Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:24:48AM -0400, Todd Finney wrote: ! Couldn't you just do something like this in the rc script ! to get the correct pid every time? ! ! `ps -C qmail-send | sed 's/^.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d ! [:space:]` I think you probably meant ``^.*'' instead of ``^.''. ! [Note: There is probably a better way to do ! this. Suggestions are welcome.] If I remember correctly, this does pretty much the same thing as ``pidof'', except I think the latter is faster. Even faster, I believe, is to simply write qmail-send's pid to /var/run/qmail.pid, as suggested in my previous post; then you don't even have to search through all the processes, as ``ps'' and ``pidof'' have to. ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ If you can't afford a backup system, you can't Auckland, New Zealand |_ afford to have important data on your computer. http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ ---Tracy R. Reed
RE: help with strange problem
to add I have discovered that the users that are working are in /var/control/users/assign what updates this file? Unless RedHat 7.0 beta includes some automatic function, then you do. Read the qmail FAQ on info for how to update this (specifically look for information on NIS/NFS outages...this is included there.) I don't know if this is covered in LWQ but I would guess so. Also, most of the problems I have had with qmail like yours are to do with Maildir permissions. Make sure in the actual home folder of the recipient that they have at least read/write permissions (maybe a cd ~user; chmod -R u+r *; chown -R user *; chown -R user .qmail; chgrp -R group *; chgrp -R group .qmail) might help. This has 90% of the time caused the below problem. BUT the assign file you asked about before probably caused the other 10%! If in doubt, delete it : (Or move it somewhere else and its associated files...probably recommended). Brett. Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help with strange problem - Original Message - From: Barry Smoke To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:45 PM Subject: help with strange problem I have been pulling my hair out on this one all day long. I am including all my information so you guys can help keep my hair in. I have been running qmail on a mail machine at a k12 school for a year...no real problems to speak of now I have upgraded this server to redhat 7.0 beta..I know...why on earth would you use beta on a production machinewell, I tested it out on several otehr machines...and all went well, and it's not the beta I'm having problems with. The machine in question is bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us there is an alias to this machine...bryant.k12.ar.us I have been running this machine aliased for our administrators for the year...and now I'm moving all of our schools over to this machine. That includes elementaries, the jr.high, high school, etc Mail is working perfectly for our administrators(thank goodness)...but not for new users I have /etc/skel setup to create a Maildir correctly(yes I used maildirmake), and copy a .qmail file to everyone's home directory. I checked permissions...they match our existing users that are working. you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when you add a new user you can't send mail to them at either addressI've tried restarting qmail...and restarting the machine(with blind hopes) I got this whe I added a user named testingthemail: to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.528031 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.548143 delivery 24: success: did_0+0+0/ Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.566173 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.567118 delivery 25: failure: Sorry,_no_m ailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ I added another user just a while agoand all of the sudden his is working...I haven't done anything but this new one I just added isn't yet... is there a file I have to manually update if I want users to be accessible right after being added? #/etc/skel## [root@bryant skel]# ls -al total 20 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:51 . drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 6144 Aug 7 19:20 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 24 Jul 17 09:56 .bash_logout -rw-r--r--1 root root 230 Jul 17 09:56 .bash_profile -rw-r--r--1 root root 124 Jul 17 09:56 .bashrc -rw-r--r--1 root root 688 Jul 25 11:53 .emacs drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:34 .kde -rw-rw-r--1 root root 11 May 10 12:55 .qmail -rw-r--r--1 root root 3394 Jul 12 19:34 .screenrc drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:34 Desktop drwx--5 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 Maildir drwxrwxr-x2 root root 1024 Dec 4 1999 web [root@bryant skel]# cat .qmail ./Maildir/ [root@bryant skel]# cd Maildir [root@bryant Maildir]# ls -al total 5 drwx--5 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 . drwxr-xr-x6 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:51 .. drwx--2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 cur drwx--2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 new drwx--2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 tmp ##control files### [root@bryant control]# cat defaulthost bryant.k12.ar.us [root@bryant control]# cat defaultdomain k12.ar.us [root@bryant control]# cat locals proxy.intranet.net localhost bryant.k12.ar.us proxy.bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us [root@bryant control]# cat me bryant.k12.ar.us ##nslookup on the ip## [root@bryant control]# nslookup 165.29.94.240 Server:
Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:05:59PM +1200, Chris, the Young One wrote: ! ! `ps -C qmail-send | sed 's/^.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d ! ! [:space:]` ! ! I think you probably meant ``^.*'' instead of ``^.''. Someone teach me to test my suggestions first! ``^ *'' instead of ``^.*'' would work better, it seems... The rest of my message still stands. ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ but what's a dropped message between friends? Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H. http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
Re: users/assign....was...strange problem
On Die, 08 Aug 2000, Barry Smoke wrote: sure enough...after 2 hours...the next user I put in started working.and he got appended to /var/qmail/users/assign I've never seen this problem before..what can I do to make this instantaneous? What is updating that file? Someone Please help ... You said the delivery starts working only after the user appears in the users/assign file. Look at your cron-jobs after a line containing qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu. These two commands update the users/assign and users/cdb files. The qmail-users database is only needed when the home-directories are mounted via NFS or the passwords are managed by NIS or similar. During a NFS or NIS outage the messages would bounce if the users were not known locally. This way the message is deferred until NFS is up again. You might want to look at 4.9 in the FAQ. hih, -- Oliver Koch Registered Linux User 163952 Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.
Virtual domains
hi Everybody, My virtualdomain file is as follows:- /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file contains xyz.com:user and if tru to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gets delivered to ~user/Maildir/new How do I configured my system or do I make changes so that it can allow other mail server (xyz.com) to pick up the mails from ~user/Maildir via pop3 so that it can delivers the mails to the users on its server. And also will user account can be used by the mail server (xyz.com) to relay the message to the internet. Regards, kamal Batra * Go to: www.NetWala.com " The Internet in every wallet "
RE: users/assign....was...strange problem
The qmail-users database is only needed when the home-directories are mounted via NFS or the passwords are managed by NIS or similar. During a NFS or NIS outage the messages would bounce if the users were not known locally. This way the message is deferred until NFS is up again. As a subnote to the list (not specifically to Oliver)...that is actually an interesting statement (and yes, I know that's what it says in the FAQ). We run a number of qmail servers together here combining NFS and NIS, and we don't use a users database. If NFS goes down, the main server simply defers the e-mail, saying in the logs that it is unavailable to deliver to the Maildir (it will defer for up to a week, the default timeout). If NIS goes down, everything continues as normal since all our qmail servers are slave NIS servers rather than clients. BUT if we ran clients, and qmail had to do a delivery to the machine it was running on (and it was not the master server), then yes there would be a problem (in finding the home directory), but in general for safety I recommend using NIS slaves rather than clients - there is little reason to do it as clients and not the other. If you're worried about security - hec, you're running NIS! The most insecure distributed information network in the world! You have to lock it down manually by default to get any smidget of security out of it : Just some information for the list. Might help someone one day. Brett. Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/
RE: Virtual domains
That was amazingly inexplicit... How do I configured my system or do I make changes so that it can allow other mail server (xyz.com) to pick up the mails from ~user/Maildir via pop3 so that it can delivers the mails to the users on its server. Look at fetchmail, or some of the other alternatives mentioned on this list earlier this week...You might be able to optimise the process with a bit of scripting and file transfer stuff but I'll leave that to your imagination... And also will user account can be used by the mail server (xyz.com) to relay the message to the internet. I take it English is not your first language? I couldn't really understand that but if you want to learn about relaying, at a minimal start 'man qmail-control' and read up on smtproutes, and also look in Life With qmail (grab the URL from http://www.qmail.org/top.html) to avoid some very very common mistakes in relaying. Brett Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual domains hi Everybody, My virtualdomain file is as follows:- /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file contains xyz.com:user and if tru to send the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it gets delivered to ~user/Maildir/new Regards, kamal Batra * Go to: www.NetWala.com " The Internet in every wallet "
Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail
At 02:05 AM 8/8/00, you wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:24:48AM -0400, Todd Finney wrote: ! Couldn't you just do something like this in the rc script ! to get the correct pid every time? ! ! `ps -C qmail-send | sed 's/^.\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | tr -d ! [:space:]` I think you probably meant ``^.*'' instead of ``^.''. eh, close enough for jazz. ! [Note: There is probably a better way to do ! this. Suggestions are welcome.] If I remember correctly, this does pretty much the same thing as ``pidof'', except I think the latter is faster. Excellent. You previously mentioned pidof, but said that it wouldn't work. I didn't test that statement. Even faster, I believe, is to simply write qmail-send's pid to /var/run/qmail.pid, as suggested in my previous post; then you don't even have to search through all the processes, as ``ps'' and ``pidof'' have to. I don't know which one would be faster. Speed really isn't an issue in this case though, is it? You only need to get the pid when you run the rc script, and that is (hopefully) not a regular occurrence. Also, the time it takes to scan the process list is probably trivial when compared with the time it takes to restart qmail-send. If the qmail-rcfile file is already set up to look for the qmail pid, changing where it looks for it is a simple search and replace. You have to change the file anyway if you're implementing the qmail.pid solution, and pidof saves you the trouble of adding the (admittedly minor) pid recording function. pidof, a win by 44 characters? cheers, Todd
RE: Delays in POP3 response
Possibly try recreating the tcp.smtpd.cdb and make sure that the tcp.smtpd is correct before doing so! Slider -Original Message- From: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 August 2000 04:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Delays in POP3 response Thanks for your reply. I already had -R. Changing this to -RH has halved the delay (from approx. 22 seconds to 11 seconds), but there still is a delay. For testing, I am telnetting directly to an IP address:port number. I have also put an entry into /etc/hosts for the client system (and hosts is searched before a DNS lookup). Thanks Dave At 20:24 07/08/00 -0400, you wrote: Add -RH flag to your tcpserver wrapper and see if it corrects your problem.. The Delay is probly coming from DNS lookup.. Sean Truman Prodigy Solutions, Inc www.prodigysolutions.com - Original Message - From: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Delays in POP3 response Hello, When connecting to the POP3 and SMTP servers there is a delay before the "+OK" response. This can be easily shown by using telnet to connect to the POP3 port (using an IP address, so no name lookup). The maillog shows: Aug 8 11:54:14 server pop3d: 965692454.925054 tcpserver: pid 990 from 192.168.1.122 Aug 8 11:54:36 server pop3d: 965692476.984864 tcpserver: ok 990 :192.168.1.1:110 :192.168.1.122::1136 tcpserver has started pop3d at 11:54:14, the OK is not sent until 11:54:36. Any ideas please. Many thanks, Dave
Multiple Mails with qmail-inject
Hi all, we're using a little script to do some header rewriting. It is called via .qmail-fixup-default. The output of the script is the fed into qmail-inject, QMAILINJECT=i. Almost everything works as expected, there's just one problem: if a mail is sent to multiple users, EACH of them gets it multiple times. The number of individual mails is equal to the number or receivers. The .qmail-fixup-default script is called n-times and calls qmail-inject n-times (n is the number of receivers), then qmail-inject sends each message n times. We have this setup running for some years now but recently upgraded hardware, kernel and qmail version. Qmail was 1.01 and is now 1.03. Hardware is Intel, OS is Linux. Does anybody have an idea?? Thanx in advance, Martin -- GiS - Gesellschaft fuer integrierte Systemplanung mbH Martin Sckopke Tel. +49-6201-503-74 Junkersstr. 2Fax +49-6201-503-66 D-69469 Weinheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rctp Hosts Problem......
Hi i got the problem that i cant send mail with my qmail SMTP to anny domain which is not in the rctphosts file. here is outlooks error message: Die Nachricht konnte nicht gesendet werden, da einer der Empfänger vom Server nicht akzeptiert wurde. Die nicht akzeptierte E-Mail-Adresse ist '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Betreff 'test2', Konto: '194.97.99.230', Server: '194.97.99.230', Protokoll: SMTP, Serverantwort: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Anschluss: 25, Secure(SSL): Nein, Serverfehler: 553, Fehlernummer: 0x800CCC79 How can I fix this. Regards Alex
RE: Rctp Hosts Problem......
Quick fix: read Life With qmail (URL at http://www.qmail.org/top.html), look up the relaying section. The problem is that the server has not been set up to allow relaying. To do this, you must have the ucspi-tcp tools installed so you can use tcpserver. Read the above doc for more anyway... Brett Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Alexander Meis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rctp Hosts Problem.. Hi i got the problem that i cant send mail with my qmail SMTP to anny domain which is not in the rctphosts file. here is outlooks error message: Die Nachricht konnte nicht gesendet werden, da einer der Empfänger vom Server nicht akzeptiert wurde. Die nicht akzeptierte E-Mail-Adresse ist '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Betreff 'test2', Konto: '194.97.99.230', Server: '194.97.99.230', Protokoll: SMTP, Serverantwort: '553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)', Anschluss: 25, Secure(SSL): Nein, Serverfehler: 553, Fehlernummer: 0x800CCC79 How can I fix this. Regards Alex
qmail Digest 8 Aug 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1087
qmail Digest 8 Aug 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1087 Topics (messages 46252 through 46310): Re: Mailing list performance 46252 by: Dave Sill Trouble compiling qmail under RedHat v6.2 Intel 46253 by: Steve Woolley 46254 by: Petr Novotny Re: Configuring a "Store-and-Forward" backup qmail server 46255 by: pgregg.niweb.com 46266 by: John White RFC-822 Headers 46256 by: Audouy Jérôme 46257 by: Audouy Jérôme 46258 by: Petr Novotny Strange virtualdomains 46259 by: Magnus Löfqvist 46270 by: Magnus Bodin (null) 46260 by: Re: qmail-unsubscribe 46261 by: Tony Campisi Problems delivering mail. 46262 by: Jesús Arnáiz 46263 by: Dave Sill Problems with some DNS configurations.? 46264 by: Jesús Arnáiz 46265 by: Sean C Truman misconfigured zones. 46267 by: Jesús Arnáiz 46269 by: Tim Hunter 46271 by: Aaron L. Meehan Re: Announcing qmail-autoresponder version 0.93 46268 by: Brian Johnson 46272 by: Bruce Guenter 46275 by: wolfgang zeikat 46276 by: Olivier M. 46278 by: wolfgang zeikat 46294 by: Bruce Guenter Upgrade a qmail 46273 by: Jesús Arnáiz 46274 by: Olivier M. Error Message 'this user has no $HOME/Maildir' ? 46277 by: UrBuN DeGeNeRaTe Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail 46279 by: Ellen Spertus 46284 by: Chris, the Young One 46286 by: Ellen Spertus 46289 by: Chris, the Young One 46292 by: Ellen Spertus 46295 by: Chris, the Young One 46297 by: Todd Finney 46299 by: Chris, the Young One 46301 by: Chris, the Young One 46306 by: Todd Finney impossible to do? 46280 by: M.B. Re: orbs.org accuses qmail of mailbomb relaying! 46281 by: Claus Färber Delays in POP3 response 46282 by: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems 46283 by: Sean C Truman 46293 by: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems 46307 by: Slider libresolv.so.2.0 problem 46285 by: Roy G Brown III 46288 by: Chris, the Young One Strip all previous "Received" header 46287 by: Edward Tsang help with strange problem 46290 by: Barry Smoke 46291 by: Barry Smoke 46300 by: Brett Randall qmail-pop3d question 46296 by: Wesly Ng users/assignwas...strange problem 46298 by: Barry Smoke 46302 by: Oliver Koch 46304 by: Brett Randall Virtual domains 46303 by: kamal_batra.netwala.com 46305 by: Brett Randall Multiple Mails with qmail-inject 46308 by: Martin Sckopke Rctp Hosts Problem.. 46309 by: Alexander Meis 46310 by: Brett Randall Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 4 August 2000 at 09:37:29 -0400 Eval 1 Eval 2 Eval 3 MTA timedns timedns timedns qmail 155 1250 127 1230 127 1235 Postfix184 1375 168 1290 161 1330 exim 645475 161450 157451 SMTPfeed 215610 160442 157461 zmailer 1530 1675 357 1260 360 1300 I read the time on eval 1 for qmail as 20 seconds. Well, maybe 22. There's a very sharp bend in both DNS and SMTP curves at that point, and only completely trivial activity after that. Ah, so you're looking at the time to deliver something like 97-99% of the messages. I'm looking at the 100% times, which tend to be dominated by a couple of slow remote servers. I'd like to see the raw numbers in addition to the graphs. -Dave I am having trouble compiling qmail from the source distribution unde RedHat 6.2 Intel. According to the README's I should not have to anything special to compile but I seem to be blowing up because of a simple standard header file not being found. I know I could probably go back and locate each one of these files but I normally do not have this kind of problem when compiling source. Am I missing some key PATH setting or key piece of info to compiling this properly? Steve Woolley Compilation output: [swoolley@myhost qmail-1.03]$ make ( cat warn-auto.sh; \ echo CC=\'`head -1 conf-cc`\'; \ echo LD=\'`head -1 conf-ld`\' \ ) auto-ccld.sh cat auto-ccld.sh make-load.sh make-load chmod 755 make-load cat auto-ccld.sh find-systype.sh find-systype chmod 755 find-systype ./find-systype systype ( cat warn-auto.sh; ./make-load "`cat systype`" ) load chmod 755 load cat auto-ccld.sh make-compile.sh make-compile chmod
Re: Mailing list performance
"P.Y. Adi Prasaja" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is your previous post: He apparently confused incoming concurrency with outgoing concurrency. What are you trying to say in this regard? Motonori seems to have thought that the "smtp" service entry in master.cf controlled outgoing concurrency, when, in fact, it controls incoming concurrency. Perhaps you're thinking of default_destination_concurrency_limit? That's the *per destination* limit, not the overall concurrency limit. Yes. And seems to me that you pretend to that this would not give any impact to the measurements... It could be a factor if any of the test addresses had duplicate hostnames. Since they were of the form nobody@FQDN, they were apparently all unique. Either you're wrong or the documentation on the web is wrong. I don't care enough to determine which is the case. Here is what the web docs say: No. The docs is minimum, but it isn't wrong. If there is no such a limitation in qmail, why should one pretend to that there is no such a limitation in other MTA (postfix) too? I'm not "pretending" anything. Once again, if you would like to see the comparisson numbers that author gives to us, just see at the linear equation from each graph. You would see that postfix beat qmail just for about 1 msg/second rate in 2nd and 3th evaluation (this fact is unsignificant, for me at least). Firstly, those rates are for DNS queries, not SMTP deliveries. Second, a steeper slope doesn't necessarily mean it's faster. The equation is: y = N x + a and the "a" can be a significant factor. Anyway, if the number of process_limit is increased, say 120, with the same condition (environment, machine, etc.), should qmail a lot faster than postfix because of its great efficiency in resources using by qmail compares to postfix (yes, I didn't talk about the whole results, it's about 'internal processing'). Perhaps...that hasn't been proven in a published test, to my knowledge. I'd also like to see the effect of running a local dns cache (both djbdns and BIND). -Dave
Re: Trouble compiling qmail under RedHat v6.2 Intel
Petr Novotny wrote: ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:300, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or You need glibc-devel and kernel-headers packages. I checked and I believe I have these: [root@myhost /root]# rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.16-3 [root@myhost /root]# rpm -q glibc glibc-2.1.3-15 [root@myhost /root]# rpm -q glibc-devel glibc-devel-2.1.3-15 Any other thoughts? Thanks for your response. Steve
Re: Trouble compiling qmail under RedHat v6.2 Intel
also sprach steve.woolley: Petr Novotny wrote: ./compile sig_alarm.c In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:300, from sig_alarm.c:1: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or You need glibc-devel and kernel-headers packages. I checked and I believe I have these: [root@myhost /root]# rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.16-3 Did you install this before, after, or independent of a kernel-source RPM? kernel-source will walk all over kernel-headers. Either re-install (with --force) kernel-headers to get all of the proper symlinks back, or check the following: * /usr/src/linux = /usr/src/linux-VERSION * /usr/src/linux/include/asm = /usr/src/linux/include/asm-ARCH * /usr/include/asm = /usr/src/linux/include/asm * /usr/include/linux = /usr/src/linux/include/linux /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Need I say more? This is the kernel you've been waiting for. It leaps tall buildings if you throw it hard enough, and it makes diffs _really_ fast if you have enough memory. (Linus Torvalds, announcing a yet better kernel)
Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail
On 9 Aug 2000, Chris, the Young One wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:20AM -0400, Todd Finney wrote: ! I don't know which one would be faster. Speed really isn't ! an issue in this case though, is it? I love efficiency wherever I find it (though a good friend calls me ``the king of procrastination'', so I guess I don't practise what I preach). So, to me, whether it's an issue here is not an issue. :-) Doing 50% more work to have a seldom-run and small-footprint process run 10% faster is not efficient. ! You have to change the file anyway if ! you're implementing the qmail.pid solution, and pidof saves ! you the trouble of adding the (admittedly minor) pid ! recording function. But no, we don't have to change /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail. As mentioned in a previous message, Ellen is using a script file that backgrounds /var/qmail/rc; my solution only involves changing that script. Go back and read the messages again. Ellen didn't need to correct pid for the startup script. She needed it for qmail-rcfile, which is different. If you're changing the location of the pid - be it from nothing to /var/run/qmail.pid or from nothing to /sbin/pidof qmail-send, you need to update the qmail-rcfile to reflect this change. Using pidof removes the need to record the pid to a file, which saves you about 44 characters. ! pidof, a win by 44 characters? You know you're a geek when you start counting how many characters a command takes up. :-) (That's a compliment, in case you take it the other way.) Thank you. cheers, Todd
Users getting other users mail.
Hi all, I am having a problem where several users are getting email that is being sent to another person. One guys email in particular is being received by four other people. This problem has now spread to several other individuals. I checked aliases and mailing list memberships, and everything seems ok there. Has anyone out there ever encountered this problem or have any idea how to find out what is wrong? Some embarrassing incidents have already taken place, and i need to stop this as soon as possible! Thanks for your help! Bernard (Brian) J. Duffy Database Administrator ReserveAmerica -- NY 40 South Street Ballston Spa, NY 12020 (518)885-4282 x2017 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
supervise + qmail-pop3d prob
Just joining this list a couple of minutes ago, i already got my first serious problem. I installed qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.8.7 ucspi-tcp-0.88 and daemontools-0.70 to setup an qmail/vpopmail mailserver according to the tutorial "life with qmail" Now here's my prob: The supervise process doesn't recognize my pop3d starting up. After starting "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3" i get multiple error messages tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used as supervise repeatedly starts the tcpserver. Nevertheless does one pop3 daemon start up and accepts connections. When I start that skript manually the pop3d start at once. Here is my run skript: snipp #! /bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l my_host 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my_host \ /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir /snipp The stmp daemon is started the same way and produces no probs. What's going wrong Thanks in advance Manuel
RE: supervise + qmail-pop3d prob
After starting "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3" i get multiple error messages tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used as supervise repeatedly starts the tcpserver. This usually means the port it is trying to access is already in use. If inetd is running at the same time, edit /etc/inetd.conf and make sure that the pop3 client in there has been commented out. Brett Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/
compile probs on netbsd
I'm having a problem compiling qmail 1.03 on NetBSD 1.4.2 intel. from 'make setup check': ./load qmail-remote control.o constmap.o timeoutread.o timeoutwrite.o timeoutconn.o tcpto.o now.o dns.o ip.o ipalloc.o ipme.o quote.o ndelay.a case.a sig.a open.a lock.a seek.a getln.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o `cat dns.lib` `cat socket.lib`dns.o: Undefined symbol `__res_get_error' referenced from text segmentcollect2: ld returned 1 exit status*** Error code 1 ./compile tries to use cc, I changed it to gcc (2.9.5-2) with the same results. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan Fox Noguska [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: help with strange problem
I always check that first...so what I'm getting is that this shouldn't be happening..the cron job definately makes a new user work..but I'm not using NIS, or NFS. I agree it is strange that the message says mailbox..what else might be conflicting? AgainI have been using qmail for quite sometimeand I've not had this problem before.it is very strange. ##this is my startup script in var/services/qmail##[root@bryant bsmoke]# cd /var/service[root@bryant service]# lspop3d qmail qmqpd qmtpd smtpd[root@bryant service]# cd qmail[root@bryant qmail]# lslog run run~ supervise[root@bryant qmail]# cat run#!/bin/sh. /usr/lib/qmail/run-functionsreaddefault aliasempty aliasempty ./Maildir/make-owners /var/qmailexec qmail-start "$aliasempty" -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:36 AMTo: Barry SmokeSubject: Re: help with strange problemJust two ideas: Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.567118 delivery 25: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Shouldn't be Maildir? I mean... take a look at your start-up script and check qmail delivers to Maildir and not to mailbox... drwx-- 5 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 Maildirdrwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 4 1999 web[root@bryant skel]# cat ..qmail./Maildir/ [root@bryant skel]# cd Maildir[root@bryant Maildir]# ls -altotal 5drwx-- 5 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 .drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:51 ..drwx-- 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 curdrwx-- 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 newdrwx-- 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 tmp The owner of these files would have to be the user and not root Hope it helps Paco GraciaDirector TécnicoAmira Sistemas
RE: help with strange problem
I never knew about this...because i've never set qmail up for nis/nfs.which makes my situation even stranger I always check the permissions firstI have permissions set up correctly in /etc/skel...so every user created automatically has the correct permissions..permissions have always been what I look at first, because as with you ...it always fixes 90% of my problems...sucks to have one in the other 10% I'm almost stumped on this one..it has to be something simple I would rather not have to run that cron script...if I don't have to. I concider it kind of a hack for now. -Original Message- From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:05 AM To: qmail Subject: RE: help with strange problem to add I have discovered that the users that are working are in /var/control/users/assign what updates this file? Unless RedHat 7.0 beta includes some automatic function, then you do. Read the qmail FAQ on info for how to update this (specifically look for information on NIS/NFS outages...this is included there.) I don't know if this is covered in LWQ but I would guess so. Also, most of the problems I have had with qmail like yours are to do with Maildir permissions. Make sure in the actual home folder of the recipient that they have at least read/write permissions (maybe a cd ~user; chmod -R u+r *; chown -R user *; chown -R user .qmail; chgrp -R group *; chgrp -R group .qmail) might help. This has 90% of the time caused the below problem. BUT the assign file you asked about before probably caused the other 10%! If in doubt, delete it : (Or move it somewhere else and its associated files...probably recommended). Brett. Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help with strange problem - Original Message - From: Barry Smoke To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:45 PM Subject: help with strange problem I have been pulling my hair out on this one all day long. I am including all my information so you guys can help keep my hair in. I have been running qmail on a mail machine at a k12 school for a year...no real problems to speak of now I have upgraded this server to redhat 7.0 beta..I know...why on earth would you use beta on a production machinewell, I tested it out on several otehr machines...and all went well, and it's not the beta I'm having problems with. The machine in question is bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us there is an alias to this machine...bryant.k12.ar.us I have been running this machine aliased for our administrators for the year...and now I'm moving all of our schools over to this machine. That includes elementaries, the jr.high, high school, etc Mail is working perfectly for our administrators(thank goodness)...but not for new users I have /etc/skel setup to create a Maildir correctly(yes I used maildirmake), and copy a .qmail file to everyone's home directory. I checked permissions...they match our existing users that are working. you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when you add a new user you can't send mail to them at either addressI've tried restarting qmail...and restarting the machine(with blind hopes) I got this whe I added a user named testingthemail: to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.528031 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.548143 delivery 24: success: did_0+0+0/ Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.566173 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.567118 delivery 25: failure: Sorry,_no_m ailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ I added another user just a while agoand all of the sudden his is working...I haven't done anything but this new one I just added isn't yet... is there a file I have to manually update if I want users to be accessible right after being added? #/etc/skel## [root@bryant skel]# ls -al total 20 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:51 . drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 6144 Aug 7 19:20 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 24 Jul 17 09:56 .bash_logout -rw-r--r--1 root root 230 Jul 17 09:56 .bash_profile -rw-r--r--1 root root 124 Jul 17 09:56 .bashrc -rw-r--r--1 root root 688 Jul 25 11:53 .emacs drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:34 .kde -rw-rw-r--1 root root 11 May 10 12:55 .qmail -rw-r--r--1 root root 3394 Jul 12 19:34 .screenrc drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Aug 3 17:34 Desktop drwx--5 root root 1024 Aug 3 15:48 Maildir drwxrwxr-x2 root root 1024 Dec 4 1999 web [root@bryant skel]# cat .qmail ./Maildir/ [root@bryant skel]# cd Maildir
RE: help with strange problem
I'm almost stumped on this one..it has to be something simple I would rather not have to run that cron script...if I don't have to. I concider it kind of a hack for now. Ok...have you tried dumping the whole 'assign' setup? This should disable its usage, since you don't need it. Give that a go...Also a cron script is terrible. When I add a user, I want it to work NOW not when the next update is. I don't know WHOSE idea that was...The hack I would do would be to the adduser script itself. But anyway try dumping the users/assign structure and see what happens. Brett. Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/
Re: supervise + qmail-pop3d prob
hi, At 16:36 08.08.00 +0200, you wrote: Just joining this list a couple of minutes ago, i already got my first serious problem. I installed qmail 1.03 vpopmail 4.8.7 ucspi-tcp-0.88 and daemontools-0.70 to setup an qmail/vpopmail mailserver according to the tutorial "life with qmail" Now here's my prob: The supervise process doesn't recognize my pop3d starting up. After starting "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3" i get multiple error messages tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used as supervise repeatedly starts the tcpserver. hey... "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3" is NOT: .../var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Nevertheless does one pop3 daemon start up and accepts connections. When I start that skript manually the pop3d start at once. and if you start the skript then again you will got a "tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used" ;-) nothing else supervice do... i think, you start qmail-pop3d in the background and so supervice will 5 sec later try to start qmail-pop3d again... Here is my run skript: snipp #! /bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l my_host 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my_host \ /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir /snipp The stmp daemon is started the same way and produces no probs. nope. it is started NOT in the same way. you start smtpd without '' ;-) -- MfG Michael Hufnagl Netzwerktechnik *** * ecore Kommunikations AG * http://www.ecore.net *
SV: Strange virtualdomains
Hi, im sorry, I was in a bit of a rusch last time... it is like this, I have virtual domain system that delivery all the mails to about 10-15 domains to one user, in that user (mailmaster in my case) have a .qmail-default file that starts up a script for get the user accound who should retreive the mail from a sql database, but some mails are stuck and it look like qmail dosent set the correct RECIPIENT enviroment variable...I only get [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box answers on worldnet.se, etanet.nu, norrtelje.net, d-tech.nu and wnprod.org // Magnus Löfqvist here is a example mailheader that makes this error: RECIPIENT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENDER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 4897 invoked by uid 1008); 5 Aug 2000 20:11:16 - Received: (qmail 4891 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2000 20:11:15 - Received: from unknown (HELO bas05.calypso.net) (194.52.189.101) by 62.100.129.2 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2000 20:11:15 - Received: from nic.calypso.net (nic.calypso.net [194.52.189.130]) by bas05.calypso.net (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA28165; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:11:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from win.calypso.net (t3o77p4.telia.com [195.198.146.4]) by nic.calypso.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07953; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:13:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 22:07:54 +0200 To: Per Johansson C Sekt 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Berndt =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rklund?= C Sekt 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] se, =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6rje?= Axlund =?iso-8859-1?Q?Chefsinstrukt=F6r?= Sekt 3 cse [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kjell =?iso-8859-1?Q?Karlstr=F6m?= Hvbat Nord Kommendant [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rolf Dhejne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LEDNINGKRIGF=D6RING?= Cc: Lars Rosenqvist C Hvbat nord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Magnus Bodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 7 augusti 2000 19:23 Till: qmail list Ämne: Re: Strange virtualdomains On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:34:52PM +0200, Magnus Löfqvist wrote: Have a strage problem.. I use virtualdomain and got some strange deliverys [EMAIL PROTECTED] why dosent it get a real adress? You really have to be a little more elaborative in your error reports. How did you configure the domain in virtualdomains and how does the "error" look like? /magnus -- http://x42.com/
a thought.... help with strange problem
Here's a thoughti moved the /home directory to a new drive a while back ago.is this fstab entry causing this to act like nfs? #fstab## [root@bryant /etc]# cat fstab /dev/sda3 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2defaults1 2 /dev/sda2 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/sdb1 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy ext2owner,noauto0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 owner,noauto,ro 0 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /home ext2defaults1 1 -Original Message- From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 8:54 AM To: Brett Randall Cc: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To Subject: RE: help with strange problem I never knew about this...because i've never set qmail up for nis/nfs.which makes my situation even stranger I always check the permissions firstI have permissions set up correctly in /etc/skel...so every user created automatically has the correct permissions..permissions have always been what I look at first, because as with you ...it always fixes 90% of my problems...sucks to have one in the other 10% I'm almost stumped on this one..it has to be something simple I would rather not have to run that cron script...if I don't have to. I concider it kind of a hack for now. -Original Message- From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:05 AM To: qmail Subject: RE: help with strange problem to add I have discovered that the users that are working are in /var/control/users/assign what updates this file? Unless RedHat 7.0 beta includes some automatic function, then you do. Read the qmail FAQ on info for how to update this (specifically look for information on NIS/NFS outages...this is included there.) I don't know if this is covered in LWQ but I would guess so. Also, most of the problems I have had with qmail like yours are to do with Maildir permissions. Make sure in the actual home folder of the recipient that they have at least read/write permissions (maybe a cd ~user; chmod -R u+r *; chown -R user *; chown -R user .qmail; chgrp -R group *; chgrp -R group .qmail) might help. This has 90% of the time caused the below problem. BUT the assign file you asked about before probably caused the other 10%! If in doubt, delete it : (Or move it somewhere else and its associated files...probably recommended). Brett. Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help with strange problem - Original Message - From: Barry Smoke To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:45 PM Subject: help with strange problem I have been pulling my hair out on this one all day long. I am including all my information so you guys can help keep my hair in. I have been running qmail on a mail machine at a k12 school for a year...no real problems to speak of now I have upgraded this server to redhat 7.0 beta..I know...why on earth would you use beta on a production machinewell, I tested it out on several otehr machines...and all went well, and it's not the beta I'm having problems with. The machine in question is bryant.dsc.k12.ar.us there is an alias to this machine...bryant.k12.ar.us I have been running this machine aliased for our administrators for the year...and now I'm moving all of our schools over to this machine. That includes elementaries, the jr.high, high school, etc Mail is working perfectly for our administrators(thank goodness)...but not for new users I have /etc/skel setup to create a Maildir correctly(yes I used maildirmake), and copy a .qmail file to everyone's home directory. I checked permissions...they match our existing users that are working. you can send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when you add a new user you can't send mail to them at either addressI've tried restarting qmail...and restarting the machine(with blind hopes) I got this whe I added a user named testingthemail: to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.528031 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.548143 delivery 24: success: did_0+0+0/ Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.566173 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Aug 7 20:10:10 bryant qmail: 965697010.567118 delivery 25: failure: Sorry,_no_m ailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ I added another user just a while agoand all of the sudden his is
Re: supervise + qmail-pop3d prob
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:36:21PM +0200, Manuel Gisbert wrote: The supervise process doesn't recognize my pop3d starting up. After starting "supervise /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3" i get multiple error messages tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used as supervise repeatedly starts the tcpserver. Nevertheless does one pop3 daemon start up and accepts connections. When I start that skript manually the pop3d start at once. Here is my run skript: snipp #! /bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l my_host 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my_host \ /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir ^^^ Remove the from the end of your script. Chris
Re: Strange virtualdomains
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:02:11PM +0200, Magnus Löfqvist wrote: Hi, im sorry, I was in a bit of a rusch last time... it is like this, I have virtual domain system that delivery all the mails to about 10-15 domains to one user, in that user (mailmaster in my case) have a .qmail-default file that starts up a script for get the user accound who should retreive the mail from a sql database, but some mails are stuck and it look like qmail dosent set the correct RECIPIENT enviroment variable...I only get [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box answers on worldnet.se, etanet.nu, norrtelje.net, d-tech.nu and wnprod.org Sounds strange. I suggest that you instruct your script to dump ALL environment variables and the message to a log when this happen and send it here. What domain and localpart was the target for attached message? /magnus -- http://x42.com/
RE: help with strange problem
to add I have discovered that the users that are working are in /var/control/users/assign what updates this file? Maybe the problem is there. Check the entries in this file to be: +domain.tld:user:uid:gid:directory where Maildir is:-:: for example... my account in my domain would be something like +amira.es:pgracia:500:500:/home/pgracia:-:: Anyway the reference to mailbox in the error message is weird... Paco Gracia Director Técnico Amira Sistemas
FW: help with strange problem
-Original Message-From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:28 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Barry SmokeCc: Qmail%List._Cr._Yp._To @list.cr.yp.toSubject: RE: help with strange problem hmmmy entries look like this with the username in front. =barry:barry:983:504:/home/barry:::+barry-:barry:983:504:/home/barry:-::=testingthemail:testingthemail:984:984:/home/testingthemail:::+testingthemail-:testingthemail:984:984:/home/testingthemail:-:: -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:21 AMTo: Barry SmokeCc: Qmail%List._Cr._Yp._To @list.cr.yp.toSubject: RE: help with strange problem to add I have discovered that the users that are working are in /var/control/users/assign what updates this file? Maybe the problem is there. Check the entries in this file to be: +domain.tld:user:uid:gid:directory where Maildir is:-:: for example... my account in my domain would be something like +amira.es:pgracia:500:500:/home/pgracia:-:: Anyway the reference to mailbox in the error message is weird... Paco GraciaDirector TécnicoAmira Sistemas
Re: Users getting other users mail.
"Bernard (Brian) J. Duffy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem where several users are getting email that is being sent to another person. One guys email in particular is being received by four other people. This problem has now spread to several other individuals. I checked aliases and mailing list memberships, and everything seems ok there. Has anyone out there ever encountered this problem or have any idea how to find out what is wrong? Some embarrassing incidents have already taken place, and i need to stop this as soon as possible! So, to paraphrase: "I'm having a problem, but everything looks right to me. Help!" Not much to go on, there, Brian. :-) How about providing the following: 1) an example of a misdelivered message with *all* header fields intact--especially "Received" 2) contents of the relevant user's .qmail files 3) snippet from qmail-send logs during the misdelivery -Dave
Re: Multiple Mails with qmail-inject
Martin Sckopke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're using a little script to do some header rewriting. Sorry, that voids your qmail warranty. :-) It is called via .qmail-fixup-default. The output of the script is the fed into qmail-inject, QMAILINJECT=i. Almost everything works as expected, there's just one problem: if a mail is sent to multiple users, EACH of them gets it multiple times. The number of individual mails is equal to the number or receivers. The .qmail-fixup-default script is called n-times and calls qmail-inject n-times (n is the number of receivers), then qmail-inject sends each message n times. If you re-inject the messages N times, wouldn't you expect to receive N copies? Unless your script re-injects it only for that copy's recipient.. We have this setup running for some years now but recently upgraded hardware, kernel and qmail version. Qmail was 1.01 and is now 1.03. Hardware is Intel, OS is Linux. What I can't figure out is how you managed to avoid duplicates before... -Dave
Thanx supervise + qmail-pop3d
Well thanx, removing the "" cleared that problem at once. typical rookie fault should have got out for myself thanx Manuel
RE: supervise + qmail-pop3d prob
This usually means the port it is trying to access is already in use. If inetd is running at the same time, edit /etc/inetd.conf and make sure that the pop3 client in there has been commented out. Well, pop3 client is commented out in inetd.conf As i said there is no problem running the skript from the console The problem here is that supervise doesn't recognize that tcpserver/pop3d is already running and tries to start the daemon again. Manuel
[Fwd: qmail-pop3d question]
What error are you getting from your pop3 client? Are you allowing connections, as specified in hosts.allow/deny? Wesly Ng wrote: Hello, I setup the qmail on turbolinux4.0 on 2 servers. I follow the step of "Life with Qmail" setup qmail-pop3d and checkpassword run the pop-3 by inetd.conf and send HUP to inetd. pass the test on INSTALL of checkpassword-0.81. also, I check that tcp.smtp :allow but I still can't check email from the client by pop3 which is inside my LAN. any other things that I missed? thanks~
Re: Open letter
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Re: send to group functionality ?
Is there an easy way to just send to all users in a linux group, instead of having to use an alias file? You mean group, as in, a line in /etc/group, right? Lets say I have a message in a file called syl2000fall.txt and I want to send it to everyone in the group called chem507. I think this would do it: mail `grep ^chem507 /etc/group | cut -f4 -d:` syl2000fall.txt Some light tweaking may be required, but mail will accept comma-delimited recipients, YMMV. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Originator of the world's first combination bassinet and table saw
Re: Sort maildir and send smallest first
I recall from an earlier discussion of a similar problem that a perceived consensus was reached that a good way to do this kind of thing is to patch qmail-remote so that if the message is too big to send, it appears as a temporary error without even attempting to connect. also the definition of "too big to send" is read in from the file system in such a way that it can be easily monitored, and easily manipulated by a cron job. Something like the (non)existence of /var/mail/control/okay-to-send-big. After the status changes, an ALRM signal is generated to reprocess all backed up mail (most of which is there due to being oversize, it is hoped) and that is that. I do not know if this approach can be applied to maildirsmtp and serialmail. Peter van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:45:34AM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I would like to have qmail changed to do a sort mailbox by seize and send the smallest first. ... The larger messages could then go at night where the x minutes is set to a higher value. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Originator of the world's first combination bassinet and table saw
Re: stop postmaster to make more acounts..
Dave Sill wrote: Geir Ove =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ksnes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My customers have paid for like 100 email accounts and one postmaster account... how to i restrict him from making more than 100 email accounts?... this is on a virtual domain.. Run a cron job periodically that removes/disables any .qmail*-default files and any .qmail* files in excess of 100. -Dave better to monitor his overuse and bill him for it -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Originator of the world's first combination bassinet and table saw
Re: stop postmaster to make more acounts..
If I remember correctly the new qmailadmin has a setting for this. Now if only I could remember what it was, I remember seeing the settings on either this or the vpopmail mailing list. BEtter yet im sure its in the tarball somewhere. -- Tim - Original Message - From: "David L. Nicol" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Dave Sill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 1:06 PM Subject: Re: stop postmaster to make more acounts.. Dave Sill wrote: Geir Ove =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ksnes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My customers have paid for like 100 email accounts and one postmaster account... how to i restrict him from making more than 100 email accounts?... this is on a virtual domain.. Run a cron job periodically that removes/disables any .qmail*-default files and any .qmail* files in excess of 100. -Dave better to monitor his overuse and bill him for it -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Originator of the world's first combination bassinet and table saw
Qmail and NIS databases
Maybe someone could interest this one: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~keith/qmail/update-nis-qmail-users.html Paco Gracia Director Técnico Amira Sistemas
Missing attachment...
Hello guys... I was wondering if anyone knows why do sometimes some email attachments get stripped off the email, is this a server side problem, a client side problem or a protocol problem? Or can someone tell me where I can get documentation about this... Thanks Guillermo Villasana
Re: Users getting other users mail.
I apologize for being a bonehead. I have hollered at people for doing the same thing as i just did more than once :) Somebody made several typos in /etc/aliases which caused the problem. Bernard (Brian) J. Duffy Database Administrator ReserveAmerica -- NY 40 South Street Ballston Spa, NY 12020 (518)885-4282 x2017 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to stop sub-domains in BADMAIL
Sorry this has probably been asked a thousand times but here it is. We keep getting spam from zzn.com, but with sub domains, so it's yes.zzn.com or friend.zzn.com I know to stop them by putting this in BADMAIL @friend.zzn.com @yes.zzn.com Can I do it this way? @*.zzn.com Thanks all * John McCoy, Jr Systems Administrator Central Systems, Mills College 510-430-3321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
Re: How to stop sub-domains in BADMAIL
"John McCoy, Jr" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know to stop them by putting this in [badmailfrom] @friend.zzn.com @yes.zzn.com Can I do it this way? @*.zzn.com No, but you could block their IP addresses using tcpserver. -Dave
Revert to Sendmail
Hi *, How do I revert back to sendmail?...I am not able to use Telnet ...it reflects the qmail status still. I have stopped the QMail from Running. I am able to recieve remote mails but not send it thru Telnet. I have done the following: 1. Uncommented this line in /etc/init.d/sendmail. sendmail -bd -q15m 2. Started the sendmail daemon and shows up as running. 3. Added the setuid bit on the sendmail binary: # chmod 777 /usr/lib/sendmail 4. Moved the sendmail binary back to its place: # mv /usr/lib/sendmail.bak /usr/lib/sendmail Please reply asap, Anand
Re: Revert to Sendmail
How do I revert back to sendmail? Sendmail installation instructions are available from www.sendmail.org. 3. Added the setuid bit on the sendmail binary: # chmod 777 /usr/lib/sendmail By all means, leave it world-writeable like that. That way, any normal user on your system can overwrite it with the contents of their choice, and thus gain root access. steve
qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: (qmail 17623 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: (qmail 17620 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: (qmail 17617 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50 - Received: (qmail 17614 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:49 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:49 - Received: (qmail 17611 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:48 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:48 - Received: (qmail 17608 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000
Re: Revert to Sendmail
From: "Steve Wolfe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:24:50 -0600 How do I revert back to sendmail? Sendmail installation instructions are available from www.sendmail.org. 3. Added the setuid bit on the sendmail binary: # chmod 777 /usr/lib/sendmail By all means, leave it world-writeable like that. That way, any normal user on your system can overwrite it with the contents of their choice, and thus gain root access. ...and by the way, this does *not* turn in the setuid bit. Chris -- Chris Garrigues http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ virCIO http://www.virCIO.Com 4314 Avenue C Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
What's the contents of your /var/qmail/locals file? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: (qmail 17623 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: (qmail 17620 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: (qmail 17617 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50 - Received: (qmail 17614 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:49 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8
Setting up qmail user accounts
Hi All, Can someone tell why if I create a user account like this : ./maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail I can send email using the command: echo to: ksmith | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject However, if I create a user account like this : ~ksmith/.qmail-ksmith I can use the command: echo to: ksmith | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and I do receive the test email? Any ideas? Also, when I try to send email to the user via my email client on my PC to the mailserver, it never arrives, yet I never get a return mail sending it was never delivered, can someone tell if I have installed qmail correctly? Also, if I am connecting retrieve email from the webserver from my PC, it goes through port 110, is it possible that the server is blocking port 110 as this is a managed server (ISP does not support qmail) and I recall that it was somehow setup not to process email, so I thought... if port 110 is barred, how on Solaris v2.6 do I stop this from happening? Many thanks, Kevin Smith
Re: qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
fiumano.com. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: What's the contents of your /var/qmail/locals file? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: (qmail 17623 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:53 - Received: (qmail 17620 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:52 - Received: (qmail 17617 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:50
Re: Revert to Sendmail
But here I am only REVERTING Back to Sendmail .i.e I had previously Installed Sendmail over which I installed QMail...Now If I want to turn Sendmail back on How do I do that? apart from using the steps as stated in Rmove.sendmail document. Steve Wolfe wrote: How do I revert back to sendmail? Sendmail installation instructions are available from www.sendmail.org. 3. Added the setuid bit on the sendmail binary: # chmod 777 /usr/lib/sendmail By all means, leave it world-writeable like that. That way, any normal user on your system can overwrite it with the contents of their choice, and thus gain root access. steve
Re: Setting up qmail user accounts
I think I've managed to work out that problem now... The problem I have now is I can't download messages off of the mailserver from my PC. I have qmail setup on another mailserver, but I didn't set that up.. Does anyone have any pointers as to what to do? Is there something I need to enable POP or SMTP on the machine? Or should qmail have sorted that out? The error I get from Outlook Express is : The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'DWS', Server: 'dwshop2.dedic.web.xara.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Cheers, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Kevin Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:06 PM Subject: Setting up qmail user accounts Hi All, Can someone tell why if I create a user account like this : ./maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail I can send email using the command: echo to: ksmith | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject However, if I create a user account like this : ~ksmith/.qmail-ksmith I can use the command: echo to: ksmith | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject and I do receive the test email? Any ideas? Also, when I try to send email to the user via my email client on my PC to the mailserver, it never arrives, yet I never get a return mail sending it was never delivered, can someone tell if I have installed qmail correctly? Also, if I am connecting retrieve email from the webserver from my PC, it goes through port 110, is it possible that the server is blocking port 110 as this is a managed server (ISP does not support qmail) and I recall that it was somehow setup not to process email, so I thought... if port 110 is barred, how on Solaris v2.6 do I stop this from happening? Many thanks, Kevin Smith
Re: Revert to Sendmail
Anand, your X-Mailer header denonciates you as using NT... I really believe it would be more efficient and lot safer for you to revert to post office. Don't feel offensed in any way, but to administrate qmail or, worse, sendmail, you do need to be more savvy in unix administration. Fabrice Anand Saokar wrote: But here I am only REVERTING Back to Sendmail .i.e I had previously Installed Sendmail over which I installed QMail...Now If I want to turn Sendmail back on How do I do that? apart from using the steps as stated in Rmove.sendmail document. Steve Wolfe wrote: How do I revert back to sendmail? Sendmail installation instructions are available from www.sendmail.org. 3. Added the setuid bit on the sendmail binary: # chmod 777 /usr/lib/sendmail By all means, leave it world-writeable like that. That way, any normal user on your system can overwrite it with the contents of their choice, and thus gain root access. steve -- "Ce n'est pas parce qu'on dit : "Fermez la porte, il fait froid dehors", qu'il fait moins froid dehors quand la porte est fermee." -- Pierre Dac
Re: Revert to Sendmail
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:12:38PM -0700, Anand Saokar wrote: But here I am only REVERTING Back to Sendmail .i.e I had previously Installed Sendmail over which I installed QMail...Now If I want to turn Sendmail back on How do I do that? apart from using the steps as stated in Rmove.sendmail document. We heard your question the first time. There is no documented procedure for uninstalling qmail. But, you've stated that you previously installed Sendmail, why not just do that again? Remember, this list consists mostly of people who know nothing about Sendmail or don't want to keep knowing about Sendmail. On that basis, asking your question here is kinda like asking vegetarians how to eat meat. Regards.
Re: qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
You don't have anything in your smtproutes that would send this back out do you? Let me make sure I understand this. You have a qmail box that is on an ip (10.0.0.3) and that has a static translation to the world through a router or NAT box of some sort. The MX for fiumano.com is pointed to this static translated address? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: fiumano.com. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: What's the contents of your /var/qmail/locals file? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:54 - Received:
Re: qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
yes On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: You don't have anything in your smtproutes that would send this back out do you? Let me make sure I understand this. You have a qmail box that is on an ip (10.0.0.3) and that has a static translation to the world through a router or NAT box of some sort. The MX for fiumano.com is pointed to this static translated address? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: fiumano.com. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: What's the contents of your /var/qmail/locals file? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:55 - Received: (qmail 17626 invoked from
Re: qmail behind nat looping trying to receive mail form outside
yes that is right. There is nothing in smtproutes and the rest which you stated is correct. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: You don't have anything in your smtproutes that would send this back out do you? Let me make sure I understand this. You have a qmail box that is on an ip (10.0.0.3) and that has a static translation to the world through a router or NAT box of some sort. The MX for fiumano.com is pointed to this static translated address? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: fiumano.com. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler J. Frederick wrote: What's the contents of your /var/qmail/locals file? - T -- Tyler J. Frederick Systems Administrator Sportsline.com, Inc. On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Fiumano wrote: Hi, I am having troubles receiving mail with qmail. Here is my setup: I am running qmail on my linux box behind a NAT device. My MX record points to a name not in my domain (dynamic dns) and that name points to my IP address (that shouldn't matter much). What seems to be happening is that my server is looping the mail back to itself because it can't realize that monkey.fiumano.com is itself. See the returned mail I got when I tried to send myself mail fom the outside. As a side note, my server keeps having these identd processes start whenever i send myself mail: 17665 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17666 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17667 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17668 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17669 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17670 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null 17671 ?S 0:00 in.identd -P/dev/null And I tried the -R switch on tcpserver like I saw someone suggest in the list, but it hasn't helped. Also I can't send myself mail locally either, but I can't figure out why. I telnet to myself to spoof mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it never makes it to the Mailbox. I'd appreciate any help on this. Here is an example mail I sent to my mailserver from outside. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:00:11 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at fiumano.com.. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 63.227.124.31 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 17659 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:09 - Received: (qmail 17656 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:07 - Received: (qmail 17653 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:06 - Received: (qmail 17650 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:05 - Received: (qmail 17647 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:03 - Received: (qmail 17644 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:02 - Received: (qmail 17641 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 08:00:01 - Received: (qmail 17638 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:59 - Received: (qmail 17635 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:58 - Received: (qmail 17632 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO fiumano.com.) (63.227.124.31) by 10.0.0.3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 07:59:57 - Received: (qmail 17629 invoked
qmailanalog for dummies
Our qmail server has been up for 2 days and everything is working fine. I
would like to use qmailanalog to analyze activity.
I have read through the archive but need more answers.
I installed qmailanalog-0.70
:From an archived message:
awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$5="";print}' /var/log/maillog \
| matchup \
processed_log
My 'processed_log' is an empty file I created - /var/log/qmail/analog
I want to analyze my /var/log/qmail/current file.
awk '{$1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$5="";print}' /var/log/qmail/current |
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup /var/log/qmail/analog
The above is all on one line
After running the above, my 'analog' file has data in it like,
? 3317 from qmail-return-51885-tony.campisi=cardinalservices.com@list
? 256010 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
?
? 1908 from qmail-return-51884-tony.campisi=cardinalservices.com@list
? 256010 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
? 0/40
?
? 0/40
When I try
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall /var/log/qmail/analog
I get
One line per recipient. Information on each line:
* sbytes is the number of bytes successfully delivered to this recipient.
* mess is the number of messages sent to this recipient (success plus failu
re).
* tries is the number of delivery attempts (success, failure, deferral).
* xdelay is the total xdelay incurred by this recipient.
sbytes mess tries xdelay recipient
There is no information under these headers. Can someone please tell me what
I'm doing wrong.
TIA,
Tony Campisi
qmail not receiving email messages
I've managed to partly configure qmail and the test - echo to: ksmith | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject - seems to work okay and results in the following in my /Maildir directory... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 8843 invoked by uid 108); 8 Aug 2000 20:11:28 - Date: 8 Aug 2000 20:11:28 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, if I use my Outlook Express client PC to send an email using the POP Server: dwshop2.dedic.web.xara.net, it never gets there, but also, it never comes back saying it can't be delivered. Also when I try to check my email setting SMTP: dwshop2.dedic.web.xara.net in Outlook Express it can't check it and comes back with the following error :- The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'DWS', Server: 'dwshop2.dedic.web.xara.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Any ideas anyone? Many thanks, Kevin Smith
one SMTP Server Backup
Hello Everyone, I have a pretty situation in my ISP: I Have to SMTP Server for one domain: the first has de MX=1 the second has the MX=2 I need to create one solution where when the second server is up, all the incoming messages on the first server would be moved to the second server and, when the second server is down, all the incomming messages on the first server would be locked internally and, when the second server goes up, would be moved to the second server. SendMail works good on this situation. Anyone worked with one situation like this in qmail? Thanks in advance Luis Bezerra
Re: help - qmail rejecting mail. no mailbox here by that name.
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:13:11PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the users have accounts on this qmail server, but the account names are different than their email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Job Bob's userid on the unix machine is "bobj" /home/bobj Under the alias directory I created a .qmail-joe-bob (also tried .qmail-joe.bob) .. the contents of this alias file is "bobj". Should be ~alias/.qmail-joe:bob. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions Do other special characters besides periods also need to be substituted for? With colons, or something else? -- David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 59438240 [e-mail first for access] --- There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. -- Richard Davisson [from fortune]
Re: Startup works from shell but not from /etc/rc.d/qmail
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:17:24AM -0400, Todd Finney wrote: ! If you're changing the location of the pid - be it from nothing to ! /var/run/qmail.pid or from nothing to /sbin/pidof qmail-send, you need ! to update the qmail-rcfile to reflect this change. No. Bear in mind that Ellen mentioned being able to control the daemon via the ``start'', ``stop'', ``restart'', ``status'', c commands. ``stop'' uses the killproc function; ``status'' uses status. Both of those functions are built in to /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, and check for /var/run/qmail.pid if pidof fails. So, our two choices are: 1. write pid to /var/run/qmail.pid, as suggested in my previous posts. 2. change /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail, to say ``killproc qmail-send'' and ``status qmail-send''. The first solution will not involve changing /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail. I'm trying to go for something that doesn't depend on knowing that the main qmail process is called qmail-send, in case Dan gets a change of mind for version 2.0. For Ellen's purposes however, either will work, so I don't really intend to debate this further, not on-list at least. offtopic For the record, I think I'm doing pretty well at avoiding the use of gender-specific pronouns. :-) I hate it when people try to apply one to me (because with a name like Chris, you'd have a fair probability of guessing incorrectly), so I don't do it for others either---unless they say it's all right. /offtopic ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ but what's a dropped message between friends? Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H. http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
Re: Delays in POP3 response
- Original Message - From: Dave Brooks, BCS Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: Delays in POP3 response Hello, When connecting to the POP3 and SMTP servers there is a delay before the "+OK" response. This can be easily shown by using telnet to connect to the POP3 port (using an IP address, so no name lookup). The maillog shows: Aug 8 11:54:14 server pop3d: 965692454.925054 tcpserver: pid 990 from 192.168.1.122 Aug 8 11:54:36 server pop3d: 965692476.984864 tcpserver: ok 990 :192.168.1.1:110 :192.168.1.122::1136 tcpserver has started pop3d at 11:54:14, the OK is not sent until 11:54:36. SNIP Perhaps tcpserver is exhibiting its default behaviour of trying to look up the logging in user with identd, or trying to reverse-resolve the host IP. Play with the options -H and -R for tcpserver to discover which is the problem (it may be both).
qmail-qmptd: what, why and where?
Hi All I'm running a number of internal relay machines as SMTP relays and am curious about this qmail-qmptd. I have looked around a fair bit for some real doco but have had no real luck. Is anyone able to give me (technical/detailed - that means none of this 'its more efficient' one liner crap) information on what it is, in what areas it is better/worse than SMTP, where documentation is on setting it up and how it interacts with SMTP servers? Thanks, Brett Randall Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: qmail-qmptd: what, why and where?
- Original Message - From: Brett Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:52 AM Subject: qmail-qmptd: what, why and where? Hi All I'm running a number of internal relay machines as SMTP relays and am curious about this qmail-qmptd. I have looked around a fair bit for some real doco but have had no real luck. Is anyone able to give me (technical/detailed - that means none of this 'its more efficient' one liner crap) information on what it is, in what areas it is better/worse than SMTP, where documentation is on setting it up and how it interacts with SMTP servers? SNIP I've always liked to get it straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak: http://cr.yp.to/proto/qmtp.txt GW
Re: one SMTP Server Backup
Luis wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a pretty situation in my ISP: I Have to SMTP Server for one domain: the first has de MX=1 the second has the MX=2 I need to create one solution where when the second server is up, all the incoming messages on the first server would be moved to the second server and, when the second server is down, all the incomming messages on the first server would be locked internally and, when the second server goes up, would be moved to the second server. SendMail works good on this situation. yep, do it at work, with one smtproutes line. "man qmail-remote" should provide the appropriate syntax (which escapes me at the moment). Eric
Checkpassword not accepting password's when correct! Please Help!!
Hi There. I currently have Qmail 1.03 setup on an Intel based RedHat Linux 6.1 machine. It is working fine except for a problem which I keep on getting when trying to check mail through a POP client .. I'm using qmail-pop3d as my POP server, and this is the exact line which I have in my inetd.conf file: pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup jupiter.ddm-webservers.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir It's all on one line. I keep on getting messages about the autentication failing, and that I have entered the wrong username or password, when I am sure that they are completly correct! All of of my system password files (/etc/passwd) are using MD5 SHADOWED style passwords. I know there is something going on with checkpassword, but I don't know what. Can someone out there please help me!! ANY help or advice would be apriciated! Please ! Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Hotmail now based on IIS ?!
According to http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com , seems that Hotmail now is running IIS and not apache with FreeBSD anymore. It seems that hotmail will be the second company being delisted at www.qmail.org/top.html for using qmail after Red Hat ?!
Re: Hotmail now based on IIS ?!
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:12:19PM -0600, Irwan Hadi wrote: According to http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotmail.com , seems that Hotmail now is running IIS and not apache with FreeBSD anymore. It seems that hotmail will be the second company being delisted at www.qmail.org/top.html for using qmail after Red Hat ?! They seem to have multiple servers running different OS's. Hit reload a few times and you'll see the old familiar www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD
filters
hi, is there a possibility to automatically concatenate a string like "[qmail] " to the subjects of all the messages coming from this mailing list? That would allow us to filter all messages coming from this list to a specific folder, or (my particular situation) aviod hotmail delivering them to the bulk mail folder... I get a lot of bulk mail and wouldnt like to turn this option off, and have not found a way to filter messages from this list to my inbox (or any other folder) becasue the 'subject' and 'from' fields are always different please help me with this... Raul Beltran Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: filters
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:35:09AM -0500, Raul Beltran wrote: That would allow us to filter all messages coming from this list to a specific folder, or (my particular situation) aviod hotmail delivering them to the bulk mail folder... Filter on Delivered-To, or Mailing-List. If hotmail can't do that, use another email service. ---Chris K. -- Chris, the Young One |_ If you can't afford a backup system, you can't Auckland, New Zealand |_ afford to have important data on your computer. http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ ---Tracy R. Reed
Re: Sort maildir and send smallest first
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:05:21PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: I recall from an earlier discussion of a similar problem that a perceived consensus was reached that a good way to do this kind of thing is to patch qmail-remote so that if the message is too big to send, it appears as a temporary error without even attempting to connect. also the definition of "too big to send" is read in from the file system in such a way that it can be easily monitored, and easily manipulated by a cron job. Something like the (non)existence of /var/mail/control/okay-to-send-big. After the status changes, an ALRM signal is generated to reprocess all backed up mail (most of which is there due to being oversize, it is hoped) and that is that. Thanks. Sounds interesting. If anyone of you remember what to seach for then I shall search the archives. Perhaps I could search the body of text for qmail-remote ? Jacob
Re: Sort maildir and send smallest first
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:02:19AM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:05:21PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: I recall from an earlier discussion of a similar problem that a perceived consensus was reached that a good way to do this kind snip Thanks. Sounds interesting. If anyone of you remember what to seach for then I shall search the archives. Perhaps I could search the body of text for qmail-remote ? Sorry for that one. That was not possible, I got far too many entries. I should have checked before sending. Any guess would be useful, I have almost all of last years mail on my server. Jacob
RE: smtp auth and vpopmail
Ken - is your problem just with Netscape? Did you uncomment out the #DEFINE SMTPAUTH_NETSCAPE_WORKAROUND line?? -Original Message- From: kbo [mailto:kbo]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smtp auth and vpopmail Does anyone have vpopmail working with smtp authentication? I'm trying to make the http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ code work with vpopmail and netscape 4.72. But no luck so far. If you have it working, what is your startup line for tcpserver/qmail-smtpd? What changes did you make to the qmail-smtpd.c code besides applying the patch? Ken Jones inter7
Re: smtp auth and vpopmail
Ken Jones wrote: Does anyone have vpopmail working with smtp authentication? A couple of weeks ago, I posted an updated patch to let smtp-auth use vpopmail 4.8.6 for authentication. The original instructions are still at http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/faq.html . I'm trying to make the http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ code work with vpopmail and netscape 4.72. But no luck so far. As Kevin Bucknum pointed out, make sure that you uncomment the SMTPAUTH_NETSCAPE_WORKAROUND define in qmail-smtpd.c. - cls
