Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:20:32AM +0100, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: "?Ó?? Á???ë?áî???ö???î? Gusp"@ufatel.ru Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail? Return-Path: "?Ó?? Á???ë?áî???ö???î? Gusp"@ufatel.ru Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3) by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Message-ID: 000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message was received via SMTP. The bogus return path was supplied by SMTP client (MS Outlook? oh, what surprise!). Hmm...yes, it is somewhat questionable whether it is a good thing that qmail is willing to accept such garbage at all and waste resources trying to deliver it (and be blamed for breaking it in the end). Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus? I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: " Gusp"@ufatel.ru Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail? Return-Path is generated by server, not client! Yes, it is. But its contents is a copy of any text sent by a client as an argument of SMTP "MAIL FROM:" command. qmail is (might be) guilty of accepting it, not of making it up. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
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Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm using multilog and qmailanalog. I did some searching on the mail list and found some scripts that do the hex conversion, etc, but I'm seeing somewhat strange results anyway. All my time signatures change each time I run the logs through the setup of scripts and qmailanalog even though the log doesn't change: cat tmp | tai64n | ./tai64n2time | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/zoverall So what's tmp (ie, where does it come from)? Just looking at that command line, it looks a lot like you're adding timestamps to every line fresh each time you run the above command pipeline, which means that you're giving every line pretty much the same timestamp. tai64n is intended to be used to put an accurate timestamp on each line *when it's logged*, not after the fact. Since you're using multilog, you don't need it at all; just use the t action in multilog. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Return-Path: "??? ??? Gusp"@ufatel.ru Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus? I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_. It is not. "ufatel.ru" has never been a valid domain name. And I hope it will never be a valid name. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Re: Qmail Majordomo
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:41:13AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.: "Andrew Scott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that qmail does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one address. 1. Is this true? Yup. 2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from the list)? You would need to fix the program that's being used to send outgoing mail so that it strips the name out of the address before passing it to qmail. I don't know of anyone who's already done this work for the general case; my mjinject script handles it for the simpler case of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe) though, and could probably be extended to handle the more general case. You can get it from ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/software/majordomo/mjinject. I think djb's mess822 lib could help out a lot here... Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:45:43AM +0100, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Return-Path: "?Ó?? Á???ë?áî???ö???î? Gusp"@ufatel.ru Well how would qmail decide that that address is potentially bogus? I don't know. That address is, even, potentially _valid_. It is not. "ufatel.ru" has never been a valid domain name. And I hope it will never be a valid name. Hmm I was only looking at the part before the @. Indeed, this address is invalid. But qmail can hardly know that, apart from the at the end. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?
What is Bluetail Mail Robustifier? I couldn't find any pointers on the Net. Thanks. - Ashok Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000 users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make an extremely good, fast and stable combination. /Jenny, mailadmin at Telenordia/Algonet -- "I live in the heart of the machine. We are one."
[Fwd: address translation]
Hans Sandsdalen wrote: Hi How do I make qmail understand addresses like host!user@domain? I have installed HP jetadmin on a Solaris 7 system, and when there are printing errors it sends a mail to the user with addresses like this. -- /hans I think I can use rmail (ftp://ftp.mira.net.au/unix/mail/qmail/rmail-0.1.tar.gz) But how do I use it? In the INSTALL file it says that I should replace my existing rmail. I don't have one? -- /hans
about local and global qmail using
Hello qmail, Who knows does qmail allow to send mail to Internet for privilleged users and deny the same for unprivilleged. Best regards, mulin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: why wont q-mail use other mail exchanger??
now, the mail.meyersbros.com server is the one that seems to be down, and the one that q-mail's trying to send to.. but since it's failing to send to that server, shouldn't it automatically try one of the others instead?? I connected to both of the others with telnet, and they seem to be fine.. so, why has my message been sitting in my queue all day? This was discussed in detail under the subject "When will qmail back off to the next MX" between 9/15/99 and 9/28/99. In summary, a dropped connection is NOT interpreted as a machine down, so qmail never backs off. The problem may be caused by a combination of a proxying firewall on your end (like Raptor) and a firewalled primary MX on the other end, in which case you can fix the problem by modifying your firewall not to proxy outgoing SMTP. Go to the archives, read the thread, and let us know if that doesn't answer things for you. But the main answer to your question is, "No, it doesn't back off in that case, and arguably shouldn't." -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tcpserver problem
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:45:59PM -0800, Francis Francis wrote: Hi I am new to qmail. I got following problem when I try to telnet to port 25 or using mail client to send mail. I got log message : tcpserver:warning: dropping connection,unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: file does not exist. but when I do ls -l /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb, the file is there. What does your _exact_ tcpserver startup line look like? And what's the output of 'ls -l /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb' ? Don't tell us the file is there, paste the output in your replies. -- See complete headers for more info
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Re: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:15:51PM +0545, Shashi Dahal wrote: Dear all ! For some time now, I have been getting a lot of messages like "Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/" This happens if you do not set the default delivery method at qmail-startup in the rc-file. It happens to me when I edited /etc/init.d/qmail with "ae" where ae looses a linebreak and suddenly two lines were commented out where I only want to have one commented out ... Use better editors is my advice ;-) Greetings -- Robert Sander www.gurubert.de
Mailing List
Please could someone tell me how to unsubscribe from this list PLEASE. I sent a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on But I still receive mail I have lost that address now PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE.. My mailbox is overflooding
Re: boot scripts
Hello a, Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 3:16:52 AM, you wrote: ak Newbie question: ak While installing qmail I found this paragraph: ak 14. Add ak csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' ak to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted ak whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the . ak To which exactly boot scripts should I add this line? ak Thank you in advance. ak ak Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. It depends on you system initialisation type (BSD or SysV). I have RedHat 5.9 distr with SysV initialisation (or booting process). I placed it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script and put links in all /etc/rc.d/rc#.d folders on it. Another way is for BSD init type: place it in rc.local (the last way is suitable for both BSD and SysV types) Best regards, mulinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing FROM:
Hello, I have a question concerning the FROM: line in the mail header. I think it should be a very common problem, but I can't find the answer in the FAQ's. Maybe someone could direct me to the right document Here is my configuration: external: We receive our mails via fetchmail from the 1.ISP. We send our mails to a 2.ISP via serialmail. Mails which are deliverd external, show in the FROM-line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should be: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internal: Our Clients are WindowsXXX, they receive their mails from our pop3-server. They send their mail to our smtp-server. I found in the FAQ's, how to setup the changing of the FROM line, when using qmail-inject. But that won't work with smtp. Thanks for any idea! Michael
Help testing the installation
Hi, I am new in linux. After gathering infomration , I fins qmail is very powerful and eay to config. However, I encounter the following problem . Can u help me solve it? The Problem is: I can build and install the qmail but I cannot success in following the guideline in TEST.deliver. I am follow the sequence mention in the INSTALL and read through the INSTALL.* from the TEST.deliver: when i run the /var/qmail/rc it will has four process but i only get one qmail-lspawn I also fail in the local mail delivery. Can u tell how figure what mistake I have made? Also I don't understand the idea that decscride in mbox , Maildir and Mailbox which one should I choose, since I need to maintan POP server for Ms windoms client. Thanks Joe
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:31:38PM +, John P. Looney wrote: man qmail-users I was hoping there was an alternate way; that I could find the home directory required in a similar way as to how pop3d can authenticate via a plugin. All the users info is in an SQL database, which is updated between a hundred and a thousand times a day, so regenerating the assign file is not an option. Then you need to modify qmail-getpw to look-up the SQL database, and return relevant information, ie. uid, gid, home directory, etc. For more info: man qmail-getpw -- See complete headers for more info
Two qmail servers with data over nfs
Hi all, We have a new project to install a high end mail system. We need to install two mail servers (or more) that share data over nfs on a disk sharing subsystem. We would need to have comments with this configuration and more presicely using qmail and vpopmail. Thanks in advance
Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now have time stamps, so really all I need to do is call tai64nfrac through matchup, right? Works For Me (tm). :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
why wont q-mail use other mail exchanger??
I have a e-mail that's been sitting in my queue all day.. when I send an alrm to qmail-send and look at the logs it says: qmail: 950643271.549190 delivery 1649: deferral: Connected_to_208.16.216.36_but_connection_died._(#4.4.2)/ so I tried to connect to the host with telnet, and pinged it and as far as I can tell the host it down (the remote host) so I looked-up the mail exchangers for the domain: Non-authoritative answer: meyersbros.com preference = 100, mail exchanger = mailin2.excell.net meyersbros.com preference = 50, mail exchanger = mail.meyersbros.com meyersbros.com preference = 200, mail exchanger = mailin1.excell.net now, the mail.meyersbros.com server is the one that seems to be down, and the one that q-mail's trying to send to.. but since it's failing to send to that server, shouldn't it automatically try one of the others instead?? I connected to both of the others with telnet, and they seem to be fine.. so, why has my message been sitting in my queue all day?
NFS slowness with MAILDIR
We have several sparcs (solaris 2.6) sharing user's maildirs via NFS on a Netapp 760 filer. We have noticed that when we first boot the machines, we get great performance. After the first 24 hours though, the same # of users cause the load on these machines to slow down substantially. By the 2nd day, these machines feel like molasses, and the only way to fix this is a reboot. The bottleneck appears to be NFS related. We run NFS vers 2/UDP between the SPARCS and the NetApp. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before while running qmail? [It doesn't seem to be related to qmail at all as far as we can tell] Thanks, --curtis
Re: -ERR authorization failed
When I telnet port 110 I get +ok942.950664165@INIT_VERSION=sysvinit and then -ERR authorization first. I enter user name and password but I just keep getting the -ERR message.. cheers Jerry - Original Message - From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:41 PM Subject: Re: -ERR authorization failed On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, kiwitp wrote: I think I am getting somewhere now. the only problem now seems to whit passwords. When I try to connect to the mail server from a win9x box outlook I get -ERR authorization failed even tow I enter the user name and password. Could this be because windows is sending encrypted passwords? If so what can I do about this? No. Whatever the problem really is, that's not it. To verify what the real deal is, telnet to your server's port, and manually attempt to authorize yourself, so that you can be sure exactly what is being sent, and what comes back. If you succesfully authorize yourself, the problem will be in your mail client configuration. If your authorization fails, the problem will be in your mail server configuration. Until you resolve where the misconfiguration is, you're just wandering in the dark. -- Sam
Remote mail not delivered to Maildir
i installed qmail from rpm's and changed the mailbox to maildir in /var/qmail/rc and /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc. i also ran maildirmake and echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail for a local user. users/assign exists and i ran qmail-newu to generate the cdb file. all the processes seem to be running correctly. i ran all the examples in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive and ran into trouble. sending mail to a local address works fine, as does sending mail to a nonexistent local address (it bounces). i can also send mail to a remote user without a problem. however when i send mail from a remote user to a local user, the message disappears. it doesn't bounce and there are no errors in the logs (i looked in /var/log/qmail, /var/log/qmail-smptd, and /var/log/qmail-pop3d). the message never gets delivered to the user. i checked /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smptd and it says: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow i've searched through the archives and read the mans, but nothing seems to help. this is really driving me nuts. please help. thanks, james
RE: Remote mail not delivered to Maildir
i think i found out my problem but i don't know how to fix it. anyway, here goes: Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day(s)to the following recipients: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day Delivery attempt history for your mail: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:06:45 -0500 (EST)TCP active open: Failed connect() Error: Connection timed outMon, 14 Feb 2000 11:48:35 -0500 (EST)TCP active open: Failed connect() Error: Connection timed out The mail system will continue to try to deliver your messagefor an additional 6 day(s). any ideas on why the connection keeps timing out? i can manually telnet to port 25 and issue commands there and it delivers the mail just fine, so why would other isp's mail servers not be able to connect? thanks again, james -Original Message-From: James Timberlake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 21:02To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Remote mail not delivered to Maildir i installed qmail from rpm's and changed the mailbox to maildir in /var/qmail/rc and /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc. i also ran maildirmake and echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail for a local user. users/assign exists and i ran qmail-newu to generate the cdb file. all the processes seem to be running correctly. i ran all the examples in TEST.deliver and TEST.receive and ran into trouble. sending mail to a local address works fine, as does sending mail to a nonexistent local address (it bounces). i can also send mail to a remote user without a problem. however when i send mail from a remote user to a local user, the message disappears. it doesn't bounce and there are no errors in the logs (i looked in /var/log/qmail, /var/log/qmail-smptd, and /var/log/qmail-pop3d). the message never gets delivered to the user. i checked /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smptd and it says: 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow i've searched through the archives and read the mans, but nothing seems to help. this is really driving me nuts. please help. thanks, james
Re: removing a msg from the queue
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:21:35AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote:
IIRC I stopped qmail-send but qmail-remote was still running (maybe it
existing qmail-remotes are allowed to finish deliveries, _after_ which
qmail-send exits.
wasn't, I can't recall, but it's not an issue) and I killed it with a
-9. Then I removed the message from /var/qmail/queue/mess/0/ but either
Very bad practice. In general, on a unix system, try to kill a process
with kill -TERM first, and if that doesn't work, _then_ try kill -KILL
(or kill -9).
qmail-qread would give me this error:
warning: trouble with #1955: file does not exist
I looked around a bit more and found /var/qmail/queue/remote/0/1955 and
info/0/1955 and removed them as well.
Everything seems to be OK now, but are there any other files I missed
and did I do the right thing, or is there a better way?
Well, you were on the right track, and you did eventually end up doing
the right thing, but you must be careful when trying to mess around with
qmail's queue directly.
Generally, you want to remove
/var/qmail/queue/{info,mess,remote,local}/hash/#number
to completely remove a message, where #number is the message id number.
--
See complete headers for more info
Attachment Problem
Hi, I'm current running qmail on a mandrake 6.0 box. Everthing is working fine except for some little hicup here. When I tried sending a mail with a binary attachment, the recipent recieve the mail with an attachment as per send. But when the sender tries sending a ascii text attachment, the text in the attachment got pasted on instead of an attachment. I would be greatful if someone could shred some light on how I can solve this little problem. Regards begin:vcard n:Nee;Emmanuel tel;cell:96963658 tel;fax:3388380 tel;home:2431413 tel;work:3383808 x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fn:Emmanuel Nee end:vcard
Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
A mail contain: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru Why? How can I correct it? Original Message Subject: failure notice Date: 12 Jan 2000 04:21:37 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ufatel.ru. I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named ufatel.ru. (#5.1.2) --- Below this line is the original bounce. Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9240 invoked for bounce); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:35 - Date: 12 Jan 2000 04:21:35 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ufatel.ru. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Connected to 194.67.23.37 but sender was rejected. Remote host said: 501 "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru: malformed address: may not follow "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3) by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Message-ID: 000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Nicholas V. Mednov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:21:47 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2417.2000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 ..
Re: removing a msg from the queue
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:48:31AM -0500, Jim Breton wrote: Very bad practice. In general, on a unix system, try to kill a process with kill -TERM first, and if that doesn't work, _then_ try kill -KILL (or kill -9). I did. It didn't stop, so then I used -9. Hang on... If I read this right, you killed qmail-send with a -9 ? Bad. This is what you're supposed to do: kill qmail-send (standard kill, not kill -9) ... it waits for it's qmail-remote children to finish kill qmail-remotes (standard kill, not kill -9) ... now qmail-send will die on its own ... -- See complete headers for more info
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: " Gusp"@ufatel.ru Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail? Return-Path: " Gusp"@ufatel.ru Received: (qmail 9238 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO rustam) (192.168.110.3) by ms.ufatel.ru with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 04:21:21 - Message-ID: 000e01bf5cc5$50964000$036ea8c0@rustam From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message was received via SMTP. The bogus return path was supplied by SMTP client (MS Outlook? oh, what surprise!). Hmm...yes, it is somewhat questionable whether it is a good thing that qmail is willing to accept such garbage at all and waste resources trying to deliver it (and be blamed for breaking it in the end). --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/
Dear all ! For some time now, I have been getting a lot of messages like "Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/" I have checked the entries in .qmail files of the respective home directories, but everything seems pretty normal. It is normal in aliases also. and I am not able to figure out the problem. Any suggestions ? Shashi Below is a copy of my maillog Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.621234 status: local 7/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.835757 delivery 145360: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:01 trishakti qmail: 950606521.898550 status: local 6/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.124749 starting delivery 145363: msg 417990 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.479406 status: local 7/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.604962 delivery 145354: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.729928 status: local 6/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:02 trishakti qmail: 950606522.854386 delivery 145355: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.039231 status: local 5/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.275425 delivery 145356: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.592265 status: local 4/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:03 trishakti qmail: 950606523.834870 delivery 145357: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.124876 status: local 3/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.328302 delivery 145358: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.505329 status: local 2/15 remote 23/100 Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.775995 delivery 145359: deferral: Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ Feb 15 15:07:04 trishakti qmail: 950606524.987900 status: local 1/15 remote 23/100
Re: Anyone using Qmail in a corporate environment, got time on your hands ?
Martin Lesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tell him about hotmail: 1. hotmail is part of M$ 2. hotmail has about 50.000.000+ users 3. hotmail is using qmail 4. hotmail tried IIRC 2 years ago to switch from qmail to exchange but they failed. Unless you've independently verified this last point, I wouldn't pass it along. I've received fairly reliable indications that this is pure urban legend and never actually happened. It's worth keeping in mind that Hotmail, as part of Microsoft, has access to the source code of the operating system and some direct engineering support, and therefore may very well be able to do things with NT or Win2K that the rest of us couldn't. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail? Return-Path is generated by server, not client!
Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Frederik Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you do with fd5 (man matchup)? if [ -s qlog.deferred ] ; then cat qlog.deferred "$1" | tai64nfrac | matchup qlog 5 qlog.deferred else tai64nfrac "$1" | matchup qlog 5 qlog.deferred fi -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?
Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:17PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail as their MTA? I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing list archives: [snip] Algonet (Sweedish ISP with 50,000+ users) Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000 users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make an extremely good, fast and stable combination. /Jenny, mailadmin at Telenordia/Algonet -- "I live in the heart of the machine. We are one."
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 12:30:59PM +0300, Ilya wrote: Pavel Kankovsky wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ilya wrote: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: " ? Gusp"@ufatel.ru Are you sure this piece of junk was generated by qmail? Return-Path is generated by server, not client! Return-Path is a direct copy of the SMTP 'MAIL FROM' part, which is supplied by the client. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:39:28AM +0100, Jenny Holmberg wrote: Bruce Guenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:17PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: Wouldn't it great if there was a list of big/famous sites that uses qmail as their MTA? I just compiled a list of these from searching through the qmail mailing list archives: [snip] Algonet (Sweedish ISP with 50,000+ users) Actually, Algonet is part of Telenordia, and has in all about 300,000 users or so. All mail is run on qmail, though we're now using the Bluetail Mail Robustifier as frontend for the qmail boxen. They make an extremely good, fast and stable combination. What does Bluetail Mail Robustifier do? Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Qmail Majordomo
Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just switched my majordomo list over to a new host. I have found that when I subscribe a name and address together, e.g.: "Andrew Scott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] that there are problems sending out the mail. I have been told that the problem is that the host is using qmail instead of sendmail, and that qmail does not like to see names. It interprets the whole thing as one address. 1. Is this true? Yup. 2. If it is, is there a way around it (besides dropping the names from the list)? You would need to fix the program that's being used to send outgoing mail so that it strips the name out of the address before passing it to qmail. I don't know of anyone who's already done this work for the general case; my mjinject script handles it for the simpler case of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe) though, and could probably be extended to handle the more general case. You can get it from ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/software/majordomo/mjinject. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
Re: Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag?
Ilya wrote: A mail contain: From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qmail generate: Return-Path: "ÃÓÑÏ Áàøõëåáîïòèöåïðîì Gusp"@ufatel.ru Why? How can I correct it? From: =?koi8-r?B?5/Xz8CBcIuLB28jMxcLP0NTJw8XQ0s/NXCI=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it have " (quotation mark) before =?= and Qmail generate bad Return-Path! Is quotation mark permissible in mime encoded From: string?
Attachement logging
Hi folks, I'm looking for a qmail solution for logging all incomming and outgoing messages which contain attachements. Thanks in advance. Greetings Christian
Custom mail directories
I have all must users account details stored in an SQL database, not in /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? Kate
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:57:32AM +, John P. Looney wrote: I have all must users account details stored in an SQL database, not in /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? Create users/assign from SQL. Greetz, Peter. -- Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder | | 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; | C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.' | Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail?
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, S Ashok Kumar wrote: What is Bluetail Mail Robustifier? I couldn't find any pointers on the Net. Check out http://www.bluetail.com/products/index.shtml Very interesting reading. Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.baquiran.com AIM: bbaquiran
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:00:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:57:32AM +, John P. Looney wrote: I have all must users account details stored in an SQL database, not in /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? Create users/assign from SQL. Ah. That's a problem. I'll have to add to that file, every time a new user is added ? ( say, 200 times a day ...) Kate
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:57:32AM +, John P. Looney wrote: I have all must users account details stored in an SQL database, not in /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? man qmail-users -- See complete headers for more info
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:21:04PM +0300, Anand Buddhdev mentioned: /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? man qmail-users I was hoping there was an alternate way; that I could find the home directory required in a similar way as to how pop3d can authenticate via a plugin. All the users info is in an SQL database, which is updated between a hundred and a thousand times a day, so regenerating the assign file is not an option. Kate
time stamp
hello qmail for some reasons it seams like qmail gives a wrong time stamp to my incomming email's. Systems time are O.K. i really dont know where it comes from?? here is a copy of the header: real time is : Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:49:39 Received: (qmail 21931 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2000 12:49:00 - Received: from netgate.mydomain (HELO maingate.mydomain) (XXX.XX.XXX.XX) by netserver.mydomain with SMTP; 15 Feb 2000 12:49:00 - Received: by maingate.mydomain; (5.65v4.0/1.3/10May95) id XXX; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:49:39 -0500 Received: from muncher.math.uic.edu by maingate.mydomain (smtpxd); id XXX Received: (qmail 25841 invoked by uid ); 15 Feb 2000 12:49:40 - thanks in advance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem Found
"Peter Samuel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. The message is deferred because preline exited with the appropriate status. qmail tries the delivery again and folows the instructions in the .qmail file, one of which is to save the message in the user's Maildir/ It stopped after 7 days as that is the default queuelifetime value. When delivering to both a mailbox and a program, it's better to deliver them via separate .qmail files because if they're in one .qmail file, and either delivery fails temporarily, *both* will be retried every time. E.g., instead of: ~user/.qmail: ./Maildir/ |vacation Do: ~user/.qmail: user-maildir user-vacation ~user/.qmail-maildir: ./Maildir/ ~user/.qmail-vacation: |vacation This way, the maildir and vacation deliveries are independent, and if one fails and is retried, the other won't be multiply delivered. -Dave
Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat tmp | tai64n | ./tai64n2time | /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup | As Russ Allbery pointed out, you should be timestamping the log entries at the time they occur. But I couldn't let the egregious use of "cat" go by... cat file | prog ... is silly. Instead use: prog file ... -Dave
Re: address translation
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:02:24AM +0100, Hans Sandsdalen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to remove the "host!" part of the string. I could of course use .qmail files, but this will be a lot of work. There is not a fixed number of hosts nor users at each host. You can use the catch .qmail file (~alias/.qmail-default) and condredirect to do what you want. You need one condredirect line for each address that might have their mail forwarded this way. If you really want to do generic relaying of this sort, then you can get by using formail to resend the message. Make sure you check the host you are forwarding to against a list of valid hosts so you don't get abused by spammers.
Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
Hello, 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( After reading the documentation and specialy man qmail-smtpd I think this is wrong behaviour ... Since it should be deliverded localy it should be accepted, no matter where it's from. So this isn't a relaying problem, if I have a correct understand of the documentation. Can someone please explane where i'm going wrong here? Thanks for any response, Cor Lem
Re: Mailing List
"Naren" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone tell me how to unsubscribe from this list PLEASE. I sent a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on But I still receive mail I have lost that address now PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE.. My mailbox is overflooding See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#mailing-lists -Dave
Re: Custom mail directories
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John P. Looney wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:21:04PM +0300, Anand Buddhdev mentioned: /etc/password. I found the checkpassword program, and modified it so it fills out the requesite information, and it seems to be working, for POP mail. However, what do I do to allow qmail to *deliver* into the custom Mail directories ? man qmail-users I was hoping there was an alternate way; that I could find the home directory required in a similar way as to how pop3d can authenticate via a plugin. All the users info is in an SQL database, which is updated between a hundred and a thousand times a day, so regenerating the assign file is not an option. You probably should use something like vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) which does this. The current version has support for MySQL. Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.baquiran.com AIM: bbaquiran
Re: Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
Cor Lem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( You didn't supply a copy of the error message, but I suspect the problem is that the domains listed in control/rcpthosts aren't also listed in control/locals and/or you didn't restart qmail after modifying locals. -Dave
Re: time stamp
"patrick.lagace" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reasons it seams like qmail gives a wrong time stamp to my incomming email's. qmail logs using Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), not the local timezone. This is a feature. There's no "fix". -Dave
ezmlm-idx 0.40 and web archives...
Is it possible to have the ezmlm-idx web archive on a seperate server from the qmail/ezmlm server? thanks, angus
RE: Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
did you finish your tcp.smtp with :deny Change it to :allow Holger -Original Message- From: Cor Lem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Dienstag, 15. Februar 2000 15:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Not a FAQ 5.4 ? Hello, 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( After reading the documentation and specialy man qmail-smtpd I think this is wrong behaviour ... Since it should be deliverded localy it should be accepted, no matter where it's from. So this isn't a relaying problem, if I have a correct understand of the documentation. Can someone please explane where i'm going wrong here? Thanks for any response, Cor Lem
Re: Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
At 10:07 15-2-00 -0500, you wrote: Cor Lem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( You didn't supply a copy of the error message, I don't get one. When I send it all works perfectly (since i've listed my ip in tcp-env hosts.allow) Only I see in my logs the folowing line: Feb 15 16:16:54 lizzard tcp-env[19430]: refused connect from 194.235.48.8 When I put this ip (temporarly) in hosts.allow I recieve a mail adressed to user@mylocaldomain but I suspect the problem is that the domains listed in control/rcpthosts aren't also listed in control/locals and/or you didn't restart qmail after modifying locals. I've checked, it is in locals and yes i did ... Hope this makes it a bit clearer Cor Lem
RE: Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
At 16:14 15-2-00 +0100, you wrote: did you finish your tcp.smtp with :deny Change it to :allow Holger Is that required when I use inet.d? Cor Lem -Original Message- From: Cor Lem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Dienstag, 15. Februar 2000 15:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Not a FAQ 5.4 ? Hello, 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( After reading the documentation and specialy man qmail-smtpd I think this is wrong behaviour ... Since it should be deliverded localy it should be accepted, no matter where it's from. So this isn't a relaying problem, if I have a correct understand of the documentation. Can someone please explane where i'm going wrong here? Thanks for any response, Cor Lem
Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Ok, this part I don't understand. I'm using the t option, yet in my long I see no timestamp at all. Tmp is just a sample output from multilog. Are you saying that tai64n should be used at logging? Perhaps you could give me an example that would better clarify this for me. Thanks -jeremy So what's tmp (ie, where does it come from)? Just looking at that command line, it looks a lot like you're adding timestamps to every line fresh each time you run the above command pipeline, which means that you're giving every line pretty much the same timestamp. tai64n is intended to be used to put an accurate timestamp on each line *when it's logged*, not after the fact. Since you're using multilog, you don't need it at all; just use the t action in multilog. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ http://www.xxedgexx.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog
Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, this part I don't understand. I'm using the t option, yet in my long I see no timestamp at all. Tmp is just a sample output from multilog. What does your multilog command line look like? Order of actions is significant. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
Re: Not a FAQ 5.4 ?
At 11:01 15-2-00 -0500, you wrote: You need to add a rule to hosts.allow that allows every host to connect to your SMTP port but does not set RELAYCLIENT. Your default is set to deny access which is NOT what you want. :) That makes sense ... I've added the folowing lines to my hosts.allow: tcp-env: 192.168., 127.0.0.1: setenv = RELAYCLIENT tcp-env: ALL It works now :o) Thanks for all the response, Cor Lem On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Cor Lem wrote: At 10:07 15-2-00 -0500, you wrote: Cor Lem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I've set up pop3, this all works fine 2) ip's listed in host.allow can send mail (through smtp - FAQ 5.4) Problem: When someon tries do deliver mail to my server (trough smtp), which is for a domain listed in control/rcpthosts it's not allowed to do so :o( You didn't supply a copy of the error message, I don't get one. When I send it all works perfectly (since i've listed my ip in tcp-env hosts.allow) Only I see in my logs the folowing line: Feb 15 16:16:54 lizzard tcp-env[19430]: refused connect from 194.235.48.8 When I put this ip (temporarly) in hosts.allow I recieve a mail adressed to user@mylocaldomain but I suspect the problem is that the domains listed in control/rcpthosts aren't also listed in control/locals and/or you didn't restart qmail after modifying locals. I've checked, it is in locals and yes i did ... Hope this makes it a bit clearer Cor Lem - 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
-ERR
Have u changed to Maildir's in the /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/* files? And have u created the Maildir directory using the command maildirmake /directory-to-create-in-user's-home? I u want i can mail u my /qmail/var files in a tgz attach. Please resapond with your email address if u r interested. Have a nice day. And good luck. Byte. Ing. José Rodríguez Alarcón -Mensaje original-De: jandj [EMAIL PROTECTED]Para: chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED]Fecha: Lunes 14 de Febrero de 2000 10:30 PMAsunto: Re: -ERR I did install from rpm's but changed to Maildir's. - Original Message - From: chupepe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: -ERR Had the same problem last week. I've solved it, but to help u i need to know if u r going to use POP3 with Maildir's or with mbox (dafault if u installed Qmail from rpm's)
Re: -ERR
I don't have any problems delivering to the maildir directories, everything is working fine, pop users get their mail fine as well. My problem is trying to read the mail when I'm on the localhost using the "mail" command that I'm trying to figure out. --- chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have u changed to Maildir's in the /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/* files? And have u created the Maildir directory using the command maildirmake /directory-to-create-in-user's-home? I u want i can mail u my /qmail/var files in a tgz attach. Please resapond with your email address if u r interested. Have a nice day. And good luck. Byte. Ing. José Rodríguez Alarcón -Mensaje original- De: jandj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes 14 de Febrero de 2000 10:30 PM Asunto: Re: -ERR I did install from rpm's but changed to Maildir's. - Original Message - From: chupepe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: -ERR Had the same problem last week. I've solved it, but to help u i need to know if u r going to use POP3 with Maildir's or with mbox (dafault if u installed Qmail from rpm's) __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: -ERR
Sorry guys, wrong thread. --- chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have u changed to Maildir's in the /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/* files? And have u created the Maildir directory using the command maildirmake /directory-to-create-in-user's-home? I u want i can mail u my /qmail/var files in a tgz attach. Please resapond with your email address if u r interested. Have a nice day. And good luck. Byte. Ing. José Rodríguez Alarcón -Mensaje original- De: jandj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes 14 de Febrero de 2000 10:30 PM Asunto: Re: -ERR I did install from rpm's but changed to Maildir's. - Original Message - From: chupepe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: -ERR Had the same problem last week. I've solved it, but to help u i need to know if u r going to use POP3 with Maildir's or with mbox (dafault if u installed Qmail from rpm's) __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: -ERR BRAD KANIPE
No problem about the confussion with the threads. You should try the command: mail -f /USER's home dir/Maildir/new/* Of course u should change "USER's home dir" for the actual directory. It works fine in my server, hope itworks 4 u 2. Have a nice day. Byte. Ing. José Rodríguez Alarcón
Re: qmail Maildir and UNIX mail
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:50:41AM -0800, Brad Kanipe wrote: I'm trying to figure out a way for the UNIX "mail" program to read from the ~/Maildir, specifically Solaris 2.6, and 7. Does qmail have a maildir mail reader, if so I've considered aliasing /bin/mail to that qmail mail reader. Any thoughts?? Mutt is _the_ client for Maildir. There is patches for Pine too. I haven't hear of a command line mail reader for Maildir boxes. /magnus -- http://x42.com/
Re: qmail Maildir and UNIX mail
Brad Kanipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out a way for the UNIX "mail" program to read from the ~/Maildir, specifically Solaris 2.6, and 7. Does qmail have a maildir mail reader, if so I've considered aliasing /bin/mail to that qmail mail reader. Any thoughts?? /var/qmail/bin/qail -Dave
qmail Maildir and Mailbox
May someone indicate me where can I find documentation that explain the differences between "Maildir" and "Mailboxes"? Juan Navas Nicarao Node
Re: qmail Maildir and Mailbox
Director tecnico--Nodo Nicarao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May someone indicate me where can I find documentation that explain the differences between "Maildir" and "Mailboxes"? man maildir man mbox -Dave
Multiple qmail problems newbie
I've poured over some FAQs and man-pages and read the HOWTO's, so now here I am.. I know this is probably a basic/common question, but I seriously can't find it, so please don't yell at me to RTFM, because I have. First, a description of the setup. router/firewall -- mail server -- my machine Mail gets filtered through the mail server to kill spam, etc. When trying to send mail to my machine from outside the network, it never gets delivered. No error message generated at the sender's end, except an undeliverable/will keep trying for 5 days bit. I am able to send from my machine to anywhere on the net, no problem. I was able to successfully run the qmail tests local/local. When sending from a machine inside the network to my box, the following occurs. If sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me), the mail client from which I am sending returns: Please choose one of the following options by parenthesized letter: Send e)dit message, edit h)eaders, s)end it, or f)orget it. Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailer returned error status 67 According to SYSEXITS.H, that is: #define EX_NOUSER 67 /* addressee unknown */ When sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my FQDN) from inside the network, it sends ok. When sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] outside the network, it never arrives. The friendly sysadmin of the shell I am sending these outside messages from showed me his queue, and this is what it looks like: your mail server is flat down, that's why :) it's not even running sendmail on your end, it appears. root@permanently 12429 [/usr/local/src/7] # telnet mail.frungy.com 25 Trying 208.246.80.143... root@permanently 12430 [/usr/local/src/7] # telnet www.frungy.com 25 Trying 208.246.80.143... root@permanently 12431 [/usr/local/src/7] # telnet zoq.frungy.com 25 Trying 208.246.80.143... ^Croot@permanently 12432 [/usr/local/src/7] # Mail Queue (19 requests) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient NAA11918* 0 Tue Feb 15 13:55 cday (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.frungy.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAA118660 Tue Feb 15 13:53 cday (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.frungy.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OAA121048 Tue Feb 15 14:07 cday (Deferred: Connection timed out with zoq.frungy.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAA118150 Tue Feb 15 13:49 cday (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.frungy.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAA117270 Tue Feb 15 13:41 cday (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.frungy.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (etc etc) So, I naturally thought this is probably something with my firewall. In my firewall config, I added the line: permit tcp any host 208.246.80.143 eq smtp So I should be able to receive mail from outside I figured, but it is not working. [root@zoq control]# cat rcpthosts zoq.frungy.com beachassociates.com localhost frungy.com [root@zoq control]# cat tcp.smtp 208.246.80.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow I checked the mail logs on the mail server, and it doesn't look like it's even getting that far, as I don't see any relaying denied messages (and yes, I added my host to relay-domains and HUPed sendmail.) Any ideas guys? I'm tearing my hair out here.. Thanks, Chad Day - I heard if you play the NT CD backwards, you can hear satanic messages? - That's NOTHING. If you play it forwards, it installs NT 4.0.
Please disregard Multiple qmail problems newbie
I fixed most of the problems.. shoulda went to firewall and routers 101 in college I guess instead of sleeping in until noon. The only problem I have now is that mail to @frungy.com bounces, but zoq.frungy.com works, but I'm sure this is a FAQ and can likely figure this out myself. Thanks, Chad Day Beach Associates - I heard if you play the NT CD backwards, you can hear satanic messages? - That's NOTHING. If you play it forwards, it installs NT 4.0.
Re: why wont q-mail use other mail exchanger??
ok, I read that thread (or most of it anyway) interesting discussion - but this isn't the problem I'm having... I can't connect to the remote host at all... I tried to connecting to the host with telnet and the connection just times-out (I even logged the packets and didn't get any replys from the remote host) and I've pinged the remote host with no response.. so the remote host is down... and I'm not going through any kind of firewall.. as far as I can tell it seems that there's something wrong with my qmail setup.. especially since it's giving the wrong error message in the logs... Greg Owen wrote: now, the mail.meyersbros.com server is the one that seems to be down, and the one that q-mail's trying to send to.. but since it's failing to send to that server, shouldn't it automatically try one of the others instead?? I connected to both of the others with telnet, and they seem to be fine.. so, why has my message been sitting in my queue all day? This was discussed in detail under the subject "When will qmail back off to the next MX" between 9/15/99 and 9/28/99. In summary, a dropped connection is NOT interpreted as a machine down, so qmail never backs off. The problem may be caused by a combination of a proxying firewall on your end (like Raptor) and a firewalled primary MX on the other end, in which case you can fix the problem by modifying your firewall not to proxy outgoing SMTP. Go to the archives, read the thread, and let us know if that doesn't answer things for you. But the main answer to your question is, "No, it doesn't back off in that case, and arguably shouldn't." -- gowen -- Greg Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ERR usage:
This is what I did to change to Maildir's # /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/user/Maildir Then I edited /etc/profile.d/qmail.sh and /etc/profile.d/qmail.csh and changed Mailbox to Maildir/ but I am still getting the -ERR usage: popup hostname subprogram. Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers - Original Message - From: chupepe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:10 AM Subject: -ERR Have u changed to Maildir's in the /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/* files? And have u created the Maildir directory using the command maildirmake /directory-to-create-in-user's-home? I u want i can mail u my /qmail/var files in a tgz attach. Please resapond with your email address if u r interested. Have a nice day. And good luck. Byte. Ing. José Rodríguez Alarcón -Mensaje original- De: jandj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: chupepe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes 14 de Febrero de 2000 10:30 PM Asunto: Re: -ERR I did install from rpm's but changed to Maildir's. - Original Message - From: chupepe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: -ERR Had the same problem last week. I've solved it, but to help u i need to know if u r going to use POP3 with Maildir's or with mbox (dafault if u installed Qmail from rpm's)
qmail Digest 15 Feb 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 912
qmail Digest 15 Feb 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 912 Topics (messages 37175 through 37237): Re: qmail on FFS with softupdates 37175 by: Len Budney Web interface pop3 mail checker 37176 by: Martin 37177 by: Häffelin Holger 37179 by: Charles Cazabon About authentication with Maildir 37178 by: mulin Re: address translation 37180 by: Bruno Wolff III 37205 by: Hans Sandsdalen Re: remote localhost... 37181 by: Tiju 37184 by: Brian how to have mail go out on different interfaces??? 37182 by: Jeremy Hansen Re: Anyone using Qmail in a corporate environment, got time on your hands ? 37183 by: Martin Lesser 37216 by: Russ Allbery attachment and other logging! 37185 by: Martin 37193 by: brianb-qmail.technet.evoserve.com daemontools-0.61 and qmailanalog 37186 by: Jeremy Hansen 37192 by: Frederik Lindberg 37218 by: Russ Allbery 37225 by: Russ Allbery boot scripts 37187 by: a.kasates 37201 by: Magnus Bodin 37235 by: mulin daemontools supervise help 37188 by: Peter Schultz Re: GFS and Qmail and BIG mail servers 37189 by: adam.cybertrails.com 37190 by: Jeremy Hansen Re: Problem Found 37191 by: Peter Samuel 37198 by: Ewen Fung 37199 by: Peter Samuel 37203 by: Ewen Fung 37204 by: Peter Samuel receive mail again again 37194 by: Keith, Yeung Wai Kin -ERR 37195 by: kiwitp 37196 by: chupepe Qmail Majordomo 37197 by: Andrew Scott 37222 by: Russ Allbery 37227 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl How to delete a lot of spam mail in queue? 37200 by: ±ióI·Ô 37202 by: Magnus Bodin problems with qmail and incoming mail 37206 by: James Timberlake removing a msg from the queue 37207 by: Jim Breton 37208 by: Anand Buddhdev 37209 by: Jim Breton 37212 by: Anand Buddhdev Attachment Problem 37210 by: Emmanuel Nee Bad Return-Path: Qmail bag? 37211 by: Ilya 37213 by: Pavel Kankovsky 37214 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 37217 by: Ilya 37220 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 37223 by: Pavel Kankovsky 37226 by: Pavel Kankovsky 37228 by: Anand Buddhdev 37229 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 37233 by: Ilya 37234 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl Uh-oh:_first_line_of_.qmail_file_is_blank._(#4.2.1)/ 37215 by: Shashi Dahal 37231 by: Robert Sander Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail? 37219 by: Jenny Holmberg 37221 by: petervd.vuurwerk.nl 37236 by: S Ashok Kumar how do I 37224 by: Naren 37230 by: Naren Mailing List 37232 by: Naren Changing FROM: 37237 by: Michael Neubert Administrivia: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To bug my human owner, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to the list, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan does not recommend the use of a softupdates file system for the queue. If FFS+softupdates = standard FFS+faster, then there should be no harm in using it. This is something I _can_ comment on. In fact, I already did, in message 42203 on this list: "Len Budney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using softupdates under *BSD gives you the reliability of sync (somewhat more, actually), with nearly the speed of async. In October of 1999, that wasn't quite true... ``In particular, if you put a mail queue on a softupdates filesystem, you can lose mail when the power goes out, just as if you were using Linux.'' -- Dan Bernstein, http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=539496358 From Dan's other comments in that thread, it appears that the rename() call returns success before the rename was committed to disk. Dan said ``mail programs'' rely on rename() to tell the truth. A look at the source code suggests that qmail is not one of them--qmail-queue doesn't use the rename() call. If link() is subject to the same complaint as rename(), then qmail probably _does_ have the same reliability problem on a softupdates filesystem as on an async filesystem. Len. -- Some people are suffering from the delusion that program modularity is incompatible with good performance. -- Dan Bernstein I'm going to setup a web interfaced pop3 mail checker for the isp I work for. Yesterday I tried something called acmemail, a cgi script written in perl. I didn't get this thing working, and the is not many manuals on this subject (as I could find). Anyone have something to recommend? It has to be safe and userfriendly, but it has to excist something out there that I can get
-ERR authorization failed
I think I am getting somewhere now. the only problem now seems to whit passwords. When I try to connect to the mail server from a win9x box outlook I get -ERR authorization failed even tow I enter the user name and password. Could this be because windows is sending encrypted passwords? If so what can I do about this? cheers Jerry
RE: Big and/or famous sites using qmail? --Big not famous
Here is one that has a large subscriber base and uses qmail. It certainly isn't famous though. This is one of those ISP co-op sites http://www.bsicom.net/ispshare/weather/cgi-bin/weather.pl Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:01 PM To: S Ashok Kumar Cc: Jenny Holmberg; Bruce Guenter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Big and/or famous sites using qmail? On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, S Ashok Kumar wrote: What is Bluetail Mail Robustifier? I couldn't find any pointers on the Net. Check out http://www.bluetail.com/products/index.shtml Very interesting reading. Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.baquiran.com AIM: bbaquiran
Re: -ERR authorization failed
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:31:30PM +1300, kiwitp wrote: When I telnet port 110 I get +ok942.950664165@INIT_VERSION=sysvinit and then -ERR authorization first. I enter user name and password but I just keep getting the -ERR message.. Are you using just qmail or are you also using vpopmail? -- Erich Zigler System Administrator The purpose of woriting is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! -- Calvin
RFC: Command-line MUA for Maildirs?
Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mutt is _the_ client for Maildir. There is patches for Pine too. I haven't hear of a command line mail reader for Maildir boxes. ^^ Speaking of which, is anyone interested in building such a thing? Or, would anyone use such a thing if it existed? I still use MH, with all its drawbacks, because it offers the most flexibility. Emacs/Mew for awesome MIME handling, GNUs for...well...reading GNUsly, command-line MH for quick handling of individual messages. Does anybody wish for a command-line interface to maildirs, on the idea of MH? If it were architected right, the result would be some simple tools which would facilitate other MUAs jumping on the maildir bandwagon... Len. -- There's a fine opportunity here, but the IETF is institutionally incapable of taking advantage of it. I think it's safe to say that the DRUMS specs will be even more widely violated than RFC 822. -- Dan Bernstein
tcpserver problem
Hi I am new to qmail. I got following problem when I try to telnet to port 25 or using mail client to send mail. I got log message : tcpserver:warning: dropping connection,unable to read /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb: file does not exist. but when I do ls -l /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb, the file is there. also I do wc /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb, the output is 1 2 2138 /etc/smtp.cdb thanks for help Francis __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
