Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail : forwarding a catch-all to an external address
Hello Jonas, Jonas Pasche wrote: Hi Jan, I've asked this same question before, but I haven't received an answer/solution yet. The following problem occurs when a catch-all should be forwarded to an external address : The email is only delivered locally to the catch-all account. Where does it actually get delivered, as there isn't a i-am-a-test account in reality? There is no i-am-a-test account. The email gets delivered to the catch-all account (postmaster), which is correct. But when postmaster receives the email, it should be forwarded to the named emailaddresses, and this doesn't happen. See also these headers: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 15637 invoked by uid 0); 13 Mar 2003 15:18:39 - Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (194.159.73.20) by net3-nl-mail-03.ad.vevida.net with SMTP; 13 Mar 2003 15:18:39 - Received: from [212.238.190.175] (helo=vevida.nl) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18tUaI-000Lz3-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:25:30 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:25:30 +0100 From: Jan Reilink [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# ls -la total 352 drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Feb 27 21:53 ./ drwx-- 13630 vpopmail vchkpw 331776 Mar 13 14:02 ../ -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 58 Jul 23 2002 .qmail-default -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 71 Feb 27 21:53 .qmail-postmaster drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Aug 4 2002 kantoor/ drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Dec 4 2001 postmaster/ drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Jul 25 2002 vakantie/ There are two files missing: vpasswd and vpasswd.cdb. Probably this is the reason for a strange behaviour of vdelivermail (which should be use better error-catching, if this is really the case). vpasswd is in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/bin# ls -la vpasswd -rwx--x--x1 vpopmail vchkpw 133677 Feb 6 01:09 vpasswd* There is no vpasswd.cdb file on our server, we use mySQL for authentication. I'd suggest deleting and recreating the three users, or restoring vpasswd[.cdb] from a recent backup. I'll delete -just got approval from the customer- the account (vdeldomain) to recreate it (vadddomain) and see what happens then. Thanks :). -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Jan Reilink
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail : forwarding a catch-all to an external address
Jan Reilink wrote: Jonas Pasche wrote: [...] I'd suggest deleting and recreating the three users, or restoring vpasswd[.cdb] from a recent backup. I'll delete -just got approval from the customer- the account (vdeldomain) to recreate it (vadddomain) and see what happens then. That was a no go... :( I've completely removed the account and recreated everything as it was: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# ls -la total 352 drwx--5 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 14 09:35 ./ drwx-- 13637 vpopmail vchkpw 331776 Mar 14 09:33 ../ -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 58 Mar 14 09:35 .qmail-default -rw---1 vpopmail vchkpw 71 Mar 14 09:35 .qmail-postmaster drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 14 09:35 kantoor/ drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 14 09:33 postmaster/ drwx--3 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 Mar 14 09:34 vakantie/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-default | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it was only dropped in /var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl/postmaster/Maildir/new Headers: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 15703 invoked by uid 0); 14 Mar 2003 08:45:30 - Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (194.159.73.1) by net3-nl-mail-03.ad.vevida.net with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 08:45:30 - Received: from [212.238.190.175] (helo=vevida.nl) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18tkvP-000Gzn-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:52:23 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:52:25 +0100 From: Hostmaster VEVIDA Services BV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: VEVIDA Services BV User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: VEVIDA Test] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Logfile: Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.341288 new msg 2065800 Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.341358 info msg 2065800: bytes 2239 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 15703 uid 0 Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.351306 starting delivery 1134124: msg 2065800 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] nl Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.351404 status: local 1/10 remote 6/20 Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.362926 delivery 1134124: success: did_0+0+1/ Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.363386 status: local 0/10 remote 6/20 Mar 14 09:45:30 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047631530.363465 end msg 2065800 There is no evidence in my logs that something else happend with this email, this is all there is to find about this email. Why is there no line that the email was delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I can see, all the file/directory permissions are correct, linebreaks are present where they're needed (in the dot-qmail files). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/include# cat vpopmail_config.h /* Name of package */ #define PACKAGE vpopmail /* Version number of package */ #define VERSION 5.2.1 Could it be a bug in vpopmail or am I missing something completely? -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Jan Reilink
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail : forwarding a catch-all to an external address
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 09:18, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-default | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably where you're going wrong (unintentionally) - I suspect vdelivermail looks up the catchall address in its list of known users for the current domain, and if it finds one delivers directly to that users maildir. You can easily fix this by making the catchall address an address that doesnt exist in your vpopmail domain such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then set up .qmail-catchall to do what you want. Marcus -- Marcus Williams - http://www.onq2.com Quintic Ltd, 39 Newnham Road, Cambridge, UK
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail : forwarding a catch-all to an external address
Marcus Williams wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 09:18, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-default | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably where you're going wrong (unintentionally) - I suspect vdelivermail looks up the catchall address in its list of known users for the current domain, and if it finds one delivers directly to that users maildir. Yes, I thought about this too :) According to the vdelivermail manpage, you have two options: - A (local) directory to deliver the email to - An emailaddress to deliver the email to But I also thought that, when using an emailaddress, it would be forwarded instead of dropped of locally. You can easily fix this by making the catchall address an address that doesnt exist in your vpopmail domain such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then set up .qmail-catchall to do what you want. Thanks, this worked :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-default | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/groenen.nl# cat .qmail-catchall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Logfile: Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.628239 new msg 2066220 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.628344 info msg 2066220: bytes 1476 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 23828 uid 0 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.634028 starting delivery 1140664: msg 2066220 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.634131 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.652649 new msg 2066252 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.652733 info msg 2066252: bytes 1580 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 23835 uid 89 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.658032 starting delivery 1140665: msg 2066252 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.658055 status: local 2/10 remote 1/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.658073 delivery 1140664: success: did_0+0+1/ Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.658275 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.658293 end msg 2066220 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.666711 new msg 2066220 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.666814 info msg 2066220: bytes 1695 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 23837 uid 89 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.674891 starting delivery 1140666: msg 2066220 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.674940 status: local 2/10 remote 1/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.674957 starting delivery 1140667: msg 2066220 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.674972 status: local 2/10 remote 2/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.674991 delivery 1140665: success: did_0+4+0/qp_23837/ Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675123 status: local 1/10 remote 2/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675142 starting delivery 1140668: msg 2066220 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675160 status: local 2/10 remote 2/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675177 starting delivery 1140669: msg 2066220 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675192 status: local 2/10 remote 3/20 Mar 14 11:12:48 net3-nl-mail-03 qmail: 1047636768.675207 end msg 2066252 *makes documentation* Thanks again :) -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Jan Reilink
