Re: General mail/dial-up question
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Wade wrote: Duh... That's what I started out thinking, and I let someone convince me that 25 was bi-directional and handled both on a LAN. Excuse me while I go Snipe hunting. :) -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The users connect thru the dial-up server (which is completely transparent to them) to port 25 on the qmail server to _send_ mail. They get their incoming mail thru POP3 (port 110 on the qmail server). So do the connections actually go through ports 25 and 110 on the dial-up server to connect to ports 25 and 110 on the mail server? I assume the dial-up server sees a request to send/receive mail using a certain server and then makes the appropriate connections. But since it's transparent to the requesting program, does it still have to use the same ports? For some reason I've always had trouble understanding the "port" concept. Almost as bad a trying to figure out which direction electricity flows in! :) The dialup-server is just a dumb machine that looks at the destination IP in the packets your SMTP connection is made of. It forwards these packets to the correct IP. _that_ IP then starts looking at the port to see what to do with it. Ofcourse, if you configure your dial-up machine to allow people only access to port 25 on the mailserver, the dial-up machine will _look_ at the port [and throw the packet away if it's not 25 or 110], but it will not actually _do_ anything with the port. That's still just passed on straight to the mailserver. Greetz, Peter -- | 'He broke my heart,| Peter van Dijk | I broke his neck' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nognikz - As the sun |Hardbeat@ircnet - #cistron/#linux.nl | | Hardbeat@undernet - #groningen/#kinkfm/#vdh |
qmail Digest 16 May 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 642
qmail Digest 16 May 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 642 Topics (messages 25633 through 25637): Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir 25633 by: "New Hope Hostmaster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25635 by: "Dan Poynor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problems with SMTPD 25634 by: "Durham, Kenneth J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editing Date: in header 25636 by: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25637 by: "Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] -- I've finally got the checkpasswd authorization to work, but not it's not finding the $Home/Maildir. I have put a Maildir in all the placing I think it may look, using the qmail-makedir whatever command, but still no luck. So, how do I change/find out the value of $HOME, so I can change it, or make the necessary directories? Thanks, Peter Janett You might need to check the permissions of each Maildir. If a Maildir is in the UserA's home but is owned by UserB then checkpasswd can't find the UserA Maildir. Hope that helps. Cheers, DAN -Original Message- From: New Hope Hostmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 1999 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir I've finally got the checkpasswd authorization to work, but not it's not finding the $Home/Maildir. I have put a Maildir in all the placing I think it may look, using the qmail-makedir whatever command, but still no luck. So, how do I change/find out the value of $HOME, so I can change it, or make the necessary directories? Thanks, Peter Janett Im having problems getting my smtpd to work properly. Im using qmail and tcpserver and daemon tools. i start my server doing supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp/cdb -u71 -g1001 rblsmtpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog -s 500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd i dont get any errors but when i look into my logs this is what i get 926775865.192345 supervise: fatal: unable to acquire lock: temporary failure I can send out mail just fine but getting it in is nother story it gets sent back to me saying the service was unavalible. can someone help me out some. ken I did a little script some time ago to edit the Date: field of incoming messages so the time of arrival according to the server is displayed (instead of the client's clock). I put it to work on some mailing lists I manage, and it works beautifully. The new Date: fiels looks like this: Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:56:31 -0300 (server time) My question is: does that "(server time)" string I append after the time zone break some standard? Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express and Internet Mail don't mind. Cya, Juan From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:27:05 -0300 I did a little script some time ago to edit the Date: field of incoming messages so the time of arrival according to the server is displayed (instead of the client's clock). I put it to work on some mailing lists I manage, and it works beautifully. The new Date: fiels looks like this: Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:56:31 -0300 (server time) My question is: does that "(server time)" string I append after the time zone break some standard? Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express and Internet Mail don't mind. Anything in parentheses is considered a comment. You're in fine shape. any program that has a problem with that is buggy. Chris -- Chris Garrigues virCIO +1 512 432 4046 4314 Avenue CO- http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ Austin, TX 78751-3709 +1 512 374 0500 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination. For an explanation of what we're doing, see http://www.DeepEddy.Com/tms.html Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but they could get fired for relying on Microsoft. PGP signature
Re: Q: Is it possible to bind 2 diffrent qmail instances on 2 diffrent network interfaces
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:35:08AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote: Connected to 199.246.67.190 but my name was rejected./Remote host said: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'web1.cheetahmail.com' rejected from www.cheetahmail.com remote address [206.132.30.31]: Host name does not match remote address. That server is violating RFC 1123, section 5.2.5. You can easily work around the problem by putting www.cheetahmail.com into control/helohost. (I'm considering changing the default HELO in qmail-remote in qmail 2.0 to use the bracketed IP address of the client.) How much of a standard is that? Greetz, Peter -- | 'He broke my heart,| Peter van Dijk | I broke his neck' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | nognikz - As the sun |Hardbeat@ircnet - #cistron/#linux.nl | | Hardbeat@undernet - #groningen/#kinkfm/#vdh |
Re: Qmail -ERR this users has no $HOME/Maildir
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:10:38AM -0600, New Hope Hostmaster wrote: I've finally got the checkpasswd authorization to work, but not it's not finding the $Home/Maildir. I have put a Maildir in all the placing I think it may look, using the qmail-makedir whatever command, but still no luck. So, how do I change/find out the value of $HOME, so I can change it, or make the necessary directories? Thanks, Peter Janett how are you running qmail-popup in inetd.conf? when you telnet to the POP port, does it say X.XX@checkpassword? if so, you might be having the same problem i was having. here's my line from inetd.conf: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/qmail-popup hostname checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir (this should be all on one line) in the man page, it just says to use qmail-popup hostname ... in inetd.conf, but that gave me the XX.X@checkpassword weirdness and the $HOME/Maildir error. i decided to try putting /usr/sbin/tcpd in front of it, and all of my problems went away. it now shows .X@hostname and works wonderfully. :) now only if it did some logging... HTH, -dan `--- dan peterson [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] http://erinyes.net `-- network engineer, digitaldune networks -- yuma, az `- (520) 344-1110 -- http://www.digitaldune.net
Re: Strange problem with header of outoing mails
Kaspar Landsberg wrote/schrieb/scribsit: This looks pretty messed up. First, there is "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". At least the return path should be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" because that´s my mail address. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" does not exist! (Btw, "Ukl" is my UUCP login on my uucp uplink. I wonder how it got there.) PS: I set up UUCP according to point 2.3. in the qmail FAQ and since the mail arrives correctly in the outgoing queue, i assume that this part has been done correctly. Try leaving out the -f option to preline. Your uucp uplink needs a From line, I suppose. Stefan
RE: setting relay clients
After playing around with different configurations I found out that selective relay using tcp-wrappers works fine with RH5.2 but not with RH6.0. However, it's weird that I can't find the reason why RH6.0 isn't compatible with setenv. I installed RH5.2 tcp-wrappers rpm on a RH6.0 box but qmail-smtpd still didn't accept any relay clients. I guess some libraries have changed causing this odd behaviour. Should this be reported to RedHat Software ?? -- Jari Tenhunen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stardate [-30]2988.69
Re: Strange problem with header of outoing mails
Hi, On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Stefan Paletta wrote: | Try leaving out the -f option to preline. Your uucp uplink needs a From | line, I suppose. hmm, now i get this: --- cut here --- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 16 21:06:03 1999 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:06:03 +0200 Received: from unlisys.snafu.de ([194.64.64.23] helo=mail.unlisys.net) by www.inx.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10j6Ec-0001au-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:06:02 +0200 Received: by mail.unlisys.net (Smail3.2.0.96inx) id m10j6Ec-00vEroC; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:06:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 7706 invoked by uid 500); 16 May 1999 19:09:04 - Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:09:04 +0200 From: Kaspar Landsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test --- cut here --- Looks a bit better but i'm still unsure whether replies sent to me using the above Return-path would arrive correctly. Would they? :) Bye, Kasi -- Kaspar Landsberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail deployment / global address books
This may be off the wall for this mailing list but it's the information I'm lacking to deploy qmail. It also seems to be the least referenced item on the net. Deploying qmail as an alternative to the traditional Novell or Microsoft solutions what tools are available to centrally create and manage global address books for company networks. Specifically: 1. What common global address book administration programs are being used, including ones compatible with Outlook clients. 2. Are there any that integrate with the Unix/Linux user creation to reduce administration (using scripts or program interface). 3. Use alias names for local network deliveries. 4. Allow simple creation of distribution lists by the administrator with internal and external addresses. I'd appreciate pointers to any programs, books, or references that are available. thanks d. divine
Re: IP in qmail-popup's argument
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:24:13AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote: From the source, it appears that the "hostname" is not given any special treatment. It is simply used to create qmail-popup's initial greeting. So you should be able to use a hostname, an IP address, or any string. I tried it with a string of "hello.there" and it worked fine. Can one use it, or need FQDN? Thx -- System Administrator See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers
Re: Q: Is it possible to bind 2 diffrent qmail instances on 2 diffrent network interfaces
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 12:24:05PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote: That server is violating RFC 1123, section 5.2.5. You can easily work around the problem by putting www.cheetahmail.com into control/helohost. (I'm considering changing the default HELO in qmail-remote in qmail 2.0 to use the bracketed IP address of the client.) How much of a standard is that? RFC821: HELO SP domain CRLF domain ::= element | element "." domain element ::= name | "#" number | "[" dotnum "]" dotnum ::= snum "." snum "." snum "." snum snum ::= one, two, or three digits representing a decimal integer value in the range 0 through 255 Therefore, HELO [199.103.176.41] looks like it is acceptable. -- System Administrator See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers
