Re: Virtual Domains Over 1 IP Address
also sprach jaybc1: Hello all, What is the best route for handling multiple domains and associated things like mail delivery / pop3 user logins over 1 ip address? Probably either vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/) or vmailmgr (http://www.vmailmgr.org/). /pg -- Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I should use Linux over BSD? No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical. (Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux)
load balancing two qmail servers using nfs
I've got two qmail servers running inside a load balancer. They both access the same /var/mail/username/Maildir directories on an NFS server. They also share many of the same configuration files in /var/qmail/control on the NFS server. The files they share are local symbolic links to the shared volume on the NFS server. A few hours after bringing up the second qmail server, the first one, which had been running fine for two weeks, quit working. The errors I am getting in the syslog file on the failing server are "Can't_connect_to_SMTP_server" and "Can't_chdir_to_Maidir". Anyone have any success with this configuration or have any idea what could be causing the first server to loose its way? Running qmail and NFS on Solaris 2.7 (first server and NFS server) and 2.8 (second qmail server). The first server (the one failing) responds to connections on port 25 but can't send or deliver and is not spawning any qmail processes. The second server is now doing all the work. Thanks, Mike
Re: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs
you might consider using rsync to sync your conffiles, instead of sharing them over nfs. this would eliminate alot of problems and latency i'd think. On 06/24/00 @ 12:11AM, Mike Denka wrote: I've got two qmail servers running inside a load balancer. They both access the same /var/mail/username/Maildir directories on an NFS server. They also share many of the same configuration files in /var/qmail/control on the NFS server. The files they share are local symbolic links to the shared volume on the NFS server. A few hours after bringing up the second qmail server, the first one, which had been running fine for two weeks, quit working. The errors I am getting in the syslog file on the failing server are "Can't_connect_to_SMTP_server" and "Can't_chdir_to_Maidir". Anyone have any success with this configuration or have any idea what could be causing the first server to loose its way? Running qmail and NFS on Solaris 2.7 (first server and NFS server) and 2.8 (second qmail server). The first server (the one failing) responds to connections on port 25 but can't send or deliver and is not spawning any qmail processes. The second server is now doing all the work. Thanks, Mike -- Steve J. Kondik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stargate Industries, LLC - Network Operations Center
qmail virtual domains with ldap
hello friends is there any one who is using ~control/virtualdomains file for accepting mails for more then one domains , but ya i want to put all .qmail entries in ldap rather then in .qmail file thanks prashant
Mail queueing in relay host.
Dear Qmail admins, I had send this few days back but I did not receive any reply. Am I clear in conveying the message? Thankyou, Jacob. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:34:45 +0530 (IST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail queueing in relay host. Dear Qmail admins, We have two computers with one acting as a relay host(abc.valid.net connected to the internet) and the other, on the local network(xyz.local.net), for storing mails. abc.valid.net is just for forwarding mails to and from the local mail machine(xyz.local.net). The problem I face is that if the internet link is down then the mails sent bounces back immediately and does not queue up in the abc.valid.net. I have setup the control/smtproutes file which has the following entry: :[ip address of the ISP MX] Should I setup something else? Thanks in advance. Regards, Jacob Rajan, Systems Manager, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
relaying questions.
Hi, I finally installed qmail, thank you for anybody's help in this mailing list. The purpose to setup my qmail sever is to use with my web site/web server. I need to vertify that the e-mail address is correct. So that I require people to give me their e-mail adress, then I will send out the password to them (using qmail). Then, later they can come back and log-on. Now, my problem is related to relaying . I have read "The qmail newbie's quide to relaying" which comes with life with qmail as a URL. It states that "qmail's rcpthosts file, which gets its name from the RCPT TO command, determines whether the recipient will be accepted; it will be accepted if and only if the domain of the address given in the RCPT TO command is listed in rcpthosts." Now, the RCPT TO means send out the messages to a particular address. Is this correct?? If yes, then when people come and ask for password by giving their e-mail address. I need to send them a password via the form of e-mail. In other words, I need to send them a password according to what they put in. So, in this situations, I need to put their domain in my rcphosts file before sending them a password. Is this correct ?? if yes, how to overcome this problem?? Any suggestion is helpful.!!! Thank you Mark
qmail Digest 24 Jun 2000 10:00:01 -0000 Issue 1042
qmail Digest 24 Jun 2000 10:00:01 - Issue 1042 Topics (messages 43517 through 43578): tcprules and tcpserver not blicking?? 43517 by: TAG 43559 by: Manfred Bartz 43564 by: Charles Cazabon 43565 by: clemensF Re: unable_to_chdir_to_maildir 43518 by: Vince Changing the IP address 43519 by: Toni Re: quota problems 43520 by: Petr Danecek Re: some info?? 43521 by: Petr Danecek Re: Sender rejected 43522 by: Peter Haworth 43542 by: Greg Owen Logging traffic 43523 by: Tomasz Antczak 43524 by: Johan Almqvist Re: Debian GNU/Linux (potato) Packages: var-qmail 43525 by: Gerrit Pape sqwebmail with oracle?.. 43526 by: Yavuz Sert Resend (no reply) strange installation error!!! Please Help!!! 43527 by: Mark Lo 43529 by: Peter Green 43543 by: Mark Lo 43545 by: Peter Green error msg 4.3.0 after a reboot 43528 by: Rogue Eagle 43530 by: Russell P. Sutherland 43531 by: Rogue Eagle Re: All incoming mail default to one pop box 43532 by: Dave Sill Re: script chkattach 43533 by: Daniele Bernazzi multilog/splogger 43534 by: Tony Campisi 43535 by: Tony Campisi spamcontrol patch 43536 by: Bernat Ginard BAD Qmail instalation 43537 by: alex Re: Resend (no reply) strange installation error!!! Please Help!!!] 43538 by: Mark Lo 43541 by: Peter Green Re: rcpthosts 43539 by: Brian Sweeney Problems with rcpthosts 43540 by: Guillermo Villasana Cardoza 43548 by: Chris Johnson 43551 by: Guillermo Villasana Cardoza Re: qmail-pop3d 43544 by: Brian Sweeney local delivery strangeness? 43546 by: Robert Sander 43547 by: Steffan Hoeke 43549 by: Robert Sander 43563 by: Cyril Bitterich fetal error 111 43550 by: Mark Lo 43554 by: Peter Green Re: multilog problems 43552 by: Steffan Hoeke Re: New to Qmail, please help 43553 by: Chris Johnson 43555 by: Hand, Brian C. Re: fetal error 111: delivery aborted 43556 by: Dave Kitabjian too many symbolic link 43557 by: Mark Lo 43558 by: Mark Lo log file 43560 by: Mark Lo 43562 by: Cyril Bitterich Preserving environment variables from tcpserver 43561 by: Ben Beuchler permissions on supervise dir 43566 by: Clifford Thurber PTR question (Probably RFC related) 43567 by: Cyril Bitterich 43568 by: Scott Gifford Virtual Domains Over 1 IP Address 43569 by: Julian L.B. Cardarelli 43573 by: Peter Green Virtual Domain Message Header Pollution 43570 by: Peter Cavender tcpserver for qmail-pop3d 43571 by: prashant rblsmtp with qmail-qmail-ldap patch 43572 by: prashant load balancing two qmail servers using nfs 43574 by: Mike Denka 43575 by: steve j. kondik qmail virtual domains with ldap 43576 by: reach_prashant.zeenext.com Mail queueing in relay host. 43577 by: mgr.rri.res.in relaying questions. 43578 by: Mark Lo 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 have a problem in that my tcp.smtp.cdb file is not being used - as when I try and relay through my server it seems to ignore the .cdb file?? My setup of the tcp.smtp file is as follows: 192.168.2.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow which is then converted into the cdb file by tcprules.. I have tcpserver runnign with the following line: tcpserver -R -H -t5 -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb etc i have also tried it with : tcpserver -R -H -t5 -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb ...etc Can anyone please expalein why it is not working? I have ucspi-tcp-0.88 installed? Thanks- Tonino TAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem in that my tcp.smtp.cdb file is not being used - as when I try and relay through my server it seems to ignore the .cdb file?? My setup of the tcp.smtp file is as follows: 192.168.2.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow That last line should read: :deny -- Manfred Manfred Bartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem in that my tcp.smtp.cdb file is not being used - as when I try and relay through my server it seems to ignore the .cdb file?? My setup of the tcp.smtp file is as follows: 192.168.2.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" :allow That last line should read: :deny I missed the original message, but this will not just prevent relaying; it will prevent anyone outside those
Re: Binary distribution
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 02:54:47PM -0400, Paul Farber wrote: It's tough to find any binary dist for qmail I actually *think* the dist of binaries is against his copyrights. From http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html: "Exception: You are permitted to distribute a precompiled var-qmail package if (1) installing the package produces exactly the same /var/qmail hierarchy as a user would obtain by downloading, compiling, and installing qmail-1.03.tar.gz, fastforward-0.51.tar.gz, and dot-forward-0.71.tar.gz; (2) the package behaves correctly, i.e., the same way as normal qmail+fastforward+dot-forward installations on all other systems; and (3) the package's creator warrants that he has made a good-faith attempt to ensure that the package behaves correctly. It is not acceptable to have qmail working differently on different machines; any variation is a bug. If there's something about a system (compiler, libraries, kernel, hardware, whatever) that changes qmail's behavior, then that platform is not supported, and you are not permitted to distribute binaries." Best place to start www.qmail.org. How true. /magnus -- http://x42.com/
Re: Logging traffic
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:13:49PM +0200, Tomasz Antczak wrote: Hello I looking for some way to log all traffic in and out of mailers in the indicated log file. Any ideas how do this ? Take a look here; http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#queue_extra It's all accomplished with "QUEUE_EXTRA". /magnus -- http://x42.com/
Mailbox
Hello ! i have install qmail step by step ala qmail/doc ... now i get the msg "Mailbox is a Directory" what did i wrong ? bye steffen
virtual domains
hello friends i have installed qmail 1.03 with qmail-ldap -latest-patch on RedHat linux 6.1 i want to configure virtual domains with out using ".qmail" file in users home dir and also dont want to use /etc/passwd is this possible ? i can use some ldap entries rather then using .qmail flat files thanks Prashant Desai
(resent) Relay problem
Hi there, I've been experiencing the following strange situation with qmail when I try to send a message from localhost (with relaying from localhost allowed) with a user-filled-in sender address. That is, when I do the following on the mailserver host: mailserver(ttyp2:138:0):/var/qmail/control# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailserver.somewhere.com ESMTP MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this domain is NOT in the rcpthosts 250 ok RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead test . 250 ok 961499283 qp 84857 quit 221 mailserver.somewhere.com Connection closed by foreign host. Then on the receiving host I listen for the mail I just made up: anothermailserver(ttyp0:106:0):~# nc -l -p 25 220 HELO mailserver.somewhere.com 250 MAIL FROM:com 250 RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 DATA 250 Received: (qmail 84417 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2000 10:51:25 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jun 2000 10:51:25 - test . 250 QUIT The part that I'm really confused on is HOW did qmail make up the MAIL FROM: part, and why is it WRONG? Where should I look if I want to fix this problem? If the from address IS in the rcpthosts file, everything works just fine. The above problem causes most receiving mail servers to bounce the message complaining about an invalid sender address. Thanks in advance, Greetings Sebastiaan van Erk
Thanks a bunch
Thanks a bunch to all in this list. I may not have responded to all of you who replied, but that was only because I have received an overwhelming amount of support. I started out on this project attempting to use sendmail and 3 weeks, gallons of coffee and a few more gray hairs later, I gave up on it. The help from sendmail was pathetic at best. They all shunted me aside and kept trying to send me back to the FAQ page that I had already read a 1000 times. Anywho...I was pointed to qmail from a freebsd maillist and it was the best decision. The support in here is terrific and does not slam newbies (unless they deserve it). If you have not gotten the Life with Qmail docs(http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html), I highly recommend them to anyone trying to setup qmail for the first time. Although I had a few bumps getting it tweaked for freebsd, it is up and running within 4 days after I downloaded it. Thanks so much for everyone's help.
Re: (resent) Relay problem
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:46:52PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote: I've been experiencing the following strange situation with qmail when I try to send a message from localhost (with relaying from localhost allowed) with a user-filled-in sender address. That is, when I do the following on the mailserver host: mailserver(ttyp2:138:0):/var/qmail/control# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailserver.somewhere.com ESMTP MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this domain is NOT in the rcpthosts Try it with proper SMTP and see what happens: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris
Re: (resent) Relay problem
Hello, I've been experiencing the following strange situation with qmail when I try to send a message from localhost (with relaying from localhost allowed) with a user-filled-in sender address. That is, when I do the following on the mailserver host: mailserver(ttyp2:138:0):/var/qmail/control# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mailserver.somewhere.com ESMTP MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this domain is NOT in the rcpthosts Try it with proper SMTP and see what happens: MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I've never met a single mail server that doesn't like the other format, but ok, this is what I get on the receiving mail server if I do as you say and use [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MAIL FROM:^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@com where the ^@ are ascii NUL characters. Now I still don't know where to look to find out what's going wrong here :-( Hope someone can help, Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk
CheckPassword
Anyone familiar with what Environment Variables the standard checkpassword sets for qmail-popup what environment variables it receives from qmail-pop3d? J - Original Message - From: prashant To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:12 AM Subject: virtual domains hello friends i have installed qmail 1.03 with qmail-ldap -latest-patch on RedHat linux 6.1 i want to configure virtual domains with out using ".qmail" file in users home dir and also dont want to use /etc/passwd is this possible ? i can use some ldap entries rather then using .qmail flat files thanks Prashant Desai
Re: Mailbox
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:32:18PM +0200, steffen wrote: Hello ! i have install qmail step by step ala qmail/doc ... now i get the msg "Mailbox is a Directory" what did i wrong ? What does the line you start qmail with read ? You've probably told qmail to deliver to a mailbox in mbox format called Mailbox, which is one large file which contains all messages. You've probably got an entry in $HOME which reads: drwxr-xr-x 2 [user] [group] 512 Jun 24 17:30 Mailbox while it should read: -rw-r--r-- 1 [user] [group] 0 Jun 24 17:30 Mailbox Note the lacking of 'd' in the second line You should try rm -rf'ing the Mailbox directory, after checking there's nothing of value contained in it After this qmail should automagically create the Mailbox file. bye steffen HTH, Steffan -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
qmail-qread -- bouncing
qmail-qread occasionally sticks the word 'bouncing' in it's reports concerning a specific message. What triggers the presence of that word? I've looked at the messages in question and they only appear to be deferred, not actually bouncing. Thanks, 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
Qmail Clients
Hi all, I hooked up a free smtp/pop3 page which sorta worked but broke on attachments. Unfortunately the author is clearly insane as his mailing list consists of ficticous recipients and he started email stalking me !!! He calls himself Al-the-Pal. Ahh, the net gotta love it. I downloaded anohter that called mail man, but it is not open source and the code is obfuscated. I got these from the www.perl.com cgi search. (upper right corner) I hardwired al-the-pal's to qmail inject and the new proc may be expensive but its only for replys. Managing Maildir actually looks like a piece of cake, all I need is an open source set of CGI's to play with. Ultimately I would like to combine it with other desktop apps such as schedulers where document management, and code development, would be the common space between between apps. I mention development because thats who I want to provide for and you get version control by defualt in that game. I see CVS handling all the mail and other documents but I'll need a plugin editor for the browser. Sounds ambitious but you should see my other ideas http://puny.vm.com. Ultimately I would like to get away from html, where tcp client/server would be athe client/server link. = John van Vlaanderen # #CXN, Inc. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # Proud Sponsor of Perl/Unix of NY # #http://puny.vm.com # # __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
Would someone help me out here just a bit. I am Sooo, confused! Any pointers or documents that explain some of this would be greatly appreciated.. TIA,, MarkT. Here's where I am in the INSTALL.maildir document. Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail: This Command does not work Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command maildirmake is there. What is the deal with the "%" as the first portion of the command? % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/. The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc. maildir in the new-user template?? create directory called maildir? where is the new-user template directory on FreeBSD? What is the new-user template file called by default? Until your MUA supports maildir, you'll probably want to convert maildir format to (gaaack) mbox format. I've supplied a maildir2mbox utility that does the trick, along with some tiny qail and elq and pinq wrappers that call maildir2mbox before calling Mail or elm or pine. * Does mail(MUA), I think binmail, support maildir? This is what came default on * the bare system load. How do you implement maildir2mbox and (gaaack)?
Where to read about single uid/gid virtual domain delivery?
Where do I read about single uid/gid virtual domain delivery/pop? J - Original Message - From: Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:32 PM Subject: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please! Would someone help me out here just a bit. I am Sooo, confused! Any pointers or documents that explain some of this would be greatly appreciated.. TIA,, MarkT. Here's where I am in the INSTALL.maildir document. Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail: This Command does not work Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command maildirmake is there. What is the deal with the "%" as the first portion of the command? % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/. The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc. maildir in the new-user template?? create directory called maildir? where is the new-user template directory on FreeBSD? What is the new-user template file called by default? Until your MUA supports maildir, you'll probably want to convert maildir format to (gaaack) mbox format. I've supplied a maildir2mbox utility that does the trick, along with some tiny qail and elq and pinq wrappers that call maildir2mbox before calling Mail or elm or pine. * Does mail(MUA), I think binmail, support maildir? This is what came default on * the bare system load. How do you implement maildir2mbox and (gaaack)?
Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:32:35AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: Would someone help me out here just a bit. I am Sooo, confused! Any pointers or documents that explain some of this would be greatly appreciated.. Have you tried Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" ? TIA,, MarkT. Here's where I am in the INSTALL.maildir document. Here's how to set up qmail to use maildir for your incoming mail: This Command does not work What error does it generate ? Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command maildirmake is there. Are you running it as the user the maildir is for ? What command line are you using ? Should be something like : % su [username] % cd /home/[username] % maildirmake Maildir % exit providing you're currently running as a user able to 'su' this creates the following structure in the user's home dir: /home/[username]/Maildir/ /home/[username]/Maildir/new/ /home/[username]/Maildir/cur/ /home/[username]/Maildir/tmp/ What is the deal with the "%" as the first portion of the command? The % is like the C:\ prompt in DOS % maildirmake $HOME/Maildir % echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail Make sure you include the trailing slash on Maildir/. The system administrator can set up Maildir as the default for everybody by creating a maildir in the new-user template directory and replacing ./Mailbox with ./Maildir/ in /var/qmail/rc. maildir in the new-user template?? create directory called maildir? Nope, run maildirmake in the skeleton directory where is the new-user template directory on FreeBSD? What is the new-user template file called by default? Dunno on FreeBSD but on OpenBSD it's /etc/skel/ and /usr/share/skel Until your MUA supports maildir, you'll probably want to convert maildir format to (gaaack) mbox format. I've supplied a maildir2mbox utility that does the trick, along with some tiny qail and elq and pinq wrappers that call maildir2mbox before calling Mail or elm or pine. * Does mail(MUA), I think binmail, support maildir? This is what came default on * the bare system load. How do you implement maildir2mbox and (gaaack)? HTH, Steffan -- http://therookie.dyndns.org
Re: Where to read about single uid/gid virtual domain delivery?
Julian, There's a howto at- http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.html You may also want to check out vpopmail at- http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail Hope this helps. Regards, Charles Werbick The Wirehouse Julian L. Cardarelli writes: Where do I read about single uid/gid virtual domain delivery/pop? J
Re: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs
Mike, You might make sure that the UID/GIDs map the same on both servers and the NFS machine. i.e.- If the qmaild user is user 500 on the first server, but is a different UID number on the second server or the NFS machine you might have problems. Also, what do your tcpserver init scripts look like for both servers? They should be identical. Regards, Charles Werbick The Wirehouse Mike Denka writes: Hmmm . . . that's a good thought. I really hadn't considered using rsync since NFS seems to be working fine at least in terms of handling large mail volumes. But rsync would have some distinct advantages. However, I don't think that is the source of my problems because I had access problems getting to the control files when first setting up the server and the error messages in /var/log/syslog are pretty clear (e.g., "Can't_read_control", or something to that affect). Thanks for the rsyinc tip. I will try it out. Meanwhile, any other thoughts on why the second server suddenly cannot make smtp connections to the outside world or chdir to Mailbox? Mike -Original Message- From: steve j. kondik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs you might consider using rsync to sync your conffiles, instead of sharing them over nfs. this would eliminate alot of problems and latency i'd think. On 06/24/00 @ 12:11AM, Mike Denka wrote: I've got two qmail servers running inside a load balancer. They both access the same /var/mail/username/Maildir directories on an NFS server. They also share many of the same configuration files in /var/qmail/control on the NFS server. The files they share are local symbolic links to the shared volume on the NFS server. A few hours after bringing up the second qmail server, the first one, which had been running fine for two weeks, quit working. The errors I am getting in the syslog file on the failing server are "Can't_connect_to_SMTP_server" and "Can't_chdir_to_Maidir". Anyone have any success with this configuration or have any idea what could be causing the first server to loose its way? Running qmail and NFS on Solaris 2.7 (first server and NFS server) and 2.8 (second qmail server). The first server (the one failing) responds to connections on port 25 but can't send or deliver and is not spawning any qmail processes. The second server is now doing all the work. Thanks, Mike -- Steve J. Kondik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stargate Industries, LLC - Network Operations Center
overlooking virtualdomains?
Hey folks - Anyone have any ideas why this is bouncing or can you give me some tips about how to better diagnose this? judharris.com:jud -- is in my control/virtualdomains judharris.com -- is in control/rcpthosts the only thing in control/locals is "localhost" my .qmail-default contains "|/usr/local/bin/vdeliver" Other vdomains on this server work fine. Here's the bounce message I get: -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24 Jun 2000 19:21:45 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at nurelm.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) ... shouldn't it overlook the locals file when it sees the entries in rcpthosts and/or virtualdomains? why's it choking on the locals? Thanks in advance! -Jud
Re: Qmail Clients
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:06:24AM -0700, John van V. wrote: Hi all, I hooked up a free smtp/pop3 page which sorta worked but broke on attachments. [..] I hardwired al-the-pal's to qmail inject and the new proc may be expensive but its only for replys. Managing Maildir actually looks like a piece of cake, all I need is an open source set of CGI's to play with. I really don't got the message of your mail, but you may have a look at Mail::Folder::Maildir at the nearest CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailFolder /magnus -- http://x42.com/
Re: overlooking virtualdomains?
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:28:39PM -0500, Jud Harris wrote: Hey folks - Anyone have any ideas why this is bouncing or can you give me some tips about how to better diagnose this? judharris.com:jud -- is in my control/virtualdomains judharris.com -- is in control/rcpthosts the only thing in control/locals is "localhost" my .qmail-default contains "|/usr/local/bin/vdeliver" Other vdomains on this server work fine. Here's the bounce message I get: -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24 Jun 2000 19:21:45 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at nurelm.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. Have you restarted qmail? It needs to reread it's configuration files! /magnus -- http://x42.com/
RE: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs
Both servers are NIS clients from the same master, which happens to be the NFS server. So the user information is identical across all machines involved. The tcpserver init scripts on the second machine were copied from the first machine, and so are also identical. Both good points, but not the problem, I'm afraid. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:10 PM To: Mike Denka Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs Mike, You might make sure that the UID/GIDs map the same on both servers and the NFS machine. i.e.- If the qmaild user is user 500 on the first server, but is a different UID number on the second server or the NFS machine you might have problems. Also, what do your tcpserver init scripts look like for both servers? They should be identical. Regards, Charles Werbick The Wirehouse Mike Denka writes: Hmmm . . . that's a good thought. I really hadn't considered using rsync since NFS seems to be working fine at least in terms of handling large mail volumes. But rsync would have some distinct advantages. However, I don't think that is the source of my problems because I had access problems getting to the control files when first setting up the server and the error messages in /var/log/syslog are pretty clear (e.g., "Can't_read_control", or something to that affect). Thanks for the rsyinc tip. I will try it out. Meanwhile, any other thoughts on why the second server suddenly cannot make smtp connections to the outside world or chdir to Mailbox? Mike -Original Message- From: steve j. kondik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: load balancing two qmail servers using nfs you might consider using rsync to sync your conffiles, instead of sharing them over nfs. this would eliminate alot of problems and latency i'd think. On 06/24/00 @ 12:11AM, Mike Denka wrote: I've got two qmail servers running inside a load balancer. They both access the same /var/mail/username/Maildir directories on an NFS server. They also share many of the same configuration files in /var/qmail/control on the NFS server. The files they share are local symbolic links to the shared volume on the NFS server. A few hours after bringing up the second qmail server, the first one, which had been running fine for two weeks, quit working. The errors I am getting in the syslog file on the failing server are "Can't_connect_to_SMTP_server" and "Can't_chdir_to_Maidir". Anyone have any success with this configuration or have any idea what could be causing the first server to loose its way? Running qmail and NFS on Solaris 2.7 (first server and NFS server) and 2.8 (second qmail server). The first server (the one failing) responds to connections on port 25 but can't send or deliver and is not spawning any qmail processes. The second server is now doing all the work. Thanks, Mike -- Steve J. Kondik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stargate Industries, LLC - Network Operations Center
Finished my checkpassword
I finished my checkpassword to allow multiple domains over one ip address by having users login with [EMAIL PROTECTED] It checks /var/qmail/domains/domain.com.passwd for the username/password/mail root shell. It is intended to operate with the single uid/gid "popuser" system by Paul Gregg and you can get it from me if you want it. Just let me know. Regards, Julian Cardarelli - Original Message - From: Magnus Bodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 5:11 PM Subject: Re: Qmail Clients On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:06:24AM -0700, John van V. wrote: Hi all, I hooked up a free smtp/pop3 page which sorta worked but broke on attachments. [..] I hardwired al-the-pal's to qmail inject and the new proc may be expensive but its only for replys. Managing Maildir actually looks like a piece of cake, all I need is an open source set of CGI's to play with. I really don't got the message of your mail, but you may have a look at Mail::Folder::Maildir at the nearest CPAN. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MailFolder /magnus -- http://x42.com/
Errormsg: Maildir is a directory
hi, i told qmail to deliver emails to /home/[user]/Maildir, but whenever qmail tries to deliver an email, it prints "unable_to_open_./Maildir:is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)" somebody here who could tell me how to get this fixed ? -- regards jens --- department computer science, university of dortmund linux ... life's too short for reboots!
Re: Errormsg: Maildir is a directory
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:51:01AM +0200, Jens Georg wrote: hi, i told qmail to deliver emails to /home/[user]/Maildir, but whenever qmail tries to deliver an email, it prints "unable_to_open_./Maildir:is_a_directory._(#4.2.1)" somebody here who could tell me how to get this fixed ? Yes: add a trailing slash to wherever you tell qmail to deliver to the Maildir (ie: /home/$USER/Maildir/ and not /home/$USER/Maildir ). -Johan -- Johan Almqvist
RE: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command maildirmake is there. Are you running it as the user the maildir is for ? as root, and it was working on the root user. Then I tried the ~username/Maildir and it worked for the other 3 users. It shouldn't, you'll run into problems later on !! The ~username/Maildir **needs** to be owned by username If it's not, qmail **won't** deliver mail ** OK, I went back and chown the directories to their user-owners. The owner was root, like you said. The command maildirmake $HOME/Maildir. Should it be run by the user only? I was thinking this was an administrative command for setting up all users with a ~user/Maildir. I did a maildirmake /usr/share/skel/Maildir and then added a user. It did create the ~user/Maildir and its subs with the proper owner and rights. drwx. So I think that is straight now. The other command that I ran, I dont completely understand, so I couldn't verify that it worked properly. echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail I executed this from the same place I executed the other commands. /var/qmail/bin It seems like maybe I should have been in the users directory? What does this actually do? I can send mail from all users, including root. Local send and Internet send. I can reply to message to all users except root. Anytime I send to root, the log says un 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351162 delivery 56: deferral: Unable_to_ope n_./Mailbox:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/ Jun 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351423 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 I guess I didn't get /Mailbox switched to Maildir. I figured I could fix that in a bit. I have been looking in ~user/Mailbox to see if the messages are being received. The docs had me modify my rc file, then later had me copy /var/qmail/boot/home to /var/qmail/rc which overwrote my previous edit of ./Maildir instead of ./Mailbox. I'll go and fix that now. Here is the file before I edit it. #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail *** I am changing this line to : qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail Is the splogger qmail correct? ONE MORE: Where should the ~alias/Mailbox be, and who should be the owner. Basic alias, ie.. Postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, root. All I did according to the doc was touch ~alias/.qmail-postmaster, ~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon, ~alias/.qmail-default and ~alias/.qmail-root. Then I chmod 644 qmail.* These empty files are in /var/qmail/alias. They are 0 byte files. Do they need something in them relating to the alias? The doc says look at dot-qmail.0 for details, but the file has a bunch of characters just thrown in where some of the important stuff is, and I don't want to make any changes where I don't know what I am doing. I have to do some reading on man to make it find the file where it is now. It is still in the src diretory. For some reason, it didn't get copied over to the regular man directories. I hate to ask so many questions, but it is one of the best ways to figure these things out. My experience is with Novell/NT and desktops. This is my first stab at Unix. I want to go back, if the original writer of the Install documents doesn't mind and do a modification of these documents for FreeBSD 4.0, in particular. I know I would have been glad to get my hands on something like this before I got started. I already have a bunch of documentation on setting up Apache 1.3.12 that I want to put out for some other people to get ahold of. I find alot of people asking the same questions that I had trouble with. Same thing with DNS. I am going to take my other PIII 600 and setup a second box with this one to reference when I do a final re-write on the install differences for FreeBSD. It was mostly diretory differences and file name differences, but it sure makes it easy when the doc says go here and edit this, and it is really there to be edited. Thanks for everyones comments. I really appreciate the help. I hope to help others in return. When I get finished with the docs that I am going to re-write for FreeBSD, I'll send some periodic mails to the list so others will know where to find them. Thanks again, Mark Thomas. Special thanks to you, Steffan Hoeke... -Original Message- From: Steffan Hoeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 3:20 PM To: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please! On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:00:53PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: Yes, I have tried Life with Qmail. I got into trouble when I got to creating the rc.0 directories that don't exist on FreeBSD. So, I stopped and went back to the INSTALL. I found workarounds for everything except the (gaaak) maildir2mbox, but I am still searching for some additional info on install/setup of these two features. Thanks for your response. MarkT -Original Message-
Maildir and Mailbox
Where does the incomming and outgoing mail actually get filed. Each user has a Maildir subdirectory with tmp,cur,new subdirectories under it. It appears that I am able to receive messages, but they are not showing up in Maildir. I was able to send/recieve mail using the Mailbox file. I could cat the Mailbox file in the users directory, but since I tried to convert over to Maildir, I havn't been able to find the incomming messages. Mark
RE: Maildir and Mailbox
Make sure you have put: ./Maildir/ in ~/.qmail for each user (or /etc/skel/.qmail for new user). See man dot-qmail for more info. Brett Randall Manager InterPlanetary Solutions http://ipsware.com/ http://ipsware.com/ -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 25 June 2000 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Maildir and Mailbox Where does the incomming and outgoing mail actually get filed. Each user has a Maildir subdirectory with tmp,cur,new subdirectories under it. It appears that I am able to receive messages, but they are not showing up in Maildir. I was able to send/recieve mail using the Mailbox file. I could cat the Mailbox file in the users directory, but since I tried to convert over to Maildir, I havn't been able to find the incomming messages. Mark
Re: INSTALL.maildir - Clairification please!
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 07:31:51PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
Neither does maildirmake $HOME/Maildir, although the command
maildirmake is there.
Are you running it as the user the maildir is for ?
as root, and it was working on the root user. Then I tried the
~username/Maildir and it worked for the other 3 users.
It shouldn't, you'll run into problems later on !!
The ~username/Maildir **needs** to be owned by username
If it's not, qmail **won't** deliver mail
** OK, I went back and chown the directories to their user-owners.
The owner was root, like you said.
The command maildirmake $HOME/Maildir. Should it be run by the user only? I
was thinking this was an administrative command for setting up all users
with a ~user/Maildir.
For existing users it's easiest to 'su username' and then run maildirmake
It is an administrative command, but it doesn't create the Maildir for every
user..
I did a maildirmake /usr/share/skel/Maildir and then added a user. It did
create the ~user/Maildir and its subs with the proper owner and rights.
drwx. So I think that is straight now.
it should be FBSD changes the appropriate permissions as part of adduser IIRC.
The other command that I ran, I dont completely understand, so I couldn't
verify that it worked properly. echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail
echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail creates a .qmail file in the *current* user's home
directory and tells qmail to deliver all mail for this user to the Maildir in
it's home directory.
I executed this from the same place I executed the other commands.
/var/qmail/bin
not quite correct
It seems like maybe I should have been in the users directory?
You're getting the hang of it ;-)
The other alternative is using lwq's defaultdelivery file.
What does this actually do?
See above.
I can send mail from all users, including root. Local send and Internet
send.
I can reply to message to all users except root. Anytime I send to root,
the log says un 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351162 delivery 56:
deferral: Unable_to_open_./Mailbox:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/
Jun 24 19:46:38 ns1 qmail: 961893998.351423 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Did you create an alias for root in /var/qmail/alias ?
qmail, by design, doesn't deliver mail to root !
I guess I didn't get /Mailbox switched to Maildir. I figured I could fix
that in a bit. I have been looking in ~user/Mailbox to see if the messages
are being received.
If you created the .qmail file containing ./Maildir/ in each home dir the Mailbox file
has become obsolete.
The docs had me modify my rc file, then later had me copy
/var/qmail/boot/home to /var/qmail/rc which overwrote my previous edit of
./Maildir instead of ./Mailbox. I'll go and fix that now.
GRIN
some insight in what you're doing *is* required
/GRIN
Here is the file before I edit it.
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail
***
I am changing this line to :
qmail-start ./Maildir splogger qmail
Is the splogger qmail correct?
The splogger qmail should work.
the ./Maildir entry is wrong, now qmail is delivering all mail to an mbox file named
Maildir
There should be a / after ./Maildir
The line should read:
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
ONE MORE:
Where should the ~alias/Mailbox be, and who should be the owner.
Basic alias, ie.. Postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, root.
All I did according to the doc was touch ~alias/.qmail-postmaster,
~alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon, ~alias/.qmail-default and ~alias/.qmail-root.
Then I chmod 644 qmail.*
These empty files are in /var/qmail/alias. They are 0 byte files. Do they
need something in them relating to the alias? The doc says look at
dot-qmail.0 for details, but the file has a bunch of characters just thrown
in where some of the important stuff is, and I don't want to make any
changes where I don't know what I am doing. I have to do some reading on man
to make it find the file where it is now. It is still in the src diretory.
For some reason, it didn't get copied over to the regular man directories.
The ~alias/Mailbox should be in /var/qmail/alias ;-)
BUT you don't want a Mailbox file. you want a Maildir !
If you on;y touch those files, all mail to these users will be delivered to
/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/
Touching those .qmail files isn't enough if you want mail to postmaster,root and
mailer-daemon delivered to a specific user.
The man pages are in /var/qmail/man.
One way to acces them is to copy them to your main man location. Which, on OBSD is
rooted in /usr/local/man.
The other way to acces them is to add /var/qmail/man to your MANPATH...
The appropriate command to read dot-qmail is 'man dot-qmail' which should
output something like this:
dot-qmail(5) dot-qmail(5)
NAME
dot-qmail - control
