Would you mind also posting the contents of your file, /var/qmail/rc?
Thanks,
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Eldar Imangulov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: URGENT!!! HELP!!! HP-UX fault
>
>
> Hello ppl!
>
> I ha
ny messages being produced?
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Eldar Imangulov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:40 AM
> To: Dave Kitabjian; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: URGENT!!! HELP!!! HP-UX fault
>
>
> here it is:
>
> #!/sbin/sh
Well, we found it very helpful, although, yes, there were some pretty
confusing points. We never used any vpopwhatever stuff; just his HOWTO,
and it's working fine.
I could probably help you with some hurdles, but you'll have to be more
specific about what confuses you or what problem you're havi
I recently started monitoring qmail-smtpd's activity via "tcpserver -v",
and at the moment it's burning through a steady 15-20 concurrencies,
scrolling by beyond readability.
Meanwhile, as I "tail -f maillog" for qmail-send's activity, it sits
predominantly idle, with an occasional message to pro
Yea, I think I've gotten some of these, too.
In fact, sometimes I get a bounce message a MONTH or more after I posted
something to this list!
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sub
Hey, Vern!
Do my eyes deceive me or are you really finally printing and selling one
of the qmail tshirts?
http://www.cafepress.com/qmail0a/
I like both; any chance you'll have
http://vern.com/tshirts/qmail/qmail1d.html
for sale, too?
Dave
p.s. Newbies: check out http://vern.
> -Original Message-
> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail auto reply looping
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >1> user A has enable auto reply and put some text
> >2> user B has also enable
Hey folks,
We have access to the envelope sender in $SENDER, but qmail munges the
envelope recipient via virtualdomains, resulting in $RECIPIENT which is
not a valid email address.
We all know that you can calculate the envelope recipient by taking
$RECIPIENT and removing $HOST from the beginnin
Actually, my question may not require the expertise of a famous Belgian
detective, so one of you guys might be able to help...
Server: MX and POP qmail server
Problem: Inbound mail taking unusually long to arrive
When I examined the system, it appeared to be neither cpu, memory, nor i/o
bound. A
> > So after an hour or so of analysis, I noticed that the
> queue was finally
> > beginning to slowly but steadly drop on its own, and when
> it dropped to
> > ~1900, some of my own delayed messages arrived, and I
> assumed the problem
> > was on its way out, so I left it to heal on its own.
>
>
ROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Requesting the services of Hercule Poirrot
>
>
> > Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > However, when I ran qmail-qstat, it showed ~3300 messages
> in the queue
>
> >However, when I ran qmail-qstat, it showed ~3300 messages in
> the queue
> >(normally this is closer to 400). In the past, this has indicated an
> >onslaught on spam. But if resources are available, and smtp
> and local have
> >concurrency available, I don't understand why ANY incoming
> messag
g to retry repeatedly...
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Dave Kitabjian
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:43 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: so much qmail-smtpd activity, so little qmail-send
> activity...
>
>
> I recently started monitoring qmail-sm
> Do you recommend
> injecting from a remote
> >qmail machine? That would allow me to track the individual message's
> >delivery from the remote qmail's maillog, since it may never
> make it to the
> >local server...
>
> Hmm, I didn't think there was any question that messages were being
> queued
I missed the beginning of this thread, so pardon this if it's moot.
But I couldn't help noticing that someone wants to use
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as POP authentication ids.
I tried to do this and ran into a serious problem: Netscape Mail chokes on
the "@". It assumes you mistakenly entered your
some length in
research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly
"replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?)
Thanks in advance!
Dave
-
#!/bin/sh
#
# holiday.sh
#
# Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99
# [EMAIL P
is helpful or can be improved.
Dave
p.s. I created this script today to purge out a bunch of spam from the same
domain; so, it searches the "From:" line. This might have to change for
other spammers.
#!/bin/sh
#
# purge_spam.sh
#
# Dave Kitabjian
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# As a parame
I had the same problem once.
Assuming you have access to an FTP Proxy server, enable it in your web
browser. Otherwise, you may never get to Dan's qmail page,
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail.html.
HTH.
Dave
On Saturday, June 26, 1999 11:16 PM, Denis Voitneko [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
w
I'm not sure I understand the "raison d'etre" of the new list. That is, how is the new
list substantially different from this one?
Dave
On Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:01 AM, Alex Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I pump all my qmail list mail files to a special folder and am adept at
>
Here's something I keep handy for such occasions:
#!/bin/sh
#
# bulk_forward.sh, Dave Kitabjian, 6/3/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Forwards an entire directory of email to somewhere else using Qmail.
#
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 "
exit 1
fi
error=0
for messag
This is probably very simple, but indulge me.
man for qmail-smtpd says:
rcpthosts may include wildcards:
heaven.af.mil
.heaven.af.mil
So is the "." the wildcard? My current understanding is:
heaven.af.mil - will allow all email to @heaven.af.m
What are the industry-standard names for the following email services:
-
1) They can have:
@
and a separate POP for each. (.qmail-)
I ask this question with great trepidation. Either I'm the only one brave
enough to ask, or I'm the only one stupid enough to have to ask, but...
What does the "q" in "qmail" mean?
Dave
p.s. Since I'm going to get flamed for stupidity, let me ask another
question:
If LWQ insists that the o
What are the industry-standard names for the following email services:
--
1) They can have:
@
and a separate POP for each. (.qmail-)
--
2) They can ha
Ah, the truth comes out...
Now does anyone know how to insert carriage returns under FreeBSD 3.0?
Dave
On Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:37 AM, Chris Garrigues
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > From: "Leon Vismer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:18:59 +0200
> >
> > If you h
Sorry, I forgot that it was builtin.
bourne shell is preferred, /bin/sh. But if I could even do it in csh, that would be
better than nothing!
Dave
On Thursday, August 05, 1999 12:26 PM, Brad Shelton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Dave Kitabj
Greetings folks,
Ever since I implemented the "fixcr" addition to "smtpd", I've noticed that
over time my qmail servers accumulate a large number (several dozen) pairs
of processes: "fixcr" and "sh -c fixcr | /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd".
--
ps -alxw
Please pardon my ignorance just for a moment, and permit a question that
may have a very simple answer...
What is "virtual" about a "virtualdomain"?
We host many domains on a single qmail POP server, and they are all very
real. Their MX records all point to that server and for all intents and
Yes, Netscape is a problem, even in the new versions. You would think you
could turn off the "smart @" interpretation, but I don't think you can.
Netscape always assumes you were mistaken when you included the "@", and
strips off the rest.
We decided to use pop ids such as:
joe-domai
Hey Folks,
When you get some free time, take a look at:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
I originally prepared these "Q-Cards" for our intranet to help our internal
(and future) staff debug, diagnose, and maintain our qmail-based email
servers when I'm out of town.
Then it occu
O'Reilly doesn't even list it under their Upcoming Books :(
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html
A better question might be, "By the time the qmail book comes out, will it
contain anything that we haven't already figured out the hard way?"
Don't forget to check Life With Qmail:
http://We
We have been using the term "mail forwarding" with our customers in the
same way that the USPS uses it: when your mail arrives at your mailbox, it
is "redirected" to a remote location (via a "&" entry in .qmail).
However, we have been told by a somewhat educated customer that this
process is
Interesting. Check "man tcpserver". Note that:
The server's address is given by host and port. host can
be 0, allowing connections from any host; or a particular
IP address, allowing connections only to that address; or
a host name, allowing connections to the f
For some reason, all mail to "drh.net" has been expiring and returning to
me for weeks. So I'm posting this here hoping that either Dave Harris is
still subscribed or one of you folks might be able to help me with
smtp-poplock. Here goes!
We have a need for smtp-poplock right now, and we're a
It's probably simply a problem with the shell's special treatment of &.
I don't know how qmailadmin works, but we have a shell script for adding
user accounts. In such cases, we have to call the command similar to:
# create_user.sh f\&b
That is, we quote the & character, and everythin
We use a variation on the same HOWTO. All you do is:
1) rcpthosts:
theirdomain.com
2) virtualdomains:
theirdomain.com:theirdomain-com
3) assign:
+theirdomain-com:popuser:888:888:/u1/...theirdomain-com/default:-::
Then, in the directory /u1/...theirdomain-com/default:
4) create Maildir
5)
Try Q-Cards:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
It will walk you through step by step. Let me know how it works out for you.
Dave
On Tuesday, February 01, 2000 3:44 AM, jandj [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hello
>We are setting up an small ISP and would like to use qm
Let's face it. We're not just fans of qmail, we're fans of djb. I think we need some
t-shirts printed. Let's see:
"I'm with djb"
or maybe
"Qmail is Qool"
or
"cr.yp.to"
Hmm. Maybe,
"UTC for me"
Or how about
Front: "Don't queue mail with sendmail"
*** newsyslog ***
Maybe I'm lucky, or something. We use FreeBSD almost exclusively, and it
includes a fantatic tool called "newsyslog". I would think some of you
would have it too, since it's been around since 1987 and came out of MIT.
Anyway, newsyslog automatically maintains N generations of
Unfortunately, *I* don't know the answer to your question, but I would go
to:
http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html
and ask the "ezmlm" list. I'm sure they can give you an answer.
Dave
On Sunday, February 20, 2000 2:11 AM, Brandon Wolf
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> This hopefully will be th
VM is a web-based email client:
http://www.mintersoft.com/products/visualmail/index.html
It works fine when using sendmail as the SMTP server. And, of course, qmail
works fine apart from VM.
But when using qmail as the smtp server for VM, AND subsequently reading
the mail in VM, there
We've seen this as well.
My understanding was that AOL was having internal mail problems, and that's
why those AOL customers weren't receiving the message. AOL was reluctant to
admit fault, but that's what it turned out to be.
If this turns out to be something else, I'd like to know what you d
On Tuesday, March 14, 2000 4:46 PM, Paul Farber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Having one heck of a time with Outlook Express 4/5 timeing out when
> sending mail.
>
> Are there any timers to adjust in the app or on the server side (qmail
> 1.03) to get rid of these MS 'feature
Hi, folks.
It's time for me to understand this stuff clearly once and for all,
partly so that I can handle spam intelligently and properly.
I'm unclear on the exact relationships between the following:
---
1) MUA: "From", "To", "Bcc", "Reply Address" fields
2) SMTP: "MAIL FROM:
te,
eh?
3) So the only thing I can trust (ignoring spoofing) is the IP address
shown in the Received: header from which my server got the message.
Thanks guys,
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:45 AM
To: Dave Kitabjia
I've researched $TCPREMOTEINFO and "ident lookups". And, for everyone
else's benefit, I included the useful snippets below.
--> My question is, what impact is there on qmail of not having
$TCPREMOTEINFO available?
We are switching to all Cisco Pix firewalls which, unlike our previous
firewalls,
Thanks for the reply.
>> The man pages say qmail-smtpd required $TCPREMOTEINFO, but it doesn't
>Really? Where? I didn't see that and the code in qmail-smtpd.c suggests
>that it's optional.
Hmm. Well, the qmail-smtpd man page says:
"... qmail-smtpd must be supplied
several en
Thanks for the info.
>Why don't you try it - it's very easy to do.
I know it's easy to do. Actually, we've had the -R flag on tcpserver for
a couple of months now. And I haven't *observed* any negative side
effects. But qmail is a complex system, so there could be side effects
going on that I wo
Well, we use it for some internal servers that that I've written myself.
I wrote my servers in C, and have them reading/writing to stdin/stdout.
On the other end I have VB applications talking to them through the Send
and Get methods of the Winsock control. They pass messages back and
forth using
What about removing the "exec" completely?
I don't see why exec is necessary, and I don't know if your script
variables will be passed into the new process created by the exec.
Dave
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:49 AM
To:
Regarding: http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt
Dave S,
I'm having trouble accepting this logic. You mention 3 options:
"Say you're an MTA, and one of your users sends a message to three
people on hostx.example.com. There are several ways you could do this.
1. You could op
Thank you all for your feedback.
> I don't see where my login needs reconciling.
Yes, I realized after I sent the email that your logic was not flawed.
(Your login is probably okay, too ;)
Thanks again.
Dave (K)
We frequently get two Delivered-To headers when one qmail mailbox
forwards to another qmail mailbox.
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: PPPindia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Two Delivered-To headers - Why ?
>
>
> Se
Try Q-Cards:
http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/
Q-Cards offers and end-to-end, flow-of-logic approach to Sending,
Receiving, and Retrieving email via qmail. It helps you to check each
roadblock along the way to confirm that it's working.
hth
Dave
:)
> -Original Message-
1) Are any of you out there running miniQmail / QMQP?
2) What's the final word on which is recommended: multiple inbound SMTP
servers, or a series of QMQP servers? (The goal is high volume / high
availability).
For the latter, here are the two configs I'm considering:
Internet
|
| s
Dear 8823544,
You will probably have more luck with qmail-ldap-specific issues on the
qmail-ldap mailing list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao,
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: 8823544 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject
I looks like you're running into a resource limit, such as not enough
disk space, not enough RAM, or no more room in the process table to fork
a new process.
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Luis Bezerra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTE
When LOVELETTER hit, Johan was kind enough to post an example of the
actual, MIME-still-encoded, text of the virus:
http://www.almqvist.net/~johan/virus.txt
I've seen the helpful page about Stages.worm at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_STAG
Since nobody else seems able to do it, maybe you should write a book on
qmail?
Dave
;)
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Documentation Specialist Seeking Contract Work
>
Howdy, all.
Our outbound mail server spends the vast majority of its resources
(attempting to) bounce mail (usually from spam :( ). The result is that
sometimes, when load is very heavy, normal outbound deliveries sit in the
queue and wait a while. So...
I'd like to set up a dedicated machine to
> > What's wrong with 'virtualdomains'?
>
> Create a virtualdomain (say, example.com:example), and create a -owner
> file (say, ~example/.qmail-foo-owner). Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The envelope sender gets set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Russ, where do you get "owner"? Wouldn't the envelope s
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