Where does my letter go?
Hi, I found a very strange program, and anyone can help me? In the server's users/assign,I added the following line: =hotdog:nobody:65534:65534:/usr/mail/ho/hotdog::: so mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] is work fine . :) then I did another test,I sent some letters to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for the reason I want to know if qmail think this is letter to mailbox 'hotdog' or to another un-existent box 'hotdog-test'. (in users/assign, it begin with '=' and not '+') qmail's log show me : 576977.293613 starting delivery 464: msg 23707 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] 576977.295332 status: local 1/10 remote 2/50 576977.310426 delivery 464: success: did_0+0+0/ All seems ok? but not. Either can I found this letter in hotdog's mailbox ,nor in bounced letters. Now ,the problem is, where does this letter go? Hotdog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tcpserver bug?
Hi, Yesterday morning I noticed that every qmail service was down. There was an xs4all guy who tried the host's ports (many telnet, ftp etc. connections), including pop3 and smtp ports (these are served by tcpserver/qmail). When I tried the listening ports, it came to light that inetd's services worked right but tcpserver's services went down. I didn't see any exciting in the log. -- Regards: Kevin (Balazs) @ synergon
Selective smarthosting (actually pretty dumb)
I want to do selective smarthosting for some extreme dumb reason. I.e. I host a virtual domain for x users. A handful of them needs to be smarthosted (i.e. SMTP:ed to another host). I really don't want to use serialmail, but a solution similiar forward or qmail-inject, where the REMOTE HOST can be set. I have a very wague memory of someone using mail addresses in smtproutes, and even that Russell said it was OK, but I can clearly see that nothing in the qmail-remote source does anything like it, so that must be a ghost of my mind. Any ideas someone? (The dumb way to do it -- which I want to avoid -- is to setup another instance of qmail and smarthost the whole domain to The Other Host. Thus setting up aliases for The Weird Users doing /var/qmail2/qmail-inject and thus queueing it away fot The Other Host) -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Re: On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Peter Gradwell wrote: See http://www.qmail.org/turnmail > Hi, > > has anyone got an implementation of > > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt > > It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses > by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm. > > for qmail & maildirs? > > - guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM. -- See complete headers for more info
Re: maildir newbie problem
Yes - too bad there is a plethora of UN*X "admins" out there who don't know the -m -k /etc/skel options exist... there is no substitute for experience, but (insert your man page viewer here) is a good start. <:) Lyndon On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > now I use maildir mode of qmail , > > do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually. > > and can it automatically be produced > > when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail. > > Yes, you can, but it means that every mail delivery from now to > eternity checks for the existence of a Maildir. It's much easier to > use my convert-and-create script to create maildirs for everybody, and > add a Maildir to /etc/skel. > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: More curious than anything
On Oct 21 1999, Tim Hunter wrote: > my smtp is working, but that's not my question. Where exactly was > @cimx.com successfully delivered to? It was successfully delivered to the bit bucket (it had an empty local part, AFAICS). []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/opeth/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: spambait?
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: > Is this of interest to anyone? Is anyone doing it already? It's not > a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver > would be. There's a slight problem here...how do you prevent someone from maliciously injecting bogus addresses into the list? Some form of authentication included in the message to the list? It seems to me that this is a system that would imply a great deal of trust. I barely trust Vixie & Co. with my mail, and this potentially involves a lot of other people. What would be the criteria for being permitted to post to this list? You'd also need some form of filtering to ensure that multiple copies of the same address never make it to the mailing list, so that all the recipients don't need to take on the work of processing them several times. Why not just do it as an RBL-style list, so as to make the information more easily queried? Have the auto-submissions simply add the address to an RBL-style DNS zone, and you're all set. Anyone with an RBL-aware system (which is damn near anyone, these days) can then use your blacklist, and storage/expiration would be centralized. -- Edward S. Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ What goes up, must come down. ] http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ]
Re: spambait?
This sounds like a great idea. I would be willing to try it.
Re: maildir newbie problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > now I use maildir mode of qmail , > do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually. > and can it automatically be produced > when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail. Yes, you can, but it means that every mail delivery from now to eternity checks for the existence of a Maildir. It's much easier to use my convert-and-create script to create maildirs for everybody, and add a Maildir to /etc/skel. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: qmail
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:18:44PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote: > I think that is only one advantage on usign sendmail: you can > program it to play the old 'X' or 'O' game... ( somebody can tell me how > can i say this game name in english? ) > >X | | > ___|___|___ > | X | > ___|___|___ > | | > | O | O It's called tic-tac-toe. But the above story I've heard several times but I have NOT seen any evidence trace of it but a small passus repeating the fact that "... programming a tic-tac-toe game in sendmail.cf ...". Anyone care to point me there? No, I'm not porting it to qmail ;-) I'm just very curious. > qmail is very good. Try it. Yes it is. Very. -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
spambait?
Chris Garrigues writes: > * Spambait addresses: when mail is sent to a bait address its > sources are blacklisted. I have bunches of spambait addresses. Let's use them to combat spam. How's this for a plan: o We make some software for qmail users which extracts the connecting IP address from spam sent to spambait. I have something like this already. o It sets the Subject: to the IP address, and emails the spam to a mailing list (which I'd be happy to host). o We make some software which gets subscribed to that mailing list. It takes the IP address from the Subject:, and stuffs it into your /etc/spammers.txt file like this: IP.AD.DR.ESS:allow,RBLSMTPD=-Your host is spamming. That file, plus your usual /etc/smtp.txt, are combined to create smtp.cdb whenever new spamming hosts are added. From time to time the oldest addresses are removed. Is this of interest to anyone? Is anyone doing it already? It's not a qmail-specific thing, although the code for the sender and receiver would be. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: Multiple emails
What do your logs say Mr. Vice President? Can you show evidence of qmail producing duplicates. In my mail system experience, 95% of all repeated messages happen somewhere in the POP3 transaction. (server mailbox --> POP3 --> mail client). - Phushnickens "Scott A. Cole" escribió: > > It's pretty simple code, but if you have any productive in sights, I would > enjoy hearing them. > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Fabrice Scemama wrote: > > > Well, Mr Vice President, > > your PHP3 script might be badly designed ;-) > > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Scott A. Cole wrote: > > > > > I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use > > > qmail on our system and thus so does the php. > > > > > > However, as of late, users of this script have been getting multiple > > > emails being sent out when using it. > > > > > > Does anyone know what's going on here? > > > > > > --- > > > Scott A. Cole > > > Senior Vice President, Engineering & CTO > > > OneSight, Inc. > > > http://onesight.com > > > > > > OneSight - "Connecting Companies with Consumers" > > > --- > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Re: Multiple emails
It's pretty simple code, but if you have any productive in sights, I would enjoy hearing them. On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Fabrice Scemama wrote: > Well, Mr Vice President, > your PHP3 script might be badly designed ;-) > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Scott A. Cole wrote: > > > I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use > > qmail on our system and thus so does the php. > > > > However, as of late, users of this script have been getting multiple > > emails being sent out when using it. > > > > Does anyone know what's going on here? > > > > --- > > Scott A. Cole > > Senior Vice President, Engineering & CTO > > OneSight, Inc. > > http://onesight.com > > > > OneSight - "Connecting Companies with Consumers" > > --- > > > > > > > > >
Re: Odd bouncing loop
As it turns out, the Novell system running GroupWise 5.2 had crashed the day before. Apparently something was stuck in the queue. By the time a tech got to it, there were over 60,000 copies in the queue. I suppose the problem was not really qmail related and did not belong on the list. I wasn't sure of that though, and was looking for confirmation that qmail was not at fault. On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, zip wrote: > Hi, > A Groupwise server (company123.com) that uses my qmail server > (mail.zipcon.net) as a relay just sent 6000+ messages identical to the one > included. It appears to me that the Groupwise server is not properly > handling verification that the bounced message has been delivered, or in > this case, also bounced. Either that, or the the rocketmail server is not > properly bouncing the message. [snip]
Re: maildir newbie problem
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:33:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all: > now I use maildir mode of qmail , > do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually. > and can it automatically be produced > when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail. Yow can add maildirmake to your default delivery in /var/qmail/rc like so... #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Maildir/ by default. export PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/bin" qmail-start "|test -d ./Maildir || maildirmake ./Maildir ./Maildir/ " splogger qmail Or some such, depending on which shell environment. The above is bash. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://online-isp.com
maildir newbie problem
hi all: now I use maildir mode of qmail , do I have to make .qmail and Maildir for all users manually. and can it automatically be produced when a mail arrive like the Mbox or /var/spool/mail/users in Sendmail.
[fwd: SAUCE (paranoid anti-spam mailserver) 0.5.0 ALPHA released ]
FYI, this announcement fell in my mailbox. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am pleased to announce the first public release of GNU SAUCE, version 0.5.0 ALPHA. SAUCE (Software Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) is an SMTP server that sits between the Internet and your actual mail software. It was originally written to help in the fight against spam, but it also helps encourage good configuration and administration in general. It has various tactics for reducing incoming spam: * Extremely aggressive checks on incoming email and its sources. If any problems are discovered the mail is not accepted. * Spambait addresses: when mail is sent to a bait address its sources are blacklisted. * Mail from previously-unknown sources is delayed to give them a chance to try a bait address or get their account cancelled. Pros: * SAUCE is very sucessful. It can cut spam by an order of magnitude. * Administrators using SAUCE have to deal with much less bounced mail. * SAUCE never bounces legitimate mail from correct, non-spamming sites. Cons: * Hardly any documentation at the moment - for mail experts only ! * Most spam sources are misconfigured, but many other sites are too, and SAUCE will bounce their mail. SAUCE is not for you if clueless strangers often send you mail that's important to you. * SAUCE delays mail from new senders and sites (configurable, though). * SAUCE is something of a resource hog. * SAUCE is hard to install, especially if you're not using Debian. SAUCE is not a mailer. You need existing SMTP software, which must have standard anti-spam features such as relay prevention, checking recipients during the SMTP conversation, etc. Currently you must be using Exim, though support for other mailers could be added. You also need Tcl 8.1 or later. Software which will make SAUCE easier to install or more functional: * authbind (as from Debian GNU/Linux). * userv (`you-serve', www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/userv/). * Linux 2.2 ipchains firewalling. See also: The Exim Internet Mailer (www.exim.org) The Mail Abuse Protection System (http://maps.vix.com/) The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (www.cauce.org) For more information, including details of the mailing lists, CVS repository, and distribution files, visit http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/ SAUCE is also available via the GNU FTP site and its mirrors, listed below. 0.5.0 ALPHA should soon be available at most mirrors. If you have queries, please join the sauce-discuss mailing list in preference to mailing the author. Thank you. MD5 checksum: 8b88d1510ed297a999603ca1bdf971de sauce-0.5.0.tar.gz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOA21YcMWjroj9a3bAQGOzgQAytZPHjMS9ihQvPCWFTy82yEA2mKNWH1O yTTp5XgtWU93aNVsS1U0qmVw+4I7tp9CXMEN2Ac3/qQnVGkmWc6m3ObwRrO6AuM3 PfpLiRGX+3IJ6Z3GHOUdt+LiLSaAC1hyJJLPtoCYXxnUujZ3T8qwObTSj/mm2pxk DAukdzxJ/w4= =dAnI -END PGP SIGNATURE- [ Most GNU software is compressed using the GNU `gzip' compression program. Source code is available on most sites distributing GNU software. Executables for various systems and information about using gzip can be found at the URL http://www.gzip.org. For information on how to order GNU software on CD-ROM and printed GNU manuals, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html or e-mail a request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By ordering your GNU software from the FSF, you help us continue to develop more free software. Media revenues are our primary source of support. Donations to FSF are deductible on US tax returns. The above software will soon be at these ftp sites as well. Please try them before ftp.gnu.org as ftp.gnu.org is very busy! A possibly more up-to-date list is at the URL http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the mirrored ftp sites for the GNU Project, listed by country: United States: California - labrea.stanford.edu/pub/gnu, gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU Hawaii - ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/gnu Illinois - uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu (Internet address 128.174.5.14) Kentucky - ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/gnu Maryland - ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 164.109.10.23) Massachusetts - aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu Michigan - gnu.egr.msu.edu/pub/gnu Missouri - wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu New Mexico - ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/gnu New York - ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep Ohio - ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/mirror/gnu Virginia - ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu Washington - ftp.nodomainname.net/pub/mirrors/gnu Africa: South Africa - ftp.sun.ac.za/gnu The Americas: Brazil - ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu Brazil - master.softaplic.com.br/pub/gnu Brazil - linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/gnu Brazil - ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/gnu Canada - ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu Chile - ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/gnu (Internet address 146.83.198.3) Costa Rica - sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/GNU Mexico - ftp.uaem.mx/pub/gnu
Re: Multiple emails
Well, Mr Vice President, your PHP3 script might be badly designed ;-) On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Scott A. Cole wrote: > I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use > qmail on our system and thus so does the php. > > However, as of late, users of this script have been getting multiple > emails being sent out when using it. > > Does anyone know what's going on here? > > --- > Scott A. Cole > Senior Vice President, Engineering & CTO > OneSight, Inc. > http://onesight.com > > OneSight - "Connecting Companies with Consumers" > --- > > > >
Multiple emails
I have a script written in php3 that sends email via the php calls. We use qmail on our system and thus so does the php. However, as of late, users of this script have been getting multiple emails being sent out when using it. Does anyone know what's going on here? --- Scott A. Cole Senior Vice President, Engineering & CTO OneSight, Inc. http://onesight.com OneSight - "Connecting Companies with Consumers" ---
Re: messages looping indefinetely
Lidia Marchioni writes:
> Our news server feeds posts to mailing list (qmail / ezmlml). Here is
> an error received from qmail:
Why are you getting an SMTP error? I'm sorry, I mean why are you
getting an *SMTP* error?
> 20 13:45:04: DATA body: Expecting 250, got 451 timeout (#4.4.2)
>
> 20 13:45:04: Reque 0 {<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> netdynamics.public.support.nd4.talk:19657:210:2502890:16512:0:0}
Is this your news server which is requeuing the message?
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
messages looping indefinetely
I posted a message yesterday but haven't heard anything back.
Our news server feeds posts to mailing list (qmail / ezmlml). Here is
an error received from qmail:
20 13:25:02: Opening /var/spool/dnews/work/netdynamicslists.send
20 13:25:02: Sending this to
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
20 13:25:02: Sending this to
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
20 13:25:03: Sending this to
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
20 13:25:03: Wrapping long line 304
20 13:25:03: Wrapping long line 202
20 13:25:03: Wrapping long line 15288
20 13:45:04: DATA body: Expecting 250, got 451 timeout (#4.4.2)
20 13:45:04: Reque 0 {<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
netdynamics.public.support.nd4.talk:19657:210:2502890:16512:0:0}
20 13:45:04: (Broken pipe) nntp: Socket closed, errno=32 noipname
20 13:45:04: (Broken pipe) nntp_perror: socket_read failed
20 13:45:04: nntp: Closing socket chan[1] 4 noipname
20 13:45:04: Thats odd, channel closed from 0 to -1
20 13:45:04: Done xmit
20 13:45:04: 8 read, 2 sent, 1 rejected, 0.00166113 per second
20 13:45:08: Waiting for next xmit time {*5 *}
20 13:45:13: Local site {forums.netdynamics.com}
20 13:45:13: nntp: Doing forward DNS lookup
20 13:45:13: nntp: forward DNS completed
20 13:45:13: Destination site {forums.netdynamics.com:25}
20 13:45:13: here_hello recieved
20 13:45:13: Flush successful 280 Site flushed
now according to some earlier posting:
---
A quick grep of qmail-smtpd.c shows that a 451 can only be generated due
to an internal problem with qmail-queue or a resource limit is exceeded.
---
I have stopped qmail-send last night. Only qmail-smtpd, qmail-queue and
qmail-inject are running. The same messages (repeated over and over)
are piling up in queue/mess/. If this was an internal qmail-queue
problem what could be the fix? Any troubleshooting ideas? We are
running inetd. We have had this configuration work successfully for
around a year, no changes were done recently...
thanks
lidia
cannot start: qmail-send is already running
I have configured my rc file as laid out in LWQ. I am getting this error in maillog. Oct 21 13:54:13 hchlunx01 qmail: 940532053.685387 alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running Oct 21 13:54:14 hchlunx01 qmail: 940532054.705194 alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running Oct 21 13:54:15 hchlunx01 qmail: 940532055.725390 alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running Oct 21 13:54:16 hchlunx01 qmail: 940532056.745306 alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running Since the errors are every second I believe it has something to do with supervise. /var/log/qmail gets 10 files all time stamped. This fits with cyclogs parameters. Inside each file is a list of hundreds of pids. Which I think would coincide with the output from attempting to start qmail-send. [1] 522 [1] 545 [1] 561 [1] 567 [1] 573 [1] 579 My hunch is that something is telling supervise that qmail-send is down. This is as far as I've got. My assumptions could be wrong. Any ideas? Thanks John
Remove or masquerade Received fields.
Good Day. We have outer mail server with qmail installed and local mail server behind the first one. I'd like to cut or masquerade name of local mail-server from Received and other headers names. How can I do it ? Thanks -- Pashinin:OL
Re: Looping followup.
The is an inetd error message. Switch to tcpserver for qmail. inetd has a "feature" of disabling services that it thinks are being spawned too quickly. This is in the FAQ! On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > the message that I am getting is "smtp/tcp server failing (looping), > service terminated." Can anyone shed a bit of light on this?? Now I will > say that we were running a contest on our WWW page with all the entries > (40,000+ e-mails) being handled by the Qmail server...could that have > anything to do with it? I did a cold reboot and now it's been fine for > about 20 hours.any ideas? I really don't like the idea of having to > reboot the machine either- it's been up for 11days > > thanks for all your help, > > Bernie Courtney > Z100 New York Radio Engineering > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - 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
Re: On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)
Looks to me a lot like UUCP, ETRN. I'd say it is a wrongly directed initiative as any business worth a damn will have some type of permanent access in the near future. - Eric Peter Gradwell escribió: > > Hi, > > has anyone got an implementation of > > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt > > It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses > by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm. > > for qmail & maildirs? > > - guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM. > > thanks > > peter > > -- > peter at gradwell dot com; http://www.gradwell.com/ > gradwell dot com Ltd. Enabling the internet you don't see. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Queue's
What kind of beliefs are held on mounting /var/qmail/queue on a seperate partition? Are any problems out there with this? I'm thinking of this statement from the FAQ --> "Do not use async (or softupdates) filesystems; if you do, and if your system crashes at the wrong moment, you will lose mail. Under Linux, make sure that all mail-handling filesystems are mounted sync..." Therefore we will be testing a seperate queue partition mounted sync (in Linux) -> but experience is best.
On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR)
Hi, has anyone got an implementation of ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm. for qmail & maildirs? - guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM. thanks peter -- peter at gradwell dot com; http://www.gradwell.com/ gradwell dot com Ltd. Enabling the internet you don't see.
Looping followup.
Hey everyone, the message that I am getting is "smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated." Can anyone shed a bit of light on this?? Now I will say that we were running a contest on our WWW page with all the entries (40,000+ e-mails) being handled by the Qmail server...could that have anything to do with it? I did a cold reboot and now it's been fine for about 20 hours.any ideas? I really don't like the idea of having to reboot the machine either- it's been up for 11days thanks for all your help, Bernie Courtney Z100 New York Radio Engineering mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail question
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:10:49 + Emmanuel PIERRE wrote: > How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ? Either deliver it to the local mail system via SMTP, or specify a mail delivery agent (mda line in .fetchmailrc) that writes mail to a maildir. Such a MDA is available at: ftp://ftp.nemeton.com.au/pub/src/deliver-maildir-1.1.tar.gz The package includes a manual page; it's pretty simple. It is also usable from qmail (sometimes useful for delivery from .qmail-* files) and sendmail since I use hosts I don't administer that (sigh) have sendmail on them. Regards, Giles
Re: qmail
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could give me feed back on qmail vs sendmail.. Is > it faster, more stable, less problematic ?? etc... Mr. Neil, i think that qmail is the best open source MTA. It's very fast. Much more than the old sendmail. It uses much less memory (i think) to work. It's more stable (specially if you use ./Maildir/). It's easy to configure, easy to maintain, easy to fix (thanks to the list people ;-) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I think that is only one advantage on usign sendmail: you can program it to play the old 'X' or 'O' game... ( somebody can tell me how can i say this game name in english? ) X | | ___|___|___ | X | ___|___|___ | | | O | O Somebody wanna play? ;-) qmail is very good. Try it. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luis Campos de Carvalho System Administrator at ECB -- Escola Paulista de Medicina "This post uses only 100% recycled electrons." -- Shadowlion =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: qmail
Neil Floris wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could give me feed back on qmail vs sendmail.. Is > it faster, more stable, less problematic ?? etc... Yes, yes, yes... etc = yes. See http://www.pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html -- Andre
qmail
I was wondering if anyone could give me feed back on qmail vs sendmail.. Is it faster, more stable, less problematic ?? etc...
mailbox /var/mail
Hi all!, Im trying to setup qmail on a sun ultra with solaris. The default mailbox is /var/mail, what is the right /var/qmail/boot/binmx to execute? Thanks in advance! Julian
Re: qmail stopped, reason unknown
Well, it looks like all I needed to do was go to bed and get some sleep.. because when I woke up this morning, qmail was back to working fine again. I had a ton of test emails show up in another mailbox at another location. I have no idea what could have help qmail up. Thanks, Russell, for the suggestion that my /var partition might be full, but it looks to be fairly free. Is there a cron set up that clears these things out automatically? Maybe that is why it's working now.. but I have no idea. james
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:14:29PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: > > What is a red herring? Main Entry: red herring Function: noun Date: 15th century 1 : a herring cured by salting and slow smoking to a dark brown color 2 [from the practice of drawing a red herring across a trail to confuse hunting dogs] : something that distracts attention from the real issue Meaning 2 applies here. The point I was making was that the syslog smtpd entry may have been unrelated to the problem. Chris
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > Right, those specific hosts which are consistently giving you trouble. > Hopefully you told the sysadmin that his system is broken, because if > it's giving you trouble, it's probably giving everyone else trouble as > well. Well, not actually a problem for me, just an ``academic'' question ;-). Right now, qmail is a very good solution for the three low-traffic-servers (not more than 800 messages/day) controlled by me :-), but who knows what the future will bring. Regards Mirko
Re: two questions....
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:46:49AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 21 October 1999 at 00:07:48 -0400 > > 1.) I want to write a pearl script to use as the back-end of a web page > > form, now normally I would reference the location of sendmail (eg. > > "/usr/lib/sendmail -t") but now that I'm running Qmail, what should I do to > > get this script to enable it to send outgoing e-mail?? > > Many of them will work with the sendmail-wrapper that qmail provides. > The suggestion to use the perl module for SMTP also makes sense. At least the smtplib-module for python works flawlessly in it's newest version (1.52), before it had some CrLF-problems. Regards Mirko -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] privat: http://sites.inka.de/picard commerce: http://www.webideal.de qmail, ldap, serialfax, rh-isdn: http://www.webideal.de/#downloads
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
Eric Dahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is a red herring? Misleading evidence. See also: http://www.redherring.com/about/lore.html -Dave
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
No, this is Linux 2.0.36 on Intel. -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
What is a red herring? - Eric > This could be a red herring. > > Chris
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
Albert Hopkins wrote: > > We are having the same problem all of the sudden. We are already using > tcpserver for pop3d. Linux 2.2.x on Alpha too? Doesn't sound like an qmail-ldap bug, it's probably a bug of Linux kernel. I can't help with that, I have only FreeBSD. -- Andre
Re: reading users/cdb
Duh. Of course. Thank you! > > cdbdump -- Peeter Pirn - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sys Admin - FWI Internet
Re: SIOCGIFCONF (or qmail?) problem?
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:49:13PM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> and sets ifc.ifc_len to 1024. I am not kernel-hacker enough to understand
> what's happening in /sys/net/if.c between lines 820 and 877, and, people,
Well... I've made quick workaround for it. Patch for ipme.c applied:
57a58,62
> if (ifc.ifc_len > len) {
> /* We've got TRASHING! */
> substdio_puts("PANIC: IOCTL trashed buffers!");
> kill(getpid(), SIGABRT);;
> }
So all ipme() users will die on ioctl trashing.
However, shouldn't ioctl honour ifc.ifc_len?
Alex.
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Sven Veckes wrote: > Hi, > > I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he > stops working. > Sysmtoms: > no pop > no smtp > telnet really slow > netstat hangs up Does netstat -n also hang up? If not, I'd be looking for a DNS problem. > > We have a lot of customers on this server. > I couldn't figure out where the problem is, some errormessage from > syslog was : in.telnetd: ttloop . This could be a red herring. Chris
Re: reading users/cdb
Frank D. Cringle writes: > cdbdump
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
We are having the same problem all of the sudden. We are already using tcpserver for pop3d. On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Sven Veckes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he > > stops working. > > Sysmtoms: > > no pop > > no smtp > > telnet really slow > > netstat hangs up > > > > We have a lot of customers on this server. > > I couldn't figure out where the problem is, some errormessage from > > syslog was : in.telnetd: ttloop . > > > > I need quick help! > > I' ve to fix the problem thats why I didn't write more. > > > > But I will give you more info if you need, sorry. > > Use tcpserver instead of inetd. > > -- > Andre > > Get qmail-ldap at http://www.nrg4u.com > -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reading users/cdb
Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + Peeter Pirn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > | I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb > | from the command line? > > I usually just ask qmail-getpw. > > qmail-getpw fishbone | tr '\000' :; echo > qmail-getpw fishbone-something | tr '\000' :; echo cdbdump
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
Mirko Zeibig writes: > I guess you have to recompile qmail, then and have two sets of binaries etc? I would recommend that you have a whole separate source tree. > So this would only be an approach for a handful of hosts. Right, those specific hosts which are consistently giving you trouble. Hopefully you told the sysadmin that his system is broken, because if it's giving you trouble, it's probably giving everyone else trouble as well. -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: reading users/cdb
+ Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | + Peeter Pirn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | | I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb | | from the command line? | | I usually just ask qmail-getpw. How dumb. qmail-getpw never looks in users/cdb; it is qmail-lspawn which does, and then it runs qmail-getpw if the lookup failed. Now, back in the qmail 1.01 days, I actually modified qmail-lspawn to take a local part on the command line, do the lookup, report what it found, and then run qmail-local just like qmail-lspawn does but with the -n flag added. You'll probably find it in the archives: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Harald
Re: Remove from List
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Mark Thomas wrote: > I deleted my old mail on how to get off of the list. I need to remove > myself for a couple of weeks. > Where does the remove request get mailed to? > Thanks, > MarkT. > > > > - 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
Re: qmail-smtpd-wrapper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have set my rc.qmail file as is written in LWQ. I'm trying to find some
>more info on qmail-smtpd-wrapper. Especially what exactly it does, and what
>ouput it gives.
>
>Can anyone point me towards some more documentation?
The qmail-smtpd-wrapper is included in LWQ:
#!/bin/bash
ulimit -d 1024
exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ${1+"$@"}
It just uses bash's ulimit command to limit the data segment size of
the process to 1 MB, then exec's qmail-smtpd.
-Dave
Remove from List
I deleted my old mail on how to get off of the list. I need to remove myself for a couple of weeks. Where does the remove request get mailed to? Thanks, MarkT.
Re: More curious than anything
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Tim Hunter wrote: > I just had a friend test a change I made on my smtp, by telnetting to port > 25 and manually sending a message. > Obviously he mistyped something and here is what showed up in my log: > 940509236.293636 new msg 162004 > 940509236.293661 info msg 162004: bytes 194 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 22308 > uid 501 > 940509236.309943 starting delivery 18: msg 162004 to local @cimx.com > 940509236.309989 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 > 940509236.311783 delivery 18: success: > 940509236.311810 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 > 940509236.311839 end msg 162004 > > my smtp is working, but that's not my question. > Where exactly was @cimx.com successfully delivered to? The bit bucket. He asked for qmail to drop his message on the floor when it got to cimx.com and that is exactly what it did. :) This has come up before and been discussed many times. qmail did exactly what he told it to. If you disagree with this behavior, please read the past threads in one of the archives and then drop it. :) - 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
More curious than anything
I just had a friend test a change I made on my smtp, by telnetting to port 25 and manually sending a message. Obviously he mistyped something and here is what showed up in my log: 940509236.293636 new msg 162004 940509236.293661 info msg 162004: bytes 194 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 22308 uid 501 940509236.309943 starting delivery 18: msg 162004 to local @cimx.com 940509236.309989 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 940509236.311783 delivery 18: success: 940509236.311810 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 940509236.311839 end msg 162004 my smtp is working, but that's not my question. Where exactly was @cimx.com successfully delivered to?
Re: reading users/cdb
+ Peeter Pirn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb | from the command line? I usually just ask qmail-getpw. qmail-getpw fishbone | tr '\000' :; echo qmail-getpw fishbone-something | tr '\000' :; echo The problem with that, of course, is that you don't really know whether the answer was extracted from users/cdb or deduced from the passwd file. You might wish to create a test version of qmail-getpw to get around that. - Harald
qmail-smtpd-wrapper
I have set my rc.qmail file as is written in LWQ. I'm trying to find some more info on qmail-smtpd-wrapper. Especially what exactly it does, and what ouput it gives. Can anyone point me towards some more documentation? Thanks John
Re: Header Skelter (was: Re: this dam(N)(ED) list)
> >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's it. Are you sure? He has had two Delivered-To lines... In any case, I think Dan might want to start using the verh patch. Of course, people should also save their subscription acknowledgment... Mate
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Mirko Zeibig wrote: > I guess you have to recompile qmail, then and have two sets of binaries etc? > So this would only be an approach for a handful of hosts. Yes, but Do you have a lot of hosts, then dedicate some of them to have high concurrency and some low, if you feel that you need to. -- magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:30:41AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > If you know that you have an ongoing need to talk to hosts like this, > install another instance of qmail with the desired concurrencyremote, > and use a virtualdomain on your main qmail to redirect the mail > through that qmail. Sounds complicated, but it isn't. > > echo 'dumb.host:dumbhost' >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains > rm /var/qmail2/control/* > ln -s /var/qmail/control/me /var/qmail2/control/me > echo '4' >/var/qmail2/control/concurrencyremote > echo '|/var/qmail2/bin/forward "$EXT2"' >~alias/.qmail-dumbhost-default Hello Russel, I guess you have to recompile qmail, then and have two sets of binaries etc? So this would only be an approach for a handful of hosts. Best Regards Mirko -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] privat: http://sites.inka.de/picard commerce: http://www.webideal.de qmail, ldap, serialfax, rh-isdn: http://www.webideal.de/#downloads
Re: **URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
Sven Veckes wrote: > > Hi, > > I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he > stops working. > Sysmtoms: > no pop > no smtp > telnet really slow > netstat hangs up > > We have a lot of customers on this server. > I couldn't figure out where the problem is, some errormessage from > syslog was : in.telnetd: ttloop . > > I need quick help! > I' ve to fix the problem thats why I didn't write more. > > But I will give you more info if you need, sorry. Use tcpserver instead of inetd. -- Andre Get qmail-ldap at http://www.nrg4u.com
Re: Mailer-daemon
I had one of my users write back to it telling it "I know that you are probably very busy but could you please not give up and try it just one more time"I then proceded to post this in the copy room for all the staff to see- everyone got a great laugh out of that one... Bernie Courtney Z100 New York Radio Engineering mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Header Skelter (was: Re: this dam(N)(ED) list)
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Sam wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Balazs NAGY wrote: > > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iam sorry. This joke didn't work, but I had to pass explicite address when I subscribed. The From:-change didn't help. -- Regards: Kevin (Balazs) @ synergon
reading users/cdb
I know I have a user fishbone in my users/cdb. How do I query users/cdb from the command line? I tried bash-2.02$ cdbget \!fishbone < /var/qmail/users/cdb && echo "" bash-2.02$ cdbget \!fishbone\x000 < /var/qmail/users/cdb && echo "" I'm not able to retrieve the record. -- Peeter Pirn - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sys Admin - FWI Internet
**URGENT** MAILSERVER stops working!!!!
Hi, I'am running qmail-ldap on an alpha server (compaq ds-10). suddenly he stops working. Sysmtoms: no pop no smtp telnet really slow netstat hangs up We have a lot of customers on this server. I couldn't figure out where the problem is, some errormessage from syslog was : in.telnetd: ttloop . I need quick help! I' ve to fix the problem thats why I didn't write more. But I will give you more info if you need, sorry. Please help Sven Veckes
SIOCGIFCONF (or qmail?) problem? (fwd)
This was just sent to a couple of FreeBSD mailing lists. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:32:16 +0400 From: Alex Povolotsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SIOCGIFCONF (or qmail?) problem? Hello! I've just found, that bringing up ppp0 on a computer with one more network interface causes qmail-1.03 to crash. Investigating further, I've found that one of qmail's internal variables gets overwriten when calling ioctl SIOCGIFCONF with pointer to ifconf structure as argument (ipme.c, line 57 in qmail). I still have not found if qmail gives wrong address to ioctl or if ioctl use more memory than requested. The fail seems to occur after iterating through ds0 interface. By the way, what is ds0, how it should be configured, and where is it described? What does it do? Does anyone else runs FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE with qmail and dial-in access? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: fetchmail question
Hi, Just set up fetchmail to inject downloaded messages into a qmail instalation listening on port 25. - Eric Emmanuel PIERRE escribió: > > Hi, > > How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ? > > REgards, > > Emmanuel > -- > Emmanuel PIERRE > > A P R - J o b >l'Emploi > Sur Internet > > 32, rue Pierret, 92200 Neuilly > Tel LD: 01 41 92 91 50 - Mob: 06 57 60 42 17 - Fax: 01 41 91 92 54 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.apr-job.com -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Re: Sendmail to Qmail
Hello, Just add IP1 to the qmail machine, so it accepts both IP1 and IP2. Look at the IP_Alias HOWTO if you don't know how to do that. - Eric Manuel de Ferran escribió: > > Hye qmail users, > > we're about to migrate to a qmail server. > > We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with > IP2. > We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1 > We cant switch IPs of the machine. > > The problem is that : we modify the MX entry to redirects mail to IP2, > but we still receive mail on IP1 (because of the delay for updating DNS > entries). > > How to solve that ? > > 1. using fetchmail ? > 2. using a feature of Sendmail (didnt see anything that would fit) ? > 3. a way to reduce the delay for updating MX entry ? > > Thx > > PS : I'm really impressed by the speed of qmail. Does 'Q' stand for > Quick ? > -- > > Manuel de Ferran | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > FRAMFAB|WCUBE | http://www.wcube.fr -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
fetchmail question
Hi, How can I set-up fetchmail to put downloaded mails in Maildirs ? REgards, Emmanuel -- Emmanuel PIERRE A P R - J o b l'Emploi Sur Internet 32, rue Pierret, 92200 Neuilly Tel LD: 01 41 92 91 50 - Mob: 06 57 60 42 17 - Fax: 01 41 91 92 54 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.apr-job.com
Re: two questions....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 21 October 1999 at 00:07:48 -0400 > > > Hey everyone, > > I've got two more questions for everyone- > > 1.) I want to write a pearl script to use as the back-end of a web page > form, now normally I would reference the location of sendmail (eg. > "/usr/lib/sendmail -t") but now that I'm running Qmail, what should I do to > get this script to enable it to send outgoing e-mail?? Many of them will work with the sendmail-wrapper that qmail provides. The suggestion to use the perl module for SMTP also makes sense. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Join the 20th century before it's too late! / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ (photos) Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b (sf) http://ouroboros.demesne.com/ Ouroboros Bookworms
Re: Mailer-daemon
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:28:54PM +0200, Tony Wade wrote: You'd have to edit source code, in particular, qmail-send.c. However, note that qmail's bounce is in a specific format, QSBMF, and so it must begin with the text "Hi. This is the ". Other than that, you can modify it, and even add another language perhaps. I get these type of responses too, because customers think a human is writing them. DJB once suggested that mailer-daemon be aliased to a bounce which tells people that they're writing to a machine, and should instead contact postmaster, but it's a matter of choice. > Hi all, > > I would like to know if there is a way one could change the responce's from > the Mailer Daemon. > > I had a user mail back to mailer daemon with the following. > *grin* > > what do you mean you have given up. shall i change my service provider? > Client. > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:40 AM > Subject: failure notice > > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at Mailserver. > > 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. > > > > : > > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > > > Tony Wade (Postmaster) > The Internet Solution > Tel: (+27 11) 283 5483 > Fax: (+27 11) 283 5401 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.is.co.za > #include > Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. > -- Dave Olson > -- See complete headers for more info
Re: Mailer-daemon
Tony Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to know if there is a way one could change the responce's from >the Mailer Daemon. Sure, change the source. >I had a user mail back to mailer daemon with the following. >*grin* > >what do you mean you have given up. shall i change my service provider? >Client. >- Original Message - >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:40 AM >Subject: failure notice > > >> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at Mailserver. >> 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. >> >> : >> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) How would you reword that message to make it clearer? -Dave
Mailer-daemon
Hi all, I would like to know if there is a way one could change the responce's from the Mailer Daemon. I had a user mail back to mailer daemon with the following. *grin* what do you mean you have given up. shall i change my service provider? Client. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:40 AM Subject: failure notice > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at Mailserver. > 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. > > : > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Tony Wade (Postmaster) The Internet Solution Tel:(+27 11) 283 5483 Fax:(+27 11) 283 5401 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.is.co.za #include Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. -- Dave Olson
Re: Sendmail to Qmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 99, at 16:12, Manuel de Ferran wrote: > We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with > IP2. We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1 We cant > switch IPs of the machine. > > The problem is that : we modify the MX entry to redirects mail to IP2, but > we still receive mail on IP1 (because of the delay for updating DNS > entries). > > How to solve that ? > > 1. using fetchmail ? no > 2. using a feature of Sendmail (didnt see anything that would fit) ? Frankly: A. Do not tell sendmail that mail for yourdomain.com is local to it; ie., it will deliver it to a better MX. B. Allow relaying to yourdomain.com on the sendmail/ > 3. a way to reduce the delay for updating MX entry ? Sure. Long time in advance (a week at least), give all your DNS entries a short lifetime. After the change, bring the lifetime back to normal to not have your DNS trashed. > PS : I'm really impressed by the speed of qmail. Does 'Q' stand for > Quick ? I though it was for queue, like queue-mail. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOA8vWlMwP8g7qbw/EQLmhQCgyFsvGR1jVfQRsoyonTf9QBW82TEAn1x7 qd66Ke5zdfUdyKf7OmDeNnt1 =61q/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: Sendmail to Qmail
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Manuel de Ferran wrote: > Hye qmail users, > > we're about to migrate to a qmail server. > > We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with > IP2. > We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1 > We cant switch IPs of the machine. > > The problem is that : we modify the MX entry to redirects mail to IP2, > but we still receive mail on IP1 (because of the delay for updating DNS > entries). > > How to solve that ? > > 1. using fetchmail ? Don't even think about it. > 2. using a feature of Sendmail (didnt see anything that would fit) ? Use sendmail's smarthost feature to forward all mail it receives for your domain to the qmail host. Make sure your domain is not listed on sendmail's /etc/sendmail.cw file (like qmail's locals file), and then set the DS (I think) option in /etc/sendmail.cf to point to the qmail host. -- See complete headers for more info
Sendmail to Qmail
Hye qmail users, we're about to migrate to a qmail server. We have an old sendmail machine with IP1 and a nicely qmail machine with IP2. We have an MX entry something like : domain.com. IN MX IP1 We cant switch IPs of the machine. The problem is that : we modify the MX entry to redirects mail to IP2, but we still receive mail on IP1 (because of the delay for updating DNS entries). How to solve that ? 1. using fetchmail ? 2. using a feature of Sendmail (didnt see anything that would fit) ? 3. a way to reduce the delay for updating MX entry ? Thx PS : I'm really impressed by the speed of qmail. Does 'Q' stand for Quick ? -- Manuel de Ferran | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FRAMFAB|WCUBE | http://www.wcube.fr
Qmail and Email virus protection
Is there such a solution? Is there a solution to have qmail detect viruses in incoming email messages? -- Albert Hopkins Sr. Systems Specialist Dynacare, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
Tony Gale writes: > > There's always an exception. For example, legacy systems with strange > (but conformant) IP stacks - some VMS systems for example. I would > love to be able to do set per-host concurrency for such systems where > I know *exactly* what the upper limit on concurrent connections it > can handle is, cause it's defined in it's IP / MTA implementation. > > There's no point in going above this figure cause it just ties up my > remote connections due to the way it handles connections above this > number - i.e. it becomes a black hole. If you know that you have an ongoing need to talk to hosts like this, install another instance of qmail with the desired concurrencyremote, and use a virtualdomain on your main qmail to redirect the mail through that qmail. Sounds complicated, but it isn't. echo 'dumb.host:dumbhost' >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains rm /var/qmail2/control/* ln -s /var/qmail/control/me /var/qmail2/control/me echo '4' >/var/qmail2/control/concurrencyremote echo '|/var/qmail2/bin/forward "$EXT2"' >~alias/.qmail-dumbhost-default -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: two questions....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 99, at 8:42, Dave Sill wrote: > >2.) I am getting a message that prints on the screen of my FreeBSD based > >Qmail box saying something about a problem with the SMTPD something along > >the line of a loop or something...ring any bells with anyone?? > > Not with me. Could it be inetd complaining that your qmail-smtpd is being spawned too often? If yes (ie. if you're using inetd), use tcpserver instead. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOA8Y8VMwP8g7qbw/EQIobgCdGC018BLEuo+21B4kDRCS3GpXZbkAoMQ9 LsmjqyDv6uNBxVvJBoEY/5nq =Wki1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: two questions....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >1.) I want to write a pearl script to use as the back-end of a web page >form, now normally I would reference the location of sendmail (eg. >"/usr/lib/sendmail -t") but now that I'm running Qmail, what should I do to >get this script to enable it to send outgoing e-mail?? "/usr/lib/sendmail -t" is fine. >2.) I am getting a message that prints on the screen of my FreeBSD based >Qmail box saying something about a problem with the SMTPD something along >the line of a loop or something...ring any bells with anyone?? Not with me. -Dave
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Tony Gale wrote: > There's always an exception. For example, legacy systems with strange > (but conformant) IP stacks - some VMS systems for example. I would > love to be able to do set per-host concurrency for such systems where > I know *exactly* what the upper limit on concurrent connections it > can handle is, cause it's defined in it's IP / MTA implementation. I am the person who started this thread. For those who are curious. We run Qmail on our Listserv. We recently upgraded the system on which our Listserv runs to a considerably faster machine. As a result when our semester started and more and more students began to use our Listserv for their courses, our Listserv started sending out hundreds of messages in bursts to our primary Unix cluster that some 40,000 people use for their e-mail access. At about this time, we added a lot of graphical e-mail access via IMAP on our central via IMAP. This new IMAP traffic, combined with our faster flow of Listserv traffic was bringing our main Unix system to its knees at certain points during the day. Right now, our central Unix system uses Sendmail as its MTA. We are giving serious consideration to migrating it from Sendmail to Qmail since we have had such good luck with Qmail on our Listserv and we also plan on doing some additional changes to better process e-mail for our users. At first, we wanted to set a low concurencyremote value just for our central Unix system since its what most of our lists' subscribers use for their e-mail. As it turns out, I think we were initially too generous with the concurrencyremote setting anyway on our Listserv. It was set to a value of 50 which we set quite a while ago, if I am not mistaken. I halved that value a couple of days ago. As a result, our central Unix system is no longer being bombarded with excessive Listserv traffic, but response time via e-mail from our Listserv to our central system and others is still acceptable. As a result, we no longer need to do anything special to accommodate our central e-mail system. Even so, the responses I saw on the Qmail list provided an excellent learning experience for me and I appreciate everyone who took the time to reply. Thank you
Qmail configuration problem
Hi, Four of my sites are connected on VSAT network and I am using qmail-Linux m/c at all sites, one of those four is a central relay server. Now the problem is I want to configure foo.com domain which should work like this : for locally configured users it should route locally and for the same domain name(foo.com) if the user is not configured locally then it should go to the remote relay server. If I define foo.com in locals then it sees that all the users(whether it is for local or remote) it is taking that as locals only and if i define bar1.foo.com, bar2.foo.com in locals for different sites it takes all the mail account as remote and for local users also it is travelling upto the relay servers and then going back. Any help highly appreciated. Thanks, Shailendra.
forwarding to a domain on the same server !
Hi there, following config : virtual-domains : n-online.net hirscher.de Handled by my qmail-server. I now have to forward messages going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail now tells me, that the message has already been processed by qmail and the messages will bounce. how can i do the above ? Thanks a lot ! Thomas
Re: two questions....
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hey everyone, > > I've got two more questions for everyone- > > 1.) I want to write a pearl script to use as the back-end of a web page > form, now normally I would reference the location of sendmail (eg. > "/usr/lib/sendmail -t") but now that I'm running Qmail, what should I do to > get this script to enable it to send outgoing e-mail?? # mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old(or wherever your sendmail is) # chmod 000 /usr/lib/sendmail.old # ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail That should have been done at qmail's installation time, although I don't recall if it's in the docs. Also I find php easier for the simple mail thing and you can do it from within a web page. > 2.) I am getting a message that prints on the screen of my FreeBSD based > Qmail box saying something about a problem with the SMTPD something along > the line of a loop or something...ring any bells with anyone?? I am not in > front of the box so I can't quote the exact message, but I figure that > someone on here must have seen it before...what is it? why am I getting > it? how can I make it go away? :-)) Seen it, but it's been awhile. Either the message itself is very self explanitory or the answer was in the FAQ. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # includeHave you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
qmail Digest 21 Oct 1999 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 796
qmail Digest 21 Oct 1999 10:00:01 - Issue 796 Topics (messages 31871 through 31920): qmail logs 31871 by: shajain 31873 by: Magnus Bodin 31874 by: Dave Sill 31875 by: Einar Bordewich Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host 31872 by: Markus Stumpf 31876 by: Russell Nelson 31917 by: Anand Buddhdev 31920 by: Tony Gale Re: Disk Space 31877 by: harold.nb.com.sg () How to apply a patch 31878 by: Ari Arantes Filho 31880 by: Dave Sill qmail and fetchmail 31879 by: Daniel Cukier 31881 by: Dave Sill 31897 by: Michael Taylor 31898 by: Dave Sill 31907 by: Mirko Zeibig this dam list 31882 by: Chris Santerre 31883 by: Gianluca Baldo 31885 by: Russell Nelson 31909 by: Albert Hopkins Re: this dam(N) list 31884 by: jgordon.lhtech-inc.com Re: this dam(N)(ED) list 31886 by: Dave Sill 31900 by: Nagendra Mishr 31901 by: Justin Bell 31906 by: Dustin Marquess 31908 by: Justin Bell dot in names 31887 by: Marthe Nesøen Gangfløt 31889 by: Nagy Balazs 31890 by: Thorkild Stray 31891 by: Peter Green 31892 by: Marthe Nesøen Gangfløt Server dropping SMTP connections 31888 by: Raccah.corp.visto.com Header Skelter (was: Re: this dam(N)(ED) list) 31893 by: Balazs NAGY 31894 by: Dave Sill 31895 by: jgordon.lhtech-inc.com 31905 by: Sam Neat sendmail feature 31896 by: Dave Sill 31899 by: Racer X 31910 by: Russell Nelson unsuscribe 31902 by: Ramunas M 31903 by: Ryan 31904 by: Russell Nelson Dealing with the "unsuBscribe" word (was: unsuscribe) 31911 by: Magnus Bodin 31914 by: Russell Nelson two questions 31912 by: courtney.whtz.com 31913 by: Lyndon Griffin 31916 by: Tupshin Harper Re: mail appliance 31915 by: Anand Buddhdev looping messages 31918 by: Lidia Marchioni qmail stopped, reason unknown 31919 by: James 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] -- Hi, I need to keep logs of qmail atleast for 60 days, but when I check in /var/log/qmail it shows the logs of only past three-four days. I would be very thankful if somebody can tell me how to increase the entry for no. of days for which qmail keeps the logs. Thanks, On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:58:09PM +0530, shajain wrote: > Hi, > I need to keep logs of qmail atleast for 60 days, but when I check in /var/log/qmail >it shows the logs of only past three-four days. I would be very thankful if somebody >can tell me how to increase the entry for no. of days for which qmail keeps the logs. > Thanks, There are different opinions whether it's best to do time-based or size-based logging, but if you want time-based logging, go for cyclog and Bruce Guenter patch for invoking a command when rotating. Rename file to day-number, and do something intelligent with the oldies. http://em.ca/~bruceg/rpms/daemontools/cyclog-command.patch /magnus -- MOST useless 1998 * http://x42.com/ "shajain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to keep logs of qmail atleast for 60 days, but when I check in >/var/log/qmail it shows the logs of only past three-four days. I >would be very thankful if somebody can tell me how to increase the >entry for no. of days for which qmail keeps the logs. Assuming you're using cyclog, the total size of the logs is determined by two arguments: -s (the size of each file, default 104000) and -n (the number of log files, default 10). So, by default, cyclog keeps about a megabyte of logs. If you wanted 20 megabytes of logs, you could do something like: blah blah blah ... | cyclog -n20 -s1004000 /var/log/qmail There's no way with cyclog to keep a specified duration of logs. -Dave If you use cyclog: man cyclog (check the -n option) supervise $DIR qmail-start "$DEFAULT_DELIVERY" accustamp qmail \ | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog -n 100 -s 100 /var/log/qmail & would keep 100 logfiles, each 1Mb in the /var/log/qmail directory -- --- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich System Manager Phone: +47 2205 3034 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- - Original Message - From: shajain To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: qmail logs Hi, I need to keep logs of qmail atleast for 60 days, but when I check in /var/log/qmail it shows the logs of only past three-four days. I would be very
Re: Concurrencyremote for a specific host
There's always an exception. For example, legacy systems with strange (but conformant) IP stacks - some VMS systems for example. I would love to be able to do set per-host concurrency for such systems where I know *exactly* what the upper limit on concurrent connections it can handle is, cause it's defined in it's IP / MTA implementation. There's no point in going above this figure cause it just ties up my remote connections due to the way it handles connections above this number - i.e. it becomes a black hole. -tony On 20-Oct-99 Russell Nelson wrote: > And in neither of those cases is it an improvement to keep banging > on > the destination host. If it refuses messages, then by inference > it's > overloaded. Much better to wait until it isn't. > --- E-Mail: Tony Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All new: Parts not interchangeable with previous model. The views expressed above are entirely those of the writer and do not represent the views, policy or understanding of any other person or official body.
qmail stopped, reason unknown
Where can I find error logs that might help me figure out why qmail stopped working today at around 11:00? I have checked the /var/log/qmail and went through the various files there, but none seem to help me find out why I suddenly can't send or receive email. I have been using qmail successfully for many months, I even had virtual mail working fine, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why qmail isn't working any longer. I didn't touch any qmail files today when it stopped working, there were even a couple of successful emails sent to me today.. now I can't send OR receive. I am using Mandrake 6.0 Thanks for any suggestions. James
looping messages
This is becoming a long story and the longer the uglier... We have qmail crossposting with dnews (news server). Three messages went into a loop today. I stopped qmail and removed everything from queue (/var/qmail/queue/mess). A while later I saw the same messages coming back. I checked the news server's .send file and sure enough, there were multiple entries for messages we have already received. Removed the entries. I am watching closely /var/qmail/queue/mess and noticed that as the new messages are coming in, some of them are duplicated. One copy is stored in e.g. folder 10 the other in 9... What could be the reason for this? Restarting qmail does not seem to fix the problem. What can I check? I don't really see any error messages other than: 20 13:45:04: DATA body: Expecting 250, got 451 timeout (#4.4.2)^M in the news server's log file, when it tries to send the messages to qmail. I tried to get rid of the multiple messages by removing them from /var/qmail/queue/mess and /var/qmail/queue/todo and /var/qmail/queue/intd but the same id's keep coming back. Where are they being picked up from? thanks Lidia
