qmail Digest 2 Jun 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 659
Topics (messages 26168 through 26192):
qmail-pop3d adding extra lines to messagse - turning it off?
26168 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Lenneis)
26171 by: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail - Maildir webadministration
26169 by: "Jacob Albers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26173 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slight problem with Installation
26170 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Questions about fastforward
26172 by: Aaron Nabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26178 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
problem delivering
26174 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail-pop3d adding extra lines to messagse - turning it off
26175 by: Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail, IMAP, and Maildir
26176 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
26183 by: RaTao von J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26184 by: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail queue + perl question
26177 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26189 by: Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
qmail
26179 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Owner users and permissions
26180 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...no mailbox...(#5.1.1) and other stuff
26181 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26190 by: Wilson Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
migrating to sendmail in a different way.
26182 by: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Qmail virtual users package
26185 by: Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26192 by: Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dynamic IP + maildirsmtp/remote dialup server solved.. one question
26186 by: "Paul Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/home/$USER/Mailbox -> /var/spool/mail/$USER
26187 by: Diego Puertas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
26188 by: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tcp wrappers and webmail
26191 by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Russell Nelson:
> Peter Schuller writes:
>> I want it off, because adding an extra line will screw up things like
>> potential PGP signatures (i.e. one cannot verify the message without first
>> manually removing a line).
> There's one line in qmail-pop3d.c that says:
> put("\r\n.\r\n",5);
> Change it so it says:
> put(".\r\n",5);
Wouldn't that be
put(".\r\n",3);
[...]
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Joerg Lenneis writes:
> Russell Nelson:
>
> > Peter Schuller writes:
> >> I want it off, because adding an extra line will screw up things like
> >> potential PGP signatures (i.e. one cannot verify the message without first
> >> manually removing a line).
>
> > There's one line in qmail-pop3d.c that says:
>
> > put("\r\n.\r\n",5);
>
> > Change it so it says:
>
> > put(".\r\n",5);
>
> Wouldn't that be
>
> put(".\r\n",3);
Yes, yes, no doubt.
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Hi there
I need a Qmail webadministration (create pop3, account, aliases,
forwards etc.) for the Maildir package.
I have alot of virtual domains on the server so it has to be able to
run with that, and the users of those domains should be able to
use it too.
Anyone know of something like that ?
Jacob Albers
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:49:29PM +0200, Jacob Albers wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I need a Qmail webadministration (create pop3, account, aliases,
> forwards etc.) for the Maildir package.
> I have alot of virtual domains on the server so it has to be able to
> run with that, and the users of those domains should be able to
> use it too.
>
> Anyone know of something like that ?
>
> Jacob Albers
If you are using the vchkpw program try looking at qmailadmin
at http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/
It supports management of virtual domains:
- pop accounts
- aliases
- forwards
- autoresponders
- mailing lists
Ken Jones
http://www.inter7.com/qmail/
"Viral H. Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Could you please elaborate on this smtproutes that you have mentioned?
>Or if you could point me to a proper MAN page or document, it would be
>great. Thanks!
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#smtproutes
(This works for all qmail control files) It doesn't give you the
complete documentation, but it does tell which man page to look in. Of
course, the qmail-control man page does that, too.
Basically, smtproutes is a table of entries that say "route mail to
this domain via this host". You can wildcard the domain.
-Dave
I've got qmail-1.03 + fastforward running on a test machine,
and it seems to deliver mail properly. We have a big
/etc/aliases (from sendmail) and would like to continue to
use it.
My first question: Unless I'm misreading the FM, ~alias/.qmail-default
(where fastforward gets invoked) is only used AFTER local lookup in
the system /etc/passwd fails. Sendmail tests for an alias first,
so you can overide delivery to a local user by having an entry
pointing somewhere else. Would I be correct in saying the only
way I could get an /etc/aliases lookup with fastforward for an
existing local user is to somehow disable their account, like by
chaning the ownership of their home directory? Is there any other
way around this?
One common entry we have in our /etc/aliases is something like...
localuser: localuser,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
so that a local user gets a copy of all of their email at work as
well as on our machine. Is there some way to make this work in
fastforward? It would appear that since localuser is local and
has a deliverable home directory, it won't.
Another question is about file delivery. We have a few entries
like this...
sales: salespersona, salespersonb, /var/spool/sales-archive
since fastforward support program delivery, is there anything
obvious we could use (say, like binmail or procmail) to deliver
to that would keep a copy (mailbox styles, and provide some
locking to prevent multiple instances from stomping on each other)?
And the final question seems to have been asked many times on the
mailing list, but I haven't seen a concise answer. Some of our
usernames (and aliases) have dashes (hypens) in them. They seem
to work correctly in the password file (longest match) but not
/etc/aliases. Can this be fixed by changing conf-break, to, say
a ":"? What else will this effect?
Thanks!
(I'd appreciate it if you would CC me on any replies to the list.)
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Aaron Nabil
Aaron Nabil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My first question: Unless I'm misreading the FM, ~alias/.qmail-default
>(where fastforward gets invoked) is only used AFTER local lookup in
>the system /etc/passwd fails.
Correct, with the usual fastforward installation.
>Sendmail tests for an alias first,
>so you can overide delivery to a local user by having an entry
>pointing somewhere else. Would I be correct in saying the only
>way I could get an /etc/aliases lookup with fastforward for an
>existing local user is to somehow disable their account, like by
>chaning the ownership of their home directory? Is there any other
>way around this?
You could use qmail-users (which preempts actual users), and run
fastforward via a specified .qmail file. See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#qmail-users
>One common entry we have in our /etc/aliases is something like...
>
>localuser: localuser,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>so that a local user gets a copy of all of their email at work as
>well as on our machine. Is there some way to make this work in
>fastforward? It would appear that since localuser is local and
>has a deliverable home directory, it won't.
Unless you preempt the local user delivery using qmail-users.
>Another question is about file delivery. We have a few entries
>like this...
>
>sales: salespersona, salespersonb, /var/spool/sales-archive
>
>since fastforward support program delivery, is there anything
>obvious we could use (say, like binmail or procmail) to deliver
>to that would keep a copy (mailbox styles, and provide some
>locking to prevent multiple instances from stomping on each other)?
How about a .qmail file? E.g., in ~alias/.qmail-sales-archive:
./sales-archive
Then your alias becomes:
sales: salespersona, salespersonb, sales-archive
>And the final question seems to have been asked many times on the
>mailing list, but I haven't seen a concise answer. Some of our
>usernames (and aliases) have dashes (hypens) in them. They seem
>to work correctly in the password file (longest match) but not
>/etc/aliases.
How do they not work in /etc/aliases?
>Can this be fixed by changing conf-break, to, say
>a ":"?
Probably...depending on what's "broken".
>What else will this effect?
User extension addresses will become "user:extension-address" rather
than "user-extension-address". Note: only the first "-" changes when
conf-break is changed.
-Dave
hey all, having an interesting problem with qmail, i've done 100 installs
of the thing but for some reason, this install won't deliver to Mailbox or
Maildir or anything of the like
i rm -rf'd /var/qmail, and recompiled and reinstalled, and this is what i
see when i 'echo to: xs|/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject':
mail:/var/log# tail -100 /var/log/log.mail |grep qmail
Jun 1 10:39:07 mail qmail: 928247947.324807 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
Jun 1 10:39:47 mail qmail: 928247987.832885 new msg 127589
Jun 1 10:39:47 mail qmail: 928247987.834758 info msg 127589: bytes 217
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 5007 uid 0
Jun 1 10:39:47 mail qmail: 928247987.916635 starting delivery 1: msg
127589 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 1 10:39:47 mail qmail: 928247987.917293 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
and thats it, nothing ever gets delivered, to me or anyone else.
any ideas?
-xs
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> I pick up mail through qmail-pop3d and it doesn't screw up PGP
> signatures. I'm asking again - what exactly are you talking about?
Here's an extract from the man page:
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to work around serious bugs in certain clients."
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Using
RH 6.0, latest Qmail, the Qmail-Imap RPM from qmail.org, and
a
Maildir setup.
I've
seen several questions about folder management not working
in
the
list, but no resolutions. My clients create folders that appear
in
their
home directories. These folders are not valid maildir
folders
and
can not be used.
Does
this set up just not work yet?
Should
I use:
Cyrus
Imap with Maildir?
Dump
Maildir and use Mailbox?
I love cyrus!
I never had a problem with it. works very weel with qmail. I'd suggest these two
.
folder management works fine (because you never get to use Mailbox or /Maildir,
you get cyrus mailboxes). with some scripting you'll get a 110% solution :)
...and you don't have to create unix account's if you don't want to.
regards,
ratao
On 01-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Using RH 6.0, latest Qmail, the Qmail-Imap RPM from qmail.org, and
> a Maildir setup.
>
> I've seen several questions about folder management not working in
> the list, but no resolutions. My clients create folders that appear in
> their home directories. These folders are not valid maildir folders
> and can not be used.
>
> Does this set up just not work yet?
>
> Should I use:
>
> Cyrus Imap with Maildir?
>
> Dump Maildir and use Mailbox?
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E-Mail: RaTao von J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01-Jun-99 Time: 19:01:09
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We use the vmailmgrd package with russ/djb's maildir/qmail-pop3d and have
had no problems. Works beautifully, and you dont have to have an account
for the user on the box either.
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, RaTao von J wrote:
>I love cyrus!
>
>I never had a problem with it. works very weel with qmail. I'd suggest these two
>.
>folder management works fine (because you never get to use Mailbox or /Maildir,
>you get cyrus mailboxes). with some scripting you'll get a 110% solution :)
>...and you don't have to create unix account's if you don't want to.
>
>regards,
>ratao
>
>On 01-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Using RH 6.0, latest Qmail, the Qmail-Imap RPM from qmail.org, and
>> a Maildir setup.
>>
>> I've seen several questions about folder management not working in
>> the list, but no resolutions. My clients create folders that appear in
>> their home directories. These folders are not valid maildir folders
>> and can not be used.
>>
>> Does this set up just not work yet?
>>
>> Should I use:
>>
>> Cyrus Imap with Maildir?
>>
>> Dump Maildir and use Mailbox?
>
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>E-Mail: RaTao von J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 01-Jun-99 Time: 19:01:09
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Wilson Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The FAQ says this:
>
>7.3. How do I rejuvenate a message? Somebody broke into Eric's computer
>... I see it sitting here
>in /var/qmail/queue/mess/15/26902...
>
>Answer: Just touch /var/qmail/queue/info/15/26902. (This is the only
>form of queue modification that's safe while qmail is running.)
>
>BUT it doesn't give any indication of how the author actually knew that
>/var/qmail/queue/info/15/26902 was the message in question or how he/she
>knew to look in .../queue/info/15/ for it.
find /var/qmail/queue -type f -exec grep "some unique string" {} /dev/null \;
Will search the queue for "some unique string" (could be a message-id
or eric's e-mail address). That'll give you the message number (the
26902 part) as well as the split directory (the 15 part).
-Dave
On Jun 01 1999, Wilson Fletcher wrote:
> The FAQ says this:
>
> 7.3. How do I rejuvenate a message? Somebody broke into Eric's computer
^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
(...)
Haha! Anytime I read the FAQ I ROTFL, man! And I keep seeing
people complaining about the documentation on qmail not being
appropriate... :-) Really, how could it be any better? :-) You
even have a good time reading it... :-)
[]s, Roger...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>mail.isp.at <-- dial-up --> smiley.mydomain.at <-- LAN -->
>hercules.mydomain.at
>smiley runs qmail on linux
>hercules runs MS-Exchange on NT
>
>Can anyone tell me what control files I need to setup this scenario ?
smtproutes:
.mydomain.at:hercules.mydomain.at
mydomain.at:hercules.mydomain.at
:mail.isp.at
rcpthosts:
.mydomain.at
mydomain.at
Should do it.
-Dave
Ferhat Doruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>May anyone give all qmail entire directory/file exact permissions structure?
>I meant what are the least perrmissions and owner users and groups of all
>files and sub directories under /var/qmail according the fully operational
>qmail and security point of view. My POP3 connection handling user is popcu.
>Thanks for your answers.
Why not do a "make check"?
-Dave
Wilson Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>So what should the [home directory] permissions be for effective
>operation.
Home directories should be owned and writable by the user, and not
writable by group or world.
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#home-dir-mode
>Also, I see a lot of soap box speeches but are there any good references
>that explain why sendmail etc. suck and qmail is supposedly so good ? A
>comparative study would be good.
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#whyuseit
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#comparison
-Dave
Thanks I'll read the references. I have already read lwq (as well as a
number of FAQs all the INSTALL notes and sundry other things)
On Tuesday, June 01, 1999 5:45 PM, Dave Sill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Wilson Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >So what should the [home directory] permissions be for effective
> >operation.
>
> Home directories should be owned and writable by the user, and not
> writable by group or world.
>
Yes I do remember reading that. What about the /home itself ? ie. I gather
it needs to be 755 ? (or is it 711 ?) ie. in general I don't really like
setting any world privileges for anything.
Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have made the tar of mail directory and shifted it to the new machine
>with the same passwd file and alias file. Now mailboxes are there at
>/var/spool/mail of new machine .
>
>Now how would I configure qmail in this term . I had already made qmail
>to deliver local and international mail at its default format now I
>would like to sense my users email boxes .
>
>I don't want mails at /usr/var/spool/mail since it makes quite slow
>(qmail documentation says) . I want to use qmail at its best any idea
>with its orginality??
Stop qmail, then move the mailboxes from /var/spool/mail to the users
home directories using something like:
cd /var/spool/mail
for i in *; do
mv $i ~$i/Mailbox # or "mv $i /home/$i/Mailbox"
done
-Dave
Hi,
In your opinion, which solution is the best for implementing a virtual
mail user environment with qmail on linux ? The requirements are:
1. There should be no real users added to the system (averthing on one
uid)
2. There shoul be easyly manageable by web
3. It should implement disk quotas
I tried qmail-ldap but I had a lot of trouble setting it up and it
still does not work (I am using SPARC linux, it's probably something
related to endianess).
Thank you.
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Petru Paler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In your opinion, which solution is the best for implementing a virtual
> mail user environment with qmail on linux ? The requirements are:
> 1. There should be no real users added to the system (averthing on one
> uid)
> 2. There shoul be easyly manageable by web
> 3. It should implement disk quotas
>
> I tried qmail-ldap but I had a lot of trouble setting it up and it
> still does not work (I am using SPARC linux, it's probably something
> related to endianess).
Can you help us to debug the problem?
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qmail-ldap
I am using diald to control my modem. So I just let diald hang up itself
after all the connections have closed.
--Paul
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From: Adam H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, May 30, 1999 1:02 PM
Subject: dynamic IP + maildirsmtp/remote dialup server solved.. one question
>I realized I could use PHP3's $REMOTE_ADDR variable and call with
>lynx-dump in my ip-up script... and then have php exec maildirsmtp with
>the IP.
>One thing, how do I know when mail has finihsed being transferred from
>server to dialup so I can hang up the modem?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Adam
>
>
>
Politics of my site force me to use a common directory for all
mailboxes, I recently instaled qmail in a test system and is working
fine, but I hanven't been able to configure it for using
/var/spool/mail/$USER as the mailbox.
I am using qmail 1.03, in a Linux sistem, distibution Redhat 5.2.
What I have done, unsuccesfully, is edit the file
/etc/profile.d/qmail.sh so it looks like this:
> appath PATH /var/qmail/bin
>
> # make ~/Mailbox(Maildir) the inbox for users and
> # /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox(Maildir) for root
> if [ `id -u` = "0" ]; then
> if grep -q './Mailbox' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc; then
> MAIL="/var/qmail/alias/Mailbox"
> elif grep -q './Maildir/' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc;
then
> MAIL="/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/"
> fi
> else
> if grep -q './Mailbox' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc; then
> # MODIFICATION MADE
> MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
> # END OF MODIFICATUION
> elif grep -q './Maildir/' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc;
then
> MAIL="$HOME/Maildir/"
> fi
> fi
>
> # Take care of MH
>
> MAILDROP="$MAIL"
>
> export MAIL MAILDROP
That didn't work, then I changed /var/qmail/boot/home so it contains the
line:
> qmail-start /var/spool/mail/$USER splogger qmail
instead of:
> qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail
Didn't work either.
What am I supossed to do, I don't want to install another package.
Thanks for reading this.
all you need is to use thisd for your startup
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using procmail to deliver messages to /var/spool/mail/$USER by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start '|preline procmail' splogger qmail
Hello Again,
I think I'm finally getting qmail set up like I want. I'm using Maildir
access and got tcpserver to work instead of inetd. I'm curious, is there
any way to get tcp wrappers to work? I can do it with inetc, but not
tcpserver.
While I'm at it, is there any possible way to create a web-based email
client that doesn't use pop for mail access? I'd like to set up a web mail
reader that could do direct Maildir access w/o being some major security
hole. Is it possible?
Thanks Again,
Jason
