xinetd

Hi, I'd like to use qmail with my xinetd but it doesn not work somehow. If I change to inetd, it works: /etc/inetd.conf (working): smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /etc/xinetd.conf (NOT working): service smtp { socket_type

xinetd SOLVED

Hi, I'd like to use qmail with my xinetd but it doesn not work somehow. MY PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED. Thank you and I apologise for disturbing you David

virtual domain (vpopmail): no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1)

hi, 1. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/users works fine 2. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com doesn't work ;( if I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i get the following error in the mail.log --- from /var/log/mail.log --- Aug 9 10:15:20 joshua qmail:

mail queue

Hi guys , I have some sort of weird problem, I have a client who dials in and gets his mail fromn the mailq, i.e he has a fixed IP address and he uses Mdaemon mail server with the ETRN script, It used to work before and now he is not able to get his mails from the mail queue , what do U think

How to hold queue until later?

Hi there We are planning on installing a number of RAS boxes around Sydney that dial in from our subsidiaries at preset times and transfer mail that has been held in each location (ie sent from the client but held at the server), and download mail that's waiting to be transferred to that

RE: mail queue

If it used to work before... What has changed before it started?? Slider Hi guys , I have some sort of weird problem, I have a client who dials in and gets his mail fromn the mailq, i.e he has a fixed IP address and he uses Mdaemon mail server with the ETRN script, It used to work before and

qmail Digest 14 Aug 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1092

qmail Digest 14 Aug 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1092 Topics (messages 46631 through 46641): Copies of bounce-messages to a user 46631 by: Alexander Bruns 46633 by: Gavin Cameron 46634 by: Erwin Hoffmann sub 46632 by: vincent chu etmlm-web v2.0 46635 by:

not able to send mails via remote SMTP

Hi, I have strange problems with my SMTP. Local everything is working fine, even pop3 checkpasword are running very good; the only thing is I'm missing to send emails with e.g. the Outlook Express Client (Receiving via pop3 is o.k.) I just checked qmail-show.ctl and found an Option

RE: not able to send mails via remote SMTP

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'qmail-tester', Server: '193.168.100.59', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Try to telnet to port 25 on that IP address. If you get a SMTP response and prompt, then the problem is with the

Re: not able to send mails via remote SMTP

Hi, At 13:30 14.8.2000 +0200, Fat Toolz wrote: Hi,checkpasword are running very good; the only thing is I'm missing to send emails with e.g. the Outlook Express Client (Receiving via pop3 is o.k.) I just checked qmail-show.ctl and found an Option databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA

RE: not able to send mails via remote SMTP

'qmail-tester', Server: '193.168.100.59', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E The SMTP Server uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and does not allow non-SSL (TLS) connection. This has caught me a few times...notice the 'Secure(SSL):

Re: Multiple Mails with qmail-inject

Dave Sill wrote: Martin Sckopke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're using a little script to do some header rewriting. Sorry, that voids your qmail warranty. :-) Thought so, too :-) It is called via .qmail-fixup-default. The output of the script is the fed into qmail-inject,

SMTP not running

Hi Erwin, Hi Brett, I just switched the SSL-Option (sorry, I forgot...), but the message still appears; now looking like The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'qmail-tester', Server: '193.168.100.59', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error

RE: Hard linking messages between maildirs

Apologese A slight type Error! Point 4 should read 4)Create the alias file for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to then point to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is an easier solution! If [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants all mail that goes to him to be copied to another maildir as well as for

Re: SMTP not running

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:05:54PM +0200, Fat Toolz wrote: Hi Erwin, Hi Brett, I just switched the SSL-Option (sorry, I forgot...), but the message still appears; now looking like The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'qmail-tester', Server: '193.168.100.59', Protocol: SMTP,

fetchmail qmail

hi! all mail to my domain my isp send to user "domain". every 600 sec fetchmail flush received mail. but in local server the mail stored to maildir owner "domain". normal, the mail must store to maildir owner "anyuser" fetchmail-5.4.5 are running: fetchmail --qvirtual Delivered-To: --envelope

Re: Hard linking messages between maildirs

"Slider" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is an easier solution! If [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants all mail that goes to him to be copied to another maildir as well as for him to get a copy to go to another maildir. That doesn't cover my situation at all. This has nothing to do with delivery

starting smail-send

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

Copying messages (was: Hard linking messages between maildirs)

"Slider" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another maildir as well as for him to get a copy to go to another maildir. 1)[EMAIL PROTECTED] looks in the joebloggs maildir on the mailserver whilst checking mail ... correct? 2) Create an additional maildir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3)Create the maildir eg [EMAIL

RE: Virtualdomians

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, does anyone know how to make MS outlook to check mail before sending is there a FAQ for all the mail clients on how to make them check mail before sending?? I'm assuming this is frequantly asked but haven't seen anything on it Of

Re: starting smail-send

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:56:12PM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote: I installed qmail as described in Dave Sills LWQ from the tarball on a SuSE Linux 6.4 machine. After playing around quite a while qmail almost runs but I have one last problem: when qmail starts I still get the following

Someone have a bad experience with qmail once.

This was taken straight from the www.orbs.org site. http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.html "Qmail admins: Qmail's current version is insecure by default. Most admins know enough to follow the instructions for securing it before putting qmail into service, however it usually drops ORBS test

Re: Someone have a bad experience with qmail once.

Sean C Truman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was taken straight from the www.orbs.org site. http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.html This is at best a gross misstatement of the facts, and at worst is two pounds of horseshit in a one pound bad. All of these supposed issues have also been

local email stuck in que until i restart qmailsend?? help

For some odd reason... one of my qmail machines is "blind" to mail going to the same domain! smtpd just places them in the que and qmailsend doesn't see them until I kill/restart qmailsend. After I restart, it sends them and then becomes stupid again and doesn't send any more that are que'd up

Re: not able to send mails via remote SMTP

At 13:30 14.8.2000 +0200, Fat Toolz wrote: Hi,checkpasword are running very good; the only thing is I'm missing to send emails with e.g. the Outlook Express Client (Receiving via pop3 is o.k.) I just checked qmail-show.ctl and found an Option databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0

Re: local email stuck in que until i restart qmailsend?? help

J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason... one of my qmail machines is "blind" to mail going to the same domain! smtpd just places them in the que and qmailsend doesn't see them until I kill/restart qmailsend. After I restart, it sends them and then becomes stupid again and doesn't send

RE: Hard linking messages between maildirs

Sorry ! I missed that they needed to be selected! Sorry again!! Slider "Slider" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is an easier solution! If [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants all mail that goes to him to be copied to another maildir as well as for him to get a copy to go to another maildir. That

Re: fetchmail qmail

Sergei Smirnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all mail to my domain my isp send to user "domain". every 600 sec fetchmail flush received mail. but in local server the mail stored to maildir owner "domain". normal, the mail must store to maildir owner "anyuser" fetchmail-5.4.5 are running: fetchmail

RE: Copying messages (was: Hard linking messages between maildirs)

LOL there is that too!! ;o) "Slider" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another maildir as well as for him to get a copy to go to another maildir. 1)[EMAIL PROTECTED] looks in the joebloggs maildir on the mailserver whilst checking mail ... correct? 2) Create an additional maildir [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Everything up and running!

Hi qmail gurus :-), Thanks for helping, I got rid of all problems (till now)! Thanks a lot. (Especially to Chris, Clemens, Erwin and Brett). Stef

checkpassword ...

Hi. I'm using qmail-1.03 with openldap-1.2.11 and have applied qmail-ldap patch (2701). mail delivery is working fine, but when i tried to configure pop3 i could not find checkpassword (just checkpassword.o). The documentation says qmail-ldaplookup is similar to checkpassword but i still

Cyrus - Qmail Help.

Hi, I'm having a few problems setting up cyrus and qmail. Qmail is currently being started with: qmail-start '|preline -f /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver - e -a $USER -- $USER' splogger qmail Delivery of mail to valid mailboxes works fine. But if a message is sent that doesn't have a valid

Limiting Relaying

Is there way to limit the size of attachment relayed through qmail-pop3d. I would like to block email message with attachments greater than 10MB. Any help with this matter wil be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dorian Mcfarlane Norlight Telecommunications Network Engineer phone: 262-792-7913

Re: Limiting Relaying

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:49:05AM -0500, Dorian McFarlane wrote: Is there way to limit the size of attachment relayed through qmail-pop3d. I would like to block email message with attachments greater than 10MB. Hi, You can set a blanket limit using control/databytes. man qmail-smtpd. OTOH,

Re: Cyrus - Qmail Help.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:27:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a few problems setting up cyrus and qmail. Qmail is currently being started with: qmail-start '|preline -f /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver - e -a $USER -- $USER' splogger qmail Delivery of mail to valid mailboxes

Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail

Updated Debian GNU/Linux (potato) packages for testing: The var-qmail tree I announced on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 seems to be good. I splitted the not yet released projects daemontools and ucspi-tcp, the packages named so no longer contain any documentation. The man-pages are available in

Re: starting qmail-send

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

smtproutes not working!

I have an smtproutes file that contains the following: smtproutes: chatfish.org:barbuda.chatfish.com chatfish.net:barbuda.chatfish.com I've also tried to use the ip address: chatfish.org:[216.7.16.196] chatfish.net:[216.7.16.196] Both of these methods are being ignored by qmail. Qmail is

[OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

hello, sorry for the OT, but I guess/hope the knowledge I'm looking for is not completely unrelated to this particular list, and I'm not aware of any Perl-email related mailing list. I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of

Re: smtproutes not working!

J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an smtproutes file that contains the following: smtproutes: chatfish.org:barbuda.chatfish.com chatfish.net:barbuda.chatfish.com I've also tried to use the ip address: chatfish.org:[216.7.16.196] chatfish.net:[216.7.16.196] Both of these methods are

Re: smtproutes not working!

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:12:37PM -0700, J wrote: I have an smtproutes file that contains the following: smtproutes: chatfish.org:barbuda.chatfish.com chatfish.net:barbuda.chatfish.com I've also tried to use the ip address: chatfish.org:[216.7.16.196] chatfish.net:[216.7.16.196]

Re: smtproutes not working!

Note the smtproutes entries you have are for "chatfish.org" and "chatfish.net" _only_. If mail comes for anyone at "host.chatfish.org" or similar, MX records will be looked up as usual. That's a good point. Or perhaps you didn't restart qmail after making the changes? That's a bad point.

Re: smtproutes not working!

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:17:45PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an smtproutes file that contains the following: smtproutes: chatfish.org:barbuda.chatfish.com chatfish.net:barbuda.chatfish.com I've also tried to use the ip address:

Re: smtproutes not working!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or perhaps you didn't restart qmail after making the changes? That's a bad point. Each invocation of qmail-remote looks at this file so restarting qmail will not change a thing. My bad. I can never recall offhand the exact configuration

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of quick'n'dirty regexps to do so, I'd like to use actually RFC compliant code, known to work. Right now I'm perusing the Mail::* modules (docs and code), just

Re: filters

A slightly different version of the question: how would one go about filtering for Mailing List (etc.) and adding [qmail] to the subject line on one's own mail? - Original Message - From: "Raul Beltran" [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, is there a possibility to automatically concatenate a string

Re: filters

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:49:12AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: A slightly different version of the question: how would one go about filtering for Mailing List (etc.) and adding [qmail] to the subject line on one's own mail? You can do this with qtools. The example programs include an

Re: rblsmtpd and relays.mail-abuse.org

I'm using it too -- but everything seemed fine with the patch so ... - Original Message - From: "Jon Rust" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Odd that this issue has been so quiet. Are there really so few people using rblsmtpd?

Re: legit mail being blocked because of relay methods

Exactly -- what if the 'relay server' accepted messages for delivery, and then delivery failed. It would notify the mailing list server that those messages failed (if you're lucky). Wouldn't one rather have one's own mailing list server handle this work? Definately sounds like a spammer's

Re: rblsmtpd and relays.mail-abuse.org

Actually, no. The output from one is automatically sent to the input of the next as they execute each other. The "\"'s are to allow the commands to be on multiple lines. - Original Message - * Robert Sander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11 Aug 2000 04:07]: It seems to me that rblsmtpd can

Re: Someone have a bad experience with qmail once.

And those on each side still disagree with each other. The mailing list archives are, of course, full of this discussion and should be consulted so that you can draw your own conclusions. Unless you disagree with ORBS, stating your opinions here is probably hazardous. - Original Message

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:31:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to validate an email address as per RFC822, and, even though I've seen a lot of quick'n'dirty regexps to do so, I'd like to use actually RFC compliant code, known to work.

smtp probs

Hello qmailers, I am intermittantly getting this message and others like it in /var/log/maillog Aug 14 18:04:44 966290676.970269qmail qmail: delivery 143: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_ able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1) Everything was working fine when I had a Sendmail server as the

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

list, silly me. read the faqs first! perlfaq9 tells me I cannot validate emails in such a way, and points to a possible (but imperfect) approach by t.christiansen. off I go, to see if that's useable. sorry for everybody's time and bandwidth. martin pd: I did

Re: smtp probs

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:24:14PM -0400, ameuse wrote: Hello qmailers, I am intermittantly getting this message and others like it in /var/log/maillog Aug 14 18:04:44 966290676.970269qmail qmail: delivery 143: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_ able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)

Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.

I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: == Testing your DUL block. See http://www.crynwr.com/spam/ for more info Could not connect to 216.243.128.132: Connection timed out Attempting to run traceroute.

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

Magnus Bodin wrote: Doesn't Mail::RFC822 have validation code? I thought it did. No, but Mail::Address [1] or RFC::RFC822::Address [2] are you sure? I've been looking at Mail::Address and found nothing in its code that hinted of ay validation. It looked like an 'address

Re: Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.

Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: MAPS has recently dropped the TXT entries from their zones due to zone size problems; perhaps that's the problem? -- Russ

deleting messages from the queue

i have a few messages sitting in the qmail queue that will never get delivered - for example because the recipients' addies are on fully-unqualified hosts. can i just delete those messages to save qmail the retries and to save me the final "sorry wasn't able to deliver" mail to postmaster@ ? or

Re: Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.

Actually, Prof. Bernstein's rblsmtpd still works fine with RBL and DUL as of today. As far as I know, MAPS dropped TXT entries from only the RSS zone so far. In fact, I am watching entries being blocked via rblsmtpd using RBL and DUL at this moment on one of our incoming mail servers. Regards,

Can't Send mail to external recipients

I've just built and installed QMail 1.03 under a homebrew Linux running 2.0.38 and libc2.01. Even though it's an older kernel, I keep the various networking packages updated. I got hit with some heavy relay hacks last week and I've just learned about qmail's natural defense against unauthorized

Re: Russ' rblsmtpd test robots.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:30:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just implemented rblsmtpd using the MAPS DUL. I sent a message off to Russ' testing bot and received the following reply: MAPS has recently dropped the TXT entries from their zones

Dan's rbldns and the relays.mail-abuse.org domain

As has been discussed recently on the qmail list, the RSS people have stopped providing TXT records for the relays.mail-abuse.org zone, which breaks rblsmtpd. It's been reported that they were having problems with the size of the zone; I imagine that this means thatBIND was having problems with

split local domain addressing

Dear all, when two or more domains are set to local, how do I split say info@localdoamin1 and info@localdomain2 to go to different accounts? sorry if this is in the 'FAQ', I had a quick look but couldn't see any related 'Q's Regards Andrew Gray Network Administrator NetConnect

Re: split local domain addressing

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:45:06AM +1000, Andrew Gray wrote: when two or more domains are set to local, how do I split say info@localdoamin1 and info@localdomain2 to go to different accounts? You don't. You make one of the domains a virtual domain. Chris

patch: ucspi-tcp-mysql.0.88.tar.gz

Hey all, I ran into some problem today on a couple of my own servers I went to implement vpopmail enable roaming users. Well short story I ran into NFS file locking problems trying to share the tcp.smtp. Here is a patch for ucspi-tcp-0.88 This patch will check mysql relay table first.

RE: split local domain addressing

Yes, well that is how I would have set it too, and it would be nice if I hadn't inherited a system with a rather sizable amount of users already installed, is there a way to acheive the same thing using aliases or such? On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:45:06AM +1000, Andrew Gray wrote: when

Re: split local domain addressing

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:48:01AM +1000, Andrew Gray wrote: Yes, well that is how I would have set it too, and it would be nice if I hadn't inherited a system with a rather sizable amount of users already installed, is there a way to acheive the same thing using aliases or such? Yep.

Re: split local domain addressing - similar question.

hi all, just a question similar to this split local domain addressing issue. domain1.com.au and domain2.com.au are both locally delivered domains. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a functioning mailbox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is to go elsewhere. in the ~sales/.qmail file i have put:

Re: Someone have a bad experience with qmail once.

Sean, my friend, you are venturing into dangerous waters :) Check the mailing list archives to find out why... Eric Sean C Truman wrote: This was taken straight from the www.orbs.org site. http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.html "Qmail admins: Qmail's current version is insecure by

Re: local email stuck in que until i restart qmailsend?? help

J wrote: For some odd reason... one of my qmail machines is "blind" to mail going to the same domain! smtpd just places them in the que and qmailsend doesn't see them until I kill/restart qmailsend. After I restart, it sends them and then becomes stupid again and doesn't send any

Re: [OT]Mail::* Perl modules to validate email address (RFC822)

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:04:48PM -0300, martin langhoff wrote: Magnus Bodin wrote: Doesn't Mail::RFC822 have validation code? I thought it did. No, but Mail::Address [1] or RFC::RFC822::Address [2] are you sure? I've been looking at Mail::Address and found nothing

Re: virtual domain (vpopmail): no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1)

Joel Gautschi wrote: hi, 1. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/users works fine 2. every user in /var/lib/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com doesn't work ;( if I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i get the following error in the mail.log --- from /var/log/mail.log ---

i can't get started?

i hope i am doing this right? please excuse a newcomer to the linux/qmail scene after 20 years with PCs/DOS/Win, i am now trying to help with something completely new system is a PC with RedHat ver 6.2 trying to install qmail, with LWQ in left hand and mouse in right hand files are

Re: SMTP not running

Chris Johnson wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:05:54PM +0200, Fat Toolz wrote: Hi Erwin, Hi Brett, I just switched the SSL-Option (sorry, I forgot...), but the message still appears; now looking like The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'qmail-tester', Server:

Re: Can't Send mail to external recipients

Tim Jones wrote: I've just built and installed QMail 1.03 under a homebrew Linux running 2.0.38 and libc2.01. Even though it's an older kernel, I keep the various networking packages updated. I got hit with some heavy relay hacks last week and I've just learned about qmail's natural

Absent message

Please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not on the list at present (too much traffic). I would like to send an absent message but I am finding it difficult. I have tried the following in .qmail | preline -d -f -r mail -s "I'm away at present" $SENDER ./awaymsg Problems are: