[vchkpw] SMTP Perms
I know I sent an email yesterday but I am going to compile both into one email and hopefully someone will be able to help me because I am so close to getting my mail server up and running I can taste it. I got my problem with Qmail not sending email to the proper mailbox fixed. When I configured Qmail I followed the Life With Qmail installation instructions to the word. What I forgot when telling qmail where to deliver the mail was I used ./Maildir instead of ./Maildir/, when I changed this mail started delivering with no problems. :) My bad Now I can receive mail with no problems, but when trying to send mail I get the error that the email address is not in my rcpthosts. I belive this has to do with the authentication module for Qmail. I see that /var/vpopmail/etc/open-smtp is writing IP addresses to the file to allow me to send mail through the server. But Qmail is not reading this file. My qmail-smtpd run script is as follows: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 And I can say that my open-smtp file is not being erased by the cron job that I setup. I am not sure if this file is supposed to be cleared or not. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate them as I said I am so close that I can taste the mail server :) I would really not like to have to recompile the qmail program with a patch but I will if I have to if there is an easy script that will integrate with my current system. Regards, Rob G
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Hi, If you look on the command line for qmail-smtpd, you'll notice that you are reading /etc/tcp.cdb and not /var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.cdb Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms I know I sent an email yesterday but I am going to compile both into one email and hopefully someone will be able to help me because I am so close to getting my mail server up and running I can taste it. I got my problem with Qmail not sending email to the proper mailbox fixed. When I configured Qmail I followed the Life With Qmail installation instructions to the word. What I forgot when telling qmail where to deliver the mail was I used ./Maildir instead of ./Maildir/, when I changed this mail started delivering with no problems. :) My bad Now I can receive mail with no problems, but when trying to send mail I get the error that the email address is not in my rcpthosts. I belive this has to do with the authentication module for Qmail. I see that /var/vpopmail/etc/open-smtp is writing IP addresses to the file to allow me to send mail through the server. But Qmail is not reading this file. My qmail-smtpd run script is as follows: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 And I can say that my open-smtp file is not being erased by the cron job that I setup. I am not sure if this file is supposed to be cleared or not. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate them as I said I am so close that I can taste the mail server :) I would really not like to have to recompile the qmail program with a patch but I will if I have to if there is an easy script that will integrate with my current system. Regards, Rob G
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
H that is a good one as I set up vpopmail following the instructions word for word. It does appear that the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb does have the IP addresses of the system in it .. I opened the cdb file in vim and could see the two IP addresses that I have POP'd in with. I may have to go another route as I am not sure about the relaying as the IP addresses are not being cleared from the tcp.smtp.db file or the open-smtp file. I would like to just use SMTP authentication instead of POP before SMTP. Regards, Rob G - Original Message - From: Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms Hi, In my directory I have both a tcp.smtp and a tcp.smtp.cdb, you would want to point it to the tcp.smtp.cdb if you can figure out why it is not creating it. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms In that directory there is no tcp.cdb the only files in that directory are: inc_deps lib_deps open-smtp open-smtp.lock tcp.smtp Do I need to point it to the tcp.smtp file? Regards, Rob G - Original Message - From: Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms Hi, If you look on the command line for qmail-smtpd, you'll notice that you are reading /etc/tcp.cdb and not /var/vpopmail/etc/tcp.cdb Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms I know I sent an email yesterday but I am going to compile both into one email and hopefully someone will be able to help me because I am so close to getting my mail server up and running I can taste it. I got my problem with Qmail not sending email to the proper mailbox fixed. When I configured Qmail I followed the Life With Qmail installation instructions to the word. What I forgot when telling qmail where to deliver the mail was I used ./Maildir instead of ./Maildir/, when I changed this mail started delivering with no problems. :) My bad Now I can receive mail with no problems, but when trying to send mail I get the error that the email address is not in my rcpthosts. I belive this has to do with the authentication module for Qmail. I see that /var/vpopmail/etc/open-smtp is writing IP addresses to the file to allow me to send mail through the server. But Qmail is not reading this file. My qmail-smtpd run script is as follows: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z $QMAILDUID -o -z $NOFILESGID -o -z $MAXSMTPD -o -z $LOCAL ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l $LOCAL -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c $MAXSMTPD \ -u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 And I can say that my open-smtp file is not being erased by the cron job that I setup. I am not sure if this file is supposed to be cleared or not. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate them as I said I am so close that I can taste the mail server :) I would really not like to have to recompile the qmail program with a patch but I will if I have to if there is an easy script that will integrate with my current system. Regards, Rob G
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Hi Rob, On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:21:07 -0500 Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H that is a good one as I set up vpopmail following the instructions word for word. It does appear that the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb does have the IP addresses of the system in it .. I opened the cdb file in vim and could see the two IP addresses that I have POP'd in with. Go, get cdbtools from DJBs web site ( http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html ) and make a cdbdump /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb If it cotains more addresses than /etc/tcp.smtp everything should be fine. You seem to have vpopmail set up (configured) to use /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb instead of ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp which is OK. No problem with this, in fact it doesn't _really_ matter which one is used, as long as vpopmail and qmail-smtpd use _the same_. I may have to go another route as I am not sure about the relaying as the IP addresses are not being cleared from the tcp.smtp.db file or the open-smtp file. I would like to just use SMTP authentication instead of POP before SMTP. You'll have to patch qmail for being able to use SMTP-Auth. If you want to use SMTP_AUTH _exclusively_ you'll have to recompile vpopmail with disabled romaing-users option. Else vpopmail _will_ continue to write IP-Adresses of authenticated POP3-users to open-smtp and .cdb file. To come back to your original problem: have a look with above mentioned cdbdump command if /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb contains the IP-address you're trying to send mail from. If not: do a POP3-check and dump the file again ... your IP _should_ be present now ... !!!IF!!! this file can be written by the user your POP3-process is started as HTH P.S.: Could you _please_ disable your 'Reply-To' header (by deleting it's value in your account setup)??? It's redundant (it contains the very same address already in 'From' which makes absolutely no sense) and prevents from easy answering by simply using Reply. My MUA would be able to reply to the list automatically (as it recognizes the list headers), but your Reply-To header takes (intentionally by my MUA) precedence ... Thanks in advance -- Peter
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Sorry about the reply to header.. bad habit of doing years of technical support ;) For some reason it just started working this morning after I applied the SMTP auth patch . I haven't completely applied that patch but I can now POP before SMTP authenticate and it will send out mail :) Hopefully this is the last I have to play with it. It has been a fun week transferring from XMail to Qmail .. but I think I have it... now on to mail lists (which was the reason I switched to qmail) any suggestions that work well with vpopmail and qmail? Regards, Rob G - Original Message - From: Peter Palmreuther [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms Hi Rob, On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:21:07 -0500 Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H that is a good one as I set up vpopmail following the instructions word for word. It does appear that the /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb does have the IP addresses of the system in it .. I opened the cdb file in vim and could see the two IP addresses that I have POP'd in with. Go, get cdbtools from DJBs web site ( http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html ) and make a cdbdump /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb If it cotains more addresses than /etc/tcp.smtp everything should be fine. You seem to have vpopmail set up (configured) to use /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb instead of ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp which is OK. No problem with this, in fact it doesn't _really_ matter which one is used, as long as vpopmail and qmail-smtpd use _the same_. I may have to go another route as I am not sure about the relaying as the IP addresses are not being cleared from the tcp.smtp.db file or the open-smtp file. I would like to just use SMTP authentication instead of POP before SMTP. You'll have to patch qmail for being able to use SMTP-Auth. If you want to use SMTP_AUTH _exclusively_ you'll have to recompile vpopmail with disabled romaing-users option. Else vpopmail _will_ continue to write IP-Adresses of authenticated POP3-users to open-smtp and .cdb file. To come back to your original problem: have a look with above mentioned cdbdump command if /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb contains the IP-address you're trying to send mail from. If not: do a POP3-check and dump the file again ... your IP _should_ be present now ... !!!IF!!! this file can be written by the user your POP3-process is started as HTH P.S.: Could you _please_ disable your 'Reply-To' header (by deleting it's value in your account setup)??? It's redundant (it contains the very same address already in 'From' which makes absolutely no sense) and prevents from easy answering by simply using Reply. My MUA would be able to reply to the list automatically (as it recognizes the list headers), but your Reply-To header takes (intentionally by my MUA) precedence ... Thanks in advance -- Peter
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Rob G wrote: transferring from XMail to Qmail .. but I think I have it... now on to mail lists (which was the reason I switched to qmail) any suggestions that work well with vpopmail and qmail? There's really only one choice: ezmlm with the ezmlm-idx patches. If anyone has managed to get mailman working with qmail + vpopmail I would love to hear about it! -- Aj. Systems Administrator / Developer
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Rob G wrote: transferring from XMail to Qmail .. but I think I have it... now on to mail lists (which was the reason I switched to qmail) any suggestions that work well with vpopmail and qmail? There's really only one choice: ezmlm with the ezmlm-idx patches. If anyone has managed to get mailman working with qmail + vpopmail I would love to hear about it! Piece of cake. Search the archives, I posted my solution here and to the mailman list I believe. -- Aj. Systems Administrator / Developer Dave
Re: [vchkpw] SMTP Perms
Dave Weiner wrote: Piece of cake. Search the archives, I posted my solution here and to the mailman list I believe. I found the posting. When I asked a long time ago I was overwhelmed by the loud sound of absolute silence ;-) Glad to see someone worked this one out! If anyone else needs to see Dave's original post go to: http://bluedot.net/mail/archive/read.php?f=2i=4835t=4833 Thanks Dave, -- Aj. Systems Administrator / Developer
