qmail Digest 14 Jun 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 671
qmail Digest 14 Jun 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 671 Topics (messages 26572 through 26580): user.name problem 26572 by: "Johan Van Gompel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26576 by: Robbie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIP: use procmail to bounce SPAM 26573 by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Checking SENDER domain 26574 by: "Dimitri S." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail as selective relay. 26575 by: "Dimitri S." [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26577 by: Robbie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unable to resolve sender 26578 by: Neil Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages reinjected to this mailing list 26579 by: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homeworkers Needed! 26580 by: [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] -- Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a working domain, but the owners of it would like to use user.name formatted e-mail's. That seem's not to work, what to do? Yoda: Using dots in ~alias/.qmail-files makes a qmail master not. Reading /var/qmail/doc/FAQ will. Obi-wan: Use the Colon Niemi, use the Colon. Johan: .qmail-user:name instead of .qmail-user.name should do the trick. -- Johan Van Gompel You must have been REAL happy when The Phantom Menace was released, huh? [grin] At 07:43 AM 6/13/99 , you wrote: Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a working domain, but the owners of it would like to use user.name formatted e-mail's. That seem's not to work, what to do? Yoda: Using dots in ~alias/.qmail-files makes a qmail master not. Reading /var/qmail/doc/FAQ will. Obi-wan: Use the Colon Niemi, use the Colon. Johan: .qmail-user:name instead of .qmail-user.name should do the trick. -- Johan Van Gompel -- NovaMetrix Development Robbie Walker, head muckety-muck and programmer P.O. Box 635 or 910-653-4006 106-B S. Main St800-773-5647 Tabor City, NC 28463910-653-2052 FAX multipart/signed; boundary=SUOF0GtieIMvvwua; micalg=pgp-md5;protocol="application/pgp-signature": Unrecognized Hi Is there a way with qmail, like as new sendmail, to check if the FROM domain adress of the sender is existing, like : HELO test 220 Mail ESMTP Club-Internet 250 front7.grolier.fr Hello d074.paris-204.cybercable.fr [212.198.204.74], pleas ed to meet you MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender domain must exist Thank you ! -- Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi ! I would like my qmail server to be a selective relay, so I went on : http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html but the link : === First, using your favourite ftp client, download from ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/ the ucspi-tcp-0.80.tar.gz package (in binary mode - Netscape may have problems downloading - try holding down the shift key). === is invalid. How to get this software or package in order to allow selective relaying ? Thank you ! -- Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: sorry if the last post was off-topic and HTML... I had a stroke or something! [grin] You can find the homepage (and the current link for ucspi-tcp) here http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html The rest of Dan's software can be found at this page... http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software.html At 06:51 PM 6/13/99 , you wrote: Hi ! I would like my qmail server to be a selective relay, so I went on : http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html but the link : === First, using your favourite ftp client, download from ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/ the ucspi-tcp-0.80.tar.gz package (in binary mode - Netscape may have problems downloading - try holding down the shift key). === is invalid. How to get this software or package in order to allow selective relaying ? Thank you ! -- Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- NovaMetrix Development Robbie Walker, head muckety-muck and programmer P.O. Box 635 or910-653-4006 106-B S. Main St800-773-5647 Tabor City, NC 28463910-653-2052 FAX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.2 iQA/AwUBN2Q6vTrJV5JQYcnnEQJ3MwCeMPXQgbz66LEPF15DZa0PSTr9WQ0AmwYJ tHGqiz4rhDbtpFcOyDwSrB0v =kvc2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hello: I just got this message from qmail and I cant quite figure out what it means or how to prevent it. I checked the FAQ and archives of this group to no avail. As far as I can tell, the mail server from alanwatts.com did not like that my mail server is neil86.august.net and my email address is JAMMConsulting.com. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil. Here is the error message I received from qmail: - Hi.
Re: Unable to resolve sender
+ Neil Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | I just got this message from qmail and I cant quite figure out what | it means or how to prevent it. I checked the FAQ and archives of | this group to no avail. It's not really a qmail problem, which is why it won't be in a qmail FAQ. | Here is the error message I received from qmail: | - | Hi. This is the qmail-send program at neil86.august.net. | I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following | addresses. | This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Connected to 204.247.247.54 but sender was rejected. | Remote host said: 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Unable to resolve | sender neil@JAMMConsulting.com from neil86.august.net What it means: In the war on spam, many sites have started rejecting mail from nonexistent domains. Clearly, 204.247.247.54 thought at the time that JAMMConsulting.com is such a domain. Perhaps they misconfigured their mailer daemon to treat a temporary error as permanent, giving a 5xx error instead of a 4xx one. Or perhaps your ISP managed to lose your domain registration for a while. What you can do: Not much, if the problem is at the receiving end. You might want to look over your DNS setup to make sure it is correct. It looks OK to me, but I am no expert. - Harald
stralloc
Hi, maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big, so I'm asking it anyways: There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to be freed again? Franky
Re: stralloc
+ Van Liedekerke Franky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big, | so I'm asking it anyways: | There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never | needs to be freed again? Most of the time, it's freed by the most efficient algorithm imaginable: _exit. Thanks to qmail's highly modular structure, most qmail programs don't live long enough for the concept of memory leaks to even apply. If you look in the long-running programs, though, you will probably find that strings are not allocated frivolously. I have never bothered to look carefully, but neither have I seen any signs of the long-running daemons bloating with time. - Harald
Re: stralloc
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: Hi, maybe this is a stupid question, but my C knowledge is not that big, so I'm asking it anyways: There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to be freed again? Most of the time not because most programs live only for one delivery (eg. qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, qmail-local, qmail-smtpd... etc.), so memory will be freed anyway on the exit of the program. It matters only in long living daemons like qmail-send. -- Andre
Re: SMTP Connections
Thomas Balle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The strange thing is that they dont deliver any mail when they connect, they merely connect repeatedly, up to several times a minute, and when that happens from 5 different servers at a time it does tie up rather many connections. I smell a bare-LF problem. Well anyway I dont have a clue why they do so, I have exchanged mail with regularly before, and now they connect fine to my relay server, thus I get the deliveries that way. Sniff port 25 to/from your server during one of these exchanges. See exactly what's going on. If you can't do that, try using recordio from ucspi-tcp to record the SMTP dialogue. -Dave
Re: virtual domain user .qmail-default question
Basit Shehram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: auxilium42.com:basit-auxilium42.com auxilium42.net:basit-auxilium42.net auxilium42.org:basit-auxilium42.org now, the problem is, in teh ~basit directory, i have a .qmail-auxilium42.com-info file, and a .qmail-auxilium42.net-info and .org file. qmail replaces .'s in extension addresses with :'s. Rename your .qmail files like: .qmail-auxilium42:net-inf See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions -Dave
Re: virtual domain user .qmail-default question
let me ask you this, then why does .qmail-auxilium42.com-info and .qmail-auxilium42.com-help work? the problem is that .qmail-auxilium42.com-default does not work but i'll give it a shot! /basit On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dave Sill wrote: Basit Shehram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: auxilium42.com:basit-auxilium42.com auxilium42.net:basit-auxilium42.net auxilium42.org:basit-auxilium42.org now, the problem is, in teh ~basit directory, i have a .qmail-auxilium42.com-info file, and a .qmail-auxilium42.net-info and .org file. qmail replaces .'s in extension addresses with :'s. Rename your .qmail files like: .qmail-auxilium42:net-inf See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#dots-in-extensions -Dave
Re: virtual domain user .qmail-default question
Basit Shehram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me ask you this, then why does .qmail-auxilium42.com-info and .qmail-auxilium42.com-help work? the problem is that .qmail-auxilium42.com-default does not work I don't think any of them really worked. The dot-qmail man page clear states: WARNING: For security, qmail-local replaces any dots in ext with colons before checking .qmail-ext. -Dave
$ to do this? Re: Concept: 'infinate' POP3 accounts per pop3 user.
Seeing as nobody has offered to do this free ;) I'd be interested to hear is anyone out there is interested in developing this project for me. It doesn't seem like a difficult task - security of the resultant qmail-pop3d is also important. I can swing $200-$300 for this. Please email me if you are interested. Regards, Paul. In article 7jhl3c$lvp$[EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Paul Gregg writes: Assume this setup is running perfectly (ok, I have 4,000 users using it). Essentially I'm thinking of enabling the user to login via POP3 as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with their normal password. (I've written the checkpasswd so it's easy to authenticate ok). What methodology could be used so that if they login with a specific email address as a POP3 user then they only "see" email which is destined for that user. but if they logged in without a user@ part then they would get everything. You'll need a custom POP3 server for that. When the POP3 server initializes and scans the Maildir for messages, it should ignore messages that do not have a Delivered-To: address for the login user. Maildir-based POP3 servers are childishly simple, and you should be able to write one up, or modify an existing one, in no time at all. Ok, I figured out how best to code this up. Essentially, one needs to patch get_list() in qmail-pop3d.c get_list calls maildir_scan() (in maildir.c) to return a list of filenames, which get_list() then parses through to build a list of files/emails which are in the Maildir. This routine needs to also add the Delivered-To: checks that are in serialsmtp.c from the serialmail package. Simply we could call checkpasswd qmail-pop3d Maildir and checkpasswd could exec @ARGV, but add user@host to the args (so qmail-pop3d could read it). The check would need to find the Delivered-To: (first one) line and do a search in the string for /user@host/ (the login pop3 id). (checkpasswd could munge it whatever way you wanted to cover for user%host if you had to). Anyone feel up to the task? I'm afraid my C coding skills leave much to be desired - never got time to learn :(
Mailbox Quota
Hi, I am using vchkpw, my email directories are as follows: /home/vpop/domains/blah.org/ , /home/vpop/domains/abc.com Recently, there is a need to set a 5mb quota to all mailboxes in my system. Using Paul Gregg's mailquotacheck script, I tried to accomplish the task. It didn't work; running the script in /home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default will limit the abc.com up to 5mb of space for all emails together. How can I set the quota for each individual mailbox? I wish to use a single UID/GID for my email system only. Please advice. Thanks, Kelvin Koh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 0 1 - just my 2 bits. --
RE: $ to do this? Re: Concept: 'infinate' POP3 accounts per pop3 user.
I missed the beginning of this thread, so pardon this if it's moot. But I couldn't help noticing that someone wants to use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as POP authentication ids. I tried to do this and ran into a serious problem: Netscape Mail chokes on the "@". It assumes you mistakenly entered your email address when you really meant to put your POP id. So it converts it to, in your example, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', chopping off the '@theirname.domain.com' part. So we chose to avoid the "@". If my C skills were more proficient or I had more time, I'd still keep it as "@" internally but hack checkpassword so that Netscape users only could use an alternate character, such as "%" (thanks, Paul). Dave ... Essentially I'm thinking of enabling the user to login via POP3 as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with their normal password. (I've written the checkpasswd so it's easy to authenticate ok). ...
Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
Hey all! Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or so time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's critical to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read.. Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP (Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25 (SMTP) for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go easy on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP that I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should be it? If I sound really **un-edu-ma-cated** feel free to tell me what my wrong line of thinking involves. Steven M. Klass Physical Design Engineer Andigilog Inc. 7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100 Chandler, AZ 85226 Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18 Fax: 602-940-4255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.andigilog.com/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 www.geekcode.com GE d- s:+ a- C+++ UL P L+$ E W+(++) N+ ?O !K w++(---) O- M- V-- PS++ PE+(PE++) Y+ PGP t 5--(---) X R- tv- b+++ DI++ D++ G e+++ h-- r+++ y++** -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-
Re: Mailbox Quota
from mailquotacheck.sh :
snip
...
# Get the users 'home' directory - where there .qmail file is
dir="$HOME"
...
/snip
make sure 'dir' somehow points to the actual user directory
and
snip
...
# What is the maildir's current disk usage
du=`$du -sk $dir/Maildir | $awk {'print $1'}`
...
/snip
notice the addition of '/Maildir' after the '$dir'. this will only check
the Maildir directory below the actual home directory.
(sorry don't know about vchkpwd)
-marlon
At 09:26 PM 6/14/99 -0400, Kelvin Koh wrote:
Hi,
I am using vchkpw, my email directories are as follows:
/home/vpop/domains/blah.org/ , /home/vpop/domains/abc.com
Recently, there is a need to set a 5mb quota to all mailboxes in my
system. Using Paul Gregg's mailquotacheck script, I tried to accomplish
the task. It didn't work; running the script in
/home/vpop/domains/abc.com/.qmail-default will limit the abc.com up to
5mb of space for all emails together.
How can I set the quota for each individual mailbox? I wish to use a
single UID/GID for my email system only. Please advice.
Thanks,
Kelvin Koh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- 0 1 - just my 2 bits. --
Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
- Original Message - From: Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Qmail Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering : "Steven Klass" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Hey I finally have qmail set up, and it was much easier the 100th or so : time:-) Seriously, this was about the third attempt (relatively new to : Linux) and things finally started to show some improvement. It's critical : to read the doc's and if you don't understand re-read.. : : That's good advice, the re-read part. : : Anyway I have a couple of questions. I am connected to my ISP : (Speedchoice) via Ethernet. Does anyone know if I can monitor port 25 (SMTP) : for mail. My schooling on this involves reading the net3 how-to, so go easy : on me. I would think that if I have a "permanent" connection to my ISP that : I should be able to monitor my host name (Static IP) and that should : be it? : : If: : : 1. you have a static IP address (you do), and : 2. there is no MX record for your system pointing to your ISP's :mail hub (I can't tell), and Please help me out on this one, what is an MX record.. I thought you might lead me to this, would you mind explaining this a little bit or pointing me to the faq. : 3. you have qmail-smtpd configured properly on your system via :inetd or tcpserver, (part of the normal qmail installation :process) then: : : You should be able to receive mail on your system directly via SMTP. : : -Dave :
Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
"Steven Klass" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me out on this one, what is an MX record.. I thought you might lead me to this, would you mind explaining this a little bit or pointing me to the faq. It's a nameserver record that points to the mail exchanger for a given domain. RFC 974 (see http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#more-information) has the details. Basically, when host A sends a message to host B, it looks in the DNS for an MX record pointing to host B's mail exchanger. If it doesn't find one, it tries to send directly to host B. Here's how you can look up a host's MX: de5@sws5$ nslookup Default Server: x10ns.ens.ornl.gov Address: 128.219.200.249 set type=mx speedchoice.com Server: x10ns.ens.ornl.gov Address: 128.219.200.249 Non-authoritative answer: speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com Authoritative answers can be found from: speedchoice.com nameserver = ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com speedchoice.com nameserver = ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.31 mail.phoenix.speedchoice.cominternet address = 24.221.30.31 ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 207.238.183.71 ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.3 This says that a message addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be sent to either mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com or mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com. Since they both have the same preference (10), either can be used. Your system could be configured as an SMTP server, but if it has an MX record pointing elsewhere, no remote systems will ever try to send it mail, it'll go to the host identified in the MX record. -Dave
Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota enforcement!) Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to prevent such looping? Could I make a more judicial choice of environment variables to use for the sender and recipient? (I went to some length in research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly "replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?) Thanks in advance! Dave - #!/bin/sh # # holiday.sh # # Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99 # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This script should be entered into a user's .qmail file as |holiday.sh # It depends on the SENDER environment variable, provided by qmail-local; # HOME and HOST are also used. # It permits delivery and replies with a message found in .holiday # # Should be able to use $USER @ $HOST, but we using a single-uid # configuration of Qmail. HOST is okay, but USER must be pulled from # home directory: # (We don't use $LOCAL since we don't know where the username ends and # the domain begins without hacking $HOME) QMAILUSER=`basename $HOME` # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header QMAILHOST=$HOST # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header export QMAILUSER export QMAILHOST qmail-inject $SENDER "$HOME/.holiday" exit 0 -
Re: Q: qmail + IMAP
Here's my 2cent's It depends on which mail box mode your using. -Mailbox mode - then the patched UW IMap server works fine -Maildir mode - The UW Imap server dosne't work well with maildirs, particularly copying messages from the main Maildir to subfolders does not work. I recently switched to Cyrus Imap server and it works real nice for me (haven't had any problems yet), but it is a pain having to create both a user in both qmail and cyrus. Hope this helps --Dave At 10:52 AM 6/14/99 , Christian Wiese wrote: hi folks, i've installed qmail with pop3 support without any dificults. now I wanted to setup an IMAP server, but where should I start. I've followed several discussions about Qmail IMAP. What IMAP server should I use and what additional software do I need to add IMAP support to my Qmail server ? Is there a "QMAIL-IMAP-HOWTO" ? Thank you very much best regards christian
Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Dave Kitabjian wrote: Your script has two big failings. It is not checking to see who the sender is, and it is not setting the return path of the vacation message to null, ie. . Your user on holiday may receive bounces - they will have the SENDER variable set to null. You cannot reply to such a message. Similarly, your vacation messages must be sent out with a null sender, like this: qmail-inject -f '' $SENDER "$HOME/.holiday" Doing these basic checks will at least make sure you don't start a series of loops. Also, it is advisable for vacation scripts to check for a header called "precedence:" in the message, and if it is present, and has the value of "junk", "bulk" or "list" to NOT send vacation replies to these messages, because the list owner will get them and it is irritating. There is also the possibility of automatic unsubscription with some lists. Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in vacation program. I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota enforcement!) Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to prevent such looping? Could I make a more judicial choice of environment variables to use for the sender and recipient? (I went to some length in research to configure things so that a holiday message could be properly "replied" to, but perhaps disabling this is inevitable?) Thanks in advance! Dave - #!/bin/sh # # holiday.sh # # Dave Kitabjian, 6/11/99 # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This script should be entered into a user's .qmail file as |holiday.sh # It depends on the SENDER environment variable, provided by qmail-local; # HOME and HOST are also used. # It permits delivery and replies with a message found in .holiday # # Should be able to use $USER @ $HOST, but we using a single-uid # configuration of Qmail. HOST is okay, but USER must be pulled from # home directory: # (We don't use $LOCAL since we don't know where the username ends and # the domain begins without hacking $HOME) QMAILUSER=`basename $HOME` # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header QMAILHOST=$HOST # used by qmail-inject to set "From:" header export QMAILUSER export QMAILHOST qmail-inject $SENDER "$HOME/.holiday" exit 0 - -- System Administrator See complete headers for address, homepage and phone numbers
Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota enforcement!) That's not really a loop, which is when a single message travels a curcular path, it's a ping-pong (or circle jerk, to use a cruder term), which is when two autoresponders respond to each other. Anyway, below is the guts of my script, which is pretty basic. So my question to y'all is, what logic do other "holiday" algorithms employ to prevent such looping? They keep track of which addresses they've responded to, and only send one per vacation, one per day, one per hour, etc. They also look for "Precedence: bulk", don't reply to MAILER_DAEMON amd postmaster, etc. Basically, this is a tricky job, and it's best left to the experts. Peter Samuel has written a nice vacation program for qmail. From the man page: AUTHOR Peter Samuel, Uniq Professional Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] AVAILABILITY The latest version of vacation for qmail should always be available from ftp://ftp.uniq.com.au/pub/tools -Dave
List manager! Off topic... Sorry!
Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I need to know if the QMAIL list is set up to do digests. My mail-server is getting mad at me. :) Thanks, Geordon
RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
At 11:25 AM 6/14/99 , you wrote: Humph. I'm about to have a co-worker patch a the qmail-imap server to support virtual POP/IMAP users for each virtual domains using Maildirs, while still allow the UNIX users to pick up their mail from the /var/spool/mail mbox files. I need IMAP support, so I can't start from qmail-pop3d, but I'm planning to start from the UW server in David Summers' qmail-imap Linux RPM which is based on Mattias Larsson's patch to add maildir to the imap server. (all mentioned at qmail.org) I'm looking at the qmail-imap-4.5.BETA version of this RPM which is at: ftp://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/qmail That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail boxes. So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders (which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread "getting maildir + imap working"). --Dave You say that this software has problems with Maildirs? If so, I would help if you could give me some descriptions of the problems that you've been experiencing. If there is stuff that needs to be fixed, I could have this guy go over the maildir support source code with a fine tooth comb to get any problems out. I took a brief skim over the patch and it didn't look too daunting. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
Re: Q: qmail + IMAP
Hi Dave. thank you for your quick response ... Dave Teske wrote: Here's my 2cent's It depends on which mail box mode your using. Sorry, I use the Maildir format. -Mailbox mode - then the patched UW IMap server works fine -Maildir mode - The UW Imap server dosne't work well with maildirs, particularly copying messages from the main Maildir to subfolders does not work. I recently switched to Cyrus Imap server and it works real nice for me (haven't had any problems yet), but it is a pain having to create both a user in both qmail and cyrus. Do you have a HOWTO for the Cyrus Imap configuration steps with qmail, or do you know some websites, where I can get additional informations. thank you very much christian
RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
Dave Teske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail boxes. So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders (which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread "getting maildir + imap working"). --Dave Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target? From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd at NM Technet". He said: From: Todd at NM Technet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:16:57 -0600 Subject: Re: Getting Maildir + IMAP working [snip] the result: the maildir driver for the UW imap server is very rudimentary. it works extremely well for inboxes, but not well for any other folders. i have patched it a bit to handle creating new maildirs correclty and copying between the inbox and other folders, but it doesn't handle other folders very elegantly yet. [snip] If all the folders are kept in Maildir format (which I rather prefer) then the function of moving messages between folders of different formats is not required. Right? However, he says that this "doesn't handle other folders very elegantly yet". What does this mean? That creation and usage of these additional Maildir folders is messy? Or that he does not like being restricted to just using Maildir folders? (Kind of weird to be asking you what he meant... so that's why I cc'ed this message to him.) Todd: Could you post a copy of this patch to the list or send it to me? This seems like a good solution - to only use Maildir folders. If Todd's patch is kind of messy, perhaps I could take another hack at implementing the same thing. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services -Original Message- From: Dave Teske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:57 AM To: qmail-list Subject:RE: Q: qmail + IMAP At 11:25 AM 6/14/99 , you wrote: Humph. I'm about to have a co-worker patch a the qmail-imap server to support virtual POP/IMAP users for each virtual domains using Maildirs, while still allow the UNIX users to pick up their mail from the /var/spool/mail mbox files. I need IMAP support, so I can't start from qmail-pop3d, but I'm planning to start from the UW server in David Summers' qmail-imap Linux RPM which is based on Mattias Larsson's patch to add maildir to the imap server. (all mentioned at qmail.org) I'm looking at the qmail-imap-4.5.BETA version of this RPM which is at: ftp://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/qmail That's the server I was running too. The basic problem is that the UW server can't handle transferring messages to different types of mail boxes. So if I have an "Inbox" that is in Maildir format and I create sub-folders (which are created in Mailbox format) the server won't let you copy stuff from the "inbox" to your sub-folders. If you check the archives this was discussed sometime in the last 3-4 weeks (look for messages in the thread "getting maildir + imap working"). --Dave You say that this software has problems with Maildirs? If so, I would help if you could give me some descriptions of the problems that you've been experiencing. If there is stuff that needs to be fixed, I could have this guy go over the maildir support source code with a fine tooth comb to get any problems out. I took a brief skim over the patch and it didn't look too daunting. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
Text written by Anand Buddhdev at 06:16 PM 6/14/99 +0300: Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in vacation program. While I think it's a good thing that you mentioned the preexisting software to Mr. Kitabjian, I'd like to point out that writing software, even software that's already been written, is an important part of learning to program. It's possible that's what he's doing. Or, to put it another way, re-inventing the wheel is a waste of time for normal people -- but not for people who are learning to be wheelwrights. :) - Kai MacTane System Administrator Online Partners.com, Inc. - From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996) block transfer computations /n./ [from the television series "Dr. Who"] Computations so fiendishly subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines. Used to refer to any task that should be expressible as an algorithm in theory, but isn't.
rblsmtpd patched for multiple lookups
Since I didn't see any in the mailing list archives, here are some diffs
to patch rblsmtpd to support multiple RBL's. Caveat is that I've only
been using these for speed testing different RBL schemes, but it does seem
to work as intended. You can test it with something like...
$ TCPREMOTEIP=127.0.0.2 ./rblsmtpd -rdul.map.vix.com -rrbl.maps.vix.com /bin/id
diff -c -r rblsmtpd-0.70/rblsmtpd.c rblsmtpd-0.70-local//rblsmtpd.c
*** rblsmtpd-0.70/rblsmtpd.cTue Aug 25 08:58:22 1998
--- rblsmtpd-0.70-local//rblsmtpd.c Mon Jun 14 10:26:15 1999
***
*** 10,15
--- 10,17
#include "ip.h"
#include "env.h"
+ #define MAX_RBL_DOMAINS 8
+
#define FATAL "rblsmtpd: fatal: "
void die_sys() { _exit(111); }
***
*** 109,114
--- 111,119
char **argv;
{
int opt;
+ int rblcnt = 0;
+ int i;
+ char * rbldoms[MAX_RBL_DOMAINS];
while ((opt = getopt(argc,argv,"t:r:Rb")) != opteof)
switch(opt) {
***
*** 115,121
case 't': scan_uint(optarg,timeout); break;
case 'R': flagrblsafe = 1; break;
case 'b': flagbounce = 1; break;
! case 'r': rbldomain = optarg; break;
default: usage();
}
argv += optind;
--- 120,126
case 't': scan_uint(optarg,timeout); break;
case 'R': flagrblsafe = 1; break;
case 'b': flagbounce = 1; break;
! case 'r': if (rblcnt MAX_RBL_DOMAINS) rbldoms[rblcnt++] = optarg; break;
default: usage();
}
argv += optind;
***
*** 122,128
if (!*argv) usage();
res_init();
! check();
execvp(*argv,argv);
strerr_die4sys(111,FATAL,"unable to run ",*argv,": ");
}
--- 127,140
if (!*argv) usage();
res_init();
! if (rblcnt == 0) {
! check();
! } else {
! for (i=0; irblcnt; i++) {
! rbldomain = rbldoms[i];
! check();
! }
! }
execvp(*argv,argv);
strerr_die4sys(111,FATAL,"unable to run ",*argv,": ");
}
--
Aaron Nabil
Re: List manager! Off topic... Sorry!
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:51:24 -0500, Geordon VanTassle wrote: Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I need to know if the QMAIL list is set up to do digests. My mail-server is getting mad at me. :) No - but I have a sublist that sends out a daily (at 1100 UTC) digest. To subscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you ever need to unsubscribe, mail the address in the "List-Unsubscribe" header of the digest (it contains your subscription address, so it will always work). -Sincerely, Fred (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
At 12:50 PM 6/14/99 , David Harris wrote: Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target? Yes that's they way I understand it. From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd at NM Technet". He said: I haven't tried or looked at the patch in question so I'll let Todd respond to the rest of this - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services --Dave
RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
howdy, sorry to disappoint, but i don't have any patches to distribute on this. most of the fixes were the result of extremely unscientific 'mucking' that i would probably not want to distribute (for example, at one point i deleted the mbox driver from the source tree entirely to get the Maildir used, even though the Maildir driver was specified as higher precedence). even in the 'fixed' state, the behavior is still sub-optimal (each Maildir shows up as both a folder and a folder of folders in all of the clients i've tried--some special exclusions of 'new', 'cur', and 'tmp' would need to be written to change this behavior. as far as i can tell, this issue simply wont get fixed properly until mark crispin (of UW) decides he can stop hating DJB long enough to formally incorporate the Maildir driver (i really dispise technical decisions made on personality grounds). so, in short: no patches here. just ill-conceived hacking that mostly works but would be trouble for anyone else. sorry, todd underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dave Teske wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:21:56 -0400 From: Dave Teske [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail-list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Q: qmail + IMAP At 12:50 PM 6/14/99 , David Harris wrote: Okay, I just looked back and read that thread (along with a few other threads about the same issue), and I think I now understand the root of the problem: sub-folders are created in Mbox format, so when the INBOX is in Maildir format, moving messages from the INBOX to other folders is not supported because of an inadequacy in the Maildir driver. Is this on target? Yes that's they way I understand it. From what I read, it almost looks like the problem has been fixed by "Todd at NM Technet". He said: I haven't tried or looked at the patch in question so I'll let Todd respond to the rest of this - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services --Dave
Re: Blocking ExploreZip
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Mark Drummond wrote: There is much interest here in the idea of blocking email carrying ExploreZip so we don't have to rely on end-user intelligence(?!) to prevent an infestation. I realise that sticking filters into the pipe like this is not necessarily as good idea but nonetheless ... I spent 5 minutes last friday looking at using 'condredirect' to bounce anything with the string 'Till then, blah blah blah' into an admin mailbox. It silently didn't work. I didn't care enough to look too deeply into it at the time, but if we're going to be discussing fixes, I'd love to hear the right way to use condredirect... gowen
Re: Q: qmail + IMAP
At 12:43 PM 6/14/99 , Christian Wiese wrote: Hi Dave. Do you have a HOWTO for the Cyrus Imap configuration steps with qmail, or do you know some websites, where I can get additional informations. Not that I know of, but the docs for setting up the Cyrus server got me through that part. Just remember when you create a user their "name" is something like "users.Myname". As for setting up qmail to work with it the archives contain several solutions. I only have a few users so I just added the following to each users .qmail: | /usr/bin/qmail/preline -f /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -a "$USER" "$USER" thank you very much christian One note of caution if you need to move messages in your existing Maildir to the Cyrus mailboxes be careful with re-injecting the messages. I got a whole bunch of people pissed at me when I accidentally sent the messages back to this list. --Dave
RE: Q: qmail + IMAP
Todd at NM Technet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: howdy, sorry to disappoint, but i don't have any patches to distribute on this. most of the fixes were the result of extremely unscientific 'mucking' that i would probably not want to distribute (for example, at one point i deleted the mbox driver from the source tree entirely to get the Maildir used, even though the Maildir driver was specified as higher precedence). even in the 'fixed' state, the behavior is still sub-optimal (each Maildir shows up as both a folder and a folder of folders in all of the clients i've tried--some special exclusions of 'new', 'cur', and 'tmp' would need to be written to change this behavior. Okay. You don't have a fully working patch yet. Nooo problem. I have way too much experience patching systems that I didn't fully understand. :-) I'd still appreciate getting my hands on you work, as it would give me a starting point. I understand that you don't want to release it as a "patch" because it's really now just a "hack". But perhaps you could release it with a proviso that this is not a real solution to the problem? And if not to the list, could you send me a copy so I can try to develop a real production patch? I'd appreciate it. as far as i can tell, this issue simply wont get fixed properly until mark crispin (of UW) decides he can stop hating DJB long enough to formally incorporate the Maildir driver (i really dispise technical decisions made on personality grounds). Oh, I didn't know. That's sad. so, in short: no patches here. just ill-conceived hacking that mostly works but would be trouble for anyone else. sorry, todd underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
Re: Blocking ExploreZip
Greg Owen {gowen} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Mark Drummond wrote:
There is much interest here in the idea of blocking email carrying
ExploreZip so we don't have to rely on end-user intelligence(?!) to
prevent an infestation. I realise that sticking filters into the pipe
like this is not necessarily as good idea but nonetheless ...
I spent 5 minutes last friday looking at using 'condredirect' to
bounce anything with the string 'Till then, blah blah blah' into an admin
mailbox. It silently didn't work. I didn't care enough to look too
deeply into it at the time, but if we're going to be discussing fixes, I'd
love to hear the right way to use condredirect...
Dan posted a similar "fix" for melissa, though he didn't use
condredirect or mess822:
]From: "D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]Subject: Re: Melissa Virus
]Date: 29 Mar 1999 22:03:55 -
]
][EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
] The sendmail "fix" is silly. It's 4 lines (or something), and all it does
] is search for a string in the subject line. That "fix" is more
] likely to bounce good mail than it is to catch the virus.
]
]Indeed. Legitimate messages do occasionally contain the same ``Important
]Message From'' subject line that the Melissa worm produces. If, however,
]someone does want this ``fix'' for qmail, here's a sample one-liner to
]put before ./Mailbox in /var/qmail/rc or in the POP-toaster .qmail file:
]
] | bouncesaying VIRUS awk '/^Subject: I am a virus/{exit 0}/^$/{exit 1}END{exit 1}'
]
]To test, put this line into ~you/.qmail-melissa and send some messages
]to you-melissa. If you have Microsoft users with their own .qmail files,
]they can decide for themselves whether to add this to .qmail.
]
]---Dan
-Dave
Re: stralloc
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:20:02 +0200, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote: There are a lot of stralloc calls in qmail, does this memory never needs to be freed again? All strallocs are either global or static in subroutines. Look at alloc.c/alloc_re.c. They allocate new memory only if needed and if a string grows, the old memory is freed. Thus, at most you end up with memory allocated for each "stralloc" that corresponds to the largest string it has held. There are no leaks. As mentioned in other posts, the memory is freed when the program exits. -Sincerely, Fred (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Re: Qmail as selective relay.
At 19:11 13/06/99 -0400, Robbie Walker wrote: Note: sorry if the last post was off-topic and HTML... I had a stroke or something! [grin] You can find the homepage (and the current link for ucspi-tcp) here http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html The rest of Dan's software can be found at this page... http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software.html Hi Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$ -- Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail as selective relay.
"Dimitri S." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$ s/http/ftp/ -Dave
Re: Qmail as selective relay.
Dimitri S. writes: lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$ http://www.qmail.org/koobera/www/ucspi-tcp.html will also work. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Good parenting creates 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | an adult, not a perfect Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | child.
Re: Qmail as selective relay.
At 15:16 14/06/99 -0400, Dave Sill wrote: "Dimitri S." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ucspi-tcp.html [zyrtex@kali zyrtex]$ s/http/ftp/ You and Vince are right. Thank you, and I hope the ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz version will run the same way as the ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz because the doc on http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html is for ucspi-tcp-0.80.tar.gz... or any doc for installing the 84 ? Bye, thank you ! -- Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blocking ExploreZip
Please excuse my stundedness but here is my /var/qmail/rc:
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir/ by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start | bouncesaying VIRUS awk '/^Subject: hello/{exit 0}/^$/{exit
1}END{exit 0}' \
./Maildir/ splogger qmail
I know there is an error in here, but what. Should there really be a
pipe in there? If so, how does qmail-start see the ./Maildir/ ?
--
___
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]Computing Services
Linux Uber Allesperl || die
...there are two types of command interfaces in the world of
computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
- Dan Bernstein, Author of qmail
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Re: Qmail, retrieveing POP3 and delivering
See Comments below : It's a nameserver record that points to the mail exchanger for a given : domain. RFC 974 (see : http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#more-information) has the : details. Thank you for the RFC link. : Non-authoritative answer: : speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com : speedchoice.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com : : Authoritative answers can be found from: : speedchoice.com nameserver = ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com : speedchoice.com nameserver = ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com : mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.31 : mail.phoenix.speedchoice.cominternet address = 24.221.30.31 : ns1.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 207.238.183.71 : ns2.detroit.speedchoice.com internet address = 24.221.95.3 : : : This says that a message addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be : sent to either mail01.detroit.speedchoice.com or : mail.phoenix.speedchoice.com. Since they both have the same preference : (10), either can be used. : Your system could be configured as an SMTP server, but if it has an MX : record pointing elsewhere, no remote systems will ever try to send it : mail, it'll go to the host identified in the MX record. In light of what you said and the reading that I just did, please verify the following is true. Unless my ISP (speedchoice.com) changes _thier_ MX tables, I cannot do this. If I wanted to this thier MX tables would somehow (??) have to change. This brings me to DNS, and if I wanted to run a DNS server, then I should be able to do it? Sorry if I sound really wacked, I am trying to not jsut configure this, but to really understand it too. Thanks so much. Steven : : -Dave :
Alias virtual domains
Hi there, I have just set up my server as a virtual domains. It works great. The only problem is the alias system. It doesn't work anymore. I hardly found any doc about that. Any pointer or help are welcome. In my virtualdomains file: myserver.domain1.com:domain1-com What format to use for using the ~alias system? I tried to add in virtualdomains: myserver.domain1.com:domain1-com myserver.domain1.com:alias-user But it doesn't work. Thanks!
Re: Holiday messaging: preventing loops?
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:48:47 -0400 Dave Kitabjian wrote: I developed a script to support holiday messages. It appears to work very nicely with one important exception (that I expected): if a person on holiday sends a message to another person on holiday, they get an infinite loop of holiday notifications to each other (thank God for quota enforcement!) You might find http://www.pobox.com/~djb/proto/mailloops.txt interesting reading, and there is at least one vacation style program linked off the qmail.org page, plus, of course, vacation. :-) Ciao, Giles
Selective Delivery
Hello, I am in the process of setting up a mail server with qmail and UW Imap for use in an environment where not all of the users are allowed access to external email. Evryone gets internal, but not everyone is allowed to mail outside the company. Is there a method of setting this up all on one machine? thanks caleb --- Caleb Rutan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Office phone:(313)566-2371 Manager, Information Systems - First of Michigan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -
binmail
The file REMOVE.binmail says that I should NOT remove binmail if I installed QMAIL to use binmail. That sounds like sage advice. The problem is that I don't KNOW wether I installed QMAIL to use binmail or not. I have no recollection of that but is that the default? I followed all the instructions including the recommendation to use Maildirs (which meant I had to change a number of the steps in the rest of the install since the doc is written assuming you ignore that particular recommendation). So I just don't know if binmail should be removed or not. I can't recieve mail from a remote site but I don't know if having binmail still active is the cause of the problem. Alex (bright but dyslexic) Miller
NFS Mounts
I'm curious about which parts of Qmail should not be mounted via NFS. I am using Maildir I am using multiple mail servers to work on the same data behind a serveriron. Can the multiple servers share a queue directory? What about the entire /var/qmail direcotory? Thanks for any advice. Richard
Re: NFS Mounts
/var/qmail/queue CANNOT be shared. /var/qmail/bin can only be shared between identical machines (including the 7 qmail users and groups). The rest may be shared. The user home directories may be shared as well. On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Richard Roderick wrote: I'm curious about which parts of Qmail should not be mounted via NFS. I am using Maildir I am using multiple mail servers to work on the same data behind a serveriron. Can the multiple servers share a queue directory? What about the entire /var/qmail direcotory? Thanks for any advice. Richard - Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Administrator localconnect(sm) http://www.localconnect.net/ The National Business Network Inc. http://www.nb.net/ One Monroeville Center, Suite 850 Monroeville, PA 15146 (412) 810- Phone (412) 810-8886 Fax
Official license
Hi all, I'm looking for an official license for QMail. I can't seem to find it on the qmail.org web site, or in the qmail tarball. Any pointers? -- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official license
On 15 Jun, Russell Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm looking for an official license for QMail. I can't seem to find it on the qmail.org web site, or in the qmail tarball. Any pointers? http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/dist.html That actually wasn't what I was looking for; I wanted a user license, not a distributor's license. However, I think I've found what I want: Dan's philosophy statement, at http://pobox.com/~djb/softwarelaw.html It basically says that qmail is yours to do with as you wish, as long as you don't redistribute with your changes as the same product. I don't know how legally binding his stand is, but it's good enough for me. -- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tool for verifying addresses
I'm finding that the larger and more complex my qmail setup becomes, the more difficult it is for me to trace the path an address follows through the qmail system. With sendmail/exim, there is the -bt command line option, which tells us whether the address will be treated as local or remote, and if remote, what MXs will be looked at, and if local, whether it will be delivered to a maildir, mbox or pipe, without actually delivering a message. I realise that qmail is modular, and so there's no easy way to determine what really happens. I was thinking of writing a small perl script to "emulate" the decisions made by qmail-send, qmail-lspawn and qmail-rspawn, and print the results to tell me where an address ends up. I'm particularly interested in finding out what happens to a local address, ie. was it looked up in users/cdb, or /etc/passwd, or did it end up in ~alias/.qmail-default, etc. Has anyone already written such a tool, or can anyone give me any better ideas on how I can proceed with this? -- Anand
Competition to qmail ...again
Hi, I have to do some testing on qmail so that i can kill the competition like exchange and lotus notes... I have to implement qmail for multiple domains and send mail meant for the internet to an ISP WE are on a lease line... I need to check how fast it is so that and show the same. The PROBLEM that i face is that when qmail is trying to send a mail to the internet through the relay server of my ISP , from the local machine .. the queue of the mail being sent remains for as long as 3 min. I need to flush the mails immediately so that the overall throughput can be faster... Please can you suggest a solution to flush these mails immediately. The DNS setting does not work as i am able to ping the server immediately so the name seems to get resolved pretty quickly,when it is sending it looks for bandwidth which is not available(i presume). Isn't there a place where one can specify the time out and retry time ?? The problem seems to be in flushing mails immediately to the ISP server . Thanks in advance Amit
