Re: Nothing at port 25? RESOLVED

2001-08-06 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I don't know why Yahoo! decided to not send this
message last night; they're really flaky lately. Good
thing I have my server back up and running.

Basically, it was just that, in all of the
repartitioning/data restoration/etc. that I had to do
this weekend, I forgot to bring over /etc/tcp.smtp.
Duh! It was fixed the instant I put that back.

Thanks for catching that, though.

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Nothing at Port 25?

2001-08-05 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Hello all,

This weekend I attempted to upgrade my system from
OpenBSD 2.8 -> 2.9. I had a bit of trouble doing so,
and as such had to do some strange OS manipulation
that does not bear description here.

In any case, after getting to what I thought was a
fully restored point, my inbound mail is not working.
This despite the fact that I have qmail running under
tcpserver, as revealed by ps:

qmaild3828  0.0  0.360   444 C0- S 10:36PM
   0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -u 1012 -g 1011
-x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd

I also have qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and
qmail-clean running.

I can't even telnet to port 25 on the system; it tells
me it's connected, then immediately dumps me out. I've
posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if it could possibly
be the OS shutting down the port, but I suspect
something is wrong with the qmail daemon.

Does anyone here know if I've got things right from
the Qmail end? Thanks.

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Re: url of sqwebmail too long!!!!

2001-06-08 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> I hope I understand what your asking.

Actually, I think what he's trying to do is the same thing I've been trying 
to do -- make mail.domain.com equivalent to 
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail. In that case, an alias wouldn't work, 
because that would require www.domain.com/alias/, not mail.domain.com. Of 
course, it's probably a question more for an Apache list, but if you or 
someone else knows how to do that, it would make both of us quite happy. :-) 

Alex Le Fevre



Re: OT: Sending Mail with C++

2001-05-02 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> Please supply more information:
> 
> 1)  At what point is your program failing?
The program itself doesn't seem to fail. I put a cout statement after my 
last line of code, and it pops up just fine. 

> 2)  If it gets far enough, are you capturing the exit code of
> /usr/bin/sendmail (or /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, for that matter)?
There is no output, at all. I get no error messages of any kind. 

> 3)  Does anything make it into the qmail logs?
Nothing shows up in the qmail logs. 

> 4)  Have you straced/trussed the program?
Can't say I know what either of these are. 

> 5)  What is the failure mode?  Silent failure, core dump, ...
It's completely silent -- like I said, there are no program errors, and no 
errors from /usr/bin/sendmail. 

I'm sure that's only made things more confusing, but hopefully it eliminates 
some possibilities. 

Alex 



OT: Sending Mail with C++

2001-05-02 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've seen the wars going on the last couple of days with people being tired 
of answering stupid questions, so my apologies if this appears to be such a 
question.

I've learned that in Perl, sending an e-mail through the system is as simple 
as outputting to /usr/bin/sendmail -t. I figured that doing this with C++ 
would be just as simple; I'd just open an ofstream with ios::app and print 
to it. However, this doesn't seem to work, and after conducting what I feel 
to be an exhaustive search of the web, I'm seeing nothing on the subject. 

Has anyone ever sent mail using a C++ program? If so, I'd appreciate either 
some tips or a pointer to a URL discussing it. 

Thanks in advance. 

Alex Le Fevre



Re: Mailing from script

2001-04-04 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> Aw come on, take away the =~ s line and you'll be fine. I promise.

::Looks chagrined:: Hmm. You were right. I just know that I need the "\" 
before the "@" when I hard-code, so I thought it would be necessary with my 
variable as well. 

> And NO, you're not trying to pass the recip on the command line. Your're
> passing it on STDIN. 
> 

I still don't understand your logic here -- script.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent 
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but that's not really relevant to this list, so 
don't worry about it. 

Alex



Re: Mailing from script

2001-04-04 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> No it isn't. The =~ s stuff is totally unnecessary, as you're not passing
> the address on the command line to sendmail... 

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I *am* trying to pass the e-mail address 
from the command line to sendmail. And yes, $recip *is* user\@domain.com -- 
I printed it to STDOUT, and it showed up just like that. 

IMHO, if the script works fine when I have a hard-coded To: line, and my 
$recip comes out a replica of my hard-coded To: line, it doesn't seem to me 
to be a Perl problem. 

Alex



Mailing from script

2001-04-04 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I just wrote a Perl script that gets an e-mail address from the command line 
and then subs it in as the To: field in mailwrapper output. While the 
program worked just fine when I manually entered the To: field, it appends 
@www.schnarff.com to that field when I get it from the command line.

The relevant part of the script appears below: 

$recip = $ARGV[0];
$recip =~ s/\@/\\\@/g;
print $recip;
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: $recip\n";
print MAIL "From: quoteoftheday\@schnarff.com\n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: alex\@schnarff.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Quote for $date\n";
print MAIL $sdata[rand(@sdata)];
close MAIL; 

$recip, when I printed it to the screen for testing purposes, came out as 
user\@domain.com, which is exactly what I need. 

Any idea why the mailwrapper would append my local domain like that? 

Thanks,
Alex Le Fevre



Re: Aliases & chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> Not quite; that will try to deliver to an mbox file named "Maildir" in
> username's homedir, but as user alias. 
> 
> Chances are that you want that .qmail file to contain "&username" instead,
> which will forward the mail from the long name to the short username.
> Then, that user's .qmail file (or the system default delivery specification)
> will control the final delivery.

That works nicely. I just have one question: is there any good way to 
control the user's reply-to and from addresses via Qmail? It's showing up as 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's just minor 
cosmetics, though. 

Alex



Aliases & chdir problems

2001-04-02 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Since OBSD doesn't seem to want to let me have user
names over 8 characters, I'd like to set up an alias
to a user account to solve the problem. My impression
was that I could just do the following:

1) create /home/alias/.qmail-thealiasname, containing
/home/username/Maildir
2) chown that file to alias:qmail
3) create the user's Maildir, making sure it's owned
by the user
4) Go!

I don't have the domain in virtualdomains, as it's in
locals (in fact, it's the primary domain for the
machine). I didn't figure this to be a problem, as
.qmail-postmaster, .qmail-root, etc., work with that
domain just fine.

What happens, though, is that qmail tries to make the
delivery, and gives me that nasty "unable to chdir to
Maildir (4.2.1)" error. I assume it's trying to access
the user Maildir as the user specified by
.qmail-thealiasname, which obviously isn't right. 

How can I tell it to go in as the user? Alternately,
is there another way to implement this? All I really
care about is getting a 9+ character e-mail address
set up, I'm not finnicky on how I do it.

Thanks,
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Removing from queue

2001-03-28 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm trying to remove a bunch of e-mail from my
outgoing queue, which seems to be stored in
/var/qmail/queue/remote. Can I just delete the
directories containing these mails, or will that screw
up the program? Would it be better to just delete the
files themselves?

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Re: Alternate MDA

2001-03-28 Thread Alex Le Fevre

...
 Note that users
> will still be able to override this choice with a
> .qmail file.

Thus, you're saying, if there's a .qmail file, the
.mailfilter file gets ignored?

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Alternate MDA

2001-03-28 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm looking to implement maildrop system-wide, so that
I don't have to fiddle around with setting it up for
each user that wants mail filtering. I've been told by
maildrop's author that I should just install it as my
default mail delivery agent. I've been all over the
qmail.org page, Life with Qmail, and all of that good
stuff, and I don't see a lot about switching MDAs.
Could anyone point me to a good resource on the
subject?

Thanks,
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Re: Content Types

2001-03-23 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> I'm no Perl coder, but it looks to me like you're
> sending everything as part of
> the message header -- you need a completely blank
> line (i.e. no whitespace on
> the line) between the end of the message headers,
> and the start of your first
> MIME part.

That just makes everything show up as message body,
including the attachment coming across as plain
(albeit garbled) text. Am I doing something wrong with
my boundary being "--bound"? Or are there any other
rules I need to follow when wrapping a message with an
attachment?

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Content Types

2001-03-22 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've solved my earlier problem of getting my script to
output an encoded file to the mailwrapper. My only
problem is, I'm having real trouble getting mail
agents to see the attachment properly.

Using this script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$fileout = `cat /home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg |
/usr/local/bin/base64
/home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg`;
$bound = "---bound";

open (MAIL, "|/usr/bin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: alexlefevre\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=\"$bound\"; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
print MAIL "$bound\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed;
charset=iso-8859-1\n";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
print MAIL "Here is the attachment!\n";
print MAIL "$bound\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: image/jpg;
name=\"chili.jpg\"\n";
print MAIL "Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"chili.jpg\"";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64";
print MAIL "$fileout";
close MAIL;

Mail goes to Yahoo just fine, which shows that there's
an attachment on the Inbox screen. When I try to
access the message, though, there's nothing there --
not even my text. What could be the problem? I'm
taking the content-type, etc. from mail I sent using
sqwebmail.

Thanks,
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RE: Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail

2001-03-22 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Hmmm...I thought I had it, but not quite. For some
reason, my Perl script is outputting to the screen,
not my mailwrapper. Are there any limitations on what
you can send to the mailwrapper? My program is below:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$fileout = system("/bin/cat
/home/www/schnarff/images/chili.jpg |
/usr/bin/uuencode /home/www/schnarff/chili.jpg");
$bound = "---bound";

open (MAIL, "|/usr/bin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: alexlefevre\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=\"$bound\"; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
print MAIL "$bound\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: image/jpg;
name=\"chili.jpg\"\n";
print MAIL "Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"chili.jpg\"";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: uuencode";
print MAIL "$fileout";
close MAIL;


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RE: Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail

2001-03-22 Thread Alex Le Fevre

That made it come through as a bunch of gobbledygook
to my mail...but that's OK, because I know what I have
to write on my mailwrapper to get it to see that it's
an attachment. I think that suggestion will do the
trick. Thanks!

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Attachments via /usr/bin/sendmail

2001-03-22 Thread Alex Le Fevre

How would I go about attaching encoded files (i.e.
jpg, gif, etc.) via the mailwrapper? I'm trying to
write a Perl script that first uploads a file (which
I've done no problem), and then e-mails it out to a
specified address. I've seen some examples that
mentioned uuencoding, but I'm not sure if this would
be right for all types of attachments.

Thanks,
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Re: /usr/bin/sendmail -t

2001-03-20 Thread Alex Le Fevre

OK, that's cool...but now I have (presumably) one last
question. I've got my script printing From: $usermail
to /usr/bin/sendmail, and it's working well enough
both to trap the address the user enters and put it
into the From: field. My question is, what field to I
need to put $usermail into so that I can send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and fool ezmlm?

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Re: /usr/bin/sendmail -t

2001-03-20 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> EOF -- close the fd.

If I'm actually typing my info in -- after calling
/usr/bin/sendmail -t from a command line -- is that
Ctrl-z? 

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/usr/bin/sendmail -t

2001-03-20 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm currently putting together a small Perl script
that sends an e-mail with a user-entered value as the
from: value. I want to test my syntax by using my
sendmail wrapper with the -t flag, but I don't know
how to tell it I'm done with a message. What command
do I issue to tell the mailwrapper I'm done?

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Re: Mailwrapper not working

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> qmail-inject can't work, you need the
> sendmail-wrapper - normally
> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. This does work as it should
> normally. Id it doesn't
> there are some serious misconfigurations.

How can I test /var/qmail/bin/sendmail? Do you think
there would be a way to check to make sure my script
is actually calling the binary?

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Re: Mailwrapper not working

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> DJB posted to this list once, pointing out problems
> with mailer.conf -- if
> the system fails to open it (out of fds, etc), it
> defaults to using
> sendmail -- hardly what you want.
> 
> The symlink solution is more reliable, and no files
> need to be parsed either.
> 
You're still both missing my original point -- not
that my mail as a whole isn't working, but that I
can't get FormMail.pl (from
www.worldwidemart.com/scripts) to send e-mail. I've
only got to the question about mailwrappers because
that's where I was led in search of a fix for this
problem. The script, by default, calls the mail
program as /usr/lib/sendmail, which didn't work; I've
been toying around with everything from a symlinked
/usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, and
none of those work. Can anyone provide help relevant
to that problem?

Thanks,
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Re: Mailwrapper not working

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> Put symlinks in place as the qmail docs tell you.

I have, I kill -HUP'ed qmail-send, and it still
doesn't work. Why wouldn't it work

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Mailwrapper not working

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've posted several questions to this list recently on
this topic, none of which have been satisfactorily
answered. I apologize for any redundancy.

The root of my problem is that my mail wrapper seems
to be malfunctioning. Neither /usr/sbin/sendmail --
from OBSD 2.8's default install of Sendmail -- or
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail seem to work at all. When I
point a popular Perl script at them (FormMail.pl), the
script executes but produces nothing in
/var/log/maillog.

How can I test my mailwrapper for functionality? Would
it be possible to reinstall the mailwrapper without
reinstalling all of qmail if I find it's not
functional? Are there any config files I need to be
checking?

Thanks for your help.

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/var/qmail/bin/sendmail (addendum)

2001-03-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Also, I tried:

echo to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail

That gave me these lines in /var/log/maillog:

Mar 11 11:23:02 www qmail: 984327782.476368 info msg
2920341: bytes 212 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp
9916 uid 0
Mar 11 11:23:02 www qmail: 984327782.477601 end msg
2920341

echo to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, however, works just fine.

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/var/qmail/bin/sendmail

2001-03-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm trying to get FormMail.pl to work with qmail, and
I'm having quite a time of it.

I can't point it towards /usr/local/sendmail, because
that doesn't exist on my system (OBSD 2.8). I tried
/usr/libexec/sendmail, but that didn't work, either --
nothing showed up in my Apache error logs or
/var/log/maillog. FYI, ls -l on /usr/libexec/sendmail
shows:

-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  380928 Nov  6 12:40 sendmail

I also tried, as per the suggestion of someone from
this list, pointing it at /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
However, this does nothing, either. ls -l shows:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  qmail  16384 Mar  5 00:26 sendmail

What could be wrong with this? I need this form ASAP,
as I have business customers who will be using it
soon.

Thanks,
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Which program?

2001-03-10 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I'm trying to set up some cgi scripts that send e-mail
via the localhost (i.e. FormMail.pl from
www.worldwidemart.com/scripts). Near the top, it has
"path to e-mail program", where I put
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. However, this doesn't
seem to be working.

There are two possibilities as I see them. First, it
calls the program with a -t option, which I'm not
familiar with. Second, I've configured qmail to work
with tcpserver, so I'm not sure if I'm even sending
the script to the right binary.

Are either of these possibilities right? Or am I
totally off-base? Thanks in advance for any help you
may be able to provide.

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> What does:
> 
>   grep alias /etc/passwd
> 
> show?

alias:*:1009:10::/home/alias:/bin/csh

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

 I don't think so.  wheel is a privileged group,
> isn't it?  You want something
> with no elevated privileges.

OK then, say, popuser?

> Maybe, but I doubt it.  Are the qmail log messages
> explaining the failure
> the same as before?  And of course you HUP'ed
> qmail-send...

The log messages don't say a damn thing. I think,
however, that this is an issue with my DNS provider
(www.namesecure.com); I've had a nearly identical
issue before. I'm going to call them and see if my MX
records are right (like they said a week ago they
would be), and if not, bitch them out like crazy.

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> No, chown it to alias.  In fact, make that `chown -R
> alias:users /home/alias`
> to make it right.  You can change the group to
> whatever your proper default
> is under your OS.

Ummm...would that be wheel? I'm running OBSD 2.8.

Sadly enough, after doing `chown -R alias:users
/home/alias`, I still can't get mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (thankfully,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] still works). Is that just
because I've got the wrong group set up?

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> How about the output of `ls -ld / /home /home/alias
> /home/alias/.qmail*` ?
> My thinking at this point is this has to be an
> ownership/permissions issue.
> 
bash-2.04# ls -ld / /home /home/alias
/home/alias/.qmail*
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Feb  6 14:10 /
drwxr-xr-x  26 root  wheel  512 Feb 10 09:29 /home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Feb 11 13:40
/home/alias
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:38
/home/alias/.qmail-info-threeacesol
utions
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:35
/home/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:32
/home/alias/.qmail-postmaster
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   19 Feb 11 13:35
/home/alias/.qmail-root
-rw-r--r--   1 root  qmail   19 Feb 10 18:24
/home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info

Looks like I should probably chown popuser:popuser
.qmail-threeacesolutions-info, right?

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> As a side note, the MX for threeacesolutions.com
> seems to be
> inbound.threeacesolutions.com.criticalpath.net --
> that's correct, is it?
> Just an odd hostname.

That's definitely the wrong MX name -- it should be
www.schnarff.com. It's probably just that my DNS
provider hasn't updated it yet (which is potentially
another issue here).

> Indeed.  As the next thing, how about the output of
> the following commands:
> `ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*`

bash-2.04# 'ls -ld / /var /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail*'
ls: /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*: No such file or
directory
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   wheel  512 Feb  6 14:10 /
drwxr-xr-x  25 root   wheel  512 Jan 16 12:49 /var
drwxr-xr-x  10 root   qmail  512 Feb 10 14:38
/var/qmail
drwxr-sr-x   3 alias  qmail  512 Feb 11 13:34
/var/qmail/alias

The reason that I have no .qmail in /var/qmail/alias
is because when I put my .qmail-postmaster file there,
it had no effect on [EMAIL PROTECTED] messages;
it took a .qmail-postmaster file in /home/alias to
make messages work correctly. Thus, I would assume
Qmail is looking not in /var/qmail/alias but in
/home/alias.
> `cat
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info`

Thus, here is alternate output on this request:

bash-2.04# 'cat
/home/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info'
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> `ls -ld ~alias`
Our output here seems to back up my thought process:

bash-2.04# ls -ld ~alias
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb 11 13:40
/home/alias

> On the contrary; I get the satisfaction of seeing
> someone actually putting
> the effort into running qmail, and being polite
> about it at the same time.

Glad to hear I'm not just leeching off of your brains.

Alex Le Fevre

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Re: Logfile Turnover

2001-02-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> I seriously doubt that anyone can give you any
> useful advice -- you
> haven't given us enough information. What generates
> /var/log/maillog?
> syslog, multilog, (insert your program of choice
> here)? 

Honestly, I'm a bit newbieish to say concretely. I
know that Qmail has been handling my e-mail, and that
only e-mail was showing up in that file...but I don't
really know what program would be handling logging
Qmail's actions. Any idea how I could check?

Alex

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Logfile Turnover

2001-02-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

My /var/log/maillog file has suddenly decided that
it's a good idea to turn over every hour. Obviously,
this is a bad thing, as it will seriously clutter my
system (not to mention make trakcing any problems
highly irritating). I'm not quite sure what I would
have done to cause this, or how to change it back to
daily or so. Can anyone tell me where I can tweak
this?

Thanks,
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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> 1.  Did you HUP qmail-send or restart qmail? 
> qmail-send only reads
> virtualdomains at startup.
I do that after every change. I had made that kind of
mistake earlier, and felt really stupid after folks on
the list pointed it out.

> 
> 2.  Post the output of `qmail-showctl`.

qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 1009, 1010, 1011, 0, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015.
group ids: 1009, 1010.

badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.

bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is
MAILER-DAEMON.

bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is
schnarff.com.

concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.

concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is
20.

databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.

defaultdomain: Default domain name is schnarff.com.

defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is
schnarff.com.

doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host:
schnarff.com.

doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user:
postmaster.

envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is
schnarff.com.

helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is
schnarff.com.

idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is
schnarff.com.

localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes
schnarff.com.

locals: 
Messages for schnarff.com are delivered locally.
Messages for antelopeinc.com are delivered locally.
Messages for elderlinda.com are delivered locally.
Messages for royalgenealogy.com are delivered locally.
Messages for www.schnarff.com are delivered locally.

me: My name is schnarff.com.

percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not
allowed.

plusdomain: Plus domain name is schnarff.com.

qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the
queue is 604800 seconds.

rcpthosts: 
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
schnarff.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
antelopeinc.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
elderlinda.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
royalgenealogy.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
www.schnarff.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
threeacesolutions.com.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at
3acesolutions.com.

morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220
schnarff.com.

smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.

timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection
timeout is 60 seconds.

timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is
1200 seconds.

timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is
1200 seconds.

virtualdomains: 
Virtual domain:
threeacesolutions.com:alias-threeacesolutions

rcphosts: I have no idea what this file does.


> 3.  Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> wait for it to disappear
> into the ether or bounce, then post the relevent
> portions of the qmail
> logs, showing this message making it into the queue
> and all delivery
> attempts for it.

Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.668108 info msg
437786: bytes 405 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp
30299 uid 1000
Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.945872 starting
delivery 856: msg 437786 to local
alias-threeacesolutions-info@threeaceso
lutions.com
Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.947880 status:
local 1/10 remote 0/20
Feb 11 17:46:47 www qmail: 981931607.978230 delivery
856: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.022079 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.197615 bounce msg
437786 qp 23215
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.222175 end msg
437786
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.307161 new msg
437787
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.308283 info msg
437787: bytes 952 from <> qp 23215 uid 1015
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.413360 starting
delivery 857: msg 437787 to local
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.415226 status:
local 1/10 remote 0/20
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.514949 delivery
857: success: did_1+0+0/
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.543842 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20
Feb 11 17:46:48 www qmail: 981931608.544996 end msg
437787

Looks like I've probably just got my .qmail file named
screwy. Hopefully this will help you pinpoint the
problem.

I *really* appreciate your help here. I know people
like you get nothing out of replying to newbie posts
like mine, and so I'd really like to thank you for
going the extra mile to help me out.

Thanks,
Alex

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Re: POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-11 Thread Alex Le Fevre

> > >
> threeacesolutions.com:alias-threeacesolutions
> > > 
> > > in virtualdomains will make
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] be controlled by
> > > ~alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info .  
> > 
> No, ~alias means 'the home directory of user
> "alias"', which is needed by qmail.
> It doesn't involve the creation of any additional
> accounts.  A standard qmail
> install will have ~alias as /var/qmail/alias . 
> Therefore the necessary .qmail
> file is
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-threeacesolutions-info .
> 
I went ahead and made sure it wasn't in locals, and
then made .qmail-threeacesolutions-info in
/var/qmail/alias, with contents of
"&[EMAIL PROTECTED]". It's still not working -- in
fact, it doesn't even show up in my maillog. I also
tried an identical file in /home/alias (which is where
my .qmail-postmaster file is), and it yielded the same
(lack of) result.

I even tried making the file
.qmail-info-threeacesolutions, since the
virtualdomains syntax was
threeacesolutions:alias-threeacesolutions (thus
info-three...), and that did no good either.

Any idea what else I could try?

Thanks,
Alex

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POP Users w/o System Accounts

2001-02-10 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've been trying to get this to work through Phil
Jacob's documentation
(http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/pop3.html), which I
found on the main qmail.org page. I thought I had
follwed his instructions to a "T", but apparently not.

What I want, in this particular instance, is to create
the account [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then
forward that to my personal account,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've set up
/home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info/.qmail
to read &[EMAIL PROTECTED], so that last part at least
should be fine. The problem is, I'm getting a bounce
saying that there is no user by that name.

My virtualdomains file reads:

threacesolutions.com:threeacesolutions

My rcpthosts file has a threeacesolutions.com entry.
Also, my users/assign file reads thus (with my = entry
all on one line):

=threeacesolutions-info:popuser:1024:1024:/home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info/:::
.

I think I even have /users/poppasswd right:

info:(encrypted_pass):popuser:/home/popuser/popboxes/threeacesolutions-com/info

Obviously, I've given qmail-send more than one -HUP in
my testing.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Alex Le Fevre

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Sqwebmail Documentation

2001-01-25 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I know this is the wrong place to ask, but the
sqwebmail mailing list is incredibly slow/unpopulated.
Do any of you know where I could find documentation
for that package? I'm trying to do things like set up
multiple virtual domains, change my timeout time, etc.

Thanks,
Alex Le Fevre

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Unable to chdir (4.2.1)

2001-01-24 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've got a working qmail system up and running now --
but only one user on it gets mail. All the other users
I'm trying are getting the error "Unable to chdir to
maildir (4.2.1)" in the maillog when trying to deliver
mail to them.

All of these undeliverable users have Maildirs in
their home directories, with cur, new and tmp
subdirectories, all of which are set to 0700 for
permissions. Each also has a .qmail file containing
./Maildir/, set to -rw-r--r-- for permissions.

Any idea why this would not be working? I followed
exactly the instructions people on this list gave me
before.

Also, where can I go to look up info when I get a
numbered error message such as 4.2.1 or 5.7.1
(RCPHosts-related)? I'd really like to not have to
bother this list every time something like that crops
up.

Alex

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Error Message Numbers

2001-01-21 Thread Alex Le Fevre

I've noticed that, whenever an error occurs with
qmail, a specific number is attached in the maillog.
I'd like to be able to just go look those up and leave
you all alone, but I don't know where to do so. Could
you let me know?

Thanks,
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Re: Qmail Under TCPServer

2001-01-20 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Duh! Thanks.

One remaining question: shouldn't those show up in my
process list if I do a ps ax? I ask because I tried
setting up the account in Outlook Express on a Windows
machine, and when it tried to connect, it got a socket
error.

Thanks,
Alex


--- Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Alex Le
> Fevre wrote:
> > The last part of my /etc/rc reads:
> > 
> > # Alternatively, on some architectures, xdm may be
> > started in /etc/ttys.
> > if [ "X${xdm_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
> > echo 'starting xdm...';
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ${xdm_flags}
> > fi
> > 
> > exit 0
>   ^^
> everything behind exit will never be executed. exit
> 0 should be the last
> line in your script.
>   
> > # Starts Apache Web Server
> > /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
> > 
> > # Starts Qmail Under TCPSERVER
> > tcpserver -v -u 1010 -g 1010 0 smtp
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
> > 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> 
> -- 
> Henning Brauer | BS Web Services
> Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg
> http://www.bsws.de | Germany


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Qmail Under TCPServer

2001-01-20 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Thanks all who have answered my questions so far. You
have been very helpful.

I'm running into a much stranger problem now. I'm
trying to set up Qmail under TCPServer, optimally with
POP access. I've installed the TCPServer program and
checkpassword (which tests out great) as per online
instructions. Then I went ahead and added the line
into my /etc/rc that was supposed to bring up Qmail
under TCPServer on boot...and for some reason, it
didn't.

This may be a problem with my system, since for some
reason the line above this in that file, which should
be starting Apache Web Server, has quit working on me
as well (it was fine at one point). Problem is, I'm
still way too much of a UNIX novice to diagnose it.

The last part of my /etc/rc reads:

# Alternatively, on some architectures, xdm may be
started in /etc/ttys.
if [ "X${xdm_flags}" != X"NO" ]; then
echo 'starting xdm...';
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ${xdm_flags}
fi

exit 0

# Starts Apache Web Server
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start

# Starts Qmail Under TCPSERVER
tcpserver -v -u 1010 -g 1010 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &

The stuff at the top is just there so anyone out there
can tell if I've put those lines in the wrong place.
FYI, the system is OpenBSD 2.8, running on an old
Pentium-200.

Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.

Alex Le Fevre

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Good MUAs

2001-01-19 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Thanks to all those who answered my question yesterday
about what MUAs are and Maildir configuration. I was
able to successfully send Internet mail, albeit with
no subject or body.

My question today comes after further reading of the
included documentation. It says that Pine and Elm are
both insecure and unstable, and that BSD mail is
worse. However, it makes no mention of a good MUA.
What would you all recommend, and where could I get
it? I need clients for both my OpenBSD box and
eventual Windows clients (for whom I am considering
building a POP "toaster").

Thanks,
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OpenBSD's MUA

2001-01-18 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Hi! I'm setting up a fresh install of qmail on my new
OpenBSD 2.8 (i386) box. I'd like to use maildir, but
I'm not sure if I can. Specifically, the documentation
said that some system MUAs don't support Maildir;
since I don't even know what an MUA is, I can't tell
if my OS supports it.

For a bit more info, I tried setting it up anyway, and
my test message generated this into syslog:

Jan 18 12:18:42 www qmail: 979838322.185348 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.954941 new msg
437780
Jan 18 12:21:48 www qmail: 979838508.956063 info msg
437780: bytes 214 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp
23559 uid 0
Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.119537 starting
delivery 1: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.121945 status:
local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.343842 delivery
1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
Jan 18 12:21:49 www qmail: 979838509.344644 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.456917 starting
delivery 2: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.459090 status:
local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.774385 delivery
2: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
Jan 18 12:23:30 www qmail: 979838610.775182 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:28:30 www qmail: 979838910.864740 starting
delivery 3: msg 437780 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan 18 12:28:30 www qmail: 979838910.865738 status:
local 1/10 remote 0/20
Jan 18 12:28:31 www qmail: 979838911.170234 delivery
3: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
Jan 18 12:28:31 www qmail: 979838911.171015 status:
local 0/10 remote 0/20

Is the OS' MUA my problem, or is it something else?
/home/alex/.qmail and /home/alex/.qmail-alex both
exist, containing simply ./Maildir/.
/home/alex/Maildir also exists.

Thanks for your help.

Alex Le Fevre

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Aliases

2000-12-19 Thread Alex Le Fevre

Please pardon what is likely a really dumb
question...I'm a true newbie.

In installing qmail, I'm told to set up
~alias/.postmaster, etc., etc. Only problem is, I
don't quite understand the alias concept as it relates
to mail. I understand the idea of an alias for a
directory name...but mail? Is there some standard
directory I'm pointing to with this alias, or some
other standard concept behind it?

Thanks for any help.

Alex Le Fevre



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