According to Dan's page on mini-qmail
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html, installing mini-qmail doesn't require
qmail entries in /etc/passwd or /etc/group. So one should conceptually
just have to unpack qmail-1.03.tar.gz, create /var/qmail and run make
setup check
However, on doing this this is the
Hi
I've been scouring documentation to find an answer but to no avail. Perhaps
someone can point me to the right place to help me with the following:
Currently running qmail 1.03 on FreeBSD 4.1, I would like to add an extra
item of text to every email that is sent from all our users when they
qmail Digest 15 Jan 2001 11:00:00 - Issue 1245
Topics (messages 55145 through 55184):
Re: newbees guide to the qmail-list [was: problem in delivering mails locally...]
55145 by: Alexander Jernejcic
Re: Hotmail Woes.
55146 by: James R Grinter
55155 by: Mark Delany
Hi everybody!
I have a doubt when trying to configure qmail. I would like to allow my
users (of my network) to send emails from the external network but
through my server. I don't know how to establish the passwords, because
I am not allowing the relay in my server, except for my internal
Hi
i'm having inetd problems and i cant figure out
why
i got this line on inetd.conf
smtp stream tcp nowait qmail-smtpd
/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
when i telnet to host in port 25 it opens
connection and closes..
any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Gonçalo Gomes
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
According to Dan's page on mini-qmail
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html, installing mini-qmail doesn't require
qmail entries in /etc/passwd or /etc/group.
Strictly speaking, that page says that you don't need those entries to
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:18:39PM -, Gon?alo Gomes wrote:
Hi
i'm having inetd problems and i cant figure out why
You haven't followed the instructions correctly.
i got this line on inetd.conf
smtp stream tcp nowait qmail-smtpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
tcp-env/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
Oops.
By working backwards I mean:
# mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig
# ln -s mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpc /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue
Perhaps:
# mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig
# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpc
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Gonçalo Gomes wrote:
any ideas?
Aplly to use smtp with tcpserver
Piotr
---
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:16:34PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
I've set up a web page to combat Sendmail Inc.'s false advertising on
this topic: http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html
Sendmail dropped below 50% of the Internet's SMTP servers---including
idle workstations---last year;
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:43:24PM +0100, Carlos Caba?as wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install ldap-qmail.Can anybody tell me what this error means
(i have created the ldapserver file and ldap is working)
@40003a62f02e3387df24 alert: cannot start qmail-lspawn or it had an
error!
need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail installed..
Thanks in advance
Gonalo Gomes
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:02:53PM -, Gon?alo Gomes wrote:
need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail installed..
Thanks in advance
Gonalo Gomes
Much humble of you to figure that out.
Check out the excellent:
Life With Qmail: http://www.lifewithqmail.org
Life
Hello
The tcpserver (http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html) is
a part of ucspi-tcp package, which is alternative
to work with smtp via inetd.
Piotr
---
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:25:52PM +0100, Karl Pitrich wrote:
hi.
one question:
now, that all my users come from the ldap directory,
the ~/Mail* stuff still has to belong to the particular user, wether
the user is in ldap or not. there is, however a 16bit uid limit in linux
2.2.x ext2
Check the list archives.
This same question has be asked in one form or another nearly every month.
Search on footer. It might also have a link on the www.qmail.org page.
-Original Message-
From: Steve Crowder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:57 AM
To: qmail
Thanks for this. After a quick browse I'm sure I can get all the answers I
need from there.
Ta
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Tim Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 January 2001 14:48
To: qmail
Subject: RE: Addon
Check the list archives.
This same question has be asked in one
Probably not the most appropriate place to ask this, but i have no usenet
access at this point. And, as I have stated before on this list, I am not a
coder.
at cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html, dan says:
1. Download qmail 1.03. Remove -s from conf-ld. Compile and install. Strip the
binaries in
Hello.
I have a basic qmail installation following the install notes from the
tarball. I have decided to add all the other djb programs so it will be a
djbware machine.
Passes all the test and works fine out of inetd. Added checkpassword and
set-up pop3d. All tested and works fine.
Oh, two
Martin Randall wrote:
o.k. - it says "remove smtp from /etc/inetd.conf" - no way. Remmed it
out.
put line :-
tcpserver -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
you didn't put that line into inetd.conf, did you?
This should have gone to the list.
--
Hello joshua
On 15-Jan-01, you wrote:
Martin Randall wrote:
o.k. - it says "remove smtp from /etc/inetd.conf" - no way. Remmed it
out.
put line :-
tcpserver -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
you didn't put
So should this - sorry I'm stressed out
--
Hello James
On 15-Jan-01, you wrote:
SNIP
you didn't put that line into inetd.conf, did you?
Well that's a useful reply. Sheesh.
Anyways, Martin, that shouldn't go into /etc/inetd.conf. That line
should go into your
Hi
i released IsoQlog 1.4
what is IsoQlog ?
IsoQlog is a qmail log analysis program written in Perl. It is designed to
scan qmail logfiles and produce usage statistics in
HTML format for viewing through a Web browser. It produces top
domains
Hello James
On 15-Jan-01, you wrote:
Perhaps, but there's more scope for confusion. The INSTALL* docs in the
qmail tarball and LWQ do not describe the same installation process. You
will have a different setup depending on which you follow so switching
between them is likely to cause
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
-Original Message-
From: Gonalo Gomes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:03 PM
To: Qmail
Subject: need a howto, something i can follow step by step and get qmail
installed..
need a howto, something i can follow step by step
Martin Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I edited /var/qmail/rc and replaced ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ but when I
create new usrs, Maildir isn't created in their /home
[...]
Why isn't the skel working ? Obviously I'm missing something.
Probably there isn't a Maildir in the skeleton
Hi,
I'm installing Qmail via Life with Qmail. Under section 2.5.4. Create
users and groups there is this section:
alias:*:7790:2108::/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
qmaild:*:7791:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmaill:*:7792:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailp:*:7793:2108::/var/qmail:/bin/true
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:05:16PM +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
[snip]
However, when I query for crynwr.com, I get:
crynwr.com 86354 MX 12801 pdam.crynwr.com
crynwr.com 86354 MX 12816 pdam.crynwr.com
This set of MX records compensates for a bug in Russell's QMTP
implementation (that has not
this are the users the parts of qmail are running with and the
owners of dirs, files, etc. ...
qmail does not run as root
:) alexander
-Original Message-
From: Keith Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Life With
Hi,
I'm having some problems with a qmail instalation. It was working fine on some
tests, but now we have a delay of about 5 seconds or more when connecting to
the smtp port.
This happens from localhost and other machines.
I'm using tcpserver without reverse dns loopkup, 20 max smtp
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies that qmail-smtpd has a problem that the patch fixes. I'd
rather see people
Paulo Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having some problems with a qmail instalation. It was working fine on
some tests, but now we have a delay of about 5 seconds or more when
connecting to the smtp port. This happens from localhost and other machines.
I'm using tcpserver without
Russell Nelson wrote:
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies that qmail-smtpd has a problem that the patch
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 15:18:10 -0500
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth,
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russell Nelson wrote:
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed.
Most people whom see patches assume in qmail's case that these are
Hi. I have been happily running qmail now for some time, till
now,
then I have decided to try qmailmrtg
(i also happily run mrtg for some time, to monitor my router).
As I see, qmailmrtg requires that qmail logging will be done with
multilog,
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
I'm not going to do it unless a majority of the authors of patches are
willing to repackage them as standalone programs. So if there's a
firestorm of protest from those authors, I won't do it.
I think this is a very bad idea. My primary reason is that
HELP! Here is my situation:
Mail coming in from external STMP checks fine, and ends up in the
correct users ./Maildir/. However, when those users check their e-mail via
POP-3 are told they do not exist, and therefore are not able to pickup mail.
I have one user exempt to this, but not
check out tai64nlocal. it comes with daemontools.
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/tai64nlocal.html
might help.
-tcl.
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Alex Kramarov wrote:
Hi. I have been happily running qmail now for some time, till now,
then I have decided to try qmailmrtg
(i also happily run mrtg for
Hello
Perhaps then the only change necessary is to change the semantics of the
qmail.org site? Instead of "so-and-so has written a patch to...", change
it to "addition" or "add-on" or whatever.
Qmail ver 1.03 does not already "young" software. How about to suppose
Dan to make the new
Russell Nelson wrote:
Also, some things are much better implemented as a change to
the existing programs, rather than as an additional layer of
programs.
Try applying two patches to the same program.
That's not necessarily a problem, particularly when the patches affect
different
Thus spake David Dyer-Bennet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies that qmail-smtpd has a problem that the patch fixes. I'd
rather see people steal the
Thus spake Piotr Kasztelowicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Perhaps then the only change necessary is to change the semantics of the
qmail.org site? Instead of "so-and-so has written a patch to...", change
it to "addition" or "add-on" or whatever.
Qmail ver 1.03 does not already "young" software.
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote:
Dan to make the new version - perhaps made with cooperation with
"Dan" and "cooperate" on the same line...
all peoples, who have created useful patches and additional softwares,
useful additions becoming standard? that'll be the day.
See,
Felix von Leitner wrote:
If you want to use bloated, unreliable, immensely fat software with a
nice author who will include every patch anyone sends him, switch to
Exim. I mean it! Please go away and use Exim. It has all the features
anyone could ever want from an MTA, and around 20
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 15:55:50 -0500
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
I'm not going to do it unless a majority of the authors of patches are
willing to repackage them as standalone programs. So if there's a
firestorm of protest from those
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 22:08:50
+0100
Hello
Perhaps then the only change necessary is to change the semantics of the
qmail.org site? Instead of "so-and-so has written a patch to...", change
it to "addition" or "add-on" or whatever.
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 22:17:41 +0100
Thus spake David Dyer-Bennet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies
From: "David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:38:18 -0600 (CST)
Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 22:17:41 +
0100
Thus spake David Dyer-Bennet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try applying two patches to the same program.
While this may require some manual reconciliation between
conflicting packages, it's far better than needing a seperate full
distribution of components of qmail for every possible combination of
patches.
If Dan was putting out daily versions of qmail, sure. But we've
had qmail-1.03 for several years now.
Isn't that really the root of the problem? They aren't patches,
they're features. But for whatever reasons, the main sources are never
updated to reflect greater capabilities.
At 01:18 PM 1/15/2001, Russell Nelson wrote:
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
I love the patches. I like being asked to add a certain functionality
to the email server, hitting qmail.org, pressing crtl+f and finding
the way to provide that functionality to
Scott Gifford writes:
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try applying two patches to the same program.
While this may require some manual reconciliation between
conflicting packages, it's far better than needing a seperate full
distribution of components of qmail for
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Johan Almqvist writes:
Hi!
I think there may be a problem with the patches to qmail-remote that make
it speak QMTP based on MXPS.
If the QMTP connection fails (because the remote host doesn't have a qmtpd
running
That's a
Felix von Leitner wrote:
I'd rather see www.qmail.org be changed so that you would have to click
through a banner page that clearly states that none of those patches is
necessary to make qmail any more secure, more reliable or faster.
Please don't cripple my work with qmail in the vain
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott Gifford writes:
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try applying two patches to the same program.
While this may require some manual reconciliation between
conflicting packages, it's far better than needing a seperate
Martin Randall wrote:
maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir (even from within /cvar/qmail/bin) failed
and
in the end I had to cd /etc/skel and do /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake
Maildir
Have yet to look into that.
I take it a .qmail file is also required in /etc/skel.
Not really. If all of your
Hi Russ,
I'd like to add my voice to the firestorm too...
I've found a couple of places where Dan decries patches:
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail9812/214/1/2/1/3/2/1/2/1.html
(which says at the end)
DJBYou are of course free to distribute patches---but you're hurting the
Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 17:24:13 -0500
And, since MXPS is not an accepted Internet standard, the (unlikely,
but possible) situation where somebody has chosen an MX priority which
isn't MXPS-compatible should be handled gracefully.
I think that's the
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:18:10PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies that
Boz and anyone else! :)
I used maildirmake or vadduser and vsetup where applicable, however, I
don't think the issue lies with qmail alone. I am configuring it to
function with vmailmgr, and the issue is, that qmail-pop3 is not getting the
correct information to find the directory
When I am sending out mail .via a perl script...
sendmail -t to people and even on another server with ezmlm
I am noticing all the mail going into the queue and maybe
10 qmail-remote processes whereas I have 250 set for concurrencyremote!
THis makes no sense to me. THis is a freebsd
Hello Kris
On 15-Jan-01, you wrote:
SNIP
I take it a .qmail file is also required in /etc/skel.
Not really. If all of your users require the same delivery instructions,
then those instructions should be part of qmail-start's "defaultdelivery"
argument, presumably in the /var/qmail/rc
Hi All,
I followed the directions to the T in Life with Qmail -
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html. At the end of the install,
chapter 2, I re-booted.
After my system booted I type ps and there was only 2 processes
running:
1) bash
2) ps
Then I issued the command "/usr/local/sbin/qmail
Hello qmailers :-)
Let's just leave it as it is and if you want to call them something, then
qmail non-standard extensions.
I'm sure Dan is concerned that these extensions can introduce security
concerns, not because of your programming, but the environments they will
be working in/with.
hello, every one
My mail server is qmail and it plays well. But I can not send any mail to 371.net
which has three mx server and one smtp server.
mx2.371.net
mx3.371.net
mx4.371.net
smtp.371.net
on its website, I got to know that smtp.371.net is recommended. but I can not connect
to this
David Dyer-Bennet writes:
Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 15 January 2001 at 17:24:13 -0500
And, since MXPS is not an accepted Internet standard, the (unlikely,
but possible) situation where somebody has chosen an MX priority which
isn't MXPS-compatible should be
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Felix von Leitner wrote:
If you want to use bloated, unreliable, immensely fat software with a
Where I have written, that EACH patch? Only USEFUL patch.
The world goes forward!
Piotr
---
Piotr Kasztelowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[http://www.am.torun.pl/~pekasz]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
See, these things that are really needed to get any use out of qmail,
aren't supported... won't be supported, etc., as they make qmail less
This should be Dan's decision. I don't apply to sugest, but
I suppose there are group of Dan's friends, group
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote:
This should be Dan's decision. I don't apply to sugest, but
I suppose there are group of Dan's friends, group of advanced
users, who known very good qmail as well as Dan personaly.
Qmail is the best known by me MUA, so I will by happy, if
it
Hi,
How do I run two instances of qmail on the same
machine - the first one listening on port 25 (default smtp port) and the second
on some other port, for eg. say 1099.
The two instances need to have two different
control files - and should not interfere with each others
existance.
Raghu
Hi,
I have done this already - but with this I only open port 25 and port
1099...I need to use my first instance of Qmail as the policy server and the
second as the MDA. The set up is such -
First Qmail will server as a Policy server listening on PORT 25 as my MTA
and accept mails from the
Hi,
How do I authenticate for my default domain with
just the username ? ie If I use OE 5.0, I should give only username and not [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have about
25 domains , but need to authenticate only for my primary domain this way
!!
Raghu
Johan Almqvist writes:
Quoting http://cr.yp.to/proto/mxps.txt
Don't believe everything you read. :-)
My original design made QMTP-only mail exchangers easier but made
QMTP+SMTP mail exchangers harder. This was a bad tradeoff.
Clients should interpret a QMTP priority as ``try QMTP, then try
In my opinion you shouldn't be running two instances of qmail on the same
machine and nor should you ever change the default mail port which is 25.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, qmailu wrote:
Hi,
How do I run two instances of qmail on the same machine - the first one listening on
port 25 (default
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