Slow Mail Delivery
I recently was running low on disk space on the my var partition. To solve the problem, I moved all of the contents over to another partition on the same drive that had more space on it (usr). After moving everything over I made it so that var wouldn't mount on its on partition and then started up in single user mode and built a link to the subdirectory on the usr partition. /var --> /usr/rootvar. Why would this be slowing things down? I takes from 5 to 10 minutes to deliver a local email. It never used to.
mail between 2 host in one domain
hi. i have a domain called " paic.com". and i got 2 hosts: head.paic.com primary mail server of paic.com alpha.paic.com secondary mail server of paic.com i found that if i send mail from alpha.paic.com to head.paic.com, everything is ok. but if i send mail from head.paic.com to alpha.paic.com, error occur with a message below: + May 18 10:51:00 localhost qmail: 958618260.602667 starting delivery 24: msg 4820 1 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 18 10:51:00 localhost qmail: 958618260.602729 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 May 18 10:51:00 localhost qmail: 958618260.609898 delivery 24: failure: Sorry._A lthough_I'm_listed_as_a_best-preference_MX_or_A_for_that_host,/it_isn't_in_m y_co ntrol/locals_file,_so_I_don't_treat_it_as_local._(#5.4.6)/ can i send mail between 2 mail server with defference priority in the same domain? if i could. what should i do with the configuration? thanks. chan
Re: Purpose of this list
Brad Johnson wrote: > The other section that doesn't exist (or does it? It's not easy to find) is > "Qmail for users" which would talk about qmail just from the perspective of > the *nix user, with the userland commands, without mixing it all in with the > admin info. there's man dot-qmail -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] drawn to the speed and performance
Re: tcpserver problem
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:31:09AM +0200, Federico Barbazza wrote: > i am receiving lot of mail in my server. > Tcpserver write me on terminal: > "warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure" > What can i do to resolve this problem??? Use top and/or ps to see if you have too many processes running. Use free and/or top to see how much memory is free. Use system dependant tools to see how many file descriptors are free. This is a unix sysadmin job, possibly best done by someone who knows that kind of unix. Adjust your administrative limits. btw: if you run tcpserver out of a terminal then tcpserver inherited quite a lot of limits from that terminal. Start it from init or svscan. > Am i losting mail?? No, although incoming mail will be delayed until tcpserver can fork again. Regards, Uwe
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
> James (Wed 17.0500-13:46): > > My question about the startup script from vpopmail is.. where do I insert > that script in the qmail startup? Or do I just wipe out the current qmail > startup script and use only vpopmail's startup? please send us the scripts in question and the setup you got working. at the time beeing i can't tell you anything for final. and another thing: what do you mean by "roaming users"? are you running around with a phone strapped to your head or did it grow worse? > Thanks thanks -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] do D4685B884894C483
Mysterious `ezmlm-send:_fatal:_temporary_qmail-queue_error:_/'
Hello, after seeing the above msg in my log files when trying to post to a newly-created mailing list, I found that this exchange caused the error: lists@kcsu:~$ ezmlm-make /home/lists/kings-budget \ /home/lists/.qmail-kings-budget lists-kings-budget kcsu.org.uk lists@kcsu:~$ ezmlm-sub /home/lists/kings-budget/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists@kcsu:~$ ezmlm-send kings-budget/ http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ ) ( ICQ 19482073 if you're lucky )
RE: Purpose of this list
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Purpose of this list > > I think the reason repeated rtfm-style questions are so frustrating > (for me, anyway) is that qmail itself has some of the best "newbie" > documentation I think I've ever seen - it's all of the "do this, > then this, then this" variety - which was extremely friendly to me > the first time I installed qmail. Whether it was DJB, or whoever > wrote it went to great pains to aim it straight at the newbie. I > didn't even need Dave's excellent LWQ the first time I installed > it - and that reflects far more on the person that wrote the > INSTALL.* files than my mediocre prowess as an admin. > I'd just like to say that the qmail documentation is brilliant. Because of that, I myself have come upon the problem of knowing more about qmail than *nix administration; setting up qmail has been my first task as a freebsd admin. Thus the qmail docs break down where they assume knowledge of *nix stuff--which isn't really a fault of qmail. However, qmail does suffer from the same issue as BSD traditionally has, which is that everyone involved is too damned smart, so they write in terse, dense and frighteningly useful language and get annoyed when people have difficulty parsing the information. The qmail.org page is also a bit confusing. It would be nice if the main answers pages were organized together: Life With qmail, the qmail HOWTO, and the qmail man pages. They're all listed under User-Contributed Documentation, but they're mixed along with a whole bunch of other more specialized links. There's just a little bit TOO much info on the qmail.org page; it would be nice if it were separated out a bit. I only just looked at the "big picture" link, which is immensely useful. I didn't click on it, because I generally avoid links in the middle of a paragraph if I'm looking for particular information, especially a paragraph with a lot of links. If there were a quick meta-manual, which listed and described the most-important manual/documentation links, that would be extremely useful. If it exists, then it should be one of the #1 links on the qmail.org page. The other section that doesn't exist (or does it? It's not easy to find) is "Qmail for users" which would talk about qmail just from the perspective of the *nix user, with the userland commands, without mixing it all in with the admin info.
Re: Purpose of this list
Ralf Günthner wrote:
>
> My 2 cents:
>
> >> Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17.05.2000 16.25 Uhr >>>
>
> >not as "How would I know?". We deal with people whose experiences and
> >abilities are all over the spectrum, from complete newbie to kernel
> >hacker, and we don't know where you fall.
>
> Based on past experience: Most of the readers of this list seem to lean
> toward the developer's side and when someone who's "only" a qmail-admin
> as a side-effect of his main job, like myself, (we use qmail purely as a
> relay system in our DMZ, because it's secure) I often get short, cryptic
> answers from a programmer's perspective.
>
> The vast majority of my knowledge pertains to IT security, but I wouldn't
> expect anyone asking me for advice to be familiar with the ins-and-outs
> of the TCP/IP suite. I explain a new term before throwing it at the
> questioner. The same attitude would make this list friendlier at times
> ("put it in a .qmail file") Of course I don't encourage not reading any
> FAQs or man pages but shooting all questions to the list instead.
I think the reason repeated rtfm-style questions are so frustrating
(for me, anyway) is that qmail itself has some of the best "newbie"
documentation I think I've ever seen - it's all of the "do this,
then this, then this" variety - which was extremely friendly to me
the first time I installed qmail. Whether it was DJB, or whoever
wrote it went to great pains to aim it straight at the newbie. I
didn't even need Dave's excellent LWQ the first time I installed
it - and that reflects far more on the person that wrote the
INSTALL.* files than my mediocre prowess as an admin.
Eric
Re: .qmail-default and some scripting
No feedback on my question, but this does what I want. .qmail-einar-default: |if [ -d "$HOME/postmaster/Maildir/.$EXT/new" ]; then maildirdeliver $HOME/postmaster/Maildir/.$EXT/ ; else maildirdeliver $HOME/postmaster/Maildir ; fi You have to fetch maildirdeliver from http://www.din.or.jp/~ushijima/maildirdeliver-0.50.tar.gz This is a simple way to have the different mailinglists to deliver mail for you to individual maildirs for your user together with sqwebmail and/or imap where you can make extra maildirfolders in your main Maildir. -- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich Technical Manager Phone: +47 2336 1420 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Einar Bordewich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Qmail-mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:12 PM Subject: .qmail-default and some scripting > On my home server I run qmail 1.03 with courier-imap, sqwebmail, qmailadmin, > vpopmail and Scan4Virus. > I'm looking for some help regarding .qmail-default file. > Since I'm not into shell/perl/awk/sed scripting, I'm hoping for some help > regarding deliver mail to the correct folder depending on receipient > address. > > All mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to INBOX, that is postmaster/Maildir/. > Under postmaster/Maildir/, I have other "Maildir" catalogs, like > .einar-qmail, .einar-zebra, etc. They are all called einar-something. I > could ofcourse make .qmail-einar-qmail and deliver the mail to > postmaster/Maildir/.einar-qmail, something that works. But why bother by > making a .qmail file for every address i deliver out, when the > catalog/address structure is consistent. > > Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to > postmaster/Maildir/.einar-qmail/ if exists deliver there, if not, then > postmaster/Maildir/ > > Anyone that could help me with translating my wishes into shell script? > > Tnx. > -- > > IDG New Media Einar Bordewich > Technical Manager Phone: +47 2336 1420 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
How to run two copies of qmail?
Hello all, On Qmail homepages, i know someone can run two copies of qmail, which is especially useful to recompile qmail and change some configuration. Can anyone give me a hint on how to do this? As i am new to qmail,the steps given on qmail pages is too succinct for me. --- Best regards Songmailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newbie question on qmail and sendmail!
hello, Where can i find some details on the comparision between Qmail and Sendmail, such as the performance, security? Thanks. --- Best regards Songmailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tcpserver problem
hi all, i am receiving lot of mail in my server. Tcpserver write me on terminal: "warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary failure" What can i do to resolve this problem??? Am i losting mail?? Thanks Federico.
Re: MS SQL server with virtual domains?
To use Microsoft SQL with qmail, you'll need some sort of ODBC driver manager for Unix. The one we use is Openlink (www.openlinksw.com), which works fine for us. The main headache is getting ODBC up and running smoothly. Once that's done, you can access the database just like any other SQL database. I'm not familiar with any of the SQL code in vpopmail, but it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to ODBC, as the Openlink stuff comes with headers and libraries. Perl DBI is also an option, I believe the DBD/DBI driver for ODBC is based on Openlink. shag - Original Message - From: "Andy Grimberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed 17 May 2000 15:20 Subject: MS SQL server with virtual domains? > Does anyone know of a way to get an MS SQL server to work via ODBC with > any of the virtual domain systems out there for qmail? > > I know that vpopmail 3.4.12 is supposed to have support when it is > finished, but I currently can't find any mention of it in the current > beta. > > OTH any idea how hard it would be to convolute the current MySQL code > for it to work across an iODBC connection? > > Thanks, > -Andy- > > -- > Andrew J. Grimberg > Programmer > WebSuite.com > 206-988-2233 >
MS SQL server with virtual domains?
Does anyone know of a way to get an MS SQL server to work via ODBC with any of the virtual domain systems out there for qmail? I know that vpopmail 3.4.12 is supposed to have support when it is finished, but I currently can't find any mention of it in the current beta. OTH any idea how hard it would be to convolute the current MySQL code for it to work across an iODBC connection? Thanks, -Andy- -- Andrew J. Grimberg Programmer WebSuite.com 206-988-2233
Re: I want to leave this list
Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote: > I would like to know as well. > > Dirk > > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:54:34PM -0300, Frederiko dos Santos Costa wrote: > > How I do to leave this list ? > > $ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "" < /dev/null
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
I just caught a misprint. To create the symbolic link looks like this: ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tcpserver /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d/S55tcpserver > Then you have to create a symbolic link to the init script like so: > > That'll do it. Just as a note. I am just finishing a beta setup guide for > Linux users and administrators that wish to run qmail. If anyone is interested > I'd be glad to announce when it's finished. > > Brent > > > On Wed, 17 May 2000, James wrote: > > I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail > > (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) to work using roaming users. One of the > > suggestions in the FAQ (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) suggests this: > > ___ > > Your startup script for the qmail smtp server must use the > >tcpserver -x file command similar to this startup line. > > > > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > > tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \ > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null & > > ___ > > > > Ok, fine and dandy.. but I don't know where my startup line that contains > > the script that starts the smtp server is. Does anyone know where this > > would go on Mandrake 7.02? > > > > Thanks. > > > > James > -- > http://www.matzelle.net -- http://www.matzelle.net
Re: I want to leave this list
I would like to know as well. Dirk On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:54:34PM -0300, Frederiko dos Santos Costa wrote: > How I do to leave this list ? >
I want to leave this list
How I do to leave this list ?
potentially touchy topic of courier imap v imap clients (fwd)
I posted the message below to the imap list at U Washington, to see if I could get any comments. I didn't get much of a response, so I thought I would try here as well. Thank you for any comments you might have. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:12:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: potentially touchy topic of courier imap v imap clients I realize this is probably a topic which has been beaten to death, but my review of the list archives did not return a great deal, so I thought I would poke around and see what kind of responses I was able to get. Feel free to respond to me directly or to the list, I can summarize if necessary. My work environment is a smallish ISP with approximately 10,000 email accounts. Right now the vast majority of those users have their mail housed on pop servers running qmail and qmail-pop3d. We went with qmail because of several reasons: we had significant success with it on our relays we could use Maildir on the POP machine, which meant that management of mail messages, quota, user management, logging, and a whole slew of stuff was going to be very easy to customize, tweak, make just so and generally be good. it's all fast and small Soon we will be moving from our pop only or shell based mail only mail environment to something we are calling mailstore, which will be a place where users keep their mail that has multiple access modes (initially just POP, IMAP and IMAP with something like stunnel, but growing to Webmail and probably IMAP access from the shell machine). We would like to avoid having to migrate people's mail collections to a new format, to maintain the advantages that Maildir gives us and to continue using the considerable collection of custom code we have put together to manage the machines. Which says to me that we should use an IMAP server which supports Maildir. I'm not sure of all the options (input is most welcome) but those I've thought about so far have issues: - UW with Maildir support, I've been told, still suffers from the memory footprint problems that the c-client programs suffer - Courier-IMAP, I've beent old (again), suffers from signicant "doesn't play well with clients" issues and suffers from an author that doesn't want to play with others either. - Cyrus present a lot of advantages and we can make it interoperate with whatever mail server we choose, but we will need to migrate from the existing Maildir structure and tools which manage users will need to be changed. I want to use Courier-IMAP because I agree with the spirit of it's design--small, modular, extensible through pipelines--but because this is an ISP environment we have next to no control over client use and must, for the sake of customer satisfaction and technical support costs, minimize the trouble that an IMAP server will cause. Are the client interaction problems in Courier-IMAP that significant? If so, does anyone care to guess how hard it would be for a motivated person to code around them? Sam, if you are listening, what are your comments or suggestions? My feeling on this whole issue are nicely captured by Postel in RFC 760 section 3.2: The implementation of a protocol must be robust. Each implementation must expect to interoperate with others created by different individuals. While the goal of this specification is to be explicit about the protocol there is the possibility of differing interpretations. In general, an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. That is, it should be careful to send well-formed datagrams, but should accept any datagram that it can interpret (e.g., not object to technical errors where the meaning is still clear). Which, unfortunately, people get very uptight about. (I know I've been there).
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
clemensF wrote:
:> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
:> tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \
:> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null &
:incidently: if you set up the smtp daemon this way nobody will listen to
:it's status messages, because they get dumped in the bit/bucket. if you
:use multilog, "> /dev/null&" should be deleted for the logger to be able
:to catch it ("hark! is this the wind? or are daemons talking to me?").
Now you're speaking geek, err.. greek to me. That example is taken
directly from vpopmail's Faq (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) list,
number 4. on that page. It's the suggested script for using qmail with
roaming users.
Ok, I figured my startup script was in /etc/rc.d/intit.d/, and it's the
startup script
(http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#start-qmail) 2.8.2 suggested
by Life With Qmail.. and I saved it as "qmail" Qmail seems to be working
ok for now, but when I boot, I don't "see" it starting in the bootup
process (as I see other things starting, like httpd, etc.).
My question about the startup script from vpopmail is.. where do I insert
that script in the qmail startup? Or do I just wipe out the current qmail
startup script and use only vpopmail's startup?
Thanks
James
Re: vpopmail pop3 access
At 04:31 PM 5/17/00 -0400, Chester Chee wrote: >Here is my line for starting pop3d, (basically, I followed the instruction >from Live with Qmail): >tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mydomain.com >/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir2>&1 | >/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d & try this http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ your question has the answer there
Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:13:45PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > > > Does NetFiler let you run other programs on it? I would > put one instance of qmail on the netfiler, and insert little > tcp-server-protected relay pipes on the other machines to answer > port 25. Use maildir. No, the NetFiler runs a custom OS by Network Appliances, which does little much than serving files. And it's quite good at it too :) Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Re: virus scanner
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:14:05AM +0800, Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know which virus would work with Linux and qmail ?? scan4virus (http://www.geocities.com/jhaar/scan4virus ) provides a wrapper which supports a number of major virus scanners Also try checking the mailing list archives for the discussions started in ligtht of the recent outbreak... ;-) A number of scanners are mentioned in that discussion. > Thanks > Mark HTH, Steffan -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
Re: don't know if anyone noticed this, but...
I've flipped through the Sendmail for Linux book myself in the hopes of gaining some insight into sendmail's bizarre configuration. The book wasn't helpful in the slightest. Over 500 pages and I got nothing. If sendmail weren't on nearly every Linux distribution it would be as dead as the dodo. On Tue, 16 May 2000, Russell Nelson wrote: > Adam McKenna writes: > > I was browsing amazon today and noticed it: > > > > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D958501880/104-5030846-4577265 > > > > Who the hell is Rich Blum? I never hoid of him. > > On the other hand, you've heard of me, and I've only written a > fraction of a book. :( > > -- > -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | "Ask not what your country > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | can force other people to > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | do for you..." -Perry M. -- http://www.matzelle.net
Re: vpopmail pop3 access
Hi, I have setup qmail with vpopmail. Basically, all my user for specific virtual domain are created via vpopmail. Now, I want to setup pop3 access for those users created by vpopmail. I started qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d via tcpserver. But user somehow can't authenticate because user is not a _really_ Unix user on the mail server. Anyone know how to work around this? Here is my line for starting pop3d, (basically, I followed the instruction from Live with Qmail): tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mydomain.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d & I think I need to do something about /bin/checkpassword, but I am not sure what/how I am suppose to do. Any help will greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance. Chester
Re: ucspi-tcp package
At 12:19 PM 5/17/00 -0400, Philip Koppel wrote: >Hello, > > I am trying to install Dan Bernstein's ucspi-tcp package. > But the ftp sites i keep seeing on-line are not working. > ex. > ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz > > Could someone please inform me of where I can find a current version >please? ftp://id.wustl.edu
Re: virus scanner
Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to know which virus would work with Linux and qmail ?? If you mean "virus scanner", try Amavis. It's been mentioned in this mailing list fifty times in the last few months. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
Mandrake happens to be a very good Linux distribution based on RedHat, which
runs on the majority of Linux powered servers. The startup scripts are
all found in /etc/rc.d/init.d and this is uniform on most Linux distributions.
The only different one is Debian which the startup scripts are located in
/etc/init.d .
Brent
On Wed, 17 May 2000, clemensF wrote:
> > James (Wed 17.0500-04:31):
> > I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail
>
> isn't mandrake a kind of poisonious snake eating ape? i don't know where
> the ape wants his starter scripts, but on unix systems it should either go
> into /usr/local/bin/ to get called manually, or
> into /etc/rc.local to get called automatically on startup. linux hides his
> startup-scripts in peculiar places at times, but, fortunately, every linux
> distribution does it differently, so you would have to search the manuals
> (yes i know this is not what you want) on the subject of initialisation.
>
> > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> > tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null &
>
> incidently: if you set up the smtp daemon this way nobody will listen to
> it's status messages, because they get dumped in the bit/bucket. if you
> use multilog, "> /dev/null&" should be deleted for the logger to be able to
> catch it ("hark! is this the wind? or are daemons talking to me?").
>
> but this is another story. feel free to feedback.
>
>
> --
> clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> do D4685B884894C483
> gpg recv-key 0x9
> echo `gpg list-key 0x9 | cat -tv` | \
> gpg encrypt `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address` | \
> mail -s your-key `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address`
> wait
--
http://www.matzelle.net
Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
Does NetFiler let you run other programs on it? I would put one instance of qmail on the netfiler, and insert little tcp-server-protected relay pipes on the other machines to answer port 25. Use maildir. "Matthew S. Crocker" wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster. > > The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance > NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux > Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP > using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail > queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] drawn to the speed and performance
virus scanner
Hi, I would like to know which virus would work with Linux and qmail ?? Thanks Mark
.qmail-default and some scripting
On my home server I run qmail 1.03 with courier-imap, sqwebmail, qmailadmin, vpopmail and Scan4Virus. I'm looking for some help regarding .qmail-default file. Since I'm not into shell/perl/awk/sed scripting, I'm hoping for some help regarding deliver mail to the correct folder depending on receipient address. All mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to INBOX, that is postmaster/Maildir/. Under postmaster/Maildir/, I have other "Maildir" catalogs, like .einar-qmail, .einar-zebra, etc. They are all called einar-something. I could ofcourse make .qmail-einar-qmail and deliver the mail to postmaster/Maildir/.einar-qmail, something that works. But why bother by making a .qmail file for every address i deliver out, when the catalog/address structure is consistent. Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to postmaster/Maildir/.einar-qmail/ if exists deliver there, if not, then postmaster/Maildir/ Anyone that could help me with translating my wishes into shell script? Tnx. -- IDG New Media Einar Bordewich Technical Manager Phone: +47 2336 1420 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
The startup scripts for Mandrake (and RedHat, SuSE for that matter) are all in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ . You have to place the tcpserver init script in that
directory.
My own script (tcpserver) looks like this:
---
#!/bin/sh
# tcpserver startup script
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting tcpserver: qmail-smtpd: "
exec tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 502 -g 501 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
echo "done"
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down tcpserver: "
killall tcpserver
echo "done"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: tcpserver {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
-
Then you have to create a symbolic link to the init script like so:
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d/ ../init.d/tcpserver S55tcpserver
That'll do it. Just as a note. I am just finishing a beta setup guide for
Linux users and administrators that wish to run qmail. If anyone is interested
I'd be glad to announce when it's finished.
Brent
On Wed, 17 May 2000, James wrote:
> I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail
> (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) to work using roaming users. One of the
> suggestions in the FAQ (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) suggests this:
> ___
> Your startup script for the qmail smtp server must use the
>tcpserver -x file command similar to this startup line.
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null &
> ___
>
> Ok, fine and dandy.. but I don't know where my startup line that contains
> the script that starts the smtp server is. Does anyone know where this
> would go on Mandrake 7.02?
>
> Thanks.
>
> James
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http://www.matzelle.net
Bruce's latest qmail rpm and subdomain
I am running Bruce's latest RPM, and I love it...easy setup...works great. I am also using his virtual domain package vmailmgr. I don't know how many of you are familiar with his vmailmgr package, but it works great. I put out this question on the vmailmgr mailing list, and he said the problem i am having is not vmailmgr related, it is qmail related. So here goes: I have a virtual domain for example domain.com. I have a subdomain called test.domain.com I have a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i have a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] my /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file reads: domain.com:domain.com test.domain.com:test.domain.com If I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message is being delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail should parse this by looking for test.domain.com then .domain.com then .com Anyone know what might cause the MUA to send the mail to the wrong place? ## here is my log file entry...the real domain is yourprospects.com: ## May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.263598 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.268567 delivery 13: success: did_0+0+0/ May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.310099 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.334021 delivery 14: success: did_1+0+0/ May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.440181 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:42:20 dns1 qmail: 958592540.440263 end msg 41396 May 17 14:53:47 dns1 qmail: 958593227.888630 new msg 41396 May 17 14:53:47 dns1 qmail: 958593227.888764 info msg 41396: bytes 907 from qp 6852 uid 112 May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.097990 starting delivery 15: msg 41396 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.098097 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.098155 starting delivery 16: msg 41396 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.098203 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.102911 delivery 15: success: did_0+0+0/ May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.144389 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.144493 delivery 16: success: did_0+0+1/ May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.232967 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 May 17 14:53:48 dns1 qmail: 958593228.233045 end msg 41396
NT Authentication (if u're interested)
here (attached) is a checkpassword proggy for NT authentication of
non-local pop users. I got it working very well to host mail for a
few windows users. and maybe soon to transfer mail hosting completely
accross to a linux machine :-).
if there is a better way than this, please tell me. maybe an executable
that does nt auth + etcpasswd auth + non-standard pop passwd file ?
you'll need this perl module if you intereseted.
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMKANE/Authen-Smb-0.91.tar.gz
then change the four variables at the top of the script to point to your
PDC, BDC, DOMAIN, and popbox dir.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Authen::Smb;
$PDC = "server1";
$BDC = "hewitt";
$DOMAIN = "rmnetnt";
$HOME = "/var/qmail/popboxes/methody-org";
# thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sub read_uinfo() {
my($user,$passwd,$apop_ts);
open FD,"<&=3" or exit 1;
$_ = ;
# ugly; should use sysread instead
($user, $passwd, $apop_ts) = /^(.*)\0(.*)\0(.*)\0/;
while () {};
close FD;
return ($user,$passwd,$apop_ts);
}
sub Validate_User($$) {
my $user = $_[0], $passwd = $_[1];
return 0 if (! $passwd || ! $user);
my $authResult = Authen::Smb::authen($user, $passwd, $PDC, $BDC, $DOMAIN);
return ($authResult == Authen::Smb::NO_ERROR);
}
# Main
{
my $home;
my ($user, $passwd, $apop_ts) = read_uinfo();
if (Validate_User($user, $passwd)) {
$home = "$HOME/$user";
@ENV{"SHELL","USER","HOME"} = ("/bin/sh", $user, $home);
chdir $home or exit 1;
exec @ARGV;
die "can't exec $user_program: $!\n";
}
}
RE: Qmail on a linux cluster
> "Tim" == Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Another piece of noteworthy information is to run NTP to keep the clocks > on both servers synchronized if using sqwebmail, they really need to be > within seconds of each other. Suggestion: Use DJB's clockspeed programs to keep the time sync'd. http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html Go wild, John
Re: tcpserver unable to fork?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:57:50PM +0200, Peter van Dijk spoke thusly: > No. EAGAIN means for some _temporary_ reason it cannot fork. Maybe you have > reached your max processes limit, globally or per user. I su'd to qmaild and ran ulimit, it says unlimited. Globally the machine only has 80 processes, any other ideas? Timbo.
Re: Remote users can't send
I have the same situation here. There are a couple of options. Look for pop before smtp or the smtp auth patch. I have looked at both of them and they will take care of any of your needs. Also until I can get one of them implemented, I have my mobile users set to user there ISP's smtp server, but configure their mail client (OE) to set the reply to address to there local email account here at work. This way when a message is sent to somebody here on the job, the reply's will be sent to the mobile users work account and not the ISP's account. Steve P. - Original Message - From: Roy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:14 AM Subject: Remote users can't send I'va a couple of users who are on the road, they are logging into local isp's and than connecting to our qmail. I've setup relayclients in tcp.smtp file and compiled that but, while thay can get their email they cannot sent mail, any suggestions where i might look... Roy KerwoodNetwork AdministratorCityXpress.com604-638-3800 ext 311604-831-2122
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:18:51PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > >Pardon my ignorance, but why would one want more than one '@' in an > >address, > > Sendmail used it to implement routing. E.g., user@host1@host2 meant > send the message to host2, who will deliver it to user@host1. > > >and why would the ignorant masses fear such a server? > > It's a way to do relaying. > > -Dave Gotcha. Thanks! Ben -- Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless. - Monty Python
Re: tcpserver unable to fork?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:47:42PM +0100, Tim Gollschewsky wrote: > Detectives, > > smtpd (running from tcpserver) on my mailserver is logging this A LOT: > > 958588648.209920 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: tempor > ary failure > > I ran strace on the tcpserver and it's getting: > > fork() = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > > Now, EAGAIN means there wasn't enough memory to fork BUT, there is No. EAGAIN means for some _temporary_ reason it cannot fork. Maybe you have reached your max processes limit, globally or per user. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
tcpserver unable to fork?
Detectives, smtpd (running from tcpserver) on my mailserver is logging this A LOT: 958588648.209920 tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: tempor ary failure I ran strace on the tcpserver and it's getting: fork() = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) Now, EAGAIN means there wasn't enough memory to fork BUT, there is haps of free swap on that box. To test, I wrote a little C program that mallocs 20 Mb of memory and then does a fork(), works fine. Anybody got any ideas? Timbo.
Re: smtp-auth and amavis...
No, after reinstalling the qmail binaries(removing the patch), I had to reinstall AMaVis to get the server to function again. I have not tried patching it, and then installing AMaVis. I'm going to go under the ASSumption that if I do it in that order, it might work. The only thing, is I am trying to scrounge up a test server to try this on. Steve P. - Original Message - From: "Rainer Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Peace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: Re: smtp-auth and amavis... > Hi! > > > I am running amavis-0.2.0-pre6-clm-rl-8. The smtpd-auth patch seems to be > Ok :-) > > > know more about it than me. AMaViS is running great and seems to work, as > > long as I dont patch qmail-smtpd. As soon as I run the patch I stop sending > > and receiving mail. Fortunately though it does not seem to give the users > > any errors when they try to send or receive mail, or I would have been > > flooded with phone calls. Also the weird part about it was that as soon as > > I re-installed the qmail binaries it still did not work. I had to reinstall > > AMaViS as well. I guess I just reinforced a lesson that I have already > > learned multiple times the hard way. "Don't try new things on production > > servers!!!". > > Hmm, strange. So, you've patched it and did a re-install of AMaviS. > After the re-install, does AMaViS work now or is it still "broken" ?! > > > If you want to get a copy of the smtpd-auth patch to look at, > > http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ > Well, I get: > DNS Domain 'members.elysium.pl' is invalid: Host not found > (authoritative). > :-( > > > best regards, > Rainer Link > -- > Rainer Link | Student of Computer Networking > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany > rainer.w3.to | http://www.computer-networking.de/ > >
mailquotacheck error
Hello everyone anyone knows this mailquotacheck error: /usr/bin/mailquotacheck: fork: Rasource temporarily unavailable QUOTACHECK ERROR: the mail quotacheck program cannot determine the size of this message. Please inform postmaster of the site you are tryiong to mail to. -- - Luís Bezerra de A. Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] SecrelNet Informática LTDA Fortaleza - Ceará - Brasil Fone: 021852882090 -
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:55:32AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: > >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than > >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus > >network administration...) > > It'd probably be easier to figure out which host they do their lame > mail testing from, and tell tcpserver to reject connections from it. Yeah, but that would still make them "lock out" my machine. Ok, any constructive tips besides the mud-throwing? -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Re: ucspi-tcp package
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:19:42PM -0400, Philip Koppel wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Dan Bernstein's ucspi-tcp package. > But the ftp sites i keep seeing on-line are not working. > ex. > ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz > > Could someone please inform me of where I can find a current version > please? http://cr.yp.to/ should be a very good starting point. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
ucspi-tcp package
Hello, I am trying to install Dan Bernstein's ucspi-tcp package. But the ftp sites i keep seeing on-line are not working. ex. ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/software/ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz Could someone please inform me of where I can find a current version please? thanks, philip
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:08:35AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > > > Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than > > >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus > > >network administration...) > > > > Just in case you weren't aware of this: your campus network > > administration is stupid. > > Pardon my ignorance, but why would one want more than one '@' in an > address, and why would the ignorant masses fear such a server? There is no real reason that one would want more than one '@' in an address. The ignorant masses fear such a server since using more than one '@' (or a '%') is a common trick to get a server to relay for you. qmail, ofcourse, is not vulnerable to this problem. There is no real reason that one would want to disallow more than one '@' in an address. It is valid, so why disallow it. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
Ben Beuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > >> Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than >> >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus >> >network administration...) >> >> Just in case you weren't aware of this: your campus network >> administration is stupid. > >Pardon my ignorance, but why would one want more than one '@' in an >address, Sendmail used it to implement routing. E.g., user@host1@host2 meant send the message to host2, who will deliver it to user@host1. >and why would the ignorant masses fear such a server? It's a way to do relaying. -Dave
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote: > Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than > >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus > >network administration...) > > Just in case you weren't aware of this: your campus network > administration is stupid. Pardon my ignorance, but why would one want more than one '@' in an address, and why would the ignorant masses fear such a server? Ben -- Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless. - Monty Python
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
Johan Almqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus >network administration...) Just in case you weren't aware of this: your campus network administration is stupid. -Dave
Re: Accessing Qmail using Netscapes mail client
If you're using vpopmail or some other pop3d where you have to specify the whole email address as the username, you'll find that netscape doesn't seem to send the username properly if it contains the '@' character. Changing the '@' to '%' will fix the problem. eg: user%yourdomain.com jason Dave Sill wrote: > > "dean klimt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a problem using Netscape's mail client. I am > > getting an error msg stating that an there is a problem with the > > pop3 mail server. I believe that my set up is correct. > > What happens when you telnet to port 110 and manually log in? E.g.: > > $ telnet 0 110 > Trying 0.0.0.0... > Connected to 0. > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > user dave > +OK > pass password > +OK > quit > +OK > > -Dave
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
>(The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than >one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus >network administration...) It'd probably be easier to figure out which host they do their lame mail testing from, and tell tcpserver to reject connections from it. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
ezmlm-glmake
Hi, I'm trying to follow the instructions in the FAQ's for ezmlm/ezmlm.idx to setup ezmlm to respond to host-centric commands. Unfortunately it requires me to have the command ezmlm-glmake which doesn't seem to be included in my install (I have the latest version of qmail/ezmlm & ezmlm.idx). Can I simply copy the command over or is it version specific? Any suggestions ?
Re: How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:53:42PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: [snip] > > (The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than > one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus > network administration...) Bring out the spiky LART/cluestick then. Really, get them fired. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
How to apply a patch and conserve Bruce G's structure?
Hi I'm running qmail installed from Bruce Gunthers rpm and I'm very happy with that. However, I will have to install a patch that disallows the use of more than one @ sign (or % sign) directly in the smtpd RCPT TO: phase. How can I achieve that without breaking everything else? (The reason for this is that all machines that accept mail with more than one @ or % get their port 25 locked from the outside world by campus network administration...) -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
address reformatting
I'm having a problem that I can't seem to figure out. I was hoping that someone out there that knows more about shell programming could help me. I have two mailservers that handle e-mail for the same domain. One is qmail and the other is lotus domino. The defautl mail server is the qmail server. I want to configure qmail (using .qmail-default) to forward any unknown mail to the domino server. BUT, I also use vpopmail. So using: |forward "$[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doesn;t work, because my $LOCAL is "server.com-user". How can I strip off the domain name from the $LOCAL variable? I would imagine that there HAS to be a way. I'd appreciate any help. Greg --- Greg Kopp Web & New Media Developer IdeaStar, Inc. v.(216) 587-9300 f.(216) 587-9301 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you do it?
Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave is impressive, indeed. Thanks. :-) Note that I'm going to to be taking about a month off starting next Monday to take the family out to the Grand Canyon. I won't be helping out here till I get back. > But Dan's got to get the prize. Absolutely. No contest. Dan's the man. -Dave
Re: Re: Purpose of this list
My 2 cents:
>> Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17.05.2000 16.25 Uhr >>>
>not as "How would I know?". We deal with people whose experiences and
>abilities are all over the spectrum, from complete newbie to kernel
>hacker, and we don't know where you fall.
Based on past experience: Most of the readers of this list seem to lean toward the
developer's side and when someone who's "only" a qmail-admin as a side-effect of his
main job, like myself, (we use qmail purely as a relay system in our DMZ, because it's
secure) I often get short, cryptic answers from a programmer's perspective.
The vast majority of my knowledge pertains to IT security, but I wouldn't expect
anyone asking me for advice to be familiar with the ins-and-outs of the TCP/IP suite.
I explain a new term before throwing it at the questioner. The same attitude would
make this list friendlier at times ("put it in a .qmail file") Of course I don't
encourage not reading any FAQs or man pages but shooting all questions to the list
instead.
Your own project, "Live with qmail" has done lots to improve the situation for
newbies, though.
Cheers
Ralf
Re: REAL method for bringing up qmail...
"Marcelo J. Iturbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I Installed tcpserver and "service" and they seem to be crashing. What do you mean by "service"? Daemontools? What do you mean by "crashing"? >I placed the following in my rc.local file and it is creating havoc. Try "rm havoc". >/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 100 -v -u 502 -g 501 0 >smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 & > >/bin/csh -cf '/usr/local/bin/svscan /service &' > >/usr/local/bin/supervise /service/qmail The first command runs tcpserver serving qmail-smtpd on port 25. The second command runs svscan to start all services in /service via supervise. The third command run the qmail service via supervise. Depending upon the contents of /service, the first command may or may not interfere with the second command. The third command *does* interfere with second command. >In my last boot up I just executed the first line ignoring the service >lines and it seems to be working fine.. but is it? You tell us: is qmail running? Is mail going through? I doubt it. Why don't you just follow the directions in "Life with qmail"? See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html -Dave
qmail slowing down after a while (was: NFS slowness with MAILDIR)
Hi, any results on the below questions from the qmail list? I feel like I'm experiencing the very same behaviour in my test environment. But IMHO not necessarilly related to NFS or Solaris (same with linux). Both POP3 and SMTP seem to be affected. TIA /ekki --- From: Curtis Generous Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:12:46 -0500 (EST) --- We have several sparcs (solaris 2.6) sharing user's maildirs via NFS on a Netapp 760 filer. We have noticed that when we first boot the machines, we get great performance. After the first 24 hours though, the same # of users cause the load on these machines to slow down substantially. By the 2nd day, these machines feel like molasses, and the only way to fix this is a reboot. The bottleneck appears to be NFS related. We run NFS vers 2/UDP between the SPARCS and the NetApp. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before while running qmail? [It doesn't seem to be related to qmail at all as far as we can tell] Thanks, --curtis
Re: Address marker
Yup, that's what I am looking for. Thanks... You are the man - Original Message - From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:51 AM Subject: re: Address marker > "Chester Chee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Does anyone know how to change the address mark in qmail? Sendmail > >uses "+" for the address marker, I have a filtering software depends > >on that, I wonder if there is a way I can change the address marker > >for Qmail to "+". Actually, I don't even know if Qmail support > >address marker... > > I don't know what an "address marker" is, but the only thing I can > think of is the "+" sendmail uses to separate usernames from extension > addresses. E.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to "user" with a "foo" > parameter passed to the delivery agent. > > If that's what you're talking about, qmail uses "-" by default, but > it's compile-time configurable by editing the "conf-break" file. And, > as the note in conf-break says, you can override this choice at run > time with the qmail-users mechanism. > > -Dave >
Re: Remote users can't send
Are you sure they are collecting their mail first and *THEN* sending? Some clients try to send mail before recieving. Regards Jerry. At 07:14 AM 5/17/00 -0700, Roy wrote: >I'va a couple of users who are on the road, they are logging into local >isp's and than connecting to our qmail. I've setup relayclients in >tcp.smtp file and compiled that but, while thay can get their email they >cannot sent mail, any suggestions where i might look... > > >Roy Kerwood >Network Administrator >CityXpress.com >604-638-3800 ext 311 >604-831-2122
Re: Still Having 822field Troubles
Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Specific contents of my .qmail-testing file now: > >|/usr/local/bin/822field Subject | grep -i "Delete" >/dev/null && echo >"Delete" && exit 99 >&kai > >(The first line is all one line in the actual file. The second line is &kai >rather than ./Maildir/ because this is in /var/qmail/alias.) > >Any other ideas? I have a list that validates the sender using the following: |if echo "`/usr/local/bin/822field From`" |grep -q "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; then exit 0; else |echo "you're not authorized to send to this address"; exit 100; fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. -Dave
Re: Purpose of this list
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've received a couple of messages both on this list, and personal email >that consistently suggest that I read the manual before posting here. People usually do that when one asks a question that is clearly answered by the documentation. >Of course I realize that reading the manual, going through the steps of >Life With Qmail or viewing the FAQs is the best first step.. but once one >takes every step mentioned, and things STILL don't work, it's very hard to >maintain calm as people *keep* suggesting that it's a good idea to read >the manual. Are you reading these documents carefully and understanding them, or are you just skimming or not "getting it"? >... For >one example.. I have no idea as to why, when I sent a test message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] during one hour it was rejected multiple times, then >trying again 4 hours later it goes through just fine.. when I changed >*nothing* at all on my server. If you truly did change nothing--and I don't doubt you--then either someone or something else did, or something not on your server changed (such as DNS). qmail is not the slightest bit buggy, and unpredictable behavior is not characteristic. >And one other soapbox spew.. When I receive a question such as "Are you >sure you are talking to [your ip address here]?" and I answer "How would I >know?".. this doesn't mean I haven't tested ping, or whois, or >whereis etc.. because I have, it means that if there is some *other* way >of knowing, please tell me now. If you mean "If there is some *other* way of knowing, please tell me now", you'll be doing everyone a favor if you write it that way, and not as "How would I know?". We deal with people whose experiences and abilities are all over the spectrum, from complete newbie to kernel hacker, and we don't know where you fall. -Dave
RE: Remote users can't send
watch your smtp connections and notice the IP they are connection from, make sure that is in the tcp.smtp and compiled into the cdb. I would worry about security in this situation however, it would be best to tell them to use their local ISP's smtp server. -- Tim -Original Message- From: Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remote users can't send I'va a couple of users who are on the road, they are logging into local isp's and than connecting to our qmail. I've setup relayclients in tcp.smtp file and compiled that but, while thay can get their email they cannot sent mail, any suggestions where i might look... Roy Kerwood Network Administrator CityXpress.com 604-638-3800 ext 311 604-831-2122
Remote users can't send
I'va a couple of users who are on the road, they are logging into local isp's and than connecting to our qmail. I've setup relayclients in tcp.smtp file and compiled that but, while thay can get their email they cannot sent mail, any suggestions where i might look... Roy KerwoodNetwork AdministratorCityXpress.com604-638-3800 ext 311604-831-2122
Re: Is there a way to relay mail based on username/password ?
Dinesh Punjabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to authenticate users, based on >some password (possibly the same one as their >email account!) which will determine their ability >to relay email (smtp). Yes, there are patches available (see www.qmail.org) that implement the SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS extensions, which both allow authenticated relaying. -Dave
Re: One SMTP connection Multiple recipient?
Jianping Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am i missing something here? Just the fact that qmail doesn't send message with multiple RCPT's. >How can i do the same thing with qmail? You can't. See: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#multi-rcpt -Dave
Re: One SMTP connection Multiple recipient?
Hi, Check the qmail archives for the "Multi-RCPT vs. Single RCPT delivery" thread on the mailing list archive. This thread discussed exactly what you'r asking about HTH, Steffan On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:54:48PM +0800, Jianping Song wrote: > Hello, > > If several recipients of the same mail are on the same server, such as > hotmail, the mail can be sent to those recipients within one smtp > connection with multiple RCPT TO: instruction. I know sendmail can do > it. > > When I want to do the same thing with qmail-inject: > qmail-inject -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < testmail > I find that qmail does not act as i think. In this situation, > qmail will queue the mail, but will connect to hotmail.com twice, > each for seperate users. > > Am i missing something here? How can i do the same thing with qmail? > > Thanks. > --- > Best regards > Songmailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
Re: Accessing Qmail using Netscapes mail client
"dean klimt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem using Netscape's mail client. I am > getting an error msg stating that an there is a problem with the > pop3 mail server. I believe that my set up is correct. What happens when you telnet to port 110 and manually log in? E.g.: $ telnet 0 110 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> user dave +OK pass password +OK quit +OK -Dave
Re: Anonymizing Email
Alec Grynspan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] sends mail via a local dial-up in Georgia. > >I need to recognize secret.com, grab the message and change the header >to look as if it came from my machine. > >The From: contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Received: from ipdiddle.com has to be changed to Received from: >mail.secret.com., etcetera. The easiest thing to do would be to set up a alias for joe to send to that does the relaying. E.g., joe sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and ~alias/.qmail-anonymize contains something like: |/path/to/anonymizer Where "anonymizer" is a script that reads the message on standard input, verifies that it's from joe, munges it, and sends it out using qmail-inject. If you really need to scan all relayed messages for messages from joe, you'll need something like my dual-qmail processing set-up: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/2142/fid/206/lang/en -Dave
One SMTP connection Multiple recipient?
Hello, If several recipients of the same mail are on the same server, such as hotmail, the mail can be sent to those recipients within one smtp connection with multiple RCPT TO: instruction. I know sendmail can do it. When I want to do the same thing with qmail-inject: qmail-inject -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < testmail I find that qmail does not act as i think. In this situation, qmail will queue the mail, but will connect to hotmail.com twice, each for seperate users. Am i missing something here? How can i do the same thing with qmail? Thanks. --- Best regards Songmailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: Address marker
"Chester Chee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know how to change the address mark in qmail? Sendmail >uses "+" for the address marker, I have a filtering software depends >on that, I wonder if there is a way I can change the address marker >for Qmail to "+". Actually, I don't even know if Qmail support >address marker... I don't know what an "address marker" is, but the only thing I can think of is the "+" sendmail uses to separate usernames from extension addresses. E.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to "user" with a "foo" parameter passed to the delivery agent. If that's what you're talking about, qmail uses "-" by default, but it's compile-time configurable by editing the "conf-break" file. And, as the note in conf-break says, you can override this choice at run time with the qmail-users mechanism. -Dave
RE: Qmail on a linux cluster
Another piece of noteworthy information is to run NTP to keep the clocks on both servers synchronized if using sqwebmail, they really need to be within seconds of each other. -Original Message- From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qmail on a linux cluster On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:32:44AM -0400, Matthew S. Crocker wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster. > > The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance > NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux > Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP > using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail > queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. Has anyone done this? Are I'm doing a similar thing right now. > there any pitfalls I should be aware of? Can I use the same NFS mounted > mailqueue on all machines? Will there be a problem with two qmail mailqueues cannot live on NFS, they _must_ be local. > processes writing mail to the same user mbox over NFS? What if a user is Yes, mbox and NFS don't mix. Use Maildir. > picking up mail via POP from one machine while another machine is writing > mail for that user? The user password/alias file will be handled from a > MySQL database now, I'll be moving it to Oracle later this year. Yes, delivery and pop at the same time may cause problems with mbox. Use Maildir, again :) Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
RE: Qmail on a linux cluster
We have two app machines running SMTP and POP each that access an NFS backend. 1. Be sure that the time is sync'd on all machines. Otherwise the qmail-queue does strange things. 2. We have seen some kind of weird problem in that Redhat 6.1 crashes after about 45 days of operation. I think that one of the processes has some kind of memory leak. 3. We have a mail specific proxy on the front end from bluetail.com that presents the entire cluster as one server to the customer. This means that we can up/down the app servers at any time with no effect on the customer. It also makes things like adding an SMTP vscanner trivial. I can also fully support POP-authenticated-SMTP without patching qmail. It also has easy support for creating separate mail queues for heavy traffic domains or troublesome domains such as AOL, hotmail, etc. It is a very effective product. Duane. -Original Message- From: Matthew S. Crocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qmail on a linux cluster Hello, I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster. The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. Has anyone done this? Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of? Can I use the same NFS mounted mailqueue on all machines? Will there be a problem with two qmail processes writing mail to the same user mbox over NFS? What if a user is picking up mail via POP from one machine while another machine is writing mail for that user? The user password/alias file will be handled from a MySQL database now, I'll be moving it to Oracle later this year. -Matt -- -- Matthew S. Crocker Vice President / Internet Division Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crocker Communications Phone: (413) 587-3350 PO BOX 710 Fax: (413) 587-3352 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com --
Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:32:44AM -0400, Matthew S. Crocker wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster. > > The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance > NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux > Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP > using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail > queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. Has anyone done this? Are I'm doing a similar thing right now. > there any pitfalls I should be aware of? Can I use the same NFS mounted > mailqueue on all machines? Will there be a problem with two qmail mailqueues cannot live on NFS, they _must_ be local. > processes writing mail to the same user mbox over NFS? What if a user is Yes, mbox and NFS don't mix. Use Maildir. > picking up mail via POP from one machine while another machine is writing > mail for that user? The user password/alias file will be handled from a > MySQL database now, I'll be moving it to Oracle later this year. Yes, delivery and pop at the same time may cause problems with mbox. Use Maildir, again :) Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Qmail on a linux cluster
Hello, I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster. The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. Has anyone done this? Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of? Can I use the same NFS mounted mailqueue on all machines? Will there be a problem with two qmail processes writing mail to the same user mbox over NFS? What if a user is picking up mail via POP from one machine while another machine is writing mail for that user? The user password/alias file will be handled from a MySQL database now, I'll be moving it to Oracle later this year. -Matt -- -- Matthew S. Crocker Vice President / Internet Division Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crocker Communications Phone: (413) 587-3350 PO BOX 710 Fax: (413) 587-3352 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com --
qpop3d and /var/spool/mail in Maildir format
Hello, I have sendmail and procmail configured to deliver to /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME in Maildir format. /var/spool/mail is an NFS mounted partition. I am trying to find a pop3 server to retrieve mail from above. qpop3d seems to be the one but it defaults to $HOME/Maildir, which doesn't exist. I've looked at the source, and it's a bit misleading in that that same error message will appear even when the options in inetd.conf are changed :). How can I configure qpop3d to work in this way. I've looked thru the archives and FAQ's and Qmail's site and have yet to find it. TIA -- -- -- -- -- Eric J. Honzay Network Connectivity Specialist Bennett Office Technologies 312 24th Ave. SW PO Box 978 Willmar, MN 56201 ICQ# 28991650 Phone: (320) 235-6425 Fax: (320) 231-1888 http://www.willmar.com
Re: smtp-auth and amavis...
I am running amavis-0.2.0-pre6-clm-rl-8. The smtpd-auth patch seems to be patching qmail-smtpd. I have looke at the code for the patch, but my programming skills are so rusty, that I bet there are kindergadners that know more about it than me. AMaViS is running great and seems to work, as long as I dont patch qmail-smtpd. As soon as I run the patch I stop sending and receiving mail. Fortunately though it does not seem to give the users any errors when they try to send or receive mail, or I would have been flooded with phone calls. Also the weird part about it was that as soon as I re-installed the qmail binaries it still did not work. I had to reinstall AMaViS as well. I guess I just reinforced a lesson that I have already learned multiple times the hard way. "Don't try new things on production servers!!!". If you want to get a copy of the smtpd-auth patch to look at, you can get it at http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ Thanks, Steve P. - Original Message - From: "Rainer Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Peace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:38 AM Subject: Re: smtp-auth and amavis... > > Steve Peace wrote: > > Hi! > > > Has anyone tried installing the smtp-auth qmail patch after installing > > the amavis ant-virus wrapper? I tried and was no longer able to send > > Sorry, no. > > > or receive mail. I had to re-install the qmail binaries and then > > re-install amavis. Any help or knowledge would be appreciated. > > Please provide us some more information. Which AMaViS version (exactly) > do you use? To which (qmail) files does the smtp-auth patch apply? For > AMaViS 0.2.0-pre6-clm-rl-x, you have to rename qmail-local to > qmail-local-real and qmail-remote-real (qmail-local and qmail-real are > symnlinks to our script). Maybe that's the problem, but that's just a > guess ... > > best regards, > Rainer Link > > -- > Rainer Link | Member of Virus Help Munich (www.vhm.haitec.de) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Member of AMaViS Development Team (amavis.org) > rainer.w3.to | Maintainer FAQ "antivirus for Linux" (av-linux.w3.to) > >
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail >(http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) to work using roaming users. One of the >suggestions in the FAQ (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) suggests this: >___ >Your startup script for the qmail smtp server must use the > tcpserver -x file command similar to this startup line. > >env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ >tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \ >/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null & >___ > >Ok, fine and dandy.. but I don't know where my startup line that contains >the script that starts the smtp server is. Does anyone know where this >would go on Mandrake 7.02? If you installed qmail on the system, you should know where qmail-smtpd is started. If you used "Life with qmail", it's in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run. -Dave
Re: Delays receiving mail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mail is being delivered (eventually) but there are 3.5 - 4 hour delays >any suggestions?? What Do The Logs Say?® -Dave
Re: Delays receiving mail
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:00:52AM +1000, Andrew Gray wrote: > Hi People, > Having some huge problems with qmail delaying sending > > [root@ren RPMS6.2]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat > messages in queue: 2313 > messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 > > Mail is being delivered (eventually) but there are 3.5 - 4 hour delays > any suggestions?? Does /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger look like this? bash# ls -al /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 May 17 14:41 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger > to force a de-queue. Load average went through the roof! (>10) > I had to kill the syslog and remove mail logging to get it back > to reasonable levels. ( and it has not reduced the queue length) You should consider multilog (from djb's daemontools) instead of syslog. Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Re: Forwarding mail
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:27:04PM +0200, Información wrote: > Hi, somebody knows the way for: > > - Forward all the email for the X mailbox (virtual, with vpopmail) to an > another Y mailbox (not necessarily a local mailbox in this server), without > delete the message in the mailbox X. Make a file .qmail-X in the domains dir, containing &Y > - Forward all the email for the X mailbox (virtual, with vpopmail) to an > another Y mailbox (not necessarily a local mailbox in this server), and > delete this message from the mailbox X. Make a .qmail-X file in the domains dir, containing the two lines &Y ./X/Maildir/ -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
Forwarding mail
Hi, somebody knows the way for: - Forward all the email for the X mailbox (virtual, with vpopmail) to an another Y mailbox (not necessarily a local mailbox in this server), without delete the message in the mailbox X. - Forward all the email for the X mailbox (virtual, with vpopmail) to an another Y mailbox (not necessarily a local mailbox in this server), and delete this message from the mailbox X. Thank you
Re: Supervise Qmail
Carlo Manuali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can i do qmail supervise? http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation -Dave
Re: Where is the script that starts smtp server?
> James (Wed 17.0500-04:31):
> I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail
isn't mandrake a kind of poisonious snake eating ape? i don't know where
the ape wants his starter scripts, but on unix systems it should either go
into /usr/local/bin/ to get called manually, or
into /etc/rc.local to get called automatically on startup. linux hides his
startup-scripts in peculiar places at times, but, fortunately, every linux
distribution does it differently, so you would have to search the manuals
(yes i know this is not what you want) on the subject of initialisation.
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null &
incidently: if you set up the smtp daemon this way nobody will listen to
it's status messages, because they get dumped in the bit/bucket. if you
use multilog, "> /dev/null&" should be deleted for the logger to be able to
catch it ("hark! is this the wind? or are daemons talking to me?").
but this is another story. feel free to feedback.
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gpg recv-key 0x9
echo `gpg list-key 0x9 | cat -tv` | \
gpg encrypt `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address` | \
mail -s your-key `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address`
wait
Re: Working with SerialMail and Queue
Carlo Manuali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My problem was to manage the queue manually, to send E-Mail only at some >hours (ex. 8 am and 5pm). > >Can someone help me to explain how can i have to use serialmail (or other >way) to do this with the products that i have already installed? Install serialmail. In particular, you need maildirsmtp, which takes a mailbox in maildir format and sends the contents via smtp. Configure qmail to deliver all outgoing mail to a maildir mailbox by adding the following entry to control/virtualdomains: :alias-catchall and creating the associated .qmail file: echo ./outgoing/ >~alias/.qmail-catchall In whatever script you use to bring up your network connection, add a maildirsmtp invocation to send the mail queued in ~alias/outgoing. Or set up cron jobs at 8 AM and 5 PM to run maildirsmtp, if you know the connection will be up at those times. See the maildirsmtp man page for details on running it. -Dave
SV: DNS and qmail problem
> hi, all. > here is my situation: > qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.1 linux. I also installed tcpserver, checkpassword. > 2 machines. >head.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.100) , running DNS, qmail1.03, tcpserver, >checkpassword. > >alpha.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.102), qmail 1.03, tcpserver, checkpassword. >no DNS running on this machine. use 10.16.103.100 as a name server. > > content in head.paic.com's dns setting file: > ++ > @ IN SOA head.paic.com. hostsmaster.paic.com ( > 242801 ; serial > 108000 ; refresh > 18000 ; retry > 190 ; expire > 18 ; default_ttl > ) > @ IN MX 0 This MX record is BLANK for the paic.com domain, you have forgotten to set the hostname of your mailserver(s). > @ IN NS head.paic.com You have also left out trailing dots in your hostnames! (you missed it at the TOP aswell, but that was an uncritical record) > headIN A 10.16.103.100 There is no MX for head.paic.com domain. > alpha IN A 10.16.103.102 > IN MX 10 This MX record is BLANK for the alpha.paic.com domain, you have forgotten to set the hostname of your mailserver(s). > if i send a mail from head.paic.com to alpha.paic.com, a error message will display: > ++ > May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.865096 starting delivery 24: msg 4820 1 >to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.865213 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 > May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.871568 delivery 24: deferral: > Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ > May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.871642 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 The result, "couldn't find hostname" isn't to strange when you forget to set one :D > did anyone has any experience in qmail + dns in a intranet? > or could u pls give me some advice on my configuration. Only advice I can give is an example zone file: ++ @ IN SOA head hostmaster ( 251713 28800 7200 604800 86400) ; ; Zone NS Records ; IN NS head ; ; Zone Records ; @ IN MX 10 head IN MX 20 alpha headIN A 10.16.103.100 IN MX 10 head IN MX 20 alpha alpha IN A 10.16.103.102 IN MX 10 head IN MX 20 alpha ++ In this case I didn't use trailing dots because in the paic.com zone, all hostnames without a trailing dot will have .paic.com. added to them. In this case I've also made to MX records for each of the three mail domains, and the "master" mailserver for all is head.paic.com. for them all. Since only head.paic.com & alpha.paic.com is in the rcpthosts file for qmail, you will need to add paic.com if you'll ever want the top MX record to work. BTW: you'll need to set this up in your "virtualdomains" file for qmail aswell! Regards André Paulsberg
Where is the script that starts smtp server?
I am using Mandrake 7.02 and I am trying to get vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail) to work using roaming users. One of the suggestions in the FAQ (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/FAQ) suggests this: ___ Your startup script for the qmail smtp server must use the tcpserver -x file command similar to this startup line. env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c20 -u503 -g503 0 smtp \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 > /dev/null & ___ Ok, fine and dandy.. but I don't know where my startup line that contains the script that starts the smtp server is. Does anyone know where this would go on Mandrake 7.02? Thanks. James
Re: Qestion about qmail
> Petr Novotny (Wed 17.0500-11:49): > > If I understand correctly what multilog.c does, it runs the script on > a timestamped line; therefore a line like > @80523452363.34123 msg something anything > would get filtered out (if such a line appeared), but > @80053264564.43567 new msg 81221 > does not; '-* * msg *' matches such a line. HOW COULD I BE SO IGNORANT! THANKS VERY MUCH! -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] do D4685B884894C483
Re: Supervise Qmail
> Carlo Manuali (Wed 17.0500-09:02): > > I've installed the qmail daemontools, but the svsscan don't work propertly. > I've followed the instruction at http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html > but what i have to do after insert the line csh -cf 'svscan /service &' in the '&' has to be at the end of the line by itself, because this command is supposed to be backgrounded. to have a service monitored by svscan you will have to decide if multilog or some other logger should take care of logging messages from this service. lets assume you use some standard logging program which loggs everything coming thru stdin. then set up the follwing: the directory where the service will work and live, lets say /local/serv. ==> mkdir /local/serv; chmod g+s,a+t /local/serv; mkdir /local/serv/log the sticky bit on the directory will make svscan start another supervisor for logging activities of serv. next you need serv/run and serv/log/run looking somewhat like: ==> #!/bin/sh # /local/serv/run exec setuidgid serverid /local/bin/serv -o -ption #!/bin/sh # /local/serv/log/run exec setuidgid loggerid /local/bin/multilog -n3 -s33000 ./ these scripts =must= be named run, because supervise uses this name to start the service. you do not have to use setuidgid to set the id (and hence the permissions) of your service, but the amount of code running with root privileges must be as small as possible, which is called security. in addition to setting the id of your service you might think of setting resource limits with softlimit. it is very important to set the ownership and permissions of the directory and the files therein. the multilog loggerid must have write permissions for the files in serv/log/*, or else you will hear the "multilog rhythm(tm)" from the hard disk, which indicates that it can't write. same goes for your service. if all is well and setup to please the daemons of pc, you can again do ==> ln -s /local/serv /service with "svscan /service &" or some such in your /etc/rc. see to it that the programs mentioned can be found by including their binaries directory in the default path. > I've created a simbolic link from /service/boot to /var/qmail/boot wher is > rc script but doesn't work. easy now. why don't you send us the contents of your rc-file? nevertheless, there =must= be a certain file by the name of ``run'' in the service directory, the name is hard-coded into supervise.c -- clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] do D4685B884894C483 gpg recv-key 0x9 echo `gpg list-key 0x9 | cat -tv` | \ gpg encrypt `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address` | \ mail -s your-key `gpg list-key 0x9 | 822address` wait [encrypted] return mail. no return mail within a week, you in trouble. no return mail after a month, i in trouble. please check done
qmail-ldap error message!!
Hi,everyone: While I have already set up my qmail(with ldap patch) and Openldap server, I send a mail to the mail server and have some error in logfile, "Temporary_error_in_qmail-qmqpc_(as_mail_forwarder)_(LDAP-ERR_#239)". What dose the message mean?
Re: Changing the IP address used by qmail....
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:40:03AM +0100, James Raftery wrote: > To generalise the previous question a little, is there a simple way of > getting qmail-rspawn/qmail-remote to bind to a particular local > interface for sending outgoing mail? I would like to have a particular > virtual interface used for SMTP alone. Getting tcpserver to listen on > that interface is a doddle, but confining outgoing SMTP traffic (and > leaving other services unaffected, hence not using routing) to using > that interface seems non-trivial. I have ported the patch to qmail 1.01 from the qmail.org web page to qmail 1.03 and incorporated it into an RPM for my system (the RPM is basically the memphis rpm with the patch applied). If you want a copy then email me and I'll either send you the patch or the RPM - your choice. It allows you to do just what you requested. Andy -- BoomerangDomains support - [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain registration, email and web forwarding for just $25 a year
qmail Digest 17 May 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1004
qmail Digest 17 May 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1004 Topics (messages 41785 through 41849): Autosend 41785 by: mark 41786 by: Hackl Ferdinand Re: BACKUP POP SERVER 41787 by: wightman.acm.org Re: multiple auto-reply messgs...(simple??) 41788 by: wightman.acm.org 41835 by: Russ Allbery Out of free storage on IMAP and POP 41789 by: groberts.itc.com.au users/assign and Taylor UUCP (unrelated) 41790 by: Paulo Jan 41792 by: Chris Johnson 41793 by: Ian Lance Taylor Re: Qmail-Imap-Maildir 41791 by: Tim Hunter Re: sending bulk personalized email 41794 by: Bruno Wolff III Stochastic silence from Maildirsmtp 41795 by: Jörgen Persson 41838 by: clemensF 41840 by: Jörgen Persson Adding local IP address to ipme 41796 by: Scott Gifford Help me, please: Error in pop3 with vpopmail 41797 by: Informacio Re: Group Wise SMTP System 41798 by: A.L. ORBs problem and Qmail (@@@ related) 41799 by: Greg Moeller 41809 by: Peter van Dijk 41846 by: Greg Moeller 41849 by: Petr Novotny "-ERR authorization failed" under qmail-pop3d 41800 by: Bob Carpenter don't know if anyone noticed this, but... 41801 by: Adam McKenna 41815 by: Stefaan A Eeckels 41816 by: Johan Almqvist 41818 by: Russell Nelson 41819 by: Timothy L. Mayo 41820 by: Russell P. Sutherland 41843 by: Erwin Hoffmann Backup 41802 by: Mark Lo 41812 by: Dave Sill smtp-auth and amavis... 41803 by: Steve Peace 41806 by: listy-dyskusyjne Krzysztof Dabrowski 41841 by: Rainer Link Re: distributed redundnat queue architecture (for M Bowman) 41804 by: David L. Nicol qmail-queue, URGENT! 41805 by: Jorge Rocha 41808 by: Dave Sill 41810 by: Peter van Dijk Re: Qestion about qmail 41807 by: clemensF 41848 by: Petr Novotny Re: Pummelling limiting, again 41811 by: James R Grinter Re: Address marker 41813 by: Chester Chee qmail/ezmlm virtual domain problem 41814 by: Rodney Edwards Re: Ezmlm web front 41817 by: Ken Jones Changing the IP address used by qmail 41821 by: Steve Wolfe 41822 by: Adam McKenna 41847 by: James Raftery maildrop + vpopmail 41823 by: Martin Kos [Announce] oMail-webmail 0.94 released! 41824 by: Olivier M. Re: webmail 41825 by: Chester Chee 41826 by: Olivier M. 41827 by: Chester Chee Blocking e-mail to specific addresses 41828 by: Michael Hornby 41829 by: Peter van Dijk qpage and qmail 41830 by: Aaron Seelye 41831 by: Peter van Dijk long delays in delivery 41832 by: Andrew Gray 41834 by: James R Grinter 41837 by: Andrew Gray Delays receiving mail 41833 by: Andrew Gray Re: Metering POP related email traffic? 41836 by: Russ Allbery checkpassword 41839 by: Nathaniel L. Keeling III Supervise Qmail 41842 by: Carlo Manuali Shifting of encrypted password from one qmail server to another 41844 by: ravivr.hss.hns.com DNS and qmail problem 41845 by: chenweih.PAIC.com.cn 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, I'm setting up autorespond for the first time and am having difficulties. If I send a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the following error in the logs of test.mail.com: "deferral: AUTOREPSOND: Unable_to_create_file_for_[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]." Have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks Mark HI Mark i guess you have in your .qmail-help following line ( or something similar ) |autorespond 1 5 message autoresponddirectory &[EMAIL PROTECTED] you have to creat a dir which is called autoresponddirectory ( be carefull with the right group and owner ) and then it should work Ferdinand -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:mark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am:Dienstag, 16. Mai 2000 12:17 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff:Autosend Hi All, I'm setting up autorespond for the first time and am having difficulties. If I send a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the following error in the logs of test.mail.com: "deferral: AUTOREPSOND: Unable_to_create_file_for_[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]." Have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks Mark << Datei: ATT0.htm >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Date:Mon, 15 May 2000 16:43:17 CDT > To: Jhun Hubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From:"David L. Nicol"
Re: ORBs problem and Qmail (@@@ related)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 May 00, at 4:40, Greg Moeller wrote: > # cat alias/.qmail-tnet-default > | fastforward -d -p /etc/aliases.cdb > | forward "$DEFAULT" This line does it; what it "$DEFAULT" contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Try to do |forward "$DEFAULT"@`head -1 /var/qmail/control/locals` (where instead of head, you'd fill the machine name in) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOSJdx1MwP8g7qbw/EQJaMQCgq70C4qZeffjiFFqzZj1iZ18+mKAAoM4/ j7QNQT0oEvsFRzVPzbfaSq2U =20Z8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: Qestion about qmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 May 00, at 21:37, clemensF wrote: > > Well, I read the docs. However, what you sent shows that the docs > > are wrong; or that the program is wrong. Which of that it is - I don't > > know. > > i already reviewed the pattern matching implementation in > daemontools/match.c. it seems ok. if my multilog invocation line, the > "script" as it is called by djb, is correct, it's got to have something to > do with multilog.c. could you help me review and test that? > > for the readers of "qmail help", courtesy not of djb, here's what we're > talking about: > > #!/bin/rc > exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t s2 n2 '-* msg *' ./ Well, I've been trying to understand what's up. Read match.c, your "script" matched any string up to the first space, then it needs to see a space, 'm', 's', 'g', space and whatever. If I understand correctly what multilog.c does, it runs the script on a timestamped line; therefore a line like @80523452363.34123 msg something anything would get filtered out (if such a line appeared), but @80053264564.43567 new msg 81221 does not; '-* * msg *' matches such a line. Can someone confirm that? Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOSJdEFMwP8g7qbw/EQKvDACfZ8P+hNEV8/2fjYZBHuDGynTp7jQAoI6l rOO4DGDHMCr5S/7ZwCSk8MDf =0vBJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: Changing the IP address used by qmail....
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:48:04PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > This has nothing to do with qmail-smtpd (or any other part of qmail for that > matter). Check your routing table. To generalise the previous question a little, is there a simple way of getting qmail-rspawn/qmail-remote to bind to a particular local interface for sending outgoing mail? I would like to have a particular virtual interface used for SMTP alone. Getting tcpserver to listen on that interface is a doddle, but confining outgoing SMTP traffic (and leaving other services unaffected, hence not using routing) to using that interface seems non-trivial. james -- James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster - IE TLD Hostmaster IE Domain Registry - www.domainregistry.ie - (+353 1) 706 2375 "Managing 4000 customer domains with BIND has been a lot like herding cats." - Mike Batchelor, on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ORBs problem and Qmail (@@@ related)
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:00:23PM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote: > > Hi there. > > Our mail server's been listed in ORBs because of a multiple @ related hole. > > Is this common for a Qmail system or is something odd about our setup? > > There must be something odd. What does > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-snet-default containt? # cat alias/.qmail-tnet-default | fastforward -d -p /etc/aliases.cdb | forward "$DEFAULT" > > > Please don't do that. You can trust the people here, and giving real info > will allow us to help you quicker. Here's the full poop from ORBS: 154.11.89.180 : 2000-04-21 21:28:00 UTC >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 22 09:27:47 2000 Received: from toolbox.total.net (toolbox.total.net [154.11.89.179]) by mail2.manawatu.net.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA05197 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:59:36 +1200 X-Remote-IP: 154.11.89.179 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:59:36 +1200 Received: (qmail 15431 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2000 13:59:31 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.total.net Received: (qmail 15413 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2000 13:59:31 - Received: from unknown (HELO relaytest.orbs.vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.55) by pop.total.net with SMTP; 21 Apr 2000 13:59:31 - To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.total.net> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Token: ckpfbvvorqbdqnlp X-Envelope-Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Envelope-Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.total.net> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ORBS Relay Test - 154.11.89.180 > > [snip] > > > > We're using the fastforward alias system.(version fastforward-0.51) > > Hmmm, could you give us some details of your configuration then? > It's Qmail 1.03, fast forward 0.51. It's handling about 60,000 local mailboxes, and doing forwards for about 700 virtual domains. (this is put into the virtual domain file automatically by a script which scans a single file with every map on the system.) # head -5 control/virtualdomains 258wallace.com:valias 4200st-laurent.com:valias # cat valias/.qmail-default | /var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb Hope that's enough for now.. Greg
DNS and qmail problem
hi, all. here is my situation: qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.1 linux. I also installed tcpserver, checkpassword. 2 machines. head.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.100) , running DNS, qmail1.03, tcpserver, checkpassword. alpha.paic.com ( IP: 10.16.103.102), qmail 1.03, tcpserver, checkpassword. no DNS running on this machine. use 10.16.103.100 as a name server. content in head.paic.com's dns setting file: ++ @ IN SOA head.paic.com. hostsmaster.paic.com ( 242801 ; serial 108000 ; refresh 18000 ; retry 190 ; expire 18 ; default_ttl ) @ IN MX 0 @ IN NS head.paic.com headIN A 10.16.103.100 alpha IN A 10.16.103.102 IN MX 10 +++ "named" is running. i can ping both head.paic.com and alpha.paic.com. content of "/control/rcpthosts" in head.paic.com ++ head.paic.com localhost.paic.com.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa alpha.paic.com ++ content of "rcpthosts" in alpha.paic.com alpha.paic.com head.paic.com + if i send a mail from head.paic.com to alpha.paic.com, a error message will display: ++ May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.865096 starting delivery 24: msg 4820 1 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.865213 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.871568 delivery 24: deferral: Sorry,_ I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ May 16 06:30:22 localhost qmail: 958429822.871642 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 +++ if i send a mail from alpha.paic.com to head.paic.com, error occur. + May 16 21:06:08 alpha qmail: 958482368.323931 starting delivery 7: msg 2016 to r emote [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 16 21:06:08 alpha qmail: 958482368.324146 status: local 0/10 remote 1/20 May 16 21:06:08 alpha qmail: 958482368.333790 delivery 7: deferral: Sorry,_I_cou ldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ May 16 21:06:08 alpha qmail: 958482368.333966 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 if i use this format user@[10.16.103.100] or user@[10.16.103.102], it works. but i don't want to work in this way. did anyone has any experience in qmail + dns in a intranet? or could u pls give me some advice on my configuration. thanks! chan
Shifting of encrypted password from one qmail server to another
Dear all, I installed a separate backup server for my present existing qmail server.I tranfered all the control files in /var/qmail/control to the back up server & also all the"./alias" files.But how to shift the POP users (ie their encrypted password). Pls suggest me.any help will be appreciated.. rgds, RAVI.
Re: don't know if anyone noticed this, but...
Hi, just for curiosity, there's another book on the market telling about QMAIL: "Electronic Mail Systems - A Network Manager's Guide" by Burhan Fatah published by McGraw Hill 1994 ISBN 0-07-020056-4. Page 226 reads as: "QMAIL QMAIL is an E-mail system for the AS/400 that allows users to transmit messages from any AS/400 terminal, or any other computer with 5250 emulation. Besides standard messaging features, QMAIL has many advanced features like forms, mail notification, distribution lists, and message archves. ." Doesn't it sound like qmail?? Cheers. eh. At 14:32 16.5.2000 -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: >I was browsing amazon today and noticed it: > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D958501880/104-50308 46-4577265 > >Who the hell is Rich Blum? I never hoid of him. > >--Adam > +---+ | fffhh http://www.fehcom.deDr. 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 | +---+
