qmail Digest 26 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1044
Topics (messages 43610 through 43648):
ungent help needed for virtual domains please
43610 by: reach_prashant.zeenext.com
43617 by: Brett Randall
thanks to all
43611 by: Jens Georg
Re: Errormsg: Maildir is a directory
43612 by: Johan Almqvist
Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
43613 by: Mark Thomas
43614 by: Steffan Hoeke
43615 by: Mark Thomas
43618 by: Stefaan A Eeckels
Qmail mail-MUA ./Maildir
43616 by: Mark Thomas
Qmail as a relay.
43619 by: Duane Eddingfield
43620 by: Johan Almqvist
43621 by: Erwin Hoffmann
43622 by: Duane Eddingfield
43623 by: Duane Eddingfield
43624 by: Johan Almqvist
43625 by: John White
43627 by: Duane Eddingfield
43628 by: Duane Eddingfield
Re: dial on demand (wvdial) and internal mails
43626 by: Eric Cox
still getting bounce problems
43629 by: Spiro Harvey
Any differences between virtual domains?
43630 by: Jianping Song
43631 by: Brett Randall
stopping qmail-send
43632 by: Ben Beuchler
43633 by: Adam McKenna
successful delivery
43634 by: Kimberly Vher
43637 by: Steffan Hoeke
First time qmail-mrtg installation
43635 by: Brett Randall
file permissions problems
43636 by: prashant
large batch mailings with qmail
43638 by: Thomas
checkpassword with Ldap
43639 by: Nguyen Hong Son
Mail queueing in relay host.
43640 by: mgr.rri.res.in
43647 by: Andrew Richards
tcpserver
43641 by: Kimberly Vher
43642 by: Brett Randall
Running instructions in mail bodies
43643 by: mack.ms1.hinet.net
43646 by: chuck
pop3
43644 by: Kimberly Vher
43645 by: Brett Randall
pop-3
43648 by: Kimberly Vher
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hello thanks for the reply
i am trying to set up virtual domain with this qmail-qmail-ldap thing
following is the description of what i have configured
right now my mail server is receiving mails for "firstdomain.com "
perfectly
now as i want to receive mails for "seconddomain.com" so
in ~control/virtualdomains
seconddomain.com : user
in ~control/rcpthost
seconddomain.com
hosts.secontdomain.com
then in /home/user/
created few files ".qmail-seconddomain-*
also tried " .qmail-*"
but getting following error message
FAILURE:
SORRY_aLTHOUGH_I'M_LISTED_AS_A_BEST_PREFERENCE_MX_OR_A_FOR_THAT_HOST,/IT_ISNT_IN_MY_CONTROL/LOCAL_FILES_SO_I_DONT_TREATIT_AS_LOCAL
i have gone through around 500 pages of the documentation on setting up
virtual domain (mail) server , but there wastnt any for doing this with
qmail-ldap so done all the things mentioned there in that documentation ,
but its still not working , i dont know now how can do
please tell me what i have forgetten to configure ,
with warmest regards
Prashantr Desai
I am relatively new to this compared to many others, but how about just
adding seconddomain.com to /var/qmail/control/locals as another host to
deliver mail locally to?
Brett Randall.
Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/ <http://ipsware.com/>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, 25 June 2000 4:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ungent help needed for virtual domains please
>
>
>
> hello thanks for the reply
> i am trying to set up virtual domain with this
> qmail-qmail-ldap thing
>
> following is the description of what i have configured
> right now my mail server is receiving mails for "firstdomain.com "
> perfectly
> now as i want to receive mails for "seconddomain.com" so
>
> in ~control/virtualdomains
> seconddomain.com : user
>
> in ~control/rcpthost
> seconddomain.com
> hosts.secontdomain.com
>
> then in /home/user/
>
> created few files ".qmail-seconddomain-*
> also tried " .qmail-*"
>
>
> but getting following error message
>
>
> FAILURE:
> SORRY_aLTHOUGH_I'M_LISTED_AS_A_BEST_PREFERENCE_MX_OR_A_FOR_THAT_HO
> ST,/IT_ISNT_IN_MY_CONTROL/LOCAL_FILES_SO_I_DONT_TREATIT_AS_LOCAL
>
>
>
> i have gone through around 500 pages of the documentation on setting up
> virtual domain (mail) server , but there wastnt any for doing this with
> qmail-ldap so done all the things mentioned there in that
> documentation ,
> but its still not working , i dont know now how can do
>
>
> please tell me what i have forgetten to configure ,
>
>
> with warmest regards
> Prashantr Desai
>
>
>
>
hi,
just a short note for the list.
thanks to all who supported me the last two weeks with many, many tips
and hints on getting qmail working. two weeks ago i was absolutely new
to qmail, today i have a fine webserver running with a perfectly working
qmail.
thanks a lot to all of you !
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regards,
jens
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linux ... life's too short for reboots!
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Jens Georg wrote:
> hi johan,
> > Yes: add a trailing slash to wherever you tell qmail to deliver to
> > the Maildir (ie: /home/$USER/Maildir/ and not /home/$USER/Maildir ).
> grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!! this nasty "/" caused me walking through faqs
> and docs the whole afternoon ! thanks a lot for your answer !!!
Yes, I agree that this needs to be clarified in the doc and LWQ.
Gruß aus Schweden,
-Johan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steffan Hoeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 12:51 AM
To: Mark Thomas
Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 05:02:02PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steffan Hoeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: Mark Thomas
> Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
>
>
> I simply omitted the rc files and put qmail start in my rc ;-)
> Works like a charm ;)
> (( I put csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' in the inetd.conf, it is working fine
> also)
Hmm, my gut tells me that's not the way to go ;)
Right Again. I thought it was working, but after remming it out, it still
was loading anyway from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh which is a symbolic
link to /var/qmail/rc. But I think the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh is what
is actually running on startup. I think this because I copied a "batch file"
that I had wrote over to the directory and gave it a .sh extension, and it
runs on boot. This is what is in the rc file.
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail&
I had to add the & after qmail on the second line, because it would not
complete loading (ie.. apache loads just before qmail, and it would just sit
there loading apache and never move. I had to hit ctrl-c to get it to the
login prompt, and this was unloading the qmail rc. Also why I thought it
was running out of inetd.conf. Does your rc file have the & at the end?
I have to take another stab at converting over to ./Maildir. When I change
the rc file over to ./Maildir, all mail works outbound, but I have trouble
on inbound.
Root still says access denied on ./Maildir when he receives a message and my
other users says that ./Maildir is a directory and errors out. The
conversion looks pretty simple, I have to look again at the changes I made.
MarkT.
> You mention 2 features you need help with maildir2mbox is one,
> what's the other ? (the rc file(s)?)
> (( gaaack ))
> ((Until your MUA supports maildir, you'll probably want to convert maildir
> ((format to (gaaack) mbox format. I've supplied a maildir2mbox utility
> ((that does the trick, along with some tiny qail and elq and pinq wrappers
> ((that call maildir2mbox before calling Mail or elm or pine.
> ((I was trying to use man to look at some "I think manuals" in the
> /var/qmail/bin ((diretory, but you couldn't hardly read them. Some of the
> syntax was blurbed out.
>
> What's the problem with maildir2mbox ?
> I'm not sure how to use it! I have it in my /var/qmail/bin directory.
There are wrappers for mail, elm and pine in /var/qmail/bin called qail, elq
and pinq.
they automagically call maildir2mbox before starting mail, elm or pine ....
I guess the reason I thought it wasn't working, was the fact that mail was
not seing the mail in ./Mailbox anymore, but it is actually qmail now and
not sendmail ???
Markt
Greetz,
Steffan
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 05:26:42AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steffan Hoeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 12:51 AM
> To: Mark Thomas
> Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 05:02:02PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steffan Hoeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 3:15 PM
> > To: Mark Thomas
> > Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
> >
> >
> > I simply omitted the rc files and put qmail start in my rc ;-)
> > Works like a charm ;)
> > (( I put csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' in the inetd.conf, it is working fine
> > also)
> Hmm, my gut tells me that's not the way to go ;)
>
> Right Again. I thought it was working, but after remming it out, it still
> was loading anyway from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh which is a symbolic
> link to /var/qmail/rc. But I think the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh is what
> is actually running on startup. I think this because I copied a "batch file"
> that I had wrote over to the directory and gave it a .sh extension, and it
> runs on boot. This is what is in the rc file.
> #!/bin/sh
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
>
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail&
The & shouldn't be needed.
And again, you're telling qmail to deliver to an mbox file named Mailbox ?
I thought you wanted to default to Maildir delivery ?
> I had to add the & after qmail on the second line, because it would not
> complete loading (ie.. apache loads just before qmail, and it would just sit
> there loading apache and never move.
It's no longer loading apache, it's running qmail in the foreground, the ctrl-c
terminates qmail (which is *not* what you want :-))
> I had to hit ctrl-c to get it to the
> login prompt, and this was unloading the qmail rc. Also why I thought it
> was running out of inetd.conf.
qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d can run from inetd, but it's *not* 'supported'
I really suggest you take another look at Life with qmail.
It worked for me on my OBSD system, so it should work for your FBSD system as
well !
> Does your rc file have the & at the end?
Nope, it doesn't, as per lwq....
> I have to take another stab at converting over to ./Maildir. When I change
> the rc file over to ./Maildir, all mail works outbound, but I have trouble
> on inbound.
That's logical, since ./Maildir is considered by qmail to be an mbox file with
the filename Maildir.
I know it can be a bit confusing, but if you want qmail to deliver to a Maildir
the proper notation would be ./Maildir/
^ Note the extra / at the end there.
> Root still says access denied on ./Maildir when he receives a message and my
> other users says that ./Maildir is a directory and errors out.
what's the contents of .qmail-root ?
If it's ./Maildir/ it won't work, since qmail DOES NOT deliver mail to root
you have to put something like &bob in .qmail-root, so mail gets forwarded to user
'bob' ....
Again, it should read ./Maildir/ !
./Maildir to qmail means a mbox file with the name Maildir.
> The
> conversion looks pretty simple, I have to look again at the changes I made.
<G> If at first you don't succeed ;-)
> MarkT.
> > What's the problem with maildir2mbox ?
> > I'm not sure how to use it! I have it in my /var/qmail/bin directory.
> There are wrappers for mail, elm and pine in /var/qmail/bin called qail, elq
> and pinq.
> they automagically call maildir2mbox before starting mail, elm or pine ....
>
> I guess the reason I thought it wasn't working, was the fact that mail was
> not seing the mail in ./Mailbox anymore, but it is actually qmail now and
> not sendmail ???
Sorry, but i've got no idea what you mean with this :-(
HTH,
Steffan
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Steffan Hoeke
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 12:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 07:31:51PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > > **** Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command
> > > maildirmake is there.
> >
> > Are you running it as the user the maildir is for ?
> > >> as root, and it was working on the root user. Then I tried the
> > >>~username/Maildir and it worked for the other 3 users.
> It shouldn't, you'll run into problems later on !!
> The ~username/Maildir **needs** to be owned by username ....
> If it's not, qmail **won't** deliver mail
>
> ** OK, I went back and chown the directories to their user-owners.
> The owner was root, like you said.
> The command maildirmake $HOME/Maildir. Should it be run by the user only?
I
> was thinking this was an administrative command for setting up all users
> with a ~user/Maildir.
For existing users it's easiest to 'su username' and then run maildirmake
It is an administrative command, but it doesn't create the Maildir for every
user..
** How cool! I didn't know you could su username without a password.
** Novell/NT protects the user login. You have to change thier password to
login as the ** user..
> I did a maildirmake /usr/share/skel/Maildir and then added a user. It did
> create the ~user/Maildir and its subs with the proper owner and rights.
> drwx. So I think that is straight now.
it should be FBSD changes the appropriate permissions as part of adduser
IIRC.
> The other command that I ran, I dont completely understand, so I couldn't
> verify that it worked properly. echo ./Maildir/> ~/.qmail
echo ./Maildir/> ~/.qmail creates a .qmail file in the *current* user's home
directory and tells qmail to deliver all mail for this user to the Maildir
in
it's home directory.
**OK, great. I see the .qmail with the ./Maildir. AND Bingo, we are
receiving mail in the right directory.
> I executed this from the same place I executed the other commands.
> /var/qmail/bin
not quite correct
> It seems like maybe I should have been in the users directory?
You're getting the hang of it ;-)
The other alternative is using lwq's defaultdelivery file.
> What does this actually do?
See above.....
> I can send mail from all users, including root. Local send and Internet
> send.
> I can reply to message to all users except root. Anytime I send to root,
> the log says un 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351162 delivery 56:
> deferral: Unable_to_open_./Mailbox:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/
> Jun 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351423 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Did you create an alias for root in /var/qmail/alias ?
qmail, by design, doesn't deliver mail to root !
* YES, .qmail-root with ./Maildir in the file. I can play around with this
one and get a marage of errors from unable_to_chdir to ./Maildir to
access_denied_./Maildir.
I checked the ./Maildir and subs. The owner is root wheel. All of my users
have user user. It seems that root wheel is correct though?
I removed the Maildir structure and recreated it as root with mailmakedir.
No change, still getting errors. When I deleted the entry in .qmail-root, I
got an error Uh-Oh, no line in .qmail file. I have tried just about
everything in this file. It seems to like ./Maildir. When I use this, I get
the access denied.
> I guess I didn't get /Mailbox switched to Maildir. I figured I could fix
> that in a bit. I have been looking in ~user/Mailbox to see if the messages
> are being received.
If you created the .qmail file containing ./Maildir/ in each home dir the
Mailbox file has become obsolete.
** Yes, this works for all users except root.
> The docs had me modify my rc file, then later had me copy
> /var/qmail/boot/home to /var/qmail/rc which overwrote my previous edit of
> ./Maildir instead of ./Mailbox. I'll go and fix that now.
<GRIN>
some insight in what you're doing *is* required
</GRIN>
> Here is the file before I edit it.
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
> # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
>
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail
> ***
> I am changing this line to :
> qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail
> Is the splogger qmail correct?
The splogger qmail should work.
the ./Maildir entry is wrong, now qmail is delivering all mail to an mbox
file named Maildir....
There should be a / after ./Maildir ....
The line should read:
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
** Hmmmm, I just checked this,, it is still ./Maildir without the trailing
/, but all **but root works! Hmmm. I'm changing this now and will test.
**Changed, didn't affect the other users. Didn't help root. Now it has the
trailing /.
> ONE MORE:
> Where should the ~alias/Mailbox be, and who should be the owner.
> Basic alias, ie.. Postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, root.
> All I did according to the doc was touch ~alias/.qmail-postmaster,
> ~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon, ~alias/.qmail-default and ~alias/.qmail-root.
> Then I chmod 644 qmail.*
> These empty files are in /var/qmail/alias. They are 0 byte files. Do they
> need something in them relating to the alias? The doc says look at
> dot-qmail.0 for details, but the file has a bunch of characters just
thrown
> in where some of the important stuff is, and I don't want to make any
> changes where I don't know what I am doing. I have to do some reading on
man
> to make it find the file where it is now. It is still in the src
diretory.
> For some reason, it didn't get copied over to the regular man directories.
The ~alias/Mailbox should be in /var/qmail/alias ;-)
BUT you don't want a Mailbox file. you want a Maildir !
If you on;y touch those files, all mail to these users will be delivered to
/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/
Touching those .qmail files isn't enough if you want mail to postmaster,root
and mailer-daemon delivered to a specific user.
* See above. I have been editing the qmail-root trying to get rid of some
errors.
The man pages are in /var/qmail/man.
One way to acces them is to copy them to your main man location. Which, on
OBSD is rooted in /usr/local/man.
The other way to acces them is to add /var/qmail/man to your MANPATH...
The appropriate command to read dot-qmail is 'man dot-qmail' which should
output something like this:
dot-qmail(5) dot-qmail(5)
NAME
dot-qmail - control the delivery of mail messages
DESCRIPTION
Normally the qmail-local program delivers each incoming
message to your system mailbox, homedir/Mailbox, where
homedir is your home directory.
It can instead write the mail to a different file or
directory, forward it to another address, distribute it to
a mailing list, or even execute programs, all under your
control.
THE QMAIL FILE
To change qmail-local's behavior, set up a .qmail file in
your home directory.
[etc..]
> I hate to ask so many questions, but it is one of the best ways to figure
> these things out. My experience is with Novell/NT and desktops. This is
my
> first stab at Unix.
<G> Been there, done that, asked it ;-)
> I want to go back, if the original writer of the Install documents doesn't
> mind and do a modification of these documents for FreeBSD 4.0, in
> particular. I know I would have been glad to get my hands on something
like
> this before I got started.
That whould be the author of qmail ;)
The other way is to ask Dave Sill if he would like to add an OS specific
section to his Life with qmail document ....
** I'll do both. I liked the Life with Qmail, I just gave up on it when I
ran into some diretories/files that didn't exist. I used it one time a year
ago when I played around with Slackware for a couple of weeks. I did like
it. Dave was a lot of help. Very Nice fella.
> I already have a bunch of documentation on setting up Apache 1.3.12 that I
> want to put out for some other people to get ahold of. I find alot of
> people asking the same questions that I had trouble with. Same thing with
> DNS. I am going to take my other PIII 600 and setup a second box with
this
> one to reference when I do a final re-write on the install differences for
> FreeBSD. It was mostly diretory differences and file name differences,
but
> it sure makes it easy when the doc says go here and edit this, and it is
> really there to be edited.
>
> Thanks for everyones comments. I really appreciate the help. I hope to
> help others in return. When I get finished with the docs that I am going
to
> re-write for FreeBSD, I'll send some periodic mails to the list so others
> will know where to find them.
>
> Thanks again,
> Mark Thomas.
> Special thanks to you, Steffan Hoeke...
No problem !
I needed a lot of help when i started as well (same background) and 'the
list'
was a valuable resource ....
HTH,
Steffan
PS: i'm a subscriber of this list, so there's no need to send it to me & the
list ... TIA
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On 25-Jun-2000 Mark Thomas wrote:
> ** How cool! I didn't know you could su username without a password.
> ** Novell/NT protects the user login. You have to change thier password to
> login as the ** user..
You can if you're logged in as root, the rationale being that
if you can change their password, and have access to all their
files anyway, it's a lot easier to be able to impersonate the
user without undue hassle.
Obviously, you need a password when you're not root, and you
might not even be allowed to use 'su'.
Stefaan
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> > I guess the reason I thought it wasn't working, was the fact
> that mail was
> > not seing the mail in ./Mailbox anymore, but it is actually
> qmail now and
> > not sendmail ???
> Sorry, but i've got no idea what you mean with this :-(
Originally sendmail was actually sendmails MUA, but now there are symbolic
links to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
I renamed my old sendmail sendmail to sendmail.bak. Then I made links to
/usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/sendmail.
I guess it is not configured to look in the ./Maildir directories.
I have asked enough questions here, and now I think I understand enough to
go back through the Life with Qmail and get some more insite. I'll probably
get things straight after LWQ.
You mentioned that initializing smtp from inetd.conf was not the right way
to do this.
Qmail install:
Setup qmail-smtp in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line):
smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
What do I need to look for when I go through LWQ as a replacement for this,
or is there another place to init rather than the inetd.conf?
MarkT.
Hi All:
Here's what my boss wants:
We have a new machine running Qmail at relay.domain.com. It will
receive mail for many domains that
we host. What I need is to selectively route incoing mail to our other
servers, a pop server and a mailing
list server and our corporate LAN server behind a firewall.
I realize that this is easily done with /var/qmail/smtproutes, but I
need to route mail by the user that
it is addressed to. I.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the pop server and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the
Exchange server on the internal LAN. I have tried various things using
virtualdomains and aliases but
have not got the results that I want.
Needless to say I do not want any user accounts on the relay box,
its just a relay. I know that this
is not difficult with sendmail but I don't want to go back to using it
for several reasons that most of
you already know.
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks for the suggestions,
</Duane>
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:21:42AM -0700, Duane Eddingfield wrote:
> it is addressed to. I.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the pop server and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the
Send all @domain.com mail to the pop box and do what you want with aliases,
assign or .qmail files there?
ie .qmail-xxx : ./xxx/Maildir/
.qmail-xxx-yz: | qmail-inject or &something
Aw, this is gonna be ugly.
-Johan
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Johan Almqvist
Hi,
thats easy.
Use fastforward (available from the qmail home-page) which allows a
sendmail compatible alias delivery and forwarding.
Of course, domain.com has to be in rcpthosts.
cheers.
eh.
At 10:21 25.6.2000 -0700, Duane Eddingfield wrote:
>Hi All:
>
> Here's what my boss wants:
>
> We have a new machine running Qmail at relay.domain.com. It will
>receive mail for many domains that
>we host. What I need is to selectively route incoing mail to our other
>servers, a pop server and a mailing
>list server and our corporate LAN server behind a firewall.
>
> I realize that this is easily done with /var/qmail/smtproutes, but I
>need to route mail by the user that
>it is addressed to. I.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the pop server and
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to the
>Exchange server on the internal LAN. I have tried various things using
>virtualdomains and aliases but
>have not got the results that I want.
>
> Needless to say I do not want any user accounts on the relay box,
>its just a relay. I know that this
>is not difficult with sendmail but I don't want to go back to using it
>for several reasons that most of
>you already know.
>
>Anybody got any ideas?
>
>Thanks for the suggestions,
>
></Duane>
>
>
>
>
>
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| ff hh |
| ff eee hhhh ccc ooo mm mm mm Wiener Weg 8 |
| fff ee ee hh hh cc oo oo mmm mm mm 50858 Koeln |
| ff ee eee hh hh cc oo oo mm mm mm |
| ff eee hh hh cc oo oo mm mm mm Tel 0221 484 4923 |
| ff eeee hh hh ccc ooo mm mm mm Fax 0221 484 4924 |
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Johan Almqvist wrote:
> Send all @domain.com mail to the pop box and do what you want with aliases,
> assign or .qmail files there?
>
> ie .qmail-xxx : ./xxx/Maildir/
> .qmail-xxx-yz: | qmail-inject or &something
Ah, I hadn't tried that..
> Aw, this is gonna be ugly.
Yeah, just as ugly as sendmail. Sigh...
</Duane>
Erwin Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thats easy.
>
> Use fastforward (available from the qmail home-page) which allows a
> sendmail compatible alias delivery and forwarding.
> Of course, domain.com has to be in rcpthosts.
I actually have tried this or a slight variation but the entry in
'virtualdomains' is
hit first and the entry in 'aliases' is ignored.
</Duane>
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 11:28:09AM -0700, Duane Eddingfield wrote:
> > Use fastforward (available from the qmail home-page) which allows a
> > sendmail compatible alias delivery and forwarding.
> > Of course, domain.com has to be in rcpthosts.
> I actually have tried this or a slight variation but the entry in
> 'virtualdomains' is
> hit first and the entry in 'aliases' is ignored.
Well, put the domain in locals instead of virtualdomains and use fastforward
to do what you want instead of the virtual domain logic...
-Johan
--
Johan Almqvist
Set up aliases for the various selections, dropping them into
local Maildir's.
Then use serialmail's maildirsmtp to route the maildir to whatever
smtp server you want.
John
Johan Almqvist wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 11:28:09AM -0700, Duane Eddingfield wrote:
> > > Use fastforward (available from the qmail home-page) which allows a
> > > sendmail compatible alias delivery and forwarding.
> > > Of course, domain.com has to be in rcpthosts.
> > I actually have tried this or a slight variation but the entry in
> > 'virtualdomains' is
> > hit first and the entry in 'aliases' is ignored.
>
> Well, put the domain in locals instead of virtualdomains and use fastforward
> to do what you want instead of the virtual domain logic...
This is basically what I was doing, except that I should have know to
take
them *out* of virtual domains.. Doh!
Thanks,
</Duane>
John White wrote:
> Set up aliases for the various selections, dropping them into
> local Maildir's.
>
> Then use serialmail's maildirsmtp to route the maildir to whatever
> smtp server you want.
Excellent suggestion, Thank you.
</Duane>
Make certain that your nameserver can resolve all of the
domain names qmail might need to lookup (sender,recipient,
etc) without going to an external namesever.
You can see what queries are being sent to your nameserver
like this:
killall -WINCH named
then your logs will show what domain names your nameserver
is being asked to look up during the course of a delivery.
If any of them are outside your domain, your nameserver
will try to contact an external namesever to resolve it,
and your modem will dial out.
Eric
Mirco Jeske wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> Under qmail 1.03 I have the problem that the server goes online - even when I
> send a mail to someone in my internal net.
>
> My mail server is server.home.net and there are two users : mirco and cloudy
> sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] causes wvdial to dial. So it must be,
> that qmail sends the impuls, although my /var/qmail/control/locals is
>
> server.home.net
> mirco.home.net
> cloudy.home.net
>
> the log reports :
>
> @400000003951ed69334870dc new msg 766948
> @400000003951ed693348f1c4 info msg 766948: bytes 1697 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp
>884 uid 101
> @400000003951ed6933afdd6c starting delivery 28: msg 766948 to local
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @400000003951ed6933b08d34 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> @400000003951ed6934101e0c delivery 28: deferral:
>Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
> It tells me, that this adress is local, but still a connection is made.
> (by the way : the last line reports of an other problem I have, please read
> "using ./Maildir/ problems")
>
> I want the computer to deliver internal mails without going online, as you
> guess.
>
> In which way am I wrong ????
>
> thanx, Mirco Jeske
>
> --
> _____________________________
>
> there is no attachment today. Have a nice day.
as posted last week, I am still having problems with errors to the effect
of:
Jun 26 11:24:37 nazgul qmail: 961975477.310891 warning: trouble injecting
bounce message, will try later
this is constant. my qmail log files have quadrupled in the last couple of
days because of it and I'm stumped on how to resolve it properly. I deleted
everything in /var/qmail/queue/bounce which seemed to stop it, but now I'm
getting more messages queueing up in the bounce queue.
any help is good. I restarted qmail last week due to what I believe was
memory corruption from a duff swap drive, and I'm reluctant to reboot the
machine because it's running other services and it'll annoy our users.
--
Spiro Harvey
Linux Systems Engineer
A.Net Communications / ( http://www.anet.co.nz )
My mail server has two domains: a.com and b.com.
Now I want control the delivery process between these two virtual
doamins. That is, i want to tell qmail that mails delivered to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] are forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while mails
delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What can i do, or if it is possible?
-------
Best regards
Song mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Normally I'd just say 'man qmail-send' since you haven't done this but since
it isn't THAT explicit with examples for the virtualdomains file I will let
you off. In control/virtualdomains, add the line(s):
a.com:localusername
b.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc
BrettR
-----Original Message-----
From: Jianping Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: Any differences between virtual domains?
>My mail server has two domains: a.com and b.com.
>Now I want control the delivery process between these two virtual
>doamins. That is, i want to tell qmail that mails delivered to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] are forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while mails
>delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>What can i do, or if it is possible?
>
>-------
>Best regards
>Song mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
Per the FAQ, to stop qmail-send, you 'kill' it and wait for it to exit.
What does it wait for before it drops? And what evil might happen
otherwise?
I ask because the few times I've had problems with it, I've killed it and
waited several minutes. Never actually exits. So I 'kill -9' it and it
dies right away.
Gracias,
Ben
--
The spectre of a polity controlled by the fads and whims of voters who
actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite
and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is
naturally alarming to people who don't.
-- Neal Stephenson
It waits for all of its children (qmail-local and qmail-remote) to exit.
--Adam
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:35:15PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> Per the FAQ, to stop qmail-send, you 'kill' it and wait for it to exit.
> What does it wait for before it drops? And what evil might happen
> otherwise?
>
> I ask because the few times I've had problems with it, I've killed it and
> waited several minutes. Never actually exits. So I 'kill -9' it and it
> dies right away.
>
> Gracias,
> Ben
>
> --
> The spectre of a polity controlled by the fads and whims of voters who
> actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite
> and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is
> naturally alarming to people who don't.
> -- Neal Stephenson
>
Dear Qmail User,
Iam new in using qmail i was using sendmail before but since a lot of
features in qmail i want to migrate from sendmail to qmail using linux.
I have set up all the requirements in Life w/ qmail. Install and follow all
the procedure there.
then i want my delivery to use Maildir.
I make my /var/qmail/rc file liek this :
# Bunch of comments here
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start './Maildir/' splogger qmail
then i make a maildirmake in my users home directory and in /etc/skel
directory then i create a .qmail file /home and in /etc/skel.
i have now 2 users in my /home
vhernz and darna
total 2
drwx------ 3 darna darna 1024 Jun 26 11:36 darna
(subdir of darna) drwx------ 5 darna darna 1024 Jun 26 11:36
Maildir
drwxr-xr-x 3 vhernz vhernz 1024 Jun 26 11:33 vhernz
(sub dir of vhernz) drwx------ 5 vhernz vhernz 1024 Jun 26 11:33
Maildir
then when i tried to send a mail to both user it was successfully delivered :
below are the log files
Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.453338 info msg 95445: bytes 1311
from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 804 uid 502
Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566712 starting delivery 4: msg
95445 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566902 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566970 starting delivery 5: msg
95445 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.567032 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20
Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.216666 delivery 5: success:
216.42.80.32_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_961991408_qp_11195/
Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.216878 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350163 delivery 4: success:
216.42.80.32_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_961991408_qp_11196/
Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350353 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350414 end msg 95445
then when i tried to check the mail in /home/vhernz/Maildir/new or
/home/darna/Maildir/new i found no mail for both users...
what is the problem here where can i see those mails? any misconfiguration
ive done here ?
thank you very much for your help in advance coz i really need to work this
out by the end of the month :)
thanks!
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:52:16AM +0800, Kimberly Vher wrote:
>
>
> Dear Qmail User,
>
> Iam new in using qmail i was using sendmail before but since a lot of
> features in qmail i want to migrate from sendmail to qmail using linux.
>
> I have set up all the requirements in Life w/ qmail. Install and follow all
> the procedure there.
>
> then i want my delivery to use Maildir.
>
> I make my /var/qmail/rc file liek this :
>
> # Bunch of comments here
> exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
> qmail-start './Maildir/' splogger qmail
Try it without the ' ' before and after the ./Maildir/ directive ...
> then i make a maildirmake in my users home directory and in /etc/skel
> directory then i create a .qmail file /home and in /etc/skel.
What's in the .qmail file ?
> i have now 2 users in my /home
>
> vhernz and darna
>
> total 2
> drwx------ 3 darna darna 1024 Jun 26 11:36 darna
>
> (subdir of darna) drwx------ 5 darna darna 1024 Jun 26 11:36
> Maildir
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 vhernz vhernz 1024 Jun 26 11:33 vhernz
>
> (sub dir of vhernz) drwx------ 5 vhernz vhernz 1024 Jun 26 11:33
> Maildir
>
> then when i tried to send a mail to both user it was successfully delivered :
>
> below are the log files
>
> Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.453338 info msg 95445: bytes 1311
> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 804 uid 502
> Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566712 starting delivery 4: msg
> 95445 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566902 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.566970 starting delivery 5: msg
> 95445 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jun 26 11:52:13 qmail qmail: 961991533.567032 status: local 0/10 remote 2/20
> Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.216666 delivery 5: success:
> 216.42.80.32_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_961991408_qp_11195/
> Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.216878 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350163 delivery 4: success:
> 216.42.80.32_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_961991408_qp_11196/
> Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350353 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Jun 26 11:52:17 qmail qmail: 961991537.350414 end msg 95445
According to this, it's a remote delivery ?!?!?
IP 216.42.80.32 resolves to univac.netsville.com while
vv.com resolves to 216.43.80.200 ...
> then when i tried to check the mail in /home/vhernz/Maildir/new or
> /home/darna/Maildir/new i found no mail for both users...
>
> what is the problem here where can i see those mails? any misconfiguration
> ive done here ?
>
> thank you very much for your help in advance coz i really need to work this
> out by the end of the month :)
>
> thanks!
HTH,
Steffan
--
http://therookie.dyndns.org
|
Hi
I am attempting to install qmail-mrtg (how little
documentation can there possibly be on getting one program working?), and have
run into trouble. I am using multilog (from daemontools 0.70) to log to
/var/log/qmail/send/ and .../smtpd/, and basically the standard mrtg.cfg that
came in the qmail-mrtg package. When I run 'mrtg mrtg.cfg', I get the following
erors:
No log files at all. at /usr/local/bin/qmail-mrtg-concurrency
line 19.
Could not get any data from external command
'...'
Maybe the external command did not start. (Illegal
seek)
(Note: it did start, its die() error was the first line of
these errors)
Not enough log files to cover 300 seconds at
/usr/local/bin/qmail-mrtg-mess line 27.
(Note: there is only one log file! Why the plural? Was
qmail-mrtg not made to work with multilog?)
Maybe the external command... (well it did start)
Any ideas anyone? I know qmailanalog is probably better
(actually, definitely), but for management's sake graphs make more
sense...
Thanks,
Brett Randall
|
|
hello friends
i have configured qmail with qmail-ldap on RedHat Linux 6.1 ,
its working perfectly except one
problem , user can't download their mails from
home/user/Maildir
i have checked the default file permissions it was 644
for all the files in /new under Maildir
if i changes this to 777 then users are able to download the
their new messages
users home directory is owned by users only , and ya also 755
for Maildir
if i dont make the permissions like this then my users are not
able to doneload their mails
please help me guys , should i keep 777 and 755 for
/new/* and /Maildir
thanks
prashant desai
|
A quick (well, perhaps vast) question about doing large batch mailings with
qmail. I'm administering a qmail box currently and need to prepare to do
mailings for our current user base (which has now grown to 300K) Actually,
we are planning on doing weekly mailings based after filtering our
database, so realistically, I may need to mail 50-60K users per shot. I
have never administered this large of a mailing and my previous experience
is simply limited to writing a python script for flat txt files of emails
(at that time, they never exceeded 10,000)
My qmail server sits on a DELL 4300, PIII, 512K box with a 10Mb/s dedicated
connection. Because of my inexperience in these matters, I'm concerned on
how to approach this task. How have other people done this? How much of a
load can qmail take at a time when sending out batches? (ie. I'm worried
about buffering and potential problems caused with long quenes) What's a
good way to calculate the rate of spawning? (ie the time it will take the
server to send out 100K messages) Also, what are the methods that most
people use to actually do the mailouts? (ie. my python script)? Are there
any good resources out there regarding batch mailing procedures? Any
advice will be very appreciated.
Thank you,
Thomas
Thomas Duterme - IT manager
Madeforchina.com
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Hi all
I installed qmail on big server, it work perfectly with SpWebMail, but could
you tell me how to config checkpassword for Authentication with Ldap (open
Ldap)
Thanks a lot
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Dear Qmail admins,
The following would solve my problem.
I just noticed that the mail server xyz.local.net would forward any mails
which is not meant for the local domain to the mail relay host
abc.valid.net. But abc.valid.net will only receive mails meant for our
domain(listed in the rcpthosts) and hence would reject all other
mails.
Now how do I receive a mail based on the sender address and then
do the forwarding??? Is there anything like rcpthosts file(this does a
check on the recipient address)? I mean I want it to check on the sender
address ;-0
Thankyou,
Jacob.
# Thanks to Alan and SriLanka from whom I got a reply.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:34:45 +0530 (IST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail queueing in relay host.
Dear Qmail admins,
We have two computers with one acting as a relay
host(abc.valid.net connected to the internet) and the other, on the local
network(xyz.local.net), for storing mails. abc.valid.net is just for
forwarding mails to and from the local mail machine(xyz.local.net). The
problem I face is that if the internet link is down then the mails sent
bounces back immediately and does not queue up in the abc.valid.net.
I have setup the control/smtproutes file which has the following
entry:
:[ip address of the ISP MX]
Should I setup something else?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jacob Rajan,
Systems Manager,
Raman Research Institute,
Bangalore, India.
Hi Jacob,
At the risk of repeating something someone else has already said on
this thread (I've just rejoined the list)...
If it is fair to say that any mail coming from 'abc.local.net' is 'Trusted',
then you can setup 'abc.valid.net' to accept *any* mail coming from
there. This is dealt with by tcpserver - create a file somewhere on
abc.valid.net containing,
IP_address_of_abc.local.net:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow
- The first line is the special case for your abc.local.net, the 2nd line
covers anywhere else. Use the tcprules command to convert this
file to a cdb file, which can then be used by tcpserver (-x option)
(read a few man pages for exact details of the above).
Also make sure that your smtproutes specifies *only* the domain
you want to forward for, i.e. change,
:[ip address of the ISP MX]
to
localdomain:[ip address of the ISP MX]
otherwise you'll find that all mail keeps getting thrown back at
'abc.local.net': If you don't specify a domain, *all* domains follow
this instruction, thus the bouncing.
Hope that helps,
Andrew.
----------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 June 2000 13:49
To: Qmail Managers
Subject: Mail queueing in relay host.
Dear Qmail admins,
The following would solve my problem.
I just noticed that the mail server xyz.local.net would forward any mails
which is not meant for the local domain to the mail relay host
abc.valid.net. But abc.valid.net will only receive mails meant for our
domain(listed in the rcpthosts) and hence would reject all other
mails.
Now how do I receive a mail based on the sender address and then
do the forwarding??? Is there anything like rcpthosts file(this does a
check on the recipient address)? I mean I want it to check on the sender
address ;-0
Thankyou,
Jacob.
# Thanks to Alan and SriLanka from whom I got a reply.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:34:45 +0530 (IST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail queueing in relay host.
Dear Qmail admins,
We have two computers with one acting as a relay
host(abc.valid.net connected to the internet) and the other, on the local
network(xyz.local.net), for storing mails. abc.valid.net is just for
forwarding mails to and from the local mail machine(xyz.local.net). The
problem I face is that if the internet link is down then the mails sent
bounces back immediately and does not queue up in the abc.valid.net.
I have setup the control/smtproutes file which has the following
entry:
:[ip address of the ISP MX]
Should I setup something else?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Jacob Rajan,
Systems Manager,
Raman Research Institute,
Bangalore, India.
i installed checkpassword in order to retrieve my mails in outlook or other
mail client
then i creat a /bin/sh file in my /etc/rc.d/init.d directory :
tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup YOURHOST \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
when i run this i got this problem :
tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
what should i do?
thanks
Make sure that the default POP-3 server is not running from inetd (it will
be an entry like in.pop3d in /etc/inetd.conf). If the other one is running,
remove or hash the comment in the config and killall -HUP inetd.
BrettR
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Vher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: tcpserver
>
>i installed checkpassword in order to retrieve my mails in outlook or other
>mail client
>
>then i creat a /bin/sh file in my /etc/rc.d/init.d directory :
>
>tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup YOURHOST \
>/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
>
>when i run this i got this problem :
>
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>
>what should i do?
>
>thanks
>
Hi there,
I undertand that this is not really a qmail question but am
still wondering if someone here could give me some suggestioins.
I was asked to do some research on "running instructions contained
in a mail body", that is, users send their requests by mails and
the server parse the messages and then run the instructions
assigned by the requesters in the message body and perhpas if any output, send
the result back by mail to the requesters. It works just like
a mailing list but of course, the commannds I am talking about are not
'subscribe', 'unsubcribe'..., etc. I, personally, don't like
this idea. Firstly I feel that there might be security problems
though I can't exactly point them out now, and also, I think
the same function could be done easier and perhaps
more secure in the form of Web page (w/CGI running). I wonder
if anyone out there really have done something like this ? or
could someone give some reasons why this is not a good idea, so I
could convince my boss ?
Thanks in advance,
-----------
Wang-hua Li
Wang-hua Li,
It's possible to do this. However, I agree that this could pose a security
risk(some old sendmail exploits relied on the mailer to execute commands).
If someone found an exploit in this program OR one of the programs it
executes, they could execute an arbitrary code as that user(i.e. sending a
REALLY long message could overflow a buffer). If the commands are or need
to be run as root, this could mean root access. If you must execute
commands remotely, use SSH, or for a web interface, CGI under HTTPS(with
authentication!). This provides password protection and encryption. This
would also protect the data returned to the user.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Charles Werbick
The Wirehouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi there,
>
> I undertand that this is not really a qmail question but am
> still wondering if someone here could give me some suggestioins.
>
> I was asked to do some research on "running instructions contained
> in a mail body", that is, users send their requests by mails and
> the server parse the messages and then run the instructions
> assigned by the requesters in the message body and perhpas if any output, send
> the result back by mail to the requesters. It works just like
> a mailing list but of course, the commannds I am talking about are not
> 'subscribe', 'unsubcribe'..., etc. I, personally, don't like
> this idea. Firstly I feel that there might be security problems
> though I can't exactly point them out now, and also, I think
> the same function could be done easier and perhaps
> more secure in the form of Web page (w/CGI running). I wonder
> if anyone out there really have done something like this ? or
> could someone give some reasons why this is not a good idea, so I
> could convince my boss ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -----------
> Wang-hua Li
>
can i use in qmail the pop3 in sendmail?
If you are using mbox or vsm (var/spool/mail) format, yes. If it is Maildir
format, then no. Read the INSTALL and FAQ files.
Brett Randall
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Vher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:29 PM
Subject: pop3
>
>can i use in qmail the pop3 in sendmail?
>
>
please help im almost done..
after installing the checkpassword and i have this file in my
/var/qmail/supervised/qmail-pop3d/run
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec tcpserver -v -R -uQMAILDUID -gNOFILESGID 0 pop-3 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail.vv.com \
/usr/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir login \
2>&1
and in my /etc/rc.d/init.d/pop3d
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail-pop3d"
supervise /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d | \
setuidgid qmaill tai64n | setuidgid qmaill tai64nlocal | \
setuidgid qmaill multilog s12000000 n5 /var/log/qmail/pop3d &
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: qmail-pop3d"
svc -dx /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d
echo "."
;;
stat)
echo "Checking qmail-pop3d"
svstat /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d
;;
help)
cat <<HELP
stop -- stops pop3 service (POP connections refused, mail can't be
retrieved)
start -- starts pop3 service (POP connection accepted, mail can be
retrieved)
HELP
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|stat|help}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
when i try if it will work i got this when i use telnet
[root@qmail sbin]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
tcpserver: status: 1/40
tcpserver: pid 596 from 127.0.0.1
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
tcpserver: ok 596 localhost:127.0.0.1:110 localhost:127.0.0.1::1028
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user vhernz
+OK
pass kitty
-ERR authorization failed
tcpserver: end 596 status 256
tcpserver: status: 0/40
Connection closed by foreign host.
what is my mistake here?
