Re: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue
On 2005-10-28, at 0800, Ingo Claro wrote: Your could have many instances of qmail running in different ports. and with smtproutes deliver some domains to the qmails... no. you can have many instances of qmail-smtpd running on different IP addresses and/or ports, but it's still just the one instance of qmail. there can be only one qmail-send process (which is what i understood the original question to be about when he said qmail- queue- i followed his terminology so he would understand what i was saying, meaning to correct him at the end but i forgot.) for the record, qmail-queue is the program called by qmail-smtpd, qmail-queue, qmail-qmtpd, qmail-qmqpd, and (if you have the mess822 package installed) qmail-ofmipd program. it handles adding messages to the queue. what the original question was asking about, as near as i could tell, was qmail-send. this is the program which manages the messages in the queue, once they've been added. this process handles scheduling all deliveries, either to a mailbox (i.e. a local delivery) or to another mail server (i.e. a remote delivery.) by default, qmail-send will not schedule more than 20 remote deliveries at the same time. if you need to have more outbound deliveries happen at once, you can create or change the /var/qmail/ control/concurrencyremote file. this file should contain the number of remote deliveries you want to see at once. there is an upper limit of 120 on this value, if you need it higher you will need to edit the source code and re-compile qmail. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | -- PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [vchkpw] How expensive is reloading the tcp.smtp.cdb?
On 2005-10-28, at 0803, Ingo Claro wrote: what do you mean by delete.net domain ? you have a bogus virtualdomain to catch spammers? i own the domain delete.net, and i run it as a honeypot. the http://www.delete.net/ web page explains this. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | -- PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail upgrade == qmail recompile needed ?
On 2005-10-28, at 1328, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:57 pm, John Simpson wrote: On 2005-10-26, at 1949, Rick Macdougall wrote: Domain Quotas are not going to happen anytime soon I think, the over head of calculating the quota for a domain of 20K users is just too much. If you really need domain quotas, use a separate user for each domain and use system quotas. Of course you will then have to run qmail-smtpd as root. or make the vchkpw binary setuid root, and let qmail-smtpd run as qmaild (as it was designed.) but that will break chkuser. thinking about how chkuser works, that makes sense. i didn't think about that because i don't use chkuser. i've looked at chkuser twice (once over a year ago, and once again a few months ago) and i'm not comfortable with having qmail tied that closely into vpopmail. that's why i wrote the validrcptto.cdb patch, to reject messages which are addressed to non-existent recipients, without tying qmail to any one technology (such as vpopmail, or courier-authlib.) any system which allows you to generate a list of valid addresses can be used to build a cdb file, and my web site has a perl script which does this for system and vpopmail accounts. the weakness of my patch is that it relies on a cdb file which must be rebuilt whenever the underlying data changes (i.e. mailboxes or domains added or deleted.) however, because it uses a cdb file, the recipient checks are done VERY quickly, without having to fork/exec any other processes, and the cdb file can be copied out to internet- facing pre-filtering servers which otherwise would not have any way to check recipients. as i've said before, the various recipient check patches each have their own strengths and weaknesses... i will admit to being slightly biased towards mine, but i don't think any more or less of anybody for choosing one of the others. i figure anybody smart enough to apply a patch will also be smart enought to choose one based on their own needs and the particulars of each patch. as a separate issue, i'm also not comfortable with the idea of running internet-accessible services as root. i did my time running sendmail and bind, back before i was introduced to qmail and djbdns, and i still have flashbacks to evenings spent rebuilding mail and DNS servers because some joker in germany had nothing better to do with his time than trash my server. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | -- PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue
but if you install many qmails in different directories (/var/qmail, /var/qmail2, ...) you can have multiple queues. the qmail listening on port 25 with smtp routes to the others qmails (running in other ports) can distribute the mails, this way handling different priority queues depending on the domain... for example domain1 and domain2 goes to qmail2 and all the rest to qmail3. you need the change also concorrencylocal and concurrency remote for parallel dispatching. regards, Ingo Claro Gerente de Operaciones [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+56-2) 43 00 155 -Mensaje original- De: John Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Sábado, 29 de Octubre de 2005 7:28 Para: vchkpw@inter7.com Asunto: Re: [vchkpw] How to run multiple qmail-queue On 2005-10-28, at 0800, Ingo Claro wrote: Your could have many instances of qmail running in different ports. and with smtproutes deliver some domains to the qmails... no. you can have many instances of qmail-smtpd running on different IP addresses and/or ports, but it's still just the one instance of qmail. there can be only one qmail-send process (which is what i understood the original question to be about when he said qmail- queue- i followed his terminology so he would understand what i was saying, meaning to correct him at the end but i forgot.) for the record, qmail-queue is the program called by qmail-smtpd, qmail-queue, qmail-qmtpd, qmail-qmqpd, and (if you have the mess822 package installed) qmail-ofmipd program. it handles adding messages to the queue. what the original question was asking about, as near as i could tell, was qmail-send. this is the program which manages the messages in the queue, once they've been added. this process handles scheduling all deliveries, either to a mailbox (i.e. a local delivery) or to another mail server (i.e. a remote delivery.) by default, qmail-send will not schedule more than 20 remote deliveries at the same time. if you need to have more outbound deliveries happen at once, you can create or change the /var/qmail/ control/concurrencyremote file. this file should contain the number of remote deliveries you want to see at once. there is an upper limit of 120 on this value, if you need it higher you will need to edit the source code and re-compile qmail. -- | John M. Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- | Mac OS X proves that it's easier to make UNIX | | pretty than it is to make Windows secure. | --
