qmail Digest 7 Jul 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1055
Topics (messages 44269 through 44314):
Re: qmail on Digital UNIX 4.0D -- syslog problems
44269 by: Mads E Eilertsen
Re: rejecting subscribe/unsubscribe requests
44270 by: Sylwester S. Biernacki
Re: .qmail
44271 by: Paul Jarc
Strange Problem with qmail config
44272 by: Mitul Limbani
44285 by: Dave Sill
Re: manpages for ucspi-tcp
44273 by: Vincent Danen
Re: ucspi-tcp man pages
44274 by: Vincent Danen
Re: qmail-start
44275 by: Paul Jarc
Re: can't unsubscribe
44276 by: Mirko Koenig
Virus scanning question
44277 by: Larry Henshaw
44304 by: Jason Haar
temporary failure in qmail-lspawn
44278 by: Darren Hudson
44286 by: Dave Sill
Release: assign-lint
44279 by: James Raftery
Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?)
44280 by: James Moore
44282 by: M.B.
Mail Server Sizing
44281 by: Alexis Castanares Lopez
44283 by: Andre Oppermann
44290 by: Jason Murphy
Qmail with Oracle
44284 by: Alexandre Biancalana
Re: Muchos "warning: trouble opening remote/local"...
44287 by: Dave Sill
Re: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)
44288 by: Dave Sill
qmail won't compile on AIX 4.3
44289 by: lewst
supervise lock problem on startup/install
44291 by: J!M
qmail book coming?
44292 by: M.B.
44296 by: Bill Parker
44297 by: Vince Vielhaber
44298 by: Vince Vielhaber
Re: Converting mbox to maildir.
44293 by: clemensF
Re: qmail and dial-on-demand
44294 by: clemensF
Re: spam and well known smtp servers
44295 by: clemensF
44310 by: Eric Cox
vpopmail 4.8a Upgrade
44299 by: Andrew Hill
44301 by: Peter Green
44312 by: Sylwester S. Biernacki
Courier IMAP / Autoresponders / SQWebMail
44300 by: Kathleen Farber
aol mail bouncing
44302 by: Matt Taft
44305 by: Scott Gifford
44308 by: Frank Tegtmeyer
"unable to exec qq" and Cobalt RAQs
44303 by: seth.aqua.note.amherst.edu
qmail log analysis script
44306 by: Bradey Honsinger
Re: Not receiving from all domains - is it DNS?
44307 by: Eric Cox
scan4virus
44309 by: Kimmo Berghäll
urgent help required : qmail-send/qmail-lspawn
44311 by: reach_prashant.zeenext.com
urgent help required : qmail-send/qmail-lspawn (fwd)
44313 by: reach_prashant.zeenext.com
44314 by: reach_prashant.zeenext.com
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On 5 Jul 2000, Bjørn Nordbø wrote:
> According to TEST.delivery qmail should syslog a line whenever
> it starts. [...]
Note that qmail logs to STDOUT. If you followed step 8 of INSTALL,
you'll realize that it is splogger who feeds syslog.
Since you apparently have daemontools installed I suggest you forget
about syslog, and use multilog to do the logging.
On our 4.0D boxes /service/qmail/run contains
#!/bin/sh
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Mailbox
and /service/qmail/log/run contains
#!/bin/sh
exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t s500000 n20 /var/log/qmail
which means that log entries end up in /var/log/qmail/current.
We have a similar approach for the SMTP service using tcpserver,
and it's all working very well.
Mads
2000-07-06, at 00:03:09, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Hand, Brian C. writes:
>> How does one setup qmail and ezmlm to allow subscribes and unsubscribes to
>> be done ONLY by command line.
> If you remove listdir/public, ezmlm-manage will stop responding to all
> administrative requests, including -subscribe, -unsubscribe, and -get.
> If you want -get to keep working, you can intercept delivery of the
> subscription messages. The foo-subscribe and foo-unsubscribe
> addresses are handled by the list's .qmail-default file - you can
> create .qmail-[un]subscribe[-default] files to handle any messages
> sent to those addresses. bouncesaying ought to be useful. If instead
> you want to drop these messages silently, remember that the .qmail
> files shouldn't be empty (that indicates that the system's default
> delivery method should be used - ./Mailbox, or whatever), and the
> first line can't be blank - `#' is the smallest no-op.
>> I apologize if this is documented somewhere but I only found out how
>> to prevent posts to the mailing lists itself.
> Hm - how do you do that?
Or you can make file called i.e. subscribe.pl and put this code
inside:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$to = "test-subscribe\@test.com";
$subject = "";
$from = "test-user\@test2.com";
$sendmail = "sendmail -f $from -t -oi";
open(MAIL, "| $sendmail");
$subject = $config[5];
print MAIL "Reply-to: $from\n";
print MAIL "Errors-to: $from\n";
print MAIL "Sender: $from\n";
print MAIL "To: $to\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "\n";
close MAIL;
You can rebuild this source to ask for $to and $from.
If you do this from machine which is listserver it should subscribe
without any problems.
--
pozdrawiam,
Sylwester S. Biernacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Eddie Greer writes:
> The problem is when I telnet to localhost 25 and follow the direction from
> the TEST.deliver, I connect to the port and run all the commands but the
> mail does not get delivered. I took a look at the log and it states the
> following:
>
> deferral: uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is blank._(#4.2.1)/
It's pretty self-explanatory - the first line of your .qmail file is
blank, and it's not allowed to be. "But", you may say, "I don't have
a .qmail file." In that case, I'd say your default delivery is blank,
which amounts to the same problem in a different place. What does
your /var/qmail/rc look like? What's the first argument to
qmail-start? It probably ought to be ./Mailbox, or ./Maildir/, or
|procmail - it's up to you, but it can't be blank. (It can be #, if
you want to silently drop mail by default.)
paul
Dear Users,
I m new user to this list and am having this strange problem with qmail, if
ne one can help me out i would be obliged.
I have installed qmail on to my server readin alll the necessay
documention.,
My problem is when i send all the users message frm the console mode thru
pine the messages get transferred to the users
./Maildir/ directory
but if i send the same thru my pop box using my isp as my relay server the
mail gets stored in the ./Mailbox of the users..
also i have virtually hosted domain for which have configuration workin all
right...
Now the second part of the problem is
I m using qmail-pop3d on the pop end..
but i m getting this error message cant find $HOME/Maildir for the user so
the pollin is not happening for the users..
i checked out the enviromental variable $Mail which says the users
homedirectory/Maildir/
i m really stuck with this please help me..
Anticipating your prompt reply,
Regards,
-Mitul Limbani
(mitul 2 mitul.com
"Mitul Limbani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My problem is when i send all the users message frm the console mode thru
>pine the messages get transferred to the users
>./Maildir/ directory
>but if i send the same thru my pop box using my isp as my relay server the
>mail gets stored in the ./Mailbox of the users..
qmail doesn't treat local and remote injection differently: the same
recipient's mail will be delivered the same way regardless of where it
comes from.
What's your default delivery method? Does the user in question have a
.qmail file? What's in it? Post log entries for both deliveries.
>Now the second part of the problem is
>I m using qmail-pop3d on the pop end..
>but i m getting this error message cant find $HOME/Maildir for the user so
>the pollin is not happening for the users..
>i checked out the enviromental variable $Mail which says the users
>homedirectory/Maildir/
The MAIL environment variable is irrelevant. Does $HOME/Maildir exist?
Is it owned by the user? Is it really a maildir (e.g., created using
maildirmake)?
-Dave
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 01:34:01PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> > > Before I make some unecessary work for myself, I was wondering two
> > > things:
> > >
> > > Are there manpages for ucspi-tcp 0.88 somewhere? None are in the
> > > package. Also, is there a html2man program or something I can use to
> > > make this easier?
> > >
> > I did manpages from the contents of the html-pages some time ago. You find
> > them in: ftp://innominate.org/pub/pape/djb/ .
>
> Did you make them manually or would you share the knowledge of
> reverse-html-ify djbs mans?
I did it all manually. Saved the html files and manually converted
them to manpages. Wasn't too hard... a little time consuming, that's
all.
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > You can obtain the manpages for ucspi-tcp from:
> >
> > ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88-man.tar.bz2
> >
> > These are basically taken direct from cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html and
> > converted into manpages.
> >
> Great, so work is done twice. Searching the archiv really helps. There was
> an announce with Subject: man-pages daemontools-0.70 ucspi-tcp-0.88 .
Hmmm... I new about daemontools, but I didn't think there was
anything for ucspi-tcp... Next time I'll have to search the archive
then. =) Oh well. I didn't know anything about man pages before so
I'll just chock it up to a learning experience.
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Dennis Robertson writes:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > /var/qmail/rc should be run as part of *system* startup, not user
> > login.
>
> Thanks. I'm going to uninstall qmail and try again. Where should
> the command be?
You probably don't need to reinstall. Just remove that command from
your .bashrc, and add it to your system startup scripts. The details
of this will vary depending on how your system is set up. On my
RedHat 6 box, I have /etc/rc.d/rc[235].d/S40qmail symlinked to
../init.d/qmail, which contains:
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting qmail: "
/var/qmail/rc &
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping qmail: "
killall qmail-send
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail
;;
restart|reload)
killall -HUP qmail-send
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
paul
hi
i worte at least two messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but i recieve messages again and again.
how can i unsubscribe the list?
Mirko Koenig
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Greetings all,
I was wondering if anyone can help.
I have a Qmail system all up and running with SMTP and POP3. It sends and
received mail correctly. What I have been asked to do is forward any mail
to a Trend Micro SMTP email virus scanning server first before it is
delivered. This means that even if I have USER-A and USER-B with POP3
accounts on the qmail server and they send mail to each other, the powers
that be want that mail to first hit the Scan Mail server then relay to the
Qmail server.
I already know that I could reconfigure their SMTP/POP3 mail clients to use
different addresses for sending and downloading mail (ie enter the IP of the
Scan Mail server for SMTP and then the IP of the Qmail server for POP3).
I was hoping that there was a server level setting (as apposed to something
in each users .qmail file) that would forward the mail correctly. Exchange
seems to have this function and they call it "Forward All Messages to host:
<hostname>" instead of "Message Delivery Uses DNS"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Larry Henshaw }:->
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:58:53AM -0600, Larry Henshaw wrote:
>
> I have a Qmail system all up and running with SMTP and POP3. It sends and
> received mail correctly. What I have been asked to do is forward any mail
> to a Trend Micro SMTP email virus scanning server first before it is
> delivered.
See http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus/ for one implementation of
server-based virus scanning for Qmail.
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Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
|
I am new to linux / qmail, etc. so please forgive
the lack of knowledge.
I recently changed IP addresses on all of our Linux
boxex. I also had to change the 2 Nameserver Names and IP
addresses.
Ever since then, I have been getting the following
error in /var/log/maillog:
962594383.506605 starting delivery 3503: msg 55319
to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
962594383.506837
status: local 4/10 remote 0/20
962594387.568616 delivery 3503: deferral:
Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./
The server is running qmail with mysql database,
and seems to process non-virtual domain mail ok.
Also, users in the virtual domains cannot log in to
their POP accounts, the just keep getting a password request. No password
seems to work.
Any suggestions? All help is greatly
appreciated!
DH
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"Darren Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently changed IP addresses on all of our Linux boxex. I also
>had to change the 2 Nameserver Names and IP addresses.
That doesn't sound like something that would the problems you're
seeing.
>962594383.506605 starting delivery 3503: msg 55319 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>962594383.506837 status: local 4/10 remote 0/20
>962594387.568616 delivery 3503: deferral: Temporary_failure_in_qmail-lspawn./
That's usually due to a shortage of some system resource such as
memory or file descriptors.
>Also, users in the virtual domains cannot log in to their POP
>accounts, the just keep getting a password request. No password
>seems to work.
Has this ever worked, or are you in the process of setting it up?
-Dave
Hi,
I've written a little bit of perl to examine our users/assign file
and check for errors/inconsistencies. It might be of use to others.
It's attached.
Regards,
james
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# assign-lint. Reports obvious problems in assignments in a
# users/assign file as used by qmail-lspawn and created by
# qmail-newu.
#
# 6th July 2000, James Raftery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# IE Domain Registry, University College Dublin Computing Services.
#
# Usage: assign-lint file
# file is a path to a users/assign file.
#
# Example: assign-lint /var/qmail/users/assign
#
# Comments, suggestions, improvements, bug-reports, patches, etc are
# welcomed.
# History:
# 6th July 2000: First release.
while (<>) {
chomp;
if (/^\.$/) {
warn "Syntax error: Dot appears more than once.\n" if $dot;
$dot = 1;
next;
}
unless (/^(.)(\S*):(\S+):(\d+):(\d+):(\S+):(\S*):(\S*):$/) {
warn "Syntax error, line $.: $_\n";
next;
}
$assign_char = $1;
$address = $2;
$user = $3;
$uid = $4;
$gid = $5;
$homedir = $6;
$dash = ($7 ? $7 : "");
$ext = ($8 ? $8 : "");
if ($dot && !$warned_about_the_dot) {
warn "Syntax error: Assignments found after the dot.\n";
$warned_about_the_dot = 1;
}
if ($assign_char eq "=") {
$assign_type = "simple";
} elsif ($assign_char eq "+") {
$assign_type = "wildcard";
} else {
warn "Bad assignment type in assignment '$address': $assign_char is
invalid.\n";
}
@pwd_ent = getpwnam($user);
if (@pwd_ent) {
if ($uid != $pwd_ent[2]) {
warn "Bad uid in $assign_type assignment '$address' for user
$user: $uid should be ", $pwd_ent[2], ".\n";
}
if ($gid != $pwd_ent[3]) {
warn "Bad gid in $assign_type assignment '$address' for user
$user: $gid should be ", $pwd_ent[3], ".\n";
}
if (!-e $homedir) {
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir does not exist.\n";
} elsif (!-d _) {
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir is not a directory.\n";
} else {
@dir_stat = stat(_);
warn "Bad directory in $assign_type assignment '$address' for
user $user: $homedir is not owned by $user.\n" if ($uid != $dir_stat[4]);
if (($assign_type eq "simple") && $dash && $ext) {
$qmail_file = "${homedir}/.qmail${dash}${ext}";
warn "Bad .qmail file in $assign_type assignment
'$address' for user $user: $qmail_file not valid.\n" if (!-f $qmail_file);
}
}
} else {
warn "Bad user in $assign_type assignment '$address': user $user does
not exist.\n";
}
}
exit;
I have coldfusion 4.51 on Windows NT with Apache. The Mail tag in
coldfusion is pointing at my qmail smtp server. It seems that qmail
is rejecting mail from the coldfusion application server because it
does not have line feeds in the email. Has anyone heard of this
problem? I have not been able to find anything on allaire's web site.
Thanx,
Jay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:28 AM
> Subject: Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?)
>
> I have coldfusion 4.51 on Windows NT with Apache. The Mail tag in
> coldfusion is pointing at my qmail smtp server. It seems that qmail
> is rejecting mail from the coldfusion application server because it
> does not have line feeds in the email. Has anyone heard of this
> problem? I have not been able to find anything on allaire's web site.
>
We have Oracle servers sending reports that do (did) the same thing.
If nobody can change the formatting of the message, try changing the
tcpserver line of your outbound smtp server(s) to include fixcr (from the
tcpserver tarball). After I did that, the DBA came and asked if something
changed because he all of a sudden started getting his reports.
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 550 -x /etc/security/tcprules/rules.cdb \
-u 25414 -g 104 0 smtp sh -c 'fixcr | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd' &
Mike.
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Hi!
I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with
excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big
leagues on QMail.
The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun
Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have 8000
users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages a
week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No
Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc.
We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server
simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc.
This is not the point of this message.
My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq
Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat
6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer.
A Couple of newbie questions:
Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in the
scenario I outlined above?
If Not, waht would you recommend?
Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail
Servers?
Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for other
projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know.
Thank you very, very much for your help.
Regards,
Alexis.
Alexis Castañares
Director de Tecnología
MVS Telecom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexis Castanares Lopez wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with
> excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big
> leagues on QMail.
>
> The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun
> Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have 8000
> users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages a
> week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No
> Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc.
>
> We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server
> simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc.
> This is not the point of this message.
>
> My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq
> Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat
> 6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer.
>
> A Couple of newbie questions:
>
> Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in the
> scenario I outlined above?
> If Not, waht would you recommend?
> Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail
> Servers?
>
> Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for other
> projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know.
>
> Thank you very, very much for your help.
Alexis,
I'd suggest qmail-ldap as it lets you use your current user database
almost without modification. qmail-ldap started as a compatible re-
placement for a Netscrape Messaging server. It is used in numerous
large email sites and of production qualitiy. In fact even MP3.com
uses it on their mail servers.
Have a look at http://www.nrg4u.com
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I am going to say that machine is overkill. I think 1 CPU (700 MZH+) with
about 512 megs of RAM is more than enough. You have to remember qmail runs
really fast, much faster than sendmail, and does not take much RAM. The only
problem I ever see with qmail, from working with it and reading this list
are IO Bounding problems (The Disks/Controllers can't move fast enought for
qmail).
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexis Castanares Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:20 AM
Subject: Mail Server Sizing
>
> Hi!
>
> I have been using Qmail, over x86 Boxes with Linux for a while, with
> excelent results. But now I'm plannig to make my first move in the big
> leagues on QMail.
>
> The company I work for is using Netscape Messaging Server on a Sun
> Enterprise 250 Box, with 2 Cpu's, 36 Gb. HD and 512 Mb. RAM. They have
8000
> users in 10 different domains, and something arround 1.1 Million Messages
a
> week of traffic, all the mail is read using POP3 Clients. No Webmail, No
> Distribution Lists, no "[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> capabilities, Very Expensive LDAP solution, etc.
>
> We have had a lot of problems with Messaging Server. Sometimes the server
> simply doesn't answer port 25, or 110, or doesn't deliver messages... etc.
> This is not the point of this message.
>
> My move is to change everything and migrate the systems to a x86 (Compaq
> Proliant 3000, 2 Cpu's, 512 Mb. Ram, 50 Gb. SCSI Array) with Linux Redhat
> 6.2 Installed on it, and (of course) Qmail, Vpopmail and TcpServer.
>
> A Couple of newbie questions:
>
> Do you think that this x86 machine would be able to manage the email in
the
> scenario I outlined above?
> If Not, waht would you recommend?
> Do you know any site that has information about correct sizing of QMail
> Servers?
>
> Note: I'm trying NOT to re-use the Sun E250 Box, because I need it for
other
> projects, but if this is the best solution, please let me know.
>
> Thank you very, very much for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Alexis.
>
> Alexis Castañares
> Director de Tecnología
> MVS Telecom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Hi All,
I have Qmail installed in Red Hat 6.2 and it works fine, but we need to authenticate users with Oracle.
I have downloaded vpopmail package v4.8.4 but it does not seem to compile, because I think this
package has Oracle support. Does anybody know how to compile vpopmail and then authenticate users with it?
Where can I find some documentation or some patch in order to fix this problem?
Have anybody made Oracle 8.1.6 work with Qmail?
Thanks,
Alexandre Biancalana
Hajime Lucky Okada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"qmail: 962478354.405231 warning: trouble opening local/22/1105816;
>will try again later"
>
>Many massage like this are appearing in the log forever....
>What is occurring and how to eliminate them?
Sounds like your queue is corrupt. Try running qmail-qsanity or
queuefix from www.qmail.org.
>---------------------------------------------
>2. What means (#x.x.x) number in the maillog?
>
>I encounter it sometimes like..
>"delivery 10: deferral: connected_to_aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/"
>
>What means "(#4.4.2)" and where can I look up them?
>From RFC 1893, Enhanced mail system status codes.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1893.txt:
4.X.X Persistent Transient Failure
X.4.X Network and Routing Status
X.4.2 Bad connection
>---------------------------------------------
>3. About IDENT processing from smtp
>
>Essentially, qmail smtp daemon is necessary (mandatory) for IDENT
>connection? And if I prohibit it, what would happen?
No, IDENT isn't mandatory. If you don't run a daemon, that information
will be left out of the Received fields of messages that pass through
your system.
-Dave
Robert Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:12:42PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>> Claudinei Luis Bianchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >I had applied the patch for this and work very well with BIND.
>> >recently, I changed to DNScache and this message came back.
>> >
>> >where's the problem ??
>>
>> Exactly. What makes you think this message indicates a problem on your
>> end?
>
>That exactly was my question about one week ago. How do I know where the
>problem is?
It's a DNS problem. qmail couldn't resolve a host name, and the
resolver said the problem was temporary. Normally, you don't have to
do anything except wait for the name server problem to be fixed. If
you know for a fact that the name is resolvable, then you might have a
problem that demands your attention. But it's not specifically a qmail
problem.
-Dave
I'm not able to get qmail-1.03 to compile on my AIX 4.3 server. I've
tried both xlc (AIX C compiler) and GCC-2.95.2 without success. Here
is far as I get with "make setup check". Any ideas? Please CC: me on
followups. Thanks.
With GCC:
auto-str.c: In function `main':
auto-str.c:15: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__main
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.
With XLC:
./compile dns.c
"dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text 'int' encountered.
"dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ')' encountered.
"dns.c", line 11.19: 1506-276 (S) Syntax error: possible missing ')'?
"dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of h_errno_which differs from previous
declaration
on line 55 of "/usr/include/netdb.h".
"dns.c", line 11.12: 1506-050 (I) Return type "int**" in redeclaration is not
compatible with the
previous return type "void*".
"ipalloc.h", line 6.23: 1506-007 (S) "struct ip_address" is undefined.
"dns.c", line 31.15: 1506-007 (S) "struct ip_address" is undefined.
"dns.c", line 229.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a
pointer to an
incomplete struct or union.
"dns.c", line 231.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a
pointer to an
incomplete struct or union.
"dns.c", line 233.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a
pointer to an
incomplete struct or union.
"dns.c", line 235.34: 1506-285 (S) The indirection operator cannot be applied to a
pointer to an
incomplete struct or union.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
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Hello all,
Still having the service lock problem -- thanks Dave, I've followed
your suggestions here:
>The general approach to fixing this problem is:
>
> 1) Stop all qmail-related processes including svscan, supervises,
> anything running as a "qmail" user, qmail-send, multilogs,
> etc. *Everything*.
ps -a shows no qmail related services running prior to sending the
start command. If I let the error loop in one term window I see
svscan and TWO service entries (with one or both <defunct>
depending on how quickly I run ps). I looked for clues as to the
origin of the two instances, but couldn't find anything obvious.
> 2) Double check directory names/owners/groups/modes and the
> contents of "run" scripts against LWQ. Check for extraneous
>ampersands (&) at the ends of lines.
I have probably messed this up from standard... I recursively set
ownership of /var/qmail/supervise and its subdirectories to
qmaill.nofiles. The directories I opened up to 777. I reran the chmod
commands in LWQ on the run files in those directories setting
them to 755. I have no idea whether these changes would make
my problem worse, but the results have not changed...
> 3) Restart svscan via "qmail start".
>
> If the problem doesn't go away, repeat 1 & 2, and re-run 3 with
>"sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start". Cut and paste the output and
> post it to the list.
[root@samurai supervise]# sh -x /usr/local/sbin/qmail start
+ PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
+ export PATH
+ echo -n Starting qmail: svscan
Starting qmail: svscan+ cd /var/qmail/supervise
+ env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan
+ echo 20793
+ echo .
.
+ exit 0
[root@samurai supervise]# supervise: fatal: unable to acquire
qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock:
temporary failure
---------------------
Thanks for looking at this, qmail is the last piece in the puzzle
before I can make this server live.
J!M
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0
02-4056617-0867210
anyone notice the above?
mike.
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At 03:44 PM 7/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0
>02-4056617-0867210
I dunno, we have been hearing about the qmail book coming out for a while
now, so I would
reserve judgement until it actually hits the shelf...I've always said
everyone on this list could
use a good qmail reference with lots of step by step stuff, and what to do
when bad things
happen to your qmail system...comments anyone?
-Bill
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, M.B. wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0
> 02-4056617-0867210
>
> anyone notice the above?
Yeah, it was talked about a month or so ago. Judging by a book that same
author wrote for Motorola about C, I wouldn't take it if it were free.
The ones from Motorola were free and we all threw them in the trash. It
was some of the dryest reading imaginable. I think I'd rather read the
bat book!!
Vince.
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Bill Parker wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 7/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0
> >02-4056617-0867210
>
> I dunno, we have been hearing about the qmail book coming out for a while
> now, so I would
> reserve judgement until it actually hits the shelf...I've always said
> everyone on this list could
> use a good qmail reference with lots of step by step stuff, and what to do
> when bad things
> happen to your qmail system...comments anyone?
This one isn't the long awaited one tho. The one we're all waiting for
is by Russ Nelson and (I think) John Levine and is waiting on O'Reilly.
At least I think that's right. Russ?
Vince.
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> Morten Liebach:
> I have used procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/* for a long time. There's a
> lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20
> mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like:
>
> $ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir
there's a program called "formail" in the progmail-suit, it'll do what
you want.
clemens
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Will an unpatched qmail bring up the connection when it has mail to
> send if I have dial on demand set up right?
yes.
clemens
> David Benfell:
> As I recall, the argument is that by responding, you confirm that the
> e-mail address is valid. I can't say I've dealt with enough spam to
> have relevant experience.
i've had spamming for just surfing around the 'net, and it grew worse
occasionally when i tried to avoid it by mailing abuse@... or postmaster@...
clemens
clemensF wrote:
>
> > wolfgang zeikat:
>
> > http://spamcop.net offers handy online forms
>
> i have used all sorts of anti-spam tricks, but presently i just look at the
> headers of a spam-mail trying to spot from which domain it really originated
> by scanning the recieved-lines and use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as well
> as postmaster for chinese or mexican or whatever open relay domains without
> abuse adresses. this procedure is faster then any automatix.
Um, sadly, no. Not unless you're an _extremely_ fast typist.
All you do is paste the text of the email, including headers, into a textbox,
click a button, and in five seconds (instantly if you're a member) it pops
up a screen with the abuse addresses of all the abuse depts. to be notified -
click another button, and you've sent them a standardized complaint, and
spamcop is very accurate. Many large abuse departments have automation to
accept spamcop complaints, and automatically act on them - like immediately
freezing outgoing email of a given account upon reciept of complaints, until
a human can look into it and nuke the account if warranted.
Spamcop also maintains a database of the _proper_ abuse addresses for a
given domain - I would never have guessed [EMAIL PROTECTED] for AOL - if
I had used postmaster or abuse, it would have taken longer for them to
nuke the account.
Oh, and it will also tell you if the provider has already nuked the
account, i.e. no complaints neccesary.
Eric
I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to
./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found.
Thing is, I don't think I needed to specify this when I installed
vpopmail 3.4, and can't find tcprules anywhere on my system.
Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing?
TIA,
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also sprach list:
> I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to
> ./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found.
You need to specify it with --enable-tcprules-prog=/path/to/tcprules
> Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing?
(pcg@micah) ~> rpm -qf `which tcprules`
ucspi-tcp-0.88-1
^^^^^^^^^
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2000-07-07, at 02:53:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> also sprach list:
>> I'm trying to upgrade vpopmail to version 4.8a. However, when I try to
>> ./configure, I get an error that the tcprules program cannot be found.
> You need to specify it with --enable-tcprules-prog=/path/to/tcprules
>> Where should tcprules be coming from? What installation am I missing?
(pcg@micah) ~>> rpm -qf `which tcprules`
> ucspi-tcp-0.88-1
> ^^^^^^^^^
So... I've got another problem with compilation vpopmail.
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o vchkpw vchkpw.o opensmtp.o libvpopmail.a -lnsl -lcrypt -lm
libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_global_init':
my_thr_init.o(.text+0x14): undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_init':
my_thr_init.o(.text+0xfa): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
my_thr_init.o(.text+0x13b): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `my_thread_end':
my_thr_init.o(.text+0x1cd): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
libvpopmail.a(my_thr_init.o): In function `_my_thread_var':
my_thr_init.o(.text+0x204): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [vchkpw] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vpopmail-4.8a'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vpopmail-4.8a'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
and this goes on every gcc compiler I've used (2.95 and 2.96):
gcc version 2.96 20000606 (experimental)
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
Machine is RH 6.2 with glibc-2.1.90
Any suggestions ?
Despite of this fact, on other machines with egcs compiler it compiles
fine and works well.
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Anything I should be aware of for installing Courier IMAP with
vpop and vchkpw
We would like to install sqwebmail but worried about screwing things up
since it took a month to get it running the right way with no error messages
::whew::
Red Hat Linux 6.2
Current Qmail, QmailAdmin, EzMLM, vpop, vchkpw
Also, if anyone knows why when using autoresponders why the mail bounces but
yet the autoresponder goes out would be much appreciated!
Kathleen
Helo,
I have just recently switched from sendmail to qmail for our ISP and got
everything working using qm 1.03 memphis, tcprules, vpopmail, big-dns.patch,
bind.patch. Sending, Recieving, POPing Mail all seemed to be working ok.
Then I found all mail from AOL and certain other asp's was bouncing most
mail recieves fine and all mail sends ok but mail from aol is recieved then
bounced usually for no such mail account at my mail server however obviously
this mail account does exist and recieves mail fine from all other
locations. And the second twist is if I send a mail to an aol member and
they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if
they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol
Matt Taft
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Is there anything about AOL or any of AOL's IP addresses in your
tcpserver setup (especially the database that tcpserver uses to block
connections and set environment variables)?
And do you see anything in your logs about these messages?
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"Matt Taft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Helo,
> I have just recently switched from sendmail to qmail for our ISP and got
> everything working using qm 1.03 memphis, tcprules, vpopmail, big-dns.patch,
> bind.patch. Sending, Recieving, POPing Mail all seemed to be working ok.
>
> Then I found all mail from AOL and certain other asp's was bouncing most
> mail recieves fine and all mail sends ok but mail from aol is recieved then
> bounced usually for no such mail account at my mail server however obviously
> this mail account does exist and recieves mail fine from all other
> locations. And the second twist is if I send a mail to an aol member and
> they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if
> they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol
>
> Matt Taft
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> they utilize reply it is recieved at my mail server with no problem but if
> they type a new mail and utilize the exact same address it bounces. lol
You should supply some more information:
- the receiver address
- content of your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file
- content of your /var/qmail/control/locals or virtualdomains file
- possibly users/assign
- relevant log file entries
Regards, Frank
Hey there. I've just been fighting w/ qmail on my RAQ3i. I've been
trying to replace sendmail with qmail, but it just hasn't been working
(bounce messages weren't working; neither was smtp). I sought through the
archives for an answer, but found none. The general consensus seemed to
be that the permissions were wrong.
Turned out that was true. Though through no fault of the installing party
(I was doing a virgin installation and it still bombed). It also turns
out that the RAQs have an interesting quirk that causes qmail not to work.
They ship with /var set to mount with the 'nosuid' flag set. This causes
the suid bit on qmail-queue not to work as expected, leading to the rest
of the problems.
Anyway, to fix this problem, edit /etc/fstab and remove the nosuid flag
from the /var line and run 'mount /var -o remount' to remount it without.
Voila. It works.
Good luck and thank goodness for the archives.
seth
I've written a 'qmail statistics' script that does the dirty work of
generating qmailanalog-acceptable log files:
- making sure you have an up-to-date pending file
- converting timestamps to fractional time using tai64nfrac
- running current and pending logs through matchup
It then calls qmailanalog's z-commands to analyze the results. It's intended
for creating weekly email messages to root, but it wouldn't be hard to tweak
to generate web pages or some such.
In its current state, it makes a few assumptions:
- your logs are rotated (archived), but are all available in the log
directory
- log stamps are in TAI64N format--at least, they're run through the
tai64nfrac
translator before sending them to matchup, so if they're not in TAI64N
they'd
better have the fractional-time stamps that matchup expects
Everything else that can change from installation to installation should be
defined in the first section ("Files and Paths"); change it as appropriate.
I'm sending it to the list in the hope that it will be useful to others, and
for comments and corrections--I'm sure there's a lot that could be improved.
- Bradey
#!/usr/bin/python
# qmstats.py v0.1
# qmail statistics generator (using qmailanalog)
# Bradey Honsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# This script does the dirty work of generating an up-to-date pending
# file from archived (rotated) logs. It runs the logs through
# tai64nfrac to convert TAI64N timestamps to the fractional timestamps
# required by qmailanalog's matchup. After an producing a current
# matchup file from the current log file and an up-to-date pending file,
# it runs a list of qmailanalog commands on the current matchup file and
# writes the results to standard output.
#
# Note that the output is only the result of the current log file; since
# my log files are rotated once a week, that means that the statistics
# output are only for messages send and received so far this week.
#
# This script tries to be reasonably intelligent about generating the
# up-to-date pending file: If the pending file is newer than the archived
# log files, it isn't regenerated. If the pending file doesn't exist at all,
# it's regenerated completely, starting with the oldest log file (see the
# matchup man page). Since my log files are rotated weekly, the pending file
# should only need to be updated once a week--nice, since the old log files
# are about 2.5MB each.
#
# CUSTOMIZATION: Any parameters that need to be changed for your qmail
# installation should be in the "Files and Paths" section. If something
# doesn't work, it's most likely because your files are in different
# locations--double-check the paths carefully.
# Path, file, and process manipulation
import os
# String manipulation
import string
###################
# Files & paths
##################
# Logfile path (current and archived logs)
LOGFILE_PATH = "/var/log/qmail/qmail-send/"
# Current logfile
CURRENT_LOGFILE = LOGFILE_PATH + "current"
# Command to retrieve archived logfile names (which start with "@")
ARCHIVED_CMD = "ls -1 " + LOGFILE_PATH + "@*"
# Matchup command location
MATCHUP_CMD = "/usr/local/bin/tai64nfrac |
/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup"
# Workfile path - any file starting with "qmstat" goes here
WORKFILE_PATH = "/tmp/"
# List of pending messages in archived logs
ARCHIVED_PENDING = WORKFILE_PATH + "qmstat.archived.pending"
# List of current pending messages
CURRENT_PENDING = WORKFILE_PATH + "qmstat.current.pending"
# Matchup from current log + archived pending
CURRENT_MATCHUP = WORKFILE_PATH + "qmstat.current.matchup"
# List of commands (w/headings) to run on current log
CMDS = [
[ "Overall Statistics", "/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall" ],
[ "Failures", "/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zfailures" ],
[ "Deferrals", "/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zdeferrals" ],
# sort whines about a broken pipe, so we throw away its errors
[ "Top Ten Senders", "/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zsenders | sort -rk 1
2>/dev/null | head -20" ],
[ "Top Ten Recipients", "/usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zrecipients | sort -rk
2 2>/dev/null | head -16" ]
]
###################
# Function Definitions
##################
# Filter function: returns true if given file is newer than archived
# pending messages file
def NewerThanArchivedPending( file ):
if ( os.path.getmtime( ARCHIVED_PENDING ) < os.path.getmtime( file ) ):
return 1
else:
return None
# Update archived pending file with archived log
def UpdateArchivedPending( file ):
os.system( "cat %s %s | %s > /dev/null 5> %s" %
( file, ARCHIVED_PENDING, MATCHUP_CMD, ARCHIVED_PENDING ) )
###################
# Program Body
##################
# Get list of archived log files
os.chdir( LOGFILE_PATH )
fileCmd = os.popen( ARCHIVED_CMD )
archivedFiles = fileCmd.readlines( )
archivedFiles = map( string.strip, archivedFiles ) # Remove whitespace
archivedFiles.sort( ) # Most recent archived logfile now last element
fileCmd.close( )
# Update/create pending file with archived log files
if os.path.exists( ARCHIVED_PENDING ):
# Make sure pending contains all archived logs
# Note that archived logs are in order, since we sorted the list above
map( UpdateArchivedPending,
filter( NewerThanArchivedPending, archivedFiles ) )
else:
# Regenerate pending file from archived logs
# (assumes archived logs are complete)
map( UpdateArchivedPending, archivedFiles )
# Matchup current logfile and old pending messages
# (ignore current pending messages)
os.system( "cat %s %s | %s > %s 5> %s" %
( ARCHIVED_PENDING, CURRENT_LOGFILE, MATCHUP_CMD,
CURRENT_MATCHUP, CURRENT_PENDING ) )
# Run listed commands on current matchup file
for cmd in CMDS:
# Print heading
print "***************************************************************"
print cmd[0]
print "----------------"
# Print command output
cmdFile = os.popen( "cat %s | %s" % ( CURRENT_MATCHUP, cmd[1] ) )
cmdOutput = cmdFile.readlines( )
cmdFile.close( )
print string.join( cmdOutput )
# qmail statistics generation script
# Copyright (C) 2000 Construx Software
# Written by Bradey Honsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# Refer to <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.txt> for a copy of the GNU
# General Public License.
Barry Dwyer wrote:
>
> Would this reverse-DNS entry (apparently there for the convenience of
> the ISP's reseller) be preventing some mail servers from forwarding to
> ours?
I noticed that your provider is a backup mailserver for you:
dream:/usr/src # nslookup -type=MX nethan.com
nethan.com preference = 500, mail exchanger = mail2.sohoskyway.net
nethan.com preference = 1, mail exchanger = mail.nethan.com
You may have the same problem I did at one time. Our provider was a
backup mailer for us, and they didn't have their MS Exchange server
setup to correctly route mail to me (I had to research the subject and
TEACH them how to do this, btw, UGH...) - which would normally not
be a problem since our Frame Relay is (supposed to be) up all the time
- the backup mailer is _supposed_ to come into play only when the
primary one is down.
The normal way a mailer is supposed work is to try contacting the best
preferrence mailserver, and if that doesn't work, the next preference,
and so on... Well, MS Exchange doesn't do that - MS uses the
get-mail-the-hell-out-as-fast-as-possible-and-screw-the-consquences
approach: it opens a connection to _all_ mailers for a given domain,
and hands off the mail to whichever mailer responds the fastest.
So domains running MS Exchains servers were sending mail through my
provider (because his connection to the outside is naturally much
faster than mine), and the provider wasn't setup to relay for me, so the
mail never got through. Some domains, running other mailers, got
through just fine. And the really frustrating aspect was that even the
domains that _were_ running MS Exchains would get mail through some
of the time, when they happened to get directly into my server faster.
It was horrible...
Anyway, I dunno if this is your problem, but to check, try going to
a machine outside your provider's domain, telnet to your provider's
SMTP port, and try relaying mail through it into your domain. If his
mailer refuses to relay for you, it might be the cause (it's a problem
in any case).
Eric
Hello,
How do I exactly modify /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail to use scan4virus?
Kimmo Berghäll
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hello friends
i want to run web-mail server using qmail as mail server , my web
server and qmail server is going to be run on same physical mechine .
, as apache runs under nobody i have to give 777 to ~/home/Maildir for
this as a new mail gets delievered under ~/home/Maildir/new. i want to
change the permission of that newmail file to 777 , but how can i trigger
this event ,
that is how can i detect the event when new mail gets delieverd to
users ~home/Maildir/new
please help me , its really urgent
with kindest regards
Prashant Desai
hello friends
i want to run web-mail server using qmail as mail server , my web
server and qmail server is going to be run on same physical mechine .
, as apache runs under nobody i have to give 777 to ~/home/Maildir for
this as a new mail gets delievered under ~/home/Maildir/new. i want to
change the permission of that newmail file to 777 , but how can i trigger
this ,
that is how can i detect the event when new mail gets delieverd to
users ~home/Maildir/new
please help me , its really urgent
with kindest regards
Prashant Desai
hello friends
i want to run web-mail server using qmail as mail server , my web
server and qmail server is going to be run on same physical mechine .
, as apache runs under nobody i have to give 777 to ~/home/Maildir for
this as a new mail gets delievered under ~/home/Maildir/new. i want to
change the permission of that newmail file to 777 , but how can i trigger
this ,
that is how can i detect the event when new mail gets delieverd to
users ~home/Maildir/new
please help me , its really urgent
with kindest regards
Prashant Desai
