cdb owned by root?
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. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
Re: delivery to a directory
"Phil Howard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I tell qmail-local what directory (maildir format) to deliver to? Use the qmail-users mechanism such that each virtual user has a home-directory that is their Maildir, then make the default delivery instruction be ./ That is what I do and it works fine. I did end up having to put an empty .qmail-default file in each virtual-home in order to catch mail with extension addresses, but that is not necessary if you just allow one address per user. -- Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357
Re: delivery to a directory
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:06:03 -0600 (CST) "Phil Howard" wrote: There will be hundreds of virtual domains and hundreds of userids in each. No, make that thousands. Maybe more. What's more, the user names will be created on the fly, so creating .qmail files in advance for every user name just isn't possible. You've been referred to two programs that can write to maildirs. Writing to maildirs is trivial; you might as well make your own program that decides where the mail should go deliver it as well. I don't know what the license is on the other two programs, but for somewhat complicated reasons I wound up writing one too, and it's under a BSD license so you can basically do anything you like with it except sue me if it doesn't work. ftp://ftp.nemeton.com.au/pub/deliver-maildir-1.1.tar.gz The maildir format is documented at: http://www.pobox.com/~djb/proto/maildir.html Regards, Giles
qmail Digest 10 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 816
qmail Digest 10 Nov 1999 11:00:01 - Issue 816 Topics (messages 32733 through 32768): Re: imap quota reached 32733 by: Joerg Lenneis Re: Cyrus+qmail: mmap() errors with big messages. . 32734 by: Joerg Lenneis 32735 by: Christian S . Bell qmail-inject and timezone 32736 by: Petr Novotny Forward, Relay ... or what is it ?? 32737 by: Thomas Foerster 32738 by: Petr Novotny strange quirk in qmail-local 32739 by: Barry Smoke 32744 by: Dave Sill 32748 by: Dave Sill Re: qmail remote delivery logic 32740 by: David Dyer-Bennet 32741 by: Dave Sill 32742 by: Stefan Paletta 32743 by: Dave Sill 32755 by: Sam 32756 by: Sam 32757 by: Sam more qmail with rh6.1 32745 by: Steve Kapinos 32747 by: Dave Sill Re: Qmail with rh 6.1 32746 by: Steve Kapinos lame question 32749 by: David McCall 32750 by: Patrick Berry 32751 by: Chris Johnson delivery to a directory 32752 by: Phil Howard 32753 by: Patrick Berry 32754 by: Stefan Paletta 32758 by: Phil Howard 32767 by: Frank D. Cringle 32768 by: Giles Lean Re: Rewriting without date header in a perl oneliner 32759 by: David L. Nicol Re: I want to accept, but I don't want to deliver 32760 by: Markus Stumpf new mbox2maildir 32761 by: Keith Burdis Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign (fwd) 32762 by: Todd A. Jacobs too many connections dying 32763 by: Edward Castillo-Jakosalem 32764 by: Edward Castillo-Jakosalem 2 Questions 32765 by: James syslog question. 32766 by: Marc-Adrian Napoli 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] -- Shane Clements: 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? [...] Put the line | /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver "$USER" || exit 100 into the .qmail file that handles delivery for cyrus. The '/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver "$USER"' part is only a guess about your setup, of course. "man qmail-command" has the details. -- Joerg Lenneis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian S Bell: Hello, [...] 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_/ [...] What are the ulimits for the user id that does the delivery? -- Joerg Lenneis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:48:44PM +0100, Joerg Lenneis wrote: | | Christian S Bell: | | Hello, | | [...] | | 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_/ | | [...] | | What are the ulimits for the user id that does the delivery? | | -- | | Joerg Lenneis | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lenneis, I added a `ulimit -a` in the deliver script right before the data is passed on to deliver (this deliver wrapper is run by the cyrus user and therefore is a descendent of the qmail-send process, which has a ulimit of 2048). time(seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 2097148 stack(kbytes) 8192 coredump(blocks) unlimited nofiles(descriptors) 64 memory(kbytes) 2048 The only hitch I can see is the vmemory being 2048 (However these mails seem to be ~175k in size - at least once they're in the mailbox). /chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a switch to ask qmail-inject to put the Date: stamp in the local timezone? I can perfectly understand why all the Received: headers use GMT - but qmail-inject? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCg6LlMwP8g7qbw/EQLVegCfRUitt010OksN1XgXaExJ9esDaR8AoLLJ DQqtqXLQjPWZp8IS+L2icXBl =Z6ai -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
Re: delivery to a directory
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:06:03PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
Patrick Berry wrote:
On 11/9/99 at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard) had the thought:
Please don't suggest lots of userids and/or lots of .qmail files. I'm
dead set on making this easy to administer, so those are not options.
That's why I'm running things through a program that figures it out.
I could be way off base here, but it sounds like your dead set on
reinventing the wheel. If you have to have a directory for the userid to
hold the Maildir, what is the problem with having a .qmail file to tell
qmail to deliver to that Maildir?
There will be hundreds of virtual domains and hundreds of userids in each.
No, make that thousands. Maybe more. What's more, the user names will
be created on the fly, so creating .qmail files in advance for every user
name just isn't possible.
I don't want to add the extra I/O overhead of creating a .qmail file for
each user. I'm trying to make this lean and mean. What I want to do is
divert the .qmail lookup for these virtuals (the ones in virtualdomains
naming this one single base user that handles this whole mess) so that
for each user@domain to be delivered there is _not_ a .qmail file there.
If I could code the master .qmail file like:
# note the single quotes here:
echo './Virtuals/${HOST}/${USER}/' .qmail
and qmail-local would apply environment substitution, that would do the job.
But that doesn't work. So I'm trying:
echo '|./bin/delivery-to' .qmail
where the program in bin/delivery-to examines the environment variables
and determines the directory to deliver to (all are owned by the one user
that all this is running under). The next step is to deliver the mail
there (which I'm wanting to avoid re-inventing, since something in qmail
can obviously do it).
There would be a corresponding logic for vchkpw authentication and finding
the directory under the pop3 server, plus a web based access facility to
be developed, too (I'll be doing this in PHP).
Hi
There is an explanation for virtualdomains/multiple users with signed system
user/uid on www.qmail.org.
It is bases on the users/assign file (in /var/qmail/users/assign). This
files tells qmail where mail to a certain user shall be delivered too (thus
overiding /etc/passwd). This together with the virtualdomains files gives
you excellent support for a _lot_ of domains and a _lot_ of users. Note that
(as far as I remember) the user/assign file is _compiled_ into some sort of
binary file, so it should be fast also with a lot of entries.
I am using this setup, and things are quite fast. I still have a .qmail file
for each user in his directory (/home/popuser/$DOMAIN/$USER), because you
need this for forwarding, starting mail notifying scripts, etc. But if you
just want to deliver to his Maildir/Mailbox you don´t need those .qmail
files.
I have writting a small webinterface for the administration of this (you can
add domains, add users to domain, set their pop-password, add forwards to
users,...). It is a quick and dirty hack (it´s a bunch of shell scripts!),
but it works for me - you can have it, if you want to (maybe you want to do
the necesary perl rewrite?? ;- )
greetings, Florian Pflug
Re: 2 Questions
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:19:30PM -0800, James wrote: 2) User is trying to read mail with Netscape 4.6 mail reader.. but when he tries to fetch mail, it says there is nothing in his mailbox even though there actually IS mail in the Mailbox file. Does the user need to direct the Netscape mail reader to the "Mailbox" directory somehow, instead of the server domain address? Hello James, does the user read her mail directly on the server with NetScape or via POP/IMAP? If the last one is true, you might try the following: - if you have a recent version of imapd (4.6) it will take a file $HOME/mbox as standard-INBOX if it finds one. - Otherwise you could try to ``ln -s $HOME/Mailbox /var/spool/mail/$USER'', which is the next place, where UW-imapd looks into (NetScape running ``locally'' mail should look into this as well). 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: syslog question.
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:02:36PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: hiya, been looking through the archives, can't seem to find my answer. this is in my /etc/init.d/qmail file: #Starts qmail-send and qmail-l/rspawn etc. csh -cf 'qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail ' #Starts qmail-smtpd for incoming smtp connections. /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -D -lcia.com.au -b30 -H -R -c100 -x/var/qmail/tcp.s mtp.cdb -u71 -g65534 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd #Starts qmail-popup for incoming pop connections to maildirs. /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -D -lcia.com.au -b40 -H -R -c100 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup virtual1.com .au /work/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Question 1: qmail-smtpd isn't logging. is this because i don't have a "recordio" parameter there? You need to run tcpserver with -v. Chris
Re: qmail remote delivery logic
Frederik Lindberg writes: Qmail is fastest under well-connected conditions when the recipients per host are close to 1 (most "normal traffic"). Still, it would be nice to improve it in more marginal situations as well. QMTP to smarthosts and other qmail hosts would go a long way, although I would prefer if there were a mechanism other than magic number MX records to keep track of who can do QMTP. Why? It's nearly cost-free. The algorithm for remote delivery would be "get the MX record. If it's in the magic range, attempt to talk QMTP on the port given in the record. If the connection is refused or times out, fall back to SMTP. There are 65536 different MX numbers. It would be quite straightforward to usurp a range of them. Last time I looked, nearly everybody uses priorities less than 1000. Pick a range above that, and query as many hosts as you can to see if anyone uses it. If nobody you can find does, it's likely that nobody else does. If it turns out that someone does after QMTP is in use, politely explain the situation and ask them to change. MX record numbers carry only a few bits of information. -- -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!
Disapearing messages
I have problems with the SMTP part of qmail. I send a email to myself in the test-enviroment as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The file is delivered from the queue immidiatly, but I cant find it in my Maildir. /etc/inetd.conf ^^^ smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup webmail /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir /var/qmail/rc ^ #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail Setup: ^^ qmail-1.03 checkpassword 0.81 ezmlm 0.53 mySQL patch from SoftAgency Hacked the mySQL patch so it only uses a single system UID/GID. That part is OK acording to the author of the original patch. Anything else I have forgotten to mention to help you guys helping me solve this problem? Send a email back. -- Michael Boman, Systems Engineer WizOffice.Com Pte Ltd - 16 Tannery Lane, #06-00 Crystal Time Building, Singapore. 347778 Your Online Office Wizard - http://www.wizoffice.com/ BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Boman;Michael FN:Michael Boman NICKNAME:Michael ORG:WizOffice.com TITLE:Systems Engineer TEL;PAGER;VOICE:(65) 92932949 ADR;WORK:;;Singapore LABEL;WORK:Singapore URL: URL:http://www.wizoffice.com EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19990922T094837Z END:VCARD
telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
HI! I have a strange problem here. QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ while telneting works fine: [root@medusa log]# telnet 131.246.137.51 25 Trying 131.246.137.51... Connected to 131.246.137.51. Escape character is '^]'. 220 news.uni-kl.de Server SMTP (Complaints/bugs to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Now. What might be the problem here I really have no idea.. Thanks Markus -- (Products Development) ___ ID-PRO GmbH Arnsberg http://www.id-pro.de Open for the better ... ___
Re: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign (fwd)
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I thought I'd repost this, in case the original (or any replies) got lost in the bitstream. The gist if my question is: when would I need to use assign instead of an alias? If you need speed for example. Assign gets converted to a hashed file which is much faster than file queries. Also, if your Mail-home-dirs are on an NFS Server and it dies the messages will get deferred and not bounced until the NFS-Server is up again. Hope that helps Markus -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QMAIL List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign I'm not 100% sure I understand the difference in intended usage between setting up a ~/alias/.qmail-whatever file and setting up a virtual user in /var/qmail/users/assign. As far as I can tell, the former uses forwarding, whereas the latter is acting like a true alias. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, what are the practical implications? They seem almost interchangeable to me. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- (Products Development) ___ ID-PRO GmbH Arnsberg http://www.id-pro.de Open for the better ... ___
Re: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: HI! I have a strange problem here. QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ I'd guess that the remote host looks up your IP address, and the name it gets doesn't match the name your server gives in the HELO greeting. Use control/helohost to change the HELO host name. man qmail-remote. Chris
RE: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ while telneting works fine: [root@medusa log]# telnet 131.246.137.51 25 Trying 131.246.137.51... Connected to 131.246.137.51. Escape character is '^]'. 220 news.uni-kl.de Server SMTP (Complaints/bugs to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Now. What might be the problem here I really have no idea.. Is it possible that the hostname your machine is giving in the HELO fails some paranoid DNS check, and the 451 is their response to your machine's HELO? What happens if you telnet in and say "HELO 'me'" where 'me' is the contents of /var/qmail/control/me? -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Chris Johnson wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:11:49PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: HI! I have a strange problem here. QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ I'd guess that the remote host looks up your IP address, and the name it gets doesn't match the name your server gives in the HELO greeting. Use control/helohost to change the HELO host name. man qmail-remote. [root@medusa /root]# nslookup mail.id-pro.net Server: ns2.id-pro.net Address: 195.227.34.11 Name: mail1.id-pro.net Address: 195.227.34.12 Aliases: mail.id-pro.net [root@medusa /root]# cat /var/qmail/control/helohost mail.id-pro.net [root@medusa /root]# Reverse lookups should be all fine. I even tried mail1.id-pro.net but it doesnt help h Markus
RE: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Greg Owen wrote: QMail cant send mails to some domains because I get this message: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ while telneting works fine: [root@medusa log]# telnet 131.246.137.51 25 Trying 131.246.137.51... Connected to 131.246.137.51. Escape character is '^]'. 220 news.uni-kl.de Server SMTP (Complaints/bugs to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Now. What might be the problem here I really have no idea.. Is it possible that the hostname your machine is giving in the HELO fails some paranoid DNS check, and the 451 is their response to your machine's HELO? What happens if you telnet in and say "HELO 'me'" where 'me' is the contents of /var/qmail/control/me? Hmmm mail.id-pro.net is accepted [root@medusa /root]# cat /var/qmail/control/helohost mail.id-pro.net [root@medusa /root]# [root@medusa /root]# telnet news.uni-kl.de 25 Trying 131.246.137.51... Escape character is '^]'. 220 news.uni-kl.de Server SMTP (Complaints/bugs to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) HELO mail.id-pro.net 250 news.uni-kl.de - you are a charlatan MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 @ns2.id-pro.net:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender ok RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient ok DATA 354 Enter Mail, end by a line with only '.' . 250 Submitted immediates started (msg.aa25115) QUIT 221 news.uni-kl.de says goodbye to ns2.id-pro.net at Wed Nov 10 16:34:12. Connection closed by foreign host. Markus -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (Products Development) ___ ID-PRO GmbH Arnsberg http://www.id-pro.de Open for the better ... ___
Re: Usage of /var/qmail/users/assign (fwd)
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:14:54PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm not 100% sure I understand the difference in intended usage between setting up a ~/alias/.qmail-whatever file and setting up a virtual user in /var/qmail/users/assign. As far as I can tell, the former uses forwarding, whereas the latter is acting like a true alias. The difference becomes evident if you are using virtualdomains. If you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] an they are not both the same you cannot handle deliveries for "joe" via the same ~alias/.qmail-joe Usually you would have different users with different $HOMEs that control each of those domains. But with a few thousand virtualdomains it is no fun (and pretty useless) to create thousands of "real" users on your system. Thats what the users/assign is for. It can hold all the users that are defined in control/virtualdomains, uses (if you want) only one real UID and allows to define different $HOMEs (aka control directories) for each domain. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Re: too many connections dying
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:40:57PM +0800, Edward Castillo-Jakosalem wrote: I've been constantly monitoring our log files and have been noticing lately that there are too many deliveries dying (says connected...but_connection_died). I'm presently running qmail-send with 100 concurrent remote deliveries. Is it always the same hosts(s)? We are pretty good connected and I always see some of them in the logfiles. If I test the host with "telnet host smtp" it is often that I get a connection, it takes 10-15 seconds and thre remote host hangs the connection without greeting. This looks like a confused mail server on the other side. How come the mail which was queued up since yesterday is still not sent when I sent a mail to the same address just now and was sent immediatley? qmail uses a quadratic backoff algorithm. This is applied on a per message basis, not per host basis. The "fresh" message has gone through without any problems and the queued message is rescheduled and probably due within 1 hour or so. Dave Sill's "Living With Qmail" (Link from www.qmail.org; sorry I haven't my booksmarks at hand) has a table that shows the backoff and retry times. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Re: telnet on 25 works but qmail cant connect to it!
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:38:07PM +0100, Markus Wuebben wrote: Nov 10 16:08:00 medusa qmail: 942246480.704387 delivery 21: deferral: Connected_to_131.246.137.51_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said: _451_Connection_Refused_(Paranoid)_from:_195.227.34.12/ Your DNS setup is broken. 195.227.34.12 - mail.id-pro.net mail.id-pro.net - CNAME (!!) mail1.id-pro.net The machine (news.uni-kiel.de) does "paranoid" lookups. It does a reverse and gets "mail.id-pro.net" it queries for that host and gets "mail1.id-pro.net". That two don't match and it rejects the connection. Btw. If you have any MX records pointing to mail.id-pro.net this is broken, too, as MX records may NEVER point at CNAMEs. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Spam
Hi, I had a spammer in my system which sent many mails to many domains, and as I have tcp.smtp rules it should did it from my own dialups, so I have the syslog with the following messages.. Is there any way to know the IP from this guy?. And How can I filter per Subject instead of From???. Here's the log:Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.265761 info msg 143554: bytes 18920 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 1318 uid 101 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.331364 starting delivery 6979: msg 143554 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.331556 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.527908 new msg 143555 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.528148 info msg 143555: bytes 19408 from qp 1322 uid 108 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.680963 starting delivery 6980: msg 143555 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.681167 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.715031 delivery 6980: failure: admin__:sintesoft.com:sintesoft.com/POP_user_does_not_exist,_but_will_deliver _to_/mail/vpopmail/domains/sintesoft.com/postmaster/Reason_for_failure:_/User_over_quota,_size_=_2299815/ Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.757477 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Nov 7 15:53:11 babel qmail: 942000791.860593 bounce msg 143555 qp 132ov 8 10:14:04 babel qmail: 942066844.193751 new msg 143539 Nov 8 10:14:04 babel qmail: 942066844.194014 info msg 143539: bytes 18547 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 9352 uid 101 Nov 8 10:14:04 babel qmail: 942066844.266497 starting delivery 8091: msg 143539 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 8 10:14:04 babel qmail: 942066844.266685 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 Nov 8 10:14:06 babel qmail: 942066846.278123 delivery 8091: success: 200.10.106.24_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Message_received:_19991 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Nov 8 10:14:06 babel qmail: 942066846.291431 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 Nov 8 10:14:06 babel qmail: 942066846.291616 end msg 143539 Nov 8 10:14:18 babel vpopmail[9359]: virtual POP for matias@ from 200.43.4.2 Nov 8 10:14:21 babel qmail: 942066861.339228 new msg 143539
Re: Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Nov 99, at 16:48, Martin Paulucci wrote: I had a spammer in my system which sent many mails to many domains, and as I have tcp.smtp rules it should did it from my own dialups, so I have the syslog with the following messages.. Is there any way to know the IP from this guy?. You're showing us logs from qmail. There's nothing about the originator in there. Do you have logs from tcpserver? You should find it in there (by time, and by qp - qp shall be close to qp in the qmail logs). Alternatively, if you have a spam message in your hands (a copy from the queue, or a bounce with full headers), have a look at "Received" lines. And How can I filter per Subject instead of From???. Beg your pardon? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOCmxuVMwP8g7qbw/EQK4YgCffuduWM5p1mLsHghfzm1SgJnlK2UAniI6 LVcG9sQcWzrHAB9O5QUAsDnZ =Sm9o -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]
New Document for Qmail install
After several Qmail installation attempts, I have written up a document with the sequence of commands, on howto install Qmail. It is at the following address. http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html Please review it and let me know, if it is helpful for Qmail newbies. Any language and grammer corrections for this document, is much appreciated. Thank you. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
Re: 2 Questions
James wrote: 1) I have had qmail working wonderfully on RedHat Mandrake 6.0 for many months now.. but I am having a problem with relaying. I've gone through the steps on this page: http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html but I am confused about something.. if I set up an ip address in rcpthosts, *and* in RELAYCLIENT, does this mean the user can ONLY send mail if he/she is connected to the server (say, with telnet)? I have added the user's ip address to both, and user cannot use server as a relay when not connected directly to the server. rcpthosts lists domains that qmail will deliver mail to no matter who uses the relay to send mail to them. For instance your rcpthosts is: cia.gov nsa.gov This allows _anyone_ connecting to your qmail server to send messages to those domains. If I am a Russian spy and I telnet to port 25 on your qmail server. I can then do a: mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] data Blah blah blah . This message will be delivered. If I as the Russian spy telnetting to your qmail port 25 did this same thing to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message would not be delivered to hotmail.com because hotmail.com is not in your rcpthosts. Now people can not use your qmail server to spam the world because the qmail server will only send messages to cia.gov and nsa.gov. This presents a problem to your local users because now they can't send mail out to hotmail.com since it is not in the rcpthosts. You can however set up tcpserver to pass a RELAYCLIENT environment variable to the qmail server for ip addresses of your choosing. Say you have set up your tcp.smtp with a: 192.168.10.:allow, RELAYCLIENT="" :allow and have recompiled the rules tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.temp tcp.smtp and then stopped and restarted qmail and tcpserver Now everyone with an address in the subnet 192.168.10 should be able to send mail to any host they wish. Everyone not in the subnet 192.168.10 connecting to qmail will only be able to send mail to nsa.gov and cia.gov. Putting an address for Joe Smith at 192.168.10.103 in rcpthosts just simply allows mail to be delivered to host 192.168.10.103, and has no bearing on where Joe Smith can send mail. Your rcpthosts should only contain domains you receive mail for. Your tcp.smtp should contain the subnets and/or ip addresses of the users you wish to be able to use the qmail server as a relay to send mail anywhere. Forgive my rambling Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Network problems
Hi I know this is OT, but I just need a pointer to some/more information. I have _very_ slow tcp-connections to our qmail smtp/pop3 server, I guess due to some network problems. The mail server is connected to a 100mbit-network (via a 10/100 hub). If I send mails/copy files(via ftp)/tranfer any kind of data, I get about 20-40 kByte/s... but only if the other host is connected via 100mbit too. If I use a host, that has only a 10mbit-link to the hub, the connection is at about 600kByte/s - which is _much_ better. I guess there is some problem with the cable, the nic, or the nub. Is a any good linux-software that allows me to debug this, e.g. to see if there are any tcp-retransmits, or if the ethernet-frames are corrupted??? Greetings, Florian Pflug
Direcory ownership of /var/supervise??
I am trying to use David Sill's Qmail startup script. I have added "nohup" before "supervise". The script ends immediately with the "Done" message and will not start any of the Qmail's processes. I have the qmail-smtpd-wrapper in /var/qmail/bin. After that, I have issued following command as root. $ mkdir -p /var/supervise/qmail/send $ mkdir /var/supervise/qmail/smtpd What should be the permissions on these directories be? Who should be the owner of these directories? The manual command, $ csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' works fine. Why should I look for in Dave Sill's startup script, to make it work? Any pointers appreciated. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
Prepatched IMAP anyone?
I have consistently failed to patch the IMAP source successfully so that it could work with Maildir. Does anyone have an already patched source that he'd be willing to share with me?
Stopping local delivery temporarily
This seems like a question that should be easily answered, yet the answer I came up with on my own seems almost *too* easy, so I thought I'd ask. :-) I'm going to be doing some minor maintenance on the mail server and changing users from mbox to Maildir format. I'd like to stop all local deliveries temporarily so that I can be as sure as possible that no mail is lost to any of the changes I make, and have all messages that would be delivered locally just stack up in the queue until I'm ready for them to be delivered. I think I can just do this by killing qmail-lspawn, but as I said, that seems too simple. Am I just making this more complicated than it needs to be, or will this not do what I think it will? Thanks, Adam
Pop toaster help?
I thought pounding through qmail pages I saw some link about setting up a POP toaster. Anyone know where/what that link was? I wanted to stay with vsm to keep my options open for IMAP, POP3 (or maybe web stuff).. which doesn't seem to be a problem except that almost all the qmail support for selective relaying is tied to checkpasswd.. and hence qmail-pop3d I believe. I just don't understand how selective relaying can be such a 'add-on' in this world of spam and POP3.. Why isn't this functionality cleaner to implement? -Steve winmail.dat
Re: Stopping local delivery temporarily
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Adam Michaud wrote: This seems like a question that should be easily answered, yet the answer I came up with on my own seems almost *too* easy, so I thought I'd ask. :-) I'm going to be doing some minor maintenance on the mail server and changing users from mbox to Maildir format. I'd like to stop all local deliveries temporarily so that I can be as sure as possible that no mail is lost to any of the changes I make, and have all messages that would be delivered locally just stack up in the queue until I'm ready for them to be delivered. I think I can just do this by killing qmail-lspawn, but as I said, that seems too simple. Am I just making this more complicated than it needs to be, or will this not do what I think it will? Just set control/concurrencylocal to 0 and restart qmail. Chris
RE: Prepatched IMAP anyone?
Try http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/ I have the patches and instructions that you need to build your own and pre-compiled RPM if you want to go that way. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services -Original Message- From: Denis Voitenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Prepatched IMAP anyone? I have consistently failed to patch the IMAP source successfully so that it could work with Maildir. Does anyone have an already patched source that he'd be willing to share with me?
Permission bits
What should the permissions be for a Maildir and a .qmail file? winmail.dat
Re: Pop toaster help?
I used Paul Gregg's outstanding reference: http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/ jon At 4:08 PM -0500 11/10/99, Steve Kapinos wrote: I thought pounding through qmail pages I saw some link about setting up a POP toaster. Anyone know where/what that link was? I wanted to stay with vsm to keep my options open for IMAP, POP3 (or maybe web stuff).. which doesn't seem to be a problem except that almost all the qmail support for selective relaying is tied to checkpasswd.. and hence qmail-pop3d I believe. I just don't understand how selective relaying can be such a 'add-on' in this world of spam and POP3.. Why isn't this functionality cleaner to implement? -Steve
Moving onto Maildir
Ok, After much mulling over keeping with vsm, I've moved over to Maildir to better my chances with selective relaying. Things are working fine, except I'm trying to patch Pine to work with Maildir. From the home page there is a link to the Bloodhounds patch, but the readme in the patch is not helping me for v4.20 of pine. It refers to changing the make file in /imap/ANSI/c-client/Makefile, however, that no longer exists. There is a makefile in /imap/src/c-client, but it doesn't seem to have the same format that is refered to in the README, as neither of the two lines it says to modify seem to be there. Anyone have luck patching Pine 4.20 for maildir? Thanks -Steve winmail.dat
Re: too many connections dying
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 07:14:37AM +0800, Edward Castillo-Jakosalem wrote: Is it always the same hosts(s)? Mostly free web email services like hotmail, yahoo, and mailcity. Then maybe their mailserver are overloaded. You think the cause is the delay between the connection of their servers and ours? No. If you have a message M(a) that should be delivered to host H. Host H is down. So qmail backs off the message for some time. It tries again, fails to send, backs off again. The retry time grows quadratic. This means that after some unsuccessful retries qmail may wait an hour or more before it does the next retry. Now the mailserver is ready again. You send a new message M(b). This message goes through immediately, but message M(a) may have been scheduled for retry e.g. 40 minutes later. So the new message goes through immediately, but the elder one will go through after 40 minutes (if the remote host is still up). This is on purpose as to not overload a mailserver that came up recently, immediately again. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
how to give preference to qmail-remote over qmail-smtpd?
I need to change the priority of email deliveries to be a higher then for accepting more email.. currently, the server sits there and accepts emails like crazy... top says iowait is around 73% When I kill my sending process, I see that io/wait drops down to near 7% Ideally, I'd like to accept email for delivery when remote deliveries ahave timed out, etc.. Nagendra
Re: 2 Questions
Quoting Charles Leeds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] You can however set up tcpserver to pass a RELAYCLIENT environment variable to the qmail server for ip addresses of your choosing. Say you have set up your tcp.smtp with a: 192.168.10.:allow, RELAYCLIENT="" :allow and have recompiled the rules tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.temp tcp.smtp and then stopped and restarted qmail and tcpserver A very lucid explanation, the only correction being needed on the above. No need to restart anything after modifying the tcp rules. Aaron
remote routing
Hi there I've just had a user complain that our mail server is not routing mail properly to his machine. He has several virtual domains and mail to these machines is not being routed as he expected. I think that qmail is doing the right thing, and his DNS entries are incorrect, but I'd like more knowledgeable folk to verify this. Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes directly to centaur.graham.ru.ac.za: pa.ru.ac.za - centaur.graham.ru.ac.za The user thinks it should go via terrapin.ru.ac.za: pa.ru.ac.za - terrapin.ru.ac.za - centaur.graham.ru.ac.za Here's what I think qmail does: 1) Look up the MX record of pa.ru.ac.za: rucus:~$ dnsquery -t MX pa.ru.ac.za [snip] pa.ru.ac.za.3D IN CNAME centaur.graham.ru.ac.za. [snip] 2) Resolve centaur.graham.ru.ac.za 3) Look up the MX record of centaur.graham.ru.ac.za rucus:~$ dnsquery -t MX centaur.graham.ru.ac.za Query failed (h_errno = 4) : No address associated with name rucus:~$ 4) No MX. Let's see if it has an A record: rucus:~$ dnsquery -t MX centaur.graham.ru.ac.za [snip] centaur.graham.ru.ac.za. 3D IN A 146.231.32.200 [snip] 5) It does. Send the mail to centaur.graham.ru.ac.za Of all his virtual hosts, I believe only graham.ru.ac.za is configured correctly. 1) Look up the MX record of graham.ru.ac.za rucus:~$ dnsquery -t mx graham.ru.ac.za [snip] graham.ru.ac.za.3D IN MX10 terrapin.ru.ac.za [snip] 2) Send the mail to terrapin.ru.ac.za Is this correct? Thanks. - Keith (who wishes he had a Qmail book to look this up in ;) -- Keith Burdis - MSc (Computer Science) - Rhodes University, South Africa IRC: Panthras JAPHQEFH ---
Re: delivery to a directory
Giles Lean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: giles You've been referred to two programs that can write to maildirs. giles Writing to maildirs is trivial; you might as well make your own giles program that decides where the mail should go deliver it as well. ... giles The maildir format is documented at: giles giles http://www.pobox.com/~djb/proto/maildir.html Actually that does look trivial. I guess this does show the virtue of KISS. So I may just write my own and use the same uniquness strategy I'm programming into a web site now, which is Julian Day based and good to 19 Dec 22666. Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fgp There is an explanation for virtualdomains/multiple users with signed system fgp user/uid on www.qmail.org. I'm not sure I find this or not. I didn't find something literally that, but I found many "virtual" things there. Part of the problem, I think, is that there isn't a precise meaning for "virtual". fgp It is bases on the users/assign file (in /var/qmail/users/assign). This fgp files tells qmail where mail to a certain user shall be delivered too (thus fgp overiding /etc/passwd). This together with the virtualdomains files gives fgp you excellent support for a _lot_ of domains and a _lot_ of users. Note that fgp (as far as I remember) the user/assign file is _compiled_ into some sort of fgp binary file, so it should be fast also with a lot of entries. If it uses /var/qmail/users/assign then it's not what I want, and not what I call virtual. To me, one of the attributes of virtual is that there is no table of mapping between a user e-mail address and where to deliver, but instead, the determination of where to deliver is a functional relation to the e-mail address. I want the very minimum of administrative work to manage it. This will require such things as automatically deriving the user authentication data from the customer account database. I expect to write something that will rebuild certain files (password CDB, rcpthosts, virtualdomains) from the data obtained from the database. fgp I am using this setup, and things are quite fast. I still have a .qmail file fgp for each user in his directory (/home/popuser/$DOMAIN/$USER), because you fgp need this for forwarding, starting mail notifying scripts, etc. But if you fgp just want to deliver to his Maildir/Mailbox you don´t need those .qmail fgp files. I don't want a .qmail file for each user (except for local host users). If by leaving it out I can deliver to each users's maildir, that' what I want. At the same time there may be a catch. The default delivery for the local host (e.g. listed in locals, for users in /etc/passwd, with distinct uids), is not maildir, but "./Mailbox". I need to be able to leave local users as all "./Mailbox" by default (unless overridden in a .qmail file for each user individually), yet have maildirs used for all the virtualdomains users without creating zillions of .qmail files. Local users will NOT (at least we do not need to offer) have their e-mail available by POP3 (or IMAP4 when that gets added to the mix). If the address identifies the local host name, it goes to the shell account only, for shells on the same machine as the general POP3 service (these are just staff shells, anyway, not customer shell accounts, which would be on a separate machine with a more conventional non-virtual setup). fgp I have writting a small webinterface for the administration of this (you can fgp add domains, add users to domain, set their pop-password, add forwards to fgp users,...). It is a quick and dirty hack (it´s a bunch of shell scripts!), fgp but it works for me - you can have it, if you want to (maybe you want to do fgp the necesary perl rewrite?? ;- ) We'll be doing the web interface for administration as an integral part of the whole internet service administration, working through a central database that records every service, not just e-mail. E-mail configuration will then be derived from that database much like web configuration, DNS configuration, and so forth. I will be able to add a new customer, specify domains, and let them add their own users and subdomains, and it will automatically set up their e-mail, radius for dialup, routing for dedicated DSL, web service, and whatever else (the exact system hasn't been chosen, yet). -- Phil Howard | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] phil | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] at| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipal | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dot| [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] net | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maildir conversions -- read mail, deletions
I'm not sure if this is a qmail issue or what, but I'm not having a whole lot of luck finding info on this anywhere else... I'm converting users with existing POP mailboxes (i.e., they keep mail on the server) from mbox to Maildir format, and in the process, switching them from cucipop (which doesn't understand Maildir) to a patched version of ipop3d, the POP server that comes with the UW-IMAP distribution (which does). When I do this, all of the messages that were saved in the user's Mailbox appear in the Inbox on the user's client, even those that had already been seen/dealt with. This happens even if I explicitly put all of the messages into the "cur" folder (as opposed to "new"). Also, it doesn't seem that deleting messages on the client side deletes them from the server, even if the appropriate option on the client side is active (for example, the "Delete items on server when emptying trash" option in Netscape Messenger) It sounds like it's some sort of issue (at least, the first one) with the UIDL information not being preserved, at least from what I've been reading, but that's mostly just a guess. Does anyone know why this might be happening, and/or what I can do about it? I'll have people beating down my door if everyone gets hundreds (even, in some cases, thousands) of old messages dumped in their Inbox... Thanks, Adam
Qmail - Address Rewrite
Hello again, I haven't gone too far trying to quit Qmail. ;-) My Qmail is up and running fine. The only thing remaining for now is the address rewriting. Right now my MUA is doing the rewriting of the address. If I were to use the local "mail" command, then the address reverts back to my fake domain address and the mail doesn't go anywhere. This is one topic that is not addressed much. I do not see any example of control files that would implement some rudimentary address rewriting for out bound mail. How can I do address rewrites in Qmail? If anyone has doing it now, I would appreciate a sample control files. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
RE: Disapearing messages
I just love when you get things working. Problem solved. Problem was: there was a system user named 'michael' and all the mail got into the system users box, not the box specified by the MySQL server. Regards, Michael Boman -Original Message- From: Michael Boman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 November, 1999 11:07 PM To: Qmail Subject: Disapearing messages I have problems with the SMTP part of qmail. I send a email to myself in the test-enviroment as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The file is delivered from the queue immidiatly, but I cant find it in my Maildir. /etc/inetd.conf ^^^ smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup webmail /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir /var/qmail/rc ^ #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail Setup: ^^ qmail-1.03 checkpassword 0.81 ezmlm 0.53 mySQL patch from SoftAgency Hacked the mySQL patch so it only uses a single system UID/GID. That part is OK acording to the author of the original patch. Anything else I have forgotten to mention to help you guys helping me solve this problem? Send a email back. -- Michael Boman, Systems Engineer WizOffice.Com Pte Ltd - 16 Tannery Lane, #06-00 Crystal Time Building, Singapore. 347778 Your Online Office Wizard - http://www.wizoffice.com/
Mass user email
Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Re: remote routing
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:34:49AM +0200, Keith Burdis wrote: the right thing, and his DNS entries are incorrect, but I'd like more knowledgeable folk to verify this. Yes, there seem to be MX records missing for centaur.graham.ru.ac.za that point to terrapin.ru.ac.za Is this correct? AFAICS your analysis is correct. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 |
Re: Mass user email
Robert wrote: Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7
qmail tuning question
I have just moved a mailing list to qmail/ezmlm. The list has a little over 1800 users and I am finding that the mailq is running at about 20K messages. I added the /var/qmail/control/concurrencyremote file with a value of 75. Sometimes it is running at 75 remotes but more often it is at 13-15. Is there any way to get qmail to push more of the messages through? I was also wondering if anyone had any problems with qmail clling it quits when the mailq reaches a cetain point. I read somewhere that it can run with big mailq's as long as you have enough disk to store the messages. Is there a way to clear the q manually if I need to? Any other performance tuning things I can to to get things moving along faster? I'm pretty new to this (email management) so any help would be appreciated. Thanx in advance.. -scott
Re: Mass user email
Am I wrong in assuming that pop-bull only works on users with shell accounts?? I'm a sys admin for an ISP, and I don't give my users shell access. If I'm wrong, please let me know. Thank you. Ken Jones wrote: Robert wrote: Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7
Re: Mass user email
No, it's for pop accounts, hence the name...shell has nothing to do with it. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Robert wrote: Am I wrong in assuming that pop-bull only works on users with shell accounts?? I'm a sys admin for an ISP, and I don't give my users shell access. If I'm wrong, please let me know. Thank you. Ken Jones wrote: Robert wrote: Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7 James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd.http://www.pil.net = ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit http://www.ispf.com/ for information and registration. =
Re: Mass user email
Is there any documentation for this patch? I don't see any on the qmail webpage. Robert James Smallacombe wrote: No, it's for pop accounts, hence the name...shell has nothing to do with it. On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Robert wrote: Am I wrong in assuming that pop-bull only works on users with shell accounts?? I'm a sys admin for an ISP, and I don't give my users shell access. If I'm wrong, please let me know. Thank you. Ken Jones wrote: Robert wrote: Hello, Thank you in advance for any help that is given. Is there a way to send a single email to all the users on my system so it looks like it's addressed to each individual user? I tried adding each user on the box to my .qmail file, but the mail that is sent out is addressed to the original user the email was sent to. I looked at ezmlm, but i'm not interested in setting up mailing lists. I just want to send out system warnings and such to my users if needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. popbull might work for you, or the virtual pop bull programs out there. If not, I have a program that will send an email out to a list of users in a file, individually addressed. If it's all local, use a popbull program. Ken Jones Inter7 James SmallacombeInternet Access for The Delaware [EMAIL PROTECTED]Valley in PA, NJ and DE PlantageNet Internet Ltd.http://www.pil.net = ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit http://www.ispf.com/ for information and registration. =
