RE: Mail marked as read??
isn't that what the "cur" directory is used for? > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Lynde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mail marked as read?? > > > At 11:33 AM 9/7/2000, Jerry Lynde wrote: > >Hello all, > > > > I have a quick feature question. Our old mail server (an NT > > based, web administered thinger) had the capability to mark > mail as read > > if it had been accessed via POP, but not deleted. Does > anyone know if > > qmail can do this? If so, where in TFM can I find docs to R? :o) > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jerry Lynde > >System Administrator > >Due Diligence Inc. > >http://www.diligence.com > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Phone: (406) 728-0001 x232 > >Fax: (406) 728-0006 > > > > Anybody know the answer to my question? > > I scoured Google, Life with qmail, the FAQTS, the qmail FAQ, > etc... am I > out of luck? or is there a way? I don't need a cookbook, just > a pointer :o)
bouncing old mail
We have lots of old mail sitting in users' mailboxes and rather than just purge it after a certain time, it has been requested that I bounce it back to the sender. I know how to get individual mail from maildirs to qmail-inject, but how can I get them to go back to the sender as a bounce? Thanks for any guidance. mike.
effectiveness of DUL
Occasionally someone will ask how well the DUL or RBL works and some people throw out: DUL caught 105 items RBL caught 33 items Just how do you determine how many it caught? Do these denies get logged to tcpserver's log?? (when tcpserver is of course run w/ -v option) Thanks, mike. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: yahoo down?
I've noticed it the last few days, also. At times they are 75% of the stuff in our queues! -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Ben Beuchler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 6:50 PM > To: qmail list > Subject: yahoo down? > > > Is it just my imagination or am I seeing a larger than normal > number of > yahoo.com messages building up in my remote queue? > > I've tried a few telnet sessions to port 25 on mx7.mail.yahoo.com and > sometimes it gets through and sometimes it doesn't... > > Annoyed, > Ben > _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: Queue Time
why not just run 2 instances of qmail. one w/ a queuelifetime of a few days or a week and one with a lifetime of a few hours. if it has to go out and can't it'll end up bouncing out of the queue quickly. it'll be queued often in that short amount of time as desired. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: qmail and IP addresses.....
> > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Sean C Truman wrote: > > > > > replace the > > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > > with something like this > > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd could I then change this to the following? /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.111 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd for one instance of qmail and /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v 199.111.111.112 smtp /var/qmail2/bin/qmail-smtpd for a second instance on the same server running w/ 2 IPs? (assuming i have a load balancer sending mail to both IPs) currently i'm using the load balancer to redirect port 25 traffic to another port for the second instance. that causes some logistics headaches that it appears the above might fix if doable. Thanks for any insight. mike. NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___
dul checkout before implementation
I'm thinking of adding DUL and/or RBL on our inbound mail servers. Before I emplement I've been asked by higherups to monitor how much email is being held up as spam on a lighter use server. Is there a simple way to do this? Or should I just put in a quick hack to qmail-smtpd.c to log whenever the RBLSMTPD variable is set from tcpserver indicating it has found mail from a suspect IP. Thanks, mike. _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: Relaying stopped. How to remove SPAMMER status?
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron L. Meehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Fascinating. qmail is relay-proof by default, so you almost have to > purposefully mess up, unless doing something really dumb like > allowing percent hack or something, to allow it to relay. Then, > having messed up and knew it, you let it be a "rampant spam relay" for > a month? I hope I'm not reading that correctly--perhaps it > was rampant > for a month and you just happened to not notice and only did *today*. or perhaps he didn't understand the relay control stuff w/ tcpserver and didn't have rcpthosts in place or some such. there have been plenty of people who have innocently not understood that process and removed the file. i would not call it a purposeful breaking of qmail. and if you don't know that the percent hack stuff removal is "dumb", you may do it not knowing any better. inexperienced is not dumb. knowing something was broken and not doing anything about it until blacklisted is a different story altogether. -- Michael Boyiazis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc. _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: impossible to do?
This works perfectly. Thanks again for your help. Time to re-read the qmail tutorial manual. :) mike. > -Original Message- > From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]> > > M.B. writes: > > I wrote the list last week about a script I found in the archives > > which will bounce email if a certain subject is found. I would > > like instead to deliver this mail to an alternative email address > > at the same domain. Is this a doable thing? I don't mind if > > it also delivers to the original mailbox, I just need to > get another > > copy someplace else. > > |condredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep "fuck" > ./Maildir/ ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
impossible to do?
I wrote the list last week about a script I found in the archives which will bounce email if a certain subject is found. I would like instead to deliver this mail to an alternative email address at the same domain. Is this a doable thing? I don't mind if it also delivers to the original mailbox, I just need to get another copy someplace else. Thanks, mike. _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
filter by subject and deliver elsewhere
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/06/msg00284.html The above link sends one to a script that filters based on subject. It bounces the mail. I, however, wish to instead forward this email to an alternative Maildir. How might I do that? mike. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
freeBSD4.0/NFS/EMC
This was so well written by one of our network engineers and covers all the questions I need answers for that I just lifted it and am forwarding to the list for comment/help. I'll just add one additonal error that we see. These pop in and out when lots of mail is coming in (usually in alphabetical order, so in this case, the "b" partition is getting lots of hits on it in a short amount of time) Jul 26 12:23:31 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: is alive again Jul 26 12:23:54 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: not responding Jul 26 12:23:54 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: is alive again Jul 26 12:24:07 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: not responding Jul 26 12:24:08 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: not responding Jul 26 12:24:08 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: is alive again Jul 26 12:24:08 nc4 /kernel: nfs server dm7_1.wlv:/b: is alive again following is the text of Keith's questions... I am wondering if anyone is running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE in an NFS-heavy environment and is noticing performance issues with NFS, or has any tips on how to tune NFS in the kernel. There are currently 6 identical servers that we are running FreeBSD on, though they were installed at different times so some servers are running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, one FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE, and one FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. The machine that is running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE is noticably slower then the other boxes, and thus handles a lesser amount of email, even though they all have the same hardware configuration: Dual PIII 600Mhz, 512mb ram, 9.1gb IBM LVD SCSI system disk, two Intel 100BaseT NICs (it's a server motherboard, so one of them is integrated). I have 5 more servers that are setup with FreeBSD 4.0 that I want to put into place, but need to figure out what could be going on to cause this decrease in performance. These boxes are all running qmail. The machines are NFS mounting the mail spool directories off of an EMC Celerra on a dedicated NIC. The other interface is connected to the outside world where the servers are load balanced behind an Alteon Ace. Sometimes just a 'df' will take 10-15 seconds to run unless given the -n switch so it does not try to get new state information. It's not the backend Celerra since the FreeBSD 3.2 and 3.3 boxes are running fine, and we have a number of Sun servers attached to the Celerra as well, with no problems to report. A message that pops up in the messages file every once and awhile is: Jul 21 14:17:03 host /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xdcc3d840 bp 0xcd03f6a0 Jul 21 14:17:03 host /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xdcc3d840 bp 0xcd03f6a0 Jul 21 14:17:05 host /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xdcc3d840 bp 0xcd040600 Jul 21 14:17:05 host /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xdcc3d840 bp 0xcd040600 Jul 21 14:17:07 host /kernel: got bad cookie vp 0xdcc3d840 bp 0xcd040890 But, I am not sure what this error message means. I included it because it *might* have something to do with the problem, and wanted to include everything I had hoping that someone might have seen this problem before. My kernel configuration is pretty basic. I enable SMP, disable I386,486,586 support in the kernel, turn maxusers up to 256, disable USB support, and recompile the kernel. Nothing fancy on any of the boxes. It is what someone had configured one of ther boxes, and I just kept it the same across the board. qmail is accepting the mail and writing it to the queue, but it never gets a chance to delivery the email to the NFS-mounted mail spool directories. For instance, we received couple thousand email messages for usernames that started with 'b', and these messages piled up on the FreeBSD 4.0 servers, but were delivered immediatly on all of the other machines. Access to the other partitions mounted off of the same datamover (part of the Celerra, basically an NFS server) was fine. Does anyone have any tips or ideas they can pass on to me? I am lost on what it could be. Thanks, -- Keith McCallion [EMAIL PROTECTED] _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: How to requeue messages?
#!/bin/sh cd usermaildir/Maildir; ls new > filelist; exec < filelist while read line do echo $line; /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] < new/$line; done; mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The new location is on another (non-qmail) server. Basically > this user is > wanting her currently delivered email to be send to the other email > address (the one I put in her .qmail). I'm not sure if it's called > requeuing or what but basically I want qmail to re-process > the delivered > mail according to the new .qmail file. Albert Hopkins > Sr. Systems Specialist >Dynacare Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: more forced queueing
I had a similar question a while back to which Russell was kind enough to suggest a fix: to queue all *inbound mail* just modify qmail-getpw to _exit(111). What I did to it was check if an indicator file is present in /var/qmail/control and exit(111) and the email message goes to the queue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetZero Mail/Sys/Network Admin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 8:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: more forced queueing > > Ok, I have been digging and digging, but to no avail as of > yet. How can I force qmail to arbitrarily queue /all/ > outgoing mail and deliver nothing until I "flip the switch" > back, so to speak. Also, on the original subject, is there > perhaps a way to make qmail retry sending messages rejected > by the next server in line several times a la deferred mail? > > Thanks > > Mike Culbertson > _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
tcpserver and dns
from the tcpserver man pages... -llocalname Do not look up the local host name; use localname for TCPLOCALHOST. Does this mean that it queries our DNS server for the local host's name during inbound mail delivery? If so, an-l`hostname`would probably be quicker and lighten load on the DNS server, right? Mike. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
qmail book coming?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D962246891/sr%3D1-2/0 02-4056617-0867210 anyone notice the above? mike. ___ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: Qmail and ColdFusion Problem (off topic?)
> -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. NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___
RE: no more splogger
> M.B. wrote: >exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ > qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/multilog t s100 > /var/log/qmail > >qmail > > > >unfortunately the above does no logging for me... > > Get rid of the trailing qmail. It was an argument to > splogger to tell it > what program name to use. Bingo. THANKS! what i now have is: exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ multilog t s500 /export/home/qmaillogs (since /var's permissions didn't look inviting) now how might i pipe this thru tai64nlocal to get some readable (by me) time stamps in there? mike. NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___
RE: no more splogger
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/multilog t s100 /var/log/qmail qmail unfortunately the above does no logging for me... nor if i put some quotes in... exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ '/usr/local/bin/multilog t s100 /var/log/qmail' qmail permissions: dev10# ls -ld /var/log/qmail drwxr-xr-x 2 qmaill nofiles 512 Jul 5 16:40 /var/log/qmail and sliding the setuidgid qmaill before multilog didn't do any logging either. :( > To the original poster: Yes, that will work as you want it > to, assuming that > you have created a /var/log/qmail directory with the > appropriate permissions > (it should be owned, or at least readable, writable, and > searchable, by > qmaill). > _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
no more splogger
I want to move away from splogger w/o making the full jump (yet) to supervise and other daemontools... here is my qmail rc file: mail1.wlv# more /var/qmail/rc #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. ulimit -n 1024 exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail should i be able to replace splogger w/ a multilog entry? say like: 'multilog t s100 /var/log/qmail' instead of the splogger above? would this then write files into /var/log/qmail? thanks, mike. _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
