one can be constructed pretty easily using

Re: qmail won't start!?

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Isaiah Chua" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I didn't give enough info. The init scripts are in my /etc/rc.d/init.d dir and softlinked to the various /etc/rcx.d directories. I'm using RH6.2, and used the RPM package to first compile the src then installed it using rpm. By "nothing happens" do

Re: How do I invoke the qmail-users Mechanism ??

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Tony D'Andrade" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I dont understand how to invoke the qmail-users system. I have a server and /var/qmail/users/ is empty. I would like to be able to use the "assign" mechanism. How do i do this ? I tried to run qmail-pw2u but it just seems to hang forever. Did

Re: Future of qmail: will it care about viri/worms/etc?

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Keith Warno" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The continued discussions about the "love bug" and qmail "hacks" for dealing with it have me disturbed. I won't knock djb; the man needs to write an OS one of these days. :) However there should be no need to "hack" qmail to get it to filter unwanted

Re: Qmail-send

2000-05-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Eric Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can only send out 22 messages from remote queue at once and when the server has finished delivering those 22 it does not queue up to deliver any more. We have over 8,000 message in our remote queue and sending qmail-send an -ALRM does not get it to

Re: Making progress

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Bolivar Diaz Galarza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail-pop3d is installed in my computer, my problem is how do I configure it to deliver from Maildir instead of mbox (right now it works with mbox)? qmail-pop3d *only* does maildir's. If you're seeing mbox's, you're not using qmail-pop3d. -Dave

Re: accustamp|tailocal|matchup

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I'm really confused. Here's the path that logs go thru on my machine: qmail - accustamp - tailocal If I'm disabling tailocal, then my logs ARE suitable for qmailanalog, so why do I need to run my logs thru tai64nfrac if everything works fine in this case?

Re: No retry and no bounce?

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I setup email to ignore all messages that cannot be delivered, i.e., even not to bother the re-delievery and bounce? Setting queuelifetime to 0 should prevent all retries. Disabling bounces will require hacking the code, but it should be trivial. -Dave

Re: Another question on mailboxes

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Isaiah Chua" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting this error message when trying to send mails to my new qmail server at the office: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.twc-sg.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error;

Re: Send retries

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When and how often tries qmail to resend a mail to a specific recipient after a delivery failure? Where can I find this information? http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#retry-schedule -Dave

Re: qmail-unsubscribe

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Try sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Dave

Re: qmail won't start!?

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Isaiah Chua" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The init scripts are in, In what/where? And what's in them? And what platform are you using? and I even tried starting it from the command line, but nothing happens. By "nothing happens" do you mean that the script runs but doesn't output anything, runs

Re: Emergency with the queue

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
clifford thurber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a user who is spamming. Is there a way to stop qmail # qmail stop (LWQ) # killall qmail-send (Linux, IRIX, *not* Solaris) # ps -ef|grep qmail-send # kill [PID of qmail-send] and delete everything from the queue? # find /var/qmail/queue -type

Re: Delivers and retrieves...

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
"Bolivar Diaz Galarza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /var/qmail/rc file looks like this: #! /bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|dot-forward .forward ./Maildir/' So default delivery is to ./Maildir/ --barring existence of a .forward for .qmail file. My /etc/skel looks

Re: Setup of local delivery fastforward (newbie question)

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Mikhail Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is it possible (and how) to setup Qmail and fastforward for work with /bin/mail as a local delivery agent *and* to deliver all the mail messages (sent to particular user - to blah, for example) - to the pipe like

Re: accustamp|tailocal|matchup

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just store the logs in there accustamp or multilog form and convert them to localtime ONLY when you need to look at them. Because we look at them too often :) So what? Do you have a quota on the number of times tailocal can be run? -Dave

Re: Two Delivered-To headers - Why ?

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are two headers, how does a mail server (say running in a remote place in an intranet) identify to whom it is sent to ? Or is it "legal" to have more than one delivered-to header ? There can be as many Delivered-To fields as necessary. What's "illegal" is two

Re: accustamp|tailocal|matchup

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is some automagical solution that could be used with lessopen.sh, or something else? It's of course possible to create an alias or whatever, but that also has an annoyance factor greater than the simplest form, since you'd need to use a

Re: Two Delivered-To headers - Why ?

2000-05-04 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But only one delivered-to is generated if i use vpopmail ! So what? That means vpopmail deliveries only take a single delivery. Some deliveries require two, three, ... If i create an alias .qmail-alias by myself from the command line i have this two deliv.to header

Re: qmail's sendmail

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
"J.M. Roth \(iip\)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok well, what do you mean with "mimic sendmail". A customer asked me to point out to him all the options of our mail sending tool for use in his cgi progs. I'm not sure what to say... # grep usage: sendmail.c substdio_putsflush(subfderr,"sendmail:

Re: Mail purge

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
Mulindwa Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dave Sill wrote: Mulindwa Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an interesting scenerion, whereby I send mail to user and the mail is not in the user's mailbox, what do U think could be the problem, and also when I check

Re: Out of memory error??

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realise that it is a memory leak - but how can it be fixed??? 1) You can analyze the source code of the patch, identify the leak, and fix it, 2) You can ask the author of the patch if he's aware of the problem and/or has a fix, or 3) You can hire a competant

Re: Newbie setting up aliases

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I really mean is I can't send out mail remotely... say to my mother-in-law for instance. Right, and you think that's a *problem*? :-) But seriously, what happens when you try to send remote mail? What Do The Logs Say(tm)? -Dave

Re: Error Message..

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
Mario Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anybody help me with this error message?... I DONT know what the problem is.. :( May 3 03:05:56 svr1 qmail: 957315956.028582 new msg 205816 May 3 03:05:56 svr1 qmail: 957315956.061896 info msg 205816: bytes 7612 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 2314

Re: qmail-remote crashed

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I just installed qmail, How? Source RPM, source tarball, or binary RPM? And if I try to execute qmail-remote by hand, I get a seg. fault, no core dumped. That's bad, especially if that binary was built on that system. qmail-remote is not known to crash. -Dave

Re: Web front-end to mail service

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone just asked a very interesting question but has not received a definitive answer: Is there a web based front-end (read "Can Isend receive mail for mail accounts") for qmail? That's not the question they asked, which tacked on "that doesn't require password

Re: Three questions...

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
Gareth Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) His first requirement was to only allow relaying if the user had one of his hosted domains as the From: line of an email. I think there's a patch. Check the archives and www.qmail.org. 2) Is there a web front end available that doesn't require logging

Re: Out of memory error??

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 512MB of memory and 1GB SWAP on a solaris 7 system running on a quad 333MZ SPARC system?? How can it be out of memory!!! Easy: 1.5 GB is not infinite. Please can anyone explain??? Use the tools your OS provides to see what's using memory. Until you've

Re: Newbie setting up aliases

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problems fetching my mail with fetchmail but the only way I seem to be able to get my mail is if I put a .qmail-default file in ~alias/. Any other filename I use eg .qmail-netnet or .qmail-nobhead or .qmail-bobski ... don't work whether I put them in my

Re: Out of memory error??

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 512MB of memory and 1GB SWAP on a solaris 7 system running on a quad 333MZ SPARC system?? How can it be out of memory!!! Easy: 1.5 GB is not infinite. Please can anyone explain??? Use the tools your OS

Re: Web front-end to mail service

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill also pointed out that any web front end tool, like sqwebmail, requires the use of mbox format in a central spool directory No, I said qmail could also work with sendmail-oriented web interfaces that use mboxes in a central spool. -Dave

Re: Mail purge

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
Mulindwa Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an interesting scenerion, whereby I send mail to user and the mail is not in the user's mailbox, what do U think could be the problem, and also when I check in the maillog I see an error msg saying :

Re: Easy question

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
"Derek Watson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a simple, one-domain environment, is it necessary to have anything more than (in my case) "elyrium.com" in my control/rcpthosts and control/locals file? Maybe. The reason I ask for advice is -- every once in a while I run into problems, for

Re: Can it be done?

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
Guillermo Villasana Cardoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one Internet IP address .. which I use for my firewall behind the firewall I have several internal servers... The problem is that each server will be a different web and mail server... eg. mailserver1.domain.com mailserver2.domain.com

Re: Understanding How To Use qmail In My Product

2000-05-02 Thread Dave Sill
Mike Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q01. Is it true that I can get an enormous increase in the number of messages I could mail per hour using qmail? Possibly. If your current set-up is limited by your hardware (disk I/O) or network bandwidth, you could see anything from modest

Re: excepting subdomain from wildcard?

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to make exceptions to the ".neurohub.net" wildcard, without listing every host in the ".neurohub.net" zone in rcpthosts (or morercpthosts) and virtualdomains? You can list exceptions in the virtualdomains file but leave rcpthosts as-is, which means

Re: Multi-RCPT vs. Single RCPT delivery - logic error?

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
Dave Kitabjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt Dave S, I'm having trouble accepting this logic. You mention 3 options: "Say you're an MTA, and one of your users sends a message to three people on hostx.example.com. There are several ways

Re: Newbie setting up aliases

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
Bob Waskosky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm having a very difficult time setting up my aliases. I just have a linux box and want to use qmail/mutt for my email. My ISP POP3 email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I also have email on my virtualave website server [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is just

Re: archive to the web

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a utility or program to place the archive for my mailing list on a web site? I use MHonArc for the ORNL qmail archives. See: http://www.mhonarc.org/ There are several other similar tools. -Dave

Re: CAN SEND - BUT CANNOT RECEIVE

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Kyle Gannon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did a telnet localhost 25 failed tcp.smtp (in /etc) is such: ech "127.0.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=\"\"" /etc/tcp.smtp echo "another IP" " " "" " echo "domainname"" " " "

Re: unique configuration

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I want to do: -Accept mail destined for any user at any domain (obviously those domains will be MX'd to my server) -Reply to that user with a message that I define (the same message for all users) Remove control/rcphosts and control/locals. In

Re: Default forwarding address for virtual domain in users/assign

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Peter Janett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up a default forwarding address for virtual domains. In other words, if mail is sent to an address that doesn't specifically exist, forward it to specified address. If you have a virtualdomains entry like: example.com:joe-example

Re: smtproutes

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Roest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create user-based smtproutes like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:foo I need to route every mailaddr in the domain to another mailserver except one. No, but you can get the same effect using virtualdomains. In control/virtualdomains, put: [EMAIL

Re: Urgent Help Needed! Qmail startup/shutdown script!

2000-05-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Murat Guven Mural" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i do a: "/usr/local/sbin/qmail start" i get a loop like this: --- Starting qmail: svscan. d: not found d: not found --- until i stop it with same

Re: Configuration question behind a firewall

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
"Susan Short" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our network design requires that I forward all the mail currently coming into my dmz back to our inside secure network to host email02 behind another pix. I have tried to set this up and am my mail appears to be going in a loop. My intention was for

Re: qmail question...

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
Mario Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, suppose I have qmail receiving smtp mail correctly but my local delivery agent in my case procmail, is down (I dont know why) WHERE is the mail that has being sent to us but not delivered locally? That depends upon how procmail is failing. The

Re: What is the alias user for?..

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
Mario Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have noticed that the alias user in my system receives TONS of messages... mostly bounce messages... is this normal? Bounces or double bounces? Alias shouldn't receive any bounces because it shouldn't be sending any mail. But, by default, double

Re: What is the alias user for?..

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Sill
Mario Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks... would it be possible to redirect [double bounces] to /dev/null? XD, I suppose is as easy as tellin it mailbox is that one no?... Thanks ;) No, not that easy, but close. Do: echo doublebounces /var/qmail/control/doublebounceto echo #

RE: Internet mail

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
"R.Ilker Gokhan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help me please1 I'll try. Ok. I am changing my question. I assume I have two Qmail server. user name Qmail hostname Qmail hostname [EMAIL PROTECTED]deneme.test.com- deneme2.test.com

Re: install-help!

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
"suresh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./compile qmail-local.c /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `qmail-local.o' Is the language software necassary(i got no such cd) or can i loda a different compiler and

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
Kai MacTane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As things stand with qmail right now, a user sending mail through qmail gets one of three things: 1) A successful delivery. 2) A bounce message (liable to happen within a few minutes under most circumstances). 3) An eventual failure (which takes

Re: Messages lost in queue?

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
Aled Treharne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had a power failure here the other day, and since then I'm getting messages like this one in the log file: Apr 24 09:57:16 marilyn qmail: 956588236.339152 warning: trouble opening remote/15/551670; will try again later Apr 24 09:57:20 marilyn qmail:

Re: system start script

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
Zhiliang Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However when I tested my system script starting the qmail at boot: #!/sbin/sh if [ -f /var/qmail/rc ]; then /var/qmail/rc echo "Starting qmail server" echo "Please wait .." /sbin/sleep 5 else echo "qmail server

Re: some doubts in qmail

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Sill
"Madhav" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. The following is the assign file i have. here the first field is the mail address, 2nd user name(linux user). my problem is i am able to recieve mails sent to both the linux user and the mailaddress (in my case [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL

Re: Problem with configuration?

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
Thomas Booms EDV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current problem seems to be the fact, that mails send to @mail.domain are accepted, but those send to @domain not. Put domain in control/locals and control/rcphosts. Restart qmail. -Dave

RE: Mailbox/Maildir pop ?

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
"Bolivar Diaz Galarza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know almost nothing about linux and less about qmail. I have installed it and it works with one mailbox. Can any of you please tell me how to add users to my qmail linux and qmail at the same time? System users are qmail users automatically.

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
"J.M. Roth \(iip\)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to configure qmail to send out a "temporary failure" message or something if mail can't be delivered rightaway? No. One of our users had an important mail in the queue which was returned to him only 7 days later ('cause of a DNS

Re: Qmail behind firewall question

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com I'm starting qmail-smtpd with: #!/bin/sh QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
At 4/24/2000 10:56 AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote or quoted: "J.M. Roth \(iip\)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our users had an important mail in the queue which was returned to him only 7 days later ('cause of a DNS failure), way too late... Oh? What would the user have done ha

Re: cant pop

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
Les Higger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried makemaildir but I got responce command does not exist. I was in ~qmail/bin.. and I see it there.. Is . or ~qmail/bin (?) in your path? In other words, would ./maildirmake or /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake have worked? -Dave

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a real indictment of the state of the Internet. It's more of an example of some of the differences between the ways different communication technologies/protocols work. I hope that someday people will trust the Internet the way they trust the

Re: temporary failure warning message

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Sill
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Lance Taylor writes: Sure. You get a rapid indication of an error condition. qmail by default provides an indication of an error condition after 1 week. I would be interesting to see (someone else do :) a study of the time in the queue vs.

Re: qmail deleting Maildir/cur directory (fwd)

2000-04-20 Thread Dave Sill
Ian Shaughnessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I have tried that, but unfortunatly messenger is being sporadic as to when it decides to suddenly clear the entire directory. Use recordio to log all POP commands. -Dave

Re: qmail + Redhat6.2 + emacs rmail - outgoing messages

2000-04-20 Thread Dave Sill
Erich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, there should be some kind of functioning executable in /bin/mail. I just don't know what to put there on this system. If your /bin/mail calls /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail for local deliveries, it'll work fine. The problem is /bin/mail's that do

Re: Re[2]: backup mail server

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not always. My ISP (which shall remain nameless -- ;-) bounced an email I sent myself from work after trying to deliver it for less than an hour. To add insult to injury, the only reason they couldn't deliver it was because of their own internal outage

Re: Someone else brought it up, and i noticed mine wasnt working :)

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
John Gonzalez/netMDC admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :/var/qmail/alias$ cat .qmail* ./Mailbox/ ./Mailbox/ ./Mailbox/ The trailing slash means maildir-format. Try: ./Mailbox if you want to use an mbox called Mailbox, or ./Maildir if you want to use a maildir called Maildir. -Dave

Re: pop 110 / daemontools / tcpserver / MySQL

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
John Gonzalez/netMDC admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the POP service shouldnt be run under supervise. It is started on a PER connection basis. The POP service is just like the SMTP service, and works perfectly with tcpserver and supervise. Just clone the supervise/qmail-smtpd directory, rename

Re: Someone else brought it up, and i noticed mine wasnt working :)

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
The trailing slash means maildir-format. Try: ./Mailbox if you want to use an mbox called Mailbox, or ./Maildir That should be: ./Maildir/ of course. -Dave

Re: Convert to Maildir

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
Marcos dos santos Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How I do for to convert the sendmail (your mailbox, if this is your name) for the qmail Maildir? I have more than 100 users in my college and I want to convert this just once. See: http://www.qmail.org/convert-and-create -Dave

Re: how to get anonymous emails

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to set up a local email address e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] where users can send anonymous emails which will be read by a few senior members of staff. You could use 822body from William Baxter's qtools package to append only the message bodies to a file, or to

Re: pop daemontool

2000-04-19 Thread Dave Sill
"Mike Alexander Sauvain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ./run in services of deamtools exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host.name.gov \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir works, but how i can generate any ouput ? Add "-v" to

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