Unexpected EOF
Hello, I am getting the following error when qmail tries to deliver a message locally: 2000-03-09 01:43:49.934939500 delivery 160: deferral: /bin/sh:_unexpected_EOF_while_looking_for_`"'//bin/sh:_-c:_line_2:_syntax_erro r/ I've investigated what could it be but I've run out of ideas :-/ The message in question looks like this (got it from the qmail/mess directory): Received: (qmail 13820 invoked by uid 600); 9 Mar 2000 10:34:48 +0100 Date: 9 Mar 2000 10:34:48 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: This is a test MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is a test I added a dot . to the last line (I believe this is not necessary, right?) but same thing happens... All other messages continue being processed without a problem, whether they are processed by qmail-remote or qmail-local. Is anyone familiar with this error? Thanks!
[Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir (#4.2.1)]
Hi everybody, Since yesterday I started getting the following messages in my maillogs: delivery 460 deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir (#4.2.1) there are hundreds of these messages, but only for one user (myself) The rest of the mail gets delivered as usual. I sent a mail from the console (echo test | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and right after that these messages started to appear. Did I break something by doing this, or is it just coincidence ? The permissions on my Maildir is exactly the same as other Maildirs, and no other changes was made to the machine Anybody have any idea what could have caused this/know how I can fix this ? I am using RedHat 6.0 with qmail 1.03 + vpopmail + sqwebmail Regards Dewald
Re: Unexpected EOF - Solved
Ok so I just found the problem. I had moved a .qmail-* file from a NT machine, and the CR/LF were creating all the headache. Oh well... Next time I'll do 5 *more* minutes research before asking! Thanks! "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Hello, I am getting the following error when qmail tries to deliver a message locally: 2000-03-09 01:43:49.934939500 delivery 160: deferral: /bin/sh:_unexpected_EOF_while_looking_for_`"'//bin/sh:_-c:_line_2:_syntax_erro r/ I've investigated what could it be but I've run out of ideas :-/ The message in question looks like this (got it from the qmail/mess directory): Received: (qmail 13820 invoked by uid 600); 9 Mar 2000 10:34:48 +0100 Date: 9 Mar 2000 10:34:48 +0100 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: This is a test MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is a test I added a dot . to the last line (I believe this is not necessary, right?) but same thing happens... All other messages continue being processed without a problem, whether they are processed by qmail-remote or qmail-local. Is anyone familiar with this error? Thanks!
tcpserver unable to fork
Is there any limit on tcpserver forking processes? I have configured tcpserver to fork qmail-smtpd with concurrent sessions of 2000. I have made a simulator that makes upto 2000 connections to qmail-smtpd. But when the simulator reaches 1247 connections, tcpserver reports error which is: tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure I am testing this on a P-III, 500MHz RedHat Linux 6.1 machine with 512MB RAM and 1GB SWAP. The machine is off-line and there is no queue. I am only using it to stress test the machine so I can arrive at a value on number of simultaneous connections this machine can take. The simulator connects to port 25 and simply says "HELO localhost\r\n". /proc/sys/fs/file-max is defined as 65536. Is there any additional fine-tuning I need to do with the kernel or file-system? Thanks in advance. - Ashok
All mail for a domain into a single POP box (HOWTO?)
Hi, I'm helping a relative out on some problem with mails. Right now, there is a small network (10 machines) and a RH Linux server. This network is connected to the internet by a dialup internet line. A firm makes "mailhosting" for us, set up to throw all mail into the same box. How do I accomplish, that the server dials up (actually it isn't the network is connected with a router), collects all mail from the single popbox. And throws it into the right pop-boxes on the local computer ? Qmail is set up an running like "Road Runner on steroids" :) I would also like to "pack" outgoing messages into batches (lets say the local server throws out messages each 30 minutes) .. Ideas anyone ? Something in me yells "fetchmail" and "serialmail" is that correct ? Tia Svenne -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.krap.dk ICQ 5434480 PGP-key http://keys.pgp.dk:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xDF484022 PGP @ http://www.pgp.com / http://www.phpi.com
Re: tcpserver unable to fork
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 02:43:59PM +0530, S Ashok Kumar wrote: Is there any limit on tcpserver forking processes? I have configured tcpserver to fork qmail-smtpd with concurrent sessions of 2000. I have made a simulator that makes upto 2000 connections to qmail-smtpd. But when the simulator reaches 1247 connections, tcpserver reports error which is: tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure I am testing this on a P-III, 500MHz RedHat Linux 6.1 machine with 512MB RAM and 1GB SWAP. The machine is off-line and there is no queue. I am only using it to stress test the machine so I can arrive at a value on number of simultaneous connections this machine can take. The simulator connects to port 25 and simply says "HELO localhost\r\n". /proc/sys/fs/file-max is defined as 65536. Is there any additional fine-tuning I need to do with the kernel or file-system? Raising the file-max is no good. tcpserver wants to fork and create a new process. Increase your max-proc (or equivalent) limit. -- See complete headers for more info
Re: All mail for a domain into a single POP box (HOWTO?)
Svenne Krap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Mar 2000: Something in me yells "fetchmail" and "serialmail" is that correct ? That's what I'd do. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / "NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"
qmail Digest 9 Mar 2000 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 935
qmail Digest 9 Mar 2000 11:00:01 - Issue 935 Topics (messages 38316 through 38364): Unknown recipients 38316 by: Bernat Ginard 38317 by: Anand Buddhdev unable to open mutex 38318 by: Jason Huang 38319 by: Petr Novotny 38349 by: Jason Huang 38351 by: Uwe Ohse Re: implementation of VIRTUAL DOMAIN 38320 by: ravivr.hss.hns.com 38331 by: Ruben van der Leij qq failure on HP-UX 38321 by: Harald Hanche-Olsen 38346 by: Uwe Ohse Patch for wildcard support in control/locals 38322 by: Junwen Lai Qmail-popup or Qmail-pop3d 38323 by: Spades 38325 by: Spades Email 101 38324 by: Jason.Baker.stdbev.com Re: Email 101; place horse before cart 38326 by: Stephen Bosch 38327 by: Jason.Baker.stdbev.com 38328 by: Dave Sill 38333 by: Jason.Baker.stdbev.com 38334 by: Kelly French 38335 by: Dave Sill 38336 by: Charles Cazabon 38345 by: richard.illuin.org 38347 by: Rogerio Brito 38348 by: Markus Stumpf Re: _I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._ 38329 by: Crow, Ian 38330 by: James Raftery 38332 by: Dave Sill Newbie qmail mairdir question.. sorry. 38337 by: Chad Day 38338 by: Dave Sill Problems with subdomains 38339 by: Webmaster 38340 by: Webmaster 38342 by: Dave Sill 38344 by: Ruben van der Leij problem with mail delivery to nonlocal domains... 38341 by: Gabriel Ambuehl Thanks.. 38343 by: Chad Day qmail-pop3d and tcpserver 38350 by: Andy Bradford 38352 by: Uwe Ohse 38353 by: Andy Bradford 38355 by: Timothy L. Mayo 38356 by: Andy Bradford ezmlm-manage Failure 38354 by: the fragile art of existence 38357 by: Andy Bradford Unexpected EOF 38358 by: net.ncal.verio.com [Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir (#4.2.1)] 38359 by: Dewald Strauss Re: Unexpected EOF - Solved 38360 by: net.ncal.verio.com tcpserver unable to fork 38361 by: S Ashok Kumar 38363 by: Anand Buddhdev All mail for a domain into a single POP box (HOWTO?) 38362 by: Svenne Krap 38364 by: Mikko Hänninen 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] -- Hi all, The behaiviour of qmail is accept al messages for local domains and if the recipient is unknown it returns the mail. Under normal operation that's not a big problem, but last night somebody was doing spam outside here and put as sender address one ours, so today there was 64 double bounces of that address. What I want to know is if there is a way to change this to make qmail don't accept a mail for a non existent recipient in the local domains. -- Bernat Ginard Lladó mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kaos.es On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:40:32PM +0100, Bernat Ginard wrote: Hi all, The behaiviour of qmail is accept al messages for local domains and if the recipient is unknown it returns the mail. Under normal operation that's not a big problem, but last night somebody was doing spam outside here and put as sender address one ours, so today there was 64 double bounces of that address. What I want to know is if there is a way to change this to make qmail don't accept a mail for a non existent recipient in the local domains. No there isn't. qmail's design is such that it does no recipient verification when accepting an email. I wish there were some way to do this though. Perhaps qmail-smtpd can look up a file list users/assign. -- See complete headers for more info I moved all qmail files from 'MACHINE_1' to 'MACHINE_2' ( use 'tar zxfv' command ) . The two machine are the same OS (Linux) , but different qmail uid and gid. I had changed the start's sript about uid and gid , but I still got the blow message . (I use tcpserver.) Mar 8 13:00:52 server58 qmail: 952491652.534995 alert: cannot start: unable to open mutexMar 8 13:06:20 server58 qmail: 952491980.571310 alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex I found some files in '/var/qmail/queue/intd'. They are 16101 , 16102 ,and 16103. I thinks it is owner's problem. Appreciate any help. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Mar 00, at 21:45, Jason Huang wrote: I moved all qmail files from 'MACHINE_1' to 'MACHINE_2' ( use 'tar zxfv' command ) . The two machine are the same OS (Linux) , but different qmail uid and gid. Don't. It won't ever work. You have to recompile qmail. I had changed the start's sript about uid and gid , but I still got the blow message . (I use tcpserver.) Mar 8 13:00:52 server58 qmail:
RE: _I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._
I fixed my problem. After hours of adding arg and env dumping code to qmail-remote, running many times, etc. I finally got around to running the same command line as qmailr as I was running under my standard account. A comparative strace showed me that the qmailr execution couldn't read various things in /etc, and hence I discovered that /etc had somehow become chmod 750-ed. Naturally, this was affecting various other things (like the locate database update), but they were all further down the list than getting qmail going. The thing that compounded my problem was that my standard account is in the root group, so it wasn't affected by the problem. Any other user and I'd have nailed the problem much sooner. My thanks to those who responded. IanC This message is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone.
Local or/and virtualdomain?
Hi, My default domain is working for a couple of months in both the virtualdomains and the defaultdomain + rcpthosts. Should I take it out from one of those?. I'm using vpopmail +sqwebmail . I ran the qmail-lint and it gave me this output: # ./qmail-lint-0.54Error: a host sintesoft.net in locals also appears in virtualdomains.Warning: a host in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host mail in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host babel in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host webmail in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: a host in locals does not appear in rcpthosts.Warning: users/assign checking not implemented. sintesoft.net is the default domain, mail babel and webmail are aliases of the localhost. So what should I do?. Also, everything works fine (that's weird!) # cd /var/qmail/control # cat mebabel.sintesoft.net # cat localslocalhostbabel.sintesoft.netmail.sintesoft.netwebmail.sintesoft.netsintesoft.netmailbabelwebmail.sintesoft.net # cat virtualdomainssintesoft.com:sintesoft.comsintesoft.net:sintesoft.net #cat plusdomain sintesoft.net Many Thanks!
Re: All mail for a domain into a single POP box (HOWTO?)
Svenne Krap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A firm makes "mailhosting" for us, set up to throw all mail into the same box. How do I accomplish, that the server dials up (actually it isn't the network is connected with a router), collects all mail from the single popbox. And throws it into the right pop-boxes on the local computer ? Something in me yells "fetchmail" and "serialmail" is that correct ? Or (plug) 'getmail' -- http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail/ You might find it easier to configure and use than 'fetchmail'. Charles -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
Re: Message 252 when VRFYing
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, actually it *could*, under certain conditions. If you don't have any .qmail-.*default's, you could create a CDB containing all the valid addresses, which qmail-smtpd could consult after sufficient patching. However, that still has the problem of giving away your valid addresses to spammers. And, .qmail-.*default files are *so* useful. There are situations in which you do want to selectively decline certain RCPT TO:s. Real-life example: corporate firewall relays to internal hosts. User [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets popular with the spammers then departs for greener pastures. I still need to accept mail from the Internet for all foo.internal.example.com users and try to relay it to them, but I *know* that mail for bob is going to turn into a bounce-o-gram and end up doublebouncing to me 9 times out of 10. Being able to say "550 Unknown User" in the initial SMTP conversation for that one selected address would save everybody a lot of trouble. What I picture would be a CDB consulted by qmail-smtpd; it would inhale the job of rcpthosts and morercpthosts. For each RCPT address, it would progressively break it down and check for a match, which would contain an instruction "bounce with $MSG" or "accept for relaying". Eg. for [EMAIL PROTECTED] it would check [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], host.example.com, and then .example.com (followed presumably by .com and "root" lookups, if we get that far, but nothing useful could be configured at the root level). Or we could just check for a user@host record and accept any and all extensions if the user is valid, thereby saving lookup steps. Or the user@host record could say to backup and try extensions if we want to setup such fine-grained control for that user. In the default case, you'd setup a single host.example.com:accept record, but you'd have the option of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:accept, likewise for the other users, and then host.example.com:550_unknown_user. Being able to say "550 moved - try [EMAIL PROTECTED]" would be nice too, not that the crap MTAs of the world ever actually tell the user the actual text from the SMTP rejection. BTW, is the possibility of spammers checking for valid users via the RCPT command a real-world problem? If they really cared, they could set up a valid mailer to match their MAIL FROM and analyze the bounce. IMHO weighing that against the other problem of filling your queues with bounces-to-spam and having them all doublebounce into your lap does call for a value judgement here. -- Anthony DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Early aborts (Was: qq failure on HP-UX)
+ Uwe Ohse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | crt0: ERROR: mmap failed for dld (data) errno:00012 | Unable to forward message: qq permanent problem (#5.3.0). | | this can only happen "if ((exitcode = 11) (exitcode = 40))", | which qmail-queue doesn't return in case of "out of memory". I assume this happened before the program entered main(). Which brings up a natural question: What, in general, is supposed to happen if a program is unable to proceed before it enters main(), e.g., because the dynamic loader could not get the memory it needs? Clearly, it is too late for the original process to return from exec(), yet the programmer has no influence over what will happen. For packages like qmail, it is important to recognize the situation so it can be dealt with properly, yet this is clearly impossible unless there is a documented behaviour one can rely on. (My guess would have been that the process should commit suicide rather than just exiting, perhaps by sending itself a SIGSEGV or SIGABRT.) - Harald
qmail-smtp server does not accept connections from other hosts on the network
Hi, I have just installed qmail on Redhat 6.1. I installed qmail-smtp to run under tcpserver. when I try to make a connection to the Qmail smtp server, The server does not seem to respond. When i telnet the qmail server at the port 25, I do not get any typical SMTP greeting or server ready prompt like I used to get under Sendmail. How do I solve this problem? I do not have DNS running. Is this causing a problem? I normally use my ISp's DNS as I connect to the Net only occassionally and the local machines of our local network are on the hosts file. What are the other aleternatives? Thanks for the help in advance. Raju
Re: qmail-smtp server does not accept connections from other hosts on the network
Murthy Raju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i telnet the qmail server at the port 25, I do not get any typical SMTP greeting or server ready prompt like I used to get under Sendmail. How do I solve this problem? Show us how you're starting tcpserver/qmail-smtpd. I do not have DNS running. Is this causing a problem? Not this problem. :-) I normally use my ISp's DNS as I connect to the Net only occassionally and the local machines of our local network are on the hosts file. qmail doesn't use the hosts file. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#etc-hosts -Dave
Headers going to AOL
Hello, Has anyone else run into a problem where the headers (From:, To:) are empty when an AOL user opens email from a qmail box? Everyone else seems to be fine. If so, vould you please post the solution? thanks, Dan Barber
multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail: access denied
The first time i launch Qmail i get this error. I've tried 2 times the installation on 2 different linux version but every time i get this error, i've tried to gave the full permission to /var/log/qmail but i still get this error. I've installed qmail reading "life with qmail" and "qmail howto" and after the problem i've read the faq but i haven't find nothing about this error.
Re: multilog: fatal: unable to open directory /var/log/qmail: access denied
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time i launch Qmail i get this error. I've tried 2 times the installation on 2 different linux version but every time i get this error, i've tried to gave the full permission to /var/log/qmail but i still get this error. I've installed qmail reading "life with qmail" and "qmail howto" and after the problem i've read the faq but i haven't find nothing about this error. Post the output of: ls -ld /var/log/qmail /var/log /var / cat /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run -Dave
qmail and /bin/mail
I'm running RH linux 6.0 and attempting to get qmail to put
incoming messages into the traditional /var/spool/mail/username
place. it seems the RH version of /bin/mail has different
arguments than expected in the standard 1.03 source distro.
RH linux seems to be BSD-style /bin/mail. The binm1+df file
in the boot directory includes this snippet:
/bin/mail -f "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}" -d "$USER"'
But the linux /bin/mail complains about both -f and -d
args. What's a better way to get this done? What are the
magic args to /bin/mail to get this to work?
maillog error sending mail to @yahoo,aol,etc. *slightly OT*
Bit of a strange question. my qmail server is running fine any dandy as long as I only send mail to 85% of the internet whenever I try to send mail to someone at yahoo,aol,bigfoot, and a few others it will just sit in the queue trying and trying with the error message that the connection died. OCCASIONALLY it will actually send the message, but that is rather rare. However I have a very strong suspision that this is not an error w/in q-mail because my server is underneith *3* levels of nats, and when I try to telnet to the respective ip addresses (yahoo, aol, etc's mail server) port 25, the connection will die on me also. I suppose my question is, is there anything (besides removing all the nats, which isn't an option until I move in june) I can do to remedy this minor problem? For now I just telnet into my iquest shell account and send mail to those addresses that way, but needless to say it's a wee bit annoying. Thanks, Bennett Thede
Re: Unknown recipients
Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: No there isn't. qmail's design is such that it does no recipient verification when accepting an email. I wish there were some way to do this though. Perhaps qmail-smtpd can look up a file list users/assign. Well, the question here is, what's better: A security hole allowing remote attackers to find out which email address is valid without waiting for the bounce (and giving a valid return address in advance) or a security hole allowing remote attackers to start a DoS attack by sending messages which eventually double bounce? I believe it's better not to accept that mail in the first place. Unfortunatly, qmail-smtpd has absolutly no access to the list of valid addresses, maybe not even users. I have spent some thinking about this and ended up with the following idea: A separate daemon validating addresses by looking if there is a .qmail file or a default action for that address (and maybe caching the results). Of course, if you need ~alias/.qmail-default, this would not help. Further, to check whether a .qmail file for .qmail-user-anything exists, you would have to start a process with this user's id to be able to read the directory... -- Claus Andre Faerber http://www.faerber.muc.de PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
Forward and retain a copy
Is there a way in qmail to forward a copy of an e-mail to another accoutn but still retain a copy on my server for archive purposes. Example [EMAIL PROTECTED] receives and e-mail a copy is sent to thier aol account but mydomain.com's mail server retains a copy.
RE: Forward and retain a copy
Is there a way in qmail to forward a copy of an e-mail to another accoutn but still retain a copy on my server for archive purposes. Example [EMAIL PROTECTED] receives and e-mail a copy is sent to thier aol account but mydomain.com's mail server retains a copy. I've always just put the local address and the forward address in the .forward file -- that's never caused a loop so I'm assuming that the MTA knows enough to interpret this as a request to leave a copy in the local mailbox. Of course, that was with sendmail... I don't actually know what qmail does, since I haven't had to use this since I started using qmail. Anybody else? -Stephen-
Re: Forward and retain a copy
Christopher Tarricone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Mar 2000: Is there a way in qmail to forward a copy of an e-mail to another accoutn but still retain a copy on my server for archive purposes. Put this in the .qmail file for the account: remote@address ./Mailbox ... this will forward to remote@address as well as store a copy in the local mail folder called "Mailbox" in the user's home dir. If you use Maildir, replace ./Mailbox with "./Maildir/". For more information what you can do in .qmail, do "man dot-qmail". Hope this helps, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / Bumper sticker: I brake for no apparent reason.
RE: Forward and retain a copy
Yes, we do this for customers that want a copy of their email, plus a copy sent to a pager, or any other device :) Modify your .qmail file in the home directory, and just put each recipient on a seperate line in the file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./Mailbox or whatever format you are storing in. On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Stephen Bosch wrote: Is there a way in qmail to forward a copy of an e-mail to another accoutn but still retain a copy on my server for archive purposes. Example [EMAIL PROTECTED] receives and e-mail a copy is sent to thier aol account but mydomain.com's mail server retains a copy. I've always just put the local address and the forward address in the .forward file -- that's never caused a loop so I'm assuming that the MTA knows enough to interpret this as a request to leave a copy in the local mailbox. Of course, that was with sendmail... I don't actually know what qmail does, since I haven't had to use this since I started using qmail. Anybody else? -Stephen- ___ _ __ _ __ /___ ___ /__ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__ (505)437-7600/fax-437-3052 /_/ /_/\___/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ \___/ http://www.netmdc.com [-[system info]---] 2:30pm up 44 days, 22:27, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.52, 0.46
Re: Early aborts (Was: qq failure on HP-UX)
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Which brings up a natural question: What, in general, is supposed to happen if a program is unable to proceed before it enters main(), e.g., because the dynamic loader could not get the memory it needs? ... (My guess would have been that the process should commit suicide rather than just exiting, perhaps by sending itself a SIGSEGV or SIGABRT.) Every dynamic linker I know (and I have seen having fatal problems during startup) commits suicide with SIGKILL. This is probably the best thing you can do. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Re: Unknown recipients
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:47:00AM +0100, Claus Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the question here is, what's better: A security hole allowing remote attackers to find out which email address is valid without waiting for the bounce (and giving a valid return address in advance) or a security hole allowing remote attackers to start a DoS attack by sending messages which eventually double bounce? I believe it's better not to accept that mail in the first place. Stopping either one has little benefit. Unfortunatly, qmail-smtpd has absolutly no access to the list of valid addresses, maybe not even users. I have spent some thinking about this and ended up with the following idea: A separate daemon validating addresses by looking if there is a .qmail file or a default action for that address (and maybe caching the results). Of course, if you need ~alias/.qmail-default, this would not help. Further, to check whether a .qmail file for .qmail-user-anything exists, you would have to start a process with this user's id to be able to read the directory... If your goal is to get rid of spam double bounces, you don't have to get the list exactly right. You just accept stuff for valid_user, valid_user-.* and names defined in ~alias.
Re: Early aborts (Was: qq failure on HP-UX)
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:57:23PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: I assume this happened before the program entered main(). me too. Which brings up a natural question: What, in general, is supposed to happen if a program is unable to proceed before it enters main(), 1003.1, 3.2 "Process Termination" There are two kinds of process termination: (1) Normal termination occurs by a return from main() or when requested with the exit() or _exit() functions. (2) Abnormal termination occurs when requested by the abort() function or when some signals are received (see 3.3.1.1). [...] the status made available to wait() or waitpid() by abort() shall be that of a process terminated by the SIGABRT signal. Regards, Uwe
smtp-poplock-2.04 install problems
I have qmail on Solaris7 sparc and I tried to install smptp-poplock but when I do make install I get the following errors. Any help greatly appreciated. Kristina **ERROR** %cd /usr/src %zcat smtp-poplock-2.04.tar.gz %cd smtp-poplock-2.04 % make install installing /usr/sbin installing /usr/sbin/fifo-safety find: cannot follow symbolic link /usr/sbin/.qmail-postmaster: No such file or d irectory install: fifo-safety was not found anywhere! *My .qmail-postmaster is configured as in the Life with qmail manual** echo dave /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root echo dave /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster ln -s .qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
GMT ---- PST
i want to change time from GMT to PST.. How?
send problem?
Hi, When I send to a specific domain I get the following error message: delivery 24129: failure: Connected_to_160.124.122.142_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501_unacceptable_mail_address/ Is this a proble on my side or theirs?? Thanks Tonino
[Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir (#4.2.1)]
Hi everybody, I have a server with RedHat 6.0, qmail 1.03 + vpopmail and multiple domains hosted on this machine. Since yesterday I started getting the following messages in my maillogs: delivery 460 deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir (#4.2.1) there are hundreds of these messages, but only for one domain The rest of the mail gets delivered as usual. I sent a mail from the console (echo test | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and right after that these messages started to appear. Did I break something by doing this, or is it just coincidence ? The permissions on my Maildir is exactly the same as other Maildirs, and no other changes was made to the machine Anybody have a suggestion for me ? (I looked at the archive for this list, but that did not solve my problem) Regards Dewald
