Derek,
I see a number of problems with the text you copied in
there, it's very confusing. Here's the questions and issues:
1) On line 2, you're calling rblsmtpd and having it call
rblsmtpd, which then calls rblsmtpd for a third time on
line 3. The first instance doesn't even have
Hi all,
having a weird problem. I have a linux box
with qmail listening on some of the machine's
IP addresses. On one of the other addresses on the
machine I have the Lyris ListManager mailing list
server listening.
For testing, I have defined testsite.lyrishosting.com
with an MX
Ahmad Ridha writes:
Hubbard, David writes:
For testing, I have defined testsite.lyrishosting.com
with an MX record of 216.54.222.146, the Lyris
listening address, and A record of 216.54.222.147
which neither qmail or Lyris use.
MX record should be a name, right?
Regards
Thanks Alex, that solved the problem!
David
Alex Pennace writes:
Which address you make qmail-smtpd listen to makes no difference to
qmail-remote, which treats the other IP as local. You need to force
qmail-remote's hand with an entry in control/smtproutes:
Hi all,
can someone tell me what the proper way to
run multiple instances of tcpserver to have
qmail-smtpd listen to multiple IP's? I realize
that a 0 to tcpserver will cause it to listen
to all addresses but I need to only listen to
a few. I have a working qmail install on the
box in
Basically, if you have a lot of accounts, they
charge you a LOT of money:
http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html
They even feel the need to charge non-profit
educational institutions, very nice MAPS...
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Most of the big chunks of spam come from big guys
utilizing little guys' servers as they find them
open to relay. So you're best off using the various
MAPS lists, especially the RSS (relay spam stopper).
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Just put: sendmail_path=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
in your /usr/local/lib/php.ini file and your mail()
function will use qmail instead.
On all of your web servers, put :1.2.3.4 in your
/var/qmail/control/smtproutes where the 1.2.3.4 is the
address of your relaying mail server. They will now
If your machine has it, try 'lsof -i' it will give you
all the processes on the machine that are listening to
ports and what ports on what addresses they're listening
to if you've got multiple addresses configured.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Remo Mattei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
vim (Vi IMproved) will do syntax highlighting of html
and based on the highlighting, if this guy can
match the colors up, he'll know he closed all his
tags correctly. :-)
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:27 PM
To:
It's arrogant to expect people to actually look
at instructions before soliciting free help? I
mean if he actually was able to get tcpserver
installed, he obviously knows how to use a web
browser since he must have downloaded it, and
if that's the case, it is not much more trouble
to go one
Hi all,
I received a spam earlier today from some lame
company at website-modules.com and when I was going
through the headers to see if it had come from an
open relay, I noticed a really odd Delivered-To header,
you'll see it below in the included section.
I searched through the qmail
Speaking of OpenMail, I've never used it but there
was a good editorial in InfoWorld two weeks ago
that talked about how great it was. It didn't
go into detail on the product but it did say
that HP has decided to cancel future development
of it because it was obvious that OpenMail would be
an MS
Check the logging from your tcpserver on port 25, if
you see a lot of status 256's over and over, like one
to ten per second, then it could be a broken Microsoft
SMTP Service server trying to deliver mail to you. MS's
SMTP Service tries to send emails without the
qmail-required carriage return
I'm sure there are a few storage vendors who can scale that
high, EMC, Clariion, Compaq(DEC)?, etc. You would never
attach that amount of bandwidth to one server anyway
though, the I/O would be horrible, even with something
like a Sun E1 which has a few PCI busses on each
of it's 16 separate
Hey Matthew, would it be possible to email the admin of
that domain and tell them to stop blocking messages
with empty return-path headers? It is against RFC to do
so but they probably won't care. They are stupid for doing
it as bounces from most mail servers will not be delivered
to them...
Yes, they're called MX records:
domain1.com.IN MX 1 domain1.mail.server.
domain2.com.IN MX 1 domain2.mail.server.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Someone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 7:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In RedHat's infinite wisdom, they distributed a version of
linuxconf with version 6.2 that writes sendmail.cf files
in such a way that they will illegally reject mail with
an empty Return-Path. Would anyone happen to know what
needs to be fixed in sendmail.cf to make it stop doing
that? I have
I'm not sure where you got that idea, sqwebmail is
developed with the Courier mail server and it
happens to support the vpopmail vchkpw authentication
program for those of us using vpopmail, then it just
reads Maildir's. Did you mean qmailadmin maybe?
That is only used for vpopmail.
Dave
Hi
all,
I've got a question about softlimit, I'll use generic numbers, etc.
since
it's not
service specific:
I want softlimit to
limit a tcpserver process. Let's assume that I set
tcpserver
to answer up to 10
concurrent connections for a service that takes upa
meg
of ram for each
I know this can be very complicated but try sending an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from the address you subscribed
with, and this is the qmail list, not a dam list. :-)
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:33 PM
Hi all,
I was wondering if someone could tell me how to
create a bounce message, or what would fool a remote
mail server into thinking it was a bounce message?
I occasionally get subscribed to spam ads from big
companies that don't always honor their unsubscribe
requests/web page
That's what happens when you run Microsoft products. :-)
Seriously though, there is an article on CNET this
morning about the outage, MS hasn't had any comment
yet but it's affecting many of their highprofile sites.
Evidently their .uk site is still up and has some
kind of statement about this.
Hey Steve,
I'm not sure what your question is, you seem to not want to
do RAID 5 and can't do RAID 1+0, that leaves RAID 1 if redundancy
is required. Were you mistaking RAID 1 and 0?
Basically the only question you really need to ask yourself is
how much mail you'll end up storing? If
Oliver, all of your emails are being sent with
a virus infected executable attached, Emanuel.exe,
you may want to have a look at your machine before
sending more emails.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: funky gao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:42 AM
To: Linux
Is everyone else receiving a bunch of emails
from 'funky gao'? Can someone remove this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list? I've
received quite a few messages from him this
morning, all containing the file Emanuel.exe
with a virus.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: funky gao [mailto:[EMAIL
Just go to the domain directory and type this:
echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .qmail-default
That means any email that comes in to that domain
addressed to a nonexistent address will be handled
by the .qmail-default since a .qmail-username for
that address won't exist.
Dave
-Original
Yes, if you can't find a qmail package, just go to
http://www.sunfreeware.com and you can download
the GCC package for your Sol 8 x86 box and
you'll be ready to compile your own qmail, just
following the instructions from Dave Sill's LWQ
paper linked on www.qmail.org should get you through
it.
What does the MUA have to do with an MTA?
-Original Message-
From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Outlook Express Prank
Doesn't it seem a little idiotic to use Outlook on a
mailing list about an
I'm a competent sysadmin on Solaris linux and
I use Outlook 2k. So it has less features and
virtually no standards adherence compared to
other MUAs mentioned on this list, big deal, it
is the corporate standard at my company, I have
no alternatives for connecting to the corporate
Exchange
TNT usually refers to the equipment, I believe
it is a large-scale access hardware made by
Ascend. The TNT line is for carriers and takes
in multiple T1 or PRI lines. I'm not sure if
those .da.uu.net or exclusively dial-up addresses,
you might end up blocking their co-lo customers
or someone
I'd like to know how you used the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
test address anyway? The IP addresses you gave are non-routable
private addresses so there is no way the crynwr.com test machine
could have connected to your server in the first place. The
rblsmtpd only blocks spam based on the connecting mail
Hi all, does anyone know why tcpserver would die? I have
a lightly hit server and discovered that it was not servicing
pop3 requests anymore, tcpserver was not running. The
only non-standard things I'm doing is authenticating with
vchkpw from the vpopmail software. It started right back up
but
Why would you not want to send a 451? Here's
two reasons:
1) Why send a 451 back to a broken MTA who's sending you
emails with bare newlines? It's very unlikely that someone
is going to fix their MTA while the email destined to you
is still in the queue so it would get fixed before the
final
I thought this was a qmail list. Oh well...
I'm not positive, but I think you have to use
the -make-apache-certificate-work-longer
option while compiling qmail.
:-)
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Martin Kos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:48 PM
To: [EMAIL
er 27, 2000 12:19 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: What to do about these barelinefeeds?
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:31:01PM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
Thanks, I hadn't seen that link before. I'm sorry, I meant
that the 256 was the status code I see in my smtpd log.
But, in searching
Well first off, can someone explain to me the reasoning
behind the bare linefeed restriction? I hope it is an actual
standard that this restriction is trying to make other MTA's
adhere to.
So anyway, 2 questions:
1) Does anyone have a list of commonly used mail
servers that violate this?
Thanks, I hadn't seen that link before. I'm sorry, I meant
that the 256 was the status code I see in my smtpd log.
But, in searching the archives, I saw reference to people
saying the bare LF generates a 451 and not a 553. I can't
verify that since I don't have a mailer to try it with
but it
You can use stunnel to encapsulate qmail-pop3d withing SSL.
Find out more about it at http://www.stunnel.org I use it
with my own certificates generated by OpenSSL. I also use
it with the vpopmail software on top of qmail, so not
straight qmail, but it works either way. My script is
based on
You're correct, mail-abuse.org has removed the TXT records
from the relays service. djbdns doesn't require a patch
though, djbdns is name servers and associated programs,
I think you meant rblsmtpd, that does need the patch if you
want to use the MAPS relay server. DJB's view of the issue
on
another line to resolv.conf.
You could always add a private address to your server's NIC,
like 192.168.0.1 or something and run it on there.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Augusto Fernandes
To: Hubbard, David
Cc: Qmail Mailing List
Sent: 10/18/00 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: dnscache rbldns
http://www.abuse.net/relay.html is a good way.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: open relay test
How do I check for open relay?
I saw something once with a simple test.
Hello all, does anyone use DJB's rbldns package? I'm trying to
use it and am having some trouble with the TXT record portion.
The documentation for the data file is at:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/rbldns-data.html
Basically no matter how I put things into the 'data' file, it will
only serve up a
Thanks a lot Chris, that was the problem, it's
working great now. I do wish I could customize
the responses but that's a minor complaint.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 2:54 PM
To: Hubbard, David
Cc: '[EMAIL
There's a qmail-bounce.patch on the qmail site that
adds the ability to put a bouncemaxbytes file in your
control directory and in it you specify, in bytes,
the maximum size of a bounce, the rest gets stripped.
I use it and it works great, I only bounce 25k messages
now.
Dave
-Original
d it works great in combination with my linux based
Qmail/Courier-IMAP w/SSL installation as a secure way to check a lot of
email accounts.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Robin S. Socha
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10/3/00 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Best Winbloze Mail Client?
* Hubbard, Da
How about MS Outlook Express? Yeah yeah, Microsoft product,
but it does have extremely good support for the various
protocols. It will do POP3, IMAP, SSL encrypted POP3 IMAP,
SSL encrypted SMTP if the mailserver supports it, directory
services, etc. Plus, the big thing for me; you can add in
Hi all,
I've got a couple of places that like to
subscribe non-existant email addresses to
mailing lists without confirmation. One of
these bastards is winvite.com. The problem
I'm having is that they don't send their
emails with a "From" header, so control/badmailfrom
with an @winvite.com
Hey John,
is your mail client and What's Up Gold on the same machine?
If not, your tcpserver might not be open to relaying from the What's
Up Gold machine. If they are both on the same machine and the email
client works, then I'm going to guess that What's Up Gold tries
to send email
I'm a little confused what this patch is for? Did something
change with mail-abuse.org? Did this affect just relays.mail-abuse.org
or the RBL list too?
Thanks,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 6:35 PM
To:
I've been reading more of the archives about this
rblsmtpd issue lately and I think what has happened
is that the relays.mail-abuse.org DNS no longer
has the TXT entries in it that rblsmtpd looks for.
Did this spam that got through your server come
from a host in the open-relays database or the
I'd hire that 12 year old if he/she could tell me what the
damn status codes for tcpserver meant. :-) Seriously
though, those pages need some updates, I spent an hour or two
searching the archives of this list the other day to find
out the reason my post card cgi perl script needed to have
\r\n
Hi everyone,
I've been noticing a lot of spam coming in to users on my qmail
server from popsite.net addresses. I guess they're just a big dialup
provider that obviously lets their users relay whatever they want
through their server. But anyway, the Helo, From, To, and Return-Path
are
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:46:29AM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote:
! I tried to put @popsite.net in my badmailfrom but that didn't work.
badmailfrom is useless. :-) People can arbitrarily set their envelope
sender anyway
I'd like to add a question on to James' problems. I'm doing
the same thing, my setup is working, but if a user enters
a bad password, he gets the message as shown below. Is there
really a process crashing? And is it not cleaning up after
itself? So this could end up causing problems later?
Hey Jay,
I don't know much about setting that type of thing up in
qmail, but I would like to give you some ideas on the
hardware. I'm not sure how much load qmail would generate
in a scenario like that, but you may want to consider
Solaris x86 for the superior SMP performance. Also, you
Hi all,
I've got a small problem with autorespond. Here's my
situation. I have a vpopmail server, I'm using qmailadmin
and autorespond. I have a domain where I have a bunch of
users. As these users leave, I want anyone who emails their
old address to receive a canned response I've
That sounds like a problem in the home directory
for the user 'georg' Those are the easiest ones to
mess up too since they're not in the qmail config directory.
Did you possibly remove or change any of your .qmail files?
Like a .qmail-default? Try putting a .qmail-default
in georg's home
Hey thanks a lot Wayne, that fixed my problem.
And here I was ready to blame the alpha. :-)
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Chan
To: Hubbard, David
Sent: 7/3/00 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: tcpserver alpha linux problems
If you have setup your qmail according to life-with-qmail, try
Hi all,
I just discovered the 'bouncesaying' utility from someone
elses post. Does anyone know why this is not installed anywhere
by default but it's man pages are installed? Are there other useful
utilities/programs that are built but not installed?
Thanks,
Dave
Hi all,
I just installed qmail, daemontools 0.70
and ucspi-tcp-0.88 on an alpha running
redhat v6.2. The qmail tests for local
and remote delivery from TEST.deliver work
fine, but the TEST.receive tests aren't possible
because nothing is listening on port 25. I did
some investigating and
Hey Raj,
how do you do the forwarding to the internal mail
server? Do you have a virtualdomains entry set up for
indsoft.co.in? If so, let's pretend that you have an
entry like this:
indsoft.co.in:username
And then maybe in username's directory, you have a .qmail*
of some type that
Hi all,
I'm new to qmail but I did try to look through the
faq's and search the archives for this. I'm going to be using
qmail on a web server that I'll be doing virtual hosting from.
What I'm wondering is if there's a way to allow the individuals
who have accounts on the server to
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