RE:(Clarification) Installation Quesiton on Qmail. init.d directory and qmail script file.
Thanks for your reply, you are correct at all points. We all appreciate the time you guys spend documenting these things for the community. I chose your document because I have little or no Linux experience (1Week), and the INSTALL and FAQ documents were a bit above my head. Thanks for your HOWTO! I have included some info on my Slackware file structure. It may help clarify the document for Slackware users. qmail-start-stop-script.txt and support files of the /etc/rc.d directory. rc.local-Startup file and rc.0-stop script. I also have some issues with the links, since the rc.? are files and not directories. I appreciate your help. Mark Thomas. See Below: (( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sill Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: Installation Quesiton on Qmail. init.d directory and qmail script file. Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I). I am installing qmail 1.03 from Dave Sill's "Life with Qmail" dated July 21, 1999. I am in section # 2.8.2 System Startup Files, and it says to install a script file I just created "qmail" to launch qmail at boot into my init.d directory. The document says it should be in one of the following locations: /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d /sbin/init.d I have no such directory on my system. (Slackware 3.6) LWQ says "should" because it's impossible to cover every possibility. (( I attached a text file with info about the rc.d directory (( structure on Slackware. Please review! It appears that Slackware uses /etc/rc.d for the initialization files. I think the qmail script file that will start qmail on boot should be located here? Can anyone verify this for me? What's the structure of /etc/rc.d? What subdirectories does it have? (( Structure included in the text file with info from above. setuser (qmaill) cyclog /var/log/qmail ** Is qmaill a typo, or variable of somekind? qmaill is a user (in /etc/passwd) which you should have set up in 2.5.4. (( Yes, it was. I cut and pasted the text and didn't notice the extra (( character, in qmail(l) setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail/(smtpd ) *** I have a qmail-smtpd file here. Are you sure about that? LWQ certainly doesn't create a qmail-smtpd file under /var/log/qmail. (( Right again- I guess I was just about frazzeled here! g It's probably a good idea to read through the entire Installation section before attempting one's first installation. I'll add a note to that effect. (( All except whats left could have been answered if I (( would have read the entire section prior to the sections install. (( MarkT. inittab rc.0 rc.local ** Would it be appropriate to add the: "qmail start" somewhere in the rc.local script (bottom section of file)? "qmail stop" somewhere in the rc.0 or rc.6 local script (top section)? ALSO: Creating links at the bottom of 2.8.2: ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc0.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc1.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc2.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc3.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc4.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc5.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc6.d/K30qmail With Slackware: ln -s /etc/rc.d/qmail /etc/rc.d/rc.0(K30qmail) rc.0,4,6,K,N, and S are files. Do I need to manually enter some data in the rc.? files, or create some files in a location for the links? *** If Sendmail is currently installed, running the command "find RCDIR -name "*sendmail" -print" will give you numbers that should work for your system. I tried this also, the only files I have on my system that fit the *sendmail criteria was sendmail, setup.sendmail and REMOVE.sendmail. **I received this reply from my previous post. It gives some info on Slackware. Slackware doesn't use the System V-style init scripts that this documentation refers to. Slackware uses old-style /etc/rc.d scripts. What this probably means is that you need to stick your qmail start/stop script somewhere else, then manually edit by hand the various scripts in /etc/rc.d to run the qmail start/stop script. Going from memory, /etc/rc.d/rc.local would be a good place to stick in the start script. I think /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown would be a good place to stick in the stop script, to bring the system down during system shutdown. In any case, you should read the contents of your /etc/inittab to see which /etc/rc.d scripts get invoked at which time. Then make appropriate changes.
Re: (Clarification) Installation Quesiton on Qmail. init.d directory and qmail script file.
On Sep 19, 1999 at 03:09:18 -0500, Mark Thomas twiddled the keys to say: Would it be appropriate to add the: "qmail start" somewhere in the rc.local script (bottom section of file)? That would work, but the proper place is in rc.M just below where you comment out the original sendmail startup. "qmail stop" somewhere in the rc.0 or rc.6 local script (top section)? That would go in rc.6, and again in rc.K, both at the top before the original script kills all processes. (BTW, rc.0 should already be a symlink to rc.6.) ALSO: Creating links at the bottom of 2.8.2: ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc0.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc1.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc2.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc3.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc4.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc5.d/K30qmail ln -s ../init.d/qmail RCDIR/rc6.d/K30qmail This is for the new style init. I doubt seriously you get anything but error messages if you attempt this. With Slackware: ln -s /etc/rc.d/qmail /etc/rc.d/rc.0(K30qmail) rc.0,4,6,K,N, and S are files. Do I need to manually enter some data in the rc.? files, or create some files in a location for the links? Edit as mentioned above. Forget the symlink, it'll break your shutdown. darkstar:/etc/rc.d# You should give your system it's own hostname. ;-) Rick Myers[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Feynman Problem 1) Write down the problem. Solving Algorithm 2) Think real hard. 3) Write down the answer.
qmail Digest 19 Sep 1999 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 764
qmail Digest 19 Sep 1999 10:00:00 - Issue 764 Topics (messages 30445 through 30472): Re: US encyrption laws relaxed - way to go Dan! 30445 by: craig.jcb-sc.com qmail LWQ installation problem - qmail doesn't seem executable 30446 by: Warren 'Llama' Ernst 30447 by: Bryan J. Ischo 30448 by: Bryan J. Ischo Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html 30449 by: Mark Thomas Re: When will qmail back off to the next MX? 30450 by: Strange 30451 by: Racer X 30452 by: Racer X 30453 by: Adam D . McKenna 30464 by: phil.ipal.net 30466 by: phil.ipal.net Trivial Messages from Qmail 30454 by: Subba Rao Qmail as a forwarder 30455 by: Julian L. Cardarelli setuser command not found 30456 by: Subba Rao 30458 by: Russell P. Sutherland 30459 by: Subba Rao 30460 by: James J. Lippard 30461 by: Subba Rao 30462 by: James J. Lippard 30463 by: Subba Rao Virtual hosts 30457 by: Marek Narkiewicz Installation Quesiton on Qmail. init.d directory and qmail script file. 30465 by: Mark Thomas 30467 by: Sam 30469 by: Dave Sill maildir structure 30468 by: LRiva question 30470 by: sean Re: (Clarification) Installation Quesiton on Qmail. init.d directory and qmail script file. 30471 by: Mark Thomas 30472 by: Rick Myers 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] -- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21790.html I think that's the article forwarded to this list that I just read [...] That's what I thought when I first saw it posted, but it's a different article with a different slant. It is referenced in the one posted tho. Thanks, I just read that one! Indeed, it's the only one that forthrightly dealt with *my* big concern, which is, does this mean free software can include crypto without concern? Answer: no. (I should have realized the from the other articles, of course, but didn't really grok the gummint-review requirement as limiting free software. Mostly I was thinking about how the concern about proprietary software being wilfully broken by agreement between the vendor and the gummint to ensure back-door access would make free-software, i.e. OS, products *that* much more attractive: it's harder to hide bugs in source code, especially when anyone can read it.) tq vm, (burley) All, So I'm installing qmail on my RedHat 6 distrubution a la the "Life with qmail" document, and its going great (I've been doing a little each day all week) until section 2.8.2 when I am suppposed to type "/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb" Well, I do this, and I get "bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory" So I do an ls -l and see the qmail entry in /usr/local/sbin is the link to: "qmail - /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail" and its permission is "lrwxrwxrwx" In checking /etc/rc.d/init.d/, i see that qmail is the executable script "qmail" frmom the beginning of section 2.8.2, but I can't execute it here either. It looks like: [root@lllama init.d]# qmail bash: qmail: command not found [root@lllama init.d]# ./qmail bash: ./qmail: No such file or directory [root@lllama init.d]# ls apmd functions inet linuxconf network qmail rusersd smb syslog atdgpminnd lpdnfs random rwhod snmpd xfs core halt keytable named pcmcia routed sendmail sound ypbind crond httpd killall netfs portmap rstatd singlesshd See? There is is. qmail. With -rwxr-xr-x permissions. Can anybody suggest where I should go from here? If I just pretend this step went ok and keep going, it doesn't even start up. (I'ce reboot to make sure things are clean-ish). See? [root@lllama init.d]# /usr/local/sbin/qmail start bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory Any thoughts anyone? Virtually, Warr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warren 'Llama' Ernst wrote: All, So I'm installing qmail on my RedHat 6 distrubution a la the "Life with qmail" document, and its going great (I've been doing a little each day all week) until section 2.8.2 when I am suppposed to type "/usr/local/sbin/qmail cdb" Well, I do this, and I get "bash: /usr/local/sbin/qmail: No such file or directory" So I do an ls -l and see the qmail entry in /usr/local/sbin is the link to: "qmail - /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail" and its permission is "lrwxrwxrwx" In checking /etc/rc.d/init.d/, i see that qmail is the executable script "qmail" frmom the beginning of section 2.8.2, but I can't execute it here either. It looks like: [root@lllama init.d]# qmail bash:
RE: question
I use qmail and have noticed that the vast majority of spam that comes through is from Is there an a means by which I can reject mail from or is there any problems associated with this? There is a problem with doing it: RFC 821, section 3.6: This notification message must be from the server-SMTP at this host. Of course, server-SMTPs should not send notification messages about problems with notification messages. One way to prevent loops in error reporting is to specify a null reverse-path in the MAIL command of a notification message. When such a message is relayed it is permissible to leave the reverse-path null. A MAIL command with a null reverse-path appears as follows: MAIL FROM: In other words, that's the "sender" for most bounces, so if you drop mail from you'll be shutting out bounce messages. -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: When will qmail back off to the next MX?
The Raptor tech we talked with said one has to use the filters to prevent listening ports from being reached on untrusted interfaces. I believe I've found the info required to fix the problem at my firewall. http://www.raptor.com/cs/FAQ/entv5basictrafficmethods.html is a description of the different ways that Raptor can pass traffic. The summary of the fix is Raptor "local tunnels" which are packet filtering. It'll have to wait until I get back from vacation, but once that's in place things should be back to normal. But before I go, in response to Racer X: the more i think about this, the more i think that fallback MX records aren't really necessary anymore. There are several reasons I think they are still useful: 1) Redundancy. All machines die at some time or other. I'd rather not have the added pressure of knowing that mail will start bouncing if it isn't fixed in X amount of time while I'm trying to fix it. 2) Maintenance. You can take your mail server down for maintenance and not worry about where the mail sits in the meantime - I'd rather it sit and wait on my server than on someone elses! 3) Upgrades. You can test upgrades on a fallback MX before moving them on up. On that note, I'm leaving for the caribbean. Have a good week, all! -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:12:36AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: When you double click on this address(or cut and paste it), do you get to this site, or do you get errors. Http://www.pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html Because, if you can get there, I have a real funny problem. Because I use Pobox.com for my mail redirector, and I frequent their site, I just can't get to ~djb/ under pobox.com. DJB uses anonftpd which uses a more general/better ls format, but also one that isn't universally supported. ~djb maps there. Squid supports it, lynx 2.8 supports it (i believe =2.6). I think latest IE/NScape do as well, but I do most things via SQUID, so I'm not sure. -Sincerely, Fred
Re: ANNOUNCE: /var/qmail/control/locals and regex
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What problem does this solve that a virtualdomain does not? Yes,
control/locals allows only literal entries, but control/virtualdomains
allows wildcards of the form ".foo.bar:piffle" to match "biff.foo.bar".
It also allows "baz.foo.bar:" to *not* be caught by the preceding entry.
Yes, that is possible, but then I have to setup a user piffle, and his
.qmail file has to filter the mailadresses and deliver the mail to the
correct local user. I think this is too much work and a kind of
inconsistency.
If aI have only [EMAIL PROTECTED], then I would do it this way
with an entry in virtualdomains like his.virtual.domin:someuser or alike.
But I have (virtually ;-) a big network of hosts, and everyone has the
same users (over NIS). I think it is more easier with one line in locals
like ^(.*\.){0,1}mydomain.net$ than the construct mentioned above.
Greetings
--
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Re: Running Qmail - Script and messages
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 11:01:09AM -0400, Subba Rao wrote: Here is the message, I get after running the script to start qmail Script was named "qt" = supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u71 -g1001 0 25 \ rblsmtpd qmail-smtpd 21 | setuidgid qmaill multilog | \ setuidgid qmaill multilog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd root@caesar:/var/qmail# multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied multilog: fatal: unable to switch to current directory: access denied I run this script as root. You run the script as root, but setuidgid makes multilog run as qmaill. Do a chown qmaill:qmail /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd and multilog will be able to change dir. /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 -- http://x42.com/
JavaMail Store Provider
Hello there, I just wanna ask, before implementing for my self, is there any already-implemented JavaMail provider for retrieving messages from a maildir dir format. Best Regards Slavikos Filippos Slavik Part of the SIAMS's implementation development team. For more information, please check http://www.siams.net e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on Linux..."
Re: question
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: Is there an a means by which I can reject mail from or is there any problems associated with this? Delivery failure reports are required by messaging standards to come from . If you block it you will never know when messages sent by you can not be delivered. -- Claus Andre Faerber http://www.faerber.muc.de PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
Main server = qmail, destination = ms exchange
Dear Group, Until next week, I never had to work with an Ms Exchange server : everybody is happy with qmail. But now, I have somebody who paid so much for a complete M$ solution that he want to keep it. Now, _I_ have (probably with your help :) to find a solution to the mail transfers for his domain. The MX record is pointing to my qmail server which is always online. The mails which are comming are saved in the Maildir of a user (using .qmail-default = ./Maildir/). The NT box goes online once an hour, want to send it's mail to the outside world, and also want to get its mails. Sending the mail outside isn't a problem (relaying for an IP class). But how can I tell the qmail server that the NT box is currently online and waiting for an smtp feed ? I guess I need a kind of trigger that will start a maildirsmtp command. Is it the right way ? It's probably a common situation : if you have some hints and scripts which could help, I would be happy to be informed :) Thanks in advance, Olivier
How to remove a (botched) qmail installation to start over?
All, OK, after following the LWQ installation guide, it seems like some of the things that should be executable, aren't. So I'm thinking of either following the INSTALL document instead, or maybe even using one of the RPMs out there (I'm using RedHat 6.0.). However, I assume I should get rid of all the stuff that the first install put around. Any gotcha's I should be looking for? THanks in advance, Warr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cyclog and daily logs
Jan Stanik wrote: Hi, I need to start new log file for qmail every day.I use cyclog, but there I can set log file size only. Is it possible rotate logs every day? One of my planned hacks is to modify the logging code so that it obtains the time stamp (I guess it probably already does, anyway) and derives the log file name from that according to a configureable pattern. Then if the name does not match the name currently open for, the new name is opened and the old name is closed, and the current log message is recorded to the new log file. I will also have it track log file size and if certain size thresholds are reached, the pattern used to generate log file names will change, such as switching from daily log file name formats to hourly. I will also have a means to configure a program/script to be launched when a log file is closed, passing the name of the closed file. Such a script could then do things like compress and archive that log file. -- Phil Howard | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] phil | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] at| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipal | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dot| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will qmail back off to the next MX?
Pavel Kankovsky wrote: 1. The host is dead = it does not send any datagrams = it does not speak SMTP. 2. The host is alive but no process listens on SMTP port = it refuses TCP connections = it does not speak SMTP. 3. The host is alive, some process listens on SMTP port but something gets screwed up when a connection is open, and the connection is closed immediately (e.g. qmail-smtpd binary is corrupted and dies immediately) = it does not say SMTP hello = it does not speak SMTP. Described another way, there are many failure scenarios where the actual cause is not a misconfiguration of the mail: 1. The server is out of memory and is unable to copy a datagram containing a SYN packet from the device interface layer to the IP network layer. The packet is discarded and no ACK or RST is ever sent. 2. The server is out of memory and is unable to allocate structures for completing a connection. A RST might be sent back to the source. 3. The server is out of memory and is unable to sbrk() more memory for the process that accepted the incoming connection. The process faults before conducting protocol, and a RST is sent to close the connection. We may well fault the server for not having enough RAM, or enough swap space, or having hosted an IRC bot and invited DoS attacks, or whatever. But the mail implementation (it could be qmail) and configuration may well be entirely correct. In any such failure scenario, there may be reasons for a mail server to chose some action, such as: 1. Immediately try the same server again. 2. Immediately try the next higher MX server. If all MX servers fail, choose an action from 3 or 4. 3. Requeue the message to be tried again later. If a certain time period has expired, return the message to the sender. 4. Return the message to the sender immediately even though the time period for expiration has not lapsed. Whatever the choice of action, why would that choice not be consistent across the 3 failure modes? All 3 failure modes represent a situation which may be corrected any time between the next delivery attempt, and the final delivery attempt (hence making action #4 a bad choice, IMHO). I can understand (but not entirely agree with) arguments against going to the next higher MX. What I cannot understand is why some of the failure scenarios would justify that choice while others would not. Summary: the server fails to speak SMTP in all cases. Ergo, if the server is listed as an MX record for some domain name, "I claimed it was speaking SMTP but upon examination, it isn't, therefore MX records are false." In ALL cases 1, 2, and 3. Why does qmail fall back to other MXes in cases 1 and 2 but not in case 3? Why does it fall back at all? It should always ignore the other MXes because the records are always incorrect according to your reasoning!? The server may well be configured to speak SMTP in all 3 cases were it not muffled by a transient error condition that could be corrected by things between a sysadmin cleaning up runaway processes, or a netadmin blocking a DoS attack at the router, or a nervous operator pushing the reset button. -- Phil Howard | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] phil | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] at| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipal | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dot| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Main server = qmail, destination = ms exchange
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Olivier M. wrote: Sending the mail outside isn't a problem (relaying for an IP class). But how can I tell the qmail server that the NT box is currently online and waiting for an smtp feed ? I guess I need a kind of trigger that will start a maildirsmtp command. Is it the right way ? You have a choice of two mechanisms. The first is the ETRN-command. This is only supported on Exchange 5.5 SP1 and later. For older servers you can use a custom trigger, but I'm uncertain about how and what. Start with searching support.microsoft.com for 'Exchange ETRN'. This will point you to the right documents for the Exchange-side of the story.. -- Ruben -- Eat more memory!
Re: maildir structure
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:56:45AM +0200, LRiva wrote: What are the function of the /tmp and /cur maildir subdirectories ? Use the following command: man maildir and read the maildir manpage. If 'man maildir' doesn't work, add /var/qmail/man to your MANPATH in /etc/profile: export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/opt/man:/var/qmail/man" bye, Mark Weinem
Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html
I am using Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.9 (13 Sep 1999) and it just hangs on the ftp://kookbera... address. Jeff Quoting Frederik Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:12:36AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: When you double click on this address(or cut and paste it), do you get to this site, or do you get errors. Http://www.pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html Because, if you can get there, I have a real funny problem. Because I use Pobox.com for my mail redirector, and I frequent their site, I just can't get to ~djb/ under pobox.com. DJB uses anonftpd which uses a more general/better ls format, but also one that isn't universally supported. ~djb maps there. Squid supports it, lynx 2.8 supports it (i believe =2.6). I think latest IE/NScape do as well, but I do most things via SQUID, so I'm not sure. -Sincerely, Fred
Re: Main server = qmail, destination = ms exchange
I was earlier looking for a ETRN solution with qmail, so I could queue mail for dialup customers. I came up short. Since that I've seen a few ETRN patches for qmail, but I've not tried them out. I ended up with a solution where a pop-client connected to a pop3 dummy account (always empty), and with the correct username and password triggered a smtp-feed from our mailserver. You can use a standard POP-client, or write a telnet script that is triggered from Exchange. If the customers network is behind a router that is using NAT and private network addresses, the router has to forward all incoming traffic on port 25 to the internal mailserver. Not all routers is supporting this function, that is called PAT on Cisco 7xx routers. Most of our customers is using this solution, and only a few where the mailserver have it's own isdn card/connection. Highly recommended solution.. http://www.qmail.org/turnmail --- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich System Manager Phone: +47 2205 3034 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- - Original Message - From: Ruben van der Leij [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Olivier M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:25 PM Subject: Re: Main server = qmail, destination = ms exchange On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Olivier M. wrote: Sending the mail outside isn't a problem (relaying for an IP class). But how can I tell the qmail server that the NT box is currently online and waiting for an smtp feed ? I guess I need a kind of trigger that will start a maildirsmtp command. Is it the right way ? You have a choice of two mechanisms. The first is the ETRN-command. This is only supported on Exchange 5.5 SP1 and later. For older servers you can use a custom trigger, but I'm uncertain about how and what. Start with searching support.microsoft.com for 'Exchange ETRN'. This will point you to the right documents for the Exchange-side of the story.. -- Ruben -- Eat more memory!
New qmail install help.
I'm not getting any information about qmail from syslog (/var/log/messages). It would be nice to see the errors from qmail. _ Qmail starts when the server boots up,(Starting qmail: qmail-send qmail-smtpd, just before iBCS, apache, samba and gpm starts) but ps shows no deamons after the boot is completed. darkstar:~# ps PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 130 1 S0:00 -bash 131 2 S0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux 132 3 S0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux 133 4 S0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux 134 5 S0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux 135 6 S0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux 1240 p0 S0:00 -bash 1517 p0 R0:00 ps IF I start qmail manually, without stopping it first, even though it looks like it is not running, this is the error I get: darkstar:~# qmail start Starting qmail: qmail-send qmail-smtpdsupervise: fatal: unable to acquire lock: temporary failure ___ Now if I manually Stop, then Start __ darkstar:~# qmail stop Stopping qmail: qmail-smtpd qmail-send. darkstar:~# qmail start Starting qmail: qmail-send qmail-smtpd. darkstar:~# ps PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND I took out the agetty,ps,bash lines to compress the doc. 1130 p0 S0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc 1133 p0 S0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1005 -g101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-s 1171 p0 S0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc 1172 p0 R0:00 ps The document I am reading says to look for 4 qmail daemons. __ IF I keep running the ps command, I can catch the lspawn and splogger loading and then immediately unloading. I caught this on screen. darkstar:/etc/rc.d# ps PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 7033 p0 S N 0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc 7037 p0 S N 0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1005 -g101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-s 7072 p0 S N 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox 7073 p0 R N 0:00 qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail 7074 p0 R N 0:00 qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail 7075 p0 S N 0:00 supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc 7076 p0 R0:00 ps I read in the document, if you have problems with qmail loading and unloading, put a nohup in front of the supervise command. Here's the entries out of the qmail script. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting qmail: qmail-send" nohup supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc | setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail echo -n " qmail-smtpd" nohup supervise /var/supervise/qmail/smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -u$QMAILDUID -g$NOFILESGID 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd-wrapper 21 | setuser qmaill accustamp | \ setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail/smtpd _ This is a test from the TEST.deliver which probably is not going to work without daemons loaded, but here it is anyway. darkstar:~$ whoami mcthomas darkstar:~$ echo to: mcthomas | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject bash: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject: Permission denied ** No rights? See below! darkstar:~$ ls -Falc /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject /bin/ls: /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject: Permission denied darkstar:~$ su - Password: darkstar:~# echo to: mcthomas | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble in home directory (#4.3.0) darkstar:~# ls -Falc /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 33096 Sep 18 10:18 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject* darkstar:~# ___ funny thing about all of this is, it appears to be working, but only for mail to and from users on this box. Although it does send outbound mail correctly. It does not receive inbound mail. Any Ideas would be appreciated. MarkT.
Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html
Lynx fails for me, too (version 2.8rel.2)... in my case it's because my router blocks the returning data connection from the FTP server. Apparently lynx doesn't know how to do passive FTP. Perhaps your problem is similar? Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.discord.org/ Unsolicited bulk email charge: $500/message. Don't send me any. PGP Fingerprint: 0C1F FE18 D311 1792 5EA8 43C8 7AD2 B485 DE75 841C On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jeff Taylor wrote: I am using Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.9 (13 Sep 1999) and it just hangs on the ftp://kookbera... address. Jeff Quoting Frederik Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:12:36AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: When you double click on this address(or cut and paste it), do you get to this site, or do you get errors. Http://www.pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html Because, if you can get there, I have a real funny problem. Because I use Pobox.com for my mail redirector, and I frequent their site, I just can't get to ~djb/ under pobox.com. DJB uses anonftpd which uses a more general/better ls format, but also one that isn't universally supported. ~djb maps there. Squid supports it, lynx 2.8 supports it (i believe =2.6). I think latest IE/NScape do as well, but I do most things via SQUID, so I'm not sure. -Sincerely, Fred
Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html
Chris, I _constantly_ got "Network error: connection reset by peer" when I trying to get anything below http://pobox.com/~djb I guess it's a problem of DJB's site, since http://pobox.com works fine. Maybe it's because I use proxy to access Inet from my LAN. Ilya - Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 1:51 PM Subject: Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:54:40AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: I am trying to setup qmail for the first time. Being a newbie to Linux, I need all of the help I can get. I keep seing references to this, but I cannot see anything under pobox.com/. I even got this message after signing up to this mailing list. See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html for more information about qmail. Please read http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html before sending your question to the qmail mailing list. Just follow these instructions literally. Don't try to "see anything under pobox.com," whatever that might mean. Access the cited URLs, and there you will find the desired information. Chris
qmail-smtpd-wrapper error.
Does anyone have any suggestions on an install document for users with
minimal Linux experience. I have tried the LWQ and I can send mail, and
receive mail locally, and send mail out to any host on the internet, but I
can't receive any. I have worked strictly off of this document up to now,
and doing a little extra digging around, I found this. It looks like my
server1 sending mail to my linux server, and dropping connection sounds like
what may be happening. I do not get errors back on the sending side. Maybe
the next few hours, I'll get a retry notification back. DNS records are
correct and my MX records point to my servername.
Anyone have any ideas on what might be the problem here.
And if you don't have any suggestions about this, how about an install doc
that you've heard some successfull newbies working with. Or a way to
Uninstall the whole thing.
937728522.446395 tcpserver: status: 0/40
937728523.216507 tcpserver: status: 1/40
937728523.216853 tcpserver: pid 16854 from 24.4.41.201
937728523.256106 tcpserver: ok 16854
c283817-b.btnrug1.la.home.com:24.4.46.125:25
c283817-a.btnrug1.la.home.com:24.4.41.201::1084
937728523.256241 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to run
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd-wrapper: access denied
937728523.256449 tcpserver: end 16854 status 28416
937728523.256503 tcpserver: status: 0/40
This is the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd-wrapper
#/bin/bash
# remmed the next line out due to errors.
***MCT**
ulimit -d 1024
exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $ {1+"$@"}
auto-forward email and hierarchical email account
Hello, Is it possible to redirect all incoming email automatically from a specific email account on qmail server to another email account of different domain? Any additional modules required? Is it the same as the .forward of sendmail? I would like to build a hierarchical email account naming scheme, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc Is it possible to do that on qmail? How it works? Since I use POP3 client to retrieve mail, any conflict with this naming scheme? Thanks. Jackie
size of users/cdb?
Hello: Anyone can site examples of the user/cdb capacity and size etc. I am at 200,000 users and want to know if I should be worried. Anyone working or is it even feasible to talk about an actual database like msql or mysql to store these users?? At what point will the cdb file be too large?? Right now the file's physical size is 20M. Thanks Burzin
Qmail with LDAP auth patches
Anyone have experience with this? I've set it up, and the LDAP service is definitely working... when I use checkpassword on the server, with the command qmail-popup localhost /qmail-1.03/checkpassword pwd it authenticates me fine. But when I move the checkpassword into the /bin directory and try to connect from another machine, it rejects me. In this case, I'm using Outlook 2000, so all I get is a password box back in my face (ie: no helpful output) but I suspect that there wouldn't be much information returned anyway. A small sample from the ldif file before I ldbm it: dn: cn=John Smith cn: John Smith sn: Smith objectClass: qmailUser objectClass: person mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailHost: mail.budget.co.nz mailMessageStore: /home/jsmith/Mailbox/ qmailUser: jsmith qmailUID: 666 qmailGID: 666 uid: jsmith userPassword: xxx the user password is using the same encryption scheme as the passwd file (DES?) and before you ask, yes, I do use maildirs called Mailbox... it's from when I first setup qmail and was a bit confused when I copied and pasted some example lines into my startup files... suffice to say it's easier to leave it like that for now. Anyway, I know the LDAP service works properly, and as I say, the manual checkpassword test works fine on the console, just apparently not from a client. Any ideas anyone?
Re: http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 08:55:46AM +0600, Ilya L. Shadrin wrote: I _constantly_ got "Network error: connection reset by peer" when I trying to get [ruben@pc-ruben ~]$ wget http://pobox.com/~djb/ --08:13:36-- http://pobox.com:80/%7Edjb/ = ndex.html.2' Connecting to pobox.com:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily Location: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/ [following] --08:13:36-- ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu:21/www/ = .listing' Connecting to koobera.math.uic.edu:21... connected! Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == TYPE I ... done. == CWD www ... done. == PORT ... done.== LIST ... done. 0K - 08:13:39 (7.57 KB/s) - .listing' saved [4972] It looks like everything works fine. Do you have a ftp-client handy? Try that. If that still gives problems, try passive mode ftp. See the manual from your ftp-client for instructions. Note that MICROS~1's ftp.exe is braindead for not being able to do passive mode. -- Ruben -- Eat more memory!
