qmail Digest 17 Jun 2000 10:00:00 -0000 Issue 1035
qmail Digest 17 Jun 2000 10:00:00 - Issue 1035 Topics (messages 43203 through 43241): Re: Help on qmail-qstat 43203 by: System Administrator 43204 by: Steffan Hoeke 43205 by: System Administrator secondry mail server setup 43206 by: mandarine 43211 by: Chris Johnson Re: MX and POP3 on 2 machines 43207 by: Michael T. Babcock Re: [PATCH] Transparent maildir compression. 43208 by: Michael T. Babcock 43209 by: jedi.claranet.fr 43210 by: John P. Looney (Kate) Limiting SMTP connections 43212 by: Michael T. Babcock 43214 by: mandarine tcprules script 43213 by: Michael T. Babcock 43215 by: Michael T. Babcock 43224 by: Kevin Bucknum Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions 43216 by: DGranath.aol.com 43217 by: markd.bushwire.net 43220 by: Steve Wolfe 43222 by: DGranath.aol.com 43226 by: markd.bushwire.net Interesting disclosure of domains subscribed to qmail list 43218 by: markd.bushwire.net 43233 by: Markus Stumpf 43241 by: Claus Färber ucspi-ipc is now available 43219 by: William E. Baxter Problems downloading via POP3 43221 by: Andy Grimberg NT / Qmail interoperation 43223 by: Jackson, Robert 43225 by: markd.bushwire.net Re: Password problems: 43227 by: Z 43231 by: Chris Johnson Help with startup Script 43228 by: Jürgen Hoffmann Ascii art summary 43229 by: Alan Chandler 43230 by: Chris Johnson Re: mailbox dir 43232 by: Markus Stumpf Blocking a specific address 43234 by: Bolivar Diaz Galarza 43235 by: Troy Frericks 43236 by: Markus Stumpf 43237 by: Markus Stumpf 43238 by: Bolivar Diaz Galarza 43239 by: Johan Almqvist queue internals... 43240 by: Ben Beuchler 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 dave thanks for your help. but i have a problem now. i.e. there is no file with that name in the control directory. just by creating that file, help ? please let me know as soon as possible. regards, On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Kelly wrote: > If you have messages in the queue that are 4-5 days old, chances are > probably good that they are messages that can't be delivered for one reason > or another. After a week, they should clear themselves out by bouncing to > postmaster with a message stating why the were undeliverable. > > You can change how long stuff remains in the queue by putting the number of > seconds you want in /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime. The default is > 604800, which is one week. > > -D Parag Mehta<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator. Puretech Internet Pvt. Ltd.http://puretech.co.in/ 77 Atlanta. Nariman Point. Mumbai - 400021. India.Tel: +91-22-2833158 Support is now available thru our Web Based Support System. http://support.puretech.co.in On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:02:55PM +0530, System Administrator wrote: > Hi dave > > thanks for your help. > > but i have a problem now. i.e. there is no file with that name in the > control directory. just by creating that file, help ? > > please let me know as soon as possible. If the file isn't there it defaults to the mentioned 604800, i.e. one week. If you create the file with a lower value in it, that's the value that will be used. > regards, HTH, Steffan > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Kelly wrote: > > > If you have messages in the queue that are 4-5 days old, chances are > > probably good that they are messages that can't be delivered for one reason > > or another. After a week, they should clear themselves out by bouncing to > > postmaster with a message stating why the were undeliverable. > > > > You can change how long stuff remains in the queue by putting the number of > > seconds you want in /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime. The default is > > 604800, which is one week. > > > > -D > -- http://therookie.dyndns.org Hi steffan thanks for your prompt reply. i will do the necessary. On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Steffan Hoeke wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:02:55PM +0530, System Administrator wrote: > > please let me know as soon as possible. > If the file isn't there it defaults to the mentioned 604800, i.e. one week. > If you create the file with a lower value in it, that's the value that will be used. > > > > regards, > HTH, > Steffan > Parag Mehta<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator. Puretech Inte
script chkattach
I tried to use the script chkattach by Noel G. Mistula, (http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/07/msg00518.html) but I got a problem when the sender and the receiver are implementing the same check. The message is discarded (triple bouncing) because nobody wants to accept it. The main problem is the missing of a notice, in that way nobody knows why the massage was discarded. Any hint? -- Daniele Bernazzi tel: 0577 585794 fax: 0577 586191 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mesages defered - for 6 hours to one domain problem
Dear All, A thanks to all those whom have contributed to qmail - I've used it on lots of servers for 9 months with very few issues, and am very happy with it. I am having a few problems which I believe are not qmail issues - but I need more info before I contact other admins. I have a qmail setup on a pentium 90 (16 meg ram) that manages a few (2 real domains - with about 10 low trafic aliases) domains with vpopmail. Trafic is very low! I find repeated entries: Jun 15 10:21:15 mailgate qmail: 961064475.400874 delivery 17215: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ I get arround 200 messages a week - that appear to be arround 10 messages to the same domain - in this case smartaxis.co.uk - here is a part of header: > >Received: from mailgate.pipistrel.com ([193.195.219.40] verified) > > by smartaxis.co.uk (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4) > > with SMTP id 338741 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 > 16:30:36 +0100 > >Received: (qmail 10115 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2000 11:34:19 - > >Received: from pc27.pipistrel.com (HELO pipistrel.com) (192.168.1.27) > > by mailgate.pipistrel.com with SMTP; 16 Jun 2000 11:34:19 - I.e the messages are defered for arround 6 hours (which I know is qmail expected behavour ..) What excactly does the: deferral: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/ Mean - is I have have the MX record but cannot resolve the name to an IP ? or I cannot get the MX record ? or I have an IP but cannot get through to the box ? It all sounds to me a DNS issue - The server is also an internal DNS for the 20 or so PC's in the office - but this "appears" to be fine. Any help would be much appreciated. Greg Cope
timestamp problem
hello, i am running qmail on a suse linux server with its systemclock set correctly. unfortunately, qmail sets an incorrect time to every outgoing mail. system time and time in mails differs in exactly 2 hours, i.e. writing a mail at 16:00 o'clock sets time to 14:00 o'clock in the mail. any ideas why ? -- jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots!
Re: vpopmail + qmail
I'm using the qmailadmin program (CGI on web server) and it fully supports vpopmail configuration, including local mail user delivery (if I'm not mistaken -- I don't use that feature). Paul Farber wrote: > anyone have any docs on setting up vpopmail to deliver to local user dirs? > Or are there any text based (pine-like) MUA's that can grab the mail via > POP3? > > Or how about any docs on vpopmail -- _/~-=##=-~\_ -=+0+=-< Michael T. Babcock >-=+0+=- ~\_-=##=-_/~ http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/ ICQ: 4835018
Re: timestamp problem
At 5:10 PM +0200 6/17/00, Jens Georg wrote: >hello, > >i am running qmail on a suse linux server with its systemclock set >correctly. unfortunately, qmail sets an incorrect time to every outgoing >mail. system time and time in mails differs in exactly 2 hours, i.e. >writing a mail at 16:00 o'clock sets time to 14:00 o'clock in the mail. > >any ideas why ? Because qmail always uses GMT and you're GMT+2. > >-- >jens >--- >department computer science, university of dortmund >linux ... life's too short for reboots! -- -- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vpopmail + qmail
My questions was that there is not docs for the vconvert program, nor any doc's if you don't check the mail via POP3 (ie the users are on the same machine). Not a lot of unix MUA have POP3 support. I finally figured out that I could forward the mail to a 'local' user by adding a vpopaccount, then creating a foward to the same user @localhost. A bit of a hack.. but it worked. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > I'm using the qmailadmin program (CGI on web server) and it fully supports > vpopmail configuration, including local mail user delivery (if I'm not > mistaken -- I don't use that feature). > > Paul Farber wrote: > > > anyone have any docs on setting up vpopmail to deliver to local user dirs? > > Or are there any text based (pine-like) MUA's that can grab the mail via > > POP3? > > > > Or how about any docs on vpopmail > > -- >_/~-=##=-~\_ >-=+0+=-< Michael T. Babcock >-=+0+=- >~\_-=##=-_/~ > http://www.linuxsupportline.com/~pgp/ ICQ: 4835018 > > > >
Re: queue internals...
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:24:48AM -0700, John White wrote: > The INTERNALS document is a good guide to the potential states > of the queue. Yup. Unfortunately it does not specify what tags are used where to indicate the status. It merely refers to 'done' and 'not done'. I'm also trying to figure out what the 'F' flag on the addresses in the 'remote' queue means... Ben -- The spectre of a polity controlled by the fads and whims of voters who actually believe that there are significant differences between Bud Lite and Miller Lite, and who think that professional wrestling is for real, is naturally alarming to people who don't. -- Neal Stephenson
how to setup Maildir
hello all can u help me setting up Maildir here iam not able to setup Maildir thanks
Re: how to setup Maildir
> can u help me setting up Maildir > here iam not able to setup Maildir Easy, correct method: /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake {username} Long, cumbersome, error-prone method: cd ~{username} mkdir Maildir mkdir Maildir/new mkdir Maildir/cur mkdir Maildir/tmp chown -R {username}[.:]{usergroup} Maildir chmod -R 600 Maildir steve
inetd vs. ucspi-tcp
hi, is there a difference in using qmail-pop3d with either inetd or ucspi-tcp ? regards, jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots!
Re: Interesting disclosure of domains subscribed to qmail list
I'm seeing the same thing here whenever I post to the list. I logged about 1000 hits to my nameserver in about an hour, and went slightly into "curious" mode because I never get that kind of traffic on my small home LAN. I wondered at first if it was some sort of stealth attack because the queries seemed to be coming from all over the world - until I realized that it was just other list members' spam filters, probably scanning the Recieved: lines or some such. I guess it's just one of those interesting things about the internet... Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know, I know, posting to both lists? But, tinydns made this > easy and qmail is the list in question, so... > > I was just watching the tinydns logs when I mailed a message to > the qmail mailing list. > > All of a sudden the query rate on my reply-address domain shot up as > the log tail slid across the screen. It occurred to me that a lot of > those queries are probably doing reverse lookups or anti-spam > checks ensuring a valid reply domain. > > The reason I'm pointing this out is that I find it interesting > that it indirectly exposes some domains which are likely to be > subscribed to the list.
Re: inetd vs. ucspi-tcp
Jens Georg a écrit : > is there a difference in using qmail-pop3d with either inetd or ucspi-tcp ? Yes, under high load (in fact when there are more than N requests per second), inetd will reject new clients (usually during 5 minutes) . tcpserver has not that "feature". You may also try G2S available from http://www.jedi.claranet.fr Best regards, -- Frank DENIS aka Jedi/Sector One aka DJ Chrysalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...oh, wait a minute -- he already does.
Re: inetd vs. ucspi-tcp
I will paraphrase what's in your signature as an answer to your question: ucspi-tcp ... life's too short for the obsolete inetd! See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html for details. Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > is there a difference in using qmail-pop3d with either inetd or ucspi-tcp ? > > regards, > > jens > --- > department computer science, university of dortmund > linux ... life's too short for reboots! >