I wonder if there is a mail cleansing program out there that is
configurable and mime-compliant.
ezmlm-reject does some checks and ezmlm-send is able to remove some
parts. Maybe this could be put together by somebody (not me :)
regards, Frank
What should be a normal respond time? What is definitely too long?
Could it be the cause of the problems (the sometimes delayed arrival of
messages)?
Henning Brauer wrote some days ago: this is not a FAQ, it is THE FAQ.
Assuming that you run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver have a look at it's
"Kirti S. Bajwa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In my opinion (1) (2) have other mental problems and they TAKE OUT on
people in the mailing list.
Stop wasting the time of people with useless information, unrelated questions
and mixing mailing lists.
I watched your postings for some days now and
Todd Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
gives the following error messsage:
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
Comment out the line beginning with "smtp" in your /etc/inetd.conf file
and send the inetd process a HUP signal (kill -HUP pid of inetd).
Inetd is still waiting
Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
192.168.0 RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Spam denied
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 SPAM F*CK YOU SH*T SPAMMER
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 SPAMMER BUY YOURSELF
From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 LOAN YOURSELF, SPAMMER
Am 3 Apr 2001, um 11:14 hat Martin Edlman geschrieben:
it reads stdin and passes it to the syslog. Who redirects the output
from the daemon (e.g. pop3, smtp, ...) to the appropriate splogger?
You have to do it yourself. Qmail itself creates a pipe to it's
logging program.
The simplest way to
Am 3 Apr 2001, um 11:14 hat Martin Edlman geschrieben:
I want to know it as I use Courier-IMAP and I want to use it with
tcpserver (instead of its own couriertcp), and I want to have some log
from IMAP server.
Sorry, I missed the real question: I don't know how Courier-Imap
works, but if it
- It says 'this is the qmail-send program'. It is not. 'qmail-send' is
not a fixed string in the QSBMF, so why not change it?
True - when I first wrote it I took the text from Qmails bounces.
Feel free to change it :)
Regards, Frank
I'm looking for information about BSMTP (hosting mail domain and
deliver mail to dialup server).
Where can I find information (example/configuration) ?
serialmail by Bernstein might do the trick...
For compressed batches over UUCP the BSMTP package by Olaf Titz would be
better. It's
is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain
to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain
to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional.
This file is called rcpthosts, not rcpthosta.
Normally it resides under
firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will
lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK.
You are using NAT - if you only want to send email from your internal
network to the world and get your mails by "polling" it somehow you get no
problem (except that your
dear,
i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist,
i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist ,
why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found this mailbox ,
it's work only i do with manually with ezmlm-sub
what wrong with my qmail setting or ezmlm-idx ?
1.) What was your command
rpm's) So, What would be the right number to increase this to, for a qmail
server which would handle around 30,000 mails per day.
Watch your logs and your memory use to see what number is appropriate for
your system.
If your tcpserver/smtpds use too much memory the number is too high. Set
Problem is, that i am using sendmail on my server where is more then =
1500 active users
For the sending side simply use the instructions of the INSTALL* documents
in the Qmail tarball.
Because the instructions are rather old now you should be aware that there
are some better setup options:
If something has been discussed before on the list why can't
we discuss it again?
Because it wastes peoples time. Look at the archives if you are
interested.
Frank
serialsmtp: fatal: SMTP cannot transfer messages with partial final lines
Partial final lines are ones which are not ended with a line separator.
Try to include a final empty line in your footer.
regards, Frank
how can i configure a qmail to work with a uucp
server?
Look at www.qmail.org. There is a bsmtp/rmail implementation made
by Olaf Titz.
Regards, Frank
"number" used as a parameter for this script. how should i set up my
.qmail-file ? i have no idea with this one?? thanks for help
Read the man page for qmail-command (type "man qmail-command" - just to be
sure ...).
Regards, Frank
ops.. ok i've found now the thing with the "LOCAL"-paramter.
If you want to build a "one for all" script this is not sufficient.
You need to catch the addresses with a .qmail-something-default
file and then you must use the DEFAULT environment variable.
still a problem, i don't need only the
I created a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root containing ' john ' but qmail still
attempts to deliver messages to root.
Put
john
into the file (without the spaces).
Frank
- Our server handles mail for office.domain.com (this value is in 'me')
- This works OK, but messages to root (cron et al) get delivered to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which isn't under our control (domain.com is our webserver)
so I don't get to see them. This is why I want to forward them.
Hm. This
Please pove the output of qmail-showctl.
Oh I'm a silly-billy. I guess I need some sleep :)
I meant "give" or "post".
Frank
on my last posting, nobody has a answer for me.
I told you an applicable and working solution. Don't say that you got no
answer from this list. Maybe nobody will have the wish to help you in the
future then.
Frank
But, How to make user quota in virtual domain, because I try to use
vsetuserquota in Vpopmail and cannot blok the user space.
Please ask such questions at the vpopmail mailinglist.
Regards, Frank
what if i want to relay to all but only from my host ie none other than my
domain users can actually relay through me
What do you mean by "domain users"? Computers at your LAN?
This situation is covered in the FAQ.
Have a look at
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay
Because of having been offline for six weeks in December/January I
totally missed the QMTP/MXPS discussions. After some reading in the
archive I installed Johan Almqvists patch to enable QMTP through MXPS
(I had running qmtpd for a long while).
I just checked the logs and found that not a
Is it possible to redirect postmaster@ email to /dev/null ?? is it wise
??
Yes, no.
ok - Yes - how
Put a the following line into /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster:
#
Nothing else, only the hash sign.
and NO - why not ??
Because every domain that receives mail hast to have a "postmaster"
account/alias where someone may be contacted.
To cite RFC822:
This
My local user like root can't reseive mail I have this errors
Root never receives mail on qmail systems. You have to define an alias for
root that delivers to an unpriviledged account.
The error means either that no maildir exists at the users home directory
or that it's permissions prevent
This behaviour is intentional.
A user need to send a domn XLS file to 10 other people in the other factory unit,
One solution is to create an expansion alias at the other end of the line
and address to that alias. Another one is to use serialmail with some sort
of duplicates recognition
Where can I get help about qmail with qmtp?
Describe your problem, then someone may be able to help you.
If you want to run qmail-qmtpd - that's not different from qmail-smtpd. If
you want to use one of the qmtp-patches to qmail-remote you have to get
them first. Look at www.qmail.org for
I need urgently to block IP Address in qmail, anybody knows what is the
manner of make it ?
"man tcpserver" if you are running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver.
-x is the switch that helps you.
Your operating system may also be able to block packets from defined IP
addresses.
Regards, Frank
But.. I don't understand how qmail work with control/mailroutes.. I can't get
help for this implementation..
This is documented in the updated man page for qmail-remote.
but I am under a firewall. I received a mail from this server. My server 1
send a mails to qmtp service. But, when I sent
Yeah.. the port 209 is firewalled .. but.. the server1 and server2 are locals
machines ..
How do you route between them?
If you used smtproutes before you have to use mailroutes now.
server1.example.com:[192.168.1.1]:209:qmtp
and
server2.example.com:[192.168.1.2]:209:qmtp
at the other
U.. I'd like the Qmail send to QMTP if the remote host have this service ..
but if the remote host don't have running de QMTP service .. my sever send to
SMTP service .. :) Is this way the qmail work?
No, this is only the fallback of the qmtp-patch. The actual patch
implementation
drwx--S---2 root root 1024 Feb 15 14:37 qmail
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail
chmod 700 /var/log/qmail
This should do it.
@domain1.name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
means that mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may catch this with a script or if this delivers locally you don't
need to do anything at all.
Regards, Frank
If somebody has already such a script and want to send it to me, please
do so.
For example if you want to catch all lightwerk.de accounts you can do the
following:
1. Put into virtualdomains (be sure to remove lightwerk.de from locals):
lightwerk.de:lightwerk.de
2. Create
Never do that. It can create irritating loops.
Oops, that's right.
| forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Agrre - much better :)
Regards, Frank
Then tell us exactly what hardware you have, what kind of I/O subsystem and
disk /var/qmail/queue is on, what disk you're logging to, how you're logging
(splogger, multilog, etc).
I suspect that information about the type of internet access is required
too. Maybe the line is saturated.
How
What I need to know is how to enable smtp with svscan so that it is
enabled after every reboot please
Install the daemontools package (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) and
read the FAQ entry "How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver?"
Regards, Frank
Sounds more like an internal Outlook-problem.
thought maybe qmail-smtpd was not running when I sent them mailnot sure
Possibly your concurrency setting for tcpserver (SMTP) is too low. Check
the logs and correct the -c switch of tcpserver.
Regards, Frank
How do I look to see what the tcpservers max connection limit
If the -c switch is not used it's tcpservers standard setting of 40.
See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html
Frank
thing for the user called "newuser"
How can i solve this problem and split different users with different
virtualdomain??
Is virtualdomain still in "locals"?
Well, if i try to delete the virtualdomain from "locals" file,leaving it only in
the "virtualdomains" file, i obtain:
newuser@virtualdomain:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
Of course you have to provide a .qmail file that catches your address.
In the case of this address it
Anyone done this?
Daily.
Can qmail handle this?
Easily :)
If so, how-to would be greatly
appreciated!
Read the dot-qmail man page.
Short recipe:
Put this into ~user1/.qmail :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
./Maildir/
This will send a copy to the given address and save the message in
user1's
we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To:
so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding
"To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
This has nothing to do with the To: header. Somehow you get the mail
through SMTP (external senders?) - Then only
But sorry i can't help you... I need return receipt too
Why didn't you try the way I described?
If it is too complicated, pay someone to do it.
Regards, Frank
Now for me: "What do the logs say? (tm)"
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
This came from /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
That means that a second process is listening on port 25. Either you have
still another MTA (sendmail, exim, smail, ...) running or you bound inetd
to this port.
To disable inetd comment out
How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop
mailboxes.?
Use the rmail program included in the BSMTP package on www.qmail.org
2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We
have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
MAIL=$HOME/mbox
MAILTMP=$HOME/.mailtemp
maildir2mbox
Error. MAILTMP not set (or something like that)
Did you ever hear about the difference between environment variables and
shell variables?
You need to do
export MAILDIR
export MAIL
export MAILTMP
Regards;
I created a virtual domain for "dex.co.za" on the qmail box.
Don't do that. dex.co.za has to go only into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts.
Is it possible that I can forward the email received for
"dex.co.za" locally over the LAN??
Yes, you may use the MX from DNS or better (for DNS outages)
but it seems that you'd never want the 451 in this case
because obviously it will be the same mailer that will
retry each time and it will continue to be broken for each
try...
If you don't like this behaviour block him at the firewall or via
tcpserver. At least for a while.
If you want
when I send message at 11:00 , but when I receive the letter, it
tell me the time is 2:00.
What does the header contain? May be your MUA plays tricks with the date
header to display local time.
I trace the source program, the time which the qmail-inject get is
not right also.
How to
Hi Daniel,
first: the Internet is not the WWW although many people see them as the
same. They are not.
I have installed qmail and everything seems OK except for sending mail out
to the WWW. If I remove/rename the rcpthosts file I can then send mail out
to any domain, but I presume this is
Or is there any way to use an SSL wrapper and still know which IP can
realy?
I think it's possible with tcpserver/stunnel. But I never tried it.
Regards, Frank
After some testing, it appears that adding the ':deny' string it
will deny EVERYTHING comming into port 25 even othe MTA's. I removed
:deny and it now allows ALL IP's to relay from my server. Any other
Try :allow
Frank
program. How do I do this if these servers are just acting as relays and
therefore never using any sort of local mail injection??
Have a look at the qmail FAQ 5.5 or look at
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#network-rewriting
In any case it would be better to fix the problem at the
is there any way by which i can safely copy the "var/qmail/queue "
( queued/deffered Mails) from one mechine running qmail-1.03 , on to
other mechine's queue /var/qmail/queue
Let the second machine accept relaying for mails from the first.
Set :[ip-addr of second machine] in
is there any way by which i can send mails to all these 20
users in one stroke
Look for the qmail-popbull program at www.qmail.org.
Regards, Frank
is it possble to specify ip's with/without wilcards
rather than FQDNs and domain names in
~control/badmailfrom files ,
Not with plain qmail. Blocking IP addresses can be done with tcpserver
from the ucspi-tcp package.
seperate it by "," or by space or new entry goes on new
Limiting their pop3 maximun storing account, i think all was good.
Any ideas?
You could use the quota mechanism (if there is any) of your operating
system. This has the disadvantage of rejecting mails when the limit is
reached.
I prefer to run a cleaning job that deletes mail older than a
I would like to know is there any other documnetation about how to use qmail
with MySQL.
Hi Mark,
it will not give you more audience if you always post your question
multiple times. If nobody answers that means that nobody has an answer or
that nobody cares.
I know there is a HOWTO
Does ISP mail server need to install mail virus scanner ??
You have to weight the arguments:
yes: centralized scanning allows easy update of virus signatures and
instant reaction to new problems
no: - centralized scanning uses server resources that are expensive/rare
and
please help me on how can i transfer from /var/spool/mqueue file from
sendmail to qmail.
There is a complete description in REMOVE.sendmail I think.
Regards, Frank
I'm searching a very good mailing-list manager for qmail.
Look at the qmail website under "related packages". There is ezmlm
mentioned.
Regards, Frank
I would like to know how to apply the Oversize DNS packet patch to Qmail.
Use the following command inside the qmail source directory:
patch qmail-103.patch
This assumes that the patch file was saved in the qmail source directory.
For a complete description of the patch command use `man
Can someone point me in a direction to help him out? None of us are SMTP
gurus. Has anyone done this before and could possibly give me a few ideas to
pass along?
There are modules that can assemble a complete MIME message (I just cannot
look for them). For sending you may use ANY SMTP
hadn't got around to complaining to them yet. it appears that they
don't care anyway. pitty i may just have to block them too.
The world is full of such sites. For the case of "gone users still
receiving mail" the badrcptto-patch is very useful.
Regards, Frank
http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/linux/articles/qmail.html
Replacing your MTA with qmail
Hm. It's neither a review nor is the title correct.
It's only an excerpt from BLURB and INSTALL as far as I can see.
It's good to have qmail mentioned on securityfocus but this article could
provide
I have listed some domains in rcpthosts.
But it is stupid add in rcpthosts ALL domains in world... (.com, .edu, .org, .net,
.sk, )
What I must type in rcpthosts (some widcards)?
No.
You should use tcpserver and set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable.
This is explained in the
- I can use "mail" to send mail from nsw to bcb no problem (therefore
rcpthosts and smtproutes should be OK) but Kmail and Netscape Messenger
fail
If you include both destinations in rcpthosts it should work.
Please provide rcpthosts, locals and smtproutes for both systems.
Regards, Frank
- Mail sent from the local workstation addressed to the me on the remote
server ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gives the message:
Hm. Your setup should work. The only problems I can think of now are:
- Your qmail-smtpd does not pick the "right" rcpthosts. You may check if
you can send mail through
Yeah, right: "Nameless idiot helps ML reader to death after being flamed
by a Bastard." Film at 11. Anyone feel like buying popcorn shares?
I suggest that everyone who feels that linuxpeople is stupid should ignore
him NOW.
Everyone who thinks there is any hope he will get his system up
so, can somebody image what to do next ? note: the qmail-box is located
behind a firewall (ipchains on linux). maybe this causes the problem ?
I use smtproutes to one of their MX. This breaks immediately if they shut
that one MX down, but I will notice that quickly.
Regards, Frank
I am using Maildir format, now I want to create the Maildir box under
the user's directory by using "Maildirmake Maildir". But I got the error
messages stating that bash: maildirmake: command ...
Include /var/qmail/bin in your PATH environment variable.
And please don't use over-long
running qmail on needs also to be running DNS. Is it okay for this to be
a name-caching only server with forwards to my ISP's DNS server?
Install dnscache on localhost. You can get it at
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
Regards, Frank
Ben Beuchler wrote:
of using libtai. So I guess I would need a way of converting a specific
time to it's tai64n equivalent.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Look at
http://www.lightwerk.com/djbdns/isotai64.c
It generates only external TAI64, but a modification for external TAI64N
could be made
I found this in the qmail-FAQ, Question 5.3: how do i set up qmail-pop3d.
So there is a problem with my startup script ?
Definitely. You will not be able to get mails by POP3 for virtual
domains.
created and i can log on the virtual pop account using sqwebmail.
That would surprise me. Are
In his measurements that indicated that qmail used less bandwidth in
real-life situations than sendmail, Dan counted the DNS traffic due to
sendmail.
And I have never seen numbers, only Dan's claims. It's hard to argue using
them without being backed up by numbers.
Regards, Frank
Why do you use SMTP between them? Use qmtp or qmqp or
whatever the beast is called, and have the last qmail in the chain
do the expansion (or generate the only bounce).
Does QMTP avoid expansion? At this time it would also require
serialmail or is there a patched qmail-remote with qmtp
qmail doesn't do this by default, and manages to use resources much more
efficiently than sendmail, which does this. Why should qmail change?
It does break one of the basic rules on the Internet that many people fell
ist still important. It produces bad reputation (based only on this one
95% of the people on the internet care about
speed, not bandwidth consumption or resource usage.
Of course. That's why and for security I do use qmail.
people have you observed saying "I am pulling down all the nifty
graphics from my website - it consumes too much resources."?
The
The problem with re-using the same SMTP session for multiple messages, etc,
is the high-latency inherent in the protocol. DJB found an easy way around
that.
That's not, what we are talking about. It's about creating multiple
messages when it is really ONE with many receivers going to ONE
Does anyone have a pointer to a comparison of qmail/sendmail/postfix/...
that is done at a real world server over a longer period of time?
It should include bandwith use (including DNS) and performance data.
The only thing I remember were some graphs about mailer timings (DNS
lookup, start of
they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if
they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol
You should supply some more information:
- the receiver address
- content of your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file
- content of your
First give the two servers different locals.
On our mail server we have a virtual domain under a user.
If you use a virtual domain anyway you can put the 4 user addresses
into virtualdomains too. I didn't test if this takes precedence over the
domain, but you may try it.
Else there is still
Following FAQ 5.4 steps for relay rules, I was was unsuccessful, but
tcpd is not where the faq says it will be, so could that be the problem?
Forget tcpd and use ucspi-tcp (tcpserver) instead. It's in the FAQ how to
do it.
Regards, Frank
fine, but in some cases, it allows relaying (with setting RELAYCLIENT=""
!!!) for ip-adresses which should be blocked.
Which addresses?
Frank
How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of
traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in
/var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it.
qmqpservers is for QMQP, not for QMTP.
At the moment QMTP is supported by qmail-qmtpd and a program
person who has sent a "This mail is being queued" message if there is a
problem. The "queuelifetime" is how long it will sit on a letter, before
There is a program called qmail_bounce that works perfectly for this
purpose. Look at www.qmail.org for
"Brian T. Wightman has written a
This aliases are all the type: .qmail-prova-prova, .qmail-emanuele-bianchi
and so on.
In my /etc/passwd file there are the account "prova" and "emanuele".
These accounts always take precedence over aliases.
Use ~prova/.qmail-prova and ~emanuele/.qmail-bianchi instead of your
current
Does suse ship with qmail?
No. They told me that they never will. And they even refuse to reserve
UIDs for qmail.
Regards, Frank
Any good autoresponder anyone can suggest
There is a rate limited autoresponder made by Eric Huss. It's at
http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/autorespond.tar.gz
Please be careful: this autoresponder was written to be used for automated
accounts where no processing aufter the autoresponder is
I am trying to set up qmail-frontend to our mailsystem, such way that
some of mailboxes are on this qmail machine, and it SHOULD route all
unknown mail to another server
Use .qmail-default for user alias or a virtual domain with exceptions
through users/assign.
Regards, Frank
I have an application, which is communicating directly via SMTP with
qmail. As I am sending to huge lists (up to 28000 recipients) I would
like to use VERP.
Set up an ezmlm(-idx) list on the qmail host. Send to the list address via
SMTP. That's it.
Regards, Frank
computer uses a dialup connection onto the internet... When this computer
connects it should get all the mail for its "domain" and deliver it
acordingly... Also all bounces should be handled here, because the first
host (the one on the internet) has no idea what users are defined...
Simply
Basically I suppose it's a risk of having a domain which is likely to
have other domains with similar names, it's also a risk which is
likely to increase as the net becomes bigger.
Whole life is a risk.
Is there a way to ask qmail to send warning messages (to the user or
to the postmaster)
the original mail, but it should be a "normal" mail. I need the header with
an information of the user to which the mail should be send originally.
You can use the -default extension vor any .qmail file. See 'man
dot-qmail' for more info.
Regards, Frank
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