> is there any way by which i can safely copy the "var/qmail/queue "
> ( queued/deffered Mails) from one mechine running qmail-1.03 , on to
> other mechine's queue /var/qmail/queue
Let the second machine accept relaying for mails from the first.
Set :[ip-addr of second machine] in /
>is there any way by which i can send mails to all these 20
> users in one stroke
Look for the qmail-popbull program at www.qmail.org.
Regards, Frank
> is it possble to specify ip's with/without wilcards
> rather than FQDNs and domain names in
> ~control/badmailfrom files ,
Not with plain qmail. Blocking IP addresses can be done with tcpserver
from the ucspi-tcp package.
> seperate it by "," or by space or new entry goes on new
> Has anybody this problem?? How It can be fixed??
I don't think the quota mechanism is a solution for this.
I would recommend to establish a policy that
a) allows any user to receive any big mail
b) ensures that the POP-storage doesn't fill up over time
All users must have accepted this policy
Waiting for implementation in qmail, I set up my DNS for MXPS.
Now my question - does anybody (Dan?) already use this for QMTP?
I have not seen any connections to qmail-qmtpd yet but this may be because
of DNS caching.
Regards, Frank
> as qmail-return-28866-somethi=lobodirect.com or something.
Should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Just my guess. It wouldn't be the first time that qmail/ezmlm did
> something that I couldn't figure out! :-/
Have a look for VERP at Dans site.
Regards, Frank
> there where several people asking how one could do this, here ist one possible
> solution. I use the script found on http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/
> and a software called AntiVir (http://www.antivir.de).
I always refused to do virus scanning at the MTA because of reducing
perfomanc
> Do you have any suggestion or solution?
I wouldn't do it. It would help your users but confuse more people around
the world that cannot understand your localized bounce messages. Bounces
typically go to outside users.
In any case your users still get bounce messages from mailers all over the
> In a pathological case, qmail can use a lot more network bandwidth
> because of the duplication of messages going to the same system. In
> practice this is rarely a serious problem. Taking into account the
> *decreased* DNS traffic, it's even more rarely a problem.
It depends heavily on the
Just for your info:
after several weeks of problems with delivery to one of the large german
online services (T-Online) they reacted and created the next problem.
They now also (like AOL) exceed the 512Byte margin in DNS replies and
generate the well known "CNAME lookup failed temporarily".
R
> Seems to be fixed now. And it also seems to be fixed at AOL.
Yes, you are right. Surprising ...
Regards, Frank
> Yes, and it did the right thing in this case -- to send email to all
> likely receipients of the email, since they got a virus that might
> cause them a problem.
Imagine that every receiver of the list had installed such a system. Boom!
The warning should only go to the envelope sender and env
> Any ideas???
Encourage your users to hate Outlook ...
Regards, Frank
> so I don't want to make it public until it is.
Bullshit. When you expect to get mail there through a mx record your
server IS public known.
Simple question: is your SMTP server running? YOu can test it by
telnetting to port 25 on your machine. Does your successful test
connection show up in
Glenn R. Crownover wrote:
> Just as an aside, the phrase "everyone else is using it" could also be
> considered a downside when taking security into consideration. The more
> something is used, the more hackers know about it.
When do people stop to make such statements? I would like to repeat my
> SuSE.com and -- I'm presuming SuSE.de -- also use qmail, as well as ezmlm
> for their mailing lists.
Not officially :)
SuSE stuff told me that they not agree with the mail administrator who set
this up. They force postfix.
I tried to get predefined qmail user ids into the distribution and th
> messages in queue: 418
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
>
> How exactly would I interpret this data and what do I do about it?
Normally no need to worry. There are 418 messages that could not be
delivered until now. There are several reasons possible: not enough
bandwith or no
> When sending the mail through MDAEMON I get the following error message.
> What is this? and how to solve this ? Is it a problem with
> qmail or with MDaemon
Read the message again and you will see that
a) it is no error message, it's a WARNING MESSAGE ONLY
b) the message comes from MDaemon,
> > >> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
I overlooked this line.
This means that the SMTP dialogue was already done and the timeout occured
during transmission of the message.
May be the receiver at 194.244.4.132 has a problem and doesn't report it
to the sender.
Regards, Fra
> can anybody tell me where qmail store log files after few day's ?
> i can't find them in /var/log/qmail exept for past 2 day's.
Your cyclog seems to keep only 10 files. Either increase the generated
file size or the number of files for rotation or both.
Regards, Frank
> here's my control/virtualdomains file;
>
> #cat virtualdomains
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm. "An empty prepend means that domain is not a virtual domain" say the
qmail-send manpage.
What do you try with this setup? If you ony want to forward the mail
delete
> the original mail, but it should be a "normal" mail. I need the header with
> an information of the user to which the mail should be send originally.
You can use the -default extension vor any .qmail file. See 'man
dot-qmail' for more info.
Regards, Frank
> I have tcpserver of course. What's wrong here? Thanks.
Do you have a rcpthosts file? Is ORBS possibly testing from a
10.x.x.x address?
Regards, Frank
> Is ORBS possibly testing from a
> 10.x.x.x address?
:) was missing :)
> quick (if somewhat dopey) question. Is there currently available a book
> on Qmail?
There is work on one but the book is out of schedule.
The best is to look at www.qmail.org. Look there for "Life with qmail".
There are also other useful resources.
Regards, Frank
> The only entries listed in the /etc/tcp.smtp file are the loopback address
> and the boxe's IP address.
What is the exact content of /etc/tcp.smtp?
It should be something like that
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
Regards, Frank
> I did try telnet localhost 25
> Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 ok
> Rcpt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
>
> So it looks like it is not necessarily a Lyris problem but a configuration
What does the log say about tcpserver activi
> I am unsure of how to direct tcpserver's output so that is gets logged to
> syslog. Currently I just get qmail's messages sent to /var/log./maillog.
> What is the syntax to start qmail and have both qmail's and tcpservers
> STDOUT go to the syslog facility?
My old configuration:
tcpserver -g 1
> with each domain. Is it possible to place each domains ,qmail files into a
> seperate directory? I am sure that I have seen this done in the past
Why don't you use a default delivery for every virtual domain handled by a
program delivery?
Regards, Frank
> I'm trying to develop a solution which allow me to "check" emails before
> they get to my mailbox. Basically, I need a way of searching the Subject
> line and Message Body to check for a particular word(s);
That's what the .qmail files are for. Have a look at the man pages
dot-qmail(5) and q
> Can anyone please advice what to do?
Sometimes I look for an alternative host in this domain or the parent
domain that accepts the mails - then I establish an entry in smtproutes.
Some annoying newsletters that don't accept bounces or are not reachable I
block via badmailfrom (if the bounces
> wondering if anyone is using this to monitor other services besides qmail
tcpserver in front of cvs
clockspeed
dnscache, tinydns, axfrdns
...
Regards, Frank
> Basically I suppose it's a risk of having a domain which is likely to
> have other domains with similar names, it's also a risk which is
> likely to increase as the net becomes bigger.
Whole life is a risk.
> Is there a way to ask qmail to send warning messages (to the user or
> to the postmas
> computer uses a dialup connection onto the internet... When this computer
> connects it should get all the mail for its "domain" and deliver it
> acordingly... Also all bounces should be handled here, because the first
> host (the one on the internet) has no idea what users are defined...
Simpl
> I have an application, which is communicating directly via SMTP with
> qmail. As I am sending to huge lists (up to 28000 recipients) I would
> like to use VERP.
Set up an ezmlm(-idx) list on the qmail host. Send to the list address via
SMTP. That's it.
Regards, Frank
> I am trying to set up qmail-frontend to our mailsystem, such way that
> some of mailboxes are on this qmail machine, and it SHOULD route all
> unknown mail to another server
Use .qmail-default for user alias or a virtual domain with exceptions
through users/assign.
Regards, Frank
> Any good autoresponder anyone can suggest
There is a rate limited autoresponder made by Eric Huss. It's at
http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/autorespond.tar.gz
Please be careful: this autoresponder was written to be used for automated
accounts where no processing aufter the autoresponder is
> Does suse ship with qmail?
No. They told me that they never will. And they even refuse to reserve
UIDs for qmail.
Regards, Frank
> This aliases are all the type: .qmail-prova-prova, .qmail-emanuele-bianchi
> and so on.
> In my /etc/passwd file there are the account "prova" and "emanuele".
These accounts always take precedence over aliases.
Use ~prova/.qmail-prova and ~emanuele/.qmail-bianchi instead of your
current alia
> person who has sent a "This mail is being queued" message if there is a
> problem. The "queuelifetime" is how long it will sit on a letter, before
There is a program called qmail_bounce that works perfectly for this
purpose. Look at www.qmail.org for
"Brian T. Wightman has written a delayed-m
> Following FAQ 5.4 steps for relay rules, I was was unsuccessful, but
> tcpd is not where the faq says it will be, so could that be the problem?
Forget tcpd and use ucspi-tcp (tcpserver) instead. It's in the FAQ how to
do it.
Regards, Frank
> fine, but in some cases, it allows relaying (with setting RELAYCLIENT=""
> !!!) for ip-adresses which should be blocked.
Which addresses?
Frank
> How can I get qmail to use QMTP between two boxes that there is a lot of
> traffic between? I tried putting the respective IP adresses in
> /var/qmail/control/qmqpservers, but that didn't do it.
qmqpservers is for QMQP, not for QMTP.
At the moment QMTP is supported by qmail-qmtpd and a progra
First give the two servers different locals.
> On our mail server we have a virtual domain under a user.
If you use a virtual domain anyway you can put the 4 user addresses
into virtualdomains too. I didn't test if this takes precedence over the
domain, but you may try it.
Else there is still
> After some testing, it appears that adding the ':deny' string it
> will deny EVERYTHING comming into port 25 even othe MTA's. I removed
> :deny and it now allows ALL IP's to relay from my server. Any other
Try :allow
Frank
> Or is there any way to use an SSL wrapper and still know which IP can
> realy?
I think it's possible with tcpserver/stunnel. But I never tried it.
Regards, Frank
Hi Daniel,
first: the Internet is not the WWW although many people see them as the
same. They are not.
> I have installed qmail and everything seems OK except for sending mail out
> to the WWW. If I remove/rename the rcpthosts file I can then send mail out
> to any domain, but I presume this i
> but it seems that you'd never want the 451 in this case
> because obviously it will be the same mailer that will
> retry each time and it will continue to be broken for each
> try...
If you don't like this behaviour block him at the firewall or via
tcpserver. At least for a while.
If you wan
> when I send message at 11:00 , but when I receive the letter, it
> tell me the time is 2:00.
What does the header contain? May be your MUA plays tricks with the date
header to display local time.
> I trace the source program, the time which the qmail-inject get is
> not right also.
> How t
> Outlook have cheking box which is checked i receive message about deviver
> my mail to the remote or local SMTP server.
This turns on Receipt-To: I think. There is no guaranteed way to get a
delivery notification.
If it absolutely needed ask your mail partner to send a short answer. This
es
> >MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
> >MAIL=$HOME/mbox
> >MAILTMP=$HOME/.mailtemp
> >maildir2mbox
> Error. MAILTMP not set (or something like that)
Did you ever hear about the difference between environment variables and
shell variables?
You need to do
export MAILDIR
export MAIL
export MAILTMP
R
> I created a virtual domain for "dex.co.za" on the qmail box.
Don't do that. dex.co.za has to go only into /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts.
> Is it possible that I can forward the email received for
> "dex.co.za" locally over the LAN??
Yes, you may use the MX from DNS or better (for DNS outages
> How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop
> mailboxes.?
Use the rmail program included in the BSMTP package on www.qmail.org
> 2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We
> have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up connec
Now for me: "What do the logs say? (tm)"
> tcpserver: fatal: unable to bind: address already used
>
> This came from /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd
That means that a second process is listening on port 25. Either you have
still another MTA (sendmail, exim, smail, ...) running or you bound inetd
to this port.
To disable inetd comment o
> But sorry i can't help you... I need return receipt too
Why didn't you try the way I described?
If it is too complicated, pay someone to do it.
Regards, Frank
> What kind of entry are missing?
Forgot "make"?
Anyway: here is the qmail list - tinydns questions should go to the djbdns
mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards, Frank
> we have lately gotten tons of mails from external senders with weird To:
> so i now want to *stop* qmail from automatically expanding
> "To: whatever" into "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
This has nothing to do with the To: header. Somehow you get the mail
through SMTP (external senders?) - Then only
Sounds more like an internal Outlook-problem.
> thought maybe qmail-smtpd was not running when I sent them mailnot sure
Possibly your concurrency setting for tcpserver (SMTP) is too low. Check
the logs and correct the -c switch of tcpserver.
Regards, Frank
> How do I look to see what the tcpservers max connection limit
If the -c switch is not used it's tcpservers standard setting of 40.
See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html
Frank
> thing for the user called "newuser"
> How can i solve this problem and split different users with different
> virtualdomain??
Is virtualdomain still in "locals"?
> Well, if i try to delete the virtualdomain from "locals" file,leaving it only in
> the "virtualdomains" file, i obtain:
>
> :
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
Of course you have to provide a .qmail file that catches your address.
In the case of this address it would be ~newuser
> Anyone done this?
Daily.
> Can qmail handle this?
Easily :)
> If so, how-to would be greatly
> appreciated!
Read the dot-qmail man page.
Short recipe:
Put this into ~user1/.qmail :
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
./Maildir/
This will send a copy to the given address and save the message in
user1's Ma
> What I need to know is how to enable smtp with svscan so that it is
> enabled after every reboot please
Install the daemontools package (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) and
read the FAQ entry "How do I run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver?"
Regards, Frank
> Then tell us exactly what hardware you have, what kind of I/O subsystem and
> disk /var/qmail/queue is on, what disk you're logging to, how you're logging
> (splogger, multilog, etc).
I suspect that information about the type of internet access is required
too. Maybe the line is saturated.
How
> @domain1.name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> means that mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may catch this with a script or if this delivers locally you don't
need to do anything at all.
Regards, Frank
> If somebody has already such a script and want to send it to me, please
> do so.
For example if you want to catch all lightwerk.de accounts you can do the
following:
1. Put into virtualdomains (be sure to remove lightwerk.de from locals):
lightwerk.de:lightwerk.de
2. Create ~alias/.qmail-lig
> Never do that. It can create irritating loops.
Oops, that's right.
> | forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Agrre - much better :)
Regards, Frank
Because of having been offline for six weeks in December/January I
totally missed the QMTP/MXPS discussions. After some reading in the
archive I installed Johan Almqvists patch to enable QMTP through MXPS
(I had running qmtpd for a long while).
I just checked the logs and found that not a sing
> Is it possible to redirect postmaster@ email to /dev/null ?? is it wise
> ??
Yes, no.
> ok - Yes - how
Put a the following line into /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster:
#
Nothing else, only the hash sign.
> and NO - why not ??
Because every domain that receives mail hast to have a "postmaster"
account/alias where someone may be contacted.
To cite RFC822:
This stan
> My local user like root can't reseive mail I have this errors
Root never receives mail on qmail systems. You have to define an alias for
root that delivers to an unpriviledged account.
The error means either that no maildir exists at the users home directory
or that it's permissions prevent
This behaviour is intentional.
> A user need to send a domn XLS file to 10 other people in the other factory unit,
One solution is to create an expansion alias at the other end of the line
and address to that alias. Another one is to use serialmail with some sort
of duplicates recognition (Rus
> Where can I get help about qmail with qmtp?
Describe your problem, then someone may be able to help you.
If you want to run qmail-qmtpd - that's not different from qmail-smtpd. If
you want to use one of the qmtp-patches to qmail-remote you have to get
them first. Look at www.qmail.org for Ru
> I need urgently to block IP Address in qmail, anybody knows what is the
> manner of make it ?
"man tcpserver" if you are running qmail-smtpd under tcpserver.
-x is the switch that helps you.
Your operating system may also be able to block packets from defined IP
addresses.
Regards, Frank
> But.. I don't understand how qmail work with control/mailroutes.. I can't get
> help for this implementation..
This is documented in the updated man page for qmail-remote.
> but I am under a firewall. I received a mail from this server. My server 1
> send a mails to qmtp service. But, when I s
> Yeah.. the port 209 is firewalled .. but.. the server1 and server2 are locals
> machines ..
How do you route between them?
If you used smtproutes before you have to use mailroutes now.
server1.example.com:[192.168.1.1]:209:qmtp
and
server2.example.com:[192.168.1.2]:209:qmtp
at the other machi
> U.. I'd like the Qmail send to QMTP if the remote host have this service ..
> but if the remote host don't have running de QMTP service .. my sever send to
> SMTP service .. :) Is this way the qmail work?
No, this is only the fallback of the qmtp-patch. The actual patch
implementation che
> my linux RH6.2 box its real IP is 100.100.100.100 and it has 3 more vitual ips
> added:
> 100.100.100.101
virtualdomains has nothing to do with virtual interfaces. It is a concept
to prepend a given destination address with a free choosen string. This
string is used for further delivery thro
> drwx--S---2 root root 1024 Feb 15 14:37 qmail
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail
chmod 700 /var/log/qmail
This should do it.
> what if i want to relay to all but only from my host ie none other than my
> domain users can actually relay through me
What do you mean by "domain users"? Computers at your LAN?
This situation is covered in the FAQ.
Have a look at
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#authorized-relay
Regar
> But, How to make user quota in virtual domain, because I try to use
> vsetuserquota in Vpopmail and cannot blok the user space.
Please ask such questions at the vpopmail mailinglist.
Regards, Frank
> on my last posting, nobody has a answer for me.
I told you an applicable and working solution. Don't say that you got no
answer from this list. Maybe nobody will have the wish to help you in the
future then.
Frank
> I created a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root containing ' john ' but qmail still
> attempts to deliver messages to root.
Put
&john
into the file (without the spaces).
Frank
> - Our server handles mail for office.domain.com (this value is in 'me')
> - This works OK, but messages to root (cron et al) get delivered to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] which isn't under our control (domain.com is our webserver)
> so I don't get to see them. This is why I want to forward them.
Hm. Th
> Please pove the output of qmail-showctl.
Oh I'm a silly-billy. I guess I need some sleep :)
I meant "give" or "post".
Frank
> how can i configure a qmail to work with a uucp
> server?
Look at www.qmail.org. There is a bsmtp/rmail implementation made
by Olaf Titz.
Regards, Frank
> "number" used as a parameter for this script. how should i set up my
> .qmail-file ? i have no idea with this one?? thanks for help
Read the man page for qmail-command (type "man qmail-command" - just to be
sure ...).
Regards, Frank
> ops.. ok i've found now the thing with the "LOCAL"-paramter.
If you want to build a "one for all" script this is not sufficient.
You need to catch the addresses with a .qmail-something-default
file and then you must use the DEFAULT environment variable.
> still a problem, i don't need only th
> If something has been discussed before on the list why can't
> we discuss it again?
Because it wastes peoples time. Look at the archives if you are
interested.
Frank
> serialsmtp: fatal: SMTP cannot transfer messages with partial final lines
Partial final lines are ones which are not ended with a line separator.
Try to include a final empty line in your footer.
regards, Frank
> Problem is, that i am using sendmail on my server where is more then =
> 1500 active users
For the sending side simply use the instructions of the INSTALL* documents
in the Qmail tarball.
Because the instructions are rather old now you should be aware that there
are some better setup options:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to configure that all mail
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whill be with line [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the
> Delivered to line not with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Not that I like this behaviour: the vpopmail package does that.
But it's better to leave it untouched. Like Chris wrote
> rpm's) So, What would be the right number to increase this to, for a qmail
> server which would handle around 30,000 mails per day.
Watch your logs and your memory use to see what number is appropriate for
your system.
If your tcpserver/smtpds use too much memory the number is too high. Set
> > I'm looking for information about BSMTP (hosting mail domain and
> > deliver mail to dialup server).
> >
> > Where can I find information (example/configuration) ?
>
> serialmail by Bernstein might do the trick...
For compressed batches over UUCP the BSMTP package by Olaf Titz would be
bet
> is important put only (in my case egarden.cz domain) allow domain
> to the /etc/qmail/rcpthosta. So I putted the only egarden.cz domain
> to the rcpthosta, then restart qmail but open relay is still functional.
This file is called rcpthosts, not rcpthosta.
Normally it resides under /var/qmail/
> firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will
> lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK.
You are using NAT - if you only want to send email from your internal
network to the world and get your mails by "polling" it somehow you get no
problem (except that your net
> dear,
>
> i aready have qmail and ezmlm for maillist,
> i make [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maillist ,
> why if i send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , qmail not found this mailbox ,
> it's work only i do with manually with ezmlm-sub
> what wrong with my qmail setting or ezmlm-idx ?
>
1.) What was your c
> - It says 'this is the qmail-send program'. It is not. 'qmail-send' is
> not a fixed string in the QSBMF, so why not change it?
True - when I first wrote it I took the text from Qmails bounces.
Feel free to change it :)
Regards, Frank
Am 3 Apr 2001, um 11:14 hat Martin Edlman geschrieben:
> it reads stdin and passes it to the syslog. Who redirects the output
> from the daemon (e.g. pop3, smtp, ...) to the appropriate splogger?
You have to do it yourself. Qmail itself creates a pipe to it's
logging program.
The simplest way t
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