I had a nasty & embarrassing experience today that I'm still trying
to figure out. I put together a list of email addresses for all the
computer geeks I know, & did the following:
#vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] password
#cd /home/vpopmail/domains/kithalsted.com/geeks
#pico .qmail
I then added the addresses, one per line, starting with my own. The
resulting file looked like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The dot-qmail man page says the ampersands are optional, so I left them out.)
So I sent out an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & heard the really
loud drive in my server start churning, as it always does, but it
didn't stop. My SSH session got really laggy. I went to check my mail
& saw that there were 429 messages waiting. I yanked the network plug
from the server, killed qmail-send, did
#vdeluser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#cd /var/qmail/queue/remote
#rm -rf *
I then re-added & chowned the 0-22 directories & got everything
working again, but not until after ~20 copies of the message had been
sent to people who will now think of me as an End User.
So, of course, I started questioning myself, wondering if maybe I
*had* added the group address to the .qmail file like a moron. So I
did
#vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] password
#cd /home/vpopmail/domains/kithalsted.com/testgroup
#pico .qmail
I then added the addresses, one per line, starting with my own. The
resulting file looked like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sent a single message; the results were the same, except that I
spammed myself instead of my friends. The weird thing is, I have
another account that works.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a vpopmail account that forwards to my main
account & my pager.
/home/vpopmail/domains/kithalsted.com/pageme/.qmail looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody have any idea what's going on? I'm lost here.
/var/log/maillog & headers from the messages are available on
request, vpopmail 4.9.8-1, Qmail 1.0.3, OpenBSD 2.8-stable on PII/350.
Thanks,
-Kit
