qmail Digest 8 Jan 2000 11:00:00 -0000 Issue 874
Topics (messages 35218 through 35247):
Re: Slow delivery of large message
35218 by: nascheme.enme.ucalgary.ca
35219 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl
35221 by: cmikk.uswest.net
35234 by: Monte Mitzelfelt
Re: init.d qmail sript on solaris
35220 by: Peter Haworth
35228 by: Dave Sill
35236 by: Joe Kelsey
Re: Mail to all users
35222 by: qmail.col7.metta.lk
Re: off-topic: Dan's engineering methods
35223 by: Len Budney
35224 by: Sam
35225 by: Russell Nelson
35226 by: Len Budney
35229 by: Sam
Re: What MUA do you use?
35227 by: Daniel Neri
35238 by: Andy Bradford
35241 by: Chris Garrigues
35242 by: Andy Bradford
Re: MX for two domains pointing towards one qmail server
35230 by: Dave Sill
Re: Tcpserver problems on machine w/ multiple IPs
35231 by: Dave Kitabjian
35247 by: Brian Baquiran
Attaching text footers to every message?
35232 by: Piotr Wanat
Qmail training session in Oslo
35233 by: Russell Nelson
Question about forwarding
35235 by: Joel Epstein
35237 by: Mikko Hänninen
Re: receiving mail
35239 by: Chris Johnson
Re: problems with dropped network packets
35240 by: Chris Johnson
SMTP error
35243 by: Kristina
Odd.
35244 by: Dustin Miller
35245 by: Dustin Marquess
Re: SMTP error= okay now!
35246 by: Kristina
Administrivia:
To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe to the digest, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To bug my human owner, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To post to the list, e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:46:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You're out of file descriptors. Probably this problem never
> occurred to you with small messages becuase qmail-remote
> delivers them faster than qmail-rspawn could spawn 'm. Now,
> with this big message, qmail-remote takes some time to finish,
> so qmail-rspawn has time to spawn a lot of these creatures and
> runs out of file descriptors..
Doesn't concurrencyremote limit the number of processes forked?
Surely he has enough file descriptors for the default of 20
processes.
Neil
--
"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when
was the last time you needed one?" -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal.
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:02:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:46:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You're out of file descriptors. Probably this problem never
> > occurred to you with small messages becuase qmail-remote
> > delivers them faster than qmail-rspawn could spawn 'm. Now,
> > with this big message, qmail-remote takes some time to finish,
> > so qmail-rspawn has time to spawn a lot of these creatures and
> > runs out of file descriptors..
>
> Doesn't concurrencyremote limit the number of processes forked?
Yes.
> Surely he has enough file descriptors for the default of 20
> processes.
20*2*2+5 filedescriptors is about the number he needs then.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:46:12 +0100 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You're out of file descriptors. Probably this problem never occurred
> to you with small messages becuase qmail-remote delivers them faster
> than qmail-rspawn could spawn 'm. Now, with this big message,
> qmail-remote takes some time to finish, so qmail-rspawn has time to
> spawn a lot of these creatures and runs out of file descriptors..
This should show up in the log files, so it would
be a simple hypothesis to test.
--
Chris Mikkelson | Setting delivery schedules is easy enough using the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I Ching, astrology, psychic hotlines, or any of the
| well-known scatomantic and necromantic methodologies.
| Meeting your prophetic deadlines, though, is another
| bowl of entrails. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Doesn't concurrencyremote limit the number of processes forked?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Surely he has enough file descriptors for the default of 20
> > processes.
>
> 20*2*2+5 filedescriptors is about the number he needs then.
After searching the archives and reading the manpage for pipe, I kinda
figured out the problem. I had bumped the concurrencyremote up to 35 for
the hell of it when I installed the system, but apparently even 20
would've screwed up with Solaris 7's default of 64 filehandles per
process. Fortunately, they introduced plimit in version 7 which lets you
change these on the fly for any running processes. I forgot to actually
change them on qmail-?spawn and only changed qmail-send which didn't help
at all, but this morning, I figured that one out, too. I also added the
ulimit -n to the startup scripts.
It took all week to deliver about 800 messages, and a few seconds to
deliver most of the remaining 300 after that.
Thanks for the formula, too! That's a big help.
Monte
Bin Zhang wrote:
> I have the same problem. Please let me know if you get
> an answer. Thanks.
>
> Bin
>
> Quoting Max Shaposhnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > i have strange problems with qmail smtp startup on
> my sun solaris 7
> > machine...
> > when i reboot sun qmail start but won't work properly
> > if i do
> > qmail stop
> > qmail start
> > all is work just fine...
If running the script by hand works, either it's not being run at boot time, or
something is preventing it.
Make sure that you have the following link or symlinks set up:
/etc/rc0.d/K57qmail -> /etc/init.d/qmail
/etc/rc1.d/K57qmail -> /etc/init.d/qmail
/etc/rc2.d/S88qmail -> /etc/init.d/qmail
This makes sure that qmail is started and stopped correctly with the OS.
It also masks /etc/init.d/sendmail, which gets reinstalled every time you
upgrade Solaris. But to really be sure:
rm /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc0.d/K57sendmail /etc/rc1.d/K57sendmail \
/etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail
--
Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
``You don't have to "debug" code that you didn't "enbug" in
the first place, and that seems to save a lot of time.''
-- Randal L. Schwartz
Max Shaposhnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have strange problems with qmail smtp startup on my sun solaris 7
>machine...
>when i reboot sun qmail start but won't work properly
What do you mean by "won't run properly"? The failure mode is valuable
debugging clue.
>if i do
>qmail stop
>qmail start
>all is work just fine...
Dollars to donuts the difference is in the PATH the startup script
uses vs. the one you have logged in as root interactively.
>init script:
>
>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin:usr/sbin
E.g., if the script needs snything from /usr/sbin it won't find
it. (And if it doesn't need anything from /usr/sbin, "usr/sbin"
shouldn't be in the PATH.)
>who can send to me right init script?
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
-Dave
Bin Zhang writes:
>
> I have the same problem. Please let me know if you get
> an answer. Thanks.
>
> Bin
>
> Quoting Max Shaposhnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > i have strange problems with qmail smtp startup on my sun solaris 7
> > machine...
> > when i reboot sun qmail start but won't work properly
> > if i do
> > qmail stop
> > qmail start
> > all is work just fine...
> >
> > init script:
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/var/qmail/bin:usr/sbin
/usr/sbin
For what its worth, here is my qmail startup script running on Solaris
7:
#!/sbin/sh
#
case "$1" in
'start')
if [ -f /var/qmail/rc ]; then
(/var/qmail/rc &)
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
-u 1003 -g 103 0 smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 \
| /usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog \
/var/log/smtpd &
fi
;;
'stop')
/usr/bin/pkill -x -u 0 qmail-send
/usr/bin/pkill -u 0 -f '0 smtp'
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:10:31AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
Hi,
I user ~/Maildir/
and qmail-pop3d
man qmail-pop3d did not give me the details of how to send mail to all
users. Is there a small description somewhere else.
>>>qmail-pop3d is based on a program contributed by Russ Nelson.
Thanks Russell,
Jacob
> > If you use qmail-pop3d, I think there's a patch on www.qmail.org to
> > give that functionality.
>
> No, not just a patch, it's a completely separate program. It uses
> the Bernstein Chaining(tm) of qmail-pop3d.
>
> --
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com
> Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country
> 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | can force other people to
> Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | do for you..." -Perry M.
--
A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
--------------------------------------------
By self do you censure yourself. By self do you examine yourself. Self-guarded and
mindful, O Bhikkhu, you will live happily.
Random Dhammapada Verse 379
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are already existing tools out there
Read what I wrote, including references. Reading the archives, I
already learned your opinion. You argued at length that autoconf and
automake are better. That wasn't my question.
> the necessary resources to build a module hierarchy
<http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html>.
Peter Miller argues cogently why recursive make subverts dependency
checks. His solution is GNU-make dependent, which subverts portability.
Probably on purpose, Dan's method solves the same problem yet is portable.
> It's quite convenient to package standalone modules as individual
> subdirectory
I already know that. I also know how common it is to link against the
wrong version of a library. "rm config.cache" (your suggestion) and/or
"make distclean" (Russ Allbery's) are not the right way to ensure
correct dependencies. Make, a triumph of AI, was designed for that
purpose already.
Len.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Len Budney wrote:
> Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are already existing tools out there
>
> Read what I wrote, including references. Reading the archives, I
> already learned your opinion. You argued at length that autoconf and
> automake are better. That wasn't my question.
You question was how to create and use reusable code modules. I told you
how. I showed you how. It was a real life-world example, and not some
theoretical one concocted just for the purpose of making an argument.
> > the necessary resources to build a module hierarchy
>
> <http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html>.
> Peter Miller argues cogently why recursive make subverts dependency
> checks.
And, he's wrong. It's as simple as that. Those listed "problems" are
simply a figment of someone's imagination. Some people just need to build
their own windmills to attack.
> His solution is GNU-make dependent, which subverts portability.
> Probably on purpose, Dan's method solves the same problem yet is portable.
Nope. That's merely your assertion, which stands unproven.
> > It's quite convenient to package standalone modules as individual
> > subdirectory
>
> I already know that. I also know how common it is to link against the
> wrong version of a library.
Really? Has that happened to you, or are you just theorizing again?
> "rm config.cache" (your suggestion) and/or
> "make distclean" (Russ Allbery's) are not the right way to ensure
> correct dependencies. Make, a triumph of AI, was designed for that
> purpose already.
And, it happens to work rather well, for everyone concerned except for
some grandiose theorists who are perpetually after Andy Rooney's job.
--
Sam
Sam writes:
> > "rm config.cache" (your suggestion) and/or
> > "make distclean" (Russ Allbery's) are not the right way to ensure
> > correct dependencies. Make, a triumph of AI, was designed for that
> > purpose already.
>
> And, it happens to work rather well, for everyone concerned except for
> some grandiose theorists who are perpetually after Andy Rooney's job.
Oh? I've had it fail on me multiple times. *I* need to know enough
about the program to know when to rm config.cache. With Dan's method
of full dependencies, and just-in-time building of shell scripts and
include files, doesn't require me to be smart. And I appreciate the
ability to just say "make".
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | can force other people to
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | do for you..." -Perry M.
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You question was how to create and use reusable code modules. I told
> you how.
I'm sorry to see that you can't read.
Has Dan has revealed enough about his engineering methods for others
to duplicate them? Does anybody want to, possibly producing sharable
tools? Given the quality of his results, his methods might be worth
imitating. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^
> > I already know that. I also know how common it is to link against
> > the wrong version of a library.
>
> Really? Has that happened to you, or are you just theorizing again?
It is indeed a major source of support calls from IT departments [1],
yes. "Did you try 'make distclean;make'?" When I have enough influence
on a project, I make sure that Makefiles have an 'over' target, which
depends on 'distclean' and 'all'. Customers quickly adopt the
convention of trying 'make over'.
If make could check dependencies accurately, this would not be
necessary. Make was designed to save time [2]; it should do the right
thing. Rebuilding _everything_ (or just the libraries), every time,
because make can't see all dependencies, is asinine. For that a trivial
shell script would suffice.
Len.
PS Unless you learn to read, I will not reply to you again. I don't want
to waste everyone's time--this stuff has been explained to you before.
--
[1] I generally work for systems integrators. Our customers, steel
mills and such, still have IT departments. They demand source code
with deliverables, and have for over 20 years. They handle maintenance
in-house, using the integrators for support.
[2] Dan's configuration trick works an order of magnitude faster than
autoconf. Screwing with dependencies means another iteration of
'rm config.cache;./configure;make' which incurs the cost all over again;
Dan's way, the right dependencies are rechecked. Build time is
dramatically faster Dan's way than yours. Which is what make was built
for.
Len Budney writes:
> Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You question was how to create and use reusable code modules. I told
> > you how.
>
> I'm sorry to see that you can't read.
>
> Has Dan has revealed enough about his engineering methods for others
> to duplicate them? Does anybody want to, possibly producing sharable
> tools? Given the quality of his results, his methods might be worth
> imitating. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^
I'm sorry to see that you can't understand. His "methods" have already
been "imitated" thousands of times already, by thousands of people.
Whether you like it, or not, autoconf and automake does everything that
those mythical tools can, and they offer far more features, and are far
more portable.
> > > I already know that. I also know how common it is to link against
> > > the wrong version of a library.
> >
> > Really? Has that happened to you, or are you just theorizing again?
>
> It is indeed a major source of support calls from IT departments [1],
> yes. "Did you try 'make distclean;make'?" When I have enough influence
> on a project, I make sure that Makefiles have an 'over' target, which
> depends on 'distclean' and 'all'. Customers quickly adopt the
> convention of trying 'make over'.
That's simply due to poor software design, and improperly built makes. If
that's your problem, hire better programmers.
> If make could check dependencies accurately, this would not be
It does. The problem is that the designer did not specify the dependencies
correctly. Make does not pull dependencies out of thin air; they have to
be explicitly defined. If you think there's a bug in there, file a bug
report.
> necessary. Make was designed to save time [2]; it should do the right
> thing. Rebuilding _everything_ (or just the libraries), every time,
> because make can't see all dependencies, is asinine. For that a trivial
Who said that this is what has to be done? Not me. If you don't know how
to write a makefile, that's not my problem.
> shell script would suffice.
>
> Len.
>
> PS Unless you learn to read, I will not reply to you again. I don't want
> to waste everyone's time--this stuff has been explained to you before.
Extreme foolishness and naivete will remain to be extreme foolishness, and
naivete, no matter how many times it is repeated.
I suppose that if what you want to do is to beg and plead for DJB to
"release" mythical and wondrous tools from God, that don't really exist,
choosing to ignore better, more portable tools, solely due to misplaced
feelings of hero worship, then I suppose you can go right ahead, and I
won't stop you.
> --
> [1] I generally work for systems integrators. Our customers, steel
> mills and such, still have IT departments. They demand source code
> with deliverables, and have for over 20 years. They handle maintenance
> in-house, using the integrators for support.
Is this the time where I should drop to my knees, in amazement?
> [2] Dan's configuration trick works an order of magnitude faster than
> autoconf.
That's because there's nothing to "configure", really. All qmail needs is
a C compiler, so there's very little configuration required.
It's pretty easy to claim easy configuration, when there isn't much to
configure in the first place.
> Screwing with dependencies means another iteration of
> 'rm config.cache;./configure;make' which incurs the cost all over again;
Sorry to confuse you with facts, but automake-generated makefiles actually
do all of that for you.
> Dan's way, the right dependencies are rechecked. Build time is
> dramatically faster Dan's way than yours. Which is what make was built
> for.
You don't really know that, since you're begging to see what those tools
really are. You're just speculating.
--
Sam
"Matthew Schnierle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah. Pine. Does all that (well, procmail helps the spam effort), and you
> can run it on a 300 baud serial connection if necessary.
Actually, when I discarded Pine as a serious mailer it was mostly
because I tried running it over a 2400 baud terminal connection -- the
screen updating algorithm really sucks (sucked?). Emacs, on the other
hand, shines in this respect.
Regards,
/Daniel
--
Daniel Neri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thus said Bill Ataras on Tue, 04 Jan 2000 15:53:34 PST:
> Just curious what people are using to read/send mail from X. I was using
> netscape (SMTP/POP) that came with my redhat dist, but wanted something
> with more features (multiple POP accts, filtering etc). I've been playing
> with "spruce" (check freshmeat). Its pretty good. But I'm curious what you
> guys are using. Now that I have an industrial strength mail server (qmail)
> I'd like a really good MUA. Maybe to help me use different mail accounts
> for different maillists and for usenet etc etc. Have you found a good mail
> client that will let you live on multiple maillists, usenet, spam/filter
> yada yada?
I used exmh. It is a fairly configureable MUA and will do most of what
you want. I don't read a lot of newsgroups so I don't now if it will
handle those the way you like or not...
Andy
--
+====== Andy ====== TiK: garbaglio ======+
| Linux is about freedom of choice |
+== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
> From: Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:39:00 -0700
>
> I used exmh. It is a fairly configureable MUA and will do most of what
> you want. I don't read a lot of newsgroups so I don't now if it will
> handle those the way you like or not...
It minimal, but it does what I want for news. (Or rather, the latest version
does, due to some patches that I made.)
If you want to read a small number of news groups as if they were a mailing
list and are capable of remembering to click 'post' instead of 'send', it
works good enough.
If I ever have time again, I'd like to merge the 'post' and 'send' buttons to do
the right thing in each context, but...more important and more interesting things
are on my platter.
Chris
--
Chris Garrigues virCIO
http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ http://www.virCIO.Com
+1 512 432 4046 +1 512 374 0500
4314 Avenue C
O- Austin, TX 78751-3709
My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an
explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft,
but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft.
PGP signature
Thus said Andy Bradford on Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:39:00 MST:
> I used exmh. It is a fairly configureable MUA and will do most of what
Oops, make that 'I use' exmh---as I'm sure a lot of you have noticed by
looking at my headers. :)
Andy
--
+====== Andy ====== TiK: garbaglio ======+
| Linux is about freedom of choice |
+== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
"shajai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>MX for two domains pointing towards one qmail server, all mails for
>both the domains are coming to that server. How can I define two mail
>accounts with the same username for different domains(i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ).
Use a virtual domain. See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#virtual-domains
> Also the qmail server is checking only for username after the mails
> come to the server how can I instruct qmail to check for the
> complete email id(i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] )instead of checking only
> for username.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. qmail-smtpd will accept messages
for any address listed in control/rcpthosts or, if RELAYCLIENT is set,
any address at all. qmail-send will try to deliver locally to any
recipient on a host listed in control/locals or
control/virtualdomains.
-Dave
Interesting. Check "man tcpserver". Note that:
The server's address is given by host and port. host can
be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular
IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or
a host name, allowing connections to the first IP address
IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or
for that host.
Try the various options for host. Also, you might try playing with the -o option.
Let me know if this helps!
Dave
On Thursday, January 06, 2000 3:31 PM, Brian Baquiran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> All of a sudden I'm having problems with tcpserver on a machine with multiple
> IP's (but only one network interface card). It was working great until recently;
> running qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d on both a "live" IP and a non-routable IP
> (192.168.0.x). But just a few hours ago, it stopped running qmail-smtpd AND
> qmail-pop3d on the non-routable IP.
>
> The non-routable IP is still up. I can telnet to ports 25 and 110 from machines
> on the non-routable network, but although tcpserver seems to accept the
> connection, it does not seem to run the proper program once a TCP session is
> established. It works OK on the live IP though.
>
> Has this happened to anyone else before? Any advice (where to look, etc.) would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.baquiran.com
> US Fax: (603) 908-0727
> AIM: bbaquiran
Dave Kitabjian wrote:
>
> Interesting. Check "man tcpserver". Note that:
>
> The server's address is given by host and port. host can
> be 0, allowing connections from any host...
>
> Try the various options for host. Also, you might try playing with the -o option.
>
> Let me know if this helps!
Thanks, Dave. It seems to be a DNS-related problem. Our DNS was down when this
happened, but when it came back up all the problems disappeared.
Brian
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.baquiran.com
US Fax: (603) 908-0727
AIM: bbaquiran
Can anyone give me a hint, how to attach a small text message to every
outgoing/incoming e-mail using qmail on tcpserver?
Thanx in advance and best regards!
Piotr Wanat
I will be giving a two-day training session on qmail and BIND in Oslo
on February 14 and 15. Ask me for price and curriculum.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | can force other people to
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | do for you..." -Perry M.
Here is my situation. I use pine as my email viewing package. I have a
rather high volume of mail coming in all the time. I want to create a
pine folder for qmail to deliver mail to from a specific mailing list.
So, I created a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-listname file. now, if my
username is jim, how do I get the file to deliver to
/export/home/jim/mail/listname?
Thanks for your help.
Joel Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 07 Jan 2000:
> So, I created a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-listname file.
~alias/.qmail-listname controls delivery to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Depending on which address you have
subscribed to the mailing list, that may or may not be the right
place.
> now, if my
> username is jim, how do I get the file to deliver to
> /export/home/jim/mail/listname?
The usual method is to create the file ~jim/.qmail-listname,
which contains the line:
/export/home/jim/mail/listname
This file controls delivery to the address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want to use the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], you
need to put a forward in there, eg.
&jim-listname
And then set ~jim/.qmail-listname as detailed above.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
--
// Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/
// The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator /
// Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy & scifi, the Corrs /
Mental backup in progress -- *please do not disturb!*
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:23:39PM -0500, Kurt R. Hoehn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seem to be having an erratic email system. I get email from some locations
>and not from others. I can send out and the internal work fine.
>
> Case One: my friend sent me an email from aol and it arrived.
> then he sent another and it was returned
>
> I responded to his first email and he recieved it
> he forwarded the email back to me and I got it again.
> ????????'
>
>
> Case Two: This is the header from another friend that an email was kicked back
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.2
> Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.etechstudios.com.etechstudios.com
> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:49:02 -0500
Your DNS is screwed up. You're missing a '.' after mail.etechstudios.com in
your MX record, so etechstudios.com is being appended to your MX record.
[cjohnson@mail cjohnson]$ dig etechstudios.com mx
; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> etechstudios.com mx
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;; etechstudios.com, type = MX, class = IN
;; ANSWERS:
etechstudios.com. 0 MX 100 dns2.leading.net.
etechstudios.com. 0 MX 10 mail.etechstudios.com.etechstudios.com.
Chris
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:45:33PM -0700, Theodore Cekan wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 3.3 with a pn0 network card. When I have qmail send
> out large amounts of email to a subscriber list (about 100k addresses) I
> often get errors in my message log about dropped packets and 'Out of mbuf
> clusters'. Qmail then stops sending mail, but I can still telnet in, so the
> network is still up. It suggests I increase nmbclusters or maxusers. I
> have maxusers set at 64 and nmbclusters at 2048. Qmail is the only thing
> running on the server. Do I really need to increase these? Is there a
> problem with the pn0 nic driver? Anyone else solve this problem?
This is a FreeBSD question, not a qmail question. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you're running out of mbufs, you need more. 2048 is a pretty puny number.
Chris
I have qmail-smtpd setup using inetd. .
However when I try to send mail by
telnet localhost 25. I get the following error:
502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) $B!!(B***ERROR HERE****
Does anyone know what may be causing this?
Thanks in advance,
Kristina
P.S Sorry about the empty message before!
Why is that, every now and then, I receive messages that Outlook just seems
to bungle up? All of the message's headers appear in the body of the
message, and the "From:" header seems to be missing. If just happened with
the last message that just went out on the list.
It's probably Microsoft's fault, I know, I can hear all of you saying it (I
thought it, too), but that's a cop-out. Might it be qmail or the list?
Dustin
-----
Dustin Miller, President
WebFusion Development Incorporated http://www.wfdevelopment.com
Like MP3's? Listen to my compositions! http://www.mp3.com/fateof88/
I haven't had problems reading the emails from the list in pine
and Eudora... so this time I don't think blaming it on M$ is a cop-out :).
-Dustin
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dustin Miller wrote:
> Why is that, every now and then, I receive messages that Outlook just seems
> to bungle up? All of the message's headers appear in the body of the
> message, and the "From:" header seems to be missing. If just happened with
> the last message that just went out on the list.
>
> It's probably Microsoft's fault, I know, I can hear all of you saying it (I
> thought it, too), but that's a cop-out. Might it be qmail or the list?
>
> Dustin
>
> -----
> Dustin Miller, President
> WebFusion Development Incorporated http://www.wfdevelopment.com
> Like MP3's? Listen to my compositions! http://www.mp3.com/fateof88/
>
Please ignore this message as I have a solved the problem.
It was just a silly mistake that was causing the error.
Thanks.
Kristina
At 12:54 00/01/08 +0900, you wrote:
>
> I have qmail-smtpd setup using inetd. .
> However when I try to send mail by
> telnet localhost 25. I get the following error:
>
> 502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) $B!!(B***ERROR HERE****
>
> Does anyone know what may be causing this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kristina
> P.S Sorry about the empty message before!
>
