qmail Digest 30 Dec 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 865
Topics (messages 34861 through 34897):
Re: big rcpthosts file
34861 by: Petr Novotny
34862 by: Andre Oppermann
34863 by: Petr Novotny
34865 by: Peter Gradwell
34866 by: lbudney-lists-qmail.nb.net
34882 by: lbudney-lists-qmail.nb.net
My problem already exist ! IMAP and Relay !
34864 by: Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani
34880 by: Michael Boman
34881 by: Sam
supervise: fatal:
34867 by: Jennifer Tippens
34868 by: Dave Sill
"forwarding" terminology?
34869 by: Dave Kitabjian
34870 by: Adam Roberts
34871 by: Keith Warno
34872 by: Dustin Miller
Another "forwarding" type question...
34873 by: Scott D. Yelich
34877 by: Martin A. Brown
34897 by: Peter Gradwell
logs and responses
34874 by: Oscar Arranz
Re: "pickle forwarding" terminology?
34875 by: Adam Roberts
34878 by: Dustin Miller
email names with dashes in them
34876 by: Brian Moon
Using logwatch to process cyclog logs
34879 by: Chris Garrigues
dot-qmail with virtualdomains
34883 by: John L. Fjellstad
34884 by: Joel Shellman
34885 by: Joel Shellman
performance and bounce questions
34886 by: Marsha Petry
stopping the inward executable E- mail attachments in Qmail
34887 by: Arumugam Thiruppathi
34888 by: Alex Rubenstein
34889 by: Adam McKenna
Sore it for y2k and then resend it
34890 by: Thomas Foerster
34891 by: Faried Nawaz
34892 by: Michael Boman
Quotas and qmail: file number
34893 by: Wolfgang Baumgartner
34894 by: Petr Novotny
34895 by: Shashi Dahal
multilog
34896 by: Van Liedekerke Franky
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On 29 Dec 99, at 10:50, Peter Gradwell wrote:
> At 23:43 28/12/99 +0100, bert hubert wrote:
>
> > Rule of thumb for large sites: Put your 50 most com-
> > monly used domains into rcpthosts, and the rest into
> > morercpthosts.
>
> ah, but does it matter? I have nearly 900 in my rcpthosts file and I'm not
> noticing anything in particular. I'm doing a constant stream of mail, but
> never more than one stream at anyone time really... performance is fine.
You don't HUP or restart qmail-send too often then.
[snip]
> So, should I be worried? Does it matter? When does it matter?
The file is scanned during startup of qmail-send, and after HUPing
qmail-send. If you don't do that often, you don't need to worry.
But then again, if you need to administer a file with like 900
significant lines, you'd like to use some automatic tool for that. It's
easy to adapt that tool to work with morercpthosts and cdb format.
Please correct me if I'm wrong - you may also leave rcpthosts
empty and stuff everything in morercpthosts if it matters.
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[Tom Waits]
Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 29 Dec 99, at 10:50, Peter Gradwell wrote:
>
> > At 23:43 28/12/99 +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> >
> > > Rule of thumb for large sites: Put your 50 most com-
> > > monly used domains into rcpthosts, and the rest into
> > > morercpthosts.
> >
> > ah, but does it matter? I have nearly 900 in my rcpthosts file and I'm not
> > noticing anything in particular. I'm doing a constant stream of mail, but
> > never more than one stream at anyone time really... performance is fine.
>
> You don't HUP or restart qmail-send too often then.
That has no effect.
> [snip]
>
> > So, should I be worried? Does it matter? When does it matter?
>
> The file is scanned during startup of qmail-send, and after HUPing
> qmail-send. If you don't do that often, you don't need to worry.
rcpthosts is scanned every time an email comes in (by qmail-smtpd).
> But then again, if you need to administer a file with like 900
> significant lines, you'd like to use some automatic tool for that. It's
> easy to adapt that tool to work with morercpthosts and cdb format.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong - you may also leave rcpthosts
> empty and stuff everything in morercpthosts if it matters.
Probably.
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Andre
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On 29 Dec 99, at 12:03, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Petr Novotny wrote:
> > The file is scanned during startup of qmail-send, and after HUPing
> > qmail-send. If you don't do that often, you don't need to worry.
>
> rcpthosts is scanned every time an email comes in (by qmail-smtpd).
Oops. Sorry everyone for misleading you. I should be reading more
carefully...
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[Tom Waits]
At 12:03 29/12/99 +0100, you wrote:
>rcpthosts is scanned every time an email comes in (by qmail-smtpd).
>
> > But then again, if you need to administer a file with like 900
> > significant lines, you'd like to use some automatic tool for that. It's
> > easy to adapt that tool to work with morercpthosts and cdb format.
so, the "most frequently used domains" rule is a vague one then...
What is more effective?
- searching a fairly empty (5 lines) rcpthosts file and then
searching morercpthosts
or
- just searching a large rcpthosts file.
Does the speed in searching a cdb more than outweigh the multiple file
handling/access delay?
If so, I'll just bung the few "static" things (like the machine names) in
rcpthosts, and make the mysql->rcpthosts script generate morercpthosts, and
also run qmail-newwhatsit.
what do we think?
cheers
peter
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peter at gradwell dot com; online @ http://www.gradwell.com/
Peter Gradwell spake unto me and said:
>
> - searching a fairly empty (5 lines) rcpthosts file and then
> searching morercpthosts, or
Um, that should be '(50 lines)', meaning 'your 50 most commonly used
domains' (man qmail-smtpd). When a domain is found in rcpthosts, then
morercpthosts is not touched. Depending how common 'most common' is,
morercpthosts will not be used much.
> - just searching a large rcpthosts file.
Um, qmail-smtpd doesn't actually search the rcpthosts file. It parses
the file into an in-memory cdb, and searches that. qmail-newmrh parses
morercpthosts into an on-disk cdb, which qmail-smtpd searches from the
disk _when necessary_.
So your choice really is:
- searching a fairly small (50 domains) in-memory cdb, and then
searching a large on-disk cdb when necessary, or
- just(!) searching a large in-memory cdb. (Remember, large in-memory
structures are paged, so disk I/O is required in either case, with
a suitable definition of 'large'.)
Looking at the source code suggests that search speed is not the issue;
memory is. Smaller qmail-smtpd processes mean more qmail-smtpd (and
qmail-remote) processes, which means greater concurrency. No doubt Dan
has profiled this, and seen that the bottom line is greater overall
throughput.
Len.
Frank Greven spake unto me and said:
>
> Should I only use rcptshosts or not?
You should use morercpthosts, because Dan knows what he's doing.
> If it's a question of memory - because of what you called in-memory
> cdb - what is the needed size of RAM?
I can't answer that; this is a case of 'profile, don't speculate.' If you're
using just rcpthosts, and your performance is acceptable, then obviously you
_can_ just keep doing what you're doing.
> Or maybe the whole diskussion is wasted time because either a small
> Linux Pentium system with 128 MB RAM and let's say 10,000 mails per
> day will never run into a performance leak?
Could be (see above). However, total throughput isn't the only test of
load. You should install qmailanalog, if you haven't already. Look at
your average concurrency. If it is high, then you should _definitely_
use morercpthosts--and also use concurrencyremote to allow more
concurrent deliveries.
If your concurrency is very low, you probably don't have to change
anything.
HTH,
Len.
Hi ,
I want some help about qmail services ! I have installed it on my Redhat 6.1
machine and work fine . So I have patched my qmail and checkpassword to work
with users based on a mySQL table and authenticate via a mySQL table that
users store on it . This patch can be find on http://www.qmail.org
So my pop3d is authenticate perfectly via checkpassword becuase my
chechpassword was patched to check via mySQL table . So how can I do that
with an IMAP daemon ? Is there any IMAP daemon exist that can authenticate
via mySQL table ? or is there any IMAP daemon exist that can authenticate
via checkpassword like qmail-pop3d ?
my second question is , is that any way that can limit my relaying like this
:
I am an ISP and I want that my users can't send the mails that are not from
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I mean that FROM should be in this form : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and not others !
So How can I limit their ?
Thank You so much
Hamid Hashemi
Morva.net Admin
Tehran - Iran
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:28:34PM +0330, Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I want some help about qmail services ! I have installed it on my Redhat 6.1
> machine and work fine . So I have patched my qmail and checkpassword to work
> with users based on a mySQL table and authenticate via a mySQL table that
> users store on it . This patch can be find on http://www.qmail.org
> So my pop3d is authenticate perfectly via checkpassword becuase my
> chechpassword was patched to check via mySQL table . So how can I do that
> with an IMAP daemon ? Is there any IMAP daemon exist that can authenticate
> via mySQL table ? or is there any IMAP daemon exist that can authenticate
> via checkpassword like qmail-pop3d ?
Have a look at Courier-IMAP. You can find it at
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ . I am not sure that it can handle it,
but acording to the docs it can use any authication module. Some hacking
might be required.
> my second question is , is that any way that can limit my relaying like this
> :
> I am an ISP and I want that my users can't send the mails that are not from
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I mean that FROM should be in this form : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and not others !
> So How can I limit their ?
Well, yes you can acctuly hack qmail to make that - but really is it
really that you want to do? Check out Life With Qmail (I guess you can
find a link at qmail.org). If you do that, make sure that you make it in such
way so you dont become a open relay..
>
> Thank You so much
> Hamid Hashemi
> Morva.net Admin
> Tehran - Iran
>
Best regards
Michael Boman
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Michael Boman wrote:
> Have a look at Courier-IMAP. You can find it at
> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/ . I am not sure that it can handle it,
> but acording to the docs it can use any authication module. Some hacking
> might be required.
Emphasis on the last statement. Not *ANY* authentication module. Yes,
you can insert an arbitrary, standalone, authentication module. But, it
has to play by the rules, read the right stuff from the right file
descriptors, write the right stuff to some other file descriptors, and set
the right environment variables.
--
Sam
Hello all,
This is probably a simple question, but I'm having a bit of a problem.
I had qmail working properly and then it broke. I'm not sure what I did
to it. I think this is a permissions problem, but I need some help.
I started qmail manually:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
I checked my processes and I have 2 svscan and 4 supervise, 2 multilog,
and 1 tcpserver, qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, qmail-clean.
I get the messages:
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access
denied
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access
denied
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
and they repeat. What did I do wrong?
Thanks for the help,
Jennifer
Jennifer Tippens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I started qmail manually:
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
>
>I checked my processes and I have 2 svscan and 4 supervise, 2 multilog,
>and 1 tcpserver, qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, qmail-clean.
You should only have one svscan.
>I get the messages:
>supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: access
>denied
>supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
>supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: access
>denied
>supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: access denied
>
>and they repeat. What did I do wrong?
I don't know. I see that occasionally, too. Stop everything. Make sure
all the processes are gone. Blow away log/supervise. Restart. Should
be OK.
-Dave
We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "&" entry in .qmail).
However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
process is really called "moving", not forwarding. "Forwarding", they say,
means that a copy is saved locally (via a "./Maildir/" entry in .qmail) and
a second copy is transmitted to the forwarding address.
What is the correct terminology? How do most of you use the term
"forwarding"?
Thanks for your input!
Dave
NetCarrier
Never heard the term "mail moving", however a term you used in the first paragraph
is used in a few email clients(Eudora) and that is "redirect" or redirecting. As your
customer
states, if a copy remains in the original intended users mailbox, it is being
forwarded, if
the entire message is sent ahead to the new location, it is being redirected.
There is one difference however, in Eudora, when you redirect a message, it (Eudora)
changes
the header information so that the new recipient of the message sees it as coming from
the
original sender of the message and not the person forwarding/redirecting it. If the
user
at the final destination of the message replies, it goes back directly to the person
who
originated the message.
Adam
>We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
>same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
>is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "&" entry in .qmail).
>
>However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
>process is really called "moving", not forwarding. "Forwarding", they say,
>means that a copy is saved locally (via a "./Maildir/" entry in .qmail) and
>a second copy is transmitted to the forwarding address.
>
>What is the correct terminology? How do most of you use the term
>"forwarding"?
>
>Thanks for your input!
>
>Dave
>NetCarrier
Hmmm... some people can be soooo picky, eh? ;-)
When I think of the term forwarding, "forwarding addresses" pop into mind
(i.e., addresses you can get at iname.com) which are used for "redirecting"
mail to another location. But who knows; maybe places like iname and yahoo
etc etc are using the term incorrectly.
The forwarding that your "somewhat educated customer" speaks of behaves much
like a BCC, wouldn't ya say?
Think of when you get some snail mail with a "forward service requested" or
something like that. If you send it back out to another address, you aren't
keeping a copy of it, are you? No. It's in your hands for X amount of
time, then it's gone again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Kitabjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: "forwarding" terminology?
|
| We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
| same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
| is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "&" entry in .qmail).
|
| However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
| process is really called "moving", not forwarding. "Forwarding", they say,
| means that a copy is saved locally (via a "./Maildir/" entry in .qmail)
and
| a second copy is transmitted to the forwarding address.
|
| What is the correct terminology? How do most of you use the term
| "forwarding"?
|
| Thanks for your input!
|
| Dave
| NetCarrier
|
The terms "forwarding" and "redirecting" are different for a MUA, like
Eudora, where Forward will, of course, save your original copy and FORWARD a
copy of the message to another user. Redirect, in an MUA, as Adam has
explained, will actually rewrite the headers and "pass the buck" on to
someone else.
The terms "forwarding" and "redirecting" are the same when dealing with an
MTA. The words are interchangeable. Your "educated customer" is arguing
semantics from the MUA standpoint (the e-mail client) and not the MTA
standpoint (the e-mail server). I haven't checked the RFC's relating to
e-mails, but I'll bet a nickle to a pickle that "moving" ain't in there. :P
Enjoy, and have a Happy New Year!
Dustin
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Kitabjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 12:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "forwarding" terminology?
We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "&" entry in .qmail).
However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
process is really called "moving", not forwarding. "Forwarding", they say,
means that a copy is saved locally (via a "./Maildir/" entry in .qmail) and
a second copy is transmitted to the forwarding address.
What is the correct terminology? How do most of you use the term
"forwarding"?
Thanks for your input!
Dave
NetCarrier
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another mail "forwarding" question/issue:
I have registered yelich.{com,net,org} and I want to use qmail to accept
mail on one machine.. where you can set up a domain plus host such as
"tommy.yelich.com" where I can then use a .qmail-default so that all
mail to this host+domain gets forwarded... I also want to do
"tammy.yelich.com," "scott.yelich.com" and others.
Can qmail handle this easily? If so, how?
Scott
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Scott,
If you have a small number of host names (which I suspect you do), you can
use virtualdomains to your advantage.
Try something like this (only dealing with .com for now--assuming you
have no users named "tammy" or "scott"):
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
====================================
tammy.yelich.com:tammy
scott.yelich.com:scott
~alias/.qmail-tammy (symlink to) --> ~alias/.qmail-tammy-default
=================================================================
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
~alias/.qmail-scott (symlink to) --> ~alias/.qmail-scott-default
=================================================================
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, if you wish to make exceptions for [EMAIL PROTECTED], you can
create the following file:
~alias/.qmail-scott-deadcat
============================
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you don't understand what is going on with regard to the extensions,
give the Life with Qmail page a thorough read, and you'll understand a bit
better.
You'll still need to set up rcpthosts to deal with only those hostnames
(domain names) for which you wish to accept mail.
Best of luck,
-Martin
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Martin A. Brown --- Wonderfrog Enterprises --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
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:another mail "forwarding" question/issue:
:
:
:I have registered yelich.{com,net,org} and I want to use qmail to accept
:mail on one machine.. where you can set up a domain plus host such as
:"tommy.yelich.com" where I can then use a .qmail-default so that all
:mail to this host+domain gets forwarded... I also want to do
:"tammy.yelich.com," "scott.yelich.com" and others.
:
:Can qmail handle this easily? If so, how?
:
:Scott
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At 11:40 29/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>
>
>another mail "forwarding" question/issue:
>
>
>I have registered yelich.{com,net,org} and I want to use qmail to accept
>mail on one machine.. where you can set up a domain plus host such as
>"tommy.yelich.com" where I can then use a .qmail-default so that all
>mail to this host+domain gets forwarded... I also want to do
>"tammy.yelich.com," "scott.yelich.com" and others.
>
>Can qmail handle this easily? If so, how?
interestingly, I think you could also put something like this in virtualdomains
.yelich.com:forwarding
.yelich.org:forwarding
.yelich.net:forwarding
yelich.com:forwarding
yelich.org:forwarding
yelich.net:forwarding
and then create a user 'forwarding' and in their ~/.qmail-default put
&[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then all mail for all subdomains and your
domains will be handled by the same .qmail file and forwarded.
- you will need to add the specific subdomains to rcpthosts though, AFAIK.
peter
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peter at gradwell dot com; online @ http://www.gradwell.com/
Hi all.
I'm running qmail over Solaris for about 250 virtual domains, my
first
question is: ¿how could I write the log in a file of my election? (i.e.
/var/qmail/log/qmail_log )
The second question is: When a message for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arrives to my
system, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a non-existent user on my existent domain
domain.com, qmail puts it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maildir. ¿Someone can
tell me if there are any script developed for sending an error response
to sender?
Thanks in advance.
>tandpoint (the e-mail server). I haven't checked the RFC's relating to
>e-mails, but I'll bet a nickle to a pickle that "moving" ain't in there. :P
>
>Enjoy, and have a Happy New Year!
>
>Dustin
Bet a nickle(sp?) to a pickle? You aren't fr'm 'round these parts are ya Dustin?
;-)
Adam
Oops. :)
Nickel.
>:)
I'm from another planet.
Dustin
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 12:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: "pickle forwarding" terminology?
>tandpoint (the e-mail server). I haven't checked the RFC's relating to
>e-mails, but I'll bet a nickle to a pickle that "moving" ain't in there. :P
>
>Enjoy, and have a Happy New Year!
>
>Dustin
Bet a nickle(sp?) to a pickle? You aren't fr'm 'round these parts are ya
Dustin?
;-)
Adam
We use email addresses with dashes in them for mailing lists to detect spam.
We get these in our default catch all mailbox. This allows us an unlimited
number of addresses for this purpose. Plus when we start getting spam on
one we can start bouncing it.
However, the mails are not getting delivered. They are getting bounced.
For instance, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
I have a .qmail-dand and a .qmail-dand-default and a .qmail-default file in
/var/qmail/alias. Any suggestions?
Brian Moon
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I looked through the archives, and couldn't find a solution for this
problem, although the question seems to have been raised before.
Because of historical reasons, we have three domains connected to our
company. Except for one or two users, a user in one domain is not a
member of another domain. Because of economical reasons, I only have one
mail server.
Right now I have all the domains except for one, as virtualdomain. The
problem is that with virtualdomains, I can't figure out how to use the
dot-qmail feature. Anyone know how to give people in the virtualdomains
this feature?
Thanks,
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"John L. Fjellstad" wrote:
>
> I looked through the archives, and couldn't find a solution for this
> problem, although the question seems to have been raised before.
>
> Because of historical reasons, we have three domains connected to our
> company. Except for one or two users, a user in one domain is not a
> member of another domain. Because of economical reasons, I only have one
> mail server.
>
> Right now I have all the domains except for one, as virtualdomain. The
> problem is that with virtualdomains, I can't figure out how to use the
> dot-qmail feature. Anyone know how to give people in the virtualdomains
> this feature?
In the virtualdomains file you have something like:
domain1.com:username1
domain2.com:username2
domain3.com:username3
Then you have the .qmail-whatever's in the three user's home
directories.
~username1/.qmail (I believe you need this file for it to recognize
.qmail's--it's just empty)
~username1/.qmail-whatever1 (in these files, you have &user, or
&forwardemailaddress or whatever)
~username1/.qmail-whatever2
~username2/.qmail
~username2/.qmail-whatever3
~username2/.qmail-whatever4
etc.
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"John L. Fjellstad" wrote:
>
> I looked through the archives, and couldn't find a solution for this
> problem, although the question seems to have been raised before.
>
> Because of historical reasons, we have three domains connected to our
> company. Except for one or two users, a user in one domain is not a
> member of another domain. Because of economical reasons, I only have one
> mail server.
>
> Right now I have all the domains except for one, as virtualdomain. The
> problem is that with virtualdomains, I can't figure out how to use the
> dot-qmail feature. Anyone know how to give people in the virtualdomains
> this feature?
In the virtualdomains file you have something like:
domain1.com:username1
domain2.com:username2
domain3.com:username3
Then you have the .qmail-whatever's in the three user's home
directories.
~username1/.qmail (I believe you need this file for it to recognize
.qmail's--it's just empty)
~username1/.qmail-whatever1 (in these files, you have &user, or
&forwardemailaddress or whatever)
~username1/.qmail-whatever2
~username2/.qmail
~username2/.qmail-whatever3
~username2/.qmail-whatever4
etc.
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I'm new to qmail (infact, just evaluating it, not using it yet) and have
some questions.
I was searching the archives for qmail performance issues, and found a
couple things I don't understand:
1. Somebody mentioned a Japanese website that has performance stats
(http://www.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/mta/eval1/). That same writer mentioned that
qmail did good on the comparisons, but honestly, I don't know what the
graphs mean just looking at the axis values. Can anyone give me a
description? I understand the values (DNS queries/answers,SMTP syn & fin),
but to me these would be stats I would expect for an OS or maybe machine.
What does it mean as far as MTA.. the more DNS queries/time an MTA sends out
the better? etc...
2. Is DSNs vs. VERPs something I should worry about? What I could gather
from the thread is that some MTAs send back DSN-formatted bounces and others
send VERP-formatted...is that right? Can qmail process both as easily?
Will I have to write additional code to process DSNs? or is "a bounce is a
bounce" to qmail no matter which format it comes in as?.
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
Marsha Petry
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Hi
Wish you all very happy milenium.
I'm new person added to this list.
How should I stop all the incoming executable Email attachments thru Qmail
server.
Thanx
I usually lurk, but this is wrong.
The millennium change is not three days from now, but one year and three
days from now. The same goes for the century change, also.
Please tell everyone you know.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Arumugam Thiruppathi wrote:
> Hi
>
> Wish you all very happy milenium.
>
> I'm new person added to this list.
>
> How should I stop all the incoming executable Email attachments thru Qmail
> server.
>
>
>
> Thanx
>
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:32:12AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> I usually lurk, but this is wrong.
>
> The millennium change is not three days from now, but one year and three
> days from now. The same goes for the century change, also.
>
> Please tell everyone you know.
The worst part of this is that the word "millenium" has been hammered into
our brains so much this year, that it's hard not to think of this year as the
millenium, even though most of us know it's technically wrong.
--Adam
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Arumugam Thiruppathi wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Wish you all very happy milenium.
> >
> > I'm new person added to this list.
> >
> > How should I stop all the incoming executable Email attachments thru Qmail
> > server.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanx
> >
>
Hi there,
one of our customers shut down their mailservers from 31.12.1999 to 1.1.2000
I have to exchange the forward to a Maildir delivery.
On 2.1.2000 i have to send all the stored mail to their mailserver.
How can i do this ?
When i try qmail-inject i have to give him the recipient adress ... but that would
meen to parse thousands of messages by hand and call thousands of time qmail-inject ...
How can this be automated? I'll just want to e.g. pipe every mail to a programm
and this one looks for the "To:" and sends the mail there.
Thanks for your help,
Thomas
Thomas Foerster wrote:
one of our customers shut down their mailservers from 31.12.1999 to 1.1.2000
I have to exchange the forward to a Maildir delivery.
On 2.1.2000 i have to send all the stored mail to their mailserver.
How can i do this ?
serialmail and maildirsmtp.
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:02:39AM +0100, Thomas Foerster wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> one of our customers shut down their mailservers from 31.12.1999 to 1.1.2000
> I have to exchange the forward to a Maildir delivery.
> On 2.1.2000 i have to send all the stored mail to their mailserver.
>
> How can i do this ?
> When i try qmail-inject i have to give him the recipient adress ... but that would
> meen to parse thousands of messages by hand and call thousands of time qmail-inject
>...
>
> How can this be automated? I'll just want to e.g. pipe every mail to a programm
> and this one looks for the "To:" and sends the mail there.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Thomas
>
Dont do anything.. the mailserver will try to send it to the recipient
the next 7 days (thats the default value anyway), if unsuccessful the
mail will be deleted..
Best regards
Michael Boman
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Is there a patch to qmail, with which I can send
a permanent error instead of a temporary error when
the number of files in the Mailbox exceeds the allowed
number of files (quota). The patch I found only
sends a permanent error when the sum of messages
exceeds the quota size.
My problem is, that I have some users which never empty
their mailbox, but are members of some maillists. And
now this fills my queue and log files.
Wolfgang
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On 30 Dec 99, at 10:06, Wolfgang Baumgartner wrote:
> Is there a patch to qmail, with which I can send
> a permanent error instead of a temporary error when
> the number of files in the Mailbox exceeds the allowed
> number of files (quota). The patch I found only
> sends a permanent error when the sum of messages
> exceeds the quota size.
Do you have a quota set up on number of inodes? If yes, the error
from the system "Quota exceeded" should cover both size and
number.
If setting up quota watch in .qmail file is an option for you, you
might as well try something like
|bouncesaying "too many files" [ `ls -l ./Maildir/new|wc -l` -ge 1000 ]
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Please go to the qmail site and use mailquotacheck.sh [perl script]
It works great and is very simple to implement
Shashi
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From: Wolfgang Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 2:36 PM
Subject: Quotas and qmail: file number
> Is there a patch to qmail, with which I can send
> a permanent error instead of a temporary error when
> the number of files in the Mailbox exceeds the allowed
> number of files (quota). The patch I found only
> sends a permanent error when the sum of messages
> exceeds the quota size.
>
> My problem is, that I have some users which never empty
> their mailbox, but are members of some maillists. And
> now this fills my queue and log files.
>
> Wolfgang
>
Hi,
first of all: Merry Xmas and a very happy NewYear to all !!
Now I have a small boring question: does there exist any tool or manner to
select a timewindow out of a multilog file (for ex. the last 5 minutes) or
do I need to write one myself?
Franky
