Re: Qmail on a firewall?
John R. Dunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi all. Parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, but I haven't seen anybody describing quite this setup. I'm reconfiguring a network to have a dedicated firewall machine, on which I want to run qmail. But, I don't want the firewall machine reaching in to the rest of the network to do delivery; I want it to turn around and forward any incoming mail to the "real" mail server on the internal network. I'd also like the reverse path for outgoing mail; the internal mail server forwards to the one on the firewall, which takes care of getting it out into the rest of the net. ---+ +--+ +---+ | | Firewall | | Internal | Net|-| || Server | | | Qmail| | Qmail | |-| || | ---+ +--+ +---+ If anyone can shed light on how to set this up, or point me at some docs, it would be greatly appreciated. John, I have exactly this setup. I have a "mini-qmail" installation running on the Firewall machine which uses qmqp to transfer incoming mail to the internal server. /var/qmail/bin contains: $ ls -l /var/qmail/bin total 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1002512 Nov 8 09:23 not-used -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1002 33368 Mar 12 1999 qmail-inject -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1002 12120 Mar 12 1999 qmail-qmqpc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 1002 11 Mar 12 1999 qmail-queue - qmail-qmqpc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1002 25116 Mar 12 1999 qmail-smtpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1002 8688 Mar 12 1999 sendmail (I've moved all unused stuff into the not-used directory) It's pretty easy to setup and works great. No mail is delivered locally to the Firewall machine; it is all delivered to the Internal server machine, even root mail. R.
Re: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Sounds like you have test.com in control/locals Make sure there is nothing in control/locals - this file denotes domains which are handled by system useraccounts. Paul. Jørgen Skogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; -- Email pgregg at tibus.net | T: +44 (0) 1232 424190 | CLUB24 INTERNET | Technical Director | F: +44 (0) 1232 424709 |Free Access| The Internet Business Ltd | W: http://www.tibus.net | www.club24.co.uk |
Fixing time from clients?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on the LAN, there are a few clients which put wrong Date: RFC822 field. I would like to rewrite the date. I already know of the RELAYCLIENT "@fixme" hack. What I would like to know is which program should I use to re-stamp the date? It should not touch any other header... The mailserver DOES have NTP-synchronized time - but the clients in the LAN don't to overcome some obscure bug in SourceSafe... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCaoAlMwP8g7qbw/EQJDjgCbBGpYPSlp/NePWvIh9Uqg4qPbna4AoK7l uDRJaCpOI0y3wpS/bNx27FRF =FBDS -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]
qmail Digest 8 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 814
qmail Digest 8 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 814 Topics (messages 32598 through 32645): Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem 32598 by: Jørgen Skogstad 32599 by: Jørgen Skogstad 32602 by: Chris Johnson 32604 by: Jørgen Skogstad 32611 by: ari.doctordata.com.br 32612 by: ari.doctordata.com.br 32619 by: Chris Johnson 32644 by: Paul Gregg Can't access localmail 32600 by: Subba Rao 32607 by: Marco Leeflang Re: silly question? maybe... 32601 by: harold.nb.com.sg () Re: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign 32603 by: Joerg Lenneis Qmail .qmail file. 32605 by: Bob ross qmail remote delivery logic 32606 by: Jim B 32608 by: Russell Nelson 32609 by: Sam 32610 by: Jeff Hayward 32613 by: Eric Dahnke 32614 by: Russell Nelson 32615 by: Russell Nelson 32616 by: Jim B 32620 by: Sam 32621 by: Russell Nelson 32624 by: Jason Haar 32625 by: Andy Bradford 32630 by: James J. Lippard 32631 by: Fred Lindberg 32632 by: Andy Bradford 32633 by: Jason Haar 32634 by: Sam 32638 by: Bruce Guenter 32639 by: Fred Lindberg 32640 by: Bruce Guenter 32641 by: Fred Lindberg Filter using "FROM:" 32617 by: Andres Mendez 32618 by: Chris Johnson Allow only certian domains or emails 32622 by: Bob ross 32642 by: Magnus Bodin date stamps 32623 by: Keith Warno 32635 by: Sam Qmail on a firewall? 32626 by: John R. Dunning 32629 by: Chris Johnson 32643 by: Robin Bowes Queue details 32627 by: Jim Gilliver 32628 by: Chris Johnson Re: ezmlm problem 32636 by: Todd A. Jacobs Re: Forwarding Root email 32637 by: Todd A. Jacobs Fixing time from clients? 32645 by: Petr Novotny Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kindest, I am having some problems with the setup provided from Paul Greg. I get these errors in the log when trying to get incoming mail routed to the users mailbox; Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.322851 new msg 708801 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.323160 info msg 708801: = bytes 822 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 4445 uid 7791 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334169 starting delivery 5: = msg 708801 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.334456 status: local 1/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366126 delivery 5: failure: = Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.366417 status: local 0/10 = remote 0/20 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.386940 bounce msg 708801 qp = 4448 Nov 7 11:20:53 enterprise qmail: 941970053.388313 end msg 708801 However.. all seems to be in order; enterprise:/var/qmail# more users/assign=20 =3Dtest-net-user:popuser:888:888:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/test::: enterprise:/var/qmail#=20 Beneath are the permissions on the various dirs and files; enterprise:/var/qmail# ls -l total 10 drwxr-sr-x 2 aliasqmail1024 Nov 7 00:25 alias drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 00:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:20 control drwxr-xr-x 3 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:31 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 root qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 man drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:18 popboxes drwxr-x--- 11 qmailq qmail1024 Nov 6 20:19 queue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 204 Nov 7 00:57 rc drwxr-xr-x 2 root qmail1024 Nov 7 10:10 users enterprise:/var/qmail# =20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 test-net enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net# ls -l total 1 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 user enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# ls -la total 4 drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:20 . drwx-- 3 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 .. -rwx-- 1 popuser popuser11 Nov 7 11:20 .qmail drwx-- 2 popuser popuser 1024 Nov 7 11:19 Maildir enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user# more .qmail=20 ./Maildir/ enterprise:/var/qmail/popboxes/test-net/user#=20 What have I done wrong?? Can anyone point out why this is not working. I am trying to get support for multiple pop3 boxes without
qmail: alert: cannot start: unable to switch to
I have a POP toaster, and I did a complete backup of / with tar. (this includes /var/qmail...) I setup a new FreeBSD 3.2 system, minimal, on another computer with differing disks (one small IDE rather than a big SCSI). Once the new minimum system boot, I untar my previous backup... I reboot after adjusting the fstab, everything seems to come OK but qmail. I have this message (on screen during boot, and in the /var/log/messages): qmail: xx alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory If I look /var/qmail looks OK to me. What's wrong ? What can I do ? What should I do in the future to avoid this problem with backed up disks. (It has to be tar, and can be restored on volumes with differing size) Thank you in advance. Jean-Pierre Dumas P.S. I did not subscribe to the qmail list, please cc me. ___ Do You Yahoo!? Votre e-mail @yahoo.fr gratuit sur http://courrier.yahoo.fr
Re: best way to handle postmaster
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 06:10:26PM -0500, David Harris wrote: I just didn't want to end up ignoring any message sent by a real user to the postmaster address. Since they would have a real return path, they would get a [snip] But setting something up sounds like too much work for too little gain, so I'll just /dev/null all the postmaster e-mails. Use control/doublebouncehost and control/doublebounceto to send double-bounce messages somewhere other than postmaster. postmaster will then get 'real' email only, and double bounces are sent off somewhere else to be ignored/deleted/whatever. Regards, james -- James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster IE Domain Registry Preferred Contact by Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UCD Computing Services Web: http://www.domainregistry.ie/ Computer Centre Tel: (+353 1) 7062375 Fax: (+353 1) 7062862 Belfield, Dublin 4, IE
Re: qmail: alert: cannot start: unable to switch to
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jean-Pierre H. Dumas wrote: I have a POP toaster, and I did a complete backup of / with tar. (this includes /var/qmail...) I setup a new FreeBSD 3.2 system, minimal, on another computer with differing disks (one small IDE rather than a big SCSI). Once the new minimum system boot, I untar my previous backup... I reboot after adjusting the fstab, everything seems to come OK but qmail. I have this message (on screen during boot, and in the /var/log/messages): qmail: xx alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory If I look /var/qmail looks OK to me. What's wrong ? What can I do ? What should I do in the future to avoid this problem with backed up disks. (It has to be tar, and can be restored on volumes with differing size) Thank you in advance. Jean-Pierre Dumas P.S. I did not subscribe to the qmail list, please cc me. How about permissions? Go to your qmail source directory and run # make setup check That should fix things up. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # include std/disclaimers.h Have you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
"Jim B" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ummm.. yeah thanks. But I want to know *why* it's faster. I know there's a doc that explains 3 different methods, this being one of them... and it shows situations why one may be preferable over the other. Do you know what doc I'm talking about? http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt -Dave
Qmail with rh 6.1
Hi, I've setup qmail in the past, long ago.. and just now started putting qmail back up on a new box, and this time using tcpserver, etc. My real problem is around getting smtp working (dunno what the problem is), but I seem to have some lower level problems I should sort out first. I setup qmail according to the HOWTO listed on the homepage and am using Mailbox format for delivery right now. Qmail is loaded via my rc script fine, and I see all the daemons running in my process list. qmails2890 0.0 1.2 1120 384 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-send root 2891 0.0 1.0 1072 324 ?SNov07 0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u50 qmaill2892 0.0 0.9 1068 304 ?SNov07 0:00 accustamp qmaill2893 0.0 1.1 1084 340 ?SNov07 0:00 cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd qmaild2894 0.0 1.3 1156 420 ?SNov07 0:00 tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u503 -g503 0 25 rblsmtpd qmail-smtp qmaill2895 0.0 1.3 1096 408 ?SNov07 0:00 splogger qmail root 2896 0.0 1.0 1088 328 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr2897 0.0 1.0 1088 324 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq2898 0.0 1.1 1080 344 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-clean root 3320 0.0 1.6 1244 508 pts/0S10:02 0:00 grep qmail I ran ./config to dump all my hosts into the control files. I can mail locally and mail gets delievered fine into the user's Mailbox. However, I can not see any logging activity in my /var/log/messages file. Earlier, I was trying to use inetd, VSM, and procmail, and actually did see loggin in /var/log/maillog (only diff was using the proc file for /var/qmail/rc, and before I started using all the 'extras' that the HOWTO suggests, tcpserver, etc). Where should I start looking to help find where splogger is dumping things? The 'real' problem is I can't get mail delievered via smtp delievered. I telnet to port 25, use a local username as rcpt, and it says 'ok' fine, but the msg never makes it to Mailbox. Thanks -Steve
connection to port 25 from local hosts only
dear list, I installed qmail-1.03 and ucspi-tcp-0.84. I followed the instructions in Dave Sill's "life with qmail" qmail is up and running now, i can send email to local users and to remote hosts. the ip of my server is 141.20.25.44 (www.vifu.de) I can receive email from hosts in 141.20.* so tcpserver is running correct, the connctions are logged and the mail gets delivered, but not from any other host. when I telnet to port 25 from another host, which is not in 141.20.* I don't get a connect, not even a refused connection, just a timeout. when i run tcprulescheck for that client on the server, I get "allow connection". any hints where i can check why i can't connect to port 25 from other hosts ? thanks in advance, Barbara (our network admin says he does not do any packet filtering on our network...) -- -- Barbara Schelkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science Humboldt University of Berlin mail: Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany office: Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489 Berlin, building 3, room 405 phone: +49-30-2093-3184 fax: +49-30-2093-3168
Re: connection to port 25 from local hosts only
Barbara Schelkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... when I telnet to port 25 from another host, which is not in 141.20.* I don't get a connect, not even a refused connection, just a timeout. when i run tcprulescheck for that client on the server, I get "allow connection". any hints where i can check why i can't connect to port 25 from other hosts ? (our network admin says he does not do any packet filtering on our network...) Look in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/*. tcpserver logs every connection attempt. If you're not seeing logs entries corresponding to your attempts, then *someone*, if not your network admin, is blocking port 25. -Dave
Re: connection to port 25 from local hosts only
Your network Admin is wrong: your port 25 *is* being filtered. Could it be tcpwrappers if it is not a firewall ? Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Peter At 03:59 PM 11/8/99 +0100, Barbara Schelkle wrote: dear list, I installed qmail-1.03 and ucspi-tcp-0.84. I followed the instructions in Dave Sill's "life with qmail" qmail is up and running now, i can send email to local users and to remote hosts. the ip of my server is 141.20.25.44 (www.vifu.de) I can receive email from hosts in 141.20.* so tcpserver is running correct, the connctions are logged and the mail gets delivered, but not from any other host. when I telnet to port 25 from another host, which is not in 141.20.* I don't get a connect, not even a refused connection, just a timeout. when i run tcprulescheck for that client on the server, I get "allow connection". any hints where i can check why i can't connect to port 25 from other hosts ? thanks in advance, Barbara (our network admin says he does not do any packet filtering on our network...) -- -- Barbara Schelkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science Humboldt University of Berlin mail: Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany office: Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489 Berlin, building 3, room 405 phone: +49-30-2093-3184 fax: +49-30-2093-3168
OT: guestimate of number of MTA hosts worldwide
I'm searching as best I can, but can't find a site which lists the approximate number of MTAs permanently connected to the internet. Anyone care to venture a guess, or mention a site where I can find such data. I figure around 100,000??? TIA - Eric
qmail-pw2u fatal error?
Greetings... I am having a strange problem... I normally use qmail-pw2u and it has always worked in the past; I have no idea what has changed now... I added a new user and then went to run qmail-pw2u and after considerable time got: qmail-pw2u: fatal: unable to find alias user What does this mean? btw, /var/qmail/users/assign is no longer there Thanks, Jen
Re: Removing messages from the queue (another one) - a conclusion
In previous emails I noted that a qmail installation as part of Network Associates Webshield SMTP for Solaris was exhibiting strange behaviour with some email that could not be processed or sent correctly. These messages kept reappearing in the intd and mess subdirectories, quickly eating up disk space. Following some suggestions from previous emails to the list, advice from Frank Tegtmeyer, and responses to my previous emails, I tried various things, but none seemed to work. Manually deleting the entries in intd and mess/* cleared them enough to release disk space for other messages to be handled. But the bad messages just came back. I tried changing the creation date on the mess/* files. I hoped that the messages might "time out" eventually. I set doublebounceto but I don't think that worked. On Friday last I set badmailfrom for the two original senders, and over the weekend the files seem to have gone. Now I don't know if it had something to do with a default timeout somewhere in the system of about 6 weeks from when the messages were originally sent, or whether the badmailfrom worked. But so far today, the files are conspicuous by their absence. Hooray! Lots of free disk space again. Thanks for all your help! Wallace. -- == Wallace Nicoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] City of Edinburgh Council IT Services, Chesser House, 500 Gorgie Road,Phone : 0131 469 5343 Edinburgh, EH11 3YJ, ScotlandFax : 0131 469 5335 [From overseas [P]+441314695343 [F]+441314695335 ] ==
Re: quick question re: starting with rblsmtpd
| My csh skills are rusty; I can't remember how to redirect stderr. In his case, I think he needs to replace: 21 | with: | i had the same question and had this answer: You can use this notation command file_name but this will stderr AND stdout to the same file. stderr comes to the ^^^ oops. it seems "redirect" is missing here... one more thing, You can use the bash -c 'command bla bla 2some_file_or_/dev/null_or_whatever' command which will run the command in bash, redirect stderr to anywhere You want and give You only a nice clean stdout. hope this helps... love, peace and aspirin, dd
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
In a pathological case, qmail can use a lot more network bandwidth because of the duplication of messages going to the same system. In practice this is rarely a serious problem. Taking into account the *decreased* DNS traffic, it's even more rarely a problem. It depends heavily on the usage pattern of your mailserver. Generally qmails way is the best for normal mail traffic. It's also true if you have enough bandwith to gain faster delivery. But there are other scenarios too. One has to think about them if it comes to the decision which MTA to use. I have several customers that create the "pathological case" every day and every hour: - small bandwith, expensive line too - no idea about delivery lists at the receiving site - no idea about the purpose of SMTP, never heard about FTP - not willing to be educated - exchange of LAAARGE files (50MB) through mail - typically delivery to several receivers at the same destination host For these cases qmail is a really bad choice - I agree that this is not the typical setup most of you are familiar with, but IT IS REALITY in many cases. Often DNS doesn't matter because all deliveries go through a smarthost (that of course doesn't support any of qmail's features). It's amazing how qmail haters (here in Germany) always reduced the discussion about qmail to this special case - it may be bad discussion style but I also think that there is more need to support this type of setup than the "normal" qmail administrator may assume. Regards, Frank
SV: Pop/Single-UID based POP3/problem
Sounds like you have test.com in control/locals Make sure there is nothing in control/locals - this file denotes domains which are handled by system useraccounts. Mmm .. no, that was the strange thing. The domain was removed from the control/locals file. I tripple checked the installataion and reinstalled both qmail and other thing as well. ;) Anyways; I ended up with the installation of http://www.inter7.com/ sollution. Worked after some checking. (The valid release, not the beta, did not support .qmail files.. but upgrading to the beta all worked fine) Thanks for your help at least! ;) Kindest, Jørgen
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
The log should be in /var/log/qmail/smtpd. - Original Message - From: Steve Kapinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 3:17 PM Subject: Qmail with rh 6.1 Hi, I've setup qmail in the past, long ago.. and just now started putting qmail back up on a new box, and this time using tcpserver, etc. My real problem is around getting smtp working (dunno what the problem is), but I seem to have some lower level problems I should sort out first. I setup qmail according to the HOWTO listed on the homepage and am using Mailbox format for delivery right now. Qmail is loaded via my rc script fine, and I see all the daemons running in my process list. qmails2890 0.0 1.2 1120 384 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-send root 2891 0.0 1.0 1072 324 ?SNov07 0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u50 qmaill2892 0.0 0.9 1068 304 ?SNov07 0:00 accustamp qmaill2893 0.0 1.1 1084 340 ?SNov07 0:00 cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd qmaild2894 0.0 1.3 1156 420 ?SNov07 0:00 tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u503 -g503 0 25 rblsmtpd qmail-smtp qmaill2895 0.0 1.3 1096 408 ?SNov07 0:00 splogger qmail root 2896 0.0 1.0 1088 328 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr2897 0.0 1.0 1088 324 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq2898 0.0 1.1 1080 344 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-clean root 3320 0.0 1.6 1244 508 pts/0S10:02 0:00 grep qmail I ran ./config to dump all my hosts into the control files. I can mail locally and mail gets delievered fine into the user's Mailbox. However, I can not see any logging activity in my /var/log/messages file. Earlier, I was trying to use inetd, VSM, and procmail, and actually did see loggin in /var/log/maillog (only diff was using the proc file for /var/qmail/rc, and before I started using all the 'extras' that the HOWTO suggests, tcpserver, etc). Where should I start looking to help find where splogger is dumping things? The 'real' problem is I can't get mail delievered via smtp delievered. I telnet to port 25, use a local username as rcpt, and it says 'ok' fine, but the msg never makes it to Mailbox. Thanks -Steve
Installed Qmail on redhat 6.0 using LWQ now getting tcpserver error on boot
This line in startup/shutdown script - 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 Is giving me this error on boot - tcpserver: usage tcpserver [ -lpPhHrRoOdDqQV ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localhost ] [ -t timeout ] host port program NowI know thisis a syntax error, but i can not see it. If you could please point it out to me. Thanx for your help Nicole Ron McIntosh
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
"Andres Mendez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The log should be in /var/log/qmail/smtpd. For LWQ. But he said he used the HOWTO, which uses /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd. -Dave
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: To start with, you have to do a HUGE number of extra DNS lookups to determine what the recipient systems ARE. As opposed to the "one SMTP transaction per remote recipient" strategy that is able to deliver messages without the need to figure out what the recipient systems are? Intriguing. :) --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Re: Installed Qmail on redhat 6.0 using LWQ now getting tcpserver error on boot
"Nicole Ron McIntosh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This line in startup/shutdown script - 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 Is giving me this error on boot - tcpserver: usage tcpserver [ -lpPhHrRoOdDqQV ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localhost ] [ -t timeout ] host port program Now I know this is a syntax error, but i can not see it. If you could please point it out to me. Your tcpserver doesn't grok the "v" option, but has a "V" option, which I've never seen before. What version of ucspi-tcp are you running? -Dave
Re: Qmail with rh 6.1
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: "Andres Mendez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The log should be in /var/log/qmail/smtpd. For LWQ. But he said he used the HOWTO, which uses /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd. No.. It's runing splogger and not cyclog, which means the logs are getting sent through syslog. Look in /var/log/mail.log. --Adam -Dave
RE:Installed Qmail on redhat 6.0 using LWQ now getting tcpserver error on boot
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Re: Qmail with rh 6.1
"Adam D . McKenna" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: "Andres Mendez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The log should be in /var/log/qmail/smtpd. For LWQ. But he said he used the HOWTO, which uses /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd. No.. It's runing splogger and not cyclog, which means the logs are getting sent through syslog. Look in /var/log/mail.log. 'splain this, then, from http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html#10: ]Now all that is left to do is create the directories that cyclog will log to. ] ]# mkdir /var/log/qmail ]# chown qmaill /var/log/qmail ]# mkdir /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd ]# mkdir /var/log/qmail/qmail-pop3d # if you are also using qmail-pop3d ]# chown qmaill /var/log/qmail/* And, from Steve's process list: qmaill2893 0.0 1.1 1084 340 ?SNov07 0:00 cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd -Dave
RE:Installed Qmail on redhat 6.0 using LWQ now getting tcpservererror on boot
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Nicole Ron McIntosh wrote: using version 0.53 of ucspi-tcp Wow, is that old! You might want to upgrade it so it works with the current examples if nothing else. The current version is 0.84 or something really close to that. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] flame-mail: /dev/null # include std/disclaimers.h Have you seen http://www.pop4.net? Online Campground Directoryhttp://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstorehttp://www.cloudninegifts.com ==
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Pavel Kankovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: To start with, you have to do a HUGE number of extra DNS lookups to determine what the recipient systems ARE. As opposed to the "one SMTP transaction per remote recipient" strategy that is able to deliver messages without the need to figure out what the recipient systems are? Intriguing. :) Say you send a message to a list of 10,000 addresses using sendmail. What's the first thing it does? It looks up the MX for each recipient so it can sort by MX and minimize the number of connections. qmail, on the other hand, fires off concurrencyremote qmail-remotes and starts delivery immediately. I think Postfix just sorts by FQDN, so it doesn't have to do 10,000 DNS lookups before it starts delivering. But by doing that, it potentially misses a lot of combining for different FQDN's with the same MX. -Dave
ack oops - version typo
okie sorry for that dont know where my mind is today .. it is version 0.84 for the ucspi-tcp the 0.53 is for daemontools Nicole Ron McIntosh
Majordomo + Qmail
Hi, after reading the Majordomo+Qmail FAQ, and trying tons of things out I still can't figure this out: We're running Qmail 1.03, and Majordomo 1.94.4 together on a RedHat 5.2 machine (qmail and majordomo are both source packages, not RPM's) Anyway, the problem seems to be with the "majordomo" alias and qmail. All my test lists I've setup seem to work just fine, mail sent to a list gets resent out to all the list users/owner, and put into digest form. The problem I have is I can't send ANY requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the requests get there, but they're simply put in the majordomo user's mailbox, not reset back out to me! So if I send a HELP message to majordomo, I don't get the help page emailed back to me, the message just gets put into the Mailbox of the majordomo user. I've made three aliases for the majordomo user: .qmail-majordomo .qmail-majordomo-owner .qmail-owner-majordomo In .qmail-majordomo I have: |/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo The other two have my email address in them. So for some reason the wrapper majordomo part doesn't seem to be working. There's no error message in any log (majordomo or qmail) and nothing gets returned undeliverable, it just doesn't work! All this I copied right from the instructions, and I'm using the new mjinject script with Majordomo. Anyone have any ideas where to go from here? Thanks, Matt Stevenson
Re: ack oops - version typo
"Nicole Ron McIntosh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okie sorry for that dont know where my mind is today .. it is version 0.84 for the ucspi-tcp the 0.53 is for daemontools OK, then your ucspi-tcp is corrupted. Re-download the source tarball and re-install it. -Dave
Only allow emails or domains listed
Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains listed in the file instead of deleting those mails. |if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER allowfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit 0; fi Tried a bit of perl code but that seems to be causing a few error's. Thanks Bob Ross
Please help newbie with 2 questions
I have read the FAQ and studied individual setup guides but I am still stumped on these two issues: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. I have verified it is working, because I have another forward "azzy" which forwards to "reuben" fine. Here's the /etc/aliases file: # Mail Aliases bin: root daemon: root decode: root dumper: root games: root ingres: root mailer-daemon: root manager: root nobody: root operator: root postmaster: root system: root toor: root uucp: root root: reuben webmaster: reuben azzy: reuben .. any ideas? I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? Thanks in advance, -Reuben King
Only Allow emails or domains from
Is there a way to change this code from a user .qmail to only allow users or domains listed in the file instead of deleting those mails. |if test -n "`fgrep -x $SENDER allowfrom`"; then echo Go Away;exit 99; else exit 0; fi Tried a bit of perl code but that seems to be causing a few error's. Thanks Bob Ross
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
This is not the problem in whole.. The log in /var/log/qmail-smtpd has entries in it of the form.. [root@hootch qmail-smtpd]# ls @0941952524 @0941996365 But those log entries only contain tcpserver msgs, not the normal loggin I see from qmail. Plus.. I'm not seeing loggin at all for local delieveries as well.. not just smtp traffic. [root@hootch qmail-smtpd]# cat * 941952582.673819 tcpserver: status: 1/40 941952582.674904 tcpserver: pid 612 from 127.0.0.1 941952582.848907 tcpserver: ok 612 loopback:127.0.0.1:25 loopback:127.0.0.1:jobu:1025 941952608.626309 tcpserver: end 612 status 0 941952608.626527 tcpserver: status: 0/40 941996616.213772 tcpserver: status: 1/40 941996616.214646 tcpserver: pid 2914 from 127.0.0.1 941996616.313220 tcpserver: ok 2914 loopback:127.0.0.1:25 loopback:127.0.0.1:jobu:1036 941996641.218950 tcpserver: end 2914 status 0 941996641.219162 tcpserver: status: 0/40 I should see logging from examples like they have in TEST.deliever, which I am not. Nor do I if I call mail from the command prompt, which does deliever mail to the ~user/Mailbox. So mail is being delievered by qmail locally, but I'm not finding the logging. -Steve -Original Message- From: Andres Mendez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 12:54 PM To: QMail Subject: RE: Qmail with rh 6.1 The log should be in /var/log/qmail/smtpd. - Original Message - From: Steve Kapinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 3:17 PM Subject: Qmail with rh 6.1 Hi, I've setup qmail in the past, long ago.. and just now started putting qmail back up on a new box, and this time using tcpserver, etc. My real problem is around getting smtp working (dunno what the problem is), but I seem to have some lower level problems I should sort out first. I setup qmail according to the HOWTO listed on the homepage and am using Mailbox format for delivery right now. Qmail is loaded via my rc script fine, and I see all the daemons running in my process list. qmails2890 0.0 1.2 1120 384 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-send root 2891 0.0 1.0 1072 324 ?SNov07 0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u50 qmaill2892 0.0 0.9 1068 304 ?SNov07 0:00 accustamp qmaill2893 0.0 1.1 1084 340 ?SNov07 0:00 cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd qmaild2894 0.0 1.3 1156 420 ?SNov07 0:00 tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u503 -g503 0 25 rblsmtpd qmail-smtp qmaill2895 0.0 1.3 1096 408 ?SNov07 0:00 splogger qmail root 2896 0.0 1.0 1088 328 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox qmailr2897 0.0 1.0 1088 324 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-rspawn qmailq2898 0.0 1.1 1080 344 ?SNov07 0:00 qmail-clean root 3320 0.0 1.6 1244 508 pts/0S10:02 0:00 grep qmail I ran ./config to dump all my hosts into the control files. I can mail locally and mail gets delievered fine into the user's Mailbox. However, I can not see any logging activity in my /var/log/messages file. Earlier, I was trying to use inetd, VSM, and procmail, and actually did see loggin in /var/log/maillog (only diff was using the proc file for /var/qmail/rc, and before I started using all the 'extras' that the HOWTO suggests, tcpserver, etc). Where should I start looking to help find where splogger is dumping things? The 'real' problem is I can't get mail delievered via smtp delievered. I telnet to port 25, use a local username as rcpt, and it says 'ok' fine, but the msg never makes it to Mailbox. Thanks -Steve
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
"Steve Kapinos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The log in /var/log/qmail-smtpd has entries in it of the form.. [root@hootch qmail-smtpd]# ls @0941952524 @0941996365 But those log entries only contain tcpserver msgs, not the normal loggin I see from qmail. Right, the smtpd log only logs incoming SMTP connections. The "normal logging" you're referring to is from qmail-send, which, according to the process list you posted, is being done through splogger. Check your /etc/syslog.conf to see if/where you're logging those messages. -Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
Qmail doesn't use /etc/aliases unless patched to do otherwise. Root mail would be handled by a .qmail file in ~alias Read INSTALL.alias, and look at the man page dot-qmail.0 Basically create a .qmail-root in ~alias, and put [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .qmail-root to have mail to root forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The second question I will leave to the qmail gods.. -Steve -Original Message- From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please help newbie with 2 questions I have read the FAQ and studied individual setup guides but I am still stumped on these two issues: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. I have verified it is working, because I have another forward "azzy" which forwards to "reuben" fine. Here's the /etc/aliases file: # Mail Aliases bin: root daemon: root decode: root dumper: root games: root ingres: root mailer-daemon: root manager: root nobody: root operator: root postmaster: root system: root toor: root uucp: root root: reuben webmaster: reuben azzy: reuben .. any ideas? I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? Thanks in advance, -Reuben King
fastforward
Hi Anyone know the latest version of fastforward? I'm running 0.51. I've encountered a small problem. In my /etc/aliases file, I have rules of the following sort: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @bar.com: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User catch-all exists (it's a real account). Mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but winds up going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appeaers fastforward is taking the last rule that matches rather than the first rule that matches. Any clues? Probably my goof. If so, enlighten me : Thanks, kw /* ** Keith Warno ** Make Us An Offer, Inc. ** Real-time Online Haggling ** http://www.makeusanoffer.com/ */
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
The second question I will leave to the qmail gods.. Not a Qmail God by any stretch of the imagination but here goes... 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Can I put a wildcard in there? FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? I'm gonna start with an assumption here (dangerous, I know). I assume you can send mail fine from the Qmail host but other hosts in your domain can not send mail through the Qmail server to the net. If the is the case, and you are using tcpserver, then you need to allow your Qmail server to relay mail for hosts in you domain. If your network in 1.2.3, then you can add the follow: '1.2.3.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' to your /etc/tcp.smtp file. Now run: tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp /etc/tcp.smtp chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp* Now your Qmail host will accept SMTP mail from any host in the 1.2.3 network. If you have other networks you need to relay, add them to /etc/tcp.smtp as well. Also see: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html (a very good doc, thanks Dave!!!) Specifically: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying HTH, Peter Abplanalp StorageTek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. You're using fastforward, I take it? I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. qmail doesn't deliver to the superuser, but aliases for root that point to non-superusers or remote addresses are OK. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Calm down. Nobody expects you to. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? No. -Dave
Re: Qmail with rh 6.1
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:39:44PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: And, from Steve's process list: qmaill2893 0.0 1.1 1084 340 ?SNov07 0:00 cyclog -s500 -n5 /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd Right.. that's for qmail-smtpd.. Those logs will be useless however if he wants to see where the mail actually went. He needs to look in qmail-send's logfile which appears to still be handled by splogger. --Adam
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
Pavel Kankovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
To start with, you have to do a HUGE number of extra DNS
lookups to determine what the recipient systems ARE.
As opposed to the "one SMTP transaction per remote recipient" strategy
that is able to deliver messages without the need to figure out what the
recipient systems are? Intriguing. :)
Say you send a message to a list of 10,000 addresses using
sendmail. What's the first thing it does? It looks up the MX for each
recipient so it can sort by MX and minimize the number of connections.
Indeed. But are there any EXTRA lookups done? ("Extra" is the keyword
here...read original DDB's text again.)
The answer is: NO unless the implementation is incredibly stupid.
I think Postfix just sorts by FQDN, so it doesn't have to do 10,000
DNS lookups before it starts delivering. But by doing that, it
potentially misses a lot of combining for different FQDN's with the
same MX.
"A lot" being a speculation or based on real-world data? evil grin
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I cannot get anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to forward to account "reuben".. I have edited my /etc/aliases file and ran "newaliases" to compile the /etc/aliases.cdb file, but no go. You're using fastforward, I take it? Yes.. I was instructed to modify a file to take advantage of fastforward and followed the instructions. I'd repost the exact instructions I was given, but the #@$@# website it is on is not answering right now. (http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/qmail/index.html) I can verify that the forwarding using /etc/aliases IS working, as I said, because any forwards I put in there other than root are functioning correctly. It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. I read somewhere that qmail doesn't deliver to the root account, so I'll need to forward it to another account. qmail doesn't deliver to the superuser, but aliases for root that point to non-superusers or remote addresses are OK. 2) Any outgoing mail to a server other than what is in the rcpthosts file will get kicked back to me with an error. I cannot possibly list every conceivable host on the Internet! Calm down. Nobody expects you to. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying FWIW-- My MX record on the DNS is still only set to pointing to my current email server (gandalf -- an entirely different machine).. I was going to wait until I have tested this new qmail server out fully before making any changes. Could this be the problem? No. I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. Thanks for your help, Dave! -RK
fastforward
Sorry -- the aliases file is like this: NonExistantUser: RealUser @foo.com: AnotherRealUser The box recieves mail for many domains (~alias/../control/locals is a dozen lines long). foo.com would be one such domain (for argument sake). Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to RealUser from my understanding (or lack thereof) of fastforward, but it winds up going to AnotherRealUser I'm stumped. Thanks for any help. /* ** Keith Warno ** Make Us An Offer, Inc. ** Real-time Online Haggling ** http://www.makeusanoffer.com/ */
Re: Majordomo + Qmail
Thus said [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 13:56:28 EST: So if I send a HELP message to majordomo, I don't get the help page emailed back to me, the message just gets put into the Mailbox of the majordomo user. Hmm, it looks like majordomo may be in users/assign perchance? Andy -- +== Andy == TiK: garbaglio ==+ |Linux is about freedom of choice| +== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
Learning syslogd as I go.. =) I looked in /etc/syslog.conf, and according to it, mail.* is being sent to /var/log/maillog But it doesn't seem to be happening. Procmail did log qmail tagged messages to maillog fine tho. -Steve -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Qmail with rh 6.1 "Steve Kapinos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The log in /var/log/qmail-smtpd has entries in it of the form.. [root@hootch qmail-smtpd]# ls @0941952524 @0941996365 But those log entries only contain tcpserver msgs, not the normal loggin I see from qmail. Right, the smtpd log only logs incoming SMTP connections. The "normal logging" you're referring to is from qmail-send, which, according to the process list you posted, is being done through splogger. Check your /etc/syslog.conf to see if/where you're logging those messages. -Dave
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Pavel Kankovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed. But are there any EXTRA lookups done? ("Extra" is the keyword
here...read original DDB's text again.)
The answer is: NO unless the implementation is incredibly stupid.
Like sendmail? :-) Sendmail is notorious for unnecessary DNS lookups.
I think Postfix just sorts by FQDN, so it doesn't have to do 10,000
DNS lookups before it starts delivering. But by doing that, it
potentially misses a lot of combining for different FQDN's with the
same MX.
"A lot" being a speculation or based on real-world data? evil grin
I don't need real-world data to know that there are lots of MX's that
serve multiple FQDN's. And I did say "potentially".
-Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. This is The Wrong Thing To Do, as I've explained to you in private mail. -Dave
RE: Qmail with rh 6.1
"Steve Kapinos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Learning syslogd as I go.. =) I looked in /etc/syslog.conf, and according to it, mail.* is being sent to /var/log/maillog But it doesn't seem to be happening. Procmail did log qmail tagged messages to maillog fine tho. Do: echo foo |/var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail If you don't see a line like: Nov 8 15:15:21 6C:sws5 qmail: 942092121.752035 foo in /var/log/maillog, then your syslog isn't configured properly (or needs to be HUP'd if you recently modified syslog.conf.) If you do see such a line, you need to re-examine your qmail startup command. Do you see a splogger process in a ps list? -Dave
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
"Frank Tegtmeyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's amazing how qmail haters (here in Germany) always reduced the discussion about qmail to this special case - it may be bad discussion style but I also think that there is more need to support this type of setup than the "normal" qmail administrator may assume. The bottom line is that qmail was designed for well-connected hosts. It's just not possible for qmail to be optimal in all cases: engineering is the art of balancing trade-offs. -Dave
Re: cdb owned by root?
"Todd A. Jacobs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /var/qmail/users/ files (assign and cdb) are owned by root:root. The system seems to work fine in that configuration, but I wanted to know if those were the proper permissions, or if those files are supposed to be owned by the qmail group instead. Do you want processes in the qmail group to have more access to them than they currently do? I'd expect not. As long as they're world-readable, qmail has all the access it needs. -Dave
Re: qmail.html through publicfile
D. J. Bernstein writes: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail.html will continue to work; some of you have already noticed the www-. symlink. (If you have a mirror program that can't handle loops, try teaching it about EPLF's identifiers: http://pobox.com/~djb/ftp/list/eplf.html.) What problem is solved by creating a loop? My mirror software (wget) worked just fine until you added the www-. symlink. *I* would prefer that you remove it, rather than have to add Yet Another Item to my todo list. -- -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: fastforward
Well, like I said, I was just speculating. Chances are good that fastforward works the way the documentation says it does. If you can find a clear contradiction, post the details. -Dave Yeah I think I found a "clear contradiction". I have two rules that demonstrate this: postmaster: keith # # Catch all for makeusanoffer.com # @makeusanoffer.com: mike Both keith and mike are real users. "makeusanoffer.com" is in ~alias/../control/locals. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to keith, but it goes to mike. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to keith (assuming foo.com is in locals), but... The "catch-all" is, in fact, catching all when it shouldn't be.
Re: fastforward
Yeah I think I found a "clear contradiction". I have two rules that demonstrate this: postmaster: keith # # Catch all for makeusanoffer.com # @makeusanoffer.com: mike Both keith and mike are real users. "makeusanoffer.com" is in ~alias/../control/locals. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to keith, but it goes to mike. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to keith (assuming foo.com is in locals), but... The "catch-all" is, in fact, catching all when it shouldn't be. OK, now where does the fastforward documentation say that it'll do what you expect it to do? -Dave
Still getting error on startup of qmail
Okie I re-downloaded and re installed the ucspi-tcp-0.84 still a no go, only this time the error reads - tcpserver: usage tcpserver [ -lpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localhost ] [ -t timeout ] host port program setuser: usage: setusser username program [ arg ... ] Nicole Ron McIntosh
String replacement in binary file?
Would the following program: http://public.connect.org.uk/~rkl/replace/ be suited for flogging a dead horse... er I mean replacing uid's/gid's in qmail binaries? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
We have the source; let's fix it. What the people with the problem are asking for appears to be for qmail to not split up identical mails intended for multiple recipients at identical hosts. These are real problems and poo-pooing them as degenerate cases or something produces nothing. In terms of modifying, this might not be the "extensive rewrite" that "life with qmail" claims it will be. I see two parts to change: We want (1)the part that splits messages with multiple recipients to group by mail-host-name and merely split by mail-host-name, and also (2) that qmail-remote can issue multiple rcpt-to instructions in these cases. That is all. Two patches. Three, with (3) record-keeping regarding who has received and who has errorred adjusted to work with (2.) People who are running mailing lists (which need VERPS) behind low-bandwidth links are not covered by this patch proporal: They need to form cooperatives and rent servers with good connections. Looking at the chart qmail-smtpd --- qmail-queue --- qmail-send --- qmail-rspawn --- qmail-remote / | \ qmail-inject _/ qmail-clean \_ qmail-lspawn --- qmail-local it is not exactly clear at which point a mail that is CCd to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets split into three messages. (by smtpd, queue or send?) man pages indicate ... that qmail-remote "sends the message to one or more recipients at a remote host." Which means that it still hasn't been split up when qmail-remote gets it, and that qmail-remote is the only program that would need to be patched. Is this accurate, that messages withmultiple recipients are associated with a single queue entry until they are delivered and cleaned up, and that all delivery multiplexing happens within qmail-remote? If so, qmail-remote is the only part of the system which needs to be tweaked, and the groundwork is already there. Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dave Sill wrote: I think Postfix just sorts by FQDN, so it doesn't have to do 10,000 DNS lookups before it starts delivering. But by doing that, it potentially misses a lot of combining for different FQDN's with the same MX. "A lot" being a speculation or based on real-world data? evil grin qmail-remote has to look up the MX records too, so adding a switch to just sort by host name or wait until all the mx queries are back before sorting would not be that hard; but this advanced optimization would only make sense as something to toss in AFTER sorting and grouping by hostname is in place, at that point it's simply adjusting the sort/group method, it isn't introducing any new architectural features. __ David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] End Daylight Savings Time in our lifetime
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
Figured out my problem-- Silly RPM put a blank ".qmail-root" file in the /var/qmail/alias directory Now I need to figure out how to get the logging working... I looked in my syslog.conf and found no mention of anything QMail related.. -Original Message- From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions "Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? I deleted the rcpthosts file and now outgoing mail works fine. This is The Wrong Thing To Do, as I've explained to you in private mail. -Dave
RE: Please help newbie with 2 questions
"Reuben King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's anything that goes to root that disappears into the void. I've looked for any logging to track, but I see nothing in /var/logs that is mail related.. How are you doing logging? splogger? cyclog? If splogger, have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? Um... I don't know what's logging.. whatever is the default installed logger with RH6.1 .. I looked at /etc/syslog.conf .. saw lots of purty lines... nothing about qmail, though. Sorry for the thickheaded newbie pestering... :) Thanks for all the help, -RK
ANSWER OT: guestimate of number of MTA hosts worldwide
Source: http://www.sendmail.com/text/press/index.html More than 1.5 million copies of the Open Source sendmail are installed, representing over 75 percent of all Internet mail servers. Eric Dahnke escribió: I'm searching as best I can, but can't find a site which lists the approximate number of MTAs permanently connected to the internet. Anyone care to venture a guess, or mention a site where I can find such data. I figure around 100,000??? TIA - Eric -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Spark Sistemas - presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. Tel: 4702-1958 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Re: fastforward
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Dave Sill wrote: Yeah I think I found a "clear contradiction". I have two rules that demonstrate this: postmaster: keith # # Catch all for makeusanoffer.com # @makeusanoffer.com: mike Both keith and mike are real users. "makeusanoffer.com" is in ~alias/../control/locals. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to keith, but it goes to mike. A mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go to keith (assuming foo.com is in locals), but... The "catch-all" is, in fact, catching all when it shouldn't be. OK, now where does the fastforward documentation say that it'll do what you expect it to do? -Dave He'll never be able to show you that because the documentation says it will do exactly what he is seeing. :) quoting 'man setforward' TARGETS When fastforward sees the incoming address [EMAIL PROTECTED], it tries three targets: [EMAIL PROTECTED], @host.dom, and user@. It obeys the commands for the first target that it finds. Target names are interpreted without regard to case. - 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: ANSWER OT: guestimate of number of MTA hosts worldwide
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:18:34PM -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: } } Source: http://www.sendmail.com/text/press/index.html } } More than 1.5 million copies of the Open Source sendmail are installed, } representing over 75 percent of all Internet mail servers. That really doesn't answer the question. sendmail.com's marketing droids (remember, sendmail.com is now a business with a vested interest in inflating numbers) may well be counting all of the copies of sendmail that are shipped with, for example, Linux distributions that are on machines that *aren't* 24/7 on the Internet (or even on the Internet at all). I thought Dan had the results of some surveys he did at his web site, but a quick check with lynx doesn't turn up anything. I might just be looking in the wrong place, though. } } } } Eric Dahnke escribió: } } I'm searching as best I can, but can't find a site which lists the } approximate number of MTAs permanently connected to the internet. } } Anyone care to venture a guess, or mention a site where I can find such } data. } } I figure around 100,000??? } } TIA - Eric } } -- } + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + } Spark Sistemas }- presentado por IWCC Argentina S.A. }Tel: 4702-1958 }e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] } + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ignore unless memphis rpm user
Sorry, this is offtopic: This message is just for me to avoid the dozens of inquiries I receive each day about upgrading to the new daemontools. It seems to me that from now on Dan's programs will come with some kind of scripts to start the daemons under svscan. Hence it makes no sense for me to upgrade all my initscripts (qmail-run, tcpserver-initscripts) to work with daemontools-0.6* until I see what Dan will do with, say, qmail. I will make a daemontools-0.6* rpm so that people can play with, say, publicfile, but people should use `rpm -i ' to install it, so that 0.53 will do its job for the rest of their setup. The new rpm will be uploaded to ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/alpha/ in the next few days. Mate
Re: fastforward
OK, now where does the fastforward documentation say that it'll do what you expect it to do? -Dave He'll never be able to show you that because the documentation says it will do exactly what he is seeing. :) quoting 'man setforward' TARGETS When fastforward sees the incoming address [EMAIL PROTECTED], it tries three targets: [EMAIL PROTECTED], @host.dom, and user@. It obeys the commands for the first target that it finds. Target names are interpreted without regard to case. My bad. Apologies to all. I've read than man time and time again; given this particular site config -- which accepts and delivers mail locally for a handful of domains in locals -- I had it in my brain that it makes more sense to try user@ before @host.dom. Given the order in which the targets are tried, for what I want to do I would need a separate alias for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... where dom?.com are in locals. In any case, it's easier to take the "catch alls" out of /etc/aliases, have fastforward "fall through" if it fails, and put one catch-all in ~alias/.qmail-default Once again, sorry for wasting yer time.
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
I understand the motivation David, I really do. But you don't seem to understand who qmail works. On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:12:48PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: What the people with the problem are asking for appears to be for qmail to not split up identical mails intended for multiple recipients at identical hosts. These are real problems and poo-pooing them as degenerate cases or something produces nothing. No. What people are asking for is that qmail not treat a message with multiple recipients as separate messages to those recipients if the recipients are to be routed through the same SMTP server. Unfortunately, they're unclear about what they mean. If I have a message to 1M different FQDN which all use the same MX, do I want to split, or don't I? In terms of modifying, this might not be the "extensive rewrite" that "life with qmail" claims it will be. I see two parts to change: We want (1)the part that splits messages with multiple recipients to group by mail-host-name and merely split by mail-host-name, and also (2) that qmail-remote can issue multiple rcpt-to instructions in these cases. That is all. Two patches. Three, with (3) record-keeping regarding who has received and who has errorred adjusted to work with (2.) People who are running mailing lists (which need VERPS) behind low-bandwidth links are not covered by this patch proporal: They need to form cooperatives and rent servers with good connections. Ok, you're vastly oversimplifying how complex those changes are, and mistaken in the need to patch qmail-remote. And you're excluding the people who "need" the the modification the most from the umbrella. man pages indicate ... that qmail-remote "sends the message to one or more recipients at a remote host." Which means that it still hasn't been split up when qmail-remote gets it, and that qmail-remote is the only program that would need to be patched. No it doesn't. Is this accurate, that messages withmultiple recipients are associated with a single queue entry until they are delivered and cleaned up, and that all delivery multiplexing happens within qmail-remote? No. If so, qmail-remote is the only part of the system which needs to be tweaked, and the groundwork is already there. And as such, you conclusion is incorrect. Take a look at INTERNALS. John
I want to accept, but I don't want to deliver
Basically I want to setup a dummy host that I can relay mail off of, but I don't want it to actually send the mail to remote machines. Reason we're doing this is for load testing a mail application...we want to see what happens with a real mail list without actually having the mail go out. What should I do? Thanks! -jeremy http://www.xxedgexx.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Y2K. We're all gonna die.
imap quota reached
Hi, I have qmail 1.03 running and delivering with the cyrus deliver program. When a user has reached the quota limit on their mailbox, the logs show: Nov 8 15:44:53 mail qmail: 942104693.358273 starting delivery 95: msg 985125 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 8 15:44:53 mail qmail: 942104693.358425 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Nov 8 15:44:53 mail qmail: 942104693.385766 delivery 95: deferral: shane:_Over_quota__/ Nov 8 15:44:53 mail qmail: 942104693.385878 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 How do I get qmail to bounce the message instead of continually deferring the message? -- Shane Clements Software Engineer NASDAQ: AHWY [EMAIL PROTECTED] (408) 861-4054/ (800)775-4783 http://www.audiohighway.com http://massmusic.com
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:24:23PM +, David L. Nicol wrote: John White flamed forth: man pages indicate ... that qmail-remote "sends the message to one or more recipients at a remote host." Which means that it still hasn't been split up when qmail-remote gets it, and that qmail-remote is the only program that would need to be patched. No it doesn't. Yes, that's what the man page for qmail-remote says. No, you don't understand. Just because qmail-remote allows multiple recipients doesn't mean that a message in the qmail system hasn't been split at the time that qmail-remote is invoked. Nor would qmail-remote be the only program that needs to be patched to allow qmail to do multiple recpt-to's. If a single qmail-remote instance is handling each address, why does the man page say that qmail-remote accepts multiple addresses? qmail uses a single qmail-remote to deliver one message to one recipient. qmail-remote is not limited to this. What's the problem? Does qmail-remote have aspects of its interface which are not being used by the other parts of the system? Yes. Did the great DJB allow an inconsistency to appear between his coding and his documentation? Not that I see in this specific case. John
RE: Still getting error on startup of qmail
What's the command line you use? - Original Message - From: Nicole Ron McIntosh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 9:58 PM Subject: Still getting error on startup of qmail Okie I re-downloaded and re installed the ucspi-tcp-0.84 still a no go, only this time the error reads - tcpserver: usage tcpserver [ -lpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localhost ] [ -t timeout ] host port program setuser: usage: setusser username program [ arg ... ] Nicole Ron McIntosh
Thanx for your help
I got it working had an extra space in the line Now on to the next problem hehehe Nicole Ron McIntosh
Re: error deleting email
Dont you like answering your own questions? It was a permission problem. Never mind :) Ted - Original Message - From: Theodore Cekan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 6:37 PM Subject: error deleting email For some reason I am unable to delete messages through pop3. Here is my session: +OK 242.94254@smtp user test +OK pass test +OK list +OK 1 583 2 583 3 583 4 888 . dele 1 +OK quit -ERR unable to unlink all deleted messages +OK I am using a virtual popuser, which has write access on the files. Receiving email works fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Ted
Re: Who do I mail to remove myself from this list?
I have sent email to that address several times. I never get a reply and I never get off the list. I now only scan the list looking for new ways to get off. IS there a way? andy At 11:17 AM 11/3/1999 +, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Miki Shapiro wrote: Who do I mail to remove myself from this list? mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] And then, go take a look at http://www.ezmlm.org :-) Ricardo -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | FCCN/RCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional | Av. Brasil, 101 / 1700-066 Lisboa / Portugal *** Tel: (+351) 1 8440100
POP3 SMTP not working Help
I have setup qmail 1-03 on Red Hat 6.0 and I have done all the =additional needs. Now I can receive mails to the mailbox and also send. =But now in my client (outlook or netscape) I need to receive the mail. =So I add the POP3 server and the SMTP server but I do not receive the =mail at my client side.I have put up the start up script for SMTP in the /etc/inetd.conf file =but I have a line called POP-3 in the same script. Even after I removed =the remark statement it seems that my client is unable to receive the =mail. What settings should I setup in the server.=20I am also using uucspi-tcp and I have installed uucsp-tcp also in my =qmail server. But now I need to know why I am unable to receive my mails =at the client end pulling it out from the mail server.my client side set up isPOP3 - pop3.xxx.com.sg (pop3 is my hostname of the qmail server)SMTP - pop3. xxx.com.sg (SMTP)so could u kindly let me know where I could have gone wrong.Thanks RegardsJohn Francis
Cyrus+qmail: mmap() errors with big messages. .
Hello, I have been running cyrus+qmail for quite some time now and recently, users have been complaining about large mails not being delivered. I initially thought this was a problem with cyrus' deliver but it seems not to be the case. When large mails (175k) are sent in the normal way (qmail-inject. .qmail-queue. .deliver), I get the errors reported below about mmap() complaining. However, when piping a 3MB file directly to '|deliver' from the command line, nothing complains. Output from imapd.log: IOERROR: mapping new message file for user.csbell: Not enough space Output from syslog: 942122791.318715 delivery 53726: deferral: 421_4.3.0_deliver:_failed_to_mmap_new_message_file_/ Also, it might be worthy to note that I'm using a modified version of a script I found on the list for my qmail-cyrus-wrapper. Though it might be in fault, I cannot spot any logical deficiencies in it that could cause mmap() (and ultimately cyrus) not to deliver the message. Anyhow, here it is: # Modified version to use .qmail-dash and deliver to local mbox's #!/bin/sh QMAIL=`echo $LOCAL | tr "[:upper:] "[:lower:]"` QMAIL_USER=`echo $QMAIL | cut -f1 -d -` if [ "$EXT" != "" ]; then QMAIL_MBOX=`echo $EXT | cut -f2- -d -` QMAIL_MBOX="-m $QMAIL_MBOX" fi /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -q -a $QMAIL_USER -e $QMAIL_MBOX $QMAIL_USER # ripped codes from posted script case $? in 64|65|66|67|68|76|77|78) exit 100 ;; 0) exit 0 ;; *) exit 111 ;; esac This script is called as |/var/qmail/bin/qmail-cyrus-wrapper in cyrus' .qmail-default. Any input appreciated, Cheers. -- Christian Bell | InfiniT: Le portail des Québécois - www.infinit.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Systems Administrator [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | -- --|--| -do the math yourself, p=vi.
Re: Who do I mail to remove myself from this list?
Thus said Andy Davidson on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 18:47:45 PST: I have sent email to that address several times. I never get a reply and I never get off the list. I now only scan the list looking for new ways to get off. IS there a way? Are you kidding... you have been assimilated... :) Actually, if you followed the directions given you 'to the T' you probably would have received some type of an error message from your MTA. It should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] See error below... mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ Andy -- +== Andy == TiK: garbaglio ==+ |Linux is about freedom of choice| +== http://www.xmission.com/~bradipo/ ===+
Re: qmail remote delivery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, just my useless 2p: 1. As stuff like PGP and/or GnuPG starts to spread, there shall be no longer identical messages - each and every message shall be signed/encrypted by a different key. 2. The claims about "new technologies", "users wanting to send videos and MP3s" and stuff should be solved by upgrading the lines anyway; if you have several users sending 50MB attachments, they are killing your 64kb line anyway - should they use FTP or SMTP, and should they send one copy or three copies. 3. For mailing lists it's unusable anyway due to VERPing - the protocol simply doesn't allow multiple MAIL FROM/RCPT TO pairs for one DATA part. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCfhyVMwP8g7qbw/EQLtAwCeL1YaKyn9E7G321/4MZntb0PjVcMAn2fK wYpQXdP1jctewENDgJdTboXt =K35L -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]
DNS (SMTP/POP3)
Hello, After adding an entry for 192.168.3 to my named.conf file, I am getting faster response on smtp/pop3 via qmail on my LAN, however, I was wondering if I could get better performance if I added the class C range I was assigned via UUnet to my caching DNS server (still learning DNS, but it is tough going here)..:) Another question, assume I have a user shark on my system, and I am using qmail v1.03 w/vpopmail...how can I cc: a message to his mailbox at his isp (I know forwarding and alias is easy, but i think i am over looking something basic here) blink... -Bill
