qmail rc script does not work
Hi, I downloaded the qmail start up script from the http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script.txt site and I did accordingly to the steps given by Life with Qmail by Dave Sill. But my qmail does not seem to start automatically. It has problem starting and I used to start qmail manually using the command csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &' command Last time this command used to work fine but even now it starts the PID but the next line immediately I get an error message saying File not found. I need to start the qmail automatically. Also I need more information on how to setup web based email with qmail. Anyone who has done this kindly let me know. Thanks & Regards John
qmail, fetchmail, serialmail et al
I am sorely puzzled. I have installed qmail, fetchmail, serialmail and several other odds and ends on a separate server/firewall machine to handle email for a small office. I have fetchmail set up to download incoming email from our ISP and feed it to qmail which distributes it. This seems to be working correctly, though I have only run small test cases so far. My problem is how to get outgoing mail to work. I now have qmail set up to allow RELAYCLIENT for the local machines and it will now accept outgoing email from those machines and queue it in the remote queue. But how do I get it to go out to my ISP when ppp is up? The only clue I found was in the qmail FAQ which said "How do I set up a separate queue for a SLIP/PPP link?" The answer was use serialmail, which I have downlaoded and installed along with tcpserver and tcpclient. But now what? How do I get serialmail --- if that is what I should be using --- to send email out to my ISP? Or have I wandered down the wrong path? Help! andy p.s. I am not a Unix newbie, though I am several years out of date, but I am a Linux and qmail newbie Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research --- 503-537-0985 If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Re: Closed directory
You can make it 751, and that will suffice. I personally run all 711, and it works peachy. On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Cris Daniluk wrote: > I have 2 separate directories for homedirs - /home/staff and > /home/users. Each have their own group and I'd like /home/staff to be > mode 750 so that users cannot see the directories, but qmail won't > deliver mail to people in the staff directory with these permissions. Is > there any way to make qmail deliver to this directory short of > compromising qmail's security? > > Cris Daniluk > Digital Services Network > >
The qmail problem that wasn't
Hi. I was about to email the list in a panic about a problem that I though was qmail related. I've been subjected to a lack of sleep as of late so my powers of observation seem to be a little below average right now. I couldn't figure out why qmail stopped relaying mail. I check everything. I restarted everything. I searched the archive up and down. I check the Programming Internet Email book desperate for clues. Then I actually took 2 seconds to look at the response I was getting from smtp...and it was sendmail. Shivers start to go down my spine. What the hell was going on here? Turns out someone had restarted the box and before they did modified the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file to start up again. A handy exit 0 had been placed there before... Anyway, killed sendmail (and fixed it's start up script again), started up qmail again and every thing was fixed. I'm alone at the office, it's late, I'm seeing things and I just had to tell someone... Sorry about that... Pat -- Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610
Re: qmail II request
>What you want is: >/var/qmail/control/badmailheaderto >which really doesn't buy you anything. What I would like, and I believe what he's asking for, is /var/qmail/control/badmailto which would list specific addresses in otherwise acceptable domains to which all mail should bounce instantly. They'd match against the "MAIL TO:" command, not anything in the body. I have a fist full of 100% spam-only addresses in my domains that were scraped ages ago, never were valid, and get spammed every day. I currently receive the spam and complain back to the IP sender, but it would be easier to bounce them directly. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
ezmlm problem
I installed ezmlm and after finishing the installation when I tested like ezmlm-make command it gave me an error message file not found. Could anyone let me know what could have gone wrong Thanks & Regards John
Qmail POP3 & SMTP problem
I have setup qmail 1-03 on Red Hat 6.0 and I have done all the additional needs. Now I can receive mails to the mailbox and also send. But now in my client (outlook or netscape) I need to receive the mail. So I add the POP3 server and the SMTP server but I do not receive the mail at my client side. I have put up the start up script for SMTP in the /etc/inetd.conf file but I have a line called POP-3 in the same script. Even after I removed the remark statement it seems that my client is unable to receive the mail. What settings should I setup in the server. I am also using uucspi-tcp and I have installed uucsp-tcp also in my qmail server. But now I need to know why I am unable to receive my mails at the client end pulling it out from the mail server. my client side set up is POP3 - pop3.xxx.com.sg (pop3 is my hostname of the qmail server) SMTP - pop3. xxx.com.sg (SMTP) so could u kindly let me know where I could have gone wrong. Thanks & Regards John Francis
Re: virus scanner
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:47:54AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that > replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without > dicking with qmail's code I think... Hmmm - I've been getting Email about this... When I said "qmail-based virus scanner" - I meant "qmail-based virus scanner wrapper" for some product like NAI's uvscan - available for Linux/Solaris/etc. i.e a qmail wrapper that receives Email, unpacks it and runs SOMEONE ELSE'S SCANNER on it - just like AMAVIS does. Writing a virus scanner is a different kettle of fish altogether... -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Re: virus scanner
How fast is the scan? What's the algorithm? Does it scan attachments only? Does it scan the whole attachment, or part(s) of an attachment? If not a pattern matching algorithm will be implemented, and I doubt, if it would be fast enough given the number of virus signatures. Hmmm.. maybe those prominent ones should only be included so as not to impact performance. On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jason Haar wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Marco Leeflang wrote: > > try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html > > I think we could do a much better job (more in terms of integration into > qmail). > > I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that > replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without > dicking with qmail's code I think... > > I'm _really_ getting to like some of Dan's design decisions... :-) > > [BTW: don't ask me for code yet - I'll have to see if I can convince my > employer to release it under GPL first...] > > -- > Cheers > > Jason Haar > > Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ > Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417 > > >
Re: Command-line mailer
(Dang Eudora... CTRL-E means "send it now"... Anyone know how to disable this "feature" ??? :-/ Sorry, Giancarlo for the noise...) Rumor has it that Giancarlo Bonansea may have mentioned these words: >I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't find yet. What do you people recommend ? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you want to send an automated attachment every X hours or days, right? If you don't want any text in the message (just the attachment), just set up a small perl/shell program with something like this in it: system "uuencode filetosend filetosend | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; (of course, if it's a shell script or directly in the crontab, get rid of the system"..."; stuff. :-) Most everything I know of understands uuencoding... That is, of course, if I understand the question correctly. HTH, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
RE: E-mail that loops
If receiving emails as root is so important to you, do chgrp qmail /root/Mailbox chmod g+w /root/Mailbox Fabrice On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Andrés wrote: > Really paranoid. > > So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in > /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir). > > - Original Message - > From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:57 AM > Subject: RE: E-mail that loops > > > > On 11/5/99 at 1:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrés) had the thought: > > > > > > > > > > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives > mail", > > > why? > > > > > > > I belive that the delivery system is designed such that it can't become > root. When it delivers mail > > to the user, it does so as that user. Programs that can become root are a > security risk. > > > > Pat > > -- > > Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610 > > > > > > > > >
Re: Command-line mailer
sendmail, with MIME::Base64, is a good choice, too. Fabrice On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jason Haar wrote: > Sending an attachment as you do requires something more sophisticated than > mailsubj. I'd use mutt - darn near the best mailer money can't buy!!! > > http://www.mutt.org/ > > > -- > Cheers > > Jason Haar > > Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ > Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417 > > > >
Re: Perplexing Pine Problems
Barry Dwyer writes: > Finally, I can't find the Pine patch suggested by ED earlier: > pine-4.02-maildir-glibc.i386.rpm > > I thought only Microsoft make vaporware :) Any suggestions would be > appreciated. Try my IMAP client -- http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/. No need to patch Pine. -- Sam
Perplexing Pine Problems
OK, now it's Pine time. I need to run Pine with qmail.But: Pine 3.96 won't compile on Caldera 2.2 (col 2.2.5), exiting with a ton of various compiler errors. That means I can't get the patch referenced in the qmail HOWTO (c-client.maildir.module.tar.gz) to work (it is written for 3.96). The qmail-patched rpm (pine-4.04-1.i386.rpm) won't install, grumbling about a missing dependancy (libtermcap.so.2). I've searched unsuccessfully for this libtermcap but, even if I could find it, I suspect (given the age of pine 3.96) that it would be older than the current termcap libs installed with the 2.25 kernel. Finally, I can't find the Pine patch suggested by ED earlier: pine-4.02-maildir-glibc.i386.rpm I thought only Microsoft make vaporware :) Any suggestions would be appreciated. Barry
Re: E-mail that loops
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:11:44PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On 05-Nov-99 Andr?s wrote: > > Really paranoid. > > > > So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in > > /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir). > > You still can if you create a maildir for ~alias. And this is not paranoid, because it is delivered as user "alias" and not "root". Unix is not WindowsXX. You don't have to work as "root" to get work done - even some sysadmin tasks. I almost never login as root - besides from the console for upgrades - and I surely never read mails as root. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Re: E-mail that loops
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:52:02AM +0100, Andrés wrote: > If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root, > so I put &root inside .qmail-root. &root tells qmail to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is handled by ~alias/.qmail-root. So it is obvious that you have a loop. echo '&user_who_acts_as_root' > ~alias/.qmail-root If you have more than one user who acts as root simply do echo '&user1' > ~alias/.qmail-root echo '&user2' >> ~alias/.qmail-root echo '&user3' >> ~alias/.qmail-root echo '&user4' >> ~alias/.qmail-root and mail will be delivered to all of them. > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail", > why? For security reasons. Local delivery is never done with root permission. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Re: qmail II request
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote: > Hi Vince, > > Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from > > these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with > > nonexistant addresses that double bounce... > > This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site, > after all! However... > > Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For > example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", > which is not a valid address. > > One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line: > > # Drop it right now! > > I'm pretty sure that solves your problem right there. If not, replace /var/qmail/badmailfrom matches against the SMTP "MAIL FROM", the envelope sender. Typical spam looks like this: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Make lots of money sdflsdf sdf sd sd f sdfsdf What you want is: /var/qmail/control/badmailheaderto which really doesn't buy you anything.
RE: E-mail that loops
On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > user:*:500:500:/home/users/user/./:::/bin/ftponly > > > wu-ftp has cookies to show the amount of quota used by the user, does > ProFtpd has it too? Dunno that much about it. But I also didn't know that wu-ftpd did that. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: qmail II request
On 02-Jan-99 Justin Bell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 03:24:45PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: ># Hi Vince, ># ># Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># ># > ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from ># > these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with ># > nonexistant addresses that double bounce... ># ># This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site, ># after all! However... ># ># Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For ># example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", ># which is not a valid address. ># ># One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line: ># ># # Drop it right now! ># ># I'm pretty sure that solves your problem right there. If not, replace ># the comment with a command like "exit 99" and qmail should discard the ># mail and be satisfied. > > > the point I see it as is to not accept the mail in the first place, so the > processing power is wasted by the sender, if mail just keeps getting > accepted > and deleted then it will always keep coming in. If it is not accepted to > begin with less resources are wasted by the local machine, and the > address(es) may eventually be removed from the spam lists. > Exactly. I don't want to receive it in the first place. Also on rare occasions there may be a valid username, but I wouldn't want it to get mail (my database being one) via SMTP, but it would get it locally from cron or whatever so I can't dump all mail for it. In response to Roger's comment about the To: header, that's actually part of the data, not the RCPT TO: part of the conversation which is where I want to block it. I use Dan's 822 package to handle good ol' Friend@public Wonder if that stupid toner guy is one you're thinking of right now! Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeTEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listingshttp://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ==
RE: E-mail that loops
user:*:500:500:/home/users/user/./:::/bin/ftponly wu-ftp has cookies to show the amount of quota used by the user, does ProFtpd has it too? - Original Message - From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 2:10 AM Subject: RE: E-mail that loops > > On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > > If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a > > chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory > > Where in the user's directory are you putting the /./ ? > > BTW, I don't know if ProFTPd has its bugs fixed (haven't been following > it) but it will get you past the /./ and the need for a bin dir for ls. > If you want you can even chroot the users to their public_html directory. > > Vince. > -- > == > Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null > # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? > Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com >Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com > == > > >
RE: E-mail that loops
On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > Really paranoid. > > So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in > /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir). You still can if you create a maildir for ~alias. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
RE: E-mail that loops
On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a > chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory Where in the user's directory are you putting the /./ ? BTW, I don't know if ProFTPd has its bugs fixed (haven't been following it) but it will get you past the /./ and the need for a bin dir for ls. If you want you can even chroot the users to their public_html directory. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
RE: E-mail that loops
Now I understand why qmail is so secure :) - Original Message - From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 2:00 AM Subject: RE: E-mail that loops > For security reasons nothing in qmail runs as UID 0. In order to deliver > to root, qmail would have to suid root. It'll take time, but you'll get > used to not working as root. > > Vince.
RE: E-mail that loops
Really paranoid. So root will never receive an e-mail... but I received e-mails in /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox at first (when I wasn't using Maildir). - Original Message - From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:57 AM Subject: RE: E-mail that loops > On 11/5/99 at 1:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrés) had the thought: > > > > > > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail", > > why? > > > > I belive that the delivery system is designed such that it can't become root. When it delivers mail > to the user, it does so as that user. Programs that can become root are a security risk. > > Pat > -- > Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610 > > >
Re: qmail II request
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 03:24:45PM -0500, Len Budney wrote: # Hi Vince, # # Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # > ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from # > these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with # > nonexistant addresses that double bounce... # # This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site, # after all! However... # # Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For # example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", # which is not a valid address. # # One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line: # # # Drop it right now! # # I'm pretty sure that solves your problem right there. If not, replace # the comment with a command like "exit 99" and qmail should discard the # mail and be satisfied. the point I see it as is to not accept the mail in the first place, so the processing power is wasted by the sender, if mail just keeps getting accepted and deleted then it will always keep coming in. If it is not accepted to begin with less resources are wasted by the local machine, and the address(es) may eventually be removed from the spam lists. -- /- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -\ |Justin Bell NIC:JB3084| Time and rules are changing. | |Simon & Schuster A&AT | Attention span is quickening.| |Programmer | Welcome to the Information Age. | \ http://www.superlibrary.com/people/justin/ --/
RE: E-mail that loops
On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > Sorry, I must sound stupid but this really doesn't work. > > If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root, > so I put &root inside .qmail-root. > > But qmail sends it to root, so first checks the config and sees that > .qmail-root oblies it to be send to &root, and so on -> loop > > Is it possible that root, someday, will receive a mail? Because it doesn't > accept &[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( > > I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail", > why? For security reasons nothing in qmail runs as UID 0. In order to deliver to root, qmail would have to suid root. It'll take time, but you'll get used to not working as root. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
RE: E-mail that loops
If a user's home directory contains /./ (that wu-ftpd 2.6.0 accepts as a chroot) qmail won't understand the user's home directory - Original Message - From: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: QMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:36 AM Subject: RE: E-mail that loops > > Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail. > > Been working for me on a number of systems for years. What doesn't work? > > Vince. > -- > == > Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null > # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? > Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com >Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com > == > > >
RE: E-mail that loops
Sorry, I must sound stupid but this really doesn't work. If I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want that mail delivered to root, so I put &root inside .qmail-root. But qmail sends it to root, so first checks the config and sees that .qmail-root oblies it to be send to &root, and so on -> loop Is it possible that root, someday, will receive a mail? Because it doesn't accept &[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-( I've read INSTALL.alias and says "Under qmail, root never receives mail", why? - Original Message - From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:37 AM Subject: Re: E-mail that loops > On 11/5/99 at 1:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrés) had the thought: > > > I've done > > > > >echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > > Hey man, > > qmail will not deliver to root. All mail to root must go to someone else. > > If you want it delivered to /var/qmail/alias/Maildir do this: > echo &alias > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > If you want it delivered to a regular user such as you do this: > echo &amendez > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > > Who ever you put in the .qmail-root file must be a user on the system or else you will have to use a > the whole email address like this: > echo &[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > > Sound okay? > > Pat > -- > Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610 > > >
Re: qmail II request
On or about 03:24 PM 1/2/99 -0500, Len Budney was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:
>Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from
>> these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with
>> nonexistant addresses that double bounce...
>
>This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site,
>after all! However...
>
>Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For
>example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
>which is not a valid address.
>
>One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line:
> # Drop it right now!
[snip]
I didn't see Vince's original message, but I've received spam where in the
headers, it says "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"... maybe he means the To: header.
That would help me for sure.
Otherwise, remember: if you do your alias trick, qmail will accept the
message as delivered, then /dev/null it. With badmailto, I believe the
message would be rejected during the SMTP conversation and not delivered at
all.
Just a dummy's $0.02... ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
=
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
= Merch's Wild Wisdom of the Moment: =
for (1..15) { print "Merry Christmas\n"; }
(from perl.1 man page, version 4.)
RE: E-mail that loops
On 05-Nov-99 Andrés wrote: > I've done > >>echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > > When I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it answers: > > from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > subject: failure notice > data: This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line (#5.4.6) qmail doesn't deliver to root, it delivers to whatever .qmail-root tells it to. You're telling it to deliver to itself which will loop. Get &root out of .qmail-root and put a valid delivery instruction in it - either a different user or a mailbox/maildir. > Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail. Been working for me on a number of systems for years. What doesn't work? Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
E-mail that loops
I've done >echo &root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root When I send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it answers: from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: failure notice data: This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line (#5.4.6) Please, add to the FAQ that /./ of wu-ftpd is incompatible with qmail. - Original Message - From: Patrick Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:05 AM Subject: RE: Finally it works (except for root)- add this to a FAQ or whatever > On 11/5/99 at 12:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrés) had the thought: > > > Nothing, it has 0 bytes. > > > > > > > > PD: sending an e-mail to root doesn't work yet, really strange because > > it thinks > > > > that root's e-mail is in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir. Why? > > > > > > what does /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root say? > > > > qmail doesn't do root delivery. You need to put who you want to get root mail in the .qmail-root > file. Generally it's the regular user who is the admin. But you can put it in ~alias/Maildir if > your put &alias in the .qmail-root file. I would suggest putting your own user name in the file. > > echo &amendez > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root > > Pat > -- > Freestyle Interactive | http://www.freestyleinteractive.com | 415.778.0610 > > >
Re: qmail II request
Hi Vince, Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...badmailto...I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from > these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with > nonexistant addresses that double bounce... This isn't a detailed criticism--I'm not a mail admin of a large site, after all! However... Can't you already do what you want with existing qmail mechanisms? For example, suppose these spammers send mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which is not a valid address. One idea is to create the file ~alias/.qmail-whacko123 with the line: # Drop it right now! I'm pretty sure that solves your problem right there. If not, replace the comment with a command like "exit 99" and qmail should discard the mail and be satisfied. Since you indicate that a very small number of addresses cause this problem, the above suggestion doesn't seem like too much work. What do you think? Len. ~~~ Len Budney | Some people are suffering from the delusion Maya Design Group | that program modularity is incompatible [EMAIL PROTECTED]| with good performance. | -- Prof. Dan Bernstein ~~~
Re: new qmail/cyrus imap package
Chris Ulrich wrote: > If it is possible to reset a user's password in > exchange, and if exchange truly uses the imap protocol, > it should be possible to use fetchmail to suck every user's > email off of the exchange server and into a proper mail > server. The trick is writing the script and resetting > every user's password on the exchange server so you can run > the "suck the mail out of the exchange server" script. > An alternative (assuming that you can use fetchmail) > is to write a web wrapper to fetchmail so that the user > can suck the mail onto the new server themselves. > > It's too bad the cyrus server doesn't support maildir. > I'm not keen on using the u-washington imap server, but > if I want imap + maildir it is the only option. > > I've been told by "on high" that I'm going to have to > support an exchange server for the campus, for both mail > and schedualing. I responded that everything I've heard > about exchange leads me to believe that it will be a disaster, > to which he responded that large companies (ford and several > others I don't remember) use exchange so it must be okay. > How badly does exchange work? Does it work at all? > chris > I've never had to maintain Exchange, I've only seen the tears. Exchange has caused a lot people I know unquantifiable amounts of grief. My advice to you is tip the Exchange server off the of server rack: blame it on the hardrive spinning so hard, trying to process two messages at a time, it caused the machine to fall of the rack. jason.
extracting passwords from NTMail?
I will be converting our NTMail installation to qmail. Does anyone know if there is a way to extract passwords in plain text from NTMail? Thanks, Ted
Finally it works (except for root)- add this to a FAQ or whatever
OK, finally it seems to work. Finally I learned that qmail-pop3d only works with Maildir. I had to change /var/qmail/rc to Maildir. Now I can send and receive e-mails, and which was my main fault? ** WU-FTPD ** My /etc/passwd file had the user's directory hacked to contain a /./ to make wu-ftpd chroot that directory, and qmail didn't like it. Now I don't know if I have to fix qmail to accept that /./ or fix wu-ftpd to use another passwd file :-? PD: sending an e-mail to root doesn't work yet, really strange because it thinks that root's e-mail is in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir. Why?
Re: Command-line mailer
Sending an attachment as you do requires something more sophisticated than mailsubj. I'd use mutt - darn near the best mailer money can't buy!!! http://www.mutt.org/ -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Re: Command-line mailer
Mailsubj man mailsubj - Saludos Giancarlo Bonansea escribió: > > Hi, > > I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a >scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't >find yet. What do you people recommend ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Giancarlo -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Command-line mailer
Hi, I'm using QMail 1.03 and I need to send a .tar.gz file as an attached file on a scheduled basis (crond) using a command-line mailer. I'm looking for one but I didn't find yet. What do you people recommend ? Thanks in advance, Giancarlo
qmail-pop3d and qpopper
Does qmail-pop3d allow the use of ./Mailbox instead of ./Maildir/ ? If it only supports ./Maildir/, is there another POP3 daemon better than qpopper? Thanks.
Re: Queue only and UUCP
> "Kaspar" == Kaspar Landsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kaspar> Hi all, i know how to tell qmail that all outgoing mail should Kaspar> be sent out via UUCP to some UUCP peer. Kaspar> And i know how to tell qmail to run in "queue only" mode, Kaspar> ie. by default queueing all mails in a directory first and let Kaspar> the user send them out in a package manually (with serialmail). Kaspar> Now my question is: Do those 2 methods work together too? And, Kaspar> if not, how do i tell qmail to run in a UUCP queue only mode? Kaspar> (All mails first get queued for UUCP deliverage and then i will Kaspar> tell qmail manually to deliver them to my UUCP uplink). Kaspar> Please CC: me your answers too since i am not yet on the list Kaspar> (i first have to get the whole thing running ;). UUCP will queue the mail in the uucp spool directory until the next invocation of uucico, if you give uux the "-r" option (as in the FAQ). I don't really see any advantage in using serialmail in this situation, as UUCP will queue the mail anyway assuming the correct flags are given to uux. It works well here, although I found that the uucp software objected to the use of the "-f" flag with preline. If you're receiving mail by UUCP you'll probably need the replacement rmail written by Mark Delany (available from the qmail home page).
Re: Web Interface.
eric wrote: > > Not to drag a topic on - but I have a few questions about engineering > a Hotmail type of mail solution: I've looked into sqwebmail by Inter7, > but would like to get more input on the following issues: > > 1. Is anyone using such as system with Vpop users and NOT system accounts? >I can't imagine giving out 100,000 system accounts. Does your solution >implement Ldap to point to various servers? > 2. What types of subscription methods do you implement for automated sign-up? >Just cgi type wrappers around the commands? > 3. How does each user administer their own mailing lists (if they are offered)? >For instance, specific users will be able to setup open list-servs - and >that looks like a bit more work unless we direct them to the qmailadmin >package, correct? > > Thanks in advance for any help on this. 1) We have modified vpopmail to work with mysql and support large numbers of accounts, at least 500,000. We haven't integrated it into sqwebmail, but it's next on the list. 2) There is a vadduser command line that can be called from perl or c program. We have a sample in c. 3) no idea Ken Jones Inter7 PS: the web interface is written by Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inter7 just hosts his software.
RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
Thanks for all your comments. Once I realized that I was running the ipop3d daemon I realized the error in my ways. I never finished converting my system over to qmail when I had set it up this summer. I had intended to come back and switch over to maildirs, but I never did it. I just converted over to the Maildir format and setup qmail-pop3d under supervise to provide access for my users. I'm sure that will eliminate the problem Thanks again! Scott Burkhalter -Original Message- From: James Smallacombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:43 PM To: Scott Burkhalter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Scott Burkhalter wrote: > I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used. > > "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running It wouldn't, unless you were running the pop3d in standalone mode. > the inetd.conf file has the following lines... > > # > # Pop and imap mail services et al > # > pop-2 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d > imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd > > which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop > requests come in. It leads me to believe that you should check out your tcpwappers config. > I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under > supervise instead. > > Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping! Well, if you're running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver, it'll show up if you ps ax | grep tcpserv Or just telnet to port 110. qmail-pop3d looks like this: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qpopper, something like this: Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.53) I'm not sure what you have: Connected to mailserv.entyre.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 mailserv.entyre.com v6.50 server ready quit +OK Sayonara > From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my > >qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet > >Email agent in Outlook. > > > >... > > > >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files. > > Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail > problem. > > -Dave > >
Re: Closed directory
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 10:33:33AM -0500, Cris Daniluk wrote: > I have 2 separate directories for homedirs - /home/staff and > /home/users. Each have their own group and I'd like /home/staff to be > mode 750 so that users cannot see the directories, but qmail won't > deliver mail to people in the staff directory with these permissions. Is > there any way to make qmail deliver to this directory short of > compromising qmail's security? Use mode 751. Greetz, Peter. -- AND I AM GONNA KILL MIKE| Peter van Dijk hardbeat, als je nog nuchter bent: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] @date = localtime(time); | realtime security d00d $date[5] += 2000 if ($date[5] < 37); | $date[5] += 1900 if ($date[5] < 99); |-x- I love Rhona -x-
Web Interface.
Not to drag a topic on - but I have a few questions about engineering a Hotmail type of mail solution: I've looked into sqwebmail by Inter7, but would like to get more input on the following issues: 1. Is anyone using such as system with Vpop users and NOT system accounts? I can't imagine giving out 100,000 system accounts. Does your solution implement Ldap to point to various servers? 2. What types of subscription methods do you implement for automated sign-up? Just cgi type wrappers around the commands? 3. How does each user administer their own mailing lists (if they are offered)? For instance, specific users will be able to setup open list-servs - and that looks like a bit more work unless we direct them to the qmailadmin package, correct? Thanks in advance for any help on this.
Re: virus scanner
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:03:28PM +0100, Marco Leeflang wrote: > try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html I think we could do a much better job (more in terms of integration into qmail). I'm currently playing around with writing a qmail-based virus scanner that replaces qmail-queue - that'll lead to the best performance possible without dicking with qmail's code I think... I'm _really_ getting to like some of Dan's design decisions... :-) [BTW: don't ask me for code yet - I'll have to see if I can convince my employer to release it under GPL first...] -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Re: new qmail/cyrus imap package
Jason van Zyl wrote: > Professionals). I had to do a little song and dance, so I think we'll be > using > qmail next week ... but doesn't anyone know how to mass convert Exchange > format mail to any unix type mail box? That will be a problem I'm sure. Jeep, that would be interesting for me as well. Examining those strange Exchange-Post-Office-files I did not see anything of value in there. It is that MS-style described in the Halloween-documents as well to create proprietary standards useless for the rest of the world. Regards Mirko --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sites.inka.de/sites/picard
Re: virus scanner
try amavis http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html works for me marco leeflang "Benjamin de los Angeles Jr ." wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a program or Qmail add-on which scans incoming/outgoing mails for > viruses? > > _Bench
Concurrency, and your average mail server
Hello List, A default qmail/tcpserver installation can do incoming and outgoing concurrency of about 255 each, no? How does this compare to the default configs of the best (or better) known e-mail servers like sendmail, Post.Office, Postfix, NTmail, Exchange, Netscape's mail server, etc... Anyone?
Queue only and UUCP
Hi all, i know how to tell qmail that all outgoing mail should be sent out via UUCP to some UUCP peer. And i know how to tell qmail to run in "queue only" mode, ie. by default queueing all mails in a directory first and let the user send them out in a package manually (with serialmail). Now my question is: Do those 2 methods work together too? And, if not, how do i tell qmail to run in a UUCP queue only mode? (All mails first get queued for UUCP deliverage and then i will tell qmail manually to deliver them to my UUCP uplink). Please CC: me your answers too since i am not yet on the list (i first have to get the whole thing running ;). TIA, Kasi -- Kaspar Landsberg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Scott Burkhalter wrote: > I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used. > > "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running It wouldn't, unless you were running the pop3d in standalone mode. > the inetd.conf file has the following lines... > > # > # Pop and imap mail services et al > # > pop-2 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d > pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d > imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd > > which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop > requests come in. It leads me to believe that you should check out your tcpwappers config. > I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under > supervise instead. > > Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping! Well, if you're running qmail-pop3d under tcpserver, it'll show up if you ps ax | grep tcpserv Or just telnet to port 110. qmail-pop3d looks like this: Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qpopper, something like this: Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.53) I'm not sure what you have: Connected to mailserv.entyre.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 mailserv.entyre.com v6.50 server ready quit +OK Sayonara > From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my > >qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet > >Email agent in Outlook. > > > >... > > > >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files. > > Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail > problem. > > -Dave > >
RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
By the way - it's happening right now to my mailbox - I keep getting the same messages everytime outlook checks for new mail on the server. If there's any thing I can send along to help troubleshoot just say the word - Scott -Original Message- From: Scott Burkhalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used. "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running the inetd.conf file has the following lines... # # Pop and imap mail services et al # pop-2 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop requests come in. I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under supervise instead. Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping! Scott Burkhalter -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my >qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet >Email agent in Outlook. > >... > >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files. Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail problem. -Dave
RE: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not sure which POP server is being used. "ps ax" doesn't show any pop processes running the inetd.conf file has the following lines... # # Pop and imap mail services et al # pop-2 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop2d pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d imapstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd imapd which leads me to believe that we're using the ipop3d deamon when pop requests come in. I do not run any of the other qmail processes under inetd - they run under supervise instead. Any thoughts ? and thanks for helping! Scott Burkhalter -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my >qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet >Email agent in Outlook. > >... > >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files. Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail problem. -Dave
Re: new qmail/cyrus imap package
"Justin M. Streiner" wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > I just thought I would throw this out to the crowd to see if anyone is > > interested: > > I'm very interested in hearing more about this. We currently run Cyrus on > our primary production mail server and the three biggest points of > slowdown are 1) having to deal with pwcheck (we don't run Kerberos, plus > Solaris' password caching is pretty worthless), 2) dealing with the > delivery database and doing frequent updates to the mailboxes file. It > looks like your patches will take care of 1) pretty nicely. Right now to > support our customers we're seeing an average of 1.5 passwd/shadow lookups > per second, with peaks as high as 10 per second. That's what makes > Solaris' caching pretty useless to me :-) > > I wouldn't mind testing them out on one of our development boxes, however > we've recently made the decision to abandon Cyrus in favor of a Maildir > system with some directory-hashing tricks and eventually replacing the > authentication system so /etc/passwd is no longer the primary method. > That said, we won't be running Cyrus in production for much longer. Also, > have you posted this to the Cyrus list? I know of a few people there who > would be very interested in hearing about this. > > jms The RPMS/SRPMS for the qmail/cyrus package can now be found at: http://www.periapt.com/qmail-cyrus/ There's also a cursory set of INSTALL instructions. What is the list address for the Cyrus group? I didn't see one on the homepage, and I've tried mailing the general address for inquiries and help and no one answered. I haven't posted anything to the Cyrus group. I only made the patch a couple of days ago. The Exchange server crashed at work and somebody asked me to fix it, I replied: not a chance. I told them if they wanted me to take care of the mail they would have to let me use qmail (and drop the NT server from a very high precipice onto a seething mass of Microsoft Certified Professionals). I had to do a little song and dance, so I think we'll be using qmail next week ... but doesn't anyone know how to mass convert Exchange format mail to any unix type mail box? That will be a problem I'm sure. jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two most common elements in the universe: hydrogen, and stupidity.
Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)
Hello, The pine software runs on the server, you just install a packet driver (see www.Crynwr.com) and IP telnet client (find NCSA Telnet) on the DOS machines. No mail software runs on them under this scenario. You run the mail software remotely, via telnet. I don't remember where I got it, but the following rpm, will instantly update your version of pine to maildir. Do a search for it. pine-4_02-maildir-glibc_i386.rpm Tah, eric Barry Dwyer escribió: > > Thanks for the input on this question. I know that Pine needs to be patched to > work with Maildir; how does one do this to the DOS variety of PINE? > BD > > Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Eric Dahnke writes: > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related > > > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a > > ^ > > > maildir'd version of Pine. > > > > Hehe. Good choice. :) > > > > While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a > > scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt. The > > "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted. > > They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS > > messages, from all the way across the room. One was still booting, so > > I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver. > > Cheap thrills ensured. > > > > -- > > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)
>>packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a > maildir'd version of Pine. Previous-post brainlock time: Eric, just to be clear on this, you're telnetting to the qmail host and running PINE from there, right? (As opposed to running a DOS version of PINE on the PC). Barry Russell Nelson wrote: > Eric Dahnke writes: > > > > Hello. > > > > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related > > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a > ^ > > maildir'd version of Pine. > > Hehe. Good choice. :) > > While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a > scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt. The > "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted. > They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS > messages, from all the way across the room. One was still booting, so > I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver. > Cheap thrills ensured. > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)
Thanks for the input on this question. I know that Pine needs to be patched to work with Maildir; how does one do this to the DOS variety of PINE? BD Russell Nelson wrote: > Eric Dahnke writes: > > > > Hello. > > > > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related > > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a > ^ > > maildir'd version of Pine. > > Hehe. Good choice. :) > > While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a > scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt. The > "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted. > They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS > messages, from all the way across the room. One was still booting, so > I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver. > Cheap thrills ensured. > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Virtual domain setup
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:53:42AM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > I am using QMail 1.03 with the mySQL patch and I have following question > about relaying: > > 1) I want that everyone who is sending e-mail thru our SMTP server with the > 'FROM:' set to .foo.bar where is what it says: > anything. What? You MAY find your answer here: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html > 2) I want enable everyone on the internal network send mail freely, eg use > any 'FROM:' they like (so everyone who is accessing the server from example > 192.168.5.x network is allowed to send mail thru out SMTP gateway). take a look at ucspi-rcp: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#ucspi-tcp > 3) Is it possible to make QMail look into the blackhole list over known > spammers? (I know that sendmail let you do this) I'd like to keep the server > as spamfree as possible. take a look at rblsmtpd: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#rblsmtpd /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Closed directory
I have 2 separate directories for homedirs - /home/staff and /home/users. Each have their own group and I'd like /home/staff to be mode 750 so that users cannot see the directories, but qmail won't deliver mail to people in the staff directory with these permissions. Is there any way to make qmail deliver to this directory short of compromising qmail's security? Cris Daniluk Digital Services Network
Re: Switching to Maildir
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Tobias Richter wrote: > I'd like to switch to Maildir delivery here. > So far I have no problem except that I don't like to bother my users > too much. They now all have ~/Mailbox'es lying around and I'd have to > convert the contents into Maildir format transperently. > So I need to opposite of maildir2mbox or is there anything obvious I > could do to achieve this? There are several user-contributed mbox to maildir converters. Check http://qmail.advansys.net/top.html#maildir. Chris
qmail II request
I know we've discussed this in the past and someone came up with a patch to do it, but I'd really like to see a control/badmailto in qmail II. The spammers have gleaned some nonexistant email addresses out of UseNet, they were parts of the message id. I'm getting around 10 or 20 double bounces a day from these two addresses, and in the past we've had other problems with nonexistant addresses that double bounce (or lusers that we've closed their accounts after they pissed off the world). Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeTEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listingshttp://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ==
Switching to Maildir
I'd like to switch to Maildir delivery here. So far I have no problem except that I don't like to bother my users too much. They now all have ~/Mailbox'es lying around and I'd have to convert the contents into Maildir format transperently. So I need to opposite of maildir2mbox or is there anything obvious I could do to achieve this? (using qmail-1.03) tobias
Re: Dear Ol' DOS (and POP3 clients for same)
Eric Dahnke writes: > > Hello. > > I've been down this road, and after trying mainly DOS pmail related > solutions eventually settled on a packet driver, NCSA Telnet, and a ^ > maildir'd version of Pine. Hehe. Good choice. :) While on my way to India two weeks ago to help rediffmail.com with a scalable qmail architecture, I was on a layover in Frankfurt. The "departures" video displays had some trouble and they all rebooted. They run DOS, and I noticed a familiar message among the usual DOS messages, from all the way across the room. One was still booting, so I trotted over, and sure enough, they use a Crynwr packet driver. Cheap thrills ensured. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
RE: QMail an MySQL or similar
Michael Boman writes: > Oh, sorry. The correct URL is > http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail.en.html > Can someone notify the maintainer of www.qmail.org and ask him to include > the page? You can found this link on the mySQL.com homepage. Done. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does this also mean I can use both to go over 100 Thread limit? Sure. Actually, the limit is 125, and you can exceed it by recompiling after changing the conf-spawn file in the build directory. >Thank you so much for your help You're welcome. -Dave
RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
How do I log POP3 connections? I'm using tcpserver. I have logs in /var/log/qmail and /var/log/qmail-smtpd. Inside /var/log/qmail one of the logs has one of the e-mails that I tried to send from another machine using the POP3 in my linux: " [numbres omitted] status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 bounce msg 184495 qp 674 end msg 184495 new msg 184497 info msg 184497: bytes 2475 from <> qp 674 uid 107 starting delivery 3: msg 184497 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 3: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ " U, it says there's no mailbox, but I created it! Maybe it doesn't know that the users' home directory is inside /home/users/*? - Original Message - From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 6:45 PM Subject: RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir > Andrés Méndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >That fix doesn't work :-( > > What do your logs say? > > -Dave >
Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
Does this also mean I can use both to go over 100 Thread limit? Thank you so much for your help Mike - Original Message - From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:35 AM Subject: Re: Mailsubj Priority Question.. > "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Can I make mailsubj use a different mail server? > > Yes, mailsubj calls qmail-inject, so if you have multiple qmail's > installed, the mailsubj for each will inject into its respective > installation. > > -Dave >
Re: Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my >qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet >Email agent in Outlook. > >... > >As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files. Which POP server are you using? This is a POP problem, not a qmail problem. -Dave
RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
Andrés Méndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That fix doesn't work :-( What do your logs say? -Dave
Re: spambait?
>Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found >it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking >about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it >may give this development some ideas. Nope. Brightmail uses live geeks 24/7 who look at digested mail from spamtraps and manually update filters. It's incredibly labor intensive. The closest automated thing is the MAPS RSS which lists open relays that send spam. Many spam traps (including mine) autoforward stuff for testing and listing. To prevent spoofing, people who the manager knows get passwords to put in the submissions that let them bypass his manual scrutiny. It works pretty well, blocks a lot of spam for me. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
Re: qmail-lint 0.54 question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > upon running this today, it gave me the followign error: > Warning: users/assign checking not implemented. > > problem is that I don't know what it means - using the -v flag was no help. It's just a warning that users/assign overrides /etc/passwd email delivery, but that qmail-lint doesn't take it into account. Yet. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: spambait?
Have any of you seen the spam prevention system Brightmail uses. I found it well thought-out, and is quite similar to what you folks are talking about. If what you have not looked at it, I would recommend it, as it may give this development some ideas. www.brightmail.com Adelante!!! - Eric Russell Nelson escribió: > > [ I've been in India for the past twelve days, helping rediff.com get > rid of sendmail. Catching up on old mail. ] > > Edward S. Marshall writes: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > > > Is this of interest to anyone? Is anyone doing it already? It's not > > > a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver > > > would be. > > > > There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from > > maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of > > authentication included in the message to the list? > > It would be membership based. Probably comparing the envelope sender > and site would be sufficiently safe. > > > It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of > > trust. > > The trust could be developed. > > > You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of > > the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the > > recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several > > times. > > Yes, probably. > > > Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information > > more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to > > an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system > > (which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and > > storage/expiration would be centralized. > > Supposedly RSS is already doing that. > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool! -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 12:30:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Being rude is the barrier to effective distribution of qmail binaries? That and the fact that creating a forked rpm and expecting that use of it will be widespread is pissing into the wind. The ratio of installed qmail systems vs. the number of installed rpm systems is possibly more then 1-to-1000. Forking rpm wouldn't begin to allow for effective distribution if vendors didn't ship the modified binary. Before going to the effort of forking rpm, why not go ahead and write the verification program first? -Peter
Virtual host provider using qmail (where to find?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I figured this list would be the right place to ask this question since good ones should be subscribers ;-) Anyway, I'm looking for a virtual hosting company using qmail *and* allowing users to setup their mailing lists (this is for a non-profit and we need them) either with ezmlm or with our own software (mainly to localize help messages to Spanish -- any hook in ezmlm to do that?). Needless to say it should not be expensive ;-) Bye - -- Luca Olivetti | Tarifa Plana ya! http://tarifaplana.home.ml.org/ http://www.luca.ddns.org/ | FAQhttp://www.luca.ddns.org/ptp-faq.html - UNETE A LA ASOCIACION DE INTERNAUTAS: HTTP://WWW.INTERNAUTAS.ORG -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQEVAwUBNo4E9C+cN8LMozC5AQFQUAgArdxtFV/5ub33fofuUc1aWO+0gNRbyYGl FgkOqhO/xUjfrDWx3aRkk9UTkH2Aoq7dXTDSNmefID7HsaeK9Nmx9LHTOkiMPGq9 /7V+s4cmcZ/WZspBPdGXdo4qz3KNRyM/BN9q8o4ezRs/vKjCtOLiHOBIczeF6C7w +vMbjPFTw9zBvouZ1ibKVA/LmeMBGVAFozmBppwCFKts+DY14u5NE7jI5omoFq/d mfUsjAk4MtbFsWZn+ydRGFM7Fj8gBLLFEdcmp9LB/knWtByCY0gIcg24tuqbAFwO yXEByrlmcMxrl16bnXgScR2/co/aEYg5NtEs5DTOdxGEpER2TAtVCg== =Du+n -END PGP SIGNATURE-
qmail-start alert
Hello list,
I am a newbie, and I musst install qmail as releying. Now, I've read all
install files and the howto (www.qmail.org), but if I start qmail, I get
following message:
alert: cannot start: hath the daemon spawn no fire?
I have look with strace, what are the problem, but I haven't any idea.
output of strace:
...
open("control/percenthack", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("control/virtualdomains", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
chdir("queue") = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8048b20, [], 0x400}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8048b40, [], 0x400}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8048b60, [], 0x400}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
umask(077) = 077
open("lock/sendmutex", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 7
flock(7, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) = 0
read(2, "", 1) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Der Kind-Prozeß ist beendet) ---
write(0, "alert: cannot start: hath the da"..., 52alert: cannot start:
hath the daemon spawn no fire?
) = 52
_exit(111) = ?
...
Can everybody help me? Second question is: is there an german
qmail-list?
Thanks for help...
mfg stephan
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RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
That fix doesn't work :-( - Original Message - From: Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés Méndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir > Andrés Méndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 04 Nov 1999: > > echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail > > Shouldn't that be: > > echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail > > > Mikko > -- > // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ > // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / > // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy & scifi, the Corrs / > "Apple" (c) 6024 b.c., Adam & Eve >
Re: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 03:27:23PM +0100, Andrés Méndez wrote: > Could you send me your adduser script please? Any new idea is wellcome :-) > > I created their mail dir logging as them and executing: > /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir > echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail ^ This is what's wrong... if you don't add a slash in the end, it assumes the deliver is to be made to a file (in this case, a file named Maildir). It should be echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail As far as I remember, this is explained in the documentation. Next time, RTFM :-) Regards; Ricardo -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100
Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can I make mailsubj use a different mail server? Yes, mailsubj calls qmail-inject, so if you have multiple qmail's installed, the mailsubj for each will inject into its respective installation. -Dave
Re: spambait?
[ I've been in India for the past twelve days, helping rediff.com get rid of sendmail. Catching up on old mail. ] Edward S. Marshall writes: > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Is this of interest to anyone? Is anyone doing it already? It's not > > a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver > > would be. > > There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from > maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of > authentication included in the message to the list? It would be membership based. Probably comparing the envelope sender and site would be sufficiently safe. > It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of > trust. The trust could be developed. > You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of > the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the > recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several > times. Yes, probably. > Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information > more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to > an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system > (which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and > storage/expiration would be centralized. Supposedly RSS is already doing that. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
RE: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
Could you send me your adduser script please? Any new idea is wellcome :-) I created their mail dir logging as them and executing: /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir > ~/.qmail If I don't do this and send them an e-mail the file Mailbox appears in their home directory with their e-mails, but when they try to receive them using POP, the server don't accept their password and answers: '-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir' I use qmail-pop3d Thanks. - Original Message - From: Cyril Bitterich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrés Méndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:16 PM Subject: Re: Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir > Hi Andr´es, > > > I've setup POP3 using tcpserver. > > > > I can send messages to users (previously I created their Maildir). The problem is that inside their Maildir there are three empty directories. > > > Even if I send a message to a user their Maildir subdirs are empty, strange. So I can't receive their e-mails using POP. > > What does your log-file for the mails say. > Something like wrong permissions? > > How did you create the Maildir. > > Does the user you're trying to send mail to beginn with a capital letter? > > > I don't have them in /var/spool/mail as I thought qmail used another type of mail delivering. I've read of making a link to their Maildir in /var/spool/mail, and my questions are: > > > > - where are the e-mails stored (I have the default installation)? > > ~/Mailbox. if you didn't say qmail to send it to ~/Maildir in /var/qmail/rc > > > - do I have to create the symlinks in /var/spool/mail? > > no. > > > - what haven't I done right? > > Did you read the Life with qmail document? > > > > Another question: is there a way to create a new user ./Maildir when I execute "adduser "? > > shell-script. You can have mine if you need one. It's not the best but it works > with my distribution. > > Ciao, > > Cyril >
Receiving messages via POP and ./Maildir
Hello. I've setup POP3 using tcpserver. I can send messages to users (previously I created their Maildir). The problem is that inside their Maildir there are three empty directories. Even if I send a message to a user their Maildir subdirs are empty, strange. So I can't receive their e-mails using POP. I don't have them in /var/spool/mail as I thought qmail used another type of mail delivering. I've read of making a link to their Maildir in /var/spool/mail, and my questions are: - where are the e-mails stored (I have the default installation)? - do I have to create the symlinks in /var/spool/mail? - what haven't I done right? Another question: is there a way to create a new user ./Maildir when I execute "adduser "?
RE: tcpserver
You're true. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Petr Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:33 PM Subject: Re: tcpserver > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 4 Nov 99, at 13:26, Andrés Méndez wrote: > > > Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for > > example, start a pop server: > > > > tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \ > > > > tcpserver send me to a command line like this: > > > > > > > so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port). > > > > What is worng? > > The backslash at the end of the line says "this command shall > continue on the next line" and shell is waiting for you to type in the > second part of the command. You know, that part with > checkpassword and qmail-pop3d... > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 > Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html > > iQA/AwUBOCGLJVMwP8g7qbw/EQJTJACfSksIKAnQ0WeLoklGcIvg7FLKCdkAn3HU > XoB636L83duqFVYiHqAo8jHb > =IUb0 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- >
Re: Strange fastforward alias problem
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:54:46PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote: > Magnus Bodin wrote: > > > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward? > > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to > > fastforward? > > > > Quick sanity check: > > > > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line: > > > > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb > > > > Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the > ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or > alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be > fastforward or qmail bug? It's neither--things are working as designed and documented. From /var/qmail/doc/PIC.local2ext: qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox | Look at mailbox name, fred-sos. | Is fred-sos listed in qmail-users? No. | Is there a fred-sos account? No. | Is there a fred account? Yes. | Is fred's uid nonzero? Yes. | Is ~fred visible to the qmailp user? Yes. | Is ~fred owned by fred? Yes. | Give control of the message to fred. | Run qmail-local. V qmail-local fred ~fred fred-sos - sos heaven.af.mil [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Mailbox Does ~fred/.qmail-sos exist? Yes: "./Extramail". Write message to ./Extramail in mbox format. So user-whatever will be controlled by user. alias (and thus fastforward) doesn't get a chance to handle it if user doesn't choose to. You'll need to use qmail-users if you'd like fastforward to handle user-whatever when user exists. Chris
Re: Strange fastforward alias problem
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:54:46PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote: > Magnus Bodin wrote: > > > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward? > > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to > > fastforward? > > > > Quick sanity check: > > > > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line: > > > > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb > > > > Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the > ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or > alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be > fastforward or qmail bug? OK. then I misunderstood you. If a local user is named peter, and you send a mail to peter-testalias, then that mail will be sent to 1. ~peter/.qmail-testalias or if that doesn't work: 2. ~peter/.qmail-default SO! Aliases with dashes that starts with a username, then it will superseed an alias. /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Re: Question, and contributions
Well, I finally got around to trying this, and discovered a minor problem. To wit: bash-2.02# cat .qmail-default | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb I.e. - I'm already *using* .qmail-default. For those interested, the workaround is the "-p" option to fastforward, which causes it to pass the message on to the rest of the .qmail-default file for processing. I added the |bouncesaying afterwards, and it works like a charm. Thanx, Date: 31 Dec 98 01:52:06 +0100 > From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Qmail mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Question, and contributions. > > On 31-Dec-98 01:29:07, Mike Meyer wrote something about "Question, and >contributions.". I just couldn't help replying to it, thus: > >Hi Mike. > > > Can I configure the error message sent in reply to bad email? I'd like to > > add the suggestion that people try [EMAIL PROTECTED] if [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > doesn't exist? > > $ cat ~alias/.qmail-default > | echo "Ain't no such mailbox in this neck of the woods. (#5.1.1)"; exit 100 > >Edit .qmail-default to suit your needs. > > Regards, > > /¯¯T¯\ > | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Registered Phase5 developer | WWW: http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c948374/ | > | A4000, 775 kkeys/s (RC5-64) | "ThrustMe" on XPilot and EFnet IRC | > | Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows... Who cares...| > >
Re: Strange fastforward alias problem
Magnus Bodin wrote: > Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward? > I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to > fastforward? > > Quick sanity check: > > Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line: > > | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb > Yes. As I said all _other_ aliases work fine with fastforward, only the ones containing string "user-" or "-user" fail (eg. peter-testalias or alias-mike, where peter and mike are real usernames). Might be fastforward or qmail bug? Piotr Wanat
Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question
johnjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 12:13:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> But doing so is considered quite rude in the free software community, >> for good reason. > That you don't care to go into right now... That other people have said far better than I have. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/> among other places. > Being rude is the barrier to effective distribution of qmail binaries? The barrier to effective distribution of qmail binaries is that the mechanism used to set UIDs is highly arcane and platform-specific, as well as being rather unlike any other package and therefore both confusing and worrisome for people who are considering doing it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Re: Strange fastforward alias problem
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:24:53PM +0100, Piotr Wanat wrote: > Hello! > I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases > (used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining > existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with > reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like: > user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases > work fine for me. > Any clue? Is the mail-address really handled by fastforward? I.e. does unknown addresses expand to the .qmail-file containing the call to fastforward? Quick sanity check: Does ~alias/.qmail-default contain the following line: | fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb ? /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Re: Forward to virtual domain and forward everything to a different domain
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:55:53PM +0100, Thomas Foerster wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> i have 2 questions :
>
> 1.) assume this as 2 virtual domains :
> rehalink.de
> timecraft.de
>
> When Mail arrives for [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail should be stored
> AND forwarded
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both domains are on the same server.
> When i put " &[EMAIL PROTECTED] " into ~rehalink/.qmail-default,
> qmail stops
> with "already has my delivered-to line". This is ok, i know, but how
> can i solve
> my problem ?
Take out the domains from your locals-file, since it seems like you have put
one or two domains both in locals and in virtualdomains.
And if both are local, then the admin user of the "two domains" is actually
the same user and therefore the mail has already been delivered to the final
destination when it tries to do a forward.
> 2.) virtualhost ha-schra.de
>
> when mail arrives for *@ha-schra.de, qmail should send this mail
> "as-it-is" to
> a specified mail-server.
> How is this done ?
What does "as-it-is" mean?
Are you primary or secondaty mail sever for "ha-schra.de"? If you just are
secondary, you just have to put "ha-schra.de" into rcpthosts.
Otherwise the following might help:
(repeating from a former mail)
The forward-all-to-another-domain-alternative
=
This is when you want to forward @nowhere.mil to
@elsewhere.co.za, i.e. when every forward goes to
the same "otherhost".
Put "nowhere.mil:alias-nowhere" into virtualdomains.
Then put this line into ~alias/.qmail-nowhere-default
| forward ${DEFAULT}@elsewhere.co.za
Now will all mail be forwarded to the domain elsewhere.co.za.
Every username will however be intact.
If you want to override this for just some user, then create an own
.qmail-file for just that alias, e.g. .qmail-nowhere-support, and put
your own forward in there.
/magnus
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Re: tcpserver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4 Nov 99, at 13:26, Andrés Méndez wrote: > Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for > example, start a pop server: > > tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \ > > tcpserver send me to a command line like this: > > > > so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port). > > What is worng? The backslash at the end of the line says "this command shall continue on the next line" and shell is waiting for you to type in the second part of the command. You know, that part with checkpassword and qmail-pop3d... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCGLJVMwP8g7qbw/EQJTJACfSksIKAnQ0WeLoklGcIvg7FLKCdkAn3HU XoB636L83duqFVYiHqAo8jHb =IUb0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
tcpserver
Hello. Every time I try to setup tcpserver using the command line to, for example, start a pop server: tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup localhost \ tcpserver send me to a command line like this: > so I suppose that it doesn't work (and don't open the 110 port). What is worng?
Strange fastforward alias problem
Hello! I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases (used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like: user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases work fine for me. Any clue? Piotr Wanat
Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 12:13:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > johnjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're confusing RedHat with djb. RedHat can't do anything to stop > > anyone from forking rpm. > > But doing so is considered quite rude in the free software community, for > good reason. That you don't care to go into right now... Being rude is the barrier to effective distribution of qmail binaries? -- John White [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://www.triceratops.com/john/public-key.pgp
Re: Can't get mail.
Ooops. It's qmail-pop3d Lars Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: > You forgot to mention one thing... which POP3 daemon are you using? And does >it support maildirs? > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Lars Brandi Jensen wrote: > > I have installed qmail, and i can't get my mail from it. Short > > description of my network : > > > > 1. The server is internal behind a router with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. > > 2. I edited the files in /var/qmail/control/ to www.foo.com/foo.com > > respectivly. > > 3. Running tcpserver > > 4. Using Maildir and edited qmail.init according to this. > > 5. The server is not ( yet ) connected to the outside througt the > > router. So it is fully internal on my intranet. > > 6. I connect to qmail let's say from IP 10.yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. As POP3 > > server i use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. > > 7. Starting qmail. > > > > The server behave in this way : > > > > If I send a mail to user1 it is recieved in user1/Maildir/new/. > > > > Let's say i log on as user1, i can't get the mail. > > I tried to add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /var/qmail/control/locals, but without > > > > success. > > > > Can anybody help me out. > > > > Lars Brandi Jensen > > -- > +--- > | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 > | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional > | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100
Re: qmail <-> rpm integration question
johnjohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're confusing RedHat with djb. RedHat can't do anything to stop > anyone from forking rpm. But doing so is considered quite rude in the free software community, for good reason. I certainly don't consider forking to be the big advantage of open source. I consider the ability to make fast fixes for a production-critical problem to be one of the big advantages of open source. Dan's license is just as good as open source for my personal use; where it has difficulties is that it prevents vendors from making the same sorts of hot fixes. (For reasons that I do understand.) I don't want to see qmail become open source because I want to see it fork. I'd like to see it become open source so that portions of its code can be reused in other open source projects (Dan has an interesting variation on C that may be of general utility), so that vendors will be able to deploy hot-fixes until Dan can fix any problems that crop up, and so that the software is guaranteed to have a future beyond the life or interest of any one person. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Forward to virtual domain and forward everything to a different domain
Hi Folks, i have 2 questions : 1.) assume this as 2 virtual domains : rehalink.de timecraft.de When Mail arrives for [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail should be stored AND forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both domains are on the same server. When i put " &[EMAIL PROTECTED] " into ~rehalink/.qmail-default, qmail stops with "already has my delivered-to line". This is ok, i know, but how can i solve my problem ? 2.) virtualhost ha-schra.de when mail arrives for *@ha-schra.de, qmail should send this mail "as-it-is" to a specified mail-server. How is this done ? Thanx a lot, Thomas
Re: Can't get mail.
You forgot to mention one thing... which POP3 daemon are you using? And does it support maildirs? On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:21:20AM +0100, Lars Brandi Jensen wrote: > I have installed qmail, and i can't get my mail from it. Short > description of my network : > > 1. The server is internal behind a router with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. > 2. I edited the files in /var/qmail/control/ to www.foo.com/foo.com > respectivly. > 3. Running tcpserver > 4. Using Maildir and edited qmail.init according to this. > 5. The server is not ( yet ) connected to the outside througt the > router. So it is fully internal on my intranet. > 6. I connect to qmail let's say from IP 10.yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. As POP3 > server i use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. > 7. Starting qmail. > > The server behave in this way : > > If I send a mail to user1 it is recieved in user1/Maildir/new/. > > Let's say i log on as user1, i can't get the mail. > I tried to add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /var/qmail/control/locals, but without > > success. > > Can anybody help me out. > > Lars Brandi Jensen -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100
new qmail/cyrus imap package
Hello, I just thought I would throw this out to the crowd to see if anyone is interested: I've just finished making a little qmail/cyrus package. qmail feeds the mail to cyrus via the users/assign mechanism as per usual, the only thing I've really done is to patch the cyrus imap server so that it authenticates out of a cdb (the same hash format that users/assign uses) instead of kerberos or /etc/passwd. And I have a perl script that allow you to enter users into the system and it takes care of updating the users/assign file, and the cdb file that cyrus is using to authenticate from. I like the cyrus imap server, but I'm not personally thrilled with having to update /etc/passwd (and I haven't read up on Kerberos so I don't know if it suited my needs) to add new users to the system. It's a little hard to automate safely, at least I found it so. I wrote a little expect script to do it, but it ended up being more trouble than it was worth. I haven't done any extensive testing but the cdb method seems to be working well for me. And I know for certain that a cdb is probably going to work a lot better when I have all the masses trying to login at the same time. What I'm trying to do is make a simple mail server that has no users on it. Something that can be maintained with a web page. Right now I can maintain it with a perl script, but it would be easy to move a web form, or a simple text-based maintenance program. I'm also trying to jam SSL into the cyrus imap server, not successful yet but I'm going to try stunnel which allows you to wrap socket daemon thingy in SSL. Anyway, if anyone is interested I've got two RPMS, plus the SRPMS. qmail and cyrus go in their normal locations, I've just added a few files here and there. The SRPMS have proper build roots too, so you can rebuild the SRPMS on your systems without it them interfering with anything you've already got installed. Just drop me a line if you'd like the RPMS, if not I'll just go about my business. jason. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Tolstoy
virus scanner
Hello, Is there a program or Qmail add-on which scans incoming/outgoing mails for viruses? _Bench
Strange alias problem
Hello! I recently encountered problem with creating aliases in /etc/aliases (used with fastforward package) . When I create alias conatining existing user username and "-" it returns mail sent to this alias with reply: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name". The alias looks like: user-test or test-user, and yes - I did newaliases and all other aliases work fine for me. Any clue? Piotr Wanat
qmail Digest 4 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 810
qmail Digest 4 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 810 Topics (messages 32414 through 32443): Re: Procmail. 32414 by: Ricardo Cerqueira 32418 by: Sam Re: Who do I mail to remove myself from this list? 32415 by: Ricardo Cerqueira Re: QMail aliases with vchkpw (vpopmail) 32416 by: Ricardo Cerqueira 32424 by: Ken Jones Re: supervise/svscan/and qmail logging 32417 by: Stefan Paletta Summary: Procmail 32419 by: eric 32420 by: Mikko Hänninen vchkpw .qmail-default 32421 by: Tyler J. Frederick 32425 by: Ken Jones Re: indent options for djb's code style 32422 by: Charles Cazabon vmailmgrd & Courier-IMAP ? 32423 by: Olivier M. How to setup mail for new user? 32426 by: Conall O'Brien 32427 by: Magnus Bodin Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for? 32428 by: Dave Sill 32440 by: Andy Bradford Re: General file location questions. 32429 by: Dave Sill Re: Mailsubj Priority Question.. 32430 by: Dave Sill 32433 by: Mike Re: how do I accept mail for a given domain? 32431 by: Dave Sill Re: Flush out the mqueue 32432 by: Dave Sill No mailbox error...sometimes on large distributions 32434 by: Hammond, James T.S. Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages 32435 by: Scott Burkhalter Virtual domain setup 32436 by: Michael Boman new daemontools timestamp does not work with qmailanalog 32437 by: Dwayne Jacques Fontenot 32438 by: Troy Morrison vpopmail: support for mysql and large sites 32439 by: Ken Jones Can't get mail. 32441 by: Lars Brandi Jensen Rewriting adress 32442 by: Manuel de Ferran 32443 by: Petr Novotny Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:30:09PM -0600, eric wrote: > Is there anyway to filter thru procmail and then write to a users > Maildir ? The "patched" procmail from qmail.org site (and even the RPM) > doesn't seem to do anything but deliver to /var/spool/mail/$USER. > Hmmm... I use a plain and simple procmail, no patches at all. Try using this in your .procmailrc... DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/. It works for me! Regards; Ricardo Cerqueira -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100 On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:30:09PM -0600, eric wrote: > > Is there anyway to filter thru procmail and then write to a users > > Maildir ? The "patched" procmail from qmail.org site (and even the RPM) > > doesn't seem to do anything but deliver to /var/spool/mail/$USER. > > > Hmmm... I use a plain and simple procmail, no patches at all. > Try using this in your .procmailrc... > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/. > > It works for me! ... Until procmail decides to reuse the same filename, after the first message is picked up from new, but not removed from the maildir. At which point, one of the two messages will be lost. -- Sam On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Miki Shapiro wrote: > > Who do I mail to remove myself from this list? mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] And then, go take a look at http://www.ezmlm.org :-) Ricardo -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100 On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:01:21AM +0100, Antonio Navarro Navarro wrote: > Hello ! > > How can I add mail aliases to a domain that has been installed using QMail and >Vpopmail ? I can add and delete domains and users, but I don't know how to manage >aliases... > Try doing it by hand. Suppose you want to alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] as [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /path/to/vpopmail/domain.org echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .qmail-copycat This should do it. Regards; Ricardo -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100 Create the aliases as .qmail
