ress associated with that
host.
I'm not being vague for the hell of it; I just don't have access to my
system which uses this feature right now. If you can wait another 6 hours
or so, I'll mail the exact lines that I'm using to do exactly what you're
asking for.
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and cyrus seem to be working well together.
Note that unlike UW, Cyrus is a sealed system; the only access to your
mail is through Cyrus POP or IMAP. This costs in backwards compatibility,
but has performance and reliability gains.
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]...
_Sender_domain_not_compliant_with_RFC_822,_section_6.2.7/
I've read 6.2.7 (Explicit Path Specification) and I don't see what
that has to do with anything in the sender domain.
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AM measure.
Personally I think that is more trouble than it is worth.
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of swap
in use at boot time, quiet time, and heavy use time - if they stay the same,
then it isn't actually actively swapping.
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the
deal?
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ority need to
know about every server in the company.
It's arguably unfriendly and arguably stupid, but I've never seen an
argument that claimed it wasn't legal. Two other sites which seem to be
doing it are snet.net and viewlogic.com.
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breakage.
If anyone is broken here, its my firewall, not their mail setup. No
one here LIKES their mail setup, but that doesn't make it broken; it
conforms with all relevant RFCs that I'm aware of.
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if they can
modify the behavior of the firewall.
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is relayed it is permissible to leave the reverse-path
null. A MAIL command with a null reverse-path appears as follows:
MAIL FROM:
In other words, that's the "sender" for most bounces, so if you drop
mail from you'll be shutting out bounce messages.
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) Upgrades. You can test upgrades on a fallback MX before moving
them on up.
On that note, I'm leaving for the caribbean. Have a good week, all!
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how to get the two systems working
together is half black magic.
ObQmail: is anyone using Qmail LDAP patches also using that LDAP
server for address books for clients?
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, use:
progname outputfile
If you wish to redirect them to different places, csh does not
handle this case well. You need to use a subshell like such:
(progname stdin-outputfile) stderroutputfile
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that the hostname your machine is giving in the HELO
fails some paranoid DNS check, and the 451 is their response to your
machine's HELO? What happens if you telnet in and say "HELO 'me'" where
'me' is the contents of /var/qmail/control/me?
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.
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here is added danger in forwarding it. Some viruses these days don't
need to be opened if you're using a mail tool like outlook (which, yes, many
of us run for various reasons).
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anti-SPAM measures are put in place.
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want to be able to use that relay to use
the SMTP process at port 2500 or whatever when they send mail.
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:
# ./config
Could someone send to me his/her /var/qmail/control/me ,
rcpthosts, etc...
Sure. But that would only help you receive mail for my domain.
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that /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue and
/var/qmail/queue/mess/* are owned by the same user and group (qmaild:qmail,
I think) and that qmail-queue is setuid.
Anybody else have more light than I do?
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tell everyone you know.
Please don't. Everybody knows, nobody cares.
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EINFO").
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of me ;
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to the newly-up destination" case with
far less pain than sendmail - which is exactly the case a mail relay expects
to find itself in.
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einfo' you can
see the (small) code snippets triggered by the respective options.
Maybe their FreeBSD box doesn't run a Y2K compliant IDENT daemon (he
said, tongue in cheek).
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the client.
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delivered-to field of their mail messages.
You'll want to think through the legal ramifications of reading
users' email, of course.
You will probably also find that scanning their email will not lead
to a satisfactory resolution to any "acting up" they're doing.
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Warning: opinions, little to do with qmail or maildir.
Bruce Guenter wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:25:09PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote:
1) Integrate support for some sort of calendaring. I've
run both IMAP and Exchange based environments, and for all
its faults, the integrated
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 01:22:11PM -0500, Greg Owen wrote:
Warning: opinions, little to do with qmail or maildir.
Indeed. I should start up a list just to discuss this.
Bruce,
If you start up such a list, let me know.
You are asking good questions, questions
We use qmail to send out large subscriber emagazine/newsletter mailings (2
million messages/week), and we seem to have a problem with some subscribers
getting duplicates. I have seen fixes for duplicates on inbound mail, but
does anyone know how to address our problem on outbound mail. Onelist
I'm wondering the best place/way to log details about each email to a
database of some sort.
Specifically I need to log, from address, to address, and email size.
Any hints on where to start?
Start with the following FAQ entry:
] How do I keep a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail
Thats part of the problem. There is no error message. Just a popup in
Outlook express or any other email client that says: "Error sending
message" Period. Nothing, nada, not even a bounce message.
Somewhere on that popup for Outlook Express, there's a way to get more
info (either a
I want to set up a high-uptime qmail server for all our inbound
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mail, and to send out machine generated email. Our
employees, however, are going to be on an exchange server. I have no choice
in that. And it's VERY desirable to keep user administration on exchange,
which means
[I sent a similar message before to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and never saw it. I
apologise if you've gotten this twice.]
It went through, and mine was the only reply, and it was several days
later. That's okay, I think both your and my messages are more organized
this time ;
I want to set up a
If qmail-imap is dead, what other options are there? I've used
Courier IMAP, which supports Maildirs, but it chokes with Netscape
quite often. I installed and have used cyrus imapd, but I cannot
find anything anywhere on how to make it use Maildirs, or even
make it coexist with qmail
h has been reviewed and no integral holes were
found.
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if not using quotas,
then it isn't a problem... The cyrus documentation goes into these issues
better than I can remember.
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In order to support an unlimited number of virtual domains (and
consequently lots of users), does anyone know of a way to utilize qmail
w/ cyrus imap over a more than one server architecture?
I'm keen on having front end qmail servers accepting mail and
smtproute'ing it to back-end cyrus imap
hey're all
CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily, for example, you'll want to test your DNS
using nslookup.
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I would like to know what the fields of qmail-qread mean .
For Example :
7 Feb 2000 15:35:40 GMT #635162 2305
local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't understand what the field means , it sometimes appear as
#@[] .
is a "null return path." When mail bounces, the
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 02:50:49AM -0500, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
Is there any way to have deferrals redirect to another system? Basically
I have a machine that I need to do a large amount of outgoing mail and
I'd
like to keep deferrals away from the queue.
If the deferrals should be
Another problem (that's just making life harder) is that qmail doesn't seem
to be logging anything to /var/log/messages.
Have you checked /var/log/maillog, which is the more likely location of
your logs? If nothing is there, what startup line are you using in
/var/qmail/rc?
-- Greg
Or how about
Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail"
Back: "Send mail with qmail"
ROTFL.
I'd buy that one.
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at doesn't
answer things for you. But the main answer to your question is, "No, it
doesn't back off in that case, and arguably shouldn't."
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1) Receives mail via standard smtp
2) scans for virii
3) forwards (preferably blindly) to a second
mailserver via smtp.
I think this could be simply done as follows:
1) Install qmail and Jason Haar's antivirus scanning harness (found at
http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/)
hat causes inetd problems. (Of course, you can if you want to!)
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ok, I read that thread (or most of it anyway) interesting discussion - but
this isn't the problem I'm having...
I can't connect to the remote host at all... I tried to connecting to the
host
with telnet and the connection just times-out (I even logged the packets
and
didn't get any replys
.mx.aol.com
So, rly-yc02.mx.aol.com replied with a "550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND."
That's not silently dropping, that's bouncing.
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Well... my problem is that qmail is adding the following at
the end of the email:
X-Mozilla-Status:
X-Mozilla-Status2:
X-UIDL: 951326338.17800.ns
I don't think qmail is adding those, I think netscape is adding
those.
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#trigger.
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other domains, then development will get a copy of that
too - probably not what you want.
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lors per shirt, which usually costs more.
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ail's POP3 server, but if you're running Cyrus, you can only use Cyrus'
POP3 server anyway.
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.
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. He's
correct; I'm thinking of how to handle it when the backup is sitting on the
wrong side of a split DNS fence. If you aren't doing split DNS, you don't
need smtproutes, just proper MX records.
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quot; part to deliver
somewhere else, but that's a seperate issue.
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average is pretty pointless.
Finally, consider installing qmailanalog so that you can automate
your evaluation of the state of the queue and of recent deliveries.
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me a
line.
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I tell qmail daemons to log via
another "syslog" ??
The installation described in "Life with qmail" uses multilog
instead of syslog (but make sure you remove the 'splogger ...' from
/var/qmail/rc!).
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What did you think of the suggestion in FAQ 7.7?
IIRC, 'cyclog' (referred to in FAQ 7.7) has been replaced with
'multilog' in newer versions of daemontools.
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and (good) reasons to use backup
MX servers.
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the queue (that's what a queue is for, after all)
or try to expire it early and cause it to bounce.
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between queue and spool, and it hurts
performance.
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sing inetd for anything. All it
runs are qmail, identd, and dnscache under tcpserver, ssh and ftpd in
standalone mode.
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b move all the rotated multilog files once an
{hour,day,week,whatever}.
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two people is a setup that does ask for mistakes to be made. And handing
off secondary to your ISP is asking to be shot in the head.
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Matt Soffen wrote:
Greg Owen wrote:
It means that Solaris ships without a C compiler, so you can't
compile anything.
To fix it, either purchase Sun's compiler, or download
a precompiled version of GCC for Solaris.
Nope.. Even that won't be a 100 % (so I found).
You may
of this list are full of
examples.
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exchange configured to accept SMTP, or you have a firewall/network issue
somewhere in between the two hosts.
It seems pretty likely, from what you've said, that qmail isn't the
problem, but that something is funky with your network or DNS.
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, that isn't a qmail error
message.
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.
You don't have some-domain.com in locals. Perhaps you are operating
under the assumption that since the MX for some-domain.com points to
mail.some-domain.com, then all you need in locals is mail.some-domain.com.
That is an incorrect assumption.
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he file
to remove the DOS style CR/LF pairs. Check out
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/acux.html for a list of ways to do this.
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tcprules: fatal: unable to parse this line: 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb
Have you checked to see if this file is using DOS style CR/LF line
termination?
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gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
You don't want a solution to your problem, you want an
implementation for your solution. But your proposed solution is suboptimal
to say the least.
Why don't you state the problem instead?
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f you need to do it that badly, then you can justify the added
busy work.
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o
paic.com (smtproutes; I don't know if it'll redirect to the domain or just
to head.paic.com) but probably not necessary. In normal operation, you
shouldn't get people mailing to the actual host, assuming all your clients
are correctly configured to send mail as "@paic.com".
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missed? Is this a bug or feature?
Your trigger permissions have probably gotten munged. Check and fix
them as described in Dave Sill's "Life With Qmail":
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger
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m:[10.21.200.200]
I'm not completely sure that's necessary, but I think it is.
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? And if you're
experiencing problems, please let us know the real domain names involved and
the hostname for the relay so we can check your DNS setup.
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hat. Your configuration is broken. But you've
provided absolutely minimal information about your config, and absolutely
nothing from your logs, so we can't help you yet.
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: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
This message indicates that the mail relay thinks that it accepts
mail for ihlas.com.tr (presumably that's either mycompany.com or
my2ndcomp.com) locally, and it doesn't even look at smtproutes.
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that the mail relay thinks that it accepts
mail for mycompany.com locally, and it doesn't even look at smtproutes.
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.
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t) checks, or
by running ident on your mailserver.
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for foo.com
(rcpthosts) and that all mail for foo.com is forwarded to domino.foo.com
(smtproutes).
Once you've set the qmail box up and tested it, modify your DNS so
that your MX records point to qmail.foo.com instead of domino.foo.com.
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.
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In /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain I have powerup.com.au;
...
How do I stop qmail from adding the user to the machine name
and confusing some (not all) ISPs?
Put powerup.com.au in /var/qmail/control/defaulthost as well as
defaultdomain.
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just send the mail out directly to
the intended recipients.
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mail hub for sending mail, then
you need to add them to the list of hosts allowed to relay. This is covered
in section 3.2.3 of Life With Qmail.
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would restart it for you.
Given the reliability of qmail and related tools, I've always
wondered why supervise came about ;. You can use it or not, as you prefer.
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Ken Jones writes:
Does anyone have a patch to qmailanalog to read
the new multilog time format?
There's two (2) patches to create a program which accepts multilog
time format (tai64n) and rewrites it into fractional seconds (taifrac)
format. They're
.
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ailed "How to selective relay" instructions
at http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html, which
seems to be not responding right now.
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that updates the tcp.smtp rules automatically,
and which is automatically run when your dialup comes up.
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messages, one for each
nonexistent recipient at bar.com, back to our victim at foo.com.
I think ORBS is worrying too much, but that's just me.
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