Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Vinke
I don't use LVM. I have two disks, one for the system install, and one for the /var and /home dir. Advantage: I can install a new operating system, without loosing data. I have a private server on CentOS (qmail, http, foswiki, samba, download progs). For a production server this can be

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Constantin IOAJA
Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I just ran qtp-extraclam see how it's working. If have this in my firewall: -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 873 --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT Yet I get an email with this message: /etc/cron.hourly/unofficial-clamav-sigs.sh: rsync: failed

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Maxwell Smart wrote: The activity I see when I tail -f /var/log/qmail/smtp/current is what I mean. Is there someplace I can see a flow chart of a default setup? and how to follow the mail through the system? This would be extremely helpful. I can get you all of the detail you need, but I need

Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Patrick Ring wrote: I'm loading up a fresh QmailToaster (to be used as a cache/backup) and usually I've always been under the assumption that it is best to do away with the LVM groups and format the partitions direct to the drive. Is there an advantage to using LVM vs not using LVM for

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Constantin IOAJA
Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I just ran qtp-extraclam see how it's working. If have this in my firewall: -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 873 --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT Yet I get an email with this message: /etc/cron.hourly/unofficial-clamav-sigs.sh: rsync: failed

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Kartone
Sorry guys a noob question: how do i can upgrade the unofficial script with the new official one ? Thx Il giorno 25/set/2009, alle ore 13.04, Constantin IOAJA ha scritto: Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I just ran qtp-extraclam see how it's working. If have this in my firewall:

[qmailtoaster] Error in qtp-newmodel

2009-09-25 Thread Kartone
Hi guys, i discovered my box needs upgrading and i fired qtp-newmodel script. After donwloading some packages the scripts exits with this error: *** Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/spfquery from install of perl-Mail- SPF-2.006-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Aleksander Podsiadly
W dniu 25.09.2009 13:24, Kartone pisze: Sorry guys a noob question: how do i can upgrade the unofficial script with the new official one ? Thx Download and unpack http://www.inetmsg.com/pub/clamav-unofficial-sigs.tar.gz (Script 1 from http://sanesecurity.org.uk/download_scripts_linux.htm)

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Aleksander Podsiadly
W dniu 25.09.2009 14:04, Aleksander Podsiadly pisze: W dniu 25.09.2009 13:24, Kartone pisze: Sorry guys a noob question: how do i can upgrade the unofficial script with the new official one ? Thx Download and unpack http://www.inetmsg.com/pub/clamav-unofficial-sigs.tar.gz [...] I forgot,

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Constantin IOAJA
Aleksander Podsiadly wrote: Download and unpack http://www.inetmsg.com/pub/clamav-unofficial-sigs.tar.gz (Script 1 from http://sanesecurity.org.uk/download_scripts_linux.htm) copy file clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf to /etc edit file /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf, change 4 lines:

Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Patrick Ring wrote: So far between the couple of answer I've got here, and the research I had been doing. The concensus is about the same. ...It seems people who have been around Linux for a while prefer the straight partitioning methods. I would personally think that LVM would put a slight

RE: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Patrick Ring
OT - I get a ironic chuckle out of the people that NEED the 100Mb wireless routers because their Internet is slow on their cable modem (5Mb down). I've heard this too! :-P But, I guess in perspective, you're right about the performance versus bandwidth. I guess I was looking at it from a

Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Aleksander Podsiadly
W dniu 24.09.2009 22:45, Patrick Ring pisze: I'm loading up a fresh QmailToaster (to be used as a cache/backup) and usually I've always been under the assumption that it is best to do away with the LVM groups and format the partitions direct to the drive. Is there an advantage to using LVM

Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Patrick Ring wrote: OT - I get a ironic chuckle out of the people that NEED the 100Mb wireless routers because their Internet is slow on their cable modem (5Mb down). I've heard this too! :-P But, I guess in perspective, you're right about the performance versus bandwidth. I guess I was

RE: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Patrick Ring
So it becomes very flexible when used that way. This would lead to being able to make changes easily (once you learn the LVM tools that is...). I've used QMT for a good 4+ years now, but I've always done a very simple install. I'm having to expand out now to accomodate larger needs. So,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Deferral problem.

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Khan Mohamed Ashraf wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Jake Vickers j...@qmailtoaster.com mailto:j...@qmailtoaster.com wrote: Khan Mohamed Ashraf wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jake Vickers j...@qmailtoaster.com mailto:j...@qmailtoaster.com wrote: Khan

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Aleksander Podsiadly
W dniu 25.09.2009 14:28, Constantin IOAJA pisze: *No need for 21 /dev/null in clamav-unofficial-sigs-cron ! set yes for silence - receive only error conditions - in clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf : * [...] *You need to see errors, right? Regards, Constantin * You're right. :) I

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems emailing large number of recipients

2009-09-25 Thread John Hansen
John Hansen wrote: Jake, Are you suggesting that even if I use ezmlm for sending to this many recipients (over 254) that I'll still receive chkuser errors? John Jake Vickers wrote: Nope. ezmlm does not have the same limitation that chkuser does, since it directly injects the messages.

[qmailtoaster] [Fwd: Mails not being scanned / filtered by SA server]

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Figured I would forward this to the list since it's meant to be there and everyone seems to want to email me directly this week. Original Message Subject:Mails not being scanned / filtered by SA server Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:50:24 +0530 From: Atul Paralikar

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems emailing large number of recipients

2009-09-25 Thread John Hansen
Am Thursday 24 September 2009 22:41:43 schrieb Jake Vickers: John Hansen wrote: Jake, Are you suggesting that even if I use ezmlm for sending to this many recipients (over 254) that I'll still receive chkuser errors? John Nope. ezmlm does not have the same limitation that chkuser does,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Advantage/Disadvantage ...??

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Aleksander Podsiadly wrote: W dniu 24.09.2009 22:45, Patrick Ring pisze: I'm loading up a fresh QmailToaster (to be used as a cache/backup) and usually I've always been under the assumption that it is best to do away with the LVM groups and format the partitions direct to the drive. Is

Re: [qmailtoaster] Error in qtp-newmodel

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Kartone wrote: Hi guys, i discovered my box needs upgrading and i fired qtp-newmodel script. After donwloading some packages the scripts exits with this error: *** Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/spfquery from install of perl-Mail-SPF-2.006-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Aleksander Podsiadly wrote: W dniu 25.09.2009 14:28, Constantin IOAJA pisze: *No need for 21 /dev/null in clamav-unofficial-sigs-cron ! set yes for silence - receive only error conditions - in clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf : * [...] *You need to see errors, right? Regards,

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems emailing large number of recipients

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
John Hansen wrote: Am Thursday 24 September 2009 22:41:43 schrieb Jake Vickers: John Hansen wrote: Jake, Are you suggesting that even if I use ezmlm for sending to this many recipients (over 254) that I'll still receive chkuser errors? John Nope. ezmlm does not have the same limitation that

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Aleksander Podsiadly
W dniu 25.09.2009 16:17, Eric Shubert pisze: Thanks Aleksander and Constantin. You just made my scripting a bit easier. I'll be modifying qtp-extraclam to download the latest version and install it, so as newer releases are done they won't need to be incorporated into QTP. Simply

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
Eric, If you're asking what other features could be included in the qtp. I know of three that I use on my servers. Webmin (QMT ISO option is a very old version) Fail2ban QSSEC IDS Eric Shubert wrote: Aleksander Podsiadly wrote: W dniu 25.09.2009 14:28, Constantin IOAJA pisze: *No need

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
I was meaning with regards to qtp-extraclam. Please feel free to create an enhancement request ticket for each of these (separate tickets please) if you'd like. Please include as much detail (and links) as you can about them. Maxwell Smart wrote: Eric, If you're asking what other features

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
Jake Vickers wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: The activity I see when I tail -f /var/log/qmail/smtp/current is what I mean. Is there someplace I can see a flow chart of a default setup? and how to follow the mail through the system? This would be extremely helpful. I can get you all of the

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Maxwell Smart wrote: This would be monitoring the /var/log/qmail/imap/current file or looking at the contents in /var/log/qmail/imap correct? # qmlog -f imap4 # qmlog -f imap4-ssl (depending on which you use) OK, I'll follow up on both suggestions later. I have some fabrication work that

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
OK, my bad. I was thinking the more general qtp. Where would you like me to send the enhancement request tickets? Eric Shubert wrote: I was meaning with regards to qtp-extraclam. Please feel free to create an enhancement request ticket for each of these (separate tickets please) if you'd

Re: [qmailtoaster] Problems emailing large number of recipients

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Galatis
Hi John, I think Eric is right. I have a client using world merge for a list with about 1000 subscribers with no problem through qmail-toaster. Andreas Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 07:48 -0700 schrieb Eric Shubert: John Hansen wrote: Am Thursday 24 September 2009 22:41:43 schrieb Jake

[qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Atul Paralikar wrote: Jake, I think I have broken the SMTP server while I tried to recompile the CHKUSR module for allowing mails from Blackberry users. I followed your Video on building the Qmail-toaster from src for this. My SMTP Server logs says error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Eric Shubert wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: This would be monitoring the /var/log/qmail/imap/current file or looking at the contents in /var/log/qmail/imap correct? # qmlog -f imap4 # qmlog -f imap4-ssl (depending on which you use) OK, I'll follow up on both suggestions later. I have some

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Jake Vickers wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: This would be monitoring the /var/log/qmail/imap/current file or looking at the contents in /var/log/qmail/imap correct? # qmlog -f imap4 # qmlog -f imap4-ssl (depending on which you use) OK, I'll follow up on both suggestions

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
You shouldn't need to recompile any more. Simply add ,CHKUSER_ALLOW_SENDER_CHAR_3=/ to the appropriate line(s) in /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp, then # qmailctl cdb I guess it's a little late for that now. :( Jake Vickers wrote: Atul Paralikar wrote: Jake, I think I have broken the SMTP server

RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Atul Paralikar
Any alternative? How do I get the server back to normal? Regards, Atul Paralikar -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:39 PM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
I'd try Jake's suggestions first. I think they're spot on. Atul Paralikar wrote: Any alternative? How do I get the server back to normal? Regards, Atul Paralikar -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:39

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
I am not quite sure what I am looking for so here goes. The first is qmlog -f imap The second is qmlog -f smtp. You can see the login to send the email and the times are identical. I then switched folders causing it to login again and no mail. I have checked a couple of times and no go. I

RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Atul Paralikar
Jake, can you suggest? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:02 PM To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg. I'd try Jake's suggestions first. I think

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Hey Max, I'm working this with someone else who appears to have the same symptoms. It's still a mystery, but we're testing some things out. We'll let you know when we find something, hopefully soon. Maxwell Smart wrote: I am not quite sure what I am looking for so here goes. The first is

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Sorry, here was Jake's suggestion: You are either missing the libc libraries or do not have the softlimit set high enough for the smtp process. Atul Paralikar wrote: Jake, can you suggest? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent:

RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Atul Paralikar
When I say locate lib.so.6 on my linux box and below are the results. [r...@mail ~]# locate libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 /lib64/libc.so.6 Is there anything missing. I have increased the softlimt from 200 to 2. Below is the softlimit from : [r...@mail

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
You'll have to check the list archives, possibly the wiki, for appropriate softlimit values for x86_64 machines. Unless someone with that arch can chime in here quickly. Atul Paralikar wrote: When I say locate lib.so.6 on my linux box and below are the results. [r...@mail ~]# locate

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
Sounds good. FWIW I just did a telnet to my IMAP and it worked as expected with no delays. It's actually CJ Eric, Maxwell Smart is an alias that just stuck from Win95 days. :) Eric Shubert wrote: Hey Max, I'm working this with someone else who appears to have the same symptoms. It's still

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Ok CJ. I really like Max Smart though, from the old TV series. Used to watch it all the time. Anywise, try this: # qmailctl stop # queue_repair.py -r # qmailctl start I think you'll like it. Please report the output of the queue_repair.py command. I think you'll see some errors fixed there.

RE: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Atul Paralikar
Eric, Thanks for your timely replies. I have increased the softlimit to 5 and now SMTP started working. Thanks a lot. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric Shubert Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:38 AM To:

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
That fixed it. I had this problem once before with my old q mail rocks install. That time it was my fault messing around with the queue while it was running. Not sure what caused it this time. You're showing your age now! Cheers all thanks for all your efforts. CJ Eric Shubert wrote: Ok

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
BTW, I'll answer to either. :) Did you find out what caused the queue to get hosed? Eric Shubert wrote: Ok CJ. I really like Max Smart though, from the old TV series. Used to watch it all the time. Anywise, try this: # qmailctl stop # queue_repair.py -r # qmailctl start I think you'll

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Nope. Usually operator error. ;) Maxwell Smart wrote: BTW, I'll answer to either. :) Did you find out what caused the queue to get hosed? Eric Shubert wrote: Ok CJ. I really like Max Smart though, from the old TV series. Used to watch it all the time. Anywise, try this: # qmailctl stop #

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
I am not sure what operator error could have caused this. The fact that it happened to both toasters is odd too.I could see this happening to one. What was the case with your client that was experiencing the same issue? When using the qtp-newmodel it stops and starts the toaster as needed

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Maxwell Smart wrote: I am not sure what operator error could have caused this. The fact that it happened to both toasters is odd too.I could see this happening to one. What was the case with your client that was experiencing the same issue? We don't know the cause. When using the

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
I did update both machines recently. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or just coincidence. I am glad it's all back to normal. I did learn a whole load more about DNS, and here I was actually thinking I had a pretty good handle on it to begin with. @Jake I do like the idea of an

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Maxwell Smart wrote: I did update both machines recently. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or just coincidence. I am glad it's all back to normal. I did learn a whole load more about DNS, and here I was actually thinking I had a pretty good handle on it to begin with. @Jake I do

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: quick question - Reg.

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Atul Paralikar wrote: Eric, Thanks for your timely replies. I have increased the softlimit to 5 and now SMTP started working. Thanks a lot. If you built the package just like in the video, then you build for a 32-bit system and that would explain why your softlimit was too low.

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Jake Vickers wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: I did update both machines recently. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or just coincidence. I am glad it's all back to normal. I did learn a whole load more about DNS, and here I was actually thinking I had a pretty good handle on it to

Re: [qmailtoaster] Re: Area510.net : e mail delay

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Eric Shubert wrote: Jake Vickers wrote: Glad to see you got it all figured out. Actually the requests are more trouble than setting up an archive would be. That's just a matter of copying the files into a directory and adding a link on the site. I have to tar/gz and copy them to the web dir

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Jake Vickers
Maxwell Smart wrote: Eric, If you're asking what other features could be included in the qtp. I know of three that I use on my servers. Webmin (QMT ISO option is a very old version) Fail2ban QSSEC IDS If you install the rpmforge repo, I know the first 2 packages are in the repo and the

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Maxwell Smart
Sounds good. Not quite up to speed with the yum thing yet. I usually just download and install from source tarballs. I have only started to use CentOS with the QMTISO. I am used to SuSe which is a bit different. Jake Vickers wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: Eric, If you're asking what other

Re: [qmailtoaster] qtp-extraclam error

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Jake Vickers wrote: Maxwell Smart wrote: Eric, If you're asking what other features could be included in the qtp. I know of three that I use on my servers. Webmin (QMT ISO option is a very old version) Fail2ban QSSEC IDS If you install the rpmforge repo, I know the first 2 packages are