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Hello I have installed qmail-pop-smtp and courier-imap with Micrsoft sql authentication succesfully.I am able authenticate imap connections through IMAP connection.I need to know if i can have a smtp authentication in a similiar way where mail will delivered after checking the mailfolder from the same Database Please advice Thanx Suresh Mithi.com Pvt. Ltd. -- Send and receive mail in Indian languages Register free at http://www.mailjol.com
RE: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu
Ok, if I understand the process, qmail allows me to use the /var/qmail/users/assign file to define wildcard email address processing. Basically, I can define a user and a directory to use when processing emails whose addresses start with certain characters. qmail looks into the specified directory and tries to file a .qmail file. If there isn't a suitable one, it creates something called Mailfile. That isn't what I want. If it finds a file called .qmail-default, it executes the instructions within and does exactly what I want. I don't want to use .qmail-default, however. My problem is that I want to use a more specific name for the .qmail file. I can't deduce from the man pages what the qmail file should be called. ** As per the man page for qmail-user, .qmail files ARE involved: "A simple assignment is a line of the form =local:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:ext: Here local is an address; user, uid, and gid are the account name, uid, and gid of the user in charge of local; and messages to local will be controlled by homedir/.qmaildashext." * I believe there is an alias facilty that does something similar and involves something to do with sticking .qmail files in the qmail/aliases directory. I have had poor success with that - I wonder if the qmail daemon has the authority to write into my application's directories. Tony -Original Message- From: David Geller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:58 PM To: Tony Ennis Subject: RE: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Tony Ennis wrote: > The man pages for the version of qmail I'm using says that the > cdb file is made from the assign file: > > "qmail-newu reads the assignments in /var/qmail/users/assign > and writes them into /var/qmail/users/cdb in a binary format > suited for quick access by qmail-lspawn." > I'm confused now about what you're asking. You seem to be repeating what I just wrote - suggesting that the info you have need to go into a file named aliases in the /var/qmail/users directory. There are no .qmail files involved. - David
Re: Outlook Express
> Hi everyone. I use the pop daemon from qmail (qmail-pop3d) and the > Outlook Express program is making me crazy. Outlook makes everyone crazy. Get yourself a real email program. One that gives meaningful error messages. > What is happening? Read your log files. Felix
RE: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu
The man pages for the version of qmail I'm using says that the cdb file is made from the assign file: "qmail-newu reads the assignments in /var/qmail/users/assign and writes them into /var/qmail/users/cdb in a binary format suited for quick access by qmail-lspawn." Tony -Original Message- From: David Geller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:27 PM To: Tony Ennis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Tony Ennis wrote: > vy-anon(anumber)@mydomain.com > > where (number) is a timestamp. I do not know what the number will > be since it is generated on-the-fly. However, all such emails > will be processed by the same facility. > > Reading the man pages (shock!) I found that there is a facility for > this very thing - you add a config line to users/assign file then > run newu. Here is my config line: > > +vy-anon:fred:1000:100:/usr/local/myapp::: > > My problem is that I can't deduce what the .qmail file is supposed > to be called. Everything works fine if I put .qmail-default in > /usr/local/myapp. But I don't want a default file - I want a config > file that is explicitly associated with vy-anon. > I think you want this line to go into /var/qmail/users/aliases. Then run qmail-newu, which will gen the cdb file. I think you might need to restart qmail too. - David Geller
Re: qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Tony Ennis wrote: > vy-anon(anumber)@mydomain.com > > where (number) is a timestamp. I do not know what the number will > be since it is generated on-the-fly. However, all such emails > will be processed by the same facility. > > Reading the man pages (shock!) I found that there is a facility for > this very thing - you add a config line to users/assign file then > run newu. Here is my config line: > > +vy-anon:fred:1000:100:/usr/local/myapp::: > > My problem is that I can't deduce what the .qmail file is supposed > to be called. Everything works fine if I put .qmail-default in > /usr/local/myapp. But I don't want a default file - I want a config > file that is explicitly associated with vy-anon. > I think you want this line to go into /var/qmail/users/aliases. Then run qmail-newu, which will gen the cdb file. I think you might need to restart qmail too. - David Geller
qmail-users, users/assign, and qmail-newu
Hello! My server is going to receive emails that look lke this: vy-anon(anumber)@mydomain.com where (number) is a timestamp. I do not know what the number will be since it is generated on-the-fly. However, all such emails will be processed by the same facility. Reading the man pages (shock!) I found that there is a facility for this very thing - you add a config line to users/assign file then run newu. Here is my config line: +vy-anon:fred:1000:100:/usr/local/myapp::: My problem is that I can't deduce what the .qmail file is supposed to be called. Everything works fine if I put .qmail-default in /usr/local/myapp. But I don't want a default file - I want a config file that is explicitly associated with vy-anon. The documentation spells it out fairly well for simple conversions but I am confused by the sentence pertaining to wildcards. Here is a portion of the man page: |WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS | A wildcard assignment is a line of the form | | +loc:user:uid:gid:homedir:dash:pre: | The crux is this "pre" value. What is this!? In the example above, what should the .qmail file be called? Thanks, Tony
RE: Outlook Express
hi, admin wrote: > Hi everyone. I use the pop daemon from qmail (qmail-pop3d) and the how are you starting the pop3-daemon? try a telnet mail.infomoney.com.br on port 110 from one of your client workstation. is there a sudden response or a timeout? and : what does the log say?(TM) ;) a
Outlook Express
Hi everyone. I use the pop daemon from qmail (qmail-pop3d) and the Outlook Express program is making me crazy. I looked for a solution in the archives, but i didn't find it. My problem is: My clients use Microshit Outlook Express and i'm having a lot of error messages from qmail pop server: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'infomoney', Server: 'mail.infomoney.com.br', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F Then I try again, and everything works fine! Then I try again and the error reappear, and ... The computer with the pop daemon is on the same network that the clients are. I can ping the machine all the time. There are no network problems neither a long period of inactivity (i suppose). The config of qmail is so simple that i couldn't find anything suspect. What is happening? There is no way to change from Outlook to other mail client. I have seen that there are many problems with Outlook, but i need a solution using outlook express. Can someone help? I'm sorry if the solution is in the docs, or in the faq, or in the archives, or ... but I looked for and I found nothing. Thank you for your help, cassio.
Re: Can I run multiple qmail-smptd on one install
On 02 Nov 2000 09:53:00 -0800, Matt Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you HAVE to do it, then there should be no reason why you can't run >tcpserver/qmail-smtpd from several different ports. After all, a new I've been thinking about something similar. Suppose you're an ISP that hosts domains for your customers. IMHO it would be a nice service to offer the option of using MAPS RBL, RSS or ORBS for your customers. For example, if you want to offer a) no filtering b) MAPS RBL c) MAPS RBL + RSS d) MAPS RBL + RSS + ORBS you'd setup your qmail-installation as you normally would, but create some extra qmail-smtpds on different IP adresses, and point the domain MX record to the qmail-smtp of your choice. Would something like this work? end -- Jurjen Oskam * carnivore! * http://www.stupendous.org/ for PGP key assassinate nuclear iraq clinton kill bomb USA eta ira cia fbi nsa kill president wall street ruin economy disrupt phonenetwork atomic bomb sarin nerve gas bin laden military -*- DVD Decryption at www.stupendous.org -*-
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Re: UUCP Setup
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:14:14 +0530 From: Ruchir Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1. Qmail on server Q1 is unable to deliver the mail fetched over UUCP to the local POP mailboxes. How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop mailboxes.? In what way does it fail? What precisely are you trying to do? Sending mail over UUCP is normally done by using uux to invoke rmail on the remote system. To make this work, you must have a copy of the rmail program, which is provided by neither qmail nor UUCP. The rmail which comes with sendmail will work with qmail. 2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up connection is available only for less than an hour daily, it will not be possible for Qmail to pump out all queued emails during that period. Can UUCP solve this problem? You can send outgoing mail over UUCP. See http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/outgoing.html#uucp However, if your dialup connection is not up for long enough to send out all your mail messages, then you are still going to have trouble. UUCP does not increase the bandwidth available over a link. Ian
Re: ANNOUNCE: qrblcheck -- rbl checking for .qmail
Looks good... I tried not play with the original rblcheck as much as
possible. Thanks for the tips, I'll roll them in when I get a chance.
My plan is to rewrite the whole mess to make it a bit more
coherent (not that rblcheck wasn't, but the combo of my code and his
isn't the cleanest, and there's extra stuff in there that doesn't need
to be).
jon
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:25:33PM +, Tullio Andreatta wrote:
> >I'm not an experienced C programmer, so feedback is welcome and
> >encouraged.
>
> Using dynamic allocated memory to store static data is not so good.
> Since we know RBL domains at compile time, how about ...
>
> struct rbl {
> char *site;
> unsigned int rating;
> } rblsites[] = {
> { "rbl.maps.vix.com", 16},
> { "dul.maps.vix.com", 8},
> { "relays.mail-abuse.org", 4},
> { "outputs.orbs.org", 2},
> { "relays.orbs.org", 1},
> { NULL, 0 }
> };
>
> struct rbl *ptr;
>
> ... and ...
>
> rblfiltered = 0;
> for (ptr = rblsites; ptr->site != NULL; ptr++)
> {
> if (max_rating >= ptr->rating)
> {
> response = rblcheck(a, ptr->site, txt);
> if (response)
> rbfiltered += ptr->rating;
> }
> }
>
> return rbfiltered;
> }
>
> ... ?
Re: UUCP Setup
> How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop > mailboxes.? Use the rmail program included in the BSMTP package on www.qmail.org > 2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We > have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up connection is available > only for less than an hour daily, it will not be possible for Qmail to pump > out all queued emails during that period. Can UUCP solve this problem? Yes. Deliver to a maildir and use maildir2bsmtp from the above mentioned package. Regards, Frank
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 07:17:23AM -0800, Matt Brown wrote: [snip] > > In Apache, pre-forking is useful because it is one big fat whale. > > > > If you take a look at WN, for example (http://www.wnserver.org/), that > > doesn't pre-fork, you'll see that it shows similar or better > > performance. > > I know Dan has commented on this kind of thing before, and I'm sure > he'd actually tested it. The gist of his comments as I remember was > that fork() and exec() have gotten an unjustified bad reputation among > UNIX programmers which they DO NOT DESERVE. Forking a small process > is quite cheap, and exec is even cheaper. Right now, fork() and exec() (funny how exec() actually doesn't exist :) are the only calls that I trust to be portable over a wide range of UNIXes. > I think expending effort on an ugly hack of an optimization like this > is poorly considered when there are far more fundamental causes of > poor performance than this in qmail. Very correct. Useful things would possibly be redesigning the scheduler so that high concurrency could be reached much faster while injection is still happening. Even djb states (in THOUGHTS?) that there is room for improvement. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:15:50AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > Unless you're running a file-system that doesn't do effectively a > linear scan of a directory for every insert and remove operation, > keeping the todo small is a very good idea. Otherwise you chew up > a lot of time in the kernel. That's why I said it's a good idea > to have a scheduler that gives precedence to the todo queue. Why > do you disagree? I totally agree with the performance gain of the big todo patch on such systems. However, if you e.g. have a busy "incoming" server I don't see why it would be good to give precedence to processing the incoming queue. IMHO you can't generalize that. It heavily depends on the sort of messages you receive. If within one loop of the scheduler you always have one incoming message with one remote delivery it's a pari situation, but if you always have one incoming message with more than one remote delivery it would be IMHO better to priorize deliveries. > >Sorry? No you can't, at least not with a lot of the bounces. If > >qmail-remote gets a permantent error, it signals back to qmail-send > >and a bounce is generated internally (i.e. injected into the queue). > >You can't avoid this happen locally. > > Sorry? Yes you can. If it's important to you to do so, simply move > into place a qmail-queue which injects the messages into the other queue. > If you're still injecting into the main queue at this time, you'll need > to call qmail-queue directly. It all comes down to how important it > is to you to get better performance. Ok, thats a valid point :-) I'll try setting up a second queue (i.e. for bounces) on the "waving" server and see if performance changes. > The images posted previously suggest that their biggest problem was with > remote bounces, however. If they were local bounces, I would expect to > have seen consistently lower performance, but the way it looked to me > was that delivery would pick up quite nicely and run for a while until > remote hosts started turning around a bunch of bounces. That was just > a guess, but it seemed not entirely an unreasonable one. In the first image (wavy server) the MX of the sender address is set to another server. The slow down because of bounces are those bounces that get a permanent error directly from qmail-remote. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.
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Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:48:38PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: >I think there shouldn't be one queue in the scheduler. There's IMHO no >need to have the scheduler do both: insert new messages and schedule >deliveries. the big-todo patch has nothing to do with it. it just Unless you're running a file-system that doesn't do effectively a linear scan of a directory for every insert and remove operation, keeping the todo small is a very good idea. Otherwise you chew up a lot of time in the kernel. That's why I said it's a good idea to have a scheduler that gives precedence to the todo queue. Why do you disagree? >Sorry? No you can't, at least not with a lot of the bounces. If >qmail-remote gets a permantent error, it signals back to qmail-send >and a bounce is generated internally (i.e. injected into the queue). >You can't avoid this happen locally. Sorry? Yes you can. If it's important to you to do so, simply move into place a qmail-queue which injects the messages into the other queue. If you're still injecting into the main queue at this time, you'll need to call qmail-queue directly. It all comes down to how important it is to you to get better performance. The images posted previously suggest that their biggest problem was with remote bounces, however. If they were local bounces, I would expect to have seen consistently lower performance, but the way it looked to me was that delivery would pick up quite nicely and run for a while until remote hosts started turning around a bunch of bounces. That was just a guess, but it seemed not entirely an unreasonable one. Sean -- Hack the man. VOTE! November 7, 2000 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Qmail madness? (2)
Hi all, I think I found the problem and fixed it, by removing the 'stream' for qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf So no more need to look into this problem. Regards Paul -- Oyster (n.): a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:13:11 +0100 (CET) From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Qmail madness? Hello, I had to reinstall part of my system, and since then qmail is acting strangely. I have tried to locate the answer in the archives, but I cannot find it. When I dial into my ISP, qmail now starts downloading incoming mail by itself. It did not do that before. In itself this is not a terrible thing, but the mail that is retrieved is dumped into the alias-directory that I set up for serialmail. This directory usually just contains the mail I want to send out. Can anyone please tell me how to prevent qmail from downloading my e-mails? I usually get that with Getmail, this puts things where they belong. Regards, Paul -- Oyster (n.): a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: Quota on outgoing mail
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:06:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And once you have that limit in place, just make sure your users don't > send two mails of half the size to get around this limit... Also that will only work for eMails injected via SMTP. Real "local" users that inject via qmail-inject can still send messages of any size. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.
RE: QMail is't starting....
Thanks Joost... I just solved my problem with the 25 port (I was wrong the initd.conf file), but right now I have problem with the 110 port...this is the error : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused any idea...?? Thanks in advance... Ing. J@vier Morquecho Morquecho Cedetel Desarrollo de proyectos comerciales Tel : 177-10-87 Cel : 177-00-87 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-movil : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Cedetel : http://www.cedetel.com.mx "#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))// Shakespeare" -Mensaje original- De: Joost van Baal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Sábado 4 de Noviembre de 2000 5:13 PM Para: Javier Morquecho Morquecho CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: QMail is't starting On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:20:29PM -0600, Javier Morquecho Morquecho wrote: > > I just instaled QMail, but it is not starting, I can not to telnet to my > machine by 25 or 110 ports (I can to do a normal telnet), where can to check > ??, I'm using RedHat What exactly happens when you telnet to port 25? Do you get a telnet thingie like `Escape character is '^]'.' ? What does your startup script look like? Did you look at your logfiles? What do they say? Joost -- . . Joost van Baal . . . . http://mdcc.cx/ . .
Qmail madness?
Hello, I had to reinstall part of my system, and since then qmail is acting strangely. I have tried to locate the answer in the archives, but I cannot find it. When I dial into my ISP, qmail now starts downloading incoming mail by itself. It did not do that before. In itself this is not a terrible thing, but the mail that is retrieved is dumped into the alias-directory that I set up for serialmail. This directory usually just contains the mail I want to send out. Can anyone please tell me how to prevent qmail from downloading my e-mails? I usually get that with Getmail, this puts things where they belong. Regards, Paul -- Oyster (n.): a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:21:58AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > Giving precidence to processing the todo queue seems like a good idea, > especially if you don't have the big-todo patch applied. I think there shouldn't be one queue in the scheduler. There's IMHO no need to have the scheduler do both: insert new messages and schedule deliveries. the big-todo patch has nothing to do with it. it just speeds up access time on some filesystems. > >well administrated and even after the queue has reached a status where > >you have no unprocessed messages at one point the bounces slow down > >qmail quite a lot. > > Sounds like a good case for setting up a second qmail, one just for pumping > mail out while another is handling bounces. Sorry? No you can't, at least not with a lot of the bounces. If qmail-remote gets a permantent error, it signals back to qmail-send and a bounce is generated internally (i.e. injected into the queue). You can't avoid this happen locally. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0| realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:52:50PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > [snip] > > The first thing to do about this if you want to implement it is to > > find out exactly WHY apache chose to do it that way. What were they > > hoping to resolve with that, and did it actually achieve the desired > > results? > > In Apache, pre-forking is useful because it is one big fat whale. > > If you take a look at WN, for example (http://www.wnserver.org/), that > doesn't pre-fork, you'll see that it shows similar or better > performance. I know Dan has commented on this kind of thing before, and I'm sure he'd actually tested it. The gist of his comments as I remember was that fork() and exec() have gotten an unjustified bad reputation among UNIX programmers which they DO NOT DESERVE. Forking a small process is quite cheap, and exec is even cheaper. I think expending effort on an ugly hack of an optimization like this is poorly considered when there are far more fundamental causes of poor performance than this in qmail. -Matt -- | Matthew J. Brown - Senior Network Administrator - NBCi Shopping | | 1983 W. 190th St, Suite 100, Torrance CA 90504 | | Phone: (310) 538-7122| Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell: (714) 457-1854| Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
Re: odd error - with /etc/qmail/aliases ?!?
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unable_to_switch_to_/etc/qmail/alias:_file_does_not_exist._(#4.3.0)/ One of your .qmail* files somewhere on your system has the line: /etc/qmail/aliases or /etc/qmail/aliases/ Unless you are using an unusual qmail distribution, or you modified the source/applied an unknown patch. Brett. -- >... File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
RE: queue problem
This means your queue is screwed up, try running make setup check from the qmail dir. -Original Message- From: Sebastian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:10 AM To: qmail liste Subject: queue problem hello, I have succesfully installed qmail on my local system. How I connect via telnet to my server and write a mail. It works pretty fine, but at the end of the smtp session he says "451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0)", what does that mean and where can I get information about this error? Thanks Sebastian
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:00:10AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: >qmail doesn't use concurrencies to their max as long as there are still >unprocessed messages in the queue or the deliveries generate a lot of >bounces. Giving precidence to processing the todo queue seems like a good idea, especially if you don't have the big-todo patch applied. >well administrated and even after the queue has reached a status where >you have no unprocessed messages at one point the bounces slow down >qmail quite a lot. Sounds like a good case for setting up a second qmail, one just for pumping mail out while another is handling bounces. >I think a big gain in performance would be to split up the scheduler >in qmail-send into at least one for remote, one for locals and one >for sorting in new messages into the remote or local queue. Maybe some profiling on qmail-send would be appropriate... Sean -- Hack the government. VOTE! November 7, 2000 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:38:24AM +, Greg Cope wrote: >Hence to improve performance inject should be split up i.e inject 2000, >wait, inject another 2000. In the wait times concurrency remote would >be reached. I always felt that it wasn't that useful to have the concurrency hit, until the injection was completed. It takes time to ramp up and down from full concurrencyremote. During this time you're not reaching full performance for either sending or injection. Unless you're out of space on the queue device. >Any ideas on what a good number to try would be for inject / wait cycle >? You don't want your todo to get too big, I'd pause injection when the todo gets to be a few hundred messages, especially if you aren't using the big-todo patches. Sean -- Hack the government. VOTE! November 7, 2000 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
Re: Quota on outgoing mail
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:49:57PM +0100, Jens Georg wrote: > hi peter, > > > > are making constant overloads on my bandwidth... > > > > echo 10485760 > /var/qmail/control/databytes > > is this really enough ? i remember to read once that qmail has to be > compiled specially to use this feature. qmail-smtpd instantly picks up this setting, no need for recompiles or restarts. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
Re: Error Code
Wesley Darlington wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > Check your `ulimit's? > > Wesley. > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 07:48:22PM +0200, Adrian Turcu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using qmail v1.03 on RedHat 6.2 system. > > After installation, when I try to test the mail-server locally > > I got the following error: > > > > unable to exec qq (#4.3.0) > > > > What happen ? > > The installation is for Maildir. > > > > I am using qmail for some times, but never get this message until now (it is >always a beginning) > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Adrian Turcu > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have this problem only when I use what it's called "DRBD" device. This device is like NBD and RAID-1 (mirroring) if it sounds you familiar. Well, when I mount this device, everything looks fine until qmail try to do something with its queue, because when I mount local device (hdd) and run the same configuration qmail works fine (without errors and fast deliveries). It could be related to this kind of device (DRBD) ? If so, why ? What is the procedure of qmail server when try to queue ? It is a special procedure (I found somewhere in docs, that qmail identify messages using references on disk - inodes) ? Thanks, -- Adrian Turcu System Administrator Computers Department Romanian Railway Company Constanta Region E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +40 92 563791 (any time) +40 43 363977 (home)
odd error - with /etc/qmail/aliases ?!?
Dear All I've setup a qmail / vpopmail combo and added a Virtual domain. This machine is not connected to the internet (I am using it for local testing / install scripts for a bunch of servers). It delivers to know address fine - but when I send a message to a nonexistant_address@existing_domain I get the log entries below (no funny what do the logs say ... comments ;-). I know I am missing something simple - but why is qmail looking in /etc/qmail/aliases ?!?! in /var/qamil/aliases/.qmail-postmaster is: &[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this mix up due to the fact that I do not have a DNS entry for localhost.localdomain (obviously!) and that gjjc@rubber ... is a non local address ? Clues for this cluess admin welcome! Greg @40003a05b4f52c665734 info msg 114975: bytes 736 from <> qp 15484 uid 107 @40003a05b4f5371a50cc starting delivery 3: msg 114975 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003a05b4f5371b9cd4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b4f5380be48c delivery 3: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._vpopmail_(#5.1.1)/ @40003a05b4f601acd734 status: local 0/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b4f60ad7e6dc bounce msg 114975 qp 15487 @40003a05b4f60c685694 end msg 114975 @40003a05b4f61116fe0c new msg 114974 @40003a05b4f6111a596c info msg 114974: bytes 1215 from <#@[]> qp 15487 uid 107 @40003a05b4f619ef9084 starting delivery 4: msg 114974 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003a05b4f619f0d4bc status: local 1/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b4f61a922d6c delivery 4: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/etc/qmail/alias:_file_does_not_exist._(#4.3.0)/ @40003a05b4f61a9394cc status: local 0/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b55b1a0aec6c starting delivery 5: msg 114974 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003a05b55b1a0c4fe4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b55b1aa4a3fc delivery 5: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/etc/qmail/alias:_file_does_not_exist._(#4.3.0)/ @40003a05b55b1aa60774 status: local 0/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b6880ebcc22c starting delivery 6: msg 114974 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @40003a05b6880ebcf4f4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b6881078453c delivery 6: deferral: Unable_to_switch_to_/etc/qmail/alias:_file_does_not_exist._(#4.3.0)/ @40003a05b68810787bec status: local 0/10 remote 0/220 @40003a05b87b0fed7614 starting delivery 7: msg 114974 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
serialsmtp: fatal: network read error: no error
Hi, I installed qmail and serialmail and configured it, that outgoing mail is queue in ~alias/pppdir. That work fine. But the system will to sent the mails out: gemini:/root # maildirsmtp ~alias/pppdir alias-ppp- mail.gmx.de mpik180.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de serialsmtp: fatal: network read error: no error serialsmtp: fatal: network read error: no error serialsmtp: fatal: network read error: no error maildirserial: fatal: making no progress, giving up The host mail.gmx.de is the smtp server from my ISP. It is reachable. mpik180.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de is the 'official' hostname of my linux box. When I sent mail from the mailclient direct to the isp, everything works fine. What can be wrong? -- |Michael Renner E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |D-72072 Tuebingen Germany| |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq
Re: SPAM - Help!
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop > this? I can't remove the domain of my list of virtual domains > because there are more then 100 valid users to this domain... I find a bit of detective work never goes astray. Look at the Received headers, see if you can tell the first SMTP server it comes from. Test it to see if it is an open relay. If it is, you're in trouble because it is hard to track them. If it isn't, the spam is being sent from a user authorised to use that server. Easy solution? Create a ~alias/.qmail-user that contains &[EMAIL PROTECTED] or &postmaster@[ip.addr.of.relay] and let their postmaster deal with it. Brett. -- "I don't have anything against geeks. I was one for 11 years! I used to think PC's were the greatest thing since sliced bread... Then someone showed me sliced bread."
UUCP Setup
Hi Everyone We need transfer emails using UUCP. The n/w consists of a QMail server (Q1) which needs to fetch/send mails from a central qmail server (Q2) using UUCP over dialup. Now the fetching of emails is partly complete. We have two problems. 1. Qmail on server Q1 is unable to deliver the mail fetched over UUCP to the local POP mailboxes. How do we setup Qmail to deliver mail fetched over UUCP to the local pop mailboxes.? 2. How does the server Q1 send outgoing email to the central server Q2? We have considered using SMTP, but since the dial up connection is available only for less than an hour daily, it will not be possible for Qmail to pump out all queued emails during that period. Can UUCP solve this problem? Any help would be greatly welcomed. Thanks Ruchir
Re: tcpserver dying?
Was it started at reboot or did you start it manually? If the latter, did it exit when the login session that started it, logged out? How about now? How did you restart it? Reboot or manually? If the latter, is that login session still going? Regards. On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:57:10AM -0500, Hubbard, David wrote: > Hi all, does anyone know why tcpserver would die? I have > a lightly hit server and discovered that it was not servicing > pop3 requests anymore, tcpserver was not running. The > only non-standard things I'm doing is authenticating with > vchkpw from the vpopmail software. It started right back up > but I see no reason why it would have stopped. > > Here's how I start it: > > case "$1" in > start) > # Start daemons. > echo -n "Starting the POP3 daemon: " > env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ > tcpserver -v -g 200 -u 407 -p -R 0 pop3 \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.server.com \ > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir > 2>&1 | \ > /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3 20 & > echo "Done." > ;; > > > Thanks, > > David
queue problem
hello, I have succesfully installed qmail on my local system. How I connect via telnet to my server and write a mail. It works pretty fine, but at the end of the smtp session he says "451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0)", what does that mean and where can I get information about this error? Thanks Sebastian
Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:39:42PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: >If within one loop of the scheduler you always have one incoming >message with one remote delivery it's a pari situation, but if >you always have one incoming message with more than one remote delivery >it would be IMHO better to priorize deliveries. If you always have more than one new message on each loop of the scheduler, your system is not going to be able to catch up unless you can make the scheduler loop more often. ;-) The problem is that it's fairly easy to create traffic which causes the todo queue to grow faster than it can be processed. At one point a few years ago I had tweeked with building an SMTP system that could handle injecting messages into a queue much faster than qmail, and I had relative success. Let me run that test again... Nearly 400 3KB messages per second. I really should find time to work on that system again... Sean -- America has the best government money can buy! VOTE! November 7, 2000 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
SMTP Server test failed
I tested SMTP on my qmail installation (installed with "life with Qmail") with TEST.receive 1. SMTP server test: Forge some mail locally via SMTP. Replace ``me'' with your username and ``domain'' with your host's name. % telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 domain ESMTP helo dude 250 domain mail 250 ok rcpt 250 ok data 354 go ahead Subject: testing This is a test. . 250 ok 812345679 qp 12345 quit 221 domain Everything worked fine at the shell but I couldn't find the test email in the gast Mailbox ? Why could be the reason ? Thanks!
Re: Error Code
Wesley Darlington wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > Check your `ulimit's? > > Wesley. > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 07:48:22PM +0200, Adrian Turcu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using qmail v1.03 on RedHat 6.2 system. > > After installation, when I try to test the mail-server locally > > I got the following error: > > > > unable to exec qq (#4.3.0) > > > > What happen ? > > The installation is for Maildir. > > > > I am using qmail for some times, but never get this message until now (it is always a beginning) > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Adrian Turcu > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have this problem only when I use what it's called "DRBD" device. This device is like NBD and RAID-1 (mirroring) if it sounds you familiar. Well, when I mount this device, everything looks fine until qmail try to do something with its queue, because when I mount local device (hdd) and run the same configuration qmail works fine (without errors and fast deliveries). It could be related to this kind of device (DRBD) ? If so, why ? What is the procedure of qmail server when try to queue ? It is a special procedure (I found somewhere in docs, that qmail identify messages using references on disk - inodes) ? Thanks, -- Adrian Turcu System Administrator Computers Department Romanian Railway Company Constanta Region E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +40 92 563791 (any time) +40 43 363977 (home) __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: Quota on outgoing mail
hi, > > Yes, this really is all that needs to be done---no special compiling or > > patches. Read the man pages and you'll see. ;-) > > And once you have that limit in place, just make sure your users don't > send two mails of half the size to get around this limit... > > databytes will stop naive dis-interested users, but not determined naive users. so, what does seeting ../control/databytes i.e. to 1meg exactly do ? noone can send or receive emails larger than 1meg with the qmail system ? -- jens --- instant networks - netzwerkmanagment & internetfullservices http://www.instant-networks.de
tcpserver dying?
Hi all, does anyone know why tcpserver would die? I have a lightly hit server and discovered that it was not servicing pop3 requests anymore, tcpserver was not running. The only non-standard things I'm doing is authenticating with vchkpw from the vpopmail software. It started right back up but I see no reason why it would have stopped. Here's how I start it: case "$1" in start) # Start daemons. echo -n "Starting the POP3 daemon: " env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -v -g 200 -u 407 -p -R 0 pop3 \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.server.com \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \ /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3 20 & echo "Done." ;; Thanks, David
Re: SPAM - Help! - my solution
Hello, I have been having exactly the same problem. I solved it by creating an empty ~alias/.qmail-default file. After this, my server accepts (and immediately forgets) all error messages comming to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Petr On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: > Hello, > > Someone is using another smtp server to send a very big spam, but they > write the header with FROM = an unknown user of one of my virtual domains, > so postmasters keep sending bounce messages or autoresponders to this > unknown user and my postmaster is receving more than 1 emails. > > I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop this? I > can't remove the domain of my list of virtual domains because there are more > then 100 valid users to this domain... > > The spammer is from USA and I'm from Brazil, I don't known this f... > > I really need help!!! > > Thanks, > > Ari > > > --
SMTP-Autenticating without being root
Hi, I'm using the patch found at members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth to autenticate senders. My problem is that I have to run it (through inetd) as root, in order for it to work, my inetd.conf has the following entry: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /bin/checkpassword /bin/true That configuration only works if i substitute qmaild with root. I have tried chmoding /etc/shadow so qmaild can read it. I've also set so qmaild can execute /bin/checkpassword. Now, I know you're supposed to run qmaild through tcpserver nowadays, but I can't seem to get that to work with another user except from root either. Anyone with a clue? The logs don't show anything unnormal as I can see. Thanks /Chris
