Mark another one up for Dan!

[Glenn Crownover]

Court: Programming languages covered by First Amendment

Full Story: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1641004.html

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Re: AOL rejecting sender?

[Ben Beuchler]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:36:05AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote:

> >mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >501 SYNTAX ERROR IN PARAMETERS OR ARGUMENTS
> 
> >I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong... 
> 
> I think you might want to look at RFC 821 again, particularly the
> punctuation it tells you to use in the MAIL FROM command.

You are indeed correct.  Any ideas about why qmail is getting the same
error message?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
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-- The Matrix

Re: AOL rejecting sender?

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:31:07AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote:
[snip]
> Trying 205.188.156.162...
> Connected to 205.188.156.162.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-rly-yd02.mx.aol.com ESMTP relay_in.8; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:19:52 -0400
> 220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
> 220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
> 220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
> 220  e-mail sent from the internet.
> helo marvin.squad51.net
> 250 rly-yd02.mx.aol.com OK
> mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Try 'mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. I tried, it accepted me nicely.

> 501 SYNTAX ERROR IN PARAMETERS OR ARGUMENTS

And I do get this error when I omit the < >.

Why qmail is triggering this behaviour is beyond me, unfortunately.

Greetz, Peter.
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|  
| '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++

AOL rejecting sender?

[Ben Beuchler]

AOL...  Yeah, I know.

Anywho, I have a couple accounts that are forwarded to friends on AOL.  Or
at least that's what they're SUPPOSED to do.  I tested 'em out today and
noted that they are not arriving and the qmail log says:

955001494.050850 delivery 24857: failure:
Connected_to_205.188.156.162_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_501_SYNTAX_ERROR_IN_PARAMETERS_OR_ARGUMENTS/

Out of curiosity, I telnetted to 205.188.156.162 on 25 and tried to
manually get it to accept a message.  I received the same error!  Here's a
transcript:

Trying 205.188.156.162...
Connected to 205.188.156.162.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-rly-yd02.mx.aol.com ESMTP relay_in.8; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:19:52 -0400
220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
220  e-mail sent from the internet.
helo marvin.squad51.net
250 rly-yd02.mx.aol.com OK
mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
501 SYNTAX ERROR IN PARAMETERS OR ARGUMENTS


I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong... I've even tried every possible
combination of upper and lower case, even though the RFC specifically
states either is acceptable.  Or is AOL just not accepting mail today?
;-)

Thanks,
Ben

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-- The Matrix

Re: dumb ezmlm question

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 05:37:19PM -0500,
  Erich Zigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:19:10PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote:
> 
> > How does one set up ezmlm so that when someone replies to a message they
> > recieved from the list it is replied to the list, and not the author of the
> > list message?  Thanks.
> 
> cat Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> headeradd

If you REALLY want to do this, you will probably want to rewrite the
sender and from headers as well.

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Adam McKenna]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:34:22AM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> Hmmm ... shouldn't that be
>yahoo.com:[a.b.c.d]
>.yahoo.com:[a.b.c.d]
> when using IP addresses?

Either way works.

--Adam

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Markus Stumpf]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:16:30PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:12:57PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > That all sounds a little too complicated..
> > 
> > Why not just add:
> > 
> > yahoo.com:a.b.c.d
> > .yahoo.com:a.b.c.d
> 
> (to control/smtproutes)

Hmmm ... shouldn't that be
   yahoo.com:[a.b.c.d]
   .yahoo.com:[a.b.c.d]
when using IP addresses?

> > All of the yahoo mail will funnel over to the other box, allowing your main
> > server to take a breather.

You're of course right.
But then you have 1 eMails sitting in the queue there, eating up
CPU time, wasting (not too much of course) bandwidth and slowing down
possible other deliveries on that machine.

Putting them in a Maildir takes them out of everyones way (ok, poor amanda
may have a bit more work to do ;-) You can even burn them on CD and send
them to yahoo for local injection, like they made/sent tapes in the good old
BITNET days in times the transatlantic link was down for some time ;-)

\Maex

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Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Adam McKenna]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:12:57PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> That all sounds a little too complicated..
> 
> Why not just add:
> 
> yahoo.com:a.b.c.d
> .yahoo.com:a.b.c.d

(to control/smtproutes)

> 
> Where a.b.c.d is the IP addy of the "data storage" box,
> 
> and add yahoo.com/.yahoo.com to rcpthosts on the "data storage" box.
> 
> All of the yahoo mail will funnel over to the other box, allowing your main
> server to take a breather.
> 
> --Adam

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Adam McKenna]

That all sounds a little too complicated..

Why not just add:

yahoo.com:a.b.c.d
.yahoo.com:a.b.c.d

Where a.b.c.d is the IP addy of the "data storage" box,

and add yahoo.com/.yahoo.com to rcpthosts on the "data storage" box.

All of the yahoo mail will funnel over to the other box, allowing your main
server to take a breather.

--Adam

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:43:04AM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:10:01AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I can't speak for anyone else, but In my case, yes I am hurting. We
> > maxed at 10k queued messages this morning, and it's eating up the
> > concurrencyremote. 
> > 
> > Mail that's NOT for yahoo.com also gets stuck for several hours as
> > well.
> 
> If you have a machine that could act as a "data storage" you might want
> to do this:
> 
> If this machine "datastor.example.com" has qmail running, add to
> /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> yahoo.com
> .yahoo.com
> and (has the same problems as it has the same MX)
> yahoo.de
> .yahoo.de
> 
> Then add lines to /var/qmail/control/virtualhosts
> yahoo.com:yahoo.com
> .yahoo.com:yahoo.com
> yahoo.de:yahoo.com
> .yahoo.de:yahoo.com
> 
> and to /var/qmail/users/assign
> +yahoo.com-:dsmtp:UID:GID:/var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com:-::
> 
> If you don't have a /var/qmail/users/assign don't forget to add a line
> with a "." (dot) as the last line of this file.
> 
> # mkdir -p /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com
> # echo './Maildir/' > /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com/.qmail-default
> # /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com/Maildir
> # chmod -R go-w /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com
> # chown -R UID:GID /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com
> 
> After that do
> 
> # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu
> # kill -HUP 
> 
> The first line creates a new cdb from users/assign the second line
> causes qmail-send to reread control/virtualdomains.
> 
> Now datastor.example.com should be ready to take all the emails for
> yahoo.com (and yahoo.de) and store them into a Maildir from where you
> can send it on later, when the yahoo mailservers are functional again
> via the serialmail package.
> 
> Now on your mailserver add lines to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes
> yahoo.com:datastor.example.com
> .yahoo.com:datastor.example.com
> yahoo.de:datastor.example.com
> .yahoo.de:datastor.example.com
> 
> This causes qmail to bypass MX delivery and use "datastor.example.com"
> as a relay for the yahoo domains.
> 
> This should help you get rid of the yahoo mails in your queue. If you
> want to speed this up, you do a
> # kill -ALRM 
> on your mailserver.
> 
> Of course you can configure this on your mailserver as well (without using
> a datastor.examaple.com") and loop all the mails one internal hop.
> In that case on your mailserver add lines to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes
> yahoo.com:mailserver.example.com
> .yahoo.com:mailserver.example.com
> yahoo.de:mailserver.example.com
> .yahoo.de:mailserver.example.com
> 
> No guarantee for correctness or missing typos ;-))
> but thats a way it should work.
> 
> HTH,
>   \Maex
> 
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slow mail

[Vaz, Len]

Situation: Mail is being delivered very slowly on one of the
mailservers running qmail. It speeds up when I do a HUP on qmail-send
and kill -ALRM on qmail-send. Seems like it is not triggering
before I do mess with qmail-send. The lock/trigger file seems
to have the proper permissions. Any idea of what might be 
happening and why mail starts rolling only when I mess with qmail-send.

Thanks,

Len

QMQPD question

[Benjamin de los Angeles Jr.]

Is Qmqpd known to consume a lot CPU?
My Qmqpd is getting a lot of share of CPU.

Re: more virtual domains

[Markus Stumpf]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:59:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> now I am getting this
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

If you have in control/virtualdomains
test.com:joeuser
.test.com:joeuser
And "joeuser" has the $HOME of "/home/joeuser" qmail looks for a
/home/joeuser/.qmail-test
or in case it does not exist
/home/joeuser/.qmail-default(which is kinda wildcard for *@test.com)

If none of those exists you get the above error.
This files should contain valid delivery instructions, e.g.
   ./Maildir/   (delivery to /home/joeuser/Maildir/)
or
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (forward to  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

\Maex

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more virtual domains

[bigkapusta]

now I am getting this
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Sorry, no mailbox here by 
that name. (#5.1.1)
 
Denis

Re: virtual domains need help

[Markus Stumpf]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:27:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  doesnotwork.com:someuser
> e-mail disappers somewhere.
>  
> I have red everything I could find on virtual domains and I thougt I got it, but 
>looks like I did not. More things I tried more confused I got =( 

1) The user "someuser" has to exist on your system. All emails to
@doesnotwork.com
   are delivered according to the .qmail* files in this users $HOME.
   The $HOME and the $HOME/.qmail* files of this user may not be
   writable by anyone besides that user.

2) you have to delete "doesnotwork.com" from /var/qmail/control/locals
   in order to make the line in control/virtualdomains become effective.
   It also is a good idea to add another line
   .doesnotwork.com:someuser
   to control/virtualdomains to also have e.g.
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   under control of user "someuser".

3) you have to   "kill -HUP "  to force qmail to
   reread control/locals and control/virtualdomains

4) send a test mail and have a look at your logfiles. Do you see any
   errors?

\Maex

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Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Markus Stumpf]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:10:01AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't speak for anyone else, but In my case, yes I am hurting. We
> maxed at 10k queued messages this morning, and it's eating up the
> concurrencyremote. 
> 
> Mail that's NOT for yahoo.com also gets stuck for several hours as
> well.

If you have a machine that could act as a "data storage" you might want
to do this:

If this machine "datastor.example.com" has qmail running, add to
/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
yahoo.com
.yahoo.com
and (has the same problems as it has the same MX)
yahoo.de
.yahoo.de

Then add lines to /var/qmail/control/virtualhosts
yahoo.com:yahoo.com
.yahoo.com:yahoo.com
yahoo.de:yahoo.com
.yahoo.de:yahoo.com

and to /var/qmail/users/assign
+yahoo.com-:dsmtp:UID:GID:/var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com:-::

If you don't have a /var/qmail/users/assign don't forget to add a line
with a "." (dot) as the last line of this file.

# mkdir -p /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com
# echo './Maildir/' > /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com/.qmail-default
# /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com/Maildir
# chmod -R go-w /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com
# chown -R UID:GID /var/datastor/serialmail/yahoo.com

After that do

# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu
# kill -HUP 

The first line creates a new cdb from users/assign the second line
causes qmail-send to reread control/virtualdomains.

Now datastor.example.com should be ready to take all the emails for
yahoo.com (and yahoo.de) and store them into a Maildir from where you
can send it on later, when the yahoo mailservers are functional again
via the serialmail package.

Now on your mailserver add lines to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes
yahoo.com:datastor.example.com
.yahoo.com:datastor.example.com
yahoo.de:datastor.example.com
.yahoo.de:datastor.example.com

This causes qmail to bypass MX delivery and use "datastor.example.com"
as a relay for the yahoo domains.

This should help you get rid of the yahoo mails in your queue. If you
want to speed this up, you do a
# kill -ALRM 
on your mailserver.

Of course you can configure this on your mailserver as well (without using
a datastor.examaple.com") and loop all the mails one internal hop.
In that case on your mailserver add lines to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes
yahoo.com:mailserver.example.com
.yahoo.com:mailserver.example.com
yahoo.de:mailserver.example.com
.yahoo.de:mailserver.example.com

No guarantee for correctness or missing typos ;-))
but thats a way it should work.

HTH,
\Maex

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virtual domains need help

[denpetrov]

    I am running qmail server with the several 
domain names and running POP3.
I have all the domains are listed in rcpthosts 
and locals  and so far it been ok but now I have 
two different users with the same username on the differnt domains and the 
problem is they sharing same maildirectory. In addition everyuser on the system 
can recive e-mail on all of the domains that are listed in locals. (they do not 
know about it)So with the current setup i have someuser 
which can recive e-mail on everydomain that i have. (I hope it make sence)  
I tried to fix this by removing domain from locals and puting it in 
virtualdomains file ex: 
     
doesnotwork.com:someuser
e-mail disappers somewhere.
 
I have red everything I could find on virtual domains and I 
thougt I got it, but looks like I did not. More things I tried more confused I 
got =( 
Denis
 

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[brianb-qmail]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:59PM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Neither of yahoo.com's mail exchangers is answering right now. It's not
> > your
> > > problem. Don't worry about it.
> > 
> > Any idea how long till they will be back up?  Is there someplace to find
> > this information.  I have been struggling with mails queues clogged with
> > messages for yahoo.com all day.  I am on the virge of rejecting new messages
> > to the yahoo domain.
> 
> In what way are you "struggling"? Sure there may be plenty of emails in your queue,
> but is it really hurting? 

I can't speak for anyone else, but In my case, yes I am hurting. We
maxed at 10k queued messages this morning, and it's eating up the
concurrencyremote. 

Mail that's NOT for yahoo.com also gets stuck for several hours as
well.

> Or do you just not like that idea of qmail-remote failing
> and seeing the corresponding log entry? Remote delivery is very cheap with qmail so
> you don't need to be too concerned unless the yahoo mail is consuming all of your
> concurrencyremote. If it's not, then you can sleep soundly as it's no big deal.

Brian
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qmail and accounting

[Markus Stumpf]

I am lost on this one :(

We do email accounting. Because of that I need some additional
information about the eMails passing through our servers. In the moment
I do this via QUEUE_EXTRA to an account "log" which has a small awk
script that outputs the Message-Id: and the second (from top) Received: line
These info shows up in the logfiles and I have a script that does the
accounting. So far so good :-)

What I dislike (and what consumes quite some CPU power) is this extra
delivery. So I've taken some time to look for a place to code it into
qmail (I can loose the Message-Id info) 

A neat place would be in qmail-send extending the 
info msg 376799: bytes 3183 from <> qp 3619 uid 106
with an IP information (remote IP if received via SMTP, 127.0.0.1 if
received locally/bounce/alias/...). But qmail-send doesn't know about
the IP any longer.

qmail-queue does know about it and it also knows about the msgnum the
message will get and adding output to stderr (fds 0,1 are already used) e.g.
acctinfo msg 52537: a.b.c.d
acctinfo msg 52537: 127.0.0.1
works fine at first glance, but does only work with messages injected
via qmail-smtpd but not with locally injected messages (e.g. via 
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject) as it will not show up in the logfiles
but on stderr :-<

Any ideas?
If the solution would include the Message-Id it would be kinda perfect ;-)

Thanx,

\Maex

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RE: Virtualhost with Cname

[chuck]

Arisandy,

If your using the virtual domain "host1.bogus.com", and the computer
"host1.bogus.com" really exists, make sure it isn't in your
"./control/locals" file or qmail may try to forward mail to this computer,
which then forwards it back to the server for "bogus.com" creating a loop...

Charles Werbick
Network Administrator
The Wirehouse
501 East Kiowa Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: Arisandy Arief [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 05:56
To: Qmail List
Cc: Vpopmail List
Subject: Virtualhost with Cname

I have host with www.domain.com  ,one.domain.com, two.domain.com etc
host one and two is a CNAME record from www.domain.com
can I have @one.domain.com and @two.domain.com as separate
virtualhost...from @www.domain.com
I use Qmail-1.03+Vpopmail-3.4.11-released...

If I add it using vadddomain there is bounce message something like:
Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6)

thanks

Re: dumb ezmlm question

[Erich Zigler]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:19:10PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote:

> How does one set up ezmlm so that when someone replies to a message they
> recieved from the list it is replied to the list, and not the author of the
> list message?  Thanks.

cat Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> headeradd

-- 
Erich ZiglerSr. System Administrator

dumb ezmlm question

[Joel Dudley]

How does one set up ezmlm so that when someone replies to a message they
recieved from the list it is replied to the list, and not the author of the
list message?  Thanks.

- Joel

Having CNAME lookup problem?

[Bill Rogers]

qmail-1.03 with big-todo.patch. dnsip, dnscname, dnsmxip, dnsfq all
return something reasonable. dnsptr comes back "hard error" .

All outgoing remote mail gets "CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily(#4.4.3)

Can someone at least point me in a direction for how to set up the 
debugging?

Thanks,
Bill

Re: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[Charles Cazabon]

John W. Lemons III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Good. Now check for all the other places it could be in :>
> 
> I did an ls -alR | grep...  and it came up clean.
> 
> >1.   Modify the rc start up scripts to create a setuid shell
> > somewhere.
> 
> clean...

Except that a bad guy who had root can install a replace ls/find/etc which
won't list his files.  And if he's a little smarter, he can install a
kernel module which will hide his files from _every_ system utility.  And
the kernel module hides itself...etc, etc.

If he wants to, he can keep just about anyone from finding the holes he's
left behind.

Charles
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---
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Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
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Re: logging under svscan

[Russell P. Sutherland]

* Greg Kopp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ 5 Apr 2000 16:16]:

> But my logs are a little on the cryptic side. Here's and example:
> 
> @400038eb9dda14f29e14 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20
> @400038eb9dda14f2d0dc delivery 5206: success: did_1+1+0/qp_24168/
> @400038eb9dda14f3078c status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
> @400038eb9dda14f3366c end msg 48326
> 
> I'm assuming that the "@400038eb9dda14f3366c" has to be some sort of
> time stamp. Is there any way I can make this human-readable in the log or at
> least pass it through something so that I can?

Try sending the output of the file to the tai64nlocal filter.

 $ cat current | tai64nlocal | head
 2000-04-05 09:19:52.107114500 tcpserver: pid 27469 num 0 from 204.164.106.19
 2000-04-05 09:19:58.368163500 tcpserver: ok 27469

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RE: qmail reciveing problems.

[Nathan Kuriger]

fair enough...

451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from mail.evilmonkeys.com.
451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from evilmonkeys.com.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection reset by evilmonkeys.com.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail reciveing problems.


On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:47:36PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> The domain works fine. I just changed it to somedomain.com.

My answer is fine. I just changed it to be something else too!

You cloak the information, we cloak the answer. Seems fair to
me.

>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Nathan Kuriger
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail reciveing problems.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> > I dont have any of the logs with me right now but mabey I'm just missing
> > something simple here. I can seem to send mail to remote sites fine, and
> to
> > local boxes too. The problem is receving localy and remotly. Localy it
> > doesnt give me any errors, but remote will give me the could'nt send msg
> for
> > 4 hours and "451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from
> > mail.somedomain.com.". Any clues? Thanks.
>
> Yep. mail.somedomain.com isn't the MX for somedomain.com - so your system
> is not resolving MX records properly. You'll need to fix that first.
>
>
> Regards.
>

logging under svscan

[Greg Kopp]

I installed my installation per the life with qmail page (well done, BTW).

But my logs are a little on the cryptic side. Here's and example:

@400038eb9dda14f29e14 status: local 1/10 remote 1/20
@400038eb9dda14f2d0dc delivery 5206: success: did_1+1+0/qp_24168/
@400038eb9dda14f3078c status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
@400038eb9dda14f3366c end msg 48326

I'm assuming that the "@400038eb9dda14f3366c" has to be some sort of
time stamp. Is there any way I can make this human-readable in the log or at
least pass it through something so that I can?

Interrestingly enough, when I was still logging to syslog, I didn't have
this problem.

Greg

virtual domain woes, need help

[rtandy]

I apologize in advance to the list for submitting yet another virtual domain
question.  :)  I searched through the archives looking for my answer and was
unable to find it.

I have set up a user for myself, rtandy, on my  machine.  His email is
[EMAIL PROTECTED], for example.  I also wanted the email address
[EMAIL PROTECTED], so I used users/assign for this and added

=rob:rtandy:1000:100:/home/rtandy:-:rob:

the mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s delivery instructions are then in
/home/rtandy/.qmail-rob.  So far so good, everything works fine.

I also have another domain that resolves to my IP, mybox.com, for example.
I have added this domain to rcpthosts and locals as well as set DNS up 
correctly.  In fact without changing anything else, [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes
to the same place as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I would like to set this up so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] go
to different maildirs.  This is what I cameup with, any clues as to what's 
wrong?

***  control/virtualhosts  ***
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:rtandy-mybox
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:rtandy-mymachine

***  /home/rtandy/.qmail-mybox-rob  ***
/home/rtandy/Mail/rob-mybox/

***  /home/rtandy/.qmail-mymachine-rob  ***
/home/rtandy/Mail/rob-mymachine/

I figured mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED], would be turned into mail for
rtandy-mybox-rob via qmail-send and delivered locally which would look for
/home/rtandy/.qmail-mybox-rob for delivery instructions.

I also killed qmail-send with a HUP to reread local and virtual domains.
Is this correct??  It doesn't work when I 

$ qmail-inject
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:  TEST

hi
^D

If no one is able to solve my troubles, I would really like to figure out
how to tell if the virtualdomains file is consulted.  You cannot tell just by the log 
files.  Also, I would like to be able to see what the To: header is
rewritten as after consulting virtualdomains, to help track down my errors in
setup.

Is *that* possible?


Thanks much in advance from a qmail newbie.

-rob

Re: Open Relay - Luis

[Erwin Hoffmann]

>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
>Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)
>
> 
>**
>**  THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY  **
>**  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
>**
>
>The original message was received at Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
>from fra-pci-laj-vty252.as.wcom.net [212.211.72.252]
>
>   - The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>   - Transcript of session follows -
>451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... secrel.com.br: Name server timeout
>Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
>Will keep trying until message is 1 day, 12 hours old
>Content-Type: message/delivery-status
>
>Reporting-MTA: dns; spdmraab.compuserve.com
>Arrival-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Action: delayed
Hi, 

whats wrong with your MTA ??

cheers.
eh.

 Garbage starts 
>Status: 4.4.3
>Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
>Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Received: from arkon (fra-pci-laj-vty252.as.wcom.net [212.211.72.252])
>   by spdmraab.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.3) with SMTP id KAA26769
>   for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32)
>Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:47:35 +0200

 Garbage ends  

>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Erwin Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: qmail relay opened
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
>Hi,
>
>here it is:
>
>
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Erwin_Hoffmann/spam.htm
>
>cheers.
>eh.
>
>At 09:53 5.4.2000 -0300, you wrote:
>> 
>>Peter Pan, I not want your opinion. I want one solution
>>
>>
>>
>>Peter van Dijk wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:10:40PM -0300, Luis Bezerra wrote:
>>> > Hello everyone,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > my qmail MTA is accepting mails like
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > test%test.com.br
>>> >
>>> > anyone has one patch for resolve this problem?
>>>
>>> Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails.
>>>
>>> It is therefore not a problem.
>>>
>>> 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++
>>
>>--
>>-
>>Luís Bezerra de A. Junior
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>SecrelNet Informática LTDA
>>Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil
>>Fone: 021852882090
>>-
>>
>>
>>
>+---+
>|  fffhh Dr. Erwin Hoffmann |
>| ff  hh|
>| ffeee     ccc   ooomm mm  mm   Wiener Weg 8   |
>| fff  ee ee  hh  hh   cc   oo   oo  mmm  mm  mm 50858 Koeln|
>| ff  ee eee  hh  hh  cc   oo oo mm   mm  mm|
>| ff  eee hh  hh   cc   oo   oo  mm   mm  mm Tel 0221 484 4923  |
>| ff      hh  hhccc   ooomm   mm  mm Fax 0221 484 4924  |
>+---+
>
+---+
|  fffhh Dr. Erwin Hoffmann |
| ff  hh|
| ffeee     ccc   ooomm mm  mm   Wiener Weg 8   |
| fff  ee ee  hh  hh   cc   oo   oo  mmm  mm  mm 50858 Koeln|
| ff  ee eee  hh  hh  cc   oo oo mm   mm  mm|
| ff  eee hh  hh   cc   oo   oo  mm   mm  mm Tel 0221 484 4923  |
| ff      hh  hhccc   ooomm   mm  mm Fax 0221 484 4924  |
+---+

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[John W. Lemons III]

>If you're running a Red Hat system, that was probably put there by
>linuxconf itself, which is probably running out of a startup entry like
>/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99linuxconf -> ../init.d/linuxconf. In which case, it's
>not cause for alarm.

I think you are right, since I checked into its security, and it was still
set up to only allow localhost.  Probably not a problem.  Just strange that
it got appended after I last appended something and after a security breach.

>Also, if you're running Red Hat, you might want to use rpm to verify all
>packages against the installation CD.

I did that, and very little asside from a large chunk of /etc came up
different.  But isn't this also prone to problems if rpm was hacked?  I
guess I could re-install rpm and then do it, but I think that all things
considered, I'll just wipe and re-install.  I'll sleep better.

Thanks for the help,
John

Re: MAIL FROM && qmail question...

[Christophe Lesur]

> 
> btw:
>   echo >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
> then look into FAQ 5.4 if you haven't done this already.

In fact, RCPTHOSTS are okay : mydomain.com is accept and correctly
routed to the right gateway...

Other domain are rejected. 

btw my problem is not with RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

It's when some one 'spoof' an internal adress ie MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Regards and thanks, Christophe.

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[Kai MacTane]

At 4/5/2000 02:41 PM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote or quoted:

>just found this appended to the last line of the file, right after the 
>qmail entry I had installed the night before:
>   linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf linuxconf --http
>
>I certainly don't remember putting it there, so this makes me thing the
>breach is worse than I at first thought.  :/

If you're running a Red Hat system, that was probably put there by 
linuxconf itself, which is probably running out of a startup entry like 
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99linuxconf -> ../init.d/linuxconf. In which case, it's 
not cause for alarm.

Also, if you're running Red Hat, you might want to use rpm to verify all 
packages against the installation CD.

-
  Kai MacTane
  System Administrator
   Online Partners.com, Inc.
-
 From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)

finger trouble /n./

Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is
surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they
spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements
instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[John W. Lemons III]

>Good. Now check for all the other places it could be in :>

I did an ls -alR | grep...  and it came up clean.

>1. Modify the rc start up scripts to create a setuid shell
>   somewhere.

clean...

>2. Create a root cron that does the same.

also clean.  I checked all the cron jobs after finding /bin/ns set to run
every minute as root.  I have no idea what it does/did, but I didn't put it
there, and it isn't running now.

>3. Put an innocuous looking entry in inetd.conf which actually
>   starts a process as root for you.

just found this appended to the last line of the file, right after the qmail
entry I had installed the night before:
  linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf linuxconf --http

I certainly don't remember putting it there, so this makes me thing the
breach is worse than I at first thought.  :/

>4. Create an innoucuous looking user (nobody4 is a goodie) with a
>   uid of zero and a password you know.
>5. Install an old version of sendmail.
>6. Replace the passwd command with a wrapper that sends the username
>   and password to a remote address.
>7. Modify your .profile to create a function for su that traps the
>   root password and emails it somewhere.

Clean (for now)

Oh well, I'm learning a lot, which was part of the reason I built the server
in the first place.  Thanks for the input.

PS>  In case you are wondering, no, I'm not mailing from that server.  I'm
on a different network all together.  :)

Re: Still logging by syslog ?

[Dave Sill]

"Mike Perks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am running the older version of daemontools and I still ppe my output thru
>splogger? I have been reading that the newer version uses the multilog..
>
>Is there any advantage to this.. Is it better not to go thru syslogd??

Of course. If there was no advantage to multilog over syslog, Dan
wouldn't have bothered to write multilog, and I wouldn't have bothered 
to use it in LWQ.

The problems with syslog are:

  security: syslog is a network service with no access control or
authentication. It has been the subject of security advisories in
the past.

  reliability: syslog throws messages away if runs out of disk
space. It will happily fill up the entire filesystem it's logging
to.

  efficiency: syslog is slow. On a busy mail server, syslog can use up 
more CPU that the MTA.

-Dave

Re: MAIL FROM && qmail question...

[Uwe Ohse]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:56:24PM +0200, Christophe Lesur wrote:

> okay, so add 'if my domain is' mydomain.com...

no, just add useful information.

btw: 
  echo >/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
then look into FAQ 5.4 if you haven't done this already.

Regards, Uwe

Re: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:00:39PM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote:
> >Start over. You'll never know whether they've left a re-exploitable program
> on your
> >system somewhere. Have you checked for /usr/lib/math/fp/.setuid-root-shell?
> 
> No

Good. Now check for all the other places it could be in :>

> but since the system has been compromised,
> who really knows?  :/

I think you've got the idea exactly. As a general rule, once a bad guy
has had root they can do many many things to keep it or re-claim it.

Just a few exaples of the more obvious tricks:

1.  Modify the rc start up scripts to create a setuid shell
somewhere.

2.  Create a root cron that does the same.

3.  Put an innocuous looking entry in inetd.conf which actually
starts a process as root for you.

4.  Create an innoucuous looking user (nobody4 is a goodie) with a
uid of zero and a password you know.

5.  Install an old version of sendmail.

6.  Replace the passwd command with a wrapper that sends the username
and password to a remote address.

7.  Modify your .profile to create a function for su that traps the
root password and emails it somewhere.


Regards.

Re: Still logging by syslog ?

[Mike Perks]

Hello


> Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Why on my server, qmail still logging the email traffic inbound and
> >outbound by using syslogd. I have installed qmail by following at LWQ
> >instructions, using multilog.
>
> qmail can only log through syslog if you pipe output to splogger. The
> LWQ instructions don't use splogger anywhere. Make sure your
> /var/qmail/rc doesn't contain "| splogger".
>
> -Dave
>

I am running the older version of daemontools and I still ppe my output thru
splogger? I have been reading that the newer version uses the multilog..

Is there any advantage to this.. Is it better not to go thru syslogd??

Thanks in advance

Mike Perks
http://www.vanislenet.net

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[John W. Lemons III]

>Start over. You'll never know whether they've left a re-exploitable program
on your
>system somewhere. Have you checked for /usr/lib/math/fp/.setuid-root-shell?

No, it doesn't appear to exist, but since the system has been compromised,
who really knows?  :/

Re: MAIL FROM && qmail question...

[Christophe Lesur]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Christophe Lesur wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone !
> >
> > I just have a little question. My qmail is an SMTP RELAY.
> > All work's okay in the wonderfull world of qmail without any
> > relaying problem...
> >
> > But : my qmail domain is mydomain.com
> 
> You better speak to the guy with somedomain.com as I think
> the names are too similar and the Internet is getting
> confused.
> 

okay, so add 'if my domain is' mydomain.com...

Re: MAIL FROM && qmail question...

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Christophe Lesur wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone !
> 
> I just have a little question. My qmail is an SMTP RELAY.
> All work's okay in the wonderfull world of qmail without any
> relaying problem...
> 
> But : my qmail domain is mydomain.com

You better speak to the guy with somedomain.com as I think
the names are too similar and the Internet is getting
confused.

> 
> How avoiding qmail accepting FROM THE INTERNET this :
> 
> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> As my qmail is a relay, he never have to accept mydomain.com from the
> INTERNET...
> 
> I have think to add mydomain.com in the badmailfrom file, but the
> internal SMTP machine (a TFS) will not be able to use the QMAIL to send
> email to the world... (since all mail will be MAIL
> FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Any idea? Is it possible to do a selective badmailfrom (or not parse
> badmailfrom for the internal network)?
> 
> Regards from France, Christophe.

Re: qmail reciveing problems.

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:47:36PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> The domain works fine. I just changed it to somedomain.com.

My answer is fine. I just changed it to be something else too!

You cloak the information, we cloak the answer. Seems fair to
me.

> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Nathan Kuriger
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail reciveing problems.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> > I dont have any of the logs with me right now but mabey I'm just missing
> > something simple here. I can seem to send mail to remote sites fine, and
> to
> > local boxes too. The problem is receving localy and remotly. Localy it
> > doesnt give me any errors, but remote will give me the could'nt send msg
> for
> > 4 hours and "451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from
> > mail.somedomain.com.". Any clues? Thanks.
> 
> Yep. mail.somedomain.com isn't the MX for somedomain.com - so your system
> is not resolving MX records properly. You'll need to fix that first.
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 

MAIL FROM && qmail question...

[Christophe Lesur]

Hi everyone !

I just have a little question. My qmail is an SMTP RELAY.
All work's okay in the wonderfull world of qmail without any
relaying problem...

But : my qmail domain is mydomain.com

How avoiding qmail accepting FROM THE INTERNET this :

MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

As my qmail is a relay, he never have to accept mydomain.com from the
INTERNET...

I have think to add mydomain.com in the badmailfrom file, but the
internal SMTP machine (a TFS) will not be able to use the QMAIL to send
email to the world... (since all mail will be MAIL
FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Any idea? Is it possible to do a selective badmailfrom (or not parse
badmailfrom for the internal network)?

Regards from France, Christophe.

RE: qmail reciveing problems.

[Nathan Kuriger]

The domain works fine. I just changed it to somedomain.com.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:45 AM
To: Nathan Kuriger
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: qmail reciveing problems.


On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> I dont have any of the logs with me right now but mabey I'm just missing
> something simple here. I can seem to send mail to remote sites fine, and
to
> local boxes too. The problem is receving localy and remotly. Localy it
> doesnt give me any errors, but remote will give me the could'nt send msg
for
> 4 hours and "451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from
> mail.somedomain.com.". Any clues? Thanks.

Yep. mail.somedomain.com isn't the MX for somedomain.com - so your system
is not resolving MX records properly. You'll need to fix that first.


Regards.

Re: qmail reciveing problems.

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0700, Nathan Kuriger wrote:
> I dont have any of the logs with me right now but mabey I'm just missing
> something simple here. I can seem to send mail to remote sites fine, and to
> local boxes too. The problem is receving localy and remotly. Localy it
> doesnt give me any errors, but remote will give me the could'nt send msg for
> 4 hours and "451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from
> mail.somedomain.com.". Any clues? Thanks.

Yep. mail.somedomain.com isn't the MX for somedomain.com - so your system
is not resolving MX records properly. You'll need to fix that first.


Regards.

qmail reciveing problems.

[Nathan Kuriger]

I dont have any of the logs with me right now but mabey I'm just missing
something simple here. I can seem to send mail to remote sites fine, and to
local boxes too. The problem is receving localy and remotly. Localy it
doesnt give me any errors, but remote will give me the could'nt send msg for
4 hours and "451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... reply: read error from
mail.somedomain.com.". Any clues? Thanks.

Re: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:17:25PM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote:
> Thanks to all that have replied, but I think I've found the culprit.
> I've been hacked using a "known" BIND weakness.  (Unknown to me!)
> So, any way, I'll be cleaning up that mess this afternoon.  :/
> 
> Anyone know if its safe to just verify/re-install the RPMs from CD, or
> should I wipe it and start over?

Start over. You'll never know whether they've left a re-exploitable program on your
system somewhere. Have you checked for /usr/lib/math/fp/.setuid-root-shell?

Glad that you found the problem. You might also be interested to know that
the author of qmail has written an alternative to BIND and it comes with a
security gaurantee!


Regards.

RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[John Gonzalez/netMDC admin]

Unfortunately, plugging every hole can be more difficult then starting
over. Plus, you'll always wonder.

It's best to just start clean, and dont plug in the network until you get
every hole patched.

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, John W. Lemons III wrote:

>Thanks to all that have replied, but I think I've found the culprit.
>I've been hacked using a "known" BIND weakness.  (Unknown to me!)
>So, any way, I'll be cleaning up that mess this afternoon.  :/
>
>Anyone know if its safe to just verify/re-install the RPMs from CD, or
>should I wipe it and start over?
>
>

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RE: network connection dies randomly? <-- system hacked, its not QMAIL!

[John W. Lemons III]

Thanks to all that have replied, but I think I've found the culprit.
I've been hacked using a "known" BIND weakness.  (Unknown to me!)
So, any way, I'll be cleaning up that mess this afternoon.  :/

Anyone know if its safe to just verify/re-install the RPMs from CD, or
should I wipe it and start over?

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[markd]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:15:24AM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
> > In what way are you "struggling"? Sure there may be plenty of emails in
> your queue,
> > but is it really hurting? Or do you just not like that idea of
> qmail-remote failing
> > and seeing the corresponding log entry? Remote delivery is very cheap with
> qmail so
> > you don't need to be too concerned unless the yahoo mail is consuming all
> of your
> > concurrencyremote. If it's not, then you can sleep soundly as it's no big
> deal.
> 
> We run some rather large opt-in email 'ezines'.  Throughput matters.  The
> more remotes sitting waiting on yahoo the less there are to handle the rest.
> This morning I have 6 boxes each sitting pegged at 250 remotes.  My total
> throughput is typically about 300,000 per hour.  Yesterday morning it was
> 140,000 per hour.  It is somewhat better this morning (about 180,000 per
> hour).

Well, that's more of a problem. The only *easy* solution is to force the
timeout values on the MX addresses in tcpto. I think that someone once posted
some perl or a program to do this.

Or, as I suggested earlier, put a bogus smtproutes entry in there that forces
qmail-remote to write a tcpto value on your behalf.

What both of these solutions mean though is that no attempts will be made to send
to yahoo.com

An alternative strategy is to create an instance of qmail that just deals with 
yahoo.com
and have all the other systems smtproute to it.



Regards.

Re: identd - port 113

[Magnus Bodin]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:46:25PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote:
>
> I'm seeing that my qmail smtp when accept an inbound smtp connectio tryes to
> make an identd connection to the remote smtp, I see this with a netstat -n
> 
> How can disable this feature ?

I presume 

Use tcpserver with -R

see also tcpserver(1), i.e. "man tcpserver".

If you dont need paranoia, throw in an -H as well.

/magnus
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identd - port 113

[Ricardo D. Albano]

I'm seeing that my qmail smtp when accept an inbound smtp connectio tryes to
make an identd connection to the remote smtp, I see this with a netstat -n

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State
tcp0  1 200.45.0.21:1049216.33.236.156:113  SYN_SENT
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  216.33.236.156:2333
ESTABLISHED
tcp0  1 200.45.0.21:1048200.246.227.2:113   SYN_SENT
tcp0  1 200.45.0.21:1047200.16.211.174:113  SYN_SENT
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  200.16.211.174:16986
ESTABLISHED
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  200.246.227.2:36161
ESTABLISHED
tcp0  1 200.45.0.21:1043216.33.237.248:113  SYN_SENT
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  216.33.237.248:2046
ESTABLISHED
tcp0  1 200.45.0.21:1042208.44.4.8:113  SYN_SENT
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  208.44.4.8:4445
ESTABLISHED
tcp0  0 200.45.0.21:25  200.41.14.210:4603
ESTABLISHED

How can disable this feature ?

RDA.-

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Peter van Dijk]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:53:25AM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
> > Well, you can always run more qmail-remotes.
> 
> I thought that 250 was the limit.  It had something to do with number of
> currentl remotes being passed in an 8 bit value between two programs.  Has
> this changed?

There is a very nice patch, written by somebody at SuSE, on www.qmail.org.
It works quite nicely.

[snip]
> 
> I just took a snapshot of one of my servers.  Of 245 qmail-remotes 160
> ofthem are for yahoo.com.

Yuck.

> Here is what I see as yahoo.com MX records in DNS:
[snip lots of 128.11.[23/68].*]

[snip timeouts]

> This all seems reasonable except the 160 remotes connected to yahoo.com.

Yeah, a little test earlier today showed me that at least one of their
hosts accepted a connection and then dropped it, which means qmail _will_
retry.

Greetz, Peter.
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Re: Still logging by syslog ?

[Dave Sill]

Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>but after [LWQ] at /var/qmail/rc
>qmail won't delivery any mail both inbound and outbound
>
>so I change it again as usual
>cp /var/qmail/boot/home /var/qmail/rc
>
>how to solve the problem then ?

Well, you can either figure out where you botched the LWQ
installation, or you can switch from splogger to multilog manually.

I can assure that lots of people using the LWQ install *are* receiving 
and sending mail, so if you follow it carefully, it will work.

-Dave

Re: qmailadmin-0.26g compile problem

[iv0]

Georgi Kupenov wrote:
> 
> qmail-1.03
> vpopmail-3.4.11-1.released
> 
> 
> myhost:/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g# make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c alias.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c autorespond.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c forward.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c mailinglist.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c sysadmin.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c user.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c util.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c auth.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c template.c
> gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c command.c
> command.c:32: vpopmail_config.h: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [command.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> myhost:/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g#
> 
> What the problem is?

cp ~vpopmail/include/config.h ~vpopmail/include/vpopmail_config.h

-- 
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http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Bryan White]

> Well, you can always run more qmail-remotes.

I thought that 250 was the limit.  It had something to do with number of
currentl remotes being passed in an 8 bit value between two programs.  Has
this changed?

> But I'm curious why yahoo is consuming qmail-remotes. If connections
> to yahoo.com are timing out, the tcpto mechanism should keep
> qmail-remote from trying to connect. (See "man qmail-tcpto".) But if
> connections are succeeding, the messages should either be delivered or
> deferred. Either way, I don't see why large numbers of qmail-remotes
> would be trying to send to yahoo.com for extended periods.

I just took a snapshot of one of my servers.  Of 245 qmail-remotes 160
ofthem are for yahoo.com.

Here is what I see as yahoo.com MX records in DNS:
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.214
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.231
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.157
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.208
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.247
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.87
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.246
mx1.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.216
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.144
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.226
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.215
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.224
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.198
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.96
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.68.224
mx2.mail.yahoo.com  internet address = 128.11.23.231
NS3.EUROPE.yahoo.cominternet address = 194.237.108.51
NS1.yahoo.com   internet address = 204.71.200.33
NS2.DCA.yahoo.com   internet address = 209.143.200.34
NS5.DCX.yahoo.com   internet address = 216.32.74.10

running 'qmail-tcpto | grep 128.11' produces:
128.11.22.89 timed out 946 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.68.225 timed out 425 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.96 timed out 35 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.213 timed out 335 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.22.90 timed out 1066 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.68.216 timed out 0 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.214 timed out 2 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.229 timed out 395 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.209 timed out 326 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.247 timed out 0 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.231 timed out 17 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.87 timed out 9 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.224 timed out 22 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.224 timed out 78 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.23.246 timed out 1118 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 2
128.11.23.198 timed out 20 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.144 timed out 41 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1
128.11.68.157 timed out 16 seconds ago; # recent timeouts: 1

This all seems reasonable except the 160 remotes connected to yahoo.com.

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Peter van Dijk]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:09:02AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
[snip]
> 
> But I'm curious why yahoo is consuming qmail-remotes. If connections
> to yahoo.com are timing out, the tcpto mechanism should keep
> qmail-remote from trying to connect. (See "man qmail-tcpto".) But if
> connections are succeeding, the messages should either be delivered or 
> deferred. Either way, I don't see why large numbers of qmail-remotes
> would be trying to send to yahoo.com for extended periods.

Connections to yahoo.com are accepted, then dropped. qmail does not report
this as a time out, but a 'Connection dropped' [don't know the exact
wording right now].

So, qmail will keep trying to deliver.

We should ask yahoo to either fix their mailhubs or break them more
thoroughly :)

Greetz, Peter.
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Re: EZMLM SETUP

[markd]

I see the problem. abc.com is MXed to disney.com is that what you wanted?

I think you should change that to point to your system, then everything
will work just fine.


Regards.

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:56:50PM +0530, Hemanta Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a setup such that @abc.com is forwared to the account 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now as I setup ezmlm for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have 
> subscribed my hotmail add in it. Now to test it if I send email to 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] then instead of mails going to my hotmail account, all 
> the mails are forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could I'm using qmail1.03, 
> ezmlm0.53 and ezmlm-idx0.534. Pls help
> 
> Thkx in advance!!
> 
> Hemanta
> 
> P.S: ezmlm and qmail subscribers sorry for sending two mails!!
> 

Re: Still logging by syslog ?

[Irwan Hadi]

At 07:35 05/04/2000 -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Why on my server, qmail still logging the email traffic inbound and
>>outbound by using syslogd. I have installed qmail by following at LWQ
>>instructions, using multilog.
>
>qmail can only log through syslog if you pipe output to splogger. The
>LWQ instructions don't use splogger anywhere. Make sure your
>/var/qmail/rc doesn't contain "| splogger".
but after following this command at /var/qmail/rc
#!/bin/sh



# Using stdout for logging
# Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"

qmail won't delivery any mail both inbound and outbound
so I change it again as usual
cp /var/qmail/boot/home /var/qmail/rc

how to solve the problem then ?

my /var/qmail/boot/home is
#!/bin/sh

# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.

exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail  


>
>-Dave

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EZMLM SETUP

[Hemanta Sharma]

Hi,

I have a setup such that @abc.com is forwared to the account 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now as I setup ezmlm for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have 
subscribed my hotmail add in it. Now to test it if I send email to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] then instead of mails going to my hotmail account, all 
the mails are forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could I'm using qmail1.03, 
ezmlm0.53 and ezmlm-idx0.534. Pls help

Thkx in advance!!

Hemanta

P.S: ezmlm and qmail subscribers sorry for sending two mails!!

vpopmail and fastforward

[Russell P. Sutherland]

I am currently moving a large "default" email domain
to a vpopmail virtual domain. All of the bits and pieces
are completed except moving all the local aliases.

At present I am using fastforward in /var/qmail/alias/qmail-default:

| fastforward -d  /etc/aliases.cdb 

I have hundreds of aliases and have found fastforward a convenient way
of managing them (rather than hundreds of .qmail-name files). Can the
fastforward tool be used easily with vpopmail. It would be nice to have
the option of one aliases file per vdomain.

Any one had any experience with this?

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Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Dave Sill]

"Bryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>We run some rather large opt-in email 'ezines'.  Throughput matters.  The
>more remotes sitting waiting on yahoo the less there are to handle the rest.
>This morning I have 6 boxes each sitting pegged at 250 remotes.  My total
>throughput is typically about 300,000 per hour.  Yesterday morning it was
>140,000 per hour.  It is somewhat better this morning (about 180,000 per
>hour).

Well, you can always run more qmail-remotes.

But I'm curious why yahoo is consuming qmail-remotes. If connections
to yahoo.com are timing out, the tcpto mechanism should keep
qmail-remote from trying to connect. (See "man qmail-tcpto".) But if
connections are succeeding, the messages should either be delivered or 
deferred. Either way, I don't see why large numbers of qmail-remotes
would be trying to send to yahoo.com for extended periods.

-Dave

Re: Is qmail suitable for a home user?

[Charles Cazabon]

Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manfred Bartz  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >If you have only one computer and all you want is to access a pop3
> >account at your ISP then you don't need any MTA (qmail or other).
 
> You need *something* accessible via /usr/lib/sendmail or
> /usr/sbin/sendmail to deliver local mail if you want to see cron job
> errors and other system mail. I don't know if nullmailer does this,
> but you wouldn't want mail to your local box's root to go to root on
> your ISP's mailhub.

Yes, nullmailer handles this.

Charles
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Re: qmail relay opened

[Ricardo Cerqueira]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:06:31AM -0400, Len Budney wrote:
> Luis Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Peter Pan...
> 
> Luis Bizarre, please get it right. His name is Peter van Dijk.

Cute "typo" :-)

> 
> > I not want your opinion. I want one solution
> 
> Than ask the question intelligently. Don't just say ``my qmail MTA is
> accepting mails...''
> 
>   1. Provide a transcript of the SMTP conversation with your qmail host.
>   2. Provide everything in your qmail logs relating to that conversation.
> 
> You will no doubt see something like the following:
> 
>   ...starting delivery 17: msg 4025 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   ...delivery 17: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/
>

Which means... If the mail is accepted but NOT delivered (and therefor bounced some 
time later), there is NO open relay problem.
 
> As Peter said,
> 
> > > Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails.
> > > It is therefore not a problem.
> 
> He knows what he's talking about. Now apologize to the nice man for
> your rudeness.
> 

(portuguese gibberish follows)
De portugues pra brasileiro... Armaste merda... insultar as pessoas mais prestaveis 
desta lista e' uma pessima ideia.


Best regards;
Ricardo

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Re: qmail relay opened

[Peter van Dijk]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:05:19AM -0400, Paul Schinder wrote:
> At 9:53 AM -0300 4/5/00, Luis Bezerra wrote:
> >Peter Pan, I not want your opinion. I want one solution
> 
> He told you the truth.  It should not be delivering these mails, 
> unless you've misconfigured qmail.  Therefore, it's not a relay. 
> Therefore, there is no "qmail relay opened".   A relay is a machine 
> that accepts mail from off site third parties and *delivers it* to 
> off site third parties.
> 
> You want a solution?  Block all connections from the IP of the 
> machine that tries the relay.  (This is one of those brain damaged 
> "spam tests", right?).  This has showed up in this list many times, 
> and you should go through the list archives.

I wouldn't do that, blocking ORBS is one of the two ways to get in their
list.

Greetz, Peter.
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|  C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++

ezmlm aliases using fastforward

[Tomasz Antczak]

Hello, I have small problem. I using qmail with fastforward+ezmlm, but
ezmlm create alias files for mailing list in old style:

.qmail-mylist
.qmail-mylist-default
.qmail-mylist-digest-owner
.qmail-mylist-digest-return-default
.qmail-mylist-owner
.qmail-mylist-return-default

i wan't use only /etc/aliases file. What I must write in /etc/aliases for
using ezmlm mailing list named mylist.

Tom

Re: qmail RPM that supports ldap?

[Peter Green]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:02:04PM -0500, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating towards LDAP.  I just discovered (the hard 
> way) that the pop3 daemon that I'm using (from the qmail-1.03-11ucspi RPM) 
> doesn't see users who only exist in LDAP.  So, since I eventually want to 
> switch to a qmail with the LDAP patches, I guess it's time to ask if anybody's 
> got an RPM with the LDAP patches.  If not, (since I need an RPM based 
> solution), which SRPM would be the best April 2000 starting point to add LDAP 
> patches to?

I can't answer the first question, but I can say that I've had great success
with Bruce Guenter's (sp?) qmail SRPMS. Check out 
and it's somewhere under qmail+patches or something... :)

/pg
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Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with Qanalog

[Cedric Revest]

Hi there,

Can anyone give me a good url for some help on how to use qanalog ??

Thank you in advance

Regards

Cedric

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ip-based relaying with vpopmail

[Markus Fischer]

Hello,

I'm runing latest stable vpopmail and I enabled roaming smtp on
running ./configure . But it doesn't seem to work.

When a user authenticates on the pop3d and then tries to send
mail via smtp he always gets relaying denied.

My qmail-smtpd lines looks like this (from debian):
ulimit -v 4096
sh -c "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --user qmaild \
--exec /usr/bin/tcpserver -- \
-u qmaild -g 65534 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb 0 smtp \
/usr/sbin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | $logger -t qmail -p mail.notice &"

and the pop3d:

sh -c "/usr/bin/tcpserver -g1002 -u1002 \
0 pop3 /usr/sbin/qmail-popup `hostname`.`dnsdomainname` \
/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/sbin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &"

AFAIk the file /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb should be moodified because
thats it where tcpserver reads the realyclients information. But
when doing ls -l /etc/tcp* I see that the current /etc/tcp.smtp*
is not modified in any way (nor the .cdb file, I'm looking and
the modfied time stamp).

Do I need some special suid/sgid program to archieve this ? Or am
I doing something wrong in the init-startup scripts ?

If anyone needs more configuration information I can paste
everything you want.

A sidequestion: is /etc/tcp.smtp* really sufficient to rellay for
qmail ? don't i need some entry in /var/qmail/control/* ?

And .. Is this line sufficient for /etc/tcp.smtp ? 
root@host1:/etc# cat /etc/tcp.smtp
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
193.53.80.108:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

whereas 193.53.80.108 is (pop|smtp|ns1).atplus.net, the
mailserver/

thanks for everyone spending time reading this,
Markus


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qmailadmin-0.26g compile problem

[Georgi Kupenov]

qmail-1.03
vpopmail-3.4.11-1.released


myhost:/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c qmailadmin.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c alias.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c autorespond.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c forward.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c mailinglist.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c sysadmin.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c user.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c util.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c auth.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c template.c
gcc -I. -I/home/popusers/include -g -O2 -c command.c
command.c:32: vpopmail_config.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [command.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
myhost:/home/jkk/qmailadmin-0.26g#


What the problem is?

RE: network connection dies randomly?

[Soffen, Matthew]

Your default route may be munged.  

Verify that you DO have a default route defined (i.e.. the DSL modem).

Matt Soffen 
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
==
Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss- "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said 
 never mind."
   - Dilbert -
==


> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Lemons III [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 4:43 PM
> To:   qmail list
> Subject:  RE: network connection dies randomly?
> 
> >I installed and configured QMail on Friday of last week.  It passed all
> the
> 
> 
> Another detail that may help...  When the connection appears hung,
> netstat -r
> hangs before it reports the default route.  I can't even kill it.  Is the
> routing table getting hosed?  If so, how?  Also, pump sometimes brings it
> back to life, but usually just hangs and can't be killed.
> 

RE: Relaying problem..

[Soffen, Matthew]

Now for the obvious question, what does your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
file look like ?  Is beachassociates.com in it ?  Is it a virtual server (if
so, is it in /var/qmail/control/virtualservers and NOT in
/var/qmail/control/locals) or is it a local domain ?

Matt Soffen 
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
==
Boss- "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss- "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said 
 never mind."
   - Dilbert -
==


> -Original Message-
> From: Chad Day [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:49 PM
> To:   '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject:  Relaying problem..
> 
> First off, yes, I've read life with qmail and everything I can about
> rcpthosts. :)
> 
> The error message I'm receiving is:
> 
> Error sending to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (553 sorry, that domain isn't
> in
> my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1))
> [Tue Apr  4 17:24:48 2000] [error] Error sending to
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of
> allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1))
> 
> 
> What I am trying to do is e-mail a user a login/pw from a webpage..
> The code is:
> 
> 
> # Takes the address, subject and an email, and does what it says
> # used by dailyStuff, users.pl, and someday submit.pl
> sub sendEmail {
> my( $addr, $subject, $content, $smtp_server ) = @_;
> my %mail = (
> smtp=> $smtp_server,
> To  => $addr,
> From=> $I{adminmail},
> Subject => $subject,
> Message => $content
> );
> 
> sendmail( %mail ) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
> } 
> 
> 
> $smtp_server is defined in another file to be my smtp server.. set
> correctly.
> 
> 
> Regular local -> remote, remote -> local, and local -> local mail delivery
> all works.
> 
> My tcp.smtp line is:
> 208.246.80.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> 
> which I thought would be the solution, but I'm still hitting that error.
> 
> There must be something I'm not understanding or am missing somewhere.. I
> don't think it's the script thats a problem, because if I telnet to port
> 25
> and try to rcpt to anywhere else, it gives me the same problem.. what is
> wrong with my tcp.smtp?
> 
> 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: qmail relay opened

[Paul Schinder]

At 9:53 AM -0300 4/5/00, Luis Bezerra wrote:
>Peter Pan, I not want your opinion. I want one solution

He told you the truth.  It should not be delivering these mails,
unless you've misconfigured qmail.  Therefore, it's not a relay.
Therefore, there is no "qmail relay opened".   A relay is a machine
that accepts mail from off site third parties and *delivers it* to
off site third parties.

You want a solution?  Block all connections from the IP of the
machine that tries the relay.  (This is one of those brain damaged
"spam tests", right?).  This has showed up in this list many times,
and you should go through the list archives.

>
>
>
>Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
>>  On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:10:40PM -0300, Luis Bezerra wrote:
>>  > Hello everyone,
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > my qmail MTA is accepting mails like
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > test%test.com.br
>>  >
>>  > anyone has one patch for resolve this problem?
>>
>>  Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails.
>>
>>  It is therefore not a problem.
>>
>>  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++
>
>--
>-
>Luís Bezerra de A. Junior
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>SecrelNet Informática LTDA
>Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil
>Fone: 021852882090
>-

--
--
Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail relay opened

[Dave Sill]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Peter Pan, I not want your opinion. I want one solution

How rude and immature. Do you think people are going to jump to help
you after that?

-Dave

Re: qmail relay opened

[Len Budney]

Luis Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Peter Pan...

Luis Bizarre, please get it right. His name is Peter van Dijk.

> I not want your opinion. I want one solution

Than ask the question intelligently. Don't just say ``my qmail MTA is
accepting mails...''

  1. Provide a transcript of the SMTP conversation with your qmail host.
  2. Provide everything in your qmail logs relating to that conversation.

You will no doubt see something like the following:

  ...starting delivery 17: msg 4025 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  ...delivery 17: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/

As Peter said,

> > Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails.
> > It is therefore not a problem.

He knows what he's talking about. Now apologize to the nice man for
your rudeness.

Len.


--
Remember that most encryption in this world does not take place inside
a Pentium, but on a smart card or other 8-bit processor.  Key bits are
VERY expensive.
-- Bruce Schneier

Re: My server STOP delivering mails

[Dave Sill]

"Ricardo D. Albano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I'm running a large site email server with qmail1.03 as inbound relay, the
>server works with a medium of 600 concurrent inbound connections and relay
>they to another host that makes the local delivery.
>
>All time I see the 'qmail-smtpd' and 'qmail-remote' processes to see if all
>is working well. qmail-remote mantains in a value of 20 procs. simultaneous,

Sounds like you should raise concurrencyremote, provided the other
host can handle it.

>but in a moment qmail-remote stop tunning, no more qmail-remote processes
>was lunched and my queue grow up every second.
>
>I see this error in the /var/log/maillog :
>
>delivery 18323: deferral:
>Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)
>
>repeated a lot of time.
>
>What can be the problem ?

>From your description of the configuration, there's only one system
that the qmail box ever tries to send to: the other local host that
does final delivery. That means that the failure to establish an SMTP
connection has to be a local problem: either some kind of network
outage between the two local systems, or a problem on the other local
system such as the MTA not responding

-Dave

Re: qmail relay opened

[Luis Bezerra]

Peter Pan, I not want your opinion. I want one solution



Peter van Dijk wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:10:40PM -0300, Luis Bezerra wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> > my qmail MTA is accepting mails like
> >
> >
> > test%test.com.br
> >
> > anyone has one patch for resolve this problem?
>
> Unless you did something wrong, it is not delivering these mails.
>
> It is therefore not a problem.
>
> 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++

--
-
Luís Bezerra de A. Junior
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SecrelNet Informática LTDA
Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil
Fone: 021852882090
-

Re: Is qmail suitable for a home user?

[Dave Sill]

Manfred Bartz  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>If you have only one computer and all you want is to access a pop3
>account at your ISP then you don't need any MTA (qmail or other).

You need *something* accessible via /usr/lib/sendmail or
/usr/sbin/sendmail to deliver local mail if you want to see cron job
errors and other system mail. I don't know if nullmailer does this,
but you wouldn't want mail to your local box's root to go to root on
your ISP's mailhub.

-Dave

Re: Is qmail suitable for a home user?

[Dave Sill]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I have a similar needs & configuration, though I'm connected through
>mediaone.net via a cable modem.  When they hooked me up, they assigned
>the name "h0050da615e79.ne.mediaone.net", based on the ether address.
>They arrange to have that name resolve to my DHCP-assigned IP address,
>so that is what I've arranged "hostname" to return, ugly as it is.  This
>way mailing lists (qmail in particular) can dump mail into my SMTP port,
>and I can use the full power of .qmail files for the envelope address,
>without having to go through the tiny little pipe, i.e. one subscriber
>address, provided by MediaOne.

I connect via a 28.8K modem and don't have a static IP address. My
local network uses the "sill" domain, e.g., sparge.sill, which is my
mailhub. I use the free dynamic DNS service at http://www.dyndns.org
to assign the FQDN sill.dyndns.org to my dynamic IP address. Outgoing
mail comes from either sill.dyndns.org or sill.org, never from a
*.sill domain.

The dyndns.org service has been very reliable for me, but if you want
to pay for the service, there are commercial providers like dyndns.com 
(which I've never tried and can't vouch for).

-Dave

Re: Is qmail suitable for a home user?

[Dave Sill]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>The first problem arises when I have to tell qmail my FQDN. I
>connect to the Internet through my ISP, which assigns me a
>different dynamic IP address every time. My hostname is precious,
>so what should my FQDN be?

Just make something up. I use hostname.lastname, which would be
precious.galletti.

>I played aroung with different FQDN values and found that
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to work.

That's an e-mail address, not an FQDN.

>But when I try to
>send an email locally, I get different error messages saying
>something about one of qmail's daemons not being able to chdir to
>the mail directory.

We'll need to see the exact error message to provide detailed help.

>I've created mailboxes for root

See:

  http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#root-delivery

>and my username
>with the utility included with qmail. Do I have to change the
>directory permissions?

No.

>I've read all the qmail docs I could find, and so far they seem to be
>oriented to big systems.

"Life with qmail" is *not* oriented to big systems. It's *suitable*
for big systems, but I also use the LWQ installation on my 60 MHz
Pentium mailhub at home.

>Should I use qmail?

Only you can answer that question. *Can* you use qmail? Yes. Can qmail
do a good job? Yes. Would I recommend it over sendmail? Yes. Should
everyone use it? No.

>My laptop is not connected to a network, and it only has one user.

If it's never connected to a network, there's not much need for an
MTA...but, of course, qmail can run on a standalone box.

>Has anyone
>successfully configured qmail for this particular kind of system?

The closest I've come to that is a two-system Y2K testbed we set
up. It had no nameserver, and both systems delivered everything
locally.

-Dave

VPOP

[Hemanta Sharma]

Hi,

I heard that I can create POP accounts using a program vpop, pls could 
anyone tell me where to get it from?

Hemanta

Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

[Bryan White]

> In what way are you "struggling"? Sure there may be plenty of emails in
your queue,
> but is it really hurting? Or do you just not like that idea of
qmail-remote failing
> and seeing the corresponding log entry? Remote delivery is very cheap with
qmail so
> you don't need to be too concerned unless the yahoo mail is consuming all
of your
> concurrencyremote. If it's not, then you can sleep soundly as it's no big
deal.

We run some rather large opt-in email 'ezines'.  Throughput matters.  The
more remotes sitting waiting on yahoo the less there are to handle the rest.
This morning I have 6 boxes each sitting pegged at 250 remotes.  My total
throughput is typically about 300,000 per hour.  Yesterday morning it was
140,000 per hour.  It is somewhat better this morning (about 180,000 per
hour).

Virtualhost with Cname

[Arisandy Arief]

I have host with www.domain.com  ,one.domain.com, two.domain.com etc
host one and two is a CNAME record from www.domain.com
can I have @one.domain.com and @two.domain.com as separate
virtualhost...from @www.domain.com
I use Qmail-1.03+Vpopmail-3.4.11-released...

If I add it using vadddomain there is bounce message something like:
Remote host said: 554 too many hops, this message is looping (#5.4.6)

thanks

Re: Still logging by syslog ?

[Dave Sill]

Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Why on my server, qmail still logging the email traffic inbound and
>outbound by using syslogd. I have installed qmail by following at LWQ
>instructions, using multilog.

qmail can only log through syslog if you pipe output to splogger. The
LWQ instructions don't use splogger anywhere. Make sure your
/var/qmail/rc doesn't contain "| splogger".

-Dave

qmail Digest 5 Apr 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 962

[qmail-digest-help]

qmail Digest 5 Apr 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 962

Topics (messages 39486 through 39554):

Re: Qmail Anti-Spam HOWTO
39486 by: Will Harris

Question for IV0 only?
39487 by: kingram

Re: permissions on messages
39488 by: Will Harris
39501 by: Jennifer Tippens

CC'ing all outgoing mail??
39489 by: TAG
39493 by: Charles Cazabon

Re: syslogd and qmail problem
39490 by: Henrik Öhman
39500 by: Peter van Dijk

Re: should I use ulimit too ?
39491 by: Dave Sill

problem with virtual domains
39492 by: Henrique Pais
39507 by: Dave Sill
39508 by: Henrique Pais
39509 by: Dave Sill
39510 by: Henrique Pais

Rejected Words List
39494 by: Travis Rail

How to implement ANTISPAM with qmail+fetchmail?
39495 by: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
39498 by: rogers-qmail.h0050da615e79.ne.mediaone.net

problem with incoming mail
39496 by: helpdesk

Re: Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope -- Re: Poor documentation  of anti-spam 
options?checks
39497 by: Dave Sill

multi domain problem, fetchmail?!
39499 by: Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani
39505 by: Dave Sill
39506 by: Charles Cazabon
39521 by: Charles Cazabon

true unix v4.0f problem
39502 by: Santos, Edgar
39504 by: Dave Sill

Re: Perl regex patch for badmailfrom envelope
39503 by: Will Harris

Relaying problem..
39511 by: Chad Day
39512 by: Travis Rail
39513 by: Charles Cazabon

network connection dies randomly?
39514 by: John W. Lemons III
39515 by: markd.bushwire.net
39516 by: John W. Lemons III
39517 by: John W. Lemons III
39519 by: Mikko Hänninen
39520 by: Charles Cazabon

qmail RPM that supports ldap?
39518 by: Chris Garrigues
39526 by: Chris Garrigues

My server STOP delivering mails
39522 by: Ricardo D. Albano

Weird CNAME lookup failure?
39523 by: Bill Rogers

Mail addressed to "anydomain.org" delivered locally
39524 by: Matt Cooney
39538 by: Magnus Bodin
39539 by: Matt Cooney
39545 by: Magnus Bodin

Is qmail suitable for a home user?
39525 by: Jeremias Galletti
39534 by: Charles Cazabon
39535 by: rogers-qmail.h0050da615e79.ne.mediaone.net
39537 by: Manfred Bartz

qmail-remote concurrent
39527 by: Ricardo D. Albano
39529 by: Markus Stumpf

virtual domains/users with vpopmail, but different pop-usernames ?
39528 by: Markus Fischer

Still problem with yahoo.com
39530 by: Ismal Hisham Darus
39531 by: Chris Johnson
39533 by: Bryan White
39536 by: frob.powerup.com.au
39541 by: markd.bushwire.net
39542 by: markd.bushwire.net
39544 by: Ismal Hisham Darus
39546 by: markd.bushwire.net
39548 by: chuck
39550 by: chuck

ezmlm question.
39532 by: Russell Davies
39540 by: markd.bushwire.net

g
39543 by: Casey Zacek
39547 by: Magnus Bodin

Qmail installation on Integrix Ultrasparc 10
39549 by: Einar Bordewich

Routing users - is this possible to implement?
39551 by: Harri Nyman
39552 by: Frank Tegtmeyer

Still logging by syslog ?
39553 by: Irwan Hadi

pop password gateway
39554 by: Le Dinh Long

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 >However it doesn't explain how to do do what I want. I want to check all
 >incoming messages to see if they're on DUL, ORBS, RSS, RBL or whatever
 >and if so add a header to the message, say an "X-Spam-Warning: DUL" or
 >the like. I know this is a trivial one line config option for Exim, but
 >I haven't seen anything for qmail to do this.
 >
 >I know I could do something with procmail, but I want this to work even
 >for mail that's being forwarded or stored in a Maildir or whatever,
 >without the user having to do anything special.
 >
 >Anybody any ideas?

I've written a system-wide mail filtering program I implemented that checks 
RBL, RSS, ORBS, and DUL.  It also looks at faked Message-ID headers.  Any 
message that fails a test is marked with [SPAM] on the subject line, and 
has X-Blacklisted header inserted for each of the tests it 
fails.  Precedence is set to junk.  Users can then decide what to do with 
the mail - bounce it or procmail it or whatever.

I run all incoming mail through this filter using the system default 
delivery instructions.  Users who don't have their own .qmail file can 
control how the filter works through the use of a ~/.qmail_rblcheck file: 
an empty file means don't check at al

pop password gateway

[Le Dinh Long]

I have several qmail-pop3 servers for one domain. Now, I want users can
check their mail via only one pop gateway. I wonder that is there any pop
password gateway can check pop username/password in a right manner (such as
in sequence of hosts) and relay traffic between clients and the real 
server. Any solutions ?

TIA

Still logging by syslog ?

[Irwan Hadi]

Why on my server, qmail still logging the email traffic inbound and
outbound by using syslogd. I have installed qmail by following at LWQ
instructions, using multilog.
Which lines should I update then , to make qmail use multilog beside syslog.

---
AFLHI 058009990407128029/089802---(102598//991024)

Re: Routing users - is this possible to implement?

[Frank Tegtmeyer]

> I am trying to set up qmail-frontend to our mailsystem, such way that
> some of mailboxes are on this qmail machine, and it SHOULD route all
> unknown mail to another server

Use .qmail-default for user alias or a virtual domain with exceptions 
through users/assign.

Regards, Frank

Routing users - is this possible to implement?

[Harri Nyman]

I am trying to set up qmail-frontend to our mailsystem, such way that
some of mailboxes are on this qmail machine, and it SHOULD route all
unknown mail to another server - is this possible? I do recall reading
something on some webpage about this, but...help? Please?

-- 
-
Harri Nyman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] NovoGroup Oyj
Systems SpecialistTel:+358 (0)9 5067 2680

RE: Still problem with yahoo.com

[chuck]

Oops,
Actually, that was goofy. All you would need to do is accept mail for
yahoo.com, but it's still not necessary to do it. I dumped on Qmail while
testing it, and it really is solid.

Chuck



Howdy,
Here's a really cheesy way to flush the queue of Yahoo.com messages without
flushing everything else:

Set up a virtual domain mta206.mail.yahoo.com. Set postmaster as the only
user and dump all the yahoo messages into that box and deal with it later
(panic button solution). Or alternatively, try to bounce them back to the
sender. To do this set up the virtual domain mail.yahoo.com with no locals.
User will get the can't find host error (hopefully). The second option would
allow users to try again later. You can inject a message to everyone when
yahoo comes back up. I doubt Qmail will fail on you though. Better advice
might be to have a beer and look at it later...


Charles Werbick,
Network Administrator
The Wirehouse,
Colorado Springs, CO

p.s.- I've never tried this, so pretend you see some sort of disclaimer
here.

Qmail installation on Integrix Ultrasparc 10

[Einar Bordewich]

I'm about to start installation of Qmail with vpopmail, QmailAdmin and
SqWebMail on a Sun clone named Integrix Ultrasparc 10 (360Mhz Ultrasparc,
256Mb RAM, and I guess >10GB disk).
Solaris 7 (Sun OS 5.7) will be the OS on the box.

Any traps I should look out for, any special patches that should be applied,
libaries that must be installed, etc.

I'm gratful (but not dead! :) for any advices that will help me do this
installtion as smooth as possible.

This is all information I have right now about the machine/OS. This is for a
customer of us (IDG New Media), and they are still running an old Sun
machine with sendmail, that are listed in ORBS etc. Since they now are
upgrading their hardware, and are seeking us for help, I'v adviced them to
use Qmail instead of sendmail.

BTW: We have been running several machines with Qmail as our mailservers for
us and our customers for the last 3 years, but on Intel/Linux platform.

regards
--

IDG New Media Einar Bordewich
Technical Manager  Phone: +47 2336 1420
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Still problem with yahoo.com

[chuck]

Howdy,
Here's a really cheesy way to flush the queue of Yahoo.com messages without
flushing everything else:

Set up a virtual domain mta206.mail.yahoo.com. Set postmaster as the only
user and dump all the yahoo messages into that box and deal with it later
(panic button solution). Or alternatively, try to bounce them back to the
sender. To do this set up the virtual domain mail.yahoo.com with no locals.
User will get the can't find host error (hopefully). The second option would
allow users to try again later. You can inject a message to everyone when
yahoo comes back up. I doubt Qmail will fail on you though. Better advice
might be to have a beer and look at it later...


Charles Werbick,
Network Administrator
The Wirehouse,
Colorado Springs, CO

p.s.- I've never tried this, so pretend you see some sort of disclaimer
here.



-Original Message-
From: Ismal Hisham Darus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 00:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

Well it just "eaten up" my queues only :-) now occupied 16/23. A bit
worried only  :-).

anyway thanks for your advise & suggestion..

Date sent:  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:20:24 -0700
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bryan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to:  Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ismal Hisham Darus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Still problem with yahoo.com

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:47:59PM -0400, Bryan White wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:50:05AM +0800, Ismal Hisham Darus wrote:
> > > My site still have porbelm connecting with yahoo.com .. everytime i
got
> the
> > > message :  Connected_to_128.11.23.225_but_connection_died. I even send
> an
> > > email to aol.com and successfully sent the email. Does yahoo.com needs
> > > another patch ? please help ..
> >
> > Neither of yahoo.com's mail exchangers is answering right now. It's not
> your
> > problem. Don't worry about it.
>
> Any idea how long till they will be back up?  Is there someplace to find
> this information.  I have been struggling with mails queues clogged with
> messages for yahoo.com all day.  I am on the virge of rejecting new
messages
> to the yahoo domain.

In what way are you "struggling"? Sure there may be plenty of emails in your
queue,
but is it really hurting? Or do you just not like that idea of qmail-remote
failing
and seeing the corresponding log entry? Remote delivery is very cheap with
qmail so
you don't need to be too concerned unless the yahoo mail is consuming all of
your
concurrencyremote. If it's not, then you can sleep soundly as it's no big
deal.


Regards.






Ismal Hisham Mohd Darus
Asst. Manager, System Support
John Hancock Life Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad

Re: grrrr

[Magnus Bodin]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:37:58AM -0500, Casey Zacek wrote:
> 
> Ok, we have an issue with wSendmail 1.5 that we have to use for a
> client's software, and we need it to relay through our qmail box.  I
> think it's sending CRLF instead of LF at the ends of its lines thanks
> to sniffit, and qmail's response is:
> 
> 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
> 
> That file doesn't exist on djb's site, though, but from the URL I am
> assuming it means wSendmail is sending CRLF...

That file exists. It redirects FINE to 

http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html>

/magnus

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